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Add to the list: you have to call every 6 months to get a new "promotion" or you pay way too much.
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There are plenty of companies that we love (hello, Apple)

Speak for yourself... there are plenty of us who cheerily invite Apple to go straight to hell. You can certainly count me among their number, for one.

I have no use whatsoever for their anti-hacker ethos, their locked-down, proprietary, "no user repairable parts inside" attitude, and the arrogance with which they presume to know more about what the customer needs, than the customer does.

I'm sure this is going to be unpopular, but sorry, when it comes to corporate success, values don't mean shit.

That's hardly a settled point. There's evidence on both sides of the argument, to this day.
I think the dirty little secret is that, aside from the top-tier VCs, almost no one else ever made good risk-adjusted returns, outside of a short window in the late 90s.

There is disruption going on upstream.

Second markets are disrupting the IPO pipeline.

Independent high-frequency trading has taken over marketmaking from cartels of floor brokers and banks.

Independent registered investment advisers are disrupting stockbrokers.

Individuals are taking charge of their own portfolios with online tools, blogs, communities like StockTwits.

Still more cartels and dinosaurs are ripe for disruption.

I don't really agree about destroying wealth. Investment companies are financial intermediaries. To the extent they are disintermediated and the process becomes more efficient, the entrepreneurs and investors end up keeping more of their wealth instead the advisers. The intermediaries who really added value will still find a role, maybe as entrepreneurs, incubators etc.

In the case of newspapers/music there were institutions that used to pay for value-added activities that shrank or disappeared. There is a loss of institutional memory / structure / craft. But arguably there is not that much value add in most of the investment models that are getting disrupted and what replaces them is superior.
Relevant stuff from SICP [1]:

"The contrast between [a mathematical] function and [a computing] procedure is a reﬂection of the general distinction between describing properties of things and describing how to do things, or, as it is sometimes referred to, the distinction between declarative knowledge and imperative knowledge. In mathematics we are usually concerned with declarative (what is) descriptions, whereas in computer science we are usually concerned with imperative (how to) descriptions.

...an important current area in programming-language design is the exploration of so-called very high-level languages, in which one actually programs in terms of declarative statements. The idea is to make interpreters sophisticated enough so that, given “what is” knowledge speciﬁed by the programmer, they can generate “how to” knowledge automatically. This cannot be done in general, but there are important areas where progress has been made."

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html...
This is a beautiful and interesting concept, but isn't this really just a dressed up command line interface? This is a feature I would absolutely love to have, but I don't see it replacing the menu in the form demoed for the simple reason that this violates one of the core principles of user-centered design: visibility. If the user has no visual indication of what is possible within the system, how can we expect them to learn the interface?

One super simple example of this: http://cl.ly/082D441E2D0L1l3d3g2Y

Most readers of Hacker News are probably aware of the calculator feature in the Spotlight in Mac OSX, but if I had a dollar for every time I've blown someone's mind by showing it to them, I'd be counting money right now rather than writing this comment. The bottom line is, visibility is an extremely important design principle, because it informs the user what they can do within a system, so hiding possibilities is probably not a good idea.

For detailed reading on the principle of visibility, check out Donald Norman's Phenomenal The Design of Everyday Things, which I firmly believe should be required reading for anyone thinking about building anything: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385267746/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... [yes, it is an affiliate link]
Regarding point d), specifically around iCloud being a major source of revenue and profits:

[Tim Cook] said iCloud is "not a product, it is a strategy for the next decade."[1]

iPhone and iPad are major sources of revenue for Apple; they are also "products" with a heavy focus to make them "great". iCloud is one of many features that makes Apple products great, but IMHO is not itself a focus for Apple as a revenue generator.

[1] http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOAZb_nCI...
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On Microsoft, (to close the loop), I think it is legitimate for them to include the software they want with Windows (such as IE, media player and all), however it is not normal that hardware manufacturers sell you computers only bundled with Windows and nothing else. That is where the abuse is, for this case.

I think the term "abuse of market power" has very thin legal ground. Anything that becomes popular tend to appear like it "abuses" its power. That's usually what competitors say when they simply give up competiting: they use lawyers and politicians to weaken the leader.

