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Few things in the article ring a bell close to me.

1)One being the power to choose things without bothering about the money part is like a drug.

I still remember the time, when I would take design prjects for as cheap as $20 per hour (which for India's standard is not cheap) but I knew I had to build my name and it was a good enough price to pay for a while.

Then I realised that I could do more interesting and challenging personal projects than make sites with no budget and affection for design from the companies' end.

2) “You don’t need the money?” – well, 95%+ of people in the world would like more money. Maybe 99%+.

Well I would say it is 100%. Never come across someone who would say not to money. And no I am not talking moral issues, grey area, lack of time reasons. I am talking reasons where you did not take that money for the sake of not just taking that money.

That power of being able to refuse projects left and right and be very picky is what I cherish the most. I might rather just enjoy a quite night with my girlfriend than slog for some work I don't get a thrill out of.
And even a faulty clock is right, two times a day.
This is part of why I think Steve Jobs is such a great spokesman for Apple as a company. He believes every word coming out of his mouth and that enthusiasm tends to be infectious.

Look at any presentations he's given, the iPad 2 launch comes to mind. After each of the software demos he'd come back on stage with this look of wonder on his face and it really affects the audience on a deep emotional level.
Facebook for me; I know two people living near Tokyo that instantly updated their statuses and it just snowballed from there.

It took the US news (nytimes.com) at least 20 minutes to have anything up, but twitter and facebook exploded instantly.
By the way, they just launched Qt Quick Components for desktop: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/10/qml-components-for-deskt...

Should make app development a lot easier...
TechStars is running programs 5 times a year, so it's less relative anyway. According to http://www.techstars.org/schedule/ there is a batch of finalists notified one month on either side of the YC interviews.
Hello Laurenceputra,

If that particular knowledge contributes to a clearer image about how the industry works, then yes, you (as a consultant) can use that knowledge.

If however that particular knowledge is classified, then you won't. If you were to divulge such classified information the client might ask himself what you would do with what is in your head once you leave the project...
As I understand it, Arch's pkgbuilds are similar. The nice thing is that they have the flexibility to do whatever you want, whether it be updating a svn repo, downloading a binary, curling a script, building from source, whatever.
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Thanks Patrick, that's refreshing to hear.
Apple's gcc is freely available and open source. If you have a specific reason for non-programmers to need a C compiler on their machine, you can even make an installer for it.
Not according to the guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

But, I don't mind it all as I get to read views and firsthand accounts from fellow hackers that is much different from what I see on TV.
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Ask HN: I died 2 times, coma, learned how to walk again, code, now I need advice
I went through 2 aneurysms (I know unlucky), went through 2 brain surgeries, then got hit with mitral valve regurgitation which steamed from having endocarditis (rare virus that sits on the heart). Then was in a coma because of the aneurysm, when I woke up I needed to learn how to walk again. Before that I went through physical abuse, poverty, lived on my own (boarding schools, houses I rented etc) since I am 13, hustled, did drugs, and all kinds of other stupid things. Why am I telling you this on HN? Because this is part of the journey of an entrepreneur, I've been starting businesses since I am 16 as an escape to a poor reality and a bad environment, I am not from the US (from Israel) but came here (live in Palo Alto because of the amazing freedoms and opportunity that this country provides and of course to leave my junk behind. After failing many times and teaching my self how to code/design software, I am finally on a path to something that works.

I have a product with traction, revenue (I had to find a business model early on since I know no one I can raise money from). Now I am at a point where my startup is growing but I need to scale it way faster before someone comes in, its a wide open market for something that has huge revenue potential (we are making already 15K a month without trying because of our limited team of 2).

I came here because I wanted to ask for your help, how does one raise money when he knows no one, I realized that the tech industry raises money purely or mostly based on connections/introductions, I don't have that at all what should I do to get in that door?

Thank you in advance and sorry if the spelling is not perfect :)

<p>btw I am 25 yo if you are curious because usually the above sicknesses come to older people.
No, it is not. From the HN guidelines:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And unlike cosmok, I do mind it, because this type of news is slowly turning HN into something it shouldn't be. There's a reason for this particular guideline, and I think we should honor that.

EDIT: I don't mind the downvoting, but please, if you do that, at least post a comment on why you think my comment deserved to be downvoted.
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Here is a video of tsunami caused by this earthquake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaFBlH8tjM
Besides what patio11 said, there is something similar to the US National Alert System which gets used quite often. It puts alerts on the top of every TV channel when an earthquake starts... unfortunately my TV then fell off the cabinet so I took that as an alert and climbed under my table.
May be, may not be. But I'm sure there are people out there who got some updates from this post. For them, yes it is.
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Interesting. However, it is something that the governments should be handling rather than a private company. Just an opinion.

Or a central database and disaster management site where you just register the contact details of your loved ones including yourself. Also a good idea is a general notification for groups.

So say I learnt about it and am in the other end of the world, I would want to leave a beep so shrill that my family gets the hell out and run.

Another easy solution is setting up a reminder service from local trends on twitter+natural language processing+ Bloody loud notification depending on threat levels.
He missed the criticism of the iPad covers:

"Unfortunately, I found the cover’s magnetic latch came open in my briefcase, turning the screen on and wasting the battery. Also, the light gray color I had picked up smudges."
probably not. oh well.
Sirens are common. Cell phones? You'd just overload the network.
That's because California has tax-hungry laws concerning what defines a "nexus" (a business's presence in the state). It's difficult for many companies to avoid creating a California presence, so they're stuck collecting California sales tax as if they were based there.
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2. Will Mozilla ever support CSS Animation? Last I heard they weren't too keen on it

There are some CSS animations in Mozilla's Demos: https://mozillademos.org/demos/dashboard/demo.html . They work just fine for me in 4b12.
Hey, Mr. Power User who relies on delicious, you'd better export your delicious bookmarks and take them elsewhere, Yahoo has decided they need to cut corners and is shutting it down.
I was particularly interested in "is patio11 ok?" (and, are there any transpac fiber cuts?)

I think it's fair to post stories which are headlines in ~all news simultaneously, even if not "hacker news" -- nuclear explosions, assassinations of G7 leaders, major wars, etc.
This is the Tokyo International Airport?
I think it's cool.

Good for you guys for posting something creative and fun on your site. (No idea why anyone would be critical of this.)

Coincidentally, I opened a Wistia account just last week. Very cool service, keep up the good work.
Hello, first let me tell you; Your perseverance will definitely help you in business. You're a strong person, I hope you can leave all bad experiences behind you and can take all experience from them that you can.

Second, it's all about networking, online, offline, doesn't matter, tools like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook exist for just this, networking. Start by creating a LinkedIn profile, or update your existing one and start connecting, write people. Also look for "networking events", I don't know if they exist in your neighborhood but here you can find them, these are events organized especially to get to know other people in the business (any business) you exchange cards and start conversations, these are excellent opportunities. I can go on about this but you get the idea I guess... Make yourself known, connect, socialize, in the end you will find the people you need, or they find you.
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Amazon sells Item X for $19.99. An Illinois retailer sells the same Item X, also for $19.99.

Your claim is that the buyer will purchase from Amazon because there is no sales tax:

Amazon: $19.99
Retailer: $21.24

Except, the item must be shipped from Amazon to the customer. If customer pays shipping, then:

Amazon: $24.99
Retailer: $21.24

If Amazon pays the shipping, then the shipping costs must be deducted from their profit on the item, further reducing their margin. If there's enough margin at $19.99 to make this feasible, then the retailer might choose to sell the item for just $1 less than Amazon:

Amazon: $19.99, shipped.
Retailer: $20.18.

I don't see the unfair advantage here. To me, it looks like Amazon has the exact same advantage that any warehouse retailer has: lower overhead and (massively) larger volume, which allows them to operate on smaller margins. That is an advantage, but it is not an unfair one.

In case I'm still not making sense, let me try one other approach: because Amazon must pay to ship items from their warehouses to the items' points of destination, does that mean that in-state warehouse retailers have an unfair advantage? Should we start levying a "shipping tax" on any in-state retailer that does not have to pay to ship their merchandise to the customer? If not, then how is this different from attempting to tax e-retailers, in the context of "unfair advantage"?

