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Nice. One very strange observation - the first time I glanced at it (I clicked the story, looked at the page, changed tabs to Google reader, clicked 'comment', and reopened your tab) I completely missed the RSS logo on the right.

I was thinking of something humorous to say like "You aren't going to miss that icon!", then I thought, shit, I did!

Otherwise, looks great!
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Cisco worries me in general.. Are they gonna be the real gate keepers or what? Like a sneakier low level Google.. Whats their market share for "delivering data packets"?

Who needs country borders when you control all the routers ey!

Congrats guys, and sorry for calling you XnobiXnob all these years!
Well, that's probably the leftover liberal arts philosophy that seems to be so common among college administrators.
Sorry, its late, I just realized I may as well have put in some lorem ipsum then.

The reason I missed it is because the shape didn't form as I immediately focused on the text on the left.

:)
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You feel that way because you're worth more than a couple cups of ramen. Nobody wants to be a sucker.
At good schools, the GRE is just a formality, especially the general test. Research experience and recommendations are more important. Top math and CS departments don't really care about the GRE general at all.
Interesting place, I toured there. They are Amidzad and form part of startup lore for their lucky space above their Persian rug store on University Ave in Palo Alto -- Google and Paypal had that space at different times. After their hits, they bought this big building and turned it into a huge startup incubator. As far as I know they are the only people doing this in the Bay Area right now. They might even be making money doing it, as they are solidly, comfortably in the real estate business.

The rent certainly isn't cheap, but once you get your pitch/demo together you'll be able to get meetings via your PnP connections. It's a friendly enough place and the food in the cafeteria is good.
It will probably be difficult to get a big market share from iPhoto, even though Picasa has a couple of features that iPhoto lacks:

- (free and) easy sync with online albums (there's a plugin to push photos from iPhoto to PicasaWeb but probably not as complete as Picasa from what the video demo shows. I do hope Google keeps providing this plugin though)

- face recognition. I tried it on PicasaWeb and it was pretty impressive.

Where it could make a difference is on speed. The rest looks very similar.

I also wonder if it gives the same system-wide access to photos through the Media library that many applications use.
We don't talk much about discreet math.
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Thanks for the review. Yeah I figure if I can't find anyone to split the cost with, a month or two of the full-price would still be worth it for the connections.

Startups cutting headcount (due to the recession) may be affecting their money-making ability though.
iphoto has a few plugins that easily sync with online albums (flickr, for one).
I'm not sure that I buy the billable/not-billable distinction as a useful measurement of productivity and progress. I spend a lot of time reading up on new concepts and programming languages, and it gives me a lot of new ideas. It's probably not "billable", but it's work because it makes me better at my job.

I'd say that I average 45 hours of actual work per week, discounting the time I'm "at work" but goofing off, while including the time I spend working at home, even if that "work" is studying or discussing programming languages with other hackers to trade ideas.
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I just started using tarsnap. Love it!!! It just works. The default behavior is exactly what I need.
There are other reasons for the differential.

First, a full-time consultant has to spend time getting work, and he doesn't get to bill that. That's part of why the 2-4 ratio exists. I've heard that you can expect to spend an hour looking for work for every hour that you bill. Also, being a consultant is riskier, not only in the short-term financial sense, but also in the long run: if you're unsuccessful as a freelancer, you've got nothing to show other than the fact that no one wanted to hire you, and you're probably too burned-out/exhausted by searching for work to do any interesting side projects.
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It's novel enough it might get some secondary reporting. That it also raises ethical issues -- a news quality site giving out fake news?! -- also helps, by creating potential controversy/arguments/discussion threads.
It's not easy. I did it for 7 years out of college, slowly raising my salary from minimum wage to not much above minimum wage. Overall my standard of living wasn't horrible though, I had an old used car, lived in an old mansion with 5 friends ($1500 a month, heat included!), and was in a 'southwest airlines' city so the cost of living was quite cheap. (i.e. A slice of pizza and a soda was $1)

Difficult? At times

Amazing experience? You betcha
I'm still not solid on what I think about private companies having the responsibility to provide your data for you if they're closing down, but his bit at the end about the archive team seems... well, brilliant. Hell, it could even be a paid service. Monitor the web for companies shutting down and download away. Of course, that's assuming that the data's not protected behind some sort of wall (if Facebook was closing, or something like that); in that case, contact the company and try and make a deal. You could get them to simply give you all the data, or (in case of privacy concerns, etc.) offer the closing company a solution where they commit to letting users get at their data for 90 days (or some similar number) and after that, you put up a page where people can pay to access the original site, or at least some sort of download page.

