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I have a hard time getting excited about this, like some others in this thread.

We blame the financial world (the suits) for not creating value - and rightfully so. But the San Francisco startup scene has just replaced finance with buzz. Who can come up with an even bigger Gimmick and attract some blogspam today...

Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with focusing on customer value and quality.
I didn't downvote but:

>they can never come down because that would decrease clock rates and lots of people have been trained into believing that clock speeds indicate performance

is a bold statement that is not likely to be true. Casual metrics of performance change, and I doubt there are many people confused as to whether they choose a 4GHz Pentium 4 over a lower clocked Core 2, much less something like a Xeon E5.
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I'd suggest the Computer History museum - Great institution, worth checking out for the selection of books in the Gift Shop alone! ;)

PG wrote up a list a few years back, you can also check that out.
http://www.paulgraham.com/seesv.html
While I like distributed generation overall, Manhattan isn't really the place for it. Most of the argument for DG is in places where the grid is overtaxed and everything is fairly spread out. Solar on rooftops in low density commercial is awesome, and smaller generation (especially cogeneration) makes sense in some areas, but big efficient generating stations still make a lot of sense for super high density areas like Lower Manhattan. I mean, if you can't even pay for more real estate for just switchgear, you're not going to be able to pay for more real estate for generating stations.

It would be a lot easier to harden the grid, add strategic backup sources at hospitals (done) datacenters (done) cell sites (somewhat done) and gas stations (wtf why is this not done?), than to figure out how to get some magical fuel to all the buildings, run their generators pollution-free, and then evacuate the waste products. You don't run hospital backup diesels 24x7 for environmental reasons (microsoft does this at their Mountain View office, due to "electrical work on the main incoming gear", which turns them into a top stationary air pollution in the state and makes people want to kill them...). There's really no other option, other than maybe natural gas turbines, and then you're still dependent on natural gas, and you've got pollution sources around the city. Sun-exposed surface area of a skyscraper doesn't allow enough solar to be meaningful (the sides are indirect and thus a lot lower efficiency).

(I'm trying not to be overly critical, but this seems like someone who has been affected by a power outage, has heard of distributed generation, and is trying to tie the two together. Sort of like "let them eat cake.")
The trick with a network effect + stored value model is solving the "chicken and egg" problem. You have to make sure your service is valuable to a scalable base of users on Day 1, and that the value proposition to users doesn't depend on there being an enormous base of users (network) or a wealth of stored value (content, data, etc.).

Often, this means starting with a niche. Ideally, a niche that is willing to invest a lot of time and attention up front, thereby creating value for the more casual and follow-on users. Wikipedia is a good example. The idea of using an encyclopedia that is completely devoid of content probably wasn't very appealing to the casual masses in the early to mid 90s. So Wikipedia relied on a smaller mass of users who got a kick out of cataloguing, writing, and organizing information. These users tilled the soil, so to speak, making it more fertile for a mass userbase.
I alias icommit="!git add -p && git commit -e -v" since i normally do the two together.
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For the purpose of calculating milliseconds between midnights of different days, you can however assume them to be multiples of 862e5 in JavaScript Date.UTC.

You just have to keep in mind that JavaScript UTC != Real UTC

Edit: clarification
"There's a limit to the number of different platforms one can support"

I keep hearing that. However, I don't think customers care as long as comparable products from developers who have decided that a platform is part of their market develop products for it. That is, not every ISV can, or should, cover every platform. Some should specialize in only one platform. Some should shoot for market entry on "less crowded" platforms.
I'll see your Herbert Hoover and raise you a Jimmy Carter.
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It only competes with Facebook with one feature.
If you think SOPA is more important than whether a woman should be forced to testify in front of a court and then drive across 2 states to secure a first trimester abortion after being raped, then you're an asshole.

I do, because equitable access to information through a global network is as fundamental a human right as I can imagine. Maintain the network and peoples' right to self-expression on it, and I have to believe the other problems will solve themselves.

Meanwhile, abortion is just a wedge issue, IMHO. Most threats to reproductive freedom in the US are empty ones. The GOP (and the judges they appoint) will never repeal Roe v. Wade, because as soon as they do, they will no longer be able to use it to scare up votes from the Slow Folk. Instead, they will have woken a sleeping dragon and filled it with a terrible resolve. Even the dumbest Republican legislator has got to understand that.

Likewise, same-sex marriage rights are as inevitable as Loving v. Virginia was. The Republicans screaming and yelling about it today will spend the rest of their careers trying to make people forget they ever had an opinion on the subject, just as their fathers had to do with respect to the Civil Rights movement.

