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Not unless 99% of your users are one time users. Otherwise there are more steps, not less.
He's said that he'll do it if he gets equivalent value for the money. I believe he bought either Netjets or Flight Safety for stock, too.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/compab.html

http://www.google.com/finance?tkr=1&q=NYSE:BRK.A
It is a big deal, but they aren't splitting their class A shares. Class B was introduced to make shares more affordable to people who wanted to invest, but wanted a lower entry point. I think splitting the B stock is keeping with that sentiment.
Well, it likely is, but keep in mind that rail has a limited number of destinations unlike trucks, so you really need both.
I can now read any thread on slashdot, digg, reddit, without worry; because I have already read the stupidest headline of the day.
There is mention of the Heckler&Koch HK 416, which replaces the direct impingement system with a piston design. I would like to know, if anyone has knowledge or can make some informed speculation, what that does to recoil, the vector of that recoil (straight back in line with the stock, or with a stronger perpendicular/vertical component), and rate of fire of the weapon. Regarding rate of fire, if slower, does that matter in the field?
Oddly, it doesn't mention tmux (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/), a newer project that implements a similar terminal multiplexer. It was redesigned from the ground up to more cleanly accommodate several features that have been grafted onto the screen codebase. (It also has a BSD license, FWIW.)

After years, screen still doesn't do vertical screen splits. It turned out to be faster to just start from scratch.
You need to present evidence people are starving due to poverty.

There are all sorts of reasons one might die of malnutrition. Bulimia, for instance, is said to affect about 0.2% of men and 1.3% of women. Anorexia affects another 0.3% of people, mostly women.

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

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

HIV and many geriatric conditions also can cause malnutrition.
"1. The capital expenditures of railroad companies are changing. Most of them have pretty much laid track everywhere needed."

While this is true, rail networks are phenominally expensive to maintain.

Just look how it went down the gutter in the UK.
http://www.vimeo.com/siai
I would use "business partner" in conversation, but if I saw "partner" on a business card I would think of some kind of law firm (pretty near the top of the ladder actually ;) )
The language is Python, as in Monty, you know. And it's only marketed for geeks. I fail to see how a naming convention based on something that bring 90%+ of geeks joy is any worse than naming programming languages after letters of the alphabet followed by addition symbols or pound signs.
While wearing a Python jacket I actually had someone ask me if it was standard practice to leave monty python references in comments. I had no idea how to answer. (Note that this was at a technical college, not like someone off the street asked me).
It's really weird that the form doesn't work unless you fill in all of the fields. The URL is the only necessary field.

Maybe the Google Labs guys ran out of their quota for URLFetches on AppEngine? :)
I think the downvote (not mine) came from your implicit suggestion that less-intelligent humans should be afforded fewer rights. Unless you're being satirical, which isn't entirely clear without more context.
you're right, it was NetJets in 1998
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/jul2398.html
rail roads are obsolete as public transport. stuff like this is much superior:

http://www.skytran.net/phpsite/home/Home%20Intro.php?bg=neg
The VB 5 code may run, but Microsoft doesn't support it. And migrating VB 5 to a platform that Microsoft does support can be challenging. Which is why I said, "...any language supported by Microsoft today!"

Furthermore the rationale for a lot of that VB 5 code was integration with MS Office software. But that software isn't compatible with current offerings. Therefore if you were integrating that VB into your office workflow, the fact that it still could run doesn't stop you from being under pressure to port.
How is including a Win16 thunking layer in the OS not supporting it?

Try running an app compiled for a 1.x Linux kernel on 2.x... Or even a different libc!
Just tested it and it doesn't seem to use the URL at all - just the title (keywords) and the domain.
Are you KIDDING me? How is this possible?

Can you please tell me exactly how much ingredients cost, and what a typical starting salary is for a college graduate in Norway?

Not to say "I don't believe you", but I'm incredulous. This is shocking.

P.S. Why are you an American living in Norway? How is it?
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We had a meat re-dating scandal in Finland too. I believe it was this summer.

Omnipresent consensus-mentality unique to Scandinavia does sometimes prevent seeing the wood for the trees.
My comment from the blog (currently "awaiting moderation") --

The core misunderstanding here is that Hinted Handoff does NOT mean “ignore W.” If it did, clearly R + W > N would mean nothing; in fact, W would be entirely superfluous. So to the degree that the Dynamo paper suggests otherwise, it should be treated as a “bug” in the paper.

So, just to treat your first example, with W=3,R=1 you can’t get inconsistent reads since writes will block if any replica is unavailable.

