skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the Vatican's not the only one saying this. Others have pointed out that a larger proportion of elderly to young population results in smaller amounts of wealth creation, larger amounts of wealth consumption (healthcare and the like); and that old managers who are slow to retire give their companies an unnecessarily hesitant, cautious character. In fact, doesn't Paul Graham have an essay about this?
I followed your calculations, but I am not sure what point are you trying to make. Are you saying that the upper limit of start ups is 2200 and it is limited by the number of highly capable programmers. What about the Market? Is there enough space in the market for 2200 new start ups?
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i read ebooks on my phone (854x480 screen) and if i have the time, i read until i can't sit/lie anymore.

the discomfort of ebooks isn't about ebooks, but about the device you read them with. laptops and desktops just aren't fit for the task.

my mobile phone weighs maybe as much as a book and it handles easier. have you ever tried reading a book in bed, but lying on your side? it's straining to hold the book open, or in such a way that you can read the left/right page.

not so with my phone. i scroll through pages of text effortlessly. true, the screen could be larger, but with a small font setting and me already being myopic, it's no discomfort at all.
> Herb Sutter shows some examples where executing programs in parallel gives superlinear speed-ups

His definition of "superlinear" is a bit tricky. As he explains, you can only get superlinear by "Do disproportionately less work." and/or "Harness disproportionately more resources.". However, his example of the former is actually a subtle instance of the latter.

Superlinear speedups are always due to more effective caching. Sutter uses "disproportionatly more resources" when the added effectiveness comes from larger caches. However, his "do less work" examples are "just" better cache behavior.
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"Perverseverance." That makes an excellent portmanteau of "perverse" and "perseverance." I may have to start using that, though not especially for Malcolm Gladwell.
This conversation is doubly funny because it reminds of something this guy Paul Graham once wrote in an essay: http://paulgraham.com/hs.html :

* Don't think that you can't do what other people can. And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. People who've done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only exaggerate this illusion, partly due to the worshipful attitude biographers inevitably sink into, and partly because, knowing how the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like the subject's life was a matter of destiny, the mere unfolding of some innate genius. In fact I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they'd seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.

Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it's not our fault if we can't do something as good.
That was quick. Didn't Google Buzz just come out yesterday?
The mobile telecoms business in developing countries is extremely vital and dynamic. Families and neighbors share individual phones, and you can rent cell phones for the time it takes to make a call.

Charging the phones is a small problem that already has multiple solutions (intermittent power from a generator, windmill, solar chargers, wind-up chargers, big batteries charged off a car, or lugged in from somewhere, etc), most of which will apply equally well to any new service areas opened by a device like this.
Do not forget about the massive amounts of debt that many students leave college with. Payments start 6 months after graduation.
You are right. However the airline industry is a demonstration that persistent oversupply can sometimes exist indefinitely.

Though admittedly that example is being propped up by the Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws that repeatedly lets companies on the verge of dying get rescued instead. (I'd love to see chapter 11 bankruptcy go away.)
A day ago I made a comment here about how I wasn't sure that a large population of available working-age people is the huge advantage everyone seems to think it is anymore, and this is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. Look at that flexpicker video. Bet you didn't think a robot could stack pancakes. Well baby, a robot can sure stack pancakes all right. How long before it can flip burgers? I bet they already can and it's just a matter of cost.

Wouldn't want to only have repetitive manual labor skills in about 10-15 years' time when these things drop in price to below $10k or so. Robots are going to cut through the service and manufacturing sectors like a 2 megawatt laser through room temperature butter.
The iPad is perfect for these people. They'll just download "Facebook", "Google" and "Amazon" from the App Store and never even open Safari.
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It's a disservice to the article to retitle the post from the author's original. This is the best advice: "Tenacity is impressive."

Just keep at it and keep doing stuff and eventually, you'll be on your own with money coming in and that's what matters. Creating work is hard. Doing work is easy. Your job as an entrepreneur is to create enough work that you can pay yourself and others.

If you've never started a company and you're earning $60k a year, it's not hard to forget that someone is taking $60k out of their pocket and giving it to you which means someone else is too and as an individual on your own, it's hard to convince people to give you $60k a year for stuff you do.
Have people not yet figured out that most degrees in the humanities are often not all that marketable? I thought the writing was on the wall 10 years ago. Even then far more people were entering these studies then there would ever be positions. It seems to have only gotten worse.
I agree with this. Even if your paycheque is $5k a month, practice living on half of that or less—maybe a lot less. It won't hurt to save the rest anyway.
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That doesn’t really sound like a convincing argument. Didn’t Hitler use state organs (such as public schools and public broadcast) to further his agenda?

