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Fed Up With the Bailouts?
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using that logic, wouldn't it be better to have "m"ove be triggered with a 'c' or a 'z'. I mean, they're even further to the right than the 'v' on QWERTY keyboards.
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2000 and the current situation are not the same. The credit crunch is a lot worse.
Don’t stop working on side projects and ideas that interest you, because those ideas not only might turn into brilliant products or services but also might turn into the economic catalyst that spurs our economy onward.

Or more realistically, turns in to something that allows you to quit your job (if you're not happy there) or make some fun side money. While everyone else is "right sizing" (puke) - laying off good people that cost a small fortune to hire in the first place, wasting time restructuring, cutting revenue drivers (oh yes) and slashing R&D costs - you'll be building.

If you own a business and are contemplating lay offs, remember how much those good people (if applicable) cost to hire. What if you reduced bonuses instead? Or lowered everyone's salary instead of firing people? Of cut some nice to have but not necessary perks? Or gasp eliminated your own salary if you can afford it. There's many many other options as well. Almost everything is negotiable. Most people I know would rather take a pay cut than be fired.

It always puzzles me how adamantly companies speak of the importance of hiring and retaining talent. But then, when something bad happens, they treat everyone like a fucking commodity.

To think that less than 1.5 months ago, angels I talked to were saying deal flow was as high as ever.
One tiny addition to your list, didn't re-sign Steve Nash.
You haven't given much to go on without saying what your app is doing. It is strange to use a completely non-text page. However, my app HearWhere.com is a live music search site, so Google would have a difficult time making any sense of band names, dates, and locations.
However, google ad words (as well as their competitors I'm sure) use meta tags to get an idea of what the page is about.

With respect to your comment about the adsense crawler not seeing the same page the user sees after logging-in, the crawler doesn't pre-crawl your page (as far as I know), I'm pretty sure google looks at the content at the time the page loads and then goes to get the ads.

So I'd give it a shot, put it on your testing server and see how things go.
Meebo is soon releasing its "Community IM" product. Might want to check it out.
http://www.meebo.com/communityim/
Also of recent: didn't go after Gasol when he had the chance, overpaid for Erick Dampier, paid the salaries of Devean George, Antoine Wright and Eddie Jones (old version) even though they are the same player, traded one of the best young PGs in the league (Devin Harris), overpaid for a mediocre center (Diop), and most importantly, refuses (so far) to play up tempo basketball even though the best players the Mavs have (Dirk, Howard, Terry, Bass, Kidd) would all thrive in it. I think Cuban still has a bad taste in his mouth from the run'n'gun Nellie era.

Can you tell I run a site that searches for Sports Tickets? :)
Ideas are worthless for making money without execution.
Can you tell I run a site that searches for Sports Tickets? :)

not really :-), if you have been following the Mavs from the time Cuban bought it.
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That looks just about perfect. Too bad I don't have the min. # of daily active users yet (20,000).

Edit: I might be able to hold out on this for now and just use that when it becomes available. Looks very promising.
A somewhat relevant story.
3 months ago I started saving and researching Costa Rican real estate. I figure that over the next two years a lot of people will be having a cash crunch and it will be a buyer's market in (somewhat over-built) Costa Rica.

Right now I'm not where I need to be in terms of savings or knowledge, but in 10-16 months I will be.

The interesting thing is that I have started talking to agents in CR and I can almost see things beginning to unfold. The people I'm talking to start throwing "deals" at me. It starts like "I know this may be a little soon, but I may have the perfect rental property for you" says the real estate agent. "It's $225, if you can bring 80k to the table the selling can finance the rest over 5 years"

"Sorry, not interested. I'm just not ready, I need to do more research" I say.

"Hi Mike, I spoke with the seller again. He can bring the price down to $200k, with financing over 10 years."

I say again that I'm about 18 months away from pulling the trigger.

The agent comes back with "We can probably go under $200k finance for 15 years (at about 9%) and we can furnish the place for you - a 12-15k value."

Now I don't (yet) know if this is a good deal or notbut it is pretty easy to see the leverage working here. Because I'm on the right side of the market I can throw out a low offer and see what happens. I'm not going to.

Hopefully in about a year, I will be walking in and everyone else will be running the other way, needing to sell.

