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>The internet and mobile phone are about the only significant technological breakthroughs in my lifetime

I don't know if you've noticed but these two are having some very large impact in the world right now. Dictators of 30 and 40 years are being cast off.

>Well, we do have millenia of recorded history. Social mores may change, human nature less so.

I think that's a pretty skewed view of history. Another way to see it might be that we used to mostly have largely anarchistic/socialist societies that were overrun by a few greedy people and we've spent the rest of our history taking back our freedoms from the elite few of our day.

Now you could say that even if we ever managed to get to a utopia state more greedy people will just show up but I would counter argue that e.g. Alexander the great wouldn't have gotten off the ground if people could have just sent a twitter to warn everyone else what he was up to.
This article is almost 1 year old. It is dated March 15, 2010.

I'm wondering if things have changed in the last year. I plan to write a web app written in python but boy I'm having so much hard time choosing a python web server/framework. There are so many good choices out there. And when the number of choices increases so does the time needed to figure out your mind. :)
Very cool history map. I've never seen anything like this before. Love it!
Not sure if I understand your second statement. I had thought Nokia had stated at some point that QT wasn't being ported to WP7.
Programming is not tedious, and it is hard. Listing instructions for the computer to follow is only 10% of the job. Most of the job is figuring out how to deal with complexity in a way that is economical, maintainable, and satisfies secondary requirements like security and performance.

In any system design involving software, the software is where the complexity goes. To save money, you might replace an electronic component with an algorithm. To make a better product you might replace a tedious user action with an automated system. This is because (some!) software developers/programmers have tools for dealing with complexity. Things like abstraction and re-use that don't trivially map to the concrete world.

Frankly if software were about enumerating steps, I would have been out of this business long long ago.
I could see them justifying this by saying "We cannot guarantee the safety of this car due to modifications and will require X dollars to re-certify it"
This is (apparently) wilful misinterpretation of the translation of a retailer's warning, here:

http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=152082

Key passage:

"In case if you use equipment which is illegal or unapproved by Nintendo or if you do customization which is unapproved by Nintendo, there is a possibility that Nintendo 3DS become non bootable by system update."

This is what Nintendo has been saying for years about Wii system updates. This is because past Nintendo Wii updates have damaged modded systems, not because of any particular malicious intent on Nintendo's part, but because the mods changed the system in ways that Nintendo didn't expect. On the other hand, Nintendo could probably test that its updates work properly against the top few system modifications -- but it's hard to fault them for not doing so.
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I guess the truth value depends on what one considers "a significant chance."
You're severely underplaying the HD storage market's revenue. Western Digital alone had nearly $10 billion in revenue last year.

Also, Hitachi GST is a partner of Intel's for SSDs... Seems like a good acquisition for WD.
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I feel saddened but fortunate this person shared their last days on Earth with a bunch of us strangers. I've done a lot of reflecting on what was said & discussing it with my family, one of whom (my mother) having terminal cancer herself. We faced a lot of uncomfortable issues honestly after we had read the thread.

I avoid Reddit these days, but this is gold. I'm indebted to this man/woman for their effect on my life. This person will leave strong echoes in the world after their passing.
HN isn't solely (or even primarily) for breaking news. Presumably the 28 or so people who have voted it up so far hadn't seen it before or thought it was worth sharing anyway.
That looks like the old iPodTouch before the most recent generation (and I wouldn't be surprised if it's an old prototype from then)
He missed some of the other reasons a son-of-a-rich is more likely to have it better in the workplace: experience with business. A SOR is more likely to have grown up around people who talk the talk of high finance, and have friends with the same experience. They are more comfy with those in the business, and those in the business are more comfy with them, because they can speak the same language.

My father worked in a factory, as a member of a union, and I grew up not having the first clue about how the market or business works.

In technical fields, those who grow up in the middle class probably know someone with intricate technical knowledge, and who is a master of their art, even if it is a mechanic, electrician or HVAC repairman, and have picked up at least the feel of the technical jargon from them.

