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"In chats, Convore ... automatically embeds images"

This seems risky. There's a lot of public IRC rooms I'd avoid if they allowed anyone to show me anything they wanted. IRC solves this by not embedding images, Wave solves this by being oriented towards small groups rather than public discussions, forums solve this by making it difficult enough to register that a ban matters. How is Convore going to solve this?
His point is that you should have a separate "travel phone" that just has only necessary contacts, no access to your email, a minimum of personal information, no old text messages, etc. That way, if it does get seized, there's little for the authorities to work with. Whether or not it's a smartphone isn't relevant.
Don't use it. It looks dodgy, it's easily mistaken and has no recognition at all. No matter how much GoDaddy pushes it, this is yet another attempt from a privately held domain registry + ICANN to monetize on a new top level domain, as they did with .pro (100 usd a pop), .us, .name, .biz and many others. Go for whateverXXX.com and don't even bother for the other extensions.
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Excellent choices.
(The aforementioned sentence does not require use of AoC ;)

In fact, the moments he describes in #3 are partly why I'm currently pursuing a Math and not a CS degree.
Stephen Elop is the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft
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The one thing I'm really sad that Convore doesn't have is auto-formatting of pasted code. Other than that it is basically like Campfire but with a lot of public groups as well (you can make private groups too).
Casey seems to be the one-man programmer/sysadmin of Ravelry: http://codemonkey.ravelry.com/2011/02/12/ravelry-in-bullet-p...
Could you post a link here, please?
The original is interesting, the Pull is funny. Funny beats interesting most days of the week. I laughed at least, and I think most people did.
Your saying you don't see ANY likeness to Google Wave? I'll give you a hint: the front-end user layer.
I never cited Wikipedia on pot, I cited the Wikipedia summary of the research on tylenol-- after already linking to the most important of the original journal articles.

I also never claimed that smoking an ounce a week recreationally is a great idea, all I claimed was that you can potentially receive the benefits listed if you're using the proper dosage and method of ingestion.

What I did do however was to link to several hundred pages of academic journal articles about the medical properties and health effects of cannabis. So I don't see how you can believe that "people who study the issue carefully have come to the opposite conclusion" or whatever.
Facebook probably the biggest example. I remember when it was Harvard and MIT and actually just for college students. although I used it everyday, I did not at all foresee its skyrocket. now any service I visit every day I pretty much assume will go big. well HN maybe not...
Google already has this plan in motion, with no need for Nokia or ex-Nokia employees. It's not really a big secret either as Schmidt is always going on about getting the next billion online.

Part of the reason Nokia is hurting is that they have been severely disrupted at the low-end. The dumphone became an absolute commodity. Elop specifically name-checked MediaTek in his burning platforms memo as the designer of the standardized innards for these no-name, white-box manufacturers:

"Let’s not forget about the low-end price range. In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace. By some accounts, this ecosystem now produces more than one third of the phones sold globally - taking share from us in emerging markets."

Guess what MediaTek are now selling? That's right, the same thing but for Android. Here's there PR for the latest version:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mwc2011-mediatek-ann...

"MediaTek is launching the MT6573 platform to address the accelerating demand for smartphones with features that can delight users at price points that meet the needs of operators in developed markets and consumers in emerging markets."
It's hard to appreciate just how unwilling a flight mission is to take on any unnecessary technical risk. Risk, along with cost, schedule, and mass, is one of the fundamental things mission designers must cope with. Lisp looks like risk, and risk will be eliminated ruthlessly

I've spoken with programmers at NASA. There have been times when management thought source control was a risk. Discovering a bug in the mathematics of an algorithm and fixing it is a risk. (Seriously, management was like: the software worked last time with the math bug, so it should work this time with the math bug.)

...flight s/w, if it works, tends to be passed forward from mission to mission, and quirky choices tend to be weeded out.

