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The last to enter a space doesn't generally sue the incumbents, it's true.

Your point also holds true of Apple, and many of the other companies on that chart who only began to play this game after attacked.
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The war on drugs is only 0.5% (approx. $18 billion) of the Federal budget (approx. $3,456 billion), so it's inconsequential to our debt crisis.

I whole heartedly agree that drug prohibition should be repealed, and that we need to put an end to the war on (some) drugs.

But, the military, social security, and medicare comprise approx. 70% of the budget, so it's really not going to help us solve the debt.
The interesting part is who is paying the credit rating companies... usually, it's the emitter of the bonds[1]. The emitter can be a state, a local region or some other organization. The emission of the bound is quite often managed by a financial organization. So the interface between the bond, the credit rating company and the state is "a financial organization". Of course, they don't have any conflicting roles in working in the field...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies#CRA_busi...
That's part of democracy isn't it? We might be better off if we only let highly educated people vote and only after they passed a series of intelligence and psychological tests but we don't do that. As long as essential spending was covered I do think it would lead to a better allocation of federal dollars simply because it would add an additional check & balance to the system.

You could now (effectively) vote for a candidate or party and through your allocation of tax dollars keep them on a leash. It would allow for a more nuanced political system. For example I might vote for a deficit reducing Republican but I don't trust them to keep their hands off the EPA so I give environmental protection 50 points. Maybe I vote for a Democrat but I still think the deficit is really important so I put 50 points on deficit reduction. This would add a whole new dimension to politics and give some power back to the people. It would in my opinion make the commons relevant again. As it stands today I think many Americans are feeling like their vote is no longer all that important. You get two choices, you vote for one or the other, pat them on the back and cross your fingers. That's just not good enough. By controlling a few hundred billion dollars of the budget we might find ourselves on equal footing with PACS, lobbyists, media tycoons, etc.

Of course there are a lot of practical details I didn't address. It may be this could only cover domestic discretionary spending, or perhaps you could only allocate your tax points every 2 or 4 years to provide for more stability and of course for long-term deficit reduction it would have questionable value since the overall level of spending/revenue would still be playing a central role.
<i>The program is popular and self-sustaining.</i>

Social Security was <i>never</i> self-sustaining. It's doomed by demographics and has been since the day it was enacted.
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That's probably because the market thought they hit rock bottom. Markets like uncertainty less than bad news, so they are much happier knowing about the downgrade.
Perhaps it varies by area? I'm in Wisconsin and I've been using 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 since I started getting service from Charter about a year ago, and I've never had a problem with it. Of course, doing that means I never noticed that they hijack NXDOMAINs, which definitely drops them a few notches in my eyes. I've had other ISPs do that to me; it's kind of infuriating.
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While the entire thing is written from the perspective of a fighter, I think the information is subtly relevant to everyone in this modern age.
Clearly Sandler Sales Tech and just winging it are not the only two options. Understandably, it's important to get your sales team up to speed, and using various sales systems might help, but the team itself should really be the focus in which to discover the speed. Mentoring, performance transparency, strategic incentives, and regular recognition of top performers will have more benefits that some 'off the shelf' system. What I found most revealing was that when the sales team was flying blind without a marketing plan, no matter what system they were using (hello cold calls?) they were spinning their wheels. Instead, building a comprehensive marketing / sales program resulted in better client outreach. This reinforces the basic fact that every product or service should have a marketing plan attached to it to lay the groundwork for the sales process that follows. And that question is simply answered by asking 'Who wants it, and how will we best let them know about it?'. To that answer, I doubt - cold calls 'brrr' - will ever be a top choice. Otherwise, thanks for sharing your team members stories.

ps. here are the 2 starred reviews from the 'you can't teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar' book (what kind of title is that anyways? Surely you CAN teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar. How better to teach a kid? By having them read a book? Maybe it should be called 'you can't teach a kid to ride a bike by reading a book'. Regardless, my point is that some of these concerns appear rather valid (though I've not read the book myself.)

http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Teach-Ride-Bike-Seminar/product-r...
there's a line between holding patents for (ostensibly) defensive purposes and actively using them for litigation against your competitors. The article that you didn't bother to read makes this point somewhere in the middle.
Maybe it's just me, but this article makes no sense. It defines "IT," but that's about it. Nothing about how the value is calculated, productivity is measured, what changed over the decades, nothing.

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This is interesting. I'm just out of college and from central Massachusetts, a place that I can best describe as "incredibly boring" (but with pretty good public schools).

However, Silicon Valley doesn't appeal to me at all. San Francisco? Sure, that's appealing, but it's not really "the Valley" (correct me if I'm wrong here). Even if it is, it's still not as appealing as Boston/Cambridge or New York.

I've been to the (non-SF) Valley. To me, it seems like home, but a little denser and with more money. There's still a lot of sprawl. You have to drive most places (I have very little interest in owning a car currently - I don't have $20000 on hand and I'm not interested in debt). BART seems kind of, well, sad, compared to the MTA or MBTA. I guess there's the advantage of being able to easily bike year round, but I would still need to bike a lot further.

It's a nice place, I certainly won't debate that. And I would appreciate a place where me saying "Cocoa" didn't bring chocolate to most peoples' minds. But I don't think it's for me.
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Doctors don't have to serve that patient population... they choose to. (It is a huge % of the market though)

It's not medicare, but there have been instances where hospital systems have dropped (or threatened to drop) medicaid because accepting and dealing with it became too onerous.
Point 3. I don't know who these cool people are that you're talking about, "liberals" I assume. I find it hard to believe they will call you heartless if you socialize your health care to make it cheaper and available for all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_health_expenditure_p...
>The conclusion we can draw from all this math is that overwhelmingly, people look at the top left of a website before moving on to other features. That’s where they expect navigational information to go; it’s where they expect to orient themselves. It’s also where you can capture their attention; and it’s where you should put your stuff.

And yet, GazeHawk's navigational info is at the top right. :)
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There will always be plenty of jobs:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ErEXMCudMZ4C&lpg=PA77&#...

If we run out of jobs, people will start wearing coats made of auditable solved captchas or something, just to prove that they commanded more human labor than the next guy.
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> The Cool People will double down. They will continue to double down until it is physically impossible for them to continue doing so.

That's why in some ways, watching the government on the brink of default is exciting. For once there's nothing the Cool People can do.
The only problem with slashing military spending and ending foreign interventions is that it has been just that spending, and those interventions, that have made the US the economic powerhouse it is today. The US has a history, stretching back well over a century, of launching military campaigns to support corporate interests. Be it South America, the Middle East, or Asia, the US has invaded countries and toppled governments time and again in support of its economic goals. Now, I think this is reprehensible, but I also wouldn't be so naive as to say that the path to economic recovery lies in an end to military adventurism. The US is rich for the same reason Rome, England, and Spain were: they won their riches at the the end of a sword.

The American military budget is clearly unsustainable, but that doesn't mean an end to foreign wars is in their economic interest. It's no coincidence that the US has been both the most prosperous nation on Earth, as well as the most aggressive, for nearly 200 years.

Take a look at the history of US military actions on Wikipedia [1], and see how many times the phrase "protected American interests/property" is mentioned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_milit...
1. Your site looks great. It's a technical site, nothing more is really needed. I'd encourage you not to waste your resources on making it look nice. Launch instead. Your audience isn't buying eye candy.
2. Don't just describe your service and technical solutions, show it. Show it graphically, show it with video. Make the data clearer.
3. Don't listen to this marketing mess. It will be technical people who are evaluating your service, provide them with the information that they need to make an informed decision.
4. Talk to your potential clients. Ask them what they need to determine your value, and provide that. Then charge appropriately. If your cost to them exceed your value to them, then you are in the wrong business. If not, be clear and straight forward and you'll do fine.
Ask HN: Average start-up salary & equity (Silicon Valley)?
Not being from California, help educate a mid-westerner on tech start-ups in San Francisco and the surrounding areas.

What can an experienced nerd earn (in $ and equity) in the following positions?

- Back-end developer

- Front-end developer

- Project manager
Yahoo has a massive user base that almost rivals Facebook and is still one of the top 5 websites on the planet.
1. 85% of the $14 Trillion deficit over the past 3 years was not any items you described but these items:

-TARP

Until we decide to have the bank lobbyists pay for their transgressions we will continue to be in deficit no matter what entitlement cuts are passed.

