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This is a good question.

I think that VC in its current form will be a casualty of the recession. In its current form, the VC grabs a chunk of cash as a management fee, and another chunk of cash to put "adult supervision" of seasoned executives on the management team. Also, VCs are not able to manage the kinds of small investments that startups need because VC partners have limited time. Because their of their high overheads in the form of management fees, "adult supervision" the small investments simply will no longer pay them what they need to profit. Therefore, from that perspective, I think that VCs are going to be forced out of the web startup sector.

In addition, they will also get booted out of sectors that use successful web startups to bootstrap other kinds of businesses. Let's face it...just as you can use a consulting business to bootstrap a company, you can also use a successful web startup to do the same.

I think that a new trend that will emerge is that large enterprises will start buying up web startups to take over the product for use in their internal operations. Think of it...suppose you are a large enterprise who wants to build some fancy web based software to improve some business process. You have a choice between funding an internal group that may take 12 months using "Cadillac" components and cost $600k , or you could just troll the 'net and look for a startup that does something similar and buy them up for $300k, which gives them rights to working software and the talents of the developers (using appropriate golden handcuffs). It also gives YC a the proverbial 10x return on its proverbial $15k investment and each of the proverbial 3 founders a $50k equity bonus. This will diminish the influence of VCs because web startups that have taken in even a million in VC funding will not be able to sell out for less than $10 million...a price too high for enterprises to spend on business process improvement.
You've seen mine :D
Ask HN: How to package this algorithm?
I have worked out a content extraction algorithm. Given any web pages, it will extract the contents while throwing away the ads, navigation bar, header, footers, etc.

Here is one way to package this algorithm into a useful website. User will add url links via the website or by importing from a specified del.icio.us tags. The site will extract the contents from these links as a rss feed. User could subscribe to this feed in their mobile news reader. We're thinking of making this a subscription-based service at $3.99/mo. The target audiences will be the ones who will download mobile feed readers.

Benefits:
1. user could read 'pure content' from their phones, no ads, just the content.
2. the contents, with all related images, could be pre-downloaded into the feed reader. so whenever you got a minute or two, you could just pull out your phone and read.

Questions:
1. What do you think of this idea? Good? Bad? Dumb?
2. Is the $3.99/mo priced right?

Thanks a lot,
Alex
Very through article.

Defiantly something people should look into.
Popularity matters, self-promotion matters, etc. It matters a ton. That's how distribution happens. As a startup, that's the most important thing out there. We get stuck in 'if you build it they will come' mode when we build our startups, but it's just not true.

Spend a few minutes looking at quantcast/compete/alexa's top 1000 and it's clear that the web is high school. From my high horse, it's filled with non-enjoyable, valueless, spammy, low-brow cruft. But my high horse doesn't mean a damn -- the only thing that matters is $$$ =)
NickB's http://www.newmogul.com is a better place for this kind of thing.
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Sounds like you're going to be violating some Terms of Service that users of a software like adBlock skirt because they're just private citizens.

Verdict: if your software is good, you'll get your pants sued off. But, I assume since you didn't post a link to a demo, you're a business guy with an idea and not much code. So I doubt you'll have many users, much less legal problems!
I remember a site similar to this, giving you two options and you choose one of them. The only thing distinct about this one was the options were placed on the text of each button, and sometimes they'd get pretty long.

Anyone know the url? I remember having a laugh reading some of them.
You;'re site is a neat idea, but it broke on me and I never got to learn "dogs or cats"

:(
It said I was answering to quickly by the way.

Less robo-defense and more features please!
I asked whether I should follow Good or Evil and it told me to go outside.
Modafinil seems to be an interesting way to augment your mental ability - No short term effects, except for a slightly increased heart rate. [see link for experiences]

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Modafinil.shtml

The long term effects would be a concern of mine if I was going to take it though.
I should have used a better example, but there are a good number of cases where the Java compiler complains about missing return statements that just don't need to be there. It's a wart in the language.
Basically, yes.

Realistically, I am not going to read every single study on every single substance and make my own judgments. The government doing it for everyone, with force of law behind them, is better for all of us than just letting anyone sell anything and make any claims about it they want and expecting all of us to do all of our own research about everything.