In general the Religious Right has a long history of being courted with wine and roses by the GOP and then left crying at the altar. One thing you can say about social conservatives of all stripes is that they have a boundless respect for history and tradition and zero interest in learning from either.

A free Internet, however, is not an inevitability. It will have to be fought over. It's the biggest deal there is, because it can and will change things. If you don't believe that, we won't agree on much else.
This is interesting. How er the true cost of inter service discovery is in maintenance. Adding a new service is trivial. Deprecating a service, or an API major rev, is a PITA. Eventually you just end up with an unmaintainable morass of "deprecated" services and dead ends.

Speaking of, what's the work flow around service API revs? New config knob then query on the client side? Create a new service instance.
I've been using MMS for about a year now, and I've found their agent to be not-so-great. I keep getting random alerts about the agent being down and then up again.

Other than that, it's descent and free!
... and one of the worst presidents in history.
This is good info.

I'm a fairly intelligent guy, can follow the plots of Primer, Terminator, and other scifi time travel movies. I have a decent understanding of relativity, spatial reference frames, etc.

But any time I have to deal with slightly more-than-simple time issues in any language, my brain starts more or less falling to pieces. Python and js have good libraries that help, but its still a confounding bugger of an issue.
Added this + listed you in the footer, thanks!
"However due to the way voting works with MongoDB, you must use an odd number of replica set members."

So what happens if I have 2 sequential failures? Suppose I have a replica set of size 5 and the master fails? The remaining 4 would elect a new master from amongst themselves, right? But then what if this next master also fails? The remaining 3 nodes are still a quorum (3 > 5/2) and thus (theoretically) should be able to elect a master. But am I to understand that they won't be able to do so?
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I wonder the same thing about youtube views count
or compact, which you can run on a secondary...good call - missed this one! Will add shortly.
Great suggestion! I will definitely check that out. And thanks for the PG post link, lots of good info in there too!
commit has gained a `-p` flag "recently".
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We'd love help implementing it.

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/search?q=bi...
I think it's pretty amusing that you've decided to interpret a mass of comments from people who find this idea ridiculous as an opportunity to educate us all about the distinction between introversion and shyness. Clearly if this distinction is meaningful, this idea will be a big hit. When it instead falters, will you consider the possibility that perhaps you're just unusual, rather than that we are all uneducated?
If history is any guide, native inhabitants don't stand a chance if we can kill them.
One major difference is that hackathons are team efforts where writing a novel is generally a solo endeavor. The biggest hurdle is keeping an ad-hoc team together for a month.
They'll go away. I wouldn't be surprised to see a TOS change soon to ensure that.
If this camera man acted like a real surveillance camera and held the camera in one position vs. panning it to follow their movement, nobody would care. Nor should they.
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I think they said variation, not confidence interval
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I still find them confusing.
No, we don't.

The problem with single-issue tech voters, is the same problem that the Asian-American solidarity movements have (such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80-20_Initiative ). We're not a large enough portion of the electorate, and we're not distributed in a manner that is consequential enough to sway an election, let alone have enough discipline to have a measurable effect.

The way you make change is you get involved in government and the way policy is made. The voting box is an incredibly coarse-grained tool to effect political change, especially in American democracy where you have one of two candidates to pick from, who've already gone through several political processes to arrive at your ballot box.

If you care about politics get involved. Don't just vote. Voting is necessary but not sufficient to effect change.
You can also use Doozer(d)[0] which is similar to Apache Zookeeper[1] and Google Chubby[2].

[0] https://github.com/ha/doozerd

[1] http://zookeeper.apache.org/

[2] http://research.google.com/archive/chubby.html
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It'll be interesting to see what this does for other web/instagram clients like web.stagram.com. I suspect it'll butcher their traffic.

Poor guys :-(
One should be careful not to frame a new product as an engineering problem. Users don't care if it's a Wordpress fork or a rewrite. Users care about the product experience, what it delivers, benefits, etc.

Having said that, you may be right.
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It's easy to forget that for a cleaner air in a city you can choose between rendering half a city inhabitable because two cars collided (if they are nuclear cars) or rendering a far away country inhabitable because of the byproducts the clean car's components produced (lithium extraction, neodymium magnets production, aluminium extraction and so on).
How Astronauts Cast Ballots from Space
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extreme-voting-how-astronauts-cast-ballots
Suppose they find it and it's some weird bacteria-like structures. It's a big deal, but what impact could it have for science and tech? I believe it would have similar impact to the (false) announcement of these bacteria that replaced P with As. Remarkable, but not sure what we would do with it.
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I haven't heard about it, mind to elaborate? People who sign with commercial labels, feed on their promotion etc and then say they want their music to be free are hypocrites to me. If you want to release your music for free, then choose a CC license and share it. Easy as that!
I do see commas on YouTube's views count.
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Just posted the same thing on the other thread. Poor guys. I suspect this will butcher their traffic.
How Astronauts Cast Ballots from Space
To me the whole thing that makes it confusing for me is that real slider switches are labeled externally:

+-------+
OFF | |XXX| ON
+-------+

That's much more clear. You could even put a little red "lamp" next to the on which lights up when ths swtich is on and darkens when it is off.

