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SQL didn't really become popular until companies started believing in the benefits of moving their applications from homogeneous mainframe and timesharing systems to distributed heterogeneous client/server networks.
Just to clear up, I am advocating zero-coupon convertibles.

Yes, you'll have to get the corporation to cover the cost of the shares. However, convertibles will give you a tax break since they go onto balance sheets as a liability, and so they effectively give you a ~35% discount.

The flip-side is that recipients will have to pay taxes on the implicit coupon payments. You really need to talk to a corporate accountant to get more details, and whether this is even a legal option for you, but definitely look into it.

EDIT

I misread your question. The payment becomes the responsibility of the issuing corporation, not the individual receiving the stock. That is a more clear answer :)
Parachute use at high altitudes means you have to either depressurize the entire cabin, or else create some sort of airlock which allows you to get into an unpressurized space so that you can open a door to the outside; which would add a large amount of weight and take up expensive space.

The reality is, that you are in fact utterly helpless in the event of a crash.
Is it really that different to the results with http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ ? You're dragging in W3C results too it seems.

I find that once I have the site chrome (structural features) valid then I don't really care too much about small errors that don't impact the appearance. When you've got code dragged in, with javascript calls, that doesn't validate anyway (Google, etc.) ...

These things always give millions of entity errors (other people dictate the URLs used) perhaps an intial view that just says which errors are on a page (broad categories) - entity errors, failed to close a tab, incorrect attributes, etc.. with drill down to the error details.

These details in the summary would be good too, as would the number of clean pages.

I don't like the dark theme.
Not really -- those are all categories in the Wikipedia sidebar. The data is already structured for easy consumption.

Try something like a "Version" column and it starts to break down. It makes decent guesses overall, but they're not current (e.g. Python says 2.4, where 2.6.2 or 3.0.1 would be better).
Nobody knows how to make a ballistic parachute that will handle a passenger jet, especially not a widebody A330.

Airplane doors CANNOT be opened in flight unless you depressurize the airplane first. Even then, it would probably be difficult. The only airliner (that I am aware of) that could have the rear stairs opened in flight was the 727, which was "fixed" after D.B. Cooper took that way out. (Odds are pretty good he didn't make it, either.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_vane
you can make something buoyant, but it still has mass, and if you try and move that mass you're going to have to exert force, which will snap the cable.

hope that helps
I don't think this wonderment really applies to non-dedicated hosting (however awesome Slicehost might be). When dealing with shared hosting of any sort (VPS included), it's a reasonable assumption that the host will stay fully on top of hardware issues, since you are not paying for a physical box.

If something craps out in one of my dedicated machines, I'll alert the host or NOC to have the fault looked into and fixed. If something craps out in a box hosting my home directory or VPS or what have you along with numerous others, I already expect that to be automatically detected and fixed within an acceptable timeframe. Ideally, in a VPS environment, my machine(s) should be migrated to a working box in the interim.
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Because it isn't the fall that kills you.

It is the sudden stop at the end.
so much wrong information in that article...
Is there objective reasoning to claim that doing something else besides raising your children well is the most important thing in life?

So you're countering my argument by claiming I should have to prove the inverse? I suppose I can stop reading right there. You're claiming that your opinion is objective fact and judging people according to their agreement with it. Trying to argue that I should have to prove my side of the argument is even more asinine than your original claim.
Crushing?
And at $8 million, quite inexpensive compared to space exploration.
I'm not sure how relevant this article is to HN; not that in the sense that it shouldn't have been posted, but it's focused squarely on human capital as it relates to Wall Street. A perfectly fine approach, and relevant for Yahoo Finance, but it doesn't have much to do with tech. I suspect that what speaks to those who were wooed directly into investment banks following college isn't the same impetus that drives 'rock star' developers. Or regular developers who love what they do.
"The water pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is like having the weight of three SUVs on your big toe"

"The fiber optic tether transmits high bandwidth data only, not power...As the vehicle moves through the water, the tether is laid from the vehicle, avoiding any dragging of the tether through the water. This decreases the energy load on the vehicle and the strength requirements for the tether; hence its size and weight can be minimized"

http://www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/pubs/HROV%20Tether%20Ocean...

Cached: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:jrgXAl_Pvf8J:www.spawar....
If the thing is meant to live on your coffee table and couch, then a couple of hours is good enough. Just design an attractive charging station/stand so it can charge while it goes into "picture frame mode."

