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I am sure you are still busy hacking things: new businesses, new services on top of existing services, new ideas. Just because you aren't installing shit in your cars dashboard doesn't mean you aren't still hacking. We're hacking at a higher level, structurally and organizationally.
>It's just semantics.

It's probably all the time spent on LtU mucking with my brain, but I have to suppress a minor rage every time I see this idiom. Does this happen to any other programming languages people?
And it definitely felt like one. You have no idea how much the country changed (for the better) because of this improbable miracle.

Nobody believed it would work because the whole country had lost faith in "magical" economic reforms like the one before it, the Collor Plan.

Imagine you wake up one day and all of your bank accounts are frozen - that's what happened to my parents (and most of the population) on March 16, 1990 when the Collor Plan was announced. It's your money, but you can't spend it - sorry. My father had been saving money in order to buy a new house. Years later he recovered less than 1/10 of the original sum. Lots of small businesses (including family and friends) went broke.

When I talk to my parents about pre-real days it feels like they were born in a different country than I was.
My wakemate was meant to be a slightly delayed xmas gift ... ;) The recipient has even sold their iPhone now. Sigh.
Two completely different services. Instapaper will bookmark articles to read later, and cut out everything except the text. One downside is that it doesn't seem to be able to handle multi-page articles, however some sites have a single page view (or "printer friendly").

The killer feature in my book is the iOS app. It's a universal app, and will sync your article progress across your iOS devices. I love this — perfect for, e.g., reading part of an article on your iPhone while in line at the bank, then going home and picking up where you left off on your iPad.
Pretty similar here, and rapidly edging closer to your ratios. My parents are Win, but my sister and her husband are Linux, my brother, my wife, and almost all of my geekier friends are Mac, and nearly every other geeky person I encounter with Windows is planning for their imminent escape.
One of my favorite websites is the now-defunct http://programmingbooks.org. It only exists in archive.org now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1323890

I for one think it would be a great idea for you to take the concept and expand it beyond programming books to startup and other hacker-useful domains. Like a Reddit/HN/Stackoverflow for books on software, startups, diy web business, etc. Heck, even other stuff like fiction and philosophy, since those get some discussion here too.

I'd frequent it.
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They're still using desktop operating systems and software while everyone else is using mobile for everything, even when an app has no place on a phone (AutoCAD, really??)

So lets go ahead and predict a renaissance of desktop operating systems and using computers to get shit done.
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For even bigger bandwidth savings paint a solid color over the non-visible portion of the jpg. There's no need to transmit all that image data if you aren't going to show it.

For this example I was able to quickly trim the jpg size from 35k to ~24k in about 60 seconds using Photoshop.
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The Gladwell hating gets out of hand sometimes. I'll be the first to admit the man isn't what you would call a rigorous scientist in the social disciplines, but I don't think that he makes that claim. Rather, he provides interesting (if overly broad) insights into patterns that we may or may not have noticed ourselves - and does so in an entertaining fashion.

The New Yorker article the author is commenting on, is actually pretty insightful. Gladwell makes it clear that most social networks are broad and thin, but the networks that result in disciplined individual behavior are those that are reinforced through close, physical, interpersonal ties.

A simple mind-experiment is useful to capture this:

What percentage of the 500 friends you have on facebook will come over and help you move tomorrow if you sent out a request?

Now, what percentage of the friends that you see, in person, on a weekly basis would do so if you sent a request out to them?

That meeting in person creates a much richer, and committed relationship than Poking/Walling/Liking does.

I think that's all Gladwell was trying to state in his New Yorker Article.
Sure the mac is pretty mainstream but I'm sure the hacker is using it completely differently to the mainstream he talks about.
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If you post an article on HN that has text instead of a link (that's the two options you've got, read the 'submit' page, it literally says "Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion. If there is no url, the text (if any) will appear at the top of the comments page. If there is a url, the text will be ignored.") then your post will be ranked differently from the posts that contain just a link to a URL pointing elsewhere.

The 'self' presumably refers to the article being HN only.

To avoid meta-discussion and 'Ask HN' style posts clogging up the new page they are penalized, so they'll typically drop off faster even if they do receive a lot of votes. And if they don't receive a lot of votes then they're gone even faster.

