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"Today it is well known that one cannot construct a single coordinate system to describe plane gravitational waves without encountering a singularity somewhere in spacetime"

Yeah, I mean, who doesn't know that. That's like middle school stuff right there.
Users was probably the wrong term. I meant 'accounts'.
If you bring some of the close parens down to new lines, then the lisp example is just as "squintable" as the java.

I know that's bad lisp style, so I guess you'd have to argue that lisp devs have bad taste or don't care about program structure, neither of which are true.
Its funny how irritated the term web 2.0 makes people. Even more so if they end up conceding that some sort of a term was/is necessary.
Hyped? sure.
But fuzzy... It's not that vague is it? It's moving data storage and/or processing to servers. Even cloudier if it's through the web & even cloudier if it's something that was once done on the desktop.

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Even wording it most fuzzily it's be something like.'Making the device less important'
Did you say 'music'?

Would you be willing to work on a music startup we run? http://www.muziboo.com
Concerts & theatre would sell it to me.

I've been complaining there is no decent way to find something to do online (especially if you're visiting a city) for a while.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think some of the best options down here a government run.
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& it's about selling stuff.

If you're between buyers & sellers because buyers like you, you've got a business model.
Pure usage mythology: see languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

From the comments there, a list of "that" usages where you would dictate "who":

"a woman that feareth the Lord" (Proverbs 31:30, King James Bible)
"Then I saw the man that sat upon the cloud" (John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress)
"While I stood thus amusing the Lady that was with me" (Daniel Defoe, Roxana)
"The man that hath no music in himself" (William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)
"He, the most excellent Man that can be imagined" (Jane Austen, Plan of a Novel)
"I am the girl that dragged little Oliver back to old Fagin's" ( Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)
"The lady that was here last night" (Charles Dickens, Bleak House)
"The Man that was Used Up" (Edgar Allan Poe)
"The man I want to meet is the man that Candida married" (George Bernard Shaw, Candida)
"The Girl That I Marry" (Irving Berlin)
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If you want an insurance company to charge less to insure an activity, make that activity cheaper.

If you think that insurance companies are overstating risk, put your money up and price that risk "correctly". If you're correct, you'll get rich and they'll either adopt your methods or go out of biz.
The difference is that all chefs can make people sick with poor food safety, yet the vast majority of programmers are working on things where security really doesn't matter.

If we had mandatory security certifications, Reddit wouldn't exist. Nor, for that matter, would Windows. And while many of us would probably rejoice at that, I think a lot of people would be pretty pissed off if they had to use OpenBSD.

BTW, I interned at a company that does avionics/medical devices/financial software. Those industries do have strong regulations, like mandatory code reviews and traceability matrices. And that's great for what they do, but I'd hate to see the same standards applied to your Web 2.0 social bookmarking site.
Thanks for the votes of confidence!

We started with sports because the event information is less prone to fluctuation, but currently I consider TS as more of a proof of concept than anything; this technique can be applied to all sorts of categories and we plan to branch out into concerts and theatre as soon as we've worked out the current bugs in the system.

As Dan has said, look for concerts and theatre within a month or two!
We're talking about liability insurance, not health insurance. The root problem here is tort law, not accident statistics.
Thanks for the feedback. I may allow users to edit titles once I figure out the best interaction flow for that. As far as filtering goes, right now I probably won't do much, but I may eventually break the home page up into "recently popular" and "new" sections.
"It is well known" is shorthand for "I don't want to bother figuring out the correct original reference for it", not "the average layperson knows this".
The WebOS seems like an overhyped term like "cloud computing" or "web 2.0" to me. It seems more likely to me that the change will happen more gradually than most of us would like to think.
It's interesting that all these complaints from "IP facisim" to price are usually along the lines of:

I shouldn't pay you because... or I will pay you because...

That's not really a situation of ownership. At least not in the conventional sense. The conventional ownership meaning is 'I will pay you for this because I want it & otherwise I can't have it.' 'If you charge me an outrageus price, I will complain, or even not buy it.'

I mean airport souvenir shops don't get more shoplifting because they have 1000% markup.

Not sure what that means but payment feels voluntary to most people.
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I'm an American who has been living in Norway for 10 years, and I can say that while the author is correct about many points, there are a lot of complicating factors he ignores.

