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"Why should 'I' make a job my primary focus?"

"You" shouldn't, but there are plenty of people who will. Everyone wakes up most mornings, and you have to do something until you go to sleep. For some people, this is it, but it could be anything else. It doesn't really matter what, unless that matters to you too.
Aware of that; still feels like you can get pretty deep in the language without hitting the java. It's still IMHO worlds away from always seeing C (vs. the language you're actually working in at the moment) whenever you open up the source
todomvc is a good way to make people aware of the different frameworks and gives a quick guideline to their "style". If anyone is doing anything more complex then they should be spending the time on each framework's page to evaluate which one has the features they need and if the framework's own documentation and website hasn't got documentation that you need then you probably shouldn't be using it anyway.
But of course you have ZERO evidence of US cops, judges, officials being involved in large scale drug trafficking.

And how exactly does a corrupt judge work given the appellate process?
That argument _always_ emerges somewhere though… Do you have access to the sourcecode of the bios running your "open-from-top-to-bottom-linux stack"? How about the firmware in the RAID card or ethernet device? How about the CPU microcode? (anyone else here old enough to remember the F00F bug?)

I might not agree with Jeff's choice to demand source code only down as far as his database API, but I've got to admit I've read no more of the source code to MySQL (upon which a _lot_ of my work relies) than I've read of the Oracle's source code. (And I'm pretty sure I've not looked at the Apache httpd source more recently than 1.3 or so)
yes, this is too a great idear. Or ask HNers directly during podcasting.
Definitely Smails. Nice reference btw.
Anecdotally, I seem to get at least as much work done during a two-week sprint in which I have taken a few days off. Programming is not a linear process. On the other hand, there is something to be said for being immediately available to handle issues that arise during work hours, I suppose.
Nope. It costs close to $30K/year to imprison somebody in the US. So make that $250K/year to imprison this sorry bunch.
Correct URL:

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/linkedin-vs-facebook-which...
That's maximum life in prison.
And I want wifi, and a built in 8GB flash and at least 2GB of ram and make the board smaller and cheaper (or even free) and include a touch screen and dual ethernet and a camera, and firewire and thunderbolt and a floppy drive and a battery and gps, and more blinky leds and an extra Alpha co-processor so I can run my favorite version of WindowsNT and a scsi port so I can connect my scanner. I am at least glad they left off the jazz drive, who needs that anymore!

Seriously it is $35. Someone is going to take it give it a case and a SD card that has 1 single application/purpose and do something amazing with it and people will eat it up. This device isn't about what old thing you can run, but about what crazy NEW things can be done.

It is insulting that you would even bring up Adobe in this as they have for all intents and purposes killed flash and it will never appear on this device.

Start thinking about how to exploit what the device gives you. The feature of this device is that it is dirt f*n cheap. A $3000 computer you want to keep working for months/years, but at $25 who cares if it dies and you have to buy another. Rather than sharing USB sticks you share your Pi. Put them in colorful cases and kids will trade them at school. Mount them in locations where water damage is very possible and just replace it when it dies. Give it a big battery and _bury_ it in your yard. Drop it in the ocean and have it transmit until it is crushed for amusement. Buy four of them and make some sort of game. Etc

Edit how cheap can you get a screen for this?
> They don't "run countries,"

Why would they want to? It is easier just to pay to get politicians elected and then own them for life. See Mexico for an example.

Its the same reason Apple does not want to own music labels. A lot of work with poor returns.
There are quite a few studies that show the correlation between legalizing drugs and domestic crime - Portugal being one of the most cited - and it's been shown that legalizing drugs actually decreases crime. We should be sending drug addicts to rehabilitation centers... Not prison, where drugs are rampant and only further increases the drug addicts dependence on narcotics.
Yes, I personally would like something focused on coding, programming, web design, etc. but not in an q & a style like stackoverlow.
Ecstasy is horribly nasty stuff. People rarely OD, but it can vary quickly do significant and permanent brain damage with heavy use. The real problem is when the symptoms show up they are basically permanent. Honestly, prolonged heroin use is significantly less harmful, the only good thing about ecstasy is the unpleasant side effects and fairly long high limit how much people take.
The entrepreneur in me really feels for them. They're true entreppies. Risking literally everything. Sure we risk our life savings and sacrifice having a normal life but they risk losing all that AND the chance at being thrown in jail for the rest of their lives.

