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> as much as RealPlayer sucks

No need for RealPlayer. Just get Media Player Classic Home Cinema (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) and Real Alternative (http://www.filehippo.com/download_real_alternative/). With that combination, RealMedia streams have become one of my favorites. You can do the same with QuickTime, by getting QuickTime Lite (http://www.filehippo.com/download_quicktime_alternative/).
HN is not completely defenseless against the barbarian hordes that have been attacking geekdom since that September so many years ago. For one, it's not pretty. Barbarian hordes like flashy things and may get distracted by something else and just go away. It also has no password recovery mechanism, so, when they forget their passwords, they are locked out until they can create another user and that buys us some time before they can downvote. Unless they authenticate with another auth source, but you can't always win.
Or sometimes don't. For sufficiently large joins, a hash join that ignores indexes can save you and a nested loop on the index kill you.
So just register. It's free and they don't spam you. I am sick of people complaining about the NYT; they provide great content and all they want to know is who's reading it. Srsly.
The people who build yachts, $2MM homes, luxury cars, etc. might see that as "unfair"
Yes. It's Goldman Sachs tainted money.
Well, there seems to be much interesting information missed from the US air waves... :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Yusuf_al...

In a sermon, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009 [...] "Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. [...] Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one."

Edit: I quoted (from Wikipedia) the content of the TV channel people want to show in the western world. Down voting is for lack of counter arguments?

Edit 2: I think it is really funny that I get downvoted a lot for noting that antisemitic hatred and prayers for genocide are sent on Al J -- the non-English one...
No, of course not.

I don't know if people realize this, but there is no actual deal between Ron/Yuri and YC. The deals are between them and the startups. We liked their plan of investing in all the startups, so we called a meeting for them to present it. But we don't have any control over which investments the startups accept. Anyone who wanted to do what Ron and Yuri have done could have done it at any time, whether YC liked the idea or not, simply by making the offer publicly.

While we're on the subject, Sequoia, which we do have a deal with (they're our biggest LP), also doesn't have any effect on the startups we pick.
Bessemer Venture Partners "Anti-Portfolio"
That Objective-C Web framework exists. Check out http://www.frothkit.org/

Honestly, though, I don't know why you'd want Objective-C. The language itself is not clearly better than many others. It's Cocoa (Touch) that makes programming on Apple's platforms so pleasant.
Facebook: Are You Interfacing with the Russian Mafia & KGB?
Pretty sure DST isn't involved in this?
emacs and vi are console based editors. I don't understand how anything could get to the point where it could never be made better.

In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
Speaking of perspective, I wouldn't call living off of cereal or ramen human suffering. These are people who could probably do one hour of consulting and, with the money they make, buy more food than someone in the third world sees in a month. It's human suffering much in the same way that choosing to flagellate yourself with a cat o' nine tails is.
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just pulled rtmpdump from macports (I already have mplayer, of course) and I can confirm it works on mac too... except their rtmp provider seems to be getting killed right now.

I would recommend switching to Livestation, quality isn't as good, but at least it works (on Linux too).
I don't think Al Jazeera is less partisan, they just have partisan biases that don't align with anyone in the west.

One thing I observed while watching them - they have a very distinct pro-Arab bias. It's readily apparent if you watch their reporting on the occupation of Kurdistan and the occupation of Palestine (Arabs are the victim, whether they are the occupier or the occupied).

That's partisan, but very few Americans have much of an opinion on it. The small minority with an opinion are pro-Israel and think Kurdistan is in Russia.
Al Jazeera is freely available over FTA through GlobeCast worldtv. http://www.globecastwtv.com/America/WhatsOnWTV/FreeToAirOnly...
One could imagine an ID card that gives you the right not to be violated & degraded in TSA screening lines...
There's an important part you neglected -- only people employed with your company for 6 months count, including founder(s). So if you found a startup, you have to wait 6 months to apply and pay COBRA in the interim.

In the end, we decided it was cheaper to go with individual plans until we grow bigger.

If your S-corp pays for health insurance for employees or dependents, that is an "above the line" deduction and is not subject to payroll taxes (although not outright deductable from income). See an accountant as these laws are changing the past couple years.

http://www.rothcpa.com/archives/003260.php
Yeah, I think a lot of people clicked on the link when you posted that comment. It's definitely something everyone should take a few minutes to look at.
Yes, this is correct. It works just like federal COBRA, just longer.

