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I just wanted to say that I really appreciated this research--thanks for doing this work.

It sounds like you purchased items from email spam; have you considered doing a similar study for items that are spamming search engines instead of email?
> They would be harder to hack because they are not part of the tareted BigCos right?

Not neccessarily. A lot of totally unknown installs get hacked all the time (cf. random WP blogs) by script kiddies who scan thousands of adresses trying to find a few to get into. They don't care you're not a BigCo and that your server is in your basement.

And if you're taking care of that server yourself (and assuming you do have other things to do in your life), you're likely to miss some security upgrade, and might leave a hole open just enough for someone to accidentially stumble into.

I presume having the server only accessible through a VPN, and configuring all your devices (laptops, tablets, phones) might do the trick, but that's a bit pushing it.
> I'm also kinda bummed that this kind of research doesn't have a higher profile in the US.

Graphene gets a ton of attention, do not worry. It is one of the most competitive areas of materials science research. When my former gradschool groupmate did his proposal on it and all the experiments he wished to do for his PhD thesis (keep in mind he spent a year putting this proposal together) most of the experiments had already been done by the time his proposal was actually accepted. When I left the program, there was literally a "groundbreaking" paper per a week coming out in Science or Nature, and all the other publications were being flooded.
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Off topic, sorry. Can you elaborate on what "this field" is? Do you mean deep maths training in PDEs, or is a specialty within computing you mean?
This is trash of the worst kind: fatuous nonsense wrapped in pseudoscience. Please tell me this is a parody and it's gone over my head.

I was just talking to my sister about kitsch, camp, and punk, and how all of those scenes were misunderstood by a certain subpopulation who didn't catch the irony. "Animal House" was pure parody. I can tell you that a lot of fellow undergrads emulated it, and not everyone caught the joke. And sometimes, some people are so enthusiastically applying irony to everything, they forget about basic decency. (I admit to making mistakes in both directions.)

I suspect that a study of what people actually read would reveal that "fatuous nonsense wrapped in pseudoscience" is about par for the course. Most diet movements fit this description, yet how many billions of dollars have been wasted on them? One can't even get the general public to apply something as basic as the laws of thermodynamics without making huge mistakes. A lot of people are no better off applying basic physical laws than thinking they should make more sacrifices to Zeus.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567081

http://www.garytaubes.com/2010/12/inanity-of-overeating/

The takeaway here is that we're evolved to deal with the problems and lives of cavemen. It's only through some accidents of talent and diligence that some of us are able to understand things above and beyond that level.
No worries, happy to help. What I'm working on right now is a manually curated directory for the MVP and hopefully I can get it to ramen profitability during that phase.

Then will spend some time to work out the algorithms to do the automatic curation of the services & tools. Hence my interest into exploring probably & statistics modelling / machine learning further.

I'll send you an email.
It seems like it would be just as, or more, effective to run two different type of ads rather than attempt "gender-free" descriptions.
Training to run a marathon in the fall. There's a cool group called USA Fit that helps folks find each other and run together.
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I agree with you on this. I'm surprised that someone like Fred wouldn't just setup his own servers somewhere, even colo, with a mirror elsewhere which would make more sense then relying on a google docs or anyone. I've done it this way since the 90's. The only drawback is having the expertise to do it right and the cost. Something that shouldn't be an issue to someone with money and access to expertise like Fred.

I agree with the other comments that you are less of a target in general also depending on where your docs are located (or where your server is colocated even if it's your house).

Fred is going for the low hanging fruit solution to a problem. Not necessarily the best solution.
You could via ssh, but it's not comfortable due to the screen size. I picked a phone with a physical keyboard, which helps a lot. I've used my phone to fix code and restart servers, and I love that the possibility is there in case of emergency.
Er, my understanding is that MIT takes the approach that most people should learn to do programming, at least at a fairly basic level.
If IBM can make a 150 GHz graphene transistor, why does Dr Phaedon Avouris, of IBM, say that it cannot replace silicon? Isn't clock frequency a measure of the transistor's ability to turn on and off quickly?
I miss the Google/WR Hambrecht style auction priced IPOs. Hopefully, after a couple more companies IPO, the big fish (Facebook, maybe Twitter) will IPO using an auction to allocate and price.
Interestingly, despite the grand importance of time as the absolute foundation of wealth, very little progress has been made in the most obvious optimization of all: creating property that can create more time.

