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I'd like to suggest that all the lessons learned here are precisely what Lean Startup teaches-- with techniques that are meant to prevent you from spending two years in a death spiral.

Segue to edit of my standard rant on this subject: (originally posted on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429906)

MVP != half assed, cheap, shitty product. It is exactly what it says: a minimum viable product, key word being viable. An MVP for a mission critical application or a cutting edge piece of research isn't going to be cheap or easy, because it needs to be viable.

Because of the name, many people make the assumption that doing a Lean Startup means not taking the time or money necessary to execute properly, this is not the case. Lean means conserving capital by focusing on iteration until you each product market fit, and only then ramping up sales or marketing, but again, if you're cracking a new market, untested technology, or going up against mature competition, even that phase of conserving capital and focusing in product may require a lot of capital.

Your product, when released to customers, needs to be usable, and needs to scratch an itch for them, otherwise it is inherently not viable. That's why customer development is so essential, it prevents you from making the worst mistake possible-- building a robust product no one wants. Even if you have the best product idea in the world, the only way to know if the features you add are having a positive impact is to measure the behavior of real, live, human users.

That being said, it's still your responsibility to stay relentlessly focused in your core value proposition. You can't build every feature you're customers ask for, only the ones that make sense for your product.

What we're seeing now is the lean startup backlash where people use the terms but don't really take the time to understand what they mean,.

The Lean startup movement is a powerful set of lessons that can empower entrepreneurs and save us from wasting our time and effort building the wrong things and chasing the wrong metrics, but I guess some of the lessons just have to be learned painfully through experience (it was certainly true for me).
It's nowhere near fast enough. My 7970s can push out about 1.3Ghash/s and combined they are capable of around 7 TFLOPs. When (/if) they release the BFL Jalapeño it'll run at 5 Ghash/s and be powered by USB. 90 GFLOPs is equivalent to a decent processor, but nowhere near powerful enough for bitcoin mining.
Yes.

(http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Akai-GX-4400D-Reel-To-Reel-Tape...)

What do I search for to buy a wearable computer?
Why are you so worried about what other people are doing? If John Q. has been unemployed for the last six months he deserves to starve because "SEO"ing his resume would make you upset? Get over yourself.
Carbon dioxide, by itself, is a rather weak greenhouse gas. Most if not all of the models discussed here (note that there is no scientific consensus on a single model) involve a runaway process in which the rise of CO₂ triggers a precipitous rise in other warming agents. It is this part that has failed to pass (so far).

So the debate returns to its basis, which is precaution. Alas, regarding this science can tell us nothing about its optimal level. Are we willing to bet that the rise in CO₂ will continue to not trigger a runaway process? For developed nations, limiting CO₂ emissions bears only moderate economic harm, and many are not willing to take the bet. For upstart giants like China and India, tough emission limits involve a halt in development, delaying by decades (if not centuries) the time at which they may catch up with Western standards of living.
The buyer is not driving them out of business, Ebay is. Why does Ebay need to react so harshly? They should care more about the hardship they inflict on their sellers, and not blindly measure each piece of negative feedback equally.

Blaming the seller is a bit like blaming someone who calls the cops on a loud party, for bad behavior by the cops.
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Spreedly comes pretty close to this actually, and they're much more likely to support working with something like CoinBase for BTC soon.
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> A big, modern brick house (NOT a modern, big brick house)

Not unless it's a modern house with big bricks, anyway.
With a little googling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Massacre_high-res.j...

and more clearly:

http://www.masshist.org/database/transcription.cfm?transcrip...
Better yet, fire everyone in the DMV and similar places and have those positions filled by unemployed people.
Each of the 64 cores can independently run arbitrary C/C++ code, which is much more flexible than a GPU. Each core has 32KB of local memory, which can also be accessed by the other cores, and there's 1GB of external memory too.

Specs: http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/e64g401/

Architecture: http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/epiphany_...

SDK docs: http://www.adapteva.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/epiphany_...
People that earn more would save more, and would have more incentive to move there, especially if you can get larger tracts of land to have a bit of privacy.

Yes there are negatives, but the solutions are going to need to come from getting larger numbers of working/earning people living there day in and day out. Adding another casino or ballpark will do pretty much 0 for Detroit as a whole - it'll make the few square miles in downtown prettier, but people will just continue to drive in and out, nothing more.