BTW, the fact that I've had to learn all this stuff as part of starting a company is alone a draw on my time to innovate. Go with single-payer and you'd free up a ton of small company officers' time.
And what would you do with existing billionaires? Rip them of their money, like when USSR was formed? Or leave them their money to freeze the status quo forever?
My love affair with Lisp (2005)
Not unless your previous employer was a California corp.
I like it, lots of my friends like it as well.

If they did not enact it, things on the road would be worse. They just need to make it more.

The cost of public transport is ridiculous, London has to be the most expensive city to travel around.
This might help some folks under the age of 26 but it's pretty new so wouldn't have impacted people who went out on their own until fairly recently:

Under the Act, all plans and insurance issuers that offer dependent coverage must offer coverage to an enrollee’s adult children whether married or unmarried until the child reaches age 26, even if the adult child no longer lives with the parents, is not a dependent on a parent’s tax return or is no longer a student. (Plans that do not provide dependent coverage are not required to do so under the Act.) However, this extended eligibility does not apply to the adult child’s spouse or children. This expansion of eligibility is effective for plan or policy years beginning on or after September 23, 2010. Calendar year plans will have to comply as of January 1, 2011.

http://dmeclegal.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/details-on-depende...
Huh, I never imagined Italy was that rich ... then again, FIAT does own half the motoring world.
Punish your competition for their insolence
They're not. It's Yuri Milner investing personally.
Probably common knowledge, but RequireJS does this: http://requirejs.org/
California needs to be two states: Northern CA and Southern CA. It doesn't make sense for one state to have so much oomph, but to be such a disaster, financially.

Northern CA and Southern CA are completely different worlds; they have different agendas and different kinds of people flock to each one for different reasons.

State taxes, government latency, budgeting. . . all of these things could be simplified and improved if the state were not such a behemoth.
DYI Lidar using a Kinect
cause they get their share of antisemitism from Fox: http://mediamatters.org/research/200807020002
1) Whether yearly income is representative of present and/or future net worth is entirely unrelated to whether the magnitude of said income is discoverable.

2) Everyone has a different definition of "fair." Which one are you using?
Democracy Now! does:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/10849

But they fail the "major" qualification.
Source code is available at https://github.com/mszarski/KinectMapper
And all of that is likely to cost much more than just paying the fine and moving on. It sounds like the rich guy got taken to task for his attempts to weasel out of it in the case you're referring to. He eventually got what he wanted, I guess, which is no points, but it sounds like it cost a lot of money (unless his donation to the pension fund and his lawyer's hourly rate was $25).
Training Youths in the Ways of the Workplace
I found this article to be interesting reading coming from the side of someone who can't invest in the same manner of Yuri. However, what wasn't said is that angles will just have to look elsewhere to find the gems that YC passed over. Perhaps, and I'm hoping this happens, they'll need to look in places outside of the valley. Areas like Boulder, Colorado; Chicago and even Ft. Myers, Florida. Yuri could single handedly be influencing angles to start something new in a whole new place.
I meant "in response to events in the past", most obviously 9/11. not sure what the best word is here ... suggestions welcome.
Beyond Amazon: How to Make Recommendations Smarter
Good lord, you'd think he was being forced to agree to convertible notes with no caps with a gun to his head.

I can see there being a little more pressure to do no-cap convertibles on very competitive deals, but there's nothing preventing him or any other angel anywhere from continuing to offer terms they're more comfortable with.
What was true back then about the hacker ethic is probably still true today. Not only is this a great article to read, it is somewhat relevant to what's being discussed on HN currently. What is a hacker? What are they good at? And so forth...
Where would you draw the line though? How would you resolve the water that gets shipped down to southern California?
A cap which would presumably be raised along with the payouts.
The thing that makes speeding unsafe (up to a point) is not so much the speed itself but the delta between the slowest and fastest cars on the road.
Do you mind giving us your opinion on how this changes things for Y Combinator, and for its startups?
Max contribution per individual per year to an HSA is $3050 currently. Assuming you did a good job investing and didn't lose money in this last market downturn, you might have saved like $15000 in the past 5 years. Remembering that your HD plan only covers 80% beyond your $5k deductible, this won't even last 2 years if you have a serious illness.

I don't see HSAs as an add-on to insurance (i.e., offers any kind of protection). I see them as a way of paying for meds, office visits, etc. with pretax dollars as long as you are healthy and continuing to work.
High fees don't necessarily mean a bad deal. I think most people would be willing to give up a percentage of profit in exchange for an improved return (or perceived improvement) than they'd get otherwise. Isn't that similar to the VC world? Many start-up entrepreneurs give up a portion of their projects (and profits) for an improved chance at having the project perform better overall.
Just last year we were talking incessantly about how angels and super-angels were disrupting VC's in the area of early stage investments in a big way. Were the super-angels a "threat to Silicon Valley" back then? Nobody thought so except maybe a few VC's in private.

