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Yeah, I get a lot of work done in airport lounges. I think it's because there's a feeling of having a deadline (the plane leaves in an hour), and there is a feeling of having no obligation to do anything (you're in an airport, for cryin-out-loud). Combined with flaky 3g-dongle internets that makes web surfing a pain, it ends up being very productive for me.

(I have thought about structuring an office like an airport lounge. Comfy chairs, snacks, and people walking around asking you if you want them to bring you coffee. Yes, please!)
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What's the sympathetic FCC and the Democratic Congress accomplished towards Net Neutrality lately?

"Congress rebukes FCC on Net neutrality rules" http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20005834-38.html

"In theory, most Democrats favor Net neutrality. But theory doesn't always mesh with political practice. Rank-and-file Dems are clamoring for Net neutrality about as much as Bush-era Republicans were clamoring for limited government: it's a valuable talking point, but of course there's no need to do anything hasty. (Besides, even in this anti-incumbent year, how many single-issue Net neutrality voters are there?)
The last time there was a major rewrite of telecommunications laws, it took something like five years for Congress' internal mechanisms to spit out the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A push for national cable franchising legislation went on for years but died without a vote."
I'm on track to graduate with no debt. This is due to my father's 50% staff discount at the university I attend and a government grant which covers the rest ($2500 per year).

I am also working 1 day a week during term time and 4 days a week during summer/breaks which I am investing in my startups.

The isn't an Oxbridge university but it is redbrick; that matters less here in the UK than it does in the US though.
They haven't shipped anything yet so you can't compare. One would imagine it would be more accurate (and work better for beds with more than 1 person in them) but we'll have to find out in a month (hopefully)
would this be an alternative to using recurly? or Pay pal for recurring payments?
The word "Clojure" is strangely missing from the article. Does the author know about it? Of course, that is not to say that Clojure is a silver bullet, but it does address some of the issues he describes.

Besides, I don't think you can write an article about the state of modern lisp without mentioning Clojure.
How can such a futuristic summit be so disconnected?
No live stream, dead youtube channel, dead twitter account = #FAIL.
I am quite fond of http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MML.html . It's not exactly the same, but the only glitch that you are likely to hit is that "ab" is not the same as "a b": the first is one variable (MathML has the concept of multiletter variable names), and the second is two variables neighbouring.
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Don't you need a credit card and a decent investment in Apple hardware to get started?

I doubt he did it all by himself, even if his work is authentic.

edit: is that no longer the case? I could have sworn it was that way, at least in the beginning.
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For those who were confused (as I was), Prabhakar Raghavan wasn't the one who recently died, it was his co-author in Randomized Algorithms, Rajeev Motwani.

BTW, I highly recommend their book. In it is all the evidence of the genesis of Google.
Agreed; Posterous differentiated themselves by executing on a common idea with a different philosophy. This seems to follow that trend. The idea itself is something for which there are many solutions, Docs included, but the philosophies behind it bring something new to the table.
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Wouldn't increase productivity if I'm allergic to dogs and it causes me to sneeze instead of think.
Jumping from playground swings is another good way to experience falling and associated slow-down effect.
I thought that was a strange omission at first too, but looking again, the article's from 2007, and Clojure didn't really become a thing that people knew about and used before mid-2008 or so (and it really took off in 2009).
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I agree completely: The dog of my office mate successfully keeps others (i.e. management) from comming into our office. That makes them think twice about giving me more tasks.
Kudos to the police. They respond to (presumably) a report about a man with a sword, respond appropriately, find out that it is benign and leave without arresting or abusing anyone.

I read too many stories about police abuse. It is refreshing to read a story about them doing things right for a change.
I am a Google fan, but I'm also taxing their mistakes ... and in this case I think they are right.

I've never seen a piece of regulation done by government that actually worked, quite the contrary, because of government interventions many monopolies/oligopolies are possible.

Only monopolies can act in anti-competitive / anti-consumer ways, and without them you wouldn't need regulation in the first place.

Customers want to watch Youtube and contrary to popular belief, costumers aren't stupid ... they just sometime don't care enough ... but they will care once that video from Youtube can't be viewed in HD although they have an (advertised) 20 Mbps line ... and they'll also know whom to blame.

