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Lots of startups have figured out this problem, so it's obviously not an impossible task. There are good ways to do it (getting front page of HN) and there are bad ways to do it (hijacking a competitor's comment thread).

You're not entitled to feedback, so having that problem is nobody but yours. Like with everything in startups: figure it out.
i'd say the number is closer to 90%, not 60%.
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40% odds would be the best lottery ever.
I disagree with that. There is great attention between language features and functionality shipped in the standard library. This http://clojure.com/blog/2012/04/19/take5-daniel-spiewak.html might also be of interest.
You're absolutely right, but after so long some interesting issues start to pop up. If "dajza1.com" was able to be seized on the premise that they had released a specific set of songs, on what grounds could a new domain be seized? "ICE, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, has the power to seize web domains engaged in infringing activity under the same forfeiture laws used to seize property like houses, cars and boats allegedly tied to illegal activity such as drug running or gambling." If I own and operate prettycatcalendars.com and blackmarketorgans.org, the feds might have grounds to seize one, but certainly not every site I operate? What about a Facebook or Twitter account that is not connected to the infringing site?

(Most of these are rhetorical, and probably don't have very pleasant answers.)

[Edit] Come to think of it, I'm kind of pissed the site owners didn't just laugh at the seizure and immediately start up a new site, purely on principle. URLs are basically irrelevant these days, and ICE seizing them on the grounds that they're "tied to illegal activity" that adds up to copyright infringement at best sounds like a lot of dick-swinging by ridiculous executives in an industry well past its expiration date. They should be treated with appropriate insolence.
Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't make what the poster said an "ad hominem".

He made comments based on what you said, not assumptions about your character. If you love college and want everyone to go, then I guess he is wrong.
What I really like about it is that it allows me to do everything from the command line.

I can edit the ruby files in vim and then just run the rake task to open up the simulator to test the changes I just made.
Any start up that registers would have a stock price as they progress through creating a working product, adding a feature, filing a patent, publicity etc their stock price would go up or down based on who's trading on it. Only 1 unique stock trader per domain. or a valid telephone number maybe using automated verification. Something that has an external cost to entering but not an outright entry fee(legal reasons). The contests would only run like 3 months similar to Ycombinator.
If you consider making $1 a success, that is amazing odds. Try releasing a software product for any other OS and I'm sure that climbs to around 90% if not more.
We're so off track that it's been lost that all my points are very definitely pro-semicolon?
70 years ago Americans approved of imprisoning Japanese-American citizens simply for being of Japanese descent. It's hard to say how our views of civil liberties may have shifted, (except to say that if civil liberties have an enemy, it's War).
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I believe Rx is an OOish take on some older FP ideas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming
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the value to the startup isn't the prize but the feedback from the stock price and helping to build a community around the product.
There's this pattern I've noticed, where whenever a constitutional issue comes up on HN, nirvana makes this post that starts with a complete constitutional misunderstanding followed by a Randist rant. And it's always top-voted. Yuck.

For starters, the Constitution clearly states that Congress may make laws necessary and proper for all powers vested in the government of the United States, not just those in the enumerated powers of article I. Specifically, the executive branch of the government has the power to enforce laws. It's not really one of those things that's a matter of judicial interpretation--it's in plain text, black and white. The idea that the Constitution does not authorize a "federal police force", as the OP states, is so strange I can't really fathom how someone who's read the Constitution could come up with it.

Anyway, since we were talking about asset forfeiture, I'll add that it has withheld a number of constitutional challenges as well. I'm not an expert on this but I'd be shocked if the OP was.
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You wont see that from massive American companies (except possibly Mozilla who always have had strong interests in consumer privacy and integrity).

But there is still alternatives out there. You just have to give up the sites and corporations you have gotten used to over the years. Google, Facebook, Microsoft...

Also, if you use Windows, you can pretty much count on it having backdoors already. Thats just my opinion based on common sense. The largest american operating system being free from backdoors? Heh, not very likely. THe NSA could pretty much force them to put it in, and put a gag order on them afterwards. Thats the reality of United States.
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This one: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520137.do

I've borrowed a friend's copy when I needed to do git stuff (we use Mercurial at Blekko) but figured it was time to get my own copy.
Expense.

Every method of boarding will require training the flight crew, ground crews at the airport. A non-trivial expense to change over from A to B. And then back.