> How would you feel about this case if the home schooling did not involve Christians (Note: I'm not religious myself.), but radical Moslems?

You are talking about hypothetical radical groups as a “scare tactic”. Most Muslims who go to religious schools end up as pretty responsible adults. I doubt that trying to send devoted Muslims to public school (and then trying to force them to not wear headscarves – such as in France) will help anything.

> What if it were about Nazis indoctrinating their kids with hate?

Again, this is extremely rare (if non-existent). Also, is it the state’s prerogative to teach children moral values and political values, or is it the parent’s duty?

Don’t you think that public schools will reflect the ruling party’s ideology? (This happens in many countries). So in effect, would you rather let the ruling party teach your kids moral and political values than the parent? (Take a look at the content of history books in many countries to see this).
Not being familiar, I had to look this up (the article didn't state, but linked to their wiki).

"Opera Dragonfly is Opera’s debugging toolkit. It consists of tools such as a DOM, CSS and network inspector, JavaScript debugger, error console and command line. Opera Dragonfly is distributed with the Opera desktop browser"...
thanks all, I'll let you know how it goes
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cool, thanks for the link Travis
And in other news, the Burger King CEO thinks the Big Mac tastes bad.
That would be, sprezzatura (to make the hard look easy).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
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well we haven't set our brand in stone so it could change...thanks for the advice
Not exactly. I did merge them, but then added some more stuff and did some editing.
I'd guess ex-Googler startups tend to draw more from their founders' general experience at Google than from specific products, but I've heard of rebooting the idea of a 20% project outside with a broader scope.
Which academic access restrictions are you talking about? I know people who have started independent "institutes" but the only reason you need to do so is to receive federal funding. It's true that if you brand yourself as an "independent researcher", people might be inclined to think you are a crackpot, but publishing real papers should take care of that.

I'm not sure blogs are a relevant source for scientific studies though. Not necessarily because I think peer review is the greatest system, but having your paper published in an actual journal (open journals are fine) at least means you managed to convince a few other people that it's worth looking at the paper.
as Cooper says 'Let them open the kimono first'...thanks for the tip
Is there a port of Processing to android yet?
This is the magic of standard/open formats - this library appears to be a pretty thin layer on top of an existing Atom feed parser (http://github.com/seangeo/ratom).
No it's not.

An increase in scarcity increases the value of the good. If you have a small store on an island with 100 $1 bottles of water, your stock is worth maybe $60. Now, the ferry breaks down, and people start paying you $5 pr. bottle. You now have to report the value of your stock at ~$460, and at every sale book a cost of ~$4.60 against your stock. Thus your profit is (pretty much) the same.

You made a healthy profit on your accidental speculation in the bottled water market, but that's not your profit margin.
I like my Geoxen. Definitely good for the hot-of-foot.
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Well, it depends. The college kid we hired had been coding since age 13, had passed up Harvard for a free ride at a lesser name regional school, and had interned for IBM & Lockheed Martin before. Dude serious had his shit together.

That said, my co-founder is 33 and had previous startup experience.
Wouldn't it be fair if you included what I write after that?

"A few though have chosen to set differences aside and are working on building diplomatic relationships."
Sorry, but I can't resist:

Wow, look, filthy rich people read books. How awesome.
I found it comprehensive.
Ask HN: How does a parent with a day job participate in Y Combinator?
A share of $15-20k should certainly cover one's expenses for a YC season but at the end you're jobless and likely not yet profitable with your fledgling startup. Does a founder in the aforementioned situation have to set a personal deadline of "by the time YC ends" to either raise more funding or go back to a regular job?

Obviously things are easier for singles with little to no personal expenses or for folks with some personal seed money, but I'm sure there are creative solutions for people like myself with more responsibilities keeping them from diving headfirst into YC.

Please share if you have some tips.
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Hmm. Why didn't this make it into the HN Twitter feed??
Agree, agree, 100x agree!

You do not need a BMW, buy a corolla. You do not need the loft, live in the cheapest decent unit you can find. Don't get into the showy lifestyle trap.
But I think the point is that relative to other locations, it is still much more costly.