What matters in the end is what value the service provides, and if there is choice available for users to turn to other alternatives. If Google does not provide value anymore (irrelevant results) it will consumers/users in the end, and that will spark demand for better alternatives. The market will adjust. I do not really see an issue with the current situation.

Regarding search engines, Bing and Yahoo may not be as relevant but they also do the job most of the time. There will be new competitors coming, web contents are changing, the way people use the web are changing, all this environment creates opportunities to challenge search on the way. Looking through pages of results of links is hardly something that can be optimal over the long term - we will need better tools, I have no doubt about that.
> mainstream users don't care about these things and they don't have any expectations.

You talk like a "mainstream" user has never used a computer before.

> the very basics need teaching (things like showing them how to open the launcher),

This is the reason why, in Windows, the start button is called the start button. After all these years, the start button doesn't have a label anymore because everyone, everywhere, now knows you that click the button in the bottom left corner to do anything.
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Thanks for an incorrect non-answer. The definition of public financing does not by itself preclude corporate financing.

Even if you adopted additional restrictions on corporate financing I'm pretty sure there would be all kinds of ways to shadow-fund a candidate. This creates a situation where honest candidates are unfairly penalized against candidates that still play the money game.
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hmm your top of the line PC was overheating on playing Netflix. So hard to believe in it. could you share some info what specs was this PC, what software you used?

I agree with you that Apple make choices for you and usually they are excellent. But they come with price, you know?
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I don't meet your profitable metric yet (hell, I haven't even launched it yet), but I've been working for a year.

The biggest question is what do you consider spent on the startup? Do living costs count or just direct expenses?

I'd say most of the cost has definitely been in the living costs. My total bill for direct costs (not living costs) so far is probably under <5k.
Features and UI for 12.04 will be frozen in less than a month from now.

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And now your real-time location with Android.

I wonder, what measures are there to protect my data from a rogue employee -- or his zombied laptop.
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not directly, but their faq pretty clear about a bunch of secondary ( out of band, internet updates duplicated, etc) correlations that could lead to good evidence that the second system exists. pulling that off is noeasy task.
http://ihackernews.com lets you read all the links as text.
i found it to be better than the hacker news app that i tried.
Something like Ars Technica, which is way meatier than the hyperbole and cheerleading that the PandoLemonCrunch school of venture journalism is capable of.
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I built a high end machine a few years ago. Quad core. 6gb RAM, fastest gpu available at the time. All quality parts, in excess of $1500. Installed Win 7.

I barely ever used it. I have a late 2009 MacBook that I use daily. About 6 months ago, I decided to turn my desktop into a Hackintosh. Put OS X on it.

Ever since, I use the desktop at least as much as my laptop now. I've determined it's the OS that's more important than hardware. Even with high end hardware, I can't work with Windows. Put Mac OS on the very same hardware and it becomes a powerhouse.
After about a week we broke down the office door. People on the floor below were starting to complain about the smell.
for all intents and purposes, it's pretty safe to assume that a mainstream user has never used a computer before. after a couple years of onsite tech support, the biggest thing i took away was that when the average user sits down at a computer, they don't remember any usage patterns they may have learned during their last session. the way to make your UI usable is to assume that every user is using your software for the first time, every time.

there was a good rant on the verge a while back about the condescending UI, but from everything i've seen a little condescension is an essential part of a good UI.
I agree with you. Its just getting to be too tempting. Plus government would be the last one to worry if they destroy something.

They could look very deep into the "made in china" "issue". Lookup "Kluska" - owner of company Optimus in Poland. One of the richest man in 90s. Basically, CBS imprisoned him for months after he allegedly broke the law by exporting parts to foreign countries where PCs were assembled and brought back to Poland. The issue was that he did not pay tax out of the assembly. After years of litigation (bail denied), he was free man, while his company went bankrupt and he was left in debt after fighting with Government. Polish IRS (Urzad Skarbowy) did not even apologize.
As an outsider (Aussie), NPR's "All Things Considered" is a great show and well worth your tax dollars ;). Our national radio broadcaster plays it daily.
I would be very surprised. Assuming they have used bookmarks anywhere else, I wouldn't think it would take long for the tedium of entering URLs on a touch screen to make them think of making a bookmark. The question is whether they can figure out how.
If a company has 100 shares on issue how is paying you $0.10 per share in dividends different from a buy back of 10 shares at $1 each.

