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So this post has done two things in my estimation.

1) Improved the perceived standing of PG among the entrepreneur-class. It proves that he really adds value the way he says he does - hawking, what can easily be seen as a very weird idea at a time when not many people see it.

2) Improved my perception of Fred. Even though he passed on the deal, he is stand-up enough to not only admit it - but allow PG to post this email exchange that shows that he was "one of the old guys" that were skeptical. It also shows that he wasn't just pulling PG's chain, but was really debating it internally.
I'm not trying to take anything away from pg here, but "all of that" refers in this case to 7 emails with one VC.

AirBnB has raised $7.8M (at, what, around a ~$40M valuation at the time? 6% of which would be over $2m). Is it really that incredible that someone would send a few emails for a shot at that kind of money?
but they couldn't keep distributing on Android without releasing as a GPL-compatible license (same article as ref).
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That's cool. I've been meaning to try the salad recipe about halfway through this link:

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2011/01/reduce-reuse-recycle-ho...

The thing that bugs me about the NYT article is the pretense that one is somehow being cheated by paying a bit more for convenience. If people only cared about cost, nobody would ever use a salad bar - or go to a restaurant, for that matter.
Sometimes it can be advantageous for an investor to have a company crash and burn. If the company's main assets are likely to survive such an event without being destroyed, but be undervalued by people not familiar with the company, then an alert investor can buy those assets out of bankruptcy at a time when the people most invested in the company (founders, employees) have run out of money.

More prosaically, if you can delay the company's getting to break-even, they'll need more rounds of investment, which mean you can buy more of the company.

And then, of course, there are personal feuds. Remember what happened to Scout Electromedia? Their shutdown probably had as much to do with investors being pissed off about being ignored as with any actual rational assessment of their future prospects.
I keep imagining it like the writer prints out the article and then holds it up right in Steve Jobs' face, and then taunts him like he just won the Super Bowl.

"YEAH STEVE! HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? 1.1 SECONDS FASTER BITCH! UNH!" Complete with pelvic thrusts. It makes me laugh while I close the tab and completely ignore anything that might have been redeemable about the actual article.
Begging your pardon, you're doing so out of ignorance. An entire programming ecosystem -- a brilliant one, one of the very most impressive -- has been built on top of what you are denigrating. Scour through searchyc looking for past threads on APL/K/J and you'll find the arguments all repeated on multiple occasions, including many instances of the same but-this-isn't-what-I'm-used-to rush to judgment that always, unfortunately, comes up in droves.
Follow up post on why the study was flawed: http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/03/17/study-comparing-androi...
When someone tells me "you can't do that", I usually assume they are against it and want to imply that doing that would be the stupidest thing ever.
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Having only been here for a short time myself, I think the general answer to your question would be: Hacker News is a lot more focused and has a much richer (in terms of experience, knowledge) community with a much lower tolerance for noise/novelty accounts/meme spouting/trolls.
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Your line of logic is the following:
[glibc includes kernel header] + [glibc is legal] -> [including kernel headers in any non-GPL project is legal]

In his comments on this site he has stated that the reason glibc is available under the LGPL is that the headers it uses were added to glibc by the kernel maintainers who held the copyright to them[1][2].

I've no idea if this is true, but it seems to be the crux of the issue, if indeed the headers are covered by copyright as Linux Torvalds believes (unless we are to assume that glibc is also in violation of the GPL). Perhaps somebody familiar with GNU and glibc knows if this is the case.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337064
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2336690
That is one of the most frustratingly idiotic things I have ever seen.

Any incentive I had to try this language is now gone and I want to erase the memory of its construction from my mind.
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The "primarily" refers to the fact that they used a different Samsung phone for their Android 2.2 measurements. Android 2.2 is not available for the Nexus S, so they used the Galaxy S which is based on the same processor/chipset.
Aww shucks, Thanks, Randall. We really enjoy hosting, and it seems like an even better deal for us (we get paid to make friends).

About the only downside Iv'e experienced so far is that I have to wash sheets all the time (most people stay with us for 2-3 days and since we now have between 70%-100% occupancy thats a lot of sheet washing.

I'm also about to go to Paris and the value proposition of airbnb there is even better (try hipmunk's hotel search in Paris). We are staying in a private entire apartment on the seine with a view of the eiffel tower for about $130 a night.
I was finding it hilarious until I got to:

"SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received we have decided to keep this site up and running. Thanks everyone for the great feedback and for enjoying the irony!"

