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Maybe you know something I don't but reading over wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft I don't see any misbehavior that most every other big company in the world has not engaged in or is actively engaging in. I mean, can you quantify roughly how much money Microsoft has "extracted" from you or other governments/institutions?

My point is just, most leaders of industry are going to have skeletons in their closets. Most industry leaders don't then commit 98% of their wealth to charity.
The description also does an excellent job of mixing scary statements about ionizing radiation (which you are not likely to encounter) and low-frequency RF, which is all over the place. It's like arguing that wrecking balls could destroy your house, and it's therefore unsafe to play at lawn bowling.
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Also, his most efficient system of coins in one in which every denomination is a prime number, so no denomination but the penny factors evenly into any other.

In our current system, the only one that doesn't work is breaking a quarter into dimes.

(And I presume you mean "first three multiples of 5".)
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Sell-Side vs. Buy-Side BizDev: Hunters vs. Evaluators
There are a couple of references here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#As_a_target_for_i...
>Apple or HTC could easily come out with a similar device before MS hits the market.

Sure, but that is if they see it as viable. Unless it's just an add-on secondary input device and display, it'll require that the OS and apps all work really well with it. So there's the big issue... would it work great with existing software or require a fresh start? Can it work well for mainstream use including things like word processing?

The work doesn't seem particularly new. If one looks closely at the first picture "Bill Buxton using the Active Desk he helped develop at the University of Toronto" we can see the older Apple color icon at the top left.

Of course it still is a very cool technology to respect and admire even if existing OSes aren't quite ready for it.
The biggest problem I see with touch interfaces on legacy OSes is that they can work better on large screens, but don't scale down well.
I don't want to push too hard, but here's two reasons it would be better for you to pull out that list:

The first is that it gives a heads up to the few women here who are just entering the field. It may open up discussions for how to handle such situations when they arise.

The other reason is that not sharing these examples is just as good as saying they never happened. Real concerns become phantom accusations of prejudice against women that don't ever get addressed.
There's nothing wrong with criticizing how powerful people choose to wield and maintain their power. You are right that many of the same things can be said about Jobs and Ellison. I don't think anyone here would argue that they are saints.
The rest of the credentials were skills-based, except for that last one, which suggested that some management skills would be a nice-to-have. Do you take my point about how "SRE" isn't a very strong answer here?
I much prefer the Metaboli/Gametap rental model. You pay a reasonable monthly fee and you have access to their full library to download and play as you wish. Profits are apportioned to the developers according to what is being played. A bit like Spotify, I guess.

Unfortunately their catalogue is pretty old and weak (a few diamonds but nothing special) and I'm more of a console gamer. If a similar rental system was available on the consoles I'd probably never buy retail again.
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> Let's not forget, Bill Gates was handed a 0th birthday gift of $1 million from his grandfather, the keys to his private middle school computer (the same one Stanford had), and a free ticket to do business with IBM because his mother already knew its chairman.

The rest of your post is very insightful, but this part above strikes me as petty - I was low born myself, was given almost nothing except birth in the USA in the modern era, but I think good for people who are given things and achieve with them. The bad things stand on their own - you include the fact that he was given gifts as if it makes him worse - it doesn't - at least, not by my ethics. Other people can disagree. Let his bad deeds stand on their own, the rest of it comes across as sour grapes.
What if you buy one, and then another seconds later?

(Just curious)
I wasn't thinking about secrecy, but about false openness. For example, having eight Facebook accounts, and (somehow) making sure your trusted friends knows which is the real on, while each of them present a different personae. Decoy sites, suppose.
"And socially how effective is charity relative to giving it to the market? I'm not sure, but it's open to debate."

Generally speaking this is true, but if you look into the kind of charity work Bill Gates does, you'll find a lot of it is investing in setups that will be able to support themselves after a while and even pay back what was invested in them initially.
Features are like having Sex
Nope, powers: depending on indexing, the first three multiples of 5 are either 0,5,10 or 5,10,15, and we have neither a zero-cent coin nor a 15-cent one. The first three powers of 5, on the other hand, are 1, 5, and 25.
The nice thing about Hacker News is that I think you doubt I'm making any of this up, and so I don't have to violate confidences to make a point.
http://web-pass.com/ .. We actually found our apartment complex by calling up every building on their list of lit buildings and asking if they had any condos or apartments for rent. Turned out that there are at least 3 other geeks here I know!

My friend John has a similar offer in Seattle too, at http://condointernet.net/.
He sold his stock in protest over being fired--again, for principle, not money.

With $46B cash and short term holdings in the bank, I'm sure shareholders wouldn't bat much of an eye if Jobs compensated himself with a little bit more than $1/year, as Ellison and many other tech execs do. Jobs doesn't take that cash.