So if you want your 'rate my startup' post to be seen best just post the link, and add any extra info as the first comment in the thread.
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I didn't find the authors argument to be particularly compelling. Sure facebook may be able to motivate people to do small things like make a donation but he offers no evidence to counter Gladwell's assertion that really revolutionary change won't be driven by social media. I'm not saying that tweeting and facebook won't be involved in revolutionary change, just that they probably won't drive it. Just look at the teaparty as an example ... one of the biggest social movements of our generation and they are certainly not social media driven
Could also use a data uri for the mask if a second request is really an issue.
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i have to disagree.

The only thing i see degrading the market is that a good developer have a hard time to find a job for 200/yr. while a manager can easily earn that 200/yr and manage half a dozen incompetents developers for 75/yr.

that makes the good developer behave like a incompetent because of the low pay or move to management (and then the half a dozen incompetents will be doing the work anyway)
Thats pretty useless - you have to remove the couple of billions of people from the pool who are too poor to feed themself, stuck in refugee camps or otherwise unable to live their life. It sounds heartless, but they don't really matter in any sense since they have to live life by the rules others make.
I don't disagree - if I had had more time I would have looked into it, rather than just going off the journalist's gosh-wow presentation. And I am also a big fan of semantic processing. But at bottom I still think he's building a model rather than a goal-seeking engine that uses modeling as a strategy.
I disagree. HN is humor neutral and stupid hostile.

What gets passed off as 'Internet humor' is not actually funny. It is too stupid to be funny. It is something else. I think this article inadvertently makes this argument. (Some sort of postmodern misappropriation of the idea of humor).

To say that a community or group of people frown upon humor makes me depressed. Humor is a fundamental human coping mechanism. It is how we deal with things that are painful or stressful or otherwise bad.

If the culture here starts claiming that humor is 'frowned upon,' I'm not letting the door hit me in the ass as I leave. Who the fuck wants to be a part of that culture? I'm not a damned robot, I like things that are funny. If it makes me laugh, how will I be frowning?

We've all observed that x website 'went downhill' when people started using 'internet humor'. This isn't the fault of humor in general, heck, it isn't even a causal relationship; it is correlative.

It is just as possible that as the user base expanded, you had a higher quantity of people who could not meaningfully contribute to the debate. One way for these users to interact with everyone else is through stupid memes and lolcatz.

There are plenty of other ways, however, for them to interact with the greater community, and (it seems to me that) these are just as toxic (trolling, flame-baiting, repeating what someone else already said, repeating platitudes or creating various forms of cults of personality and hero worship around the users that actually can contribute meaningfully).

So please, 'frown upon' humor that contributes to a low level of discourse. Burn it to the ground. But don't resort to a slippery slope argument against all humor, and don't turn a blind eye to behaviors that are just as bad.
Did she stop attending school as well?
I think you need much more evidence. The reason that most of the offline written material we look at (e.g. famous novels) is “substantive” by comparison with online material (e.g. YouTube comments), is that the vast vast majority of the complete crap has been filtered out by editorial and publishing processes, or lost to time. The reason that internet jokes seem obscure to people not in the internet community is not that they’re “operationally different” than other jokes, but just that jokes quite often lose meaning out of context.

I would guess that if you looked for instance at the letters received by congressmen or newspapers, you’d find just about the same amount of incomprehensible garbage.

I dispute your claim that there is a substantively different purpose to the use of “humor” in online writing vs. online writing: it doesn’t match my experience. But even if it happens to be true in some sense, your essay doesn’t provide convincing evidence.

* * *

On the other hand, I think your commentary about the internet having a “citizenry” is pretty interesting.
Ask HN: How soon do founders usually realize that startup failed
Of course it depends. PG even wrote that founders on early stages usually have a false impression that their startup failed. But if the idea is not working (no market, etc) how soon do founders usually understand this? How soon do they realize that there is no point trying to save the company?
I've been a member on one particular site for the last 10 years. Our inside-jokes help us create continuity in our community, a continuity that has helped maintain a certain level of maturity and professionalism that isn't well matched anywhere else. Yes, an inside joke is a signalling by the user that they are part of the "in crowd". That is exactly the point. The only way the user can be considered part of the "in crowd" is if they have participated to the point to be generally recognized by others as such. Proper execution of institutional jokes not only signal to other non-members that you are a member, but to members that you are worthy of being a member.
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If you can tell that they are using the same password, best practice says you're doing it wrong.