People jumped through hoops a few years back to 'save' a few thousand for the 'new home buyer tax credit', which basically landed them with a mortgage. And that was a one time event. A family saving $2k+/year for, say 10 years, would be, if not life altering, certainly a modest incentive. Individuals making a decision like this won't be enough - it needs to be large groups who have enough purchasing power to attract other businesses/jobs to Detroit as a whole.
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> Egalitarian means giving everyone an equal starting point free of cultural background.

What is a 'starting point'? Open source certainly doesn't provide equal starting points, because each individual is evaluated on merit, the acquisition of which is often tied to social and economic background.

Conferences don't provide equal starting points, for the same reason.

> Egalitarianism and meritocracy are not mutually exclusive nor orthogonal.

They are orthogonal. An egalitarian meritocratic society would give each member equal opportunity to achieve, but would judge the achievements of each member according to their merit.

Open source only concerns itself (like any sane organization whose mission is not social advancement) with merit, not with egalitarian questions of how merit was acquired.
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Wow!

My premature reaction was "Nonsense. You can't just make up rules no one knows and call them grammar" but then I noticed how unnatural changing the order feels. Amazing how we have these grammar rules in our head without knowing they exist.
I wait with some interest to see if delivers the goods. If it does then that will be massive for me personally, as I spend most of my time building C++ code.

Great that they want to release it as open source as well, although I'm guessing they're going to be charging for it. And if they aren't, then they really should be.
Yes I do.

I'm understand also, as you should, that this is an international community of people. There is, probably, a lot of brilliant minds here from many coins of this small floating rock, so it is expected that we could talk freely about universal problems and achieve much more than just a local and restricted point of view (and maybe to talk about possible ways to avoid this tragedies again and again).
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Exactly. That's the real point. Are you going to be able to run these together and get on the TOP500. Lord no! But, can you learn how to parallel program on one? Sure, and that's no small matter.
I upped you on that one - good call on the clarity of desirable over viable.
No need to pay. You can sign up within a few seconds and you're in! :)
"At Google we believe that open systems win."

Just quoting the Google marketing department.
It is not very difficult to memorize random strings of arbitrary characters. I use a password manager to manage most of my accounts, but the important ones, like banks and email, I keep in my head. I use my password manager to generate a 15 character string of alpha+numeric+symbols. The symbols would kind of make it hard, except that in my head they are just upper-case numbers, mostly (shift-7, not ampersand). And in any case they are just positions on a keyboard (God help me if I need to enter one from my cell phone).

To memorize, just copy it into your favorite text editor, then type it 25 times in a row and delete. If you are paranoid, make sure you use a text editor that does not store temp files. Do not save this password anywhere. Set a timer and do it again an hour later, then again the next day. 10 minutes of your time and you have a password in your head. I can keep 10-20 of these at a time, maybe more since I seem to be able to type older ones from years ago.

I don't consider myself to have a great memory. I can barely remember lyrics to songs I've listened to dozens of times and it takes me hours and hours to memorize lines for plays. But I started doing this for passwords ten years ago and it is very reliable.
No one is paying 1500 USD for a monocle that displays ads directly into their eye. Maybe 100 USD, maybe free. My android phone doesn't display ads outside of the apps, why would glass be any different?
This is completely overshadowing the fact that Facebook, in its befuddled attempt to spark monetization, started charging for messages to people you're not a friend with (unless you don't want it to end up in the Other inbox, most users are not even aware of).
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I've been a Linode customer since the start of 2007 and my biggest worry right now is this...

> Credit card numbers in our database are stored in encrypted format, using public and private key encryption. The private key is itself encrypted with passphrase encryption and the complex passphrase is not stored electronically.

By not providing further clarification that the private key was stored outside that compromised host in that update, you can read between the lines that they are trying hard not to address that particular issue.

I really don't want to assume that the attacker can now brute force the private key's passphrase, and it might not take long if that "complex" passphrase was a word out of /usr/share/dict/words.

Or worse, that the billing process was monitored via the compromised network, RAM, or a key logger - to get the unencrypted private key or it's passphrase.
Small cheap cards for learning are a great idea.

But then they've included some really weird wording. They know that people are hostile to that wording, yet they chose to continue to use it.

When you're educating people it's important to be clear about terminology.

Having said that, I think it's neat, and I wish them luck. I think they're missing one of the main points of the RPi's success - it is dirt cheap. At $35 people will take a risk. At $90 people need to think about it. That might sound odd on HN where people tend to have a lot more disposable income.
I showed off a non-hacking related idea yesterday, having read that a good posting time was roughly 9-10AM EST. In terms of votes, it was a disappointing experience, but today I realized I was chasing the wrong dynamic. Yesterday, 176 people visited my project site, more than the previous two weeks.

No one donated (it's an e-commerce project for refugee aid), but I was ultimately pleased to get the visits.
We already have enough libraries, let's just retool and staff the ones we have
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This blog post from one of the people working on Duetto explains: http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/?p=798

Basically, the idea seems to be to translate more C++ features directly into high-level JavaScript equivalents, rather than into code that primarily operates on byte arrays, as I believe emscripten does.
My view: The more "important" the adjective is to the description, the nearer the noun it goes. I'm not sure where I learned this, but if, for instance, I'm trying to describe a building to somebody, and in my opinion the thing that will help him distinguish it is it's size, but it also happens to be red, I would say

"the red big building."

On the other hand, if the most important distinction is its color, I would say

"the big red building."
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This is absolutely brilliant! One on one with the community, speaking from the heart to people that understand you, no marketing BS, just the good old truth. I enjoyed Monkey Island for that same reason. By this point, I think it is pretty obvious Ron is just trying to gauge the readiness of the crowd, which obviously is there and happy to pay up. The one thing that scares me - he'll probably have start buy shelling out a ton of money to buy the IP and that may turn out to be a showstopper...
definitely true of python... so many abandoned libraries. Oh wait... he means a real library :)
My guess is that they probably went straight to the authorities, while playing along with the intruders as a way of buying time and collecting as much information on them as possible. I'm not surprised that they wouldn't make an official comment on that, though.
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You can't do individual branching for every single strand of computation for a typical GPU. With their chips they are trying to create a "third" category between highly parallel, but few individual instruction threads, and normal CPU's.

And the $99 is not for a mass produced card or chip, but for an initial small production run computer that includes one of the parallela chip.

You pay for a dual-core ARM computer based on the Zynq SoC (which means you get an FPGA in the deal) with an Epiphany chip. Getting a Zynq dev-board for that price in itself makes it worth it for a lot of people.
Which is true (and why I think BTC's children will fare much better) but "revolutionary" doesn't mean unfathomable, unquestionable, and alien from all that's come before.
Ship early, ship fast, ask questions, write down answers, run tests. That's what "lean" is all about.
Could someone explain to me why this is useful? I'm not trying to be snarky, I really don't understand who would want this.
That's what linguistics is. Grammar is as natural as walking. Almost everyone does it, and no conscious understanding of the rules is required.
if i had $100 , i wouldnt put my money on this.Im not sure about who uses this framework thingy.Old C++ gurus turn themselves into tech-entrepreneurs and use this framework to build web 2.0 app ? Or Rails guys may say "heyy look at C++ , it's strongly-typed and we can build web-apps like gurus? "

or did i missed some-points ?
A similar explanation for bitcoin would be great.
The whole point of constitutional systems is that the majority can't infringe the rights of a minority even by majority vote. I'm not as familiar with the Indian political system as with the US and Europe, but there's a reason no one does unrestricted democracy without limits on state authority.
Do it if you love it… Otherwise what’s the point?
I wanted to create a complete learning environment for these three subjects. So apart from discussions and articles, there are various other things like Video lectures, book reviews, problem solving techniques, subject groups and visualisations(which will soon evolve to virtual labs). Rather than quickly-learn,quickly-forget model, I wanted to implement a model that is based on solid understanding of concepts.
I wish PCI compliance required companies that take credit card info for any sort of recurring billing declare if they store your credit card information or if it is stored for them by their gateway/merchant account provider.

There are a thousands of very small SAAS services out there that bill monthly which I assume would take advantage of gateway stored credit card info, then you find out that a comparatively larger more trustworthy player like Linode doesn't.

Similarly it would be nice to also have them declare if they use something like Braintree's transparent redirect such that they never even see the card numbers.
Yup, that's the one. Looking forward to it!
I brought this up in the previous twitter api thread, but it is interesting to get more thoughts.

Perhaps the answer is to stop using apis.

I developed a reddit extension, and when reddit cut off my api access I was able to crowdsource a datafeed through an inbrowser extension. I'm not saying it applies here, but with some creativity I think some apps could be refactored to use a similar approach.

It is not a clean or easy technological solution, but it seems like the api route isn't clean or easy politically.

Imagine if Google tried to get off the ground by using apis to crawl or if Facebook had used approved apis to populate its initial database. They'd be quickly killed, just like what is happening api innovators right now.
We can get a hint about how much of the advertising went to the founders, by comparing it with an other high alexa ranked site: Wikipedia. Their budget is public.

At the time when Peter Sunde operated it, Wikipedia had about about 3 times the traffic of TBP. Wikipedia also had about 10 times higher of the operational budget (not counting Salaries and wages). We get this by looking at the TPB advertising money as reported by the police, and comparing it to the WP budget.

One can then either assume that Wikipedia administrators are swimming in money and have all bought small island in the Caribbeans, or that running a services on that scale is actually quite expensive.

Link to 2006-2007 WP budget: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/49/Wikim...
Link to TPB budget for 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pirate_bay#Advertising
It is a 0-day because the vulnerability was disclosed publicly before the patch was made available.
The lowest I have seen is WebMoney with a 0.8% flat fee on all transfers. I have no idea though what the fees for depositing and withdrawing money from the system are though.
I'm pretty sure UnoriginalGuy understands that. What he says is correct, the attackers now have the private key file so all that prevents them from decrypting the CC data is the passphrase. They don't know what this is but they can try and brute force it which is why it's relevant to wonder what cipher the key uses, how many bits and how long, random and complicated the passphrase text is.

Hopefully, they used 4096 bits and a random >20 char string as the passphrase. That combined with a standard cipher algorithm (DSA, RSA) should be enough to keep us safe.
Folks keep saying a certain phrasing is "natural", but that is a funny word. It isn't innate/instinctive. Grammar comes from years of exposure to other speakers of language.
Yeah, that's true, but you can also use free ebooks, slides from lectures, etc. and you often find really good stuff. Furthermore one should not have to register for such a service ... consider wikipedia would require you to login to find out how, e.g. merge sort works.
I'm assuming they mean these hashes are useless for the attacker, not for Linode users?

"Linode Manager user passwords are not stored in our database, but their salted and cryptographically hashed representations are. Despite the uselessness of these hashes, as you know we expired Linode Manager passwords on Friday."
Wow, I remember seeing the original Kickstarter for this and thinking "this will never see the light of day", yet here it is. I still find it a bit of an odd product; neither for hobby or business, but it sure is cheap.
French mostly does this, though there are a defined set of exceptions, i.e. adjectives for beauty, age, good/bad and size go before the noun. Of course, the exceptions also have exceptions: the placement of some adjectives that normally go before the noun depends on whether the meaning is literal or figurative.
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It really seems like a pointless obstacle. The value of a site like this is in the content, which is inaccessible without handing over an email address, so nobody can tell if it's worth it. I think you would get far more participants if you made it openly viewable (and hence google-able).
Certainly among the 9/11 hijackers, but there appears to be a great deal of asymmetry with foreign terrorists. Domestic terrorists don't ~appear~ to find the same level of stability, though I haven't read any specific papers that investigated their family lives, careers, etc.
They are "clearly wrong" when talking to geeks about specific types of problems. For most most people this means nothing, and multiplying it is fine. And for a lot of situations where you are considering batch jobs, multiplying it is fine as a quick illustration. It is not as if the raw numbers tell you anything anyway, since the characteristics of the system are so unusual.

They miscalculated how people would interpret it, and got burned. But they've been clear about what it is they actually mean the whole time.
I backed this project simply because it's a great idea to build a very small highly parallel computer that runs on very little power. Maybe this one won't hit it out of the park but it might give other people ideas. Building the first one of anything is always hard. Add a little serendipity and we might get an entirely new use for computers.

Just saying that I could do more with a $99 graphics card sort of misses the point.
"More-or-less", or "less-or-more"?
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"I Bet There are 100 Libraries Within Ten Miles of Your House"

There is precisely 1 library within ten miles of my house, and it's a 40-minute walk away.

That said, I wouldn't use the library even if it were closer, and I agree there is no point building more libraries :)
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> They can't really expect to get much software made for the product when it's released if developers have no obvious way to make money from it.

Sure they can, people don't just work for money, they work for notoriety or fun. Money is the most popular incentive, it isn't however, the only one.
Then what is it?

Wikipedia also seems to say it's "a fast computer": "a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
> baited and taunted by disingenuous assholes trying to exploit you for a buck

Sorry are you talking about Google or Apple here?