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Mike Moritz’s Midas Touch And Thoughts On Future Great Entrepreneurs
Soviet shuttle "Buran" found in the trash
And thus making it compete with a product that's freely available.

I don't think that will work.

It would work if Solaris was something people really desired. Right now, it's not. People are very happy with Linux and need some incentive to move to Solaris. Paying more is not a good one.
it could be that MS wants to re-focus on its strength: desktop OS. This might be a sign that MS position its software to be the traffic directors to preferred 3rd-party partners who are the best-of-the-breed in their respective market. In Windows past, MS first releases OS w/o important applications/features, let 3rd-parties fill in the niche, then develops features that won market acceptance. A modified version of this strategy might be simply making deals w/ 3rd-party web-sites to monetize the traffic.

If this is the thinking behind closing MS Live Blogs, then, yes, it's a tactical retreat but actually a step forward in their strategy.

The more interesting question might be how much of Windows Mobile OS influences this decision.
Having been in this situation before, my recommendation is put in place milestone based equity compensation.

Everyone starts out at 0 equity which increases to some predetermined maximum upon accomplishment of agreed upon milestone. So if you're a developer and have business partner, that partner would get 10% for securing a distribution partnership with another site of a certain size. He may receive another 10% for securing a certain level of investment funds. You get the idea.

I haven't tried this yet, but will certainly be using this model for future ventures. I won't be just giving up 50% equity unless the partner is a rock star with clear evidence of past accomplioshments
Or, people who are atheists and agnostics tend to be better educated, because having time to grapple with religious choices --- and, more importantly, the wherewithal to walk away from the community that provides your second most important support system --- is a "first world problem".

The survey methodology at Pew does not indicate that they weighted to account for socioeconomics, which in some cases religion is a proxy for.
I agree that nothing is completely neutral, there always is a bias. But if you allow your bias to get in the way of serving your primary goal (the transparent release of information that was otherwise hidden from the general public) then you could do a lot worse than to try not to let your bias get in the way of the reporting.

Julian Assange has failed that test in a very bad way, the 'collateral damage' release claimed at least one unexpected victim, which was the image of integrity of wikileaks.

The weird thing is that I find myself agreeing with Assagnes agenda but I strongly disagree with the way he went about releasing that information.
And I'd be very surprised if anywhere near 50% of Java programmers had ever heard of James Gosling. In fact, I'd be mildly surprised if 50% of Python programmers have heard of GvR.
A game with the action shown on the TV and the interface shown on an iPad would be awesome. Imagine the incredible UI ideas that would be possible if you had the entire screen as your canvas.

Reminds me of the Optimus Tactus keyboard concept: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/
Why No Women Want To Be On A “Women In Tech” Panel
I see it as:
there is a correlation between general religious groups and level of knowledge and education, and between level of knowledge and education and doing well on tests.
> it's far more likely that the object passed was None than that it was a completely different type than the one expected.

FYI, None is a completely different type than the one expected.
Any particular reason you can't go to your boss and ask what you can do in your dead time to help move the company forward?
Also this question is probably particularly confusing to Americans, who hear about Martin Luther King Jr far more often than they hear about Martin Luther.
A few points:

- Apple is pushing the boundaries of minimalism with their industrial design (to absurd levels in cases like the control-free iPod Shuffle). This is not necessarily better design, but it is the currently fashionable design. I would argue that the single button interface on the iPhone/iPad is an example of moving too far towards minimalism (from a purely functional perspective). The same button now performs different functions depending on how many times you press it and where you are when you press it, yet there is plenty of room for a second button.

- In my opinion, Apple's software is a mixed bag. I love the user experience in iOS, and OSX is my favorite desktop operating system, but I think iTunes is among the worst commonly used desktop applications available.

- All of these devices will be judged on categories beyond hardware/software in the future. For example, I expect a phone's ability to connect with important services to become increasingly scrutinized. It seems like it will only be a matter of time before we're all using something like Google Voice to manage our phone numbers. A device's ability to interface with these types of critical services could very easily become the killer app.

- A small point, but I think the comparison between a MacBook Pro an a Lenovo is a bit odd. ThinkPads are not far off from Apple in terms of build quality and are certainly more durable.
It seems to me that you and previous commenter accept only binary outcomes:

0) either there is 100% inequality (which is where America seems to be headed now)

1) or there is 100% equality (that previous commenter likens to nuclear war)

That seems to me to stem from polarisation of those issues by American media: you're either rich hard working patriotic american or muslim terrorist commie.

No wonder you get the same partisan politics in Parliament and Obamas and Palins as leaders.

Well, in my world aka ROW there are larger inequalities and there are smaller inequalities and when the pendulum swings too much in one direction it's time for society to rethink something, not engage in witch hunt.

