skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially worth reading, for motivation, is the first two events in his life (of the four that are mentioned) that spurred the creation of the book (pp 13-15).
The complete drivetrain with automatic transmission is much more impressive: [ http://www.lpepower.com/content/heavy-duty-automatic-transmi... ]
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Re: neurotypical:

http://asperger.tribe.net/thread/8725f112-ca77-4a8a-be19-38f...

http://isnt.autistics.org/
yeah, i'm eager to see what the contract will look like, here's to saving up!
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This is a pretty old text, but comments are very welcome. I'm currently working on the Telekommunist Manifesto to be published by the Institute of Netwoked Cultures in time for the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin this December. The Manifesto will contain an updated version of some of this material, so comments and feedback are very welcome.
True.. I've been seeing something similar by uswaretech whose django posts (found on HN) are informative, showcasing their knowledge/expertise
It's a tough one, but it isn't new - PayPal have had that exact problem for years (it's baked in to their core product).
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While this thing here is only a work of art there are many cargo bikes out there that can carry a substantial load, the Yuba can up to 300kg.
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Then do A / B testing.

The "cheep" way to do A / B testing is for B to always be the existing system. Roll out changes to 10% of your users and see how they respond. Just remember if your users hate it then fix the problem and test it again or abandon the idea. So, this only works when you can measure how they resound to changes.
Plus it is certainly better that what we had a few years back, wherin you gave your password to third parties to authenticate to a trusted site. (Like Gmail contacts import, twitter apps). Now at least you are authenticating on the trusted site, where you can verify the address bar.
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Splashtop: Instant access to Internet after you turn on your computer
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On one hand you don't want to remember multiple passwords (on multiple sites) and on the other hand you don't want to let people authenticate from your own trusted site.

Most of the time, since you are already logged-in on Facebook google, yahoo or twitter, you will not be prompted for password, only for approval of authentication.
tl;dr version: people work more effectively when everyone participates in improving processes.
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Slightly tangent:
The question if humans are inherently lazy or not is wrong. To understand motivation you need to grasp back to evolutionary principles. People work hard to ensure procreative success, but will spare energy when possible.

In process management terms, ideally you couple the sense of genetic urgency to the job. But realistically a lot of jobs obviously have no connection to procreative success. In that case assume the employees are lazy.
I sort of expected that YC et al would select based on market knowledge more than "the demo". The technology is the easy bit. Finding a problem worth solving that hasn't been done is the hard bit, and that's down to market knowledge.

I remember a helping a young company who were amped about their idea recently. Luckily they hadn't started building yet, but we sat down together and I convinced them to cold call some of their target market with me to prove their customer hypothesis, which they knew was right of course :)

It quickly turned out the product they were willing to spend 6 months of their lives on wasn't wanted at all by the market; they wouldn't use it even if it were free! They were over the moon about saving 6 months, and are now exploring other ideas :)
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Good idea re: commission. Your site looks like a good starting point for us - will check it out in more detail later.
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The Art of Prolog is available new from amazon.co.uk :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-PROLOG-Advanced-Programming-Tech...
This is exactly where we want to end up. It's all about building reputation, you and a couple of others have pointed out that word-of-mouth is by far the most effective way of gaining this. For initial clients, we are just going to have to continue promotion in our own professional network.
I've heard this, but I've also heard that we should do our own sales. Does anyone have any info on where to find London-based IT sales people that will work on commission only?
Your argument refutes itself handedly because 32bit processes are limited to 4GB of address space. You've maxed out 1Gb now, how long before you max out 4Gb? Memory concerns are clearly the reason to go 64bit, the stuff about registers is icing on the cake.

Look at the big picture, whether it be pointers or integers into an array: the size of the index grows with the log of the number of things being indexed. You can't avoid this growth, but it matters less and less as you grow.
There are only so many resources on this planet. There are too many of us and too few of them. They will run out, no matter what many have been trained to believe. Not soon after, so will we.
I was just making the point that the possibility of creating a huge "home run" which is the desired VC outcome (eg like an Apple or HP) is difficult when VCs "pass" on what looks like a few guys making an iphone app or something.

My other point is that many entrepreneurs need more than 25k to build their prototype yet fail to do it do to the clutter in the funding market hence two guys building in a garage for a customer project might not get funded in today's climate.

