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From your tone, it sounds like youre critical of the original article, but Social Security collapsing in 2040 means, for anyone in their 20s, that they wont see a payout. What was proposed in the article was, to my twenty something view, "modest adjustments".
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> Why should the dev have to sink the $375 cost?

You don't have to. Let's say you're doing 20 hours of billable work at $75. That's $1500. Now let's say a client adamantly refuses to pay for any of the time you spend on the phone with them, even though that's normally billable work for you.

That means you're spending 25 hours and would like to be compensated $1875. Instead of fighting and insisting you get paid for calls you could instead just quote a rate of $95 per hour for billable work, include free phone calls, and make your rate. It's not logical, but some people would be happier to pay a higher rate with some freebies thrown in. If being billed that way makes them happier and you make what you're looking to make, that's a fine way to go about it.
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I suspect there is an optimum speed at which the greatest number of students are able to understand, and I suspect that it isn't the slowest speed possible.

In late elementary and junior high school I recall getting in trouble for being ahead of the class, particularly in computer-related classes and assignments. A faster pace would've allowed students like me to benefit from the class, but may have left slower students behind.
Why would you go after such a niche market? Do you know it really well? Do you have some advantage there? Can you charge more than $25/mo?

Unless you have a compelling reason to go after something so tiny you should probably avoid it. If you have reason to believe you could own it then maybe it would be a good source of early revenue.
One thing I'd mention is that your price of $25 might well be several times too low. Businesses, even small business, will pay a lot more monthly if you're providing actual value.
Most prognostications about social security seem to be predicated on a closed demographic system, and take no account of immigration's impact on the ratio of taxpaying workers to retirees. Now would be a sensible time to come to grips with this question, but of course in a time of high unemployment and electoral angst, it's politically radioactive.

This is the best analysis of the issue that I've come across, and well worth the reading time: http://www.ssab.gov/documents/IMMIG_Issue_Brief_Final_Versio...
I would not go so far as to say I am outraged. Using any site, paid or free is an individual value judgement. Many people may be happy to have competitors, potential new recruits, bosses and employees know you viewed their profile - for me, and how I used Linkedin, its not something I am willing to accept. My choice to leave. Your choice to stay. No outrage here, just a comment.
Nobody knows whether it will or not---the most revolutionary discoveries tend to come from unexpected places. As far as I'm concerned, an atmosphere where science has to justify itself as practical is just asking for all the really revolutionary discoveries to be made elsewhere.

Conflict of interest statement: I am a pure science graduate student, so take my opinions on science funding with an aliquot of NaCl.
Last time I checked Node.js was not able to invoke fork.
In general, you wouldn't know what a new discovery would contribute to technological advancement or productivity increases :) If you did, it's arguably because the research you're doing is an incremental improvement over something already existing, rather than something entirely new (not that there's anything bad with doing either of those things.)

Putting these kinds of things on the back burner may be a good thing only if you're sure that the money being spent on it will be used for something more necessary/efficient/whatever.
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You're being overly narrow in your definition of a ponzi scheme. It's simply a scheme whereby, for an individual, the amount of money they receive will exceed the money they spend only so long as the ratio of new members to old members exceeds one. It's not a real investment as there is no productivity increase occurring; it's just an accounting game.

And that's precisely how Social Security operates, and precisely why it will run into problems.
More: the size of the market also indicates a certain fragility. The chance of competitors/demand/etc may mean that eventually it won't be worth enough money to commit further effort to. If you can bring your app to a point where it's sellable and maintenance work to a point where there almost isn't any, then you have something.

Edit: Also - read everything patio11 has ever written (http://www.kalzumeus.com/).
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Specific ones? It's hard because small businesses are, well, small and not well-publicized.

My father operates a small business, though, in the live music industry, while living in a remote part of the country.

You have fewer opportunities to accumulate capital which means you're more vulnerable to changes in the market, e.g., the economy collapsing as it did in late 2007.

If someone else decides they want your pie, you have little means to defend yourself and don't have the option of moving into another market segment if necessary.

In general I'd say smaller markets mean you can make fewer mistakes on your path to success. You are more exposed in almost every way.
the santa claus/god realization could have been like 12 or 13, I don't remember exactly when I was told there was no santa, I'm estimating. I know I was three with the death thing, my parents remember me crying myself to sleep repeatedly moaning about it. of course they could be mistaken.

anyway, the ages were only there because I hadn't seen anyone referencing anything other than facts they heard recently. in reality nothing you've heard recently could be as earth shattering as the facts you learn when you're a kid that pull the veneer off your rosy fantasy world.
True!
So many people / startups / entrepreneurs / products etc. fail to identify the exact problem they are trying to solve. And hence, the downfall begins.

