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an overlay would've been nice, scaled.
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Sequoia’s advice is good advice anytime
People used to think 0 wasn't a number. Then that the square root of 2 wasn't a number. Then that -1 wasn't a number. Then that 'i' wasn't a number.

There just isn't one official list of "what is a number". Real mathematicians will consider anything a number temporarily if it's convenient for them.

For anyone who cares, I recommend David Foster Wallace's book "Everything and More" for a great history of mathematicians' thoughts about infinity.
Wasn't that just a new UI, not a new OS completely?
The real article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeJt...
Agreed - might have gotten busy for 37 sites, but would be nice to see the points where some sites fell off. September does seem to be a rough month for several sites. FriendFeed isn't on there, but its traffic is off as well. Cyclical?
Ok! Thanks, great tool - a friend was interested
I understand that is not the author's meaning, but to me it is a valid point that has strong bearing on the argument.
How would that be "sticking with XP"?
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Searching the Internet increases brain function
well that's what mainstream economics is all about. Geopolitics even more so. But this article is about alternatives.
Government Is Good - How Regulation And Market Interference Make Our Lives Better
Hmmm actually, that's possible. I only remember hearing about Bob and seeing some screenshots. I wasn't fortunate enough to have bought a copy of it.
It's been several years since I have read about Maslow, but I think this is an incorrect interpretation.

The hierarchy is a pyramid because upper levels are built on top of the lower ones. Without fulfilling the physiological needs, you are unable to move up the pyramid. This makes very good (and common) sense: if you are starving, you won't have any cognitive excess to think about self esteem or spiritual fulfillment.

Maslow's theories have historical value and reflect their zeitgeist (explains much, predicts little), but they don't fit with the idea of "being grounded in the lower levels." It's not like you choose which level to stay at. Rather, fulfilling the lower levels enables entry to higher levels.

More relevant: Terry Gou, CEO of Foxconn (thank them for your Apples), said "hungry people have clearer minds." It fits with the interpretation that maintaining a survival drive can boost initiative, but again, I doubt this is Maslow.
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how helpful are "metaphors for things we think happen in the real world" if they aren't based in reality?

Metaphors -- in this context I'd call them "rules of thumb" -- are computable by humans in real time. Reality generally isn't.

Technically, things don't fall down. When I hold a brick above your head and then let go, you shouldn't just assume that you have to dodge. You should take note of all the massive objects in the vicinity and do a calculation using the law of gravitation. You might also do some energetic calculations to make sure that the brick won't just bounce harmlessly off of your head, or come to rest on it like a falling feather.

Or, you know, you can avoid thinking at all and just allow the circuits in your brain and spinal cord to get you out of the way fast so that you can live to argue another day. Those circuits embody a relatively crude theory of physics, and their design process didn't make use of a theory of physics at all, but they work to keep you alive.

What Krugman is saying is that, while economists would love to develop the economic equivalent of the law of gravitation (and some are even foolish enough to believe that they have) their first priority is to develop some rules of thumb that can tell us when to dodge, when to stand still, and when to wear a hard hat. And that can be used to explain, in simple terms, where the bump on our head came from. ("You stood under a metaphorical brick and failed to dodge in the Keynesian manner.")
The author missed a trick to unwind some of the self promotion by keeping the profile and exercising a bit of self defamation.
There are three gadgets I want to own before I die:

- Penny's computerbook from "Inspector Gadget".
- Al's handheld communicator from Quantum leap
- The jewel in Ender's ear.

I think the first two are very close now...
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A great take on the VC market, Kleiner Perkins I assume. Stuff moves so fast on the Web - it's just 2 years ago that I wanted to sell to Google, and now that's no longer an option. But I have other ideas up my sleeve which don't require Google acquiring them.
Not exactly how I read it but close enough - point I'm making is that the two are not mutually exclusive and the newspond interface doesn't "sacrifice" usability - it just doesn't implement do what needs to be done to make it both usable and pretty. The reason the post sucks is because he just says "pretty bad - usable good" which is just a crap argument - do both.
Imagine that there are two people, in the world: Joe and Bob. Joe and Bob need two things to live: A widgets and B widgets.

* Joe can make 10 A widgets in an hour, and 5 B widgets in an hour.

* Bob can make 5 A widgets in an hour, and 4 B widgets in an hour.

Joe and Bob need 10 A widgets and 10 B widgets each day to live. They are both lazy, and don't want to work more than they have to.

