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That's interesting, thanks for the warning. Too many "free" services is what I don't understand since everything they offer is essentially free.

I've heard of them closing accounts before, in the book "Mavericks at Work" ING actually promotes the behavior of rejecting bad customers. While I agree, I think there needs to be absolute transparency around their banning policy so it's crystal clear form the start to prevent issues like yours.
How adults can market themselves in todays competitive workforce.
Is it just me or is Level 3 having a much worse track record than other backbones? Last time a big ISP was down it was Level 3, again. http://www.google.com/search?q=level+3+internet+outage shows at least 3 different outages over the past year.
your comment about "any reproduction of content is a violation of copyright law" is absolutely wrong and has been overruled in the courts many times (perfect 10 v. google, sheffield news v. sheffield times).

Google can display text from web pages because they attribute the text to the site and provide a link to the original source.
There are limitations on use which is why google paid for their book search functionality.
The real thing to be looking at is that if we continue to cool, or even stay steady for a couple of years, we fall off the 95% confidence intervals for the global warming predictions made a few years ago, which all uniformly took the form of lines going straight up (pretty much). That will mean that the models are wrong, and if the models are wrong, the model makers are not entitled to claim that despite the fact they couldn't predict anything, they can still use the broken models to make claims about mankinds contribution to the climate.

I can't emphasize the importance of the word "wrong" enough. A wrong model is not sort of correct, it is wrong, and should not be used to determine the fate of trillions of dollars of capital.

Further, if climate change can't be demonstrated to be the critical pressing crisis the alarmists claim, then there are other way more important problems facing the environment that need to be addressed, such as the Pacific dead zone and horrible overfishing. If AGW advocates are wrong about the scope of the problem, diverting funds into it anyhow is not a good idea; it is (and I mean this literally) one of the worst ideas ever put forth by mankind. If AGW advocates are wrong, they are not holy, they are the most dangerous threats to the environment in the world today.

Trillions of dollars of capital are very important, and if there is any reason to believe the science isn't "settled", it behooves us all to look at the problem with an open mind, not to insist that even though AGW predictions clearly said that the 95% confidence interval doesn't actually encompass what is happening in reality we should still just believe them, despite the scientific evidence that they are (and again I can't emphasize the importance of this word enough) wrong.

Making wrong predictions is a big deal in science; only a political mindset can wave that fact away like it's not really a problem.
It's true. People's perspective has been changing recently. Plus, when you have 1.6 billion of them, you can bet a good amount of the people are forward thinking (but a lot more are backward thinking too.)
Surely it's losing. It's not winning, and it's not a tie. What else could it be?
I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty certain no one's been turned down because they've been too "ready to rumble".
Well, if your hand always holds up, and you never voluntarily play worse than aces, you would still win every tournament you entered (though it would take forever). If you can't lose an all-in, you can't lose a tournamnet. So yeah, I'd take that bet.
Could this have to do with it? Ha. Ha.

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I know a lot of startup founders. Most of them work hard, for sure, but also have some balance. Some more than others. The two aren't incompatible, but it takes some work to make them otherwise.
Yes, that does suck. I've slept my laptop a few times too.
Or it could be an opportunity to get further and further away from oil and develop a technology that you can later sell to other oil dependent countries.
It seems like police are not being held accountable any more. Even when they screw up and get caught on tape...they still get a paid vacation while there is an "investigation".

A cop can break the law, and do something that would land anyone else in jail...and the worst he can expect is getting fired.

There should be higher standards for police, maybe if the corrupt get to spend the rest of their life in jail, instead of just getting fired, they'd be much less likely to trump up charges just to cover their ass.
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Come on! don't be so full of cynicism.
What exactly do you mean by ready to rumble?
The question is: how much is too much? Seems like that's a question for the courts to decide.

The NYT is about to find out the answer to this question:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10128600-93.html
This article is ridiculous. No one is hoodwinking anyone. Amazon is choosing what to report on very carefully here. They don't want to actually pre-announce Q4 financials. In any case, from a technical and operations perspective it is very interesting to know what capacity they are capable of. (Especially given the number of e-commerce sites that had significant downtime this year.)
Ask HN: Which articles/blogs should I assign to my high school class?
I started teaching at a charter school recently. Since the school digs my style, I try to push the curriculum by inserting entrepreneurial ideas every now and then.

One of the things I'm doing is to get them into some real-world writings (everything other than English literature.) If I can get them excited about reading blogs and articles online, that will be a good start. So far I thought, this will be a good first essay to read.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

Please throw me more suggestions.
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He has a certain amount of authority over, for example, Bid TV, which sells goods by Dutch auction. It must adhere to the same rules as other TV channels.

