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This post was rather pointless, but the panel discussion that he was referring to was really, really good. I watched the whole hour. If you're interested in pursuing advertising as a revenue model, it's worth while.

Direct link here: http://www.building43.com/videos/2009/08/03/is-the-advertisi...
The App Store is the place where everything is Apple's fault. Program crashed? Apple's fault. Inappropriate content? Apple's fault.

Unable to use my phone in ways that I want? Apple's fault.
You still haven't read it: "not a single [swine flu] death". So the 20k deaths obviously refers to seasonal flu.
Yes, I meant just space efficiency. It might be handy if you have many subsets (e.g. a solution space) you need to store in memory or on disk.

I'm still looking for a faster algorithm that reaches the optimal space efficiency.
I wanted to reply to this post but then I read yours and you nailed it more beautifully then I ever could.

Specifically:

"Appreciate things as they come, be happy, and enjoy your life."

"Go out with your gf. If you don't have one, put down the keyboard, and go get one."

and most imporatantly.

"F productivity."

One thing I would add is try to appreciate more the "normal" people, for whatever they are. Cherish the time you get to hang around them. They are one of the most important part of your life. Love them and respect them for they give a lot of meaning to your life.
What if the patent holder doesn't know that their patent is being infringed.

Suppose I hold a WO(US+JP+EP) worldwide patent on ball-based vacuum cleaners. A Japanese factory produces a copy-cat and starts selling in Japan. I spend 2 years talking and negotiating with manufacturers in the US, whilst at the same time the infringing Japanese production is ramped up.

The US manufacturer spots a Japanese model on sale and tells me they won't license it as I've not protected my patent and so it's now [under your regime] invalid ...?

Even if you limit it by jurisdiction and only look at use of the patent in the specific area, then I'd have to know of the output of all US factories to be able to cease the production in a timely way. How long after a company starts use would I have to notice and send my C&D letter.

What if the patent covers a circuit arrangement in a TFT display, do I as patent holder have to purchase all displays and examine them to determine if one infringes my patent? What if the thing I have a patent on is being produced for business purposes, eg in house use (a rocket engine at NASA that will be used for satellite launches, say), using my patent spec but I can't examine the thing to check if it's infringing? I can't afford to sue NASA immediately, so that means now anyone can use my patent??
If a 4-core, cache coherent version was available with a reasonable memory controller

Multi-core Cortex A9s are hitting silicon as we speak, so this is actually not far off at all.
Might as well make it a million.
Some interesting papers there, highly cited: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=productivity+formal+meth...
The top two are 1990 and 1996, and the debate doesn't seem to have changed that much... in 10-20 years.

Some nice thoughts in Clarke (1996), p. 638 (page 13 of the pdf)
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~emc/papers/Papers%20In%20Refereed%2...

They would routinely use tools such as model and proof checkers with as much ease as they use compilers.

Wing [1985] envisioned over ten years
ago the idea of specification firms, analogous
to architecture and law firms,
whose employees would be hired for
their skills in formal methods.

EDIT could you share your experience, sans figures?
I wonder if this would do well in Japan. You'd have to give the boxes cell integration since credit card penetration isn't that high here, but other than that it should work fantastically. Just put them within a block of the train stations and you'll do so much business you'll have to figure out some way to restock them for the first few weeks until you reach equilibrium.
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Indicates that reverse-engineering human intelligence is harder than merely understanding the brain.
> before you criticize a project make sure you understand the material.

He's right.

Mersenne Twister = mt_rand(). The guy that wrote this is an ignorant.

Ignorant: Lacking knowledge. Unaware or uninformed (adjective: moron).
That. Sounds. Awful.
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> pg has always said that they want to see indicators of past performance and success,

If you've been successful in the past then that's great but then you are already part of a very select group of people. Reminds me of the ads for employees: has to be between 18 and 25, have a degree and at lesat 5 years of work experience relevant to the field.

YC attracts young folks, willing to move (that means no current large responsibilities) and willing to neglect their social life for a period in order to take this chance.

People with a success in their back pockets are not going to intersect in large numbers with people willing to meet those conditions.