PG predicted/observed in his Startup School talk that the way VC's could strike back was to throw around more money at higher valuations than the angels were really comfortable with, since the total risk exposure was a much less big deal to them. The Milner deal is exactly that phenomena taken to its logical conclusion.

Also, the fact that Silicon Valley's most prominent angel is co-investing with and managing Milner's investment should be all you need to know to realize that this is a lot more complex than "Milner is destroying the angel ecosystem"
I was surprised to see the parent downvoted. Some people do think AJ is at least partially a mouthpiece for AQ and Islamists; some people think that Fox is a mouthpiece for the Republican party. It's a defensible comparison, and not something others had said.
I do think they have a general pro-Arab bias, but that's sort of what I'd expect, and it's not particularly egregious I don't think. It's pro-Arab sort of in the way that most French media is pro-French, most Greek papers are pro-Greek, etc., and on the more moderate side of that spectrum--- it's not the Arab version of Jean-Marie Le Pen or anything.
works for me in firefox (4.0b11) too
I was about to submit this myself - one of the most interesting Google 20% projects I've come across in a long time.

If you don't look through the whole website, at least skim their vision for use cases: http://camlistore.org/docs/uses

The single feature of being able to keep a private store of different web services could make this really take off for a lot of people.
My friend was at a school gathering in India and didn't realize that the balloons had been filled with hydrogen instead of helium (save on costs?). He went to pop one with a lighter and the whole bunch of 70 went up in flames and burned the hell out of his body.

Moral of the story... be careful with hydrogen balloons.
Frustrations on the first "official" leap
I've been checking out ycombinator on and off for a couple of years, watching the inspirational videos and reading the news, but this is my first thread. I felt compelled to vent my frustrations about my experiences.

After winning a couple of university sponsored business plan competitions (two separate ideas) and getting this feeling of "I just might make it in the start-up world" I decided to leave my first job (after 5 yrs) last March and launch a start-up. (SIDENOTE: the other two business ideas went nowhere due to late-to-market and patent road-block discouragement... some may say that's silly).

Anyway, we launched the company (a web-based lead generation/broker for a niche service sector) in March with a team of 3, and we later added another guy to help us out with tasks here and there. I am the only one that quit my job to work on this, and the 4th guy was unemployed so we figured we'd help him by giving him an opportunity to be part of something, and get help in return. After several business operations restructuring efforts, zero revenue from freemium (put our name out there) models, and feelings of not being on the same page in life with everyone, I now find myself discouraged. I feel like the rest of my team is treating this as a pet project, simply due to other commitments going on in their lives. I feel like everything is hanging by a thread, and I'm the one holding it. I'm approaching my stop-loss limit soon and I feel like I'm just gonna turn the lights off soon and walk out.

Risking big and falling on your face is something that I really don't want to experience, but I seem to be headed in that direction. advice?
Just as a side note, I don't find any URLs in your profile.
Exactly, this kind of thinking freaks me out.

They want to take property from people who have earned it precisely for having earned it! It's theft, it's looting, and it's slavery!

You cannot take one man's property and give it to another based on need.
An important question for a retrospective posts is why has HN not degraded as quickly over time as other sites?

I think the key game mechanic increasing the longevity of Hacker News is the minimum karma threshold necessary to downvote comments. In effect, it requires new users to undergo a period of socialization to community norms. During this period they train in recognizing what the schema for comments containing negative informational value looks like. First out of fear, then out of mandate as an acquired power.

If you ever want to keep a community alive, implement similar withheld powers of negative punishment and adjust the level of input work required to earn them.
Not to suggest that I know better than you what your own thoughts are/will be, but it is possible for this to influence what startups you accent without them talking to you about it.

For example, maybe there's a startup which couldn't possibly succeed without big initial investment - with a <$20k fund, you wouldn't bet on them doing well, but with an additional $150k available, you might see them as having a much higher chance of success.

Sure there are other examples, but basically the fact that it changes the amount of funding available to your startups, it has the potential to change their success, which means that, if you forsee those changes before deciding whether to accept or reject a startup, it could also change your decision.
School districts in New Jersey aggressively police residency, using detective at times, though I don't know that it has ever come to the point of a criminal case there. My impression, from an article or two in the NY Times years ago, is that this is not usually a racial matter there.

