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I'm not denying that. What I am saying is the movement has picked up a significant pace since the MIT incident. FWIW I'm currently doing a PhD.
Not really true anymore.

A significant proportion of science research is funded by non-governmental organisations - for example the Gates Foundation.

Furthermore, most universities will charge the researchers who receive grants a cost known as 'overhead' that can often be 100% of the grant. Typically, the funding agencies pay for this separately.
Andreesen pointed out recently, it was pretty common ten years ago for startups to sink tons of cash into Oracle

And Andreessen should be listened in this field because.... ? Serious corporations go for IBM, Oracle, SAP and the likes. They want stability and someone to show up and fix when things go wrong. Most of the 'startups' Marc is talking about, will be not be here 5 years from now.

What was Marc's last good investment? Ning or Groupon?
the fake grimlock is an acquired taste. but once you grok him, you can't believe how good he is
It's an awful mess for me in Firefox as well. The letters in the body-text all seem to have a different baseline, and some horizontals are 2px while most are 1px.

Frankly, attempting to read it just makes me feel tipsy.
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That was my exact same thought. I've met some bright grads, but they still are way less effective in the real world than an experienced software engineer. I can't believe we are back to the boom days of 100k + bonus straight out of school. Hey, good for them, if I was a student right now I'd be stoked.
So basically the process of making a free and open OS is – sadly – broken.
One thing this blog post highlights strongly, albeit accidentally, is that if you are going to have a personality it is important to have the right personality for your market. Having the wrong personality can set you back in ways ranging from not being taken seriously- and therefore having a greater hill to climb, to being offensive- and therefore being locked out of your market/audience.

This blog post reads closer to something that I expect to see on a joke or casual chat forum than something I expect to see on a VC's blog.

Having said that, I also think the message is spot-on. In particular, I thought the advice under "How not be boring" was clear, simple, and compelling.
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That feeling of not being there, of missing out on something, being shut out.
Ellison knows it's juvenile and unprofessional and does not care. That is his schtick.
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>but it includes articles that would never get into, say, Science or Nature due to the self-consciously super-selective approach those journals take

I think the main issue of "traditional" journals is that they are artificially constrained to publish 10 to 15 articles per month (or issue), whereas electronic publication can get rid of this constrain (as long as they have enough peer reviewers).
Dunno how to interpret that. Surely the love poem would come out better than if I wrote it...

As I see it you get a working logo matched with a domain you like, even if it's not your final visual identity it's at least a start.
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I think it's a very genuine idea. I don't think your intention is to squat on domains, I think it is to help people with the non-trivial process of finding names and logos. If nothing else, yours is just a great place for people to get ideas of their own. $250 is very reasonable.
Do scientists put being a reviewer on their c.v.? I am under the impression that mathematicians don't, at least I don't remember seeing it done.
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I think this is cool, and if I saw one that suited a project I was doing, I'd drop $250 for it no problem. You can't please everyone, but some people will think this is cool, and that's all you need.
I thought the fact the meeting took place on April 1st was entertaining. Maybe Hurd missed the joke?
It's ENGINEERING people: Wear what you want, be comfortable, but be sure to do REALLY good engineering.

Different jobs have different norms. Wear a suit to your job as a software engineer at Apple or Microsoft or Google and I guarantee you'll get lots of attention... the WRONG KIND of attention. People will think you're demented. But even then, if your engineering is good, they'll simply think your a good engineer with an odd style of dress.

I can't emphasize enough that it's about the ENGINEERING. Working as a dev isn't making an impression at fashion week. You sit in your office all day long, and some days you might not even TALK to another person except to say "excuse me" when you push you way to the coffee pot to refuel.

If your engineering is on point, nobody is going to give a flying fuck how you dress.
"(Kind of related: Anyone interested in a URI-dnsbl of squatted domain names?)"

I'm curious how you think that it's related. A blacklist directly impacts the startup purchasing the domain from purchasing it because of the murky ground involved in removing a domain name from blacklists.

And then, if you have a clear-cut mechanism for getting domain names off a blacklist when they cease to be squatted, what's the point of it? Domainers don't tend to build websites on theses domains, so blacklisting them out of being indexed on search engines is simply fixing a problem that doesn't exist. And as such, it doesn't lower the projected value of the domain in the eyes of either the purchaser or seller.