But over traditional auction houses? No.
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The HN effect? ;)
I'm talking about assertively competitive business practices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_get_ready_to_rumble!
I wonder how much effect ESRI's choice of Python as a scripting language for ArcGIS has had on the proliferation of Python based GIS tools.
I think that's why you also hear "climate crisis".

Still, the relevant people know what it means (whether pro or con). Debating whether they have the right marketing term is supremely pointless.
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We have http://www.plumcard.com/ and love it.

2% cash back if you pay within 7 days of your statement. (But there is a minimum monthly spend of $1000 or something like that.)
And what would you call the fossil fuel industry? A mom and pop enterprise?

I'm not even sure what this criticism is supposed to be about. Business is omnipresent in Western society. Would you be happier if no businesses were involved? Or would that just make it a government / scientific / European conspiracy?
'Also, I recommend that you moderate your intake of propaganda re Windows security too. Windows is the big target, and has by far the largest number of suckers (i.e. unsophisticated users). That doesn't make it inherently insecure, or savvy users of it incompetent.'

Windows Vista was the first Windows consumer OS to ship with a firewall enabled, and that by default used limited privilege accounts that prompted to elevate privileges when needed.

When did Linux and OS X have those features?

Vista was the first Windows OS to ship without inbuilt, unfixable windows-smashing vulnerabilities. Did Linux or OS X ever have an equivalent unfixable vulnerability baked into the display server?

How long has the idea of all software being digitally signed been in the Windows world?

How long has the idea of 'it's compromised, game over, reinstall and re-apply non-executable data if you think that's not compromised too' been around in the Windows world? Or do people still use 'anti-virus' software as a line of defense, when it's already too late?

Which current consumer version of Windows has mandatory access control ala SELinux or AppArmor?

Which version of Windows has chroots? Process jails?

How large is the 'Windows Hyper V appliance' based on Server Core 2008 compared to VMware ESX3i?

Which OS requires users close all their application, stop executing their kernel, and restart everything for simple, non-kernel updates?

With your answers to the above in mind, do you think you should perhaps limit your own intake of propaganda regarding Windows security?
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I know what the phrase means...what I meant is what exactly do you think a startup can do to play hardball?

To me it just doesn't look like they have the resources to devote to that. They can't stop a competitor using litigation. They don't have a group of lobbyists or senators in their pockets. They have to compete naturally, by building a better product.

So to repeat the question, what exactly do you think a startup should do, to qualify as a "ready to rumble" startup.
Physical ident is more efficient and flexible than construct ident, eh? That's always made intuitive sense to me (eg the ident mechanism of the mousetrap), but I've never seen it explained so clearly.

(cue pun about "duck typing")

I think you are right that this has implications for a lot of things, not least graphic design. If you have a good grasp of how people respond to different elements you could guide their actions even more than now.
I'd class myself as a early adopter and I've been using the internet for a really long time.

I've never heard of broadcast.com.

Mark Cuban might have made a lot of money, but did he create something good that people know, love, and use?

Because I want to do the latter.
This is by I think we need to be careful when we're studying success. Much of what people claim is PR.
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do NOT bootstrap a company on credit cards, Amex or otherwise.
It's rather hard for a president to accomplish a legislative agenda before he's been sworn into office.

This article is blatant flamebait.
Ok, I see what you are saying. Maybe it makes sense if you were switching operating systems or were upgrading PHP from say 4.x to 5.x. I'd still like to see the numbers behind it though.

Also, cross-colo is not a factor of being big, it's a factor of having a BCP (business continuity plan). Every team at Yahoo is urged to have BCP for practically everything. I used to do cross-colo upgrades for a relatively small project once we had more than two frontend servers.
heh, I think a server from the 90's could take the HN effect
Every Mac I've owned has failed
Actually Im more on the right regarding global warming .... i should have said, "It's big business wrapped in a cloak of goodness!"

I mean GreenLand ..well used to be green and now it's covered with ice. Cyclical to me it is, but hey why not create this great movement/cultural change and profit from it!

Not that Im against recycling and all that, but the cow methane and other over the top stuff ... please
I'd say most here want to build awesome products that people use! Most are not businessman first, but our journey lead us to be such....

Ruthless ... can anyone name a well known inventor who started off ruthless? Tough for me to even write that word as I want to create good in the world and profit from it. Being ruthless... blech!
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I download tv shows because I don't want to wait the 8 days that the network delays stuff from appearing online. I would gladly watch them on Hulu with commercials if it were not for this.
i believe the yc startups follow the "if you build it they will come" type of philosophy, as opposed to the "shove it down your throats" or "cut costs to make a bigger margin" vibe i'm getting from the OP.
every pc I have owned has failed!
I agree about setting up a company - I think if you're not prepared to separate personal and company accounts, you're not ready to do consulting.
Every bias I've owned has failed me.
Can we stop screwing around with anecdotes and cite some sort of study?

