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I think Xbox 360 is doing pretty well in the minds of consumers. Its future and Google TV seem like they're going to be in direct competition, so I think it's a real 3-way battle.
30 years of pacman
I wonder when pension plans will start factoring in developments in this area.
I'm just in the beginning stages of a start-up. I know that is exactly how I'll feel once the initial challenges are surmounted.

I love the initial challenges; dealing with the first customers. But staying at the head (or near head) of a company when it just becomes another corp? Never. Boring. :-)
What amazes me is how many of them died penniless, despite having once held huge fortunes!
Yeah, I meant all that in the context of "making a difference in Facebook's privacy standards", not saying "Diaspora will succeed". Other than the exposure it has, I don't see it having any huge advantages.
I assumed they meant that the quality of their term as president wasn't a factor in their wealth.
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Those were important considerations when George Eastman named his company "Kodak", as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Kodak#Kodak_name
Why Berlin Needs To Become Europe’s Silicon Valley
Proof? In its years of existence the German Mark never reached parity with the US dollar.

On the contrary, switching to the stronger Euro made Germany's exports less competitive, not more, outside of the EU.
>Apple is supporting two gens of hardware. The iPhone OS will support the iPhone 3GS, the latest iPod Touch, the next-gen iPhone (as of now, unreleased) and the iPad.

It's three generations. The iPhone 3G is a supported platform for iPhone OS 4.0. You do miss out on multitasking though.

>I think its interesting that Mr. Lyons is "blown away" by Android features that will be coming to his iPhone in 30-60 days, with the exception of teathering (which isn't Apple's fault, but AT&T's).

Lack of tethering is both Apple's and AT&T's fault. It's AT&T's fault for not activating it in the carrier profile but its also Apple's for making sure that the iPhone only allowed signed carrier profiles with iPhone OS 3.1 so that you could no longer download an alternate carrier profile with tethering enabled.
I have this gut feeling that local furniture could be a huge market. Almost all my friends (even the ones with lots of money) got a large portion of their furniture from craigslist and other people.
I'm not an expert at Chinese (so please point out the errors), but I think he missed a few:

10. Hanyu Pinyin (which is the one everyone uses) overloads every second letter, to make it more condensed.

r = r, or zhr, tchzr, or something like that (it's up to the speaker)

j = zh (kinda), as in Beijing

zh = j (WTF? Are they trying to make things hard?)

z = ts

c = ts ... but a different ts to z. (aspirated)

q = tch

x = tsh

none of which should be confused with ...

ch = ch (dark)

sh = sh (dark)

s = s

That's about it for consonants. Remember to carry a pack of tissues.

11. Then there's vowels. Don't get me started. There's lots of vowels, and getting them wrong will completely change what you said.

12. Idioms. Though this relates to number 9 - cultural differences, and I guess it's an issue in all languages.

13. Regional dialects. Every village has it's own language, which isn't really comprehensible to anyone else. You can speak Chinese, and still not be understood, simply because you are talking to somebody who doesn't know putonghua (standard).

Chinese has some advantages. It's rare to run into sesquipedalian loquaciousness, if only because few people can be bothered learning all the synonyms. There are synonyms (of course), but they just don't seem to get used as much as in English.

- I can only thing of one way to say "big" in Chinese. In English, there's "big, large, enormous, huge, gigantic, gargantuan, grand", and about a dozen others. In Chinese, if something is big, it's '大 (da)', or maybe 'very big'. Except the great wall, which is the "long wall" (not big).

- If something is "good", it's "好 (hao)", or "really good", or "very good", or "double good" or possibly "佳 (jia)". Not "good, excellent, splendid, magnificent, superb, superlative, wonderful, fantastic, marvelous", or anything else your third grade teacher said about the short story that even you knew was crap.

The best way I've found to learn a little Chinese is to get a idiom dictionary, and look up idioms. You learn interesting stuff about the culture (lots of food and trade analogies, mythology, nature, and some analogies to bodily functions that are so visceral Kevin Smith used one in Clerks), and it's a good way to practice common words.

