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> You have more and more people entering the market working on things because they think it will flip for ${MAX_INT}, not working on products they genuinely believe people want, or will pay for.

Do you have any actual examples of this happening?

I'm not saying there aren't people starting companies because they want to get rich, but I don't think it's happening in the droves that people make it seem like it is. I'm as pessimistic about the whole SV culture as they come, to the point of moving away in two weeks, but even I can't say I've met many, if any, people who seemed to be generally disinterested in what they were building, only doing it because they thought they could flip it.
I tried one of mailchimp's new templates and it was a disaster. It was all jacked up on Outlook. So beware. Mailchimp is great software, but I don't think their QA on the newest templates was up to the standard.
That's true but for many it will eventually be a part. We will definitely look into your request.
It's the same money as before, but it's just being distributed towards higher salaries for developers/designs because the other infrastructure costs of starting a company have come down so much.

Even with the salaries being 20-40% higher, the initial costs for a startup are still at a historically low level, so more startups are being funded. As more players enter the ecosystem, they start competing for talent, hence driving the wages up even further.
Thank you, that was it.
Actually, hanging something under the hood of a running car can be something of an engineering exercise in itself. (But more people back then could tie knots and had good rope or twine sitting around.)
That being said, I run into this kind of thing [crap data being persisted] a lot.

I'm currently working closely with ERP (inventory/job management systems, basically.) and tying into these legacy databases.

It's unfortunate because a lot of vendors store stuff in flat-files with no real relational checks or constraints. This bad data gets pushed to my app with an RDBMS and a schema and all kinds of foreign keys and I end up having to dance around the bad data.

What is so unfortunate is that this data isn't necessarily bad. It's all data you need, it just is out of date or inconsistent for whatever reason. You can't really discard it, but you can't really force it into an RDBMS without a makeover, either.

So what you end up with is a generic import routine that has lots of special cases for each different table that has to deal with inconsistent legacy data. It's a fricken nightmare at times.
Excellent, http://74.113.233.128/ works.
There is still a high demand for talented web developers... You don't need a PhD in computer science to work for a startup. There's a lot of money to be made working on teams building MVP's.
a short summary?! i could learn python in the time it takes to read this.
'An office with views': Amazing pictures from the sky
This should be a great source of inspiration for any budding scifi author.
I suspect the vast majority of musician-hacker types don't use Windows.

Since the death of the Amiga and Atari ST, virtually all pro digital music stuff is done on Macs.

But more musicians probably use Windows than use Linux.
Every packet goes through special switching hardware or ASIC. This ASIC has a pipeline for processing packets like a CPU has a pipeline for processing instructions. The ASIC also contains very fast tables optimized for storing and looking up MAC and IP addresses.

One part of the pipeline checks if the destination MAC matches the switch's MAC. If it does then the packet is routed and the ASIC will read the destination IP address from the packet. The dest IP is looked up in the routing table to figure out which port the next hop lives on and what it's MAC address is.
If the destination MAC is for another host, then the MAC table is checked to see what port to send the mac.

Modern ASICs are designed to handle both cases very quickly.
Senators Want to Ban Eduardo Saverin From America
From the article:

>I’ve found that when I plan something like a vacation rental with friends, it’s often done by email with a lot of chasing for payments in the aftermath (that could just be my own flaky friends, of course).

It's definitely not just the author who has flaky friends. I think almost everyone has problems collecting money from friends. This makes me think of fantasy football and what a pain in it is to run a league. This, in turn, makes me think of WePay. I wonder how WePay is doing with these two specific use cases: vacationing friends and fantasy sports. And I wonder what they think of Crowdtilt.
...Saverin benefited immensely from being in the US (and that the stable government supported by taxes absolutely played a role in his success).

This is irrelevant to the question of Saverin paying individual income taxes. Any foreign investor gains these benefits and pays for them via corporate income taxes and the like.

Should all foreigners who make investments in the US be subject to US income taxes? If not, then this argument is moot.
There are many conservative banks that are starting to do enterprise projects in python. The primary reason why I would do that is the python ecosystem makes math and science easy to do
The highest marginal tax rate was over 90%, but very very few people paid it.

More precisely, that was the marginal rate on income over $1 million/year. That would be about $5-6 million in today's dollars. Given much lower CEO compensation at the time, very few people encountered it. (And given those taxes, CEOs had less incentive to increase their salaries.)

