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This is certainly true for a lot of people who work in startups. However, the author seems to believe that "we" encompasses not just him and his short-sighted friend, but anyone working on a startup.

1. No, not everyone in this position confuses "iteration" with "innovation."

2. No, not all people who are working on startups or startup products consider themselves "innovators."

3. No, all of us certainly do not confuse "poverty" with "lack of startup initiative."

Yeah, most of what "we," in the sense the author seems to mean, do is iteration (at best). But suggesting that this is a standard mistake is a confusing assumption and, to me, suggests that beyond the iteration/innovation mistake, the author has made so many generalizations that by making one point he's missed several that are painfully similar.
This looks like a great little system. Congrats to all the team. So many questions!

The most important one: Is that Patrick Stewart doing the voice over in your video? :-)

My only concern with the design is that it's not clear that clustering gives you true redundancy, as it appears the 48 port 10gbps switch is integrated to the same PSU as the controller, and could be a SPOF for a rack of servers?

I assume the switch is essentially running a completely separate control plane from the x86 hardware, and forwarding plane, that can be controlled by other appliances in the cluster?
I don't disagree, but my point has little to do with whether or not someone has medical options to resolve their condition. Jack didn't have surgery to correct his condition, but he didn't allow it to limit his confidence.
Imperative vs. Declarative
If you click the "International" option under Shipping a Country field appears.
Did we miss the sunsetting announcement for that Google service? /s
I have what is possibly the most jittery internet access in San Francisco and Vimeo works just fine. YouTube on the other hand, works terribly half the time and fine the other half.

Frankly, for videos like this, one shouldn't degrade the video quality if their bandwidth is low. The whole point of this video is the epic shots. If it low quality then, what is the point?
"People are basically good."

I hope the product has a lot more going for it than this assumption, because if not, this seems like a very flimsy platform.
I see every innovation as a conglomeration of different things one has experienced. Or in other words, iterations.

This goes to the core of creativity: Creativity usually comes from combining things or ideas that are normally compartmentalized in others' minds. Have you ever noticed how most of the startup founders you know have a wide diversity of experiences to draw upon? Most of them have lived in foreign countries and are well acquainted with subcultures most of us are barely even aware of. The reason curiosity is such a positive trait is because it gives you more inputs to operate off of. The article gives a perfect example:

"A long time ago, when I was a columnist at the Las Vegas CityLife, my editor called me up one day and asked if me if I ever wanted to find out what was in the storm drains under the city. And because I have notoriously poor self-preservation skills, I grabbed a Mag-Lite and headed on down." That's the kind of crazy, insatiable curiosity that ends in you seeing the world differently. That's why innovators seem so crazy, but what they're doing makes complete sense in their minds.

In other words, in my mind it's impossible to draw a line between "innovation" and "iteration," because every innovation is really an iteration of different ideas no one had ever really put together before.
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We have international shipping too for this promo. Click the "International" button in the shopping card on the Shipping line. A Country field should pop up.
I wrote up a long post wondering about the efficacy of deploying an openstack solution that combines so many features into one box (the network (quantum?) and controller)... and then I read further down into the article that the price per unit is expected to be $100,000??

I question exactly who in this space is going to pay that kind of fee when you can get a distributed solution from a company like Piston for a much lower cost (also, you're distributing more in a case like this).

The ability to have everything in one plug-and-play device is quite tempting but also runs kind of counter to the general OpenStack environment in many ways.
Why is it a Linux netcat command? What about the FreeBSD netcat or the Solaris one?
Few months earlier, when I was learning shell programming, I created a simple file transfer script using netcat (nc) and zenity (for little GUI).. Can be used to transfer files inside LAN.. It was actually made to use inside our college lab for my non technical friends..

https://github.com/zyberkiddy/netcat-file-transfer
Ask HN: Should I enforce software licensing, and if so, how?
I am creating a commercial, installable software product, which I intend to launch next month.

I intend to license it at around $50/server. Most use cases need the software on multiple servers. Is there any way to encourage/enforce that customers who install 20 copies to pay for 20 copies instead of just one?

Is there a way of doing this without annoying the honest majority (minority?) of customers.

(I'm intending to build the customer's email address into the binary and help screen, to dissuade copying.)