But yeah, it's not easy.
Well yes, I know. They acquired Summize well over a year ago, and it would probably be a one-line code change. It's probably not a high priority issue for them, but it still bothers me :)
what about the phrase "information highway"!?
I find it odd that George Washington was worth half a billion dollars. It makes me wonder if his motive for revolution was extravagant wealth (Edit: In the sense that he amassed this fortune through the revolution, not so that he could help create a place where you were free to amass that wealth).
They credit their success to word-of-mouth. Getting in during the gold rush means they have users to spread that word of mouth. Getting in after the gold rush means your app is more likely to languish in obscurity.
Sir, More Data Please.

How recently did this happen? Sprint has historically had poor customer satisfaction but they seem to be turning things around.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100521/tc_ytech_gadg/yt...
Those 3 are trolls and nothing more than that. They were talentless clowns who never had any hope of achieving anything with their social network. They lost absolutely nothing and gained millions of dollars in a garbage lawsuit. What they are doing is absolutely disgusting in the eyes of any real entrepreneur, so if you have even a shred of sympathy for them then you have ZERO chance of succeeding with whatever idea you have.
True, could be the answer is to group stories, Techmeme style.
My guess is that it's being slowly rolled out to some of Google's front-end servers. I'll get the SSL homepage one load, then a few minutes later when I'm round-robinned to a different server, I get redirected to http://.
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Because $1k is too small an amount to be useful. But I think you are not really serious here, you are just trying to argue your point from extremes.

$20k is a useful amount, it will get some work done. $80k is not that much more useful but it is 4 times as much.

$10k is probably still too low.

You optimize the number, and around $20K there is an optimum for the target audience that YC tries to reach, and it makes sure that you don't get a bunch of gold-diggers that see the investment itself as a success.
Must be something on your end, works fine for me: http://i.imgur.com/ssbIT.png
It's an interesting and compelling story, and she deserves credit for her invention, but it's a serious exaggeration to say that she invented spread spectrum, or that current technology is based on her idea.

There were actual scientists working on these technologies back in her day whose work informed spread spectrum's development directly. Because she had no real connection to the scientific community, Lamarr's patent didn't do much beyond languish in a file cabinet, I'm afraid.
Magnesium. When I went on a low carb diet, I wasn't getting enough, and the muscles in my face were starting to twitch. I googled and found out it was caused by a lack of magnesium. Once I started taking the magensium supplements, the twitching was gone in hours.
Where to find local freelance front-end developers?
I'm looking for freelance front-end developers in the area (Los Angeles), people who love Javascript (jQuery) and the future of user interface, visualizations, and animation.

I've been unlucky on referrals, Sortfolio seems lacking, and Craigslist scares the crap out of me (results are usually horrible)...where should we look? Any on HackerNews?
Ha, got "feeces"
Yes, English is also a pain. "The bandage was wound around the wound". From the famous article "Dumb English" (copy here: http://www.beautifulperth.com/dumbenglish.html)
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Yep. I noticed this earlier too, see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368956

So, the solution is to use https://duckduckgo.com/
bizspark is awesome ... took about a week for my little startup to get approved.
This might be a matter of recent circumstance. iPad release, Apple's new developer guidelines, Gizmodo iPhone scoop, the Facebook privacy hubbub, and Google IO happened one right after the other. We could just be experiencing an uncommonly dense (and hopefully short) sequence of sensational tech news events.
Fun quote, but factually incorrect. For example, who was the first user of C++? Bjarne himself. He needed the power of Simula, but at the time Simula implementations didn't scale. He took the ideas he found useful in the language and put some into C, as he was building large scale C/BCPL applications.

To me that's the definition of building a language for yourself. You actually write a language that you need to solve a specific problem you have.

