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They don't have to code, they just have to be able to do everything else not coding.

When you're starting out (like 2 or 3 people) -- it's ideal if everyone can move the needle in big ways.

A PM at that stage (someone who just writes specs / defines the product) becomes dead weight if they can't also design or hustle.
You're right about the prior activity for the domain, but both Blue Coat and McAfee complained based on the IP address we're using now (i.e., the EC2 address).

But my purpose in posting this is to ask: what other filtering lists are out there?

Getting ourselves off is easy now, since we are a legitimate site; the hard part is figuring out who else may be blocking us.
A company would save greater than half a million metric tons of carbon annually by putting their data center in Iceland.

A typical server uses 1 ton / year. Not many companies have more than half a million servers. Perhaps only about 2 companies.
Time will tell. Right now Adobe is bypassing entirely Apple workflow to produce a iPhone Apps. Other tools play along. Will see what will happen.

I would be happy to be wrong on this one.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=884272
You can create one if you like but it's a bit inconvenient.

Open a checking account and deposit enough cash into it to avoid fees. Now call up the bank and tell them you lost some of your checks and you need to close the account against withdrawals (you may need to do this in person).

Now you or anyone else can deposit all the money you want to into that account, but the only way to get money out is if you go to the bank and show ID.

It's not quite "hacking the bank" but it may be useful to know in a small set of cases.
This is hardly the place for this kind of discussion, but I suggest you just back out of the deal and avoid making waves. You could be the one who ends up in hot water depending on how you "mess" with this guy. Besides, do you really want to try to scam a guy who might be making his living as a criminal? You basically know nothing about him. He could be your run of the mill dirt bag or someone capable of completely fucking you or sneaking into your house to slit your throat. Just tell him you're not comfortable with the arrangement, report him to the police or FBI and move on.
You call the cops.
Well, iPhone is the only platform where the OS Vendor solely choose what application can be distributed or not.

This is what I am against.
Research Group Uses Sonar for Computer Power Management
No one cares what you say until you start flaming something you know nothing about. Then some people develop a need to set the record straight.
I wonder if they'll ever expand their international shipping options.

Currently, their shipping to Russia costs $35.98 minimum (International Priority Courier only) and they only ship new books (no used books, CD, DVD, etc.) That has been the fact for a long time, and provides means for existing for various middlemen (who also work with eBay and others). Seems like all the progress in quality of service of US companies is US-focused?
Ruby's string concatenation syntax is borrowed from C, and it's a major win: it allows you to spread a single string onto multiple lines without backslash-quoting all the newlines.
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Yep - consider the flow. Sally installs Cool App, only to find out it asks her to pay to get the feature she wanted/was advertised/etc . She quits and goes to delete it, and the rating popup comes up - easy 1-star rating.
> My taxes pay for the services they receive from govt,

Your taxes pay for services received by others who don't pay taxes. Are they enslaving you too? (FWIW, the services that churches receive are at the local level, fire and police mainly.)

> I would say that they influence too much of public policy making which in turn affects me.

They have less effect than other 501c(3)s, such as Sierra Club. Is SC enslaving you?

Yes, church members may try to influence things beyond what churches can do. However, you're complaining about churches.

I'm perfectly willing to go along with the idea that folks who ask for subsidies from govt are enslaving us, but churches are a small part of that problem.

Surely you're not going to argue that there's something with enslaving you but it's okay to enslave me. (That's where you get with "but I don't mind what those other folks want".)
Who said it was? Gruber's post isn't about whether Win7 is any good.
That isn't true: Xbox/PlayStation/Nintendo control what software can be run as well. They always point to the crappy titles that the Atari 2600 ended up with and claim quality control.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you though
SimpleORM White Paper/Tutorial
> Meaning Apple will have to justify why they're keeping Flash off the iPhone.

Piss poor performance.
If you're promoting very risky material through tor you might want to be this cautious, but the 60th year anniversary (which is why tor was blocked in the first place) has already passed. For the near future, I would expect the government to decrease its surveillance and filtering efforts, not increase them.
Used books are sold by independent vendors, so they're not really shipped by amazon but by a 3rd party... I don't know about CD's & DVDs
The fact that you have to have a login to see this information further highlights Apple's lack of transparency.
Me too, especially on Amazon. However you might discount the 1-star reviews for the same reason as the 5-star ones. Give me a good 2-star rating any day--1s and 5s are easy but it takes thought to come up with a 2. ;)

Incidentally, I was thinking of replacing my old phone and started reading the negative reviews on Verizon's site. Apparently there's no such thing as a reliable phone that's good at making calls (wish somebody would invent one).
> The prevailing attitude on HN is that all founders and early employees at a startup must be coders.

