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There are solutions for the lack of local labor force.Importing workers, products and services(IT, call centers and others ) is one solution - in saudi arabia 50% of workers are immigrant workers. Automation is the other one - given lack of workers there are many things that could be automated with a decent quality.

So the economy could adjust.

But i think the redistribution method you offer is too fast and extreme and that what will cause it to fail.

But there are other ways to redistribute wealth, that could gradually lead to a stable economy. Free healthcare, basic income and subsidized housing and the general welfare state had been tried before , and they work pretty well in some countries.

But would they be able to scale to make jobs optional ?
They're onto something here, they should add dust and dubstep and charge people $300 for a ticket.

edit: s/sand/dust/
Yes, I didn't get it for longer than I liked.

Perhaps a "Click and Drag along this line" then a "Now change things around the screen and do it again"

Or many other idea's like it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention it's really beautiful to play with. Sorry sorry sorry.
Read the Snopes article in it's entirety. It's still "technically true;" it just didn't happen with deliberate or accidental intent. "Inertia" is the perfect word in such a case.
We are hoping to be the next evolutionary step. Pointcast did news. Chirpscreen did social. We will (hopefully in a couple months) do real-time personalized content, which would include news and social..
I'm not expert, but there's a couple of things you could investigate:

Licensing: You could license it and then get a flat fee per license sold. This gets around the problem that someone mentioned about getting a % of revenue and then having the company bundle the product. Also, then you should sign you to a non-compete, which they should pay you for, so that you don't undercut them.

Sell outright: Figure out how much the software is worth, come up with a revenue model and then sell it for 3x sales, or something like that.
Looks like it's Canadian banks only?
Haha yea I would agree and I am a Windows user myself. One thing that we were told very early on by our investors is to focus on one platform and one platform only in the beginning. Our current client has changed so much over the last six months that it would have been a monumental waste of time to be developing Windows alongside it. Our Mac client should be stable (design-wise) relatively soon and then if we gain some form of market acceptance proving our concept we will move on to Windows and mobile development.
Games really are not addicting. They are compelling, and can easily be used to escape life when it really sucks. Honestly, books, TV, and music can easily be used for the same purpose.

Why are these kids being allowed to play games at those hours? Sounds like bad parenting to me.

There are people who spend vast amounts of time watching, training for, and playing games like football. I haven't ever heard someone say that is unhealthy and a bad thing, even if football is all they ever talk about and use their free time for. Where is the boundary between Football, Chess, D&D, SC2, Quake, and WoW? When does it transition from a healthy interest to a waste of life? Why is the line drawn there?
Ask HN: What do you wish had SMS alerts for?
Today I found myself really wishing I had SMS alerts for certain GetClicky features(worse aesthetic design, but better UX than Google Analytics). And now I actually think I might build a tool that will let anyone get an SMS alert if someone lands on a certain page (say their Kickstarter page for example).

But after thinking a bit, I realized I would really like SMS alerts for a lot of things since my iPhone texts are the only things I check every time I get a notification (i.e. I ignore email notifications etc).

Am I the only one? Or do many people wish they had SMS alerts for a lot of things (such as comments on HN threads)? Or would making SMS alerts ubiquitous, just make them as equally not-useful as an email notification?
But you did have conspiracy theories. Politics, idiocy, decisions from above, spec from contracts, engineering idealism, planning for things which didn't happen, technical limitations, stuck with previous design choices, inexperience...

Proprietary file formats - what happens when you don't set out to make a shared format, or an evil plot for lock-in and dominance? You decide.
a so-bad-its-almost-xenophobic American accent

I sense a new genre of Youtube videos, just waiting to be born.

If the videos use paired examples ("just listen as the Londoner and the New Yorker swap phones") maybe they'll be inoffensive enough that one dares to show them in polite company. Probably not, though. ;)
I love how little we know about ourselves.
That's great and free for payments between friends. Love it. Thanks for pointing it out.
WebGL Globe for geographic data visualization.
Ask HN: Any cool/quality apps that let you SSH in browser?
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did you do a search? 2 were posted in the last 2-3 days and some others mentioned in the threads for those
Unless you do so by making yourself look good to his boss.
There will be lots more criticism here. Either way, thanks for sharing the story in such an honest and complete way. Writing like this is rare in the startup world, and it's extremely positive to have around.
Reminds me of a thought I had about babies: How does that little bunch of cells grow into a living, breathing human being? Surely there isn't enough information in there to do that.

Answer: It can't, and it doesn't. Not without the mother.

