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Is that just a hunch? I'd be excited to see WebKit on the BlackBerry as well, but I haven't heard anything about it.
Nothing I have read indicates that was the case. I believe Raganwald above is mostly correct. The major roll that government played, is that by setting the precedent of "too big too fail" starting twenty years ago, and by setting interest rates too low, it enabled Wall St to play with far more risk than was wise.
Ok. You'll not only be killing the hedge funds but you'll also be killing the ETF issuers who needs to short sell in order to keep the ETF price in line with the underlying basket of stocks (Some ETF issuers use OTC swaps but at the end of the rope, some party still need to short the stocks to keep the price efficient)
I would argue that this was a political driven decision rather than an economical one.
Well, to choose the one that most obviously addresses Tim's challenge, CO2Stats.
...but i'm not a PC.

oh well, still pretty decent commercials and any response to the mac guy ads is better than nothing.
If you can find a consistent stream of buyers. Good luck with that one.
How so? They buy it, then spend 1 month reading through the code and another month (at least) integrating what they can with their own codebase.
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I'm taking that into account. HDTV's, laptops, iPods, etc, don't take many man hours to produce. My point was that the man years of labor necessary to support a comfortable, modern standard of living are actually quite few.
You are getting it wrong, We are talking about Half a Billion Dollar worth Businesses not some tv shows. Are these Companies or products worth the money they are valued at, Are they creating sustainable businesses and products and Are they helping or improving technology and community as a whole.
Food is considerably more expensive than cable tv and cell phones.
This is a bit of a change in direction.

Normally, it's only the little guy that can recognise competitors in advertising. Apple can point at Microsoft because they are the challenger.

For an established dominant player like Microsoft to directly reference Apple, then it can backfire - it's giving Apple credibility and legitimacy to Microsoft's own customers. e.g. "If Microsoft want to respond to Apple, then Apple must be threatening them - maybe Apple is doing something right?".

So whilst these ads seem ok, there might be more subtle implications.
$200MM payout to top 3 MLCO exec? Seems like found money that ought to be taxed at something other than cap gains rate to me... http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/top-3-merrill-lynch-execs...
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I don't get it. What does that got to do with short selling? If they effect a blanket short sell ban, you're going to see quite a number of business going bust. The ETF business will be derailed. So will the options business. Companies shut down. People get laid off.

If they really want to stop the carnage inflicted on the financials, the should just ban short sells on the financial sector alone.
My apologies, I didn't know that existed. I use the RSS feed, so I never see the footer that is on the main page. I also tried a few queries, but http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+f... didn't exactly return anything useful :-)
It's too much of a coincidence that this move is effected a few days after McCain publicly chastised SEC Chairman Chris Cox and said he would fire him if he were president.
I believe the original author of JavaScript went to Netscape with the promise of doing "scheme" for the browser. It didn't happen, but he included some ideas from scheme as part of it.

See http://Weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/04/popu... for a brief history.
You're thinking of Balsamiq Mockups - or, if you're looking for one to mock up desktop applications (and aren't opposed to using software from the Evil Empre), Viso.
Alcohol & cigarettes. Board games. Movies. Also automobiles, radio, defense.
the 3D solar cell was invented at Georgetech a few years ago. The kid just happen to be getting hype because of his age...

http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/3d-solar.htm
One season of the 24 tv show can bring in over 200 million dollars in ad revenue.

Television and other ad funded entertainment are certainly not small business.
Are they asking rhetorical questions without the correct punctuation.
There might be no legal requirement to pay someone after firing them, but by convention you usually get one month of pay for each year on the job. That would make the US fifth on the list.
It isn't about building the app; its about logging into their portal and entering their UID in. After 100 UIDs are entered, you have to create a new identifier and rebuild the app to get around the 100-device limit.

If you really want to run unauthorized apps, you can just jailbreak.
Ya know, I get really frustrated whenever I see a bunch of armchair scientists work themselves into a lather criticizing the "sloppiness" of published research, based on nothing but a short blurb on a website.

