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If Paul Graham realized that people can easily lose lots of money by investing, why did he devote himself to investing large amounts of his own money in high-risk businesses?

I'm not being facetious, I just think that seems contradictory. If I had a lot of money and that same knowledge, I would invest very conservatively.
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When you are watching tv, you could be planning how you will do your next creative work.
of course it is a coping strategy. The adaptive nature of our brain means that we're always in the "coping strategy" to the previous experiences. Not analysing and not being affected by previous exprience wouldn't be a sign of a healthy brain.
This is a less well thought version of Marc Andreessen's Software eats the World essay[1]. For devices like phones and tablets the platform (aka software+services) matters a lot more than the hardware.

Sure, there are a few exceptions: gaming requires specific hardware, the connected fitness market likes Ant+, Bluetooth 3.0 or dongles, etc. But the general case is that the software matters, not the hardware.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...
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Wondering , who the hell are these people who write such laws, I Googled John Conyers. In the results was a story that his wife had been sentenced to Federal prison for bribery. I hope this is the nadir and the only way forward is up, but I'm not hugely optimistic.
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"People fright at the concept of losing their money, yet they slave away their time without a second thought."

-Seneca the Younger, from Letters from a Stoic (highly recommended)

I think slaving away doing something you hate is far more harmful than "wasting" time having fun. I get more out of playing hacky sack and/or listening to podcasts than any homework or school work.

So, in relation to this article, I think we should maybe consider "losing time" as doing anything that you deeply don't want to do but are doing just to get more money.

The relationship between time and money is a fascinating one. Great article PG.
Ah, so you're saying that failing to parse the number breaks the transaction.

Fair enough, you'd rather (as a human being) have the second one. As a matter of building the system, I would still return the first one.

Basically, the second information is important in the sense that you really want an audit trail, but unimportant in that it doesn't tell you why your call failed. Returning it to the caller is useless compared to returning the first error.

But yes, it should certainly be logged and potentially acted on. An application can't do anything useful with the information, but an ops guy can.

So return the first one.
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Here's the short version of how I did it in just 5 years. I dabbled with programming in college (perl), and then did some freelance on the side after college (php) while working a full-time job. I quit my job in 2006 and did freelance full-time for all of 2007. During this time I built up quite a portfolio, demonstrating my skills at ajax, PHP, MySQL, etc. In 2008 I used that portfolio to land a job at a startup willing to take a chance on me. I used my experience at the startup to land a job at Internet Brands in 2009. There I was able to work on sites that had millions of uniques per month, and millions in revenue. I learned a lot about scaling, caching, and optimization there while working on Ultimate Coupons and Steve's Digicams. I used that experience to land a job at ClearChannel in 2010, where they take scaling to the extreme. Here I built Rush Limbaugh's new website basically by myself.

I think the best place to start is doing freelance. Build up a portfolio that shows off what you can do, while showing people you can see a job through to completion, work with clients and their deadlines and demands, and supervise yourself. Then use that as a stepping stone to get a great full-time job if that's what you want.
They're probably talking specifically about Honeycomb, which started showing up in devices in Feb. 2011 according to Wikipedia, but only now is being open-sourced. So that does seem to have been withheld.

Not that missing that deserves the downvoting you're getting though.
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While you may be right in that the system won't be fixed, the correct response is to not get worked up about it and sit around waiting for the system to fail. It's not like government will disband and people will look around and say "Ok, that didn't work. Anyone have any other ideas?"

Keep getting worked up, and keep making noise about it. More people need to care more.
He sold Viaweb for tens of millions, he invests low tens of thousands.

He warns that careless trading may lose money without setting off fear, he invests in companies he also guides them to try and help them succeed. He doesn't invest alone, the risk and decisions have other people he trusts watching or contributing. They turn down most of the applicants
As both a Python and Haskell guy, trust me, it's not. The syntax is an example - Haskell code is, in practice, cleaner than presented - some of the article's code is built to example. However, do be aware that languages like Python and Ruby are more friendly to easy reading, by design. Haskell is purely functional, and most designations are immutable. Definition clauses are also combined, which lessens variables (as they're immutable, among other reasons). Don't get turned off because of the syntax. Haskell and Python are useful for different things.
This is really a question of short-term gain versus long-term gain as well as tasks versus goals. For short-term fulfillment, we can entertain ourselves or keep ourselves occupied in some manner, regardless of whether it's productive.

