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Bad example. Fortran and Pascal aren't required knowledge for Java or Python. How can one understand contemporary philosophy, economics, or psychology without being familiar with Hegel, Marx and Freud? A liberal arts education is about context.

I read all three in political science classes. I think philosophy might be a dead academic discipline, at least in the US. Most of the big names seem to have moved to more focused disciplines; e.g political science and women's studies.
I can only answer one piece of your question, and it's just a suggestion: agree to allocate your shares over time. Set out a schedule (say, every quarter) that you'll use to decide who deserves what portion of the equity. Have guidelines around work expectations and performance goals, and include a 3rd party in your meetings if you need to.

That way you can closely tie compensation to performance, and there are no surprises because each party to the agreement knows what to expect (even if you both work with 65/35 in mind).

It sounds bizarre, but it's not so uncommon in practice. Case in point, a company that stands out in my mind as having adopted such an approach did so on the advisement of its legal team.

>Is it common that all shareholders have to agree to sell a company or is this more uncommon?

My gut tells me the need to sell is uncommon. Usually there's a buyout clause in the Operating Agreement that specifies how ownership will change in the event that one of the firm's managers leaves (or dies): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/294674/Sample-LLC-Operating-Agre...
Saying .com is the king of the internet sounds like a response from marketing/management. I suspect it isn't all that important and that this will probably be dropped in favor of a practical solution in the future.
I´m no expert, but check out http://webconverger.com/ in regards to your second idea. That software would work nicely - perhaps nicely enough to help with idea #18.
Ask HN: Source for libFooID, does anyone have it?
It's an open source audio finger printing library but the original author seems to have abandon the site http://www.foosic.org/libfooid.php Anyone happen to have the tar ball squirreled away?

I believe it was called "libfooid-1.0.zip"
useful descriptive, thanks. I'll see you guys there.
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"Freud is not taught in psychology departments, Marx is not taught in economics, and Hegel is hardly taught in philosophy"

Modern academic psychology and economics aim at being scientific; the works of Freud and Marx fall very short in this respect, according to contemporary standards.

Both are, of course, very important in the history of ideas. And their ideas are not necessarily irrelevant to the psychologist (childhood traumas can cause persisting psychological problems) or economist. But their actual works probably are irrelevant to the work of most psychologists and economists.

Hegel expelled from philosophy? First, his works are particularly difficult to read and understand (and difficult to translate into English). So he isn't popular with philosophy undergraduates. So not many courses are offered on his work. (But some are: http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/ug_study/ug_honours/documents... )

Also, Hegel fits on the 'continental' side of the 'analytic' vs. 'continental' philosophy binary opposition. That is probably the main reason for his lack of presence in English-speaking philosophy departments, which are overwhelmingly analytical in bent.
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I wonder if governments have cracker units, for going after enemy countries in times of war, or times of cold-war? There are reports of North Korean hackers doing exactly that.

The crackers in the article, (at least the non-malicious ones) could they join the army as a get-out-of-jail free card, or would that glamorize them? Are they ever rehabilitated?
I have thought before about judging the actual design of a web site (the way it renders, layout, fonts,...), I don't think it is impossible to do (with a learning system that learns from human users input), and might at least provide another factor for the final search result ranking.

Edit: is there already software for spotting fake art? That might be a starting point, as well as another market for that kind of image processing.
You are too kind. Two of the names he listed, Freud and Marx, were wrong. His third "forgotten man" is Hegel and while you can't call a philosophy wrong he certainly is harder to read than similar alternatives.

The author might have had more luck finding Marx if he hadn't been looking for him in the Economics Dept.
Having used Dabble regularly for work, I'll note that there's still a lot of room for competitors there. It's had some serious performance problems in the past few months, to the point that I've seen people go out of their way to avoid opening it even when it's got data they want. I think there's also room for usability improvements, but I don't know if I have the ideas to back that up.

All that said, it's still a fantastic tool, and Seaside is an amazing framework.
Maybe the producers of digital cameras? Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung,...
Probably want to pass that sort of request to a helper app on the command line.
I think it is not about the design of the search engine, but about judging the design of the pages that are being indexed. Could kill a lot of nasty, spammy pages on the spot.
Re 27 (hardware/software hybrids) there is a good example: The Free Telephony Project: http://rowetel.com/ucasterisk

