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Surfer/Hacker here. I'm not sure why it's narrow-minded. You're going to go where it's packed anyways. Popular spots are packed, and there are already cams on them... and there's no motivation for me to post a report showing that the surf is great at an uncrowded break.

The only benefit I'd have for this is when the big report sites over-hype a bit of weekend swell and get it wrong... Hopefully reporting that it's worse than expected would keep folks from driving out from inland.
while limiting the number of people who get in

How will we limit the number of people who get in? On what criterion?

One of the amazing things about the United States and several other countries with a mixed non-system of higher education, including both "public" (government-operated) and "private" (independently operated, but often heavily tax-subsidized) institutions of higher education is that almost anyone can get a higher education. Some get a higher education by having good credentials, and others get a higher education by having money, but almost anybody who desires to pursue higher education can pursue. By contrast, countries with "free" (list price near zero for students, because of taxpayer subsidies) systems of higher education usually have worse access to higher education and lower quality universities besides. Which system do you think offers the better trade-offs to the whole society?

After edit: the current university student I know best has so far not had to spend out of pocket to enroll in his degree program. He attends a state "flagship" university with a strong program in his intended major of computer science, and through the university's policies on need-based and "merit" scholarships, including the National Merit Scholarship, he has had an essentially full ride (tuition, fees, room, and board expenses) to date, while being able to find lucrative summer work as an intern at a local company. There are already some good paths to higher education for the young person who works hard preparing academically while of high school age and who pursues a major with significant problem-solving value in the free enterprise economy.
maybe, but "little to nothing" is just plain wrong.
Where do you get those numbers from? If you're taking the top tax bracket, don't, that tells you absolutely nothing about an individual's effective tax rate.
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Last line is bs. Its not "the government". Taxes are much less. It includes all kinds of insurances included (medical, unemployment, retirement, etc.)
I agree this can be a bit annoying, some artists/bands have better results than others. I'll look into sorting out videos that appear as duplicates and replacing them with more videos. Thanks for the feedback.
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These numbers are meaningless outside the US.

And I don't just mean taxes. Cost of living, housing, healthcare, insurances, transportation, social security, all of these things are so vastly different outside the US. It's pointless to compare US salaries to those in France or India.
The beauty of the capitalistic model is that it is self-correcting without needing intervention like bans and such. E.g., say one person dominates production to the point he makes everything and has no incentive to sell anything, then as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he doesn't exist (or is of no consequence). Meaning, we just have the original situation, except with one less person, and people will have to again figure out how to survive. And new corporations will be born that will become productive themselves.

IMO what will happen in the future (at least what I hope) is that production will become so efficient that regular goods, like food and basic amenities, will become dirt cheap so machines will be doing most of the work and people working more by choice than necessity...and for reasons that are higher up on the Maslow pyramid. E.g., imagine you're so rich that you could supply food to a million starving kids in Africa with little impact on your situation, wouldn't you do it? Different parts of human nature will play out when all our needs are met.
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How is this poll not anonymous?
>"I think Apple wins this one."

Despite the difficulty I have of foregoing snark in a case where Scully's projects are deemed an Apple win; when it comes to the Newton: Apple != Jobs.

Keep in mind that both pen computing and digital organizers predate the Newton by several years - my sister had a RadioShack PC1 years before the Newton.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_computing#History]

[http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/pocket/]
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There has been a sharp uptick in Helium consumption (He3) and a relatively small amount of reserves (a byproduct of Natural Gas drilling). This price instability can't help things.[0]

The US Military, on the other hand, has been increasing it's use of blimps for surveillance and data transmission/networking. These are useful in places were line of sight isn't available (mountains of Afghanistan, for instance) between radio/mobil cellular base stations. [1]

That and rising into the jet stream is a sorta abrupt introduction into 200knot winds. It would be disarming for most 'comercial passengers'.

[0] http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/student-voices/the_rise_...
[1] http://www.navysbir.com/n11_2/N112-169.htm
I know it's not the important thing in the entire automotive industry. But I think it just might be to the average driver. Assuming, of course, you've got the mechanics right. Like a hierarchy of needs, having a reliable car to go from point A to B is the foundation. If you had already had a car with the same performance, reliability, safety, efficiency, etc. of a Honda Civic how could you beat Honda?
I believe it's highly related:

Dudes that's incredible, hacker news guys removed my blog
post from the home page. Truly lame.
https://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/122310866728271872

I think the blog post was this:

What's wrong with the iPhone 4s, and why Jobs is not my hero
-> http://antirez.com/post/iphone-4s-and-jobs.html
https://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/122302491734978561
Isn't it lighter than air? The article also claims its heavier, but I assumed it was a mistake.
You did not answer his second question: was this before or after you confirmed through SMS that the phone number is actually yours?
On the to do list, he says that he intends to transfer karma to the poster when you upvote something. So if you upvoted a link, you would be deducted one karma point and it would be given to the person who submitted the link. So, eventually it seems as if you'll need those 10 karma points to allow you to start voting.
The poll is, but the comments aren't - OP requested information on what we do for our paycheck, which I'd be more inclined to provide if I could do so without it being related to my (real) posting name.
This is absolutely perfect for me. Thanks!
Needs something that signals it's processing when I enter a value, I figured it was broken as it takes ~5 seconds to respond.
I am not surprised by this. If I share my phone's contact list with Facebook, I expect that it will become a part of the social graph, just as who I am friends with on Facebook is.
I suspect it is a factor of both relatively slow velocities, relatively low payload capacity, and substantial dependence on the weather (particularly with regard to takeoff and landing).

Fuel costs are but one consideration, and the same reasons we don't transport much cargo by sail are probably applicable.
Another on the todo this, should be an easy one. Thanks for the feedback.
This poll exemplifies the problem with all of these polls: it doesn't say what it's measuring. I would put in vastly different numbers for base salary vs base salary + bonuses + shares + other benefits.

I see the same on Glassdoor on elsewhere. The bigger problem is the people volunteering such information have differing views on what to put making such information mostly useless.

Also, if life has taught me nothing else, people lie about their incomes, even anonymously.
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I went to this school for kindergarten through the first half of sixth grade. Being an elementary school student I was less familiar with their guiding philosophy than the actual execution. But I can say that they did some things really well for an elementary school child, one of which was not burdening their students with homework. This gave me free time to read everything I could get my hands on, which I think has been incredibly valuable to my development and later education.

But I left when we were covering fractions for the 3rd year in a row (when I was in sixth grade), and I felt completely stifled and unchallenged. I have no regrets that my parents sent me there, but at least when I was there, the execution of the philosophy began to fall apart when I turned 10.

For some context, I am now a CS and Physics major and don't feel that an unfamiliarity with computers when I was 8 hampered my math or computer skills at all.
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Heavier. The article is about an hybrid vessel that uses helium to decrease its weight but is still heavier than air. I'm not a physicist, but I assume that lighter than air objects tend to have more wind resistance than heavier than air objects.
Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.
I'm in a 1 bedroom in SF and it's a base price of $2500 for rent. It just depends on how nice the apartment is and which neighborhood you're in.
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The official FB app for Android asked me if I wanted to sync my friends list with my phone address book and I said No. I would like to think this means they didn't scan my phone's address book, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
Thanks for taking the time on this one.
There should really be a choice between areas with "high" 1br-costs-2000-a-month cost of living and Idaho/Kentucky.
The schools themselves have been going for about a hundred years, so they aren't a reaction to it. Perhaps some parents are. I hope so. Unfortunately, I think the social trend is the other way around. Where I live (Canada), debate tends to center around how wonderful it would be if children could be raised by day-care workers before being handed off to school workers, so the parents can go be workers someplace else.
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Cool. I'm building http://SurfsGood.com which is basically the same thing. I've been meaning to put more time into it, and one thing, as dlokshin and others point out, the public vs private pics is definitely a very real concern with surfers.
Where are you getting these? They look like the marginal tax rates, which don't really tell you all that much.
Early stages of a business in this context is way earlier than what you are referring to. We are talking the stage that YC gets involved: usually just the founders, working out of their apartment / garage. That is not, as you argue, the same situation that jobs faced at those other ventures.
I can't agree about late USSR being "extremelly correct society". It wasn't on the whole, not much more than current USA is one (I should agree that I probably not qualified to appraise the latter).

I don't say he is an ascet. I'm just saying that he isn't motivated by being able to buy a huge house or a shiny car. And he probably wasn't, never in his life. They just come organically because of other, real things he achieve.
The unit next door to me has been on the market for some time - it was upgraded to include a washer/dryer - new paint, refinished hardwood floors and replaced kitchen appliances.

It is really nice, a one bedroom, parking and pets allowed: $2,600

I have a 2-bedroom and have been looking for a 3-bedroom...

The rents are crazy.

There was a beautiful 3-bedroom little house near me; they wanted $7200 per month with a $10,000 deposit! WTF.
ethically opposed to opening allowing fellow workers get a rough outline of what their skills might be worth?
I honestly don't care what your salary is, but I think there are things to gain from disclosing.

