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On the one hand I don't need that much money to have freedom. I live frugally.

On the other hand I fear that I'm underestimating how much I need. Because the macroeconomy will be more challenging in the future than it has been in the past. And because we're often competing financially with our closest peers. If more people have successful startups in the bay area the price of housing and everything else will go up. National inflation matters less than regional inflation.

We know the rewards of living in a big city. But the cost of living in a big city grows over time, and faster than one thinks. Like the red queen, you end up having to run at some speed just to stay in the same place.
We need the startup-founder version of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXf8fr0Kp3Q (Depicts what goes into transforming a woman into a billboard image)

Not to convince us to stop trying... but to convince us to use a more reasonable metric than the one in 10,000,000 founder that makes a ginormous exit.
Fair enough, but I doubt Microsoft will get bought out by a sue-happy company anytime soon.
You should have read to the 4th paragraph:

"My girlfriends and I are certainly driven to be successful; we want to be high achievers in our fields, and we stress over everything we haven’t yet accomplished, but no one’s especially concerned with getting rich. We hardly ever talk about money."
Very interesting study, if small.

My two questions about it. 1) What's the plateau state and the initial fitness level/muscle density? Many weight-lifters have experienced that after a certain point, they start to plateau and don't gain further muscle density. Is the plateau point roughly the same for the two styles? 2) How does that correlate to strength? It's been hypothesized (but I'm not sure if it's been proven) that strength is a combination of muscle density and motor coordination (i.e. neural connections to allow muscle fibers to fire simultaneously), and that lifting heavy actually leads to additional nerve ends that help coordinate those things (or something like that, at least). So I'd be interested to know how the different lifting programs affected both maximum lifts and the number of reps that can be performed at, say, 70% of that max.
We just had this discussion yesterday at a StartupDrinks. I think the Darwinian notion says:

1.) We are hardwired to want things to attract mates.
2.) Power, Success, Prestige, Freedom, etc. are attractive.
3.) We want things that are derivative of such things, even if we consciously believe we want to benefit humanity, think it's, fun etc.

Conclusion: The mind has a way of aligning our conscious interests with our subconscious procreative ones. We need to recognize this, but we don't need to embrace the appetitive.
Not bad, but perhaps a little biased:

"I sell design for a living.
...
How Much Design Should You Buy? Easy peasy. Buy as much as you can within your budget."
But Oracle may suddenly change the licensing at some point in the future to something more onerous, so it would behoove you to consider not getting locked into MySQL now.
Right. Muscles either grow, or don't grow. There's is no 'grow but only in a way that is toning and not actually growing bigger and stronger'. It's absurd how prevalent of a myth that is.
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I agree with you so much that I deleted my original comment, because I unjustly ignored a lot of what the author was saying.
My wife and just finished a 4 week program where we did 10 sets of 10 on a relatively light weight with 60 seconds between sets. It was brutal. By the time set 8 and 9 came around, I was almost at failure. We went back to a more normal lifting program afterwards and went up in weight.
I can only speak to myself, but I want to get rich not for a Lamborghini, but so I can start another company to truly make a difference. Personally I think the Gates foundation is going to have a longer lasting impact on the world then Microsoft has. Yes I realize how huge of an impact Microsoft has had.
"A Half Truth Is A Whole Lie."
Oh boy! Serendipity.

I just wrote about that exact same thing yesterday.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599944
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I'm in Helena, Montana. Though, as of this morning, the other guys in my office with Droids haven't been upgraded either.
... "as long as I do"
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>> "In my experience, startup founders who want to get rich want it more in order to have the freedom to work on what they want than to impress people."

Isn't the whole point of doing a startup, to be able to work on what you want? Surely creating a profitable startup gives you that freedom to do what you like?
I also just noticed that Marcello's site is now unavailable. Marcello had downloaded the entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips from the gocomic site and made it available for download on his site. I've been surprised that it's lasted for so many months without any C&D notices being sent.

However, Michaels' search engine mentions Marcello's website as the source of the images and it looks like that has drawn the attention of the AMU lawyers (unless it's simply overloaded from demand).

I wouldn't be surprised if the script on scribd is taken down soon either.
I have no idea whether they maintain it or not, though it's linked to from every company's summary page within Yahoo! Finance right underneath the chart. E*Trade offers a similar feature, and I do use that one.

At the very least, I guess you've found that the Yahoo! product isn't the best ... so perhaps there's a market for your product. Something else you may be interested in is the Google Finance spreadsheet features.