Anyway, this whole topic is too tiresome by now. After all it's called American Dream, not European or Asian Dream. Go figure it out for yourselves!
Ask HN: Viable to implement an online marketplace that holds payments in escrow?
I am thinking about building an online marketplace for a certain set of products/services. Due to the nature of this set of products/services, it is not viable for the seller to be paid out until he has fully delivered on this product/service. In other words, I would need to hold funds between two parties in escrow until a future date that when the terms agreed upon by both parties are met. Besides the execution and implementation of such a system, I know that this opens up a can of legal worms (e.g. "how long can I hold someone's money?"). So my question is, what are the basic legal considerations I need to make, and are there any examples of marketplaces/services with similar implementations that have worked successfully?
> Or the Delicious guy who worked at G

This comes across very weird...

I know... Wrong website for jokes like these. Couldn't help.
I just saw a Microsoft recruiting video last night that perfectly illustrated this point. (In true MSFT fashion, it's not available online.) It was pretty awesome - splitting apart a "phone" into two panes to do a video call with one screen in front of you, and one up to the ear to better hear/speak; moving a document from a wall to a table to a phone; etc. etc.

I've had a dream that someday the White Sox would build a stadium where Meigs Field once stood with the wall behind the bleachers being entirely made of transparent glass. You could have a view of the most beautiful skyline in the world during action, but it'd turn into the most amazing widescreen scoreboard/video screen for replays and stats during breaks in the action.
"The phone interviews were conducted in English and Spanish in May and June. There were not enough Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu respondents to say how those groups ranked. "

So how valueble is this research when...

1. Islam is the second largest religion in the world representing over 1.5 billion people

2. Hinduism is the forth largest religion in the world representing over 900 million

In my honest opinion, it's a complete waste of time.

Just my $0.02 worth

Facts taken from: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
If they ever found one, they'd just rewrite the test with harder questions until people stopped getting it right, then write the headline

Basic <subject> Test Stumps Many Americans

because the alternative headline

Most Americans Do Reasonably Well on Basic <subject> Test

would never appear in the New York Times, and if it did it wouldn't be discussed here.
Perhaps true that some good and great programmers get snapped up by people who know them and never need to look at a job board.

It's not true in general however that good and great programmers don't have to go through the normal channels to find jobs. I encounter many extremely talented programmers who weren't just snapped up by their network of colleagues.
We do not decide what is in the eye of the public, which is not the same as in the public interest, the media does.

And when your main goal is to spit the worlds governments and corporations in the eye you can be 100% sure that your private life will sooner or later be subject to scrutiny, and it would be advisable to lead as boring a private life as you can manage under those circumstances because the more 'colour' a character has the easier character assassination becomes.

Ideally an organization like wikileaks is just known for the quality of its output, not because of the name of the 'leader' or the antics of its members, just to make sure the attention does not get diverted from the message and to give any opposition as few points of potential leverage as possible.
> managed to help put people at risk.

None of which were harmed. While countless people are put at risk everyday by the wars that continue there. Yep.
I'm also skeptical that hardware is going to level off in this market. No matter how sharp the screens are, something that can fit in your pocket will always have too small of a screen. I imagine the next big jump will be some method (glasses, projection, whatever) which will enable apparent screen sizes larger the device. And I think Apple could again be a leader.
Wow Gruber has a great theory. He thinks that the announced feature of Airplay will appear on the new AppleTV. Answer: ...yeah.

Inter-device compatibility will be complicated by having a new platform. But there will likely be a similarity between the iPad and the Apple TV. The AppleTV will be 1280x720 and the iPad is 1024x768.

At any rate, the touching will be through other IOS devices or possibly after-market controllers. But it's true, in general it won't make so much sense in terms of the binary on your iPad compared to the Apple TV.

The ecosystem is rich, but I'm not sure sure about about universal applications that can go from iPad to iPhone to AppleTV. For games you're going to have a lot of graphics slogging around for each version, and the app's size will suffer. You may also want to charge each separately.
Yeah it looks like the people who actually posted analytics data in that post are backing up the claim that 1024x768 is no longer the gold standard even though it is still perceived that way..

From W3: 76% have a higher resolution than 1024x768. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
What a waste...
Understood; however, I would argue that consumers (ignoring early adopters) don't look at the parts individually.

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

IMO Apple won't cease to be the leader in hardware design. Even as things trend toward being all glass, they will still find innovative ways to create beautiful products that bring together all of their competitive advantages. Example: iPhone 4
"As best you can tell" is not a good measure.

An example of what is seemingly innocuous data that was classified for a reason and puts our guys in danger.

