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How do you keep failing startups??? What does it mean to fail?
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It seems just so strange. The iPad does have 3G built in, why not their other mobile products? Plugging that 3G modem in is just so unelegant.
It suggests I get satellite broadband. For my apartment in downtown Chicago. Government!
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It's funny how quickly you get used to the mindset that it's a good decision to trade money for time. If I value my marginal time at $50/hr, and unconsciously always choose to pay to save time, the mindset becomes ingrained and is hard to reverse.

Little things that you quickly grow accustomed to like taxis, dry cleaners, restaurants (plus a few big things like a mortgage or high rent from living alone in a decent apartment, car and all related expenses, etc) all add up very quickly.

I think that's one of the biggest advantages college students have when starting a company. They get a significantly longer runway for relatively less effort. It's much harder to adjust from making $200K to $20K.
In most parts of the US such lessons are rare. I grew up in the Middle East where I learned similar lessons. To many here's unthinkable that one can't just leave their bag lying next to them, or some such.

Heck, outside of the cities many people here don't even lock their doors.
MooTools. I hate jQuery's api, but Id rather use it than vanilla JS for the majority of the things that I do with JS.
Not sure, I don't know who Greg Proops is.
I had the same issue with Google, I interviewed there for a post MBA position and never got reimbursed for my last minute travel expenses. Never got a reply phonecall or email.
This is a very insightful piece considering it's from 6 years ago.

"Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.

Wow, thats basically a Facebook manifesto, albeit 6 months after TheFacebook was launched (but when it was still very small and relatively unknown).

Pretty insightful stuff from JWZ.
That has nothing to do with these new API calls. I'm talking about retina display APIs built into NSImage and additional resolution-independence support using vector resources. All new to Lion.
ad network guy here...

Yes, with retargeting you hit a lot of people that aren't interested in the product, but you also hit a lot of people that are lukewarm to warm leads. We're talking about the difference between, say, .05% CTR running ads in a content category versus .1%+ with retargeting across ad exchanges.

Specifics vary between advertisers: try visiting Shopify and you're going to see their ads 10x+ per day every day for a month... but less aggressive retargeting frequency (1-3x/day) is used all the time.
Well, I still don't know what 100k feels like.. :)
I hear the control part but what control is there really... Don't you think the physical files on the laptop of the average corporate worker are more likely to be compromised than dropbox itself?

Not sure companies will survive and be competent if it all goes this way...

Do we need FDIC (from the banking world) for data?
Be careful about chasing a dollar amount. $100K is pretty baseline for someone who has technical/design etc. skills. Moving into the $200K+ salary range often means working a lot of overtime, which leaves little time for enjoyable pursuits, or side projects which may eventually earn far more than that extra $100K a year.
Or in Australia (for any Landline phone number):
http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/
Ask HN: What's the best way to get people interested in your beta?
We posted beta signups (to open soon) earlier today for exipe.com and found weaker response than we would have hoped.

This is the post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258877

What could we do better?
If anyone from Dropbox is listening/interested I may be able to setup a conversation with the IT guys if you are working on a solution... email me.
The last time I played with PC-BSD there was a lag time of a couple of days. I hadn't checked before making my statement above. I hereby stand corrected.
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That's an excellent point. I always tell people that there's a huge difference between Beijing/Shanghai and the rest of China, for instance, in this regard.

I'd like to write a blog post about all the various lines I've been fed, and I'll try to emphasize that.
BT doesn't have to provide for the long-term, in the short term it can help with not making the user download a bunch of small files.
Interesting. I'd like to do this, but I assumed that textbook authors / publishers would get annoyed.

The obsessive part of me wants to go back through my textbook collection and do all the exercises.
I wish there was a commercial vendor out there that would have FreeBSD available. It would be very helpful in getting it into more businesses as that is a major show stopper.
The government can see your Facebook wall. If you don't yell it out the window but pass the message along by more subtle means, the government will have to go to more effort to find out what was said at the poorly lit restaurant.
Hey, how's the restaurant going?
I live in Baltimore. If someone wants your money here, they'll hurt you to get it. For whatever reason, people seem less inclined to use violence outside the US.
If anyone is really nostalgic for this, I recommend they come to Buenos Aires. We have some of the best pickpockets in the world! I had my laptop stolen in 2007, and I know a couple of people who've had their wallets stolen.
Anyone know what the "bottlenecks" are in YC? I assume it has to do with the number of advisors? Also, I wonder if the growth in number means decrease in quality (or experience) for the entrepreneurs.
Facebook didn't invent social software (AOL was in the business of helping an earlier nerdy generation hook up), they just (at first) made it exclusive.