All quorum-based systems that I know of treat R + W like this. For Cassandra, see the code from StorageProxy.insertBlocking, specifically the calls to getNaturalEndpoints, getHintedEndpointMap, and getUnhintedNodes (and QuorumResponseHandler of course). Cassandra is careful to only hint N - W replicas as I’ve been discussing.

Everything else you object to basically falls out of this. For example, “there is no way in Dynamo to track how many pending updates have not been reflected globally” — which doesn’t matter, since either you are waiting for R + W > N, in which case you get consistency, or you are not, in which case you can’t complain if you don’t get it. :)
I think it's a great naming convention.

Guys, I get the reference. I understand the two are related.

Just wondering how many products can come up with spinoffs that fit into the Python lore until you either run out of lore or it all starts running together, that's all.
What do you consider cheap for bandwidth?

Depend on servers usage. $399 per month for a 100mpbs line is not expensive if you have for example a streaming server. But my sites consum about 1TB a month in total, so why pay for more when my need is only 5Mpbs ? (10Mbps gives you 3TB up and 3TB down if it's full duplex)

As technology advances bandwidth price will definitely go down. My point is that as of now bandwidth cost still represents a significant share of a server's total cost. 100Mpbs becomes cheap when you have a bunch of servers, like 15+. That's why low end dedicated servers and VPSs still have a market, hosting companies can buy wholesale bandwidth/hardware for cheap and then resell, though the margin is not that good.
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Similar issues, although in my case 2 monitors work immediately (dual DV-I card), it's getting my 3rd monitor running simultaneously which has left me in xorg.conf hell for 2 days without much to show for it, besides a few more gray hairs.

Admittedly, getting the 3rd monitor running on Windows 7 wasn't a picnic, but I got it within an hour or so - with the ability to switch to s-video to watch hulu on my old tv, and never had to manually edit a config file.

The "problem" with manually editing a config file is that you've no idea what the options are, which means research - likely using a separate application. I use config files for my dev work all the time, but not for anything anyone actually has to change besides me (or another dev on the same project). While I appreciate that I CAN get behind the scenes to get something working, I don't really WANT to.

Edit: As an aside, Ubuntu Karmic Remix on my EEE is an absolute delight. Installed perfectly, works perfectly.
I hate to be pedantic, but:

> .. UTC (also known as Greenwich Mean Time)...

> (Interesting note, UTC only matches the time in Greenwich during standard time. When it is DST there, Greenwich and UTC are not identical.)

Time is really really hard, and I don't claim to understand it, but going lightly with basic facts is a bad idea.

First, GMT != UTC. UTC observes leap seconds, GMT don't. That doesn't matter, right up until when it suddently does matter.

Second, it's grossly confusing to talk about "Greenwich time", i.e. the time at the location, when you don't mean GMT. Neither UTC nor GMT observes DST, Britain, in which Greenwich is located, does.
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Consciousness work by filtering information. The problem with the real-time-web is that it demands too much cognitive attention compared to what it was supposed to give us in return (always relevant information in context).

But It's importance cannot be underestimated. In a better world, augmented reality allows us to explore a reality with multiple layers and always contextually relevant information.

With that in mind though, the current state of RTW is the stone age and we are nothing but a bunch of slaves ploughing through an overwhelming amount of information in order to find something of importance that we can then share with others through some aggregator.

In a better world, we will still receive way to much information to ever process. But instead of scanning each post as a separate entity, the RTW will reflect an emerging alternate reality based on knowledge our needs.

Until then RTW will continue to include more and more sources communicating most of them automatically, but my guess is that they will be part of a soup of the augmented reality universe and serve to in the end create an alternative matter based on information. Allowing for the construction of the agumented layer.

There is huge start-up potential to figure out a way to filter information in a way that allows for all sorts of information to pass through without any of it being more important, but where it together will create an alternative reality.

I would think that the next feature that aggregator will need to look at it a better filtering only surfacing things to me when they are of importance (again exactly like the brain works)

Sorry for the rant.
I've never been to Seattle but it wouldn't surprise me if, in general, the homeless tend to congregate in or near major train stations. They're open 24/7; they're warm; the opportunities for panhandling are good (because of the number of people passing through).
well, the fastest way would probably be to bribe them.

tell them that at the end of the semester, users with N number of significant content submissions will be entered into a drawing, and the prizes will be XYZ.

once you have content and stop bribing them (or, you don't necessarily have to stop), you'll have the content and will no longer have the chicken/egg problem.
Ask HN: Review my startup: Bill On Site
http://www.billonsite.com/

Bill On Site is a web-based invoicing system, with a unique twist: you can use Bill On Site on your mobile phone, enabling small business owners to send invoices to their customers while still on their client's site. All you need is a semi-recent phone – one with a web browser on it – and internet access on your phone.