Nice example man!
If you can, do so. see what it's like. But don't burn your bridges.

If you do find some place better, that's good for you. If you don't? then you'll have a much better appreciation for your birth country.
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So last time I looked at it, Node.js did not have any language level or even library primitives for message passing. At least nothing beyond making you open a socket and work out your own protocol for IPC. I'll grant you that is the standard scalability story for most languages running on multiple hosts. However it seems deficient if one's goal is to make use of most of the cores on modern server hardware.
His fastest "node.js+net" case is not optimal. I could easily come up with an even faster implementation by using Buffers instead of strings by not calling setEncoding(), which makes it 30% faster on my machine. This should translate to about 37500 queries/sec on his machine:

var net = require('net');
var server = net.createServer(function (stream) {
stream.on('connect', function () {});
stream.on('data', function (data) {
var l = data.length;
if (l >= 4 && data[l - 4] == 0xd && data [l - 3] == 0xa && data[l - 2] == 0xd && data[l - 1] == 0xa) {
stream.write('HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\nContent-Length: 13\r\n\r\nHello World\r\n');
}
});
stream.on('end', function () {stream.end();});
});
server.listen(8124, 'localhost');
Well darn. I looked at the data they'd published saying they'd found the planet, and while it seemed tenuous to me, I should've gone on record somewhere saying so. On the other hand, I'm not a planetary astronomer, so my I'm not really qualified to tell what is strong data or not, so I just trusted the reviewers.
yeah, after you forfeit your citizenship, the US expects you to keep paying income tax for ten years.
Reminds me of http://www.demographicbomb.com/
I thought LinkedIn was like this before? I always saw "John Doe and 6 others have viewed your profile. Sign up to a premium account to see who they were". In fact I know some people who had the premium account exactly so they could see this information.
Next chessboxing event in London is now on Saturday! If you haven't seen it, you should. It's brilliant!

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To see what the most advanced futurists, namely Jules Verne, were thinking about the far out future, take a few minutes and read this interesting piece published in 1889. The story is titled In the Year 2889, here's the link http://wondersmith.com/scifi/2889.htm
evite.com

Horrible UI, both the old and the new one. Plus they don't expose any functionality in their emails, you are forced to come to the website for simple tasks like a 'yes' response.
I think it depends on if you have any financial dealings with the US. As long as you completely leave (no property, no loans, no investments, drawing no salary from the US, not paying into any of retirement benefits etc. etc.) then yea it will end.

On the other hand my mother hasn't lived in the US for close to 35 years now and she still has to file a tax return and pay a few bucks every year, due to still having some financial ties with US.
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His only ideas for reversing population loss are government intervention, abandonment of women's rights, and making children a good investment.

I'd like to suggest a fourth course of action: do nothing. We are not an endangered species. If we need more people, we'll make them. There is nothing in the universe that people like more than making more people. If they're declining to do so, they probably have good reasons.
Yeah, I have seen people with domain expertise in tiny markets completely kill it and use the revenue from it to scale company with newer products for larger markets.
Scribd is unnamed, but is doing more than fine.
Just stating the obvious.
I'm sure some people might argue he has, but ultimately it doesn't matter in this context; failure of 'real' economics gurus to succeed does not mean any random person is equally capable in the subject.
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Sorry paul... didn't mean to downvote you.

Do you own a smartphone?
That sounds like a horrible idea. Can you imagine if half the senate had been in office over 60 years? They'd still be fighting about the Civil Rights act.

Cronkite still reading the news. The same NYT and WSJ editorial staffs for many decades.

The same scientists and writers getting all the speaking engagements, more or less forever.

