skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're onto something with the region idea. All the major carriers offer nationwide plans because people expect to be able to travel pretty much anywhere and still have their phones work. That means that we all foot the bill for putting towers all over our insanely-large country because one day we may run out of gas in the middle of Nebraska and need to make a call.

The European nations, Japan, etc. are all much smaller and more densely populated, so the cost of covering the countries with towers is lower per person.

If you're really just going to use your phone in Queens, NY (and other fairly populated areas), you can go with a discount carrier like Boost Mobile, but you'll curse your frugality when you do actually stray from cities because their coverage map looks like this: http://www.boostmobile.com/coverage/ instead of this: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/CoverageLocatorController...

Also, as I said in another comment, that graphic makes the difference in cost look way bigger than it is.
By my understanding there are around 12401769434657526912139264 possibilities, therefore to calculate the time taken in days to brute force a password would be the application of the following formula:

t = n / m / 86400 / P

n: search space (no of possible passwords)
m: amount of random passwords that can be tested a second
86400: 60*60*24 (converts units to days)
P: parallelism (number of crackers)

Let

n = 12401769434657526912139264
m = 100
P = 1,000,000

It would only take 143 days to be successful. Is this correct? Second question, how do we carve up the search space and distribute this to the internet?

Edit: n is generated by limiting the key to be a composition of alphanumeric and related characters. Could be wrong.
I consider it second class since very few people use it. IT makes harder for the developers who work there to market their skills. They stress way too much on the language, which worries me.

Languages like Clojure or Mumps are second class due to their lack of use in other organizations. I have heard tales of people not getting jobs because of extensive experience with MSFT stack. using a little known language like Clojure just complicates your case, how is it different from someone going with Mumps experience?
Hmm.. could you vote this up instead, please? :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563205 (It's relevant!)
To be fair, a lot of Peter Cooper's remarks against Zed Shaw can be interpreted in a passive-aggressive manner. See his 'apologetic' email to Shaw - he could have meant what he said, but it read as if he was still pissed off at Shaw.

I'm thinking this shouldn't be on HN. Petty online squabbles about nothing in particular don't make for intelligent reading.
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How about you take down the blog post? This kind of soap opera crap solves nothing. Resolve your differences with Zed in person or not at all--we don't need to see this crap, and you know damn well it was going to make it to the HN frontpage, just like all the other idiotic Zed Shaw soap opera bullshit.
I think you're better off learning/ enabling the keyboard shortcuts and not worrying about where the links are. Hit "c" to compose.
I agree with everything you said here, but we're talking about different situations. I never meant to suggest that what I was saying are universal truths, just that the OP reflects common problems that come up.
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Short version: "I'm so awesome, don't you know it! And plus plus!!!! I totally haz ever3lol on teh intertubezzz"
Mouseover the link, it displays http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tweetagewasteland/~3/N28RaoLR...
Anyone else not want to watch a video to see a checklist? Anyone kind enough to paste notes?
Peter, I think it somewhat boils down to your motivation. If you're thinking you want to start a new business similar to the one you sold solely because it can make you more money and "legally, it's ok," then sure, that's probably a bit unethical and rude.

But face it: by your own admission, you didn't really know what you were doing the first go around. You think you can do better this time, and, most importantly, build something that can scale better and be very useful to a wider range of people and enterprises. You'd be building on past experience to create something better that adds value to the world and (possibly) wouldn't exist otherwise.

Try to look beyond your own particular situation and think, "could the world be better if I started working on this stuff again?" And if you think the answer to that is yes, I feel like you should be able to proceed without any feelings of guilt or rudeness. The fact that you can make some money doing it is certainly motivation (we're human, after all), but it's almost besides the point.

You sold your company, and you honored the terms of that sale. If you think you have an opportunity to do something awesome that you'd enjoy and you're passionate about... go for it!
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Evelyn Rusli is the best interviewer TC has and is enjoyable to watch.
Sure, but it's nothing that we haven't heard before. Every startup faces moments of uncertainty and the feeling of impending doom, and founders that know each other are more likely to stick through hard times due to the pair bond. See, if the only thing holding two people together is the potential success of the startup, they're more likely to jump ship when the going gets tough. If the founders are friends, they'll weather the storm out of sake of the friendship, and have greater chance of getting lucky.

