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>What makes intervals sound in or out of tune are the harmonics, which clash if it's not just tuning.

How come people use tuning forks and pipes for tuning?
> The one that really bothers me is #88, 'box shot 3d'. If you don't ship boxed software, you shouldn't have a picture of boxed software on your site.

You should A/B test it, shouldn't you? At least a number of years back windows users were more comfortable buying an online product if it had a box shot. Even if they knew there was no box version. It's a question of being comforted by the familiar..
In answer to your questions: Yes. (You can get free licences to almost anything MSFT makes in software. The one proviso is that they'll charge you $100, total, when you exit Bizspark, which is the later of three years from now or when you start making $1 million a year in revenue. It is the sweetest deal you'll ever get for commercial software.)

There are four qualifications you have to make to be eligible for Bizspark. Being a "real business", by which I think you mean incorporated, is not a requirement. All you have to do is promise MS that you're actively developing software or related services which are intended to be core to your business. There are darn few people on HN for whom that doesn't apply.

I have never done development on the MS stack but if you do it is an absurdly good deal.
But when they are both free, they have to compete on quality. And on smartphones, windows loses it's main advantage -- a software library dating back to the dawn of the pc.

Microsoft cannot just take that market, but they can, and in time, probably will fight for it.
Same here. I don't understand this "lamp cloud". Don't we already have this with aws? I think this is just enterprise analyst talk (ie. bullcrap).
Both. Gabriel has disussed this before (I'm on my iPhone so no links sorry). But basically he does his own spodering and also uses yahoo boss and the bing api.
"That would never have been possible without the taxpayer bailout, hence the anger."

What I still don't get: wouldn't it make more sense to direct the anger at the bailout, that is, the government? The same guys who are now calling for regulations? Why trust them now?

With respect to blaming homeowners, I was referring to the article which blamed lenders to homeowners.
A lot of it you repeat from one to the other :)
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Just wanted to say that I just printed your comment to stick it on my wall.

Thanks for the lucid formulation. Even though I have been thinking like this all along, it is nice to have a succinct reminder.
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I haven't had any issues with downloading incompatible apps (even with 1.5). I recently started Android development and decided to target 1.5 and haven't hit any roadblocks. The only issue I've encountered is that 1.5 doesn't support separate graphic directories for different resolutions (and automatically scales).
Aside from what patio11 has said, yes you can get Visual Studio through it.

I'm running Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and developing against SharePoint 2010 and Office Server 2007 as well as Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and the Office Web Apps 2010.

My total outlay so far has just been getting the company registered (accountancy fees) and then time on getting things like the bank account in place. I already had the domain and with the domain reflecting the business (even as a one-pager) I've made it through the rather simple BizSpark setup steps and now have full access to the MSDN subscription downloads.

If you touch anythign for Windows or MS products, BizSpark is a no-brainer. You just have to be a startup and have low revenue... which makes it perfect for the solo boot-strapper.
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Gmail does that too—it doesn't respect the Thread-ID header (Mail.app does).
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http://eafp.org/ ?

But you must be referring to the phrase "easier to ask for forgiveness than permission." I'm not sure exception-handling theory applies to human discourse.
Personally, I prefer Weenie Google : http://www.toosmalltouse.com/

I do like how they both search-as-you-type (on the results page)... is there any way of getting the real google to work like that?
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"I use !bangs a lot, but I wish they worked at the end of your search terms instead of just at the beginning."

In addition to, not instead of. (And why not just allow it anywhere in the terms?)

I like seeing that my previous search was a ! search in my ff search bar. If it's a long search term I wouldn't see it at the end.
> it was the home owners who shouldn't have bought homes that caused the collapse

That's peachy. If those homes shouldn't have been bought, why were banks making the loans in the first place? Because they could immediately transfer the risk to other parties, who didn't know they were shoddy loans.

In a market with information asymmetry, that clears over years rather than days or weeks, I do find it quite distasteful to blame the home buyer.

Yes, they shouldn't have taken the loan out in the first place, but beseeching the population to be more "responsible" in the future (for some value of responsibility), as if this will somehow avoid disaster in the face of structural hazards, is either naive or disingenuous (pick one).
A program that keylogs your machine and grabs your passwords is a virus. You're right they are fairly common but once again a "popup" on your phone from a virus is the least of your worries.
My advice from little experience is to split shares equally three ways rather than based on number of hours. The startup should be everyones primary focus regardless of hours logged. If your business guy swings a huge contract that makes your business but has put in fewer hours does he still get a small percentage of the business?

