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Am I missing something here or do I really have to type the weird curly-F every time I want to call this? Having charmap open in my taskbar is not my idea of being productive. Plus, from my cursory glance this looks pretty similar, if not almost identical, to jQuery...
Oracle has a long history of making friends with Open Source...

This along with the whole OpenSolaris, and various other projects just makes me sad. Yes, they aren't viable business strategies (especially the amount of people Sun employed just to work on various random Open Source projects), but there is something to be said for good will.

All of this is also leaving a sour taste in the mouths of people who have budgets and make decisions, yes many people will continue to purchase stuff from Oracle but ultimately I have a feeling this will come back to haunt them. I know quite a few places that ran exclusively Sun for their servers are now looking at whitebox machines running Linux and BSD.
Bingo.

For all those complaining about his lack of performance here, you're kinda missing the point..

It's not Zuckerberg if he's not awkward.
Transfer your interest to this(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157509) updated post.
I liked how he totally loved his own joke about having invented poking ("I invented poking! :-D"), and after a second of silence from the audience, realized that he should be in character, and went back to trying to look serious.
It is nothing like jQuery. It's a small utility library for easing your life when dealing with raw javascript. You can use ƒ or fu.
I find the facebook share link on this page to be poetic. On a serious note, how long will it take facebook to kill this the same way it did http://www.suicidemachine.org ? I'd love to see one of these succeed, but if my memory serves me, there's been a constant cat and mouse game going on between them and facebook since it first became popular.
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Our budget problems must be more serious than I thought. Someone at the white house is doing HITS.
Numbers missing: what is the typical valuation at Series A for a company coming out of YC? If it's $2 million then he'll wind up with (on average) 7.5% of each company (similar to what YC itself gets for about eight times less money), so to break even on one exit it'll have to be a $100+ million exit, which would be bigger than any YC exit so far as far as I know.
That's a fair point. That said, Zuck has been on TV plenty, just never after being told to "be funny".
A summary without much more than a conclusion citing another article which contains much the same information but citing the researchers (but not their paper). It's a research project just to understand why the conclusion is justified.
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He also has to be funny within the confines of a script which his PR advisors can't actually allow to be funny. e.g. the line "Liked the movie, particularly that line about buying my enemy's house so I could use it as a pingpong table. Where do you live?" would be funny, but PR would go nuts when they saw that script.
My guess is that the SSA didn't factor how poorly American's would treat themselves over the next 65 years. If they had their projections for life expectancy would have dropped inline with what they are today.

Either that or those fantastic flying cars we all though we were going to have by 2011 were supposed to have contributed to a longer lifespan.
Kind of like iran. Is it being posed as a religious revolution led by the islamic faction?
And it is oh-so-ninja. It's 3Kb size. And 1.6Kb compressed with Closure.
All in 87 LOCs. Beautiful recursion rocks.
tsenart, you submitted the same thing two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146944

At the very least you could link to the previous discussion, no?
TL;DR: happiness is in your head. If you have money and still aren't happy, the next step is not "kill yourself" it is examine your head to work out how to be happy. If you dedicated years of your life to making money in order to be happy then it was misdirected effort, you should have spent the effort directly on happy. Working out how you can be happy and changing yourself so you can be, and are.

In my experience, people kill themselves because they've already spent years or decades trying to find out how to be happy or even normal. Eventually, they give up hope and that is what leads to suicide.
Oh well I am sorry. I linked the other way though. Thanks for noting.
FYI: Last time I stopped at the bank where I opened business checking account 2+ years ago (Wells Fargo), they sat me down and offered a 100K line of credit (the interest rate was unknown unless I applied, but she said it would be around 7-8%). The service is poorly monetized ( disproportionately high hosting fees + new hardware expenses / revenue). Until recently I was putting all these hosting related expenses on a single US Bank credit card (and paying it off monthly). In response, they raised the credit line to 40k at 8% yearly interest. This is less however than the 300k, that I think is needed. Additionally, I would prefer to use this kind bank debt financing only in an emergency, because I suppose that unlike a savvy investor, Wells Fargo and US Bank would be absolutely inflexible if I say need slightly more time, and would drive the company into default by their blanket policy, regardless of the specific circumstances.
> Take DHH, for example. He's got a great reputation as a programmer but he can still eat his lunch in peace.

Oh really? http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/newofficeshots/_3144012...
I was reading through some Python the other day (could have been "learn Python the hard way") and it struck me that one of the things that people like about it is the way it handles Strings, or the 'power' it gives you over strings or something like that.