A community has been working on Open Hardware designs for IP telephony - embedded Asterisk boxes. The technology is now in mass production, and several commercial products are being spun out of the original, community based work.
It's easy enough to execute any command line program from PHP:

http://php.net/exec

Surely there's some command line tools to edit audio files. Maybe ffmpeg or mplayer?
I think the optimal trade would make most people happy, but ultimately it is hard to decide upon the best criterion? I remember that they use heuristics, or in any case they usually don't compute the best solution, just a reasonably good one.
I am also on H1B. After we get the job offer from the new employer, it takes 2-3 weeks to switch. The employer takes care of the formalities. It also gives us time for the usual 2-week notice to the older employer.
Not putting down Einstein by any means, but many of the ideas he is famous for existed before him. His immense skill was to come up with a better way to arrange those ideas.
People seem to like blaming Rails for things that aren't Rails' fault. The stuff that's probably using CPU time is actually generating the image. Getting the data from the user and into the database via a CRUD interface probably doesn't require that much hardware. If it did, that would be a joke, but I doubt that's the problem. (Just like Twitter's problem isn't reading the "What am I doing" form submission and adding it to the database. The hard part is what happens after that, way outside of Rails' control.)

As for the large number of static image servers, that again has nothing to do with Rails.

Anyway, I doubt changing languages would fix the problem. You'd still bottleneck on MySQL (for extracting data), and generating images (since every language uses the same image libraries; all written in C anyway).

In conclusion, without some more data, the author is clueless.
I wonder if todays postal services are the best fit for the coming wave of online shopping, or if there is an opportunity for a better system. I don't really know how delivery works these days, though.

In my country, the mailman drives the same route every day and visits every house. But the trucks for bigger things don't stop everywhere, and I am not sure if they take the same route every day. For sure they have fancy algorithms for finding the optimum route. What will distribution look like if there are lots of big deliveries for every house, every day?
Yes, that would be nice.
Well, the 13 app servers aren't bottlenecking on the 4 database servers. If the database was the problem, you wouldn't need 13 app servers.
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Hey, it's better than GlassFish: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/
Apparently no one told them that all development of new web programming paradigms and architectures ceased in 1999.
I think the bottom line is AppEngine is pre-release.

There are no quota packages available and the lack of HTTPS is a real problem.
Indeed. Perhaps a better question is, "how come the humanities have not come up with newer, better alternatives?"
See also http://www.blist.com, similar to dabbledb and pretty cool.
I've thought a lot about it too. Investing in "extremistan" - the stock-ticker price of a stock is dangerous. If you are a buyer and seller of stocks, then a 90% drop in the market is a disaster.

But if you are a buy-and-holder (i.e. a buyer of future cash flows), then a 90% drop in the market is a great thing - you can buy a lot more company that before. Regardless of how the market moves, you will still be acquiring an ever-growing % of whatever company you are looking at.

And you have dollar cost averaging working in your favor as well, so you are guaranteed to do at least a little better than average.
Look at mp3splt

> sudo apt-get install mp3wrap mp3splt

> man mp3splt
Yeah, but as stated elsewhere, image generation is CPU intensive and there's no indication what drives the need for the app servers. Armchair quarterbacking is fun for the whole family. Let little johnny tell you why your app doesn't scale!
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Just to add my own story to the article.

I've always been a heavier guy, even with exercise and proper dieting. A couple years back I had issues with extremely high blood pressure spikes. It landed me in the hospital for a few days.

After my wife watched a medical show on Discovery Channel she came to me one day and says "Maybe you should get checked for sleep apnea?"

At that time on most weekends I could sleep for 13 hours straight and wake up still feeling exhausted.

Went and had a sleep study done and the results showed that I woke up over 150 times throughout the night and never entered REM sleep. With a CPAP machine I awoke only once.

The CPAP has change my life. Because I have more quality sleep I have more energy for exercising and have dropped another 20 lbs because of it. I work out 4-5 times a week. My quality of life has improved ten-fold.

So if you're a larger person that feels like the energy is drained from you, has problems getting the motivation to follow through on a physical fitness plan, and _especially_ if you're a loud snorer, you should get a sleep study done.

While wearing a CPAP to bed isn't going to get you laid, you'll quickly realize how much life you've been missing out on because of your poor sleep.
Viroids: mini-virus-like organisms (?) whose genes are only a couple hundred base pairs
A slightly better question would be: when have I not found what I was looking for in a Google search? Or even, when was the thing I was looking for not the first search result?

If you use satisfaction as the test, you may be letting the present state of things influence your thinking too much. E.g. I bet a lot of people were satisfied with pre-Google search engines, and just took their limitations for granted.
As you might guess, I don't know crap about biology, but something about seeing something whose entire genes easily fit on one screen struck me.
Agreed with the rest of the replies here about Marx and Freud, but what's with the detraction of Hegel because he's "hard to read"? Lisp is pretty hard to read too when you've only read C-style syntax before.