Two options:

Right now individuals pay 2/3rds of gov expenditures not corporations.

1. Reform corp tax law. There should be no Google or MSFT only paying 5% instead of the full 30% corp tax.

2. Reform internet sales tax. If states have adequate tax revenue than the Education and Medical entitlements on the Fed level can be cut back.
Debuggers can help identify race conditions by giving you insight into the state of the process at the time of the break. The reason they're superior to printf's in this regard is that debuggers can signal breaks on conditions without requiring a recompile. In general, debuggers are superior because of this. Good debuggers aso let you ask questions on the fly inside a stack frame, something printf-stuff can never do.

Of course, I didn't say nor mean to say that ALL race conditions are identifiable in this way, only that it can make the results more visible for some of the more obvious cases.
S&P is the same agency that rated AAA mortgage backed securities. not exactly a brain trust over there. my guess is they took this route for publicity.

again the same group that rated a bunch of debt AAA when it was junk. what is their motivation?
Eric Eldon hitched his wagon to Facebook and just sold his company for $14 million. So much for being wrong 5 years ago.
The best line from the release:

"We are sure that, unknowingly to us, that our processing system has been used for nefarious purposes."

How can you be sure of something that is unknown to you? They're trying to disclaim responsibility while acknowledging the reality of what BTC is used for in some situations, I suppose, but it's a very strange way to phrase it. Then again, they're in "receivership" but declining to appoint an actual receiver.
I would assume there is a greater emphasis placed on equity, but how much?

(The typical "pay is competitive and the equity is generous" line in most ads isn't very descriptive.)

Thanks in advance for the start-up 101 lesson!
You do realize that most Treasury IOU's are also called bonds, right? There are also two trust funds that comprise social security: the old-age fund and the disability fund. They each buy special issue securities from the government, but have also bought public bonds in the past. The securities have always been paid back with interest. If the Federal gov't ever didn't pay one of these securities, it would be a default by the gov't.

It would be interesting if these funds could invest (limited amounts) in some other type of security, but for now, they are limited to Federal securities. Imagine the sway on the market a $2.7 trillion fund would have.

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html#n7

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/specialissues.html
"- It doubles the number of flags of the program."

I don't agree with this. One of the advantages of command line programs is that you can have a large amount of possible arguments, but it doesn't really matter for the user, as long as there is some way to give the most common (like --help and --long-help, or listing the important options in the man page, then have a full list) . This is where GUI's fall down, you must process all options to get to ones you want; where as command line programs can have just the options you want set mentioned. (have you seen mplayer's man page lately?)

As well as having negating arguments, you also want long versions. This is so, when used in scripts, the arguments passed to a program make some kind of sense.

With your precedence argument, just look at some of the standard tools. For rm, -f will override -i. I want this behaviour, personally. It seems 'obvious' that it should be that way.
You don't think that Mark Zuckerberg's "vision" has anything to do with the precedent set by prior entrepreneurs, including Larry and Sergei? Think about the consumer-facing internet companies that existed prior to 1999 when Larry and Sergei were in the early stages of their company versus what Zuckerberg had to look back on in 2005. A lot changed in those intervening years between 1999 and 2005.
The 'funnel' is not the problem, it's the blindness that is. With sufficient information, chose the right competing funnels, and let sales carry you the rest of the way. With insufficient information, it's more like a 'meat grinder' than a funnel.

So don't hate the funnel, hate the bad marketing material that has no technical relevance to your concerns, and the clueless sales force that does its clients a disservice every time they answer a question or make a technical promise.
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How much of the patient population does Aetna have a "monopoly" on? How about Keiser? Medicare most certainly does not have a monopoly on healthcare. Not for any reasonable definition of "monopoly".