> and working at Google is a pretty darn good one (usually).

Why ?

That only says that you were good enough to get hired by google but it does not mean at all that you are 'start-up founder material', rather the opposite, it says that you are the kind of person that seeks large brand name companies as employers.

That's where the failed 'starter-uppers' go when they've had their shot and need to recover for a bit, not where you go before you decide that you want to run your own company.

That's the sort of thing that drives your whole being, pretty hard to mix that attitude with having a day job, that must mean that you are not very comfortable in your day job.

The list is a good one though, (I assume we're talking about this one: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html ), even if some of them are quite ambitious for a YC funded startup, after all, the (initial) funds are quite limited, and to get to a working prototype for some of those ideas in such a short period is stretching things quite far.
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The rules are here: http://www.vtol.org/awards/hphregs.html

They've covered most of the loopholes - including storing energy, etc. Perhaps more interesting, there is no limit on the size of the crew.
I thought this was going to be about iPhone apps and "Eternal September" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Would you honestly consider working at Google to be ceteris paribus equal to working at merely a "typical" software company? There is information there. Refer to what I said about false negatives versus false positives.
We're not talking a little "bit of money to build a prototype" in all cases though. Often a prototype would be impossible to build in a short time - suppose my invention is a new more efficient engine, it requires a few million in funding which I don't have; I've spent 15years developing the idea ... shouldn't I be allowed to sell my idea for even a little bit of money? If I present the idea to the companies who can make it - won't they just say, "you're not making it now, we'll wait a year" (or however long you're enshrining in your law) and then make it free from my license.

If instead I'd spent that time coming up with a new cheaper way to make icecream, the machine takes me a couple of months and a few thousand $USD to make, then I sell my idea worldwide and become a billionaire; isn't that a bit of an unfortunate disparity?

As an artisan inventor I'd only ever be able to successfully patent things I can make at home without outside funding.
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Strangely written article. For example:

"The $1 price is not the main issue for the studios, although they do not like that, either; it is the timing. New DVDs sell for about $25. Video-on-demand services price them at about $5. Multiday rentals of new titles cost $4.99 at Blockbuster.

Now there is a $1 option at the same time. That could put downward pressure on the industry’s price structure."

In other words, the $1 price is the main issue.
Different languages hosted on the same VM. Ten years ago if you said JVM the only language to come to mind was Java. Now it's common to think of Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Rhino, etc. too.
We all know the reputation onlines have....
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Which probably infringes the copyright on the the fonts.
I really think pg should create a very successful business just on reading startups proposals and giving them ratings and charging them for his analysis. Please let me build it for you. Anyways.. more please.
Mobile phones will be your primary communication device.

Most software will eventually be accessed from a browser.

People will pay $15 a month in perpetuity for a single video game.

Talking to someone about your finances will be the exception, not the rule. All of your routine transactions are automated. So are many of the non-routine ones, such as opening a new account for anything smaller than a mortgage -- and we'll automate most of that, too. You'll laugh in the general direction of what people used to pay for money management, unless you're very rich or very poor.

It used to take effort to find out where you were going. It now takes effort to not know where you are.
Development dream teams?
By convention the in-language form is called an internal DSL, the other an external ditto.
To reverse that, everything else being equal do you really think it matters if somebody has worked at google on some project vs someone working at say Yahoo, Microsoft, NASA or any one of a hundred other large operations writing software ?

I don't buy that. There are plenty of places where you can get excellent experience relevant to solving some of those problems, not all of them are 'google'. And not all of them are big company efforts either. (though the samples listed here are).

Google is a 'great' company, but they're definitely not the only game in town and I find it strange that having worked at google would be a 'pre' compared to having worked at other places.

It's not like every coder/analyst at google has personal access to the whole GFS system and can work with it to their hearts content. I figure plenty of the jobs there are like every other job in industry.

If you're part of the core search team that changes things, but having 'worked at google' is way too arbitrary a selection criterion.
"Comic Sans was never intended to be used in menus of classy restaurants."