Very little process ... since when? Doesn't all the progress from the belief in disease as unbalanced humours to MRI machines and lab grown bladders count? Universal cure for cancer, organ regrowth and regeneration, these aren't going to be single inventions by a single small team in one project, all changes in the world which make them more likely are progress.

when you could be that fit-looking guy having a blast swimming in the breakers every other Sunday for as long as you like?

If you could implant a realistic memory of you swimming in the breakers every other Sunday for a thousand years, such that you felt like you had had a long life, would you?
I'd like to:

- learn the 4 balls mills mess juggling pattern (almost there)

- become fluent in German (still quite far)
I would place more value on the potential of their corporate solutions, hence price raising on recruiter-styled plans (done in 2010) to drive out the third-party companies / individuals. Though, a "successful" recruiter / shouldn't blink at $74.95 / month(25 InMails). $399.95 / month (50 InMails) is a bit more steep.

Corporate solutions:
http://talent.linkedin.com/

Edit: typo.
Your product is very costly. Usually companies post on craig list for beta testers & approximately spend $20-$50 per user depends on product.
> The Software Engineering part is done badly because the slope is too abrupt and ends too quickly. The Java-based curriculum invariably ends up teaching OOP concepts within weeks (if not to start with) to someone with no concept of program flow, variables and functions. From my experience as a TA, I'd say 90% of students who haven't programmed before end up utterly confused about the order of execution of the various bits of code in a simple Java program with 3-4 classes.

This perfectly mirrors my experience.
A good suggestion but 2 letter domains are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They won't see the value in doing that.
For a specific example.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html
The only thing I took away from this that wasn't really vague is that you can make money if you have a math degree. As someone who has been tempted to study mathematics but not for the purpose of making money, this is the opposite of what I was looking for.
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The door kicking and the border scenario are different. With the door kicking you had to first be noticed by the FBI, but with the border crossing you're placing yourself under the gov's arbitrary notice. Both scenarios are unlikely. Unless you're controversial, or you happen to get a border guard on your or their bad day.
the others are plenty arguable but nationalism is a plenty dirty word. imaginary lines don't alleviate moral responsibility.
Math is like a mental martial art. It doesn't need a concrete application to be useful to everyone because it shapes the way you think about everything! Besides, applications are generally not why people do math. It's really about the doing.

(That's not to say that practical applications aren't important or numerous, just that they're the most boring aspect of math, once you get to know math.)
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Even if you found someone with a past experience dealing with bipolarity, there's no telling whether their experience would generalize to yours.

Don't worry about "orientating" your search. Just go out and get professional help. If you choose inappropriately (among the therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist spectrum), they'll be happy to refer you to someone more suitable.
A super-injunction isn't the same as a 'cover-up', it just puts a halt to the media circus. It doesn't provide secrecy, it just stops the tabloids scrambling for all the lurid details and publishing them to their giddy readership for weeks on end, probably ruining a few peoples lives in the process. Which is what usually happens in Britain. Wayne Rooney and John Terry, England's two most accomplished players, have both been the centre of a national debacle that lasted months, all in the last year.
"They don't care you're not a BigCo and that your server is in your basement."

Correct but the issue to me is not "what can the neighborhood general store do themselves". It's wcfwd - what could Fred Wilson do. Fred doesn't have to fly coach (although he does fly coach apparently).
huh. See, my experience has been like yours when talking to businesspeople... but technical people in silicon valley? as far as I can tell, most of them understand my business model, and think it makes more sense than trying to make the next myspace or whatever. I mean, yeah, I don't make a lot of money, and my business is worth a low-end condo, but it's pretty obvious how I make that money and how I could make more money.

I've been talking about starting a bootstrapper's group at the hacker dojo, something focused on those of us who are not focused on getting investment. 'cause like I said, the technical people understand what I'm doing, but it'd be interesting to talk to other people about the business side of my lifestyle business.
5 bucks ??? What's the value-add? Also why is there no iPad version? (replying from an iPad btw)
I was assuming dropbox would do reference counting so they could delete data that nobody is using, and account tracking so they can put storage limits on your account and charge you for using more space.

Definitely. There are a few problems that can "de-anonymize" users. I don't claim that the outline presented would be very robust.

Maybe. It depends what you are guarding against.

