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There's an awful lot of stuff where making dietary and lifestyle changes makes a difference. This is well established. For example, diabetes is significantly impacted by diet. In many cases, people would rather take a drug than substantially change their diet. However, if that isn't an option because the drug is unavailable, changing your diet is still an option.
Using a speeder bike in a forest is fine if you drive at a safe and comfortable speed. It's when chasing jedi that things go sour.
An electron is only a point mass in classical electrodynamics, which leads to all kinds of inconsistencies (the self-energy of its field would be infinite, for example.) In quantum mechanics, there is no such thing as a point mass.

But in any case, the answer to your question is yes. Black holes have 3 quantities: mass, angular momentum, and charge. So, yeah, you can charge up a black hole by dropping charges into it and the charge would be visible to the outside.
Newton and Palm proved you could have a acerem-and-pen computer that didn't suck. It's just that Microsoft will never lauch anything that competes with Windows: they'll just graft the current fad on to of it
Is there actually any evidence to suggest Apple's 34-pin dock cables fail more often than others? I've owned 34-pin dock devices going back about 8 years now and I cannot recall ever having a broken dock cable. I have no doubt it does happen from time to time but from my own personal experience it doesn't seem any more or less common than other types of cables. I know plenty of people who lose them or want a second one to charge at work or carry in their backpack but where's the tar and feather brigade at Apple Stores over this? Why aren't my friends and family coming to me with mysterious charge/sync problems? At $30/pop if these cables were failing at a very high rate I would expect quite a lot more public outrage.

It may be that since iPods and iPhones are replaced fairly often, and include a new cable, people have a cache of spares? If so doesn't that alone kind of shoot down the designed-to-fail argument? Why include a new cable? Wouldn't the increased support costs from telephone/in-store support for these problems be far larger than selling $30 cables? It seems like the typical Internet conspiracy that doesn't really make any sense when you start to look at the details and notice there's absolutely no evidence to support the original claim being offered.
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What about the 20th century economy? And the 19th? Healthcare costs aren't going to rise like that for the entire century.
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Erlang, Haskell, OCaml: screw one, marry one, kill one. Which and why?
docco, which the article links to, is particularly great. It makes me want to write more comments. http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/

I wonder if you could make an editor that that looks like docco when you're writing the code?
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Yes, and the Wirtschaftswunder [1], the huge industralisation and production of West-Germany after WWII. Whether that's a legacy of the traditional Meister-Geselle (master-student) and Zünfte (guilds), or modern capitalism, remains to be seen.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder
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"just"...

Nuclear matter is very stiff. It can make a mass of the order of the Sun's, falling down with a significant fraction of the speed of light, bounce without becoming a black hole. So the pressure you'd need to make a black hole with higher-than-nuclear density would be, well, astronomical.
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Not to compare campfires and bonfires, but neither has the west.

(http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm)
I like this because it's so simple and easy to measure.
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Yes, it's called The Law of Supply and Demand. Once they increase the supply of the stocks too much, the demand will go down and they'll have to go back to having 3 summer homes instead of 4, and 2 private jets instead of 3.
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If there is a solution to this problem that lets us all retire without the economy collapsing, I'd be curious to hear it.

There is - replacing human labor with robotic labor.
Are hollywood movies really motivating career decisions? I like Pirates of the Caribbean, but Im not about to start a career as a privateer. Im thrilled that enrollment in CS classes are finally increasing, but I temper my excitement when I hear the example Ms Fong. Some advise for all new CS students: don't pursue a degree in CS because its glamorous, but because you enjoy programming and problem solving. Life is too short to do something you do not enjoy.
> Chromebook was touted as something that doesn't need updates

Say what? Everything so far has said it would have automatic updates. That is not the same as saying it requires no updates. In fact it is the opposite.
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1) Facts exist. Often we have an incomplete understanding of facts, and there is something like a working mental model of facts. An educated mind allows for the possibility that the facts are sometimes subject to new information which can sometimes change them. Without these facts, we couldn't make buildings stand up, and they do. They do because we have an understanding of how to make them do so based on facts. Homicide detectives and heart surgeons have a notion of facts based on evidence and very very often they get it right because there are knowable, searchable, demonstrable facts. If you doubt objective reality then imagine sleepwalking in front of a train: your perspective is irrelevant. The train is coming whether you know it or not.
2) Sometimes people are wrong. Sometimes people aren't interested in facts because it conflicts with their agenda. Some people don't want to work to find the truth. That's why proof and evidence are so important. "When did WWI start?" might require years of study to understand the complexities of what touched off that where and provide a nuanced "answer". Hearing different voices on this topic is part of an education, but being able to differentiate credible voices from those who attempt to instrumentalize the past, or worse yet, provide some kind of hard and fast sense of history by omitting important facts, is NOT a good way to educate the populace.