Can the FDA make mistakes? Of course. Realistically, are they more likely to make a mistake than me, based on my own research and interpretation about things on which I am not an expert? No.
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When someone, say, writes an SMTP server in Perl, they don't... post a hyperbolic blog post about how freakin' awesome it (and they) are... they merely upload it to CPAN.

I guess I wasn't clear enough, because I agree with that, and it is in fact what I was trying to get at with my FUD-worthy sentence. Perhaps I should have put "Exciting New Developments" in silly caps to emphasize that I was talking about hype. If you want to work in a language that still has significant hype, and enjoys having hype, and doesn't try to make you feel dirty for practicing hype, you need to learn a language other than Perl. Until Perl 6 comes out, at any rate.

Your post does little to convince me that I'm wrong about that. :)

Personally, I like a little hype in my life. I tend to agree with Bruce Sterling:

http://www.viridiandesign.org/2006/03/viridian-note-00459-em...

Hype is a system-call on your attention. If hype is clearly aimed straight at your wallet, you are right to worry. But hype is only bad for you if you drink it unthinkingly, by the barrel and case. If you soberly track its development, hype is very revealing. Even mistaken and obscurantist hype shows that people are stupid and trying to hide something, which are always good things to know.

In politics, the opposite of hype is political reality. Political hype is BS, it's a campaign speech, it's meant to deceive the listener. But in technology, the opposite of hype is not the truth. The opposite of hype in technology is argot. It's techno-jargon. Argot is not reality, jargon is not the truth. Argot is a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world. Argot is the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique.

I do not doubt that Perl programmers are very smart, and that they are constantly pushing the state of the art. I also do not doubt that Perl code runs the world while other languages are frivolously reinventing new and sillier forms of the wheel. (How can I? I wrote a bunch of Perl code that is currently helping to run a factory. There is every danger that this Perl code, though not a sterling example of its genre, will outlive me. I have a healthy respect for Perl's usefulness.)

But I'm not convinced the language is reaching a lot of new blood. And that's an important task -- perhaps the most important task. They say that every trick in software was invented by a Lisp programmer before I was born, and they may be right. But, to the extent that this is true, that means that there is relatively little to gain right now by making languages "more powerful". The real win is to make powerful languages more clear and ubiquitous, and to teach them to more people. And reaching people requires clarity, pedagogy... and hype. You need to make a system call on their attention.
Yeah, I dont think they mean Underhyped, they mean "not mainstream" like Firefox, Skype or Photoshop
Now I'm confused. Should I use Doxory.com or icantdeci.de?
They're actually being nice; by law they can ask for something like 2.5 million dollars (mwahaha) for 10 songs.
"But she said she was concerned that wider use of stimulants could lead more people to become addicted to them. That's what happened decades ago when they were widely prescribed for a variety of disorders, she said.

"Whether we like it or not, that property of stimulants is not going to go away," she said."

So, substances with a known history of addictive behavior. This is what we call burying the lede (quote from page 3 of the article). As important as the other considerations are that were brought up, this seems to trump them.

Do we know how addictive? Addictive like caffeine, or crack, or somewhere in between?
This is a terrible attitude and one that I'm fairly certain is not shared by the best open source developers.

If you publish some code and go around claiming it does this and that, you are absolutely responsible for making good on those claims. Your reputation is at stake. How much you are getting paid is irrelevant. Besides, there are plenty of indirect ways to profit from making free software.

Also, there are implicit claims in every piece of software that doesn't say otherwise, namely that it is secure, won't trash your data, follows best practices, is not full of bugs, etc.

If you want to publish "as is" software, that's fine, but it should be made explicity clear to what degree you stand behind the quality of your code.