The key is figuring out how it fits into our overall strategy or goals. Is that activity or task contributing to that long-term gain? More importantly, am I actively managing it as opposed to going on blind auto-pilot (e.g. for that investment or project)?

There's no substitute for hard work, just as there's no substitute for self-awareness.
I feel the same way about watching TV all day, except replace TV with reddit x.x
Many employers have agreements prohibiting their employees from having other jobs. Most people can't work two full-time jobs productively.
I have seen highscalability, but I was looking for a more compact ressource, aware that such may not exist. As I have said, I have found a lot of sites that deal with scalability, but it's hard to find a point to begin with
The notions of creator and afterlife are pure fantasy, but if you believe the fantasy then the reasoning you layer on top of it is reasonably sound.
I think the "dabbling" phase of learning a language is important, and this is the best intro for Haskell dabblers I've ever seen. Nice work, author.
Seems like the only hope for stopping this is a presidential veto. Time to step up the pressure on Obama and push for it. He's not exactly an ally, but congress is a foregone conclusion.
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The only stated reason I've heard is "the code is ugly," which was found to be... unconvincing here on HN.
Are you aware of another reason, specifically one which would be convincing?
I don't really agree with the rest of your statement, but I don't think this was his best either. It's a keen observation, but I was expecting some advice or some more in-depth analysis. But blogging can be one of those things that keeps getting put off if you wait until you have a perfect essay.
Thank you, I'm actually a user and big fan of Alfred already, but I second your recommendation to everyone else.

But this is the future and I want my jetpack/siri :)
Eh, I'd argue it responds much more aggressively and quickly when it has serious competition. Note that I didn't say Apple doesn't innovate when it doesn't have competition, I said it innovates more when it responds to market pressure, which, I think, shouldn't be controversial. Why exactly that statement is controversial is perplexing.
I bet he does a lot more due diligence on his YC investments than in the investments he references in his essay. He not only scopes talent and recognizes talent but also grooms it with his network and mentorship. He actively manages his "investments" to lower risk and increase chances of success.
Technologies can take a long time to die. IE7 is 5.5 years old and hanging in there in a world where Chrome and Firefox are updated every six weeks. If some of these old technologies became obsolete quicker we'd all be better off. Imagine if IE7 and IE8 disappeared and everyone used a modern browser that was updated every six weeks.
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Of course it isn't coincidence. It's not like there's a major shopping season (when people often buy new electronics) that might be influencing both Google's and Amazon's schedules or anything.
US employment law is nuts, here in NZ you'd have an amazingly hard time firing people who don't work the 80hr weeks you wish they did.
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Without defending any given piece of software, the job of the exception advocate is not to prove that return values suck, but that using exceptions produces more stable software as fast or faster. This question cannot be resolved by examples/anecdotes alone.
According to the thread on reddit people have posted about these on the internet up to 5 years ago. The most plausible explanation on the thread seems to be that the criss-cross pattern is a test range for autonomous cruise missiles, designed to mimic city streets.

Here is a quote from the thread:
"It is an optical test range for autonomous cruise missile targeting systems, to simulate the street grids of cities. If you check the scale of the grid on google earth (+40° 27' 6.89", +93° 44' 20.77") you'll notice that the grid is the size of several city blocks. If you look here (40.479272,93.47713) they have a fake airport painted out over ditches, creeks and inclines. There is also a paved runway short way away, with random bomb craters in it.

The round circle with the 3 jets in the middle is a blasting test range, used to test the dispersion, and effectiveness of explosions over a varying ranges." [1]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/mbth1/china_googl...
Well said, sometimes a community's harsh criticisms will be brutal to startup founders. But life is not just about making it to the top, just enjoy the journey.
To be precise: cons (:), bind (>>=), 'constant bind' (>>), 'flipped bind' (=<<), compose (.), apply ($), strict apply ($!), append (++), and subscript (!!).
I like the new layout. Looks pretty cool. Although, I could just be admiring the fact that these screen-shots aren't riddled with advertisements. :P
People seem to forget that the other previous laws were modified by court decisions to something more reasonable as its less likely to buy off Supreme Court Judges than congress people..

The main fight is not in congress people its those first few Supreme court cases bought before the court by industry big firms like Google, Amazon, etc
"The solution is to develop new alarms."