Contrary to the belief of most indignant internet geeks, there's a lot more to scientific analysis than parroting "correlation vs. cause!" whenever data are presented. The fact of the matter is that, while correlation doesn't imply cause (that's the actual expression; it is rampantly mis-stated), a strong correlation is usually evidence that an underlying cause exists, whether direct or indirect in nature. Furthermore, there's not an accepted result in the history of science that doesn't depend on the analysis of correlations in observed data. Even falsifiability (that sexy buzzword of Popper-idolaters) depends on the collection of observations, and correlation of those observations with previous data. Thus, in a very real way, science is the study of correlations, and you can take the amateur correlation/cause pot-shot at any scientific result.

So, when a scientist points out that correlation does not imply cause, what she means is not that the observed relationship doesn't exist, but that the correlation could be caused by latent, indirect factors. This is a very different thing than suggesting that the result is invalid -- which is what most armchair, Popper-loving internet-scientist types are trying to do (including the parent posts).
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pi - 3.14159265358979 = 0, apparently.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pi+-+3.14159265358979
Ask YC: What to do when someone beats you to the punch?
You've come up with a good idea for a service and have done your homework. You believe there's a need for the product and can't find any company serving that need, so after a few months of planning you begin development. You can only develop after work, and you work late, but you're getting things done - albeit very slowly.

During the initial development phase, a company launches a similar service and beats you to the punch. The amount of press they receive is discouraging, but you shake it off and continue. A month later another service launches, but this time nearly identical to yours. Strangely, all of this occurs in the course of one summer.

In this particular case, you've completed maybe 50% of the total work necessary. You have a real concern that the service may be perceived as another drop in the bucket, the impact of a launch has been diminished, and the innovation you expected to leverage has been lost.

Now your choice is whether to keep going and see the project through OR stop and focus on a different project.

What's your advice?
This summary is more robust:
http://greensear.ch/2008/09/18/tim-oreilly-keynote-at-the-we...

And I found out through a Google Alert that O'Reilly mentioned Stormpulse.
sure they do. esp when you take into account inventing and bringing to market all the sustaining innovations (making hard drives smaller, better screens, software, etc. -- plus the operational overhead of coordinating all these millions of people's effort) needed for your iPod, laptop, etc. the number of man hours is staggering.
In reading some of the comments here, I wonder if O'Reilly's point is being addressed?

Most of the focus in the comments is on what makes a viable business model (ad-supported vs. pay-for-use) or a rational valuation (is Slide really worth half a billion?), but my reading made me think that O'Reilly was trying to get people focus on something bigger, specifically, is what you're working on worthwhile?

Like, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow, will you consider your life well-spent to have built that sheep thrower when you could have been doing something else?
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Yup Balsamic, that was it. Great software. Shame the SEO is so weak. Maybe the Google new site curse?
Hit back harder?
Out of curiosity, why go this route as opposed to using one of the jabber servers out there?
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Per item produced, the man hours are not that staggering. Here's my back of the envelop calculation:

A laptop costs about $1,000. Assume a $15/hour wage. That's about the average for most the electronics producing world, and it represents a balance between the wages of the engineers and the wages of assemblers. Make the generous assumption that 100% of the cost is labor. That adds up to 66 hours of total labor for my laptop. I probably own about $3,000 worth of goods total, and have no desire for anything more. That's about 200 hours of total labor - or 5 months. That will easily last me 5 years or more.
I would say keep going. It's more important that you focus on delivering a better product. The customer doesn't care who was first. Personally I think the "impact of a launch" is a bit overrated.

Besides, who's to say that the same thing won't happen to you again if you abandon this and try another project?
Pot meet kettle.
(sorry to any 37s fans)
It's comments like this:

"And there’s the Shuffle, which I’m not really sure if anyone ever purchases, but maybe it’s just for people who are too poor to buy the Nano and only own 3 CDs because most of their collection is still on 8-track."

That make me dislike Matt - there's just something about the tone of that statement.
Part of the motivation for inventing complex new derivatives is to create things that look conservative to the model but are actually risky.

Nailed it. Things like FX, commodities and equities are closed systems. These markets make their money by volume and it's not particularly interesting.