Departure times are measured down to the minute. Miss your time and much activity downstream is affected - pax connections, gate use at destination airport, flights downstream.

And so on. I'm sure that they do use A/B testing or something like that ... but they do a whole lot of simulatin' first.
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But all functional languages are Lisp, right?
I have a generally negative opinion of Roger Penrose's ideas, but let's be fair: the fuzziness here was probably inevitable, given the popular nature of the magazine interviewing him. If you judged scientists harshly for sounding like handwavy simpletons in condensed interviews for reporters, you would end up drastically underestimating most scientists who have ever had such an interview.
I'm not in the industry, so I'd expect your cynicism to be greater, I suppose. I get that. But to be accurate (if at the expense of nitpicking):

"the end result is that we all wind up being treated as potential thieves"

We all are potential thieves from the perspective of anyone who doesn't know us; and if you have a valuable good, it's a far more reasonable (and profitable) assessment than "no one is a potential thief." It's the same stance you take when you design a website: "everyone is a potential hacker."

A potential thief, however, is not an actual thief, and to repeat what I said above, I don't believe DRM treats users as actual thieves: it treats them as potential thieves until they've authenticated and as honest users afterward. If you have to authenticate annoyingly often, it's a usability problem, but it doesn't change the essential dynamic.
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I recently bought a domain name comejo.in It is pronounceable word. So does it make it worth more or does it not matter? It seems like this domain is not owned by anyone else before. So does it make it significantly less worth.

P.S If this is a wrong place to ask this question, please guide to a good forum with active users where I can get guidance.
Just a little info on this, this is not a charting library, it's probably closer to a graphics or visualization library.

It pulls a lot of it's ideas from d3.js, allowing CSS to dictate a lot of your style choices, but also allowing the data to change the style (a typical example is a chart where you have different categories of data, coloring those categories depending on the data).

This is low level for a reason, most charting libraries take a specific stance on how to visualize something. d3 and c2 let that be dictated entirely by the developer. It may take more effort to get a bar chart working in either of these libraries but generally the control you have allows you to fit it into your design rather than your design molding around the charting library you use.
Some statements are simply obvious and do not need proof.

DRM from a technological perspective is broken, simply because it uses encryption in a wrong way ... the user being both the party that receives the message and the third-party from which the message is protected. This means the decryption key is easily obtained by inspecting the device's memory or hardware or by listening to packets sent over the network. This is why to date there is no DRM scheme that wasn't broken somehow, as the technology is fundamentally flawed from a technical perspective.

For Kindle, here's a collection of 4,687 mostly pirated books in Mobi format that you can copy straight to your device: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6748422/Kindle_Library___%284... ... do you really need more proof than this?

Because really, if DRM doesn't protect against piracy, and it doesn't, then what's its purpose, other than lock-in of legitimate customers?

And I've worked for BigCo, I know how they think. Lock-in is not something that just happens. Lock-in is a planned process.
I do not use facebook, but...

...If they pass this law I am also quiting from gmail. We need a freedom box that we control and is distributed, not centralized so automation of surveillance is harder.

I know that there are bad guys out there, but not only in terrorist organization, secret service use to have garbage people too (the people that love power too much).
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It is not at all a given that this "going dark problem" actually exists. In many ways, surveillance is easier than it has ever been. See https://www.cdt.org/blogs/2811going-dark-versus-golden-age-s...
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Worth mentioning "Tangled Web" is probably the best overview of security issues that emerge from browsers and the HTML architecture. http://nostarch.com/tangledweb
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I assumed it's a patriotic thing, "you get to help protect Americans citizens" type deal.
I think we are saying similar things, but I'm getting the sense that you don't think there is a single unified theory to be found (not simply that humans are incapable of understanding it). Do you have a particular reason for thinking this?

Well, a unified theory should "explain everything", but not necessarily on the right level. For instance, basic undergraduate-level physics and chemistry are sufficient to explain both "why is copper a conductor?" and "why do dogs like steak?" but this is not the correct level of explanation that you'd go to in order to understand both these phenomena. To explain the conductivity of copper, you'll want to go to crystal structures and electronic energy levels, whereas to explain why dogs like steak you'll want to bypass all the chemistry and go straight to the fact that dogs are omnivores, that fresh meat is a large portion of their ancestors' diets, that animals have nervous systems programmed to keep them alive, that eating is necessary to stay alive, and so forth. You could conceptually go all the way down to "this atom likes that atom" but these aren't the principles which you'd reach for.