To me if an entrepreneur can create a product get it to market and get profitable they are a success and possibly could be a big "home run". If the investment thesis is to get the home run then it most likely will overlook two guys in a garage.
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C would be great compared to C++, which my high school and my wife's non-CS engineering department taught as intro languages.
For technical folks bootstrapping say a iphone or fb app is very little money and 25-150k could be used for market validation - another very important part of the startup cycle. If the entrepreneur is say a business person who can't code anymore then a prototype cost will be roughly 25k or so just to get an initial build this still isn't enough to launch. So getting a customer immediately is very important and working capital to service and grow.

There are only two ways to get money for a startup: 1) top line revenue from a product or service or 2) sell equity or do a debt note. That's it.

I've estimated that the required amount for a "real" seed round in today's open source environment for tech ventures is about 200-300k. That is unless you are young and can do the coding yourself. However technology isn't the driver any more for startups. The scarce talent is business model engineering and product marketing - building for scale isn't the problem anymore. I can build a hack protytype that works well into the "validation" stage to establish a funding event or customer revenue stream then use the new capital to rebuild, hire and grow.
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Have you heard of Grahams number? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number) It comes from a legitimate math proof, and it's unimaginably large. Or, I'm reminded of a proof, related to the Goldbach Conjecture, that every even number is the sum of at most 20 primes.

There is a lot of precedent in math to find existence proofs for results that are completely useless for finding a practical solution.
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Well, try the demo. The google login works with a mechanism on googles servers asking you explicitly to grant access to the referring site. If the user doesn't check the address on the target ... well ... :/

I've spotted another weakness though on the facebook login. The username's are generated as facebook_$firstname, which will lead to duplicates on big sites quite fast.
I'd like to see a mechanism asking the users to chose a username.
Damages, not fines. It's supposed to compensate Verizon for the losses it has suffered, due to the wrong-doing of OnlineNIC.
Of course, the second sentence of the article also answers that question.
Agreed. You (or a salesperson) needs to be shaking hands.

Are there brokers who specialize in matching clients and customers in the $50k-$500k web space? Any in NY in particular?
Good rule of thumb: You should be meeting at least two new people every day. And for every person you meet, you should be making three introductions. Figure out who the 5 best superconnectors are in your city, and then have them each introduce you to thirty of their friends. Then have each of those 150 people introduce you to three people, and you'll be set.
Nokia N900 officially announced
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I suppose, the question is, why do people which are not interested in what your site has to offer land on it in the first place?
I think you're right that most people could probably find something that they enjoy and can make a lot of money from.

What I should've said is this: Many people have to choose between a job they really enjoy with a good salary, and a job they wouldn't enjoy as much but with a bigger salary.

Consider a Maths Phd whose ideal job is to work as an academic in the field of algebraic geometry. The salary for this sort of job is decent, but not enormous. If he wanted to make an enormous amount of money, he could find related work, like working at a hedge fund or starting an engineering firm. Although he would enjoy doing that sort of work, he wouldn't enjoy it as much as working as an academic. So he has to decide between a job he really enjoys with a good salary, and a job he wouldn't enjoy as much but with a huge salary.
That is quite cool, but I found I had to give a bit too much though to plural/singular in order to get a diagram that made sense. If it could understand that "templates" and "template" are the same thing it would make a big impact on usability.
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Even if the creative business are lower value than the business you now want, the work still demonstrates what you can do.

If one of your existing websites involved a web application, e-commerce etc, this shows your capabilities.

If you don't think you can jump straight in at £50k, go up to the next price bracket. That way you can use your existing portfolio as a reference. Then just keep leapfrogging up to the bigger business.

Don't forget that you can likely charge medium to large business more than you can a small business. If you're quoting based on value to the customer, the value is likely to be higher for a larger business, so you can charge more.

So what might be a £10k job for a small business, ends up being a £20k job for a larger company.

I once worked for a company that did an e-commerce site for a large plc. They charged £750 per day for development, and the overall cost for the site was in excess of £100k.

