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It's more than a little dodgy to describe behavior that imposes on someone else's time and resources purportedly to help others as "altruistic." (The first example in the submitted article was such an example.) People get credit for being generous when they redistribute resources properly belonging to other people (I'll refrain from giving examples) but I don't call that "altruism." I thought altruism is when you or I devote OUR OWN time and resources to help someone else. That said, the article makes the interesting point, while referring to an interesting new book, that some people may harm themselves and the other people they think they are helping while engaging in behavior that on the surface appears to be altruistic.
I'm good with this, if you and everyone else who believe this also agrees that if I use your source code in my proprietary app (no matter the license), it's just the "shifting sands of humanity".
Sorry. But should work fine now.
I had a mainframe guy once tell me they had a red button that would call home for tech support. Another big system he worked on would trigger a halon flood. And on another it was just a off switch.
Belgian ISPs must block the Pirate Bay
I know you're just using it as comparison, but didn't the Iraq War start in 2003? And if this[1] is to be believed, the total cost of the war is ranging around $3.2-4 trillion. That's thirteen and a third years of your $300 billion scenario.

And it's not like that $300 billion just disappears into a black hole. Because poor people need it to live they are spending it immediately, which multiplies out across the economy, certainly more so than a war does. And I'm not even counting the human life cost of war. So yes, just giving people $10K a year isn't that bad considering what we have done.

I just love the thinking though: "we've spent all this money to kill people for no reason and now you expect us to feed Americans?!?!"

[1] http://costsofwar.org/
Life finds a way!

Make a solid investment in her, and she'll pay you back with interest.
That's great. You're much more of an entrepreneur than I'd assumed.

Check out chapter 6 from 'Getting Real', by the folks at 37signals. [http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php]

The problem I had starting out, was following an exact process for going from an idea to a Minimum Viable Product.
Most importantly, I had trouble getting past my designs (PSD) being messy.

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Since you have an idea already:

- figure out what features your minimum viable product should contain

- throw out a whole bunch of those features, till there's just a few main ones, and you feel a little uneasy

- turn those features into screens (paper mockups). as few as possible.

- go from paper mockups to PSD's (photoshop). use dribble, themeforest, forrst, etc. for inspiration. especially the 'minimalist' designs

- or you could just use one of the 'admin themes' from themeforest. or 'bootstrap' by twitter.

- chop the PSD to css/html. This is where it becomes (sorta) 'REAL'.

- since you know basic java, I'd recommend you use php (almost similar syntax, and tons of help online) to hack together your first app

//---EDIT---

I see you're interested in Rails. Personally, with history in c, c++, dotnet & java, rails just seemed a little 'off'.
Since you're familiar with java, I'd highly recommend GRAILS:
http://grails.org/ as a viable/quicker alternative to rails.

//---END EDIT---

- don't stress about languages and platforms just yet. I'd spent weeks trying to figure out which framework would make me sound more technically proficient to a third party(investor perhaps?). The right answer always is, whatever gets the job done ASAP.

- consider using facebook/twitter for user account management. makes a lot of stuff easier

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One thing I'd fix going back, would be rewiring my process to having the PSD chopped first(and played with), before writing any server-side code.
Does this give them an exclusive deal? And for how long? I can't imagine they would do this only for a 3 month exclusivity.
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The article does mention that only 19 of the planned 66 are on-line yet. I think considering that, it really is a pretty stunning photo.
The U.S.'s immigration policies also take a highly biased sample of Asian immigrants, generally the highly educated, and those who already have enough money to do things like pay out of pocket for a U.S. masters degree (which gets you a student visa, which makes it easier, though still tricky, to end up with other kinds of visas). Geography alone gives us different socio-economic cross-sections of Asian versus Mexican immigrants, for example.

In cases where that isn't true, Asian immigrants aren't generally any more successful than other immigrants. For example, the Hmong population in the U.S., who mainly came as refugees from the Southeast Asian wars, has a very high poverty rate even 35 years later (around 30%, versus a U.S. national average of 10%).
A relentless addiction to indignation

Those are exactly the words I've been looking for to describe my boss.
Google opens Gmail up to the developing world with feature-phone signup
I completely agree.

Ultimately the most precious resource we have available is time - so I think that our economy should develop to a point where time is seen as the most valued currency.

--

"I no longer write applications. Everything I release is a service. In the past, there would have only been a one-time fee for my work, but now everyone needs to pay a monthly fee for it.

This is the result of piracy: monthly fees for everything."

