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i can't speak for mahmud, but i think i know what he's talking about.

one of our celebrity news.yc members happened to mention in passing that he regretted selling his startup to a large corporation. a couple of hours later, what do you know, that revelation has been turned into a post at mashable. not cool. the article was submitted to news.yc several times, and the editors had the good taste to kill it every time.

and the sad part is, it seems like something this particular celebrity is not shy about. so it seems like the right thing to do would be to contact him by email and ask for a statement. but that isn't what was done.
Bollocks. People haven't paid for the news in a century (though we have traditionally paid for its distribution). We're not about to start now that the cost of distribution has utterly collapsed.
All client-server communication. No idea about server to server communication.
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yes we index your tweets so you can search them. if you never come back to the site we stop indexing them.

You can revoke access to the app from here http://twitter.com/account/connections

We don't yet support full delete of all history, but it's on our list.

Also, we are adding support for an api so you can interact with the site/export your history programatically.
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I live in that dreary, dystopian, socialist hinterland just to the north of the USA.[1] Up here, the government-owned CBC puts the commercial newsmedia utterly to shame, despite being starved for funding by our current neoconservative federal government.

[1] Sarcasm.
Folks who search for the term "yahoo" at google.com to get to yahoo probably don't use Chrome.
No, I wrote exactly what I meant. As others have pointed out you can use many other free tools, or even free versions of Visual Studio itself.

People pay absurd money (up to $10k per seat) for Team Edition which provides entire enterprise developer/tester/database/architect/team workflow instead of just IDE.

If you build something truly valuable people will pay, so long as they have the money. Like I said, the trick is to find the right people.
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Seems like a pretty reasonable target. You’re in the online auction business, so why not shift to just being an online market?
They make much more on the seignorage than they lose to the CC companies. Don't believe, go look up what it costs to make the coins in question.
And change it every so often, just in case.
Getting FCC approval for the device costs thousands, even if all the parts are individually certified.
The third point you make about getting more access to top-quality professors is not exactly true. I have access to, quite possibly, one of the country's top researchers of high-frequency trading, and I am only working on a Master's. I also have access to two other professors who regularly hold seminars for major investment banking firms around the world.
Ask:HN housingmaps.com not updated in the "for sale" section for months.
Has Craigslist blocked them in this section ?
Yeah but to me the quality of any manufacturer then Apple falls short.

If it had been written "qualaty" then it would've been a delicious Dilbert reference. (For more than one reason -- left as exercise, hint included.)
I think you think I'm saying something that I don't have any recollection of saying. What I'm saying is "You don't have to work 80 hour weeks to be successful." In demonstration of that, I offered that you can have at least one flavor of successful for 5 hours a week. I'm pretty sure there are other flavors of successful available at 20 or 40 hours a week. (There might even be flavors of successful for some people available at 80 hours a week. I'd be constantly miserable, personally.)

There is a red X on my calendar. Feel free to ask me 18 months after it if my opinion has changed on the matter.
"In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area." Finally, maximum cream cheese intake problem solved.
I posit the transcriber interpreted Cézanne phonetically.
Is this a framework or a customizable template?
This is a terrible idea. I shall enumerate:

• Lead acid batteries are 12.6 volts or so at full charge. You will not get there with a 12 volt power supply. You charge a 12v lead acid battery at 14.2 volts or so.

• The blocking diode he suggests will make this even worse, by a bit over a half volt.

• He alludes to changing the computer power supply to something over 12 volts but doesn't say how. I promise: These is not a knob inside. You will reverse engineer the whole thing to figure it out and even then it may not be possible and you may be taking other components out of their safe design limits.

• This scheme has no overcurrent protection for the power supply. A very low, large battery can take significantly more current than most PC power supplies will supply on the 12v rail. Maybe not for long, but long enough to cause a failure in the power supply.
I get that part. But then in order to justify the level of intensity, doesn't that require someone to concede that they wouldn't have gotten the answer to this one? There seems to be more to it; like "I knew the answer to that one, but he could have easily asked a question that would exclude me!" Is there a question he could have posted that would not have elicited this reaction?
It's very easy to define bind and return for event driven code, so most event driven programming is or can become monadic.
Then you make the VM larger. ObjectStudio (the old Enfin) Smalltalk has "primitive classes." Classes largely implemented in the VM. With that Smalltalk, you can build the image from source files. The strange loops are resolved this way.
This is not as effective for knowledge work as working 40-50 hours. Two citations:

http://www.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons
http://lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-presentation.html

This also applies to how you treat your employees, see http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2008/11/28/offer-scope-for-empl...
And pons_saravana, are you a human? Your submission history looks a little, shall we say, robotic?
Good for him I guess. Personally, I wouldn't have minded the financial help, but everyone has their own idea of what path to follow for happiness. Kudos for having the discipline to stick with his plan.