So it's not clear what purpose a URI-dnsbl would serve in regards to domaining.
Similar functionality already exists in OS X, in case anyone is curious:

http://ihnatko.com/2011/07/22/making-desktop-webapps-in-lion...
>Getting offended simply because someone's shirt "clashes" with their pants

I don't think that's what he's talking about. I think he means things like holes, rips, stains, or a complete disregard for fit. If you make developer money and you wear clothes that fit that description that's a choice you're making. If you wear a striped shirt with striped pants because you don't know how to match patterns nobody is going to judge you, because at least you're trying.

It would be pathetic to rip on someone because they can't do math in their head, but it wouldn't be pathetic to rip on someone who refuses to try because they think they're too good for math.
google+ is dead. Google doesn't have the talent.

They have the talent, they just aren't sure what to clone.
>which assesses papers purely on the quality of the science

Mike,

1. Thank you for taking up the cause.

2. Trust me: Boycotting reviews is easy in my case. Unfortunately, this means no change because I stopped doing them -- it was just taking too much time for no reward.

3. wrt the above quote: I note that there is a market for selective journals. Much like reddit and HN, it is useful to have a crowd-source selection of interesting/important items. (Yes things get missed, but S/N is much higher than if I had to do it from scratch.

Good luck.
It's worse than that for webservers.

I block all Amazon AWS/EC2 on my servers because it's never humans and I've yet to see a useful bot from there - they just suck bandwidth and cpu time. Since they have free, unlimited inbound, there's a bunch of nonsense going on.

Now I suspect silk is going to use the same IP range as amazon aws, so if you block aws, you block silk?

So no more using iptables to stop the traffic - maybe I can do it on another layer, allowing the ip via user-agent but of course bots will start spoofing that too.

Anyone know if silk will cache and serve content that is not fresh while ignoring no-cache headers?

Bonus points if anyone as access to a Fire and can test the ip range and header obedience (as well as pre-fetching aggressiveness).
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I tried this podcast once - found it embarassingly pretentious, with terrible musical interludes set too high in the mix. Conery's speaking style really rubbed me up the wrong way. But I'll maybe give it another go. Maybe he's got it under control since then.
wait, where did you read that about not playing local network content? how can it really know the difference?
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I for one felt this was unnecessary critical for a first iteration. The only major blow is no support for native sdk and hence all the top tier 3d games, and no google maps (is that what was indicated?), since the current map support on the playbook sucks bad.

But on the bright side, pandora, google goggles, and read it later should work.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't misread that. That's very good to know. I know Gremlin, didn't know it was based on Pipes. Thanks!
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> Nokia’s high- volume Asian factories provide greater scale and proximity benefits.

Bye bye Western technology. It was nice knowing you. "Greater scale and proximity benefits" are crowning China as the new 800lb gorilla. Special thanks go to the "let's outsource to China for $10M bonus this year" top management.
I think pretty much everyone on HN had already managed to figure this out, no? Even those who didn't must have read 100s of comments making this point over the past hours, or days, or even months.
By the "old news is still news to someone" logic, the same 2500 stories could circulate through the HN front page over and over again forever.
We're going to look back with fondness to the days when USB sticks only carried passive viruses that required a vulnerable Windows computer to activate. Now they can carry dataloggers, sniffers, active attacks, ...

Stuxnet on steroids. :-O
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Any tips on finding a good place for a custom $99 logo?
As a developer, one of the things that got me into fashion is that it's something that CAN be learned and understood. For a long time I thought it was one of those things that you're either born with or not, but it's almost like a programming language.

Also, men's fashion has deep roots in tradition and function. For example, did you know that the little holes on wingtip shoes were originally added to allow the water drain out when you were walking in the country? That history is part of the reason that wingtips are considered "less formal" than plain-toe shoes - they were meant for wearing in the country. I find that kind of thing interesting, it's not all about superficiality.

If you're really interested in learning these things you're in a golden age, there are a ton of people sharing information and ideas about men's fashion online. http://reddit.com/malefashionadvice is a good starting point.
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I second that... Considering the hype from the beginning I would have expected at least some news/updates to surface (here, on reddit, etc.) about it -- so I assumed it was dead.
The time taken to investigate this really was time spent trying to spin it in the right way. All that talk of stub pages that are not supposed to be read, rubbish. No follow attributes being added to links, well how about no-index meta tags. Only that will have a negative impact with google so they wouldn't want to do that.