A more accurate headline might be "Mother Jailed for Providing False Affidavits in Effort to Put Children in Better School."
What's Behind Egypt's Problems?
Misleading title.

The original title was better: "Mother Jailed For School Fraud, Flares Controversy"

Or:
Ohio mother Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of lying about her residency to get her daughters into a better school district
One thing that's interesting to me: check out those point totals: 26 points, 30 points, 35 points. Compare that to the homepage right now: 23, 181, 74, etc.
with a convertible note what happens if the startup fails?
Do they owe $150K?
Well, the Linux kernel source code is around 71MB compressed, I'd guess maybe 200MB uncompressed. That's quite a difference in source code size, and I think that the same is true with most OSS projects. The WINE project for instance is also < 100MB for the full (huge and extensive, including translation) source.

I think that commercial codebases just end up with a lot of cruft and nobody ever feels like cleaning them up (plus, there is incentive for keeping things a bit clunky as it buys slack-off time and/or extra hourly pay). As above, I also think they use other commercial/crappy components like third-party widgets that had the same treatment, so it all snowballs into a huge/unwieldy thing.
No because if the fast line didn't exist the regular line would be longer. total waiting, on average, is the same.
Investor says his competition is a threat. Film at 11.
Do you have a link for the "painted blue" reference? I agree with your explanation, but had never heard that particular phrasing and was intrigued by it. But searching on Google for things like 'expand ansi macro "painted blue"' returns only your comment and a scraped spam site of someone answering a similar question.
"What I’m trying to emphasize is the increasing lack of critical thinking instigated by easy access to information that can be readily searched for on the internet."

Thirty years ago & more my college French teacher told me that her students had little compartments in their minds in which they stowed facts, and that the facts in one compartment commonly did not interact with those in another. They certainly weren't getting those facts off the internet.
Shouldn't you be able to communicate any idea for less than $20k?

The companies that communicate a good idea well on Demo Day will succeed in getting good funding.

The difference between $20k and $150k is "They need to work on communicating their idea" vs. "They can get to work on their implementation".
What do you need to spend money on that you can't afford with $90K? And why do you want to buy it over something that you could afford?

In my experience, virtually everything that falls into that category is some sort of status symbol. The grandparent poster is suggesting replacing these implicit status symbols with an explicit one.

The part about his proposal that I'd miss is the ability to save up your high income for a few years so that you could compensate for a low income the next few years, and then do something more interesting during that time. But if you're earning $90K regardless, that wouldn't matter, because you'd be able to do the more interesting stuff anyway.

Actually, that leads to the real problem in his proposal: you lose the information-carrying capacity of money. I'm basically ambivalent about most of my income over a number that's a lot less than $90K; I don't spend it anyway. But if I'm faced with two jobs that look equally interesting, I'll take the one that pays more; the additional money is a proxy for how much that business is valued by the marketplace, and I'd rather work on things that will make lots of people happy. Same with when I start a business: there're lots of projects that are interesting, but profit is a way of telling which ones are interesting and useful to others.

OTOH, a stack ranking does that as well. The problem with the stack ranking is that you can't pass along that surplus down the value chain. So, for example, if you provide some useful service and that service would be made more useful if you could hire a graphic designer to make it pretty, you wouldn't be able to, because the government would take the money you would otherwise have paid the graphic designer.
Looks like a pretty neat project, though I didn't have a very good sense of what they're trying to do until I read the use cases page: http://camlistore.org/docs/uses

Too bad they mostly seem to be focusing on go (for local) and google app engine (for remote) implementations. That's probably a serious barrier to excitement for most people I know, even if they plan to encourage other implementations in the future.
(1) The original question is ["elsewhere it's like [this], is that better?"]

I merely point out a major caveat.

(2) From the article: "In reality, fairness is not so much about the actual distribution of loot as it is about the psychology of how you feel about it."
I wish people would stop downvoting comments because they don't agree with them. This contributes. I want to see things like this and the sibling comments to mine, even if they're wrong. Stop breaking the conversation with mindless downvotes. Thank you.
This article back in 2008 is how I found HN in the first place :)
What does the popularity of iPhone and iPad tell us?
This is why America remains segregated. Rich neighbourhoods send all their children to the same schools, poor neighbourhoods send their children to the same school.

Children should be assigned to schools out of their living zone - then there will be incentive to make all schools nice, and it will break the cycle of poverty.
All of those areas already have angel networks. Angel investment has historically had a big geographic aspect; it's very hard for most SV angels to add as much value to a Seattle-area startup as a Seattle-area angel.