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Are you describing a load balancer, or something else? If not a load balancer (which has a different job to do), I just read this as "NAT is useful because it does NAT".
The more i think about this, the more i agree it is a crucial aspect - especially since the site focus on tech which is inherently a fast moving industry.

thanks again for the feedback.
A quote from that I keep close to my heart: "Courage is not the absence of failure, courage is acting in spite of fear." (Carly Fiorina)

In your case, if I were you, after I get off my ass to a networking event, I'd be thinking, "hell, I didn't get off my ass just to come here and be in wallflower mode. For better or worse, I don't care if I look stupid, I don't care if I'm afraid, I'm going to go talk to somebody."
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I’m guessing you’re aware of this, but if you scroll far enough down the page you eventually get to the answers; sometimes, the answers are quite decent too.
In some cars there is electronics that will stop the gas when the brakes are applied, but many brans (including toyota) do not employ these electronics.

So, if the gas is stuck and the brakes are both applied they will act in opposition, and with most engines the engine will overpower the brakes. So, applying the breaks will slow it down (especially if you apply normal and emergency breaks together), but it probably will not stop.

I vaguely remember a newscast where someone did apply both brakes and it slowed them down from some extreme speed to somewhere around the 40s or 50s.
> Why is there no anti expert-exchange campaign

Because Jeff Atwood actually did something about it, he founded StackOverflow specifically to drive them off the top results for programming questions.
You'd be amazed how similar a new political campaign is to a tech start-up.

You're creating an entire organization from scratch. Hiring and training employees on the fly, getting expanded offices,

You have to fund-raise, only instead of VC you have to raise it individually from thousands of donors. Most people don't realize that successful candidates spend several hours a day just calling supporters and asking for money. It's worse than sales calls, because you're asking them to give you money, and they're getting nothing tangible in return. (as a side note, this is a big part of why so many politicians seem like snake oil salesmen. They're the ones who are good and willing to do sufficient call time)

The schedule is insane. You spend the whole day on the road, shaking hands and giving speeches, while at the same time keeping informed on local and national issues and forming coherent opinions about them. You're also expected to provide leadership for your campaign staff, and occasionally spend some time with your family.

In the end you either win big or get nothing.
Who closes windows with the mouse these days anyway?
Sometimes, late at night, maybe you're pair programming with your co-founder and your hands accidentally touch. And before you know it you're in a full-on agile scrum, burning down the back log, one of you the chicken, one of you the pig.

It happens. It's extreme.
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Isn't this really a weakness of this system's abstraction? This appearance decision is just a skin layer. Rather than thrust it upon people, it could just be the default skin/view/appearance/theme, and there would be ways for contributors to submit additional themes that smoothly plug into the system. Don't like the buttons on the left? Use this other theme instead, which is mostly the same but with this exception.
Everyone who is complaining is smart enough to easily change the theme to something they are more used to. Less technical people are either:
1. Not using Ubuntu, probably never will regardless of the position of window controls.
2. Perfectly happy to learn to click wherever required, as is evident when they purchase Macs and use those.
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Those all sound like jobs to me.

Except the OC said "work for a living" not "hold jobs." I'm pretty sure that those of us on HN who have been inside larger organizations know the difference can be stark.

I would further fine-tune the assertion: they have never had to create wealth for a living.
Those all sound like jobs to me.

To anyone who has ever had to run a business, they all sound like days off. Military and government couldn't possibly function without threatening incarceration in order to get their revenue. Public relations for a celebrity, administration, sports reporter? Vacations.

far wider range of people and Iowa steak frys seem like contradictions in terms.

It's one thing to campaign for votes to feed your ego. It's another to get dollars from customers to feed your children.
It's not like it ever happened before, is it? Oh wait:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+b... ("update notifications change" outrage with 20+ duplicates, 100+ reporters, 400+ comments) - this is what happens when you implement an official pop-under to do system upgrades.

Timeline: Feature freeze 19 Feb 2009, change done 23 Feb 2009, UI freeze 5 Mar 2009?
We only have a bunch of things going on for us. Happiness, Love, Adventure, Sadness and Loneliness. But would you rather not be happy because it is cliche. Emotion is cliche and so is cliche. The above post was not to appeal to your logical sense but rather to intuition. So I don't really have a case as to why you should trust me. In fact that part was to inspire some stupidity. The line between stupidity and adventure is a very thin one. Find yours. I will just stand out here on the stupid side and shout out some encouragement. Thats all.
It worked for me eventually -- actually pretty awesome and I made some killer sketches in under 5 minutes each.
You should promote your business more on HN, Luke. I just visited it through your sig and am in your market. Currently pay for two virtual servers at MT. One doesn't get much use except as a backup server and I'm paying considerably more for it than what you charge.