I understand that everyone @ hacker news is smart enough to "get" this, but it is cool to see this in action.
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Thank you, that's what I came here to say. All it takes is one gaffe from Obama to flip all the swing states in one shot.

I'm not sure the 90% number means anything at all. Perhaps it is an estimate of Obama's chances if the election were to be held NOW?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10058352-1.html?part=rss...

Looks cool. Hope they lower the price, I know its worth it, but for a student who already needs to buy a lot of books anyway, it can soon become something you can live without.

Amazon should get the kindle in collages just like notebooks are, and make profit from the book sales when having a kindle is a must for every student.
You never know. Who knew a search engine would change our lives so drastically and quickly?
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in starting web companies maybe. Not in a lot of other fields, including many fields where the real value is to be created.
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I'd argue that creating/creation has a lot in common with execution.
Haha I can provide a similar analysis for any NBA team - it's what I know best.
Well, on the point of spreading the 150 billion around, here and there… what about including young tech. start-up firms as well? :-)
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It looks like they've solved one of the biggest problems of the first model, which is the fact that the bottom corners are both acute, so there is no easy and comfortable way to hold it for long periods of time.
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So it is entirely legal for someone to take a patent, implement it in a lab and screw around with it.

For sure. But these guys are making it publicly available. I think the test is not whether you make money from it, but whether it takes money away from the patent holder (or potentially does).

Yes, most of them appear to be worthless (actually, I think 99%+ of all patents are worthless). The research labs of big technology corps think only some of their work is worth patenting - but I've seen at least one interesting idea there that wasn't in the academic literature...

I think a low success rate is true for most research, most startups, most ideas =) ... things involving uncertainty and discovery. But if each play costs $ 000's, I agree it's a game for the rich (or the foolhardy/courageous/overconfident).
That and the ability of small kids to absorb a great amount of information unquestioned. They pretty much have to in order to survive.
I have read most it, so I hope I'm accurate as to its meaning. But Sergey Brin is an outlier, because as an immigrant he started a tech company. The only other example of this I can think of, is Max Levchin of Paypal, etc. I don't see a guy with a lemonade truck as being as profitable as Sergey.

Another point is, those lemonade trucks will be expenses, and most of the lemonade profits will go to those loan costs. Sergey started off with a low-spend company.
I disagree. Better questions for setting goals in ones life are, "What do you enjoy doing?" "What makes you happy?" "If you had all the money in the world, what would you do with your time and with the cash?" These kinds of questions are more valuable because they are applicable to the individual. The question, "How will you change the world?" isn't very relevant for a couple reasons:

1. What if someone has no interest in changing the world in the grandiose fashion that this question implies? Maybe the thought of saving all the babies in Africa doesn't make everyone feel equally great about their life. Not everyone can be a bleeding-heart humanitarian; society wouldn't function.

2. It's really vague. My personal answer to this question is, "We all change the world every single day simply by living and interacting with others." Therefor, I'm changing the world 24/7 and there's really nothing more I feel I need to do in terms of something that would have a far-reaching global impact.

Life goals should revolve around the core prospect of thoroughly enjoying life. Maybe an immediate goal is "go to the gym 5 days a week" and a long-term goal is "save enough to retire by 45." If changing the world will help you enjoy life more, then by all means, answer the question to help set goals. However, we should not assume that changing the world is universally something that people want to do.

My Dad never wanted to change the world, he just wanted to provide as good a life as possible for his family, make enough money to give his children what they need and (most of) what they want, and that's pretty much it. He didn't "revolutionize" anything. He didn't save any babies in Africa. He's just an awesome father and that's enough for him to be a hero to me. Corny? Perhaps, but a good example nonetheless.
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You're never going to get a good interest rate in money markets. Sure, safe havens are looking good over the past 12 months - but the stock market is going to kill them in the long run.

Some people try to time the market, shifting their assets between safe and risky. However, doing this involves both the labor of research and the risk of being wrong. You're probably best off in the long term if you just stay with the market. Unless you want to spend all of your time doing financial research, in which case you can probably increase your std deviation (but not your expected return).
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That name/acronym sounds very 90s.
An idea without an execution plan is worthless. Having an actionable plan adds a lot value, which may or may not be realized via an execution.
The next big thing is always a superhuman effort to transform the world. You can do that, by making the entirety of human knowledge available (Wikipedia, Google), with a website, but the website itself won't be enough, yes.
Ideas and execution are like potential and kinetic energy. A nine ton boulder isn't going to kill you by sitting still.
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How about solving information overload, 4.6% of our GDP, with web/mobile technology?

http://store.ovum.com/Product.asp?pid=36856

How about cutting the cost of enterprise software, 1.5% of our GDP, using web/mobile technology?

