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Economic development agencies are, in my opinion, a terrible idea.

If the people deciding where the money should go had any ability at all, they would be working in private investment. Instead, what you have are politically motivated nit-wits spending someone else's money on pipe dreams.

Locally, we have IDAs (industrial development associations) who are allocating county grants to local organizations that aren't going to create value on the order of what the grants presuppose.

This is a gross malappropriation of taxpayer money.

With regards to Curt Schilling, you can't blame the guy. He's personally wealthy and wanted to make an MMO. That's the dream of almost any gamer out there, and Rhode Island was foolish enough to not do due diligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdoms_of_Amalur:_Reckoning#R...

If you look at the lineup, you have RA Salvatore, Todd MacFarlane, and Grant Kirkhope (the guy who wrote the score to Golden Eye and Perfect Dark). I haven't played the game itself, but anecdotally I've heard it's a great game but with a niche audience. You can create a successful game studio on that, but you can't create a billion dollar company.
This is hacker news. Are you seriously surprised that there is hate for a company that seems to be dedicated to working against privacy/anonymity on the internet?

That's not mutually exclusive with respect for a lot of peoples honest hard work.
True. But if you already have your Apache configs complete then it might not be worth switching at this point.
You're probably using it wrong. rand() simply returns true.
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Why isn't there a keyboard shortcut that takes one directly to the viewport of a web browser?

Think about this. Surely, this is anecdotal evidence, but think about this: when I have to use the Mouse, this breaks my Flow. I have fully modded my OS X laptop such that I never need to touch the mouse except for the occasion that I am unable to scroll (vimium or D-pad and just about any arrangement of special keys).

Maybe this is a grave oversight or blunder on my part. I'll take it. But if I had a generic procedure for accessing the viewport with my keyboard, my productivity would increase tenfold.

Generally speaking, it is _interesting_ that this problem should exist at all for _web browsers_.
> as long as they are not going to try to impose those positions unto others

I got the impression they had figured out what the internet means for them for the most part. This meeting is to figure out how best to "help" those poor people suffering from too much free speech and information.

The statistics showing a strong inverse correlation between access to information and church attendance/religious belief has not been lost on church leaders of all faiths. What can be done about it is a pretty major subject of discussion right now (What should be done is already decided, whatever needs to be done to stop people leaving churches, there are souls at stake, all else is secondary)
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The article links to an infographic ("25 Petabytes by the numbers"), which claims that 800 years of MP3 audio is equivalent in size to 332 years of HD video.

Sorry, I've never heard of any "HD" video codec which is only 2.4x as large as MP3 audio.
If an inadequate raise (thus inadequate compensation) is a sign of disrespect, then creating a rule which causes inadequate raises is institutionalizing disrespect. What I'm trying to say is, it isn't better, it's worse. By creating pre-commitment not to give raises in excess of a certain amount, if they make it more expensive for them to do so.

quoting: ``Here we find the manager striving to achieve his goal by eliminating opportunities, contracting his set of alternatives, although discussions of bargaining often rule this out axiomatically. [...] The resolution of the paradox is that the manager, by his tactic of "tying one hand behind him" hopes for a favorable effect on his employee's expectations.``

from The Theory and Practice of Blackmail by Daniel Ellsberg (http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2005/P3883....), I swapped blackmailer/manager and victim/employee. The document is a really insightful take on negotiation I think except for the fact the it used the loaded terms blackmailer/victim.

There are plenty of organizations which are unable to recognize and/or reward high performance, and plenty of organizations which create compensation plans as if employees were fungible with infinite supply at their set salaries, and then depend on the psychological comfort of certainty and corresponding fear of the unknown to retain the workers, so although it isn't rare or even uncommon, that might be the sort of thing that made him angry.
although I think he did that for society as a whole, not for individual members of it?

i.e. for him you're either happy or unhappy?
"You're likely posting on here because you're under some illusion that you're an entrepreneur." Ouch. That's gotta sting for some people here haha.
First, let's take the Shuttle off the table, which is no longer in service and was by far the most expensive launch vehicle in extensive service in history.

Right now, the price of a Falcon 9 launch is around $50mil, this translates to $4.8/g to LEO or $16.7/g to GTO (which is where most satellites go). This compares very favorably to the price of other western launchers (Atlas V: $18/g, Ariane 5: $21/g, Delta IV: $19.5/g to GTO and around $11-$14/g to LEO) and is very competitive compared to Russian launchers (Soyuz 2: $16.7/g, Proton M: $18.2/g to GTO or $6.4/g and $4.8/g to LEO respectively).

