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You make a good point that loss of some kinds of freedom might be compensated by gains of another kind. But I think you are incorrect in implying that by making this observation you are exposing a logical flaw in Kaczynski's argument. The things that you view as great about cars and computers (such as their ability to connect us with friends over long distances, say) are viewed with suspicion by Kaczynski. He thinks that, at the end of the day, these things are not fundamental to human freedom or happiness. At the same time, things that he thinks are fundamentally important are attacked in obvious ways by the omnipresence of cars and computers. Thus, his objection to these two technologies takes into account your idea that gains and losses need to be weighed against each other.

Of course, you can reply that Kaczynski is stupidly ignoring the positive effects of these technologies and that he is wrong when he asserts that the things that they give us are not fundamental to human happiness. To argue this, you will have to make certain claims about human psychology. Obviously there are plenty of things that we enjoy but that could be removed from our lives without causing great harm to us (Skyrim, for example). There are other things that are integral to our happiness (the love and respect of our family, for example). Kaczynski is arguing that technology attacks things in the second category while giving us lots of things in the first category. His underlying argument is that modern individuals have, through adoption of advanced technology, lost touch with fundamental sources of happiness. The setting in which to substantively debate Kaczynski is the setting of psychology, I think: what really makes us happy?
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Love this! The app should be used by Coders who just want to help other Coders too.

Thanks for this Andrew, we've got a lot of work ahead of us.
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I love this story on so many levels.

Firstly there is the irony of a "blue collar hedge fund manager"

There's the fact the lack of an IPO bump means Facebook equity holders are the people who made money out of it, instead of the investment banks buying at the opening and hoping to sell at the bump price.

Then there's the whole "HN thinks Facebook is worthless and has the satisfaction of seeing the stock drop on the opening day." thing. Now it turns out all the self-congratulation over people's "insightful analysis" was probably misplaced - Facebook may or may not be overvalued, but the stock price probably doesn't reflect the market consensus yet.

Finally, in an ironic twist Shakespeare would have been proud of it turns out that it was probably the NASDAQ's computer system that meant Facebook missed an IPO bump. Silicon Valley loves talking about how Wall St over-hyped IPOs during the dot-com bubble and blaming it for the lack of a significant IPO exit strategy since. Now it was a computer system that failed Silicon Valley's great hope of reigniting the IPO market.
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I don't think their product is ready at all. I came back using Chrome and failed again (Method not allowed with an UGLY error). I had to punt to Safari before I could get it to take my email address.
+1 - much appreciated.
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If you're a small fry then your broker will probably assume the risk. If you're a big guy, like it sounds like this guy is, then he should know he assumes the risk. Buying and selling in a market carries some credit/counterparty risk. NASDAQ probably handled this poorly (Seriously, did they ask traders to be honest and self-report their trade executions as part of the official books of record?!?!), but this guy's fund will be on the hook until it all gets settled out if it does at all.

EBay's an open market with buyers and sellers and people just take it for granted they'll get screwed by EBay/PayPal at some point in their lives. I understand that there is probably more at stake in the NASDAQ than on EBay, but their Risk/Compliance department should have advised the principles of his fund to hold some capital off to the side for a situation like this.
The Lazar suit is more interesting. If the class is approved, we may well find out what FB is worth. But not via the market. Litigation has a way of revealing facts. Share with us FB. Be more open.
Seems to me it's a very good thing none of that happened. The VC scene was already pretty damn irrational and dysfuntional, and in sore need of some unpleasant reality injection.
Right from the start Android has been designed with a form of Responsive Design. With scalable XML layouts, and selectors to choose which layout is loaded for different DPI devices, one could argue that even early versions of Android are at least as design-friendly as modern HTML5.

That's not to say there aren't challenges. But the whole point of Android was always to create an industry standard for a wide range of devices. This requires - by definition - support for a variety of screen sizes, DPIs, hardware features, etc. When most people talk about fragmentation as a negative point of Android, they're forgetting what Android is. A common platform, running on an unlimited number of devices. That's by design, not accident.
I am imagining this "hedge fund manager" as some guy who had a fair amount of wealth - but a greater, wealthier, social network. He spent some time pulling from this network to develop a fund, which he would manage to make all his friends rich, himself even richer.

He has been frothing for this opportunity, ever since he missed the Google boat. At the time of the goog ipo, he was a lowly broker with little funds to leverage.