Utter BS that whole article.
But is that a niche that's even going to exist in five years? I'm sure someone will be making feature phones in 2017 (I mean, someone's still making landline phones today) but that'll be a low-margin business for companies worth much, much less than Nokia is worth today. I can't imagine Nokia's shareholders would like this idea... in their view, it's probably better to swing for the fences than resign yourself to failure.
I'll visit the site if not to buy a logo, but a great place to start when thinking about a name for a startup. Good food for thought.
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The global economy is in a pretty precarious state and quite recently. In no time at all, the real world will be able to recover from economic crisis with the creative collective power of gaming. Huzzah!
After reading his description of events I see nothing for him to be complaining about towards Amazon. He did say his country qualified for free shipping with some conditions. Maybe he triggered one of those conditions?

Most of the time complaints like these are misdirected because the cost discrepancy is usually due to government restrictions and taxes. You don't think Amazon would want to sell and ship products worldwide at roughly the same prices?
>I really hope this isn't where html5 fonts are headed

Set your browser to override any website with your own font choices. I did sometime back when that eye-rape sunken font styling started showing up too often for my tastes and will never go back. My style on everything means one less thing to bother with when browsing the web, even websites where I didn't have a problem with the font are improved because they're now in my preferred for reading.
There's only so much that you can do to persuade people NOT to upgrade, especially in developing markets like India or South Africa where Nokia is traditionally strong. The rise of the middle-class in those areas will inevitably reduce demand for Nokia "smartphones" (by which they mean Symbian phones, hardly smart but whatever), squeezing their already-low margins on that sector. They would have to be constantly chasing new "poor" markets, which is hard; and they'd further tarnish the brand in traditional markets.

I'm sure they can survive even by just following the current strategy to the bitter end (i.e. becoming Microsoft's bitc-- er, preferred partner). What they cannot do is to grow or even just to stay relevant.
Joel is funny. not comically funny, but enjoyably funny, such that you can almost always get through a post or interview or whatever without feeling labored.

Joel always brings in metaphors or stories from worlds outside development (only sometimes funny). Many stories still go back to the Army, or his first job at the bread factory, but the recurring stories make you feel like you know him, you know his past, his experience at Microsoft. You know his whole personality through his vast writing, and it's all masked in "clear and prolific and useful" writing.

You feel like he's an expert, because you didn't notice that he's always injecting personality, where, an example from AVC's comments is Mailchimp, who makes their entire brand about a single chimp.

It will be hard for Fog Creek to keep their brand after Joel leaves, but it won't be hard for Mailchimp
His point remains accurate regardless of his investing prowess. Startups aren't investing in Oracle licenses today and they were 10 years ago.
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I came here to say this. Dating multiple women takes the pressure off your primary pursuit. I know this may sound immoral or bad to some people, but: believe me, it works.

Just the fact that you have a couple of backups makes you a lot more relaxed, spontaneous and fun to be with. Maybe it's the ego trip; maybe it's the fact that you always have a backup. But whatever it is: you are a lot more fun to be with when you are, shall we say, multitasking. Just one word of caution: do NOT bring up the other women at all, for any reason.
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I think the diaspora guys might be shooting themselves in the foot a bit by making it hard to sign up for their pod (there's a waiting list) and not publicizing the various other public pods.
First, it's a logotype. Some of the world's most recognizable logos are, like this, logotypes.

Second, professional designers do not give you the rights to the typeface they use for their logotypes. You ask them, they obtain them, and then they invoice you the several hundred dollars the logotype cost them.

Third, why would you want the font used for this particular logo? It's a terrible display font. Its only value is in creating logotypes like this one.

I find this particular critique unfounded.
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I think you're right that the wrong personality can set you back, but disagree that this post is an illustration of it.

Another of Fred's posts a few days also had spot-on advice relevant to the HN community. It never made it to the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3025690

This one being so much more successful illustrates one of three things: (1) the personality helped or (2) people think the content in this post is more interesting than that one was or (3) pg fixed the problem that makes it harder for items to reach the front page if they're submitted too early in the morning Pacific time.
Actually, I think wrestlers may be just as good at manipulating water weight. The biggest difference being that wrestler have to compete soon after, and if they didn't cut properly, they'll become exhausted during their match and get mauled.
This was the most helpful article I found on HN this week. Not joking either, I'm mucking about with product design for which this was spot on. And it was performed (I find no better word) with personality.
You don't have to deal with this if you use node-fibers or my common-node library: http://olegp.github.com/common-node/

Slides and performance comparison here: http://slideshare.net/olegp/server-side-javascript-going-all...

