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Just out of curiosity I looked at some of your older posts on your other accounts (turning on showdead). Being relatively new here myself (about 7 months) I can't speak for the staff or the downvoters, but if you were to look at your posting history over the past 21 days you might be able to infer the behaviors that get them upset. You might even try a statistical analysis of your killed posts if you really want to understand what is triggering the automatic kill switch.

The point I want to make is that when participating in a community, there is usually a natural feedback process that allows one to discover the rules and values of that community. If one does something out of line, the community will swiftly react. Multiple negative reactions are a sign that one's behavior isn't in line with the community's standards, and should be used as an input to the decision-making loop that says, "Wait, maybe they don't like it when I do X all the time." Then, you either decide to adapt to the community, or you leave.

Also, most communities will only accept a limited amount of correction from any given source, which varies by source and by community. One of the behaviors that's likely to earn repeated negative feedback is trying to change the community more than allowed by one's standing within the community.
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I hinted at this in another post, but I want to detail it a bit.

In short: I think you're wrong. Android can win this by me-too'ing the iphone as long as it has strong differentiation in hardware.

Do you want a small stick phone? How about a blackberry style one with a physical keyboard? What about something flashy like the side-kick? Do you want a highly customizable phone with brightly colored cases and add-ons? Android can rise to address those quirks. That high level of segmentation shouldn't be discounted.

A cell phone isn't just about software. It's a highly personal choice. If Android succeeds in becoming a mobile operating system with a vibrant 3rd party application base... well then they can win by appealing to a large number of segments through support of a number of form-factors.

The issue of course being that supporting all of those form factors in anything resembling a consistent way is VERY difficult. It's something Symbian has never really figured out. If anyone can...it's Google.
> You can't measure a person's intelligence using a test.

Well, you could, but first you must define it! ;)
I understand what you're saying, but it seems like it's just worth the upvote to save it.
One of my favourite articles combining science and cooking: The man who unboiled an egg:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/futureoffood/stor...

Found again thanks to this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy
what if tomorrow Y! changes it to 30 minutes, your app would be broken, your users experience would be affected, without you knowing the cause.

also if we allow Y! to get away with it, others would do the same, weakening and undermining the cause for which OAuth is a solution
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Exactly. I could upvote a lot of submissions that I'm thankful was posted here and discussed. Doesn't mean they're my favorite topics that I want to go back to at another time and re-read. Those would be my "saved" collection a.k.a "favorites"
"Continue Shopping"....means what?
Of the plenty of other sites, I like http://browsehappy.com/
Why will it be huge in India? For textbooks, typically you can get cheaper south-asia only editions. Many engineering books go for $10 for example. Newspapers are about $10-$15 per year. So I don't see why this will be particularly hit in India?
Anecdotally speaking, I've know people who have been spared tremendous trauma by wearing a helmet, and one girl in particular who's life was certainly saved by wearing one (she still ended up in the emergency room with a head injury because of the force).

Maybe me wearing a helmet increases the perception of danger, but hell, it's dangerous out there. Decreasing my immediate odds for safety is not worth some perceived future gains that I'm not even sure exist.
This is really a fitting follow up to the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30. Which really should be called the top feel good media stories under 30, because the majority of their companies don't break $1MM in revenue. How quaint! I am convinced that a key to success in business is realizing that 1) the business press is massively biased towards media businesses, and 2) the vast majority of companies that are printing money would never reveal any useful business strategies to the public because that would only undermine their own business goals. So basically, you will never learn anything useful about business by reading articles online.
Sounds like HN is becoming self-aware and vetoing any attempts at critical thinking with regards to its policies.

Long live HN Skynet!
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Unless you find yourself short on screen space, or frequently have to type really long URLs, the Ctrl+K combination to get straight to the keyword box is equally useful for those who use one search engine (Google in my case) significantly more than the others. I don't know what the Mac equivalent would be.
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As a user of hardware, not a hardware engineer, I wonder if I've seen these errors. Crashes -- I don't see any of those except the ones related to web browsers. I do a lot of long compiles and don't see any crashes from gcc. Corrupted data -- well, I've had several large downloads this year that didn't match the advertised md5 sums. I redownloaded and got matching checksums. Does any of this have to do with DRAM errors? There are lots of other potential sources of error in my computers. I could name half a dozen off the top of my head, but I'm sure I would only prove that I'm ignorant of another half dozen that are an order of magnitude more important than the ones I named. I await an answer to one question: who should care about these DRAM errors? Does that group include me?
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It would have been better if the bars were in color like the logo.
Isn't it included because the httpd committers happen to like Lua? I mean, it is a great language for that, but didn't it happen more because someone did the work, and did it with Lua, and was already a respected committer?
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"For textbooks, typically you can get cheaper south-asia only editions. Many engineering books go for $10 for example. Newspapers are about $10-$15 per year. "