However, keep in mind that these are prices, which include a healthy profit margin for SpaceX, and it's no coincidence that they have priced themselves right at the level of the otherwise cheapest launch vehicles in the world (since that maximizes their profit margin). Also keep in mind that as SpaceX's operations and manufacturing become more streamlined, as they amortize the fixed development costs for the Falcon 9 (which won't take long since the costs are a small multiple of the per flight revenue), as flight rate increases, and as competitive pressure to lower their profit margin increases they will be able to offer launches for considerably less than they are today, at lower prices than the Soyuz or Proton, for example.

However, this is just the beginning, as SpaceX has several development efforts in progress. The Falcon Heavy, for example, represents an incremental evolution of the Falcon 9 design, using 3 1st stage cores (instead of just one) and using a new cross-feed system to improve performance. The thing about the Falcon Heavy is that it uses slightly less than 3x as much hardware at about 2x the cost of a Falcon 9 launch but it will be able to deliver 5x the payload. This will translate into prices around $6.6/g to GTO and $2.4/g to LEO, at the high end ($4.2/g and $1.5/g at the low end). Nobody else in the world can come close to those numbers.

Also, they are working on a fully reusable version of the Falcon 9 which will reduce costs by at least a factor of 5 conservatively and perhaps as much as a factor of 100.

The maiden flight for the Falcon Heavy is slated to be next year. And they have already begun development on the core systems for the reusable Falcon (here's the 1st stage landing gear they've built for one of the test vehicles: http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/4311966/large.jpg).
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The hasids are definitely against integration with society as a whole. Here's a recent example about putting signs up for women and men to NOT be on the same side of the street.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/41/dtg_hasidicsidewa...
I have a feeling Orthodox Jews don't feel the same way.
In the long term, the GPL kills the major incentive to improve the software's design and feature set, even though small improvements and ports may be made.

Sprinkling the GPL on top of a project no one wants anyway does nothing (I say this from experience), and applying it to a popular program just holds it back (by keeping it from getting the cash that people would otherwise pay).

As an end-user, I want to see Light Table take off, and to continue innovating, not to continually engage in campaigns for donations.
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Pandora Tower : un dernier souffle en matière de RPG pour la Wii?
Is it just me or is too many monitors distracting? I find that I have cut down to just one monitor at both work and home. I was using one monitor for work and one monitor for communication. I realized it was easier just to quit the chat apps.

(Mind you, at the company I run, employees get whatever they want, hardware-wise. Everyone seems to have settled on the 27" apple monitor + the laptop display.)
Not to nitpick, but the R8 is most definitely 100k.
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Mercado -> Mission College?

You have to admit the color scheme was really bad.

And weren't there giant freaky spiders infesting the main campus?

My main memory of the main campus was (aside from the depressed-looking employees) the inexplicably birdshit-splattered sidewalks and pathways.
My general/anecdotal understanding is that those long lost relatives (if they do exist) are probably a better bet than an employer for getting sponsored. Other common avenues for getting to the U.S. include marriage and going to college here. All of those seem to generally be easier to pull off than sponsorship by an employer.

At least that's my impression.
This article contains information that is not in some of the best published copywriting books I've read, as well as the classic copy basics. Highly recommended.
bump sucks.
do it and do it better.
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Except it isn't quite as "rags to riches" or "one man's dogged perseverance against the odds" as "one guy and his computer" implies, is it? Mark stumbled upon the thing while at Harvard after goofing around with a few different concepts for fun (like most teenage/college hackers do). The site took off due to a mix of:

a). being birthed in Harvard (with all the clout, connections, mentoring and cachet that brings)

b). good timing (in terms of 2004 being long enough after the first dot com bust and before the crisis of 2008)

c). taking a fairly straight forward idea and improving on those before (live journal, myspace etc.)

The only cool thing about facebook as far as I'm concerned is the backend. Scaling a system to support 1 billion odd users is very cool and very interesting. Appreciating and respecting it on a technical level doesn't mean you have to appreciate Facebook "the whole", what it stands for or what it does. Also, just because it's an impressively engineered system doesn't mean it's worth 100+ billion dollars.

Edit: I guess I (and presumably some others) feel that the reward (a 100+ billion dollar valuation and 1000 millionaires created over night) doesn't immediately seem to translate to the effort spent getting there.
I ran into a similar problem with the Google Mobile AdSense animation on iOS Mobile Safari. Basically when you put an absolutely positioned element with higher z-index over the iframed ad, it'll trigger greyscale antialiasing. Here is a demo (see it in Mobile Safari): http://newtonapple.github.com/frontend_tidbits/mobile_safari...
I've worked as a ninja programmer two times.

I wonder, if they really need a programmer who knows how to liquidate a company, who is able to hack into computers without password after everybody including the boss is fired.