(I have no idea if this is indeed true, but I like the loopyness of the idea).
How about a 1st generation iPod Touch? :P
Depression may be another reason one feels tired all the time. Proper diet and exercise helps, but it's best to seek medical attention.
Jeri Ellsworth managed to make transistors in a pottery kiln, starting with modern wafers. She said it took three years of research and interviewing graybeards who were working on it in the 1970s. Makes me hope she wrote that stuff down.
The problem with Newton is that there was little alternative to struggling with the handwriting recognition. You could plug in external keyboards, but they added even more bulk. I believe there was an onscreen keyboard, but who on earth wanted to tap out text with a stylus?

When Siri screws up you can laugh off the problems and go with Plan B: "Use iOS the usual way, like we all did last month".
Hair salons and barbershops: a recession-proof industry?
Exactly! Seems like politics are at play here, which is a shame really.
It would be one heck of a super sandwich for Fred Wilson to do so! Maybe if the restaurant were right there on Union Square and did lunch deliveries in the area and had some fantastic sandwiches and pitched Fred after several beers!

So, net, my point is that PG's claim of "traction" is incomplete. That is, also needed is something in IT. Then we also have to conclude that being in IT is not enough, that what the IT 'business idea' is will also be important. Then we arrive at why I mentioned restaurants: PG omitted mention of the IT business idea. Sufficient? Heck no. Necessary? Likely nearly always. Should it be mentioned? Likely.
I did, though I did not find one that was great or worked for chrome.
We don't "really need" recruiters specifically. But finding a job is ridiculously more complex and old-school (dependent on who you know, etc.) than finding a restaurant or a vendor for a replacement part. If that friction weren't so high, the market for recruiters would dry up as everyone did it themselves.

Now the question to ask is why that friction is so high. It's not a law of nature. It's not because of the perfidy of the government. It sure isn't because job seekers want it increased. But it might just have to do with the interest employers have in maintaining leverage over employees; the same reason job interviews are usually demeaning.
Amazing how quickly the msm has flipped on OWS. This article contained information!
i only answered the question you asked; not the one you meant to ask.
They definitely save money on cleaning.
One might also add that to encrypt all traffic would significantly increase the energy usage of the Internet as a whole.
The point of trade is to allow each party to get what they want at less cost than they would be able to get independently. If one party wants to sell, but the other party doesn't want to buy, then trade does not happen. This is not bad thing. In fact, per Micah, it's even idyllic: "every man sitting under his vine and under his fig tree." That is, every man having his own food supply so that he is not dependent on someone else.

Defining supply to require a corresponding demand makes this explicit. An entrepreneur can't just start producing stuff that nobody wants and then complain that there is no demand for his supply. He's not entitled to force a trade.

Examples make this clear. The auto industry has the capacity to produce many more cars than they do. But they will not be heard to complain that people should be forced to buy more cars so that they can produce more. Likewise movie theaters with empty seats are not allowed to force people to buy tickets.

By the way, there are industries that partner with government in order to be able to force trade. The money industry is the biggest one. See G. Edward Griffin's presentation of The Creature from Jekyll Island (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450).
Whoops. You are correct. I thought the 4 had 256MB.
You're both missing the very important compromise of patents.

The temporary monopoly patents give were and are understood to be harmful. But, they're less harmful than a world of trade secrets. Which is what we had, before patents. See: guilds.

So, we the public offer intellectual property. And, in return, the details of that property become public from the very beginning. And, after a few years, everyone has freedom and the instructions on how to make or do whatever.
It really depends on how it's implemented, in Canada we've had that since the 90s, but file sharing cases tend to go like this:

http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/file-sharing-legal-can...
Ask HN: Setting up a dual server solution
We are setting up dual Linode servers, one for Europe and one for North America. Can someone please point me to articles on how to route users to the appropriate server. This is a first for us. We will also want to back up both servers. Thanks.
How Structs Really Work in C
Memories 1,000 years from now will be pretty impressive. So I'll go with 'everyone who has been mentioned somewhere on the Web right now'.
That sounds about right.

But "build a transistor, given a wafer of pure undoped silicon" really is isomorphic to that joke about using a million dollars to make a million dollars.
I do get your frustration. And we probably agree on quite a lot. I think copyright has lots of problems - but people not paying for anything isn't one of them.

My frustration is that the people who don't like the old structure won't allow a new structure to monetize itself. The greatest thing that could have come about out of the shell of the music industry was a way to pay artists directly. Pirate Bay could put that system in place tomorrow if they cared to. But it hasn't happened and won't happen if people don't actually pay.

The app store and iTunes are the closest we've got to that. But it doesn't make any difference that devs are independent - people crack their stuff and seed torrents all the same.

So there is another better model that could have existed. But it is 'disappeared'.

There could also be respect for the individual's right to mind their own creation.
But that is also disappeared.