That's not quite right, but code is the product.

> As a technical person with a business background (and MBA in progress) I find this attitude short-sighted, since technical employees with business background can bring a LOT of value to a startup vs hiring yet another programmer.

I'll bite - what value do you bring that exceeds the value of a coder? I'll assume that you're not coding, so be specific about what that business background provides.

Note - coders can talk with customers, get requirements, etc. Some of us own suits and have some VC "greenstamps" to cash in.
And the Australian securities authorities need to do some serious soul searching as to why a guy with a mere $47,000 in his pocket was allowed to purchase securities that leave him with a A$94mln liability - without even having the money at hand.

>"The reasons for creating such a security are beyond the scope of this post, but suffice it to say that stapled securities offer certain tax benefits."

And are those "stapled units" another byzantine financial product designed to work around an even more byzantine tax system? I am curious if such financial products would even make sense in a fair, flat tax system.
I used to love IntelliJ IDEA - it was the one thing that made coding in Java fun. I even used it for a year after switching to Ruby - despite its complete lack of support for Ruby.

But I'm trying it now, and I can't say I'm impressed. There's a forest of plugins, the preference pane is bewildering, it doesn't look as slick as it used to, Mac keybinding don't work, and it's extremely slow.

I'd like to say, hey, what happened to doing one thing (editing Java) and doing it well? But, well, were talking about an IDE here. I guess that's just not in the cards.

Even so, I'd love an editor with realtime code analysis and those fantastic "suggested actions" for dubious code, without all the cruft associated with version control, html/css, javascript debuggers, database viewers, and so on...
Given the four rotor stability, this seems like more of an interesting perception problem than a control problem. See http://heli.stanford.edu/ for examples of the latter.
Just came across this discussion. I'm one of the authors, and if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to answer any questions about the paper (jason@math.stanford.edu). It originated in me hearing from Andrew Ng and other folks in the ML community about how powerful deep belief nets were, and wanting to quantify that power more explicitly. The first step, for mathematicians, is to understand what a RBM can represent. As you point out, the paper is written for a math journal and so emphasizes certain things. I presented a poster from a more ML perspective at the ICML workshops. Cheers!
Read only the negative reviews.... the real content is in the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews.

I always feel sad rating a movie three stars for "Liked it" on Netflix, because I know that Netflix's rating system is incompatible with the way people assign ratings. Any rating system has to assume that less than half the rating system will be used for neutral-to-positive reviews, and the rest of the system is a big wasteland of varying degrees of "This sucks!" I know the recommendation system doesn't care whether I mean three stars to be positive or not, but it still bothers me.

Is this just an American thing related to the hundred-point scale used in schools, where 69/100 is a failing grade? Or is it universal?
> Not only will it force companies to improve infrastructure

What it does is require some people to subsidize other people's connections. The details determine which people fall into which group and the excuse used to collect the money.

> people are going to be asking, why should I pay $30 for your 10Mb connection with 60Gb limit, when I pay $0 for a 1Mb unlimited connection

Yup. That means that the subsidy money won't come from other bandwidth purchasers. However, it will come from somewhere, or rather someones.
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I get the feeling from the article that there's something very wrong with this particular startup, or at least the founder in question.

"No turning back" sounds like a poor excuse to keep dragging a startup along, trading 25% and a boatload of your time through some investment TV show for just 90k sounds like you've given up on actually working your ass of to develop the product/business, or for that matter, actually being sort of in charge of it if it somehow does manage to survive.

The low valuation is not the problem, but twenty-five percent at that valuation? Better do some consulting to scrape that cash together. It might make sense in some situations, just sounds like a bad deal to me if you also have to be on some TV show to actually have a chance at getting it.