The last point I'm going to make is that it's probably immaterial to the argument the exact cause of the disparity. The fact that people point at Jobs and accuse him of not being more philanthropic indicates that they are ignorant of his cash position.
People will if they stop printing 1 dollar notes.
Very nice!

Two questions, curious as I'm as well in the process of indexing HN, and your API may help me avoid this:

- how much content are you actually indexing ? Do you keep every single post or only the ones that do it on the home page or ask HN ? How far in time did you go ?

- do you have some way to implement a full-text search (eg: posts that contain a specific word, to be accurate) ?
I impressed by how easy it is to use. Perfect for Church moms organizing themselves.

I don't like how it's sending my password back to me in plaintext when I register, though.
"And what did he do with these fabulous once-in-a-lifetime gifts?"

He used those gifts to amass wealth which he is now in the process of mostly giving away.

It goes back to Warren Buffett who claimed that he won the ovarian lottery, being born at the right time with the right circumstances which enabled him to become extremely wealthy. As a result, Buffett advocates giving away 99% of his fortune in recognition of that.

That's contrary to other groups of the ultra-wealthy who vigorously fight against increased taxation because it robs them of money that they earned through "hard work" without recognizing the benefits of the society that they were born into.
Quora is pretty good for this kind of searches
Making money in these app markets is not really a technical challenge, but a marketing/social challenge. It is definitely not easy to reach $1k/mo+

For whatever reason, most people are happy to drop $200 on the phone but are really cheap about buying apps, especially on Android. OTOH the 160k+ new phones per day help compensate for the ultra low conversion rate. Enough to support your lifestyle? I dunno.
More specifically, which laws were broken?
He's still an employee, but he's no longer the CEO.
If it's anything like Fluid.app [1] on the Mac then I'm a big fan.

I have numerous web-apps setup as dedicated applications using Fluid and find it much nicer than having them as tabs in the same browser, or in their own browser windows. It means I can launch them with Spotlight easily, they have their own icon in the dock and start up without the address-bar or any other chrome.

At any one time I'd say around 75% of the apps I'm running are Fluid.app instances.

[1] http://fluidapp.com/
run4, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I read your reply to my partner and it has already catalyzed a vibrant discussion on this end.

I still believe we're onto something, but you strike right at the heart of what we need to do to make sure. Thanks.
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The first one that comes to mind is that you don't have to keep the thin instance alive (eg: /etc/init.d or god scripts or SMF manifests if you're on Solaris).
That sampling arises because being part of the population which has no boys is * necessary and sufficient* to (truthfully) make the statement that forms the paradox.

The alternative interpretation of the paradox arises when the wording of the paradox is construed to identify one of the children as male or female. In this case (stating something like "my first child is male"), being part of the population (x \in {BB, BG}) is necessary and sufficient and leads to the 1/2 probability of having two boys.

In short, the question becomes whether you believe the child is identified in the wording of the question. Honestly, the author of the paradox goes pretty far out of their way to say "at least one of the children is male" avoiding that identification.
We'll get that fixed.

We use it for our staff wiki at both of our companies. We've tried wikis before but found they were lacking in usability, particularly the problem with keeping it organized.
Young, male, testosterone-fuelled CEOs more likely to start or drop deals
I don't store or save any data, other than an in memory cache. I just scrape, process, and output the data. Since I'm not storing data, I have nothing to search.
Have never come across LilyPond before (for that matter I haven't used any software in that area since Sibelius about 5 years ago), but that looks amazing. Thanks for linking to the essay, most interesting thing I've read in a while!
"...folks tend to prefer homogeneity of their program set across devices."

You must know different folks than I do. Most of the people I know that aren't developers wonder why the icon for "internet" has a big E on it. I can guarantee you that the grand majority of people don't realize that the web browser on their mobile device isn't the same as the web browser on their desktop. And if they do, they're unlikely to be using IE right now anyway.
In other news: Future Nike hoverboard to be 'powered by cold fusion'
The no-signup functionality is nice.

Your tagline is wrapping in a way you probably don't want (osx/firefox):

http://imgur.com/PKOyC.png
In that case, kudos! One of my pet gripes about Hadoop is that it really used to be unusable without HDFS (don't know if that's changed). If you truly manage to develop it to a stable release with all the features of Hadoop, I definitely see it making some inroads in scientific computation.
Sure, it was.
Maybe try not attending dinners titled "revisiting Amway products". Just a suggestion.
What do conservative religious values have to do with not publishing books that teach 13 year olds how to blow their hands off?
In the Dev channel of Chrome (windows 7), 7.0.517.5, I had a really frustrating experience where it says "Click here to edit this page." and I just kept clicking and clicking, feeling like I was missing something? And it just wouldn't work.

