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If you have a guaranteed 5-year contract, and aren't sure if you want to be in it long-term past that, do you gain anything by killing them? It sounds like your income level for the next 5 years is basically assured regardless of whether they enter this space or not, if I'm reading correctly.
There are other platforms for you to choose. Stallman wishes for there to be no other choices.

This isn't rocket science.
Same guy that says ghosts helped him win at gambling.

Same guy that wanted an open relationship.

Same guy that sells talks to get rich but got rich selling talks.

The guy is poison.
As I said elsewhere (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170702) I used to play bass when I wrote.

I once had to edit tablature for a song I was writing out of a movie review - oops. That was a "I can do two things at once, but maybe I shouldn't" moment.
You may want to read Angela Benton's post again:

"I wholeheartedly agree with what Hank Williams, a participant in NewME this summer recently wrote (Note: Hank has seen the doc)[...]
Please read Hank’s full commentary, it’s a great read."
Jack O'Connor - Future YC Alum
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It starts with a thermostat. Nest and the consumer driven eco-revolution.
no kidding, this is even worse when you are on a tablet that doesn't support bookmarklets
The wiki use is brilliant and relevant.
Do it. The world can always do with a little more sweet music, and god knows the wife will be pissed if I try to fit music making into a 5 minute break with her.
If the machine is not real, you don't get the real consecuences of your actions, like:

"Suddenly I couldn’t afford to make re-stocking trips
every week, grape soda was cut for an extra column of
Coca-Cola. I lost some niche customers."

Is this a good idea?
Standardization comes from the framework. Just like apps (mostly) have similar button elements, tab views, etc.

"Channel apps" can also have similar UI elements, the same way to go back to "home", there can be a unified way to switch channels, etc.
If ASCII is the universal, forward-compatible data format, is JavaScript to become the universal runtime environment?

Every layer of software builds upon the lower software (and hardware) layers (and bugs). It's like a Jenga tower of dependencies. It would be nice if some middle layers could be excised/refactored to simplify our technology stack.
I feel a similar way when trying to learn something new that looks/feels like magic. The tutorials are simple enough and give awesome results but for some reason I don't get it. After much practice eventually something clicks and it turns out that there was no magic, it really is as simple as claimed.

I think that it seems like magic to us because our brain refuses to believe that it is that simple. But specially because we lack the practice. After much practice eventually a threshold is reached and the brain decides that you've been exposed to enough patterns and nothing else is left to learn and that is when "it just clicked" happens. At least that is what I think is happening. Your brain is protecting you from claiming you've learned something new without enough practice.
If you actually read my comment, you would know that it said. And it said none of that. Hint: the part that's in parentheses is part of my comment too.

Let me flesh it out for you. I said, "The European colonies in America joined the African slave trade because the supply of American Indian slaves was being exhausted, as a matter of fact." Which means I'm not only aware of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but I even outlined the specific reason why slavery of American Indians wasn't sustainable and why the North American colonies had to engage in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to begin with. The fact is, west Africa had more slaves to sell.

Speaking of Brazil, if you start at the end of the second paragraph of Wikipedia's article about slavery in Brazil, it says the exact same thing happened in Brazil:

Starting around 1550, the Portuguese began to trade
enslaved Africans due to two main reasons:

* The unenculturated indigenous peoples deteriorated
rapidly, and became increasingly wary of the
Portuguese, thus, obtaining new indigenous slaves was
becoming harder and harder.

I try to play nice on Hacker News, but when people don't even read and comprehend what I write, and then accuse me of saying the exact opposite of what I said, I get a little annoyed. Part of common courtesy is to understand and respond honestly to others, and frankly, you've failed to do that.
Is anti-racism and reverse-racism the same thing? If we actually want to use those terms, I think you're both right. Anti-racism would be actively working on not being in a room of straight, white, male people. Reverse-racism would be promoting minorities when you hear about them / when they come to you.

Then again I'd call anti-racism something else entirely. Most people are against racism, but I see that's not the context in which you're using the phrase.

I can definitely believe the colour-blindness though. (slightly related - reminds me of the southpark episode where everyone was alarmed that kids didn't find the flag with black man being hanged racist - while they just saw a group of people hanging another guy)
Excellent read.
I specially liked this part:

"In fact some people get far more support than others. For example, I’m not going to name any names, but when a top tier VC writes a five million dollar check to a 19 year-old with a barely-beyond-napkin-stage idea, no customers and a fragile technology because they “present well” then clearly something else is at work."
The circumstances of Gates' birth prevented him from deploying his money in a manner similar to (for instance) Soros rather than blowing it on malaria lollipops.
You can divide it 4 different ways (4! / 3! = 4). Since the list is necessarily infinite, two more will join it soon enough.
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Yep, d'oh.
A 2 hours old SJ post on HN with no comments ?
Busy fapping to this book ?
A race-selected accelerator is filtering based on race first, then on quality. It's not business investment, it's social entrepreneurship.