Users have no business complaining because you won't add some feature they came up with or your pre-release version isn't solid. But it is quite reasonable to complain if an open source project does not live up to its own pretenses.
the fear is justified! the average american worker, right on up to six figure incomes, has been moving toward a paycheck-to-paycheck existence, hobbled by hopeless debts and mired in pointless consumerism. even living paycheck-to-paycheck, these people are measuring down to the last penny. one missed check and they are fucked. no savings. no 401k. lots of bills. no equity in anything. they're right to be afraid.

the way out of this fear isn't to have some anthony-robbins moment of self affirmation, its to get out of debt and start creating real nesteggs that preclude the fear. a minimal real nest egg, which everyone out of college and older should have - six months of real living expenses. don't cheap out either, measure what you really spend, including your idiotically expensive cell contract and your nightlife.
No drug stays in development for 20 years (AFAIK), so the risk of nasty side-effects after 20 years is there with all newish drugs. And in practice, how often does that turn out to be a problem? In my understanding, almost never.

If you're so risk-averse that this isn't good enough for you, you should feel free not to take them, but insisting that others don't take them crosses over into the territory of "meddlesome".
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Well, this is an algorithm I wrote for a vertical search engine. I retain the rights to reuse it in other products I'll build.

I'm definitely not a lawyer. As for the ToS violation concerns you raised, since I'm not redistributing the content, am I still to be sued? The user just saves some excerpts for later reading. No?

Alex

PS. 'I assume since you didn't post a link to a demo, you're a business guy with an idea and not much code.'. Will you call Joel Spolsky a business guy? :-)
Isn't this akin to advocating for the legalization of steroids only here were talking about a thinking muscle instead of a moving one?
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It has nothing to do with officers, law, right, wrong or any of the other things people always claim its about. Its PR. The suits are PR. Its bad PR to sue dead people, grandmothers, and transplant patients.

So yes, the RIAA should investigate the personal circumstances of everyone they intend to sue. They are embarrassing themselves .
I agree that sigils are quite nice for readability. But haven't we established that this:

my ($bar, @baz, %quux) = @_;

while nice and readable, also isn't valid Perl? Because you have to pass references to get both an array and a hash into a Perl subroutine. So doesn't the actual Perl code look something like this? [1]

my ($bar, $baz, $quux) = @_;

...and then, in the function, you have to remember to say @$baz because $baz is an array reference and %$quux because $quux is a hash reference? And then we have much the same readability problem as PHP, don't we? Except that the PHP programmer has to make fewer guesses, because the language has one fewer fundamental datatype. ;)

(I believe, in my own Perl, I used to work around this issue by using a lot of objects to encapsulate my hashes and arrays.)

Correct me if I'm wrong. I was never the world's most expert Perl programmer, I haven't used the language in several years, and Perl may have improved since I left.

---

[1] Not that there isn't more than one way to do it.
We don't choose to fearful. But we do choose what information we expose ourselves to.

A surfeit of scary information can be harmful; it can make us more scared than we need to be. The author's research indicates this can lead to making bad decisions because we're expending our mental effort on being scared.
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str.join("<br>", ["string1", "string2"])

I hate it too.
That makes sense in a language like C, but in Python there's no telling if you've got integers or floats at the point the division happens.

I'm very happy it's fixed in Python 3.
A surfeit of scary information can be harmful; it can make us more scared than we need to be

that works both ways. a surplus of naively optimistic information (you! can! flip! a! house! today!, no money down), encourages excess risk.

if anything though, the "fear" of negative consequences is nonsensical now because for many americans, avoiding disaster is not an option, disaster is already happening. positive thinking isn't going to unforeclose their home.
This site is the bomb! Could improve the speed a little tho ;p
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Memory latency problems can be worked around with pipelined requests, if you have enough concurrency in the CPU; memory bandwidth problems can be worked around with more independent banks of memory and more memory channels to the CPU, which means more wires. Both can be worked around by putting more memory locally.

Absent such workarounds, it's true that there are some problems (large-mesh finite element analysis, maybe) that more cores won't help with, and other problems that exhibit enough locality (large cellular automata) that more cores will help with. This article observes that some problems are in the first category. It would be absurd to claim that no problems are in the second category.
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icantdeci.de is quicker, no frills. I just went to doxory.com and saw a bunch of text that I didn't read, saw a login box, and left. icantdeci.de is much quicker and easier in my opnion.
I haven't dented it yet. I'm fascinated. I have a hunch it is because there is a conflict between what you and I deem is private. While you might want to be private, if we're tagged in the same photo and I'm less discretionary, the photo will be available and possibly tagged with you.
About your last point: return (a ? ... : ... );
The aliasing rules in C. Almost every single case I have found of performance-critical code being compiled suboptimally is due to redundant load/stores being emitted due to aliasing restrictions.