The article is rather light on details and – as others have already pointed out – on math that makes sense, so I might be getting the sitation completely wrong, but this just strikes me as a really poor way to run a startup.
This has got to be one of the worst pieces of gushing fanboy-ism I've run into lately. "Look how cool Ruby is, because you can do these crazy, unreadable, unmaintainable things. I don't know why you'd want to do them, but isn't it awesome that you can? Of course, us Ruby programmers are so smart that we would never actually use any of this hard-to-understand stuff, unlike those silly Perl programmers."
Tell HN: Foxtalk - A Smalltalk for little robots
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Again, those have always been closed system. Mobile was opening up, and Apple is closing it back.
Step 1) Go back to Reddit where this type of question belongs.
Step 2) Make an insightful comment somewhere to atone for this grievance.
Much of the stuff we order on Amazon Prime comes within 24 hours regardless of the shipping option. It's pretty impressive to order something two-day at 3 PM and have it arrive the next morning. Amazon's operational prowess and relationships with their shippers continue to amaze.
Those too. Basically, if you price the book at 1p, Amazon doesn't get their 15% (?) cut, which is why so many sellers charge 1p (or 1 cent). But if the postage is more than £2.75 (in the UK at least), they have to charge more, and then Amazon get their cut.

Basically, it's hard to make a decent profit by selling used books on Amazon, however, you can just put up the price. I've seen most used prices shoot up in the last few months.
A couple of problems:
Iceland is small so although it has an image as a cool sensible safe Scandinavian country it wouldn't take many voters to put in a far right/far left president who might screw up your business model.

Do you know the details of Icelandic law? Does your corporate lawyers? Your regulation compliance officers? How many Icelandic Intelectual Property specialists can you hire tomorrow? There is a reason that banks have HQs in London/New York - they have a few hundred years of case law that they understand.

Iceland is bankrupt, which means it is under thumb of the IMF which means it will do whatever Washington says. Do you want your data to be ruled officially by Reykjavik but unofficially by MPIA/RIAA/Whoever says.
I suspect it's not just tax systems these 'Byzantine' products are designed around. It's also getting around the various regulations around who can invest in what, accredited investors, investment grades, etc.
> I have nothing against software stores, but they should be optional not required.

I agree completely. My hope is that AppStore will become optional, rather than the exclusive way to get apps on the iPhone.

But I do think it was a wise decision to start out with the AppStore as the one exclusive way to get on it, and judging from their phenomenal success in both sales and attracting developers, it was probably a smart choice.

Lest not forget, the AppStore makes it extraordinarily easy to buy and download apps. Only by making it the exclusive way to get apps on the iPhone were they able to make sure that users found the experience of buying and downloading apps so effortless that it makes impulse purchases super simple. And, safe! iPhone users do not worry about anything on the AppStore containing viruses or malware.

Now, as what they refer to as a "power user", I'd like to be able to just download any app from anywhere and take my chances. But I understand that Apple has to take more than just my preferences into consideration. I believe it is actually not in their best interest to do that — even though it would suit me better. If I were Apple, I'd keep the AppStore the exclusive way to get apps on the AppStore. I'd work on continuously improving the experience and interaction with developers, of course, but I'd keep it a walled garden, approval process and all.

Pleasing power users such as you and me simply doesn't make sense in the big picture, because it would fracture the developer community. Some apps would be on the app store, some on the web. Users would feel safer getting apps from the AppStore, but as recommendations come from friends using apps from the web, soon enough you'd have regular users downloading apps from the web too. And following that you'd have viruses and malware. While users could still just stick to downloading from the AppStore if they wanted to be safe, Apple would still have to deal with malicious apps, problems and trust issues. This, they just don't need, and pleasing the relatively few power users just doesn't make any sense, considering the sacrifice.

Though I'd be just fine with it, I understand very well why Apple does not prioritize my needs in this.
He made millions, but he didn't generate any wealth, he just worked the system. I won't say Bravo.
Most non-technical PMs I know were former founders at startups of their own. Aside from that (cause that's an expensive and painfully round-about career path), I wish I had answers for you.
If people are dissuaded from producing CDs or other digital artifacts, they will also be dissuaded from creating art that is best rendered via CD, etc.

While on the surface this is sad, I'm not so sure this is much different than if CDs had never been invented. No one laments the lack of music generated with an instrument that doesn't exist.

Markets are a fact of life. The question is, what sort of (economic) system best deals with that? No matter what you do, people will be trading, and that will include art.

