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I agree, she's very attractive. It doesn't really seem to affect the core message of her post: women have unfair advantages that they can and will use to kick ass in the startup world.

If men are willing to get all bent out of shape just because a woman is involved, then women should take it and run with it.
Gross margins tend to be good, around 30% I believe. However, there's a lot of overheads and payroll, and volume can vary considerably.
Linux kernel development was managed with tarballs and patches for the first 10 years, until BitKeeper was selected in 2002, then of course Git in 2005.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Revision_control
Also see Linus Torvalds' Google Tech Talk on Git starting around 2:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
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If you can't see how it's responsive, we need go no further with this.
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Well that just means their vote ring detection system needs improving. If there really is 100 people that have a vested interest in Bitcoin all collaborating on IRC or whatever and they are the majority of the ones pumping up the story then this seems trivial to catch.
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Interesting, but it only has valuations for exits. I'm kinda curious what valuations for going companies are, based on recent rounds of funding. The totals on YCList are nowhere near the $4.7B that PG quotes.

Actually, I'm surprised how many of the acquisitions were talent acquisitions for ~$2M/founder. Decent sized chunk of change, but you can get that much by going to work for Google, kicking ass, and then getting a FaceBook offer.
You can stream on up to four devices at a time, depending on your plan.

I guess they assume it will be in the same household or family, but it certainly doesn't have to be the same IP.
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It's more like a pump-and-dump than a pyramid scheme, I think.
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Google Cached copy:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Well, I'm not a very serious coder: I just work on a crappy programming language.

I'll take the interruptions and discussions involved in a highly social work environment that keeps me from writing code that is not necessary over a silent monastery that lets me build gleaming cubes of intellectual perfection that no one needs or that have been already built. (Caveat: with idiot coworkers, none of this applies.)

Sure, flow is important at times. It's also addictive. Programmers are introverts, undervalue communication and overestimate their understanding of, well, everything.

Know thyself.
yeah, been meaning to move to the community ssu when i get a free weekend.
While I have no problem with investing in restaurants I have two problems with this particular investment:

A) $10 mil is a hell of a lot for any restaurant
B) Pizza hut already does online ordering for cheesy treats
"You don't need a lawyer! I did all that work for you!"

Sounds awesome, dude.

For what it's worth: Alain has been on HN for years promoting "Fair Software", a term of art he invented, as an alternative to incorporation. My recollection is a bit vague, but from what I can tell, the deal is that instead of incorporating, you sign up for his service and model your whole business as a "revenue share for code contribution" system, where you get paid 1099 from his company, after he collects fees.

I choose not to engage with the argument about how much more sound your equity structure is going to be with his prefab code sharing system than with an LLC or S-Corp, because structuring equity is only one of many (important) reasons to incorporate, including:

* Not losing your house over failure to perform good-faith contract obligations

* Ability to actually hire employees consistent with the laws of the state you're operating in

* Ability to invoice and be invoiced by large companies who will hang up the phone on you when you try to explain what "Fair Software" is

* Ability to acquire professional liability insurance

And, whatever you may think about the structure he proposes, it obviously doesn't respond to the question of how much legal help you need to start a company.
That is simply incorrect. I do not "know" Ilfak. I just emailed him, discussed the cost of a student license, provided proof of being a student, and filed an order form for IDA Pro Standard 6.0. The only thing that at all fits with your story is that a bank transfer was required, instead of paying by credit card, but I believe that is only for students.

Even so, Hex-Rays does sell to individuals. It's not even necessary to ask Ilfak: if copies are being sold to individuals, then they sell to individuals. And those copies are being sold. Here's a picture of my CD, purchased this year, as an individual: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3177211/idaomg.png
>>>Why are TV shows so badly named, though, that's the real question?

TV marketers are not Internet savvy. If I can intrude with a post URL, at least the Oxygen Network understands and assigns hashtags in its ads:

http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/oxygen-channel-lov...

If only all the other TV shows did that!
Ask HN:  Is Bitcoin really a Ponzi scheme?
I've seen many comments in recent discussions of Bitcoin links charging that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. I had a look at the definition of a Ponzi scheme on Wikipedia. It's not entirely clear to me that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

For example, one requirement of a Ponzi scheme is that victims give their money to an individual or organization that then claims ( likely fraudulently ) to invest their money in such a way as to provide a high return. This allows the fraudulent party to disappear with the investor's money at any time - such as when too many investors demand their money back.

With Bitcoin, when someone buys a bitcoin, they actually receive delivery of the bitcoin. No one can take that bitcoin away. It is possible that in the future the bitcoin buyer may not be able to sell their bitcoin for what they paid for it. However, that would be the result of a market consisting of thousands of participants jointly deciding how much a bitcoin is worth.

