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I think you read me backwards. What I meant was that stackoverflow (and all the other stacks) are missing, and I find Quora seriously lacking, so the fact that it is on there at all makes me question the quality bar for the entire list.
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I don't think he means to focus so much on the historical anecdote about Ivy Leagues. His point is that the existing power structure (whether it's business, gov't, or education) is based on networking, not merit, and that by inviting some people who have merit to network, it only creates the illusion of meritocracy, because success is still founded on networking - which benefits the existing aristocracy, even if the intention was to move toward meritocracy.
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It's just a cop-out. The GUI on Linux has been good for a long time -- certainly comparable to Windows, which ripped KDE4 off much more directly than OS X in Vista and 7. People just make excuses for things. Remmina and Vinagre both make it easy to connect to "Jeff on Box 1", "John on Box 1", "WALMART on WALMART Box". You just have to add the IP address and give it a name, and you have to have an IP address to connect on OS X too.
I'm sure there are. I'm not one of these, generally. I carry around a MBP and consequently display the Apple logo everywhere I use that. I just don't buy into the dogma or the reality distortion field that makes some hail an old style of VNC implementation as innovative and awesome.
Unity announced they are working on Flash Player export via Molehill (and presumably Adobe Alchemy): http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/02/27/unity-flash-3d-on-the-we...
Care to elaborate?

I've been using the whatever default Windows port that is linked from Git's download page for several months bow and there is nothing atrocious about it. It works well and it does differ much from the Linux version. (edit) The command line version that is.
Successors? People have been prescribing for years now that Jobs is Apple. Only recently have people understood it is Jobs plus two. The successor to Jobs is Cook (pretty likely). So they have thought about succession on that end.

Obviously, Apple does have other people to take the main positions but they haven't been in the spotlight yet enough for us to take notice of them.
As far as I know he was buying backlinks with an external service and he claims the site is still signed up with that, so yeah the same way I guess

and no, I haven't changed anything.
do we know this story is true?, seems to be just a letter with no proof. or are there more people with similar experience?
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Also son of an immigrant, went to Amherst, and upvoted the grandparent post.

The type of entrenched power base that I believe he's talking about works at a cultural level, which means it's mostly subconscious. I found the "elites" that I went to school with generally weren't overtly snobby - there were one or two douchebags, but in general they were looked down upon by the rest of the student body, and for the most part people could forget about who had money and who didn't.

But I came out of Amherst a different person than when I went in, and I've noticed that I think differently than HN or Reddit posters who didn't go to college or went to a state school. And I think that a lot of that is because I picked up the cultural values of going to an elite college, and now have a lot more skin in the game of preserving the existing system.

Assuming that you are like most HN contributors and want to become successful one day, how would you go about it? What does success mean to you? A good, high-paying job at a company that gives you a lot of freedom to work in what you want? A company that gets lots of users and nets you a few tens of millions when you sell it? A tenured professorship at a major research university?

Now step outside of your cultural values and consider all the other things that people might consider successful. A world where everybody's equal and nobody needs to worry about the basic necessities of life. Glory on the battlefield and domination over one's enemies. Physical strength and goods well built.

Why is it that we value money and knowledge, but not valor or compassion? Why did Athens win over Sparta, when historically Sparta won?

One of the neat things about studying sociology and anthropology is learning how to frame observed behavior from different viewpoints. People usually don't become powerful by winning on the battlefield; they become powerful by shifting the battlefield onto areas where they're naturally strong. So naturally, people who are wealthy and smart want to shift society's value system to reward money and knowledge. If another group was in power - say, the 8th grade bullies who used to beat me up - they would probably want a society that rewarded brawn and ruthlessness.

The university system is a way to effect that shift. It works by identifying youngsters who might otherwise challenge the status quo, and then giving them the means and the opportunity to succeed within the status quo. Once they get out of it, they have little incentive to tear down the system, because the system works for them. Why risk destroying a good thing?
Having a right and using it are two completely separate things. History is full of examples of people who had rights to do what they did (i.e. it was legal), but that they were aholes for actually doing it. Charlie Sheen has a right to speak his mind, for example.
Dieter Rams is 78 and long retired. He also lives in Germany, and may not be especially willing to relocate.
One classic missing from that list: Typing "halt" into the wrong terminal window.
i am already in a community collect. i just need to finish the AA degree somehow and then i could work for one year in the OPT program. but yes, CPT might be a possibility. i'll talk to my counselor on monday about that.
While I agree with you, I think it's due to submissions such as this that end up leading to things like the recent submission "Solving the Hacker News Problem" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152
Your header font is kind grainy to me on Chrome - where it says "Find and keep valuable customers". I like the design but that could be improved, IMO.
> And I also don't propose that this was all cooked in a room full of cackling conspirators rubbing their hands together. It's just the way a power structure works.