Just to be clear, this was my point (I was trying to head off claims that art shouldn't be subjected to capitalism because it's art). I definitely agree it's a good thing that it's part of the human condition, and that's the basis for my point that art will be created anyway, even without the protections of copyright.
Just how many data centers have even close to 100,000 machines in them? There can't be that many of them, but the article makes this sound commonplace. There are probably quite a few installations with 100's and 1000's of machines. Once you get into 5 digit numbers, you are starting to reach rarified heights.
If the value a select few brought to a company was > $10m, and this was widely known, they would bid up the price. Of course employers don't have an incentive to pay above market rate, that's almost a tautology. That is what market rate means. However, if there was so much value to be had, market rate would rise.
I put it down to a limitation of the Aussie (and other) stock exchanges. The shares had dropped to $0.01, when their true value was negative, given the stapled obligations that they carried. Bolton should have been paid to take on the debt in the first place.

A whole lot of other people apparently made the same transaction unwittingly, without reading the fine print, as it were. The sellers of the $0.01 shares were paid a peppercorn and washed their hands of the debt.

I reckon this is a problem for the regulators. Once the shares dropped below the value of the remaining obligations (give or take) a fairer price would be negative. Alternatively, trading should be suspended because there's a fair argument that the company is insolvent at that point.

Instead, this fact was hidden behind a little "complexity" and inadequate rules.

Bolton just took advantage of a broken situation.
The US Department of Energy Launches $32 Million Scientific Computing Cloud
Schmidt: "Android Adoption Is About To Explode"
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I'm not a huge fan of flexible syntaxes, which might be just a bunch of language engineers revolting against periods, semicolons and parentheses. I happen to like my code to be easily readable and I'm willing to give up the time lost in typing a few extra keystrokes for that benefit.
I think I remember spiders pick of the day. Crazy.
What issue does the person getting the mortgage with how it's financed? You seem to try and remove the responsibility from the borrower, which is where it should be. This is most likely the biggest financial decision they will ever make and they should understand it.
Mongo DB - scalable document-oriented DBMS
Yes, he seems very prolific. He has these 3 pages listed:

Mathematics in Australia - Phil Broadbridge, Peter Hall, Birgit Loch, Terence Tao
http://austmaths.wordpress.com/

What's New - Terence Tao (UCLA)
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/category/mathematics/mathit/

The polymath blog - Tim Gowers, Gil Kalai, Michael Nielsen, Terence Tao
http://polymathprojects.org/
In fact the mere problem of discerning pseudo-science from science is almost impossible by an fixed criteria.
Geese, what made your Linux box crash? ;)
Additionally, I think it can also be said that a market of some kind will spring up around anything people value and can possess. "Success" will bring competition and/or copy-cats which will help alleviate shortage of supply, etc.
Yep. I have a friend who is a "writer", ... except that he has never published a book or a novel.
Great news , this IDE is really state of the art but not turned to be a successful business, It was too close to the developers community and that is why Eclipse took over, it simply has more developers to write all kind of extensions and learn the core of the tool.

I believe this open source decision will revive that company.
That's why I called it a hack. Fundamentally, it's not much different to gambling with an advantage - there were certainly a lot of opportunities for him to lose.

I don't think this called for a suspension of ethics, rather more of a disregard for the establishment.

Look, legally exploiting a flawed system to produce a net benefit for oneself isn't fundamentally evil. In fact, in this situation it seems (fortunately) that his actions eventually bailed out a whole lot of small-time investors.
Saying "launches" is a bit premature.
You are wrong, that's what I'm saying. Apple has already approved applications built with Flash CS5. I don't understand what your basis for thinking they would have a problem with it is. Adobe is producing native ARM code, not including a separate runtime, you still have to be in Apple's developer program, and still have to use Apple-issued code signing certificates. You're not bypassing anything that Apple actually cares about.
The problem is in the explosive growth. The demand for computing power has grown dramatically over the last few years because of the shift to cloud computing and the fact that people are expecting "smarter and smarter" and "more and more" and "faster and faster." If Google had 10x the datacenter capacity, it could (theoretically) crawl the web 10x faster and return more up to date results.
In 1783 the Laki volcano killed about a quarter of the Icelandic population, due to both poisoning and an ensuing famine. That volcano also appeared to have global climate effects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki