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Thanks @CyberFonic! I am kind of inclined towards building web app in the beginning as I conceive it as a "broader" user base.

Another great lesson learnt! Looks like I better start picking up some Python skills asap.

Many thanks for your tips again!
They are the same in that they are both based on PHP under Apache, and therefore system and global variables are available in the same pattern. Obviously a development environment is not going to be the same as production, just architecturally the same.
Interesting but what about poor people who cannot afford good quality education.

A better way I think would be for people to keep paying what they do in taxes for education but then giving them vouchers for that amount that they could spend at any school.

Socially fair as well as building a competitive marketplace for schooling
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Even if it's not a root exploit, though, there's no cause for celebration. Handy Light shows that the App Store process can sneak major, prohibited functionality onto users' devices in the guise of a clearly useless and trivial app.

Any competent iOS developer should be able to think of a handful of ways to sneak past Apple's approval process if they felt like it and had sufficient reason to do so.
PHP FPM is nice and all, but the issue still is that it is a FastCGI server, so you need something that can route to it. This php -S proposal doesn't have that requirement.
Good ideas - thanks!

Re limiting the number of searches - I'm concerned that people may just register throwaway accounts to get the free searches (and thus never paying). I could use cookies or IP smarts to counteract this, but it doesn't seem a good solution. I also don't want to make the sign up process harder.
Donated.

Even though I was kicking around the net on my Macintosh SE/30, using MacSLIP/MacTCP, this is a great idea.
And why not sell our national parks and community parks to say Disney and Chuck E Cheese? Imagine! We could pay whenever we want to take a slide or go for a hike!
I don't necessarily disagree with him but his analysis leaves out a very important point. In 1960 it wasn't really possible for rich person to live in a country like Singapore or Taiwan and still maintain relationships in the United States. That's no longer the case. With cheap flight travel, video chat, and other means of communication it's very easy for someone with the financial means to travel back and forth with very little effort. And countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan know this.

Given that fact it's in those countries best interest to woo rich Americans. Which means the United States now has to compete.

Meaning the US can't reasonably raise the tax rate on the top 1% higher than what it would cost them to fly back and forth from the United States if they made a place like Taiwan their own.
He believes in private property, just not copyright.
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Strawman.

There's no technical reason why a decentralized system can't work. The main road blocks would be finding a compelling reason for people to switch away to one in the first place.

Email is decentralized. It seems to have worked pretty darn well.
"I notice several skyscrapers built over the past few months that aren't displayed yet"

that's a crazy pace !, compared to seeing the same unmistakable window view at San Jose/ SF every single year.
1. My dev system is a series of VMs that mirror that same box deployments we have in production, the only difference being that systems we duplicate for redundancy in production are singular in dev. I've found that this prevents accidental dependencies between libraries and processes that would otherwise complicate deployments and scaling.

2. For me, "apt-get install apache" once is much simpler and cleaner than running a dev server every single time, but I have been doing it this way for more than a decade, so perhaps you are right and I am just set in my ways.

3. If you can't set up a production environment you can't set up a production environment, and it doesn't matter which architecture is involved.
Donated. Winsock + Slirp - truly life-changing.
I'm surprised no one has linked http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html yet.

I'd have thought PG would be better qualified than most to compare the two. This was written in 2007, when YC was still doing funding cycles in Boston.

Some key quotes:

And if, as nearly everyone who knows agrees, startups are better off in Silicon Valley than Boston, then they're better off in Silicon Valley than everywhere else too.

and

Silicon Valley investors are noticeably more aggressive than Boston ones. Over and over, I've seen startups we've funded snatched by west coast investors out from under the noses of Boston investors who saw them first but acted too slowly.

and

Boston investors are probably more conservative than Silicon Valley investors for the same reason Chicago investors are more conservative than Boston ones. They don't understand startups as well.

and

If there was going to be a comeuppance for the west coast investors, the bursting of the Bubble would have been it. But since then the west coast has just pulled further ahead.
I raised two angel rounds for Crocodoc -- one in Boston, and one in SV. In Boston I wore business attire to every meeting and was generally asked for a 5-year pro formas. In SV I wore flip flops to coffee shops where I showed off prototypes and talked up our vision to bring down Adobe.

I love Boston, but most of the investors there are so conservative when it comes to web startups that it makes me cringe. There are of course some fantastic investors (e.g. Dharmesh Shah) and exciting new initiatives (e.g. Mass Challenge), but I hope for its own sake that Boston picks up the pace and slows the massive influx of entrepreneurs leaving there for SV.

(For reference I lived in Boston for ~6 years and now SV for ~1 year.)
Other things to factor in:
- fixed costs of rent, computer equipment for personnel
- variable costs incurred by servers, power consumption, etc
- manufacturing (and support) of the reader

Either way, $1m/day is impressive and I'm sure they're only getting started.
Out of curiosity, why would they do this? It'd be more expensive (you think any deals they have with CC companies will carry through to a new and crowded market?) and they'd have a lot of competitors.
If directly touching people's lives was any sort of criteria then I think Jonathan Ive or Steve Jobs ought to be a better candidate. Or Larry/Sergey.
We delete the logs from social plugins (including the Like button) after 90 days:

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Pud was checking out my homepage not so long ago. I like static and simple show-n-tell homepages for developers that build stuff, rather than some linkedin page, or anything requiring navigation. There's probably even a startup in it somewhere for people to keep track of changes to such pages.
If they mean for it to only be used for development and not production, it would be funny if they hard coded a specific set of 'normal' ports that it would not work on!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283036
HN is kicking Reddit's ass, actually.
Of course not; I never meant to imply that the Khan Academy style videos would ever be a drop-in replacement for school. Rather, if the traditional role of teacher is played by someone like Sal Khan, while professionals in the schools serve as mentors or coaches, you could greatly reduce the staffing requirements (and therefore costs) of educational facilities.
Does anybody actually do this? It seems like it would be easier just to pay an accountant to hide your money convincingly in some sort of offshore account or company than to do all that pesky flying, and awkward moving to the other side of the world.

Which brings me to another point, the rich are people too, and I doubt very many will ever care enough about their money to uproot their entire social life.
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While I agree with your premise, there are times you have a question or the teacher's explanation just doesn't click for you. Sometimes you need to be able to have 1:1 learning, however I'm sure there are a number of solutions to this problem.
One reason I can think of is high volume small transactions. Since the fee is flat percentage companies could get around the flat rate. This is problematic in settings where you are selling items for 1 or 2 dollars and the 15/30 cent fees eat up your margins.

I'm not entirely sure what the rates are for GC/Paypal but I'm sure you could manage a merchant account that gives you as good of a deal and is optimized for the web.

For instance, how many people will buy through "Square" online when they are so familiar with PayPal.
I've always found the most challenging part of speedreading, and possibly the barrier to accepting that you're doing it, is that if I'm not subvocalizing, do I recognize that I'm actually absorbing the material?

Any tips on getting over this hurdle?
Also, forgive the ad hominem, but this poster appears to be leaning on his cachet as an angel investor to persuade.

However, the links under Our Companies lead to a line of text and a GoDaddy placeholder.

Slightly less than a minimum viable product, unless you're talking about the blog post.
More than the iPad 2 I think the price cut on the iPad 1 Hurts the xoom. Because while the specs might be better on the Xoom you can't deny that the cheapest iPad is now half the price of the cheapest xoom.

I think we're now to the point where other hardware manufactures have to decide whether they want to cede this market to Apple. If they don't they're going to have to take some short-term losses to keep up. That means cutting the hardware price to the point where you're not making a profit but where your prices are at least competitive with Apple.

If they aren't willing to do that their only strategy is to wait and hope Apple slips up.
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I think the biggest difference is the funding environment. In a way, it's a networks effect problem.

There are consumer Internet companies that made it big in the valley, in the process, creating millionaires who "get" consumer Internet. They then go on to create or fund other consumer Internet companies.

Meanwhile, in Boston, there hasn't been a significant consumer Internet exit.. at all? (Wow, I can't think of one right now) So the promising consumer Internet businesses and talent in Boston, who can't find the seed funding or the mentorship, move out to the valley.
Donated. As a closeted gay teenager, Trumpet was the software that got me in touch with the people who literally saved my life. I could never thank this guy enough.

(Edit: if you felt like making another worthy donation, the Youth Guard mailing lists are the people I'm referring to -- http://www.youth-guard.org/youth/ . I cannot overstate the impact they had on my life.)
You're absolutely right. The processor (in this case Square) takes the smallest portion of the 2.75% with Visa/Mastercard taking the second highest, and the largest portion (by a large margin) going to the issuing bank.

Here's an illustration: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Gao-repor...
I laughed when I read you comment because I find my message queues always seem to want to morph into these Tuple Spaces -- seriously. I never knew there was a name here, just that I seem to frequently want some more generic properties matching nicely to the this whole pattern.
I think the page design overall is quite excellent. On the questions page I would enlarge the font size of the bolded questions just a nudge. The absolute worst part of the site however is the logo, in my opinion. The thin, noodly font seems completely out of place against the strong blocky composition in the background. It's look more like an afterthought or a temporary logo put in place until the final one is completed. Otherwise, great job on everything else!
I checked how they did that. Basically they provide a easy way to let a user(Small buses owner) to add info. In other words it's a kind of "social mapping".Probably with some control.