Of course, people could just back up, but some stuff is just hard to do that with, especially on the web.
Amherst College. It's pretty common at top private colleges, and it also seems more common at rural schools than urban ones. If every college student in Amherst needed to get an apartment, I think the townspeople would panic, since there were 7000 of them and 35,000 of us. (Okay, this is misleading, since about 32,000 of those college students are at UMass, which occasionally does house students off-campus. Amherst and Hampshire don't, though.)

(Irony: many of these same students who go through 4 years never having to manage money are then hired on Wall Street to...you guessed it...manage money. Maybe that explains the current crisis.)
Thanks! I feel befriended and fed.
It seems that when you're asked for a plane, you're expected to create a plane, not a wad of paper.

Presumably, this was during a unit on areodynamics, and the idea was to demonstrate an understanding of areodynamics, and not to show that you can throw balls farther than you can throw planes.

If the teacher had asked for the object that would go farthest, instead of specifically asking for a paper plane, then you would have a point.
Unfortunately it's not very Mac-like.

Petition to Google and other cross-platform app-makers: please take the time to integrate with OS X; Mac users can already run PC apps with the help of VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, or Parallels.
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This is absolutely true. Top CS programs don't even care about the CS GRE very much, at least in my experience (e.g. I didn't have time to write it before applying to grad school, and it wasn't a big deal).
I remember this design from my childhood. (Well, a variation of it). Dropping the tail and tearing elevators/ailerons into the back of it turns it into an awesome stunt plane, one that can do loops and so on beautifully, or can (if thrown right) come back to you like a boomerang.
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Anyone around in China interested in either a hackers meetup or interested in working on some projects together? I am currently in Guangzhou, but don't mind going to other places around China such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, or Beijing. Let's get a yc community going here in China! Anyone here working on projects in China currently? I'd love to hear about them. This is the small fun project I am working on now: http://sanbit.com
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SS is supposed to pay benefits in proportion to how much you put into the system (each dollar YOU specifically put in, you supposed to get out). It wasn't meant as a wealth redistribution scheme and so far it isn't a hardcore redistribution scheme. The "rich" are capped at paying 15% of their income up to ~$100k. Not much money from the rich currently goes to the poor via SS (Medicaid is a different beast)

Now, Obama has floated the idea to remove the $100k cap, WITHOUT paying any additional benefit. With the economy in its current condition, he has backed off that idea, but I won't be surprised if he resurrects the idea if we have a quick recovery.

SS is a scam because on average it pays roughly 1% interest per year, versus an 8% average return in stock market. Furthermore it is scam because the government feels compelled to hide half of the money it takes from you by making your employer pay for half of your FICA taxes.
I'd so love to try Xobni, but, I am not forking out $110 for Outlook 2k7 for the privilege of doing so. :/
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"The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores."

What discipline is completely without use for reading skill, or for the kind of secondary school mathematics that appears on the GRE quantitative section?
A better link perhaps would be to the original site: http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/
Is this like an IQ test question?

Which one doesn't belong in this list?

1) The IBM PC
2) The Internet/Web
3) Outlook
All this blog-blathering about the twitter "hack". There doesn't appear to have been any "hack", just high-profile people with weak accounts got exploited. Like they do on almost every system that allows public access.

Use a lame password, or enter your password into too many shady 3rd party sites, and...
>* Depending on your site, you could hold a competition and submit it to whatever forums and BBS's you'd like to. The winner gets a brand new $200 iPod.

Bad idea; there are strict laws about contests and they vary by state. You don't want to have a VC doing due diligence 6 months down the road run across this and put a large penalty on your valuation or rule you out altogether.
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I've also noticed this, when I'm at work some days I will just pound out work and 6 hours can fly by. Other days 6 minutes feels like 6 hours and anything going on distracts me.

I realize how little work I end up getting done, its one of my new years resolutions to be more productive.

And no I'm not organized enough for GTD or what not. Best thing for me has been the joesgoals.com website.
Congress is good at fund raising, not math.
A joke about Starcraft not working is a very inappropriate one! Although, as long as Starcraft 2 works (and is released by then), we should be safe.

This sounds like a serious problem, but when you consider how fast computer hardware and software grows and changes, I have a feeling there really won't be any 32 bit apps by then. I mean, christ, look at the past 30 years!
Verbal and Quantitative have vastly different distributions. Simply adding them together favors those in quantitative fields.

