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Thanks PG. I've have the same idea about this economy problem and startup. This article gives me to lots of passion! I'll send this link to all of my co-workers.

p.s. Can I translate this article to korean?
> I certainly am not going to lawyer up aggressively.

I think what they're saying is that you and your partner both go see the lawyer, together, and sit down and work out the details, not that you get a lawyer on your own. The idea is that you first discuss what kind of terms you want, and then the lawyer helps make that a legal reality, and maybe helps you think of things that you hadn't considered.

By the way, it's an inspiring story: the fact that you didn't "get rich quick" makes it more real, something anyone could do by trying hard and with a bit of luck.
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What's the point of owning your own stock market?

Folks won't buy on your market if prices are lower elsewhere. Folks won't sell on your market if prices are higher elsewhere. Yes, there will be momentary discrepancies, but DE Shaw will drive them to 0.
You can't just ask people how much sleep they want. You have to test how they actually ARE, say by looking at white blood cell count, cortisol levels, memory retention, problem solving, and compare different baseline levels of sleep on such terms.

What I would like to know is what length of sleep a sedentary adult needs, whether that need N can be met by say (N' < N/2) at night and (N'' < N/2) during a day nap, and what (hopefully positive) affect can be had on reducing that need by say, exercise, diet, or sun exposure.
They probably don't risk money they can't afford to lose. But if you figure an angel invests 20% of his money in startups, and the stock market comes along and reduces his total net worth by 20%, how much is he going to invest now? How much if he invests 10% in startups and the stock market hits him for 30%?

It may not be 0, because he may have had other expenses and investments that he prioritizes angel investing over, but it probably won't still be 20%. The total dollar amount he'll be willing to stick into high-risk investments will probably decrease.

I'm talking on average, of course. Each individual will vary according to their net worth, lifestyle, investment philosophy, etc.
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I've been working on my start-up, wyDay ( http://wyday.com/ ), for the last 4 years. My main product is wyUpdate, a partially open source partially for-profit updater program. The post I put up this morning explains it best ( http://wyday.com/blog/2008/open-source-wyupdate-keep-your-users-up-to-date/ ).

The 4 years I've been working on the start-up hasn't been continuous - I've been simultaneously earning my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. That's my excuse for ignoring the Paul Graham credo: "release early, release often."

What do you guys think? Namely, what do you think about me releasing a Windows program in the era where Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing are the buzzwords of choice?

What do you hate?
I'll let you email me since I don't see any link to your email address: owkaye (at) gmail (dot) com.
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I stopped reading after the wolverine slide.

Seriously though, it's this type of stuff that helps me open up TextMate for another day of hacking. It's not so much the content that matters, it's the shot of "Yeah, let's do this".
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I'm not sure this is good advice. You have six months of savings - six months of savings for where you live in Australia. What does that translate to Bay Area money though? In other words, what is the cost of living increase? I'd assume it's a minimum of 10% and maybe as high as 35%. That's going to reduce your run rate. Also, how much will it cost to move out there? I'd assume that would be two months worth of your savings....
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So we have to start a war or something to get respect? Is that what the invasion of Iraq was all about?

There is absolutely no reason, other than bickering and incompetence, that the European powers couldn't be operating an airlift capability equivalent to or better than the US C17 Globemaster fleet. If we were we could have saved countless lives in the wake of the Asian tsunami. The only people in the world able to undertake a massive logistical undertaking at short notice is the USAF.

Militaries do an LOT other than blowing stuff up.
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He said this guy's been a friend for 15 years now. Whatever happens, he gets value. He either gets a part in a growing business, or, less likely, he gets to discover that a "friend" is not really a friend at all. Both valuable in their own ways.

All that said.. original poster, get everything formalized ASAP!
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> Apple wants to eat its cake and have it, if they can.

I'd say that makes Apple more like a Merecedes-Benz of the computer world than Porsche. Porsche produces extremely high end cars for under 1% of the market. Mercedes-Benz produces high quality "prestige" cars but still wants large market share.

Given that Jobs even drives a Merc, I think there's something to this comparison ;-)
Hey that sounds really good, open source gaming platform! Even though I don't play games much, sounds like a lot of people will like it...but....

How are they going to make money???

o.0
Trying to move attention away from the ridiculous and nationalistic parts of your post to a part of it that was less so, isn't going to work. Take a look over your post again and I'm sure you'll see the portions of it that refer to.

The fact of the matter now is politics doesn't run on altruism. If you truly believe that there isn't an overwhelmingly large portion of your establishment doing their damn best to make sure the US stays the one and only true super power and that their reasons for doing this are not largely selfish, then you are lost, my friend. Call it "stability" if you like, but it doesn't change what it really is underneath. Need for control, the desired end product being alleviation of fear. I have a problem with anyone telling me they know what's best for me.