For example, Norwegian is tonal, and has a range of vowels that are quite unlike anything in English. Further, every region has its own dialect-- even native-born Norwegians have trouble understanding some of them. Finally, Norwegian has two written forms, so there are two dictionaries and two sets of grammar rules.
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I grew up in Bulgaria. We now live in USA, and have a baby.

Well, I'm just wondering where the hell, he's going to play.

When I was a kid, we were playing soccer on the street, or in between the blocks, throwing stones at other kids, fighting with plastic/wood swords, driving self-mad woodcars, and everyday I was with a scratch, or I dunno what else.

Even earlier when I was 4, me and my cousing, just an year older than me, somehow decided that we need one of our toys that was left in the other part of the city, so we just took off (I'm not sure what's the distance - but it was in the 5km-10km range) and started walking... Everybody got scared, family, etc. But it was fun story anyway...

This all was up till 8th grade, when I started programming, once that started, I kind of lost interrest in playing outside, it was just the Apple ][, my friend's Oric, and my other's friend PC.

Well I certainly want my kid to play for free, hopefully there are some parks around, but the whole society is a bit too much afraid. Yes, I know - sexual predators, kidnappers, yada, yada - it's a little 1984 that we us parents create though, for our own safety (so our mind is always safe).
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When we moved to the valley from Austin last year, we downsized dramatically. We went from a 1430 sqft house with a two car garage and a huge lawn to a 1000 sqft (seems a bit smaller, actually) house with a single car garage spot (already filled with the landlords crap, except for the spot where the car would live--so not much room to pile crap up in there). I sold my 350Z, since I wouldn't be commuting anymore and would be living walkable distances to almost everything I could need, while my girlfriend kept her car.

In the months leading up to the move, I sold about $4000 worth of guitars, analog synthesizers and other music gear, keeping only my three favorite guitars and a minimal set of recording gear. We had a huge garage sale, bringing in nearly $1000, selling all sorts of stuff that we never used: camping gear, books, stereo equipment, computer junk, furniture, etc. After the garage sale, we still had 12 bankers boxes worth of books to get rid of, so we sold them to Half Price Books (who gave us about $2.50 per box for them...).

Now we're going through another purge and organization period...because we realize we still kept too much stuff and it's taking up too much of our space and our lives. Our rent is going up next month, and I'm considering smaller digs because of it, since this time I know that I can easily get rid of even more stuff, if I take the time to do it (the fact that most rental properties are hostile to dogs is the only major factor keeping me here). With a good library in walking distance, I no longer buy books. I've bought maybe five books since living here, all work-related, and all books that I found myself checking out and renewing from the library several times, so I knew I'd use them a lot. I've bought no new movies, since NetFlix, Hulu, iTunes, Unbox, and the library provide all the entertainment we need (Wii games and accoutrement excluded).

In short, less stuff is a win. I recommend it heartily.
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This isn't true at all - little leagues don't buy insurance, they have the parents sign a piece of paper that says that the league isn't liable for any injuries. The banning of base sliding is the result of aggressive safety obsessed parents, like the one in the article who complained about hot rubber playground mats.
It always pleases me when I read articles like this one. The mere fact that the problem is being talked about with any regularity means that the pendulum is likely to start swinging back toward sanity. (By the way, I grew up in Broward County and attended the elementary school that pioneered banning running during recess.)
The premise of the article is a bit far fetched. Kids aren't fat because our culture is safety obsessed. They are fat because Grand Theft Auto is more fun than little league or hanging from monkey bars. The riskier playground equipment of yesteryear does not stand a chance against thousands of computer games designed specifically to hold kids' attentions for long periods of time.
Don't like to put down an Aussie, but it was written up on TechCrunch by Nik Cubrilovic - the same guy who was behind Omnidrive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidrive)

Nik's past doesn't feature too many home runs - and with that in mind I decided not to hold my breath for the release of the tablet!

I'd dearly like to be proven wrong, though.
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Also have a look at Adeona (http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/)

Its a similar free product that goes to great lengths to anonymise the tracking data from the laptop and de-centralise the storage - mostly by leveraging OpenDHT (http://www.opendht.org/)

I also agree with the other commenters about people being wary of centralised control, and the security risks that a compromise of your server could potentially cause (downloading of arbitrary files on all your users laptops by an attacker!)

