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I was going to ignore this article as just another piece of nonsense in the same vein, but then it occurred to me that because it's in the NYT, startup founders might actually try to base decisions on it.

So founders and would-be founders, beware. This article is full of mistakes. In particular this one:

most venture capitalists... are not interested in
building viable long-term businesses

If you do the math of VC returns, they are dominated by the big successes-- the companies that go public. Those generate much higher returns than the ones that get acquired, and you can't go public without revenues in at least the tens of millions.

His list of startups that got acquired before they had significant revenues refutes rather than supports his point. It's a short list, and even so, many of the startups on it generated only modest returns for VCs.

YC knows as well as anyone what VCs want, and any founder we've funded can tell you that we tell startups the best thing they can have on Demo Day is a hyperlinear revenue graph.
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Like democracy, it's Pretty hard to game followers. Thank you.
In 2006 there were about 861000 police officers in the US, and about 150 die in the line of duty each year.

That's about 0.02 %

I understand the sentiment, but people are not rational when it comes to risk. See, for example, the number of people who die in road traffic accidents because they're avoiding "dangerous" air travel after terrorist atrocities.

EDIT: So politically it's very hard to give any suggestion that your programme of scientific exploration will have anyone dying, even though that's a very real risk.

(I may have horribly botched this; I've just woken up.)
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Sachin will don two hats now, a cricketer and a politician. This is the first time in the Indian political history that a cricketer has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
Hacker Hacker Hacker.I am sick of this word. Whats wrong with simple words like techie. There are far more people considering themselves as Hackers nowadays even though they are simply an average engineer. Please stop abusing this word. Was Einstein a Hacker ? How about Leonardo Da Vinci ?

By the way, startups are for people who are interested in business. If you are interested in business, YOU ARE NOT A HACKER. Hackers are interested in technology for the technology's sake. They don't do UI, they don't do A/B testing. Please stop.
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They're already profitable.
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This is something I always noticed sitting in lectures trying my best to listen (and writing occasional brief notes) while other students attempted to scribble as much content as they could into their notebooks. I think one of the main reasons that lectures are pedagogically terrible (that is, don’t lead to the learning they are supposed to) is that student audiences are too worried about writing things down to think about what it means.
All due respect, I've been unable to take Atwood very seriously after I read this[1], and, shortly afterwards, this[2].

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/software-engineerin...
[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/your-favorite-np-co...
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Love this line: “The terms on Kickstarter are more attractive than any bank loan or venture capital amount”
You’re at a site called “hacker news”. The word isn’t going anywhere, so I think you’re gonna just have to get over it.

Anyhow, Leonardo da Vinci was certainly a “hacker”: misfit who spent all his time cutting things open and taking things apart, doodling new inventions, etc.
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Nothing is ever black and white. I think the author was trying to imply that any venture (band or startup) should be built on passion rather than money. Profit and wealth is a serendipitous reward for hardwork and passion.
GMail does not require STARTTLS.

I am sure you can send email to GMail accounts with unencrypted SMTP. Just look at the incoming "Received" headers. If they do not contain a "cipher=" section, the connection was not encrypted.

I think what you mean is that GMail requires you to use https for their web interface.
" just take what we know how to do now, and find ways to do more of it."

I m not sure if this works for space travel in its early ages - i mean, doing "more" of it (e.g., launching more satelites) doesn't mean more "value" is created , thus doesn't guarentee more profit. Which removes the incentive to launch more.

The demand for space tech is still low imho, and until it grows, economies of scale won't apply.

Economies of scale works for things like cars, because everybody wanted one. It will work when everybody and their dog wants to go up in space.
Can someone provide some stats on the number of "tech bubble" tweets and blog posts; versus boom and bust economic cycles?

Does the bubble matter? Isn't it more important to be in a safe place when it burst, which means building some reliable now in anticipation?
I guess that makes me a bit of a groupie, and HN, Rolling Stone (mag).