Ok Why don't you find me an Indian Edition of "Coders At Work?". ;-)

More seriously you are (somewhat) right. Some books (most popular technical books eventually become available in cheap Indian editions. If all books available on the Kindle had a cheap Indian edition, your argument would have merit. There are two advantages to the Kindle over waiting for the Indian Edition of a textbook (if it ever comes out), time and convenience.

First technical books, there are large numbers of technical books that are not available in Indian Edition. Buying from Amazon isn't an option because the postage costs ramps up the price. (the "2 day" shipping option doubles the price. For heavier books Amazon ads an extra 10 $ to ship to India.The lesser options often result in the book not being delivered because it got "lost" somewhere in transit).
So if you order from Amazon (and many many people do, in spite of the delays and the cost , because they have no chpoice), the added postage fee more than cancels any discount.

Often the Indian edition books are released upto a year or more after the foreign edition is released and the paper and print quality is really sucky (to make it cheap I imagine.)

Give me an option of instant purchase (today you have to order books form India and wait for weeks to see how important this is) and I'd choose that in flash. Indian booksellers often take months to deliver a book not in the store inventory. Indian booksellers suck. Even an "Amazon India" would destroy them if it existed.

And as for textbooks specifically only a minor subset of the good textbooks in say Mechanical Engineering is available in Indian Edition. The situation is better for "Perl in 21 days" type software books.

For example Peter Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach " 3d edition is slated for release at the end of 2009 in the USA. I don't expect to see it in a cheap Indian Edition till the end of 2010.

I maintain that if the Kindle works well in India in terms of connectivity and so on (this remains to be seen), it will be a huge disruptive force in bookselling. Indian publishing houses are still in the 19th century as far as technology and distribution are concerned.

Some of my friends were trying to set up an e-publishing startup with a kindle like device and did some market research on this. (They didn't get funding which is another story entirely).
> nothing remotely close to mainstream is anywhere near it.

Whether you like it or not, Tcl has been and remains an excellent language for this kind of thing.
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Lua is amazingly popular in the game industry for exactly this purpose.

- It has an excellent C/C++ interop layer

- You can predictably constraint space and time needs; even on such resource constrained devices such as game consoles.

- The threading model is lightweight enough to give a significant portion of game objects their own execution state. This enables scripters to write "latent" behaviors; very useful for actors in the time-oriented world of games.
It's a very subjective article:

> Okay, in all fairness, I didn’t give Tcl its due. It’s likely the most widely embedded language. I just don’t like Tcl and it shows.

If you're talking about embedding languages and don't even cover what Tcl offers in terms of a C API, you really are doing your readers a disservice.

I think he should have just written an article on why Lua is good for embedding, which is really what this is about, and is a very reasonable thing to say.
The complexity is a shield against accountability.
>Ditch Your Safety Net

Is John Goscha telling kids to drop out of school to pursue a startup?
He is right.

Have you ever had fsck detect errors on a filesystem that you haven't abused? Guess what, that's memory corruption -- saved to disk forever.