No, they must use Vivaldi, ditto wedding invitations. ;0)>
Two issues here:

1) the "normal disclosure rules" weren't in effect, up until now-- there was no requirement (or expectation) for Pogue to mention that he was also writing books related to the review subjects;

2) the "Sibelius" example isn't quite analogous; in this case, you have someone recommending that people upgrade to Snow Leopard, when he has (through book sales) a vested interest in seeing that people upgrade to Snow Leopard (and not skip this release.)

That being said, I think the NYT handled the case admirably.
I'd speculate that few users know that a preferred font is set by the browser and will simply think the designer set a fugly font or at least set the one most other pages seem to use.
Some videos on the Wired story: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/09/human-powered-helicopte...

There's ground effect because it's so low (0.2 m), but it's still unbelievably cool.
The dollar value of a rental is, for Lovefilm UK, about 90 cents. Because of this low price, ripping a DVD is MUCH more effort than simply renting it again.
I'd imagine physics is going to have something to say about this...
> In other words, the $1 price is the main issue.

Not so.

Movies are priced based on how early you get to see it. If you are willing to wait, the price goes down.

Redbox prices them at $1 without making you wait [as much], which moves the entire chain of time/price balances.
I'm not convinced this is a particularly useful exercise because most changes are the evolution of what came before. You're trying to create a neat package of discrete changes when the real world is continuous and evolutionary.

Take "Internet search will be an extremely important and profitable business", for example. But Yahoo and AltaVista were both important and profitable before Google even existed, and their existence is because of the web's lack of built-in search, which was a design decision, for example. If you'd told me 15 years ago that the most popular and profitable website in the world was a search engine making money through delivering ads, I wouldn't have been particularly surprised.
Perhaps this could be a new business model. Build up a business and cash out by turning the story into a film.

It'll be something if the film turns out to make more profit then FB itself (I'm assuming FB still isn't profitable).
From your profile: "Twitter account: @oil_and_gas"

Biased much?
Mobile phones will be your primary communication device.

They already are for a lot of people. Go further. They will be your primary computing, gaming, banking, music, GPS/maps, device. There are so many opportunities in mobile that it's almost silly to be working on anything else (and yet, I am working on something else).
And JavaScript will be the most popular language, by far, for most types of applications.
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It's not really a new idea, though. IBM developed NetRexx, a version of Rexx which compiles down to Java, in the mid-90s, for example. Kawa, a version of Scheme for the JVM, dates back to 1996 or so.
I believe it's common to regard the eyes as extensions of the brain.
That's definitely a good idea when the company operates only in the market you are interested in. However, it doesn't work when the company has multiple revenue streams and doesn't break them out in their published accounts. In that case, if the company runs separate sites for each revenue stream, you can use Alexa (or similar) to get an idea of the traffic percentage to that sub-site and use it as a crude proxy for revenue.
So, the API of these auto clean up objects is high level. Now how high level is the implementation? If you wrote it yourself (you sound like you did), and the abstraction has few or no leak, I bet you had to write insanely low level code to achieve that.

I see only one reason to do that: you need performance so high that no garbage collected language could provide it; and the application is so complex that you have to write high level APIs. Not to mention that your application has to be basically bottleneck-free, or you would have used a garbage collected language, it's FFI, and C/Fortran for the tight loops.

To my eyes, that is a tiny niche. It may even be void. The "pure low level" and "pure high level" niches are both better filled by simpler languages. The "low and high level with bottlenecks" niche can be filled by a combo (a combo is simpler than C++, in my opinion).

Now, there is a huge niche best filled by C++: the use and maintenance of C++ programs. This is my current day job.
I'm not a typography geek (or even a designer), but I'm fascinated with how passionate people can be about typefaces. The documentary mentioned in the article, Helvetica, blew my mind, mostly because of the passion/conflict/opinion that people have about something I take wholly for granted.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

Warning: watching this movie may have self-image ramifications such as "Wow, did I just watch a documentary about a font?" :)
The only thing that is left from this whole circus is a reference to a bug that has been known about for a long time:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45184

It would have really helped if they did a bit of research before writing such an inflammatory post and then go all out to get people to spread it.