I read on The Verge that the boombox had the highest adoption rate for any gadget in history. Now we don't need it, we have our computers and we don't need to drive to someone's house to connect with them either. http://i.imgur.com/d29b0.png
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Should we be surprised?

This is just another example of the serious flaws of the UK immigration agency. They are getting better at controlling the borders but numerous public errors have been embarrassing for Government.

One recently was where not all passengers travelling into London on the Eurostar did not have their passport checked. So effectively a smart immigrant looking at creeping into the UK could have just hopped onto the Eurostar one stop after Paris.
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> ROR resources are far and few

Not really, ROR community is very active, there's millions of gems that do what you need, and there's plenty of websites that teach ROR (railcasts.com, ruby-toolbox.com,...), you can find help on IRC almost instantly. There's as much resources as you need, almost anything that you need to do has probably already been done and a tutorial/gem written.
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Measuring things would be one thing (number of repositories, number of pull requests sent, number of changes committed, number of comments made). I think the concern comes with boiling down a bunch of (possibly unknown) measurements into a single number. Who is to say that the formula is the "right" one or the "best" one? And what happens when people start getting ranked in an absolute sense based on that score?

And if people start changing their behaviour because they're gaming the system (or is it the system that gamed them?), and that results in unintended consequences, do we (as a whole) come out ahead from where we started?
I haven't yet read the white paper (but will do so), however I question why this needed to be a new operating system rather than just software to run on an existing computer or even in the cloud? Is there anything here that can't be handled by Windows?
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"The projected performance of this new experimental quantum simulator eclipses the current maximum capacity of any known computer by an astonishing 10 to the power of 80. That is 1 followed by 80 zeros, in other words 80 orders of magnitude, a truly mind-boggling scale." - is this at all credible?
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Data Point: I just got back from the rugby sevens in Hong Kong.

The queue at _Hong Kong_ was two hours long. On return to Heathrow the queue was 30 minutes.

Even in his article Cory was told there would be a 5 hour wait and had under a 2 hour wait.

This sounds less like a cover up and more like the operators of Heathrow are angry that the government ordered them to sell Gatwick etc. they're arse covering with a revenge twist.
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They claim that "The projected performance of this new experimental quantum simulator eclipses the current maximum capacity of any known computer by an astonishing 10 to the power of 80. That is 1 followed by 80 zeros, in other words 80 orders of magnitude, a truly mind-boggling scale." Is this even remotely credible? Or is this applicable to some specific category of computation?
I think the lesson goes the other way; startups will get increasingly share-cropped.
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The way I've heard it explained, there are some historical alternate versions of some characters (A Latin-alphabet equivalent might be the way we sometimes draw "a" with an extra curl across the top, and sometimes without) that have the exact same semantic meaning, and so they were 'unified' to a single code-point. Unfortunately. some people spell their names exclusively with one variant or the other, and Han unification makes that impossible in Unicode.
It just occurred to me that a free service of notable popularity can be capitalized on, and without resorting to ads.

You use the service - you follow me on Twitter/Facebook/elsewhere. You get the service, and I get an ear to promote my other projects.

Have anyone tried this before?
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I been in and out of the country three times in the last ten years with no documentation, not for any nefarious reason, but more just because I am a bit lazy and couldn't be bothered with sorting out the paperwork.

So is equally useful for us smart emigrants creeping out of the UK as well. Personally, I could care less about immigration. I don't view it as a major risk and think that trying to link travel to terrorism is ridiculous. The people most likely to have the means, motive and opportunity to commit a terrorist act in a particular country are the people who have lived there all their lives.
Just like there's different types of intelligence, beauty, taste, etc. So I'm cool with your definition.

In one of the Feynman books, a colleague said something like: With most really smart people, when they explain something to you, you get can it and think to yourself "I could of thought of that, if I was smarter." But with Feynman's work, even after you understood it, you'd think "How in the world did he come up with this?!"
Time for a space mining (/scavenging) company. Mine (/scavenge) the broken space ships and bring the costly metals back home. Should be less risky, good returns venture for sure..
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Then I'm the annoying guy who plays hits from the 90s on his guitar at small parties, amazes his drunk friends who exclaim "You should totally make an album! I have a great idea for a song!"