Back on point, I don't mean to claim investors are irrational. I just don't think the reflexive "get-a-cofounder" drumbeat that is amplified here is really useful. If it were that easy and such an important determiner of success, I'd expect more investors to back single-founder projects instead of shying away from them. It would be a no-brainer to try and grow projects with revenue and traction.

But it doesn't happen. Which suggests to me that finding a good cofounder is a difficult enough problem that telling someone to do it is not useful advice. Or no more useful than just telling them to get customers. That is what seems to help me more than anything.
This is an analogy to physical possessions. "Steal" translate to "disclose", here.

Personally, I don't like analogies very much. I go for a more direct approach:

Google: "If I am doing nothing wrong, then I have nothing to hide",

Privacy advocate: "if I am doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to see".
That depends on how you choose to manage your company, your work/life balance, and your family system. Erin isn't a pro-forma "cofounder" of my company, but the more involved we've had her get, the smoother things have functioned for us.

Your mileage will clearly vary.

I've worked with founders whose spouses were completely disconnected from the company. They managed the "home front", took care of the kids, made sure the bills got paid.

I've also worked with founders whose spouses were part of the fabric of the company.

It just totally depends, Tony.
No. Just no. Join the campaign to stop mindless Buddhism fanboyism.
The classic case was an adult Ted Kennedy not able to figure out how to pull shopping carts apart because he had never seen them before.

Do you have a source on that? It sounds like classic urban legend to me. In fact it sounds like a variation on the urban legend about George H.W. Bush being amazed because he'd never seen a bar scanner before (http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp).
McCain earned the monicker "Ace" in the Navy for losing 5 aircraft. The only reason they kept giving him new ones was he was a 4 star admiral's son. His PR job was glad-handing, not usually what one means by "working for a living". (I dont' mean to denigrate his service, just reporting.)

"Community organizer"...I'd get downvoted if I commented on this one.

"Lawyer"...

Clinton was a law professor for a very short time. Pure politics after that. I don't think he ever held a job in high school or college other than chauffeuring Sen. Fullbright.
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Affiliate programs seem like the obvious choice: make it easy to purchase the products, and get a cut of the purchase.
You ask some tough questions - ill do my best to answer.

1) the incentive.. to be nice person and help other people out, and possibly appeal to people's desire to give advice and be listened too? Maybe having accounts, and public "status" (ala stackoverflow) might help incentivize use?

I was tossing around the idea of adding tags/categories - and using some metric to designate the "mayor" (ala foursquare) of that category/tag and then people that are very active could be "candidates" or something .. i dont know about the terminology, but something to highlight active/respected (have to figure out how to compute what "respected" is) users.

2) My personal experience is consumer reviews are the best reviews. Be it amazons/newegg's product reviews, or forums. "Commercial" review sites can be good (Toms, etc.) but its difficult to get a comparison review between products. You generally have to do a bit of leg work because most of these reviews aren't juxtaposing several products saying which one is better, and also so much of the choices depend on the particulars of your situation.

Sure, you can eventually figure out what the best option for you is, but it can, and often does, take a long time to do. Alot of the time I just want well informed people in a particular niche to take a glance at my general situation and say "This is the best option for you"
You never wondered why most people selected for YC are twentysomething men?
So you didn't get into YC...
Oh well.

Please don't write a motivational or demotivational post about how you didn't get into YC, how you're going to give up or soldier on, with or without them, how you didn't need their help anyway, etc.

That is all. Thanks. ;-)

PS: instead, simply refer to this one from last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550351

PPS: No, notifications haven't gone yet, and a YC alum advises me that they will all go out in a single batch.
You know i really think the idea is really unique. It might be difficult/impractical in reality?

A job is not just a location, but a combination of lot of things like salary compensation, work culture. So it will be difficult for two people to agree on something like this. One would always think, that he's losing out on the deal. It might still work!, but maybe it's just a little too radical.

I was toying with a similar approach, but i think the social angle on job search is still missing. Eg. recommending jobs for your friends, voting on which companies are good to work for etc. There are a lot of small companies that don't get a lot of good talent, just cos they're not Google/Facebook.