I'm about to do an updated version of this talk at #rejectjs in Berlin, so will add audio and update slides in a couple of hours.
Totally agree, it was painful for me.
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For me, the biggest challenge is meeting women who I might find interesting. I'm a techie, and, for some reason, I've always got along great with techie women (or women in sciences or math). Maybe it's because they understand me better; I don't know.

Even though I live in San Francisco, it is hard to meet women who are attractive and with whom I can have a connection. IMO, OKCupid seems to be filled with the more "artsy" type women; nothing wrong with them at all, but I never seem to have a connection with them.
Good question and I haven't seen a response yet. This may be a serious problem for Amazon since you aren't alone in your blocking of AWS/EC2 IP ranges. If users use the tablet and find that the Silk browser doesn't show them all the sites they want, then people will be disappointed in Amazon. Hopefully they'll separate/segment IPs to prevent users from not using the browser.
Everybody "domainsquats". People joke with each other about how many names they have in their registrar account. These particular people chose an extraordinarily reasonable price point just for the name, and added design services on top.

They could charge 4x as much and probably close just as much business, because $1000 is a rounding error for a serious 2-person startup.

I don't see why you're bagging on them.
I've used http://www.logodesigncreation.com multiple times and they've always provided a reliable, consistent service.

If your local agency that charges $3k for a logo is Ruth Chris Steakhouse, these guys are McDonalds - and I mean that as a compliment.

(No affiliation except as a customer)
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I don't think so. First, IEEE has many non-US members who need this sort of central organization to do the job of, for lack of a better phrase, "reputation management", e.g. senior members, fellows, etc. Such things are taken into account when asking for grants. For students, IEEE is an excellent mentorship organization.

We don't want IEEE to go away, we just want it to see the facts about academic papers on the Internet and change its ways.
This would not work. Reviewers would not feel comfortable being completely honest if they knew their reviews would be published publicly. In any case, there should be no need for the reviews to be public.
Mathematics and Sex ( http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Sex-Clio-Cresswell/dp/B005... ) got a way more detailled discussion on mate finding strategies, quite an enjoyable read.
Skype, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Jawbone and Box.net are all in the Andreeson Horowitz portfolio. He seems to be doing fine.

Of note, he's also on the HP board of directors
The logos on this site are uniformly better than the average "Show HN".

Every one of them clears the bar of "presentable to early customers".

Most clear the bar of "presentable to mainstream customers".

None are distinctive, which is to say, none send the signal "we picked one of The Cool Designers and paid $10,000 for this logo". But virtually nobody needs that.

Think whatever you want about these designs, but if you bring a prototype to market that looks like the typical "Show HN" because you're too cool to buy a cheap design, you'll suffer for it.
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Point is it's not their primary profit model. In fact, they'll make next to nothing on parking ads for these domains, being made-up names...unless their customers promote the domain before actually executing the transfer (which would not be a smart thing to do).
I for one would pay double to witness an Ellison vs. Lynch q3a showdown.
Maybe their not lost after all, spotted an update on their new blog:
http://deliciousengineering.blogspot.com/2011/09/firefox-ext...

(at the end..)
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No.

The website would get far too many terrible papers.

Many papers would get no reviews.

Many reviews would be terrible, and done by non-trustworthy people.

The problem with the system you are suggesting is that it feels a lot like wikipedia, and who "wins" on wikipedia has little to do quality, and a lot to do with who is willing to spend the most time editing / wiki-lawyering.
Do you really think Larry cares about what some uppity yankee hipster thinks about his company? These days, a lot (most?) of Oracle software is built in India, Eastern Europe, etc. Developers in those countries don't care about this sort of things, they care about the cold hard cash Oracle have in their coffers, which they get by selling products over geeks' heads (i.e. to their bosses' boss).

Wage inflation in developing countries is much more of a problem for Larry than "boardroom etiquette".
You can put it on your CV, although it is not important. Being a reviewer counts as "service" for your annual performance reviews, which is slightly more important. But most importantly, nobody wants to waste time reviewing mediocre papers. Everyone wants to review the best papers, from which they can learn the most while still fulfilling their reviewer duties.
It's classic consulting/finance style, typically meant to be read as a document (a "leave behind") rather than presented on a screen.

This does not stop consultants from presenting such decks. And yes, those presentations will make you want to tear your eyes out.
It's flat pricing.
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You are not responding to what he wrote.

"And note, style is not equivalent to 'dressing up'."