Step 1) Throw out 87% of applications randomly.
Step 2) Select based on quality.
Step 3) Profit?

Compare that to a quality-selected accelerator:

Step 1) Select based on quality.
Step 2) Profit!

A race-based accelerator will only outperform a quality-selected accelerator if there's a race that inherently, innately outperforms all other races. Science has pretty well debunked that one.

As to #2, you'd have to be really, really, really stupid to go with a niche accelerator that no one's ever heard of IF given the option of going with YC or TS.

NewMe could barely get a mention in TechCrunch, and, when they did, the social entrepreneurship side story beat out the "here are our awesome companies!" story.
Publicly funded science should be open science
"Nom Nom Nom", says the troll.

And then you see a signpost up ahead, plainly stating "do not feed trolls."
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Nice Halloween Egg/Pumpkin
Product and place is probably most important. The ones I use are usually behind the checkout line at toy stores. But there are other interesting areas where the concept can work. For example there are some in my local library with earplugs inside. All the way to certain durex based products in certain rest-rooms. Nothing holding her back from vending machine world domination ;o)
Here is a link to the original TechCrunch article:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/28/w3i-suggests-ios-developers...

Also, W3i is not recommending developers collect MAC addresses instead of UDIDs. W3i is recommending that developers collect users' MAC addresses and associated UDID. With two "primary" keys for each user, developers do not lose their old tracking data when Apple prevents apps from reading UDID.
Escape your strings. Ninja problem solved.
Not quite. DVRs enhance the brain-dead viewing experience by queueing up what someone wants to watch, more than they can in a sitting. Now that constant video stream is what they want, not just a tolerable channel.

So far I have yet to see an app (or equivalent) which will run a constant stream of what someone wants to see with a broad mix and minimal setup. If we can get the DVR equivalent on a mobile or set top box, there's the win.
Have you tried transparent hugepages in the newer kernel?
The word you want is transphobia (for the generic fear, hatred or contempt) or cissexism for the more general "it's your choice but it's weird and unnatural and I don't believe you actually are that way" sort of bigotry. The cis/trans construction people are using in the pair cisgender/transgender is my favorite Latinate neologism of the last few years.

Joan Roughgarden (biologist, founder of the Earth Systems Program at Stanford) and Ben Barres (a neurobiologist also at Stanford) transitioned in opposite directions and reported the same phenomenon in mirror: Roughgarden saw people assuming her work was suddenly less important, Barres saw people in his field not realizing he was the same person and commenting that his research was so much better than his sister's. He authored a commentary in Nature 442 (p133-136 (13 July 2006), DOI:10.1038/442133a) that's worth reading. They're certainly not the only ones!
My 2007 MBP manages a decent 20 fps but starts pretty slow and averages 15.

That's a 2.4GHz C2D. Need to try it on my i52400.
When I was comparing them years ago I found that a lot of FLAC implementations had a lot of trouble with seeking properly, skipping to the wrong spot and then reporting a third spot as the current timecode.

Then you have the metadata problem — ALAC is in a normal mp4 container so everything's uniform and well-used, with FLAC you're stuck with the ogg container or its proprietary system. That wouldn't be so bad, except that almost nobody puts metadata in their FLAC files, instead preferring to bundle along separate text files with a description of the tracks and info about the rip. I think they do it so that the whole file's hash stays constant.
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Just so you know, there are tutorials in Inkscape's Help menu as well to help with a lot of the basics. If you ever run into any issues, feel free to pop in our IRC channel and ask away. Also, if you tweet anything containing "inkscape" in the message, chances are one of us will respond in less than 12 hours (most of the time).

For the record, since you're a "dev and not an artist", we have people in our community that will contribute art in exchange for your time if you were to contribute code to Inkscape.
It wasn't originally developed for direct consumer use at all — it's debut was in the protocol used by Airport Express streaming.
I write some of my best code with pen and paper. :) Stepping out of the keyboard+screen context helps me focus and opens up more creative thinking.
Electronic and DVD inventory goes stale much faster than gum does. You end up with a lot of 'unfashionable' inventory on your hands.
Some overly-confident human went "oh, this can't be bad" and force-approved it. This really happened. Multiple times. And they have rolling deployments.