His point is that the system of individuals acting to maximize their own benefit, because of the way that "benefit" is defined, favors entrenched players, even if it wasn't supposed to - no conspiracy necessary.
I have to side with the Chinese government on this one - having Twitter plugged into LinkedIn is very annoying :) I usually just end up blocking all status updates from Twitterers.

LinkedIn actually provide a way of distinguishing between tweets about feeding your dog and those that should appear on LinkedIn by including #in hashtag but it seems very few people actually use it.
In addition, Kaleidoscope seems to have integration support for some version control systems (Mercurial, Git, SVN).

Too bad it's not Free Software ...
How is the IE dev tool? I never knew it existed. Is almost as good as firebug?
The best way I have found to reduce typos in a pathname is to use auto complete, even when just typing the path would be faster.
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What makes this different than rss2email or yahoo pipes pointed at craigslist, or indeed.com's notifications (or linkedin's, or...)?
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy - such a system could arise simply through evolution and survivorship bias. Imagine you have two power structures. One of them has a rigidly entrenched core group, with no possibility for advancement. The other of them identifies people who might be threats, and then offers them the possibility of advancement within the system.

Over time, such revolutionaries will arise in both systems. In the first system, they eventually gain a critical mass of disaffected youth, and overthrow the government. That paves the way for another system, and eventually, someone will try something like system #2, and that won't be overthrown by restless revolutionaries.

History actually looks remarkably like this, with plenty of absolute monarchies being violently overthrown by smart & charismatic revolutionaries, until a system arose where those smart and charismatic people can achieve personal advancement without overthrowing the system.
I just noticed a patch I submitted a year ago was accepted this week. While the patch was sitting there gathering dust in bugzilla (or whatever), I was using my version locally and enjoying the benefits.

If I had designed and submitted a nice new icon instead of code, my experience would have been roughly the same.

Bottom line is that I didn't need to have my work accepted by anyone to validate my efforts. What I needed was to have the code run 20% faster for a rare use case; mine. And thanks to the project's authors choosing to go open source, that's what I got. Then, the authors accepted my patch, further lessening my work load by saving me from re-patching future versions.

So, do designers really get what 'open' implies? Would they enjoy being able to modify the splash screen for their own Eclipse install, even if nobody else would ever see it (they can btw)? I think having a headless mode is a much better feature than anything design-related ever could be. But that's me - other people want different things, and that is kind of the idea...

Also, obviously better 'things' (code, design, whatever) will sometimes take forever for no reason at all. Like this, for instance (the couchdb-python the logo is terrible):
http://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python/issues/detail?id=126

Just remember not to worry: things tend to work out OK.
Many ppc Macs use nvidia graphics. There is no proprietary nvidia driver for powerpc.

On the other hand, 10.5 runs fine on ppc. As a poster above noted, your old OS does not magically stop working after release of new version.
I like it too (east coast as well). I just see it as straightforward, though I've also been accused of having an offensive or off-putting tone when I thought I was being straightforward as well.
Other than delivery to your inbox, which I think Monster does a bit of (though I could be wrong since I pay so little real attention to my Monster Jobs account and the stuff they mail me), what value are you offering? I am thinking about your comment about "most of the valuable hires..." What is their motivation to be interested? How do you qualify them as "valuable hires"? If you can prequalify them, how do you show this value to employers?

Your description sounds to me like you are thinking of a fairly elite service but then your closing remarks sound like you aren't really focused on that but just thinking of it as another job service, but by email. Maybe you can flesh out that value position a bit more.

Good luck with this.
best way to start on angel list is:
1) get at least one notable angel to introduce it / submit it
2) ideally have them introduce you to a few others (privately)
3) once you have some visibility / traction with a few folks, then set your listing public and open it up to the rest (if you want)

this should probably be a separate thread here or on Quora to discuss best techniques for marketing a deal on Angel List. i'll try and write a blog post on this or a Quora question in the future. it's worth diving into more.
Exactly. Lack of celebrity doesn't imply lack of talent. In Apple's case, they wouldn't want to make celebrities of anyone they had in mind to succeed their execs, in order to prevent poaching.
Thank you! Seriously, this type of article really invigorates me. This may go against hacker mentality, which is eliminate every single step until all you are left is with an awesome product. Get that out the door as quickly as possible and pray for users. 100 to 1k to 1 mil to 100 mil users! Revenue model? We can worry about that later. How much is each user worth?

