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Sure it could get "out into space", but in order to be useful, it has to get "out into space AND pointed at a satellite" which is a substantially harder problem especially in any upset or unusual attitude.
Competitors doesn't mean a significant market exists, it means multiple people have come up with the idea.
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Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming. I mean, really, it's not difficult to see that when you raise taxes (by closing loopholes or otherwise), people simply shift resources away from your country to compensate.
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To me Google Wave is "the mother of all demos" part 2.
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Hm, did you see in the promotion video of the Software how much the video was bucking especially at full screen?

I think that the CrunchPad will be quite interesting for Websites but not so for multimedia applications in the beginning.

Hope I am wrong though.
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this -> http://status.twitter.com/post/117482837 caused the bug last night.

Lesson learned : Never use an API blindly without adding your own checks to it.
That's fairly vague statement for a group of people that thrive on facts. What kind of jobs? Programming jobs? New jobs?

How much would taxes have to rise? 0.0001%? Or is there some room for negotiations? What if the US raised taxes more on companies that offshored jobs?

This seems like basic politicing at its best. Big companies are going to start playing taxes chicken with big government. By making blanket, vague statements like these, they hope to shape the conversation amongst politicians. There's a real conflict of interest when these guys start telling the government what's good for business.
I've had the same experience you have. My biggest problem with Hulu, though, is that I don't think they want you watching it on your TV. Or, they'd rather have you watching shows on TV (via cable, over the air, etc), and Hulu is only for the computer. This is unfortunate. I can see myself watching a lot more television if I could access Hulu on, for example, my Xbox 360.
Giving serious thought to getting a rackmount or cloud slice with these guys. Stories like these are darn impressive.
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Sorry, we're just getting going. Is it because it's slow or because the content sucks? We want to try a hybrid human/automated approach.
Well the 335i vs 335d is a difference of only 10 mpg...sure it sounds great to say 30% more efficient, but thats something people care about in daily drivers, not the weekend toys. And yes the LSx would be a better choice, I was just giving the example of the 335i just because its another bmw engine.

I just don't believe that there are that many green gearheads to gamble the stake of the company on. Not when you have people running test pipes just to get a few extra horsepower.

Yes people want a good looking car, yes they want to have great performance, as far as the keying thing that pretty much never happens. The only times I heard of cars getting keyed involved a bat shit crazy ex girlfriend.

The thing is, why not offer the LSx as manufacturer installed option. In the build stage it makes pretty much zero difference on what engine to put in. Give the people the choice. Same goes for SEMA, you'll get much friendlier coverage if the demo model has a real engine under the hood. If you do, the coverage will focus on the car company. If you choose to use the 335d engine, the coverage will focus on ridiculing the engine choice. Its just too easy of a target.

I'll take your word about the mixed use thing, since I couldn't really find anything about it. But I don't think its as easy as you are hoping for it to be. I mean, its pretty much impossible to import a car from Japan or Europe and make it road legal.

Well like I said its not really my segment, I like to stick to tarmac. And yeah Tesla and Fisker have invested a ton more money, but lets face it, they are doing a completely different thing since their cars are electric. And require a much larger support system, + they've actually finished their cars. And there is no reason to scrap the thing, something like this(although a little meaner looking) would probably do quiet well in a place like Dubai.

How did you actually pick this thing over some of the other designs? I mean I honestly can't see anyone picking this thing if they had other choices that included super cars. You sure you didn't get spammed by the designer using a bunch of proxies?

And there is nothing wrong with taking risks, it just seems like in this situation, you are taking it for no apparent reason. I mean lets face it, with 2,000 cars, you could build a copy of Pontiac Aztec, and still sell your full inventory over a few years. So why start out in a market with zero mainstream appeal? Why not think long term? Instead of building a car for a tiny market, build something for the mainstream enthusiast. Instead of targeting the few thousand offroaders, target the millions of sports car enthusiasts.

There is plenty of space for a U.S. version of TVR. And the $45K-75K sport coupe market is pretty bare. Plenty of opportunity to enter with an exotic looking limited production super car that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Dunno about joining the site, maybe when you add the general message board, where it'll be more of a real discussion and not just a commenting system to a bunch of photoshops.
For a site as simple as this one it's worked out pretty well. Easy to drop in and 1 less thing to think about it.