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Not sure whether there's a way you could add a hook to send an alert when certain prices are met, but their in-spreadsheet stock prices are pretty slick and very easy to use. Probably not something you could resell, but for personal use, it's a good tool.
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Indeed custom labels make a big impact on your organizational sales and returns long lastingly. That is why company offers cheap labels printing to its valued customers worldwide.
More founders leave Yahoo than Google
Many founders of Google-acquired companies are still there (Youtube, Maps, ...)

Out of all companies acquired by Yahoo only founders of most recent acquisitions are still there.
This is overly simplistic. Feminism argues for different expectations, not necessarily higher ones. Feminists have (largely) come around to accepting that whatever women want to do is fine: have a full-time career, raise kids full-time, somewhere in-between, something completely different, etc. But there's been no analogous movement to promote the same for men.

And I have no idea what could possibly be dumb or dangerous about not prioritizing wealth over everything else.
That is a list of people the tor project would like to use it. In my limited experience, that does not mesh in any way with those that actually do use it.
This site seems to face a similar problem, (hopefully) solved by a static link to a guidance hotline.

http://www.myuntoldsecrets.com/View.aspx?secret=102&topi...

(incidentally, I found that site originally via some spamming of the site in the picture, when I was reading the craigslist "best of" linked in it. I see the relevant drop.io page is pointing to another site. :\ )
And that's the attitude that she's pointing out. Just as women are constantly told and whispered (directly and indirectly) they're not pretty enough, men are constantly told and whispered (directly and indirectly) they're not rich enough.

So much so that a bunch of people agree with you and it's a defining norm.

Note that the article is talking about the obscenely rich, like the Facebooks and the Googles. There's no need to be obscenely rich to retire, afford healthcare, treat your lovely soon-to-be-cancerous wife. Above a certain point, having more money gives diminishing returns on quality of life. After that, it's just a scorecard as someone will almost always be more rich than you.

But we think we do need to be obscenely rich, and that it's our role, nay our purpose to do so. It's a story that's exulted, whispered, and told in our ear so often, we don't realize it anymore.

In the end, you should know yourself. The old masters weren't kidding when they said that the hardest thing to do is not mastery over others, but over yourself. You should know what you value in life and what you want out of it, and that the source of that inspiration comes from within.

Because when you buy into other people's values that aren't your own, you may find that when you finally get to the top of the hill at the expense of everything else, what you really wanted wasn't there at all. And that's what she's warning her friend about.
I originally offered to share the technology, either free for open source apps or as a business deal if you're using it to make money. I imagine people found that offer distasteful, so I removed that last part from my comment.

I personally included it because I think more widespread dissemination of NLP could improve a lot of technology. But I can understand why people would think that I made my comment merely to scurry up deals, and not to inform them.
Yahoo stock alert only works on U.S., Canadian, and Australian markets.

Yours seems to work on european markets.
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I've been looking for a realtime quote API that's good and affordable. What service are you using?
Heavy weights are harder on your joints though. As I get older I notice this a lot more. Better to focus on a lower-impact, more sustainable regime.
I would argue the presumption that college is critical to developing higher critical thinking is a damning indictment of pre-college schooling.
I thought it was interesting that Linux was completely absent from all of the market position talk.
For both wealth and (perceived) beauty, there is often a relatively easy solution: move!

For more beauty, move to a location with a greater ratio of the opposite sex.

For more wealth, move to a location with a lower cost of living.

I don't know how much longer these arbitrage opportunities will exist, but for now they probably represent the biggest 'lifehacks' one can make.
+1 million on sleep being the biggest issue you'll face. My daughter just turned 2(!) and she's been sleeping 9-10 hours a night for a good long while now, but it took about a year and a half for my IQ to get back up to something approaching what it was before I became a papa. Totally worthwhile to hear her say things like "I want cheese on my mat" or "all of the trains went bye-bye" or "that fell on papa's head" or "I'm a robot monkey", though.

OT to Ez: Welcome to Portland! There's a fairly active Ruby community here, embedded in an extremely active tech community: see calagator.org if you haven't already. I'm happy to share what little I know about parenting in Portland (geeksam at gmail).
We have been a loyal EY customer since Jan 2009, over 1.5 years now. I'm glad that EY is still growing and doing well and it's sad to see a cofounder leave. I hope Ezra the best.
You don't even know what 1% of the people who use Tor, use it for.
Our Daughter Isn't a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn't Read "Atlas Shrugged".
Wow, thanks. I had sometimes chatted with Max Klein on Twitter. It's quite a weird feeling to realize that he doesn't actually exist (almost Hollywodish).

