skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the psychology of price points. Let us all take note of this when we decide how to price our products and/or services. People are now perceiving that the value that this device delivers is significantly higher than it's price.
You have a point. I guess you can make a case that CT is an indirect wealth tax though it certaintly isn't intended to be. And of course the property value isn't re-evaluated on an ongoing basis so appreciation isn't reflected in the tax you pay during any given years liability.

In my original comment what I was really trying to get at is that, as an investment strategy, you would want to maximise your wealth by minimising your realisable income and that the typical way to do that over time has been to accumulate wealth in property. I guess I was wrong about this in the US but it's still a valid strategy in the UK.
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I hate it because it's designed to prevent me from writing good code. I like writing good code, so I don't like tools that stand in my way. Perl lets me do whatever I want. (Which in my case, is to use a state-of-the-art object system, instead of Java's baked-in 1970s era object system.)

Perl has many more high-quality Free libraries, and I personally know a good percentage of the authors, which makes it all that much more appealing. Java may have more programmers, but there is no community; it's all 9-5ers that couldn't care less about programming.

Honestly, the only language I've ever used that didn't have enough libraries was Common Lisp.
well not knowing what venial means is venial after all.
I really like the design, and the service also is very useful. I would just make more evident which is the most used expression...the two results are too similar!
I'm from Italy too, and I think I'll start using it (it was already useful for my comment ;) )
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Then if it's legal, why the implicit threat of police raid is in the article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic

thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis
It's kind of like when you jump into the water to save your drowning friend, and you both die. The JVM was just trying to be nice, but its friend was too much weight for it to save.
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YC startups tend to launch in TechCrunch, but TC by no means has a lock on YC coverage. I invite you to check out Xconomy's debrief on Demo Day and compare it to TechCrunch's version. ;-)

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/08/25/the-definiti...
Repeat After Me: Location is a Feature, not a Product
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btw in Italian the only way to say "second last" is "penultimo" and I guess in most other european languages should sound the same, so a lot of non mother tongue English readers are going to read this as "second last" anyway, completely missing the "very ultimate" (mis)meaning.
Am I the only one who believes blogging and email are part of social media?

Other than to troll traffic with controversial post why do so many bloggers make the assumption "that my niche situation / experience applies to everyone everywhere and reveals new fundamental laws that I must loudly proclaim in absolutest terms."
Quite the opposite. The market is forcing content to be given away for free.
You can do what you will, but you can't will what you will.
Leo's also interacting with people on Twitter daily. His engaging with people there on a one-to-one level seems to exactly disprove the idea that it's an echo chamber that no one's paying attention to.

By the same token, it should come as no surprise that something so mechanical that it was automated through a third party wouldn't be missed.
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The Warren Buffet school of thought on the issue is put your money into a few things you understand really well, and he is one of the better managers of our time.

I understand the 'balanced' wealth management approach - I am just not sure it is the ideal way to go. Is pg better off dumping money in mutual funds, real estate, commodity index funds and bonds - or driving the majority of his wealth into YC? He lives and breathes startups - so even trusting the best managers I would say he would be foolish not to invest a lot into YC himself.

I also would like to see the results of how bubbles, world wars, massive inflation, depressions and other difficult to hedge against events impact balanced portfolios vs someone dumping all their money into a single apartment building. My instinct is both would be equally screwed. And an event like that is almost certainly going to happen during the next 50 years.

I don't disagree with you at all - there are just several angles.
Yes, my error. But the reason I mentioned JavaScript is that Oracle happens to own the trademark on it: http://www.trademarkia.com/javascript-75026640.html

As far as I know, Extendscript does not use any Sun IP (it was originally written by a Michael Daumling), but there are numerous Sun patents specifically related to JavaScript interpreters, accessing APIs via JavaScript, and so forth, mostly from 2000-2003. JavaScript as a language came from Netscape, but it's hard to say exactly where their IP ends and Sun/Oracle IP begins.

So there is a little more to my remark than just the verbal similarity.
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There are multiple degrees of "faith" one can invest in a religion.

Believing in God and being a good person is miles and miles away from being a superstitious fanatic that wants to punish the infidels.