For one thing, we need developers (we meaning people with unmet information needs, which is pretty much all of us) and advertising how stupidly, absurdly high the salaries are might encourage kids to jump in and give it a go.

For another, I don't really think that any of us is "entitled" to this money, and we can't consense as a group about what these salaries should be--how this money would be distributed in a just world--unless we know what they are.
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Wow, this is wonderful. I have always been shocked at how commonly people Youtube for music and how much better that system could be. You've chosen a great problem to solve.

Feedback:

• I love the Similar button.

• Perhaps the links to the videos could be outline or something, right now it's hard to distinguish them from eachother because it's a mass of text. I mean of course the design of this is very minimalistic and the main focus here is the function, but for now that would be my main design criticism.

• You should filter for the word "with" preceding an artist's name in the video title. Also perhaps "and", or any sort of list of names after an occurrence of "with," because I got one video for the query "Avi Buffalo" that was "Look Out for My Love Jeff Tweedy with Avi Buffalo, Solid sound August 15 2010," which is of course not Avi Buffalo at all.

EDIT: Also, the ability to search while still keeping the current song playing at the top would be nice.
> I gain nothing from helping others, but everything from people helping me.

FTFY.
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Blogs down so cant check but I'm pretty certain it said the the gay profile was under a fake name.

Also, are you trying to make the argument that his gay friend is using FB wrong therefore deserves to have his privacy violated? That sounds like a pretty shit argument to me.
The way I read it, he was complaining about having to make it to a meeting in person only to be informed that the meeting was cancelled.
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I tried this for a while, but found Spotlight's keyboard nav and available functions to be lacking. I couldn't, for example, choose to "reveal" a document from the keyboard rather than opening it, if I just wanted to copy said document.

Also, Quicksilver only indexes the things you tell it to, whereas Spotlight by default indexes the entire system. For certain searches this leads to a lot of chaff in the search results.
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This is just an idea so I'm not worried about anyone "stealing" it. Go ahead! (Just tell me if you do anything with it, please.) It's a hard technological problem and anyone who can build a strong implementation deserves full credit.

Here's the concept: machine learning and natural language processing deployed for the purpose of simulating and grading job interviews. Later developments could be speech processing (sentiment and tone) and, much, much later, visual processing for the assessment of social skill.

This would serve the same purpose as mock interviews, but it would give people the opportunity to try different approaches and see how they compare. It would also allow people to calibrate the type of interview (how technical, how aggressive, how informal) according to what they expect when they face the real thing.

Automated essay grading is already semi-solved, if not solved (by "solved", I mean in agreement with human graders as often as 2 humans agree). Bayesian techniques could be used to assess answers for positive and negative tone, just as they're used in spam detection. So I feel like the pieces are there. It may be tough to grade answers to "What is your biggest weakness?" in a way that corresponds to human reaction, but I think it's a solvable problem.

Getting data would be the hardest part of the problem, in my opinion, since this is the sort of thing that people care to keep confidential. That, I think, is the biggest weakness of this idea. Data could be "crowd-sourced", but something tells me that the people who actually make hiring decisions wouldn't be in that "crowd".

I think, and I could be wrong, that such a product could be immensely useful. It'd probably be a long time before the AI is as effective as a human career counselor, and first iterations (which would be text-based, without voice-processing) would ignore social skills, the most important component of a job interview. Still, it would be a start.

Is anyone else interested in this? I see a lot of potential here, or it could just be an impractical pipe dream. Any thoughts? Has something like this been tried before?
Could anyone jump in and provide some information on how calculating pi to a gazillion digits is worth the effort?
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The idea of heavier than air but lighter than deadweight seems to be a worthy compromise to explore but of course, if the engines fail or it runs out of sunshine/fuel, it will not be able to stay up very long, just like any other heavier-than-air aircraft.

Lest anyone brings up skilled gliders, I don't think with its wind-resistance this craft will glide for long either.
Blockbuster has nothing to do with this. That was a failure in the traditional sense. I never argued that somebody is "too big to fail". The parent poster argued that if Dropbox failed, it would not be a big homerun. What I argued is that even if Dropbox valuation failed by say, 90% and it got sold, it would still net around 500MM. That would be a failure for the latest investors, but definitely still a heck of a success for YC (I am disregarding purposedly here liquidation preferences, etc, but you get the idea)
This applies to running small and medium business, but not to "inheriting" large chunks of [especially mining and extraction] industry.