What is current best practice re: licensing and enforcement?
Julia is a huge step forward in practical programming languages. I was super impressed when I saw it at Strange Loop last year, and they've made strides since then.
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That's the whole point. Employers don't want you to know about the real numbers. They want to pay you as little as possible. Even your manager doesn't make that much money. So they don't want their direct reports to have a higher salary. If you've ever asked for a raise you clearly see signs that they're trying to manage a budget.
> "so there's a real emphasis on only hiring perfect "A"s. Which means that you'll miss a few As and lots of B+ people."

It's actually worse than that. When you exclude huge swaths of a sample like that, you have no context for the true scale.

So while you can hire the best of the sample you see, while understanding you may miss other people nearly that good, you may also be missing people who are better (perhaps wildly so) than even the best of those you chose.

Consider the case of competitive sports during times of segregation.
To be frank, Twilio's service doesn't constitute a regulated telephony service, which is why Google allows them on the platform.

If Twilio integration would expose them to Telco regulation, you better believe it would never happen.

I agree the wording above is poor and could use a rewrite, but I wanted to articulate what Google is afraid of: being classified as subject to CALEA.
Totally agree.
Something that I find worrying is that there is an increasing share of the capital converging at top of society.
The result of this is that if you want to build a profitable company, you are best off getting revenue by targeting these people rather than the middle and lower classes. Unless you have a product like tobacco or farmville that happens to be addictive of course.

So there are more people worried about solving problems like "I have a house full of massive TVs but I still need to press the remote to change channels!" than problems like "I'm poor and can't get a job".

The accepted Wisdom on HN seems to be that if you are targeting average consumers you better make your product free because they don't have money to pay for it. So you still need to build the business model around high net worth people (like advertising companies).
First, it's really important that you recognize "Greeks" means many different city-states with completely different cultures.

Nations didn't exist until a couple hundred years ago.

Rome did not begin its decline with Julius Caesar.

What do you mean by "progressive (for its time) civil policies?" You seem to be following a linear model of history, and that's fine, but what exactly is progressive?

Was Sparta progressive?
Killer Zabar - what have you been using it for?
we've been using closure for a long time now, would you say the js dart produces is faster than extremely well annotated closure code (97%+ with all the optimisations turned on).

The other big thing from our perspective is the closure library (and a bit of templates), without the library being available it just does not make sense to make the switch.
what other thread?
On Being Grown Ups About Childish Behaviour
FWIW, I've got three daughters, all adults now. We've talked about the evolution of the 'casual sex nomitive' and their consensus was that as a group it was ok to call everyone guys like "Hey guys, let's go to the beach!" but in the singular it they preferred the use of 'gal'. Further the use of guy/gal was preferred in casual speech over man/woman.

I suspect at some point every word may be pejorative in some way.
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You said that you do not have a natural talent for developing, so your issue is about raw skill rather than age.
Maybe you should specialize further in a subject area that you know well. Carrying one big "weapon" that you are skilled at would be better than carrying 50 like a "ninja".
Don't forget to look at industries where maybe there already exists large solutions or organizations, but aren't doing as much as can be done to help those that need it most. Education and Healthcare are a few of these. You might not make billions of dollars improving Kindergarten classes in North America, but you could "change" the world.
Important feedback - thanks for sharing.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21567182
I would be too afraid to base a business on a language that's only two years old. It's not even a guarantee that the language will remain supported by Google in the long term, given their periodic house-cleaning.
Yeah, many people are furthering OpenStack by 1) building on it, in an open-source (or combined OSS+Comercial) fashion, and 2) Selling Consulting and Services. We are doing it by making an appliance that you plug servers into and get OpenStack.

Developing the hardware gives us full control over orchestration and updates and many many other areas.

We do have many of the contributors of OpenStack under one of our roofs (Mountain View, Seattle, Remote) and we do contribute a ton to OpenStack, both in code and the Foundataion. As far as the company goes, yes, we are a computer systems company, making hardware and software.
Bad press; simple fix is to grandfather the existing subs for 1 year and implement new policy on new subs.