(But now my 60 y/o aunt from Ohio -- literally -- is on Facebook. So much for that ...)
Darn, I thought it porn data, not data porn... ducks
Minecraft's Notch replied: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/frw5l/redditors_e...
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i would love to have and iPad or TouchPad as a second display.
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Your logo is taking up a lot of space. I would just take it out, you don't need it. That would put the form on top so people see that first.
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Looks really interesting, I was just searching for a collection of use-cases for all the different NoSQL flavors (mongo for analytics, redis for queue/pubsub, etc).

If the book focuses on how to play to each projects strengths to compliment a traditional relational DB, I think it could be really good.
Do Americans usually travel without travel insurance?
I think you need to elaborate on what you mean by "not that much these days." According to a bit of Googling, 100k in NYC is about 48k where I live. 48k family income around here for a family with 2 adults and 2 children is far from rich, but it's fairly reasonable middle class and it's certainly doable with a modicum of responsible finance-handling.
How much is 100k a year in the US? I thought it wasn't so much for good programmers, at least in SV. Is a 100k programmer something unheard of in the US?
Vancouver here. 100k is really only enough for a very middle class life.
The point of WDE isn't to do fine-grained separation of interests by security level; it's to ensure that a stolen drive yields nothing to an attacker. In a lot of settings, anything less than whole disk encryption sets a process in motion requiring formal disclosures.

Segregated users and accelerated filesystem-level encryption is all good stuff, but even with it, you still need WDE.
It really depends on where you live. $100k in the Bay Area or New York City is a good salary but doesn't go that far after you pay for the exorbitant rent and other high cost of living expenses. Compared to Raleigh, NC (southeast U.S.) where I live, $100k goes pretty far and is a very good salary for a software engineer since living costs are so much lower.
This isn't data porn, nor is it for true connoisseurs.

A lot of this is seemingly random correlation with very little explanatory power.

Good info-vis and data summarization provides insight, or at least reveals relationships that are otherwise unseen or obscured.

These are polls without conclusions.

My psycholinguistics prof at uni was fond of saying that the more factors one considers the more likely you are to find spurious correlations. This sentiment makes me both lukewarm to and skeptical of any of the conclusions drawn on the hunch blog.
I believe there are commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD out there.

Here is one that I have heard of:
http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdsupport

I'm sorry I don't have any experience with them, but you might be able to try them out.
Get Satisfaction tells TSF why their commitment is to "be a good citizen"
"Why do people pay for this?"

Cause the implementation of a feature is more important than the feature itself. Apple rarely comes up with new tech on its own. They rebrand existing tech and work on the experience to create a product and a platform. Seriously, who in the general public knows what LUKS is?
I don't totally disagree but multitasking doesn't have to be only user-facing apps. The notification system in Android is light-years ahead of iOS and it relies entirely on having a good multi-tasking environment. Importantly, the notifications don't have to just be from some specific set of things-that-can-notify a user as chosen by Google. Pretty much any kind of app can notify a user of anything.

In theory iOS is more than capable of supporting this on the backend, but the front end architecture is a mess and would have to be significantly reworked for even this kind of basic thing (well, it seems basic on an Android device it seems so obvious there).
Tip 1: Be born American. If that doesn't work, emigrate.
Hmm... is it possible to extend the Erlang turtles further down, as it were, and re-write some of the stuff the VM is based on in Erlang, similar to Ruby/Rubinius?
Move to Australia and become a tiler.
Google Toolbar Explains Toolbar as Identity Tool, Not "Google +1"
$100K in expensive cities is equivalent to a squarely middle class income elsewhere. Not a bad life by any means, but it's far from, "I can't imagine what I would do with that much money". Six figures are still six figures with responsible management of one's finances, but it's not the well-off lifestyle some may imagine.
A number of differences. 1) I don't recall all that many people complaining about URLs, not like people ignoring QR codes. 2) I don't actually type URLs in that frequently, I search. 3) I can see a URL and remember it to visit later. Good luck seeing a QR tag in the subway and reconstructing when you get home. 4) The kicker. Can you name a company that based their entire business model on putting URLs on posters?
Foursquare converts most “popular” users to celebrity accounts
Because it just works.
$100K baseline? That sounds like you're talking about entry-level, which can't be right regardless of where you live. I believe that the mean annual income for a software developer in the USA is about USD 75k. I found one estimate as high as 90k. In non-coastal areas (even big cities in the Midwest, Texas, etc.), entry level positions requiring a 4-year CS degree are commonly 45k-60k.
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> I have heard of this specific scam happening in Buenos Aires as well. It's a particularly nasty one.

Yes, it happened to some friends of ours visiting us here in BsAs last year. The particular squirted substance was probably some kind of ground-up plant; it left grass stains.

> But, the rule is, if somebody doesn't have anything better to do than talk to you, they're probably after your money.