And I think you can most definitely call a philosophy wrong, philosophers do it routinely! At its core philosophy is simply making good arguments, something that HN posters should be striving for. And while it's hard to "prove" a philosophy wrong in the sense one can prove that an algorithm doesn't work, you can certainly prove its arguments to be unsound.

There is the ongoing strict separation between "Continental" and "Analytic" philosophy, which is both relatively new and quite tragic. I will say that in a discipline like philosophy, which when it is at its best treasures subversiveness and independence just as much as entrepreneurs do, it's all the more important to read thinkers from different schools of thought. Hegel is not just any "Continental" philosopher but one of the most important pillars of the field
No, I think you're misunderstanding my statement.

I did not say that people do not have new ideas. That is a blatantly ridiculous statement. I said that worthy ideas have already been had.

My argument comes from looking at literary and philosophical ideas, and my comment was a jest in response to another jest, but there's truth in it. There's a persistent quest for originality in literature, and after some years of chasing that particular ghost I came to the conclusion that it's an illusion. All the great subjects, all the great ideas, have been had already. That doesn't make a book written today less valuable, because what I would add to whichever idea I decide to write about is my own, unique perspective on it. But it means that trying to come up with some completely original idea for a book is pointless - if it's "completely original" it is probably worthless. If ten of thousand years of human civilisation have not yet produced that idea in any form, there's probably a good reason.

Hence my statement that ideas worth having have been had a thousand times already.

So, rather than chasing originality in writing, I think it's more worthwhile to enrich my perspective so that what I add to whatever ancient kernel I might pick is actually worth adding.

Now, extending this to start-up ideas, as you well know, if you have a brilliant idea for a start-up, chances are someone has already had that idea somewhere in the world. If no one has had it at all out of 6 billion people, chances are it's not brilliant, and probably not worth pursuing. Moreover, most great business ideas are not "original", but twists on existing ideas, putting an existing concept into a new perspective. So even the first person to come up with a new twist is still just coming up with a new twist. As with books, though, it doesn't matter whether your idea is original, what matters is what you put into it (the execution, basically). I think this is in agreement with your articles.

Businesses exist to fulfil human needs. The idea of fulfilling human needs is as old as human needs themselves. The ways of doing so are just as old. Social networking, for example, might be a new twist on the idea of helping people make and keep friends, but it's still fulfilling the human need for friendship, something which thousands of other businesses do too.

So, again, rather than striving to come up with a truly original start-up idea, I think it's more worthwhile to hone my ability to take whatever idea I do decide to run with and make it into a working business.
Please inform me on how following YC's model is not a Good Thing. YC is clearly not omnipresent (and has an upperbound on the number of companies they are able to devote resources to), so who cares if someone else decides to start something similar?

I don't understand the criticism thrown at those starting ventures similar to YC. Correct me if I'm wrong, but providing people with an opportunity to "make something people want", create wealth, and do something they enjoy hardly seems deplorable. I personally love to hear of new opportunities similar to YC (especially in other countries). The more the merrier.
It should not be too hard to find prior art on this idea and invalidate the patent. But don't go it alone.

And I agree: stop talking in public about it right away.
# of .com websites making at least $1mm/yr? 9999999999999999

# of .us/.info/.me/.biz sites making at least $1mm/yr? 8

Yes its marketing, but that's because consumers pretty much got taught that one of the major ways to see if a business is legitimate is to see if it has the .com extension. Blame all the affiliate spammers who put up the crappy sites on the .info etc domain names to try to make a few bucks by using the bulk method
I am presently in a very similar situation. One possibile solution suggested to me by a lawyer friend would be to set up two companies: one jointly owned by you and your friend, and the other owned solely by yourself.

Your company would own the code you produced to date and then license it out to the jointly owned company. You could then build in an agreement where the jointly owned company has the right to purchase the code for a nominal sum at some future date if certain benchmarks are met.

This should give you the flexibility and protection you seem to want. You could agree to move forward with your friend as a business partner, but if he turns out to be a flop, you still have ownership over your code. At the same time, your partner should feel confident that if he performs his part, he won't be shortchanged.

As for the appropriate percentages, I am also currently grappling with this issue. I haven't settled on a figure yet, although I recall reading somewhere that the best deals are where both parties feel shortchanged.
Go English majors!
"there is a huge, absolutely massive number of people out there that need a simpler computer"

This is a good observation. Anyway, the issue here is, whether that massive number will have some common notion of what the simpler computer actually is.
Hegel is still studied if the philosophy department requires a historical survey of Western Philosophy. It is hard to understand the historical context of Marx, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard if you don't know anything about Hegel. Not many schools approach it this way anymore. Coursework now is more pick and choose. Medieval thought and the 19th century are the first to be ignored.