Since then he has been viciously ambitious. He has built a name for himself and a powerful, if flawed, circle of acquaintances.

He was successful in frothing up his circle, convincing them that he could make an FB focused super fund and make them a killing!

He gathered up $200MM from his network and put a crazy bet on the stock.

He lost - all his credibility gone, a loss which was thought to be a sure thing. He is ruined!

Especially since now that the loss is here - it will be revealed that he committed many millions to purchases on this expected cash cow!

His bills are due, and he owes $30MM TOMORROW for everything he used funds from his network's input to pre-buy!

HE IS FUCKED!

But, he has a really nice yacht to attempt to flee to Bermuda on...
While I'm not going to say that facebook is worth 100 billion (or even the 66 billion it's at right now), it's easy to forget one fact: facebook is operating in almost every part of the globe. The companies that are referenced in the feature may be large and well established, but few if any have the global penetration of facebook.
I'm gonna call fake on this.
Shouldn't this say "Facebook is valued more than..."?
That understanding of RSU taxation is completely inaccurate, so I would agree with your advice to consult with a professional beforehand, rather than "read a lot about it".
I disagree. Marketing does not have to be in every damn blogpost.

It's just annoying ;-)

While they attempt (and apparently succeed) to make you believe that exploiting Chrome is exceptional and it's such a super high security program:

The bottom line is, 2 guys showed up with a complete remote exploit of Chrome. And there are more exploits that are obviously unreleased, and some that will get released each year.

That is the true bottom line.

So again, while the article is nice and clear, the exploit is a good pony job as well - the marketing behind it makes the read annoying. It's a trend and it's not just Google. You even justify is as if marketing was a required thing to have and if you don't try to do it, you're just missing out. Well, I digress.
Sounds like you've never seen a soap bubble circus act...
I still don't understand why Facebook has such an overblown valuation to begin with. The entire business is a house of cards based on the possibility that it might make someone else some money someday. Sure, there are some vultures like Zynga that make out like bandits preying on people with addictive personalities who shell out cash, and I'm sure there are a few success stories regarding successful social media advertizing campaigns, but I count the former as resulting from a lack of morals and the latter as unpredictable anomalies that happened to tweak something in the hivemind.

I don't perceive any value in Facebook. It is an enormous time sink with rapidly diminishing returns on time investment, and I feel it is only a matter of time before the average user experience is more noise than signal. As soon as that point hits, I can easily see Facebook going the way of MySpace and its ilk. Facebook has some amazing talent on their team, so maybe someone there can see a way forward, but as far as I can tell the end game for all social <insert something here>s appears to be an exodus to a more specialized or sparsely populated network.

As an outsider my opinion is of limited utility, but I also think that Facebook is a poison on the tech industry as a whole. I don't see that they have created anything innovative, useful, or even substantial aside from this enormous echo chamber. I'm very glad to see that Wall Street isn't gorging on this IPO, even if it was an accidental fuckup that has spoiled the appetite. With any luck, this flop will convince investors to put their money onto things that create something useful.

If anyone has counterpoints, please post them. I write this in frustration, since I just really don't see where this "105 billion" valuation is coming from. Where is the potential in Facebook? What is being produced? Why should I give a damn?

- They missed the boat if they are trying to compete with the Google advertizing empire, so that can't be it.

- They admit that they aren't having the success they hoped for in the mobile arena.

- The only thing going for it is that it is the single largest repository on information about individuals, but that information cannot be ethically or legally used to its full utility, and most of it is white noise anyhow.

- The company has repeatedly shown that it doesn't give a damn about its users or small developers.

What makes this a sound investment?
I bought Facebook with a limit order when it went on sale to the general public last Friday, and I can confirm it was a terrible experience. Here's basically what happened:

I put in a limit order through tdameritrade the night before with a max price of $44. I'm in front of the computer that morning to watch my order when the IPO starts. The price spikes up to 45, then treads around low 40s. I refresh my account. My limit order has not gone through. I wait AN HOUR. Still, it has not gone through so I cancel it. Now it says, "Pending Cancellation." It remains "Pending Cancellation" for over an hour, so I try to call tdameritrade, but their lines are completely backed up with calls. Finally, the system suddenly reports that my order was accepted and I bought Facebook at 42. It's only an hour from market close by the time I see this. What this meant for me and most everyone else was that I was locked out of the market for the first 2 hours after IPO and my assets were frozen. I could neither buy nor sell. I don't think we can really know what the impact of this was on the market, but it certainly didn't instill short term confidence in the Facebook IPO and I think it definitely decreased the volume on the stock.