If anyone is interested in a CS student counterpart to this guy, follow the link below:

http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14809
There seems to be an assumption that there would be just a single AI. It might be a group. Though, given that they'd likely have ability to transfer information amongst individuals much easier than humans, the group might behave like a single 'being' with shared cooperative goals, just having multiple bodies.

Also, say we somehow prove it isn't evil and let it go. It'll almost certainly start changing/improving itself, maybe even with some sort of algorthim that's superior and faster than evolution. So a friendly AI could morph into anything.
> But there are almost zero commercial writing institutions that produce quality.

I only subscribe to the Economist.
I know its for use by trained professionals and all but good lord, there's hot wires just hanging out all over the place. In the "advanced methods" they actually advocate disassembling the wall plug and cutting hot leads while the building wiring is still live.

If I were the forensics guy, I'd want hazard pay to use this thing. Is the "evidence" gathered by this method even valid after you've stuck thumb drives in it and driven it around in your van while its still running in read/write mode?

Edit: I've just thought of a wonderful addition to truecrypt involving the accelerometer... Anyone involved in the TrueCrypt Foundation here? Icanhazplz?
There is no need for that. You just supply the same voltage at the same phase and frequency as the outlet. Then disconnect the outlet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdRBWNkyaP4

P.S. Prior art by G. Costanza
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I'm not familiar with RethinkDB, but I have read the H-Store paper and I think some of its optimizations are applicable to RAM but not SSD. SSDs are much faster than disk, but I don't think they're fast enough that you can afford to eliminate caching or locking. In particular, good SSDs are internally parallel and require multiple concurrent I/Os for good performance, so you'll probably have to execute multiple transactions concurrently.
It's entrepreneurial at the least. Doomed to fail imho, why would I pay for (if you want to use it without a linkback) a CSS/HTML framework, when there are already many free versions clamouring for my attention?
Yeah. This article doesn't contain practical advice about reducing health risks to sane levels, though. Paul Graham, on the other hand, has given lots of practical advice for living healthy (but not optimally so) like eating beans and rice instead of junk food and being a smart procrastinator. I daresay people following his advice will on average age less than the typical unhealthy eater, even if they're stressed out a lot.

http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html
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Eh, i deleted it because i didn't think it really added to the discussion...I guess it did;

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

"If $3 million a year seems high, remember that we're talking about the limit case: the case where you not only have zero leisure time but indeed work so hard that you endanger your health."
Appreciate the response and it sucks that folks on both sides are jumping to a lot of conclusions, but if litgation is pending I would definitely stop commenting in public about anything related to work you did on CrunchPad.
Heh, that's what I came to the comments to say, too.
Yep that's why I said "almost"

I had The Economist in mind :P
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The letter 'g' is a completely arbitrary shape. Similarly an entire word 'everything' is just an arbitrary shape (though subdivided into constituent organized blobs of arbitrary shape). Letters and words seem to be symbols/code that stand for something else, and that something else might be raw sensory neuron patterns or something (imaging an apple with your eyes shut might be a trick to trigger that raw data without needing external stimulus to do so, such as seeing a real apple). Even the "sesame street" concept of up/down might require some sort of raw inner ear balance and sight sense to experience.
I'd like to see a proper quantitative analysis done on this subject.

When you take money into account, are SSDs really worth it, or should I just buy more RAM?
Reminds me of launching one of my startups. Just on a MUCH larger scale :)
We've had several people imitate our site, not just in overall functionality but to the point of copying specific phrases, design elements, the layout and so on. I agree though that they might be able to get that far, but what they're lacking is the focus that made us create what we did in the first place. Each of these sites has tried to branch out a bit (you know, steal our ideas as a starting point, and build from there) and they've totally missed the mark with each new addition.