This is obviously a totally contrived model of an economy. Yet, you can work out that if Bob and Joe negotiate, each only pursing his own self-interest, they will eventually decide that Joe should concentrate on making A's while Bob should concentrate on making B's. Bob and Joe both wind up better off than they would be alone, even though Joe is better at everything than Bob! (Work out the math yourself, it's fun.) Thus, the silly assumptions teach us something very serious about trade and comparative advantage.
Microsoft's FUD-filled "Apple Tax"
Neither of which have turned much of a profit yet, AFAIK.
ha pr from a pr agency for itself... shouldnt that website just be a black hole?
What happened to www.NewMogul.com?
I've been really enjoying newmogul.com. What happened to it? When I tried to go there today, I get "This page has been parked for FREE by GoDaddy."
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Over 30 could be considered "old" from a child-bearing perspective. Risks of mis-carriage and birth defects start to skyrocket after ~33 for women. Still, I agree that the age comment only detracts from the core message of the post.
Have you failed recently?
A reasonable article, but I have my qualms with it. While it's true that the best time to spend on PR is when it's cheap (in the tradition of buy low, sell high), and that happens during a recession, it's not the last thing one should cut. If you got caught with your mouth open, PR is down there next to other low priorities, like design and marketing. So, to summarize, if you see a recession coming, save your PR and marketing money for when it hits.
I think what's wrong is the approach that a partner in life is some sort of trophy to be had. That's why his wife left him - she wasn't really in it for him, she was playing her role.

To succeed in love, find the one that loves you at your worst. That's my two cents.
Instead of sending 40 emails to those 40 webmasters, why don't you simply create the page and add good content to it?
Lessig's copyright proposal still misses the Gen-Y boat
The Tip'd startup recipe: Niche focus, community, and low costs
As far as I can tell from the Wikipedia page, there is no difference in the selection processes for the physics and economics prizes... All prizes are just the result of a committee's (and nominators', and screeners') opinions. In this respect, they are all equally valid.

For what it's worth, though, the committee members are selected by Norwegian/Swedish institutions, which are perhaps less likely to be swayed by political actions in the U.S.
Marketing trick from 1936: Danish man builds his store out of coats; sells them all
Bush’s New Copyright Czar Is Going To Do About As Much Good As His Drug Czar
Ask HN: E-mail providers and mail servers
I don't want to start providing e-mail service for my clients, but recent incidents with my current provider have driven me to take my business elsewhere, or roll my own.

What do you use for an e-mail provider, if you run your own servers for your app?

If you do/don't run your own mail server, why?
Depending on your requirements, Google Apps have been a pleasure to work with for a number of my projects.
I'm not an overly religious person, but doesn't Dubai strike anyone as being the modern day city of Babel? It seems that they have done something really well, but now are starting to get arrogant and cocky about this "tallest building" thing.

It seems to strike me as the poster child for the phrase "pride cometh before a fall". I certainly hope that doesn't happen, but it's the one thing I consistently think of every time I see these stories.
Somebody ignored his godaddy renewal emails, it seems.
Yeah, I would like something that is a little easier to manage for multiple domains, GA has no unified control panel, although I would gladly pay for one if it existed.
78 Ways for Your Small Business to Save Money in this Economy
Actually, no, the elbow in the curve is a little before the bailout crisis. It corresponds roughly with the first debate and with Palin's more or less disastrous interviews with Gibson and Couric. What seems to have happened since is a feedback reaction.
This sort of thing is not that complex to develop to be suitable for licensing.
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Pokemon: The Thief That Keeps On Thieving
The group meet a young boy who is chasing after a Yanma. They learn that he is a beginning trainer, just having started his journey. He tells them that he has been running after the Yanma for three days
You only need to train 90 minutes a day if you're going to be in some pretty serious -- not elite, but serious -- athletic competition.

If you're not already lifting weights, this will do you pretty good for about 4 months (no weights needed):

As many times as you can in 20 minutes, 3x a week:

10x deep squats

10x pushups

6x pull-ups (you may have to buy a doorway pull-up bar)

If you can't do 6 pull-ups, start with a lower number and work your way up. After 20 minutes of that finish with 10 minutes of abs & stretching.

Go on a 20 minute run 3x a week. Stretch afterwards. This regimen will take up just over 2 hours from your week, but I promise it will make a big difference.After 3 months of this you'll be pretty bored with it. If you want to save money on a gym membership and/or free weights of your own, buy a kettlebell & Google some workouts for that -- good stuff.
matt's post pisses on people who hold a lot of clout within the industry in which he operates for no reason other than to get traffic to his blog. this seems shortsighted to me. maybe i'm wrong. let alone the fact that sequoia is the firm that put out the deck while kleiner is the only VC that has openly eschewed web 2.0 investments. they have been investing in energy and mobile while others put money into the seesmics. kleiner won't even listen to pitches from 99% of web companies even if they have a solid introduction. but matt decided to take a very public piss on them. it's a very small world. and the difference in tone within the comments on this thread vs. the "sequoia: armchair quarterbacks" is laughable.
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LG KC780 will be LG's next cameraphone to be equipped with an 8 megapixel camera. This means good news for LG fans, since they will have yet another device that will enable them to take high quality photos.
hmmm, well they must have changed their minds then...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skill%5B2%5D

1 obsolete : cause , reason

2 a: the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance b: dexterity or coordination especially in the execution of learned physical tasks

3: a learned power of doing something competently : a developed aptitude or ability <language skills>

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Ask YC: Exchange hosting?
So our company has committed to going with Exchange. Yes, we have looked at alternatives, don't really want to get into a discussion on that.

