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That map is almost good. If it showed the directions of its edges it'd be great.

This post makes me happy. For one thing, it's the best possible post to bring out the news.YC euros.
Your comment sounds thin-skinned and self-righteous. People don't like to be told what examples they can and can not use in their similes. Also, your shift key appears to be broken.
And the link to part 1 on Akita's blog is broken. Here it is... http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/5/25/rolling-with-rails-2-1...

[Update - Never mind. It just errored out on me for some reason. I apologize]
It was a tough decision, but we've decided to focus on our company blog full time, and give up any further development.
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Because the PayPal donate button is a macropayment that takes a lot of thought and effort compared to Tipjoy.

Also, we're a layer above other payment processors, which means you won't need to use PayPal eventually if you don't want to. Lots of people actually hate PayPal.
I think you are confused. It isn't a check box requirement with regards to incorporating in NV. You can incorporate there, do business wherever, and never set foot there. In that case, you would be paying taxes in all the places you do business.

In other words, you don't have to just do business in NV to evade taxes elsewhere, you have to do all your business in NV. For example, say you incorporate in NV and do all your business in CA--that's fine. You would just pay all your taxes in CA. And if you had offices in three states, you would be registering in all three of those states and paying taxes accordingly.

"Doing business" is a matter of state law and so its definition varies from state to state. However, generally, if you have an office in a state, you will have to register there and are subject to taxation there. What that means exactly depends on your particular situation and what exactly you are doing in those jurisdictions. For example, if you just pay employees there you probably need to pay various employer taxes, whereas if you have a physical store there you will need to pay sales and income taxes, most likely. And if your only office is in CA, you will most likely pay all your taxes there.
"Put it on my bill"?
White hat SEO is the practice of making sure sites are well structured and well covered by related sites.

Like making sure a book has a contents, index and the pages in the right order, a title that is going to look attractive, and a description that will make readers want to know more.

That part will never change no matter what search engines do, because people always make sites that aren't put together properly.

Good SEO's also look at converting the visitors that originate from search engines, nobody is going to change that either.

I think this article means to say 'The end of the recent black hat techniques in SEO' - as we all know, those breaking the rules always find new ways.
I'm wary of Google, but at least they create real products, and do some cool stuff, something that can't really be said for any of the so called "SEO experts".
Because we would like to be able to express "no, we think you're really, really wrong."
This is a pretty novel idea, only a matter of time before someone did something like this.
the high risk individual could have already had individual coverage, and kept it, and been paid a higher salary to compensate for less benefits.
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What? That's just it... It is political - No one in Europe likes the UK. That's why we loose every time.

If we had a time machine, and took the winning Russian entry, and entered it as the UK song, I completely believe we would still have come last.

Personally, I'd say some of the blame lies with our pro-bush politics and stance on Iraq.

Eurovision has just ended up as a farce. The west put in all the money, and the east all vote for each other, and win.
Grab a spare machine and buy a gsm modem and use it in your house as a gateway server for the sms messages then just have the amazon servers send the requests there.

Or you could get a cheap colo spot and do the same but I've had trouble in the past getting gsm modems to work in a server room/data center due to poor signal though your mileage may vary and that might have been just bad luck on my part.
Yeah, but it's still cool to see Randall and xkcd get some (glowing) mainstream attention.
I think the gist of his idea is "do stuff people like, don't piss them off even if you can profit in the short term. If you can win by not pissing people off, it's more rewarding and they won't be motivated to make you stop".

I don't think there is much to reverse-engineer from that. The guy is a great marketer, he presents a simple idea and makes it sound like it's some profound pearl of wisdom.
Huh? Norway has had a long love-affair with the UK-- many older Norwegians served in the UK armed forces in the war.

Honestly: my nine-year-old daughter voted for Latvia (the Pirates), and described the UK entry as "the worst", even though her grandparents live in the UK, and she has absolutely no relationship to Latvia whatsoever.
This highlights the fact that there are quality, good paying jobs in the US. A good portion of the unemployed are unemployed because they overvalue their skills or aren't willing to make changes necessary to become employed.
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Hey Cousin,

I made it scroll :-)

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How is this disruptive? Is it significantly cheaper than expected? The capacity is larger than before, but it feels like an incremental improvement to me.
It doesn't matter if it's really a commons, or just something that looks like a commons. If someone owns an empty lot that everyone in the neighborhood treats as a commons, then the same rules apply. Without a constant effort to clean them, those places get just as crappy as public parks in exactly the same way. In practice, there's little difference between everyone owning something, and everyone getting to use it for free.
The story is probably copied directly from a press release.
I think obligatory tipping is actually cognitively easier. Tipping at a restaurant requires hardly any thought.
You can go through the exercise of building your own hardware, operating system, OO language, and writing programs on the resulting platform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtXvUoPx4Qs

Everything is virtualized. The software is Open Source, and much of the courseware is available free. The book you still have to pay for, but it's very cool nonetheless.
Sort of cool, but would people use it?
I wondered about that too - so I googled it.