How about using web/mobile technology to improve supply chain management, logistics, warehousing, shipping, transportation, and manufacturing so that as a country, we can transition to solar energy at the least cost and afford to produce a 125mpg car that costs less than 25k?

We have only barely begun to use computers and the internet to their full potential, you just have to look in the right places for the big ideas.
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I can assure you that they use addition and subtraction far more often than they use the Monte Carlo method. Adjust your behavior accordingly.
Besides what is mentioned, I find it interesting what's not mentioned: no lottery, no shotgun approach, no throw 10 different things against the wall and see what sticks.
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Thanks for the article; it was informative and inspirational.
Someone, tell me what I'm missing here. Why does an e-book reader need a keyboard and other nonsense taking up roughly half of the real estate that could be used for adding more screen? This seems like the perfect application for a touch-screen since the majority of time should be spent reading or interacting with existing documents, something that isn't terribly difficult to do with limited navigation.

To me it just looks childish because there's so much bezel and cruft and no screen.
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I'm not sure the 90% number means anything at all. Perhaps it is an estimate of Obama's chances if the election were to be held NOW?

This is exactly what the text at the bottom of the page says.
No. It means he's ahead in so many states, that he'd pretty much have to do something big (and it's going to take more than a little faux pas) to fuck it up, and there's about a 10% chance of that.
This is interesting because it points out yet another opportunity. If you believe 538, you should pretty much be buying Obama to win on Intrade and shorting him on the swing states.

It would hurt my brain too much to do so, but you could probably figure out a betting strategy with a small or moderate assured return.
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Rewriting someone else's software to be 10x faster is neither illegal nor unethical. In fact, it's a great idea.
I'm curious how he modeled it. Do actual results follow a bell curve with prior polling as the median and some well-known standard deviation? If so, it would explain why a 10% lead in the polls is considered nearly insurmountable in a given state. I know that if someone is polling at 60-40 in terms of voters, their odds of winning the state are much higher. I've heard 90% thrown out, but don't have any hard data.

Perhaps a better Monte Carlo would use polling data and that.
But it's not quite that dependent either. There are stages of dependencies. Some states hang together more tightly (Northeast, West Coast, and Deep South) than others (Midwest and Southeast). And gradual shifts can be detected through polling and pinned to real world events (conventions, crises, etc). The campaigns use game theory to move resources accordingly (see McCain now in Minnesota versus pulling out of Michigan). Obama has a very strong firewall.

That's where, I guess, 538.com has taught me so much. The polls are a constant flow of changing opinions. But if your models are sensitive and well-designed you can see the slow wave shifts developing. It's not predictive, but history helps too. For instance, no candidate has ever been this far up, with this little time left, and lost.
Always listen to your users. Don't always do what they ask.

When I took a course on software usability many years ago the first principle was how to work from what a user asked for to what they wanted to do. So, a user might say, "Can I have a checkbox to turn off feature Y?" What that meant was, "The way feature Y is implemented annoys me." And the solution is often to rethink feature Y and what it's supposed to do.
Timing the market isn't that hard sometimes. Look for the hockey stick and avoid it. Say what you will about money market funds, but when you actually see the widespread bloodbath going on,

http://vanguard.com/us/FundsByName

...that +2.0 percent return is pretty sweet next to 75 different funds' 20 percent losses. Cuban himself evidentally recommends CDs...
I think what you say is true, but I disagree that it is not a useful question to ask. Just like the world needs people who focus on the happiness of themselves and those close to them, it also needs those who look at problems that affect all of us and say '.. and this is what I am going to do about it'

Pick your favorite world changer, do you really think they would have been motivated for change if they did not constantly ask themselves 'what am I going to do about this huge problem?'
I started about 12 years ago writing shareware apps for the Mac, towards the end of high school. It was easier then since there was much less competition, so I think you'd have to pick your niche pretty carefully now.