I remember having a machine with especially flaky memory (memtest86 failed in about 30 seconds)... I detected it because dpkg's database was corrupted enough for it to cause errors in the application. I never even tried to save that filesystem...
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So I'm an undergrad junior right now studying computer science and my career path has recently been on my mind. Simply said, I feel an MBA preps you too much for corporate life. If that appeals to the writer, then I'm confused as to why startups are also into the equation. They're two different hings. WORST case, make MBA your backup. Use a passion to change the world in leaps, and if that fails and you need money to live and have a stable life.. only then go for the MBA. :)
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IE6 still has roughly a quarter of all browser market share. I'm sure Google is hoping some of those people will visit their new site, see they're using a browser released in 2003 or whenever, and decide to upgrade. Google conveniently provides alternatives to IE 8 just below that. Clever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Those text games really are addicting. I played that mob game on iPhone. However they made on big mistake, and it was that after a while you can't do anything because of the time limit they set for actions. So when that happened I stopped and deleted the game. So yea if you can hook them, don't give them any reason to drop the game, always give them something to look forward to to keep them coming back. Good luck.
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Your ALU doesn't care what the RFC says. What's the point of storing addresses in binary if you can't do math on them? There is no point, is the point.
This is perfectly okay! Your scalar variables are a pittance compared to your language's runtime and all the bloaty libraries you've imported. Besides, in most of these instances, your memory footprint would grow (until GC) in single-process usage just the same.

Theoretically, this might be true, but it doesn't seem to work this way in the real world.

Both of those options are the same shit in different costumes. Just because lightweight threads make keeping a stateful execution context for each client tractable on real-world OSes doesn't make it a good idea.

I'm not sure what improvement you are offering. Lightweight threads have the space overhead of one structure, and almost no time overhead. (epoll is O(n) over active handles; so in most cases, constant time!)
no contest it's the startup. i've done both and note that the most useful experience from my dartmouth mba was when tom peters spoke. his message: start a business now.
No, he's right. If Palm has a way to deny a developer the means to let his users install his (open source) application, they are still the middleman. That's the kernel of his objection, and that's still there.
But what if I want to count all the 10.x requests, not sure I can bitshift in an SQL query.
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Copy-on-write is also why people overestimate Apache memory consumption so dramatically and then get into the hassle of running php apps under fcgi to save a trivial amount of memory.
How noticeable is the difference? I've been waiting for an international release for some time now, but the fact that it's only the 6 inch version leaves me a bit unsatisfied...
I haven't yannis. But I do have lots more thoughts on nature's brilliant engineering abilities - lets see if the Ycombinator Team agrees on October 26th !
Don't be so paranoid. I recently discovered an account that was being auto-killed and made a small fuss about it. Paul read the comment and found the reason; that user submitted a story from a spam website and all his subsequent non-spam submissions were auto-nuked. Quickly Paul went back and unflagged the guys non-spam submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862023
I read a review here in Hacker News (can't find the link now) that the dx is much better in dealing with PDF. And I have a lot of pdf docs and papers. (here's a link about pdf on the dx http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/2009/06/12/technical-doc...)
Grab the last octet, and see if it's <= 30

Personally I store a string until 128bit math becomes easier (so I can handle IPv6). But usually I just want to log it, not check netmasks.
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Great Article! I didn't understand how flightcaster worked until a couple minutes ago. I thought they just scraped airline sites faster. :)

I wonder in what other areas this tech could apply? Financials comes to mind first, but perhaps something less saturated. Groceries? Gas prices? Perhaps something with less supply/demand pressure.
Should be. For Canada they say they are working to bring us the Kindle. They don't say that for all countries.
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Very interesting. This seems like a good potential explanation for the effect of Calorie Restriction Diet...
Sounds a little paranoid, to me. He could create a throwaway google account and buy a dev phone, or buy one of the many non-google-branded Android phones either already on the market or coming out this quarter, which can be used without a google account. Once you've got the phone, there's absolutely no requirement that you use a google account whatsoever. The only functionality which requires it are the google apps (gmail, maps, etc, and using the market). There's even a 3rd-party app market already out there (http://slideme.org/)

I don't see how letting google knowing who he is -especially when they probably ALREADY know- is any worse than letting Palm know who he is. For him to tear his hair out over Palm's bullshit, especially when in all likelihood Palm's will probably lose in the end, seems like a futile and masochistic exercise.
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Chevrolet Cruze to be Launch on 12th October in India
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So basically eat less and less healthy... live longer. That's awesome! This is going to add a lot of momentum to the low calorie movement.
The z-series stuff is indeed some amazing piece of kit.

Yes, the machine can and does call the technician when something fails. And iirc everything, including the CPUs, is hot-swappable. That means you can physically remove a CPU-book (containing processors and RAM) and your OS will keep running.