So...

PM me if you are interested in working on a side project together and nurturing a friendship based on shared values.
PG's Startup Checklist

Been friends

Worked together for awhile

Don't come together for only the startup

If close friends, stick with it even if things look
bad because things eventually get better.

Don't want companies run by committee.

Need clear leadership, don't want unclear sense
of who the primary decision maker is. Want to know
who they should address a question to.

But not a megalomaniac, just want somebody who
steps forward.

Founder power is increasing, investor power waning,
probably good because those most knowledgeable getting
more power.

Lot cheaper to start a startup these days.

More socially acceptable to start a startup these days.

Conway said a lot of his portfolio companies were in New York these days.

----

I hate watching videos too as interesting as PG is to watch, I took the hit for the rest of ya.

(I read much faster than anyone can possibly speak.)
pg puts forth a similar view in his essay on software patents:

http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html

But I don't think that logic applies here. Sure, if you're a small operation going head to head with some huge corporation, that attitude toward patents makes perfect sense.

But that's not the order of things in scenario; Apple doesn't see small app developers as their competitors, rather they see Google's Android and possibly Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 (and the manufacturers who build the corresponding devices) as their competitors. So Apple's most likely use for these patents is to threaten developers building apps for Android and other non-iOS platforms. And that, in light of Apple's recent history of patent abuse, gives startups every reason to worry.
Yes I agree, otherwise I could have never found it by randomly looking for it.
Converting everything to a touchscreen seems like it'd cause problems for blind users - no way to give braille feedback then...
Aside from the experience in his ward, mostly the other evidence seems to be the correlation between winter and the spread of influenza. There may be other causes for that correlation besides vitamin D (or they might all be contributing factors), such as:
-People spend more time indoors, closer to other people. If the virus is airborne or spread through human contact, transmission rates would naturally go up in the winter.
-People travel during the holidays so the virus has more opportunity to spread around: more people trapped in airplanes with sick people, and more sick people moving viruses from point A to point B.

That said, I'd like to see more evidence and discussion of whether taking vitamin D supplements are worthwhile, I suspect they are but am not convinced entirely by this article.
> No, bar is not a closure. It is basically just a local procedure.

bar is a variable whose value is a closure. In python, defining a named function just creates a variable whose value is a closure.
I never found any success with donations. Instead I'd suggest creating a new pain while solving a problem. So then you charge for that...
In some languages, when you neither pass nor return a function a closure is not created. You can regard this as an optimization; in Python the closure is always created as far as I understand.
So ?

Its not about one off instance where laziness might be welcome. I am talking about people who add no value to their existence, to the well being of anyone.

ps: I don't understand why my previous comment has to be downmodded. It is to the point of what the post asked for, nothing against the terms. This has been happening too much, I see it everywhere on HN. People downmodded for they don't agree.
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I think there are reasons Google doesn’t want to do just that. They would essentially start paying for certain search results via revenue sharing. I don’t think Google wants to head down that way.
It wasn't an MBA setting, it was a BBA, but here's an off-the cuff top 5 things that a programmer got out of business school.

1. Strategic Management: SWOT Analysis. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. It's simple, but applicable almost everywhere.

2. Accounting... Feeling comfortable with the basic jargon and rules of business. Revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities, etc.

3. Marketing. Marketing is more than just advertising. Everything is marketing. A lot of marketing can be handled by running through checklists to make sure you haven't overlooked something stupid. Much in the same way that pilots always run through checklists before taking off.

4. Judging people based on shallow stereotypes is, well, shallow. I remember a cute-as-a-button sorority girl who surprised me by being really, really good at relational algebra. That prejudice is really embarrassing to me, because I always thought I was really enlightened.

5. Microsoft Excel is an amazing piece of software, in that it's simple to use, but has incredible depth of capability for solving very sophisticated problems.

---

And as a free bonus, the things that weren't of value.

1. The "software systems" class was total waterfall indoctrination. Complete waste of time.

2. Networking (with humans). I'm an introvert, I made a handful of friends, but I was a self-employed non-traditional student with a wife and a child, and everyone else was around 19 or 20 years old.