Every time you hear a new drug commercial on TV, pay close attention to its side effects: permanent lung damage, eye damage, brain damage, death, heart attack, stroke, birth defects, etc... Notice how a drug that damaging is perfectly legal. Then look at how weed and lsd are criminalized. Sadly, I guess we'll have to wait till the older congress retires little by little and gets replaced with new lawmakers.
I disagree. All software has bugs. I do this sort of support in my company although I don't have to: a ticket will come in or an automatic bug report and if it's not to onerous I'll fix it immediately and update the ticket. Could it wait till tomorrow? Perhaps. But I prefer the customer get back to their work as soon as possible.

Most problems of this sort are not very serious -- if you've got serious problems all night then that's a systemic organizational failure)
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I'm a networking guy, and wouldn't consider myself a hardware person by any means. Sure, I'm not a coder, but I don't think it's accurate to call it hardware. Very little network engineering is hardware specific. Hardware goes bad, and there are cabling issues, but those problems will exist as long as networks have wires.

The challenging portion of configuring networks is keeping track of all the stacks and protocols. MAC, IP, virtual L2 features, virtual L3 features, virtual L2 with L3 features, routing virtualization, L2 loop detection/prevention, L3 loop detection/prevention, maximizing bandwidth without adding complexity or cost, multicast delivery strategy, broadcast/multicast control, best practices, and integration the application/TCP layer as well. I would say nearly all of those problems exist with or without something like OpenFlow, and it's already software. I love this part about networking, as every layer in the stack is modular and can be virtualized, so you're continually keeping track of protocols on top of protocols, and it all evolves so quickly. To say network engineers are no longer necessary after you virtualize networking is analogous to trying to cut 90% of server support staff once you're 90% virtualized. The added complexity may just compensate for the lack of hardware.

The other option is once the virtualization density is so high that virtual routers become feasible, and virtualized switches have more value, that you start to see 'hardware' go away. There are some very large cloud providers that are at this scale and can benefit, but the everyday enterprise isn't quite there yet. That's why these technologies are still a few years from mainstream, but they will definitely catch on.

Outside the datacenter, and even for the data center core, I think we'll continue to see customized silicon as opposed to commodity computing processors pushing the network traffic. Even the 'software' Google switches are on something like the Broadcom chip set, specific to network forwarding. Cisco's one of the few companies that develop their own chip set, which is one of the points of contention in the article, but they continue to find reasons to justify the cost.
It's not that it isn't true, it's that it doesn't matter. There are always people screaming bubble - look at the housing market collapse. The thing is, there are always people screaming the opposite. A bubble continues because more people are saying the price should be higher than are saying it should be lower. That continues to build until, suddenly, the tide shifts and then accelerates in the other direction.
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First, Elon started zip2.com, which "enabled companies to post content on the Internet, such as maps and directory listings"- it was sold in 1999. The X.com (which later became PayPal) is a payment processing engine behind all kinds of things, including companies doing very productive stuff, not just selling junk on ebay. Note that unlike Facebook.com, PayPal.com is never blocked at workplaces, since it's not a productivity killer.
I think Mark will re-implement Hollywood in SF Bay Area, but will not do anything as productive as SpaceX or Tesla Motors.
If anything, it shows that monetary value is not 100% rationally assigned by the current sociopolitical system.
And here I thought ending drug prohibition was about putting the worms back into the can.
What you describe are skills.

They are not just skills. The things I am referring to are tied to >awareness<. I say this as a musician of 23 years. Just because you have the neuromuscular resource to replicate a certain rhythm doesn't mean you know when and why to do so. (And if one has an incomplete understanding of exactly how you're trying to tweak the sensorium, one might also mess up the "how," yielding something that falls into an uncanny valley.) There is a certain knowledge of how and when and why which has to do with focused awareness of the moment and how the human sensorium works. This is tied to deep concentration, which seems to be the kind of deep concentration that meditation enthusiasts talk about. ("Being in the moment" is a part of this, but I don't think that's the totality of it.) This is why so many musicians emphasize >listening<.

This is not to say that works of intrinsic merit don't exist, but those who can appreciate the finer details of a given work (in any domain) are rare, thus we rely on the social taste as a heuristic for determining which things are good.

The former is Taste, the latter is "taste." The latter is like the people who only know they should become enthusiastic when opera singers hit the high note.

Those who pay little attention to the trends around them and simply serve their own preferences/apathy are regarded as tasteless.

This depends. Those who serve their own "taste" and fail to keep up with trends are eventually regarded as "tasteless" because they are using an outdated set of expectations. However, those with Taste, while they might be temporarily disregarded by those with "taste," eventually withstand the test of time. Often, when we are lucky, those with Taste set the trends.

Even those cheesy Star Wars transitions were hip at one time.