At least, so I've been led to believe. Per-user salt is still recommended, isn't it?
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Provided your company is far-sighted enough to pay you according to your ability, not your managerial rank. For most the money is too good to turn down.
I've seen far too many image threads of real-world objects staged/photographed to mimic goatse. I wonder how many kids are going to see these (unaware of the origin) and come to the conclusion that the concept of two hands and a circle are somehow hilarious.
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What's the schedule for Startup School this year? Should I get a 7:30 shuttle ticket or an 8:30 shuttle ticket? Can I exchange them?

Help!
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If you want AI literature treating human-level intelligence, try searching for "artificial general intelligence".

Also, here are some links to the proceedings of recent AGI conferences:

http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/aisr/AGI-09/

http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/aisr/AGI-10/
I guess 18 hrs a day is kind of bad then :)

The problem for programmers is that you are never so productive as when you get into a flow state, and can stay "in the zone" for long periods that pass in what seems like seconds.

So breaking off flow states has a heavy negative impact on how much you can achieve.
The author misses the point of Gladwell's piece completely.

"He’s wrong. Facebook does motivate people to do things they wouldn’t otherwise do -– like donate to the Save the Darfur coalition via a Facebook page."

He agrees with the post author, that's exactly what social media does. But what it doesn't do is motivate people to go to Darfur, take a real risk and make a difference on the ground. That's his point, and he's right.
The great thing about many businesses is that one can gain wealth, power, and glory WHILE helping society. Whatever the motivations, the end result is positive.
As someone who grew up in San Jose, the map on the right is definitely wrong. In Bay Area geography, "The Peninsula" starts at the SF city limits, but ends with Mountain View and Los Altos (inclusive). Basically, the 650 area code.

I also would not think of anything north of Menlo Park as "Silicon Valley".

I must say, though, that I'm always a bit amused at the people who get bent out of shape at the mismatch between literal geographic terms in the Bay Area and the actual physical geography, as if it's only Californians that do that. San Francisco isn't part of The Peninsula in the same way that Brooklyn isn't part of Long Island.

I would think that people would be more bothered by all the north/south freeways that intersect each other at right angles.
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Perhaps someone who knows this material can advise us about something. I just looked through the linked ToC and am surprised that nearly everything is about DSL internals. Example:

Express statement sub-elements of a function call by putting them into a closure in an argument.

This is all easy stuff! The hard part is figuring out what a DSL should be. For all the hype about them, there are precious few examples of good ones. The successful ones are nearly always purely technical things like regular expressions that, while marvelous, do not even attempt to deliver on the promise of accessibility to domain experts. By far the majority are junk because they do a poor job of modeling the domain. This has little to do with closures or even parsers. To focus on such details is to take the easy way out (though I suppose it might sell more books to programmers infatuated with the idea of DSLs, who are more interested in, say, syntax-directed translation than in insurance or crop yields).

When asked what they thought of Elvis Costello, the Sex Pistols replied, "He wears glasses without any actual glass in them." Surely Martin Fowler has not written a Domain Specific Language book without any actual Domain in it?
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So Alpha geeks are failing fast and failing cheap (or failing expensive on somebody else's dime) whilst making stepping stones across the pond for others to follow (or see)?
Are companies offering capital for 'mobile payments' apps and ideas? Is that their biggest interest here?
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I sometimes like to explain exactly why I don't think something should be on HN (if it's not spam or of really bad quality) - simple one liners like "This shouldn't be on HN, flagged." aren't helpful at all. Be constructive!

I think feedback helps at least some submitters tremendously.
I'm pretty sure the black guy said "Is there a problem?"
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I'm a graduate student at CMU. I've seen the kinds of things NELL learns. It's not pretty. Signal to noise is really, really bad.

Not knocking Tom or his students, they're brilliant. Just saying that this isn't all its cracked up to be at the moment.
One more place to visit in Silicon Valley is definitely the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/). Have very nice exhibits of all the major artifacts pertaining to computer technology; including a fully working Difference Engine 2: http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
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I don't think that will happen hence my comment.
Since JPEG is lossy just by adjusting the quality level you can save JPEG in any size.