Sorry for the rant but steps that do exist in the traditional process are there for a reason. Correlation does not imply causation yada yada. You should finish high school and at least get a bachelor's. You do need to consider a business plan. You do need to understand the legal aspects. If all we take is shortcuts, then we will never understand what is missing!
Here, take mine.
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scp file linuxbox:~

# on linux box
# I now have a file called /home/me/~

rm ~

# some stupid error...

rm -fr ~

# that's taking a while...

NOOOOOOO!
OK, thanks I've read the paper.

If we are talking about whether 16 bits is sufficient dynamic range (the main subject of this Hacker News discussion) they say:

"In one brief test with two subjects we added 14 dB of
gain to the reference level quoted and tested the two
sources with no input signal, to see whether the noise level
of the CD audio channel would prove audible. Although
one of the subjects was uncertain of his ability to hear the
noise, both achieved results of 10/10 in detecting the CD
loop. (We have not yet determined the threshold of this
effect. With gain of more than 14 dB above reference,
detection of the CD chain’s higher noise floor was easy,
with no uncertainty. Tests with other subjects bore this out.)"

To me, this confirms that a bit depth of 16 is insufficient for high dynamic range music such as classical orchestral music. Maybe we don't need more than 20 bits (or about 16 bits plus 14 dB), but as we have the disk space, internet bandwidth and electronics to comfortably handle 24 bits I don't see the problem.

As far as sampling rate is concerned, they aren't comparing 24/192 PCM with 16/44.1 and so it isn't really relevant to a discussion about whether it is possible to hear the difference between these two formats using a current state of the art DAC.

I've no idea about the pros and cons of convertings SACD to 16/44.1 and doing a comparison as I don't personally care about SACD and don't think it has a future in downloadable non-physical formats.

They only talk vaguely about the actual equipment used which isn't normal for a Hi-Fi review. They say they inserted a comparator:

"always in the 16/44.1 signal path. Audio switching was
handled by an ABX CS-5 double-blind comparator"

Have they done a double blind test to ensure that the effects of the comparator were inaudible?

They don't say what DAC or CD player they were using:

"For the CD loop we used a well-regarded professional
CD recorder with real-time monitoring."

I don't have enough to go on here. Certainly DAC and CD players have improved a great deal in the last five years since these tests were made. From the description I can't tell whether of not the CD player and its DAC were state of the art five years ago.

So overall I agree the paper is an interesting read, but hardly the last word in answering the question of whether we should move to 24 bit recordings, or whether a sampling rate of 44.1 KHz is sufficient.
Wait, what do you mean?
Thanks a ton for the feedback. I am paying close attention to what is being said. The more feedback I get, the more I can adapt to what people really desire from a service like Lettur.

Also, @tansey you're right. It does look like we have the same idea going. I can honestly say I haven't seen thrsti before. I am sure we will find our separate paths, and I welcome the friendly competition =)
yeah, guess i'm intentionally taking on the "spray & pray" haters, but to me more specific -- i'm combining that strategy with other filters, domain-specific expertise, selective follow-on investment. the combination of all of these is more like an index fund for initial selection, then active management and time-weighted averaging of future funds into the winners.

little bit complex to describe, adn we're still developing it so even i'm not final on which parts add most value.

but we are trying some new shit. some of it hopefully works ;)
not "20+" years old, either.

The evidence shows that VNC isn't from much before 1997 or 1998.
Yes, the discussions on math regarding high school always seem strange to me. There is a lot of talk about the relevance of calculus and trigonometry (which I personally think are relevant and should be understood, trigonometry is required for woodworking and crafts for example), but the reality is that regardless of whatever classes they have supposedly passed the typical high school graduate has just basic arithmetic skills and many have a competency level below that, requiring a calculator in order to make change from a dollar. They have third grade level skills and nothing more. But the reality is that basic arithmetic skills are taught well and rapidly throughout the rest of the industrialized world. There are various reasons for it and the parents are not to blame, nor are "higher standards" and homework the answer. For kids that are 17 and can't reduce a fraction the answer is not to require them to take calculus next. Alas, by the time one is 14 it is too late to be learning the basics. There is no excuse to be spending so many hours in school and have students that are passed on year after year without knowing basic math and reading skills, and the usual big talk from politicians about high standards won't fix what is wrong.
Tadpole laptop? Really? Which one? I did the port of Slowaris to several of the SPARCbooks back when I worked there.