Quite a nerds dream, if you have the spare change...
From a comment: 3) Set pallette[sic] (port 0x3C8 & 0x3C9)

I grew quite nostalgic when I read that line. I have fond memories of tweaking the VGA palette back in my DOS days. Palette manipulation made it easy to do some kinds of special effects that would take a lot of GPU power today. There was actually an experimental version of tvtime that would wait on port 0x3DA for vertical sync (to work around the lack of sufficient vsync support in X). I tried to convince vektor to keep it in, because that's the best my TV had ever looked, anywhere, on any device.
There are, what, 8 /27s in a /24? How does seeing if the last octet is less than 30 help you?
good way to beta test a product :-)
I created a dev account and tried using the room. It works fine but how is it different from many other ajax based whiteboards out there?
and yeah, why jsp?
ActiveRecord and Hibernate can certainly do everything SQL can do. But the modeling and data access patterns they encourage are inconsistent with the strengths of relational databases and the relational model.

The point of using a relational database system is to think in sets of tuples because doing that makes life simpler (for some types of tasks). You apply one of a handful of set operations to a set and you get back another set of tuples.

Once you start assigning types and custom operations to particular combinations of attributes, you lose this recursive transformability and hence the simplicity of the model. What you get is a horribly complex monster.

The whole OO idea is a tangled mess. ActiveRecord and Hibernate do their best to help you view the database as a tangled mess as well.
Whatever the wording, there is a crucial difference between the two, irrespective of whether or how frequently they overlap or intersect.

There is a fundamental difference between asynchronous separation of concerns (concurrency) and multiple simultaneous use of resources (parallelism). Concurrency is a conceptual organization, whereas parallelism is a physical organization. These are orthogonal and you're free to have one, the other, neither, or both (in different ways). Just because they can interact in interesting ways does nothing to diminish their difference.

The point the OP was making is correct and well phrased, the comments here not withstanding. People who come from C land are used to dealing with threads (concurrency) as the primary means of doing anything non-serial. Some may be familiar with SPMD message-passing (parallelism), but they'll already know what's up. Unless you've programmed in Fortran or APL, are familiar with the Connection Machines, or do GPU coding, you won't have experienced SIMD (parallelism). People who've only ever used threads have an extremely impoverished view of the world of parallelism. Because they know threads==concurrency and they know threads can be used for parallelism, they assume the two are coextensive when they really are not.
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> With all due respect,

"Epic troll. Bravo."

> someone who claims to have embedded experience shouldn't have to ask hacker news about the benefits of fork, unless your embedded experience is all on Windows Mobile and its ilk, where CreateProcess rules the day.

Why do I feel an urge to defend my experience to someone who openly insults me? I should just walk away.

(sigh)

I've worked on OS-less systems, where we have a short bit of assembly to pass control over to the "Main" function written in C. We implement concurrency by hooking into the timer-tick interrupt. I'd describe those as having two shared memory threads, one pre-emptive and one co-operative.

As well as that, I've used psos and vxworks. These have pre-emptively switched processes, but I'd describe them as threads as they share memory and have no protection between them. There's no memory management or virtual memory, load memory location 42 and 42 comes out of the address bus.
Unanswered is if this has superior print/bind quality compared to existing print on demand solutions.
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Go for startup. According to that guy, not having an MBA as backup will pressure you more to make your startup succeed, and if it absolutely can't, then go for your MBA later (or try the startup again).
What really gets me about articles like these is that most companies don't get angel funding. Additionally, burn rate totally depends on what you're trying to do.
Have you worked with hugin or panotools? You could do something similar to find common points in images instead of having to map images by hand.
This is like asking on reddit if reddit.com or nytimes.com is a better source of news.
The price point is way too high for mainstream usage in India. The actual price in India is $435 ($289 base price, $42 for shipping, and $104 for import duty!!).

I wonder if there will be a hack to buy a US Kindle and then use it locally here in India.
Email seems so old compared to new tech available with instantaneous feedback. A good startup idea would be to redefine email. Email 2.0. Not unlike google wave.
Looks like we're on the same boat then, I'd buy it mainly for the truckload of technical PDFs I've downloaded and only partially read...
whoa 104$ import duty! That's half the price of the device. Bleh. I take back my "will be hit" prediction. This will be a miserable failure (in India). But they are probably not targeting India at all I guess. Possibly Europe or Japan?
Can we see a beta version?

Whilst I don't think they have a business model worth following, listia overall is a good execution.