Like most organizations, I'd bet most of these decisions are more "gut feeling" than based on anything approaching empirical. (Arguably, the continued existence of old-school companies using "Steak and Strippers, Baby!" sales tactics is a bet that such irrational decision mechanisms persist.)
yes, and it is fun to be able to "go into the factory and see how things are made"

i had so much fun
Lisp is strictly evaluated, homoiconic, dynamically typed, and dynamic? It's hard for two languages to be more different than Lisp and Haskell, the only thing they have in common is their distance from the origin.
Close; he doesn't argue that we are living in a simulation, he argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:

- The human species is likely to go extinct before reaching a stage where it can simulate its ancestors.

- Future humanity will have no interest in simulating its ancestors.

- We are almost certainly living in an ancestor simulation now.
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You and several thousand of other people here (and everywhere else for that matter) are exactly the same. The talent you seek are often not cheap. If you're expecting to get people to build your company for you without much value proposition, you might as well forget it. If you're hoping to sell them on equity (founder or employee), they must believe in your company and vision.

I assume from your post that you and your brother are cofounders and neither can code? If this is the case, your setup already hardly make any sense. Smart coders will know better. Chances are you hardly know much about the business side of things much less convince coders to build your dream, one that I'm sure hasn't been "truly" validated.

Of course I am assuming and I could be wrong and you did validate your idea correctly and have much more going, but I seriously doubt it (and I'm trying to say that nicely here).

You should in all sense, validate the idea with REAL potential users, not your friends. If that pans out and you have limited funds, outsource a prototype first. THEN and only then, should you consider moving to the valley after you've got some minor traction and a working demo. The valley is not cheap and unless you live somewhere like Manhattan, you're not helping your financial situation much more. You're making it worse.

Networking is important but working smart is also important. You can make online connections before coming here. You have your odds stacked against you if you don't have local coders for raising (whether you hire before or after). Majority of all investors won't invest unless you have in-house coders so the long term strategy of hiring overseas hopefully isn't something you were planning and is only in consideration for your prototype/demo.

Salaries here are crazy but that's how it goes. At this point in your startup, I would seriously consider finding a cofounder and define very specific roles between you and your brother. And hopefully you're bringing enough knowledge on the business side as you're expecting your coder to bring to the table on the technical side. After all, you don't want to bring on someone who can't code at all and expect them to learn, no one wants to team up with an inexperience business cofounder only to have them learn and certainly not TWO of them. Something to consider.

Ideas are great but alone they're not worth much. You need to make it worthwhile for whoever you're working with as well. If you can get a prototype and demo up, pitching to coders AFTERWARDS make things a bit easier. Something to consider.

Best of luck
The main difference between Lisp and other languages (including Haskell) is that Lisp is homoiconic. That is, a Lisp program is represented as a list, a data structure that can itself be manipulated by a Lisp program. This means that a Lisp program can contain macros that can generate Lisp code at compile time (or even at runtime). This might sound dangerous, especially if you have seen C macros or C++ templates being abused, and it is. It also turns out to be rather powerful; you can use macros to implement at lot of things that in other languages can only be implemented by the compiler writer. One popular example is looping constructs: if your Lisp doesn't have a for-loop then you can implement it as a macro. This is how for is implemented in Clojure, my personal favourite Lisp.

What about functional languages? Well, Lisp has been around for so long that it pioneered a lot of programming concepts. One of these is functional programming. Later, many purer functional languages took functional programming a lot further, Haskell being a great example. There are many flavours of Lisp today and some, such as Clojure and Scheme, aim to be fairly pure functional languages (and Haskell is the purest functional language that I can think of), whereas others, such as Common Lisp, are less so. Functional programming is only one thing that Lisp has going for it, of course.

As I mentioned, Lisp pioneered a lot of concepts which we take for granted today. This essay by pg gives a summary of what made Lisp different and is well worth reading, along with other pg essays on the subject of Lisp:

http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html
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one of the many reasons i prefer android. this could work in the android model
"We're so pissed off with NYT for showing up our use of a sleazy SEO outfit that we're going to stop using a non-sleazy advertising venue." It's be interesting to see if they do try such a thing; I think it's higher risk than blaming their SEO for violating their ethics policy.
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As a guy pursuing a CS degree, I'm compelled to be a constructivist (what use is a proof if you can't get an algorithm out of it?) and reject both AC and the well-ordering theorem. Find me a well-ordering of the reals and then we'll talk. :)

edit: speaking of proofs and algorithms, how could I forget the Curry-Howard correspondence. It just makes so much sense.
Sorry, but your link doesn't support your assertion. It only says that S40 is simpler than S60 and that S60 is based on Symbian.