Your added value here is file recovery, which I haven't really seen done before - perhaps you could expand the Adeona concept with that - and while you're at it wrap Adeona with something more friendly to install and understand.

huhtenberg has a valid point with the beacon survival, but callings yours 'quite lame' was a bit harsh!
Twitter cuts UK SMS - there goes another business model
Twitter kills international SMS notifications
>and they don't have a history of growing into new areas of revenue

Depends how far back you look. Nokia used to make rubber boots.
Get a house with a decent-sized yard. Make your own playground. Get your kid and the neighbors' kids involved in helping build it. A seesaw is a one-by-eight, a triangular block, and a pair of hinges. A swing is a tire and a rope or a plank and two ropes.
This is quite an interesting read. Looks like a lot more business owners will realize the importance of negative reviews, start putting fake negative reviews on rival businesses and flood their own yelp page with good comments.

What will be bad for yelp down the road if that happens?
maybe an online guide of business reviews with no credibility and guininity.
no, it is rather a shorthand for "I cannot explain the basic concept behind it clearly in a few words, because I fail to fully understand it"

Anyway, this paper publishing business has become an industry, which has little to do with exposing/exchanging ideas/thoughts on a given topic. It has become an industry for justifying applications for grants, as most people rather game the system then be left without a paycheck. See the story behind the Bose-Einstein condensate: Einstein had hardly anything to do with it -- except to open the door to the publisher (who btw has also nothing to do with it, still owning the copyright to Bose's work)
So he can get sued by the other parents when something happens?
I played the first one on the NES about 15 years ago.

Memories....good thing we have NES emulators and I can play it again...
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This is the most depressing comment I've ever read on this site. Where do I even begin?

1. Anybody can sue anybody over damn near anything. This has always been so. It is not a recent development.

2. Getting sued does not mean the apocalypse. Judges have three-figure IQs. They know a frivilous lawsuit when they see one and will award attorney's fees to the defendant.

3. The risk of serious injury is minimal. Little Johnny's parents aren't going to sue because he scraped his knee. The worst injury with any probability high enough to be worth expending any gray matter on considering it is a broken bone. Bones heal.
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Looks like an 'attractive nuisance' situation to me, if you're not careful about it (such as limiting access), but I'm not a lawyer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance
This is silly. Programming, networking, etc certifications exist: big companies like MSFT give them out if you jump through all the hoops and prove your high skillz. Fortunately for us crappy programmers on the web, companies that give a shit about those certifications care about hiring people with them, and companies that don't, don't. Yay for free markets!
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There is no service or product that will not require its customers to get in touch with the company at some point or the other. Customers have to get in touch with the service provider either to rectify a problem with the product they bought or to register for a new service or to renew their billing etc. So it is important for each company to provide a reliable and inexpensive or free way of reaching you. Providing your customers with a toll free number will be one of the best customer management solutions.
Have you tried http://www.songkick.com, also a YC startup? They are now doing music and concert tickets.
The actual reading material he chose is immaterial. Much more important is that the tools required to build his system were trivial and yet he had a wide array of search parameters to choose from. There is a lot of power there.
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No, it's not.

It's shorthand for "Most people in the field or capable of understanding an explanation of this already know it".

Sorry, but it is well known to physicists.
Why post a single chapter of this well known book?
no way i'm pushing the play button on that vid...
Yes.

The last true democracy was Athens, I believe. At least well-known true democracy.

In a representative republic, we elect people who then make decisions for us. Much better system for a lot of reasons. One reason is that crowds have a tendency to be very emotional and fickle.
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It's okay - I didn't think it came off as a complaint, I was just showing how I found the relevant page.

I hope the last comment about being grateful didn't come off as arrogant, I just think its fantastic when people release information like this as this is valuable in its own right, but also a good starting point for people trying to get a handle on the startup business.

Top work YC!
we (Songkick) have already built an aggregator for concert tickets - covering 17 ticket vendors in the UK and US. If you're looking for gig tickets I'd love your feedback. Thanks
Responsible use of money can liberate you from some worries, but that's not the same thing as being happy.
Is this for real? What was his startup? I couldn't find anything about him on the web. I hope he will reveal some more.
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Seconded.
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That's not very rational. will you have kids? Do you have loved ones? Do you have dreams/hopes? Do you have knowledge? Everyone has something to lose. Just because it's not tangible doesn't mean it's of no value.
That doesn't solve the actual problem of extracting the article content itself from a page.
Indeed the article says this

Money is a means to an end, not the end in of itself.
Live in a more rural area. Buy a place with a big yard.