3) Interpretation is also based on what you can back up. I can interpret "There are no aliens in Roswell New Mexico" to mean "There are DEFINITELY aliens in Roswell New Mexico". However, without some kind of proof behind that interpretation see number 1. A bad working model of the territory makes a bad map. Also, the claim that facts are neither interesting nor important is false and dangerous.

4)
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They used to have a migration PDF that detailed how their mail store was on FreeBSd for the backend, insofar as I can remember. It was possible that there was a mix of Sun technologies in the back.
Cheers to the peer comment regarding HN discourse. Unfortunately (?) I have more :)

> This doesn't affect interchanging Objective-C types though. Yes, the arity and order are important, but the compiler doesn't enforce anything beyond that a pointer is passed for id types.

This is true prior to ARC: all ObjC pointers are the same size, and hence ABI-compatible given equivalent arity/order. It's theoretically possible that a future ABI could be incompatible between two methods returning void vs pointer return value, but currently, all supported ABIs return pointer-sized values in a register.

However, with ARC, this changes. The type system has been effectively extended to denote the required referencing behavior for calling code. This means that for a given arity/order, you must also have equivalent referencing attributes.
My manual says: When disconnecting the power adapter from a power outlet or from the computer, pull the plug, not the cord.

But it doesn't say anything about tilting.
They come in two kinds - hosted which is what you're referring to, and packaged which is actually downloaded / (primarily) self-contained.
Note that these companies are not failing to profit, it's just that older drugs are "not as profitable". It's a business decision to stop making a smaller profit, and maybe having to compete with Fougera.

Big Pharma, going out of its way to earn its bad reputation.
My parents suffer from a much smaller-scale version of this problem. The quantity of books is probably only in the hundreds or thousands altogether so there's no threat of collapse; however, the living space is tiny, and doing anything to sort, donate, or sell the books is exhausting, particularly since some are still "keepers" so there's tremendous debate over which ones to try to move out. On a good, dedicated, full-time day of this one might be able to get a dozen or so into the hands of a new owner.

Fortunately, I think a lot of it will be replaceable with a Kindle in the near future, which will make it much easier to start moving them out.
I've been using MobileMe since it launched and, besides the initial problems, it's actually a really good service. It's the $99 price tag that doomed it to be a niche service. With iCloud being free, even if it's only as functionality as MM, it will probably be successful. Also, historically, Apple is pretty good at saying a product or service is going to do this or that and delivering on it. MobileMe does pretty much exactly what it promises to do. iCloud integration with iOS devices is working out pretty well in the beta so far. The only real question mark at this point is what iCloud.com is going to look like. I do think Apple needs to have a pretty strong web app offering to compliment the iOS/Mac integration.
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Sorry, nominally when Google hires engineers they offer a job at 'x' level of engineer but you're not actually hired at that level. What they do instead is wait 6 months and then a committee evaluates your performance relative to other engineers in the company and then tells you what level you are at Google.

The point of the exercise is to avoid hiring people as 'Senior Staff Engineer' (even if they had that title at a previous company) and then finding they only put out 'Staff engineer' or less in the Google equivalent.

They don't change your salary if they effectively demote you down a slot or two but the pay ranges are different. If the committee decides you are more than a couple of levels below what you were hired at they fire you. If you do 'down slot' it means that if you do get a promotion later you probably won't get a pay raise.

Its supposed to keep things evened out. Generally it means they don't successfully hire senior people from outside the company. It was entirely unclear to me how they handled acquisitions of talent.
very interested to see PG's comment over this.
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http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-longurl-plugin/

... which uses the API of http://www.longurlplease.com/
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I agree, I take cold showers because I enjoy them - they are far from torture! I think the bloke that wrote the article totally missed that. In winter I even take a cold shower - and always feel far warmer after - even if the water is like ice.

I run hot showers occasionally too. Though I never have any compulsion to leave the shower, I just want to stand there. The other thing is it never feels hot enough!