The tax code was loaded up with deductions

Deductions have a tendency to accumulate over time. There were a bunch of deductions, but fewer than today.

only direct compensation was taxed, and you could still easily convert wages into capital gains

Theoretically true, but historically stock options were a much smaller portion of executive compensation than is the case today. See http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/AppliedEcon/archiv... for a reference. (Incidentally their estimate is that only about 30% of the raise in CEO compensation is due to shifts in taxation policy.)

which even in that time were significantly lower than wage rates.

Massively so. If your ordinary taxes were over 50%, you could opt a 25% capital gains rate.
With $2MM and $4MM seed rounds from "angels" doesn't it make sense to lump that money in with VC fundraising if you're looking for a benchmark of investment dollars? A lot more of that money used to take the form of LPs.
as long as companies have good product's and can consistently generate revenue...the industry should be fine
Needs more lens flare. And some bevels. Then we're back in 1998.
They aren't disqualified by any thinkers you would want to listen to, but yes, in general they are.

Americans, in broadly general terms, aren't interested in non-American things. Or intellectual anything. So yeah, combine those two together and you get the worst of those two general trends.
> Rapidly increasing demand for an only steadily increasing supply. Thus, inflation.

I think it might be possible to rapidly increase the supply. I'm working on Bloc (http://bloc.io) and have been privileged enough to hang out at dev bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com), and if I've learned anything, it's that people want to fill this supply.

The challenge is taking the lessons we've learned and scaling them up to meet something like an economic demand.

I don't think it's impossible.
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Thanks! That makes sense. I just hear so many names of individuals being associated with these windfalls it's easy to imagine them continuing to invest on the basis of their holdings being liquidated.
Reminds me of the Boston big Picture, which also has gorgeous photos in such a format.
Pinterest to be worth $1.5 billion
Do you really think so? If the software remained largely unchanged, I don't think it would make a lot of difference to their business generally, and people who buy macs wouldn't experience much of a difference. As far as I understand, companies like samsung and htc make huge amounts of money purely from selling hardware that runs (mostly) open source android.
Well for small sized dev boards you can usually find them for about $100-$150. What I don't know is if this would have enough capability to do anything like this with it. I'd imagine the 6502 would be doable, but i don't know about the snes.
That's not true.

Few people paid the 90% rate because the income bracket was so high that few people actually made enough money to fall into that bracket. The tax code had fewer deductions in the 1950s then it does now. All compensation was taxed back then, not just direct compensation. And it was much harder to convert wages into capital gains because they defined compensation much more strictly than they do now.

Capital gains rates were not lower than ordinary income rates, however, they used an "exclusion" system (similar to a deduction) that lowered the effective rates to what would be today's ordinary income rates.
> We just completed the transition [301-ing from MelonCard.com to SafeShepherd.com] yesterday

Clearly, your definition of 'out of the blue' is not the same as mine... good luck figuring out if the problem was on your end or theirs (hitting the front page of HN usually helps).

Edit: clarified transition per comment below
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Why do startup websites look like startups?
I run into them all the time. Most startups seem to follow the herd mentality when it comes to designing launch pages, or landing pages etc. They all look somewhat customized cookie-cutter templates. Why not differentiate yourself?
Scriptographer need a massive rewrite to support the new Adobe API
Clickable if anyone is interested.

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Thank you for taking a stand against patent trolls! I wish all IP attorneys would follow your lead. Ironically, IP attorneys supporting trolls are destroying the patent system that pays their bills in the first place.
And that sous chef should still pay his taxes just like everybody else, because restaurants are heavily dependent on civic infrastructure.

The issue in question is whether the sous chef, after leaving the US permanently and renouncing his citizenship, should pay taxes to the US on his investments above and beyond what any foreign investor would pay.

Saverin did pay his taxes just like everybody else. The question is whether he should now pay taxes above and beyond what other Singaporeans are obligated to pay.
I don't get it... why does it cost $7,500 to make an ebook?
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Lots of conversation from when this was posted 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2864531
Yeah, this hardly got a mention, despite being the most obvious and influential factor. It's certainly not out of blue. Now, as to why Google failed to connect the dots for them, who knows.
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I presume the author is female, according to her use of the feminine pronoun in referring to programmers generally. Nice to get a female perspective. I appreciate her emphasis on all the qualities beyond coding itself that contribute to a good programmer.
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Yup. It took us several months to get our page rank back. We did everything "by the book" too.