With a bit of googling I found this quote from a Forum Nokia champion:
"Series 40 (S40) is not based on Symbian at all, but a Nokia proprietary real-time operating system. Series 40 does not allow any native (C/C++) development (with or without Qt). The primary app development for Series 40 based phones is Java (JME, J2ME, MIDP/CLDC), or Flash Lite."
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?21666...

Here's another link: http://eve-c.org/2011/syskwyawan/
PS - I mentioned that for loops are implemented as a macro in Clojure. I should have said list comprehensions. Have a look at the clojure source here and search for "(defmacro for" to see what I mean. It's awesome to think that, if this hadn't already been in the language, you could have written it yourself.

https://github.com/richhickey/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cl...
HNers of the right age have probably been witness to every big startup in the last decade. I would be more interested in hearing what effects the big startups have had each person's own projects.
"the era of free text search being the dominant paradigm may just be over"

Perhaps it is the era of a global single instance search engine that is starting to come to an end - maybe we need a sensible way of having topic specific search engines and/or trusted content sites and allowing an easy way of treating these as if they were a global search engine.

Pretty much the same interface but a better implementation.

And yes, I know "meta" search engines have been around for a long time but, as far as I recall, don't try and identify the best places to perform your search - they just search run your search through a pile of generic search engines and aggregate the results.
``Not to create FUD, but this just strikes me as conflict of interests.'' -- the author of the thread on maemo.org
Reworded the description to draw that out (i hope).
That is just f*cked up but hardly surprising. How can anybody be elected CEO when it's pretty clear he will see to his own interests rather than the companys interests?
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Hopefully you are right.

Yet, upvoters may not realised that a submission is not fair and balanced.
Exactly. If people believe the government is doing something bad on purpose they'll make trouble, whereas if they believe the government is doing something bad by accident they'll stay home and keep beating off to Fox news.

Hence the Iraq war, public schools, war on drugs, crumbling infrastructure, farm subsidies, ethanol subsidies, oil subsidies, health care system, prison system, food insecurity, etc.

Everyone wants to create laws based on 'intentions' and 'emotion', no one gives a shit about the evidence-based policies or bodies in the street.
My favorites:

- Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange - I really do find it wonderfully counter intuitive that you can have two systems agree on a secret value while communicating completely "in the clear" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...

- That you can implement recursion in the untyped lambda calculus - the best known being the Y Combinator (!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator
to be fair, he might have options or other incentives structured around nokia stock. i'm not sure he should be expected to sell all his microsoft shares on leaving the company- perhaps put it in the control of a trust so that it doesn't look like a blatant conflict of interest?
eh eh :)

About an hour after taking a set theory exam it dawned on me that a proof I gave is correct iff the continuum hypothesis is true. The distance between a Fields medal and a F was never so small :)

edit: you made me wiki it. Funny, I don't seem to know/remember it. Thanks, seems interesting :)

Regarding theoretical proofs... What's the point of an algorithm if you don't propel its use through a viable product? I'm currently (concurrently with the studies) in a CS research position and it is a difficulty for me... Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but for me if there is any downside then this is it.
His ownership share of Microsoft rounds to 0.00%. He probably owns bigger stakes in other companies.
He gave a few answers that I think the average bystander would assume were being made by a Microsoft staff member. This is one of them. The one about the priority being to grow WP7 when asked about competition with other WP7 manufacturers was another.
> Does anyone think cannabis is deadlier than Jim Beam?

I think the vast majority of the population of America thinks that, which is why cannabis is much more highly regulated. What he should have said was, "cannabis is less deadly than Jim Bean", and provided the evidence to back it up.
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There are no real details about how many jobs will be cut, or where.