They should fix this before it blows up...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5478775
Well played sir, I'll see your Continuum Fallacy and counter with a classic Argument to Moderation, your play sir.
The best hope is the entire point of starting up. If your best hope from the start is a six figure buyout and your goals are financial then don't bother starting.
Well, I think that refusing you(and OP) and interview because of situation might create some HR issue?
Maturing towards REST with ServiceStack - Tech.Pro
A lot of people find it extremely difficult to find clients though. I.E Me

Where do you look when your first starting out?
I think the idea is to have multiple nebula controllers, one per rack or so? From 2nd page of The Register article:

"You can run a cloud with a single Nebula One controller, but the system was designed to have multiple controllers for high availability and resiliency, says Kemp. The Cosmos operating system can currently span as many as five controllers in a single OpenStack controller domain and automatically load-balances work across controllers and the five racks of servers attached to them. With those five racks, you can have on the order of 2,500 cores and 5PB of storage, depending on the servers you pick."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/02/nebula_one_openstack...
Funny, I made something very similar when I was looking to change my car 2 years ago or so, but did't open sourced it. The UI was awful, but it had email notifications when a search query matched
Dear "Who's Hiring" Hiring Managers
This is just a friendly note/advice/rant to "managers" responding to applications from HN users to jobs coming from the "Who's Hiring" page.

When a user from HN takes the time to submit a full application on your website, and to mention in the the cover letter, not just "Hacker News" but the specific HN thread the ad was posted on...

... if you reply with a list of questions, one of which is "How did you find out about [job] and from which source did you come across the job posting?", then it means you didn't even glance at the application. It's not very professional. It's a little rude.

It sends a message that you're a soulless corporation just like any other -- even if you're not!

Think about it. Thanks.
Vimeo has room to improve, but I think it's a smart move to take the "premium" route compared to YouTube. I don't like publishing to YouTube unless it's recorded on my phone.

If they tried to compete with YouTube toe-to-toe, they'd probably not be doing as well. Think of it as 500px vs. Flickr or Facebook for photo sharing. You'll get fewer eyes on your work but they'll tend to be more discriminating eyes.
And to your point, this could be their new competitive advantage.
Personally i dont think there is a market here. Startups do not have money, period.

Startups use tools like dropbox and google docs for storing documents today. Unless you can be a magnitude of 10 to 100x better (not just a little better), dont waste your time.

If you dont want to take this feedback, i suggest you find the simplest experiment you can run (no code involved) to test this out.
What? Next you'll be telling me that nobody's grandma ever actually sucked eggs either!
Site's down. Didn't know that HN hugged so hard...
There's also lang-8.com, where you can get your essays corrected by native speakers. It's particularly great if you're learning Japanese, because the majority of users are Japanese natives (the company that runs the website is in Tokyo).
just to clarify for others, gross means before taxes. net means after taxes.
RED posted this to vimeo which they say is 5K: http://vimeo.com/25424362#at=0
It's a bit of a strawman, there are virtually no non-tech-savvy individuals that would ever embark on installing an alternative operating system without being influenced by, let alone without assistance from, a tech-savvy person.
Why go through so much pain to avoid JavaScript, coffeescript now Dart? JavaScript is not the problem, it's how terrible our community is at sharing/creating modular things. Classes and shitty syntax wont help you there
VIN explosion doesn't always return truck trims, as many times the actual truck beds are added after the vehicle rolled off the assembly line.

So they will probably need more than VIN explosion for that; there are some companies that do provide that data though.
Someone on reddit just pointed that out to me.

Gonna fix that - requires a bit of a schema change, so will take a little longer than other quick changes.
The drone-related ideas definitely sound awesome and would be fun to work on. I can imagine hundreds of complications that would stand in the way of those ideas working smoothly, though. Probably most common would be your copters losing their payloads, breaking, crashing, etc. Would be tough to recover from a fail scenario like that in an acceptable way, especially for important payloads like medicine ... or tacos. Maybe it'd be simpler to start with less critical tasks, like your weather monitoring idea. That'd be fun and productive.

The document editing one is just "meh" to me. I never was able to make Google Drive part of my work flow, with co-workers. I never found a way to benefit from the sharing in a way directly related to my job. The best examples of the document sharing and editing, for me, were for things like computer game theory crafting in Diablo, and stuff.

That galactic exploration game is like the holy grail of online games, to me. I know 0x10c is aiming to do something close to it. Maybe EVE online is kind of in the same category. But I do envision something where your own little planet starts off with no technology and it's up to you, somehow, to build space ships and things and go explore for other planets. Maybe make the whole game browser-based and allow people to run their own javascript to code stuff, in-game.
More proof that our copyright laws are busted
Fair enough. I've never had a serious encounter with the opinion that one shouldn't want to improve oneself. The idea that wishing for a change which cannot be achieved might be harmful (to happiness at least) - but not the idea that someone shouldn't try to grow towards a better self.