And again, doctors do not have to accept Medicare. It doesn't matter how "monopolistic" Medicare is. There's no force that makes doctors accept it. They can simply decline to accept Medicare just as they can Aetna. If Aetna pays below the rate a doctor is willing to accept, then they simply don't work with Aetna. The same applies to Medicare.
There is no silence vs noise problem. Send output to STDOUT and "noise" to STDERR. Use -q and -v when appropriate. I thought it was weird that the author created a false dichotomy between being informational and giving only output that can be easily processed.
Rtfa. The main premise is that the issue Google is raising is one concerning antitrust law, not patent law.
software contractor here who occasionally hires other contractors:

IMO the key to contracting is breaking up everything into very small milestones and releasing payment on completion of the the milestone. Start with a very small part of a project and set aside a few hundred dollars. The milestone should be due in 2 - 5 days with some penalty or even no payment for being late. Pay immediately if possible and have the contract go to the next larger milestone for more money. It's best if the first milestone doesn't require wading though much old code. If the contractor can't complete the small milestone on time, they won't be able to do the bigger milestones. Let them know this ahead of time. If possible, only sign the contract for the first milestone. Break up a big opaque risk into a series of very small, closely monitored risks.

1. could be that your SW is too bad or complex but not enough info. One thing with references is that being a good contractor is very different than being a good programmer. Scheduling and client communication/management are actually
the hardest part of working as a contractor. It could be as simple as the contractor being talented but not working hard enough or procrastinating on the project.

2. If I had to guess he's probably not on vacation. He's probably working on another project with a client that either pays better or he has a longer/better relationship with. This happens all the time. As a contractor, there have been days where I've gotten 10 proposal for
doing work. If you're not careful with scheduling it's very easy to take on too much work. Again breaking things up into very small milestones with clear due dates can save this. Make sure you do your part and pay the contractor immediately.Your project will become the "emergency"
job that he pushes others aside to complete since the path forward is clear and he knows he'll get the money right away. If it's on elance or odesk let them know you'll have to give them a bad review if they can't fix it. Don't give them a bad review on your personal blog as it will make good devs nervous about working with you. Clients who have had problems with contractors in the past are likely to have them in the future as well.

3. You're looking in the wrong places or you're not paying enough or you're scheduling the job incorrectly. I have some reliable contractors I can recommend if you ping me nm1161@gmail.com
I think indirect costs are higher than that. Prisons, for example, cost over 60 billion a year. Legalize cannabis, and I guess you can easily cut that by 25% (I know those costs probably are not federal, but do not think that matters. If your kid overspends, your family suffers)

Also, the 'It is only a small fraction' argument is weak. If you really try, you can cut the entire budget into smaller parts.
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I believe this incident probably is the reason for the drop in price, along with the incident at Bitomat just before. It's just people reacting to vulnerabilities in the market though, so far there has been no evidence to suggest any of these bitcoins have been sold. If they were to be sold off in bulk then it would cause a much larger crash.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate
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This is a great follow up article as well: http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/

Create a text adventure game in Prolog. A great class project. See if you can get them to add networking to it and you can make a MUD!
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> I am a free user, but I would pay for a $5.00/month plan.

How many products have flopped because of the gap between what potential customers claimed to be willing to spend and what customers were actually willing to spend?
That's not what it means. Look into P/E ratios (especially when they're calculated by dividing market cap by annual earnings). A P/E of 10-17 is normal.

You're assuming that market cap is based on yearly earnings, which is simply wrong.
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I think the difference is that technology, now, allows for far better distribution of effort around the globe. Previously, as you mention, technology was uplifting silo'd productivity - but was not allowing for whole industries to be either globally distributed (information based industries) or remotely centralized (agriculture exports).

We now have sufficient technology in all areas to allow for both; the global distribution of knowledge working, sufficient advancements in production technology to increase output efficiencies in specific areas that centralization of output for the global economy can occur (e.g. agri output from say brazil supporting a large % of global soybean consumption - and manifacturing in China supporting a large % of global doohickey consumption)

We are reaching a change in the overall model of economies, where previously each nation was duplicating a large portion of the industries as their production was only enough for internal consumption.

If you look at the entire planet as a single resource zone, then naturally you will have uneven distribution of resources, production, knowledge, etc... thus uneven distribution of labor to support this.

If we could see a heat map of the globe's resources to people to markets to [name a factor]... etc. but weighted by their pull in each direction, then maybe we could better model how the global economy really looks.

Extra Credit: weight the flow of this map to energy dependence and you'll really see how fragile this little world is.
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No, they haven't; if you open it in a new tab the referrer goes (at least in Safari), so you get 'false' - just click on the link in the same window and you'll get 'maybe'.