...and get rid of some other ones.
Actually until Google releases the source you can never be sure if they're going to release it.

They release this time.. you and I can only hope that they keep doing it in the future. It wouldn't be all that surprising if it would go closed source (except for key partners) at some point (and except for the GPL content).

Specially when any company could just rip the source, make it nicer looking and release their own version of Android and close the source on that... oh look it has a name, it's called MIUI!

Imagine if many cheap Chinese manufacturers release decent phones with it, that cost 3x cheaper than the rest, and no Google stuff inside, no control, yada yada.
Well, personally I'd get one :-)
Agreed. Employers compensate you based on their estimate of your __future__ contributions to profit. Asking for compensation during a fire sale is not negotiating; it is begging.
It seems like it might be a a good low-tech way (and possibly even with modern battlefield GIS available) to thoroughly familiarize mid-level and lower officers with the terrain. It's hard to overestimate the value of a good, physical sense of the land in a places that remarkably rugged. It won't replace local info on the ground, but I'd certainly rather go into a place like that with commanding officers who aren't trying to reconstruct chunks of the Himalayas in their head on the fly. If you've got the spare manpower, the space, and you're planning ahead... why not?
At a certain level of diligence and diversification, investment is much more like a job than it is like gambling.
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In other words, arbitrary "real name" rules only apply to non-famous people.
also in Data.List (which is a fairly common import) there are a few, like (\\) which is list difference ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] \\ [1, 3, 6] == [2, 4, 5]), and I can't really think of any others.

There aren't really that many, though some modules will abuse them. The standard ones make sense.
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The Galaxy Nexus is hitting stores in the UK on the 17th so the release is only a few days early. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they got done a little early and decided to "push the button" anyway.
> 'No one is at all concerned that this is a hack?'

You're asking that on a site called 'Hacker News' if I'm not mistaken. It is indeed a 'hack', a clever and skilled exploration of technology carried out with perfectly good or neutral intent.
"But what I don't understand how could HTC, Samsung and all the others agree to this so easily?"

Right here is where Occam's Razor makes short work of B&N's claims that all MS has is junk patents.

Samsung is going to write MS a $100 million dollar check next year for these patents. Samsung signed the NDA and saw all those patents and has a huge legal department and still decided to pay up.
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"so this is probably just a simplification on the author's part."

I guarantee that: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/04/the-haskell-heap/
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oh I see. For some reason I thought Jason Fried and pg were completely on the same wavelength when it comes to startup methodology
Fortunately it's easy to look them up: http://haskell.org/hoogle

Enter any operator or other name, no matter how crazy the characters involved, and it'll find it if it's in the standard library. This contrasts with resorting to Google to look things up in most languages and despairing because it thinks your burst of punctuation (which is the whole point of the query) is noise.
I've tried to learn Haskell a couple times, and I keep running into the basic problem of not being able to search for info on terms like ">>=". If you don't know what it means, how do you find out? I certainly never knew until reading in this article that they were called "fish" operators. I previously tried to work through 3 or 4 different Haskell tutorials, and still didn't know this.

This article seems very helpful for simply enabling someone with Python experience to learn Haskell.
Could you give examples of these silent updates in Perl?

I'm by no means a Haskell expert, but one of the worst parts of learning Haskell (or reading arbitrary code) is that there's no special syntax for partial application. Certainly that's a benefit in many cases if you're familiar with the signatures of the functions you're using, but it's definitely not explicit.
What you just suggested is exactly what I did and it completely changed my life.
You've proved my point. Watch NASCAR and you'll see there are certain challenges that will only present themselves when you're driving 200+ mph. These can be useful to keep in mind as you are learning how to drive for the first time, but there are more immediate issues to focus on, like how to hold the steering wheel properly, shift gears, and use the gas/brake. It won't help much in the practical sense to study advanced drafting techniques at that point if you can't even pull out of the driveway, but if it helps motivate you over the long term, then that's fine. Similarly, I don't think it is beneficial to talk about switching to MongoDB and node.js because you think PHP/MySQL is slow when you haven't even learned how to add indexes and caching.
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If anyone is wondering about the risk related to running one of these tor cloud instances. The bridges are configured to only accept and relay traffic to and from other tor nodes. The exit policy is reject everything. These instances will never be the last hop of a tor circuit...
> I get more out of playing hacky sack and/or listening to podcasts than any homework or school work.

