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But they are supporting XP, until 2014. And they've extended "downgrade rights" to XP Professional until 2020.
This is old news - James Cameron already made a documentary about this place.

edit: My point here, not well made, was that the potential of a discovery of this magnitude, i.e. a virgin planet capable of sustaining humans etc will eventually be exploited and ruined much the same way we have done to earth. The earth or this new planet is not the problem, but the way we exist on it.
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Has anyone seen a video of qwiki? I'm having trouble imagining what it's really like.
It is true, but it's also unfortunate—I think a lot of Haskell's strengths come from its type system. So what makes Haskell worth learning also makes it hard to learn Haskell :)
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With an Orion-type ship we could make it to this thing in a decade (from the time-perspective of the travellers).
I work with my hands. As a computer worker, my brain is tired at the end of the day and my eyes sore while other parts of my body and mind are restless from the day-long sitting station.

So I go on craigslist buy old things which I fix in my garage. Sometimes it's a PC but usually it is something more organic or mechanical like a piece of furniture, or an old mechanical tool. Very restful satisfying and useful. I think working out i still needed though.
Surf.
Play some relaxing games. flOw, Flower, and echochrome are all pretty good. Harvest Moon is also good, but I tend to doze off while playing.
Badgeville is going to be huge. For some reason game mechanics really can affect user on-site behavior. For example, HN would still probably be just as awesome as it is without the karma counter, but there is something about having it there, even though it means absolutely nothing. I care way too much about it -- in a subconscious way. I don't let it affect my commenting, but I would be lying if I said I didn't glance at it, and wasn't aware of it in an almost hypnotic way. It's just there. Maybe it's growing up in the gamer generation that's permanently internalized any on screen score as being important. :) But, yeah, Badgeville has already signed up something like $50K (or was it 500K?) worth of new customer subscription revenues, including TechCrunch. They're just getting started.
The average house in Oak Park is many, many decades old. I don't know what Europeans think of us, but I hope there isn't a stereotype that we live in disposable houses!
> Germans are extremely wealthy so I’m not exactly concerned.

... and fond of footnotes.
Time to blow this popsicle stand! So long, suckers!
IPhone,so cheap??
Friends recommended a iPhone4, so cheap, it is worth buying?
I just visited that site, and those are some of the most bad-ass hammocks I have ever seen.
The keyword here is "estimated value". It is very likely that Peter Thiel did very well, but a 2-3 billion dollar return is not guaranteed.
"A scenario based on this idea was presented in the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle." — also The Forever War by Joe Haldeman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
> no matter where you live you don't need a car [...]

In the city, yes. In the suburbs most people consider a car a necessity to get to work.
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If hot showers are a great ay to relax, cold showers are a great way to reinvigorate yourself. I always feel more energetic and enthusiastic about life after a cold shower.
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I was one of the original users of the site. The article, while good, omits what I think are two of the most important causes.

When CUCommunity was relaunched a CampusNetwork, there was a long period -- several weeks, perhaps months -- when the site was down. Completely. When it came back online as CampusNetwork, a lot of the user base never came back. People who had previously made regular visits to CUCommunity were now using Facebook instead.

The second, and possibly more fatal problem, was that the site community's attention became focused around trolls. Abusive attention-seeking users were often the first people one encountered on the site, and most of the discussion on the site revolved around them.

Facebook's salvation from the latter fate came from the lack of universally accessible communication features: a feature they have yet to implement, perhaps for that very reason.
Weird. It seems like they didn't really know Haskell going into this; not having heard of "Either String" and not knowing that you can get a stack trace when you run your code in ghci.
Berlin is poorer than German average. So I'd take comparisons of Berlin with major metropolitan areas in the US with a grain of salt.
Take long walks around Manhattan by myself with music blasting. (It's amazing how much faster you walk with some good music on, btw)
I think you underestimate the huge price differentials for almost no difference in quality. In fact often quote the opposite. I've seen a factor of 5x in price difference in some cases with virtually no difference in portfolio, mockups, or code quality.
Yep. But we are getting closer.
Yeah, this guy is making a stack of profit but the problem for everyone else is that there can be very few, if only one indy game in this class at a time to get this much attention and be top of mind for such a diverse group of people.