This of course assumes that the Bitcoin algorithm works as advertised and can not be practically manipulated by a single malicious individual or organisation.
For who? I don't think anybody who actually writes code is going to be confused by +=

No need to race to the bottom any faster guys.
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Hiring thread. Pushed off front page. By bitcoin stories. Issue here: not complicated.
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I'm torn as well. It's a lot of new information to remember and creates a lot of extra work but if the content is more accessible as a result then it might be worth it. I'm also a little wary of the fact that it just seems tacked on to the HTML but I can't think of any other way to handle it.

I'm guessing this is like salt... a little dash'll do it.
I agree. What's even worse, in my opinion, is that the discussions end up repeating the same points over and over again. It seems to me to be an analog of the well-known phenomenon of "bike-shedding."
I couldn't care less about the privacy/anonymity of BTC if the market falls out and my BTC wallet ~ $0. At that point no government will come to my aid because, hey, I invested in something that has no value.
What makes (or breaks) a data visualization?
You are correct in pointing out that it was Windows 98 that brought the Internet Browser to the foreground of Windows. The big error was embedding the browser into the OS - and Windows users paid for that architectural mistake many time over.
Austin HN Meetup?
Anyone in Austin want to do a HN meetup? I just moved here from Europe
This thing is entirely surreal, and I'm sure the vast majority of kids in his situation would not in a million year do the same.

But some will, and it would be tragic.

Also internet cafe and school both provide web access.
It isn't one restaurant. It is a chain.
Exactly, I wonder why they wouldn't incorporate the data-* attributes to help describe this data AND conform to HTML5 specifications.
this a great post. but there is one more thing to add to this. it is called inevitability thinking and it is taught by eben pagan. basically what he says is you have this option to program yourself for success (or failure) every time you want to start a new habit.

like if you want to develop this habit of starting to go for a jog every morning then you can set yourself up for success doing this. first thing you want to do is keep a pair of running shoes ready by your bed. your track suit should be inside the bathroom. in kitchen there would be a glass of water and some healthy snacked already prepared for the morning. so when you wake up it really eases you in the activity (instead of an uphill climb where you first have to look for shoes, then find the tracksuit is dirty, or you binge eat, etc.. all things which will keep you from doing it are taken care off already)
Yes, it needs improving by attaching a strong negative weight to any story about bitcoin, perhaps until the next HN reboot.
I have material I self publish using Drumlin Reader due to the extremely low cost and inclusion of DRM. Due to the nature of the particular market, Windows only is not a significant drawback.

http://www.drumlinsecurity.com/
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I actually wanted to say that, but couldn't establish it quickly. Plus days -> decades is a bit more euphonious, so I didn't fight it too hard.
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So microsoft really bought skype and is already playing the bait-and-switch game?!
I understand currency and shares are not the same thing, I don't understand this addresses OP.

> A share, meanwhile, is a direct claim on things themselves.
What if you buy a share of an ETF?
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Moxie, I don't have an Android at present, but you are on my list for when I switch over.
I am curious: Given all of the trouble with scraped content on the web, why would data publishers want to make their data more machine-readable?
Is posting a link to lesswrong.com an applause light in itself?

Also, what you wrote wasn't worth writing unless you were going to back it up.

Do you think so? I think my point, regardless of my particular examples, was pretty sound and important -- people keep talking about "going to college" as if college were monolithic, but college offers you many possibilities for your education, ranging from fairly useless to incredibly valuable.
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"If Titan Media has masqueraded their porn as something that is freely available would you feel the same way?"

Of course not. But that isn't what they did, and if they did it wouldn't really be a 'honeypot' is now would it? There are actually laws against creating an 'attractive nuisance.'

And while I know the 'information wants to be free' crowd hates the message I did say stuff you you don't have a right to have a copy of explicitly. And like it or not, going over to a friends house, and ripping one of their CDs which they bought and taking home the MP3s is not a write the distributor/seller of the CD gave you, and its not "fair use" by any definition.

I get that people disagree with copyright law, I disagree too, but I don't subscribe to the theory that one only has to obey laws they agree with. If you want to be civilly disobedient like folks who were fighting for their civil rights then you want to be arrested and charged so that you can bring visibility to your protest, however if you copy a CD or video or game because you think someone is charging to much or is unrealistic in their opinion of its value, then its you, the copyright violator, who is wrong.
They want to sell grilled cheese at scale. That's where the big money is. Not one location, not ten, but hundreds. With five hundred locations, it doesn't take a large monthly profit per store to add up to a lot of money.
No, I definitely meant "an insignificant fraction." Thanks for the link.
Forgot to mention an easy email address:

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The hiring thread was pushed off by all the non-hiring-thread articles on the front page, was it not? Or does the front page selection algorithm do fascinating things which made only the bitcoin stories responsible?