Slightly related, on This American Life over the week-end, they interviewed several people who work in finance at some of the firms who were bailed out by TARP, and they all swore that they had their high-paying job because of their superior talent, and deserved to get payed their tax-payer inflated salaries because they were smarter than most other people. They all complained that Pres. Obama was a meanie to big businesses, trying to tell them what to do and all, and should just leave them alone.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2292106 (different site, same article)
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The only solution is to check back in history how Fortunes are made. It's not with "good for the people" mantra.
Do you think that someone who have way to get wealthy at the expense of others will think twice?
Do you think that Gadaffi children after few years will not create some STARTUP hedge fund?
In my country the old privileged communistic superclass now runs my "Democratic" country with tones of stollen capital, with clean face and i assure you their kids have it all. From Bentleys to AstonMartins, from nonfunctional/real businesses to hidden high payed government jobs.
It's all the same. All the time. The Game is old, the players are new.
My first startup did sales force automation for palm devices - profitable after 6 years (left it after 2), but still haven't seen any explosive growth till today (9 years already). Became a lifestyle business for those that stayed

Third startup (the one I'm building today was lamen profitable after 6 months. Don't expect it to grow a lot more until we get some funding, since the next steps require a lot more than lamen to succeed.. (ah, the great wall between MVP and V2)
This is almost one year old. Why does it suddenly re-appear?
> If you're going to Twitter, it's to read someone's twitter stream, etc.

You may be interested in the twitter-like website I'm currently developing. It currently uses no JS at all (it will do so, for e.g. writing new messages, but the entire functionality will work without JS).
Blake - thanks for sharing. Having gone through the app process myself, this info is invaluable to future applicants. Not only that, it applies to any startup. Great info. Thanks again.
Thanks for the anthropological linguistics class flashback.
It's great to see that I'm not the only person having problem with CouchDB's compaction failing when dealing with larger datasets.

I had the same exact experience during my master's thesis (hn: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022192 ) and this was one of the reasons why CouchDB didn't seem a good solution for a dataset that has a high number of updates.
Depending on the market segment and mission critical status, no one cares. In fact, people may actually like it. I make no effort to hide that it is just me and my customers include EA, AT&T, other big companies.
The mechanism in the BitCoin network for making sure that not too many bitcoins are being made is to adapt the difficulty of making a new BitCoin according to the average processing power available to the entire network over the last 72 (?) hours. If Amazon or Google just dumped tens of thousands of nodes into the BitCoin network for a couple days, they could conceivably make more BitCoins than are "supposed" to be made, and own most of the currency for themselves. The artificial scarcity might drive up the price, or everyone else might just get bored and leave.
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OK, well let's compare the price without the online backup experience - I can get a 1TB hard disk for £41, so 10EUR a month for 500GB doesn't look like good value to me.
I'm also sole founder - one thing I can say is that customers may really not care if you're alone on it, as long as you provide a great pre-post sales experience (which is harder when you're solo, anyway).

On the flipside, I'm finding that getting investors is WAY harder when you're solo. They want teams, and not having one kinda sends the wrong signal about yourself (even if you're solo BECAUSE YOU WANT TO...)
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Hey,

this is a project i coded about a longer time. You can create a thread to discuss a topic with (more than 2 people) people. I think it's easier than email.

Any suggestions?
Brilliant timing, because I am in the middle of the developer program enrollment process and have a Mac app that's almost finished.
You might also want to offer an "I AM" version of this as well.
Thanks for the suggestion, I think I've convinced godaddy to forward it now to www. Just waiting for it to propagate through the DNS system.
Does anyone have the reviews from the original Sokal submission? It would be useful to know how the reviewers actually viewed the article.
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> Beyond the mentally and physically unable (which is a very low percentage), poverty is a result of poor life choices.

Oh, how I want to see you tell that to a 15 year old born in a ghetto.
Note that in more rigid societies in particular, wealth can be somewhat uncorrelated with status. Being the child of a notable family with a lot of connections can give one more opportunities, even if the family (or that branch of it) is not actually very well off.

Re sports players going broke, I think that's because they acquire a lifestyle proportionate to their income at an age when they're too young to understand that their lifetime income is front-loaded. For the first 5 or 10 years of their career, they only move up in value and income; they're not fully aware that they're going to fall off an income cliff, and they ought to be spending no more than 10 to 20% of what they earn on consumption.
http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/questia.p...

Are you of the opinion that this page should rank for something? If so, what would it rank for, and why?
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Looks very nice. Did you do all of the design work, or is this a purchased template? It looks great.
Yea. This article could have been written about any web store without needing to change much of the content within it.
Never said that.