In my family, we have had 5 macs. An iBook G3, a Macbook Pro, two Macbooks, and an old Powerbook 170 from 1991. All of them are still in perfect working order, and have only ever broken as a result of physical damage (drops, spills, etc.) The Powerbook 170 was used as a word processor for about 15 years, and still remains in working order.

I have had nothing but positive experiences with Macs, but I need to emphasize that my experiences are not data. They are anecdotes, and thus can't prove anything one way or the other.
What a great way to direct a lot of traffic to your blog.
> Can we stop screwing around with anecdotes and cite some sort of study?

But he said he has enough anecdotes that it feels statistical to him.
The topic was women and mathematics, but I phrased it that way because of the sexual dynamics of mixed groups of teenagers. Because boys tend to be more skilled at math, they will show off and the girls will tend to become more passive. The boys' competitiveness will dominate. Of course, study groups for boys are a good thing too.
That wasn't entirely his point.

He definitely also meant it's easier to dominate a smaller market with less competition than a be a medium player in a big market.
They are the largest. Weird because according to wikipedia, they had the best record up to 2007.
The link is to the third page of a multi-page essay that starts here:

http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/neuroscience/

I mention this because page one is interesting and because the pages are listed in a right sidebar where I did not immediately identify them as being related to the current page (might be my shortcoming, but might also strike others).
That's why I wish I could have ThinkPad with OS X, without spending too much time on non-standard configuration. ;-)
Folding. Just to clarify, I'm talking specifically about folding before putting any money (beside the ante or blinds) into the pot. I wasn't clear enough with that in my previous post.
Post seems pretty spot-on.

My Mac Pro's RAM failed within 6 months.

My MacBook Pro's battery died and had to be replaced within 11 months.
I think majority of their analysis is by looking and analyzing real e-commerce customers by video, hot maps etc. - i.e. they basically do the same thing Paco Underhill does (thought Paco is probably a lot more detailed in his approach).
I don't think it's fair to put a hard disk failure down as a failed mac ... It's one of those things you think are supposed to fail someday!
Didn't this guy (along with Jason Fried) make a commercial for Apple?
Every computer I've ever had has failed. Even the ones that are working now, I expect to fail sometime relatively soon.

Some statistically small time after that, I'll fail as well. Bummer.
The central idea of this post is absolutely correct--people make decisions based on emotions and loyalties and then try to justify it.

The problem: "This caused my brain gears to freeze up a bit. If you don't vote for a politician based on his promised positions and policies, why would you vote for him?"

Leadership, diplomacy, competence, and getting people to work together don't count? Do we look back at great presidents and say, "Man, that dude really delivered on his campaign promises!"
I have the same identical problem with my MBP. I'll be forced to get a new laptop in January, as being without one is a huge inconvenience.
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Consider Webby and Jekyll as descendents of a common ancestor idea. They share many things in common but are adapting to different needs. Most importantly, because Jekyll is restricted to Liquid for scriptability, it is safe to run server-side. Jekyll also processes non-Jekyll (plain HTML) sites unchanged, whereas Webby refuses to run at all without a config file. Jekyll also relies more heavily on conventions to reduce the organizational overhead of the maintainer. Webby is a great system, and I'd like to pull over some features from it, but I will do so under the philosophy and adaptations of Jekyll. Besides, if you like how Webby works, then you can use it to generate a site and push that to GitHub, just like Webby intends for you to do!
Well, this should provide for a certain amount of conflicted ambivalence, the collision of Rails and Mac fanaticisms should be amusing.

I'd have to say that my experience of Apple hardware is even worse than his, modern Macbooks are at least user serviceable meaning you only need to undo a couple of screws to get at the hard drive, the count on the old iBooks was between twelve and 17 screws to get to the hard drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTM19XLnzPU&feature=relat...
Amex has simply the best customer service of any credit card company in the universe. You have a problem with any random transaction, you call them up, they apologize, and they go fix it.

I haven't noticed the fees being an issue, but I'm not paying attention; we have a finance@ for that.
Better than average Naggum rant. Anybody know what happened to that guy?
> If you can't lose an all-in, you can't lose a tournamnet.

Only a tournament where you pay no blinds.