Again, I can see this being a revenue issue for states. I so far do not see it as an unfair advantage issue.
The SOX rules are about products. Developer tools are a service that repays OS sellers in their being used, because without tailoring the tools developers use, they lose influence on the direction that

Lawyers are good at scaring people, but the SOX thing sounds too much of a stretch for something that is not a revenue item. Charging for it will complicate the accounting. I guess they want to simplify the way they run the ADC.
Interesting to view of all 5+ quakes the past 3 days http://cl.ly/3G0f0t0d1C2Z381s3O31 . Loads of activity in the area. Is that kind of activity common, or could that have been an indicator that there was a chance of a major quake?
I think he is referring to the sendai airport.
They probably won't ever change their policies--I would venture to guess that the margin they gain from the affiliate program is less than 8% of their total revenue (which is very approximately what they would lose if they were forced to collect sales tax).
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Problems Japan does not have #1: insufficient spending on public works projects In Case Shit Happens, because shit happens so often that when people in several dozen countries say shit they're speaking Japanese.

Can I tell you my favorite outsourcing story? Apologies for those who've heard it (and yes, this actually happened):

India: We can't log into the test server.

Patrick: Then you didn't set it up right.

India: No, we did, but we get an error message.

Patrick: What error message?

India: We can't read it.

Patrick: sigh Please take a screenshot then.

India: Here you go.

Patrick: Oh, that is just a weather report which correctly reflects the state of the test database. The system is operating normally. Please proceed with your testing of the function you were assigned.

India: Are you sure it isn't an error? It is written in red. And why would you put a weather report on the login screen anyway?

Patrick: Q1) That is because if you ignore it you'll die. Q2) See Q1.
You can install a custom gcc, and then tune gcc_select and its configuration files to support it. It's been while since I've done this, but I did it when I was trying to use a version of gcc that was later than that supported by the most up-to-date Xcode available for OSX Tiger. Worked fine, and worked through Xcode.
Meant to say this earlier, but:

This is interesting. I see your point, but I don't want to concede it :)

To me, visual ugliness is far far less offensive than verbal. Probably because there's so frickin' much assaulting our eyes daily, while there's less verbally, so I'm just more used to filtering things out.

This is especially strange when you consider that, in the case of the Real World, visual ugliness is typically persistent while verbal is transient... but for some reason we put up with billboards every few hundred feet along highways, every time we drive anywhere, but not ads every few minutes on the radio. Is it just that (it seems to me that) we have more choice in what we hear / produce vocally than in what we see, so we put up with it less? I.e., muting something is easier than removing / fixing / repainting it. Though for comparison's sake, I don't have a TV and I don't miss it.

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At least part of it, for me, is that I can absorb information far more quickly visually than audibly. And I can sort out visual clutter more easily than audible clutter. I was able to parse their page in an instant, and find whatever I desired (and can search within the page for specific terms). Its ugliness didn't significantly impact my ability to interpret its information (some sites do, but rarely, and certainly not this one). But if someone had read the page's contents to me, inflecting at the wrong points or completely monotone, I would have had to sit for a half hour, listening, paying attention, and would've probably left within seconds after realizing that would be the case.
This is really motivating for anyone who wants to interact with local community in native language. Glad you shared the code, keep improving it and build some quality crowd there. Good luck.
Right about the tv. I was just thinking "what if it had been in the night?" People will be asleep so if there's any window of warning available, how can they get the message?

On CNN the newscaster is repeatedly mentioning how people on the ground are waiting in line to use the pay phone to notify loved ones etc...

I use my phone as an alarm so that's why I just thought it might be helpful if there was a public alert service you can sign up for or even a part of the phone (like emergency 911 always works on a cell phone even if you don't have minutes) that will make it ring, beep or do soemthing stupid to get your attention.
Perhaps the solution would be personalised weightings for search results. You could then build a weighting graph based on blacklists, e.g. if I have a pro-abortion site on my list and it's found on someone else's blacklist then I would have a negative weight for the other sites on their blacklist. Maintaining the graph and weightings would be massively expensive though so I'm not sure when it would be viable.
I see I keep getting downvoted but I'll bite: why should Apple distribute GCC in some other way?

The subset of people that need GCC on OSX but can't handle the whole XCode is probably pretty small.

Why not try Fink (http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gcc45 ) instead of expecting Apple to provide that?
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The reason why this is seen by some as unfair is because Amazon's advantage comes from making it easy for Illinois residents to break Illinois laws. If Illinois residents weren't willing to break Illinois laws, then Amazon would have no advantage.
There's just such a system for several municipalities in the U.S - the reverse 911 system, which robo-calls your home or cell phone in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency. I just signed up for it in Mountain View CA, and my mom got a reverse-911 call for the Boston water main break this winter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_911
Zynga in japan:
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/199150_899666...

and they are still working apparently
Howzit! I lived down there for a few years and miss it dearly. Remember seeing that place a lot but never went inside.