I never worked as a rock star programmer, but I did know a few mainframe programmers who had been treated as such, including flowers and fruits for the hotel.
I can understand the altitude limitation but whats limiting hover time.. losing balance ?
It's ironic that Ayn Rand is mocked so much in an age where individualism is a seen as the highest of virtues (in the US).
Something interesting to think about:

The Amish not only heavily restrict their member's Internet access, but commonly eschew the Internet altogether.

According to the 2010 census, there were 249000 Amish in the USA [1] and their population is doubling at the rate of about every 14 years. If you suppose that they will maintain that birth rate (which it seems likely to me that they will because they maintained about that birth throughout the past 100+ years of societal and technological development), and you simply extrapolate that out (which has its own merits and demerits, I know), you get about 1.6 billion Amish by the end of the century [2]. Regardless of whether or not the Amish grow to be just that large of a group, it seems to me that they will substantial demographic in the USA during the latter half of the 21st Century.

What will a voting block that big in the USA do with things like Internet regulation? How soon until Google Translate supports Pennsylvania Deutsch as a language option? When will we see HN discussing startups targeting the Amish market?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

[2]Year	Amish Population

2010	249000

2024	498000

2038	996000

2052	1992000

2066	3984000

2080	7968000

2094	15936000

Edit: Updated for formatting
I agree. Nearly every mention in HN comments of a newly-successful tech company (Groupon, Zynga, Instagram, etc.) includes regurgitation of the same bullshit anecdotes used to perpetuate the narrative assigned to each company. I have always felt that envy plays a big role in which companies we choose to hate.
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I'm pretty sure you're not a bigot to the Cartesian tenets. You do strike me as pretty zealous, though - n'est ce pas?

I've read some of your comments. You repeatedly misinterpret what people say and throw out presumptuous personal attacks.
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No, it's not. One thing MS has always done well is backward compatibility. You can still run DOS programs from the 80s on Windows 8 (x86+64). In order to be competitive on ARM, however, they had to massively strip down Windows. They made a very bold move to remove a huge amount of legacy APIs and components in order to get a small footprint with excellent performance characteristics on ARM.

So Windows 8 is really two things: 1. an update to Windows 7 that works well with touch devices running on Intel and AMD hardware and, 2. a Metro only build for ARM that doesn't have a conventional desktop.

One of the great things about W8 over Windows Phone 7 is that you can build native apps using C++, so you can leverage many of the libraries that you couldn't in a managed only environment.

It does take a bit of a shift, though, since you're programming against a new API, Windows Runtime, which is a small subset of what you may be familiar with. In addition, it requires adopting an asynchronous programming model so the UI thread is not impacted. Any operation that nominally takes more than 50ms to complete is mandated to be async only. This means that the file I/O, network, etc. interfaces don't have a synchronous mode.
It must be kind of crazy for him to watch the stock price move. Imagine seeing your net worth go up and down by millions of dollars almost every second.
How much of the upper management do you personally know? Have you actually met them, or are you just repeating the opinion of the hn mob?
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Interesting; I've encountered "yak shaving" as meaning something slightly different: it's when your main task depends on a subordinate task which is long, difficult, and stupid--e.g., in programming, it's something which the tools should be doing for you. (Bonus points if you know that, on a different OS, or in a different language, the tools would be doing it for you.)

The original MIT meaning is closer to what I recently heard described as meta-yak-shaving, which is when, before you can start shaving the yak, you discover that each hair of the yak contains a subyak, and each subyak has to be shaved individually.
And here I was expecting an article about compilers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29
There are people who can't or won't use GPL code in their own projects our use GPL libraries, but I've never heard of anyone not using a program (rather than the code) because of a GPL license.

For a project like this, the GPL makes the most sense: an IDE needs people who use it and people who contribute to the core project much more than it needs people who use its code in proprietary projects of their own.
I always liked Mandrake's user friendliness and Live CD, but I feel like Ubuntu is pretty much the standard these days. It is tough to compete with that.
No change of clothes??? No sleeping bag/pillow? No raincoat???
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PG is not a god, he's just a dude (No offense meant PG). It's kind of weird to put him on a pedestal like this. Interested in what he thinks of these kind of things (The cult of PG?).
I would absolutely love to stand on the surface of Mars or see Alpha Centauri with my own eyes, but I also know that such things are outside of my grasp. Poets and philosophers make for lousy explorers. It is enough for me that we, as a species, are reaching upward. It is enough for me that we, as a people, are overcoming chains that were not even imagined by our ancestors -- tasks so difficult, so alien that they would only describe it as touching the face of god. This is about more than the whimsical realized dream of an individual; it is the progression of the entire species.

This is how human beings are made great.
Not really. The standard "it depends" answer usually doesn't take personal preference and choice of language into account though. I'm used to seeing the Apache or Nginx question framed in a way that's all about performance but performance isn't everything.