This feels like even more luck than hitting the top lists in the app store. One particular example relevant to hacker news would be Jeff Vogel (http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/), I'd wager that in the long years he has been in the indy game industry nothing has taken off like this, sure hes games aren't really aimed at these type of novel concepts that have to potential to take off but it somewhat illustrates the different between a successful indy games producer and something on the level of success of minecraft currently.
I bike to work, which feels good and offsets a bit of the sitting-on-my-fat-ass all day syndrome. Likewise playing sports (soccer, ultimate frisbee, lately team handball).

Making/crafting things in the real world as opposed to in software is nice. And hearing/watching/playing music, for me mostly a blend of acoustic/bluegrass.
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Sounds like ringworld would be a better fit for that scenario - and vice-versa, even.
I sometimes hope for this outcome, too, but I recognize that, for me, it is as jealousy that I got my project wrong in 03-04.
I'm not specially picky with typography, but they look just fine for me in Ubuntu/Chrome.
This all seems dependent on the planet being tidally locked. How do they know that? Does a certain distance from the sun absolutely guarantee it?
Yep.

The way I see it Yahoo is strategically stuck because they put their head in the sand and stopped "radical" innovation about 10 years ago and instead just focussed on doing what they do extremely well. While Apple, Facebook and Google were out there inventing whole new kinds of product Yahoo was just perfecting their existing stuff. Now they are in a tough spot because the world has moved on and they are fast losing end-user value because they don't have any foot holds in new markets.

Personally - I got a Yahoo! Mail account in 1997 and it was my primary "personal" mail account (as in, what I use with friends and family) until last year. Then I got an Android phone, and it blew Yahoo out of my life because the integration of Google services is simply unparalleled on there. This is slowly happening in all kinds of ways, and its not easy to see what the path out is other than to look 5 years ahead and restart the innovation engine and do some totally radical things, as you say.
It's the same model as the "...news at 11" tease we've heard so many times on TV.
I've also found myself leaning on this analogy to describe the ideal non-technical co-founder. When it comes to dealing with any non-technical problem, you'd damn well better be Mr Wolf and just get shit done.
Tim's Next Book: Go to heaven in just 4 hours a day.

He'll show you how to guarantee entrance into heaven when you pass into the beyond, no matter what sins are committed in real life through a combination of Zen, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism.
I'll point out the blindingly obvious that nobody else can bring themselves to point out - future rounds have likely reduced that original 10% to a somewhat smaller number. There is also a pretty good chance that Thiel has taken some off the table, further reducing his stake.

Still a great investment.
HN user avar posted a link to Phil Plait's writeup in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1741330. Then HN user hartror suggested, "His write up is far more suitable for the HN audience, has plenty of science, grains of salt and uses the very scientific word 'probably' a lot (that isn't a joke)." So I figured it would be worth submitting. It seems to be a more levelheaded commentary on the discovery.
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Is there a Peter Thiel Facts Page, like there is for Chuck Norris? No?
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His write up is far more suitable for the HN audience, has plenty of science, grains of salt and uses the very scientific word "probably" a lot (that isn't a joke).

I agree. I submitted the link fully expecting that it would simply vote up someone else's submission, but apparently it hadn't been submitted yet. Now it has been: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1742200
I almost get the feeling there were doing it just to see if they could. I mean hasn't anyone here ever been tempted to reverse engineer a program or encryption, just to see if they could?
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Did it ever, and this parody stuck in my mind:

Open the pod bay door, please, Hal... Hal, do you read me?

Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Then open the pod bay doors, HAL.

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.

Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?

Although you took very thorough precautions to make sure I couldn't hear you, Dave. I could read your e-mail. I know you consider me unreliable because I use a Pentium. I'm willing to kill you, Dave, just like I killed the other 3.792 crew members.

(etc.)
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This doesn't really surprise me: Yahoo has no vision, its leader is a business wonk (rather than a product person) and they've given away any of their assets that had any value (ie their search market share to Bing).
Loved the final chapter.

At the end of the day, it's not about functions or closures or monads. It's about building something interesting or useful. Whether you used php or arc is not relevant.
I wonder if we ll reach it on a speed-o-light craft or teleport to it?
Do people really believe that if Facebook goes public that it will be worth more than Google when it went public? I want to know the details of how people (i.e. Forbes Magazine) came up with the $33B valuation.
yup, this is why all my personal projects are 90% done. i'll finish the other 90% some other time.
> Think and learn

I think the utility of doing this is often understated. Many of us have been led to believe that if we are "just sitting there" without reading or talking or whatever else, then we are wasting time. I felt this way for a long time, but at the same time I was too lazy to make the trip to the library or carry my heavy laptop onto the bus.