Take something like a CDS where you don't really know what the risks are and it becomes easier to set prices fairly arbitrarily. Maybe some cpty has a stellar rating. Does that mean they'll always be stellar? Who knows?!

But this is still missing the real killer. Leverage. Everyone forgot the lesson of LTCM.

It was a bitter irony that the only bank to tell LTCM "fah q!" was the first to go. It's not so ironic now that Lehman, Merrill and possibly Morgan are gone now too.
Maybe.

But Wikipedia is not the "list of all businesses in the world." It's not even the "list of all businesses that got mentioned by $X" where $X in Newsweek, Forbes,...

What has the company done that is special? Did it innovate in some special way? Was it involved in some notable affair? Is it the market leader in some domain?

If it's just another wiki farm that happens to have a PR department worth its money then it doesn't necessarily have to be listed in Wikipedia.

Note that I'm not saying that PBWiki shouldn't be listed (I don't know them, after all), but that I'm saying that hits on Google News don't imply that it _must_ be listed.

Deletions occur all the time. If you think an article got unfairly deleted, resurrect it and put in better citations.

On top of that, PBWiki is not even a competitor to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the wiki. MediaWiki is the software powering Wikipedia. PBwiki's software may compete with MediaWiki. PBwiki's hosting service competes with neither MediaWiki nor Wikipedia --- neither "product" is in the hosting business.
It was precisely because regulation was removed that the current conditions were possible...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act#Repeal_of_th...
Box.net and Dropbox weren't the first in a crowded market but they flourish nevertheless.

So keep going.
it depends too much on the situation. if you can solve the problem better or cheaper, why wouldn't you at least give it a go? at the very least, if you could release SOMEthing, it could be a portfolio booster or fodder for acquisition.

having said that, i had a startup in your situation, but i decided to ditch it. i couldn't compete with the new competition on price or initial quality. just working on the startup required overhead costs that were racking up and was too long from market to really use it as portfolio fodder.
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You seem to be stuck on the notion all of 4chan is full of jerks who want to destroy the Internet when it's quite the contrary. By the admission of the person quoted in the article, it's one message board out of the entire site that causes the most trouble.

But I think his point is that great things have come about completely by accident, and that's the same point I was trying to make. Great things have happened to take technology where it is today; sometimes by sheer chance and tomfoolery with what a hacker had in front of him. In no way is he calling Alexander Flemming a 'jerk'
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We've made way more through voluntary payments than ads.
I had a premonition really bad things would happen (not that it took a genius), but this really caught me by surprise.
There is also a free IDE: http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Feature... and in combination with the free Flex SDK (compiler et al) from Adobe then that's a decent combination, too.
>without new content, new advertisers, new businesses, new users, new ideas, they'll stagnate.

Or put another way, with diminishing content, crumbling advertisers, few new businesses, few ideas, and no new users, they'll get hurt.
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At least they got rid of the crescendo at the beginning.
Yes, because liberals and conservatives in the sense he is talking about are so amazingly different. How about we get real and start to talk about how we all want to control our neighbors. Both liberals and conservatives, in his definition, love aggression and guns.
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Nice looking plugin. Interestingly enough it runs slower in Chrome than in Firefox 3 on Vista.
This is pretty well done, although it's not really too much more than a "proof of concept".

I'd really like to see a lot more movement in this direction from online game developers, and it seems like we're just starting to hit the point where this is really feasible, so I guess we probably will.

No flash, no java applets. No more dealing with crappy or just unstable implementations of plugins on different platforms and browsers(just dealing with differing implementations of javascript and css on different browsers, which is also a bit of a pain, but it's getting better a lot faster.)

Edit: I just noticed this is from a year ago, and there has been quite a bit of game development using javascript. Good.
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Food is considerably more expensive than cable tv and cell phones.

you're changing the topic. the point is that people's baseline expectations keep rising.

your point is spurious because you reason that because a month's worth of food costs more than a month of cable tv, one should not sacrifice cable tv for food
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Now I think you're trolling, but I'll bite one more time. Virtualmin.
when you are rich, recessions are just a time to get assets on sale.

why pay top dollar to acquire a startup when you can get them for 80% off in six months? times like this are gravy for companies like apple and google, they have more than enough cash to ride out the apocalypse and buy up assets on the morning after
I don't know if thats true. For Microsoft, a company that's so big and should have so much to say about their new product, a reactionary approach to a smaller competitor seems somehow wrong.
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And a whole lot of "wait, what tree does this code map to again?"