I think that a service based model is fair - because there are ongoing costs associated with keeping software available. Maybe the only time this model falls down is when a service stagnates and isn't developed past it's initial release.
Having to set up a throwaway e-mail account to try out your service, without an explanation of how it works, first.

Yes, it's easy. No, I don't want to have to do it.
Sorry folks, No iPhone 5 today.
Then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.
It's meaningless to say it's structural versus cyclical here, unless you're willing to offer proportions.

This is a complicated econometric problem, but one obvious telltale sign that structural employment can't explain everything is that virtually every major sector of the economy has shed jobs. If it were entirely structural, you would expect certain sectors to be rapidly accumulating jobs, which we just don't see.

Note that Groupon clones will never comprise a major sector of the economy. God willing.
Burning out is a terrible feeling. As someone who got a job before finishing school, I spent the first few years of my career working literally 16 hour days. I felt the need to prove myself, and I worked hard to do it. After 3 or 4 years my life changed in some big ways, and the life style started to affect me extremely negatively. I continued to try to work more hours but I wasn't getting anything more done. It was like I had no more ambition to work. On one particular project I hit a big dip. I became depressed, I started neglecting things like laundry, or brushing my teeth, or eating. When the project ended, I got some time to recover a bit (but not fully) a year or so later I was on another stressful project. I think I hit my low during that. I almost became completely separated from reality for lack of a better description. I started having deep almost philosophical thoughts about what the point of life even is. Again my productivity dropped lower (and also my quality of work, and my communication) I tried to make up for it with extra hours, but it only made things worse. Eventually I quit, and found a better job that has been pretty strictly 9-5. Additionally I also stopped working on side projects for a while. I think a really important part is realizing that the situation I was in was not going to get better, and a complete change was necessary.
Semicolons in a grammar are nothing like nails or screws. Nails and screws hold things together. The vast majority of the time, semicolons in code are only visual indicators of the end of a statement; another perfectly good visual indicator is a newline. Many languages that require semicolons could (with minor modifications to the grammar) be cleanly parsed without any sort of statement terminator. See the Lua grammar for an example: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8
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$225 gas/electic bill on day 6. Do they charge for utilities in advance and without a grace period in Durham?
Thialfi: Google's Internal Client Notification Service [pdf]
Is This Steve Jobs Rehearsing the iPhone 5 Launch?
Technically, "Google" isn't an English word - it's a misspelling of the English word "googol."
Non-linear utility of money, especially when negative money is involved.
Sounds more like a "cap deploy" to me.
Your points are all valid, but still: developers won't overlook that for $200k? 300k? 400k? 500k? 600k?
Headline is patently false in at least two ways.
Last minute whispers: iPhone 4S pricing and October 14th launch date?
"a business has never been entitled to the full value of a person's enjoyment of a product"

..and a user has never been entitled to the full enjoyment of a business's product. But it doesn't seem to stop articles like this from being written or large amounts of users to just steal it anyway.
In other words, Slashdot sent fewer people, but they stuck around a little longer.

His hunch is that it relates to the story. My hunch is that HN users usually have many links to read through on any particular visit, whereas Slashdot's post level is low enough that you can spend 10 minutes on a single item. They're pretty chalk and cheese as far as experiences go.
CodeBase - http://www.codebasehq.com/

Git repository, issue with watchers, time tracking and more.

I've been using it for about 2 years. It's very feature rich and has a great workflow.
Pretty near. It keeps the CPU pegged at 100% with textures/lighting/shadows on my Macbook Air, and that drops to 90% when I disable all three. Although maybe not generally applicable to games, it'd be nice if this didn't redraw unless the actor moved.
There was someone squatting the username and they posted in the last Taco HN submission asking Malda to contact them via email (listed in their profile) to claim the account. He may not have seen that or just not mentioned in this write-up.
Wow... Looking over some of the machines that guy had to work on is really great.. And a testiment to how far the printing / copying field has come!
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The Four Grades of Technical Debt
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Sometimes the EIC does need to be the center of attention. It gives the publication a voice. Arrington did it online and in events, the Wired and Tech Review EICs are mostly at the center on the event side, with far less writing/reporting in print and online.
Racist in the other direction.
How many non-nerds do you know that even know what DNS is? Yes, slowly people will learn 'just type in the numbers xyz into your address bar', but it'll be a rather big obstacle for most casual users.

On top of that, if it turns out that a DNS block is insufficient to stop the majority of Belgian users to access The Pirate Bay, it's a small step to go back to the judge and ask for a more stringent block.