"free and open source software, also F/OSS, FOSS, or FLOSS (for Free/Libre/Open Source Software)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS
In _The Case for Mars_ Robert Zubrin suggests that the colonization of Mars will have an affect analogous to the colonization of the Americas in the 1700's. Mars Colonization will open up myriad startup opportunities over many decades, if not centuries.
Michael Arrington would probably enjoy his life more if he were involved in open source software. Then when one of his "OMG THE SKY IS FALLING" bugs came up, he could just fix it himself.

Oh, nevermind. He just likes to complain. Good for ad revenue, dontchaknow.
what's your definition of mainstream and how is that a benchmark of success?

Not many web apps beyond Google, Yahoo, MSFT, Facebook, MySpace have much of a shot going "mainstream."

Most YC companies (in fact, none at this moment) will not go mainstream, yet several have been successful. Even a startup with a lot of traffic, like Scribd, is not mainstream, but it doesn't seem to have negatively affected them.
I agree that it looks a bit suspicious but the content is still interesting. Its a few years old now, so he's not giving any information to his competitors that will hurt him, so good for him. There is something similar here from Ultraedit:

http://www.ultraedit.com/company/IDM_full_story.html
Yeah, it's a stupid term. I wish people would call it "Free Software" instead. It's not that much harder to type, it's more meaningful, and it's not a string you put in your teeth.
"has human life become so cheap?"

I hear you. It's easy to fall into that trap when spending so much time with bits and bytes. The trap really becomes deadly when we make the leap from hackers to entrepreneurs, where the people are as important as the tech.

Go easy on OP, though. He didn't invent the "virus" metaphor, he was just writing about it. He didn't have a whole lot of other options to make his point.

(Point of clarification: AIDS is not spread. HIV is spread. A small but critical distinction.)
Maybe pay someone to hand out cards to homeless people on the streets of big cities. A google-like bus shuttle to get people to/from every month or two, since you will likely cycle through people rather than retain them for a year.
You're probably right. There is a similar dynamic with a pre-launch and post-launch company. Pre-launch, you can sell the hell out of it. Post-launch, investors might want traction before they touch it.
We call this "gated" content. I'm sure as we generalize a micropayments API, we'll support this.

But, I think this fails to help spread our service. Today, people expect to see something before they pay for it. The net effect of gating content is to remove at least an order of magnitude from your user base.

I do think Tipjoy will be used to help support free software though. I'm excited about that.
This isn't reddit, you know: the goal isn't to "punish" people for saying something "really, really wrong" (unless they're being uncivil or trolling, or other antisocial things). The idea is just to point out that they're wrong and move on. Think of it as a community, rather than just a random aggregation of strangers: when you tell a friend that they've done something wrong, you do it once, more or less gently, and then get on with things.

The "let's pile on to the guy who was wrong" mentality is a bit too much of a an unfriendly herd instinct for my tastes.
I find this article to be interesting in light of your comment. It's about 20-somethings scrimping, working crappy jobs, lots of sacrifices, just so they can live in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/nyregion/25scrimp.html

I'm sure that it's a quality job, but most people are more interested in a quality career, and they generally perceive that not too many quality careers happen in rural Kansas. Not that aren't any, but there are probably exponentially fewer than in the nearest large city.
Not really. Google puts relevant results at the top. If you're a site that nobody has ever heard of and have no content, it's logical that you won't be at the top. Not because Google is shaking you down for money, but because your site is completely irrelevant.

If you want to show up even though you're irrelevant, you can buy an ad. (It's just like print advertising. Just because the magazine doesn't run an article about you doesn't mean they're shaking you down for ad money. It just means that you're not worth writing an article about.)
Could you outline his attempts at finding applicants? Where has he advertised this open position? I find it hard to believe there's nobody in this small town, or a neighboring county/state that is interested.
I wish it were a joke. I just googled the PHB that said that to me. He is alive and well, MBAing at his fourth company. Pity his tech people.