Truth is the anonymous mob of the internet is another sort of unaccountable and unelected government. I wish it were different.
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I think you can simplify that further: If you look at history, change which is not backwards is always good. There are fluctuations up and down, but the trend has always been for the better.

And yet at every point in history, most believed that change would be bad-- in fact, maybe we need to move backwards a little.
It would be great to be able to define paths and then drag along them to create this effect, with ease-in/immediate/ramp options.

Also, it's entirely possible I'm supposed to act more like a brush artist. My art teacher always said my art looked like I used a ruler.

Nice to have the choice though, in a greedy world ;)
I've played plenty of games just because of the story. Think about Bioware games, they are basically interactive Cinema.
Bruce Schneier was a great proponent of cryptography. In he lat 90's, he touted encryption as the end-all of security measures. Since then, he has backed off his claim. (He later went on and continues to be a proponent of legislative laws for proper surveillance and forcing companies to be more security compliant). So, even Bruce doesn't think encryption is a good idea.

Excerpt from a 1998 essay, "Security Pitfalls in Cryptography" that sums it all up:

"Strong cryptography is very powerful when it is done right, but it is not a panacea. Focusing on the cryptographic algorithms while ignoring other aspects of security is like defending your house not by building a fence around it, but by putting an immense stake into the ground and hoping that the adversary runs right into it. Smart attackers will just go around the algorithms."
Perhaps, but:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert A. Heinlein

http://elise.com/quotes/a/heinlein_-_specialization_is_for_i...
The Elder Scrolls is probably the last modern D&D-like RPG I really look forward to. Since Baldur's Gate it just hasn't been the same. But Morrowind was pretty groundbreaking and Oblivion was great. I have to admit I'm looking forward to Skyrim!
Hi there....
I went ahead and downloaded and installed the app. Really had trouble with the popup agree to terms and conditions thing. Had to force quit several times before I succeeded in registering.

Tried the wizard selecting technology news but when the ticker started, it was filled with stuff from Fox News and other stuff that is irritating more than informing.

What I was looking for, and hoping for, was a simple ticker for sites that I am interested in, such as this site, slashdot, NYtimes and WSJ technology SECTIONS, etc.

Even when I deleted my playlist, stories from 'The Beast' flowed across the screen. In sum, I had no sense that I was in control of your application. I could see myself using such a feed--if it did what I wanted--while relaxing, but in it's current form.....

Best of luck with this! I do hope you persevere. I'd suggest completely rethinking how the USER can drive this thing.

...and you might want to add a direct download for those of us who don't always want to log into apple's app store just to try something like this. Almost quit at that point.
And yet she packed a make-up kit. For someone who is "protesting" corporate greed it seems contradictory to wear cosmetics from a protestor's perspective-- they have a gigantic profit margin.

As a male, I'll never understand how cosmetics are so entrenched in the lives of females.
It's not entirely news that if you live with shared resources, costs per one person goes down.

Unfortunately, as 20th century showed us, it doesn't scale well. At all.
Google "I, Pencil".
I'm happy to try it again when you have an update. I've left my account active.
No, because I'm so paranoid about backing up everything everywhere I hope I never do. :P
Spending a lot of Money. User Retention. Slipping out of the Honeymoon Phase.
In the past 30 years, 96% of income growth has gone to the richest 10% of the US
- Forex changes
- Important emails
- Important tweets (twitter SMS does not work in many countries)
- Important RSS feeds
- Google News alerts on certain keywords
- Security alerts e.g. when someone hacks into some of my accounts
- Stocks alerts
- Important reminders from iCal, configurable not all like google cal

Would be cool to have a basic SMS altert app that can connect to many web services.

You can build a demo with Nexmo.com, the wholesale SMS API with gobal reach and direct to carrier model. (disclaimer: I work for Nexmo)
I'm not very familiar with Go, unfortunately and not sure of it's runtime requirements. I'd go with kevinburke's recommendation. The provider seems pretty solid at quick glance. If you can get Go on EC2 or Rackspace Cloud, I'm certain your experience will be optimal. The only conerns you might have with cloud hosting are IP address which have been blacklisted for various reasons (used on boxes for spamming, running abusive bots, scraping, etc). Otherwise, you should be fine.
My pleasure! ;)
i don't think it did. Stuff like airbnb, freecycle, craigslist, zipcar and other resource sharing was just not feasible at the time.

I think you're overgeneralizing, but certainly more correct if one were to apply it only to something we really can't make more of... like land.

Building giant skyscrapers probably works, but tend not to be as desirable for most people.
What are your metrics for this kinda thing?

Tiredness and productivity seem like very subjective things, hard to measure. Don't get me wrong, there's some good points there, that aren't hard to believe. But i'd love to know how i can measure this kind of well being stuff so i can better myself.