I found an English version of the company behind Edushi:
http://www.aladdincn.com/en/index.html
It's never too late, but there is some age bias in hiring. You probably aren't going to work for a hot startup but there are plenty of interesting jobs, especially if you have some kind of domain specific knowledge that you can apply. My dad switched careers around 40 and went back to school and became a programmer until he retired in his 60's. He did a lot of payroll systems stuff. He worked for hospitals, insurance companies, manufacturing companies etc, starting out doing Cobol but kept up to date and in the end was doing .NET. In the beginning he took whatever job he could get and we moved around a lot, but it can be done. :)
Reddit has the donate to a shiny object market cornered at the moment, at least from my reading. It's a good market to disrupt.
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Call me crazy, but I've loved watching Charlie Sheen do his thing for the past few days, and today while talking to one of my biz-partners, it occurred to us that this would be a great little side project.

We built it very quickly, and we're still upgrading the design, but I'm curious to see if something like this takes off or fizzles out.

http://tigerbloodwarlock.com

You'd be amazed how many domains were taken already.
>>My parents aren't Apple fans. They're not nerds. They spend a lot of time frustrated with technology. They're nuts about their iPad because it works really well. That's it. Adding a USB port isn't going to make them like it better. It's going to make it more complex, which is going to degrade their experience in using it.

This is interesting. I'm curious, how do they manage the music/photos/videos in their ipad? Doesn't syncing by cord with the computer a messy thing? Or do you do it for them? How do they use it?
Just a warning, if it's a new paypal account and there are a bunch of donations, PayPal will lock the account and keep the money for themselves until he runs their gauntlet.

Actually, they'll sometimes do that on accounts that are a decade old, but new accounts especially.

Maybe use WePay instead with a target amount?
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The people discussed in this article are people are rich enough to be able to influence politicians with their own personal money. To people with that kind of wealth I don't think flight travel and hotel expenses are that big a deal. They could easily continue to live most of their life in the United States and simply call a foreign country their home for tax purposes.
Ok, I'll spell it out for you. The pretext for going to war in Iraq was that Saddam had WMDs - a pretext that was later found to be extremely flimsy. If we (ie. the public) had had access to unfiltered information, not just what the US/UK goverments wanted us to have, would we have gone to war? I doubt it.

Hence you need to balance the cost of releasing the information (maybe a few hundred deaths, but that's yet to be demonstrated) vs. the cost of being led around by whoever's in power (currently >100,000 civilian deaths, and a borderline civil war in Iraq).
I wonder at what point does a household magically transform into a state that suddenly lives by different rules. When you add the tenth individual? The hundredth?

Of course, the answer is whenever the group becomes large enough so that people lose track of who's taking what.

Government likes to make waves on the pond, point out the highs and distract you from the lows and how much disruption is created.

When the group is small, its a lot easier to identify someone that's just splashing around and claiming to create value.
Did you read my post? My point is that organizations like the Khan Academy drastically reduce the cost of education while keeping quality high, perhaps even higher than what's in many school classrooms today. Doing so allows more people to afford a good education.

The current public school program is essentially mandatory "education insurance". We as a society want an educated public, so we force everyone to pay for it. The problem is that it's administered by the government, so politicians and bureaucrats decide what's good for children instead of their parents.

The entire situation in Wisconsin would not exist if public school didn't exist and private school was affordable. I think things like the Khan Academy help move us towards that end.
But it's not that hard to set up a bare-bones Apache serving PHP on localhost! It's literally as simple as the two commands I posted above on a modern Linux box, and as simple as downloading and running the Apache installer on a Windows box. The installers do it all for you. IIRC after running the Apache Windows installer you can access http://localhost serving PHP right away!

In fact that's part of the reason why PHP became so popular: 1) it's free, 2) it's easy to do basic html manipulation, and 3) it's easy to get a basic setup running.

Why bundle a custom web server with a scripting language when literally all you have to do is visit one more web site and download and run one more installer? I feel like I'm missing some huge key revelation here because I keep getting downvoted for these thoughts. Should PHP also bundle their own custom MySQL engine so I don't have to run 'sudo apt-get install mysql'? Or a copy of Tuxracer too so that I can play it when I need a coding break without having to run the installer?

Edit: in fact, at the risk of further downvotes, I would go so far as to say that if it really is that difficult for someone to do a basic Apache/mod_php install in their OS of choice, they should probably do more reading/tutorials before proceeding down the PHP rabbit hole any further. Figuring out how to install a dev instance of Apache isn't more difficult than reading the documentation for getting this new embedded PHP server running.
Thanks - I do have some domain knowledge. I don't have to work for a hot startup...I'd rather work for somewhere a tad more stable. :) Done the startup thing a few times as a writer.
When the Mac App Store came out, we had a simple idea: we wanted to bring easy access to the calendar from the menubar to MacOS, just like Windows has easy access from the system tray (notification area).