This is a first step, but a major one - it will set a precedent not only for Belgium and similar sites with pirated content, but also for other European countries. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out, and if there will be a counter-movement of sufficient weight to instigate legislation that will overturn broad, sweeping blocks of content. I suspect not.
I was being quite literal yes, I do not think my conscience would allow me to go through with these actions and sleep at night.
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I like this idea, but could someone explain how to set this up without a server for two people over a WAN connection? Is this possible even with NATs?
People at BigSoulSuckingCO who are only allowed to use IE?
Pizza restaurants in Miami,
Mortgage backed securities are the epitome of a free-market innovation. The ability to pool mortgages and sell them in chunks essentially allows small investors (say, me, although I did not ever buy a MBS share) to make home loans. That makes home loans easier to come by, which makes homes easier to come by, and it's all delivered by the innovation of the free market.

The bailouts, on the other hand, were quite obviously not a free-market device.

Finally the federal reserve doesn't "give the banking elite a monopoly on money". Although, I honestly don't even know what that means. The federal reserve is supposed to control monetary policy to prevent inflation (good for normal people) and minimize unemployment (good for normal people). They do that by controlling interest rates and "reserve" rules. In other words, they do that by bossing around banks, and manipulating them into making more or fewer loans. That is also not a "free market" system, but there's good reason to suspect it's better than a private money alternative.
This has nothing to do with the laws, and everything to do with the lawyers.
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I'm not sure what happened here,I found this link through HN, went looking for the original, couldn't find it. Then thought if I submitted the URL in a new entry, HN would find the link for me and take me back to the page. But I got a new entry instead.
Yeah I saw that pretty much the first thing that pops up on Google so it must be an issue with a lot of Mac/Apple owners.

Apple seems to claim they're very customer oriented I wonder why they don't address this issue and make it something the user can easily change without downloading some third party beta app just to kill the start-up sound.
Besides the other reasons given, Red Hat's HekaFS cloud filesystem is based on GlusterFS.
Producing the energy is much more efficient, but then to store it in a car battery is inefficient. A good battery is about 60% efficient, which must be multiplied by electricity generation efficiency to get the total efficiency of fuel->electricity->storage->retrieval->motion.
Quora got its "Adult Supervision" at Mechanical Turk
Remember back in December 2010/ January 2011 when Quora was really taking off and it looked like the service was going to explode with thousands of new users signing up every day to vote up answers by all the big names in Silicon Valley?

Around that time, Quora also hired Marc Bodnick. As Marc has no programming skills but is rather a middle aged ex-VC, this hire was referred to in the press as Quora getting "Adult Supervision", or Quora bringing someone on board to explore "revenue opportunities."

So what's Marc been doing since January 2011?

Well, thanks to one Quora user who has nothing better to do with his time than work on statistics, we have detailed insight into Marc's activities.

Ever wanted to know who has voted up the most answers on Quora? The answer is Marc Bodnick. He's voted up more than 9,000 answers on the service. The next closest person is another Quora employee who has voted up a mere 2000 answers.

That's right folks, Quora's "Adult Supervision" hire spends his time reading and voting up answers to satisfy user's egos so they spend more time on the site.

Seems like they could have just hired someone from Mechanical Turk to do that.

http://www.quora.com/Quora-Usage-Statistics/Which-Quora-users-upvote-the-most-answers
Unfortunately, the history of computing is littered with overlooked jewels. Oberon is only one example.
I don't see such a suggestion in my post.

I'm not knowledgeable about the French labor system, so I won't rebut your guess with speculation of my own. I was simply pointing out that labor law isn't always as useful for day-to-day offenses as the well-off often assume.
Welcome to the Internet in 2020, where content is approved before it is allowed on the tube. What is left of the idea of freedom through a networked world which once inspired the creation of the great tubes is now a shell for business, government and corporate interests. You shall not pass is the new greeting many will recognize. Your communication is surveiled, filtered and censored. For your own good.
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> rolls of parchments with words on them

I truly believe that Mojang could change the name to this and it would still be a smash hit.
> People need to acquire modern skills.

Sure, but which ones? Programming? There are frequent articles on HN related to how to distinguish good programmers from bad programmers in a hiring context, so newcomers need to have enough time to become good at programming, which requires radical changes in the very nature of the way they think.

Then, they have essentially two choices: either a more traditional business environment ("wanted: junior Java programmer with 15 years' experience..."), or a startup ("wanted: rock star Ruby hacker that wants to drink beer with us, you get equity...").

Businesses, including startups and businesses outside of the software-dev industry, are largely reluctant to hire trainees. In the past, it was possible to get hired and then learn how to do the job over a period of a couple of years, or more; prospective employees now are expected to show up with all the required tools and skills, ready to work within an hour of being shown their desk space.

