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the written language is long unified. They can communicate by text.

I already mentioned above that I have seen counterexamples--written Chinese that was incomprehensible to many of the people who might reasonably be expected to read it--in several daily life situations in various parts of China.

Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese can read Chinese text in their own languages.

No, strictly speaking they were reading Chinese text in Chinese (possibly with mind's-ear pronunciation of the Chinese characters reflecting influence from their native languages), which they acquired as a second language while learning literacy. The full details to respond to the point of view you have put forth can be found in

http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Language-Fantasy-John-DeFranci...

(P.S. I can read some current Japanese too, and of course current Japanese writing shows plainly that Japanese is a very different language from Chinese, as you correctly note. I had occasion recently to read a brush painting of bamboo with some Chinese characters on it hanging in the office of a physician, who is a man of Korean-Japanese heritage. We could both sight-translate the Chinese characters into English. I didn't ask him on that occasion how he would pronounce them.)
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The point that english employs more polite words and phrases than many (most?) other languages is still valid tough.
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Chances are someone else if having the same idea as you do. And is talking to others, getting feedback, correcting problems before they arise.

That someone will eat you for lunch.

Another reason to talk about 'good ideas' is that sometimes they're not that good, you just don't know it. Finding out early because of conversations with others will help you focus your efforts on those things that really stand out.

Collaboration is essential for success, ideas can be born in a vacuum but it will need a lot of effort to bring one to market in a way that you can make a profit on them.
I'm not familiar with Objective C; is Smalltalk-style method dispatch considered more powerful than Java method dispatch?
San Jose is pretty inconveniently located at the south-east end of the valley. I'd much rather be located somewhere mid-peninsula. The extra half hour drive adds up, especially for people commuting from SF.

Actually, I can't even think of the last time I needed to go to San Jose...
Wait, where exactly was this posted? A security firms' blog? If this isn't the definition of a selection bias I don't know what is.

"Our findings suggest that almost two thirds of Facebook users are considering leaving"

Seriously? No. Two thirds of the readers of your blog are considering leaving Facebook.
Maybe due to all the announcements from Google IO?
As much as I completely understand remaining somewhat anonymous for privacy issues (my facespace acct is so overpopulated that I feel awfully muzzled), I often click through to a poster's profile not so much to check out their name or reputation, but because I'm interested in reading more of their thoughts or checking out their projects.

I filled my profile out a little more, but I'm honestly pretty boring to everyone I know with the exception of my dog!
My all-time favorite was a low budget movie called "Future War". The tagline was "In the future there is a war...a future war!"

Awesome stuff!
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I admit that I stopped following compiler research a while back, but I doubt that a JIT compiler would use run-time behavior to beat a static compiler.

Do you have any reference or link to such optimization?
But the energy (as measured in joules) and resources (as measured in mass of raw materials) are not normally a large part of the costs of a good. They are substantial for some goods, but many goods increase in value the less resources they require, as more efficiency requires more technology, etc. I also think you'll have a harder time arguing your case with consumption of services, which is the growing part of our spending these days.

Re thrift, I'll only add that it's plain that if everyone saved all their money, the economy would collapse; there must be a continuum along that line; and that there seems to be a plausible story about increased savings resulting in a build-up of underemployed capital, which in turn starts getting used for less and less productive investments.
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I think one important distinction is between stories about companies/products and stories about people. Perhaps you could penalize stories with "Zuckerberg", "Jobs", etc. in the title?
Are those all per startup? I assume office space, legal fees and salaries refer to YC and not its startups (e.g. YC's legal fees, not the startups' legal fees). Food would be per startup of course.
Google doesn't autostart anything, it's a FireFox extension (Cool Previews) that loads the page in the background that causes the trouble. I suggest reading up on the real story before you start labeling things as "bad moves" and "really dumb".
The only time I really look at profiles is if I see people over and over again commenting on a large portion of the same things I comment on or like and it is just to see if they have a website or something like that.

So you really don't need to expose your full fledged identity but if you have a blog and like a bit of extra relevant traffic put it up on your profile page and it might get more visits.

One thing I would like to see more of is people responding when they downvote something because I always like to see the other side of the argument (other than those comments that have no merit whatsoever and should probably be flagged rather than, or perhaps in addition to, being downvoted.

Other than that my profile is blank because I don't really have anything to put there.
It's kind of implied, however.
Man, how breathless can one article get?

Nothing is this simple in real life.
Yep, as usual, things around Clang/LLVM tend to get wrapped up right before WWDC so the boasting can happen. ;-)

And more power to 'em! Fantastic work.
You wouldn't be prepared to write 3,162 lines of code for something with a guaranteed audience of hundreds of millions of people? What does it take for you to get out of bed? Billions of viewers?
This is based on a sample of 1,588 users.
Keep in mind that Facebook as a whole has 400,000,000 users.
Also quickly. Being able to have something up and running
and building momentum in 3 months would be as important as cheaply.
Ask HN: Okay to post iPhone apps?
I see a lot of people asking for reviews on their web apps. I was wondering if it's okay to ask for reviews/promote an iPhone app/game that you have developed.