Maybe you're studying the wrong thing?
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Honest question from a maybe-future Android dev: is it notably more challenging to develop for Android during periods when the source is not yet public? For example, is a lot of platform doc written from the POV of someone who expects you'll just peep the code when questions arise?

Update: +1 to everyone thinking 'man, I bitch about google sometimes, but this kind of thing is totally legit and awesome'
Any chance of getting it to apply the filter on page load as well? It appears that it's not possible to link to a result set. i.e., if I send someone a link to http://instacss.com/#background in order for results to be shown they must perform a keypress of some sort in the search field.

edit: Apparently if you've searched something before it does display it on page load (after a brief delay)? So it seems this link might not be a good example URL. But hopefully you can just edit the URL and submit it directly to see what I'm talking about.
I think that one of the reasons perforce is used at large companies is the audit log / permissions model makes it easy to meet certain regulatory hurdles.
Google is partially involved via the Motorola merger agreement (which forbids settling Motorola's patent disputes with Apple and Microsoft, IIRC) and will fully involved once the merger closes, of course.
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It's also called 'bind' and should be described in any monad tutorial. Hoogle is a great reference for using Haskell and can successfully find the 'fish' operators[1].

[1]http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%3E%3E%3D
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Sometimes I think the feeling of getting "basically nothing" done by the end of the day is not the right timeframe - there are projects that have gone on for weeks that ultimately were a complete waste of time.

I suspect pg means that he spent the day checking / responding to e-mails, reading HN, maybe paying some bills, noodling around the Internet, checking e-mail again, and then discovering that it's getting close to bed time, rather than working on long-term projects where the work he's doing hasn't immediately borne fruit.

The Internet is particularly insidious in this respect, because reading HN, looking at the NYT, and so forth can feel work-like without actually accomplishing anything substantial.
I had some roommates in college that played Diable II like beasts. Once, when they thought they were online but weren't, we heard a scream through the wall, "Fuck! I'm not getting any experience from this!"

We laughed for a while at that one while we browsed videos of people getting hurt on ebaum's world.
What might actually happen is that Git or Dropbox become the interface
through which we “put files on the web”.

There are some tools that exist already. Here is one that I recently discovered. http://www.kissr.co/. There was another one also posted on HN recently, I forget its name.
They aren't actually called "fish" operators, as far as I know. ">>=" is pronounced "bind"; all the other ones are related. I didn't have this problem when learning Haskell because I just started by reading "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good"--which is a great book, coincidentally--and never had to google operators.
Sounds like a good time, see you all there.
that's true, but that's also why I love Fast Company. If you want harder-hitting business journalism, it's better to stick with Fortune or Businessweek. There you can read about the underbelly of business,the Madoffs/Goldmans/oligarchs etc.

Fast Company and Inc. are both owned by the same firm, and they try to portray a more humanistic view of business, ie. social capitalism, the belief that entrepreneurs can one day solve all of the ills in the world. Its a very uplifting philosophy, and I for one find it encouraging.

I've never heard of the term entreporn though, if you coined it then congrats! I like the term, and maybe it is apt. Maybe that's precisely what someone is curious but hesitant about entrepreneurialism needs.
Because "dieting" carries a connotation of sacrifice and limited duration, it is unsurprising that the weight loss associated with dieting tends to be short lived - without a change of habit, you lose the ten pounds and then what?

Once I am about to eat something, I have already had ample opportunity to read the damn label on a can of Pringles, if I really cared.

That's not to say that providing an SMS about calories isn't a way to make money - offering dieting advice which is ineffective over the long term appears to be a potentially profitable endeavor for many people.
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You can salt them by including a link to the previous comment you made :)
You might be safe with reading expired patents, but don't take my word for it. I do sometimes and get a kick out of it. Where would we be without a patent for a "Baseball cap for pigtail hairstyles"? http://www.latepatents.net/5799334.htm (Their site seems to be dead in places, but you can still browse through a few of them with google https://www.google.com/search?q=site:latepatents.net )

Academic papers at Arxiv and elsewhere are far more useful.
there used to be a gitweb running when aosp was hosted at kernel.org. when the repositories were moved to google servers, jbq@ said that a web interface to the repositories will be coming at some point, but it is a lower priority than other things like a gerrit review tool.