And you know why, because everybody knows an information Maven that will explain to them why their current ISP sucks, and they also know Connectors that will spread this information to other people (yeah, it's called a viral effect through word-of-mouth ... in the real world; it's quite efficient ... the American revolution started that way ;)).

This is the way the free market always worked ... and government regulation is just fixing the symptoms rather than the disease.

As I've said in another thread regarding wireless Internet ... in my country there are not one, but 3 3G Internet providers ... all of them announcing new offers on a monthly basis. 2 of them have pre-pay options and to be honest I've never seen so much competition.

So why the fuck should government step in and regulate that?

You want to keep the Internet free? Then fucking work towards preventing monopolies.
In the introduction:

My main job is being CEO of Wolfram Research. I spend most of my time figuring out technical and strategic things, sometimes short-term and sometime very long-term.

Compare with:

"I am the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research."

Which contains exactly the same amount of information (because strategic planning is the job of a CEO, isn't it?). No subtle "Well everything I do is pretty heavy and it doesn't fit in this little paragraph, you see?"

Nitpicking, I know, but that's how I feel when I read the §...
I received a "dollar" for mine on filing. It's still in the machine. Maybe I'll get another if it gets approved.
Interesting. Opera supports MathML and the square root also looks like crap zoomed in, while the rest looks fine. Maybe a bug in some shared library?
Ask HN: Leaving a startup that I co-own - How should I be compensated? 
Here's the deal. I'm the developer and an owner of a startup but my belief in its future success is dwindling. We have only maybe been profitable one month out of the past 2 years and I don't think the next pivot will work at all.

I've been slacking w/ my tasks and subsequently, the other partners are not happy with the amount of time I've been putting in. My passion for this company is not what it used to be at all. You could say I'm burnt out.

We've signed agreements breaking the company up evenly between 4 people. This is where the whole situation gets a little bit tricky - it's still registered as a Sole Proprietorship and I believe I still own the IP.

For the past 2 years, I've given a lot of my time and energy and would like to get something out of it if this company makes any money in the future. I built the platform this company will grow from and I spent considerable amounts of time building the brand.

Having the current owners buy me out doesn't seem like it could happen. (The company is not making money, who would buy into a company that's losing money?). The option they brought up is basically a stock issuance. I would assign IP and give up my ownership stake in exchange for a certain amount of stock.

How would you suggest I be compensated for the work I've put in? Should I even expect anything if I leave before it's making money? Are there any negatives w/ going for a stock issuance?

I know I should get a lawyer to write up the final agreement and am considering it. I would just like to know the community's opinion on what I should do and then bring that to the lawyer so we can just get down to business when it's time to pay.

Thanks for your help and advice!
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Just spell out fuck, you're making us all think it.

(thank you Louis c.k.)
not all that surprising.

what caught my eye was the 5.1 channel smartphone audio remark - how much storage space do they anticipate smartphones having by the time that is released? multichannel audio is pretty huge, spacewise
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if DNA can encode everything the brain does with N bits of information, then regardless of how the DNA behaves, we have at least a loose estimate of the level of complexity in the brain.

No even close. Imagine a kilobyte filled with alternating zeros and ones. We have two commonly used methods for describing the information content of this kilobyte. Shannon information content is closely approximated by today's compressors - and 1k worth of alternating zeros and ones compresses to next to nothing. Kogorov Complexity is the length of the minimum necessary program to produce the 1k worth of zeros - again, a simple loop, incrementing a pointer then dereferencing the pointer to fill the address with alternately a zero or a one suffices - a mere handful of bytes are necessary.

Now imagine that the RAM chip holding the zeros and ones is hit by a bunch of cosmic rays , flipping about 10% of the bits. Both the size of a compressed version of the new kilobyte, and the Kogorov program to generate the new sequence are both going to dramatically increase in size.

Now, the thing is that DNA produces a brain to a fairly homogenous pattern - it's the equivalent of my series of alternating zeros and ones, although admittedly it's a bit more complex than that - this is to be expected, there's more Shannon information in DNA for encoding a brain than there was in my simple pattern of zeros and ones.