With lisp, there's no difficulty mapping:

int main(int x) {foo()}

to

Method m = new Method(return:=new Type(int),
args := new ArgList(
new Arg(new Type(int),
new Name("x"))),
body := new Block(

.... I'm sure you get the point....

The syntax tree is apparent from the syntax.

(+ 1 2 (* 3 4))

Maps to:

'(+ 1 2 (* 3 4))
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the seo is not that weak, but the name is odd... spelled with a q instead: balsamiq
I think a good way is to sit down and write a parser from scratch (the probably take a look at a good implementation when you're done).
It has as much substance as a coke commercial.

What little I have read about ads suggests that its often based on emotional associations, not sales-talk.
This may not be a popular comment but I believe this article shows how Obama is different then the people he wants to represent.
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If you think your market is too small for two companies doing (roughly) the same thing, why go after that market at all? You will have competitors, if there is a market for something, at all. Your job is to move faster or better or both. If you can't do that, you won't win anyway...a competitor would spring up six months, or a year, later and eat your lunch.

Hell, the market we started with has had major contenders in it for nine years...and many more companies have come and gone in the space than currently exist.
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Well yeah - but it was more in response to "Google can be upbeat because they're Google and nothing can harm them". This simply isn't true.

Also, companies will tend to give out warnings if their business is coming under pressure (a lot of the time, but there are some pretty obvious counter-examples). The market is pretty brutal with nasty surprises.
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Other languages don't necessarily need 'real macro systems'

Lisp does, not just because it is so hopelessly low-level (for FP), but also because once you're using s-exprs it's hard to restrain anyone from mogrifying functions.

In a suitable language like Haskell where all functions are composed, using functional composition for everything instead of low-level fiddling with "statements as data" makes a shit-ton of sense. In Haskell you can also use supercompilation to resolve as much of the graph as possible at run time. No need for macros.

Don't think that other language communities want the warts from your language, just because you are so enthusiastic about them.
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Is it possible there is no hope for MicroSoft? It just seems that competing with Apple the way that they are is the wrong move somehow. Apple has a massively powerful emotional branding philosophy in play, shouldn't MicroSoft use it's rapidly dwindling might to chase and conquer a different market? They even seem a bit late to the cloud computing party as well, sure they are involved but they let so many other firms get a foothold. It's as if Apple and cloud computing platforms are doing to Microsoft what MicroSoft did to IBM.. Am I nuts here?
It'll be a great option for folks, but traditional CDNs do offer additional capabilities like streaming, which S3 cannot do right now.
Has anyone gotten the programs for CS106A to run under Eclipse in Linux or gotten the special Stanford version of Eclipse to run in Linux x64?
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ML and it's successors do not want for s-exprs.

They force an inappropriate fundamental data type on everything, and are only of benefit if you want to fiddle with the insides of extant functions.

Use composition like a real FPer. Learn that there's so much more to data than lists + atoms.
I don't see how they can legally do this. If I borrow some shares from my friend, and sell them (which is what shorting is) - what exactly are they supposed to do?

Prevent me from borrowing shares? Prevent selling shares?

It's between me and my friend about returning the shares to him later.

The only thing I can see is preventing naked shorts - i.e. sell the shares without borrowing them first, and promise to make good on it later.

But covered shorting? Unless you repeal capitalism, I just don't see how it's legal. Or even possible - I could make a website where people can borrow shares for a small fee. What could they do about it?

Can they make a law making it illegal to loan someone shares?
Continue. But it might be helpful for your morale to get into the habit of referring to the other company as "friendster"..
Um wow, it is freaking fast. I have never seen Reader, Digg or Gmail load that quickly. Perhaps I can wait for Chrome on the Mac. Someone should benchmark this against V8.
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He's got some excellent new commentary here:
http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/09/16/lehman-v-argentina/#c...
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