This used to be my part-time gig, but then I was laid off and have used much of my time and severance since getting it to "release-ready" status. I just released it the first of this month, and I'd really appreciate any feedback.
I agree that we wouldn't want to go all naggum on each other, but Paul has written some recent essays containing parts that might be offensive to others, e.g., http://www.paulgraham.com/discover.html.

To me, the value of this blub concept is a useful self-check about looking outside your current mindset. It is useful to me to recall where I have been a blub-speaker in the past and maybe I am in some way today.
Completely, entirely irrelevant. It's the panel size and type that matters.
How long before the ion bridges were clogged with biofilms, sediment, and other detritus normally present in sea water?

Ion bridge replacement is another energy input.
> (2) local date-time with a geographical time zone.

Note that timezones aren't just geographical. In London, you'll be in timezone GMT (+0000) for half the year and timezone BST (+0100) for half the year.

If you think instead that you're in a single timezone, then you need to know that your "timezone" isn't linear, it contained 00:00->01:00 twice on 25th October 2009 this year (when the clocks go back).

So "what was the UTC time for 00:30 on 25th October 2009 in London" isn't a question with a well-defined (or unique) answer.
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There have always been 16 year old CEOs.

They used to deliver newspapers and mow lawns and babysit. All that has changed is what teens to for spare cash, and their self-perception.

This trend is a lot more about labels than about any changes in what young folk do with their time and talents.
Wasn't the fibre next to track the way Qwest (original) was started?
barmstrong

no one said they are market ready... yet

Do you have any specific recommendations or constructive feedback you would like to send them?
It seems to be a flight from cash, in the prospect of Obama's bailouts and Fed's endless dollar printing. A railroad business makes perfect sense when the incoming inflation will give the definite advantage to the low-cost transportation over any other alternatives.
I think the article was trying to point out that it is not possible to use UTC for everything. If for example you store in your database an event to occur in the distant future (e.g. opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics) in UTC, then the time that that represents can change as rules about timezones, leap seconds and daylight savings change.

Also there is the possibility that you actually want to store the timezone information at write-time, rather than assuming a timezone at read-time. For example if you have multiple records storing event times (say the working hours of all your global employees) then storing them only using UTC, you will not be able to retrieve the actual time in the timezone of each event individually. You can only assume a global timezone to apply to all events.

When storing localtime+timezone, do as the article recommends. Store the timezone, not the offset from UTC. Store "New York time" not EST or EDT.
What are the consequences of shifting a large number of megadollars and megatons to a different land freight system ?

There may be some of interest to you. If not, well, someone else will probably figure out what they can do ...
Where did you talk about your product during the beta period? Did they come at you or you came to them?
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The point I was trying to make is that many of the so-called digital natives don't know shit.

I'm only doing computing since 1981 or so (it was mostly goats, earthen floors, abacuses and kerosene lamps before), and every day I'm painfully reminded how little I know. Now enter the so-called digital native.

So excuse me if I laugh politely at your metaphor.
His suggestion that storing datetimes in UTC may be a problem is only half-correct. If you have access to an accurate historical record of rules for a given zone, then you _can_ always store UTC.

On Unixen, this data is typically stored somewhere like /usr/share/zoneinfo, and is called the zoneinfo or Olson database (Arthur David Olson is the original creator and maintainer of this database).

Using this database, you will always get the right conversion, even for datetimes that predate recent shift in DST rules.

OTOH, if you're on a crippled system that assumes the most recent rules extend indefinitely back in time, then storing data in UTC only will be problematic.
That accurately reflects a currency collapse :)
That's in some sense even more broken: Not all combined characters have a normalized form, so the result is even less predictable. (I don't have an example ready.)
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If someone is calling grad students "Professor," then they are abusing the term. A grad student who is teaching is an instructor.

Something that I didn't appreciate until I was in grad school was that not all professors are even "Professor." Becoming a full professor is a big deal. An "Assistant Professor" is generally someone who has a tenure-track position, but does not have tenure yet. "Associate Professor" is for someone who has tenure. "Professor" is for someone who has tenure, and has contributed enough to the school through research and teaching to earn being a full professor.
Fun story regarding the UTC abbreviation: English speakers wanted it to be CUT (coordinated universal time), while French speakers wanted TUC (temps universel coordonné). They compromised on UTC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Abbr...
The screen handling of vt100 emulation is badly broken, based on my recent experience with it. A valid vt100 sequence was completely borking the terminal session.