This is true in tourist areas and shopping centers. So I avoid them as much as possible. In the rest of the world, especially outside of big cities, many people are perfectly happy to talk to strangers without any kind of financial exchange.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking about. History tends to repeat itself.

The shift from cooperative multitasking to preemptive was an extremely painful experience for Apple. How many failed OS projects did they have before they just threw in the towel and bought NeXT?

I hope that the modern equivalent doesn't go the same way for their mobile solution.
What, another example of lavishly founded government service?

I would understand the value of something like this in a poor or enterprise-unfriendly country. But in the US? If it has been funded with taxpayers' money, I say it's a waste.
Mark Cuban had a TV show, The Benefactor[1], with a similar premise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Benefactor
Get a valuable skill, some experience and carefully build your resume.

It doesn't even have to be a skill in high demand, even a hard to find skill can be extremely valuable to an organization.
That link was to the pull request that explains the bug. ;P
I believe that 100k a year, even in the most expensive and well-paying cities (e.g. New York City, San Francisco) is rare for entry-level, 4-year CS degree programming jobs.

When you get to 5 years experience, then I'm guessing 100k is much more common. That said, the mean yearly income for a software engineer in the USA appears to be somewhere between 75k and 90k (according to a couple of online sources I quickly found).
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Now imagine how great life would be if they could also run power through it (PoE style) so you could avoid plugging the laptop [directly] into the wall as well. One plug and done is a pretty compelling reason to forgo [1] the desktop altogether.

[1] fun (completely unrelated) fact: forgo and forego are both words with pretty dissimilar meanings (to omit and to precede, respectively). I discovered this only because I was unsure of the spelling, but it's sufficiently surprising (to me) that I felt the need to share.
Career baseline, not entry-level. Making 100k these days with 5-7 years of experience is not all that unusual.
>Um, be drafted? Pay taxes? Yes. We can force each other to play by rules.

Taxes are a (perhaps) necessary evil. It is best not to use necessary evils as precedent for other infringements on human rights. And drafts are also an infringement on human rights.

>Fundamental human right? Bah.

Ok..

>It's well established that in the US companies can be forced to do business with minorities, protestants, females, Democrats...plenty of people they may otherwise wish they didn't have to (well, maybe not Democrats).

It was well established until the 1860's that humans could be slaves. That something is established is not justification for that thing.

>This idea that companies should be able to do whatever they can is nonsense (in fact, I'd go so far as to say it's poisonous, but that's for another post).

Who said anything about that?

>Besides, I'm not forcing them to do anything. They are welcome to move their company to Sierra Leone.

Seriously? How does this sound: You can either give me your money, or I can torch your house. I'm not forcing you to do anything, but if you don't want to give me your money, I'll torch your house. You can always move down the road, but your house is gone if I don't get your money. Sound good to you? Or does it sound like I'm forcing you to do something?
The Federal Reserve has responsibility for both interest rates and creation of money (check out the Wikipedia page). I believe the parent was referring to the Fed increasing M0, the base money supply. Interesting things have been happening to M0 over the past couple of years. Also, the Fed sets reserve requirements on the banks, which directly affects how much money they (the banks) can create (M1 and higher).
So if PCIe x16 is rated between 8GB/s and 16GB/s would it be possible for someone to come out with a PCIe enclosure so I could hook up a semi decent nVidia or AMD/ATI card to my MacBook?
Have some clue about programming. Work for a company with money.

I hear college grads are making $80k out of school at tech companies these days. A few years of keeping your chair warm and you should have no problem getting to $100k.
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One thing I've noticed (throughout my career, and by talking to friends in the software industry) is that there seems to be a ceiling on how much you can make as a software engineer at "a company". The exact amount really isn't important, but if you're relying on one company to pay you a higher and higher salary every year, at some point they'll probably stop jumping you up the salary ladder. Or you'll be forced into management to get the bump you want.

On the other hand, if you're a consultant/contractor, you're spreading the money across a number of companies. A company might not want to pay a full-time employee $200k/year, but they won't fret over paying a contractor $150/hr for a few weeks/months of work. The company is happy because, on paper, the one-time payment to a contractor is a lower number, and the contractor is happy because they can jump to the next company after this contract is up. My friends in the software industry who make the most money tend to follow this route. Or, they wrote a Top 10 Paid App in the App Store and got rich that way, but that's a little tougher :)
Article is deliberately inflammatory. However one feels about affiliate advertising, selling generic drugs online is hardly criminal activity.
Beautiful work. I've always felt that Fabric strikes a effective balance between simplicity and flexibility and love how you're extending it without breaking its spirit.
My speed estimates for wired providers were both about an order of magnitude high.
> there seems to be a ceiling on how much you can make as a software engineer at "a company".