The article isn't about entrepreneurs, which are an entirely different type of person that makes different kinds of mistakes. An entrepreneur isn't afraid of making mistakes, regardless of his place in the social order. That's why he's starting a company instead of working for a bank.

The example given in the article was: "two analysts at a prestigious financial firm". A "prestigious financial firm" is not a startup, and while networking is important, it isn't the same networking/hustle that a entrepreneur engages in.
There's also an untapped market for using the iPad (or similar devices) for multi-player in-one-room games. E.g. you could have a poker game where each player's iPad displays their cards, and where betting, dealing cards, blind levels, etc are handled by the computers, so that the game mechanics flow a lot faster than is usual in face-to-face poker.

Or e.g. with monopoly where the iPads handle all the game mechanics.
I find just seeing the color palette says a lot about a movie. And of course "Hero"/"Ying Xiong" is amongst the compressed movies: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3515529474/hero-ying-xio...
I understood JonnieCache to be highlighting how different things are in the US to most of the rest of the world.
well I knew of flippa, but was wondering if there were other marketplaces that people had better experiences with.
The nudge, the debate, and the mandate: three discussion speeds to address problems in your team.

Rather than picking one style per person receiving the message, you need to pick one per situation. Mentoring and long term conversion experiences can use the nudge. Deadlines and trouble may require the mandate.

I had a manager that swung between the nudge and the mandate. He never had time to debate with me so I wasn't able to trust him or feel heard. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance to leave his team.
> We pay more money for toys that in the end own us and try to keep us in their sandbox.

Speak for yourself. I've never paid money for hardware that controls me.
Wrong. It's every 2100 blocks. The difficulty adjust so that the rate of bitcoin generation is always 300 bitcoin per hours. Also, it's not possible to generate more than 21 million bitcoin.

Last time I heard, every 27 days, the hashrate of the network double, so it become more expensive for big dudes to own more than half of the hashing power of the network. Remember, the bulk of the computation machinery are ATI 5870 GPU farms, which are better than almost all the GPU out there for hashing. Amazon doesn't have these GPUs, and I don't know if Google possess a GPU farm.

Read the FAQ at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ
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> You could probably say the same thing about the summer session at most universities

Not really. The summer session at most state schools is like the summer sessions in public high schools. Mostly people who failed a class or couldn't register for the one they needed
Would love to hear more about your experience in this industry and where you think you fit with the bigger players out there (televox, smilereminder etc.)
Based on some email we've been getting. Right now we require you to have a Google account (we use google for user authentication and account creation). But we're looking at using others as well.

We're trying hard not to setup our own user mgmt facilities (who needs one more user/pass to remember) and riding on the back of other services let's us setup accounts more or less automatically.
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This is absurd. As a Turkish citizen, I find the actions of my government regarding matters of the internet horrifying. As it stands, the process is as follows:

1) Receive complaint.

2) Shut down website. Usually through DNS ban, but some sites were ip-banned like youtube for a while.

3) Allow website again if complaint is made and is found legitimate (a process that takes a long time).

What's worse is people don't get angry enough about it because they can use proxying websites like ktunnel.com and change their DNS servers and "it works anyway".
This article is pretty old (April 2010). Apple has loosened some of its restrictions in the meantime:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20015954-264.html
Re. File size growth in Couch:

Couch files are written in an append only fashion so that all operations are considered appends, such as updates. The main upside is durability meaning the file is always readable and never left in an odd state. As noted, however, this has the downside of requiring compaction to reclaim disk space. You should note that if you are using bitcask, the default backend for riak, you will have the same problem that you had with couch as bitcask is also an aol (append only log) (aka. wol - write only log). Bitcask will also need compaction but as of the latest release there are various knobs to tweak regarding when that is queued up and when it is executed.

Re. database being one file:

I'm not exactly sure why couch uses one file but I suspect it is due to the use of b-trees internally. Would love to hear more from someone more experienced in couch. Riak splits its data amongst many files. Specifically one file (or 'cask' when using the default bitcask backend) per 'vnode' (virtual node, 64 by default). The drawback here is that you need to ensure that your environment has enough open file descriptors to service requests.
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How much infrastructure did it take for Google to run wave? They could put adwords on it like every other product they've done.