Here's one example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118125
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Did you join MSFT straight out of college? If so, that's amazing money for only 4 years experience... or at least it seems that way to me
Don't forget Microsoft.
And we got hacked
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By itself, why is it bad for sales people in the same company to use different slide decks or approaches?
you're comparing me to scoble?!?!?! i think i'm going to go jump off a bridge.
I explicitly defined "startup" to mean companies that need programming skill (as this seems to be the way the word is used nowadays), and there are very few of those that have zero programmers as founders.
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A quick look at the effectiveness of the status page, and what can be improved: http://www.transparentuptime.com/2010/02/github-system-statu...
From pg: "Financially, a startup is like a pass/fail course. The way to get rich from a startup is to maximize the company's chances of succeeding, not to maximize the amount of stock you retain. So if you can trade stock for something that improves your odds, it's probably a smart move." [1]

If your startup succeeds, you've got more time and money to start another one and either retain more stock or raise the value of the stock you keep next time around.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
If you save some money in advance, you should be able to add at least a few more months of self-funded runway before you need to find outside investors. If you have a spouse, their salary (and group insurance!) can pay the bills, especially if you can reduce your expenses.
What do you want them to do? bring guns to the arena? create chaos in Palace? don street clothes and look like thugs?
You're confusing profit from speculation and profit from value added sales.

Especially in the gold-market, profits come from speculation, not value added sales.
My point is, even though there are an infinite number of applications to write, there aren't an infinite number of people to write them.
Go to your contacts and make a new group. Add the people you want to let follow you. Change your privacy settings so that only people in that group can see your "buzz."

Not really intuitive, but I think that's the "official" way to do it.
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I agree with you. If you are really a technical person, being the founder is not the most enviable thing to be. You can learn much more being in a successful big company. However, if you see technology as a way to make money, founding a business is the best way to get ahead. It all depends on what you really value.
Very nice article! Some comments on the component... I'd like to be able to esc out of the dropdown, I start typing backspace out and it remains. T shows tools but neither tag nor tagging which are in the suggested list.
I think this is an excellent move. I used Opera for a long time, but found it to be too buggy so I stopped and DragonFly takes a long time to load and isn't as good as FireFly, so I just stopped using Opera, but I do like it.
The point is that college kids have a lower built-in cost structure to their lives, making them ideal workers in a poorly capitalized startup. But regardless of who you hire, treat people well. It's not about money, it's about being honest and respectful and acting with integrity. Good people may work for shit wages, but they won't work for shit people who pay them shit wages.

Life is just too short. Create a company culture that has some moral character.
"That's why we have no entrepreneurs anymore. Life is too easy without them." Any evidence to support a decline in entrepreneurs? The internet seems to be overflowing with them.
You deal with the problem of manure in the pens by clearing them out regularly. The pens are large; just bring in a tractor and scrape the pen, then give the manure to some farmer for his fields. We also keep a large "mound" of dirt in the middle of the pens so when it rains, the cattle have a place they can stand out of the mud.

These aren't cages, they're large pens, starting at about the size of a football field and going up.

A grass-fed animal is still going to be walking in, sleeping on, and eating manure; in fact, grazing cattle often look dirtier than ours.

I'm not exactly sure how watching a sensationalist film is going to erase the 18 years of animal husbandry experience I've accumulated. I've assisted in slaughtering cattle, sheep, and pigs, I've shoveled every kind of manure imaginable, I've birthed sheep (starting at about age 5), I've hauled the inevitable dead animals, I've assisted in various basic surgical and veterinary operations. I've been to numerous other feedlots and dairies, and having observed all these things I am quite happy and secure in eating beef and drinking milk.
See, it's stuff like this that makes me hope Buzz eclipses Facebook among people I know.
Unrefined salts carry a miniscule amount of trace minerals from the source and this small amount of contamination is almost imperceptible. If you do not actually salt after cooking (and all of the salt is therefore dissolved into the food) then you are not tasting the so-called "flavor" of the salt, it is all in your head. A specialty salt can be mildly effective as a finishing agent but if you are adding it to the dish more than five minutes before it hits someone's mouth you are wasting your money.