Putting the label under the sliding part of the control is what makes it confusing.

EDIT: just noticed that huhtenberg posted the same suggestion
>"Admittedly, I was being a bit of a dick by adding the "wtf" at the end..."

This may explain, at least in part, the nature of the response that the OP received.
For anyone using Mercurial, the hgrecord extension distributed with hg gives you the same feature - http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RecordExtension

I can't remember the last time I used a naked commit; record has become part of my core workflow.
I am working for a startup right now and all these things are spot on. I am just glad I work for a company with great healthcare benefits.
There isn't anything in our feature roadmap or our growth plans that is hindered by MySQL. At some point I could imagine recommending a drop-in replacement like MariaDB.
Laziness, assumption and the difficulty in supporting self compiled apps over standard packages. Also, most projects I've worked on have either been firewalled or on a seperate internal only network for non-web layers...so it's less of an issue. Also, there is a performance overhead.
That's internally in jQuery though, which does you no good at all if you're invoking DOM manipulation methods yourself -- such as the example in the article, the code is calling append() inside of a loop. Each one of those calls has no knowledge of the other though, and so it cannot possible do this for you.
It seems to have had no impact in practice because you haven't been told whether your communications are being monitored, who is monitoring them, or what conclusions they are drawing.

Until there is a publicized abuse of this information - like happened with Watergate - people will not be made aware of how much our political system has been impacted. Of course the people who would like to abuse it are perfectly aware of this, and very conveniently the PATRIOT act has lots of safeguards built in to help them avoid public discussion of their actions.

In this light I find it very concerning that the NSA has argued - with a straight face - that it would violate the right to privacy of Americans for Americans to be told how many are currently being monitored.
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Surely they realised that it was only a matter of time.
If this post was more straight-to-the-point, I would have been in agreement with it. The problem with the metaphors here is that there are architects that are also good interior designers, just as there are developers who can implement good design. There's also resources for people that want to design their own house but need to make sure all of their bases are covered.

I would have phrased it more like: designers with project ideas are great, but their contribution is going to need be a lot more than just providing some PSDs and an image-only concept website. A big reason why I argue that people that design for web but don't code aren't really web designers (something I understandably get crap for) is because you need to understand the possibilities as well as the limitations if you plan on spending your time creating something truly worthwhile. Blog posts alone aren't going to keep you afloat on the state-of-the-industry, and can do more harm than good (i.e. the designer that says "I know we can do this because there's a jQuery plugin for it!" without understanding how it could impact existing code). The designer also needs to be able to answer questions that their mockups don't provide and be able to back up reasons why they made those decisions. You need to be able to iterate throughout the development process when something doesn't work as planned and do so alongside your developer, not just hope you're going to be able to nab one that is willing to both do the heavy-lifting on the front- and the back-end for you so long as you provide hugs and high-fives.

Anyone can come up with a static image of their dream app based on re-imagining favorite features from others like it. I just worry that if every designer with an idea thinks they deserve a pocket-programmer, we're going to end up with a lot more half-baked apps and services than we already have and a lot of unhappy developers who didn't know what they were getting themselves into. Something something everyone should learn to code.
Thanks Flash. Interesting...didn't know you could do that in WP. I will have to research this more. So do you like WP better than Bootstrap for a mission specific tool? Also, I would like to have at least one language that I can learn as a long term foundation that I can build on. Appreciate the feedback, TJ
I did indeed, typo; they don't store any data so usually don't have the same issue with 2G limits. I've updated the article.
Except it is a quality of life issue. Not many people are willing to endure a worsening quality of life simply to achieve philosophical purity. I'm glad that it worked for you, but do understand that simply by being an immigrant you are demonstrably different. That it worked for you is absolutely not a prescription for everyone.
The trendy SFBA thing is to call it the "People Department".
decent article but I think you set up a straw man of "unlike most parents". I don't know of anyone that has ever called the professor of their kid complaining about the grade their kid got. I guess I will chalk it up to another benefit of being raised in the midwest. IMO if you don't teach your kids the basics of cooking and car maintenance you are fail. ;)
Can anyone with experience explain why the frequency of processors has basically stalled since hitting 3.x Ghz? I assume there is some kind of physical barrier, but i'm not sure what it is.
Reaching the Startup Holy Grail: Product-Market Fit
The 'NEW' SEO is the same as the 'OLD' SEO. Build a great site, make it accessible, and promote it. Anything else is a hacky misguided attempt to game a system. If a site is built and promoted properly, there is no need for SEO 'Experts'.
Hardly. First, there's a lot of research into cleaner cars. A modern car produces very little emissions that count towards unclean air. Of course, there's carbon, but that doesn't cause unclean or unhealthy air.