At least right now these people eventually get old and go away. We'd be stuck in a horrible stasis without that.
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there was a guy responsible for starting it if I recall. was he the ringleader?

either way, people have the right to the results of their own work and this scheme violates that right.
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I think you need to ask your self if you are going for a lifestyle business or a fundable business. In terms of starting a lifestyle business I think you should have no issues, and will possibly do well. If you are looking to someday get funding, more than likely its an unfundable idea.
Is anyone doing any kind of analysis on if players chess play begins to suffer as they take more shots to the head?
and if new "investor" don't live much longer than those who paid in before. which, of course, is where this scheme really breaks down.
Why not double your price and make a $3 million/year market out of it? And if there's need for 24/7 support offer a even more expensive subscription.
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No. Only features that don't infringe additional patents can be added by the community. If Oracle owns patents covering a particular Java 7 feature, but never releases any GPL code implementing that feature, then the OpenJDK community cannot implement that feature.

Releasing code under the GPL does not give the open source community carte blanche access to all your future patents, perhaps unless those patents are necessarily infringed by the original GPL release.
He doesn't because he's too addicted to the Internet as it is, so the last thing he needs is to have access to it at all times. He likens smartphones to hip flasks.

Unless that's changed since he wrote that in an essay/HN comment/etc.

I do wonder if at some point they'll become so ubiquitous--and so many YC applicants and companies will be focused on smartphones--that he'll feel he has to to get one so that he can better judge the value of companies focused on mobile and give them advice.
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I think it will be touched again. When everybody realizes they can just pay a fine instead of buying expensive insurance, then just load up on it when they get a serious illness, the insurance companies will be clamoring for a redo.
If you want/need to work in browser then I would recommend svg-edit

http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/

SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, Javascript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser
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Link to blog: http://ealouse.wordpress.com/
Aaah, the good old "potential customer base" slide. Isn't that one of the big no-nos in startup pitches?
My intuition is that you "cold" your absorber when you extract work from the electrons. One of the big changes of recent years had been power electronics that let you convert the charge-voltage pair into anything you need(like the voltage to charge a battery).
Is there a framework for writing asynchronous servers with Lua?
Yeah... taking a look at "en.svg" -- <image width="200" height="408" image-rendering="optimizeSpeed" ...

So instead of letting the browser even attempt to do a good job at upscaling, the author is forcing it to not do that.
And this other version that doesn't check for "\r\n\r\n" is 47% faster than his "node.js+net" case. This should translate to about 42000 queries/sec on his machine:

var net = require('net');
var server = net.createServer(function (stream) {
stream.on('connect', function () {});
stream.on('data', function (data) {
stream.write('HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\nContent-Length: 13\r\n\r\nHello World\r\n');
});
stream.on('end', function () {stream.end();});
});
server.listen(8124, 'localhost');
Got a link? I wasn't aware that it is possible for common people to write WoW addons?
http://ealouse.wordpress.com/
>And if you look to the decline of the last great empire, Great Britain, in came in the wake of an expansion of the public sector

Talk about oversimplifications that fit ones own viewpoint! A lot of things changed in the UK since they were at their peak. Correlation, Causation and all that jazz.
These posts are very valuable for people thinking about starting Android programming right now.
Thought the same, but could not find details on the comparison page...
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Chances are you wouldn't even know your phone has gone missing.

The perpetrator 'borrows' your phone .. sends a one shot password request .. logs in to your account and deletes the message. You find your phone where you left it and are non-the-wiser.
Or rather, Kleiner-Perkins

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/26/news/companies/terralliance_...
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Regarding double precision calculations (I can't compare random instructions) at the time OP mentions the PC FPU made something of the order of KFLOPS. Even assuming 100 KFLOPS (it was less), one current graphical card can be up to 5 million times faster than the PC of that time in some scientific calculations, that is, the gamer of today has under his desk the computing power of 5 million first PC computers.

i7 can do 2 double precision adds per clock per core, that would give 36 GFLOPS on 6 cores (assuming 3 GHz clock), and at the same time ATI Radeon 5870 GPU can do 500 GFLOPS in double precision, that's 500 floating point calculations in one nanosecond.

To cross the 0.5 meter distance the light takes around 1.6 ns, which means that during that time the CPU is able to do almost 60 FPU additions and the GPU around 800 FPU additions. Impressive.
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It seems like he still needs to proof that his idea is working. Other scientist say that it seems to be a good idea. So investing in this is a huge risk since even though the concept might actually work it may turn out that there's economical sane way to enter mass production. In addition there's still the doubt of "too good to be true" because it usually is. On one hand it is probably this kind of thinking which makes us pass on great opportunities, on the other it keeps us from sending money to help getting a multi-million dollar transaction through.
Somewhat related also with the funding problem but on a larger scale was this guy
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606#
Judge for yourself if you would invest 1 billion to (prehaps) get a working fusion reactor.
And while you're at it, can Y Combinator put live streaming in nearby classrooms at stanford for those who didn't get accepted to this year's startup school?
Good final graph.