I just released my second iPhone game and it's picked up a lot of momentum on the app store, so I figure posting it here could help me out a lot. I would like to know if this practice is looked down on by the HN community.
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I'm sure you already know this, but the mobile apps aren't just complimentary to the wristband, they are mandatory. For the device to work the way people expect it to, interaction with the phones is necessary. So trust me, you want both the device and an app shipped at the same time.
I have no idea how this works, but it does: when sharing a screen with someone and doing work: if one of you is pointing at something code-looking, the boss reverts to thinking you are working. This works even if you are discussing non-work things... its not content they care about but form :/
I second this, supervisord is a pleasure to use, pretty straight forward and quick to get up to speed with how to use it.
Me too, it's five in the morning here and I'm afraid I woke up my roommates when I (repeatedly) laughed out loud.
Because, as the article points out, startups tend to be run by young people, and San Jose is really damn boring. Kind of a non-story unless you happen to be the San Jose newspaper...
Great suggestions from this thread, thanks all. Wound up getting:

R in a Nutshell, 1Ed

Real World Haskell, 1Ed

iPhone Game Development, 1Ed

Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running, 1Ed

JavaScript: The Good Parts, 1Ed

Programming Collective Intelligence, 1Ed

Head First Statistics, 1Ed

Head First Data Analysis, 1Ed

Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1Ed

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It's not that simple. Some people say that in the reverse acronym the W was originally expanded to World.

Question: W to F?
Answer: F the W(orld)!
Chorus: W the F! ... (repeat)
Hero: For the win!
I spent about half an hour working on mine.

I have trust issues with random people on the internet.
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English is phonetic. What A JOKE ?
The author forget the language which is difficult to what difficult can be BUT it depends on your effort.
The language is so phonetic that even a breath won't be missed out. And a person can write a book accurately as read by other people if pronounced correctly. And the language is Sanskrit. Hindi, Nepali, Marathi are it ruined form but they bring most phonetic features.
I know you're being sarcastic but the problem is if I can't say stuff like that, what can I safely share under my real name? The internet is a safe place for me to share what I'm thinking. I don't have that freedom in real life.
Why? Because you'd vote differently if you knew that I was me? But you already know, and I take it that it makes no difference in how you vote. So why would that be different for you?
It would be practical to use as well. Neat.
That's an interesting observation.
That's gorgeous.
I think Kay is a genius, but this is a bad example of what he’s trying to say. I can’t imagine a culture that’s producing moving music but isn’t fascinated with the epiphenomena of music. Kay comes off as a “get off my lawn” old guy, which is a pity.

I guess this is a hard kind of thing to evaluate in one’s own time and place. We see history and other cultures in a kind of compressed view, without their everyday foibles and distractions. Whatever is familiar to the viewer necessarily seems more obsessed with the mundane.
San Jose is tricky. It's not a bad place to live, but few exciting things happen here. Everybody else is, by a fact of geography, north of you.

It's not all bad though:

Pros: 10 degrees (F) warmer than SF during the day. Available parking. Cheap(er) housing. Clean. Easy access to Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Santa Clara. Easy access to mountains and off-road trails. Hockey. Large venues for artists who don't go to Oakland or SF. Usually an older, more established company base to be hired from (though some startups (usually hardware based) have offices littered throughout the area).

Cons: San Jose doesn't have the "culture" vibe of SF and to get to SF is 60 to 90 minutes by train each way (which is the only sensible way to get there during rush hour).

Why aren't there more startups in San Jose? San Jose isn't central to anything. You're an endpoint -- and you aren't the exciting endpoint. Events don't come to you, you go to events. Mountain View? 30 miles round trip. SF? 80 miles round trip. Palo Alto? 35 miles round trip. It's great when you are in the "boring family life" phase of your company, but it's difficult to attract "exciting startup" phase people to the boring end of the peninsula.
People have posted their iPhone apps here before.
Emacs on a 12" macbook. Clisp.
There are many papers in psychology dealing with the influence of prestige on statement credibility. It does have a large effect and is replicated across many studies.

Whether or not you want your prestige to influence your statement credibility is entirely personal. I'd rather have it not effect it to keep myself honest.
Ask HN: What bank do you use?
I'm looking for a new bank for small businesses, anyone have any recommendations?
Pretty much whatever you want (other than iTunes of course). Basically anything that can sync files to a USB drive.

As a longtime iTunes/iPod user :-) I've been using doubletwist to sync some of my existing iTunes playlists to my Nexus One. If you're not an existing iTunes user, something like SongBird (http://www.getsongbird.com/) might be a good choice. I think Windows Media Player will copy playlists to a USB drive (not certain about that).