They may have used some of their technology in Google Docs. However, they could have refined the Google wave model more. Instead, they hyped it up, and then quickly dumped it.
Including you though?
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I like it. What about:

1. Grouping by director / DP
2. Color analysis (by genre, decade, etc)
Being able to recognize the innate potential of others by indirect means is itself a talent.
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I don't have time to test this exact benchmark, but the last time I benchmarked PyPy on tornado it did 2x the req/s flat out, so probably (and I'll confirm later) that puts PyPy running tornado in the #1 place here.
Modern logistics (c.f. Walmart) is a hugely significant technological breakthrough, and is arguably the foundation of our modern economy. It's not obvious to consumers because it happened behind the scenes, but don't neglect it's significance.
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I can't say according to the contract. About 30% of my yearly pay before that. I gave a developer that worked with me a good cut of that, to thank him for all his effort.
I was just thinking the same thing; see "Traffic": http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3432016573/traffic-2000
Seconded. And it's worth noting that the percentage of people in the US whose parents make >$10M a year is so small that it's unlikely that anyone knows enough of them to make statistically valid assumptions about their performance relative to kids from more median backgrounds.

You'd need to know or track 1000+ of those individuals to find statistical significant in a phenomenon that's probably a few percentage points in size. It makes the article very hard to disagree with in a concrete way (since I doubt any of us know that many trust funders) but I doubt the OP really has that level of data either.

This is just a long anecdotal gripe based on a few data points.
I've been using Dropbox to create a rails app with two other developers. We upload to Github every few days.

This is a bit crude, but it's been insanely simple. I like being able to see updates in quasi-real time.
Some people find this disturbing and an indemnification of the humanities. (Being, as a whole, an intellectual fraud). I do not find this incident particularly disturbing, and I don't think it says much about the humanities.

The journal in question isn't even peer reviewed. That certain non peer reviewed journals are desperate for content and have low standards for publication isn't exactly shocking.

He wrote a crappy article for a crappy journal, that no one would have even known about, had he not widely publicized it as a 'hoax'.
I know some humans with the same problem.
social text is not a peer reviewed journal.
Dunno how much this means, but the Java package namespace is within com.google. http://bitcoinj.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/index.html
Someone reported this to Bugzilla back in January. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626021
> I don't know if you've noticed but these two are having some very large impact in the world right now. Dictators of 30 and 40 years are being cast off.

I'm sure the Jacobins had a totally cool Facebook page.

> Now you could say that even if we ever managed to get to a utopia state more greedy people will just show up but I would counter argue that e.g. Alexander the great wouldn't have gotten off the ground if people could have just sent a twitter to warn everyone else what he was up to.

That has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. If only poor King Darius III had a Twitter account.
You'll probably want to disallow stuff like this: http://placesheen.com/phpthumb/phpthumb.php?src=http://cvcl....
Can the same be used for regular python AST's? i.e., to generate legible C code from Python? I know PyPy's RPython already does this, but I don't think the code is this clear. Or is it?
You get that with real actual genuine whiteboards, too. They all need cleaning, every so often.
The reason for the lack of substance is pretty obvious. This is just thinly veiled linkbait to get you to buy his ebook. See the last (easy) step.
That's a completely fair analysis of that page: the experience on that page is not great, and we realize that we're not presenting the value to a user who lands on that page in a compelling way. We need to work on improving pages like that, and I'm fine with devaluing those based around a quality metric.

But what about a page like this: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9727120. Would you classify this page in the same way as the category page you reference above?
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WhiteyBoard has peel and stick whiteboards in large sizes at pretty affordable prices. I'm trying to decide between this and the shower wall method right now.

http://www.whiteyboard.com/
It's not obvious, but you can type the names of friend groups into that box as well.
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It becomes harder and harder not to, isn't it?
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"He's an asshole, but he makes a good point."

Not ad hominem, not trying to refute the argument, but still an insult.

"He's an asshole, and his argument is crap."

Not ad hominem, refuting the argument by mere assertion, and an insult.

"He's an asshole, so his argument can't be taken seriously."

Ad hominem - implying that some characteristic of the person makes his argument flawed; and an insult.

"He just wants what's best for his daughter, so his argument can't be taken seriously."

Ad hominem (implying bias); but not an insult.
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