In the case of the salt you mention this is just kosher salt with a particular bit of marketing spin on the package. What makes kosher salt the go-to choice for most chefs is the size of the crystal -- it is large enough that you can use a "pinch" in your fingers and get some control over distrbution and these large crystals also take a little while to completely dissolve so it is much better than standard table salt when you are doing something like salting a piece of meat prior to cooking. Another reason you may like it (given your stated aversion to salty flavors) is that because of the large crystal size a given volume of kosher salt has only half as much actual salt in it compared to table salt. If you have a recipe that calls for one teaspoon of salt and you use one teaspoon of kosher salt you are actually only putting in a half teaspoon of NaCl (the other half of the teaspoon is just air.) This is not bad for most cooking, but you should go out an get a bit of regular table salt if you do any baking at all, that is one area where cutting down on salt can ruin a recipe if you don't know what all of the other components in the recipe are doing and compensating appropriately.
At work we have LOTS of large binary files, yes. Static dependencies in C#. But I'll give it a go for personal projects.

Thanks!
I voted up your comment; you bring up three very likely scenarios. This is a side issue, but an important one in my opinion:

Why did you mention John Edwards there? Did it really make what you were saying more clear? Or was it just a great opportunity to get in a political dig?

"""

In Artificial Intelligence, and particularly in the domain of nonmonotonic reasoning, there's a standard problem: "All Quakers are pacifists. All Republicans are not pacifists. Nixon is a Quaker and a Republican. Is Nixon a pacifist?"

What on Earth was the point of choosing this as an example? To rouse the political emotions of the readers and distract them from the main question? To make Republicans feel unwelcome in courses on Artificial Intelligence and discourage them from entering the field?

"""

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
Oh, man, I wondered before watching it if it was worth the 1 hour 16 minutes it's long.

Now I've watched it and I know it would have been worth even if it lasted 100 hours.

Thank you very much for letting me know about it.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to sound ageist. I think you qualify as in IT without the quotes.

I was trying to go for a pattern of people who think they 'get it' because they employ or manage programmers, or are even just surrounded by them.
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If chapter 11 bankruptcy goes away it will be bad only for employees. Because investors are already wiped out by bankruptcy and upper management can always negotiate sweet deals for when/if it happens.
I also sear, then finish off in the oven, especially in the winter when I don't want to brave the snow to get to the grill.

Tip: Most olive oils have relatively lower smoke points, especially if you're using virgin. So, if you want to prevent most of the smoke, try canola oil. The OO isn't doing much for flavor, especially if it's burning. Also, a pat of butter at the end is essential.
If you want to know more about the problems with the structure of academia (as well as how it came to be), see Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: http://jseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-louis... , which I write about at the link.
"A spokesman for the Portland Trail Blazers says the handful of players on the team who cozy up with novels didn't feel comfortable revealing themselves."

I'm imagining getting together some teenagers to do public service announcements aimed at NBA stars, to let them know that they needn't be ashamed of who they are.

It's interesting to see the divide between foreign born players and American players, in terms of how they spend their free time. Also nice to see that Pau Gasol is in fact reading 2666, which Phil Jackson hand-picked for him (in the original Spanish, I imagine?)
"We had something called the recovery approach. A few months after the original scam, we would approach the victim again, this time pretending to be from the FBI, or the Nigerian Authorities."

I laughed, am I a bad person ?
(Empirically) statistically, though, the 50+ age group is significantly less up-to-date with internet fads

Do you actually have those statistics? I thought the actual statistics were trending the opposite direction:

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/02/fastest-growing-dem...
A low birth rate is not surprising in the Vatican, but they will have some trouble increasing it.
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It's probably selection bias. It's easy to find people you want to find on the internet, but look around you in the real world. If you aren't in silicon valley, it's very difficult to find entrepreneurs and it's even harder to find them outside the internet.
Facebook is about getting information from your social circle, while Google search is about getting information from the internet at large. It seems they are looking at various ways to bridge that gap.
I'm interested to see how this develops. I'd hate for google to drop the ball (a la dodgeball, omnisio, etc.). Vark is such a unique, useful service.
I agree, and will add that kids are expensive, especially if you want good education. "Ramen profitable" is a lot harder to reach when your life gets to that point.
The article keeps talking about how civil servants are overpaid, which I don't think is true. There are too many of them, but they aren't particularly well paid; the average is around €20,000.
"Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google, I think to myself: a startup just died"

Many smart "kids" (gee, thanks dad, glad you know what's best for me!) want to solve interesting problems, not muck around with all that other stuff you have to deal with as an entrepreneur.
Doesn't the new Safari have something like that? Those big "top site" previews that appear when you start a new page. Chrome too, only they don't pre-populate the list of sites for you.
Sorry to get meta now, but I think this is why downvoting is a bad idea. You're discouraging me (and others) from working through any confusion they might have.