If the thread can't compete, why is the solution penalizing Bitcoin stories?
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It's not a traditional pyramid scheme, but I see a lot of similarities between that description and the current state of Bitcoin.

promising participants payment, services or ideals

There's an implicit promise that if Bitcoin gains popularity the value of Bitcoins will increase.

primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme or training them to take part

If you take part by purchasing Bitcoin there's a huge incentive to get other people involved in Bitcoin.

rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public

There are very few services/products you can actually buy with Bitcoin.
Dammit, I shouldn't have cast that summon-paleo-nut spell.

Actually I used to make fun of the paleo diet, then I tried it and discovered it really is a good way to lose weight (if nothing else) without feeling hungry. On the other hand I regained the weight as soon as I came off the paleo diet, and I find it too hard to maintain -- there's very few places you can actually buy a paleo-compliant meal, and I was getting pretty darn sick of eating the same few meals over and over again.

Also, there's grilled cheese.
Let's say that I don't believe all I read about the organ trafficking but I may be very wrong in my believes.
From my limited experience, Thinkpads are the only models with consistently good keyboards. (Though I see now they've started to use "chicklet" keyboards in some models; I'm skeptical.)

The other factor is a good screen.

Pay attention to the parts you will constantly interact with.

Spend your "pretty" dollars on a good suit.

P.S. Over the past decade, I've found that discrete graphics support has significantly extended the useful life of several acquaintance's laptops. One is on a decade old Dell; still usable for "normal" work -- it just won't play large videos.

I don't recommend going a decade, but it works for them and it accentuates my point. This is also from a time when Dell still had good keyboards, and the screen was a good looking, high resolution upgrade.
but you are making the mistake that you would have paid for the service if you did not pirate the cable.
Some MS Software Engineering programs take a similar path and require that the applicant have development experience before being allowed to enter the program. I think it's a great idea.
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IIRC the reason that Meltworks (the ANGR concept) got rejected was that they felt that the guy who was running it wasn't flexible enough and that they felt he wouldn't be a good partner.

Like many investments, it is the team as much as the actual concept.
'Use your lawyer efficiently to avoid wasting money' would be a better fitting title.

The comments that have been posted so far lead me to believe no one actually read the full post. He's not trying to tell people lawyers are all a waste of money.
I pondered on how the GMail People Widget would affect Rapportive in the initial thread about it's announcement, but I think this is the best possible response to it. Embrace the technology and use it to further your own product. Kudos Rapport, kudos.
I suspect many articles are submitted and upvoted by early adopters of bitcoin who stand to profit off any increase in the adoption of bitcoin.
You are right, iPad is practically useless without WiFi. Still iPad/iPhone are just THE ITEMS to have in China. People in Asia are capable of crazy things for shiny gadgets they can wipe out and show off. Don't underestimate the lust. Especially in a case I think we can both agree is not rational to begin with.
>A cynical view would be that MSFT is happy to see their management jump to their competitors...

Yea, I know: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2209064
No, bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. It may very well be in a speculative bubble right now, however. And the long-term stable value of a bitcoin may end up being very low indeed.

The trouble is that, over the long term, there is nothing to give a bitcoin value. If some group of large organizations were to promise that, over the long term, they would give some particular amount of some other stable currency, in exchange for a bitcoin, or exchange some particular worthwhile goods/services for it, then it would have something backing it up.

As it is, there is nothing. The algorithmically enforced limited supply of bitcoins is a start, but only a start, I think.

(BTW, for those who want to claim that nothing backs up the USD, for example: I disagree. The U.S. govt. accepts it in payment of taxes. Thus, for those who owe taxes, the govt. will, in exchange for some dollars, refrain from pointing a gun at you and marching you off to prison. Quite a valuable thing, for some of us.)
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"I give failure the somewhat low but still significant probability of 25%. ... According to my estimation, there is a 75% ..."
Where are those numbers coming from? Does it mean that the author believes 1 out of 4 virtual currencies fail? Or that only 3/4 of cryptography algorithms are secure?
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I don't have to not admit it, but your failure to not use double negatives caused me to not be unconfused.

Just a bit.
Bitcoin, to me, is one of the ten most interesting technologies that I've seen in the last decade - I've been discussing and waiting for a viable crypto currency for over 15 years, and it's finally arrived!