I agree, that requires more qualification. I think in the context of subpoenas or trawling, there are some definite advantages.
I can read HN on all mobile devices with a web browser. What value does a platform specific app provide?
From what I've heard, other engineering disciplines (civil, industrial, etc) curriculum is based on actual real world work experience and jobs. They prepare you to work as an engineer. CS, on the other hand, tends to prepare you very poorly to work as a programmer. Being a programmer is about 25% CS fundamentals and 75% other stuff - understanding requirements, writing maintainable and easy to understand code, being productive, testing, bug fixing, estimation, refactoring, reading documentation, pair programming, prioritization of work, managing your task list, handling failure, working with 3rd party vendors, etc. All that stuff is not taught and should be.

A good video sort of on this subject that I recommend is this one:

http://confreaks.net/videos/282-lsrc2010-real-software-engin...
I suspect that humanities [sic] worst moments come from a combination of evil and stupidity

Witness:

- Failure of military leaders to recognize the implications
of advancing firearms technology starting in the Civil War
- Failure of national governments to recognize the geopolitical instability
embodied by the competing systems of alliances prior to WWI
- Failure of national governments to recognize the economic and political
instability caused by treaties prior to WWII
- Disconnect of German leadership from reality through advocacy of
economic and biological pseudoscientific theories
- Disconnect of Soviet leadership from social and economic reality

It seems that the caveman-mob level of broken thinking we exhibit as national groups caused all sorts of technology-amplified havoc in the 19th and 20th centuries.

I wonder if it's any better in the 21st century?

- Burgeoning US debt, and the political impediments to solving it
- Calamitous global environmental changes, also accompanied by political
impediments to solution

What are the odds of solving our current problems without bloodshed? Probably very near zero. The best we can hope for is to limit the scope of bloodshed to militants, small regional conflicts, and assassinations. After all, we are still mostly just mobs of tribal cavemen.
Thanks. I am sensitive to deceptive 'journalism'.
- Keep up my blogging streak.

- Write a small webapp or two (I've got a few ideas).

- Learn either Node or a functional language.

- Keep a workout schedule.

Somebody has to remember to repost this question in a month or so... :)
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It's not only important what it can do, but also if you can produce it in the way you want.

Only time will show if dense packed transistors on a chip can be build cheap and reliably.
This isn't strictly Telnet-compatible: I don't see any IAC-command support (i.e. replying WONT or DONT to DO or WILL negotiations), or even handling of "\r\0" (which the RFC defines as the proper serialization of a lone "\r"). It just accepts commands delimited by newlines. Telnet is more than newline-delimited commands!

https://github.com/jsz/fettemama/blob/master/tnt/session.go#...
That's just a paraphrase of Herman Goering:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp
Prejudice (for that is what this seems to be, although I don't know not having it) doesn't have to be rational.

Some of this is almost certainly due to low quality (middle) management; people who are unable to mentor or supervise someone coming up to speed in their company's technical ecosystem are infamous for playing buzzword bingo with resumes and not indefinitely not filling positions. It's a small leap from that to e.g. not being willing to manage someone significantly older than you.

Then there are entirely rational aspects: older programmers tend to cost more per unit of time. In the US past 39 in the US they can sue for age discrimination if fired (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_%28computer_scientis... for the current best known example). Safest not to hire them in the first place, that's legally much easier to defend.

I've been hired entirely on the basis of FizzBuzz type tests when the hiring manager took an instant dislike to me. He tried to find a reason not to hire me (as reported by one of my references, who knew both of us, me very well) but went ahead and did it because it was the only way to save his company (I was the only one who passed the tests). He was just out of college with no management experience and I was 37 (I think age was a small but otherwise minor factor in all this).

So rationality can overcome a lot. But how many times have we seen managers make "irrational" project or company killing hiring and firing decisions? How many investors have preferred to have all of nothing instead of some of something?
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I agree with the general point, but it demonstrates a contradiction in "PC" gender theory. On the one hand, men and women are statistically psychologically identical, so any differences in career choices or outcomes must be due to deliberate or unconscious discrimination. On the other hand, you shouldn't use competitive terms in job ads because they're psychologically unappealing to women.
Because they've spent 10s of millions $ on bribing politicians ("lobbing") and you haven't.
I have written some scripts for code analysis needs via git/grep/awk/ruby. code metrics, top committers, frequently committed files, duplications etc

you can find some interesting question with solutions
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/git?sort=votes&...

if you need low level access https://github.com/mojombo/grit

could you elaborate, what your expectations are, I can give pointers or share some of my code
The value is in an interface for HN that actually makes sense for an iPhone: no tiny voting arrows that don't work with fingers, no comment box that you need to scroll back and forth to see what you're typing, comments that fit the screen's width at a hopefully-readable font size.