Hope your family and the restaurant are safe. I have a lot of friends down there as well. I actually wish that I could be there for this, the last time there was a tsunami warning (almost a year ago exactly) I was out of town on the mainland =/
I just want to make clear that my comment was in no way intended to criticize mass media. It’s just an interesting new development – if you are not directly affected mass media is no longer the fastest way to get breaking news.

I want mass media to diligently collect all the information they can get and I know that that takes longer than just sending a tweet. Whether the New York Times writes about the event five minutes or an hour after it happens doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
it shouldn't be downvoted anymore than cosmok's (which as of now, is sitting at karma 0).

I upvoted you to keep you closer to cosmok's comment.
I'm touched, but there are several dozen HNers in Japan who I've met personally (just an FYI) most were closer to it than I was.
It's not normal at all. Something was building up
Yes it's Flash, but still a cool weather service
The interface is a bit cluttered, but looks to be a great tool for weather data and analysis.
Hi Tom,

I'm a Spanish geek (maybe you have seen some of my writing in HN, I write in mostlymaths.net), and avid language learner (I recently started learning Irish Gaelic, blogging about it along the way, and I'm still learning Icelandic). If you could tell me what kind of music do you enjoy, I may be able to give you some pointers to Spanish pop groups you may like (no guarantee: my music tastes tend to be ecclectic).

If you'd like this, drop me a line here, through my blog or @berenguel in twitter.

Hasta pronto
You could always apply to YC. I mean, isn't that the entire point of it?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312566
&
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2310110
Reddit has some useful threads going:

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/g1qpy/massive_79_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g1qrb/78_earthqu...
Japanese mobile network operators provides disaster message boards in English.

Docomo(NTT) http://dengon.docomo.ne.jp/Etop.cgi
SoftBank http://dengon.softbank.ne.jp/pc-e1.jsp
au(KDDI) http://dengon.ezweb.ne.jp/E/service.do
remember, earthquakes are caused by massive tectonic plates shifting around, each plate could be hundreds of miles themselves. also there were at least 4 - 5 aftershocks that hit tokyo with a magnitude of 7+.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03...
I can't find a justification why online retailers should be exempt from sales tax;

This justification is to be found in the US Constitution where authority over interstate commerce is granted to Congress. This leaves states with no legal authority over interstate commerce.

This reasoning is preposterous; the sales happens where the customer is, and that's where the tax is due. That's what will happen eventually; they are just buying time -- and not very elegantly.

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

Experience says that people don't voluntarily report or pay taxes on those sales to the state government. Furthermore state governments have proven unable to track down those sales without the cooperation of merchants. So if Amazon doesn't cooperate, those taxes don't get collected.
Amazon's competitors in France also pay tax. That's the difference.

The issue here is that the law is such that out of state vendors don't have to pay tax; Illinois is just trying to jigger a way to make Amazon have to pay anyway, because Amazon sells lots of stuff and they'd like the tax revenue. But that effectively gives their competitors a 10% pricing advantage, not to mention making accounting much more expensive.
Yeah, my family will be fine, they live up on a hill (the only one concerned is my youngest brother, and he just wants to know if there will be school tomorrow). The restaurant should be ok even if a decent-sized tsunami hits. My dad, the Ultimate Businessman, has insurance for everything.

I remember growing up on the beach at the North Shore though, there were a few times when we had to evacuate in a hurry because the early warning systems were not nearly as good as they are now.
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Quality is in the eye of the beholder. That being said, my Windows 7 workstation crashes at least once a week, as does Visual Studio 2010. I just checked my uptime in my OSX workstation and it has been up for 52 days and I've just had one instance where Xcode crashed. In my eyes (and in my experience), Windows is just not as stable as an OS for development, although it's a lot better than the past crap they've released.

UI wise, I hate VS2010. In my head I cannot fathom why you would say it's UX is better than Xcode, but once again that's personal preference and opinion, which is - of course - respected. I always say: "Use whatever you need to get the job done..."

I do agree completely on what the actual allure of OSX is. My past platform of choice has been Debian, and I always thought it was painful to have to dualboot to be able to do my work (specially when on the move). Enter OSX, which gave me all my unix tools and also runs Photoshop.
These things make me afraid of setuid security vulnerabilities...

To clarify, the shell will have the permissions of its owner. So if its owner is the admin, for example, any common user that has access to the shell can do bad things.
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