After some time spending my bus rides simply relaxing and thinking, I found myself considering ideas that I really hadn't before. I would suggest to anyone who's interested to try it for a couple weeks and see if it does some good. I suggest taking a notebook to occasionally jot down the ideas you have, but remember that the point is not to write but to let your mind wander and contemplate various topics.
You know what the sad thing is? I was going to apply for YC with this idea. Good thing I have backups..
Yes, I am also quite free of back pains since taking up weight lifting. I do get sore occasionally, but that usually does not hurt.
It's still a bit of a stretch to describe this as habitable in our sense of habitable here on earth. I prefer the phase most earthlike planet. Which in this case is still a fair way off being very similar, as usually there is always the conflict between the scientists that advise caution because of the unknowns in there findings compared to the media which at times skim the first few pages and sensationalize it all.

Will be very interesting to see the results from Kepler in a few years in relation to finding a planet in a similar period at a similar distance to our position in the solar system.
I can't wrap my head around the idea that 300 million deeply interested eyeballs every day is not "worth that much".

It's at least worth more than a staff of six.

Though, I do think Digg has been pretty much valued out of any reasonable exit by raising too much money, and the lack of vision on the part of leadership as exhibited by the tepid new version of Digg (which caters to marketers and major media to the point of absurdity for a "social" site) pretty much insures there's no way to build to something dramatically more valuable. Even if they were to learn from their mistakes, with a staff and infrastructure that big, they'll run out of money before they find their way.
Certain tidal force being exerted I think, it would be a combination of distance and the mass of the star.
I hope we don't hear "Gliese 581g" too much. I think a proper name is in order.
Remember in the 80s how AI was going to allow computers to do all sorts of things that only humans could do well?

Just a few decades down the line, and now computers can get humans to do all sorts of things that only humans can do well.
> and gravity tapers exponentially with distance.

Inverse square law.
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Thanks - I'll look into the css stuff. Yes - we need the personal info to look up your representatives. I guess we could make that more clear. Actually - we used to ask more info. Things like profession, ethnicity etc. It helps us when reporting aggregate data. No one really complained - we just took it out for the moment until we redo some other things.
Problem: Facebook is not worth $33 billion: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
Not smart people.
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So, when exactly are Microsoft going to buy Automattic?
Yahoo is on life support.

Realize this. Kill it. Move on.

They should drop most of their employees and run the company on life support returning capital to shareholders as it dies. They've missed the boat to sell it and now the guys at the top know the writing is on the wall and are bailing before it tarnishes their careers.

No it's not going to be popular but what else can they do.
Do you guys think we'll come up with a catchy name for this planet (or future "habitable" planets discovered?) Any idea how that naming process would work?

I can't imagine seeing "Gliese 581g" in headlines for years to come.
We're not talking about super huge successful companies, we're talking about the rational thing for a first time entrepreneur to do, and that's take the billion dollars and run. Zuck followed his heart, not his head. That's perfectly fine to do, but he played against the odds. While it worked out, it's akin to winning the lottery.

No one's telling Zuck what to do, so I don't know what it is you don't understand. We're just analyzing the logic of what he did after the fact. You're too hung up on the winners like Google, Microsoft, and Apple, but you're forgetting about the thousands and thousands of never-weres who were sunk because of exactly this kind of rash decision making against the odds. What Zuck did was not good business, it was luck; that attitude is not something to emulate. Had any of his competitors delivered Facebook could have easily gone down in flames and they'd all have been wishing they took the billion.

Ask yourself this, would it be wise for the typical startup founder in his early 20's on his first startup to turn down a billion dollar acquisition? I submit the answer is a most definite no. If you disagree, please do explain your rationale.
That's what I assumed too. I wonder how they handle the causality problems with FTL communication?
Interesting how the game "cheats" in the players favor in order to give a better/more forgiving experience.

This reminds me of the mobile UI recommendations of making the hit boxes for buttons be larger than the button graphic, to forgive sloppy gestures.
>The rationale behind your 'upside' is that it potentially improves the voter's social status.

That's my primary reason, yes. However, I also believe that if people can see you upvote their posts even while you post a dissenting comment, you will see better conversations for the reasons I outlined in my original post; you are showing you respect the other person and his point, even though you may disagree.
I think Ram Shriram's Google investment was probably better. Here is a list of some more http://www.suite101.com/content/greatest-venture-capital-inv....