Another alternative for iTunes users might be iSyncr (http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.jrtstudio.iSyncr), which looks pretty interesting. I haven't tried it yet, but supposedly it tricks iTunes into thinking your Android phone is an iPod. :-)
I’m actually quite happy that I don’t have to decide how to assemble my pants.

You rely on a myriad of choices other people make for you every day and I would guess you are quite happy that you don’t have to make all those choices by yourself. There is the architect who decided how the buildings you use every day should work and look. There is the designer who decided which line height the articles you are reading in your favorite magazine should have.

Too much choice can be a very bad thing. It can be suffocating.
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It's definitely possible, but I don't think we can rule out the logical possibility that a language will typically only reference another language that came before it.

It makes sense, too- Considering a given language, another language that is much newer wouldn't have existed when the phrase was created, and a language of the same age or only a little newer, was probably not widespread enough to be referenced when the phrase was coined.
What visual form would you use to express prose? The writing on the right provides context.
Chinese is not lack of characters and words to describe things. There are lots of ways to do that.

- (big) the synonym of 大. 大, 巨, 宏, 偉, 碩, 巨大, 巨大無比, 碩大無朋, 無窮,　無盡, 無崖, 無窮無盡, 無止境, 堂煌, 海量, 寬敞, 不可尺量, 重大. It is overlapped with wide (寬, 闊), deep (深), heavy(重), large quantity (豐).
- (good) the synonym of 好. 好, 佳, 優, 正, 良, 妙, 善, 美. (best) 頂級, 極品, 完美, 完善, 盡善盡美, 美不勝收, 嘆爲觀止, 無宇倫比. You can combine them like 良好, 優良, 妙好. You can describe the extreme with 極, 絕, 最, 頂 like 極佳, 極好, 絕妙, 頂好. In spoken languages, 誇啦啦, 頂呱呱. If you describe a good song, it could be 天籟 or 天籟之音, or 絕唱.

Above are just a few of them. It is too numerous to exhaust the list.
Yes, that is exactly what he's saying, and moreover he seems to think he has reason to do so.
Palm?
i've had terrible experiences with god. after a few days of running, it would routinely be the one process eating up the most cpu and lots of memory, yet its only reason for running was to watch out for other processes eating cpu and memory.

i didn't need millisecond accuracy in detecting rogue processes, so i just switched to a small, custom script that runs from cron every minute.
I'm interested in visualizing the data, not graphing the prose. A line graph would work great, with the y axis representing dollars and the x axis representing time labeled with each President's name.
Ask HN: Sites of communities of expert designers or expert marketers?
If I want to follow some developers discussions, I can go to Joel on Software forum, Hacker News or Reddit.

What are the websites where designers discuss or where online marketers discuss?

Thank you!
This is definitely a hacky way to go. I just tried it with Matz’s Ruby book. Reading it with Stanza on OSX is just about the ugliest digital reading experience outside of scanned text.

Oh well, it only set me back 5 bucks.
To escape the oppressive corporate firewall that keeps you from reading HN at work. :-(
More like 100 years of jackie chan.

I think this deserves a reddit quote cause I hate decade based retrospectives/top 10 lists.

Alan kay is important enough to celebrate at all the time.
"Each snippet is too brief and breezy"

"Obama is the grandson of a goat herder." -- brief, yet complete.
I wonder how many books they sold for smaller languages people are curious about. Haskell, R, Erlang, etc.
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I grew up in the Bay Area and lived in Daly City + SF among other places. (live in Portland, OR at the moment)

I actually seriously dig downtown San Jose, would live there. It's right next to SJSU (which yeah, is mostly commuter school, but still gives an energy.)

It does have a real downtown, bigger than any other BA city's downtown (except SF), and it's super diverse, which is important to me. (Diverse not just in ethnic makeup, but in terms of what everybody does for a living. SJ is not all computer people as much as other towns up north.)

I like going to DIY/indie-ish music things... I would probably go to SF for that, but SJ has more of a scene than most places in-between. It also has the sort of neighborhoods/housing (not all condos, not all new basement-less ranches) that is conducive people creating when they don't have much money. (I've also just described Portland, hmm...)

Still, the article is fair enough: most young geeks who aren't art nerds would probably rather live in Palo Alto than SJ. But for other types, SJ is better than anywhere in-between except for SF. And depending on other things, it's even better than SF.

I also like how bike friendly SJ is, but PA isn't bad for that.
I studied Japanese for about 2 years in college. I estimated that to learn a single kanji, it took the time to learn 40 other vocabulary words.