Does that mean all business, relocation and other stories are fiction?
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No, because there's billing, payroll, taxes, customer support, management, board meetings and a hundred other things that come with running a startup. We have to do what's best for the company, and that usually doesn't include taking a month off to try to build a robot spider.
FWIW Almost all other countries listed have no usage or very little.
Lack of shame is not a valid defence for evil. We all have a responsibility to be good citizens.
Now is the time for me to focus on spending as much time with my son and family as I can and I can no longer commit to 100 hour weeks at Engine Yard. I also wanted to move to Portland where my folks live so my son can grow up near his grandparents and my wife and I can have trustworthy babysitters so we can have a social live of our own(even if it’s just a little bit;)

This is a man with his head on his shoulders. My only comment is I wish that more people had this level of dedication to their families.
Hardly, if HN attracts its intended audience--people that are intellectually curious about everything.
Funny you wrote this. Fred Wilson just wrote something similar - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/the-family-crm-service.html
This is hot off the heels of an email sent out last night:

As you’re no doubt aware, Posterous has had a rocky six days.

On Wednesday and Friday, our servers were hit by massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. We responded quickly and got back online within an hour, but it didn’t matter; the site went down and our users couldn’t post.

On Friday night, our team worked around the clock to move to new data centers, better capable of handling the onslaught. It wasn’t easy. Throughout the weekend we were fixing issues, optimizing the site, some things going smoothly, others less so.

Just at the moments we thought the worst was behind us, we’d run up against another challenge. It tested not only our technical abilities, but our stamina, patience, and we lost more than a few hairs in the process.

I’m happy to report Posterous is at 100% and better than ever. Switching to a new data center will help us avoid the type of attacks we saw last week, and the new, bigger, beefier servers will speed up the site and increase capacity. We were hit pretty hard, but we’ve come out stronger in the end.

While we were certainly frustrated, we know that no one was more frustrated than you. Your website was down, and I humbly apologize for that. Know that throughout these six days, restoring your site and your trust has been our number one priority.

At the same time, I have never been prouder of the Posterous team. Garry led the team in the server migration, Vince worked like a mad man until he passed out on his desk, and Jackson helped the community understand the impacts of some pretty technical issues. This week has been all hands on deck, and we had some pretty great hands.

We have great plans for the future of Posterous. Our team is stronger than ever, and we are laser focused on developing better ways for you to share your content online. Thank you for believing in us, thank you for trusting us, and thank you for sticking with us through the past six days.

--Sachin Agarwal
Cofounder and CEO, Posterous
One thing I've always wanted is a view of the world that's beta-adjusted.

"Stock is up 7%, but down 1% if you factor in correlation to SPX"
Very clean and polished site, well done.

It would be great to be able to see the full name of the stock, currency and last update time.
The early facebook pretty much _was_ the MVP of a CRM for your peer group - you could share contact details across a private network, invite groups of people to events and receive reminders of those that you'd been invited to, send public and private messages to custom groups and get notified of birthdays. You got nice pictures to be able to remember who did what the night before too.

If they'd taken their development in a different direction they'd have fewer page impressions but something much more useful.
+1 for the Happiest Baby on the Block. We borrowed the DVD from somewhere, and it was great. Simple and repetitive, too, which makes it great for parents of newborns.
Down vote and no opinion? Hmm.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1596814
I found education benefits most in expanding your mind and abilities (of learning, critical thinking, and sharper mind), not so much about the knowledge. Of course knowledge helps but you can pick them up on your own. Education force you to learn some topics that you might never use later but would benefit you in other way anyway. Some people can gain those without a formal education, more power to them. What it means is that the hiring manager can't be lazy to use degree as a filter. Have to really understand the individual's capacity.
To be honest, the first round of grants were useless because of all the restrictions on applying including my favorite "if broadband is available, for any price, in the service area, then the service area is ineligible for the grant".

It is one of those things: campaign promises don't matte, advocates get the money.
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This is an excellent example of the kind of advertising I actually don't mind getting.

1) Directly related to something I just said I wanted

2) You never advertise to me more than once.

I wish more advertisers (or even spammers) worked this way.
I haven't noticed any significant delays using their encrypted search either.
Omegle animates the title text, so you notice the tab "bouncing" when someone types something to you.
Yes. It is getting DDOS'd now. I just posted a post. But can't access it.
So true! It is so easy to focus on the wrong thing. Family time is precious and priceless no matter whether your code compiles or not.

Yeah for sure, we all have to work and feed our families but we can do so with 40 hours a week and not 100.

Kudos!
I know this is how I feel.

The only time I think about the money is when I read someone on here mentioning it, but it quickly fades.

Otherwise, all I think about is being able to work on anything I want and starting my own company. Nothing seems cooler than that in my opinion. Besides, if you want bragging rights, how many people can say they started their own company?
The reason most people aren't speaking against it is that spam is just a class of information with a low utility rate, whereas useful information is information with a high utility rate. Sufficiently targeted spam is therefore not spam, but useful information.
Sounds like a Monty Python sketch in the making.