The cosmic rays are the equivalent of a brain learning, encoding information by weighting connections between neurons. This process massively increases the amount of information stored in a human brain, but this information must be copied if you actually want the copy to behave like the original. I would expect this amount of information to be several orders of magnitude bigger than that found in the DNA, which is why Kurzweil's claim is just completely off the wall.
Are we supposed to be able to select text in an equation? Selection looks kind of weird there, and when pasted, looks like this: ζnk1∞1kn
I think that most of the uproar is about people interpreting this agreement as a direct business deal and Google will get it's traffic sped up and that they are somehow legislating and neither is true.

Also many forget that Verizon is the company owning the pipes and spectrum, not Google, and as much as it's unpleasant to think about, NN won't be put into law without teleco input.
depends on the day but 50€ incl all fees is not uncommon for ryanair.last trip to london was 65€ for 2 persons without additional bags. my trip to the airport +parking was more than my ticket.
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Try some Gregorian chants run through the extender
I've been using this for about a week and a half.
It works reasonably well. I usually see the 'What did you do today' mail only the next morning after I wake up, which is really, the best time to fill it out for me.
The bottom line only matters in the long run or if you are seriously short on cash. There is nothing inherently bad or wrong about running a department at a loss for a few years if you have the cash flow to cover it and doing so gives you a long term strategic advantage.
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What is the alternative apart from paper journals?

/curious
This is the original dons' blog post (easier to read on the web than slides) :

http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/03/10/practical-haskell-sh...

An interesting read !
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What happened?! Was she okay? Did she protect the baby?
A personal journal is a personal thing. If I record my thoughts in this for say 4 years straight and suddenly in the 5th year the company goes down, How do I recover my valuable memories? (Personal journals are more precious to me than photos)
Yeah, if my day consisted mostly of addressing personal 'issues' (for lack of better word) that I don't want posted to a remote server then I simply don't write about that day. And I wouldn't write about it even if it was being saved only on my own disk.
energy := c^2 // convert mass to energy

Looks like it's missing some mass.
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I think he was using "available" in the colloquial sense of "a potential partner for a romantic relationship." Thus the desire to "marry it." Pretty sure he knows you can download it, seeing as how, y'know, jashkenas just linked to some CoffeeScript that he wrote.
>If defense spending keeps the dollar strong, it is the definition of an investment.

If killing or threatening to kill others keeps the dollar strong it's an investment? So in that case mafia violence is also an investment, right?
I would just say finalize the equity. Give what is owed to the rest or your partners. Stay on as board of director role, or advisor. Theres no reason for you to just give up completely .. why not just work on a new project you have on the side to avoid burn out. A lot of times for us developers we think more features will bring more customers.. but I think its up to your partners to go out and sell the crap out of the product, and you should be given some relax time.
I thought the whole thing was interesting, and read it all. I don't have time for videos, generally.
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You're right. I just emailed a bug report.
I want to write a compiler that can take a Steve Yegge post as input and compile it down to a compact, concise form more readily executable by my brain.
Store it locally on your computer? (being careful to back it up of course)
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There is a huge part missing here though. A rug simply has to 'be', a look alike will suffice. A brain has to work.
> Put a saddle on Falkor and go flying!

I always like your comments because you sneak in a few weird sentences that I never see coming, don't quite know exactly what they mean, and yet, I sorta do, and agree with. :)
I wrote this a day or so ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606098

ruelionheart has now made 35 submissions in 7 days, all quoting the same blog, all completely trivial.

Total waste of space - I mostly just flag them now, but most people seem simply to ignore them.
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I'm already working on many other projects outside the scope of this company. Everyone is putting money into the company to keep it going right now. They don't think it's fair - and rightfully so - that they keep paying while I stop paying and reap the future benefits if any.

Are you suggesting I step back and be just an advisor still? Also, if I did step back and they decide to take out a loan in the company's name, wouldn't I be responsible for a portion of that loan even if I didn't know about it?
Why are you asking me? I'm just summarising the article to help save people time.
How many generalizations can this blog post get away with? How about an example or two?

Some things I wish were touched upon:

- How do angels"investing money because they want even more money back" differ from VCs?

- What are some examples of these malicious angel blog posts? What bait is in them exactly?

- "Those are the only types of companies interesting for the angels." Why?