And I answer "No, no - I couldn't do that. Also, I'm not that kind of person", while secretly, in the evening, I spend about an hour writing short, simple, crappy songs for fun - sometimes thinking "maybe I could, if only .." and a thousand different reasons hammer my mind "if I were younger / had a clue / had the skills / had an education / had the time / didn't have a family to support" and so forth.

(Dedicated to all the scriptoldies out there - for keeping the passion alive.)
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Well, he gave quite specific example of `sandwich design':
"This is your typical cutscene-gameplay-cutescene sandwich."
Where cutscenes are arcs as player is to watch them once and actual gameplay is build by looped actions. I haven't played Mass Effect, but I guess this is an example of such design; in all cRPG games gameplay is kind of loop build of schemes like talking to/fighting with NPC, walking around and collecting items.
the ads are targeted, relevant ads. why shouldn't they show you ads for HD monitors when you search for HD monitor? if you search for an overly broad term like that, you're either going to see google's ads or you're going to see an advertisement from some other website masquerading as a top ten list or something.
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>By the way, startups are for people who are interested in business. If you are interested in business, YOU ARE NOT A HACKER. Hackers are interested in technology for the technology's sake. They don't do UI, they don't do A/B testing. Please stop.

"Once a vague item of obscure student jargon, the word “hacker” has become a linguis-tic billiard ball, subject to political spin and ethical nuances. Perhaps this is why so
many hackers and journalists enjoy using it. Where that ball bounces next, however, is anybody's guess."
- Free as in Freedom, Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

I find this particular usage especially amusing considering that the words "hacker" and "business" were about as diametrically opposed as words could be. (In the same way that "punk" and "policeman" don't go together.) And yet now it seems that many businesses are being overrun by people who like to rip things apart just to see how they work.

Theres a delicious irony in a world where the people who rejected the likes of IBM as disgusting went on to create businesses that do things like track you across the web for ad money, or lock you into an environment of rampant ADHD web posts with side offerings of 'social games' that exist solely to convince you to waste your time playing them.
I've played in many bands and worked for a few startups. The gist of this article is dead on.
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So in other words they are entering a market filled with complex pricing agreements with a simple cost for service structure. Not having to buy into a consortium is probably a good deal for a lot of people.
Are we in a tech bubble?
>>Congress could decide tomorrow to divert all SS payouts to hookers and blow and retirees would have no legal recourse.

> You don't understand the role the judicial branch plays in the U.S. if you think this is true.

Are you suggesting that there's some law that gives SS recipients a claim on payouts or a constitutional provision?

In the case of "a law", theu can be repealed by Congress and the judiciary won't stop (and shouldn't) stop them.

If you're suggesting a constitutional provision, precisely which provision do you think guarantees SS "rights"?

For example, http://www.ssa.gov/estimator/ says "Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2033, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 75 cents for each dollar of scheduled benefits."

> It's clear that millions of peoples' lives are adversely affected by lack of access to health coverage.

Not in the US. They have health coverage. What they don't have is insurance.

Yes, there are limits on the "free" coverage in the US. Surely you don't believe that any place else is different.
Why did I not hear about this Herzog Zwei when I had Genesis?! Feel like soon I'll install gens and try it out.
Wait for Bernanke to raise interest rates to something more realistic to deal with this crisis, like 20%. Then we will see how much SV is really worth.
It reminds me of that movie "Brewsters Millions". In the movie Richard Pryor plays a character that will inherit $300M from his excentric uncle but to do so he must first prove himself by spending $30M in 30days and have nothing to show for it in the end. It was a hillarious movie, but in one part of it he decides to invest in something crazy so he buys a company that wants to capture icebergs from the artic and use tug boat to tow them to the arabian deserts an Africa and other water starved places. Upon hearing that a multi-millionaire is investing in the company, figuring he must know what he is doing, a bunch of other people run out and start bidding up the stock price.
I'm not a big fan of the word either[1], but hackers are interested in more than just technology, if by technology you mean circuit boards and code and the like. Pretty much anything can be hacked, including UI and A/B testing[2].