"NO! Not the compassion pit!"

"Right you, get in there"

<Roman centurion pushes man into a pit filled with young women and pillows>
Eastern Washington.
Ive played with PAdrino a bit and its really quite nice. Very flexible and has a good communittee. One of the problems i have with Rails is that it seems to leave the other frameworks behind. In fact i only know of one or two places using something other then Rails. ANd its usually for backend stuff such as i think serving json. At the same time Rails is a heavyweight which not everybody needs.
All of the countries listed seem to have either thousands or hundreds of users. You think that's "no usage or very little" ? I guess that depends on your perspective.

Tor is never going to be used by tens of millions of people. It doesn't need to be used by tens of millions of people to serve its purpose and be successful.

I'm not sure why they only present that small subset of countries in their stats. I wish they'd provide more comprehensive stats.
I have been using the Encrypted search ever since they announced it and have not seen any delay whatsoever. I have also used it in numerous locations over wifi and wired networks - still no delay.

I hope this helps.
As others have mentioned, you can already do this on Yahoo Finance for free. Notifo also allows you to set up free stock price alerts: http://notifo.com/user/stockalerts

It's certainly possible for you to do a better job than those services, but if you want me to pay, your site needs to explain exactly why you're better than them.
it's more to do with the features a normal CRM would have that a "family CRM" wouldn't - you wouldn't be interested in tracking "leads", putting a value against "proposals" or managing "pipelines" but you would want open ended relationship groupings
>HN users don't seem to value education

HN users value education a great deal, many just refuse to let school interfere with it, especially when school == java school.
how can you have privacy without anonymity from your information service providers?
I also assume, perhaps wrongly, that it is harder to injure yourself through improper technique when lifting a lower weight than when lifting something that is near the limit of what you can lift when fully rested.
Let me tell you, being a math major doesn't automatically mean you get P=?NP.
ZFS is licensed separately and apart from Solaris, but it's still under the CDDL
Doesn't one method build fast twitch and the other slow twitch?

So it's not the same kind of muscle.
> I don't think anyone would leave right before their stock was about vest, without a solid reason.

I wouldn't assume that there's some hidden reason for him leaving. First of all, leaving right before his stock is about to vest just means that he's leaving a little bit of stock on the table. As he said, the vast majority of his stock has already vested (as one would expect after 4 years), and he gets to keep that. It's the 5%, or whatever, of his stock that hasn't vested that he's losing.

I read this as "I've been working startup hours for way too long, and I'm tired of it, especially now that I have a kid I want to spend time with".
Thanks Failquicker! I will check it out with my local provider! thanks for the info, it was really helpful.

Fragmede: because they charged a ridicously high price for a really bad quality t-shirt. My sister is in the industry for a major group in Spain, and when she saw my t-shirt she just laughed at me (both printing and fabric quality wise)

Thanks chris, I will check these too!
yea I run a couple book sites and one time a person clicked on one of my book links and ended up buying a couple thousand dollars worth of camera equipment. Jackpot!
Another interesting tidbit from the article you linked:

The trick is that Google doesn’t claim that Android is a Java platform, although it can run some programs written with the Java language and against some derived version of the Java class library. Sun could prevent this if they had a patent on the standard class library, but they don’t and, even if they did, I strongly doubt it would be enforceable since Android doesn’t claim to be compatible (and in fact, could very well claim that their subset/superset is an innovation on the existing patent and challenge Sun’s position).
Yes, but if your margins are good and your growth is strong enough, you can remove yourself from the equation and hire people to takeover most of these tasks. You'll probably still have to attend the board meethings though.

Then again, it's probably not considered a startup anymore at that point.
> And most companies have good health coverage for the cancer.

Well... kinda. One of the dirty little secrets of employer-provided group health care is that when you have one person whose health care costs vastly exceed the average, there's enormous pressure to get that person out of the "group". I've know companies where someone got cancer and the premiums for the whole company doubled the next year.
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I think everyone who read 'Solaris is the #1 Enterprise Operating System', raised an eyebrow, then read 'We have more than twice the application base of AIX and HP-UX combined' and chuckled.
I think the one way that riches truly improve your quality of life is to make travel easy. The ability to explore your world is a great gift, and something that not many underpriveledged people can afford. A Lamborghini doesn't factor into that equation, because unless you live near the Autobahn, it doesn't get you anywhere a more modest car can't in the same time.

But if I ever become extraordinarily wealthy, my first purchase will be a private jet, and I will explore as much as I possibly can before I die.
Vaporware is based on track record. I guess the Ubuntu team has a history of delivering what they promised.
I don't actually think that would happen. Corporations are "immortal" today, and they can still rise and fall quickly.