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Steve Jobs on design: "It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works"

This applies just as much to infrastructure as it does to anything customer-facing. To a non-programmer, for example, sendmail, nginx, and mongrel2 may all look like user-hostile crap. To a developer or administrator, it's easier to discern the differences in the design of this part, which is itself a major part of the usability of a webserver.
Couldn't get the kids off his lawn? I can totally sympathize.
fwiw, a similar game was already released to the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiki-hunt-the-wikipedia-game/...

In case you weren't aware.
I think it's brilliant. You get the benefits of having many more eyes on your code than you might be able to afford early on, which is huge.

Besides, there are examples of SaaS working for OSS apps not even invented by the vendor. Hosted SVN and Trac, for example, Github for git, and so on. There's also Magento, an OSS e-commerce product where the model is to give away the software and bill for the consulting to customize it.

So it's not crazy to give away your source and find the revenue elsewhere. If you make something good enough for another business to steal, you've got validation and who knows, perhaps a consulting client.
This really doesn’t have the same panache without the variable-sized red and green letters.
Thanks. Always good to learn new things. I'm an Indian but wasn't aware of this particular advantage OSS is bringing out here. (May be because I have never been involved in a Masters/PhD program.)
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Core to post your config files somewhere?
Don't shoot the messenger.

His message:

Before our arrogant, materialistic society hits the next iceberg or 'crash', it would be wise to create technology for the long-term survival of humanity and habitability of Earth. What problems are more important to solve?

"The risk is that by focusing an entire generation of bright young entrepreneurs on such silly things, we’ll fall behind in creating the fundamental building blocks of our economy. The transistor and the integrated circuit gave rise to the last half century of prosperity. But what comes next? "If we distract people with the lure of easy money, with making companies that don’t solve anything hard, we’re going to wind up derailing the thing that has been driving our economy," Myhrvold says."
This is (IMHO) very opposite to what this article says - http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/startup.htm

Vivek talks about gathering experience before you start/join a startup (I think he mostly talks about starting a startup, rather than working for one), while Philip talks about why you should work for a startup right after your undergrad.
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The same way youtube is legal?
My view of Canada is that they have a large amount of natural resources, some even renewable natural resources, on a per-person basis. The USA has a large amount of natural resources as well, however, 10 times the population to spread it amongst.
That implies:

(a) we know what comes next

(b) we know what today's entrepreneurs are focused on

(c) we know what we are currently focused on will not help us achieve (a)

Counter:

(a) we don't really know what comes next

(b) heck, we don't really know what all stuff folks are working on. Just because there are two well-known start-ups called Twitter and Facebook does not mean there aren't dozens of start-ups doing stuff with hardware and medicine. Don't blame the media's love affair with Twitter and Facebook to entrepreneurs not working on challenging stuff.

(c) Lastly, these things the author sees as play may very well have a key role in solving the problems of tomorrow.

If we distract people with the lure of easy money...

The dot-com bubble ended a long time ago.
School gives you three things: Exposure to a range of scenarios, a safe place to screw up, and someone who knows what they're doing to show you the right way to do it. Like everything else in life, though, you get out what you put in - you can't just show up for four years and magically expect to know what you're doing. There's still a whole hell of a lot to be gained if you do more than just the rote assignments, though, and I'd wager four years spent actively learning at a university yields better than four years studying by yourself for equal levels of commitment.
In Buffett's early days (when he was returning over 30% year after year) he did lots of arbitrage. He mostly got out of it in the 1960s. Taleb probably doesn't know about that.
A bet on Canada is a bet on the commodities markets, plain and simple. Canada is fucked if Bob Prechter is right. Canada does great if Jim Rogers is right.
There are two problems there: first, most of the features that make a house comfortable in hot weather without AC, like huge windows for good air circulation, make it more expensive to cool with AC. Second, while the various features make a house more comfortable than many houses without them, they are still nowhere near as comfortable as an air conditioned house.
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Newsweek, a/k/a the poster boy of declining circulation, (from 3.1 million in 2007 to 1.5 or less in 2010) lecturing others on how to run their business?

(source: http://idsgn.org/posts/newsweek-can-a-redesign-save-a-dying-... )
"To build a business, you need to understand subjects like finance, marketing, intellectual property and corporate law."

Many colleges, especially small ones, have absolutely nothing in these subjects. As for the ones that do, many successful founders and MBA holders tell me to be suspicious of said programs' ability to prepare one for actual entrepreneurship (as opposed to writing academic papers about entrepreneurship).