Smart people in the rest of the world try hard to make a distinction between the US government and the US people (especially at the moment), maybe you should start doing the same.
Where Erlang really shines in all this is that they also have a scheduler built into the system, so that you can handle "long running calculations" without 1) blocking the whole thing up, or 2) having to use threads.
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He'd look like Ron Paul.
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That's an incredible story. What a concise look at the drive that Jobs puts into Apple employees. And, from what Apple's been churning out, it seems to work.

I also recall hearing that Apple engineers didn't think the iMac was technically possible, and Jobs made them build it anyway.
That's the post I mentioned. So true.
It's so funny, it deserves to be put up twice!
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1) read all courses in http://www.erlang.org/course/course.html
then do the exercises in http://www.erlang.org/course/exercises.html

2) read official Getting Started manual http://erlang.org/doc/getting_started/part_frame.html

3) learn about erlang OTP http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/part_frame.html

4) this book is a MUST get! "Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World" by Joe Armstrong http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang

good luck!
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Yes it really is a great book!

However, it is by no means a suitable book for people who haven't programmed anything yet, the author assumes that you are already familiar with coding.
So for absolute beginners the book is probably way too difficult.
I'm not sure of the relative efforts applied to the Asian Tsunami. I didn't think that the US devoted a great deal of their military capacity to the problem. Of course the US. unlike Europe, actually shares an Ocean with Asia so it would make sense for them to offer more help.

You seem to have a very indepth knowledge of the logistics of these situations. Perhaps you could explain what happened to the rescue effort in New Orleans when Huricane Katrina hit?
you are absolutely right, my friend. i'm starting up right now, and am looking forward to the challenge.
Existing startups will probably have a hard time trying to decrease the burn rate and at the same time growing traffic.

On the contrary, potential startup founders will have more reasons to think of their projects as businesses - trying to grow revenues, not traffic. And to get revenue, you have to solve real problems.
That was certainly the case with China.
Thanks a lot for this tip! I sense that I am going to use that extension a lot.
Also, eInk is not OLED.
100% true, but as everyone is doing such concepts, the value of a particular one is rather low. Few ones get implemented, and these are what's really valued.
One of our projects in the algorithms class back at uni was to implement a skiplist and assess its performance.

While skiplists are indeed simple to implement and do have log(n) average time for most operations, they're an example of theory and practice being the same in theory but not in practice.

The real-world performance of skiplists is worse than that of B-trees, especially when you have costly comparisons. They also don't maintain as much locality and will thrash the cache more.
They're interested in who you're writing to almost as much as they're interested in the content. Encryption won't help with that.
These are the best of times.. these are the worst of times..

For sure, these are not average times.. :)

Thanks Pg, keeps our spirit going!
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[to the tiny minority of fellow 40+ HWers] Intuition comes from being open to it, which comes from doing new things. I'm sure that as we get older, there is some decrease in mental flexibility and energy - but a big part of it is a choice to be less daring, less open.

By analogy: it seems inevitable that old age means loss of bone density. But a study gave some menopausal women weight training - yielding dramatic (50%) increase in bone density. Use it or lose it.
No. Thanks for the tip.
I've no idea what "simply indenting the whole line" could mean other then "simply indenting the whole line". :)
Sure, but most people here are still too deeply inside the American Dream, and if you wake them up, they get a little nervous...

The US is really getting old already, and for sure they will be the last ones to recognize it... (as it always happens with declining things).
Does anyone have an example of a better education system? I remember being kept in line with the curriculum until the point I realised I could learn easier myself - has anyone experienced a "good" school? Where does one find such a place?
I don't particularly want more sleep, but I would like to be less tired all the time; how does that factor into his question?
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I wasn't suggesting that nobody new will crack it. Just that very few will. 2 qualifies as very few.
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Rather perfectly modal
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No; large empires generally collapse from within.

But Constantinople was by no means an empire when the Ottomans took it. By that point it had shrunk to a
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people from the US need to understand that when you argue that it is right for you to be 'the superpower' you are also arguing that the rest of the world should be subservient

I'm not American. Not one bit.

Except in the sense that we in the western world are all americans to some extent.

Also, although America may not be very good at holding up to its own promise, at least it symbolises freedom, democracy, etc. If America's not the superpower, who do you suggest? China? Russia?

America may have flaws, but, like capitalism and democracy, it's still better than the alternatives.
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Interesting article, but it does not prove the assertion in the title.

Grigori Perelman was already exceptional in his teens.