Also: did you request a change of address in Webmaster tools? You have to control both domains, and request a "Change of Address" from old to new.
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I thought memristers were further along. Aren't they going to be shipping this year?
But isn't that exactly why TED didn't feature the talk? TED only wants its best talks on the web site, because the web site is its way of broadcasting interesting ideas (I know many teachers and professors that regularly share TED talks with students!). I understand their desire for a really well-curated collection of videos.

Considering some of the TED talks I've seen in the past, Hanauer's talk doesn't make the cut. I could've just as easily gone to MSNBC and heard the same thing -- although I agree with his opinion, his idea is neither unique nor substantiated by unique data.
For me, all but one result on the first page of "Safe Shepherd" is them.
It doesn't cost $7,500 to make it. The book exists; we're proposing to make it free to everyone on earth, forever, with Creative Commons licensing. The $7,500 is to compensate the author for potential loss of royalties -- make it worthwhile for them to give it to the world.

Thanks for asking questions; it helps us to communicate better.
No, I think that income earned in the United States should be subject to US income taxes.

I would consider stock that was earned while working in the US to be income earned in the US, even if they don't become valuable and aren't exercised until a later date.
Weird, I've noticed the exact same thing. Many follow the site and logo design.

Do you have any examples of a startup that does not follow this standard format?
The usage is correct. To beg the question is to ask the audience to accept a proposition stated in the question without having first provided evidence supporting the proposition. This is exactly what the OP does, where he states "if the proposition is true..."
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I should clarify. We've been ranking for "Safe Shepherd" and SafeShepherd.com. A 301-redirect from MelonCard.com shouldn't bring DOWN our rank for "Safe Shepherd" on SafeShepherd.com. Unless I'm missing how the algorithm works..
The point is to make the ebook free to everyone. The $7,500 would be the cost of future revenue gone to zero.
I've actually noticed only a weak correlation at best between gender of the writer/speaker and the generic pronoun e uses. It's pretty common for people of the progressive set to use the feminine personal pronoun for programmers generically, which is a Good Thing (tm).
Google should consider auctioning support time. Make it into a profit center rather than a cost center. No guarantee of a successful outcome, but it takes the situation out of the press.
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That particular problem isn't a case of emulating the television, but rather accurately emulating the console's video hardware and its interactions with the rest of the system. If one were simply interested in emulating the television's behaviour then you could construct a frame buffer based on the visible sprites and postprocess that (possibly in conjunction with several preceding fields).

If the console allowed sneaky things to be done on each raster line (like changing the colours) then constructing that frame buffer becomes considerably more resource intensive, as it must now probably be done line by line with the correct timing wrt. the rest of the emulation.

If you could pull tricks mid scanline (presumably through careful timing after an interrupt) then the problem will be a whole lot worse, though I'd guess it can be reduced by recording changes to the relevant hardware registers along with timestamps in the emulation so that the timing of your scanlines' construction becomes less of an issue.
I've always thought about the ravages of war nowadays and how many countries are constantly in conflict. As a great admirer of this period in American history, I have to conclude war and pestilence have always been around and are more symptomatic of the human race than of some particular span of time. The reminders were quite eye opening.
As a cultural note: hospitals have to code stuff, they are then paid by a Primary Care Trust based on the coding. Thus, there's a financial incentive to mis-code, or to "code harder". This is, obviously, fraud and the NHS fraud unit investigates and punishes it.

The other worry is that this data is potentially used for clinical research, so let's hope people know about the error rates.
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Is there a list of these countries somewhere? The only country that I know of that sells citizenship was Sealand (they don't anymore, but they were offering passports as a fundraiser).

http://principality-of-sealand.eu/faq_e.html

Actually, the above website may not be from the REAL Sealand... long story.
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I hit this issue when I owned a .us site. After my site started making money, I arranged to buy the .com.

When I made the switch, I did everything by the book (my background is in SEO) including properly 301 redirecting the .us to the .com and alerting Google in Webmaster Tools.

The site completely disappeared from the Google search results--same symptoms as yours, with site: returning valid info but the site not showing up in search queries at all for the site's name.

This went on for 3 weeks.

Finally, after 22 days, it came back up in the rankings. Where previously it had been #4 for its keyword, it came back at #1.

No explanation from Google or in Webmaster Tools.

(If I may do a brief plug--our rank tracker will help you see if your site is ranking somewhere lower than the first few pages now, and will send you daily email updates so you'll know right away when you come back: http://whooshtraffic.com/rank-tracker/ )

Anyway, I'd have to say that this is par for the course for Google. It will likely come back in a few days or weeks. Time to play the waiting game, and develop some good links from your blog to your main site!
Are you in the US? We were told that changes roll out in the US first and then elsewhere. A friend in Japan said he sees as as #1 in Japan, and nowhere from a US search
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What about "creative destruction?" Part of the process is resources being diverted to shit that goes nowhere. Eventually the people who made that shit go out of business and then go to work on something else (and hopefully for them, this time, it doesn't suck).

