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Summary: to shrink unemployment the economy has to grow faster than the growth in the labor force and the increase in productivity of the currently employed to create demand for new jobs.

Key graf:

The nation’s economic woes boil down to this. Compared with a healthy economy, about 7 million working-age people and 5 percent of the nation’s industrial capacity are sitting idle, not producing what they could. The economy is growing again, but at a rate--less than 2 percent in recent months--that’s too slow to keep up with a population that keeps increasing and workers who keep getting more efficient.
I thought about something similar to making celebrity names into a related article link, but it might turn ugly since there are so many nicknames involved, and more get added all of the time. I'll see what I can hack up, though -- it's definitely a good idea. Thanks!
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It's sad you can't team up with people to create a greater product while you do your business work/innovation/generalistic work/legal/accounting etc. etc. you know the stuff a business man should do.

I'm in the same situation as you.
Maybe you lack the business man part?
like what? There's no mention in the article, and I don't see anyone linking to anything?
CDBaby and tunecore are pretty close I guess, they'll get you on iTunes and more (physical copies too in CDBaby's case)
If you link on LinkedIn while you're covered by explicit per-client confidentiality agreements, I think I see where the problem is. If you don't do that, then I don't think a problem exists.
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Did you take that right from the Book of Jobs? I realize that's the newest talking point of the pro-Apple hordes, but I thought this crowd was above it.

Apple replaced one evil (carrier control) with another evil (maker control). I suppose it's insulting that some Verizon phones come with a Nascar app, and yet another replaces Google with Bing, but remarkably as a consumer I have a tremendous amount of choice in the matter. The vanilla TMobile G2 looks quite nice, for instance. Actually personally I currently ride with the unencumbered, unsubsidized Nexus One.

Consumer choice and empowerment is mighty nice.

Apple's only liberation was liberating their own control and domination. How anyone sees that as a positive is baffling, but that's what brainwashing will do to you, I suppose.
I've also heard of similar arrangements where companies pay a certain percentage of the salary (if not the entire salary) for the duration the non-compete. I don't think it's very common, especially lately.

I've never received that type of offer. I will say that depending on the circumstances, that type of offer could be a very reasonable solution.

When I think back to my current job situation that I already discussed in this thread, in theory I might have accepted that type of offer. Although I really don't see how it would benefit my current company today. We're still a small company and run things pretty lean. That type of expense for them would be pretty prohibitive. They are better off just letting me do my job, help grow their business and when the day comes that I walk away, they will most definitely be able to find a solid replacement who will take the business to the next level.
It could just be the way you phrased it, but your initial post came across as "here's this cool thing I want to do, can anyone send me some cash? Oh, BTW, maybe I can do something in return."

I don't know if that's the way you intended it, but it's certainly how I interpreted it.
Nop, the less you know of a system the more you can think out of it. Which is a big part of innovation.
Sorry for my n00b-ness, but how do people know he's using app engine?

Edit: Oops.. I jumped straight to the app and only later noticed the "How I Built It" note on the post...
I am certain there are words of wisdom in The Pragmatic Programmer book that correlate to this post. I'll update my comment if I find it, but I'm sure someone here will remember it before me.
Thank you for the input. Yes, I understand that we can apply multiple times. What is a bit annoying is that yc does not seem to give any feedback. I understand that it is hard to give feedback on so many applications - but even a one liner feedback (e.g. "liked the idea but single founder is an issue" would be very useful and would perhaps motivate folks like me who are missing one or more "attributes" of successful application.
I guess they want to make sure that there is a permanent log of everything. Yet another reason not to use Facebook.
Follow the blog spam.

So this article is a summary of, and links to http://www.livescience.com/animals/green-slug-animal-plant-1...

But that article only mentions its source "The finding was first reported by Science News" w/o a link. Some googling turns up:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/

which appears to be the original reporting.
I don't agree. I see people on Facebook and Twitter visiting startups all the time (both tech celeb, and non-celeb types).
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Being able (or expected) to enjoy your work is a relatively new thing in human society.

I can't make a claim about the broader state of the history of ideas, but I do know the idea is found in the Bible.