Either puts $10 dollars into the pockets of shareholders and out of the hands of the company.

Dividends versus a buyback are the same thing except from a tax point of view.

If you choose not to sell that is like an automatic dividend re-investment plan.
I wrote something between those lines 10 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3463957), so, I can understand Google's interest on having it's own mobile OS. But that's not a reason for them to start a war that is not on their best interest. Apple wins having Android around, so they can escape of being accused of monopolistic practices (e.g. no other Browser banned from their OS? Remember Microsoft?), Google wins, by having another channel of distribution for their ads.
And both of them complement each other nicely.
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I was able to profitably launch http://www.committeebox.com for around 500 dollars. That cost includes hosting and such while testing. If I counted all the hours that I've put in we'd have a whole different story :P

What have you been working on for a year without launching?
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To be clear, ~$400B was the US defense budget, not that of General Dynamics.
What I think will be even cooler is tablet + keyboard + motion sensing field. If the gestures were designed right, you probably wouldn't even have to move far off the keyboard to get that nice, free-form, analog input. Now that I think about it, that would be pretty cool on my desktop, too.
I did not see your comment until now.

The only part where i have a problem is the exclusivity. Apple may own the typewriter but you own the words that you write. I think Apple may have a ground to charge you for using their typewriter somehow, but restricting where you decide to publish your work goes far, very far.

In the end, it's a matter of being in agreement with the contract. I doubt anyone reasonable would accept such terms willingly - an author wants to spread their works as much as possible, and not limit them to a single marketplace.
I really like this idea and the simplicity of it! Great work, and can't wait to see what future iterations bring!
I always had that weird feeling that we are not paying enough attention to the Occupy movement, that we are witnessing history being made but that the current media does not (yet) attach much importance to it, that it is a precursor to something bigger: bigger riots, bigger clashes, etc.

And now Soros makes this prediction...

Assuming Soros is correct, I am wondering what the intelligent HN reader would do to prepare for, say, nation-wide riots in the US? Would you care about protecting your tangible assets (car, house) from damages? How would you protect your financial assets (what would you invest in, Bitcoin?) Would you just care about your life? How would you protect your family?
What do I do when I forget the wording of a menu item? (or I guess a "HUD command")

Menus form a strong spatial association - I remember a lot of options by their placement, and only recall the exact wording when I see it. (Is it "re-open last tab", "reopen last tab", "re-open closed tab", or "reopen closed tab"?) Not saying that HUD is inherently bad because of this, but I'm curious how they deal with it? Am I missing something?
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from 94 till i got a sharp zaurus pda in the noughties i used pdas like psion and palm/visor that required aa or aaa batteries. i tried duracell/energizer and at a pinch generics. i never had a duracell or energizer leak. the extra money was worth the peace of mind. using generics in other cheaper equipment was risking leakage.

as to power levels. when energizer came out for the first month or two they were better than duracells in terms of amount of power drawn by the psions (i kept a spreadsheet of mw) but i put that down to the supply chain not having stock languishing in warehouses for a new product shortening the length of the supply chain.

i eventually switched ti nicd and then nimh batteries and even lithium batteries originally meant for emergency torches. but with modern devices i really miss not been able to drop in 1-2 cheap batteries in a pinch or when far from the grid. it be nice if there were a modern smartphone/pda that could run off alkalines.
I'm saddened that this is one of the last things to enter the public domain in the US.
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I fail to see how this will apply to tablets and mobile phones, where you want people to use their finger as a mouse and not as a keyboard to type. (since Canonical said they were moving towards tablets and phones in the near future, I expect they follow the same design guidelines, but I could be wrong...)
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Sure, one guys experience with a single Mac Mini is absolutely the basis for general statements regarding Apple hardware.