I'm not going to defend everything the guy said, but I do believe that NASDAQ botched the IPO badly and it may be a few months before we know what the market really values Facebook at. There may even be permanent damage done to Facebook's reputation.
I am really happy and surprised at the same time, to know that children in first world countries get facilities like eating such awesome food provided for free in school.

In my country(India), its a extremely far fetched thing to even assume that somebody can provide such good quality food for free in school. When I was in School around 12 years back, We would carry a lunch Tiffin packed at home, sometimes I would go completely hungry if my mom was in a hurry so some slip happened while making the Tiffin.

And yes, cakes, pastry, vegetables are all big things. My lunch used to be far more modest.

I hope someday in my country we would capable of providing this kind of facilities to kids.
Yahoo Finance shows a market cap of $84.84 billion as of tonight.
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... and operated below the market share (70%) that attracts antitrust scrutiny.

In mobile OS, I think they can avoid being classified having 70% or anywhere near it since Android is technically open source and anyone can fork it, and several flavors such as the kindle version of Android aren't under their control.

In the carrier space, they'd be far from owning a lot of market share.

They just need to make sure that if they acquire such power that they restrain from anticompetitive practices afforded to them by their position.
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Well yeah WebGL is a freaking good target. And NaCl is too.
In fact, when I look at Chrome I look at NaCl and WebGL first. Because they're typical targets.

Chrome did make a good attempt at securing their browser and it works well. Unfortunately it seems that devs write slightly more sloppy code (i mean some of the exploits used are kind of basic, as if they just didn't care all that much because there's a sandbox).

That's my take tho, and it's very arguable.

I like memory-safe based OSes with secure message passing for such reasons. Singularity by Microsoft is a pretty neat implementation for such a concept. While it's not bullet proof it's simple yet (way) more powerful than the hacks we've to go through to sandbox apps on various OSes today.
Sounds like he almost wanted to have a story published about him...
Expect the safety flag to be waved, hard.

The thousands of accidents caused by human commercial drivers each year won't matter at all when the first high-profile driverless accident occurs. Expect the question all over the media to be "Are we really ready for driverless cars?" The unfortunate victim of the accident will have proposed laws named after them as everyone with an elected office rushes to reassure their voters that they're on top of the danger and can be relied upon to legislate it away. A safer, cleaner, easier future of transportation will hang in the balance as reason contends with panic in the public consciousness.
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I don't know what your background is but, based on your post, I am assuming it is not in civil or mechanical engineering. Please excuse me if I'm wrong.

The design of this power plant probably went like most designs in civil engineering where extreme design loadings were defined (500-year quake, 100-year flood, etc.) and the plant was designed to meet the loads that would be imposed by the most critical event. For a critical piece of infrastructure these loading conditions are quite stringent. While these loadings drive the design at one end, budget drives the design at the other. Most civil projects tend to be just safe enough and not more. This leads to the realm of acceptable risk/failure. The tsunami wall failing under a 1000-year quake is an acceptable failure. The backup systems were most likely designed for progressively lower degrees of acceptable failure. At some point though it becomes too costly to over-design.

Was hardening the backup generators against flooding "not difficult nor expensive"? I can't tell you that, I didn't design it. Based on the fact that they weren't hardened, I would say that it probably was difficult or expensive.

Would placing the backup generators off site be a better idea than having them on site? Possibly. Possibly not. Every meter you move the generators away from the plant is another meter's worth of risk. How many redundant transmission lines do you need for a generator a mile away? How many redundant generators do you need now that you have the added risk of possibly losing a generator's transmission lines?

Contrary to common belief, public works projects do not have an infinite budget. On top of this, working with municipalities generally results in ridiculous amounts of regulations regarding pricing, reviews, and permitting. While this maintains a minimum standard for designs, it also drives all designs down to that minimum standard. It is simply too costly to continually design for more and more unlikely events.

Users of this site should be well familiar with this based on the number of Internet Explorer compatability comments I've read lately.
Do we need anymore proof that the concept of 'stock ownership' is irreparably broken?

Basically his entire point is that because a trading system was delaying orders for a few hours over $100 BILLION in value was potentially lost?