What I've been hearing so far from businesses is that they don't have the time or money to invest in an employee, and they don't view employees as a long-term asset anyway.
Was there an exuberant growth period at 2000? That's about the time the tech bubble burst. I was starting college for CS at the time, and the consensus was that the outlook was pretty grim for tech jobs. Hiring seemed to be slow. Most claimed that we were in a recession.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2000s_recession (Wikipedia link, but its the first thing I dug up).

I was lucky and the tech sector bounced back with gusto. But I suspect that, for a great many people, 2000-2010 was, in fact, a "lost decade."
Solar tablets coming to schools in India
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When more people use their cars, the bus gets more money. The more people use the bus, the less profitable the bus line is.
Kindle Fire pre-orders exceeding 2,000 per hour
Anybody know why Apple has never added a notification system to OS X? I use and like growl, but it just seems like it should be OEM.
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I dunno...seems succinct enough: pick a topic, send us an email, and we forward emails to you from emailers discussing same topic. I only suggested creating a throwaway because people worry about spam.
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How do you plan to get early adopters who stick on to the site and do reviews? Unless each post gets 2 reviewers, it doesn't ? What 'benefit' does the reviewers get?
Many ancient religious proscriptions have their basis in correlations to healthy living. There really are reasons to consider abstaining from pork and sex before marriage.

Anyway, everyone's life is half chance. Make the best of it and enjoy the ride.
This article actually reflects the chaos that I see on TV. People protesting anything and everything without clear causal links or evidence. The author blames the "Super Rich" and Wall Street on: the high government debt levels, a stagnant stock market, an ineffective fed, financial regulation, and just general economic malaise. Of course, the author fails to paint any kind of coherent causal relationship or propose any solution. However it seems pretty clear from the author's tone that they would propose some kind of increased government involvement to stop "Wall Street Greed", which is like saying the cure for cancer is to give the patient hepatitis. You can easily make a strong case that government involvement in business and markets is to blame for most of the issues above, so the natural solution would be to reduce government involvement. This is something the author is not likely advocating, and is politically difficult for the current political parties.
In Berkeley, at least, that isn't the case. Retail store fronts are zoned for retail use. For example, suppose that a start-up wanted to take over a vacant retail space, put up curtains on the front windows and door, and not offer any retail products or services to people coming in the front door. This would not be permitted. It requires a different kind of use permit. Retail use in these areas is "by right" - the use permit is essentially permanently attached to the property. An office use would require a variance - possibly requiring a public hearing (and much expense).

Berkeley does this because they want the retail corridors to be destination spaces with lots of foot traffic. Concentrating retail use like that creates a network effect: while you're downtown buying some stationary, why not get a coffee next door, pick up a book at one of the last standing independent booksellers, pop in the game store to buy a present for your nephew etc. If retail is shut out by office uses, that network effect is threatened and there is less reason to go buy stationary in the first place.

The landlords (some, at least) are saying that part of the problem is the physical structure of this retail space. A lot of the buildings are quite old. The retail spaces are "deep" -- 50' back from the front of the store, much of which was intended for use as "the back room" where inventory would be kept. Few retailers need that much space. Modern supply chains reduce needs for extensive inventory. If a retailer only needs 15' deep of space, it's hard to convince them to pay the same square footage rate for the entire 50' depth. Additionally, there is less demand for traditional retail at all because more products are bought on-line or at big-box stores elsewhere.

My proposal addresses this. It addresses the lack of demand for retail at all by encouraging cultural use like galleries and artisan shops. It addresses the "too deep" problem by allowing for offices in the back, opening up to cultural use in the front.

I think this could be a good environment for start-ups. If a number of inexpensively sublet cultural up-front spaces were active, it makes for a stimulating and attractive environment for start-up workers. Meanwhile, the semi-open offices-in-the-back would be more comfortable and interesting than a sterile office-park type office.
Quick, no googling! Who's the Editor in Chief of the New York Times? The Wall Street Journal?

I have no idea myself and I'd bet most readers of those papers don't.
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cool, Chrome throws a "suspected phishing" error. :)
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AMD 65W Llano APU wins green prize, but Core i3 is faster
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Gotcha. You believe that they are literally selling their literal souls.
I sure would hope so.. Kinda a different animal isn't it?
Bad news (at least temporary): a lot of applications seems to be using old framework (Sparrow, Skype, ruby gem, etc.).
Data storage is one of the many industries affected by advances in technology