Popped open Firefox (latest on windows 7) all worked beautifully, and I'd like to echo that the site looks great! I'm also running Vimium as an extension in Crhome, so possible conflict? Dunno.

You guys are competing in a really tight space (weebly, posterous), so kudos and good luck. The design is top notch.
I'll give you my opinion about whether developing on an emulator is enough.

Initially ... sure, but if you're seriously considering making this your profession, you will only benefit by actually developing for a device you've used yourself. When you use a phone today you become aware of what you like about it, what you don't like about it, and also get a good sense for which problems have already been solved by other developers. I don't think these are things which you'll be able to get the same experience with an emulator, so if you continue to be interested in pursuing Android development after some initial tinkering, I'd say you can only really succeed by using Android as your daily device.
For my first app store submission, I wrote a trivial program with little intrinsic value. It was accepted, but I later felt embarassed by it. I pulled it from the store (twice, actually) but received emails from people asking me to put it back.

What do you do when users seem to actually want software with little intrinsic value?
want to get things done?

use this: http://userstyles.org/styles/28042
From what I've understood from countless stories on the web and from real-life friends and associates, your story is the anecdotal one. Brainteasers, logic problems you're expected to solve in seconds, and random quizzes on arcane facts is the norm at Google. It's how Google makes its hiring decisions: can you remember arcane facts quickly? Are you good at solving logic problems on the spot?
Most of the wealthy I know are not against charity or giving away their wealth.. they are against an inefficient government deciding on how that should be accomplished.
Ideas on paper don't hurt people. The people who act on them do. Take some f*cking accountability for your actions; the author did not force anyone to resort to violence.
I like that I'm thrown immediately into the interface. I don't have to "just sign-up, it's free" to try it out. Signing up for something means giving someone else my e-mail, verifying the e-mail, logging back in... all of this just to see how something works, when in all likelihood, I won't touch it again.

This though, this is a good idea. I've already made the website, and I'd have to sign up if I wanted to save it. I have something invested in it; it's now worth my time to save the site.

It's intuitive, easy, and useful. You guys have a good shot at survival.
Ease of use, dynamic spawning of new processes and spinning them down according to the traffic you receive as opposed to a static pool of processes, fault tolerant to crashes through watchdog process which will automatically restart as much for you as it can in such an event, concurrently handling of multiple requests as opposed to a single request (thin has a multithread option but this is experimental iirc, so I'm not sure how this works yet in production). Basically less moving parts.
REALLY well done. I'm very impressed-- one of the slicker edit implementations I've seen in a while! I hope it's a fun project rather than a business effort, though-- seems like competing with Posterous, WordPress, Weebly, and a bajillion other site builders/editors out there is going to be awfully hard when the going rate for such things is free (read: get funded or shift to a business market ASAP).

Apps like this have a reasonable viral loop (i.e. view a site built on it, see a button that says, "get your own Orb in 15 seconds!")... But if that's wildly successful, how exactly do you make money?
Why Ctrl-C doesn't kill multithreaded Python scripts, and how to fix it
I think you nailed it. The sites they tend to visit are VERY important to them. Do you remember being a kid? The video game you were playing or movie you watched last night had the higher priority in your life. You don't have to think about too much.

As an adult, you have an amazing branching tree of knowledge and interests. You have to track so much information that everything has to become less important.
I love fantasy football. I'm a real football fan first and foremost, but fantasy football is great fun.

It does not take a lot of time to play fantasy football well, though. Some junkies truly overanalyze to death. Their desire to find an edge is so great that they latch onto some obscure little nugget and convince themselves that it's the secret they need to win.
Yeah, that's what I figured. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to move for an internet connection.

(For those who are wondering, this is an extremely special case -- most home bandwidth in the bay area is in the <10Mbps range, asymmetric. The OP is using a service that's available at only a handful of SF apartment buildings.)
Your response is so elitist it makes me sick. With admittedly little knowledge of genetics, you are willing to claim genetics as an important factor? Women have also been making tools for hundreds of thousands of years and many women are just as passionate as you. Do you even have
any reason to make such a sexist claim as "most [women] lack this internal drive(almost an obsession) I've had since before I can remember"? Why does it even matter at what age someone first became interested in computers? I didn't know what binary, linux, or programming is until first semester of college. It doesn't matter at all now. Attitudes like yours alienate women who might be interested.
a screencast of the app would nice
Urgh. Thanks.