Just curious if anyone out there has a hosted Exchange provider that they would stand behind?
Let's agree to disagree. You read a post where he pisses on people, I read a satire where he "takes the mick out of people." You perceive that his motivation is linkbaiting/trolling, it didn't occur to me to even consider his motivation one way or the other.

I will say this, though: According to my personal values, if he is wronging people, it ought to be wrong regardless of whether he is wronging the rich and powerful or wronging the poor and helpless.

Which is not to say that he wouldn't be burning bridges, but if I were to feel that he was wrong to publish this, I would feel that way on the basis of deciding that he was being mean or petty or spiteful or hurtful.

I guess I just don't see the people he is satirizing as perceiving themselves as being hurt by this deck. It could be a question of timing: I might feel differently about the exact same post if it came at a time when VC's were laying analysts off and we were treated to pictures of employees carrying their personal effects to their cars.
In other words, Cutting out an employee with $100k in salary is just as good as increasing net revenues by $100k.
I've been working on an online storefront product that should serve as a great starting point for web developers that need to roll some custom functionality for clients. All text can be multi-lingual, support for complex product options and pricing, multiple storefronts using the same code, and more. nothing to show yet, but more info here http://greaterscope.com
Krugman is obviously smart, as well as arrogant and a liberal shill. But that's not the problem.

The issue is that he, and the economics establishment led by Helicopter Ben, never met a rate cut they did not like. Cheap money and credit are the fix for every problem. Today many recognize Greenspan held rates too low for too long. At the time, Krugman opposed rate increases from those low levels. He and his ilk fail to see any connection between destructive booms and the cheap credit they promote.
FireFox on Windows Mobile update: fonts
This is an excellent perspective from a single founder (with child, no less) that will be helpful for bootstrappers.

On top of all that, the product seems pretty cool.
Cybercrime Supersite 'DarkMarket' Was FBI Sting, Documents Confirm
I think readwriteweb.com is looking for these stories...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_gritty_entrepren...
Is this not more of an east/west culture difference though? To be fair, North Americans are known for having and expecting a tremendous amount of initiative and opinion.

You see this everywhere from talk radio to the boardroom. I don't think a simple instruction to a team can change a learned culture overnight, no matter how well intentioned.
Think of it this way: It's not so much India's culture that is different from the norm, but America's.
And he has to take TicketStumbler to dinner. :-D
A Meditation on Boston, in HD video
I use the optical drive frequently, as I'm a netflix user and like "backing up" the movies I don't own. Besides, I use the MB+external monitor as a DVD player, anyway.
Let me get this right - this is a re-write of something on Google's blog, about a "Web2.0" equivalent to logging 404's, called "free links to your site"... why is this the top story on hacker news?

sigh

I want a "from now on, invert the votes of anyone who upvoted this crap" button.
And live under the rule of Palin? Oh god no!
Actually Reddit is probably in the minority of internet acquisitions that have worked. It was relatively cheap and it wasn't for "talent". Its traffic has been awesome since the acq.
sounds good. to be clear, i don't think his piss is actually having an impact and hurting anyone's feelings. more like he's pissing in the same spot where he's planning to sit and eat lunch.
I like how he emphasises buying from small local shops where you get to know people.

Sadly, I live in a country where people who operate this kind of small shops aren't that passionate about their work.
I think one line of thinking in acquisitions is not just to get control of a product, but rather to take that startup team under the Google wing.

I am a firm believer in the idea that the most important asset that a company can have is its employees - even Google. Granted - acquiring a company and forcing the employees to work within the Google system is a piss-poor way of getting someone to work for you, but ultimately, how else can you get those crazy entrepreneaurs to work for you?