Right on about the ethics, too. Someone who builds their business on a purloined platform can clearly not be trusted in general.
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Barbara London and John Updike's "Photography" is literally the textbook most beginning photographers get in school. i'd suggest looking at used book sites to see if you can get a copy second-hand, since it is priced like a college textbook, too.
I just completed level ten, and I'm wondering, do they ever get harder, or just bigger?
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This line caught my attn:

"Not including tuition, I lived (and lived comfortably) on $103 a week, which covered my necessities: food, gas, car insurance, a cellphone and visits to the laundromat."

To each his own, but if it was me and I wanted to live on $103 a week I would skip the van (-$1500), gas, car insurance, and probably cell phone too. I know you can find rooms in Durham for under $300 a month. Find a friend to share the room with and you're each paying $150 a month. You then have windows (fresh air), a kitchen, shower and toilet. Maybe buy a bicycle from the Salvation Army for $10 and you're more than set.
Yes, they get harder and more interesting.
The voice in their introductory video is absolutely like nails on a chalk board. The person talking doesn't have any idea what they are saying and it shows. It actually sounds like a robot. Am I the idiot because I didn't know it was just computer generated?
It seems like this market is well covered by SalesForce already (service cloud 2). Assistly doesn't seam to offer anything different...
This reminds me of a funny Cracked skit about the 1979 game developer's conference wherein the birth of Frogger was reenacted. "Ok ok you are a truck driver and you try to run over frogs crossing the road". "No, no, you ARE the frog!" "Whoooa"

http://www.cracked.com/video_16019_video-game-pitch-meeting-...
Well, if an average random access to disk is ~5ms, and an X25 Intel SSD is ~500 microseconds, then we're already talking a 10x difference and that's for a 'consumer grade' SSD. I'm sure the latency will come down over time as well. If you look at some of the PCI-E SSD solutions, then we're dipping below 100 microseconds, which means we're into 50-60x difference.
It's not that simple. The FTL addresses two fundamental problems with flash - slow random write performance and wear leveling. It works beautifully on consumer hardware, but performs rather poorly in an enterprise environment. For some workloads you can squeeze a lot more than 5-10% improvement out of the drives. But that's not the interesting part (most of today's workloads are read-intensive anyway).

The interesting part comes from being able to execute existing operations in fundamentally different ways. When you're not restricted to sequential reads you can implement a huge chunk of database internals differently - different concurrency models, different implementations of certain joins, etc. This is where the bulk of the performance improvement comes from.

Once you do this, you realize that a traditional bottleneck (I/O) is completely blown away. Suddenly, all kinds of things nobody ever bothered to optimize become performance bottlenecks (for example, the query plan is traditionally interpreted, not compiled to native code - not good enough once you get an I/O subsystem that's 250 times faster than what you used to have).

Once you get rid of the software bottlenecks, you realize that you're limited by the bus. Since SSDs are highly parallelized devices, you have to change the way you interleave operations for optimal performance. That alone is another order of magnitude.

In three years or so, the flash manufacturers will put chips on the SSDs that will allow you to send down programs to them (not unlike the shaders in video cards). That will likely be a bigger revolution than SSDs themselves. Where we are now is just the beginning.

You're right that we haven't shown any evidence that our approach is anything but a niche. We will. This stuff just takes a long time to build.
A lot of people seem to misunderstand what this is for. This isn't about breaking into your neighbor's wifi, this is about professional penetration testers more easily being able to crack wpa-psk.
sounded computer generated to me... not actually bad IMO
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Indeed, I've noticed in the niche we're in, several sites have copied the wording on our advertising sign up page. Of course, it's complemented by strong similarities to our layout and functionality, but there's something that seems more blatant about duplicating prose.
Yummm, looks deliciously. Are bagels an american thing? I can't remember seeing them in Europe.
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No way to vote for things you like more than others. Will degrade into a least common denominator system quickly.
He's assuming people can appreciate quality when compared to stories about music stars kissing each other or golf players crashing into tree's with their luxury SUVs.

Do you know what papers Murdoch publishes? (aside from the WSJ)
If you think that, with our current limited knowledge and relatively limited resources, we can anticipate what is necessary to constrain AI to be "friendly" or that we can somehow protect ourselves from something that can reproduce the entire logical thought process of mankind in minutes then you have a very romantic view of human accomplishment. Indeed, that would make you the "John Henry" of AI.
I found this game a week or so ago, when it didn't tell you what level you finished or how many were left after each level. :)

The game got a whole lot less arbitrary and confusing once I figured out that to link from one frame to the next, the entire pattern of solid and empty space on that edge must match, not just the hole you're trying to squeeze through.
I am absolutely speechless that I am being downvoted

Let me propose an analogy of what you're saying: some say a roof is important on a house, but without the basement, a house would collapse. Without the roof, on the other hand, the house would be fine for quite some time, especially in a warm summer climate, like LA.