Well, then we decided to enhance it and added a few bells and whistles. I will keep you guys updated on how popular this app gets. Personally, the girlfriends and sisters of everyone involved (about 4 or 5 in all) have spontaneously said that this is very useful upon seeing us play with it -- so that gets me very excited. Because they are not even power users :)

http://grab.by/9gko
http://grab.by/9gkq

Notice how it appears THIRD in Productivity apps section, and FIRST when you do a search for "calendar". Let's see how many downloads it gets -- it costs $0.99 :)

If you have a Mac, and decide to download it, please let me know what you think. This is our first Mac Store App.
Are you seriously suggesting that the average elementary or middle school could "greatly reduce" it's staffing requirements? As someone else pointed out, teachers aren't just there to teach; they also serve as childcare providers.

There's probably scope for reducing staff at high schools, but don't kid yourself that technology is going to provide some magic reduction in the cost of primary education.

Edited to add: I think that making high school more like college in terms of giving kids autonomy and opportunities to do real-world types of activities outside of school would be a great idea, and conceivably could both lower the cost of running schools and increase the value of schools. But this requires much more than technology to enact, there is also an huge cultural and societal component to deal with.
The research done by your fellow in MIT while in HKUST is also very impressive. Just that the result is not the same kind found in here - the one here is simply artistic model, not a realistic one.
Donated. Warm thoughts, Mr Tattam.
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I hate puzzle games, personally. Diddle the widget so that the frobulent gibbers the foomatic - extend the prior implication chain a few levels - just gets more than a little old.

I really enjoyed an interactive text-based fiction game recently. But that palled - I realized I could be coding and being productive. >..
> Consider two further points based on this graph: first, if the highest income earners today were required to pay the same rate that they paid for many years after 1945, the federal government would need far lower deficits to support the private economy through its current crisis; and second, those tax-the-rich years after 1945 experienced far lower unemployment and far faster economic growth than we have had for years.

A professor of economics should know better than to throw around statements like these in order to pander to those who are less educated. There were so many factors that contributed to the low post-war unemployment than high marginal tax rates for the rich.

Second, he should be aware of structural changes in the global economy. With globalization, the effects of "winner-takes-all" economics are augmented significantly. In addition, the US isn't the only industrial powerhouse anymore--Europe and much of Asia have recovered.

> Second, the richest Americans take the money they save from taxes and invest big parts of it in China, India and elsewhere. That often produces more jobs over there, fewer jobs here, and more imports of goods produced abroad.

This argument, especially coming from an economics professor, makes me highly uncomfortable. The "fixed jobs" (zero-sum employment) mentality is so wrong that I'm ashamed for him.

> The largest single recipient of such interest payments today is the People's Republic of China.

It's clear that the author is writing this explicitly to pander to general population's level of attention to actual economics and instinct to give kneejerk responses to articles like this.

> Those hedge funds and brokers likewise use part of the money rich people save from taxes to speculate in the US stock markets. That has recently driven stock prices higher: hence, the stock market recovery. And that mostly helps – you guessed it – the richest Americans who own most of the stocks.

The stock markets are shooting higher because corporate earnings are bouncing back--in part because of increased productivity and reduced hiring--not because of some conspiracy by the "rich people" to make other rich people richer. They are chasing earnings.

While I don't disagree with his belief that the tax cuts are misplaced, I found his arguments less than compelling.
But... how do I know it's worth the "price" before I've seen it? Or am I missing something?
There's no easy way to word what I came away from your comment with, so I'll just get it out there: your comment was exceedingly enlightening. I doubt that during the development of Trumpet anybody thought they were saving even one life (it's a sockets API!), and your story speaks volumes about how programmers can touch lives in ways they'd never imagine during development.

Moral I learned: it's really easy to underestimate impact. I'm personalizing that to relate to development, but I think it's applicable to a lot of what we do.

Thank you for sharing your story. Even though it wasn't directed at me, it gave me considerable pause and something to think about.
Google needs to add a little lock to all posts that are private, or indicate which are. I freaked out when I thought some of my picasa albums were visible publicly--and feared that had pulled another buzz. Luckily that's not the case, but it's not immediately obvious.
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The cost of labor in China is still low enough for this to happen.
How do most of these arguments not apply to any other programming language when they first came out?
1000? How 'bout a hundred?
This is the celebrity equivalent of sitting at an off-ramp, with a sign that says "why lie, I need some drugs".