(Started my career on a DEC-10, followed by a Vax 11/780, a couple 11/750s and a smattering of PDP-11s (11/44, 11/70))

Had Linux (and NeXTstep) running on an early Tadpole P1000 (100MHz Pentium laptop, it was the sh*t when it came out.)

Mostly all Macs now.
Real world problems need real world solutions with real world money.

Designing a physical product, which can be manufacturer and has a healthy margin for a business to survive will take some invest money. There had been exceptions, but usually you will need a couple hundred thousand dollar to get there and at the same time yo need protect your product with IP.

Once you reached that point you are in a symmetric market, where a product gets exchanges for cost plus profit. It will always be a more linear curve on profit. On the other side software and internet companies in high demand have this hockey stick potential, which makes it so attractive to investors.

So hardware is hard, because it has just a much higher barrier to entry and at the same time it offers less sexy chart types. The number of hardware companies are far less compared to a person with a computer and internet who could be a software or internet company.
That does make sense, and if that is the way it works, that's the way it works. The name AngelList, at least from an entrepreneur's stand point, might be misleading then. It seems to me that AngelList is more of a list of potential start-ups for angels than it is a list of potential angels for start-ups. While it can be used either way, to me it seems that the benefit is more for the angel than the start-up looking for funding. Maybe it should be called StartupList?
Is anyone here applying abstract algebra to technology projects which might interest us HN readers?

I studied it as an undergraduate; when I think about applications I've found in technology work and computer science, the following spring to mind:

* Linear algebra -- obviously very useful, although not everyone would consider it abstract enough to lump under abstract algebra.
* The structural side (category theory, universal algebra etc) very useful for grokking theoretical computer science
* Lattices, order theory, boolean algebras etc -- also very useful for computer science, but perhaps tending a bit away from algebra and towards logic.

I'm not sure I've really wielded in anger any non-trivial theorems from the theory of groups and rings though. Maybe a little bit of basic group theory. But perhaps I've lead a boring life. Interested to hear what people are doing with it in the tech / comp sci field :)

(Crypto, I guess, is one important area. And the 'patch algebra' of the darcs VCS was another interesting application I spotted)
|Most times, when I team up with some designer they'd want to make pretty icons...

The designer should know enough to you visual symbols that have real-world equivalents to convey the meaning of the button visually. Envelopes for mail. phones for contact button. Thumbs up to like, thumbs down to dislike.

This is my first time learning about the open source project (never been on hacker news before). Can anyone provide a link to what you would call a typical open source project in need of a designer. I'm terrified of working with you guys but am starting to feel like maybe I should get over that and lend a hand.
I feel inclined to disagree with you again... nothing personal, but I think I should point out that they are "giving it to charity", and using it to acquire users...
I'm interested in learning more about how customers are modelled. Transaction history, # support cases, usage patterns; these will be more informative than acquisition channel. But then there's the matter of getting data into and out of Custora. Looks really cool, guys.
I'm an Indian living in the US for the past 9 and I agree with the article..
I, for one, believe in conspiracies...

... but I also believe in class conflict, which I see as different things. Our economic system is predicated on the existence of both a working class and an owning class -- it's no fun to be a general if you don't have a bunch a bunch of enlisted to boss around. And in the US, the myth is that the enlisted commoners deserve their lot from lack of smarts and ambition.

The owning class, and their educated lackeys like me, intuit that if we don't keep this division going, we lose our positions in the upper half of the pyramid, and adjust our day-to-day behavior accordingly without ever explicitly working it out in our minds. Also, we just plain feel more comfortable around people who share experience and cultural background.

These dynamics, plus a HUGE difference in access to educational know-how, are enough to sustain class divisions even while making it plausibly deniable that any systematic class oppression exists.

Also, there is a rhetorical technique called the "straw man" which the commenter is using: subtly re-characterize your opponents argument as something easily attacked, and then attack it. The commenter explicitly said there was no grand explicit conspiracy, but you attack him as if he did.

(One of the things I like about HN is that when issues like this come up there are smart people here on both sides -- libertarians and Marxists, united by a love of hacking!)
GPGPU is useless for mass gaming. The underpowered GPUs that will run most of the in-browser games will have trouble rendering the game itself, much less help with other tasks.

This is true for gaming applications in general, even on consoles and PCs with powerful cards. Game developers need the GPU to do graphics, and can find enough work for it.