Yes, but when it comes to Taste, what matters is how well those transitions work in the context of the work they're in. Certain paints, techniques, themes can go in and out of "style" but what really matters is: did it work? (At a deeper level than mere expectations.)
I strongly advocate pace as well; I don't think it's THAT dependent however on hours/week. I prefer working longer hours when my pace is high and working less when I'm feeling not very effective.
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I believe they were using bitcoins to anonymize some transactions.

The hardest thing for a regular consumer I would think would be finding a drop point. Drugs and things sent through the mail would be fairly easy to track to a consumer who could then be charged for possession.
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We applied with our app Spotter last fall. We wanted to be the app to find mobile video of places. Sad to be rejected, but we loved what we had so we kept going. We recently added twitter integration and were excited about our upcoming version (much better UI).

http://www.spotterinc.com.
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I am more attracted to the idea that it’s simply based on HN activity, without a separate vote. Decide on the # of guests, say 2-3, go down the list of top stories, and reach out to the OP’s until there is a “quorum” of those who agree to participate.

I think a method like this would be more likely to expose lesser-known folks.
Github can make it seem even more redundant if you have an organization with the same name as your repository. For instance, django is essentially django/django/django when you think about the structure[1].

[1] https://github.com/django/django/tree/master/django
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore#VideoCore_ICs are comparible chips. Presumably there Broadcom will sell versions of the beefier ones with the 3G turned off.
some pretty decent suggestions.

another option is buildout(http://buildout.org) for more complex systems. it really makes it easy to go from clone repo, to running/testing/debugging/hacking
By the time that novelty wears off the game should be developed enough to give more challenges. It won't be old programs anymore but operating systems, auto-pilots, defence systems, communication systems, combat systems, viruses, hacking, and so on and so forth.
When I first heard about this, I heard they anonymized their payments through bitcoins.

PayPal seems a bit of a move to widen their market
One Google query and 30 seconds of browsing netted:

http://www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/police_corruption_repor...

and

http://articles.cnn.com/2006-11-02/justice/sheriff.indictmen...

and

http://www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/11/1107.html

It's not hard to see the source of the temptation...

http://www1.salary.com/police-officer-Salary.html
You won't hear from the applicants that got interviews. PG manually deletes their "we got an interview" posts to prevent pre-interview poaching by other investors/companies.

97% of applicants get rejected. 3% of applicants get an interview. You can read all about it, along with about 30 blog posts of interview experiences, at:

http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php
That's also why Q-Link had the signature "squiggly menus" that acted as the AJAX spinner of the day... it drew the menus by changing the background color at a certain raster line, and the Commodore's serial routines (completely implemented in software) had to disable interrupts while they sent or received data.

I seem to recall Ray Kelm worked around this for the CNet/Image BBS sysop console in his custom high-speed serial routines, but I may be conflating stories. (Commodore's serial routines couldn't go far above 2400bps; Ray managed to get 9600 working reliably.)
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Got it; thanks. I wasn't aware (til I went back and watched it again) that the text of the date actually flipped. My first thought was, "isn't the date continually flipping?" Now I'm trying to think of alternative ways to phrase that. Maybe something like: "Before departing a planet, the ship will rest until the distance to the next planet is minimized. The date will jump forward to show the time elapsed."
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Yeah, that's a whole other issue...

Having seen people who smoke a lot of marijuana and people who drink a lot of alcohol, I can say with absolute certainty that alcohol is a far more dangerous drug. Ever known a hard-core alcoholic? That stuff eats your soul. It's at least on par with heroin.
I agree regarding the license. It is much easier to know to always check LICENSE, rather than scanning the bottom of the README, the source, or the root directory (for a file with another name, like MIT-LICENSE).
MDMA (if that is what you mean, as street 'Ecstasy' can contain any number of other ingredients) is by most metrics one of the safer recreational drugs out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210
Steve Jobs had a vision and the skills to manifest that vision into a real product that could be mass produced and sold for a profit. He may have had taste, but that's nothing special, every celebrity has taste as far as their legions of fans are concerned.

I'm not entirely convinced that taste is really all that relevant when considering the success of iOS. Apple engineered a very tiny computer that completely eclipsed all other phones on the market in terms of feature set (large touch screen, gps, edge, wifi, IM, e-mail, mp3 player, visual voicemail, motion controls, modern browser, integration with iTunes ecosystem etc). Details like icon spacing, bezel width, and font kerning really didn't matter at the end of the day.

