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Otherwise, the site would be called "Hacker Breaking News", or (ouch) "Breaking Hacker News".
Defaults matter. Most people do not want to fuck around with their computer, they just want it to work right and be sane from the start.
they'd sell cookies afterwards.
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The 1,000 visits is pretty good at $1.3 CPC, but I bet it'd be a lot smaller for regular ads. This was the equivalent of a "click here' banner ad...you might get a click...but it's just people curious about what it is you have to sell.

Someone should do the same test for a regular ad, i.e. this is our product come buy it at oursite.com. I bet the number of hits will plummet.

Oh and I bet the production values matter a lot, their ad was actually good, anything a regular person comes up with, will probably be junk.(i.e. the equivalent of those dealership ads)
If you read his blog post backwards, wackjobs will start emailing you instructions.
It is not what you do, it is how you do it.
who are made out to be stupid enough to need protecting by "corporations, governments, and nonprofits"

I said it below but I'll say it again here, I think this article is reacting to a relatively recent trend among development people to portray the poor as knowing everything they need to get out of poverty if only they had the chance. This impression itself comes from the mistakes made by wealthy people in trying to dictate what the poor should do with their money before getting a proper understanding of their situation. Whats necessary is to find a balance here.

But who defines "reasonable wages?"

I agree that a government solution to defining reasonable wages will fail for the reasons you suggest. However, with no government intervention, corporations can probably easily exploit poor workers by having them work hard and paying them much less than they would anyone else. You can call this supply and demand, and it is, but that doesn't mean that some government intervention isn't right and proper. I'd argue that the governments should be watching out for extreme cases of exploitation (with respect to wages and other factors) and for the most part let free markets do their thing. Its true that this might prevent the extremely poor from getting these types of jobs (since they would be happy to work for wages that might be considered extreme exploitation) but I think thats the price we have to pay and we need to compensate by having direct government intervention in the case of these extremely poor people.
I was unable to understand "secure coding practices" (beyond buffer overflows and sql escaping anyway) until I started examining real exploits to understand them. Why do you assume that the OP wants only to break things?
Yeah, you're right. Part of the reason I wrote this is that I've been getting a lot of those questions lately and it seemed convenient to have a link ready at hand 8)
Umm, FireFox is already losing market share. After I switched to chrome (and everyone I know have, including my 60 year father, sister, co-workers, etc, anyone who I can show it too, the speed is a killer feature).

How irrelevant would they like to become?
Starbucks don't sell weed in Amsterdam either. I think they are quite attached to their image of being clean and smoke free. :)
I don't entirely agree. This book seems to be targeted for an undergraduate graph theory class. If thats the case, these definitions are just fine.
You might work at the institutional level where they want to do this frequently, but I don't think most players would trade directly with each other. One of the purposes of exchanges is to reduce counterparty risk. So only those firms that have the resources to fully vet each other would do this. Not all firms will do this because then you have to vet everyone you trade with which is time consuming.

The many reasons why institutions don't often trade directly with each other, including the anonymity, are covered in the book "Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners"
so you re-read the article then realised you had read it before?
As a note, its still being written. The later chapters are not even written at all, they just have notes of topics to be covered.
> I imagined that repealing a law would be a matter of passing a bill, same as making one. Is this assumption wrong?

That's correct.

> This is what I don't get; why

Why doesn't matter. What matters is whether it's true, because it's silly to act as if things are different, and what you're going to do about it.

> My personal suspicion is that it's a lack of political will.

Laws have beneficiaries. For example, someone is collecting that mohair subsidy. Those folks are quite motivated to keep things the way they are. The folks who would benefit from killing ths subsidy are diffuse - they don't even know that they're paying it.

Plus, legislators get rewarded for doing "new" things, not for fixing old ones that no one remembers.

That's why my "must be renewed every so often" proposal requires more and more effort to pass each time (approaching some limit). The longer that something has been around, the more popular it should be if it's actually worthwhile.
Are they still harping on about buttons on the left? I admit, from a usability point of view it's clearly a fail, but the good thing about Linux is that if you don't like it you can alter it and make a new release. Perhaps they could call it "RightHandSideBuntu: Linux for human beings who don't want to re-learn basic aspects of window behavor because of some designer's whim".
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Yes, I agree this has gone off-topic. This was a rebuttal to patio11's remark that immortality without memory could be compensated for by writing everything down.
Well actually, there may be other ways, for example it may be possible to detect conflicts!