Objecting to using + or += overloading on strings in Java seems to me to be cutting off your nose to spite your face.

In Objective-C for instance I dearly wish that there were better ways of slapping strings and integers together. But no, everything seems to be a call to some oddball class method with optional formatter classes and other magic constants tossed around with gay abandon. Or alternately, sometimes you can use C-style format strings, and sometimes you can't. Enjoy.

In Python would you object to nesting "s and 's because it feels hackish? In Lisp would you avoid Macros because they are hackish? In Perl would you avoid regexs because they are hackish?
Sure, why not?

I wouldn't start up a VS instance just to edit text, but if I have one running, it's my editor of choice.
People actually voted this blog post up?

How about me having to update itunes every other week and having to d/l 90M each time for a point version upgrade.
Hasn't apple figured out how to do patches?

I end up updating my mac less because the updates are so freaking huge. Last update I did ended up being 1.2G. Yes, GIGS!
And that was only after not updating for about 3 months. WTF?
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"All that it requires is that everyone change everything they do"

Can't really be reconciled with

"If we designed cars properly they'd get 50+mpg already"

But, then we'd have to make everyone change every notion of style, hot-rodder fantasy, and living-room comfort that everyone wants out of their galactic-sized vehicles. It might just be easier to sell them on a plug-in than make them give up SUVs for mini eurocars.
I thought that was totally hilarious.
As I said to another commenter, yes, as long as I have a VS instance running, it's my text editor of choice.

The startup time is too long for off-hand editing (I suppose this is hardware dependent). In that case, I'll open Notepad for quick to-do lists, or vi for non-line-ending-mangling tasks. It's pretty unusual for me not to have VS running, though.
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I'd recommend everyone study a little biochemistry/neurochemistry. It's one of those areas where a little bit of knowledge can pay huge dividends.

After you learn a little bit, you start to think, "Duh, of course more external trappings don't keep jacking up your serotonin/dopamine/etc."

In fact, the more I learn of it, the more I reject pursuing "low happinesses" - biochemical mix-based - as any more important than respiration or circulation or immune system. Very important towards surviving, but as a health/pragmatic note, not a meaning of life. It's liberating dismissing biochemical happiness as a key goal, and freeing my mind to work on more interesting things.
I really applaud Zuckerberg for positively embracing all the attention that's been shouldered on him, really. I think stuff like this SNL skit or him taking his core team at Facebook to watch "The Social Network" together at a movie theatre just shows tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part. It's great to see him be able to laugh it off and joke about it.

He's come a long way in his public speaking skills too, he was pretty natural and comedic during his talk at Startup School. I think he's only going to get better from this point on too.
"there might be better offers."

It's possible, but there just about CAN'T be a better offer. I guess investors could literally pay founders to take their investment. This is, quite literally, the best early stage investment deal that any entrepreneur will ever see.

It also gives them tremendous leverage on demo day and beyond should they want to raise money... If there isn't strong interest and good terms, they can say, "screw this, we'll go hunker down and prove some of the theories that these investors are doubting... Or we'll just go lean and get profitable."
Ah, now that's a welcoming intro paragraph for the README.
> there is some literature out there indicating increased income is associated with increased suicide risk.

As far as I can see, the study you cited does not support this. The quote mentions "In contrast to findings in the general population".

On the same page, a little further, it is written: "There is clear evidence from person based and ecological studies that relative poverty is associated with an increased risk of suicide." (with a couple citations)
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I actually think Zuck should just hire Eisenberg to be him anytime he has to appear in public. And get Sorkin to write his speeches.

Goodness gracious, I couldn't disagree more. I thought Eisenberg played MZ like an angry cartoon character. And Sorkin's incessant zingers were classic bad "good" writing calling attention to itself, the writer trying to wedge himself in as one of the stars of the movie (which worked, judging by the attention he got for it).
Which is odd. Given the social web that we have supporting us in Canada you would expect a much more vibrant entrepreneurial spirit.

Maybe the mindset that lauds and supports this type of support is one that is not willing to take the risks in the first place (at least, not in the same numbers).
Not all who seem awkward are lost.
I don't know. What if you're not carrying them because you don't think they're good?
Though, at least at my school, we did the actual 'design a microprocessor' in software. It's cool to have an end product, but with software you are mostly limited to conceptual errors rather than the joyous world of debugging 8 identical (i.e. 8 bit computer) full data paths.
External trappings can easily keep jacking up your serotonin/dopamine.
The top %0.1 card that basically give's tourist visa-free Permanent Residency status in nearly every country in the world? Kind of like clear/nexus cards for immigration? That would be an awesome 'status' badge.
I'm sorry about the situation you are in, but it is largely your fault.