In reality, a roof and a basement on a house are like marketing and engineering: both are necessary and neither is sufficient for a good product. Engineering without marketing is blind, and marketing without engineering is lame.
One caution: depending on the school you go to, being in the Master's program might not afford you any opportunities to do any real research (outside of semester projects for your classes.)

I did a CS Master's at Michigan and there's a huge difference between the Master's student and PhD student experiences. Master's students are expected to do the coursework and get out. I was actively discouraged from even doing a Master's Thesis and I was told doing one was almost unheard of in the department. PhD students are in research labs right away and are guaranteed funding, which leaves essentially no room for Master's students to do research or teaching assistantships.

This arrangement worked well for me, since I wanted to do a lot of coursework and get into industry, but it would have been a horrible place to test my aptitude for and enjoyment of research.

On the other hand, a friend of mine got a Master's in HCI at Michigan and did a bunch of research and had funding for 3 of his 4 semesters. So it all depends on the department.
I put SSDs in all my development machines, and it indeed makes compiling faster (about three times). When prices drop a little, I'll also equip our database server with SSDs. Luckily the database is only 60G.
If News Corp put up a pay wall on its content and no body paid, the world would be much better off.
but this is history, boring, and by now not very interesting

So it is in the past, boring, and in the past and boring. OK.
Murdoch puts up another fake bogeyman.

Since when is anyone suggesting that US government get involved in commercial journalism?

Just like the fake bogeyman of Google misappropriating his content when all News Corp has to do is take 20 seconds to edit the robots.txt file.

Murdoch's statements are a textbook example of disinformation. And he wants the consumer to pay for this yellow journalism?
Am I wrong for thinking this is lame for being suborbital? Would orbital designs based on the same principle be feasible?
Also off-topic, but one of the signs is "Danger tanks". Wonder if you'd pull out your iPhone to translate that sign.
Funny. But I'm guessing not Hacker News.
I have a very similar setup with post-receive deploys on remotes "stage" and "production".

git push stage master

click around staging environment to make sure nothing's broken

git push production master

you're live.
Oops, sorry. Accidental downmod. Damn these tiny buttons on the iPhone.
Here's the original thread on FlyerTalk: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milesbuzz/833911-buy-presiden...
Is there an underlying need to justify workaholism that leads to these types of articles?

Frankly, I lean in this direction, and at age 31 I realize how it can be a form of escapism and that there is a sweet spot in terms of productivity. If I work 60 hours a week and am highly motivated I can get a shitload done, but if I crank it up to 70, 80, 90, I start seeing diminishing returns no matter how motivated I am. Maybe this is different on the business side where you spend more time on soft activities that don't require full-on brainpower for 6 hour stretches at a time.

Time off leads to renewed energy and fresh ideas. It also keeps me more in touch with normal people, which is invaluable when trying to build a product where intuition of customer behavior is the biggest shortcut to success.
WhatWhatWhat?!

I thought I made it clear you could assign as much money as you want to particular articles. And the amount of money assigned would obviously be used in some algorithm as a kind of sliding scale vote?
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Thanks!
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I was considering getting one of these when it was released and I live in Wausau, Wisconsin.
This company used to appear a lot at LinuxWorld & Mac World touting rackmount enclosures for acoustically sensitive areas like recording studios.

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I've definitely been looking for something like this. Just wish it had access to further history :)
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Those books are great! Definitely what I was looking for.
I would like to be an investor in your "The Future". I'm willing to fund 20%, in exchange for equity. Given the sums involved, I think Paypal will suffice. Also, my equity share can be documented on a napkin.

(Well said.)
twitter api limits us to your history, we could resort to scraping perhaps?
"Cézanne could not draw, he makes the same drawing mistakes that every one makes in introductory drawing classes." This is not the case. Cézanne could draw exceedingly well. Drawing != photographic representation.
Rupert also made a good case for buying MySpace.

He may be good at what he does, but he does not do the internet. Somebody need to have the balls to tell it to his face.