Run the code in separate threads, and then at the end of the routine (or at synchronization points) check for a conflict. If there was a conflict, re-run the code in-order.
I'll believe this one. I used friend's addresses in testing a system years ago. It's worth having a "zoo" of addresses because they come in a dazzling variety of formats - Salt Lake City, for example, has 2 Temple Streets that run east-west, one north of the LDS Temple, and one south. So they have a "directional": 123 E Temple St N. Apartment numbers are also a problem

Once you're done developing, the hand off to day-to-day administration sometimes leaves things behind. Test addresses might just stay in the system.
If you enjoy the solo, you should listen to Frank Zappa's cover. He has the horn section (and maybe Vai on stunt guitar too, can't tell for sure) do the guitar solo, in unison.

Here's a low-quality video of the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3Ue3ncH3g
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Thanks
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No, it's not. DNA transcription errors occur all the time in our bodies, but there are elaborate repair mechanisms in the DNA that either correct it or, if its uncorrectable, kill off the cell.

But, sometimes these mechanisms fail and a cell survives with mutated DNA. If the right genes are mutated, then it grows uncontrolled and you've got cancer.

In order to get immortality, these repair mechanisms would have to be as robust after 1000 years as they are after 20 years. In humans, the repair mechanisms tend to degrade as you age, which is why, the theory goes, people are more likely to get cancer as they get older. It's not that there are more errors then, but that they're not corrected as well.
I never imagined they can have so many theories and studies on a single song.

Nevertheless Stairway to Heaven is indeed mystical, if you haven't heard that song (anyone?) go listen to it right now.
I'm aware of another, similar trick:

var i=new Image();
i.onload=i.onerror=fn;
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It's faster than setTimeout, and it's more compatible than postMessage.
What a letdown! The article begins with high drama ("Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun..."), then explains that scientists observed the parity law being violated by the strong force, which "was thought to adhere to the law of parity, at least under normal circumstances."

At least under normal circumstances??? Now I remember why I don't study particle physics!
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Interesting. Is this in production use anywhere?
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As long as you wait until you know where the data is going, escaping is always a good idea.
No it wasn't. There was arithmetic encoding option, which was owned and patented by IBM and was not royalty-free. As result everyone implementing codecs had to stick with less efficient, but free Huffman encoding.
And here's the reggae version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7DqjyNGHJU
It's what economists call "signaling." It tells people, "there's a human behind this, not just lawyers." (Your inner lawyer is probably preparing to retort, "lawyers are humans, too!" QED.)
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Wow, this actually found a moderate security vulnerability in my website!

Fetching http://mysite.com/static/ returned the plaintext template of my index.html file, which I must have accidentally copied in some manual hackery during a broken push (none of my scripts copy it normally)

However, I almost missed the warning: Skipfish complained because the page lacked a content type, and it was buried in several similar warnings. I'd like it to recognize potentially templated files, which is a much more serious vulnerability than missing a 'text/plain' content type. Years of staring at unimportant compiler warnings might cause people to miss gems like this.
Hey guys, leading a team at Startup Weekend in Miami. We're creating a SaaS App Store / Directory. We're trying to create a fairly comprehensive directory of business SaaS apps that are useful, especially the hidden gems that no one has heard of, including your own apps. If you can add them to the google doc linked it would be a HUGE help.
H.264 is not more power efficient than Theora.

It compresses better so that it's got higher quality per bit, but it achieves that by using more computing power on both the encode and decode end. Consider gzip vs bzip for a very rough analogy, more "cleverness" means smaller files but also more computation time. Or think of the CABAC feature that makes your H.264 file 10% smaller but unable to play on iPhones or other low power devices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CABAC).

H.264 does have "hardware" assisted decode on iPhones but that's a choice made by Apple not a universal law. Despite the constant repetition of the "fact" that H.264 decode is done in custom silicon, it's simply not true. The same DSP or generic video decode units are used for other codecs (inc VC-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2, RealVideo). There's no reason Theora can't be accelerated in the same way and it already has been for the OMAP3 chips (as used in N900s, Palm Pre and the Droid).