I think that the smaller variance in verbal scores should have tipped him off.
"The bottleneck in web 2.0 today is generally the sophistication of the average web surfer"

I think this is the wrong approach. As the saying goes, "Make something people want", not "Make people want something".
The antonyms and analogies are usually a matter of figuring out which of the answers is a valid type- for instance, most of the antonyms will have 2 or 3 words that actually mean the opposite, but only 1 will be the same figure of speech, and usable in the same type of sentance. It's basically like acting as a compiler and finding type mismatch errors. As for the sentence completion, the task is to memorize a set of rules, look at an input, and once again act as a compiler. Reading comprehension is probably the most 'verbal' of the verbal questions, but once again math and CS students have the advantage here: we've been reading obtuse texts looking for the answer to a specific question for years!
How is it that the average verbal scores are so much lower than math? A math major averages 714 on quantitative whereas an English Lit major averages 573. Is the math that much easier, or do we not speek so goode nemore?
Sure you should think about what people want. But maybe the path to giving them what they want is slightly involved and requires some sophistication.
They math questions are math questions and the verbal questions are mostly an obscure vocabulary test with a dose of reading comprehension.
I can't seem to figure out how to run this... I downloaded the OS X distribution, opened it, selected "Run..." from the File menu, and selected the cusec2008.factor file. Now what?
I fully support this idea and infact, I am already wondering how you'd go about implementing it.

I've been bitten by this before and didn't have sufficient backups.
I wonder how things would have turned out if Kant had to update his Twitter page all the time....
Well, I admit I was somewhat skeptical about your claim, but at the risk of engaging in some confirmation bias, that is definitely an accurate description of how I got through my ACT/SAT verbal section. (Never took the GRE.)
So the "best" schools make you take a test they don't even care about? Yeah, they sure sound really good to me.
how slow is slow? Its one thing to be slow implementing a precise spec where the algorithms are sketched (ie problemeatic), its another thing (ie reasonable) to be slow cooking up a nicely designed tool with good / nontrivial algorithimics and interface
What would you do after you get a match? Call her/him and invite them to you place?

From my experience, awkward situation like this may ruin a potential relationship.
Kant express himself in 140 characters or less? That would be fascinating.
In the US, it's relatively easy to start a corporation and trivial to start a company. In much of Europe, there are significant fees and/or capitalization requirements to start company. What barriers are there to starting a corporation in mainland China? Can you be based out of Beijing but incorporate in Hong Kong? I would guess that incorporating in Hong Kong is like in the USA but incorporating in the mainland is more like incorporating in Europe.
np. Just keep up the good work.
"What discipline is completely without use for reading skill, or for the kind of secondary school mathematics that appears on the GRE quantitative section?"

The GRE doesn't measure reading skill, that's what the NALS is for. The GRE verbal is just a test of how many wank words you've memorized. Same goes for the math test.
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Well projects like dataportability.org are a step in the right direction (making the export of data easier), but then there's the issue of how much notice (if any at all) is given when a site is closing.
You can make oatmeal in a rice cooker?!?! How can I have missed something so obvious!

Roger Ebert, yet again you have enriched my life!
Sometimes I read Dave Winer for his opinion pieces. I try to avoid any technical pieces he writes, however.
How did this make it on to HN... The author of the article is clearly confused of the issue. More, who the hell cares... it is Twitter. If your are worried about some one ruining your good name by hacking your twitter account, you most certainly have more relevant personal issues to address. How was the article "techie" at all aside for name dropping and the author's self validation from "implementing" a similar auth API? burn:period:
I had a similar contest in school where I used a trick that I had learned just by goofing around with paper planes as a kid...

You take the classic paper airplane fold and simply do a double inner fold... so crease in 2x before building the wings. You basically end up with a dart that can easily fly across a gymnasium and farther depending on how hard it's hurled.

I remember some kid using that design and flying it pretty far, but my darts (er, planes) were hitting high on the back wall of the gym with plenty of distance to go.
On the other hand, perhaps it's good to allow data to be lost occasionally... I've lost old emails, source code, and other documents that I thought were really important (to me at least). Turns out I was wrong, I don't miss any of it.

It's a shame when people lose stuff for reasons other than neglect, but it happens. Start over or work on something new (and treat it like an opportunity, not a chore).
my experience with the 'hour here and there' consulting that I did a few years back was that the marketing time is more like 1 hour marketing to 30 hours work, or better. But then, I charged closer to 150% what I would expect salary (vs. 200-400%) It would have worked swimmingly if I didn't have a capital-intensive side-project. It was a pretty easy way to support myself while working two days a week or so, leaving lots of time for self-improvement.

I dono... maybe I would have gotten rejected more if I charged more, but I usually enjoy the technical stuff more than the marketing, so it makes sense to work two hours on technical work rather than one hour marketing and one hour technical work, if that is indeed the choice.