I would love to get a chance to discuss, brainstorm with you on this, since i've been seriously thinking of jumping into job search with the hope of doing it right.
Besides yourself, who is good?
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Obviously, if you're just going to copy Facebook's offerings, you might as well copy Facebook's launch plan and marketing. Their high level marketing strategy is very well documented and most of the tactics can be inferred.

Secondary suggestion: Pick a niche and focus on it.
Maybe it should be a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy type situation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker%27...
It's not about preference - it's about usability (if we leave out strange release management out of it):

- proximity to "File" menu

- proximity to top "Applications" menu

- inconsistency (windows close on the left, tabs and system on the right)
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The only thing that is proven with these numbers, is that the elderly are getting into more accidents because of the acceleration problem.

It is quite plausible that the younger and more spry drivers react better to the acceleration and are able to successfully deploy the proper counter measures.

Another and possibly more important question is why didn't Toyota install break override systems which would signal the computer to kill the throttle? This is a common safety system found in all GM cars with electronic throttles.

"If the brake and the accelerator are in an argument, the brake wins," a spokesman at Chrysler said in describing the systems, which it began installing in 2003.
You might want to look at http://www.techcofounder.com/
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the person was too panicked to do so.

Not to sound like a jerk, but if you're too panicked to do this, maybe you shouldn't be piloting a several thousand pound piece of steel around...

Also, this supports my belief that every driver should have to know how to drive a vehicle with a manual-shift gearbox. Shifting into neutral would probably happen without much of a second thought for somebody who normally drives a stickshift.
So why don't they leave it on the right as default (old way) and just a gui way to switch it to the other site for left handed/osx people. Then both sides are happy. Problem solved-ish.
Why is the software you use on your own computer a matter of privacy, while the sites you visit, Web applications you use, and amount of time you spend on them, is not? Before you say "because there is a Web site involved", consider that Microsoft could just as easily have the OS report on what applications you use (or even what emails you write), to better serve you ads, or for any other reason. Your "spyware" comment implies that you would object to this, yet you do not seem to have any objection to companies that deliver applications online doing what amounts to the same thing.

People "volunteer" information about themselves online without intending to or without being aware of what they are revealing (or what Facebook et al will do with it) and what is or is not considered an invasion of privacy is a largely arbitrary social construct. That is why these are real issues, and the answers are not as trivially obvious as you seem to think.
The fact that a full 42% of their traffic is originating from MSFT, and they’re still investing tens of millions in advertising, AND they have Yahoo wrapped up makes their relative gains look PATHETIC.

MSN is the default start-page in IE8 and that is being whittled away due to the anti-trust.

In the past 6 months that more and more of the links on the homepage link directly back to BING search results.

From a UI perspective, this is not ideal and to see such low gain #s despite these efforts is eye opening about google's dominance.
Here's another genuine way of asking the same question.

Why do people continue to believe that European social democracies have the highest quality of life, when people vote with their feet in the other direction?
'Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb' is one of my favourites. I also enjoyed A Scanner Darkly and I think I might have missed the joke. Would you mind sharing it?

If you would like to take a peak inside PKD's head, check out VALIS, he really started getting weird at that point. On a related note, an interesting essay can be found below:

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm

>One author can only take up so much space.
It would take a bit of shelf-space to cover PKD's work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Philip_K._Dick
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Whether they had good reason for changing a central UI element or not, it comes across as if they decided on a whim. This change seems so random. It's strange that they didn't anticipate the uproar in the community and at least try to answer the concerns and justify their decision.
That's exactly my problem with the car horn. You can honk at someone for any number of reasons, and it can be very hard to tell why someone is honking at you, or if you're even the person they're honking at to begin with.

But at the same time, any new method can't be too complicated, as it would just be an additional distraction and encourage worse driving.

Then again, people are already operating GPS and talking on cell phones while driving, so if something could be designed to be only marginally more complicated than a car horn, but substantially less complicated than a GPS, I think it would be a fantastic improvement.
More people search on Google for Google than they do for Yahoo or Bing... that is just.... humorous
My carrot fork is anything but ruthless, Patrick!
I'm very interested in seeing what everyone's take is on my new webapp, as I don't think I could ask for any better feedback than from the people here. It's far from complete in terms of functionality, but it does essentially what I needed it to do. I'm currently using it for both of my companies, and have a few friends in the area using it for their companies as well.