I suspect the author's point is that lately there is much more destruction and less creativity, but he doesn't state it explicitly or even do a very good job of implying it. In fact, this almost reads like a critique of basic capitalism. Certainly the ratio of expensive but worthless shit to good and useful stuff seems headed up. I agree that it is. However the boom-bust cycle is a feature of capitalism, not something you set about to correct. The author doesn't propose any solution here, which is convenient. If he had, he would have come to the sudden realization: Aha! There isn't one.

Is Instagram worth $1B? Definitely not. But neither is Facebook worth $100B, or whatever made-up number they're valued at these days. Evaluating the value of ideas is not an easy task. Capitalism arrives at a solution eventually, but no one ever said it was efficient about it.

(Okay, lots of people say that, but they're deluded assholes.)
He did say "Instapintora". That's not exactly subtle.
Speaking of conservative enterprises even UBS, the Swiss bank, is using Scala! [1].

source [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28programming_language%2...
I think you've been hit by the "penguin" update, which is probably the biggest SEO embarassment from Google in a long time.

Unlike other updates which attempted to remove "web spam" from the search results by tweaking some of the parameters, this update (according to many in the SEO community) is an active attempt to catch people doing black hat or over SEO optimization. Unfortunately many legit sites have gotten caught in its net.

You can read about it in the WSJ among other places:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230350550457740...
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Microsoft's Speed+Mobility proposal is actually much better than Spdy:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-montenegro-httpbis-speed-mo...

They took Spdy and dropped priorities, settings and other ill-conceived parts from it and made compression and encryption optional. There's still some Spdy warts in the HTTP parts of it though...
You're still number one when I search for you.
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Yes.

To be fair, their landing page is nowhere to be found. The first result is their blog. The second result is safeshepherd.com/beenverified. The rest are their blog or the press talking about them. But all in all, they've hardly disappeared from teh intarwebs :)
I was super excited about this until I saw the price tag. $300 definitely puts it into that "I'm gonna think 2x about buying this" categories. Not to say I wouldn't drop the cash if musicians I respect like it and use it.
"So here's an idea worth spreading.

In a capitalist economy, the true job creators are consumers, the middle class. And taxing the rich to make investments that grow the middle class, is the single smartest thing we can do for the middle class, the poor and the rich."

Not saying I disagree, but I remember a few years ago when the economy was booming all over the world, there was this discussion about how bad "consumerism" is for our societies.

So which is it then? Is consumerism a bad thing because it makes us buy all sorts of dumb things, or is it good because it enriches everyone? Or is there another alternative?
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Actually capital gains rates were actually lower for top income individuals.

More precisely, you could exclude half your capital gains income, or opt to have all of your capital gains taxed at an alternative rate of 25%. Most people would choose the former, but top earners could benefit from choosing the latter instead.
You are not asking for enough because you don't believe you are worth it. Seriously. Adjust your mindset.
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Why does "talent" have to mean "incredible geniuses"?

Lots of companies need programmers who are "pretty good," whatever that means to you.
The best baseball players in the world play in the US, so it truly is a World Series, regardless of where the teams play.
Because you will keep the perfect mp3/flac rip you downloaded and not pay for it. Except you are going to say you are the person who always pays for everything he keeps...everyone always seems to somehow become altruistic when it comes to this point of discussion on chat boards.
The only thing he provided was the angel funding for Facebook. He literally hasn't done any work to earn the increase in the value of Facebook's stock since he got fired a few months after Facebook launched. This guy is practically the reason for founder vesting cliffs.

He's not being shortchanged; he's done nothing to earn this money.
That would be disaster.

Good jobs are essentially highly paid office jobs with good benefits -- and the easiest way to create more of those is to outlaw the computer, which would mean that thousands of workers would be needed to do reports for companies, the federal government, etc.

But it would also destroy a great source of real wealth.
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I've been following the Penguin update and this doesn't sound like the cause. The OP said they did not do any crappy link building.
Same for me using ze German Google
So how do you handle the case of SSL in front of web traffic and web socket traffic? I need to handle both SSL and non-SSL. Right now I just use another port, but my users behind a firewall can't access the websocket.