Yeah, that seems like a sound market with long term owners that trade because they believe in a company.. Right?
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Ask HN: How to gather early adopter customers for mobile project? 
Hello,

I will soon start work on a side-project that involves building a app to allow users to share messages about a specific "vertical" with each other. ( I know this is a pretty vague description - I plan to present it to hacker news after getting it to beta stage).

Challenge: How do I make the app popular? Specifically, how do I get the initial adopters? I believe that once we get critical mass and power users on board, then network effect will take care of ensuring that more customers come on-board.

But how to get the early adopters? Any suggestions?

There doesn't seem to be a clear answer about how instagram accomplished it:
http://www.quora.com/How-did-Instagram-get-so-many-users-so-quickly
http://www.quora.com/Instagram/How-did-Instagram-get-its-first-25-000-signups

Thanks,
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If NASDAQ knew there were problems but continued anyway that may actually not be covered in the rules.
Note that managed code is just one feature of Singularity. They have many other important concepts (like SIPs).

Plan9 ain't bad either. There's also different C# clones (that aren't based on Singularity)
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Nice.

A nitpick: I had never used C-X U for undo in Emacs before. I use C-/ and when I Googled it I found C-_. Not sure which one (if any) is canonical, but it'd be great if it allowed all versions.
> almost every step takes you out

This doesn't seem to be true.

Imagine a sphere in n-dimensions, S = {Sum(x_i^2)<1}. Top of the sphere is p=(1,0,0,...,0). Now for any random direction r, if you take a very small step from p towards r, you have exactly 50% chance to be inside the sphere.

To be mathematically precise, for any r (unit vector) chosen at random, probability that there is e>0 such that p + e*r is within S is 1/2.

So half the time the steps take you out, half the time it takes you in - considering the step is small enough compared to the radius.
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including a radio means much more expensive certification testing. so they often just have you use a USB wifi stick.
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What he really should have said:

"We were all betting on millions of small traders shoving $5,000 into this bubble to push the share price north of $70 so that all the large hedge funds could cash out and get rich off the backs of the average Joe. A technical malfunction prohibited us from exiting with 100% profit on intro day and now we are stuck with a bunch of shares we know are worthless. Dammit, how am I going to pay for my next summer houses? Damn you NASDAQ!"
Thanks for the point - but your argument that 'from a surface almost every step leads you out' doesn't seem to be true in particular.

Imagine a sphere in n-dimensions, S = {Sum(x_i^2)<1}. Top of the sphere is p=(1,0,0,...,0). Now for any random direction r, if you take a very small step from p towards r, you have exactly 50% chance to be inside the sphere.

To be mathematically precise, for any r (unit vector) chosen at random, probability that there is e>0 such that p + e*r is within S is 1/2.

So half the time the steps take you out, half the time it takes you in - considering the step is small enough compared to the radius.
There's still role based access control and similar models that you can apply. As well as trusted path execution for binaries.

While none of this is bullet proof, it does add a very customizable kernel-level "sandbox". If you can't run your exploit for example, even thus the kernel is vulnerable, well, too bad.

Now for dreaming out loud, let's go code an OS in Rust that mimics most of Singularity and adds some RBAC on top for good measure (even thus its a much lighter version than on traditional OSes due to the system call avoidance and inherent sandboxing of all apps, as well as the contracted messages.)
please blog/post about it when you get it. i am interested in one myself.
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It doesn't look like quinoa can only be cultivated in particular regions, but rather that it takes time to get good crops going. The price should come down in a few years.
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Should be posted soon.
Using words like "moron" is pretty strong. There are a large number of historical precedents to back up that belief.

Ignoring well-known examples like Amazon (which even today trades well above where it "should"[1]), there are other examples like "The Globe", which had a first-day gain of 249%[2]

More recently, Splunk popped 83%[3].

He addressed the there would have been buyers the past two days thing, too: It never stood a shot. If there was any enthusiasm for this deal, that got wiped out. Think about a guy who was going to put five grand on this. You go to Vegas and put $5,000 on the roulette wheel and it breaks, it's like, hold on, I'm not going to do that. Suddenly you're like this is Wall Street and I hate Wall Street.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AMZN - AMZN has a P/E ratio of 177. Compare that to EBAY: 15, GOOG: 18

[2] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-217913.html

[3] http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120419-713258.html
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Leave that to marketing :) "Heinz Quick-Flow Bottle" or similarly ludicrous name...