Similarly, you can be aware that certain decisions you make may have external influences ... versus being a lunatic that constantly fears the whole universe is against him.
Any update on who was awarded the tickets to BoS 2010?
There's a startup idea in there somewhere. Everyone I know hates to watch videos, even of people we really like.

But it doesn't make sense: TV is such a powerful medium. What is wrong with that picture (literally :-)? Is it the delivery? Is it the rhythm?
It could simply be that it is the penultimate guide for the time being. They know full well someone may come along and best it.
Oh yeah. The government has already taken some privacy rights, so we should stop speaking out against taking more.

You can do that, but I'm going to continue to support the EFF and ACLU.

Take your meds and get some sleep.

I wouldn't need the meds if the Internet wasn't so full of rhetoric like this!
Steve Jobs isn't conviced new Apple TV will be a mainstream hit
Buy a land somewhere in a developing world (a sharing with a native) and build an apartments for rent (hotels, flats, depending of location). In some areas of China or Brasil it is too late (too expensive), but the developing world is really big. Several projects, $100k+ each.

World's population is growing exponentially. Tourism (flights) becoming cheaper, etc.

In each small town in Himalayas I visited there were a lot of opportunities.
Ask HN: Building a community
I am in the process of moving my existing site into a more community driven site. This would include profiles, commenting, discussions, etc. In the past I have used Drupal for these sort of things, but I don't think it is the best solution for my site because I have a lot of JS activity and hate Drupals implementation of doing AJAX and JS. Drupal doesn't really look all that great either and I am not a themer.

With that said, I don't know what to go with. Framework or no framework? I know PHP, but it seems like it would be more than it was worth to build my own community system from scratch. I could use a PHP framework, but there are so many and I am just not sure what to go with (if any). And then there is rails which seems to have the biggest appeal. I have a buddy who knows rails, but I am new to it.

I understand I will have to put in work regardless of which way I go, but has anyone had experience building and maintaining a community site? What did you use and why?
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Marketing on the cheap by using the hoax
Repeat After Me: most people are lemmings and will believe whatever you tell them. One mans Feature is another mans Product.

The game ain't over till it's over, and right now everything is still in a discovery phase as it relates to facebook, twitter, foursquare, etc.

And lastly: Pundit early, pundit often.
True, you need to find enough hours, but it doesn't need to be 40 hours a week. The article lists her yearly total as greater than $200,000; while that means she is only working 10-15 hours a week, it still compares favorably to other "professional" jobs.
I've been using Milestone for several months now and it's working great.
I'd be really interested in tales of how social media is working for people in real, measurable ways, particularly for folks who do not sell to the usual suspects.

I'm of the impression that my market is on Facebook these days, or I would not have to spend so much time squashing cow requests from great-aunts, but all my attempts to use this to the benefit of my business have been crashing failures. I'm not sure if that is because my customers just aren't there yet, my implementation(s) of these campaigns has just universally sucked, or there is too much of a mental disconnect between Facebook and my problem domain for my users.

The success stories I read about are generally techy-focused or, ahem, perhaps more enthusiastic than is warranted by measured results.
The talk was given last year (2009), ergo pre Nexus-One and all the other modern Android hardware, and also before a lot of the software improvements Android has received recently.

There's a big difference between Android now and Android a year ago.
It's true that there are 13 companies that pitched yesterday but haven't launched. And one that didn't pitch at all. Attendees at Demo Day aren't asked to sign NDAs. There's just a gentlemen's agreement (sexist term isn't it?) not to write, tweet, blog, etc. about the companies that haven't launched yet.

With regard to the points Harj and others make in this thread about TechCrunch, I have no idea if they have a policy of turning up their nose at companies that have already been covered elsewhere. I certainly would never agree to YC's off-the-record request for that reason. I observe it because I think the YC companies deserve a chance to control how they make their first big public splash.
now only if it cooperated with STOMP better
> Relatedly, has anything come of the SDK?

No, still waiting on that - I applied something like 6 months ago and haven't heard a peep. Maybe Oracle is making a mess of things (it's based on Java ME).

I'm really curious to hear about these new kindles... I'm very tempted. No more paying to import books to Italy!
Still, also on Twitter some people are way more popular than others.
If you are excellent typist, perhaps. Otherwise, they were a pain.
Relatedly, has anything come of the SDK?

