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The hand waving swayed me.

If someone insists on speaking with no tangible data, presenting conclusions that clash with occam's razor, then I will be less likely to listen to them going forward.
Open is a good term. By chance, what OS/Browser are you on? I've been trying to gather some feedback about the "extended" fonts available now via @font-face and how people's OS also play a part in that.
NYC is a bad example, the real estate costs really sky rocketed over the past 25 years or so...so it's very possible that someone could have gotten one of those buildings on a $40K/yr teacher's salary.

Good luck doing that in this day and age
I think we should encourage people like OP to speak up.

For years, we've had a climate where people are terrified to speak up about unethical management practices, bad hiring and worse firing, and other idiocies within organizations where they've worked. Why? Why is the employee supposed to protect an employer that might have screwed him over royally?

This is American Spring. People are speaking the fuck up, and it's great. It puts a damper on the idiotic and unethical behaviors that companies will pursue if they can get away with it. Companies will be less likely to pursue unethical management practices (or, failing that, more likely to cut generous severance checks; and generous severance to people like OP means more startups) if people are unafraid to speak up when they're treated badly.
That was a very interesting talk (that provided surprisingly concrete advice). Thank you
I never really understood this idea of positions (especially the owner/CEO) being pegged to an arbitrary salary figure.

If profits are good, reward yourself. Any smart business owner gets the long term rewards of reinvesting in the company and will likely do that where appropriate.
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I don't think that fear is really the culprit here.

People on the internet don't seem to have trouble speaking out about all sorts of other things.

I think the issues which are fundamental to the cypherpunk ethos (if such a thing can be said to exist‡) just aren't things most people care about. And you can totally make a valid argument that this will pretty much ensure that the worst-case scenario is the one that will come to pass (if you are so inclined).

But I don't get the impression that there's this large contingent of people who are actually interested in this who aren't participating because they're worried. I'd love to be wrong though, as that would mean that there could be a much more lively and productive community to swell up.

‡ although this is as good a stab at it as any: http://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.t...
Not exactly what you're asking for, but check out Elixir, a Ruby inspired language that targets the Erlang VM:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2011/03/why-rubyists-should...
Since when is a doorman a necessity?
> "Intreprenauring: Innovating within Large Stupid Organizations"

Please write that book
In the video it looks lik the htv is controlled by two flaps on the bottom. Even if this program is in fact finished the research will be useful at some point when rockets are cheaper. A 12 minute flight coast to coast would be nice.
So, might I propose that this is actually a symptom of a larger problem (which you seem to hint at) – irrational exuberance and the (re)inflation of a tech bubble that's getting dangerously close to its peak?

I've gotten downvoted for this idea recently, but I really do think that the signs are there – there's a supply/demand imbalance in the labor market because money is flowing easily and everyone's getting funded (thus inspiring more startups who further compete for labor)

So, either this means that there are tons and tons of great ideas (with equally good executions/plans) out there right now or we're seeing a return to the wild days of bubbles-past. In either case, however, it's likely not genuinely sustainable.

Sure, there's some reason to see a lot of genuine, sustainable growth in the tech world – the world's going digital so old markets go into a new medium, either with old players pivoting or new players supplanting them – but my gut tells me that's not all that's going on here.

But, then again, I'm probably just pessimistic...
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I would just change all these to the positive form rather than the negative form of what you're trying to avoid. Any thought of what you're trying to avoid just perpetuates it.

Don't ignore your dreams => Live your dreams

Don't work too much => Have fun

Say what you think

Cultivate friendships

Be happy.
pg, it's a well known fact by researchers on habit creation that goals framed in a positive statement work much better. I liked the essay and came here to make that point, but what do you know somebody had said it already.

I'd also rephrase "be happier", as modern research also suggests that striving to be happy does not work for some people. If you look at the writer original #5 statement, it's "I wish I'd let myself be happier" which is not exactly the same... Admittedly it's a bit of nitpicking.

Nice essay
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This solution is still less elegant than Python because you have to declare every dependency twice (and remember the right version for each package, which usually involves a trip to github or clojars).

If this could be combined with a global packaging system or the ability to declare some kind of virtualenv to "bundle" sets of related and commonly used packages, it might approach the convenience of Python.
Most importantly, I can't upvote things!
I'm curious about this as well; Windows shouldn't handle that well. Linux doesn't either but you can pretty much script it to handle it, not sure if that's possible with Windows?
It's possible that Concorde was given a mission, for political reasons, that made no sense.

Cut the flight time NYC > London in half. Big deal: it's only seven hours. Three or seven the day is pretty much spent in travel.