Thanks for the privacy warning - we'll look into it.
Another similar app: http://www.presdo.com
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Since they are all black, it also eliminates any matching problems.
...that doesn't behave like any other lightbox anywhere. This Expose tool is just flat-out bad UI; it emphasizes something, makes the user guess how to deemphasize it, and isn't visibly for anything.
What came to my mind (apart from the "smallpox seeding" and buffalo-killing that took down many indians) is the brutal put-down of Colorado mining strikers in the 1800s. All countries can point to such moments, I think (recent anniversary of French Communards comes to mind). The struggle towards freedom is never palatable to caring people.
Nothing wrong with having a home page with ads if it brings the cost down.
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In general, people tend to view their own level of book smarts as the optimal level. In high school a fellow student was a math genius who made into the U.S. math Olympiad at age ~14. He could do fractions in his head to multiple significant figures. In my mind I would come with justifications about how I was more rounded than him, and that he was too focused on math. Meanwhile, my brother always had much more trouble with math than I did. He would criticize me for being too nerdy, too into math, and "working too hard". Of course, to me it was fun and rewarding. I was good at it, so I did not view myself as "working too hard". In turn, the jocks at school made fun of my brother for being too nerdy. He would criticize them as being "dumb jocks". Meanwhile the jocks would make fun of the special ed kids for being so dumb.

Ability varies. Some people are innately good at math, some people are not. No one wants to have a value system where they are inevitably inferior. So people develop a value system in which their natural ability level is the ideal level.
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Duplicate of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640859
You're assuming that elected officials are the only wielders of government power. But the technocratic work is done by two groups of professional analysts: civil-service employees who work for agencies like the Congressional Budget Office or the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and private-sector employees who work for the lobbying and government-affairs divisions of corporate interests. On questions requiring any technical sophistication, the elected officials base their decisions on the recommendations of those technocrats.
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If only "What is the story with the most points?" had been asked a few weeks later than it was:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604323

Previous record holder with 530 points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459289
Basic Economic theory tells us that increasing taxes will hinder business development. The question is just would you rather give up the business (and its quantifiable value) for the increase in tax revenue.

The Ireland issue is really interesting to me. Many companies (Accenture, Warner Chilcott) are moving their incorporation from Bermuda to Ireland. The U.S. can bully around the little island states, but Ireland is much more of a bargaining force.

In my view, this is in the same vain as Delaware Corporations, just to the extreme.
It's a technique used by Dell and other PC makers for years. It's a nuisance, but if cost is a factor, it can be worth the 20 minutes it takes to clean the crap off.
If you're trying to convince your community that it's better to work through your process, letting nebulous "other things" continue holding up a week-old one-line fix to a catastrophic security flaw is not helping. Disclosure enables everyone else to work around the problem now.
I liked it. I cannot enter queries there though, it's a pity since I really wanted to test that engine.
Different,yes, but not necessarily in a way that matters to me.
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Of course all taxes go to help the poor and needy and to make the world a better place, and not toward things like wars, corporate welfare, pork, etc.
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Slicehost is awesome. I have received a few such emails before, mostly alerting me that a slice needed to be rebooted, etc.

I've tried Joyent and had a HORRIBLE experience, and I've had a frustrating experience dealing with EngineYard's overly complicated sales process.

I was worried that the Rackspace acquisition of slicehost would kill the awesome customer service, but it seems only to have made more resources (for things like bigger slices) available.

I couldn't recommend any company more highly than Slicehost.

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Government is filled with politicians not of a scientific/mathematical background but instead capable of rhetoric (or not capable at all =D).

The word instead stuck out to me here, because I don't think these two qualities are an either/or quality.

Further, don't be so quick to demonize the rhetorician. Unfortunately the Rhetoric today is all but extinct, to the point that the word is used derogatorily, much like the word Hacker.

You want to make a difference today? Learn rhetoric. Take two weeks and research the term. Find the people who spoke directly to this issue. Your search will take you to the limits of the history of ideas.

I agree, xel02, that a rhetorician must not be solely a rhetorician. That would be like a Hacker who only chooses Hacker methods of communication and then wonder why he/she gets blackballed in the workplace and why no one listens.