Similarly, while everything should in theory be explicable by the fundamental physics of the universe, it may well be that consciousness can arise purely from classical physics.
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We understand parts of the brain classically. There are parts of the brain that operate like organic circuits of boolean operators.

There is no quantum level magic.
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Thanks for all the responses. Most of the responses that support going to college seem to argue based on the value of a degree, instead of the education and skills.

It seems that most of us agree that the education, skills, and networking can be found elsewhere. But there's also a decent consensus on the value of a degree.

nirvana, thanks for your input. I'll definitely consider your viewpoints and whether the piece of paper is worth it.
Look, there are several issues here. There's a narrow semantic point. On that point (which I think you explicitly denied), you can have monopolies over market segments. Personally, I like semantics, and think semantics is often less trivial then people suppose, but I accept others may be less interested.

Then there's a legal point about whether one opens oneself to legal action for dominance when operating in certain ways over market segments - I think it's also true you can be. But I'm not that advanced in my legal training, so don't take a strong position on that.

Further, there are normative and moral issues about what should be the law, and what one should do in these cases - but discussing those would take a long time...
why would anyone doing serious crime use Skype?

I don't agree with this at all but ...

I'd venture that most criminals are not exactly tech savvy. We've all seen those stories about guys caught because they posted pictures of their deeds on Facebook or Myspace.
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One of the numbers were:

"90% of apps don't generate enough revenue to support a standalone business."

While it might be true. I don't think it's very difficult for anyone coders on HN to release 8 "meh" apps and make enough to sustain a modest lifestyle. The "app" doesn't have to be the business... The business can be nurturing a number of apps... both big and small.
Disclaimer: I am currently going through SICP (I'm approximately 200 pages in).

So far, I do not get the impression the I'm learning functional programming. Sure, I learn all about map, fold and filter. Sure I've picked this up these concept and apply them almost exclusively to my "regular job" programming in Python. But I'm not learning about functional programming.

What I mean is that assignments are simply never mentioned (so far). Everything is acting as if FP is the only natural way to program (I'm a professional programmer, but keep in mind that this book is geared towards beginners with little-to-no prior exposure to programming).

Anw, my point is that SICP will have you program a lot in FP style, but won't spend time explaining what FP is, or how is it different from your 'standard' procedural paradigms. I hear that you can write in various paradigms with Scheme, I wouldn't be surprised that they'd be mention in this book.

In short, SICP is a wonderful book that will teach you how to build (well "structure") your programs, focusing on mastering complexity to manage large systems. It's not an absolute reference about FP.
Thought this was important enough to reply again. Wikipedia:

> In 1933, Lionel Penrose analyzed data for 727 children in 150 families and found no paternal age effect for the risk of Down syndrome after controlling for the maternal age effect. Largely based on a 2003 paper by Fisch et al. that found a paternal age effect only "in association with a maternal age of 35 years and older", a 2009 review of the literature subsequent to Penrose's paper concludes that "a paternal-age effect exists, but is very small in comparison to maternal-age effect in Down syndrome prevalence".

In principle, I suppose this is compatible with what your article stated:

> "Older fathers may contribute just as much as older mothers to the dramatic increase in Down syndrome risk faced by babies born to older couples. A new study found that older fathers were responsible for up to 50% of the rise in Down syndrome risk when the mother was also over 40.

I'm not sure how many conflicting studies are out there and factored into the 2009 review.
There are fixed costs - rooms are $X, whether you've got 50 people or 200 people (obviously within reason - 2000 people need more space than 50). Our/my biggest issue has been getting a greater number of people there.

That's great that you've made a profit. Do you reimburse your speakers for travel if they need it? What sort of food are you providing for $20 ticket cost?

You are collecting approximately $6000. If we didn't reimburse any speaker travel, skipped an organized closing event, and cut a few other corners, we could get close to that in terms of costs, and having 300 people attend would mean we'd be able to keep ticket prices low. You're "closely associated with various "2600" chapters across NC, SC, TN, VA, LA, DC, and NY" - I'm sure that's helped you get the word out for speakers and attendees much beyond what many other conferences (including ours) are able to do, especially with a limited budget.

Congrats on your event. I've got family in town this week and next, and am not sure if I'll be able to attend, but will attend if I can.