Where they - my opinion - should have aimed Concorde was the Pacific.

LA to Sydney is a 14 and 1/2 hour flight. Cut that to seven? Put another shrimp on the barbie.

Granted, the actual Concorde we got did not have the range. I wonder if the designers could have done something about that.
Claiming to be HackerNews 2.0 seems dishonest, being that you're not the original author of hackernews. Which is probably why they banned your feed, imagine hacker news calling itself Slashdot 2.0 or digg being reddit 2.0.

It seems like a nice site, but it could probably do with re-branding.
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Can we also have rule that VC salaries should not be more than $150K? And they will be paid only from funds profits and there will be NO management fees for their funds?
Seems to require JavaScript. I'm sure this was a fun project, but regular HN suits my needs.
Sounds awesome. I've been complaining about the lack of AST-awareness in VCS for a few years now, though I haven't done anything about it. Please be sure to keep everyone up to date, even if it's only with the problems you discover about the approach.
Hey that's great. Let's convert it into another shitty 2.0 site where design matters more than content
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I can second this as a Cal student. We've got a lot of talented engineers working on startups all the time.
Actually, I think in some limited circumstances, JS crypto could be useful for a kind of "separation of trust." For instance, I am considering a service at the moment which would involve people uploading confidential information. The uploads will be fairly large, so a lot of bandwidth will be required (optimistically assuming it gets traction.) One architecture I am considering is a small dedicated HTTPS server which provides a self-contained webpage-plus-JS program to encrypt the upload and send it for storage on Amazon S3. Then I will pull the results off Amazon and decrypt them on a machine which is not even connected to the network. The advantage to this architecture is that it will scale arbitrarily but require me to secure only relatively modest dedicated resources, despite being used for transmission of confidential information. Because it uses a dedicated HTTPS server serving a self-contained page doing all the crypto, it avoids tptacek's objections to JS crypto in the browser (E.g., the server can provide the random seed in the JS itself, HTTPS prevents MITM attacks, etc.)

(Copied from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3872007)
To do so would be meaningless, since arrays already do that.

Fun fact: Java's ArrayList RangeCheck function has had a brutally stupid misfeature for over a decade (yes, I had posted it as a bug -- ignored) which prevented its add(), set(), and get() methods from being inlined. I kid you not.

To wit: these methods all call RangeCheck, which potentially throws an exception, along these lines (here's get(i) in pseudocode):

RangeCheck(i)
if (i >= maxLength) throw exception about i

get(i)
RangeCheck(i)
return array[i]

Until recently methods which threw exceptions could not be inlined. Thus even if get(i) was inlined, you'd still have to call an uninlinable RangeCheck(i) call every time.

This was trivially fixable:

ThrowException(i)
throw exception about i

get(i)
if (i >= maxLength) ThrowException(i)
return array[i]

This has never been fixed. Recent improvements in HotSpot have rendered it moot though, as HotSpot can now inline the RangeCheck call. But for almost a decade ArrayList has been approximately 1/4 the speed it should have been for most common calls.
Let's not forget that most licenses will freak out and stop working when they see new hardware. That's the Microsoft Genuine Software Advantage™
I would love you guys to uninstall some common libraries like Django and let the users decide what kind of version that would fit. Except from that it is very cool! Would love to hear more about how this is implemented technically.
That's why I kept the terms YCombinator and Hacker News out of the domain name. I felt that HN2 got the point across. As I pointed out in the blog post, HN2.co is my way of paying homage to a great resource by adding additional functionality.

Thanks for looking, and thanks for your feedback.
As a matter of fact I dated such a person (UES of NYC). Her salary was, IIRC, actually about $80's. She was divorced with one child. They had a 1 bedroom and shared the same bed. And she wouldn't have been able to afford that without family help.
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It does. Quite a bit of it actually. Thanks for trying it out and please do check back later. Based on the feedback I get from the HN community I'd like to add a lot more functionality down the road without adding clutter to the UI.
I don't think so. Temporary blindness or inability to read English notwithstanding, the article is perfectly readable.
Buy a mint-tin cmoy amp and you'll see the same thing. The circuitry is very simple. Wires from the input connect to an op-amp chip, which is connected to the output. Some resistors feed the output back into the input, controlling the gain. Finally, a big beefy capacitor sits between the power supply and op-amp to provide some extra current for sudden loud parts of the music. That's it. Everything cool happens inside that little IC.