Perhaps it's because I'm British (we Brits can be a little particular about humour, especially irony), but I don't think a joke like that should explicitly identify itself as such.
Two things which should be basic human rights and absolutely free, are: communication and education. But people wish to earn $$ off of them. And then they wonder why the world is in such a messed up state.

Kudos to Khan Academy and Bill Gates for patronizing and liberating the education.
Fred Wilson tweeted: Reading the email discussion between paul graham and me with 20/20 hindsght is both useful and painful

http://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/48456993614200832
I haven't looked at the code in question, but there are some inlined functions. If there aren't too many and the functions are very short, then it's probably fine.

Just copying the #defines and stuff is almost certainly okay since you would need to duplicate all of that to call into the kernel.

There is precedent for something like this: Phone books have been copied, proved to have been copied (there were fake entries in the original) and it was determined not a copyright violation.
The argument is that it's just _interface_, which has to be that way for interoperability, so has no "creative content". Code that is actually expressive code in a header file (inline functions, or non-constant macros) could readily spoil this. I have no idea whether the output headers contains more than structure definitions, constant macros, and forward function declarations.
Why did he deleted indeed.
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A salad with a pound of tomatoes alone is pretty darn "large". :)
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I doubt that had anything to do with it - so far their schedule for rolling out the major update this year seems to be a repeat of their schedule for rolling out the initial release last year (initial demo at MWC, developer info + initial CTP at Mix in April, eventual release in October, November) which to me strongly suggest they've always intended to be on an annual refresh schedule, with only minor out-of-band updates.
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Google ads are actually a lot less obnoxious than any other company's ads that I have come across.

The other question is whether a lot of site that display ads do actually profit from them. Many users have ad blockers installed or turn away as soon as they see any kind of blinking banner (I do).
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According to Naughton's analysis [1], your case 2 applies, and there's also the consideration that the whole constitutes an expression, and is therefore copyrightable.

It's worth reading the original instead of the above linkbait.

[1] http://www.brownrudnick.com/nr/pdf/alerts/Brown%20Rudnick%20...
I'm using it to write a ZX Spectrum emulator. Go is a neat language. It is expressive as an high-level language and - at the same time - it is powerful on the low-level side. Moreover, it has interesting built-in concurrency mechanisms. Last but not least, I like the fact that it is openly developed.
"And honestly, having a high IQ isn't sufficient for attention to detail, like stirring food."

Part of the problem here is that if you type it all out it sounds horrible. In reality, the world is not as dangerous as an Internet debate can make it sound. Type out the full description of what's involved in walking down the stairs and you'll make an emotionally-appealing for banning them ("my god, any one muscle fails to work and you can fall to your death!"), but it has no correspondence to reality. In my judgment, I am not even remotely endangering my kids in the real world. You are welcome to your opinions, but in my opinion turning my judgment over to others is itself not a good judgment.

"There have also been studies that show that cough medicine may simple have the placebo effect."

Right. Kid goes from a hacking cough that kept him awake for three nights straight to fast asleep (and resumed coughing the next day & night, so "he just got better at the same time" isn't on the table either) and it was all placebo, for a kid who can't even talk yet. Sure.

Honey's an interesting thought which I may consider, except that there's no evidence that cough syrup is a problem, except vague nervousness because there haven't been any "scientific studies" on the topic. However I consider the abundant real-world experience that preceded the hand-wringing about it not being "properly" studied to trump it; on the scale of evidence scientific studies are not the highest good, the real world trumps it (which is actually a core tenant of any decent theory of science, any theory of science missing that isn't worth anything), and it was extremely widely deployed for a long time before some people got nannyish about it. If it were noticably bad, we wouldn't have to theorize, we'd know. (At best it can have a small below-the-noise-floor effect; widespread experience can't prove 0 bad effect but it can and does put a rather low upper bound on it.)

(In fact I'm rather strongly of the opinion that there are numerous real-world examples in the field of medicine and nutrition in which science has "studied" itself into wildly wrong beliefs that nobody would have taken seriously but for the failures in the scientific process and the misapplication of its authority, and as much as I love science and wish I didn't have to do this, I've really deprioritized science in this area.)
Maybe he did died?