I personally did finish college (this year), majoring in physics with minors in math and computer science. I attended a small liberal arts college with no practical business classes, of which I took 3 by hacking around the system. The physics major taught me how to get projects done, work efficiently and endure recurring high-stress situations. The math minor taught me that I suffocate in a room with too many mathematicians. The CS minor was really a collection of "X cool research area has Y," which is occasionally relevant. I definitely learned in a college, though I've yet to reach a conclusion on whether it was "worthwhile." I wish I'd taken more theatre and had more fun.

I'm much more weary of grad school. As far as I can tell, college is more about exploring and learning general life lessons, while grad school buys you specialization. Specialization has power; most tech companies recognize this and hire PhDs as soon as they can afford to. But I currently have every reason to think that great founders are better off as generalists. Specialists get pulled in to support specific areas. Furthermore, while I admire those who were born to do one thing and do it well, I'm not one of them. I have very little idea what I would study. I certainly don't intend to spend my life researching a narrow subfield of physics. Unlike in college, I couldn't spend the 1st 2 years of a PhD or masters program field hopping. Occasionally someone tempts me with an interdisciplinary program; maybe I'll try one of these someday. Part of the draw of entrepreneurship is how multifaceted it appears.

I have every reason to believe that for recent college grads dreaming of startups, the best way to get experience is by trying it. That's exactly what I'm doing at the moment. I also tried to form a startup in college. That didn't go too well. Now I'm starting up full time.
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Step 1 assess the level of fraud for the given type of product your selling. I ran and ecommerce site that sold over 100 Million dollars with of product in its lifetime and had only 1 case of credit card fraud.
If you still think its a problem check out verified by visa.
I know your using Paypal but you might get some pointers there.
a harvard (or UIUC, stanford, cornell, MIT, UCB) CS grad can easily make 70k$ a year right out of college and much more in future. 100k$ tuition might be an issue for liberal arts and communication majors, but surely not for a CS major (assuming he is good enough to have a successful startup in first place).
My question is Email Tracing is Succesful In India ! and their are many other tehniques which helps in tracing nad ttracking.If a Criminal has Signed up an email form annoymous server and saves its message in Drafts of the Inbox and tells its Partner the Password to the mail how one can Track That PersoN! . WHo is iMplementing messages through Drafts .
Google is aiming into the future. Targeting legacy systems can be a great way to solve customer pain and get easy users, but it's usually not a long term growth strategy.
I think you might be misunderstanding his proposal. He suggested raising $50k from 5 investors at a $500k post-money valuation, implying that you're selling 10% of your company to the investors in return for $50k -- and not that you're somehow giving them a free 10x.
I think Twitter has immense value. And I would be happy to see it go public and achieve $billions in market cap. Cant say the same thing about facebook or zynga.

sometimes i feel like facebook is that waste-of-my-time show that i get pulled into when i switch on my tv. it sucks up time from my life i will never get back.
> Having built systems that traded quadrillions in notional value (and in the process made a small percentage of that in profit), I think I have an idea what I'm talking about and how to play this game.

You continue to confuse a flash order as used by the exchange to broker/dealer internalization.
Sounds like an xkcd comic involving the guy with the hat.
I have no ideas what those people are talking about in some of their arguments. However, I'll keep the allegation about Taleb in mind.
It's very refreshing to see someone write about their ideas and at the same time, demonstrate them with a real product. It's more than most people do when they proclaim things like what he has in his essay. Zed is someone worth listening to.
Hardly ever use it, but we have, for example, used the tricks to count the number of set bits found in Hacker's Delight :)
We've entered the hypothetical realm here..clearly some people have had different experiences when it comes to interacting with "Lispers". Maybe they asked the wrong question or they acted like jerks, who knows.

And most adult programming communities have something worse than the "Rock Star" stereotype: the "Authority". For Lisp in particular, there are plenty who struggle for that title.

PS. Indeed, "I pushed 20 of my projects to Github"...who cares, is anyone of them any good?
Try watching an NFL game on justin.tv. Sure, you can find one. But the majority of the links are spam and attempts to get you to sign up at some other streaming site. When you do actually manage to find a game, it will often stop without warning. So yes, they apparently do respond pretty promptly to DMCA takedown requests.
You are making a mistake. It ultimately comes down to the drive that powers you.

If you are in it to be a billionaire then you're looking at it in the wrong way. It's a testament to the quixotic nature of life that you never, ever get what you're looking for.

I am in it to learn and grow as a human being, while trying to figure out what it means to be me on this ball of rock and liquid metal. I don't care if my start up makes a million dollars or a billion or a ridiculous trillion. I will work towards that goal, but my first priority is creating something beautiful and keep showing up everyday no matter what.