Here's a bog-standard amp which looks almost exactly the same as the encased-in-epoxy variant http://electronics-diy.com/electronic_schematic.php?id=797

Here's the information for the op-amp they choose:

http://www.ti.com/product/opa2132

Note that they don't even give you a schematic for the op-amp because it's so complicated.
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I'm sorry, but this is just not for me.
I like to have a lot of screen space. The HN sidebar kills it.
Also I have a horrible habit of just middle-clicking all links I am interested. The list of open tabs grows fast, but that way I can track everything that I'm working on and/or reading.
On the flip side, it gives renewable energy 100 more years to finally develop a cost-effective solution.
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What I gather from the slides:

1. server loads the data from S3 on start (sessions are sticky to a particular server)

2. user data gets mutated on that server for the lifetime of the session

3. the data gets written back to S3 on session end

How are failures handled in 2? If a box goes down, do you not only lose the open connections but also any data that has been changed in that session? If these are game sessions it seems like they'll be long-lived; do you periodically dump back to S3?
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so let's assume SETI is mostly looking for electromagnetic emissions as a trace for aliens. let's also assume that exchanging information via e.e. happens only during a very short timeframe for any given civilization (eg. ~200 years), because soon more advance communication methods arise (eg. quantum teleportation) and the communication via e.e. is left to a few nostalgic nerds (via transmitors far too weak to reach our galaxy). on a timeline of several billion years, this means that the chance that two civiliations are per chance roughly in the same state of development (eg. 200 years window of e.e. + the delay in lightyears for the emissions to reach our planet), is probably close to zero. (and this is probably true for any given technology).

at least that's my take on it. i'm pretty darn sure we're not the only ones out there.
I use this regularly now, but I'm still dead set on moving back to having email in my workstation. Now, Google seem ruthless in their hunt for your information and this alone should be enough to make a decision. But it's a bigger problem than just that: you are at their mercy for any change they introduce, and they are a critical component of the internet for many if not most of us. Namely this interface change, or the availability of that simple html option. One could argue that the same can be said for any "cloud service" but email is typically a bit too critical to many of us. It definitely is for me. And they would push their integration plans whatever your opinion is and whatever the consensus is. This modus operandi seems to be the new standard at Google.

The last straw was a recent incident I had with my Android phone. So apparently in one of the recent updates of Google Talk they realised they could just log me into their one-and-only Google Account with gmail, etc. included. I had very carefully avoided Gmail's app (which they won't let you delete). I had refused to "sync" anything or add my Google account. Now, Google wouldn't let me log-out or delete my account.

I don't have any particularly compromising information in my phone. I don't have any "secret" numbers and the labels make sense just to me. I have it set up so if I lost it, it wouldn't be a big problem. But now I had my email forcibly open in my phone for anyone to see. Now I had to lock the screen and be extra-careful. Google doesn't let you delete your account from the phone easily. They provide this "option" but if you click on it they will let you know that you can only delete your account from the phone by doing a factory reset. Goodbye installed apps, settings, highscores, everything. So I did, and proceeded to create an account just for the phone.

Now, searches are getting painfully slow and they're quite poor compared to Thunderbird. But I'd still prefer gmail for the convenience of having it always available and always synced from anywhere, if only they weren't so insisting in upping their stakes and in forcing people into an all-or-nothing situation. I bet it makes business sense for them, it just doesn't make it for me.

I lost my youtube account when they stopped allowing independent accounts (had it locked to someone else's Google account and couldn't get this person to release it). I cannot afford to risk losing my main email account, so I'm taking preventive action while they still allow a relatively easy migration back to the desktop.
First issue goes out in a few hours, and have 165 subscribers so far. Kudos to Peter Cooper and Alex Hillman for the inspiration.
I'm pretty sure they'll accept payment to host an unpopular private site.
It happens accidentally. I use different passwords for different services and remember them (rather than store them in a database). Once in a while, I'll type the wrong password into the wrong site. That's game over; the account that actually used that password is now compromised.
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Ask HN: Is there a live sports score API or database?
That's what I've done on maybe my last 5 projects. In C++, Java and Python.

Not sure why this is so tough for people to understand. You usually don't need a whole new language to use a paradigm.
There are just too many competing voices. For example, the "techno-libertarian" types have to "compete" with the voices of the net neutraily crowd, as well as the pro-piracy crowd. Unfortunately, all three camps use the same terminology to express totally different view and ideas.

I don't care to spend time advocating techno-libertarian positions (that I agree with), just to see a larger mass of piracy people [mis] using the same words (e.g. freedom, rights, etc.) to try to justify a position that I personally find abhorrent.
To me this is simply an attempt by Thiel to try and limit CEO's to a) ramen hungry founders or b) founders who already have money to live on c) founders without family obligations that can dedicate themselves 100% to the startup. Using the fact that money spoils (not denying that it could be true for some people) is just a red herring. I know many people who could retire and still work 6 or 7 days a week for the challenge. Some people who win the "lottery" lottery quit their jobs. And some continue to work.