Especially when we are treated with such insight as the use of the "Death Star" moniker for Hitachi drives (a name given for a faulty production run circa 2004, an aeon ago in computer times) and the fact that Mac Mini's don't have a physical cd rom eject button.

Because, you know, there aren't tens of millions of satisfied users of said firm's hardware around, and the firm doesn't top computer user satisfaction surveys for 6-7 years in a row. And it's not like most alpha geeks, and around 70% of all hacker conference attendants use said firm's hardware (with a few even known to prefer to use the hardware even to run an alternative OS, like Linux, instead of a PC, because they consider it top notch).
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Ask HN: Should I become a partner at a new VC seed fund?
TL;DR - I'm a senior level engineer and UX designer. Been offered a partnership at a new VC seed fund, but compensation is low due to their fund size and age.
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Here's my situation: early thirties, CS major, worked full time while getting straight A's in full time undergrad at a B-level school. Since then, 13 years of experience with extremely large scale internet companies, the most recent 5 were at Google. Primarily focused on writing backend code and doing front end design for internal tools that deploy/manage large scale infrastructures (devops type stuff). I'm one of those supposedly hard to find designer/hacker hybrids.

Since living in the corporate world, I've been doing full stack dev consulting over the last year. I also have experience with two startups, one failed and one ongoing. Usually brought on as a CTO / engineering lead type role; being a reasonably skilled UI/UX designer doesn't hurt.

The older I get, the less interested I am in tinkering with technology and the more interested I get in solving human problems. In my view, good design is all about improving peoples' lives and good businesses do so by building things that real people value. Building well made, purposeful things is what stokes my fire, whether it's a web app or a company. Solving big problems certainly helps. Working with great people is even better. I love people.

Over the past few months an opportunity has presented itself for me to become a partner at a new early stage VC fund. They're interested in me for my technical expertise and résumé as well as my management experience, "people skills" and reputation in my community for being a vocal startup advocate (this is outside of SF). This firm has raised somewhere in the low 8-digits for their first fund. More funds may be raised in the future.

The offer is salary/bonus + carry equity + benefits. The salary is significantly lower than what I'd earn as a consultant, but the low number is primarily a result of the low administrative fees for a new fund. As the firm grows, presumably my compensation would grow with it. Obviously the more good deals I help source or vet, the better chances of success.

My dilemma is partly about money, but mostly about the major career shift. Being a VC is not like starting a startup; it's more a finance job than an engineering one. That said, the two new YC hires are evidence of a trend I'm seeing of good engineers becoming VCs, having technical knowledge on staff instead of just MBAs and former execs. I'm just worried that I'm making a switch away from engineering and in doing so will let my skills atrophy to where they're no longer marketable.

HN, what say you? Should I go to the dark side?
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:) no data is being witheld ! Both facebook.com/zuck and plus.google.com/zuck are public pages. As with all other docs in google's index, they should just use signals like click-data to decide which page shows up. This has nothing to do with private data or not getting access. That's just all PR bullshit.
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> And so this tool that used to do exactly what it was asked became too clever by half.

This is my perception of how Google evolved:

In the early days, it used to be like running grep on the whole internet but getting your results sorted by a very relevant algorithm (page rank). Then over the years they added a lot of features that fell into three categories:

* operators to run more powerful queries

* adding more complexity to the sorting of the results (localization, penalizing websites trying to game the algorithm, ...)

* adding widgets given the query (ups tracking, weather, calculator, ...)

These were all good, and I loved the fact that you could run some very clever and complex queries to get exactly what you wanted (and the googledorks were born...).

But recent improvements to Google have all been about "guessing what the user wants" (the best illustration of that is the search as you type) and while it's hard to argue about the validity of this approach my problem with it is that it won't give me any fallback options when it guesses wrong.

To be honest, Google does a very good job at guessing what I want. But the frustration caused by the few times it doesn't get it just makes me miss the "old google".
And with every new recent improvement I keep being reminded of the MentalPlex [1]

[1] http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/mentalplex/