Their response? More administrative measures.
Never used a monitor where that was the only option?

My lawn: get off of it.
One of the best ways to protect yourself from patents is to have the idea first and publish it. It's hard for a patent applicant to argue the he is the first inventor and that the idea was non-obvious if it was published in a blog.
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Thanks for adding these features, I know a lot of people were requesting them.

Does this mean your version control system will soon be exporting and importing, too?
I honestly think that the bulk of this thread comes from confusing "own" with "pwn". (such in QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool)

One means legal possession. The other means domination over something, eg., the locked out libraries cydia gives access to.
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You'll find plenty of part-time workers who hate their jobs as well - lots of hospitality workers, for a start.
I dunno what he's thinking, but I agree with him because of the airport security passes. They should have held him unless he had a damn good reason for security passes to three different airports.
You can enable unknown sources: just buy a developer key for $100. It still doesn't allow you to mess with the lower-level system stuff that's the big appeal for jailbreaking.

Jailbreaking is more like rooting an Android than the unknown sources checkbox.
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Wow.

That's a brilliant way to put it.
Let's be fair: The old green-screen monitors had much larger font sizes. Maybe that was less harsh. Also, I had younger eyes. ;)

Does anyone have an actual Apple II green-screen display (40 or 80 columns, 24 rows) emulated in Javascript to share with us? I found an Apple II emulator but it only plays games.
Shatner.
http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status

bootlace works well on older iphones.
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Yes, I did cancel on principle. I cancelled immediately in the hopes that there would be a large number of cancellations that very day and it would have some impact on management.
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My guess is that it's much more likely that because picking winning founders is so difficult (and so little real data is available) that they're likely to acquire all sorts of superstitions about what a good founder is supposed to look like.

People who play the slot machines or invest in the stock market are notoriously superstitious. I don't think VCs are much different.

I don't think VCs accurately keep track of which founders they reject and end up successful anyway, and adjust their metrics based on that data. I think they have hunches and some founders become successful and then they filter more aggressively on those character traits and confirmation bias takes care of the rest.
bizarre- The columns of the home page on iOS5 are no longer evenly spaced, almost certainly on purpose.
4476 words. IMO this is badly written. The article stalls at "That mix of ubiquity and interchangeability makes the shipping container one of the most radical developments in global commerce since World War II. The first dedicated container ship was built in 1956, and virtually overnight the new logistical approach transformed the cargo business..."

I'd guess an intern took over at that point, fired up wikipedia and started filling in the other 4000 words.
Ask HN: Review our startup (iPad app enabling communities within books)
We have some experience building web apps, but this is our first iPad application. We hired a freelance developer for the software development and did the design ourselves.

We're obviously just getting started and there's a lot of room for improvement. We launched today and we're already getting a lot of helpful feedback from users, but I'd also be really interested in hearing feedback from an entrepreneur's and developer's perspective.

You can download the app here to try out:

http://openmargin.com/

No need to sugarcoat the feedback. The more critical the better.
> The first of the dumps of executive information is of PayPal. After their action against WikiLeaks, and using their corporate sway to persuade law enforcement to hunt down those who merely attacked their website; it is time for those at the top of PayPal to have the masks pulled from their faces.
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I heard rumors about some tablet PC Apple was supposed to make, called the iSlate. Too bad nothing ever came of that.
Not necessarily. You're working under the assumption that Black entrepreneurs don't have a harder time getting exposure or VC funding than other groups, thus focusing solely on Black startups will likely yield a suboptimal group. This is likely to be false. If it is the case that Black startups have it harder, it is likely that strong startups exist that are being overlooked in this group. Thus intentionally taking an extra look at black entrepreneurs could in fact be a smart business decision. Furthermore, there's also the uniqueness factor that could bring extra "free" exposure which is the lifeblood of a startup.

"Merit" has different meanings in different contexts. In the startup world, merit means whoever will likely bring in the most return on investment. He's betting that the overlooked black startups fit the bill. That's a 100% business calculation.
this is ridiculous - why do ignorant people have to always resort to using the race card to stir up controversy over nothing. people need to get the hell over themselves imo and realize no one cares about that stupid shit this day and age.
More concisely: Every time you let a user input something, you're giving them a chance to try to extract or destroy something in your database. But preventing it is REALLY simple. It's astonishing that this is still a problem in 2011, it goes to show what happens when everybody outsources and nobody gives a f*ck about quality. Grandpa was a foreman, he used to say if you pay workers more they hammer in an extra nail and the building won't fall down in the next earthquake. Same goes.
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> How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard?