But if you were freelance, you would likely charge £250-300 per day for the same. However, this large company was used to paying those sort of rates, and we were a 'consultancy' which can make a difference in price!
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Just pointing out that technically it can be done, your statement about not having it could mislead someone. I am not arguing the merits of whether or not it is the most optimal solution or not. Just pointing out that it can be done.
That's pretty sweet! The demo worked well for me on everything but Facebook, where it reloaded the page within the facebook popup, a littttle odd. This is a great start, though, for developing services that integrate with the API's of these services. Psyched to try it integrating it into an app.
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I can't quite see this happening, it would trigger all kinds of retaliation and WTO type wrangling. I suspect China is doing a bit of posturing ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference.
I think the true purpose of an advisory board is client contacts. You can build a top notch virtual salesperson with the right board with no financial cost and only a small equity cost.
I have an iMac that first came out 2 years ago, and I do not notice either fan roaring or jumping and jittering. Is your experience with this on the laptops?

(I do, unfortunately, notice that the fan sometimes goes to medium in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. It's not quite annoying enough to shut down when I go to sleep, though).
have managed to find some leads mainly through our professional contacts

Good. Keep doing that. Then get referrals from your referrals. This has always worked well for me.

RFPs
I never do. You have little control and have to compete. Look for opportunities where there is no competition.

hit the streets?
Absolutely.

Hold workshops?
These can be very effective for prospects deeper in your pipeline, but they can also be quite time consuming.

Attend ‘networking’ events?
Every one you can. You'll soon learn which are worthwhile and which are not.

Search online?
I haven't found much success doing this.
It's not a crazy idea at all, nor is it even a new idea (see BASIC, Pascal, etc.), but it is not appropriate in all cases.

I would never recommend trying to teach C to a group of high school kids that were otherwise indifferent to computers (eg not curious tech-nerds).

Teaching methods and knowing your audience are important, too like recognizing that most of your class is bilingual and making an analogy that would be useful and relevant to them. I once explained Computer Science in a nutshell to my sister --a pianist, one of those self-proclaimed not-good-at-math people, but someone I know and communicate with very well-- in about 45 minutes; starting with binary logic and circuits and putting it all together with and ending with high level languages and the internet. She didn't retain it all of course but I pointed her at the Head First HTML/CSS book and she picked it up no problem.
What the hell...?
Communism is a great idea on paper, but completely ignores the realities of human behavior. It will never work, because people are not mindless drones.

I read your entire manifesto, I highly recommend you read about the Twentieth Century Motor Company, so you can see what will eventually happen to your commune (link to the story is below)

http://conservablogs.com/bluecollarmuse/2008/10/06/socialism...
Resources are a function of technology, which in turn is the result of human ingenuity. There's really no inherent limit, considering the way markets develop substitutes (higher prices encourage both conservation and innovation).

After all, man can turn sand into silicon computer chips...it is the technology and the end use, not the natural resource, that matters.
Whoa, this is heavy: brain equates weight with importance
I think they should learn something like Z80 assembler. Get them used to the idea that computation on a von Neumann architecture occurs within a one-dimensional array of fixed-width, integer-addressed memory cells. When they are used to that, they can move onto things like C.

A perfect geek toy for kids would be, to me, something about the size and form factor of a cellphone with a QWERTY keyboard. There'd be a switch on the front such that in one position it functions just like a graphing calculator, and in the other position it behaves more like a KIM-1 computer, letting you craft machine language routines for it directly. There'd be a low-level monitor of sorts that would let you examine memory contents, assign breakpoints, etc. and maybe some simple I/O routines to load and store programs from the attached flash storage. Otherwise it's a 1970s era hobbyist computer, except it has loads of memory, a sweet color display, an ARM CPU and you can fit it in your pocket.
We teach Shakespeare and Calculus in high school, though those are certainly not the easiest choices in their respective fields. For an introductory programming class, I agree that Python is a great choice. However for seniors in a computer science class, C should be a fairly important part of the curriculum. There are some fundamentals of computer science that are best grasped through experimentation with C (pointers, memory, etc).

Note that several years ago the AP Computer Science exam got switched from C++ to Java. I personally support this change because most high schoolers are not mature enough to fully grasp the complexities of C++. Java is a bit gentler (Python would be better). However I don't see why C can't be the Shakespeare of Computer Science in high school. Everyone hates studying it, but it's probably better for the student in the long run.

On a slightly related note, I don't hear of too many efforts to make Calculus more accessible to girls or Shakespeare more accessible to men. This whole women in programming thing is an interesting phenomena. Don't get me wrong, efforts like this are great, and I've even participated in a few myself. But let's be clear about the source of the 'problem'. Deeply embedded society pressures and bias in early education are two major factors working against women in programming. By the time they've gotten to high school we've already lost quite a few for good. Let's also be careful not to attribute every inequality in sight to socialization. That's a nice PC answer, but unlikely.
I want this so bad. It's the first device I've seen that's powerful, open, and available.
Schneier has written about this before, and provided a protocol for a way to prevent search without having to lie to security agents.