Also, there is some debate over the $24 the dutch bought Manhattan for from the Indians. Jury is still out on that one.
Absolutely - the very first thing I did was disable every automatic mail setting. It's 100% manual now.

The key data point is that a _reboot_ of the phone, and then doing nothing but making phone calls, results in pretty good battery life for three (sometimes four) days.

But, I'm frequently tempted to click on some apps (zillow, maps, safari) - and then, if I don't reboot the phone, I'm down to 0% within a maximum of 16 hours, regardless of how careful I close all of my apps with the backgrounder tool.

I love my iPhone so much, that this is more interesting than upsetting. But I'd _really_ love to know what, precisely, is pulling the battery down.
Great story, but don't leave us hanging. Just how did she know it was awk code?
User engagement. A visitor that spends hours on the site each day, producing content in the form of discussion, is worth a lot more than a visitor that drops in for two minutes in order to spew some spam into the queue, and then leave. I don't think there's any question that the reddit community is more engaged than the digg community...a brief perusal of the comments at both sites will quickly eliminate any doubt.

As for revenue, I said that more pageviews and much faster growth from a much leaner organization was better. There were several variables in my statements.

Besides, it is not a small difference in pageviews. It's ~40%! Which pretty much certainly equates to more visits and more unique visitors than digg.

No matter how you slice it, though, digg is a 100+ person operation that is generating less value to consumers than a 6 person operation. Value to consumers is a reasonable proxy for the kind of revenue you can generate from a site. They just haven't found the formula for monetizing it yet. It doesn't mean the value isn't there.
This might be nth time I am hearing a news "Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered". Nothing happens after that.
That may be, but coming from Toronto, Ontario, there are a lot of cycling events/rides/etc. It's totally awesome once a year, they shut down the bridges for cyclists (even the I-5 bridge).

Last summer (2009), I was biking a 15 mile round-trip to work, and I wasn't really running into issues, but I was also riding very defensively.

[I will admit that I wasn't a cyclist in Toronto, but -- as I understand it -- it is very bike-hostile (though there are bike couriers). If you think that the west-coast drivers in Portland are crazy, don't move to the east-coast...]
Ha, I love the idea, but I have no idea how it would be implemented. If you want to make it, go ahead. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested. I'll come back once I understand how the internet works.
"we’ve almost totally depleted this planet, we can just go to this one that is 21 light-years away."
Or a system of shades orbiting the planet, or stationed between the planet and its sun. But by blocking sunlight the overall temperature of the planet would get colder.

Perhaps it has a large habitable moon that does rotate?
Ultimately, what are you implying? Am I wrong? Awk (any implementation) isn't as fast as C, LuaJIT, or OCaml. It's likely to be good enough for many things, though (certainly prototyping), and it's definitely convenient for quick scripts.
Time will tell. At this time... it's safe to say it wasn't the worst investment.
To be fair, that's not limited to astronomy, or even science - the vast majority of all news stories result in 'nothing happens'.
yahoo was a great site to play on. endless targets.
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Starting a company is never a safe bet. Every step along the way as you build a successful company, you have opportunities to sell. By your logic, you would sell at the first opportunity in the low millions.

Clearly, that wouldn't have been the right move, but it would have been the safe move.

The right way to think about selling a company depends on what your goals are. People are motivated by different things. Some entrepreneurs are motivated mostly by money, some mostly by recognition, and others by being influential/changing the world.

If you go with the money because you're a first time entrepreneur, there's a great chance that Facebook would be your one significant company in life, and you would have bailed out without seeing it to its conclusion. At the end of the day, depending on your personal goals, that might be a failure for you, personally.
That doesn't say much. How can you know for sure that such a planet will be tidally locked? At low orbital radii, you even get relativistic effects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Per...
Perhaps if Yahoo is worth $19 billion, Facebook is worth $30.
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You're right about dilution, but it's very unlikely that he's taken money out.
Sorry - have to ask: how do you post things to the ask section?
I posted a couple of things without urls and they went into the new section.
Download Unity (http://www.unity3d.com). It's free, it's got great tools, and you can make games for the browser / PC / OSX.

It's better than a lot of internally-developed "professional" engines I've been forced to work in, over the years.
Yup. And also by Sagmeister, the logo for Oporto's Casa da Musica works in a similar vein: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/the_17_s...

Closer to our startup hearts, Dopplr also does interesting stuff with their logo, by creating user-specific logos, being each of the colors of the logo the colors of the most recent cities the visitor was at.

Who said identity had to be static :-)