I have seen personally what is the only beneficial
and appropriate course of action for people: to eat
and drink, and find enjoyment in all their hard work
on earth during the few days of their life which God
has given them, for this is their reward.
Ecclesiastes 5:18

So the idea is at least a couple millenia old. I'd expect it to be popular wisdom as well, independent of its inclusion in the Bible. It's pretty sound advice.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1762521

any thoughts? covered this elsewhere? --link?
I find when an audio-book is truly engaging that I don't realize I just drove 20 miles which probably means I wasn't paying as much attention to the road as I should have.
No one made that bed but Apple, and it is but another example of Apple putting Apple first.

You say that as if it's a bad thing. The goal of a company is to make money - so long as Apple can make a lot of money selling a good product, I suspect they don't much care if Android outsells the iPhone.

Not everyone has to rule the world.
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Good point. Commodity business require sophisticated users - brick and mortar businesses are not sophisticated users of online marketing, so Groupon needs to be doing a better job at the service level.
I agree with you that the speed should be much reduced in inclement weather. Other significant hazards can't be predicted as easily: drivers veering into the opposite lane; moose; debris on the road; people running red lights, etc. In all of these cases, driving a bit slower can result in significant reductions for both occurrence rate (extra reaction time) and severity (kinetic energy being proportional to v squared).

The statistic that most accidents occur under the speed limit doesn't say much. (I'm not aware of the study you refer to, but I suspect a good deal of the phenomenon is due to intersection collisions.) What you want is the converse - driving under the speed limit causes most accidents (I doubt it). And even that would not be sufficient: what counts is the number of fatalities, and there are probably fewer deaths in low-speed accidents.
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Oh man, I'm very opposed to email newsletters, but this looks very nice. I am always trying to think of creative names for projects so I can register them cheap. I have a feeling I will be browsing this each morning.
I am also very curious about the algorithms involved. Where are you getting the list of unregistered domains? Or are you generating good domains, then checking to see if they are registered? Are you basicly just looking for combinations of a list of words you have, or is it some other method? In all, a very impressive project, and if you be willing to share more on the technical side, I would be very interested.
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A few come to mind: learning the ways of the lean startup, coming up with hypothesis and metrics, learning about traction, boostraping, who's who in the Angel & VC game and build the network, other funding sources, opportunities and RFPs, investigate monetizing options and payment processors; finding the visionary early adopters, interviewing and keeping in touch with those, investigate the competition and their execution of the idea, contribute to build the vision and philosophy, manage the project (deadlines, resources, priorities), it's a never-ending list, don't even need to throw clerical work on it to make it so...
Highly speculative, but naturally progressive ideas.
All three of the major BSD derivatives have the ability to put parts of themselves in modules. They are all monolithic kernels, as is Linux.

Monolithic, in kernel speak, does not refer to having everything compiled in; it is more concerned about what is in kernel space (can do anything it wants with the hardware) and what is in user space (what is restricted at the hardware level to playing in its own memory). Monolithic kernels have pretty much everything in memory, and microkernels have pretty much everything in moderately-privileged userspace processes that talk to each other via message passing.
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Just make sure it is not anyone who can add something to your list. Great job on the app.
On the other hand, how often would a customer care whether a salesperson switched jobs? Is it really the case that the only thing keeping a customer in a business relationship is that they like the salesperson? If the product and the rest of the relationship is still solid, I'd hope they'd be stickier than that.
Because record labels are more about promotion than distribution (anymore). Amazon, cdbaby, etc. can all already do this.

Honestly, the artists don't even need those people anymore. I've seen artists who sell their music directly on their own site, and I don't see why more can't.
While I agree on the technical-level bit, the tone in your sample floats between cavalier and condescending. That's worse than technical overkill IMO.
Outcome is reality.

I recall a definition of mental illness that requires it to have a negative impact on the person.

A mutation may be adaptive or maladaptive. It depends on the creature as a whole - and also the current environment.