Did you do any reference checks on previous work before you partnered with him? Did you meet up in person to validate his personality? Did you google him after speaking to him the first time?

The internet is rife with scammers, but in this case you DID actually receive two sites - albeit not extremely well built ones. Scammers would have generally taken your money and produced nothing at all.

just my 2cents...
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Not to sound like a fanboy (thought that might be a lost cause), this reminds me of how good a showman Steve Jobs is - as seen in the 1999 Macworld Expo with Noah Wyle (in very similar circumstances - Wyle had played Jobs in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley').

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os
Why would you use this over normal querySelector{All}? Also, why do you define a window.typeOf global? It completely defeats the purpose of using a clousure.

You also seem to be checking `typeof value.length == 'number' && typeof value.splice != 'undefined' && !value.propertyIsEnumerable('length')` to determine if something is an Array. First of all, the recommended practice is to check Object.prototype.toString.call(value) === "[object Array]", but since you're going to rely on latest browsers supporting querySelector{All}, you might as well use Array.isArray.

I'm sorry for being so harsh, but this is the most worthless library I have ever seen. You're adding an extremely thin and pointless layer of abstraction to querySelectorAll and polluting the global namespace with four globals, three of which are completely identitcal, and two of which take too much effort to type. Not to mention your use of worst practices (such as using eval(), only loose comparisons, wrapping all of your code in try..catch statements instead of just not doing things that will throw errors, etc.) and your prototypical pollution in Array, Document, and Element. For example, you define Array.prototype.flatten for internal use. You shouldn't pollute global prototypes for something that you can do privately.
Actually, I think status markers created by the government would be far, far more appealing to the wealthy. It's like Hegel's master-slave dialectic - a master doesn't feel like a real master because he knows all the struggles and difficulties of maintaining his position. If he really is a master, not just an ordinary man who finds himself with power, why does he have to work so hard to maintain it? The only time he really sees himself as a master is when he catches a glimpse of himself as his slave sees him, and paradoxically, this makes him dependent on the slave's recognition of him. The master is desperate to impress him and provoke envy. That's why in all Ayn Rand novels, the protagonist's problem isn't just the fact that the masses interfere with his projects and thwart his greatness - the problem is that they do this because they don't recognize him as superior. That's what really burns. The whole purpose of going Galt is to force society to recognize them.

If the rich are so desperate for our approval, why not give it to them? They don't need to play stupid and wasteful status games to seduce us into admiring them, they can compete with each other, we'll add up the score, everyone gets ranked and that will be the end of it. OK, maybe there will be an awards ceremony on TV every year.

The main obstacle to this system is that most of the rich wouldn't go for it because they'd never admit that they crave recognition from people they consider inferior.
That entire site does what khan academy does now, only in text-based format.

I learned so much from that site when I first encountered it. It really changed my life.
From my understanding, not beyond a certain fairly low point where you max out.
Due to the intrinsic cultural diversity, each State cannot productively govern more than 2 million citizens.
We should decentralize the World into States or Cantons as in Switzerland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland
I agree with the thrust of your comment in general; however, you're mistaken on one point:

>the staff was almost entirely made up of BBC MiddleEast service people. So while they worked for BBC, they were unbiased; but the moment they started working for AJ, they became biased and completely untrustworthy!!

The BBC is well-known for anti-Israel bias, and there have been investigations to that effect. Here's an article about a long-running legal battle to get the BBC to disclose a report on its ME coverage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/11/balen-report-bbc...; here's some background info on said report: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balen_Report.

Edit: I honestly don't care about my HN karma, but I am curious to know why this was downvoted. I provided relevant information in a civil manner. I'd really feel better if someone could provide an explanation other than that people are using HN downvotes like reddit downvotes now. :/
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Yes and yes ($7/mo). I just now got some mail from github, and need to take a look at some stuff to sort things out. So it's being looked into.
Wow. There is some intense vitriol in that link. Disagreeing with ideas is one thing, but demonizing people who thing differently is not healthy political discourse. Of course, maybe that is not the purpose of this article.
Hi there, you mention my name, even though I just gave you free help, but you withhold the name of the person who scammed you? Not cool man.

If you know this person is a known scammer and has minimum of two accounts, as you said, PLEASE OUT HIM. Sheesh.
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That's so funny... I noticed something was wrong when I received more karma than expected for my first couple of posts, but I didn't know why. Some people are probably using noobcomments to reward new posters with karma (I thought HN used a secret internal multiplier for the first couple of posts, but this is a much better explanation).
This makes sense. If the money is stolen, why would one care about any cap or discount?