You got me to thinking. I have lots of old stories that would appear to be stolen jokes if you didn't know any better. One of my favorites is the user who wanted a list of SKUs not on the computer. Still haven't figured out what he was thinking.
That's a lot of sweaty thumb action to get the map to zoom. I would think some sort of text entry would be quicker for most folks. Pretty and cool though, which I guess is what we expect from Apple products (form over function)

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When was the last time you bought something due to seeing a banner/in-situ ad? I don't think I ever have, does that mean every ad I've ever seen on the internet was someone wasting their money? I must have seen hundreds even thousands of ads! Poor guys.
"Your welcome".
This is fiction. Funny but it works, too bad the secret is out though ;-)
So I am right in assuming you are the guy who submitted this story then: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx ?

Yes, I do in fact store every single link I ever read on reddit in my brain.
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Already posted, dude: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199967
When did out-of-core sorting move from being a standard part of 1st year computer science to being a "programming job interview challenge"?
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Gaaa I spent the past 10 minutes of my life searching for that link in TheDailyWTF and CodingHorror. Thx. You win.
According to Craig, he has advertised with the local workforce centers who attend nearly all the job fairs in cities within driving distance. Not to mention the online job boards, farming magazines, etc. I just thought we all might be interested in a middle America, ie farming dilemma right now, in light of all the woe is me talk on the media. The one person is right...there are jobs,maybe not where you want or need them. It could be a great life for someone.
I agree 110% and not because Google penalizes new domains, but because Google will go to extreme and unfair measures to protect their (soon to be) monopoly in the paid advertising market.

Google whacks paid links because it competes with AdWords. Doesn't get much more complex than that. If you own a company that makes it's money by selling links or providing webmaster an alternative to AdSense/AdWords, prepare to be attacked directly by the Goog.

The MS-like backlash will happen with Google, just give it time.
Wow. Congratulations. This is the second old PG essay that hasn't made it up here yet that I've seen in about 2 weeks. I guess this is like a HN sport now. :P
what's stopping you from building this?
Yes, this Yahoo/AFP blurb story is weak. But we can look at some of the other coverage...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb....

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8904

..and see that:

(1) It's double the size of the previous largest Samsung offering, and will be the largest SSD available.

(2) It's faster than previous offerings.

(3) It's the thinnest such drive with a SATA II interface.

(4) It uses a cheaper manufacturing process, though the impact on final cost isn't yet announced.

So incremental, yes, but a fairly large increment.

More interesting than any single company announcement, though, is how this reinforces an industrywide trend of SSD improvement and adoption. A lot more laptops will have SSD drives... but also many servers, as a performance boost, and because SSDs have different random-access characteristics than spinning drives it will affect the optimal architecture of server-based apps.
yea i think he needs to improve his applicant finding skills

its not like people don't live in small towns anymore... there are thousands of people working in mcdonalds in tiny highway towns that would kill to get paid 80k a year
> So I'm going to number these points, and maybe with future startups I'll be able to pull off a form of Huffman coding. I'll make them all read this, and then instead of nagging them in detail, I'll just be able to say: number four!

I am curious as to how well this worked out.
Funny article coming from a website which has ads without Google's 'required' nofollow tag.
I honestly didn't mind. It's not at the top (meaning I don't need to go past it to see comments), and I liked reading it here better than NYTs squished and ad-cluttered page (which may raise copyright issues, but so be it). It also would have helped if NYT decided to split their story into more than 1 page.
Can't be me. And I can prove it:

I only submit here.

Different language.

Different PHB.

Different result.

The programmer showered and shaved.
I did this: "dailywtf loop" in google. It's the first result.
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Hmm... Just when you think it can't get any worse...
Can't be the wages? I bet there is a price for which many would consider it. For example, if he paid 2000000$ per year, I would consider it (for a while).
He did mention 20 hour workdays, though. I personally struggle with 8 hours :)
This new algorithm changes everything

Which new algorithm? The article doesn't say. In fact, it doesn't say much of anything, offering little more than unsubstantiated assertions. It might be right, be we have no way to tell.
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It looks like it was submitted a long time ago, before this site was even announced.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13
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"depends on how this startup thing goes"

I hope it goes well for you.

You'll need the day job.
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Google should whack paid links, they're less relevant than natural links; this is a good thing and makes the search results more relevant. Selling links is gaming the system. Paid links spoil the relevance of search results.
No, not a slight by any means. I'm actually just curious, honestly.
Let me be gentle about this. I think Craig is primarily looking for someone with the skills to practice dedicated work. Homelessness develops one's skills in different areas. I don't think working long hours in ag country would be a good match for big-city homeless folks.
:).

8 hours is a lot for me too. However, right now I'm sitting on an unsteady (swiveling chair), struggling to hammer another key under intense pain (carpal-tunnel syndrome), in a frigid (air-conditioned) apartment. I think if it wasn't for this harsh working environment I could work longer hours. Maybe I'll give that farm guy a call.
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The most important part of the JavaScript (and Flash and Java Applets and...) vs. non-JavaScript, et al question is much less about users and much more about making sure that you site is coherently crawlable by the search engines.