Try it, just start with cold. You might even like it.
Hasn't YCs withdrawal from Boston shown PG thinks it can't work as well outside the valley, much less in another country?
The problems described (mainly, VC's to support exiting companies from incubators and large customer base willing to spend money on new stuff) here are true to varying degrees for all countries other than the US, I think, i.e. it's not unique to India. The produce a chicken and egg problem, since in the US many startup are fed by rich, knowledgeable people from earlier successful start ups.

One way out is for the rich expatriates in the US to invest back in their countries, which is happening for India and China.
Yes. It seems that at some level, the degree of innovation is often similar and the difference between Apple and Microsoft is more a matter of design (which in my opinion is no small factor) and marketing than anything else.
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I have had many desktop keyboards (Dell, IBM, standard issue Apple), and my MacBook keyboard is by far the best keyboard I have used (warning: subjective judgement here). I actually prefer the narrow arrow keys. This is because, when typing fast, I only need the letter/punctuation keys, the return key, the space bar, and the shift keys. When using arrow keys, on the other hand, I am generally not typing but doing something else -- holding down command or shift and pressing an arrow key to scroll up a page or something else of this sort. In those cases, the smaller arrow keys actually make it easier for me to switch fingers (smaller distance to cover between the up and down keys).
I find this site useful: http://www.nxdom.com

I think it was done by a fellow HN'er, if I'm not mistaken. Helped me find my latest: http://pixlshare.com
This assumes that for an Indian startup, the domain of potential users, investors and acquiring companies is limited to India. This is not true for most promising startups in India, especially web-based ones. The only pre-requisite for a YC-type model is a pool of talented potential founders, and that seems to be pretty big in India.
Injection molded plastic? I'm guessing the cost difference is negligible or non-existent.
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haha. nice! good find. actually it's something else. that idea is on the backburner for now. I decided my Zyguild vision had more competitors and was much harder to scale up with small staff/money than another idea I had, so focusing on another project instead. General problem: too many ideas, not enough time-energy-money to work on them all. :)

I do think traditional education is a dinosaur ripe for disruption, and has lots of cheap-to-start and reasonably-easy-ways-to-scale things you can do in the space. I'd argue that much of it (current traditional mass/government education) is an artifact or echo from an prior time back before the Internet existed, computers, video telecomm. Why settle for local teachers when you can have the best location-irrelevant ones? Why settle for static education content when you can have dynamic, interactive ones? Why settle for only 1 or a few types of approved resource mediums when there are hundreds of them, some not even possible 30 years ago? Why allow our kids to be fed nationalist propaganda in government-run schools when much more objective, honest and worldly alternatives exist? Why embarass the slower kids by putting them in the same room with the really smart ones? Why slow down and hold back the fast ones? Why setup vast complicated systems and bureaucracies just to generate a proxy for the thing you want (an interview, a test, a degree, etc.), when you can just go after The Thing You Want directly? (Or more directly.)
In the late 80s, Apple bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design molds. They simulated plastic flow and helped them do fewer turns of the injection molds they used for computer cases.

Makes sense, considering that each mold cost upward of half a million dollars.

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The "Industrial Design is King" thing is true at other companies as well. I've seen horribly broken products go out the door, where the fixes involve making ID changes, but the ID changes couldn't be made to happen because of (a) the lead time -- usually a year -- and / or (b) it would have destroyed the "cool look" of the product in someone's eyes.
Honestly, if we have uploaded intelligence why would you send it via a spaceship. Just transmit it via an extremely powerful laser. May want to transmit it multiple times to account for errors. Of course, there should already be some strong AI waiting for you on the other side.
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>Minus points for satire?

Yep. Be useful or move on.
You're seriously taking the position that making money is the sole measure of business success? Legality, morality, etc. are irrelevant? Good for you, I guess.
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Oh come on, at least tell me what's wrong with the post if you're going to downvote it? Even if we leave of Cloud print entirely, how is it harder for a user to configure a printer with this than it is with any conventional laptop? Surely you don't think the Windows process of downloading a 200MB driver hidden in a manufacturer's website is easier than the Chrome utility?
So can you explain to us how one builds character then - how else is it (character or self-discipline) built but by resisting against a natural pull, thought, or reaction?

The Spartans to General Patton used similar techniques in building the character of their troops and their fruits cannot be disputed.