And no, the "restrict" keyword doesn't fix much of anything.

The most annoying rule is that char * pointers can alias anything... especially when one has to deal with enormous amounts of 8-bit image data.
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Interesting submissions. I could see myself checking the stats page on occasion.
If Microsoft had anything worth pirating, I'd pirate it, just to get even close to paying myself a reasonable hourly rate for the time I've had to spend debugging css for IE6.
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By contrast to drugs, "education" has thousands of years to prove it's long-term medical safety. Different drugs have proven to have all kinds of nasty side-effects to a point where it is normal to hold them all suspect by default.
I wholeheartedly agree. What does this require?

1.) A technically superior operating system (check).

2.) A massive community of programmers to develop and extend said operating system (check).

3.) People with the wherewithal to resist corporate pressure and keep their software truly free (Shit.).

Currently the vast majority of Linux/BSD developers serve as an unpaid workforce for companies like Redhat and HP. This is why OpenBSDs attitude, while commendable, is problematic. Their goal is for a more secure society; if they have a superior ssh implementation they want companies wrap it up in their proprietary applications and use it, rather than forgo it and create a less secure application. Deraadt hates Stallman's unwavering (and sometimes incorrect) criticisms of all things not Free. The ironic thing about the situation is that Stallman's attitude is ultimately more likely to create a secure society; the threats Schneier outlines in his article are possible in Deraadt's society but not in Stallman's.
Except I didn't notice the "sharing information more effectively" soundbite there.
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Reward-driven behaviors are modulated by a reward center, i.e. the dopamine circuit, which gives you the happy chemicals when you get something good.

While there is a pain evasion mechanism, there isn't an analogous lack-of-reward-center.
It isn't always that straightforward. For example:

if (a)
return (some && complicated || boolean && calculation);
else
return (some || other && boolean || calculation);

edit: I suppose you can get rid of the "else", but you shouldn't have to sacrifice readability for a compiler shortcoming. I'm with mdasen; the compiler should figure it out.
That quote is irrelevant, except that both the quote and title of the article are misleading.

The real title should have been "With the current architectures and/or memory speeds, more than 16 cores may well be pointless".
You did not read my post, did you? Let me repeat it here for you:

[quote]

It would totally suck to be forced to take those drugs to remain cometitive, so I hope they will keep those drugs in limited circulation until their safety can be proven beyond doubt.

[end of quote]

If these drugs are allowed, everyone will have to chose between employment + drugs or drug-abstinence + unemployment. There will be no opt-out. At all.
IE6 was a pain in the ass b/c we were developing AJAXy web apps combined with CSS to make it feel like a desktop app (one page app kind of thing).

I tried using Dean Edwards's IE7 script, but our client's computers were sooo old that their browsers would actually freeze! But on computers that were relatively new (just not ancient), it worked almost perfectly. Just had to add one or two star HTML hacks and everything looked the same as in Firefox/Safari.
On a related note -- watch out for the fact that the camera turns on automatically with skype..

I had an awkward moment once chatting to my father - when I pointed out that it didn't look like he was sitting in the study (in fact - I could see the pillow behind him).

I'm sure we all know this - but just a usefule reminder. It made me decide that I'd love any inbuilt camera on a pc of mine to have a physical switch to turn it on/off (like my T60's wireless)
Perfect platform for false choices. I have put in one already, let's see how many people get stuck in there. He-he! :)
Exactly. The one thing I've learned from taking a course on the judicial process this semester is that the courts are very political.
In Core 2, the FSB was the CPU's main connection to the outside world, including the I/O bridges and busses and the off-chip memory controller, and thus to RAM.

That's not true for i7. QPI connects to the I/O bridges and busses, but the on-chip memory controller connects to RAM directly.

And I would guess that the memory controller uses a ton of pins, and is the reason why the triple-channel i7 has such a high pin count. The upcoming consumer-grade dual-channel model will have something like 200 fewer pins.