Nginx configuration will probably feel a little foreign to you because you're used to Apache. There's a bit of a learning curve with Nginx too. Apache modules are something I feel are important and Nginx doesn't really have anything comparable that just works out of the box. Nginx has a large community and good docs so its not like it's hard to Google your way through any issues that crop up bit Apache has more because it's so damn common. So the more obscure the issue the harder it'll be to find the answer compared to Apache.

But then again some platforms work better with and are partial to Nginx. The Rails community is one that I can think of that seems to put a lot of effort into making it easy to run Rails apps on Nginx out of the box. I'd argue that they actually put more effort into supporting Nginx out of the box than Apache. I've heard it's easier to get multiple SSL sites working in Nginx than it is with Apache so if that's important I might look into it.

I think your background is also a factor. I'm not a server guy. I'm a programmer. I write code, put it on a server and would prefer not to get into too much detail with the server configuration. So to me, Apache feels like the better choice because any time I want to use a new framework or anything that's going to run on the server the docs are always written in a way that assumes you use Apache. It's rare that I see setup instructions that include Nginx configurations too. One exception is Passenger which goes out of its way to show you how to use it on both Apache and Nginx. I'm sure that my reasons for choosing one over the other aren't relevant to hardcore server people because they're far more well versed in how server software works than a front end dev or even a backend dev.

I also want to point out that while Nginx is fast out of the box you can still get comparable performance out of Apache. You just have to do a little homework and get your hands dirty in the confit files. I hope my answer wasn't perceived as saying one is better than the other. I just wanted to expand on the standard "it depends" answer because a need for speed and your site's traffic are just the tip of the iceberg.
On some guesses of how future will be, I definitely see jetsons-type single/two person local commute micro-aircrafts.

Curious, who else is working on micro-aircrafts with engines for local commute?
Nor is "how not to be interrupted" covered in the CS curriculum.
More the way the speech assumes that the purpose of taxes and the use of monies thereby gained is to make people more equal, rather than giving them equal opportunity to make more of themselves, or to cushion only those physically or mentally incapable of keeping themselves alive.
To the commenters: Any time these off topic subjects come up they spawn some interesting discussions and comments.

With no facts, whatsoever. For fucks sake, reddit has more research citations than HN does in a discussion like this.

Thanks for contributing to the stereotype that technologists are the worst group when it comes to thinking that success in one field gives license to ignorantly spout opinions as fact in other fields.

References to the bible and self help books, no references to any actual psychology of happiness research.

I've got some all natural homeopathic depression/disappointment/malaise remedies to sell. I think I just found my target demo.
This should be implemented so that someone interested can enter an email and be pushed their daily affirmation.

I think the large photo is distracting.

The quotes should rotate and not require a reload.

That said if I was PG this would make me uncomfortable.
Facebook was just an iteration over other social networks. If FB didn't exist today, things would be a tad different - we'd be using MySpace to connect, Flickr to share photos, and AIM to chat. It's not like they introduced the internet, or a cure to cancer.
Are we sure about this healthy profit? Is it possible they're just using this to try and beta their vehicle at lower cost?
Here is the central reason for bootstrapping: nobody will lend you a dime on an idea, nor can you sell any percentage of an idea for anything.

To see this clearly, take one of the most successful recent tech startups you can think of, say one of those hot items going for a billion, rewind it 10 years, and, placing yourself in the point of view of the founder (but knowing how things actually are to unfold), write down this knowledge: write down every single thing that will lead to this becoming a billion-dollar company.

Now, I'm telling you that even with the wisdom of 20/20 hindsight vision, no one here can write anything that would have convinced anyone, had they had that document ten years ago, to invest $100,000 into 7% of that idea, of that business plan, with no steps performed nor any revenue or anything else.

In other words, looking at an investment that -- due to perfect hindsight -- we know results in guaranteed 70000% return in 5-10 years (the quotient of the 1B current valuation and the valuation of $1428571 that 100k for 7% implies) -- we can't get a dime.

that my friends is the true reason for bootstrapping. To turn the ten thousand dollar idea - to say nothing of the million or billion dollar idea - into something that is, well, worth a dime.

(Of course, there's another point, that's hard to remember in the current climate of investor ferver. Not only do bubbles pop, but investor sentiment can sour for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with you. If you've bootstrapped, but can't raise money, then all you're left with is -- cold, hard cash streaming in every month until sentiment changes, or you change, and you finally can. Overall, that is not such a bad place to be...)
"cult of PG"

Actually that would have been a better name for the site or "cult of HN" so you can at least worship several gods.
I assume it's going to have Python sssSSssSSssupport.
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