So, where does an education come in over here? Are colleges the only way I can learn in my life? Except for a few fields where direct intervention from a teacher is required I can learn a lot of things on my own. Whenever I face any problems whatsoever there is something called the internet to collaborate on.

Then again the question arises, why do people still fail? We're back to my initial point; drive. You can be an autodidact only if you are driven enough and there is a voice inside of you that tells you that you need to learn. Some people need flogging and "discipline" to do the same thing. They need to go to an institution to internalize things and get things done under a Damocles sword (exams).

Most people are like that. Some aren't and this is the difference between them zuckerburgs and me.
> If I'm not mistaken (and I might be, it's been awhile since I looked), Interactive Brokers were flashing their clients orders up until recently as well; they didn't call it flashing, they called it "smart routing" -- but if you opted out, you paid routing fees whereas if you opted in, those fees would often be waived.

IB has two types of routing, SMART routing and direct routing. SMART routing allows IB to seek the best price possible in the various liquidity sources it knows about. Direct routing sends your order directly to an exchange, where it may be matched, booked, or routed according to NMS rules. This has 0 to do with flash orders.
A.) It's called intuition for a reason. No one in the current paradigm sees the next one out, except maybe the brave scientist or artist who is peering over the horizon.

B.) He or I never said there aren't ANY startups that are solving real problems, just that most are starting out chasing the shallow end of potential. Much of it can be attributed to people having to find a way to survive in a rapidly changing world.

C.) You can use all the rhetoric you want, the bottom line is: the more minds there are collaborating to realize human potential, eliminate needless suffering, and healing our planet, the better. There is simply nothing else worth pursuing that has lasting value.
urgh.. I have no idea how this turned into me defending Winer since I only wanted to respond to the Pilgrim posts which were FUD (the two examples you originally posted).

You don't have to convince me that either of these guys are nutters - I know it all too well.

My point is that there are two sides to this story (well, 4 really) - that RSS popularized feeds and that in the past 10 years despite all the effort nothing has been made easier for devs, if anything it is even more complicated (esp with the namespace extensions from iTunes)
I don't see how direction solves the problem. Wouldn't you need a weighted graph to encode the timeline?
We expect user to capture data at end of machine usage when final stats are being displaced. User does not have to hold it during entire exercise.
We plan to use image recognition to read LCD, we would be as fast as Red Laser App extract data from image.
All you do is work, eat and sleep, you're on a corporate treadmill, your bank account is negative, and you're fed up? You should be! Sounds like even though thinking around a corner is hard, you need to plan more! You need to plan to get out of debt, to live within your means and to do things more fulfilling than just working.
They should have flown him to South Africa for surgery instead of 20 hours to San Jose.
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Oh man, I think I see the nick of a high school girlfriend on there with a disreputable number. Thankfully that relationship predates the chart.
Fresh Fruits or Phentermine?
Ask HN: Legal Issues With Domain Name?
I was reading the story earlier about the guy who received a C&D from eBay (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727747), and it got me thinking about a domain I was planning to use for a site I'm (slowly, painfully slowly) building.

I came up with the name while I was listening to a Beatles song, and the song title jumped out at me as being perfect for my site. Well, not the exact song title, of course, but definitely inspired by it.

Now, the site has nothing to do with the Beatles, nor music in general, so I don't think it's a problem, but I don't know enough about the law to determine if this sort of "inspired by / play on the name" sort of name could get me in trouble.

I haven't registered the name yet, mostly because financially I can't throw money at something I may not finish (soon), so I'd prefer not to give the name here.

As an example, let's pretend I'm making a site for apartment hunters, called HelterShelter.com. Would that get me into trouble? This might not be the best example since a normal person would probably make that association, but I don't think they necessarily would with my idea.

I'm in Canada, in case that makes a difference.

Thanks.
...the more minds there are collaborating to realize human potential, eliminate needless suffering, and healing our planet, the better. There is simply nothing else worth pursuing that has lasting value.

Please explain how in the early days of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs you'd know that they were going to help humanity?

The whole heal-the-planet argument is very different from do-something-challenging. You and the author of the article seem to be confusing the two. Which one do you really want more entrepreneurs to work on?

Even in hindsight, it would be hard to see how the top 50 of Valley from the 60s and 70s were helping the planet heal.

Other than Bill Gates, everyone else is pretty up in the air as far them contributing to our planet. And even Bill G, it wasn't until he made all that money and decided to give it all away that he truly started having impact.