And I find his categorization of good vs bad languages somewhat absurd. What actually makes Ada, C++, and Pascal bad? His lack of understanding? What makes C, Perl, and Lisp good? The inverse?

While I have my own personal prefernces with respect to languages, I fully believe a large part of it is familiarity. I've NEVER met anyone who could argue why a particular language was truly bad. They usually are just passionately arguing religion, and I find that tiring. It was cute when I was in high school, but those debates are getting tired.
This article claims that the Clintons' net worth in 1992 was $700k (about $1m in 2010 dollars), most of it from Hillary: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/199...

So, not poor, but as far as I can tell, the lowest starting net worth of any recent president. I had thought Carter might have been poor too, but apparently his peanut farming wasn't a tiny operation: he had a net worth of $811,000 in 1975, or $3.2m in 2010 dollars, according to the footnote at the end of: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,947792,00.html

Ford is another candidate, but I can't seem to find info on his 1974-or-earlier net worth.

Edit: Ford's net worth in "late 1973" was apparently $256,000, or $1.2m in 2010 dollars. So that'd put him roughly on par with Clinton. Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/199...
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I mean I believe there are better screens on other phones, but if the title of the article is 'Why I'm switching to Android', then the picture damn well better make me want to switch too, otherwise the credibility of the whole article is shot before I even read a word.
This what happens when those who can't do right meet those who think they can't do wrong.
I keep wondering why, the day it happened, they didn't hire a crack team of scuba divers to go down there with a hunk of steel and oxy-acetalyne torches to weld it shut. I don't think oil would burn underwater, even in the presence of the torches, though whether you could pull off a weld is an open question.
He admits he's an atheist! :D let's hope FOX News doesn't see that

we need an outlet, a website, where this can be done more frequently..
Thx for the reference. It should be fixed now.
The leak is too deep for divers.
I remember being told this at school, a quick wiki search turns up some stuff here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography#History

"[Printing] introduced further inconsistencies, partly because of the use of typesetters trained abroad, particularly in the Low Countries. For example, the h in ghost was influenced by Dutch."
So uh my little Chrome extension I made has to do all this shit? Uh fuck that, thank you very much. I'd rather just delete the extension. What a bunch of bullshit.
Gotcha, yes, I can confirm. It happens on mousedown so I guess that is triggering before the copy.

Let me try and understand the params issue because I think that will fix it for you. So why aren't you creating a custom search in opera with those parameters that you one?

Or are you saying that once you do a search and use the search box again, your parameters should be present in that second search? I think you're right that they are not and they should be. I can fix this, but I want to understand exactly what is going on first.
You can download xcode too, you just need an apple developer account. I prefer downloading than going hunting for my Mac OS X disc.
RIP Rudin.
Great, just bought it with the $9.99 discount. The platform is great (as everything there are some caveats you have to deal with), but it's very reliable. We are using Azure since July for a custom MapReduce implementation, using up to 200 instances daily for several hours, http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?...
Email me (on my profile), I do jquery frontend work freelance. I threw this together last summer for fun and also useful for finding freelance gigs: http://linkpro.dotglow.com

it's primarily jquery on the frontend; and also has a simple iPhone UI (iUI) that works pretty well.
Definitely check out Pedal360, definitely one of the coolest/most practical exhibits at the fair.
That works great for two people. Maybe even 20 people. But try to write a 1M+ line app by meeting at the water cooler.

One of my favorite stories is we had hired a bright young dev many moons ago. Months into his work we were trying to fix this terrible memory leak, and it looked like most of it was coming from his code. We asked him, "Where do you free this memory, we can't find it anywhere -- you clean up everything else." His response, "Wait, how do you free memory?"
Interesting on how the tone of the Gizmodo article is almost over-the-top pro-Google and anti-Apple. Seems almost like a backlash to the entire Jason Chen/REACT situation.
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Holding something in place over the opening long enough to attach it is a significant problem, since the oil's coming out at thousands of psi. I don't think a diver would be able to do it without significant machinery, even if it were somewhere shallower where divers can work.