Thanks!
Also, astronomers in the Renaissance didn't have telescopes, so the moons of Jupiter weren't part of what they saw around them anyway.
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Uh. That's what evidence is for. If you have new evidence arguing for a different theory, then you present that evidence and have it tested. It gets added to the pool of "what we see around us".

That's why Penrose is unable to argue against QM the way he argues against string theory: there's experimental evidence and he can't gainsay that.
This would seem to be an opportunity for CS people to do what the do best--obfuscate through bad UI design. If they're legally obligated to provide an interface, then why make it a good interface? I'm thinking that the FBI's interface to the snooping back door should be through a pseudo-lisp interpreter with vividly named functions:

(violateRights (shackle (humiliate userID)))

Or similar.
This is really good news. Robotics can be a lot of fun, but rolling around and avoiding walls gets some people interested, balancing on 2 wheels others, but the gap has been reaching out and touching things.

I built a LynxMotion arm [1] when they came out and it was great for kinematics but its ability to lift things was very limited. My goal of a robot that would go to the fridge and fetch me a Diet Dr. Pepper eluded me for a quarter century. The Willow Garage PR-2 can do that now, its truly awesome, but as with other things there is so much custom stuff its hard to make it accessible to 'regular' folks.

I really hope these guys, and Heartland (Rod Brook's effort) are successful.

[1] http://www.lynxmotion.com/c-130-al5d.aspx
I just had to clean a windoze machine of spyware.

One that was running a fully paid version of kaspersky.

With a combination of malwarebytes and spybot, I was able to remove a shit-ton of stuff that kaspersky was ignoring. There is probably loads still on there however, but at least it runs now.

Will be reinstalling it with linux mint and a de-networked windoze sometime next week.

That said, the apple culture is probably far too overconfident on this stuff, as is the linux culture. Because the architecture is better, I think that people come to rely on it too much and forget a lot of good practice.
I guess the blocks-in-blocks code can get quite unreadable at times. Personally I like to store blocks in variables in such situations and add the variable to a function that required the block parameter. Makes code so much more readable when blocks are nested.
Cute.
Now, back to reality, where 99% of the code is dead simple stuff that sticks around for years.
I am really starting to believe it is a fault to be too clever in software development. Granted, the easier your code is to understand, the better it is for business.
Dude. I cleared it with him before I posted it.

"Very funny (and an interesting post). Go ahead! also definitely let me know when it's "public" i'd like to tweet it out" - Dan Shipper.
I think you and me and other people into computers will always find ways to avoid big brother. But if 99% of the population is being watched (since the majority will gladly give up privacy for convenience), its not a very free internet anymore.

Yes, government acts such as these would be ironic IF they were about fighting "terrorism" (lol). But thats just their excuse.
You don't see a problem that your one piece of anecdotal evidence isn't proof of it working like this everywhere?

"I'm in my 40s now, and in my career, not having a degree has NEVER been the slightest problem. "

I know plenty of people where it has been a problem. If I'm looking at two potential job candidates with exact same experience but one has a college degree and the other doesn't, guess which one I'm going to hire?

"I think a lot of people go to college and maybe they aren't' autodidacts or naturally talented and for them, they have to be trained to be programmers. "

nice. So you are lumping in people that go to college as less talented than you. You have no proof of this.

I went to college and got a degree. I've also been living and breathing code since I was 10. Most developers that I know that didn't go to college know don't know many of the theories behind algorithms and data types. Very few, for example, built their own compiler using their own simple language. Outside of academia, this has no practical application (unless you are building your own language) and most people are too busy with work or their own personal projects to work on something like this.

"But I think a lot of people with degrees develop a prejudice against those who don't have them."

Kind of like you develop a prejudice against people that have them?

"since college CS courses were pretty much a joke compared to where my ability was. (I did go to college for a couple years, but studied Physics. Much more challenging, though the money is in programming.)"

Right. You were too smart to finish college.

"Also, working with someone just out of college (not a programmer) has led me to discover that college doesn't actually train you to be an employee-- the first 2-4 years out of college is when you really learn the skills to be a professional."

College isn't a trade school. Also, this is why we have internships. Most people have already worked at a few large companies by their Senior year.

"I personally would probably give a little more weight to someone who is self taught, but of course"

Because you are prejudice against someone with a degree. It's obvious throughout all of your rants.

" I think its wrong of people who do discriminate against those who don't have a degree"

You are just as bad with your discrimination.