Seriously though, I never heard of the guy.
If you want to be energy-efficient, keep food hot by insulating it, not by continuing to heat it. Like in a hooikist. I can "soft-boil" a couple of eggs with a liter of nearly-boiling water from my hot-water heater, left in a thermos for half an hour.
I missed the "detailed methodology" near the end. Thanks for pointing that out.
Which is precisely my use case. Me and my wife often eat small meals, sometimes even different for each of us. Many a time only one of us is at home for lunch and sometimes even for dinner.

Even when we cook larger quantities the 'traditional way' we end up heating them again the next day. Besides it's just outrageous to boil half a teapot for a singe tea cup when just filling the cup and popping it into the microwave.

When cooking vegetables with steam in the microwave we use a (provided) accessory with which you lay vegetables on a grid, fill the bottom with one glass of water, cover with a metallic lid and throw in a few minutes of power. A pressure cooker requires more water, a longer heat up time and a longer cooking time. It is also extremely bulky. We have one but never use it.
Spot on. Copywriting is KEY. DODOcase does it really well: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dodocase+curebit

Ultimately this is up to the user, but our goal is to expose our observations about what works to our customers to make it easier.
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> Presumably someone could do that if they wanted even faster lookup performance, although I don't need it in this case.

I actually wanted to do that. I've been following your dictionary posts because I'm doing something similar for an iPad PhoneGap app. I created a dictionary with 600k words & n-grams ( http://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209 ) and want to make really smart predictions (not just basic spell-check/auto-correct). My raw dictionary is 6MB (too large for localStorage) and I load it from a string into a 1D JS array but it randomly crashes the iPad because of memory issues.

I was going to change my code to use a space-saving trie next week and lo and behold you posted your two posts and saved me a lot of ground work (so thanks for that!). But unlike you, I need to loop through large parts of the dictionary in order to make good predictions. E.g. 'mxm' should suggest 'maximum' and 'gd mrong' should suggest 'good morning'. While one could come up with really complex ways on minimizing the number of word lookups, it is far easier to just cycle through all dictionary words that begin with 'm' and filter for specific letters.

I'm still uncertain what I'll do. Maybe iOS Sqlite DB or iOS CoreData or JS optimized-trie. But once again, thanks for these posts. They've directly helped me.
Not sure why you got downvoted -- it's an important point, and was brought up elsewhere in this discussion.
I guess you expect publishers to print and give away textbooks for free too?
Neither quite here nor there: I noticed recently that DuckDuckGo has signed up with Carbon Ads for their website advertising, and I really like it.

I've been an ardent ad-blocker for years now, and I'm actually glad Carbon Ads gets past the filter, because the ads it shows look great, somehow manage to get my attention without competing for it, and are showing some pretty neat services that I hadn't heard of before.
Oh, yeah. Jordan actually invited and mentioned the person who beat him to get a spot on the varsity high school team to his PROFESSIONAL Hall of Fame event.

For those that even read a book about Jordan, and what his peers said about him and his reputation, wasn't really surprised by the speech. Most Hall of Fame speeches are somewhat dull, mostly about thanking people who helped them in life, what their life was like before and after success, and what lessons of life they learned from their experiences. Not Jordan.

Jordan mentioned every slight that was done to him, perceived or otherwise, and told the audience about how he found motivation from those slights. It was all about him, and his, hunger, to be the best. He even stated then that he could STILL come back right now and play in the NBA. To him, basketball was the way for him to be the best, and by God, he was going to do it, no matter who got in his way. Personally, it was way more enriching than someone like David Robinson's, but it was somewhat shocking when it was done at the time.

People always get shocked when they hear how people got successful, and what they REALLY had to do to get there. People like hearing about the successes, but rarely the failures and hardships endured.
Everyone ignorant of his history thinks Mark Cuban just got lucky getting his wealth from selling broadcast.com to Yahoo (and even he admits it), but they rarely really listen to how he was living 5 guys to an apartment, how for 3 years he was paid low wage selling computer programs and parts to other businesses, how in college he was working his ass off teaching dance classes, running a bar, plus other business ideas I don't remember off the top of my head, while trying to get his degree.

Instead of glossing over that part of his success like most other HOF speeches, Jordan I believe high-lighted them, which just surprised people, that's all.
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Sounds like an interesting idea. Would love to check out how you guys do it on Fanvibe and ask you more about it. :)
It just seemed a very good sign to me that these guys were actually
on the ground in NYC hunting down (and understanding) their users.