Two apps that I'm aware of, a hangman app and a "find the words you can make out of this random block of characters". Nothing too ground breaking, but it's gotten me thinking about some reader-centric style apps, including things that pull references or quotes from a users' Kindle library.
IANAL but while prostitution isn't illegal almost every supporting activity is (e.g. soliciting). The British police are always looking for easy ways to boost their statistics.

PS This tells you everything you need to know about Times readers (of which I am one). We don't care what consenting adults get up to on private property so long as their civic duty is fulfilled.
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Well the book has a lot more to offer. It is the super set of the 'Last Lecture' (video). More stories I can say.

I happened to bump onto the video at first (and watched over and over again) and finally decided to grab the book. Reading the book really like having myself in the story.

Go grab the book. It is worth a life.
I love my Kindle.

Not because it's the best, prettist, most elegant way to consume books, but because it's the best, prettiest, most elegant way for ME to consume books, based on the currently available options.

I find myself reading more since I've gotten my Kindle, and for the price point, if I decide in a year that I DON'T like it, it's not a major loss (plus has some decent residual value).
I would assume that they're building momentum before they introduce premium services. Flickr's probably quite a good example of this. I know Posterous have mentioned that they'll be implementing paid-for extras in the future, but that the current offering will remain free.
'bless' is state of the art?
The battery life on e-Ink devices is phenomenal. They only draw power when redrawing the page. You can literally go weeks between charges.
Right now is actually a very good time to go into real estate investment. The price has dropped. The market is in fear. Interest rate is unbelievably low. The economy has somewhat bottomed out.
I'd upvote you, but then you'd know I was lying (which isn't as venial).
The "ultimate guide to x" would have sound to pretentious, so to be humble and as an attempt to humor they choose this title (usually a guide is "ultimate" until a next and better guide come out). Seems a reasonable explanation...
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> There simply is no point in talking about the morality of inanimate, non-sentient objects.

Agree, and I would add: but they have the legal status of persons, and they invoke human "rights" like the right to own property. They even have the right to freedom of speech (Citizens United). They enlist the political support of naïve voters, asserting government encroachment on these "rights". So they want it both ways: They're machines built to maximize value for shareholders, yet they assert the privileges of citizens too.
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I heard him speak first and then ended up reading all his essays, hearing them in his voice.
I seem to remember that Posterous tested changing outgoing links to go through a affiliate program proxy. Not sure if they kept it up.
Paul Graham uses the word 'right' where most people use periods...right?
The belief in "free will" in a strict sense indeed strikes me an irrational and unscientific, since it seems to imply "freedom from cause" - free will can cause things, and nothing causes free will, since if something would cause free will, it wouldn't be free, but bound to that other, external thing. And since Science takes the view that there must be a cause for everything, the assumption of free will does not seem to be in tune with it.

However, even without the presence of "free will" in a strict sense, there can be freedom of action, in the sense of freedom from external and internal constrains, freedom from coercion and from compulsion. It means that I am able to recognize all my options in a situation and may freely chose between them. This easily acknowledges that my situation, my options and my choices all have causes (are not "free" in a strict sense), but still gives me the ability to change my world, by deliberately chosing the actions I prefer to take from the spectrum of those available under my current constrains. It also means that others can hold me responsible for the results of my actions.
Compared to HTTP DNS is crazy cheap to serve, but you'll still end up bottlenecking on the pps rate of your NIC and OS. Everybody optimizes for high throughput and ignores small packets.

Speaking of DNS DDoS, DNS Made Easy saw a 40Gbit DNS DDoS a few weeks back.
Tumblr has launched a number of premium add-ons, like themes and getting featured in their directory.
I'm not sure the ones which could have the power to make that happen actually want everyone to be financially literate. If we all were, our financial system would probably changes deeply (if not violently) within the decade.

Same thing goes about the Internet and the food, by the way.
> His engaging with people there on a one-to-one level seems to exactly disprove the idea that it's an echo chamber that no one's paying attention to.

Except, you know, for the part where he calls it an echo chamber that no one is paying attention to: "It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves."
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Well, respectfully, you sound like a lot of people I know that never really learned their way around Java, therefore, it must suck.

If you're working on something where static typing and the compilation step are non-starters, then yeah, don't use Java or C++.