A battle report with times in it can be used to basically figure out response time for air support to a given location in Iraq/Afghanistan.

That basically tells the enemy how long they have for their ambush before they should break off.

If they know that time is 20 minutes instead of 5 minutes, they may be more inclined to stick around and put our troops in more danger. If they know the time is 5 minutes when they had thought it was 20 minutes, they bail sooner than they would have otherwise and now we can't kill as many as we would have otherwise, again reducing the effectivness of our troops.

Can you quantify that? How do you know if the insurgents are just getting smarter or if it is from the leak? We can't say for sure but it is very plausible that the wikileaks information was damaging to our troops in the field, even if it didn't have a roadmap to the informants house.
Someone still has to fund them...
The other half of the first quote:
as well as two religious minorities: Jews and Mormons.

Which also makes sense, because they usually know about their own religion and also the majority religion.
things like this remind me about backyard steel furnaces of the Great Leap Forward
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace
If you're using zsh, you should try adding this to your .zshrc

bindkey '\e[A' history-search-backward
bindkey '\e[B' history-search-forward

It tells zsh to search backward and forward in the history for any line starting with the same string as what is currently entered when you press the up and down arrow... Helps saves a lot of time compared to always just using Ctrl-r.

I think there's an equivalent for bash, but I don't know it...
The basic legal consideration you need to make is: talk to a lawyer.

Seriously. If you're going to go through with this plan, you're going to need a lawyer anyway-- so, view the initial consultation as an interview.
This logic says that it's OK to put people at risk as long as someone else is putting those same people at greater risk.
What an artificial distinction to make! Perl 5 exists as it is for the sake of backwards compatibility. Very few misfeatures suffer deprecation, few deprecations experience removal, and almost any code example you can find as far back as 1987 runs unmodified on Perl 5.13.x (whichever monthly release is the most recent).

I also find it difficult to compare language features between Python and Ruby or Perl when neither Python nor Ruby can get lexical scoping right. That seems like a very basic principle of language design.

Update: I forgot to write that Perl 6 is the Perl version which explores improvements in the core language.
Futuristic Food Court by Blade Runner's Set Designer, Syd Mead
It was already announced that it used the A4. So it would have been pretty crazy if it wasn't running a variant of iOS. But it's good news, I doubt there won't be an app store on it. But it is hard to tell how soon that will be. Maybe we'll have to just enjoy jailbroken apps first and then wait for Apple to announce the compatibility.
If this article is any indication, Apple needs to seriously needs to improve it's software. I love my Mac, I love the environment, but there are so many lost and forgotten pieces to their software that it's highly frustrating.

Take iChat, for example. So limited, even the supposed features it has do not work (Bonjour for iChat fails to work to let me and my wife chat via her MBP and my iMac). Indeed, the entire Bonjour system and file sharing is so annoying and cumbersome. Finder can see the other computer, but it can't actually go there, even when they are sitting next to each other.

Then you have iTunes. iTunes loves to create duplicate music files. The best part is, when I tell iTunes "Yes, control the management of my music" I suddenly end up with three copies of every song. Then there is the disappearing devices. Why, my iPhone/iPad/AppleTV where there a minute ago. My iPad/iPhone are still plugged in. Why can't I access them anymore?

Then their is iPhoto. Which controls movies. And photos. Sort of. Movies!? In iPhoto? iMovie uses iPhoto to import movies? And then outputting movies is so confusing. So many different options, and then you can't just have iTunes pick it up, you have to load up iTunes, tell it to import the movie, and going through numerous other steps to get it onto your Apple TV.

But back to iPhoto. You ever create a slide show with iPhoto? I did. iPhoto is the only application I know that showed me a preview of the movie it was going to create, and then the output changed the complete order of the pictures. How does this happen?

Let's not forget the harassment iPhoto inflicts on users by default whenever you plug anything in. It snatches focus away, loads up, just to import. Oh, sure, you can set your iPhone to import quietly, but even having done it, I forget where the setting is buried.

And then there is the default way you install software. Now, I know, it's simple enough, right? No, it's annoying. I have to drag an icon into a folder? And then I have to dig through that folder and find a generic icon just to find the application, and then launch it. Why not just let me click a button to install, and then be like "Hey, you just installed this app, which means, you probably want to run it, well, do you?"

And that's just the beginning. Let's not forget Time Machine randomly barfing because your Time Machine drive suddenly lost power, or not importing pictures as events by default properly, or just countless other problems.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a Mac user. My house hold is filled with Apple products (1 iMac, 1MBP, original AppleTV, iPhones, iPods, iPad). But if Apple wants to compete on the software end, they need to up their game and really focus on finishing their half-complete products.