The reason Hegel is not taught in depth in philosophy departments anymore is because he was an intellectual fraud. In other news, medical schools no longer teach leeching or phrenology. Consider it progress. However, if you disagree with progress, you can still get leeched from an alternative medicine quack or pick up Hegel from the literary criticism department.
WTF? This is gaming news.
yes, you make the good point. the author of the piece is a historian. he's not only bemoaning the eradication of freud, marx, and hegel from their respective disciplines, he's bemoaning the scientific-ization of those disciplines themselves, ya dig?

take economics, for example. it didn't always have such a "rigorous" mathematical foundation. and though economics has sought to be more and more scientific, it's unclear whether that's the "true" nature of the discipline of economics. in other words, the way, say, undergraduates are taught intro programming might have more to do with contemporary trends, e.g., object oriented programming, rather than other important things endemic to the discipline of computer science.

from my point of view, economics/psychology/philosophy (maybe less so) seek legitimacy in the present moment through the scientific-ization of their processes/thought. i'm with the author of this piece that history of thought, as in philosophy, is an important part of the discipline if not the discipline itself.
I'm not sure why anyone thought that computers could aid in teaching traditional subjects. Computers can store and process data, simulate objects, crunch numbers. They cannot explain or evaluate. These are the root of teaching and they're beyond computers' abilities.

My schools always had computers, and I never observed anything to suggest they aided in teaching. At best, they were labor-saving: More efficient than typewriters, more efficient than paper indices, more efficient than microfiche, etc.
I am with Giorgi here. Design of what is a weakness of Google? Design of search results presentation?
Ok. So I'm a SQL Server DBA and I've heard about fibers before (with regard to SQL Server configuration), but not to any great extent as far as technical details go.

A interesting read.
If you know how to beat ebay, why are you not doing it? I You could become a millionaire. I take it the thing you are working on right now could make you even more money than ebay?
It could be correlation rather than causation (except for extreme case like the sleep apnea of aantix).
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>> widespread corporate meddling on Wikipedia

I noticed the opposite flaw on Wikipedia. Why a corporation, organisation or an individual can't legally edit its own wikipedia entry, and why it is called "meddling"?
Purely rhetorical: why is it important that philosophy is taught as the history of thought, rather than attempting to make it more scientific? Perhaps philosophers who were important and popular 400 years ago had really bad ideas that are no longer worth thinking about. The history of mathematics is interesting, but learning how the ancient babylonians did mathematics doesn't help anyone learn category theory.
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Why don't more sites use SMS as a form of payment?
I am playing around with Weebly now and I see they charge a small fee, only 5$ for some privileges.
Last.fm has also a small fee for signing up(I dont know signing up for exactly what because I can listen to the songs for free already but that irelevant for this thread).

So a lot of sites want to charge small fees that I find perfectly acceptable.
I want to pay for stuff, not because I like to give my money away but I'd rather pay a little for something great then get mediocre for free.

The problem is they all offer payment by creditcard only. I am resistent and so is a lot of other people to giving out my creditcard to the left or right. I don't want to have several different small fees everywhere that I can't keep track of.
Isn't there some service for that btw?

Anyway, if they all let me pay by SMS it would be fine. I would buy a lot more...
Am I alone feeling like that?

I don't know how charging for SMS works exactly when were talking Europe to an USA-based company etc.
Maybe it is too expensive?

(an old thread about SMS-services: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224324
)
Almost forgot - NGO (501(c)3) donations in US are tax-deductible
Basically all document production systems you get at the moment suck because they don't handle styles well

What about Latex?
>> 23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia.

Yes, deletionists - this is really one flaw of Wikipedia. The other is, that entities are persecuted for editing articles about themselves.

What about just to copy the current articles on Wikipedia and specify another rules for editing?
If you're young enough to try several times, this also pays off for individual founders. I think one reason Sam Altman had no second thoughts about taking on such an ambitious project was that he was only 19.
You know, I'd agree that sleep deprivation leads to all sorts of horrible things, but saying lack of sleep has caused American obesity is like saying the relentless decline in the number of Pirates has led to global warming. Correlation != Causation.

As the canonical example, Spaniards sleep on average 40 minutes less than other Europeans, with all sorts of detrimental effects (highest incidence of workplace accidents), but they are a fairly thin population.

Everyone is looking for a quick fix to getting fat. There isn't one. Eat less food and more healthy food, and do something that requires physical exertion.
I can't believe you miss the biggest market in the world. Is everyone in your office under 30? It's HEALTH CARE, it dwarfs EVERY "INDUSTRY" in the USA right now. Even the defense industry pales in comparison.

Hey, I have a zillion health care ideas! Google saved my life. :-)
Business cases for the taking