There, mafia doesn't have any business commonly associated with them. Mafia does loans, racketeering and vice. Large industry isn't about any of those things. Maybe I'm wrong but I think you should not overextend the meaning of term "mafia".

Anyway, this does not answers the "fair" question. Oneself fairness is not direcly affected by people the person in question has to deal with. You still have to prove unfairness, "he was seen near where the mafia usually manifests" doesn't cut it.
Most "bigger entrepreneurial projects" are built on a platform that includes BOTH money AND a sustainable core business. Think Microsoft's BASIC compiler, Odeo, the Tesla Roadster, etc.

I think many founders who sell out realize that the latter is often the harder of the two to procure.

You are correct, though, if your goal is buy a yacht you should sell when that becomes possible.
Increases in the money supply don't reach everywhere at once; inflation is not evenly distributed. It's distributed, often, through hedge funds that can borrow large amounts of money from banks. You're looking at the effect and the mechanism of easily-borrowable-money actually being borrowed to bid up a particular sector of the economy; much as, earlier, it was borrowed to bid up real estate.
Indeed. Aol stopped supporting Netscape (the browser) in 2008.

Ref: http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200810/312/Netscape...
Great article, though I would take it one step further and strongly nudge more designers to take on more engineering roles (as many engineers also work to broaden their skill set).
I think the secretaries were inherently aware that one of their roles was being replaced and thus resisted it.

Those who's jobs rely on inefficiency are not incentivized to improve efficiency.
Or, you could use PayScale's data to find this out.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Sr._Software_Enginee...
I was going to write "dominate" but thought I'd go for a little something different :)

By the way, I hope I didn't sound like a believer in standardized tests. As far as I'm concerned they're for meat-packing plants. The fact that our schools are child-processing factories is a shame (probably the single thing I'd change about our society if I could). All I meant was that Waldorf schools would be a lot more vulnerable to mainstream condemnation if their kids didn't out-perform on those tests. You can't respond to criticism by saying, "just look at these children, they're happy and grounded". But you can sure say, "what part of the 99th percentile do you have a problem with"?

Where my sister-in-law teaches, their results are at the top of our province (Alberta), which itself has a reputation for having one of the best school systems in the world. We're usually compared to Finland in this respect - which scares me, because the truth is that our schools suck, so it's an indication of how bad things are elsewhere.
Apologies for being mind-numbingly obvious, but this is an opportunity for being very disruptive, and similar opportunities exist in every hide-bound industry. Unfortunately you cant do it on a ramen or even a YC budget. However if you work for a feisty player and can convince them that there is money to be made in selling their back office software, you have a chance. A few years ago I almost pulled it off until the principals realized the cost of HN grade sr developers.

And most of you wont be in a position to do so, because you avoid these industries like the plague. :-)
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> Your post is unclear on one point. Did you see this screen BEFORE confirming via SMS that you were in possession of the mobile number you entered? If it was after confirmation, that's a very different thing.

Good point, but it's not a very different thing, it's a slightly different thing. SMS confirmation would not have stopped FB outing his gay friend to the author. The only different thing is that it would have stopped others abusing this. This is still something that can be abused and should be fixed.
I agree with the playlist being a litte hard to read, I'll do some research and figure out if theres a better way to show the playlist.

As far as filtering out videos with the keywords "with" and "and", I'll have to do some testing with this and see if the results are better. My concern is what happens when a user searches for something like "Coheed and Cambria", tons of the videos would be filtered out. I guess I could only filter out "with" and "and" if its not in the original search.

Can you elaborate on how you think searching while listening should work?

Thanks a lot for taking the time to give me some feedback.
The PC1 was a pocketable computer (mostly used as a word processor) but it wasn't a PDA. Scully popularized the term PDA; Newton did quite a lot that presaged the current generation of devices and made it clear what they were good for. Most notably, Newton was one of the first handheld devices to give up the keyboard in exchange for an entirely screen-based UI, which demanded new metaphors and interaction models. The most notable contemporary was the Casio Zoomer, but there really wasn't anything else in the Newton's class at the time.

Here's an amusing blow-by-blow comparison of the Newton to the iPhone:

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-newton-vs-apple-iphone...

Apple's Newton was "a win" for Apple in the sense that it proved the viability of the PDA as a category and, like I said, pioneered all these new concepts - doing things more elegantly or impressively in a smaller package than had been done before. I still miss some of the features Newton had and hope one day to get a product that brings them back.

(FWIW, I worked in the Newton Systems Group on the 2.x operating system and wrote the paint program NewtPaint)