Second, the new variable you're thinking of is called "externalities" and isn't all that new. A common way to offset it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax - a such is leveraged on gasoline in most countries, including the US, although to a much steeper degree in Europe. Expensive gas is a major driver towards more fuel efficient cars, hybrids and electric cars. All brought to you (mostly) by a profit driven capitalist system.

The reason gasoline hasn't disappeared in favour of more environmentally friendly alternatives is that it's an insanely effective way of storing and transporting vast quantities of energy. Even with the steep taxes in Europe, no-one has been able to come up with a better alternative -- yet. I am certain this will change soon.
Federal judge tosses Apple patent lawsuit against Motorola
People are way to uptight about stuff like this when it comes to finding your next job. It's true that it will close some doors, but it will open others. And, for the vast majority of openings nobody will ever know.
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That's way ahead of current technology. And, those organisms would be quite unfit, and outcompeted fast.

The latter might not be a problem on Mars. But in such a harsh environment you do not only have to worry about competition, but about surviving at all.
The article indicates that GM uses proprietary software to design powertrains. Therefore, good software is a competitive advantage.
Congratulations to you and your wife! I hope she feels better after delivery.

I'm curious where you stand on sterilization--if there is no desire to conceive, it might provide a more reliable form of birth control than the alternatives.

Thank you for the information about how pregnancy impacts student life. I had meant "precludes" in the strictest "not physically impossible" sense, but clearly there are side-effects that make life harder even if you can show up to work.
What do you mean by "engineered" and "post-evolutionary life"?
My AppEngine nightly project: add Obama or Romney pins to your Twitter avatar.
I would even argue that it's an important issue for even more than half the population, because men are themselves affected by unplanned pregnancies.
Is this an OK place to raise the debate between Mongo and mySQL? Thoughts?
Ask HN: Which startups with traction eventually lost out to slower behemoths?
When talking about startups, I always hear, "What happens when Google wants to offer this product? That tiny startup will get crushed." But how often does this actually happen?

In which cases has a startup with a solid product and increasing traction gone bankrupt after Google/Microsoft/Facebook/etc finally entered the market with a competing product?
Here's two:

(1) There's no need to add a "created" field on your documents. You can extract it from the _id field by just taking the first 4 bytes.

(2) If you are storing hashes (md5 for example), you might want to consider storing them as BinData instead of strings. Mongo uses UTF-8 so every character will be at least 8 bits whereas you can get away with 4 bits per character.
I completely agree.

The author mentions that programmers use delete for dereferencing. What?? That is completely opposite from what 'delete' means and should never be done, ever. Use 'delete' to remove keys from a map, not as a stupid GC hack. Also, 'null != undefined'. They have different meanings. null will show up in a for .. in loop, whereas a 'deleted' member is actually gone.

99% of performance problems are due to wrong code, not inefficient VMs. Write better code and you'll get faster programs. For those problems in the 1%, profile and fix.
Viri need a suspectible host. There's no one-size-fits-all.

And while you might kill 90% of a population, or 99% or perhaps even 99.9%, you won't kill them all.
Polls would have to be wrong by four points for Romney to win
Great points but they are not really gotchas; I was trying to help people avoid big / 'obvious' / documented things when using MongoDB :-)
> If change from within worked, it would have accomplished measurable effect within the first decade.

Why do you think that's true? Is that just a gut feeling, or is it based on some logic that you did not include here?

To be clear, it is far from obvious to me that what you say is true. It seems to me that change from within could potential work, despite the events of the last ten years.
AdSense can throw you out with no explanation given or appeal possible. Just being an alternative is reason enough to exist.
A whole lot better than Facebook and even Google Plus.
That's absolutely a valid point. In that position I'm unsure I'd be interested in carrying it to term, certainly. Again, I completely support access to abortion, and I don't agree with the bullshit additional hurdles pro-lifers want to put on it (must inform parents, take ultrasound, etc.).

I'm worried that we've managed to conflate "Vote out the SOAP folks for being clearly wrong on this" with "Vote in the pro-lifers". I don't think that's a fair interpretation of the issue.

edit: Changed nutjobs reference to something more reasonable.
It's an incredibly obvious direction for Instagram to expand in so I'd hope they had some plan for this
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Cross-VM Side-channel attacks against cryptography keys