That environment is analogous to the market part of "product+market" for a startup: the identical technology/product can be a winner or a loser, depending on extra-product factors.
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Interesting. Thx very much fo the feedback. I'm sure you understand it's a hard balance to strike between technical detail and ease of understanding. Will strive to make things a bit more on the "ease of understanding" side next time.

Also considering starting a separate engineering blog where it would probably be appropriate to go into more detail for those that are interested.

-harryh
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The article is actually from Science News. This is evident by the byline and the Science News logo near the top of the article. I apologize for not doing better checking.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/53496/title/Sea_s...
(Although I do have a jar in my cupboard at the moment... Don't tell Mom... :p)

Oddly enough, I didn't know about fluffernutter pie until just a little while ago, reading a cooking blog that's written by a New Englander. Funny what you learn about your heritage when you're no longer in it! In any case, I'll gladly make one for you, if you'd prefer that over the key lime--it'd be a fun challenge :)
Just out of curiosity, to what extent do you do design? Is it just interface design, making that interface look good through Photoshop, or going as far as coding up the HTML and CSS? Additionally, what would you say are requirements for becoming good at business, strategy, and product vision? I'm looking to eventually move into these roles myself.
This is awesome, but no demo webapp.
It's very very annoying to use, and can cause data loss.
Delicious went from weekly shipping to annually...
I wager it's a bit more complicated than that.
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Here's what I do in these situations (I'm an Oracle DBA, but this should apply to most loaded shards):

1) Use connection pooling at the application layer to prevent overloading the DB of any specific shard. This means that if a shard has 16 CPUs, having 16 connections sounds reasonable. Additional connections will not give you more performance.
This means you need to queue and throttle requests at the application layer and with some thought you can probably figure out what to do with the waiting users - show partial results? show a nice whale? A "loading please wait" sign?

2) If you didn't do #1 and the DB is getting overloaded, my normal response is to start shooting down connections. Oracle has separate unix process per connection. MySQL has its own way of shooting connections down. Put up a small script that will kill the correct percentage of sessions to prevent overload on shared resources. This will generates lots of errors and will cause a percentage of the users to hate you, but you won't be down.
Not a bad thing at all. I just don't buy that it's a good thing for anyone but Apple.

And in an ideal world Windows Mobile, the Blackberry OS, QNX, Meebo, iOS, Android, and others play along in a friendly manner, where developers find efficiencies and cross-platform designs, and no one corporation controls everything.
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Jesus, it's not like the article suggests jumping off a bridge.It just says that in certain cases, we have irrational fears that can safely be ignored.
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Um, ok, the ASI quiz is clearly lame: out of 41 I missed two and wasted one, and I know no Javascript whatsoever. So I'm not sure what that was supposed to prove.
Woah, this is like my dream on steroids.

during my weekends when I work on node.ocaml ( http://github.com/mathgladiator/node.ocaml ), I occasionally think "gosh, If I could just get rid of that pesky OS, then I would have the most perfect server ever!".
One thing noobs don't realize is that every project takes vastly more time than you think it will. Seems like you've learned that lesson.
Yeah, the young talent still in school still have a hard time finding work. They are so desperate, they would take basically anything they can get their hands on. Give them a good proposition - a reason to work hard and stay!
Why should I believe this? Just because I read it online?
I'm sure that if you're the size of Foursquare, you can afford the contract.

Then again, it's no excuse for bad software. I've only used Mongo on small sites so far, and have been loving it.
The assumption is made that since the immune system's reaction to a cold is inflammation and other cold symptoms, you are therefore experiencing the symptoms of a cold because of your strong immune system.

If your immune system was sufficiently strong, you would never start experiencing the symptoms of the cold because your body would destroy the invading virus during its incubation period -- in other words before the virus duplicated enough to warrant a stronger and more full immune response.

Also, the body's immune response, like all other responses in the body, is performing a constant balancing act. When your body is in balance (homeostasis) the right amount of inflammation occurs to destroy viruses and bacteria, but not so much that you're out of commission. If your body is consistently getting sick and producing high amounts of inflammation (runny nose, itchy eyes, sore throat, etc.), two things are happening:

1. Your initial immune response isn't kicking in fast enough to destroy viruses while they are in their incubation period

2. Your body is out of balance and your immune system's cells aren't able to shut down inflammation when necessary.

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Based on this (and other interesting studies) I'd say that the best way to prevent the common cold is to make sure you have enough vitamin D in your body. What to do when you've already got the cold... probably not much you can do except take some zinc lozenges, pound the vitamin C, and try to get rest.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=another-r...
[2] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408140208.ht...
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That quote says "there's not much" and you responded with... not much.