So your test doesn't tell us anything - maybe you just used a lower quality level.

(Although I agree with the basic premise, post editing the image isn't such a good idea. Instead use a lossless jpeg editor that can selectively cut out portions of the jpeg.)
Along the same lines, how long should we plan to be there?
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We've hit a bit of a plateau when it comes to gadgets. We have laptops, which fit in a backpack and are more than fast enough for most purposes. We have smartphones, which fit in a pocket and are a decent tradeoff of portability vs speed/features. And we have desktops, which can have more storage than laptops, but for most stuff they're not much faster.

Now which one of those three things can you build yourself?

That's why nerds/hackers are using the same things as everyone else. They simply don't have the resources to build or customize tightly-integrated devices like laptops and phones. So they buy what works best for them. Lately, a lot of the time macs work best for them.

I'm probably being overconfident, but I think there's a new frontier for nerds and hackers. Advances in microdisplays and embedded computing have made wearable computers a somewhat practical idea. And individuals can build them. And the costs are decreasing. A few people have already hacked their own together from video goggles (like the Myvu Crystal) and single-board computers like the BeagleBoard. The biggest problems with wearables are fashion and software. The fashion issues will probably be resolved as technology gets better and people become more used to them. Software for wearables has to be really really responsive, since the idea is to completely integrate the computer with your life. Smartphone software has a similar constraint, but not to the same degree.

I think as wearable UIs and software improve, people will see the advantages of them. It would be incredibly useful to have a local cache of Wikipedia, e-mail, personal notes, and other data sources and software. You could become the smartest person in the room, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Lifelogging (don't you wish you had video of the first time you met your significant other or best friend?), augmented reality, etcetera etcetera.
What did I get downvoted for? I am relatively new here and I do not know all the things that are frowned upon?
I think you're simply showing your lack of exposure to new technologies. As 1053r noted, there are tons and tons of new things coming out all the time. Yes, it seems that with the advent of fast, cheap hardware most platforms perform generally the same, but new software is continuing to amaze.

Your wife may use the same computer, but i guarantee you she does not use it in the same way. Does she use localhost? Has she ever run a ./configure? It's like saying my owning a football puts me in the same league as Brett Favre.
Not only did it take them this long, it's also going to take them this long because this goal is impossible.

This garbage article confused hydrocarbon fuel and fossil fuel, and it makes totally impossible claims.

There ARE no alternatives to hydrocarbon fuel for these purposes. It doesn't matter if you make them from renewable sources you still need to ship them.

Solar power will require such a large area that it will become a target of it's own, and the suggestion to make biofuel from local plants is laughable.
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it would be cool to see gazehawk incorporate this into their software
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Great rule, should be the very first thing taught in high school when you get to exponents.

Dr. Albert Bartlet of University of Colorado has an excellent lecture on its implications for population growth, environmental degradation, and other big picture problems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
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Does it proof anything?
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We can't. That what everyone ignores. The ONLY technology that can replace our current power sources is nuclear power.

Hydrocarbons are the ideal type of chemical to store and transport energy - nothing else even comes close.

So we have to make hydrocarbons, or mine them.

The goal of the military to reduce the supply line is impossible - they can move away from fossil fuels, but they can't move away from hydrocarbons.

Unless they wish to setup local nuclear reactors.

Solar power simply can not provide enough power while simultaneously being portable. It's also a huge target since solar power uses such a large area.

Generating biofuel locally is a joke. I can just see soldiers driving combines to harvest a crop. Just like solar, biofuels also require a large area. And once you'ved used all the local plants then what?

Next thing you know all local war zones will look like the moon as the army strips every plant for hundreds of miles.
First off let me say that I'm pumped that there is movement in the Portland startup scene. Even though I am not very well plugged in to the local scene (if you are a Portlander raise your hand and I'll buy you a beer), as a Portlander, this is awesome to see something -- anything -- happening up here considering how cool this city is.

Otherwise, get ready because this shit is going to happen a lot all over the place. Really, this is business and we've been spoiled by YC -- this is the way the rest of the world works.
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I think op means the shuttle to Airbnb's afterparty