Secondly I would vest all shares. After your trial if you decide it's all likely to work create a vesting schedule that starts after 1 year and progresses until the company is equally shared between the three of you. You might also have acceleration clauses in the case of selling the company or other milestones.
Apple will create more excuses... I'm thinking security issues will be the next focus.

Flash could (and probably would) hurt AppStore sales. It probably wouldn't be significant but some developers would choose to use or keep using Flash rather than creating a native App.
When talking about complexity you usually have to drop the "turing machine as a metaphor for everything" idea very fast. In complexity theory you're interested in how fast will some different variations of computing machines (that might not be turing-complete or might by more than turing complete) be at solving some problems. Conversely, if you assume a model of computing (for example, AC0 is the model you get if your computing machine is restricted to be a circuit of constant depth plus a polynomial number of AND and OR gates; the L^HALTING model is what you get if you augment a finite-state automaton with an oracle that can tell it whether or not a given program halts). The model P is the set of problems that you can solve with a traditional turing machine with only a polynomial number of steps. It is also the set of problems that you can specify with first-order-logic formulas plus a least-fixed-point operator. NP is the set of problems solvable by a nondeterministic turing machine in polynomial time, but it also is the set of problems that a deterministic turing machine can verify a solution of in polynomial time, the class of problems for which there exists a probabilistic proof checker that can verify a solution to it with as high a probability as you want by checking only a constant number of bits from a properly-formatted proof. I could go on.

But what I'm getting at is that quantum computing today is basically trying to solve the question of where would you place the BQP (bounded-error quantum probabilistic algorithms) complexity class in the complexity zoo. If it is found equivalent to NP (that is, if a quantum computer can solve any NP problem with as high a probability as you want in polynomial time) that's what it means. There is nothing known so far that makes this a priori impossible. What there is is an exponential speedup for some problems (ie, problems that are not known to be in BPP, which is the deterministic equivalent of BQP for turing machines, are known to be in BQP), no NP-complete problem is in BQP and it does not seem possible for a quantum cmputer to solve an NP-complete problem. On the other hand, if you can prove that BQP is better than BPP but worse than NP you've just proven that P is not NP.
Define how the shares are split at the beginning. If you gonna track each week what each of you have done, it's gonna create lots of useless tensions.
In the real (physical) world (you remember, that infinitely large thing outside of your computer), this is simply called a "mirror".

It's not producing something, it's looking itself in the mirror: attention: vanity is waiting!
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In the comments to the post before this one, the blog author points out that at the same "age" Firefox had nearly double the marketshare (7% compared with 12%). And that was against an entrenched monopoly and without spending millions on billboard advertising. So while the Chrome project is cool technology, it's not particularly impressive in terms of uptake.

In fact, if Google wanted Chrome to be all about marketshare, then they could have saved a lot of time and effort and just put out a much more traditional browser. Instead they ripped all the infrastructure down and built it back up again from scratch over time, while thinking about speed, stability and security in order to direct the future of the web. That's mighty impressive to me, I just don't know if it translates to success with the average man in the street.
Car insurance and home insurance are relatives of 'derivatives' but are much different than the "naked" derivatives and CDO Squared instruments (2nd generation derivatives naked or otherwise).

While you're right about his error regarding the 'computer-driven' aspect as it relates to these instruments... it's a big part of the problem in flash trading and front-running to game the system.

Perhaps you'd like to take some interest in the real functions of investment.

Might be worthwhile to also investigate issues of credit-creation bias and how that's been working-out.

Free Enterprise isn't about who can be most creative in developing the most ridiculous gambling methods and disguising them as 'financial innovation'.

In overall thrust Mr. Ebert's piece is on the money...
at least what there is left of it for regular folks.

Adam Smith is a good source.
Time spent and value created are only barely correlated. Anyone who's worked for someone besides themselves is keenly aware of this. ;)

This is true even in process-oriented jobs, though to a lesser degree than creative jobs.
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Emails are rather more sensitive than search terms though.
From my experience, complicated earn-out structures are a nuisance. They are hard to set up fairly (a lot of edge cases) and even harder to deal with if things go south.