* as the saying goes, "what gets measured is what gets improved"
I've understood this for quite awhile but have had a really hard time articulating it. This piece is a godsend.
> As a male, I'll never understand how cosmetics are so entrenched in the lives of females.

really? same reason people like nice clothes. looking "better" is a competitive advantage to help you get the "best" mate. makeup is a means to that end.
this isn't really the right place for that. Try superuser or serverfault.
CloudFlare is easier. And free.
You seem angry.

Traction isn't necessarily the same as revenue.

PG's view of the world isn't a universal rule.
While they may have been wrong about Bethesda vs ZeniMax (and it's an easy mistake seeing as Bethesda is doing the publishing) they were right about RAGE being an id game. Doom 3 was also a "pure id" game released after Quake 3.
Desalination plants? Sure, they're widely used in many dry parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, but also increasingly in Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

According to International Desalination Association 2009, there are 14,451 desalination plants in operation worldwide, producing 59.9 million cubic meters per day (15.8 billion gallons a day), a year on year increase of 12.3%
You mean like this? http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
The FreeS/WAN project wanted to give us Opportunistic Encryption.

http://www.freeswan.org/ending_letter.html (tldr: nobody cared)
Yes, it's okay, but you still have some explaining to do. Science is explaining.
Gigantic profit margins? Estee Lauder had a 2.1% profit margin last quarter.

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:EL

Cosmetics are entrenched because beautiful women are sought after. It's not very complicated.
Steve Jobs' last big project: The next iPhone
Paying for CloudFront doesn't leave me wondering what their revenue model is and how it might affect how they serve my content.
I wouldn't use select() directly in any application that needed timers.

Libevent and libev are fine solutions to this problem. And I don't think you need to learn how to use epoll or kqueue to make use of them.
Desal plants produce prodigious amounts of salt. Some of it can be sold, but not all of it. You still wind up with piles of the stuff that need to go somewhere.
For anyone unfamiliar with spaced repetition, there was a great article and discussion a while back on it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157
ELBs change IP if they have to scale up. You really shouldn't point an A record at one.
I very much agree with tarekayna about your verbose descriptions. Your resume needs to be scannable so individuals can quickly assess whether you are worth exploring further. Think of the resume as getting your foot in the door. You don't want them to know everything about you, but they should get a good idea of your highlights and best moments. You'll have a lot of opportunity to elaborate further during your follow-up interview.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the way Linkedin lays out your experience. I understand what a great tool it can be and that many people use it. But for presenting an online resume for myself, I've been using StackOverflow Careers. Take a look at how I've laid out my resume there. (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/mikegreenberg) Note how I bring attention to the important parts with appropriate formatting, give very short descriptions which demonstrate action (begin with verbs!), show metrics where possible to show how I improved the company I worked for, and tried to identify the best ways I could be beneficial to them.

I can see the lacking degree working against you in some respects, but I really don't feel this is going to prevent you from getting a job if you're qualified to perform it. But I'm also not saying jobs will land in your lap. You need to compensate for that "hole" in your resume with a significant showing of your own. A portfolio, if you will. Do side projects whenever possible. (I know this can be difficult with a family. I have two kids myself, but I tend to be married to a project when I'm not spending time with them.)

If you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to answer. Or email me in private, if you prefer. (my initials at nobulb.com)
This is absolutely true. Trying to support multiple platforms is a huge distraction that does nothing to teach you what will work and what won't. Multiple platforms is almost always a premature optimization.
Most RVs have toilets. And beds. And stoves. And refrigerators. And heaters. And other major amenities. Heck, the toilets even use _drinking_water_ to flush - such wasteful luxury. Never mind the ability to just pick up and go anywhere anytime.

Most RVs have AC, ovens, TVs, and other luxuries.

To much of the world, living in an RV is living well.
Honestly, that's mostly why I'm asking. You're right, getting something to work with Rack isn't hard. But getting a proper API in the first place, is.
Wasn't there an incident a few months back where the top Google result for "facebook login" temporarily pointed to a non-Facebook site, and suddenly thousands of people were complaining that they couldn't get to Facebook?
You might not be able to find them, but you can always organize one yourself. It doesn't have to be huge, either. 20-30 people can be a lot of fun. I'd also check out Meetup. They offer ways for sponsorships. See if you can find any .NET groups on there and offer them sponsorships (as in free/discounted licenses). Even if you give away a few licenses, you'd likely get a lot of great word-of-mouth marketing.

And consider also sponsoring and attending conferences. Especially Microsoft/.NET related ones. The travel will obviously be expensive, but it could be a viable way to spend your marketing budget.
My question is just how the heck have you only made 18k over 10 years of working. That's only 56 weeks of full time 8/hr work. I don't get it.
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