Popular as it is, PC gaming isn't something most PC users actually do. Flash is a better argument, but ultimately people don't do things with Flash. They do things that some sites use Flash to enable. Some of those activities are unavailable, but many are available via native clients and formats. So saying it doesn't do Flash serves as a helpful shorthand, but if most of the things most people use flash for are available in other ways, the actual impact still arguably falls in the range of "not much of it can't be done with an iPad".

And the quote says nothing about relative levels of comfort or capability in doing PC tasks, so the multitasking scenarios still aren't relevant.
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Good job. Even if you ended up not finding the application as useful as you had imagined it, the fact that you built it has to be satisfying enough. Plus, you gained valuable experience. It's stuff like this that make me wish I was not so busy with classes and work so that I could work on projects like this. Hopefully soon I will be able to. And again, nicely done.
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We've had good luck with a handful of molded parts from both www.quickparts.com and www.protomold.com. Our volumes were quite a bit smaller--initial runs of 200-2k, I think, It was nice not having to design the mold, just the part.

Haven't used any of the quick turn CNC firms yet.
IIRC, Apple is not allowed to start a record label due to one of the settlements they made with Apple Records.
Also, I don't think it necessarily needs to be proven that the evidence was incriminating; just destroying evidence is criminal behavior.

Of course, IANAL, but that's how I'd do it if I ruled the world...
I understand the sentiment. I really do. But the reality is that nobody else has even showed up. It's about the iPad because it's the only product out there. It's all the more shocking when you go back and read a lot of the analysis back in January. It was like the iPod announcement all over again.

Don't get me wrong. I'd love for somebody to out-Apple Apple. I just don't see it happening anytime soon. The only thing that looks comparable to me is the tablet from Samsung. What makes me nervous is that I haven't heard definitive word on the price. Rumor has it that it'll be 600 pounds in the UK. That's, um, spendy.

Also, the "all the features you can imagine" part makes me wonder. What was that HN article earlier this week? Users don't pay for attributes, they pay for results? I'm not convinced that packing in more features for their own sake translates to a more compelling experience.
How do we know this guy's not a spammer collecting email addresses?
Then you have cache invalidation problems (one of the two known hard problems in CS), as well as impedance mismatch issues with your facade.
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I think it's time to invest in Chinese apps, geared toward Chinese people, in the Chinese language. Fit all three of those criteria and you're golden. But for you rockstars out there please don't jump the gun and give me a chance.
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They may have taken this into account, but the worse equivalency in my mind is that a second saved today is equivalent to a second decades from now at the end of my life expectancy. It seems like even a conservative discount rate would completely eliminate any perceived time loss.

Computing the discount rate in light of the probability of the singularity or skynet is left as an exercise for the reader.
You have to go to the open events they organize, if they do.
I think Microsoft could ignite the passion among employees by delegating the ownership of product development.
And Google by allowing employees to work on 20% of their time on personal projects.
Well, yahoo's money is green. I'd take it. But after my last acquisition experience (a similarly challenged very large company) I'd worry about my sanity working somewhere like that. And my liver.
What rationale do they have against double jeopardy? Without it you can make any jail sentence be until someone's death. You can be given a speeding ticket for the same offense until you have no money left.
Email and ask? If they're too busy, they'll tell you, but most startups that I know that have graduated to an office are fine if someone comes by during lunch to see the office/people.
This seems stale though. It's "currently available for Linux 2.2"?
> They can slap an "obstruction of justice" charge on.

Obstruction of justice can only be committed by officers of the court or elected officials.

> Or charge you with "contempt of court" and just jail you based on that.

This seems very unlikely given the (1) the 5th amendment and (2) only judges can issue contempt of court citations.