I second what nedwin said about vesting & equal split. Instead of focusing on putting equity value on every hour spent, think of the desired outcome (great company equally split by three cofounders) with a lot of time allocated and a kill switch in place.
According to the Facebook statistics page [0], there are over 400 million users on the site. The same page states that about 70% of those users are from outside the US. That suggests that 30% of Facebook users (about 120 million) reside in the US. Let's assume that the entirety of her fan base is within the US. That means her fans only represent (at the _most_) approximately 5.59% of US Facebook users. I wish I had data per state so I could pin this down more thoroughly (wrt to ratios of Megan Fox fans to state populations), but going on just what I have seen so far I am admittedly suspicious of the gentleman's data.

[0] http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
I have long thought that, like the Hacker Free logos, favoring box shots is a symptom of a vague distrust of the Internet and all the scammy thieves who are waiting to take your money even though no software exists. A box shot (or screenshots) proves that the software actually exists.

Based on the alacrity with which I'm called a scammy thief if something goes wrong anywhere near the payment process, I'm going to guess that this really does weight on my customers' minds.

"Box shots mean it is real!" is not less rational than any of a thousand things I've heard about software over the years. (Some of them from techies.)
I like how this is simply one bullet:

> build a community
"If those homes shouldn't have been bought, why were banks making the loans in the first place?"

Because if they didn't, the Federal Government came down upon them like a ton of bricks.

This was one grand and mostly bipartisan experiment, the difference between the two parties being one of degree, e.g. "ownership society" (G. W. Bush) vs. "let's roll the dice" (Barney Frank). ADDED: A decades long experiment, going back to the New Deal when e.g. Fannie Mae was created in 1938.

To make it work, they obviously had to pump the system so that banks didn't hold onto the paper but could write new loans as they sold off the old ones. This had the not necessarily intended effect of separating the underwriting from the risk it created.

Getting back to the point about buyers, unless you're a libertarian raw of tooth and claw and e.g. want to let anyone agree to any sort of loan at any terms (e.g. payday loans as a milder example), yes, a population in general does need to be forced to be responsible. All the more so when from top to bottom (e.g. White House and the Congress down to loan originators) the establishment has ... established so many structural hazards.
> I'm an indie Mac developer (what Mac guys call Micro ISV's)

you should put what your products are on your hacker news profile, i was curious to see what you made, sad panda :)
To take issue with some bad terminology is to miss Mr Ebert's point. He writes for laymen, so his argument is not about the exact internals of Wall Street, it's about the big picture.

In this case Richard Fuld of Lehman took home $480 million even as the company was falling apart. Billions in bonuses all around. Ebert thinks that's highly unethical.

Traders/quants/etc snort cocaine when dealing with billions of other people's money, including mortgages and pension funds, according the article. Ebert thinks that's highly unethical, too.

So this isn't about Roger Ebert's technical understanding of the matter, it's about traders acting against the interests of their clients, and not giving a fuck about it. I think Ebert is perfectly qualified to comment on that.
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If this is your first language, then keep this in mind: it is like learning a new human language in that you have to learn the grammar and you have to learn vocabulary. Let's say you choose Ruby on Rails. Ruby is like learning grammar: you've got to understand the core concepts of the language and how to put things together. Rails and the domain of web programming is like the thousands of vocab words you need to know: HTTP status codes, the CSS box model, Rack, XHTML, Ajax, cross-site scripting, etc. Web programming encompasses a lot of knowledge. You may be able to pick up Ruby pretty quickly, but it will take a while to learn all of the web programming knowledge you need to know to program a web app adequately. Time and time again I've seen people think it was easy, dive in, and realize it was really hard. I'm not trying to discourage you, but realize it's going to be a lot of work (probably similar to the effort of learning a new human language).
This was by far the biggest change and improvement with 1.6, and it's why I target 1.6 and consider that the new baseline. From 1.6 all the way to 2.2, however, there is little that really makes or breaks an app.
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>> good money can be earned from bad debt

There is no money in bad debt. There is money in shuffling bad debts. And that's what we had. Every bad loan requires atleast 2 good ones to cover it. And if you have a few bad ones you raise the rates. But when all you have are bad ones what do you do?

Even insurance has its limits, thats why reinsurance exists, to bail out the big guys when they've stretched themselves. Ask any Floridian about how they feel about home owners insurance? Car insurance is easy the risks are known and easily modeled. Home insurance is easy money until you have a major disaster. The governor of Florida had to threaten to shutdown all of Statefarm's business because they didn't want to pay claims after katrina and Rita.