Being an expert, by itself, isn't enough to entitle one to the responsibility of speaking for others. The rhetoric, lets now say the Politician, has the responsibility to make decisions for a group, and while these decisions require technocratic involvement, they have other non-technocratic elements to be considered.
The problem about RDBMS in web world is that it just don't fit the scenario. When RDBMS was born, it deal with large, relational, but relatively static data. You can use whatever query to get the organized result. But today's web world is very different. We have relatively static queries (get top 10 stories, get account XXX most recent posts etc.), but the data are changing all the time. Consistent query may be a good start to solve the problem.
Any reason why a VPS wouldn't cut it? assume I know nothing about games, online or otherwise (at least not since Street Fighter II)
Then it wouldn't be the browser as we know it.
The browsers are misused because originally they were a document viewing system.
Where does it say "mediocre" in that article? Unless they edited it out since your submission, I think you're editorializing there.
Great, I tried the same query. Description says Alan Turing was born in Orrisa, India but Place of Birth field says London. I think such inconsistencies might limit the use of Google Sqaured for serious research.
Rackspace is all about customer service; that's why it was a good acquisition.
naw, not quite. Remember, when the "mother of all demos" was done, none of those things existed: mouse, word processor (that advanced), copy and paste and almost everything else.
So foreign (for the time), and so visionary.

Google Waves seem more of a mashup of current technologies (im/email/wiki/picture sharing) in a real time mode.
This confirms my suspicion that I need more than one SO profile: one for answering questions and using on a resume; and a separate profile that gives me the freedom to ask as many stupid questions as I like on topics that I know very little about currently -- but that I may know enough about at some point in the future to apply for a related job without needing to worry that my earlier noob questions will be taken out of context and unfairly disqualify me. On the other hand, my habit of writing long-winded sentences may be a bigger disqualifier.
According to the developer's blog, the site went live in December '08 and took about two weeks to build.

http://www.twobitoperation.com/blog/2008/12/23/announcing-pi...
How is this at all different from all the other Google Wave screenshots, most of which include complete reviews?
David mine it's not a critique to MongoDB at all. It's just a matter of different models. In MongoDB objects are composed of fields with values, and this is very like tables, and you can perform queries that while are not written in SQL are actually very similar to SELECTs. Also you can set indexes into fields, that means, there is some kind of implicit structure to access the data.

If you don't like it, I'll not tell the word "relational" since it is not very correct in this context, but this model is mathematically and algorithmically similar to what is inside the implementation of MySQL for instance.

To state it more clearly, in this model, the access pattern is not already implicit in the way data is stored by the user. With Redis lists it's pretty obvious (and you can see in the doc the time complexity of all the operations), that if you use LPUSH against a list, then with LRANGE you can get the top 10 items in constant time regardless of the length of the list: this is because of the data model, Redis lists are already ordered because they are just linked lists, and so on.

This is not to say Redis is better or MongoDB is better, it's just a different point of view, MongoDB implements a smart subset of the features provided by an RDBMS while Redis tries to take a different path where you select a data structure that is the best for the way you'll later retrieve those data.
I will buy one if and only if I can install my own software on it.
Hire him you piece of shit. Fire yourself if necessary.
Not that I have any problem with editorials. But there should be a clear separation from the actual content, and in this forum that means a comment.

Negative sensationalism is just as irritating as hype.
Taken from the TG-119 which Bloomberg referenced:

In other words, companies would only be able to take a deduction on their U.S. taxes for foreign expenses when they also pay taxes on their foreign profits in the United States.

This makes sense. The proposal isn't forcing a company to pay extra taxes. It simply places tax incentives on layaway until the company pays its foreign taxes.

The question is: do foreign taxes count as expenses? They ought to.

http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/tg119.htm
Despite military usage of HALO and HAHO high altitude parachute techniques (25-30,000 ft) since the vietnam war, very few civilians have ever made the leap. Assuming you could actually get out of a pressurized cabin, you'd almost certainly blackout from hypoxia before you opened your chute and you'd turn into a popsicle from sub-zero temps.

HALO jumpers breathe pure oxygen onboard and jump with oxygen tanks. A single breathe during the transfer is enough to return your nitrogen levels to normal and cause blackout on egress. Any kind of medical condition, even anxiety or exhaustion can dramatically affect your susceptibility to hypoxia and normal clothes would not save you from frostbite.

By the way, 747's cruise at up to 40k altitude and 565mph. Jumping out is not a good idea.
Inaccurate editorializing at that. I would say this development actually makes it easier for better techies to find jobs by harnessing their SO reputation and, consequently, perhaps makes life a little more difficult for the mediocre.
ask your "stupid" questions on highly specific IRC channels on Freenode and get the answers you need in seconds.

P.S. I used a handle to ask "stupid" questions on USENET, more than a decade ago, and now I wish I had asked them under my own name: the people who replied to me where pioneers of systems programming, and geek-gods.
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Removing tax havens (your island state bullying) is long overdue.