I have had the occasional client willing to pay me 4x what I would expect from a salaried gig, but I mostly lucked into those. Some clients offered me more than I was asking, so maybe I would have done OK insisting on the higher rates.
Surely there will be a distro of Linux or FreeBSD distributed 25 years from now that can be run on the hardware of today. So you'll still be able to browse Wikipedia, though perhaps not in full 4D VR. Obsolete is relative.
If you have a Chinese passport its easy to setup a company in China but if you have a foreign passport then you need to have a lot of money in a Chinese bank before they allow you to register a company, I think about $100,000 US. I've heard Hong Kong is simpler, but I haven't tried. One situation I recommend if possible for you is to setup 2 companies, one in the US (or wherever your homebase is) and one in China. I dont think China is currently very startup friendly, but I hope that will change.
Do you have any more info on the corruption? I have found bdb to be very reliable. I used it as the backend storage engine for Sun's LDAP server product.
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There's no reason to lose data. Space is cheap.
I appreciate the compliment. I know there's plenty more I could do to make OurDoings easier for the people who put stuff on it.
Isn't the real problem recompiling executables for which the source is lost or are so hopelessly mired in legacy production systems deploying them would be hell on earth.

That was the basic problem with Y2K no one expected them to live that long so upgrading them wasn't considered. This seems like the same retrofit issue, possibly with more warning and experience second time around.
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@ghegel70 I just dropped my pink glasses. Kidding. LOL.
The old ESPN site was just god-awful. This new one is better. I'll still probably never visit, but at least now I'll call it that "less awful site I never go to" instead of that 'horrible horrible site I never go to' :-).
Ego boost or what?!

I study physics, math, and philosophy. They each take a top in category award. Know what? I'm going to treat myself to a coffee.

[I'd like to see the same done for the individual branches of philosophy. I have a feeling the moral philosophers drag us down. What? Who said that?]
It depends on how you define "lose". To keep all your data for a long time takes effort. Storage formats change. Disks die. Hosted storage bills need to be paid, billing needs to be updated (credit cards expire), etc.

You really need more than one copy in more than one place if you want to be really confident that your data won't be lost.

Is all your data worth the effort? Is it healthy to try to hang on to everything?
That's OK. But why do you down-vote what you don't agree with?
Ok I am about to BLOW. YOUR. MIND.

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"The fact that every discipline uses the same test for admissions says more about the quality of academia than the scores."

That is not necessarily true. Its a testament to how education is treated as a commodity by College Board and ETS. Academic programs don't care what your scores are. They only use them to help you get fellowships so they don't have to pay for your salary.

The real shame with the GRE is that it says nothing about the quality of the student. I knew someone who just failed their qualifying exam and is getting kicked out, even though he scored a PERFECT on the GRE and had external funding.
Yeah. This is true, and it's the first intelligent thing anyone has said in this thread. The verbal section is much more challenging. And it is not word memorization, although that is part of it.
Well, no, it's not required everywhere. And the GRE isn't meaningless, it's merely one factor among many.
Sounds easy. Why does everyone do so bad?
It crashes my browser every time I visit. That's pretty annoying.
two chicks at the same time

oh, oops, wrong question
Why do it yourself when you can pay someone $2-5 a hour to do it while you work on building new features on your site?
there is a difference between increasing the value you can provide in the future and directly providing value to your customer.

The lines blur some if you are salaried and unlikely to leave your employer or if you are learning things specific to your employers needs.
building a business on top of a customer base that has proven to open their wallets is a good move. Would you rather be trying to pry money out of people that think email is not worth $110?

I am a mac user, so its not an option for me. But I were still on Windows, I would pay for Outlook as the alternatives are significantly less interesting.
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The GRE math questions are almost the same difficulty as the SAT.

I would guess that if you're applying to graduate school, you've done a fair amount of reading and writing no matter what your major, so those questions are "tougher".

However, its not the same for math. There is still a general requirement, but the exposure to rigorous math is much more varied. Which reminds me, I kind of remember seeing a "Math for Dancers" class in the catalogue...
I'm up against some big-named blogs (like Seth's) for the 2008 Weblogs Award.

I'm asking for your support here on Hacker News because many of my articles have been voted up here, with one being #12 on the all-time highest-voted list (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407509).

Thanks everyone for supporting the small entrepreneur!
I see what you mean.

The GRE verbal section uses very difficult vocabulary. Learning new vocabulary well enough for the GRE was a very daunting task for me.

If you know the words, the test is easy. The trick is knowing the words.
When I could simply offload to a drive and then throw that dive into storage? Sure it is.
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