The quote "20.000 is a pretty significant number in Finland" seems to be related to the total number of Nokia jobs in Finland, not the amount to be cut. I think it's safe to say that the majority of jobs will be cut elsewhere, since Nokia will do all but severe any relationships with the government that has treated them very well.

Now as for Google's announcement - easy, right? Just a short notice and piggybacking for some PR. They are pissed for obvious reasons, so it's an understandable move (although their reactions were remarkably snark).

Overall, pretty sensationalist reporting, which is even more obvious when seeing how the writer dances along the fine line of using big numbers without clear language.
One disturbing bit: Anonymous has a lot of members who work currently or used to work in IT and at ISPs. Of those no longer in such positions, a lot of them are close friends with others who currently still work in such places. It's totally like that bit from Fight Club, but instead of being the ones that make your sandwich and vacuum your floors, they're the ones that install your code and backup your databases.

In another way, this is very reassuring. With Internet access being spread between 200,000 ISPs in the US and Canada, the prospect of a top-down commanded Internet blackout seems awfully slim.

Universal lesson -- if a part of your society is built out of bullsh#t, it's going to be riddled full of holes and secret passages. If a part of your society is built of bullsh#t, there will be a disaffected contingent looking for meaning, who will find the time and the means to communicate. It's been true for thousands of years, and I don't see it stopping.
Yeah, it seems like a bit of a misleading way to put it. $3.12 million is a lot, and perhaps a story in itself, but 7th largest individual stakeholder sounds a lot bigger.
Given that he has been a Microsoft veteran, it's hardly surprising that (1) he's a big shareholder, and (2) whatever decision he makes as Nokia chief, his position as one of the largest individual shareholders of Microsoft will come into scrutiny.

I think it's naive to say that he chose to go down the Microsoft route because he is one of its largest individual shareholders. It is equally as likely that Elop would have made his decision regardless of his $MSFT stock ownership. A little too much FUD for me in this case.
Public schools could be improved if, instead of operating like prisons, they operated like recipients of public housing vouchers. Right now most public schools, especially the worst, are very similar to prisons. Students, like prisoners, have to attend. Studends have no choice to attend another institution or not to attend any institution. And, like prisons, public schools must accept everyone sent to them, no matter how bad. Predictably, schools, like prisons, end up being very depressing places.

In contrast, public housing vouchers are given to poor people who can then redeem them with any qualified landlord willing to take them. All parties, the poor person (tenant), the landlord, and the government, must agree before the rental transaction happens. The tenant can choose among among any privately-offered housing. The landlord can choose to reject any tenant that doesn't meet the landlord's standards. And the government only agrees to pay for housing that meets its own quality standards. The result is that good landlords have waiting lists of tenants who want to rent from them and bad landlords are shunned. Similarly, good tenants can find good housing while tenants with a history of bad and destructive behavior find fewer landlords who are willing to accept them.

Public schooling could be operated the same way. Poor people could receive vouchers redeemable with any qualifying school. And schools could set their own standards for the students they want to serve. Government would redeem vouchers only from schools that met its own quality standards. The result would be competition and waiting lists for the best schools, and pressure on students to be accepted into the best schools.

Public financing of college education works the same way. Students and colleges form voluntary agreements and government provides financing only for qualifying schools.
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I didn't, I found the 23andme website pretty boring, infact, it basically turned into a $200 git clone joke I made a few weeks ago
Gee. Every YC startup since the first batch, that was successful, that people paid attention to, was witnessed by those people paying attention to it, except possibly during the dark period when Reddit was in decline and HN was not yet around, so it was a bit harder to notice. Well that's a rather snide way to put it.

Then there are some non-YC things, like Mibbit, Tarsnap, and BCC, which aren't actually "big," but have gotten enough coverage here, and seem to have gained some permanence.

I probably could have gotten a nice Twitter username if I had bothered. Oh well.
I had more confidence that Goole Apps-based Wave would be able to secure company-sensitive discussions.
Ah, now that makes sense, thanks mbreese
"Early colonists to new lands on Earth would already be self-sufficient the moment they arrived"

Doesn't the Thanksgiving holiday explicitly recognize that early settlers in America had to rely upon help from the locals to survive?
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