I think for a lot of people, though, Bitcoins are what twitter was to me a year ago. I just didn't get what the big deal was, and couldn't understand why I kept seeing so many topics on the story.
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My perception is that if you did the histogram over thread topics yesterday, bitcoin would show itself to be overrepresented. You can do the legwork on that, you can take my word for it, or you can ask me to take your word for it that I'm wrong; all are fine options.
Forget the technical merit, I want to discuss your point. I'm pretty sure one of the signs of the apocalypse starts with the phrase "Google, Bing and Yahoo unite...". When I see that phrase my spidey sense tingles in a decidedly non 'warm fuzzy' fashion! One of the three will probably try to sabotage this. Likely, one will contribute something to the standard without informing the others that it is patent encumbered, then submarine them.

Others my feel free to weigh in on my paranoia.
The intrinsic flaw in bitcoin and why it will fail
USAGE

the issue is that no one is going to use this new currency.

yes, it does have some very important advantages, and i'm not saying that. i think it SHOULD be a widespread currency. but i think it is impossible.

the issue is that no one is mandating this currency. therefore, it will fail. let me give an example; Israel was founded in 1948. it was ILLEGAL to own any currency except the Israeli shekel until the mid 80's. why? because if someone had the choice of using the currency they have been using for their whole lives or this new currency, who would change? these people know how much a carton of milk costs, they are familiar with it.

so Israel knew that if it wanted there new currency, the shekel, was to take root, they had to make anything else illegal or else it simply wouldn’t have.

that is why bitcoin will never take root. there is no country saying that you must use it and you musnt use anything else. this currency will stay in the nerd community that it was founded in. and wont spread from there
That would put an end to a /lot/ of sites.
I feel like the title of this post would make someone over the age of fifty's head explode.
How to Lose $72,000 in Bitcoins Again
What's the difference in cost between learning to discriminate between good lawyers and bad lawyers, and learning to avoid egregious legal errors on your own?
Looks like they're using HTML5 microdata: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/
It's not a Ponzi scheme, it's a "pump and dump". The early adopters of Bitcoin have presumably amassed large quantities of Bitcoins, which means they have a vested interest in keeping the perceived value of Bitcoins high.

It's not a matter of a single malicious individual or organisation manipulating the price-- it's that each person holding Bitcoins has an interest in furthering the belief that they are actually worth something.
I'm not looking for a job right now, nor am I soliciting for applicants. How many people here are? If that number is lower than the number of people interested in Bitcoin, then I don't see the problem with the hiring thread falling off the front page quickly.

HN is growing. As much as it might be nice if it strictly followed the interests of the original visitors/contributors, it's not a reasonable expectation.

Meanwhile, I downvoted all posts in this meta-discussion (if you don't like a posting, just flag it and move on -- like the site guidelines tell you to do)... and yet here I am, participating. Sigh.

(For the record, my interest in Bitcoin-related articles has waned, but I could see how it'd still be notable to others.)
Are people buying Android over iPhone because of a 3D camera? Probably not. Because Android is the only way to get LTE? Definitely, this is a big one. Because Android is the only way to get a dual core CPU? Definitely.

Not to mention the form factors which are also pretty important. Some people demand a keyboard. Other people want a huge screen. That's just not an option with iOS. There's also brand momentum. Everyone that isn't Apple has loaned Google its brand by putting Android inside.

As for MeeGo's viability I think it's a moot point. Even if MeeGo was perfect Nokia would be in an uphill battle. Look at webOS, critically regarded as the best competitor to iOS. HP has a near zero market share. You either need to be the very best by far, i.e. Apple, or you need to have the rest of the industry behind you, i.e. Android.

The fact Nokia looked at Windows Phone 7 and Android considered them equals makes me question Elop's decision making. The article also has a telling quote when Elop says he couldn't reach someone because the other guy was "probably testing an Android device that day."

Elop might as well have decided to build personal computers with OS/2 Warp in the 1990's because IBM gave him a big check and Windows is humorously unreliable. I'm sure that would have been a great business decision.
In Cleveland, we have a popular restaurant called "Melt Bar and Grilled". They feature several dozen different types of grilled cheese sandwiches. Most of them are stuffed with various other foods - various meats, veggies, pierogis, etc. This seems to be a popular trend for restaurants, so the food isn't just simple grilled cheese sandwiches.

FWIW, Melt Bar and Grilled has been featured on the Travel Channel and Food Network.

In case you care to see the types of sandwiches they serve: http://www.meltbarandgrilled.com/
Why should he work to make funnyjunk money and simultaneously make himself harder to find for his fans?

And what does he do about the 50 other content copiers.

Personally I think that the funnyjunk admin has demonstrated himself to be a big enough jerk that he deserves to be sued.