1. It's a little too self-congratulatory, like people who call themselves poets. In the words of Louise Gluck: "'Poet' ['Hacker' for our purposes] must be used cautiously; it names an aspiration, not an occupation. In other words: not a noun for a passport."

2. #7: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
I know that saying. Either the joke exists in several languages or we share one. =)

However, I still generally avoid using that joke with sensitive/more formal matter, preferring to err on the safe side. (Here, as well, misunderstanding might've occurred because the context was a bit less formal than I expected.)

I didn't pay much attention to dictionary references in this thread because I don't trust dictionary much when specific word's usage is in question, more relying on personal experience. Although maybe I should simply get a more extensive dictionary than what ships with OS X—the big problem with the above approach, of course, is that if I never saw a phrase used in some way, it may only mean I never had a chance to.
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Just a bit of a warning from an Australian, Clive Palmer is known locally as a bit of a looney. His latest amusing embarrassment was claiming that green groups in Australia were being funded by the CIA through the Rockefeller Foundation with the aim of undermining Australia's mining industry (no pun intended)[1].

These sorts of headline grabbing announcements are par for the course for this guy so factor that into any excitement you may have over the project. Especially as they only appear to be in the planning stage right now.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-20/palmer-says-green-grou...
Same with Diablo II compared to more modern RPGs. It's just like low-resolution (yet masterful!) graphics and absence of effects for effects' sake make you think up the details of the game universe.
I think the comments hilight very nicely why some people are not all that thrilled about having OpenGL in their browsers in the form of WebGL. Graphics drivers seem to be extremely difficult to "get right", especially if any degree of performance is wanted.
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how does having contracts automatically amounts to "making money"?
I was unclear. I asked about the position.

I'm used to either no response or a couple of job descriptions, as you suggest.

They replied, but with 20 questions. This is new (to me).
"Music reviewers devote their attention to those who care about their work, and it’s rare to see a “classic” or universally-adored piece of music that was written for hire."

Let's not forget how european classical music came to be a form of work for hire where patrons, for variable amounts of time, sometimes decades, payed for musical art creation. Hope I am not reading that wrong but the op is lacking historical reference and concentrating on a very specific contemporary frame.
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That's why proper root cause analysis is hard.
It seems like a kinder version of the tweet/like to download which is pretty popular for music marketers.
Seems counter-productive to copyright the term or want some exclusivity to it. If you want the term to be known and understood, let others denote their service in the same way.

Did anyone copyright the term shareware?
Haiku OS has been in GSoC quite a few years now and tries to to evaluate students skills very carefully before accepting them. Anyone that has been accepted has had to prove their skills and interest. Also there is a pool of core developers ready to answer questions should they arise.
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I had to dig around for sometime and I thought these papers must be behind some pay-wall. I was surprised to find them on the KISS website. It is not that they are clueless about how to bring back an asteroid and extract resources from it. They just want their MVP to the be the act of prospecting itself. Also I was really surprised to learn that Ion Engines have been routinely used before for asteroid missions like Dawn(http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ion_prop.asp). The scaling they need to achieve for these missions is much smaller than the average non space geek would expect.

Does anyone here know if the scalability requirements of solar ion propulsion systems they need for the mission of tugging an asteroid into lunar orbit is realistically achievable by 2020?
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I'm trying to decide if Kickstarter is the blossoming of a new way to do business, or a bubble fueled by a few hits that came at the same time.

I'm hoping it's the former, as I've got a campaign going to print a comic book that's close to being funded, and I'm hoping to have it around as a viable option to repeat this stunt to fund future books, and ultimately maybe even support myself this way. The limited duration makes stuff MOVE which is great.
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