3. Networking (with software). The professor teaching the computer networking class didn't really know his stuff. He was recruited into the position at the last minute, and got a bunch of basics wrong. Right now, there are dozens of Business School graduates who don't really understand how DNS MX records work, which I guess isn't a huge tragedy.

4. Business Ethics. I remember being horrified by the rationalizations that some of my peers were willing to make in our hypothetical scenarios. Many of them were willing to put workers in unnecessary mortal peril because they didn't feel they had any risk of legal liabilities. I'm sorry, but even really good lawyers can't bring people back from the dead.

5. The support staff and advisors were never very helpful or encouraging. The first advisor insisted that there was no way I could ever get into the (competitive) program with my substandard GPA. Ha! I showed her.
This does not convey the sentiment that Paul expressed.

I took away : friends will work on a project through the bad times out of loyalty (which happens to be a good thing), while co founders who were not friends will bail at the point when the walls come crashing down.
Hey there, refresh your Gmail tab and checkout a twitter follower notification :)

We do have an API to let folks write Rapportive applications, or Raplets. Checkout raplets.com for some examples. Here's a funky video of the MailChimp one: http://blip.tv/file/3859911
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Agreed. The new Bank of America ATMs make getting cash incredibly fast. After inserting your card, you're presented with a screen that has an input field for your pin and then just below that are buttons with the most common withdrawal amounts ($20, $40, $60, etc.). Most of the time I visit an ATM to get a bit of cash, and can be done in about a minute. Another nicety: after choosing one of the "quick cash" amounts, the ATM spits your card out before your money, so that you're less likely to leave your card behind.
This is very interesting actually... I just checked your profile and realized that I have your latest post bookmarked, one that I agree with very much. I still say usability testing has value, but you have to make sure you're using it in the context of the test subjects experience, and as one of many inputs in the design process.

Of course, I work in state government, so the process is a bit different than a startup. However, I still think there's a healthy amount of humility that is gained from watching customers use your design.
Put an app store on and require it. Don't approve apps that don't roughly fit touch guidelines and "feel good": be strict, perhaps capriciously, making examples of some — or, rather, letting them make examples of themselves through their public complaining. This will scare developers into making their apps seem as non-desktop-Windowsish as possible in hopes of being approved.

Out Apple Apple.
Only a single data point, but in 2005 I had several thousands in donations over $several months for a basic online service (only a Perl CGI script at the time..!) and my buddies over at Phusion have had a crazy level of success with them: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2975

Given Zed's stature, I doubt he will have problems getting enough donations to keep him sustained for a while even if it's not a permanent situation.
Yeah, I've known designers like that too. They're generally losers. Working with fixed-size elements is one thing, and being responsible for some limited part of a design is another, and those are both perfectly reasonable. I'm talking about managers and business owners who ask you to design a whole site, then draw up some design with their 13-year-old as a "project" and think it's pretty neat, so that should be your design. You can create something with it, but it's hobbled by the lack of thought that went into the initial design. And no matter how much you try to convince them and show them tests that changing certain parts would be good, they're emotionally attached to their idea.

I'm sure this isn't how you work, so it's hard to imagine other people are like that, but just like there are some unreasonable contractors who ignore your specs, there are unreasonable clients who can't hold up their part of the professional relationship.
You are right in your description of the limitations of Pascal.

As for your claim that it was not Scheme that introduced closures to Lisp, I'd like to hear more about that. I've run across the claim that Scheme was from a number of sources, including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_%28computer_science%29, and I haven't heard of any other prior art.
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People can still come up behind you from a different direction. Maybe they should consider a curved wall to mount this thing on. And also have that wall be completely smooth with no way to mount a camera that can detect your pin.

Where you enter your card should also be very clear and impossible to cover up with a fake card reader.
A 'few k' is a lousy return IMO.
I agree, and if i am allowed a moment of NY bitterness. My most valued feature in an ATM is the - No Fee.
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Very interesting! With such long exposures how is it that it doesn't become totally washed out and over-exposed? Is the pinhole aperture so small that with shorter exposures (days instead of months) that the images would be under-exposed?
Yeah? For just hanging out your shingle and asking, anything seems like gravy to me. In Phusion's case, I know that the $13k in donations made a huge difference for getting Passenger 2 out of the door and in my case it validated the business idea (a little) and was a factor in the angel investors approaching me.