"I could pay a few thousand dollars to properly dispose of this, or I could throw it over the fence of the local junkyard."
My eyes! All I see is green text, everywhere.
If you deserve it, the bird will fly in the window.

Everything that's wrong with US public education in one sentence.
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It was CNN. It was "In America". It was Soledad O'Brien.

I guess he didn't see it coming because a man like him is too busy to watch TV, but it was pretty obvious to me.
If Boxee can build a $200 set top box with the same processor that Logitech used in their Revue (and sold it for $300), I think $150 price can be achieved with a high-end ARM chip. Just add 4 GB of internal storage - should be enough for most Android games, and a MicroSD slot for expansion in the future.
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Very NICE! I've heard about you guys but never tried...yet!

A question if I may: Any particular reason for calling yourselves a hardware company? Wouldn't electronics be more appropriate and familiar to the people checking you out?
I've been in a similar situation during the dot com of the early 2000's. Many people where let go and the company was put on "skeleton staff". Of those who where part of the skeleton staff, although feeling sad, felt somehow special that we where chosen to keep our jobs. We thought we where awesome and therefore chosen to stay.

Those who where let go got a salary package of two or three months, however, after continuing for a few months the company was unable to survive and the rest of the employees where fired. This time however, there was no salary package left to hand out since the business was completely broke.

The lesson I learned from this; The moment large amounts of people are being let go, get the hell out of there while you're still being payed a salary.
we are working on it, are you looking for export of previous version of full file, or the exporting of the diffs?
Im a bit conservative when it comes to hardware like raid controllers. My choice was 3ware. They are by no means the fastest, in fact the performance sucks compared to others.
I went to a company that builds storage systems, but will build any kind you want, not locked into any controller. I trusted them when they recommended that by their experience is returned/fails the least.
Of course everything fails, so it's just a matter of time.
We have tripple redundant storage for file backup... active, 5 minute backup that is ready to be swapped in at one click, and long term. If something goes wrong with the active set or slows down, we just flip a switch and all our app servers use the new system that at most is 5 minutes behind. Old system gets shot in the head, and can be diagnosed off line. Shoot first ask questions later.
If we took out the Javascript layer we'd be down to C, right? We've had emulators written in portable C for nigh on twenty years. Where's the challenge in that? ;)

The advantage of JS as a runtime environment is that it's got the most extensive cross-platform app ecosystem in the world, with a lot of eyeballs on it. Every new difference that arises between the behavior of a JS engine and that of its peers is greeted by a hundred thousand screams from the mouths of a hundred thousand web developers.

Plus, I believe the pain required to get your app to run in all the popular JS engines is mild when you compare it to the ins and outs of cross-platform C libraries.
This is, unfortunately, VERY good advice. If I were a young, black guy trying to start a company...I don't care how smart I am...I would go get a front man. Don't let idealism advise your financial dealings. IDEALLY...it would be great if there was no bias. PRAGMATICALLY...there is bias, those kids will need to deal with it.

One way is to come across an Arrington, but as not all guys are like Arrington...you would be well advised to have a front man.
Gruber is writing this article in the same day Google TV 2.0 with channels-as-apps is unveiled, and he doesn't even mention it? In the mean time he makes us believe that he just came up with the idea about this from Apple. Right, Gruber.
"Isn't reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability expressly allowed under the DMCA?"

That's what I thought too - can anyone address this question?
Get them from outer space, or use less efficient alternatives and not care about the reduced efficiency because it's so darned cheap.
Ask HN: Can I have Siri listen to my VM and give me a synopsis/TL;DR?
I want Siri to screen my calls for me, is this yet possible? Do we think this is the way Siri is going? If not, why not?
If users can easily disable Secure Boot, it won't prevent much piracy at all.
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Is it better to begin a startup with or without competition?
For example, is it better that your startup solve a common problem by introducing an entirely new field, or arrive as an underdog to an existing field?
I agree. Seeing the screenshots all these years of the European Spotify, so pretty... When it finally came to the US and I played around with it, the user experience is so clunky and requires way too many clicks to get anything done.
Ignore minoritys. Great strategy.
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Building something vaguely iPad-class is not all that hard, as long as you are OK with it being open source at the board level rather than all the way down to the silicon level. Check out, for example, the TI BeagleBoard. That's more like a 1-2 year lag, not 10-20.
Hey guys

Would you find this useful? Do you like the idea? Looking for thoughts and comments of all shapes and sizes.

Thanks!