The author is not claiming that this only will build character, but this is a small tool to to work on building character yet another way. Alone perhaps it would be meaningless, but taken together with his other approaches it can lead to significant results. It may be only a tree in the forest and it takes trees to build a forest; this method can be one of those trees.

Or if you like, to return to the analogy of resisting something in order to become stronger: This is just another exercise, like the plank (among many), that used alone may not produce much; but taken together with a whole exercise program WILL make ones whole body stronger.
I remember him grab a meter maid's ass from behind on the street in front of other officials and cameras. il douche.
> Users experience the entirety of Apple products and there isn't a user-facing component that doesn't get serious design scrutiny.

Even the mere act of removing an Apple product from its packaging when first bought -- something that only happens once -- is extremely well thought out.
I think of this essay whenever someone says "neural implant" or "upload me and run me on a computer".
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You sound like someone that is afraid of cold water - if it seems so easy an puerile to you; why don't you try it.
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I'm the author of that post, can't recollect many exits from web-based companies in India to companies from outside in India. You could, I guess, point at sosasta.com (acquired by Groupon), but the deal flow certainly is not there.
For a considerable time the laser was considered a solution in search of a problem. Now, of course, they have a huge number of vital uses and nearly everyone in the developed world owns several in one form or another.

For that matter it took a long time for computers to have an impact on productivity. For a while people wondered whether personal computers actually made business sense. Now, in the era of mass global computerized communications the advantages are hard to ignore.
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I applaud the general concept here but I think you're doing yourself a disservice if this is the extent to which you take this. Go take up rock climbing (toproping in a gym doesn't count), whitewater kayaking, or some other activity that will get you outdoors doing something involving real risk assessment and nontrivial consequences.

If you're anything like me you'll find your attention to detail increases dramatically. Your ability to shrug off daily stresses will also increase. Compared to being gripped out of your mind 120 feet off the ground it's pretty hard to take some guy cutting you off in traffic seriously.

Whatever you do, keep pushing your boundaries. Good luck!
I think the main distinction between startup and a non-startup is how and why they are formed.

Normal businesses that you would not consider a startup usually have only a few people or one person starting them. They usually take some money, from friends/family or an investor or bank. They work hard, long hours. Hell they probably could be in the tech sector. The key difference though is intent.

Normal businesses are looking to build a stable business with a viable income. Usually something akin to a mom and pop store or a restaurant. They tend to be risk averse, and have a business model in mind. Rarely does a normal business start without some sort of revenue source in place.

Startups on the other hand, while sharing a lot of traits with normal businesses, throw risk to the wind and a lot of the times have no revenue model in place (though that does not mean having one makes you a non-startup). Most startups are starting small, and trying to grow big. A lot of the time they are product based, but really startups can be service based just as easily. The main qualifier of a startup is lack of risk aversion and short to long term goals.

There are some edge cases here and there, startups that seem like normal businesses. A company that has a business model, is starting small, and not trying to immediately grow to huge. Some would consider this a normal business, but if the owner feels like it is a startup, then well it is.
Jobs moved offshore because of trillions of dollars borrowed, both by government and individuals.

You can't consume more than you produce without importing more than you export.

Deregulation and opening of markets did not create the US trade deficit. Nobody did anything to focus the US economy on services, other than borrow massively. Which caused wages to go up, workers to move to the US and imports to soar.

All of the long term economic imbalances we're facing are interrelated.
Thanks. Opt-ed out. Although I must admit the ads seem pretty much the same.
If the custom digital solution looks newer/fancier/better on the showroom floor then there is an advantage to the dryer company.
I remember PG writing that YC withdrew from Boston because he thought Mountain View was a better place to raise his family. He wrote Mountain View was also a better place to have startups, but that wasn't an important concern.
The situation of astronomers is not comparable to "every other position in academia."

Let's suppose that imbalance between "transitional" positions (grad students, postdocs, visiting researchers/lecturers) and "permanent" positions in Astronomy is the same as, say, Comparative Literature.

The difference is that the astronomers can typically, with just a little deflection, use their quantitative skills to find a different permanent job at reasonable pay. But it's much harder for a comp lit person to do so.

In other words, both astronomers and literature-lovers might have been deluded about job prospects. It's easier for the astronomers to recover, so their situation is not as dire.
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Individuals are easy targets for finger pointing when it comes to "who screwed up X". In the case of something as large as a country ... what were the rest of the gazillion folks doing? Supporting the screwups?