Here's a link to a company selling software that decodes High Profile H.264 (amongst many other codecs) on OMAP3 SoCs. How would that be remotely possible if H.264 implementations were entirely custom silicon, unchangeable and non-upgradeable?:

http://www.ittiam.com/pages/news/pres-rel-20100215-omap3-720...
Cold calling is a numbers game, just like all other lead generation activities
Hah, I didn't know that -- that would be pretty dumb.

I assumed the only reason they tried this was to copy Apple. For right-handed mousers (most people) having controls and scrollbars on the right appears to allow easier/faster access. I don't see any benefit in switching.

They never gave any justification for switching sides, AFAICT.
MIT is an "open" campus, in the sense that anyone can enter the buildings and go in the libraries or just look around.
(Well, almost. The doors are mostly unlocked all day and night, but if you're wandering the halls at 3 in the morning and you don't look like a student, the campus police are going to ask you some questions.)

One of the nice features about the campus is that the main academic buildings are connected to each other, either directly or via tunnels and skyways. This means that you don't ever have to step outside when you go from class to class, a real plus during the wintertime.
The cost of creating the ad should be included in the CPC calculation. Then, to limit it's impact on CPC, you have to run the ad a lot more so the production cost as a percentage of the CPC drops further. You need a lot of money for a decent TV campaign.

But I guess the point of the video was to show how easy it is to setup a TV campaign. In that regard it really seemed easy. It was surprising that it didn't require a large minimum to get air time.
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There are many, many bootlegs of live shows, but only one that I know of that contains studio recordings. It's about 11 hours long with quite a wide range of stuff. There are recordings of them practicing Stairway to Heaven at several stages, including an early acoustic version, one of the first times they played together, and a couple demo versions with different solos. It's pretty cool to hear the song develop.
Ah, evil. Such an interesting concept. What is right and wrong, not only now but what will be looked upon as wrong in the future?

I would bet that pyre is right - these dealer/smugglers will not be considered evil if you look back on the situation in 100 years. Just as we do not consider someone running a speakeasy during Prohibition to be evil.

What will be considered evil is a very interesting concept. International oppression for resources, drastically different living standards based on luck and geography, over-consumption and waste?

But perhaps other items that you would not even expect. Elimination of languages and distinct cultures? Holding dolphins in captivity if we discover they are as intelligent as us but just lack the ability to use tools? The use of plastics?

Whatever the answers are - what the government deems to be legal/illegal is irrelevant when looking from that perspective.
I said "properly", check out my other comments on this thread :)
to avoid having to create an account and log in just to view the docs, can anyone give details on how this is implemented (technologies, etc)?
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Hey guys, were doing Startup Weekend Miami. We actually decided to finally build the directory / app store of business SaaS business apps I mentioned way back in August. We're looking for the hidden gems (ie- not basecamp or salesforce) and the things most people may not have heard of, especially your own apps.
Wayne's World: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4663/waynesworldnostairwa...

Basically don't try and bust it out in a guitar store.
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I think you're going to define what exactly you mean by SaaS? Are you talking about web apps that are used by businesses? Web apps in general? Anything with a subscription model?

SaaS is not a clear concept to me.
They is plural.
Changed title. Specifically Business apps, not consumer. ie- things that would be useful to your startup.

* Subscription helps but not required.
* Business focused.
* If your startup uses it to operate better, then it is a great app.
I'm from Vietnam and we don't have a good and friendly startup culture here. In fact, it's pretty harsh here, entrepreneurs have to face so many constraints outside their control like government policy, corruption, politics, no support from the community, no angel funds etc .. this is not good for the morale, but we know what we have to do to overcome this, bootstrapping is the only option now, we hope that after gaining the startup momentum, we can move our startup to some other places to continue our dream.
nice quote when they talk about Facebook

DHH: "... begging for advertising crumbs which these companies are essentially doing..."

Really odd perspective to have. Why is charging users directly any better? Online advertising expenditure is slightly more than crumbs.