Finally, if Steve Jobs had any taste, it certainly wasn't appreciated by the masses who pay extra to obscure the iPhone's design with a phone case that favors their personal taste.
Yes, that's true. A rounds are becoming de facto B rounds.

If Jason had written that 50% of companies would raise an amount of money that a few years ago would have meant an A round, he might have been close to the truth, but I don't think 50% will raise money using documents that say "Series A" on them.
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Legally, i.e. according to the TOS, you need Snow Leopard.

You can install Lion on it's own http://www.macworld.com/article/1161087/install_lion_over_le...

But it's a bit silly.
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Looks like Hushmail was their weak point. Feds got court order from Canada based on treaty and it flowed from there.

But yeah, between advertising, shipping, getting paid and moving money around it's hard to stay anon .
The best part is the 'glasses falling' intro (ok, maybe not the best part, but a good one).
“Oh, that’s not my job,” is usually what folks say when they can't do the "shit" that needs to be done.

It's what people say when they want to save face and not be labelled as someone who "can't do it".

It's a defense mechanism.
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Have you already watched DHH's "How to Make Money Online" presentation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY&feature=playe...)? If not, watch it ASAP.

If you go down the bootstrapping road, you must have profits coming in, to fund and further the development of your product. Sooner or later you will have to make money and since you don't seem to have a lot of funds laying around, the sooner the better.

Moreover, have you validated your idea(s) (included the previous, failed attempts to excute them and build a viable business)?

Are you sure that there are enough people out there with the burning desire to throw money at you for this app to make it worth the hustle?

(assuming you want to sell your app, which would be the best and most simple way to make money)

As PG says, the worst mistake one can make trying to build a company is building something THEY think is NEEDED by their customers and not what the market actually needs. Listen to your audience.

Do the people need an iphone app to "truly define us"?

Creating a kickstarter campaign was a good move, by the response you'll get you'll understand if you are solving a real problem or not.

To expose more people to your app (and validate it or not with a wider set of data) you can use an adwords\facebook voucher and create a campaign (just search for them).

Link to your homepage, track how many visitors opt in vs how many of them just land and bounce away, not interested.

Ask questions on Answers sites, open threads on forums your ideal customer hangs out, the more eyeballs the better.

Best wishes
Nitpick: Portugal didn't legalized drugs; "we" just decriminalized the possession of small quantities. It's still a crime to grow, cook, distribute and sell them.
I'm currently judging applications for the next round of Start-Up Chile. It's given me a very good understanding of why it's almost impossible to give a reason for why an application is rejected, especially with the borderline ones.

What we are doing is trying to give a sentence or two of feedback suggesting how an application could be made stronger and/or advice on how we think they should proceed.
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Ask HN: Why so many solo applicants, against the odds?
Seems like every third applicant team went at it solo, despite clear indications that this wouldn't be helpful to their application.

I also see plenty of fishing for co-founders, though interestingly enough there's almost never a co-founder looking for a founder with an idea. How many founders could find cofounders if only they dropped their ideas?

It stands to reason that the ideas solo founders have occupy a continuum ranging from brilliant and groundbreaking to derivative and pedestrian, and that the talented solo founders working on the low-grade ideas could table their existing projects in order to combine their talents with another solo founder to make an awesome 2-person team with a whiz-bang idea.

If this is true, that means that half our (solo founders') ideas have negative value, but nobody knows (or can admit to themselves) who. Any thoughts on how to agglomerate solo founders into powerful teams when both sides are already committed to their own ideas?

Or is it possible, post-rejection, that there really is no need for cofounders outside of YC, and we're all just better off going it alone?
I never understand why people have such a fundamentally difficult time grasping the concept of plaintext and/or subpoenas. If someone knows enough to trade drugs on Tor, they definitely should be using strong encryption on anything and everything pertaining to it, including email.

Month after month handfuls of new stories come out about someone outed and/or owned by emails or other plaintext communication that was not encrypted or cryptographically signed. You'd think it'd sink through after a while.

You have no reasonable expectation of security for anything that is not fully encrypted with vetted, real-world strong encryption. While you may want something to stay under wraps, you're just leaving it there for the taking unless it is stored on permanent storage only in encrypted form.
Windows 7 Starter was the edition for low-power devices. Previously, that meant netbooks, now it means tablets with ARM processors.

The market segments are not identical, I realize that, but they're similar, hence my comment about basically renaming "Starter" to "RT". In fact, based on previous reporting, RT will even be targeted at "Home" users, which is also the same as Starter.

I didn't mean they literally renamed the product, just that RT will now occupy a similar market position to that previously occupied by Windows 7 Starter.