Edit: Which actually is why blowout preventers were invented in the 1920s, even for land-based wells. Before that, oil would gush out of the opening when a high-pressure reservoir was struck, and it was really hard to shove a cap onto a well once it was spewing out at high pressure. This one in 1910 took 18 months to cap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Gusher
George Washington amassed most of his wealth through his marriage to Martha (1759), not through the revolution. Prior to that, he was a deeply indebted commissioned soldier and former small-time planter.
Webvia sounds like a member of the pseudo-latin naming scheme still favored by pharmaceutical companies.
In Event Horizon your eyeballs bleed. You start going into convulsions as your veins swell and everything is getting sucked out of you. That article made it sound kind of peaceful, provided you blew the air out of your lungs. Which, now that I think about it, is probably what you are referring to (exhaling all the air from your lungs).
New Use for Cigarette Butts Makes Them Suddenly Worth the Cost of Recycling
How is typing better on the iPhone than on the N1?

I find the predictive measures work better; the keyboard is more responsive (texting on the iPhone was an exercise in frustration: oftentimes the keyboard would lock up, preventing input).

My only complaint is that its a little too easy to accidentally hit the home key.

And really... I've got three apps running in the background and no sluggishness. In fact, I have never seen this phone lag (even when playing super Nintendo on the train).

Only complaint with typing in web forms is that it doesn't follow the cursor quite right.

Written from mobile :-)
Python code makes any song swing
Might I suggest running a VMWare image with the same flavor of linux that your production server uses? I've been using this set up happily for years. As a bonus you can copy the dev image to other developers or use it to set up larger dev server.
I would love to read more about this. Do you have a good source? I don't know much about Washington besides some hazy memories from reading 1776.
The speaker is Simon Sinek in case anyone was wondering.
The leak is at about 5,000 feet. The deepest a human can go is about 2000.
My copy of baby Rudin (Principles of Mathematical Analysis) was the first "real" math textbook I used. It was notorious at the bookstore. At $135, it was more than a dollar per piece of paper, and smaller than a volume of poetry, with decently sized text and a good layout. But make no mistake--it could kill a man, and it was well worth every penny.

It's not an exaggeration to say that you could spend a whole hour working through a single page, and in fact that's what the first day in my Real Analysis class was: learning how hardcore math is really done. It has an astonishing economy of expression, where everything you need to understand a proof is written, but if you blink you'll have to start over. It doesn't just feed you facts and theorems to memorize. Skill is developed in the process of reading, because reading this book requires unpacking explanations, filling in details, and making connections for yourself.

The closest analogy I can make is that it's like watching a grandmaster play a real game of chess, when all your previous chess lessons had been finding the correct four moves from a handful of common positions. It's not necessarily the best or easiest way to learn real analysis itself, but having learned real analysis from that book, you are prepared to not only learn, but master, any other type of math you happen to come across.

Requiescat in pace.
That's a fair criticism
So they should die because they probably wouldn‘t be geniuses all their life? Wow, that’s cruel :)

I don’t know how productive Newton with hundreds of years to live would be, nobody really knows. It’s just that losing perfectly good brains to death (or disease) seems like such a waste to me.

We developed pretty good methods of storing some brain content for posterity (writing still seems like the dominant one) and just look at what kind of leverage that gave us. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants but it sure would be damn cool if the giants could still be among us.
Air-jordan-1
Designed by a boy from New Jersey when he tried to make his own basketball shoes. Soon he sent them to Nike and they loved the shoes. Nike released the sneakers in 1985, the Air Jordan I pair of sneakers was considered a breakthrough in basketball shoe design, although its design was improved upon later with the Nike Dunk.
And not only programming languages: http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Yours_Mine_Ours.html
Go through sortfolio or websites like that and pick out a style you like. Many agencies stick with one style. One of the examples is Metalab. I'm sure you all know their style. We do more of a modern minimalistic style at http://www.designvetica.com
I'm showing my age, but it used to be uncool to hammer the WHOIS servers. It might pay to use a bit of socket.gethostbyname() to exclude the domain before you hit whois for the final verdict.