Looks like PG got fucked. Now, YC companies are Milner's bitches. And what a cheap brothel it is, only $6M.
at least make it plain this guy had nothing to do with scamming
It's obviously not the case that all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. However, it should be equally obvious that some is; surely the anti-Semites that do exist will criticize Israel. So the question is how to distinguish the legitimate criticism from the anti-Semitic criticism. I don't have an answer to this question, unfortunately. One (flawed) test that's often proposed is to see whether the criticism is proportional to Israel's wrongdoings as compared to the wrongdoings of other countries.

In any case, while I agree with what you're saying, quite often people say pretty much the same thing as a sort of misdirection to deflect criticism of their own criticism of Israel, no matter how unfair or misleading or just plain dishonest it is. If you go read some reddit comments on Israel you'll see anti-Semitism mentioned at least an order of magnitude more frequently by Israel's critics than by Israel's defenders.
So far, my "overall point is bankrupt", my "analysis is just dead wrong", I am in some kind of hole I need to dig myself out of, and the point I attempted to defend is "pretty disingenuous". Ok, may we proceed?

The original point is this: "There's a potentially dangerous line that the US is approaching where... a majority of the population will not be paying income taxes at all." That statement contains two contentions: 1) the US is approaching the line where 50% of the population will be paying no income tax at all, 2) this is potentially dangerous.

The first contention hasn’t been disputed. The second is what I believe we are debating.

You interject that the whole discussion ("the income tax debate") is "misleading"/"disingenuous" because it doesn’t consider payroll taxes - something that "lower middle-class people" pay a disproportionate amount of (relative to their income) compared to "wealthy people.'

I attempted to point out that payroll tax isn’t really relevant to the question because everyone pays the same rate up until the point that the tax is capped, which is commensurate with the point at which the benefits are capped.

I will give you that $100,000 per year isn’t all that "wealthy." And I'll give you the following: A person making $500,000 will pay 2.77% of wages in payroll tax (6.2% of the first $106,800, plus 1.45% of total wages). A person making $200,000 will pay 4.76% (same rules). People making $20,000 and $100,000, will both pay 7.65% (same rules).

If I am wrong that the employee pays half of the payroll tax (7.65%) and the employer pays the other half (another 7.65%) please let me know. However, I don’t feel it is relevant to the central question under debate.

I don’t feel your point about payroll taxes is significant enough to dismiss the question about income taxes. Is the 50% threshold "potentially dangerous" or not?
Not sure if you'd still consider it a startup, but PayPal has a great name that complements their service extremely well.
I have given this more thought. If Google had better adwords customer service then some people would have an unfair advantage. Whoever could get the most help out of Google would have the best campaign.

So Google runs the Adwords kind of like eBay runs auctions. You can't get extra help from eBay to auction your items better.

However, the Adwords system is complicated because unlike eBay where you can easily see what others are doing to compete against you, you have no idea what others on Google are doing to compete against you and you have no idea of why certain things happen.
I'm pretty sure he was way less awkward up there than I would have been :-) Can someone describe what about his behavior was considered awkward? Because I completely didn't catch it.
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Nonsense. Based on the story, it was the intent of the other party to separate the OP from their money, and the other party apparently acted deliberately in ways intended to gain the OP's trust. Misplaced trust does not make someone responsible for the damage another person does to them, and naivety is what a grifter preys upon.
And even when they do, the rush quickly fades. Hence the "hedonic treadmill": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
To be fair, it was a pretty good line. One thing I like about comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David is that they both realize when they've said something hilarious and can't help but giggle a bit. It works for Zuckerburg too, although I guess the audience didn't care that much.
If you read in the comments there is some discussion as to why this has happened. It seems that longer lifespan is being somewhat canceled out statistically by the swell of people born during the baby boom and immigration.
I have a question. What if the startup getting convertible debt never raises a round of funding and perhaps gets acquired or does an IPO?
I don't know about rich/poor suicide rates but in developed/developing countries the suicide rates are higher than in undeveloped world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
"Problems related to programming arouse genuine curiosity in the hacker and make him eager to learn more."

Ouch. I would expect NYT to be wary of gendered pronouns.
Interesting. I wonder if it correlates strongly to (non-satellite) broadband uptake?

There seems to be a pretty clear dividing line at the Mississippi, beyond what I would have guessed would have existed simply due to population density.
Yes, the facebook share thing is quite poetic, isn't it? ha ha - haven't heard of suicidemachine.org - will check it out
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