Hopefully that will convince him to fix this site. It's become too much a testament to how little design matters, and the point is now counterpoint.
To run with the "man vs. self" idea, I would consider pairing a climbing competition with Go.
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The penalty? You're more likely to lose class action lawsuits like the ones that have recently stung some banks, or you're fined by regulators directly.

Compared to electronic stock markets, or check/charge clearing, or even the Twitter firehose, this "identity M is about to be fined $N" live book is pretty simple. The 'angels' or regulators could pay for the system, but those who wish to assess late fines would be responsible for their own prompt reporting.

For example, the law might be: "To charge a late fee that represents an effective interest rate more than 10 times the prime rate, electronic notices of intent-to-charge must be filed both 1 day and 1 hour before assessment, and electronic payment from third parties must be accepted."
I have read a long article on this (on paper, so no links). It explained that even people who are good at both chess, and boxing, often have issues combining them. The rush of adrenaline of the boxing interferes with the thinking needed for the chess part.
And as long as you don't want to know who visited your profile, nobody will know you visited theirs.

It's fine that you're leaving, but the fact that you're leaving over that leads me to believe you're being quite silly... and that you probably aren't actually leaving.
Yes, sorry, on closer inspection you are correct; it isn't the actual deck, it's a post-event pitch deck replay. But since I can count the number of actual, in-the-wild pitch decks I've seen on one hand, maybe other people will still find it useful.
This is because they'll be being launched as a plain URL by the desktop app. It just says "Operating System, please open this URL."

Is there even a standard/cross-browser method of saying "Please open this URL, and here is a referrer to use."?
Probably the best starting point:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&...
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I've only ever lived in houses with the big uglies.

All lightbulb headaches have been due to IKEA and their foreign ways.
You mean it's ok that you can see others but they can't see you?
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I'm frustrated by Lua, because it seems such a productive, pragmatic language that is performant to boot (let alone the numbers LuaJIT is posting), but yet it never seems to gain momentum.

Why has Lua adoption been so slow outside the game world?
Damn - I missed it. I'm always not paying attention when the cool stuff happens like... the future.

Do you think the future might happen again someday? Perhaps we can put it up somewhere on the internet so we know when it's going to happen a bit before time.
This is based on this comic, I think:

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(It has a link to the original website, but the original website isn't working for me.)
No, this is completely wrong. Filing has nothing to do with "having some financial ties with the US", it has to do with being a US citizen. You are double taxes with some extra write-offs [1]. The 10 year thing comes if you give up your citizenship for tax purposes (if you have over $2million in assets this is automatically assumed). In that case you are taxed at a higher rate for 10 years before finally getting off the hook. If you give up your citizen for other reasons then you only have to file for one additional year.

Oh yea, if you have $10k at any moment in the course of the year you must report all bank accounts where the money was (i.e. 3k in one account, 5k in another, 2k in a third, report all 3). You wont hear about this rule unless you live in a so-called "tax haven". Guess why that is.

[1] This is very complex. For a single earner you can take an exemption on the first ~$80k. In most of the US that's a lot of money. Not necessarily everywhere, so depending on where you live you may hit this pretty fast. Taking the exemption makes you unable to claim certain things so you can also chose not to take the exception and use a more complex form. I have a tax guy do this for me (takes him over 3 hours to go through the paper work) and costs about $1k/year.
OMGPOP is not in the list on TC.
Only if you give it up for tax purposes.
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It's probably hard to say, but compared with the last group, which on paper looks excellent, did this group similarly look great after the end only for a few clear winners to appear later on or was the gap easy to see even comparing to when this article was written?
Startups For the Rest of Us Episode #5 might be helpful (personally I like the whole podcast): http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-5-how...

If there is no competition, it is probably not a big enough market.

And it goes on. It's aimed at micropreneural business models but perhaps you can take some valuable insight from it.
"You shouldn't expect (student loans) for your own kids... You might have to be your own kids’ bank when they need $40,000 for college like you did (they’ll need more)"

I believe that's exactly backwards - they should need less total money if that happens. If student loans immediately ceased to be available, couldn't we expect the price of college education to drop in response?