There is a lot to consider in how to tax a multinational doing legitimate business in a foreign country. Don't confuse that with what companies use Bermuda and the Caymans for.
"For $40 I can get an "EL Lit Glowing Equalizer [that] animates to ambient noise or music" on thinkgeek.com"

Precisely the reason you'd want someone else to shop for you. ;)
Google Sets (http://labs.google.com/sets) was one of the earlier things available in Google Labs, back when it was just a dumping ground for weird stuff (as opposed to one for non-mainstream features). I'd guess this is where the technology used to generate the square from the samples comes from.

I also wouldn't call it training, for what it's worth. I punched in the same query, and was asked (like you were) to provide some samples - shouldn't (ideally) it know that it's not known this before, and use the samples you suggested?
My take on it is that MS went right after the users, including TV ads, and Wolfram, being a mathematician, appealed to the learned and scientific-types, apparently more content with the props of his peers than winning over Joe Sixpack :-)
Zee M Kane of TheNextWeb asks me via Twitter:

@gojomo regarding how your comments about us and "comment syndication" - why do you have to automatically go the ultra negative route?

Because you've breached important norms: that I decide where my name and writing appears, and that content contributed to one site isn't bulk-republished at another site for commercial gain.

If you wanted to take occasional hand-selected quotes -- "gojomo at Hacker News makes a good point when he says..." etc. -- that's fair and respectful, even flattering. But scraping and merging every HN comment into your own discussion threads is sleazy, barely a notch above the splogs that grab blocks of others' text unattributed for search-engine spamming.

Attribution is not enough to legitimize the tactic at this indiscriminate scale.

Also: Your presentation removes the threading and feedback mechanisms so important to HN discussions. You add 'nofollow' on the backlinks you do provide. Your iPhone interface includes a prominent YC commenter icon that (when it appears on 7-of-8-comments on your site) implies an affiliation or endorsement where none exists.

The whole thing reeks, and that you don't yet perceive the problem justifies an even more "ultra negative" tone than I've already adopted.
Companies should pay tax in their home country on the profits of overseas subsidiaries, but they should be allowed to offset the taxes paid in the countries the subsidiaries are located in. So if your home country tax rate is 30% and you have a fully owned subsidiary in a country that has a 10% tax rate, for every $100 in profits the subsidiary makes you pay $10 where it is located, and $20 at home.

Remember the overseas subsidiary's profits are shown in the consolidated accounts, which shows that they do belong (in part if there are minority shareholders) belong to the parent company.
It would require more effort to get 50 responses from a tiny demographic segment than a large one, so I was wondering if having the price inversely correlated to the segment size was reasonable to an end user.
(Because I've been called out here, and it pertains to this discussion, I reproduce here my response from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641001 )

Zee M Kane of TheNextWeb asks me via Twitter:

@gojomo regarding how your comments about us and "comment syndication" - why do you have to automatically go the ultra negative route?

Because you've breached important norms: that I decide where my name and writing appears, and that content contributed to one site isn't bulk-republished at another site for commercial gain.

If you wanted to take occasional hand-selected quotes -- "gojomo at Hacker News makes a good point when he says..." etc. -- that's fair and respectful, even flattering. But scraping and merging every HN comment into your own discussion threads is sleazy, barely a notch above the splogs that grab blocks of others' text unattributed for search-engine spamming.

Attribution is not enough to legitimize the tactic at this indiscriminate scale.

Also: Your presentation removes the threading and feedback mechanisms so important to HN discussions. You add 'nofollow' on the backlinks you do provide. Your iPhone interface includes a prominent YC commenter icon that (when it appears on 7-of-8-comments on your site) implies an affiliation or endorsement where none exists.

The whole thing reeks, and that you don't yet perceive the problem justifies an even more "ultra negative" tone than I've already adopted.
"There are no MMO engines for sale that can make robust games. They just aren’t any good yet"

That's somewhat surprising to me. There's so many MMOs out there that have failed for one reason or another that you'd think someone would be trying to salvage their sunk costs by selling the engine.

Despite the competitiveness of the MMO market, there are still a lot of companies trying to break in, so you'd think that there'd be a decent sized market for a product which would shave years off of the development time.

I wonder if part of the problem comes from most MMO companies clinging to life for as long as they can, and then not having the money to rework their technology into something suitable for a third party. Certainly, there have been quality(from a technical standpoint, anyways) games that got released, got a few rounds of post launch patching, and then died from lack of users. I'd bet that with a bit of polish, that sort of proven technology would be a moneymaker.