Edit: To be fair, I think Apple can do it. They don't have to do everything, but what they do, they have to do well. And that means not abandoning projects simply because they lose interest.
Part of the article says that "the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group."

Assuming that the article was written well, I would assume that they are referring to the average young, single, childless man.
Poll: Do you use private domain registration?
Please feel free to comment. Some suggestions, in no particular order:

1) For those who sometimes do and sometimes don't, what are your criteria?

2) Do you feel more unprotected about domain owenership under private registration? Is the domain owner technically another party?

3) As long as it's legal and a court doesn't request more information, is the registration really private?
For most domains
For some domains
Also, some HTML5 types are used for inputs: number, range. Of coure they fall back to simple type=text if not supported, but everything works fine on Safari 5.
"None of which were harmed"

How the hell can you know that? It is impossible to prove that the classified information hasn't led to higher danger for our troops, and there certainly have been plenty of casualities since July.
I'm sure that it won't be long before you'll see the reflections of that quote in the mainstream media, but I find that it is not as relevant as you make it out to be.

This person has as little insight in the situation on the ground as the rest of us, only the people on the ground in the relevant countries can make that call.

Whether wikileaks 'managed to help put people at risk' is an open question, afaik there has yet to be given a single hard piece of evidence that that is the case.

And even if it did, I'm still not convinced that makes releasing such information 'bad'.
Their desirability in the market is due to their education, not their gender.
Is this really germane to HN? Does it really 'gratify your intellectual curiosity'? To me it looks a lot more like "hah hah, gotcha!".
For starters, you have to pay for the distribution of the energy from a massive gas turbine, including maintenance salaries, capital investment in the energy network, marketing, insurance of all of the above, interest on capital expenditure to build the turbine, etc etc etc. A Bloom Box's energy is consumed immediately where it is generated.
Having a PM who is just a PM may not be very valuable with two or three guys, but a technical guy not focused on pure coding can be definitely helpful once you get bigger than that.

Once the company has a bit of traction, especially, there is a need for someone to take on alot of the technical "buffer" roles. Things such as customer support, documentation, budgeting/scheduling, vendor relationships, and other tech-related tasks that the bus dev guys can't really do well.

These are all things that your coders could deal with, sure, but eliminating the distractions can definitely make your team more efficient.
>incentivizes outside investment by offering a 100% exclusion from capital-gains taxes on small-business investments;

Thats certainly interesting and possibly relevant to angel funding, no?
This is probably not uncommon, and I've always thought that it's a bit of a value theft from shareholders who don't have leverage via large ownership or active employment. It's also a good reason to not exercise startup options unless you think the company will be a hit (medium and low value acquisitions tend to have relatively large payouts to employees staying on board).
My guess would be it's because the comment was factually incorrect.

From an ad-blocking perspective, the Google AJAX Libraries CDN and the rest of Google's properties are in no way related. The Google API, Libraries CDN, and supporting documentation is the only thing on the googleapis.com domain.
I like the idea that random people sitting in chairs in front of computers in Western Europe and the US should be able to decide to put Afghanis and Pakistanis at great physical risk because it's for a good cause. That is, after all, the logic our governments used to get us into this conflict.
I also find it interesting that its listed as destroyed on the wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
Really RHEL just leads you directly towards the correct conclusion (that Debian tries to talk you out of) — treat the distro system as a general starting point, and install everything directly relevant to your usage from upstream. Use the distro packages for native dependencies, not applications you really care about.

Nonsense.

I have yet to see a distro that could meet all the requirements for a non-trivial production deployment out-of-the-box. And I have seen all of the big names in production.

When it comes down to the runtime environment then you're always rolling your own packages in one way or another, regardless of the underlying linux distro.

The value of a linux distribution is not related to how it bundles the language runtime de jour. Those are inherently moving targets and no matter what distro you look at, they're always outdated and always wrongly packaged for your particular use-case.

The value of a distro mostly stems from how it keeps all the other mundane maintenance and infrastructure headaches out of your face while you're busy keeping your runtime in shape.

Praising RHEL/yum over apt in this context seems mildly hilarious.
That was actually my question. :)

I'm sure CS PhD's are in good shape but breaking into ML from another programming discipline seems pretty hard.
Someone needs to teach the ruby guys what "regression testing" is then.

Unless you are - for some reason - relying on a bug, there's no reason not to have the current stable release of any library.
We are in the process of writing up and hiring three positions from Associate director to database admin here at KU for Institutional Research (the focus is on machine learning and prediction). I'd say it's a fair indicator in a 'business' that's faced 2%-8% annual budget cuts in the past three years that people even here are paying attention.

From my IR background - it's about bloody time.