I've unfortunately not had the time to chase the bug down, and the boxes that are generating the vt100 sequences are not where I can make them available to the screen developers, either.

For those that are looking to achieve (better) vt100 compliance, there is a reasonable test suite available at the http://vt100.net/ site.
Lisp is hardly the only language containing base elements that are powerful and conceptually far removed from other languages, though. There are just people in the Lisp community who make a lot of noise about it.

There's a big difference between saying,

"There are some language features that are so far removed from languages you know that they just seem weird and alien. You have to adjust to the mindset of the language to see why they matter, and once you do, you'll probably start seeing places they would have been handy in your old code. For example: call/cc in Scheme, unification in Prolog, asynch. message passing in Erlang, type inference in ML. Even if you don't end up using the new language as your primary language, it will still add tools to your mental problem solving toolkit - it will help you to think more clearly."

and saying

"You're writing in 'blub', therefore you're a 'blub' programmer, and all you're capable of understanding is 'blub'. Maybe some day you'll wise up and use Lisp, the 'language for smart people' (LFSP)."
These are great points.

One thing I might add regarding the design of the website is you might want to mix it up a little from the tutorial you followed to create it.

http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/how-to...

It jumped out at me as soon as I saw it. Comes off as a little unprofessional.
But what if a large part of the 'debate' is in actual fact just people senselessly defending inferior systems, because they don't know what they're talking about? Are we supposed to pretend otherwise, for the sake of civility?
How does splitting shares help pay for a deal?
1- Agree with others on paying students to write reviews.

2- You need to improve your UI significantly IMO. From your home page it seems that you would prefer users to register before using/contributing to the site, which I think is not a good idea. Your homepage should be immediately useful to the potential users/contributors. for examples you should have a searchbox(with auto-complete feature for the name of universities and courses at least). Or list of most actively discussed courses, etc.
Is there a measure of the private gain from public support for rail vs truck? BNSF maintains its rails with less taxpayer support than the truck companies get for highways, right?
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Unfortunately IPv6 was built without proper backwards compatibility. They should have simply made it so that every IPv4 address automatically was an IPv6 address, and set up IPv6 -> IPv4 NAT so that entire IPv6 networks could easily hide behind a single IPv4 address. But neither was initially done.

Without these two obvious measures, nobody wants an IPv6 address because it is useless to have one. I have no idea why this wasn't obvious to the IETF, but apparently they missed it.

At least they now admit that this was a mistake: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032509-ipv6-mistake.ht...

Oh and the whole "no NAT" thing? I'm not looking forward to that at all. You see the top reason for using NAT in homes is so that your internet provider can't charge you for putting multiple lightly used computers on your connection. And they aren't trying to charge you because they are running out of IP addresses, they are doing it because it is a way to identify high-end customers who can be charged more. And IPv6 will close a big loophole for them.
You write about signals all the time - this is so obvious a signal that it's written down next to your name.
The story says 34 billion, not 44.
I just replied in the comments section of our blog to a similar question (it's a bit long to paste here). In short: a combination of posting on some forums, using beta invites, word-of-mouth and finally contacting blogs about our private beta launch. From there on we got thousands of sign-ups, as people kept sending more invites and mentioning us on places like twitter and (small) blogs. A lot of those mentions on twitter where about our the interface, the time in which we reply to feedback :), and even our sign up form, so I guess all the small things help!
" The design wastes far too much space and does not immediately communicate a value proposition."

This is one of the problems that I'm currently addressing. I'm about 40% through a re-design to address this, and many other issues.

Also, you mention a point system (karma, etc). The only thing that worries me about this is users entering false reviews just to get points.

Thank you though. You have given me many insights and ideas. It's answers like this that keep me coming back to Hacker News day after day.
Brain don't judge them by what they seem. I just took a look at your own start-ups and they don't seem high quality either if I get to judge them by a paragraph. I'm pretty sure some of what u do has a lot into it, so are some of those startups.

Nevertheless, lrgco said it all, it's first time entrepreneurs doing their first startup, the aim is to learn, not to start the next Facebook. Not that we mind though, but u just need to put it into context :)

That being said, u can always send a video just stressing the need of high quality start-ups :)
Buffett himself keeps no firm schedule - he keeps his time available specifically so that he jump on deals. His organization is organized for jumping on opportunities once he decides they are a good deal.