Another stand so that it can be used as some kind of secondary display would be cool. (Maybe not a real display, but one driven by something like VNC?)
expectation != reality. hence the wonderment, I think.
Mrs Browl and I are also going. The optimal viewing spot is on the lower right side of the baseball diamond.
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The results rarely make any sense. This kind of thing still needs to have some human intelligence mixed in; compare to http://www.noodlesquares.com.

Search engines

http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=search+engines

http://noodlesquares.com/SearchEngines.html

Cameras

http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=cameras

http://noodlesquares.com/Cameras.html

[disclaimer: associated with noodlesquares]
Update: The bastards are magnanimous enough to allow a special mode where a browser can be used to go to pay for a genuine liscense, but no way to restore what you already paid for. So not only do they accuse customers of theft, they hold your pc hostage to extort more from legitimate users. I despise them. Do not trust MS with any data you have.
Youtube does this now too.
I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like redis might already have the low level building blocks of a relational dbms. The relational model is: relations + relational operators + boolean logic.

A relation is just a special kind of set construction and redis has sets, so relations can be built. All of logic and operations can be built from either (not + and) or (not + or). You have SISMEMBER (not), SUNION (and), and SINTER (or).

That might be enough.
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Then why not have garlands of frag grenades hanging on the ceiling as part of every bank's security system? Why should we enable bank robbers to escape from the law when hijackers cannot?

I'd prefer to fly on planes which aren't execution chambers for criminal and witness alike. The market refuses to provide me with this option, however.
From my perspective, this is the only way that one can do business now-a-days. It's not because people demand good customer service or that they have a responsibility to do it. It's because not doing it takes more work and more effort over the long run.

So, Slicehost has something monitoring their boxen and alerting them and they deal with the problems. What if they didn't? They'd be getting emails from customers, have to go check it out, most of the time it would be the customer's fault (they powered it down or turned off the Apache service or set the firewall rules wrong) and they'd waste all this time and effort for nothing. It wouldn't make their service better. It's just spinning one's wheels and worse, it doesn't scale. If you're constantly checking boxen, you're going to have to hire more staff as you grow to also check on boxen.

And this is something that one can automate. It both lowers the amount of labor, effort, confusion, and swearing involved and raises the level of service offered.

I see it the way I see my code tests. Sure, they're annoying to write sometimes, but what's more annoying in the long run is having random errors that I don't know about or worrying that a change I made broke something not readily apparent. My tests make my software glamorous because, while they aren't glamorous or cool or anything, they prevent me from having to do even less glamorous things later as I scramble to fix something.

I just couldn't imagine working where I didn't have things watching my back like that. It would be a nightmare of "oh $#*^! what's wrong" and lots of time/energy/effort wasted on something even more annoying than being prepared.
I had a similar experiance when I posted on twitter about my interest in switching to Ec2 from slicehost. About 5min later I got a reply via twitter from slicehost asking if there was anything they can do to improve the service.
I like the prototype C better (the one in the videos)
Looking at the picture, it looks like pretty blase men's clothing.
Impressive! Keep up the good work.

Just wondering, how has RPX ( https://rpxnow.com/ ) Login outsourcing/integration worked for you guys? Would you recommend it highly?

Edit: Btw, the Yahoo OpenId login prompts: "Warning: pickfu.rpxnow.com has not forwarded their Privacy Policy."
Thanks for posting that. I'll keep it around.
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This is a great idea. I've asked attractive female friends who I think have a good sense of style to spend a couple hours shopping with me and pick out clothes. They're usually flattered and it's fun. Note: I only ask when I know their boyfriend as well - so its clear that they're helping me as a charity case (most girls love to "fix up" a guy's fashion)/not trying to date them. I don't do this as much now since I've learned what fits and what looks good on me.

Fashion tip for skinny, nerdy guys: Dark sport coat, dark jeans, button down shirt with a splash of color/texture

http://yoox.com for fashionable close-outs
a startup that was filling the gray because black and white were taken, isn't going to fare well especially in such an expensive market to get into. Mint has gotten 17.8mm in its 3 year existence
On-Topic:...anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Not everything on HN needs to 'have much to do with tech.'
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At the expected price point, or at all? Could you articulate why?
I'm not using it because it does not have a master password function and the google toolbar!
Maybe by simply stretching the wire by the force of water movement (like pulling a guitar string up really hard).
Who is your target demographic (whom do you expect to purchase these surveys)? Small companies?
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There is a single pair of $20 tickets left for the actual performance. For that price I'd take the real thing over the simulcast.

http://sfopera.com/purchase/tickets/reserve.aspx?performance...
Will the screen really look that nice from those viewing angles? If so, it will be a Kindle killer.
Relational databases were invented in 1970. The basic design for most of the popular RDBMSs today (Oracle, DB2, Ingres → Postgres, Sybase) was created in the 1980s. In 1982 you could buy a 5MB Winchester disk for US$2000. A terabyte of disk therefore would have cost US$400 million.

This is not what relational databases were designed for.

Otherwise your comment is correct.
This article speaks to supply and demand as it relates to poor interpretations of the market signals. An interesting read for Entrepreneurs.

Remember when the key metric was "hits" for websites? I remember a client saying he wanted to maximize hits and I told him that we could slice up some big gifs into smaller gifs and that would make the hit count go up. I was trying to illustrate the inadequacy of hits as a metric but that just made his eyes lights up with the idea that he could artificially pump up the number of hits his company's site was getting.
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

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How many of these are from one-time spam accounts? I know I get people following me from time to time who follow a bunch of people hoping to get reciprocal follows, then send out a spam tweet and move on to another account. It probably doesn't account for the majority of these, but I would guess it's non-trivial.
Although SQL sucks, it is a higher-level facility for getting and setting data than ORMs are. ORMs don't exist to abstract away SQL; that is counterproductive. ORMs exist so you can store your objects in a relational database, which is not a problem you can solve in SQL.

I suspect that a big part of the problem with SQL is that it's too abstract: it is both hard to predict how fast a query will run and hard to predict whether the query will continue to run fast as the database changes. A big part of the appeal of things like memcached and Redis is that their performance is not only fast, but also predictable.
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"Google Squared couldn't automatically build a Square about Hacker News."

That's odd. It built a square around my personal name, the name of my personal website, and the name of my nonprofit, the last of which I would think would have to be less famous than Hacker News. Richness of semantic associations appears to be key here. My nonprofit's name has more words in it.
Well, you're right that licensing cost can't be the reason, although ten years ago it could have been. But I think the "inherently scalable" item may have something to it.
Stop attacking the guy, it's really poor form. Just admit you guys screwed up and move on.

Sounds like Zed's analysis of the Rails community is still correct.
"Porn stars" is resultful, but not in any order of notoriety. "Measurements" is, surprisingly, an available column, and "Sexual Orientation" worked, although not suggested until I started typing it. (I wouldn't recommend searching for this at work, obviously, although the Image column seems to be keeping things PG-13.)
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As someone who loves Rails, I'd hate to think that.
The Sanmina/SCI fiber cable used is only .25mm diameter and 11 km of the stuff weighs only .173 kg (less than 1/2 pound).
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I think that's totally unwarranted. He essentially pointed out that MongoDB is actually an RDBMS, and clearly explained how Redis is different, and why.
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Get a partner.

If you're stating you're in a vacuum now, well wait, because there will be an infinite stream of decisions and competing priorities and aims and risks that come from taking a co to the next level. So, if you want to take it to the next level you need a partner, somebody that complements you, but kinda knows what to do (either because of his experiences or the way he's built).

But, get a partner in a smart way. Take a year or two. Get somebody in your own age range (not too old, not too young). Talk with him _a lot_. Get that weird feeling that your not in sync on a couple of big issues, don't do it. And make expectations clear that you expect him to take on quick projects that are immediately CF positive for at least a year while he learns the business. ( I always slap my forehead when I hear those stories of founders letting a new ceo take a huge flier early on. Big new marketing plan. Conferences! etc.)

good news in it all: Time is on your side.
One consequence here is that as fewer smart people will go into finance some of them will go into software engineering, driving down wages for junior developers. Bad news if you are a junior developers, good job if you are a manager (or plan to become one soon).
I love math and recognize its supreme importance, but anything beyond long division is beyond me.

Some people have dyscalculia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
You can't get select, project, or cartesian product out of ismember, union, and intersection. Also, union corresponds to and and intersection corresponds to or, not the other way around as your comment has it.
It's hard to give someone "the right song at any given moment in time anywhere they are at without any device whatsoever" for Christmas.
i don't really see the ingenuity, it's not like anyone in a more modern country couldn't come up with these things, we just don't want to get tetanus shots every time we use our car or use phone batteries that explode on us.

we're willing and able to pay for quality.
since they are all gathering dust and only one or two still work, I would guess not very correct
So Javascript is a Playskool language? C'mon, it's the lingua franca of the web...time to learn for real buddy. You might learn something.
That was my point: you were using a watered down version of literally that, over time, came to be an agreed upon definition. That's just how it goes.
"Then why not have garlands of frag grenades hanging on the ceiling as part of every bank's security system?"

Because that would have significant side effects. Since parachutes are pretty much useless on airliners anyway, no significant side effects from banning them.
I quite like that it's ultra-simple right now. 1 price, few options. Not something you need to think about too much. Just do it.

I'm not saying that choosing your own demographics, number of participants, more complex surveys might not be useful sometimes. But I love that I can get my head around this in 10 seconds.
The govt's actions might seem heavy-handed, but their stewardship of the change process has undeniably been impressive, even exemplary.

I actually think the Chinese government did the right thing in Tiananmen. They had the fortitude to do what Louis the XVI and Czar Nicholas the II should have done, but did not. Americans forget that most revolutions have had horrible results. And in China in particular, the worst time periods have been times of internal chaos ( the Taiping Rebellion and the Cultural revolution). Order and security are prerequisites of liberty. The Chinese government put down the mob (a mob that did have weapons, btw), and helped ensure that the past twenty years have been the best twenty years in China in a long time.
I would just like to point out that in 13 hours nobody has posted a comment here that even bothered me a little, whereas it took less than 3 hours for Reddit to bust out the one-time pads.
It's also an interesting example of where an Option/Maybe monad would save you. Coupled with a type system, the issue would even be caught at compile time (or edit-time, in the case of a type-aware editor/IDE).
"some people want to pay" is not sufficient to justify implementing a "freemium lite" (term is my own) version as advocated in the article. How many people will pay? How much will they pay? Is the product of those two figures in the same ballpark as the cost of developing the "freemium lite" differences, accepting payment, dealing with support emails from people who expect things they pay for to Just Work, etc.?
Developers think of ways to make things.

Security guys think of ways to break things.

That's the main difference.
Maybe you should upgrade ;) Mine does all of those things, and extremely well.
This is an excellent idea. Flying way, way under traditional solutions.
I blame the teachers. Not all of them, just two major categories.

Category #1 ``Math Illiterate Teachers'' : These teachers don't actually know any real math. They memorize a lesson out of the texbook and present it to the class. The problem is that it convinces students that math is magic: it works, but don't ask why.

Category #2 ``Underestimaters'' : These teachers are competent in their subject, but have given up on the majority of their class. These students are already convinced that math is magic and attempts to teach math in any way but rote memorization result in loosing them. Thus they give endless `examples' and `special cases' and `flowcharts' in hope that these students can memorize enough to pass the finals and go on to be art students.

I've talked to both categories of teachers. #1 is generally aware that they know nothing, but feels it is unimportant (one told me that other teachers down the road would be able to explain things so she just had to get them to do things). #2 generally feels that this is the only way possible: some students just can't grasp math.

Another part of the problem is textbooks. IMHO, they over-complicate topics by giving to much explanation. Brief answers are easier for students to grasp and make the textbook more approachable. You can break concepts into smaller concepts and give secondary more detailed explanations where necessary instead. I'm working on writing a open source math textbook on this approach (sorry for self promotion): http://christopherolah.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/math1.pdf . Feedback and help are appreciated.
Another popular theory is that Bell flat-out stole the idea from Gray.

(see The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393062066?ie=UTF8&tag=... )
2009 China is far different from 1989 in part because this event happened.

Do you think it's different because of the protests, or because of the reaction of the government, or both? I'd be very interested to hear any elaboration you have on how you think it changed China and what the current Chinese view of the incident is.
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Clearly it should support copy/paste, but on a Web 2.0 tablet I think saving could be replaced with bookmarking/sharing.
not really the same thing considering IE was updated to use bing as a default search engine
Great post, not that I can claim to understand all of it. One question:

Just put a “for” loop around SHA-1 and run it 1000 times to generate the key; that’ll at least slow down a brute force attack. SHA-1 is lightning fast. By itself, it’s a crappy way to generate a key.

I see the purpose of this, but doesn't it also provide 999 more opportunities for a hash collision to happen? Are you so confident in the collision resistance of SHA-1 that this isn't an issue?

My (probably naive) proposal would be to keep the result of the first hash and XOR it with the result of each subsequent hash. Bad idea?
You can't get select, project, or cartesian product out of ismember, union, and intersection.

Sorry, I didn't mention that redis has SADD and SREM for implementing projection. I'm not sure what you mean by select. You're right about product. I think that's what's missing.

Also, union corresponds to and and intersection corresponds to or

That's exactly what I said. We both got it backwards.