Cities don't seem very conducive to families. I think once you reach a certain mass of people, the worry-warts take over and take all the fun out of everything. In my experience, for what it's worth, more rural areas usually foster more fun play for the kids. Plus more rural settings encourage kids to use their imaginations to create fun play, which is sadly lacking today.
Good tools also give you room to grow into them, so you can concentrate on learning without having to worry too much about housekeeping or maintenance tasks.

As a personal example, I became a better photographer when I bought a good (but used) Nikon, because I know it's built to take some abuse (people photograph wars with these) so I happily take photos in wild places and never worry that it's going to get damaged.
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Man, that's disturbing!
And people think Richard Stallman is weird because he doesn't use cellphones...

"SCHMIDT: WE CAN MAKE MORE IN MOBILE THAN DESKTOP EVENTUALLY. THE REASON
BECAUSE THE MOBILE COMPUTER IS MORE TARGETED. THINK ABOUT IT YOU CARRY
YOUR PHONE EVERYWHERE IT KNOWS ALL ABOUT YOU. WE CAN DO A VERY, VERY
TARGETED AD.OVER TIME, WE WILL MAKE MORE MONEY FOR MOBILE ADVERTISING."
The truth that no-one in mainstream politics will acknowledge is that democracy is fundamentally incompatible with a universal franchise. People can vote things for themselves out of proportion to their own contribution or risk. It's valid to wonder, say, if people who aren't net contributors to the public purse should have a say in how it's spent.
> I think one of the biggest things holding people back from getting rich is the belief that it is possible.

I get the feeling he meant to put a "not" in there somewhere.

As others have pointed out, it would have been interesting to hear how he lost all his wealth, but maybe that story is too embarrassing to tell.

After all, it takes quite an accomplishment to waste all your money from a "set for life" -type of situation.
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I remember PG saying something similar, that if he had no money/ if he start over, he would start a startup.
I wonder if a lot of this is simply a lack of good knowledge on what the differences are and how each system is flawed to one degree or another.

As in this thread, most people don't know the difference between a democracy and a representative republic, or why a bicameral legislature has certain values over a unicameral one.

As you point out, even in a representative republic, it becomes easily possible for representatives to compete to form voting blocks in an effort to get more resources than other voting blocks. It doesn't take very long for the system to begin eating itself.

"funadmentally incompatible" seems a little extreme to me, but I'll agree there are worrying tendencies.
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Hello All,

I would appreciate very frank advice on what I should do with my start up, Anaphoric Systems
(http://www.anaphoric.com).

The whole effort started as a research project several years ago, but when I was informed that I actually owned the system, I entered a business plan competition and then started to execute on the plan.

The problem is that I have been wearing two hats: 'researcher/educator' and 'entrepreneur'. This has led to conflicts of interest as well as diluted effectiveness. So basically I need to decide if I am going to 1.) quit my tenured position, move to a start-up hub, find a partner, get-funding, etc. or 2.) open source the whole project and treat it as a research project. (It's 18k lines of LISP). I suppose in case 2 I could always do something commercial if the system was of high impact.

I am leaning toward option 2, but I thought I should run my plan by the YC community first.

Regards,

Michael Minock
(http://www.cs.umu.se/~mjm)
A way to cancel adding an image would be nice. Incase you change your mind or something. Maybe click the bookmarklet again or a timeout if you don't select an image after 15-30 seconds, it goes away.

Other then that, I like the design (and after reading the comments here, I could figure out what it did).
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A year ago, I used to make lots of mistakes in the earliest stage of idea development: especially dealing with details. This chapter reminded me of that, and I thought some people, probably beginners, might find it helpful along their way.
I don't know the details of the system you've created, but you could use a 'restrictive' open source license like the GPL, and offer a dual licensing strategy, where people who want to use it in commercial systems pay to get a compatible license. That only works if it's a library though, rather than an independent system.

Another idea might be to find a partner first, and let that person handle most of the business, and just concentrate on the technical aspects of it.

Good luck!