Just in case people are worried, apart from the home page, our app has been well tested on all the major browsers on three platforms (Mac, Win and Ubuntu). We just changed the homepage yesterday, partially for putting up this notice on Hacker News.

I'll get it changed to an image and hotfixed.

Sunny
Spanish inquisition and something about making rats burrowing into pregnant jews or something. Not that religious values are bad and the bible should be removed from print or anything...
Yes, it's true, me and my high school freshman friends really should have had a better grounding in pyrotechnics and demolitions before taking on the projects in the Anarchists Cookbook. Maybe we should have gone to mining school first. I'm sorry.

I'm not sure why this was left as a comment on my comment, though, since it doesn't have anything to do with it. We weren't "resorting to violence", unless "violence against garbage cans" is a political statement to you.

You also appear not to have noticed me crediting my career to the book you think I want to burn.
Oh please!

Michael Phelps was born with his flipper-like feet, does that make him any less of an Olympian? Genetic advantage, financial advantage, it's all the same.

Gates did what he set out to do, a computer on every desktop and in every home. The economies of scale he made possible are why you can buy a PC for what, $300 now? He took computing out of the hands of the "high priests" and gave it to the masses.

Would the state of computing be "better" without him? Define better... It certainly wouldn't be fully mainstream.
It's too soon to say for most startups in the recent classes. From earlier rounds, there have been successful exits like AppJet, ReMail, Reddit, Omnisio, Zenter, as well as startups that appear to be thriving like Loopt, Justin.tv, Weebly, Scribd, AirBnb, Xobni...too many to count. YC started in 2005, and it can take 5 years sometimes to see if a startup is successful, so we'll have to wait and see who makes it big over the next few years.

Judging by the success we've seen so far, it looks like YC is getting better and better each year. We'll see a few solid exits per class in the years to come, and I'll bet it won't be long before we see a massive acquisition on the scale of YouTube which will really catapult YC into the spotlight (what's 6% of $1.65 billion?)
ah... I could see the words with friends people using it then.
Famously Warren Buffett's secretary pays more tax than he does...
Vice Magazine tried a few of the recipes in the book in this video... like the napalm, flaming tennis balls and a rocket assisted skateboard: http://www.vbs.tv/en-ca/watch/from-the-pages-of-vice/anarchi...
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My 90s desktop experience included Windows, one of the pre-nix Mac OS's, and Red Hat. They were all terrible. Windows' propensity to crash was particularly bad, though.

I also used web browsers from Mosaic through the Netscape line, Opera, and IE. As late as 2001, IE was doing its own thing with regards to certain standards, and Frontpage was putting out broken HTML that only IE would render (leaving off /table tags, for example.)

There was plenty to criticize Microsoft for in that era. Seeing as the discussion is "why don't people give Bill Gates his due", I think it's perfectly valid to point out that some people still harbor some resentment from that era.
This reminds me of "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge:
A "coordinator" is someone who combines the efforts of multiple people and this is where the "biggest and most famous money" will be (has been?) found.
See page 50-51,
http://books.google.com/books?id=WT-OXLZE2m8C&q=combine#...
Good catch on the <11 demographic. In my experience, children in that age range tend to be heavy mouse users. They click on the site they want to go to and then click around the site, using the keyboard only when instructed to do so. It's not until around the aforementioned "upper age range" that they start seriously using the keyboard.
But the lack of role models is the reason I didn't get that job - it was nothing to do with me not working in school.

It was all somebody else's fault - those damn role models.

Oh, that and 'da-man' keeping me down.

Actually the lack of women in tech is probably because they realize earlier than guys that if they do a psychology degree they only have to study 6hours/week and get to be a manager over all the engineer types.
Surely you're not talking to the same wealthy that I've been.

What do you think will be the repsonse to, say, a 50% tax rate on the wealthy that they are able to distribute as they see fit (with strict controls such that it doesn't end up back in their own hands, or their family's)?

Yeah, good luck with that.

I see the "but government is inefficient" argument a lot - it would have some merit, if there's even the slightest hint of evidence that the rich would pay the tax even if the government were the most well-greased machine in the world. As it is it sounds like a lame scapegoat for wanting to keep all of your wealth.
Flashbacks to summer 2009 - Twitter has lots of way to make money, and is doing so quite well at present. Sponsored trending topics, ads in the tweet stream, geo things, local things, other kinds of corporate tie ins... I don't know enough to say that X$ billion is worth it on their current business model, but honestly there are lots of way they can (and are) monetizing.
There was a lot of staff on hand so I'm sure if someone got rowdy... "man overboard!". In all seriousness, we got lucky -- everyone enjoyed the event. Food was amazing delicious. I wish they put the recipes online for the food instead of just the cocktail ones..