Companies and individuals have dealt with this problem in several ways, from keeping sensitive data off laptops traveling internationally, to storing the data -- encrypted, of course -- on websites and then downloading it at the destination. I have never liked either solution. I do a lot of work on the road, and need to carry all sorts of data with me all the time. It's a lot of data, and downloading it can take a long time. Also, I like to work on long international flights.

There's another solution, one that works with whole-disk encryption products like PGP Disk (I'm on PGP's advisory board), TrueCrypt, and BitLocker: Encrypt the data to a key you don't know.

(the article goes on to describe exactly how you can use a key that you don't know)
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/laptop_securit...
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Ask HN: My HN has vanished
I've moved to a new apartment, and my new internet connection doesn't seem to like HN, in that it won't actually load it. From my neighbour's open wifi connection (which appears to be with the same ISP) everything loads fine, but from mine I get nothing. Telnetting directly to port 80 connects fine, but the server closes the connection instantly before I can even issue a request.

I thought maybe it was a DNS thing, but both connections are going to 174.132.225.106.

The only thing I can think of is that I've been re-allocated an IP address that did something bad somewhere before, but that seems a little unlikely.

Any suggestions as to what's going on, or things to investigate further?
I think this is a problem. Lot's of users just type www.example.org in the google and click the first link. they hardly know what the address bar does.

One way to look at it is: stupid user, you did it to yourself.

Another is: lots of people will be fooled, maybe we should rethink.

As I've said before, I have no solid solution.
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One reason might be that the Samsung has 8 GB storage, the Nokia has 32 GB. The Samsung has 320x480 pixels, the Nokia has 800x480. The Nokia also has OpenGL for Exposé-like task switching etc.
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Seriously even with the scandals the veterans' lives are not peachy until they hit the VA. Iraq?

I was in and out of a lot of Veterans hospitals when I worked in an ambulance, they have fantastic care if you give it some context with the rest of the healthcare system.
The headline is about a mechanism in OS X, and that's the only connection you need. It makes an incorrect leap from the general to the specific. That, and my curiosity about the mechanism, is what moved me to ask my original question.

I'm a "tools man", and I think that tools should be judged by their merits. Words are tools we use to communicate. Names are tools we use to identify. Taxonomies are tools we use to classify. How classification ties into understanding and addressing problems should be self-evident.

I don't care if the progenitor of a term is from the wrong "scene". If he ran over your dog, seduced your wife, and stole your grant money, I feel for you - but even if his crowning achievement is just one lowly but useful addition to the lexicon, then kudos for him. No amount of argumentum ad hominem on your part is going to divorce that tool from its intrinsic utility.

Yes, fluffy social & political stuff has its value too, I just didn't expect it rear its head here at HN. Now that I realize what's going on, I'll duck out.

It was fun.
Or pizza. You can either put egg on your pizza, or just leave them.
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Most chip fabrication processes require hafnium, gallium arsenide and helium.

Helium will run out in my lifetime. Look it up yourself.

Hafnium is likely to as well.

I'm amazed by the rah-rah capitalism types (not saying you are one of them) on this site who know so little.
The exact same thing happened to me. I wish that you could edit a sentence rather than delete and re-add it with corrections.
Keep in mind that rare earth metals aren't all that rare. They're just named that because they're similar in certain ways to the "common earth metals". There are many known deposits, that just aren't profitable. Most locations simply can't compete with the infamous cheap Chinese labor.

If China stops its exports, there will be a little bit of a shock period and a modest price increase thereafter, not the end of the world.
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Oh cool, they successfully attacked a system using an outdated encryption standard. In case you haven't gotten the memo yet, it's time to switch to AES.
Sridhar, do you have any links to more information about Zoho's University, the curriculum and so forth?

I shared a very similar education experience (Engineering in India, Masters in the US) and ended up with similar sentiments about how useless college education in India is and a (heretofore passive) interest in how to improve it.

However, I think college in the US CAN be a valuable experience, especially at the better schools, simply because of the freedom to explore, take courses in any department and also because of the generally better quality of instruction. Would you agree?
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