- Why is "a simple product company that has a large market and that will pay your bills quickly" right for the young programmer? Why is it better than what angels supposedly advocate?

- How do you distinguish between "ambitiously dumb" and disruptive innovations?

I agree with some of the bigger ideas here, especially: "Don’t see venture capital as your aim. Don’t see seed investments as your aim. Don’t build only things that google may acquire." but the post does little to back up a pretty sensationalist title.
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"Christopher Honts and his colleagues at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant were surprised to find that there was not much research on this question, and decided to put that right."

Who funds these clowns?
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It's a funny site name: 'Anything but iPad'.

In a german newspaper interview[1], a random analyst said that the iPad already has become the standard to which any new device will be compared.

This site confirms that theory. Or is a brilliant parody of it. I'm not quite sure.

[1] = http://www.derbund.ch/digital/computer/Apples-Rivalen-muesse...
> Assuming Moore's Law

That alone may already be a mistake, it's an observation, not a law after all.

Besides, compared the 35 years ago we can now do things 1,000,000 times faster than back then, but computers are not 1,000,000 times 'smarter' they just give the same answers that you could compute back then but faster and on fewer computers.

The future is parallel anyway, so it isn't Moores law (increase in density of transistors on-chip) per-se that will drive this, more likely there will be a switch to increasing chip packing density with smaller chips (bigger yield) and better communications between the chips (think computing fabric).

We need a huge advance in programming languages before we can really contemplate building an AI by taking advantage of such a structure though, simply simulating the organic soup that forms a brain is going to be a much harder problem computationally and may simulate a dead or an insane brain much more easily than it will simulate a live and thinking one.
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Does he need to launch his second startup through yc? yc's most valued service to a startup is right connections. Having been successful once he should already have plenty of them
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You can solve a problem 1% in 1 year if it is a linear problem then you are right. But if the 1% was the easy bit and the 99% remaining are very hard then you still don't have a solution.

If the solution is 99% easy and 1% hard then you may find out after completing 99% of the problem.

Many problems are like that, simulating the brain is an excellent candidate for being such a problem. If it was just a matter of throwing more computer power at it then we'd have solved it years ago, it's that big a prize. But there is still a large part of our understanding missing and understanding does not yield to Moores law.
I'm not sure whether to give the quick explanation to that or the proper one - an in-between one is that the income idea won't work because there is no guarantee that e.g. my health will continue OK for twenty years or that my job will remain steady. There would not be the equivalent of an income protection scheme available either.
There are simple methods available in principle based on the real rental value of the home and treating the buyer as a form of renter but in reality all the so called 'islamic' schemes do not actually involve risk sharing and consequently it's hard to be sure that they are indeed 'halal'. BTW on your first point it's Ramadan so if I do lose my patience I've blown it....:-)
Thanks for the report, but this shouldn't be considered a bug. That unit is defined so that you can write "1 gram energy" or the like to find the energy content in that particular amount of mass. It's actually shorter (on a reasonable keyboard) to type "c^2" though, so this may not really be necessary. I may remove it from the data file.
Although I dont like the word, I d say "semantic" endpoints for things like YQL to enable easy access to data without having to parse html manually.
Or, even better, find a less colloquial way of expressing yourself.

Not that I have a problem with the word 'fuck'; just that it's not really appropriate for most serious discussions.
> We would not write the code. We would build the right kind of architecture and then evolve the code within that architecture.

That sounds more like an approach that I think would produce results.

The key here is 'right' though, what is right?
Again, one of those, "why didn't I think about it" moment.
Is investing in McDonald's or BP not an investment? Both wreck lives too. Like I said before, acknowledging things for what they are doesn't mean that we also endorse or approve of those things. I certainly don't approve of the US' actions overseas, personally.

We seem to be on a subjective, slippery slope here. What would you call it, if not an investment? You skipped that part.
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That's a nasty response to someone who provided a legitimate and interesting answer.
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The Emperors New Mind is an excellent primer in physics but it failed to sell the quantum idea of the brain in a convincing way.

I expected a rather stronger argument, especially from someone as high up in the hierarchy of science as Roger Penrose, and after laying such a huge foundation.

Maybe there is one but if there is I haven't found it in that book.