If one does not get the basics(meaning calculus, linear, discrete math) down pat by 20, IMHO, one doesn't have much of a chance at serious math discoveries by later age.
> I got used to the idea that somebody, somewhere in the project, feels that the sky is falling and the project's about to end

yes I go through that on a weekly basis. Its mild manic depressive, but you can ignore people like me. Fight on.
I actually use Enigmail (although only for signing, as nobody else I know even has a public key) but FireGPG looks damn cool. I've been wondering for a while how best to handle webmail encryption, given that you don't want the server involved. Looks like they've nailed it with FireGPG.
Just use a GPG frontend. Like many GNU tools, I don't think it's indended to be used on its own, but designed to be integrated into a bigger solution.
This is of course true; I haven't looked into it, but I vaguely remember reading something about SSL extensions for SMTP for mail delivery, which would encrypt even the preamble and headers; not sure how best to guard against man-in-the-middle attacks in that scenario, however.
I'm definitely going to try to make it to this.
I don't think so. One large factor in the decline of empires is when they get too big for the communications technology of the time to handle, i.e. if it takes too long for a message or an army to travel from one end o the empire to another.

The British, Spanish, French, Mongol, Ottoman and Roman empires all suffered from this, to some extent.
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perfect, it sounds like you are a lot more far along than you originally sounded to be... there's nothing wrong with being trusting, it's just that the longer things go, the larger potential burden it becomes on the friendship, and by sorting things out, it sounds like you're on the right track :)
You are making the same mistake as many Americans in equating the values of freedom and democracy with being American. There are many other countries of the world that are at least as democratic and free as the US. Nor is America the originator of western democracy. America just happens to be the largest and loudest.

Why does there have to be a single superpower? It doesn't make sense and it isn't sustainable. With 20-25% of the world GDP the US just can't do it even the world wanted it to (which it generally doesn't).
I don't think you will find such people online. Certainly not the sort of people who could touch type, let alone participate in an online community.
In your search did you find any other examples? The original comment said "all the time". That's a very different reading from mine and I'm frankly not sure where it comes from. Even that essay you cite, the quote is a tangent. It's not the central thesis.
Early education is slow for a tiny minority of people. You can't change the system to suit the most priviledged. That's a fast track towards creating a two-tier society.

If a child is so clever, he can read books himself and he can skip grades. But if a child is lagging behind, he requires help from others.
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In the short term, the financial crisis won't affect America's position at the top (after all, it currently spends as much on its armed forces as the rest of the world combined).

In the long term? According to the IMF in 2007 The USA's GDP was 13.84 T$ whereas China's was 3.25 T$. If China's economy grows at 6% faster than the USA's (i.e. 9% versus 3%) they will surpass the USA in GDP in 2031.
Skiplists are for most CS students their first and maybe only introduction to a data structure where the theoretical math comes out beautifully (impossibly?) small, and gets beaten by some variation of the binary tree if you actually try it in real life. There are a ton more, many of which I learned about from that same lecturer. Fun to talk about and toy with, but you'll never need Y-fast Tries in your day-to-day.
I am not sure where you get your information from. It is my understanding that Python is one of a few languages used at Google and is used quite extensively. If I am not mistaken GMail and Youtube are Python applications. The fact that they do use Python may have something to do with having the creator of the language on the payroll.

I won't dispute the popularity of PHP, but I believe you are very much mistaken about the popularity of Ruby for web development. I would be surprised if it was even in the top 10. Our view is probably a little skewed since a lot of the people on HN and popular blogs are alpha geek types. There are lots and lots of people still using things like ASP and Java for development.

Do you have anything to back any of this up?
> The current non-US big fish (India, China & Europe) are just not converting GDP to militar/politcal power very well.

You could look at this a different way and say that perhaps the US is relatively militaristic. Wouldn't it be better for the world if we could minimise militarism and military spending in general? To me it looks like that is the direction these non-US big fish are trying to move in.
There's certainly an element of truth in what you say.

I think most of the customers for the $200 computer would be new customers, not existing Apple customers. And over time, after having used a Mac they might buy another more expensive one later on. (Particularly if their experiences with Mac OS were better than witrh Windows).
I don't know a better education system. However, one of my friends in the graduate Mathematics program at Wake Forest was 18 when I was an undergrad there. I don't think he went to special schools. Certain districts let children skip ahead; most make them sit in class, earn all-A's, and suffer boredom.

My friend is now 22 and close to finishing his PHD. He should start his period of productivity at a young age. I know anecdotes are not data, and maybe he is unusually bright for an unusually bright person. However, it is certainly possible for a Mathematically inclined person to start a career early in the modern era.

I have Hawkin's book "God Created the Integers". It's been awhile since I've read it, but I remember that more than a few of the famous mathematicians he profiled were tackling hard problems at a young age. They certainly weren't still taking Calculus I when they were 18.
Nor is America the originator of western democracy

Just curious, were there other western democracies in 1776 when America was founded? Or are you referring to ancient examples like Athens?
> Apple will NEVER ship a third-party Linux.

I agree. I don't think that they will either. My argument was not that they will, but that it would be in their interests if they did.

Apple often behaves like this, e.g. the original Mac didn't have an expansion slot, even though it would've been in Apple's interests to include one.
Why are colleges able to cater to people of all abilities whereas our early education can not?

It is a fallacy to think that we must have one system for everybody.