My business (actually just me) made a small name for itself on the Mac scene (again, easier then than now) and pretty quickly hit around $50K/yr in revenue. It stayed around that level for many years, sometimes peaking at $7K/month after a significant release.

I haven't released any significant updates for years, yet it still brings around $30K/yr. This is in exchange for a couple of hours of sales and support per month. That's what great about shareware - just like a well-designed web business, once you've written the code, it can become a tidy passive income stream. And I've no doubt I could have made more of it by marketing it better, but I never quite had the inclination.

Two concrete bits of advice:

1. My two best and longest-selling products are tools for small (and occasionally large) businesses to get things done easier and quicker.

2. Work the feedback loop. My top selling product ended up being used in a way I never predicted. I heard about this from my customers and over time made it highly specialized for that purpose.

When it comes to acquiring wealth, did shareware make a millionaire? No - more like 1/3 of the way there, after tax.

But shareware did give me the income and freedom to not have to seek a job when I graduated, and in turn that let me pursue further study, and in parallel develop other (web-based) ideas which turned out to be the real earners.
As far as I know, that's how Andrew Tridgell and friends reverse-engineered the SMB protocol for Samba. They might have (some) docs now, but they didn't in the early days.

Disassembled code is still damn hard to read, and although there's a possibility you might miss subtleties, you're going to get started much faster by intercepting the data stream, assuming no measures have been taken to make your job harder. (e.g. encryption) If you can't figure out aspects of it, you can always try to hunt for them in the disassembly, but at least it gives you some direction,

I started reverse-engineering the USB datastream for a wireless USB Skype phone I was given as a present. (Philips Voip321) Unfortunately, it seemed to do some stuff that wasn't possible in libusb, so I needed to drop a level to usbfs, at which point I figured there were probably more productive ways to spend my time and have just been running Skype in a VirtualBox VM on my file server. I'd still love to get that working someday, but there's a stronger incentive for working on stuff that will ensure I get fed the next month. ;)
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My thoughts also. Although I really feel unable to comment in a meaningful way.

I also think its frustrating for communities like this one, of relatively smart people, that there is something going on in the world that is effecting us that we don't fully understand (normally we are the ones doing the explaining to the lay-people !).
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I've written a moderate amount of Clojure code (probably about 3000-4000 lines) so I'll try and address some of the bad stuff the author is talking about.

The error messages that the compiler produces are mostly useless.

This has improved substantially in recent versions. Clojure release tarballs are almost instantly out of date, tracking svn HEAD is effectively required. (and very rarely causes breakage)

Debugging is hard, as no tracing facility and no breakpoints are available

The Clojure compiler emits full debug information, so you can debug with a Java debugger; I've used JSwat succesfully, although I very rarely have found the need.

One thing that has struck me while using Clojure is the hackability of the language and its built-in functions and macros. Although comments in the Java code are few and far between, it's very readable, concise code. A significant part of the built-in functionality is bootstrapped in Clojure itself, which is even easier to read and hack. (yes, I've submitted patches)

I'm currently taking Rhino (JVM JavaScript) for a spin, as I occasionally have a hard enough time coming up with a decent algorithm for a problem, and my brain hasn't yet fully adjusted to purely functional programming, so I sometimes yearn for something more imperative. Since they're both in the JVM, mixing the two languages ought to be pretty simple. Famous last words...
The one thing this article doesn't mention that really surprises me is when it will ship. No speculation, nothing even to say they have no clue. Only Cnet seemed to admit to not knowing anything.

I guess that's what we get for having a non-Apple rumor surface: sub-par coverage.
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A interesting writeup from a CL user point of view.
"This snapshot approach doesn't really predict upcoming regional or national shifts"

So I don't think your interpretation is correct.
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While beeing ahead with mobile internet for years, Japanese companies seem never to be able to make any progress in Europe or the US. So I'm afraid we have to wait for this quite a while...
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Amazing! You can also download a tool to create your own movies :)
Sergey Brin and Britney Spierce are in the same category? I didn't know that.
It makes sense... when everything is going down, only the strongest, most innovative ideas will be able to rise to the top. If someone comes to you know pitching 'Digg, but for XX and YY' you're going to laugh, but when someone shows you an idea that does to XX what google did to search, you're going to throw all the money you can at them.
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Not everyone on hacker news is cool enough to use scare quotes around a word that is used in a commonly accepted sense.