Really cool idea, though - impressed with the approach.

OBTW: On your name, in the US does ninite mean "night, night!" or "goodnight" as it does in the UK?
The alternatives on how to file bankruptcy
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In addition, it'd be quite irresponsible to start scaling your hiring without that concrete product (proven, repeatable, scalable sales process).
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking...
if you're at work this might get you canned, please flag and don't click if you are at work.
"Search helps, but to most people a website lives at name.com, maybe with a www in front. Our stats seem to reflect this: 60% direct traffic, only 20% search. 17% of those searches are ninite.com or www.ninite.com."

I wonder if the ratio of browser usage for those keywords are the same as the browser usage of site visits. I say this because in Chrome, when there's no link for ninite.com and I select it, it offers me the option to go directly to that link. Every other browser* just lets you copy or search and when I was a Firefox user I searched so I could get a clickable link from Google.

So my point is: is it possible that a large percentage of the searches for "ninite.com" and "www.ninite.com" have that reasoning behind?

* Didn't test in Opera but tested it in IE8, Firefox and Safari.
> And even if plenty of the code behind [scaling search] must be very interesting, the actual money is made in the adsense department, and though at that scale there are some interesting challenges, keyword advertising, statistics, reporting and so on are nowhere near as interesting as search.

If you don't think adsense is just as interesting as search in the core technical algorithms, you probably haven't really thought about it at all.
For an individual with a mortgage and family, when the going get's tough, they drop the startup and go get jobs. For someone who can live on a grad student budget (YC funding level), there are many months of productivity left after money starts to get thin.
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"I thought it was commonly known and accepted that it was in large part German banks that were being bailed out when bailing out Greece."

That's how I - I'm German - understand it, but I think it's pretty much the minority report around here these days. The vox populi still argues that we shouldn't have done it, as if there were an option out of it even now. The majority doesn't grasp what's happening and why it happens, and it seems to be very easy to keep them in the dark right now.
Goodreader (plus a couple other pdf apps) can darken the screen so it's almost like glossy paper

http://i.imgur.com/h5NEi.jpg
Good point, though considering how old Classical Chinese (let along Old Chinese) is, you might want to throw in Hebrew and Greek. Or maybe Proto-Germanic and a little PIE.
Are you joking or what ? A crack team of scuba divers at 5000 feet below ?

http://www.scubarecords.com/

Really, it surprises me that just knowing the basic facts of the case you would make this suggestion.

5000 feet below sea level has conditions that make working there in a suit comparable to (or worse than) setting up a deep space mission. We're talking about a column of a mile or about 1600 meters of standing water here. A scuba diver would be crushed like a pop can at that depth.

Sending people that deep without protection around them to withstand pressures that are beyond our everyday imagination would be the same as killing them on the spot.

There has never been a human that deep, unless in a device called a 'Bathyscaphe', and even that is quite an undertaking, and definitely not without risk.

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

'regular' submarines will go to about 4500' and are pretty much useless in this case.

Too many hollywood movies.
I develop a herd management software for cattle ranchers and wanted to call cattle-something. I wrote a program to generate lots of 3 and 4 letter combinations and ended up settling on Max. I checked whois and CattleMax.com was available. 11 years and 56 countries later, it's still going strong and I couldn't imagine any other name for what our product does.
"Constantly replacing rusting pipes is a serious financial drain on oil producers worldwide [...]"

A serious financial drain on $20-$50 billion dollars profit. (Exxon Mobil, 2009 and 2008).
Ah, so it seems it just doesn't work yet, not just because of the forward?
I just brought out the quote because I thought it was relevant. I never said I agreed with it 100%.