Checked your website, you are that semipro poker player. I'm quite sure only playing and always winning AA would be a (relatively) losing proposition for you. Not sure why you're arguing the other side here.
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Haha yes. And in 37signals land, they're somehow still a startup, you only have to work 32 hours per week to be successful, multiple anecdotes = data, and feelings trump reality.
I'm not a Mac guy but I've owned 9 PC's (six laptops and three desktops) in 13 years and the worst I've had happen is a failing graphics card in one desktop (and one that's still running Windows 98 very nicely for experiments). All others have been replaced because components (usually RAM) had aged beyond decent utility.
What do you expect from subpar parts at a 300% markup?
2 years is pretty good going IMHO. After 2 years a laptop is starting to look pretty dated. The battery is likely to be dead, the hard drive likely to be miniscule.
Seems to me that the Mac failure rate is always going to seem higher because of the devotees - a certain class of selection bias. For instance, if a Dell fails who's going to:

1) ascribe it to Dell and not the relevant component maker?

and

2) continue to buy Dell products after a few failures?
I do AI. I used to live by McCarthy's quote that "Real AI was probably possible on the computers from 30 years ago, if only we'd known how to program them". So I bought my latest computer thinking: I've got 1000 times more processing power than necessary, so why buy a top-of-the-line computer? Why care about the mere factor of 2 that I could get for an extra 2000 bucks?

What happens is this: today I had to solve software mini-problem #403 to put in experiment #14. I coded the naive O(n^2) algorithm, and damn it, it started paging, and performance crashes. I can't finish the experiment, unless I spend a few days looking up the right way to do it, O(log(n)); implementation, debugging, screams. Then I'll throw away the whole thing when I see that it doesn't work.

Ah, I think, if only I'd have a 64 bit Common-Lisp.
See also this comment about Yahoo's deployment process from the discussion here on "How do big web sites roll out new versions?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411399
my favorite part was them striking the pose in the elevator.
Sbcl and Ccl both have 64 bit implementations. I guess you just need a 64 bit machine?
What is the optimum amount of ruthlessness for a startup to have?

I think this depends entirely on what industry sector a startup is targeting. For example, a startup in the drug dealing, extortion, pimping or organised crime sectors should probably be very ruthless and very "ready to rumble".

But for a website -- the sort of business most HN readers are more likely to be in -- ruthlessness is much less likely to be effective. The thing you're most likely to achieve with it is getting people to think you're an arsehole.
every device with millions of integral connections between delicate components i've owned has been so susceptible to failure that i've got reason to wonder if this is an untapped market...so far i've not seen a class of consumer electronics that fails as beautifully as its software is expected to.
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I'm not a Mac guy... Never had a PC fail me (over about a decade), except one ultraportable toshiba (screen failure). That's... 4 desktops and 2 laptops.

Of course, it DOES fail on the software side... Windows gets pretty painful as it ages.

I've always aid that Mac vs. PC is a decision of whether you want crappy-but-pretty hardware and good OS or ugly-but-solid hardware (assuming you do your research) and a mediocre OS that ages poorly.

I'm seriously considering a hackintosh for my next machine.
The virtual beer looks to be doing well too, at $1.99.
If 3x as many people will buy your product at 1/2 the price, it's rational to cut your price in half. However, if the 1/2 price targets a market segment 90% populated by software pirates, everyone gets to pay 2x as much, including the 10% of honest people downmarket.
Had you abvoided the ad-hom we could have had a conversation.
Then why make campaign promises at all? Is it a beauty pageant kind of thing -- "I need an excuse to stand here in front of the mic while you admire my [tits / gravitas], so here's ten [words / minutes] on feeding the homeless and achieving world peace."?
I wanna do DIY Bio stuff (mentioned here on YHN a while ago) but I have nightmares about this sort of thing. I remember reading about the treatment Mitnick got while he was initially locked up. Regardless of how you feel about Mitnick personally once in jail he got treated very poorly by officials who either didn't know or care.

I'm still doing the DIYBio stuff, though...somehow.
Arh, I was hoping this wasn't true... I'm already using SBCL. The point is: software and hardware constraints limit your flexibility, and Naggum's argument that "a good engineer works around those constraints" is true if you have a fixed problem to solve and a lot of time, but it's not when rapid prototyping, which is what most of us should be doing. He says that no one should need a 64-bit CL (in 2002); I took his line back to make a crummy newspapery punchline, which turns out to be false as well.

Stupid penchant for the dramatic.
Agreed. It's a sad commentary on what passes for journalism these days.

Sounds provacative? Run with it.

Facts? Who needs 'em. We've got ads to sell.

Sad.
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Additionally, the terms you retrieve with the TimesTags API can be used with the Times Article Search API (currently in development).

It's coming. I took the above quote from here: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/timestags_api
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sounds like Sparta to me