This acquire-to-hire plan backfires all the time - under performance, stagnation of the acquired product, etc etc, but I can see the appeal to it. At least, in theory.
Personally, I run postfix and uw-imap (although there are many good imap options out there) on a dedicated server. It's easy, very solid, and I can do all kinds of neat tricks with it as needed. Plus if ever goes down, I can go in and fix it myself.
Brain's reaction to hand transplant
Apple's all-new MacBook Pro
John,

One thing that I would point out about the script you intend to write is that it requires an awful lot of maintenance (when sites change layout) and is frequently not very reusable. One solution that I tried is Mozenda (http://www.mozenda.com). The have all the stuff you're looking for (i.e. visual, browser-based tool, writing to XML) but also have error handling and notifications, so that if an agent breaks you'll know and be able to fix things inside the visual tool.
A Very Tough Day (Redfin lays off 20% of staff due to economy)
the president is just some idiot that we use for a single-point-of-decision-making and scape goat

Call me naive, but I like to think that this is the degenerate state of the office in question. It can be so much more, and not in the "opaque unitary executive" sense for which it has been abused lately.
The conclusion -- that we can tax most of a CEO's income and he will be just as happy -- ignores the fact that people do what they do because they think it will make them happy, not because it actually makes them happy.

Sure, you can tax that CEO down to a base-level salary, then prove via a survey that he was just as happy in a year's time. But what about the next CEO-to-be? He is willing to do extraordinary work for extraordinary rewards, because he thinks it will make him happier -- even though it won't. He may take a look at the heavily taxed existing CEO and decide that the extraordinary effort is not worth the modest rewards, even though he'd have been just as happy having made the effort. So he doesn't try as hard, and society as a whole is denied whatever product or service he would have created.

In general, some level of dissatisfaction is what drives us to better ourselves, and it's suspiciously convenient that we humans don't need much to be happy and yet always expect to be happier with more. Legislatively removing the incentive to pursue greater happiness -- even though it can be shown that we don't need it and can't get it -- is playing with a complex process that could have unintended consequences. Society's happiness as a whole could suffer.
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Along with the fact that he managed to make it work even though he's not in a startup hub. balsamiq is a dream startup!
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What I really want to do is buy one of these at about a 30% discount, sans MacOS, and run Kubuntu on it.
love the printed out LOLcat picture in the lower right-hand corner of the office picture - http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/13/ncfta_...
Most likely, it takes extra engineering investment to gain the weight and size reduction that you are hoping for by removing the optical drive. I mean, they could just put some kind of doohickey in that empty space to cover it up, but I really don't think that's what people want. From the design specs describing how the new MacBook/Pro is basically carved from a single hunk of aluminum (or something) it's probably even harder to engineer another form factor without the disk.

Or, more accurately, they already did and called it MacBook Air.
All I know is, this post made me check out Google WebMaster tools, and using the tool he pointed out I found a whole set of invalid links people had made to my site that need to be redirected. So it was valuable for me.
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(this is me)
Silicon Valley feeling ripple effect
In the great heat and confusion of battle, you see men cower, become smaller, or retreat into some psychological refuge. Then you see the few who rise up out of the smoke and fire like an avenging spirit, usually with a mad gleam in their eyes and a slight determined smile, taking great pleasure in engaging a worthy enemy.

Without a named source, this sounds much more like Internet Tough Guy talk ("oh yeah, if some mugger pulled a gun on me I'd just give him a roundhouse kick in the hand, duh!") than genuine advice on how to deal with adversity.

I suspect that the author has never really had to deal with "the great heat and confusion of battle", either literally or metaphorically. I haven't either, mind you, but I imagine someone who had would write very differently about it.
is anyone aware of any non-dating sites that do a good job of helping you meet other like-minded people?
I'm sure there's some of that too :).

Twisted really is awesome; we've been super happy with it. A little sad they wouldn't take our memcache get_multi patch (they said we hadn't written enough tests for it).
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Look at it this way -- the founders set the system up assuming everybody would try to game it. The system is built on the fact that the president will overreach, the congress will be fractious, etc. It is built assuming checks and balances are needed, not that only great people will serve.

Perhaps putting it that way is a little better for you? In my mind, the president is first and foremost an average citizen who is called upon to do some work for the country for a few years. I think if we forget the "average" part of that equation, we start expecting more and more of the office and crossing the line into hero worship. If the president becomes a hero or in any way messianic, we've lost the true meaning of the office. The point is that we're all qualified. It's a democracy.

Can we have presidents that we think did great jobs? Sure. But that immediately gets into opinion, which is politics by any other name. My great president is the night watchman, making sure the nation is safe but staying aloof. Perhaps yours is the architect, designing our society of tomorrow, etc. (Substitute various opinions of "good" and "bad" here) I'm not going to accept your position, nor your mine. So we vote on those poor schmucks that are big-headed enough to think they can do the job better than the rest of us.

If you think about it, it's a great system. It allows lots of conflict without violence, it allows one person to stand for all the ills of the nation, it promotes competitiveness among the parties to solve problems. It even gives those who require it heroes to worship.
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