Regarding the libraries -- Java collections? java.util.concurrent? Guava? Those 3 by themselves will get you a long way, and for anything more specific you usually have a choice of several libraries.
I indeed intend to do that.

I use iPhone as my day to day phone right now, and I can't say I'm too happy with it. My main complaint is how closed it is.

I'd think most hackery types of people would be annoyed for not being able to drag and drop music/videos, and for not being able to install* stuff and customize the device.

* You can't install stuff unless Apple approves.

Jail-breaking doesn't count; it defeats the point and gives a shitty experience.
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It is all about 'to find a [micro] niche', using Internet or other 'connections'. ^_^
What's wrong with the financial system and internet? I have a pretty intimate knowledge of both, and I'm OK with them (I don't know anything about food though ...)
The Game by Neil Strauss.
I'd disagree that having a dedicated person doing the social media for a company doesn't add value, nothing measurable but I would be very surprised. It depends I guess if you are directly trying to shove something down peoples throats or acting as a channel of communication between an entity or product and potential customers.

I guess many of the most effective uses of social media are very hard measure in terms of a dollar value as you aren't getting people to directly go click on something and spend money. An example would a team I support in AFL, over a period of time they have build up a following on facebook from a large group of supporters, facilitating closer contact between the club and fans and an opportunity to give supporters a convenient place to discuss the club. It's pretty much impossible to measure how this increased interest and involvement from supporters assists their main products, memberships and game attendance, but I feel it is worth the investment.
On a related note, I've always thought a better title for "How to Win Friends and Influence People" would be, "How not to be an Asshole", or at least, "How to avoid acting like one."

http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...
I disagree that the US is a good bet. It wasn't the high taxes which killed Britain's productivity. It was the huge debt which necessitated the high taxes.
The insider threat is real, but it's not often the pervasive enemy. Many times, by empowering our users instead of making direct attempts to make things harder to use, we help the insiders -- our friends and peers at the office -- make better security decisions on their own. The moment they have to start working around our security solutions is the moment they go from being a good steward to doing things that may cause accidental data loss. We give our users access to the things they need to do their jobs. We really ought to trust them with that access and not make things harder than they must be.
This doesn't bode well for my incubating startup - Bookface.
MessageParty: location-specific chat rooms seem like a nifty idea
No I mean wire an event to the unload of the page, that notifies the server that the client has abandoned the app.
The state spends a massive portion of its revenues on education and healthcare, those are two things notoriously increasing in price faster than inflation.

I would assume that the government is disproportionately likely to spend on these categories. So isn't this another way to illustrate inefficiency? If there's a correlation between government being a customer, and prices rising while the quality of the end product drops, that sounds like one more argument in favor of lower spending.
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"Economic ignorance is the death of cultures; it is presently eating away at the US, and is sadly most advanced in medicine and medical research."

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/02/death-for-everyon...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2007/09/jealousy-fear-env...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/02/the-decline-is-al...
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Ask HN: Is there a good startup for divers?
Just out of curiosity : I am starting to learn diving this month and searched the web for sites related to diving.

There are tons of web 2.0 startups for runners to log their runs, to communicate with other runners. But I can't find a web 2.0 startup for divers. The only sites I am finding look like they were designed in 1996.

Does anybody know a good site? If not, this smells like a good startup, doesn't it ?
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I agree with you, and I've been into information security now for more than half of my life. I think there was a time where the insider threat held merit. Just yesterday, though, I was able to propose a solution for the developers in my company that will at once make their code deployments more efficient, make build-out of new worker nodes a lot easier and improve the overall security of our enterprise while earning us some major points for PCI compliance. That's what security should be about.

Note: Compliance and security aren't inclusive, so it's worth mentioning them separately.
Snow Crash and In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson both introduced me to tech culture in different ways with the same result: it got me more excited about tech than anything else and made me realize that I had to work in tech, and also filled me with respect for what hackers do and regret that I was never going to be a good hacker.
Would be interesting to know whether Amazon is outselling Apple for eBooks on the iPad.
I wonder why they still don't sell to Russia and over 100 other countries. Copyright issues?
It's difficult to obtain 20% downpayment financing on a commercial loan. 30% is the usual limit lenders would allow. 40% is more typical.

But real estate is a very good way in general for ordinary people to become financially independent or even rich.
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VC funding :)