If you're site isn't easily crawlable by the search engines then you're pretty well hosed because that's where most users come from these days for most sites.
And your view is exactly why the USA is 37th on The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems, below countries like Colombia (GDP $337.286 billion), Chile (GDP $163.792 billion) and Costa Rica (GDP $56.777 billion). The USA's GDP is $13.794 trillion. At least you beat the communists (Cubans) by three places...
Selling links only spoils relevance because that's what Google bases their rank algorithm on. This is a flaw in Google's logic. Google created the market (both the good side and the bad), and now they want to control it too. Without Google's ranking math there would still be paid links. It shouldn't be 'our' problem that Google's logic if flawed, they should engineer a new solution.

If we take your and Google's word on this, that paid links ruin relevance, it just displaces where the money and time is spent. If direct paid links are penalized, it shifts the power and influence to other parties/locations (and all the paid link money directly into Google's pockets)
I spent 18 years in a rural farming community and this seems phony. Any farmer who is that dialed in and successful has already been doing what all the other farmers in america do: use seasonal & migrant labor. The "free beef" part really pushed it past the point of believability. It reads like the author is practicing his writing skills to land a gig writing polemics for the National Review.

Assuming it is legitimate, this job sucks because whomever accepts it is becoming an indentured servant for a land-owning farmer.The skills the person learns are not transferable to any other occupation, and no other farmers are hiring this sort of person. If something goes sour in the relationship, the worker doesn't just lose a job, he loses a house and is stuck in rural Kansas.
I'd settle for just being able to see their stories without logging in.
Vid comments are of lower information

i'd say that is valid for the majority of comments on the web. The exception seems to be Hacker News. Obviously that has something to do with the people not the medium, although a text comment is edited a multiple times.

I remember myself when i would scroll through the page of comments and read only the first ones, then suddenly you go through the page and must read all of them.

In the same manner although there were all these video comments i only viewed some.

It's about becoming a habit I guess.

Of course it took 15 years for people to get used or have a reason to text commenting...In few hundred! years maybe people may be will have a reason to use video phones and video commenting.
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Ask YC: Using open-source code, yes or no?
I'm starting my company and the Firefox extension we want to build has a specific design that can be seen in an open-source extension. Should we develop the whole extension or just build further upon the existing open-source code?

Is building upon existing open source the smart way to go, or will it prove to have legal or other difficulties in the future?
The quick and dirty approaches are to write a simple interpreter or a simple source to source compiler to another language which (has tools, etc.) which handle the heavy lifting of the backend. For example, look at all of the languages built on top of the JVM.

In terms of the hardcore, there's still a lingering fight between the static compilers and the dynamic compilers. Though, even that is starting to erode because the best static compilers only generate the best code by using profiles created during instrumented, previous runs of the application (which basically makes them poor-man's dynamic compilers). Dynamic compilers such as HotSpot and the best Lisp implementations generate pretty good code and yet still handle the realities of eval, dynamic-class-loading, etc. well.
I did none of those and was indexed quickly just by submitting a sitemap in Google's webmaster tools. Save your digg submissions for when you have something of value to submit.
This was at a family reunion, maybe he was kidding about the free beef, but it sure didn't seem that way at the time. He is working himself to the bone. And, I am not trying to land any gig.
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Huh? You need to get out more.

Also, note that the majority of the optimizations that e.g., HotSpot does are as applicable to "dynamic" languages as they are to "static" languages.
no i didn't know that, thanks for the link!
oh, i see your point. i will keep matters of style on the originating site, and matters of content here.
Just read this over again, and want to make sure you realize it is not a free home to KEEP, just one to live in while you are working there. It was not my intention to get into any debates, but I found it interesting because my day job has to do with the employment industry and I was feeling frustrated with how hard it is for people to find great jobs. This just hit me at the right time, and I thought you would like to read about it, is all.
that's a good way to guarantee slow growth. yelp is so popular because they made it a competitive sport to review new places and add in new information (with the reward being elite yelp status and access to special elite parties.) a lot of yelp's paying customers do have dates and times and photos and menus and such. in fact, afaik, the only way to get some of the info on there is to pay yelp.

i wish you the best of luck, but i hope you have a bigger differentiator than placing more of a burden on small businesses.
Re: verification

Your comment is only arguably true for completely statically compiled languages which have very weak (or no) processing model that can be enforced (by e.g., the loaders).
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I don't read ten blog posts a day about how great TipJoy is. I do about Seesmic.

I'm not counting Seesmic out, I just don't get the hype.