Now you can sight examples of how the iPod saved a life here and there and how Windows gave rise to the tech revolution etc...in which case, I'd counter that Facebook and Twitter have just as much potential and are in their very early days.
The dot com bubble is back. You can get seed funding to the tune of 3/4 of a million dollars for any mediocre idea right now. If that is proving hard to accomplish in Silicon Valley, move your operations to NYC, where there is more money and the investors will invest in anything.
Myhrvold is a known patent troll, even going so far as to sue the same companies multiple times under shell companies: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100217/1853298215.shtml
Why anyone cares what this guy says is beyond me. The author says Myhrvold runs 'an invention lab'... yeah not exactly. A better term would be patent extortionist: http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/nathan-myhrvolds-patent-ext...
Here's another article for good measure: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060626/1011256.shtml
Whether or not a wannabe entrepreneur should quit school and swing for the fences really depends on his level of competency. Some folks like gates, jobs and zuckerberg are competent enough to pull it off. Some arent. But if you are serious about becoming a successful entrepreneur you have to assume that you can pull it off which means that you should quit school.
We got a strong image processing team and have figured out our core image processing algorithm. Our algo should be able to handle 80-90% of LCDs with ease.

If user is using a machine for first time, he has three options,
(1) Select one of machines listed in app
(2) User creates a machine profile (as shown in video link) (3) Search & download from server where we will continue to add new machine profile & also allow users to post their created machine profile
Not sure if psychoanalysis (a.k.a. Freudian psychology) has anything to do with the subject at hand. I think you mean to say you don't like comments that delve into a person's suspected motivations. But the comment you're replying to doesn't talk about motives at all. It just talks about the means this man has used to achieve fame and why they worked.
Bravo David! David is a clear and insightful presenter of all things Python. His Python Essential Reference is just that, essential. I have six copies, two each of each of the three editions/ Three editions because Python is an evolving language which pays attention both to backwards compatibility and to occasional housecleaning to remove the accumulated cruft. http://www.dabeaz.com/
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Interesting that there is a distinction between (in film) pseudoscience and (in film) psychology, or nuclear and (generic) physics - 99% of anything that is used by a "mad scientist" character is safely grounded in the pseudoscience side of things, as in "all of this is made-up" against the "20% of the claims of this paper may hold up to the next 50 years of research" of actual science.

The only difference is that we as a public, don't know most of the actual sciences and cannot distinguish between, e.g., biotech psychobabble and actual biotech. But it's interesting -- would parapsychology (or alchimy, or other not-science-anymore) be counted towards psychology/chemistry if we were to adopt a nomenclature that allows made-up stuff to be (nominally) part of an established discipline because it uses the scientific terms and - loosely - suspected way of thinking of that discipline?
My wishes and empirical business opportunities doesn't seem to align itself.

I want to be like patio11, making money off my customers and generally scale my solution, not offer consulting services to big corporations.

Perhaps, I will find a happy medium. If that's not the case, than I'll have to figure out what to do next.
Maybe I'm just out of touch, but does anyone actually use the pinned menu? If no, does it matter how Microsoft decides to implement this? It seems like it's a feature roughly on the importance level of their web snippets feature; that is, not very important at all.
The guide missed the elephant from 5 yards away. Was it just a warning shot?
I think you mean to say you don't like comments that delve into a person's suspected motivations.

Yes, this is what I meant.

But the comment you're replying to doesn't talk about motives at all.

Then I have completely misinterpret what the comment say.
"To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip...
I agree with the wiki sentiment (also in a software/system engineer heavy environment). The huge thing I see is the massive problem with email. There's just so much information locked up in peoples email it's not even funny. Wikis provide a way to put some information in a public place that, three months later, someone else that started working on the project can now see, without requiring someone to forward the right emails. It's also generally much more easily searchable than a bag of Word docs. Add in version control and things like edit notification and it's really a huge win.

I really hate email in the enterprise these days. I can totally see where tools like Google Wave (R.I.P.) and Basecamp are coming from. Pity it will take most enterprises ten years to start using these tools regularly.
"[Soros] made a lot more decisions. Buffett followed a strategy to buy companies that had a certain earnings profile, and it worked for him. There is a lot more luck involved in this strategy."

I don't buy that. Even the shallowest read of Buffett's investment history, you'll find he's always followed a very concentrated portfolio strategy. He waits for the fat pitch, and loads up when an opportunity comes along. He's mentioned that if you were to take away his top 20 best investments, Berkshire would have a pretty average record.

Does Taleb believe more decisions increase the likelihood of reverting to the mean (ie: average returns in this case)? And by that logic, Soros has made more decisions, so that must suggest its less random, and more talent? This is a classic case of man with a hammer syndrome.

By only deploying capital when the odds are disproportionately in your favor, you are LESS likely to make errors. The less decisions, the more deliberate your actions are. Inactivity isn't a measure of luck.
Being homeschooled, I had learned these things prior to college. Perhaps that is why I didn't get much out of it.