Maybe it isn't worth five bucks, that's just where I decided to try out pricing to start. But I did try and make it as easy as possible to use if you don't want to pay: it's free if you build it yourself. (I even submitted it to the pirate sites so those without a dev certificate can install it too.)

Edit, iPad version: I am planning on making one, but Hacker News is usable as it is on the iPad in the browser, there's much less of an advantage for a native client.
> and without the addressbar how will you navigate to news.ycombinator.com?
I didn't say you should never see the address bar. You can use the bar to access the location you want, but once you are at your destination, you don't need it anymore

> How will you know what site you're on?

Hacker News has a bright orange bar at the top. Facebook is pretty blue. I think the address bar is the least identifying piece of a website.

> How will you be able to return to that site you liked but don't have the address for since the URL was hidden?

If I forgot to bookmark it, I'll do what I do now: use google

> How will you market and position your site if noone knows the URL?
> How will you do offline marketing if users don't know how to get to the URL you provided?

I don't want to lose the URL, I want to lose the address bar after you have accessed the site and you don't need to see it anymore.
Thanks, definitely on my shortlist.
Actually, The Graduate was exactly what I was thinking as I was typing my comment. ;)

Edit: didn't reply to the bigger point about oil companies. I kinda threw that out there as a quick thought and agree with you that the semiconductor, semi-co materials, or LCD guys might be better positioned. That said, few companies are as good at gathering, refining, processing and shipping gigatons of carbon as the oil companies.
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There's so much more than clock frequency. The place silicon shines isn't so much it's material properties for producing individual switches - they're good, but there's better out there.

It's the raw manufacturability that silicon has. It's by far the easiest material to work with. It's abundant, cheap, and easy to obtain. It's got properties that lend it to easy junction doping and easy annealing. It's easy to deposit new layers on top of etched silicon. It's got a lattice that matches up nicely with the materials you'd want to use for contacts.

In short, the advantages of silicon aren't in it's ability to make transistors. It's in it's ability to make transistors while on a high volume assembly line.

It's going to be a while if we see whether graphene can match silicon for that.
Cool. Undercutting (plus doing it better than!) the expensive hardware solutions is my main goal.
How does the performance of PHP CLI compare to the apache so model? Also trying to time using the 'time' command is tricky because you have multiprocess effects that add overhead.
Can someone please edit that inflammatory title please?

If sources are weak, or only a single source is found, headline writers will hedge their bets by posing the headline as a question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Well, if you were one of the major owners or CEOs of a recording company what would you value more - your own profits or the human rights of the unwashed masses?
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I've thought for some time that url shortening and expanding should be an RFC, done in the browser, the same across browsers.
I know police have been looking through mobile phones at traffic stops for a few years at least, too, and now some even have device which will copy the entire contents of the phone for later analysis. Traffic stops can be pretty casual.

I'm wondering, though, are you saying I should be concerned about losing the hardware or the data in particular? You mean, store everything in the cloud so access to my hardware doesn't automatically mean access to my data? How about TrueCrypt or Apple's encrypted home partition option?
Much better.

I recommend putting that next to the getting started button. The top headline sells the benefit and next to the CTA explains what you're signing up for.
Some clear, strong answers to the question in written form,

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/milgram-msri.pdf

with a lot of interesting information about mathematics education.

(Hacker News may not style this URL as a link, but I've been there and it works.)
The HN website works on a phone... but it's hardly where you would want to read it. If you are trying to read the comments, once you're zoomed out enough to see the whole width, the font is usually too tiny to read. And then, to vote on one, you have little tiny buttons that even at the max zoom levels are hard to tap (I've seen quite a few comments apologizing for tapping the wrong arrow on the iPhone).

Now, a platform-neutral website can do what news:yc does too: http://ihackernews.com/ is a good one. But, for the same reason that Twitter clients are popular, some people just like to have one that's built native for their platform.
To be taken seriously, something like this needs to be backed up by a clearly successful example. Otherwise it's like a framework with no successful applications.
Currently, I haven't seen any overwhelming proof of a bubble (the type of proof that no one can dispute). Without said proof, it's up to everyone to digest their information and make their own opinion. It's only an opinion and until you can over conclusive statistics that sway a large majority of educated people, why waste your words? If you work at LinkedIn, this article becomes only slightly relevant to you (you may be out of a job in the future etc.). If you don't, this sort of thing should be ignored and you can continue to work on your business.

There is no bubble for solid (market-validated) business plans with reasonable, actionable revenue models.
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