That's a funny comment from paul because he was the one to tell them to go to NYC. That they went is to their credit, but still. I think of this sometimes with the pitch coaching for demo day. How many investors think "that's a great way to phrase that" when watching a presentation and what they are actually hearing is PG? When you've seen a few of them, it is quite stunning.

I don't mean this in a negative way. It actually is just evidence that paul graham is a badass.
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Because that tiny downvote arrow is right below that tiny upvote arrow, and you can't change your vote...
I keep hearing proprietary data killing the Internet. But before these businesses (and Google, Facebook, etc) came about, the data wasn't on the web.

The 'open' Internet is not dying, it never existed.
I think that whenever there is only a single likely goal (such as "having installed something"), anything more than one command is a problem, and installers are useful.

But any site that gives a list of 25 commands is Doing It Wrong. The whole point of a script is to perform sequences of commands, and a link to a script is just as useful as an installer GUI would be. Except that it's actually better:

- When a script is used, it seems more likely that someone has actually run it. (Who knows if they've updated their document?) There also won't be copy/paste errors.

- A script is transparent; an installer isn't (even when it dumps logs, they're usually a bit vague). It's easier to see that a script will work, and easier to explain what happened if it didn't work.

- Many people don't want step-by-step or excessive explanations, and a script nicely solves this through embedded comments and code. If you need explanations or details, there's a place for them that's out of the way. And if you don't, you can blindly run the script. It's a nice separation.
I realize that you're joking, but I think it's really important to point out that Paul was backing the team more than the idea. At least that's how I read it.

Team > Idea.
Well, I'd love and welcome a good high-quality open source textbook movement that happens to also be high quality. It's the quality issue that's the major problem at the moment, I'd say. I've LOVE to see, for instance, Math textbooks written like they wrote "Real World Haskell" in wiki format with a single (or a small,finite set of) editor(s) ensuring that content and quality is up-to-snuff. I think that there really should be minimal educational infrastructure provided for free or very low cost.
Most people do prefer wasting time. It is the few that actually get things done that don't. If you think productive people are the majority, you have been really lucky in the places you have worked.
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sounds like a variation of gas turbine in disguise. Any implementation that is cheaper and simpler that existing gas turbines, yet reaches its high efficiency and power/weight ratio would be just great.

>The resulting sudden build-up of pressure in the chamber generates a shock wave

that makes me doubtful about longevity of the engine if the shock wave touches the metal.
It's OK as a logo, except for the inconsistent light source on the shadows. As a toolbar icon, it seems like they decided to redesign it so that it violates every OS icon guideline in existence, except on Windows Phone 7.
I've found a handy Google template for these situations:

"document title in quotes" filetype:pdf
Seriously, it's better than both IE7 and IE8.
He told them, but they did it.
"Education systems have huge budgets, but they are always run by such second rate
people that the money is never used as a lever to get what they need. "

I'd just add that frequently it's not so much "second rate people" as "good people working under some crazy-ass constraints with way too many stakeholders to satisfy".

I very much don't buy the notion that someone making 5X the money at bigcorp is automatically a higher grade of person -- they're probably at least as much of a screwup, if you've ever been on the inside of bigcorp to see it.
I've seen some threads on APL, but I've never seen other languages used with APL-level compression. Are there really other threads about this? I'm not sure what to search for on searchyc.
I would probably watch a video about Tax Code law if this guy did it. Subtle humor is always best. Great video.
You can call it meaningless, but people in the business do understand exactly how it is meant. The way he phrased it just sounds a lot more polite.
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I'm curious to see the real prototype engine they're getting out this year.

Basically: This is only appropriate for use in hybrid engines, as the range of efficiency is very narrow.

That said, if it works, this would be terrific for further upping the efficiency of hybrids.
[glibc includes kernel header] + [glibc is legal] -> [including kernel headers in any non-GPL project is legal]

Either you're not responding to my comment, or you are misunderstanding me very badly. This is not what I'm saying in the least. I'm saying that if Google were to create a legal interface to the kernel, they would be in the clear. Two apparent ways to do this are (1) have someone who owns the copyright to the kernel header contribute the appropriate portions of your library and give consent to whatever license you choose, or (2) do a clean room implementation of the interface.

Google would most likely have to do the second, but they absolutely could do so. Apparently they think they've come up with a third, but it may not be good enough, which leads us to the article that spawned this discussion.
And this is the post that tells you why you should read HN too.
Hilarious. :)
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