There is. I like to think of this in terms of income scalability. At a company, you are limited to scaling your income vertically, unless you have equity. Owning a company, or part of it, your income can scale horizontally as well.
Warren Buffet is one of the top 10 richest people in the world and he's pretty frugal.
The battery life score is based on Apple's new battery tests. 50% screen brightness whilst browsing 30 websites (including flash) in a normal fashion until the battery dies.
100k is pretty standard for good programmers in coastal cities right out of or within a few years of college. Salary increases pretty quickly at the entry level because your opportunities multiply with just a little bit of experience.
My 2010 15" MBP (i7, anti-glare upgrade) routinely gets 5-6+ hours on battery -- unless I'm doing something that causes the discrete GPU to kick in. Then, I'm lucky to get two hours.
The article might have meant YC recouped their past investments in all startups combined:

"YC broke even on its past investments when Salesforce.com (CRM) bought YC company Heroku"

Since the sales price is above 200 million, YC's equity would be worth 12+ million, which likely surpassed the total monetary first-seed investments in every startup they did so far.
If this means what I think it means, I'll be more than happy to buy a new Blackberry!
There are plenty of successful enterprise software providers and there always will be. It really depends on the expertise of the founding team. The product just has to make sense. Some companies stop at the point when the purchase decision make likes the product and stops innovating (or they call move towards scaling, i.e. devote all resources to sales), and that's when they lose their edge.
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Somehow the shot of the side made me feel very old, I hardly recognized what half of the ports were. :(
Really fantastic piece of software. It's about time we move away from using java wrappers for NLP stuff. Anyone know a similar project in Ruby?
John, it might be a day or four for me to type them up, but I mail you the test cases, configs, code and details where jquery-ui breaks when it hijacks the UI of the browser. I've tracked the problem to a faulty assumption, namely assuming the user-agent doesn't already have any existing user specified key bindings defined for special needs access. The conflict breaks all key bindings, including the defaults.
I'm surprised by the lack of answers talking about market forces.

I know many people who think that doing a job that is complex and hard automatically entitles you to money and complain about people with much easier jobs, who aren't as smart, making more than them.
> The product just has to make sense.

Or have a really really really good marketing team, and be really really really hard to migrate away from.

Lock in enough people, and you're a success!
Entry level at top tier companies such as Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft will break $100K if you include signing bonuses and stocks.

I suppose those are the exception though.
I kid you not, just this morning I was thinking "I want to brush up on my calculus", then I go for my morning dose of HN and see this. I like reading prescient web sites.
People are down voting you, but I don't know why. There has been much written about the explosion of 6 figure government jobs in the last decade or two.
If this is true, then the Android app structure is potentially becoming a defacto standard. Not sure if I believe it, but it would be cool.
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$100k isn't successful, it's the bare minimum as a professional. If you're an engineer, all that's required to earn that much is show up on time and be good at your job.

The cold, hard truth is if you don't earn at least that much, you either suck at your job or suck at negotiating. Your bosses and many of your peers earn twice as much as that.

Edit: IF you work in the corporate world. Clearly if you're a lifestyle-biz/consultant working over wifi at the beach in Thailand this doesn't apply at all. In fact, congratulations, if you're this guy, you probably win the game.

If you asked a lawyer, a CPA or a banker if they'd take $100k to work their ass off for a corporate master, they'd laugh in your face.

Edit: It's quite typical of HN when this topic comes up for someone to be downvoted by people who make very little money when they come out with the cold, hard facts. This place is full of millionaires and super-successful entrepreneurs who mostly stay quiet in threads like these. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Didn’t Intel even say that those 10Gbps are real numbers, not theoretical?
Earnings are important, I'm sure -- but don't mistake them for wealth. I've known people with ludicrous earnings who still lived pay check to pay check. In fact, I suspect it's all too common.

Here's an eye opener: You're a mid-level employee at a medium-sized company and you realize you're as wealthy as your spend-thrift CEO who is making >10x as much as you are.
The x61 tablet had one, too. One of the many reasons I stuck with that machine as long as I did.
Yes - thats the point, all the interesting stuff - the notes on enigma and the invention of the computer are gone.
All we have are a bunch of preprints from the 30s - but these are preprints of journals that do exist

(note to those under 50 : upto to the 1980s journals would send you a few dozen unbound copies of your paper for you to distribute - before photocopiers were common)
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you're an entrepreneur and you "can't imagine" what you'd do with $100k, you might be in the wrong line of work. Allocating capital is a big part of being in business.
So if QR codes are URLs, then MS Tags are bit.ly.
It's something like Oculus, or something like that. I've tried to use the Tineye browser plugin to check profile images, but it doesn't even pick up Raven Riley images (for some reason, like 5-10% of spam profiles have used Raven Riley as their image).
Do you remember the name of the app? I'm curious to know if it is something brsnded or white-label.