I wished I had focused on speaking instead. Academic japanese seems to treat starting students like they're going to get a PhD in the language. That is absurd. Written Japanese beyond hiragana and katakana (the two phonetic alphabets), should only start in the 3rd or 4th year of undergraduate study.
A second battery would be pretty great to have on a long flight when you'd actually like to make phone calls after using your phone as a music player/gaming system during the flight. :-(
I haven't achieved anything of relevance yet. But I don't think that makes my opinion irrelevant.
...and, perhaps, over time, you can learn more about about getting invitations into new areas.
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It's missing "in a world".
I think people are capable of building a reputation based on the quality of their contributions. For many of us that don't have any kind of reputation that would be meaningful from our real identities we rely on building it on here.

That said, I would like it if people added things like a way to contact them. There have been times when I would like to contact people and there isn't really a good way to do it. I've been contacted from having my email address in my profile and made some good contacts through it as well.
HTC Incredible, HTC Desire and the Nexus One are virtually the same hardware. There are a few differences between them but they are minor. See HTC Hero / Droid Eris situation.

FYI the N1 is likely to get updates first as it runs stock Android and is Google's baby. Even the HTC Evo won't get Froyo for a while due to Sense.
A program can filter out all of the options whose .com domain names are taken. Otherwise you end up spending a lot of time typing names into your web browser only to find that they're held by a squatter or, worse, a real company.
Once people load up their phones with dozens of apps, especially business-critical ones, there'll be a lot of pressure to only buy a new phone that will still run those apps.
My suspicion is that the startup talent market isn't very efficient

I think this is true of the hiring market in general. "You made $80k at your last job as a senior developer? Super. Alright, we have to ask: FizzBuzz. Can you do it?"

shudder
Small pieces, loosely joined.

Or do you really write monolithic 1M+ line apps?
Yes, but your profile was blank so we couldn't mail you the memo...
It's not a question of fault. The point is that outside the U.S. iPhone tethering works fine. I use it often. To say that Google is "leapfrogging" Apple because someday it will support tethering is ludicrous.
That's one I hadn't thought of, indeed. I've been 'unemployed' (that's a different word for self employed) long enough that it never even crossed my mind, sorry.

On the other hand, it's a shame that it should come to the point that people are hiding who they are for fear of retribution from their employers.
True enough, I think.

Then the primary driver is not a vision of technology as such, it is political: If you aim to change (or rule) the world, bigger is always better (as bigger equals more power, people and money to change the world according to your vision) and you never run out of challenges.

I suppose a Leonardo da Vinci quote is appropriate:

It had long since come to my attention that people of
accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to
them. They went out and happened to things.

Then I suppose it becomes mostly a matter of scaling the vision along with the size of the company. And the ability to keep the vision alive without drowning in administrative day-to-day tasks.
> As an entertaining thought, try to picture what would happen if Greece, or even the US, would go bankrupt (i.e., default on state bonds).

That's not the slightest bit entertaining to me :)
I edit code with vi on my Macbook Air and paste it into the repl of the running server.
No offense to Ninite, but I think it's a terrible name. I've actually used it three different times, a few months apart each, and I can never remember what it's called. I have to Google for a variety of "Windows installation bundle" terms and end up finding some Lifehacker/etc story...
It's a little misleading, since many of the figures were calculated after they left office -- being president opens lucrative book and speaking opportunities (for instance, and surprisingly to me at least, most of Nixon's wealth came from the Frost/Nixon interviews).

Barack Obama appears on the list as the poorest US president since Truman, but that's only because his earnings after he leaves office haven't happened yet.
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That already happens. The Reddits and Zenters have made angel investments in later YC funded companies. They make great investors. They're completely trustworthy, because they're all part of the network, and they understand the founders' situation better than any other investor could.
Tell that to the cops next time you're standing on public property photographing a bridge. Or a border crossing. Or the Pentagon. Or the cops.
Would a log scale on the y-axis make the data clearer?
The first living organism has been created whose ancestor is the computer
One thing I really like about Redis is that it is not concurrent at all. It runs in a single thread - it's just really freaking fast
I just added a bit more to mine.

I've been spouting my beliefs on the interwebs long enough that am unelectable to any political office.
Only old IE is forever. Chrome autoupdates very fast, Firefox a bit less so. I don't remember about Safari but I think they upgrade fast too.
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Yep - I don't get to deep sleep until after about 6 hours. So during the night I'm a light sleeper, but those last 2 hours I might as well be dead for all I'm aware of my surroundings. If I only have one alarm, I will sleep right through it. I might wake up when it shuts itself off 90 minutes later, but there's no guarantee.
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That's pretty split to me. There isn't a thing that I'm thinking that I would speak out loud that I would not dare to commit in writing, and there isn't anybody of authority that I would look up to them with automatic respect so as to be deferential.

That got me in to a lot of trouble in my school days by the way, especially with religious teachers ;)
Something seems suspect about an article on (ms)nbc claiming that google is now beating apple... Can't quite put my finger on it.