This reminds me of a story that a small business owner told me many years ago. He said in his business he preferred to have Puerto Ricans work in his warehouse. But he couldn't advertise and say "looking for Puerto Ricans" for bias reasons. So he told me that he simply put in the advertisement "must speak spanish" and that got him exactly what he was looking for.
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It's a shame that the national debate on energy has turned into oil vs. solar and wind. The President's idea of energy policy is to go after oil speculators, as if they really control oil prices. They're no OPEC. Conveniently, it distracts from the failures of so many "green" energy companies, the biggest among them being Solyndra, and in an election year no less.
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They would probably never say this publicly but I will speculate...

The move is meant to move those(the majority) who would rather send an email off rather than do their own research, or read the docs, to a more appropriate forum.

And google employees can beef up their SO reps for answering the same questions over and over again. There's no incentive in answering most of those kinds of questions on a mailing list. And email is easy to ignore.
Disingenuous to call it HN, as you do not appear to be Paul Graham or any of the YC team.
I expect that it will be easily extensible, so it may not be Chris's team that writes the Ruby support.
How would you render trees or (big) matrices? Recursive functions? Infinite lists?

I'm upset because the method of discussion here seems to revolve around tainting the credulity of the author ("That you'd make such an argument indicates you aren't in command of all the facts"); by claiming a conflict of interest while this is not applicable (the OP does not claim authority!); or by appeals to authority ("because I've spent 1.5 decades coding in one").

By the way, I feel that those who have to play the "If you ever get someone upset, you've struck gold!"-card, should listen to some more gentlemen talk about syllogisms.
There's definitely a tipping point here. As a mobile developer with my own successful iPad apps I am watching this situation very closely. If it looks like WM8 will get traction then I will scramble to be one of the first 1000 or so developers to join Microsoft's ecosystem. However, if WM8 flops on tablets as badly as Android did (or: has so far) then I'll be glad I saved my energy.
Maybe they are all exposing their private data to Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/technolibertarians/
> I do wish that there existed a forum for some of the discussions that used to actually happen on the cypherpunks list

You may find some interested people in UK Crypto (but obviously I'm not suggestion you spam their list).
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ukcrypto)

> This group is comprised of people with a professional interest in the formulation and content of UK government policy on the provision, use and control of encryption products and services in the UK. It was formed in response to the 1996 announcement of UK policy on the provision of encryption services on telecommunications networks.

> The mailing list is unmoderated, but only subscribed members can post. Please try and restrict postings to UK Encryption law and try not to stray onto general cryptology topics.
Fun to watch even without knowing anything about their studio or what they do.

Their fines are getting kinda draconic when they double at every infraction, but I bet they get a kick out of saying that someone could be fined $2000 for forgetting for the 10th time failing to have a notebook and pen in hand when needed.
They used to, but now they don't. You can see their official answer here : http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/83591/how-to-run-a-p...
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While bad news for Microsoft, it's hard not to think about how much exposure you as an app-developer would get in a store with only a hundred (or even a thousand) apps.

This may be incentive enough to have a lot of developers creating apps during the coming months (and ironically removing this incentive in the process).
Props for shipping. But how are you adding functionality? It's really not that hard to click links.

Tangent: all this 'redesign HN' stuff is misguided. HN is brilliantly designed. It's sparse, it's not pretty, but it would be hard to improve the design from a UX point of view. Good design is about thought, not about shininess.
>"The post you were responding to just said that they don't do that well"

Perhaps not. But I think the premise behind the incubator is to allow coders with ideas to get them off the ground. Obviously, these founders are required to do the actual work. It's sort of a special case. I'm not even sure it makes sense from a non-technical standpoint. Has anyone ever been accepted to YC on a non-technical basis? I know Tech Stars accepted someone...that didn't end well.
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So, you're scheme would require the long answer...

;)

Which is that it sounds rather complicated (which makes my security-sense go off, but certainly isn't a fatal indictment) and that I'd really need to either do an active evaluation of the system or get several reassurrances that someone else decent (ideally someone much smarter than me) did and it checked out before I'd be remotely comfortable using it or recommending it.
"But you can run a software business without knowing how to write a lick of code."

Perhaps, but can you start a successful one? I'm guessing, no.

"I know, because I've done it "

What have you done, out of curiosity?

"He can be replaced, as can the programmer."

That's because he's a technician. When you're starting a business, you don't want technicians.