By respecting someone else's differing experience, I mean supporting rather than dictating their efforts. Who else could know who you want to become?
Thanks for adding Postach.io :)
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The developer will work closely with other developers to create robust designs. In addition, they will work closely with one or more QA teams (local or remote) to identify, debug and fix production issues. The developer is expected to work hard during production/launch time frames to ensure that handset launches are not delayed.
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‣	Expertise with Android APIs - especially in the UI area. Must have developed one or two non-trivial Android applications in the recent past.
‣	Knowledge of Android frameworks - such as messaging, networking, web services - strongly desired. Candidates with demonstrable expertise in such middleware APIs will be given preference.
‣	Expertise in fundamentals of computer science - data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded programming, networking concepts is mandatory. Candidates unable to test in these areas will be rejected.
‣	Self-starter - with ability to independently acquire the knowledge required to succeed in their job.
‣	Minimally Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is required; MS CS preferred.

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Just have a look at your server's /var/log/auth.log file.
I see hundreds of intrusion attempts every day.
(not running Apache)
Earlier you said:

> That it is Dart isn't the story here; they don't even mention the Dart VM as a benefit for the switch.

Which I think is equating Dart with the VM? Then you say:

> They are switching because they like the language/ecosystem better.

That sounds to me like Dart is the story then. The language/ecosystem is Dart, isn't it? Can that be separated somehow?
Medicare posts their fee schedule for every single CPT code.
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Here's an example of fetcher in action: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/new-feature-fetcher
I have features I've built, and entire products for that matter, that were nothing more than a Frankenstein of things I've picked out of side projects. Sometimes I learn 2 things completely separate from each other, and then 6 months down the line have a realization that those two things would be amazing together in application.

Product focused or not, there is no reason that you should prevent yourself from learning just because it doesn't have a TLD.
Actually the netcat shipped on most/all common Linux distributions (though IIRC, frustratingly not Cygwin which has a more limited one without the SOCKS features) is the one from OpenBSD.

But obviously the article was written from the perspective of "Fun commands available on Linux". I'm all for giving proper credit where it is due, but it's asking a little too much to expect that every newbie tutorial is going to inflict a full software genealogy on the poor reader...
Facebook Graph Search and Online Dating
FB Graph Search has been called an online dating killer. TC ran an April Fools joke saying FB was buying BangwithFriends. Here's commentary from the founders of okCupid, HowAboutWe & others.
Well are you dealing with this situation right now or you just want to know what happens in this case scenario?
Okay, fair enough. I remember reading about substantially higher percentages in the past, but googling just now turned up a best guess of 2.4%. I couldn't find any details on how they calculated the indirect nature of defensive medicine, but what they did have didn't seem to be very comprehensive.
Innovation isnt black and white and happens on many levels.

Theres your innovative app that lets you hire private taxis for getting around town.

Theres your new 3D Game Engine that introduces a few new features and pushes the boundaries of computer graphics.

Theres a guy in india building cheap bicycles from cardboard.

Theres your electric car company that pushes our understanding of a good all-electric car to new levels.

Theres your Space company that makes Space endeavours a lot less expensive and wants to put humans on Mars in 10 years.

This is all iteration, standing on the shoulders of giants and all, but its also innovation, just on completely different scales.
As someone responsible for interviewing technical candidates, I love this.

It might be a bit of a hyperbole to suggest that a stammer is an advantage in an interview, but you could view it as an opportunity. The entire purpose of an interview is to get a sense of the skill level of the interviewee. You want to know how they respond to problems. Are they able to arrive at solutions?

Your stammer is an opportunity to show that you know how to work your way through a challenge. And don't fool yourself in to thinking that using any of the solutions suggested here diminishes the accomplishment of working through your challenge. Knowing where to seek help, then taking the appropriate action based on that advice is a skill. You'd be amazed how many people do not know how to effectively seek outside help.

If I were interviewing someone with a stammer and they handed me this card, it would put a huge smile on my face. It would shift my disposition in a positive direction, which would definitely impact the interview. How could it not?
It is time for public service – the web services boom
Have your application periodically register with a registration service and monitor for excessive use. If you detect something, call up the customer and ask what's going on and present your data. Tell them they are not licensed to run unlimited number of instances and they need to pay up. If they don't, have a built-in shutdown command that you can issue to the software instances that are unlicensed.
I prefer the imperative style personally, I like things done the way I want ... I kid, great write-up though.