I figured I'd throw it out there to get a feel for how useful people think something like this may be. If it is, in fact, useful to some, then I can start putting more time/effort into developing it further.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550351
So so poignant. I guarantee you there are about 25 people with articles half-way written who are cursing your name...
How rare for an author whose works inspired a movie to approve of the final product! Here's to futurism!
I'd like to be able to have lunch and chat one-on-one with a dozen or more angels that have mutual interests and experiences as me, without having to move to California or win some startup beauty contest.
Very important point here:

> She accomplished [having well-behaved students] not though harsh discipline, but by treating us with respect and being genuinely hurt if we did not return it.

People rise, and lower, to your expectations. The more you treat your students like potential criminals, the more they'll act like ones because of (largely unconcious) expectations that that's how they're supposed to behave.

My college had a very liberal behavior policy. During student orientation, we were all told, explicitly, that the only real rule was "don't be a jackass." We were allowed as much alcohol as we wanted, as long as we drank responsibly. We were allowed take-home tests, as long as we didn't cheat (most such tests had hard time constraints, too). We were allowed free run of the academic facilities at all hours, as long as we didn't abuse the privelage. We were allowed to make all sorts of bonfires as long as no one got hurt[1]. You were allowed to pull all sorts of stupid pranks on people, including faculty and administrators, as long as you left contact information and could clean it up in 24 hours.

Guess what? There were very few problems. No incidents of alcohol poisoning, vanishingly small amounts of alcohol-related theft or assault or property damage, and maybe one or two instances of people breaking in and stealing/breaking things during my time there. All of the stupid pranks were done in good faith, taken in good humor, and tended not to involve the police (unless that was part of the prank). No fire damage, and no drunk people falling into fires. People self-reported if they accidentally went over the time limit on a test. Perhaps most importantly, the students had very good relationships with the faculty and administrators. Being able to walk into a professor's office and ask them for help (whether academic or otherwise) is invaluable, both as a resource and as a habit to develop.

The escalation of security in schools is a Chinese Finger Trap. Kids are acting juvenile, sound the alarm, we must stop them! Now they're acting even more juvenile, sound the alarm louder and try even harder to stop them! Et cetera. Treat kids like criminals-in-waiting and you'll get criminals. Treat them like responsible adults and you'll get adults.

[1] Actually, there were some additional restrictions on fires, but that wasn't our fault. One time the women's college across the street thought a dorm was burning down and called the fire department, so now bonfires are not allowed to exceed the height of a dorm building.
Clinton worked in a fish cannery and as a dishwasher, among other things. McCain's cushy PR job came after a prolonged period of rotting in a Vietnamese prison. I don't really follow your insinuation about community organizing, but where I live (SF) it tends to take the form of working long hours for minimal pay in some dire neighborhoods.

So I fail to see the point you're trying to make. What is the threshold of 'real work' career politicians have to cross before they are legitimate in your eyes?

In the book this post references, everyone except Palin is shown to have an enormous capacity for sustained hard work.
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Your anger is misguided. I have weathered the deaths by cancer of several whom I care about very much. I found it grueling, relentless and painful for everyone. In every case much money changed hands in a very short period of time, always to the benefit of the oncologist and associated institution.

Your wishes aside, most doctors are profiteers. Take the profit out and most would find another professions. Don't you remember the attitude of hopeul medical-school bound students in college? Very few go to medical school for noble causes.

Your mom's oncologist likely attended very few, if any, of his patients' funerals.

As for:
"It was interesting getting to know her oncologist. He clearly struggled with the emotions of his job. In the wake of her death he couldn't bring himself to attend her funeral (understandable).There was hardly a human being who knew her better in those last two years... and for that I'll be eternally grateful to him."

I must call you on your claims. Oncologists necessarily don't spend much time with each patient and it is very unlikely that

- you "got to know her oncologist",

- he "struggled with the emotions",

- he "knew her better" than anyone else .

The only way the last could be true is that your mother had no friends. Was she wealthy also? Oncologists do make exceptions for wealthy patrons.
Hey there - would love to help. I've been doing a bunch of these interviews recently, and it's really interesting and relevant to our core business (http://platform.newscred.com).

My email address is in my profile.
Fair enough, but I reserve my right to make a pithy comment.
Is it totally out of the question that some people might type in bing.com or have it as their browser's start page? The 42% is MSFTs share of referring sites.
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The worst are the ones that ask you to type in your email address. Most of the time they just give you an "Error: That email address is not in our database". Lovely, you just wasted my time twice.