Anyway, the damage is done.
Ask HN: what collaboration tools are there for the early phase?
Hi,

I'm in the very early phase of a startup and I am looking for a tool to collaborate with my cofounders.

I'm the only programmer right now so the focus of the tool is more the exchange of word and image files along with general status updates etc.

Things I thought of include:

- Google Docs

- DropBox file sharing

- Installing trac

But I'm shure there are lots of solutions for this king of problem (which are a better fit).
So what are you using/suggesting?
Tapes are still probably viable - but only at the high end.. Slap a SL8500 / TS3500 with Lots of LTO4 drives hundreds of tapes and the cost / GB starts coming down. (esp if you look at things like cooling, power, etc (High End storage like a Symm can power drives down, but their not exactly cheap - or really needed for backups)).
Arial is the default sans on Windows, and Helvetica on Mac, so I'm not sure what "fugly font" you're talking about.
If anything disclosing he writes manuals for the software he reviews will increase the sales - people who weren't previously aware of these manuals will hear about them and be more likely to buy them!
get tired, die!

doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
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> Here, you can buy pirated DVDs on the sidewalks for a dollar (USD). If there were Redboxes here, people would automatically switch from buying pirated DVDs to Redbox.

It seems like Hollywood prefers that we pirate new releases.
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I wonder what the legal implications of wearing a wire all the time are? 'cause it would actually help me out quite a bit, at least if there was a way for me to easily add tags (or otherwise make it search able)
Might as well make it a billion. They'll never have to pay.
Let me ask you a question, then: if Redbox were pricing rentals at $10, would the industry have a problem with them? No? How about $5? No?

It's the price.
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Spammer ?

this has to be the absolute worst title ever for an article.

You mean using rename does not involve using software ? Operating systems are not software ? GUIs are not software ?
What is the pace of development?

Obviously not fast enough for the moon colonies and jet-packs I was promised.
Isn't XULRunner bit like this
I just checked the site. Doesn't Amazon already do what RFS 2 is suggesting?
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You just need much better drugs to release more energy per kg of flesh. Ask the cyclist of the Tour de France how they do it.
Or embedded.
If something is small and enough to be anonymous, it's usually simply enough to be expressed without binding a variable.

(See point-free style.)
From what I can tell the behaviour in Leopard and Snow Leopard appears to be identical, it's just that Leopard had a falsely-reassuring label for the option which has now been changed to a more accurate one. Either OS would have deleted your old backups in the same way.

The bottom line is that Time Machine is a backup solution with a certain level of archiving as an added feature; it is not a bulletproof archival solution and shouldn't be relied on for that purpose.
I take it you don't see the problem then. I thought it is related - these people pay to keep their record collections and what not around, because it is their identity. So how do you manage your identity, that was my question.
Presumably you'd want to subject this proposal to the same cost-benefit style analysis as these guys do. E.g. how many lives would you save per dollar?

This boils down to a long term vs short term question. State building might save a huge number of kids 5 years from now but no kids now unlike giving food.

The problem with a ranking is that it suggests a sequence of actions, when in reality you want to do more than one thing at a time (state building and giving food).
Consider changes for crime and evidence sitauation. Especially against drunk people and in countries (like my native Sweden) where the police force isn't functional.

Consider generation two, when loggers have monitoring of e.g. blood pressure and pulse -- and automatic notification of ambulances.

I want one, too. (No, I don't drink much!)
>One possibility would be to allow a section of a country to secede if 60% of the population votes to do so.

How would you find out? In failed states I would think the mechanisms to solicit opinion don't exist to begin with.
And this one's much worse than the other one I flagged weighing in at

letter-spacing: -0.08em

Let's make this the month of learning elementary typography.

Might want to go back to the drawing board with the white on fuchsia as well.
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how could that guy hook up an eSATA drive to his mac? As far as I can see, none of the currently available machines provide eSATA support.

I thus assume that he was using OSX on a custom-built machine and it's very well possible that OSX doesn't have built-in eSATA support (due to the lack of official hardware) and thus doesn't recognize the external drives as external ones.

You see, when I plug a USB or Firewire drive into my Mac, Time Machine doesn't try to back them up.