No one knows fuck all about derivatives. Even the people that are supposed to know know fuck all about them. They're not in the business of holding derivatives, just shuffling them. As long as they could shuffle them, convince someone else to buy them (clients), and make a profit they didn't care.

And that's the point. When one company does it they have an edge, it's dangerous but the market can absorb the loss. Losing Barings Bank in 1995 was the same thing though on a smaller scale. They went bankrupt, the market picked through the carcass.

When they all do it, we are vulnerable. There are no others to pick through the pieces. Hell they had to foist Leyman brothers on BofA because if no one took the bad debt then people would realize they were gambling. People realized it anyway and boom goes the dynamite.
The AIG story is not in the least clear, due to:

The inexplicably generous benefits to the counterparties.

The more than rumors that AIG's insurance units' investments were of low grade (i.e. a lot of this toxic waste).

The fact that the government (NY's, i.e. Elliot Spizer) trashed AIG's corporate governance a few years before the denouncement and basically made their leaders' job pleasing it vs. doing the right thing.

This one example of AIG is not one I'm comfortable as of yet using for an object lesson.

As for the pay offs/backs, it was a matter of public knowledge/record that some of the firms that were made to take bailout loans ("you will not be allowed to leave this meeting until you sign") didn't need them ... the whole point was that the Treasury wasn't signaling to the market which companies were at death's door (e.g. three time loser Citibank) and which were OK (e.g. Goldman).
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You're right to be suspicious, there is a bias towards the more popular pages, since they show up more frequently on people's crawlable public profile pages. Only 20 liked pages are shown for each person, and FB apparently pick the most popular.
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Thanks, that's a valuable advice! And I fully agree that the raw numbers of hours is not a very good metric.

But, from a pessimistic perspective, I'm unsure if 1 or 2 months trial will be enough to be sure about that person, and to make such a strong commitment. One worst-case scenario could be that the third co-founder works passionately on the project for 4 or 6 months, and then for some reason looses interest / motivation / time.
Wasn't losing the savings of half a country the consequence of not doing that? See Great Depression, Argentina's corralito, etc.
what really happens is not misleading but mistyping (can I edit that ?) guys ...focus at the question please .. thanks
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"It has a LOT to do with..."

Yeah, that sort of stuff can really wear on you.

"I believe that will still proceed"

Best of luck to you and I hope you can get out from under this burden soon.
This appears to be the team that has done the discovery: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
Where can that movie "Inside Job" be found? It is on imdb but not on youtube nor on amazon.com
A good point which just happens to be one of the points of the Tea Party movement.

Anger at those who borrowed more than they should have is inchoate and can stay that way since it brings its own punishments, anger at those making the bailouts is focused and effective. E.g. voting for the TARP was one of many reasons Utah Senator Bennett lost his bid for nomination.
This is now fixed. I also made them case insensitive.
Personally I think that any regulation that pretends to know better what is good for people than the people themselves is flawed on principle.

That's the whole problem - banks, lenders, lendees, BP - they don't know what's best for themselves. And because our system has been specifically deregulated, these schemers were able to completely game the system.
I agree with you that your underlying data has to be on something people care about. It's necessary but not sufficient, since the same visualization without labels and coloring sank without a trace when I released it a week before.
What would you like to know? For starters: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-arc...
Of course a movie titled "Inside Job" is going to be biased. That doesn't mean that the movie is wrong, though.

Some of your comments strike me as a little naive and ill informed.

For starters, it wasn't just the housing bubble the caused the collapse.

Secondly, it wasn't long ago that banks wouldn't lend to people who didn't have a stable income. Patronizing? Maybe. But did you know that they specifically targeted loans at people without an income? No bank can profitably loan to people like that! In Germany the banks are far more regulated; there really is no comparison.

Telling people they can afford something when they can't isn't fraud. Never has been, either.

I agree that better education is a step in the right direction, but no education is going to compensate for group behavior. When you earn roughly as much as your friends do and they all buy big houses in good neighborhoods (that they obviously can't afford) then you're going to want a similar house too. It's human nature. If nobody in the group could get a big mortgage the problem would disappear.

Regulation has kept banks from acting irresponsibly in the past and regulation can keep banks from acting irresponsibly in the future.