But your milage might vary and if you have to struggle and beg for those donations, you are probably right. Time may be better spent elsewhere. I can't see Zed having that problem!
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I'm kinda shocked that no one has mentioned <i>brazil</i>.
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Thanks, guys. I think I have sorted it out for now.

Mankhool, not sure how you can do it gratis if you have no email in your profile :D
Ah, you misread what I wrote. The Word document is needed to submit the content to the proofreading services, not for in-Word spell checking.
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For some reason, it tickles me that on the left side where Google lists the various types of searches, it usually defaults to "Everything", but then under that there's a link labeled "more".
I'm subscribed to Onwardly's feed (which is how I found this, actually). Google Reader says that there are 1.6 posts per week, so it's probably safe to subscribe without worrying about being inundated with posts (depending on how you define inundated). @Onwardly also seems to tweet out new blog posts, though I would expect a bit more noise there.
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The DC-4 was also introduced in the 1930s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-4
Because it's slightly less convenient for my thumb to reach, and just feels unnatural: it causes an ever-so-slight strain as I try to keep my fingers on the keyboard's home row. Yes, I can be pretty finicky sometimes. I know I'd probably get used to it if I tried, but it's rare for me to need alt for applications.
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Personally, I hope it looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPjJElVx0U

One can dream, right?
it seems to me that a poetry class has close to $0 in expenses, and low faculty salaries since English grad students & post-docs are a dime a dozen, while a Cisco networking class involves at least as well paid faculty salaries, and a great deal of equipment - thousands and thousands of dollars worth. (The Cisco hardware itself, none of which comes cheap, basic networking setup, a few dozen computers for the students to use, software licensing fees, etc.)
it doesn't come as a surprise, given that they didn't get neither the iPod nor the iPhone...
Here's a relatively simple request.

Add the ability to sort by attachment size. I want to be able to clear out some old files and have to resort to attaching Mac Mail to it just so that I can sort.
I suspect he'll make a few k, but in truth I can't see it being too fab. Also it lowers his valuation in some peoples eyes, who will say 'look Zed's broke' which strangely changes the dynamics of many relationships. When people see your desperate they generally dismiss or avoid you.
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That's what I meant to express precisely. I'm sorry you were dissatisfied but I was fighting leiningen and swank-clojure while transcribing.

You may have your refund of $0.00 for my services in two weeks.
Also, he stated that every startup will go through such a phase, where it seems that there's really no point in continuing. Even with startups that are bound to be really successful, the founders first have to find some way to get through that rut. If the founders were already good friends, they will pull each other through it, if for no other reason but because they enjoy working together.
Samuel_Michon, That's what I said... (almost) since you misstated one of the points 'if for no other reason than the co founders like working with each other' when PG actually said they will continue to work out of loyalty and not wanting to let their friend down.
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If you sell and start a new company I'd like to be informed, because there's little chance I'd enjoy staying with the company who bought you as much as I enjoy staying with your company
Today the following information is kept secret by many governments:

- Accidental civilian deaths in raids.

- Details of people "detained" for questioning.

- Botched up intelligence operations and lack of analysis capabilities.

- How much money is being spent on "intelligence" and why.

Need I go on?

It is true that they can be used for good or for ill, but the problem comes in when you take away accountability from the equation. The question really should be; how can we balance the two?
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From my personal experience, Amazon's ploy of suggesting related books has been very effective on me. I've often gone there with the intention of spending perhaps USD 40 on a specific book and ended up spending thrice that amount (happily!).

Hence a suggestion, FWIW: in addition to improving conversion rate, it might be also worthwhile to try to sell more stuff to existing customers. You know what they want and you know they're not averse to spending money online.
What in the sam hell is the point of this article?

In a nut shell: Life isn't fair, you need to learn to deal with it and stop bitching. The sooner you stop bitching, the sooner you can make strides to provide a better life for your children so they can be well off so some future naive little girl can call them privileged.