Also I'm pretty sure total advertising expenditure online is massively more than people paying for subscription/services online.
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Yes I agree he is talking about p2p. ISPs could start deploying devices on customer premises to provide caching, storage, compute and wireless network services. In densely populated areas this would essentially be a local CDN.
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That's the founder of Yelp. Should I tell him I'll hide the bad reviews if he signs up as an advertiser? LOL
Sysadmin jobs are certainly out there, and I'd really try to avoid settling for something so much less like technical support, it might be very hard to exit that. Perhaps look elsewhere for leads?

Here's another suggestion: learn how to do this in the cloud. For example, put some money in an AWS account and play around in that environment. If you have access to a suitable spare machine, get Linux + Xen running on it and go from there. Get x86-64 experience. Etc.

The cloud is hot for a variety of reasons, including most especially the lower barriers to entry (no capital costs besides maybe a Ezio Time Token). Those same lower barriers apply to sysadmins, e.g. getting up a cluster of 10 EC2 instances is something you can probably do for the price of a good meal, whereas it's unlikely you'd be able to borrow 10 physical machines and their system disks.
Planarians (flatworms) have many immortal species as well. They are able to grow and degrow, changing their cell populations to the proportions found in juveniles. They are able to divide by fission, where the head remains and the tail grows a new brain from scratch.
Am I missing something or what? How does this new Visa helps me? It even makes it more awkward.

Let's assume I have a great idea in mind and got accepted at YC; will this Visa help me bootstrap? No, so what's the advantage of this visa.

If you succeed to bootstrap from your country, so why move to the US?
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I think it's a great song, though I'm sure I'd appreciate it even more if I weren't constantly hearing about how it's such a great song.
Best quote: "If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong." ~DHH

The difference is between "I want to build something great that makes the world better" and "I want to build something that makes money." And really, when comparing 37signals to Mahalo, the mentality the leadership has is what inspires the community opinion and quality of product coming from those companies.

Note: I don't mean this as a all-too-common-on-HN cheap shot against Jason Calacanis. My point is that when people talk about Calacanis' camp, they talk about the quality of the business. When people talk about 37Signals, they talk about the quality of the product. Neither is wrong - they're just different.
Great interview!
When you introducing advertising, you have two sets of users, the advertisers who are your income stream, and the users who you need to keep around to make the advertisers happy. If you have directly paying users, you only have to worry about making those users happy, and you know you have something people really can't do without easily, because they are willing to pay their hard earned money for it, since many people value money more than time, or so it appears based on the popularity of free services.
Sorry, what I meant is that breaking or recent news being reposted is problematic. But classics being reposted every so often isn't bad since you'll certainly get new commentary on it.
Because when someone pays you directly, you're offering them something they value and would pay for rather than invading their brain with ads that they don't want to see?
I'm surprised to see otherwise smart people treating this idea seriously. Consider just the following:

- the whole point of startups is to test high-risk ideas in the crucible of the market. This approach promotes highly risk-averse behavior (since the penalty for failure is getting expelled from the country, along with your family).

- you're replacing a market test with bureaucratic criteria. What does it mean to create five full-time jobs? Can I hire five people the week before the deadline? Can I fire them the week after?

- The proposal badly skews the relationship between investor and entrepreneur. Since the entrepreneur's immigration status is conditional on receiving funding, the investor has essentially received a free subsidy from the government, and holds all the cards in the relationship.

- Competitors without startup visa founders know what targets the startup must meet, and can undercut them in order to sabotage their ability to meet the visa test.

I'm sure others can think of many ways this system can be gamed. The more philosophical objection is that the proposal runs against the basic ideas of a startup - high-risk, high-reward activity, low bureaucratic overhead, a tolerance for repeated failure, and the market as the ultimate arbiter of success.

The bill is well-intentioned, but displays a striking level of naivete with regard to people's behavior, and a blithe disregard for the pressures around obtaining and keeping legal residency.

The right way to achieve these goals is through comprehensive immigration reform that makes it easier to work legally in the country, acknowledging the economic contribution of millions of undocumented immigrants at every level of the economic ladder.
Not to be a dick, but http://thesmallbusinessweb.com/directory already exists.