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While there are some industry veterans here, there are also a good amount of CS students and other beginners. I myself didn't know who he was until I got to the end of the article.
Glad to see this is the #1 comment.

Many do not understand this point. Unlike domain names, which are ambiguous, trademarks have a couple of dimensions that allow ambiguity to be greatly reduced: class and geographical scope.

I have actually developed a solution for the domain name ambiguity problem. It respects all trademark owners, not just the ones who pay ICANN the most. (Aside from squatters, registrars and registries, ICANN takes a small percentage of every defensive registration for every trademark in existence. Now ICANN has upped the ante to well over $200K.)

Of course, it is a simple solution and I doubt anyone is interested. The way things are structured, with ICANN encouraging (by ignoring) conflict and promoting a "winner take all" approach to naming, is beneficial to those who are gaming the system. And it is quite easy to exploit ambiguity, "winner take all", and to game this system.

The root really isn't as important as people are led to believe. It's the large registries that are more important, such as .com. If a user wants to access names in a fringe tld registry, whatever it may be, he can tune his DNS to allow that. If the content on sites in that tld is that good, he'll make the effort to adjust his DNS settings. It is not prohibitively difficuly by any means.

ICANN wants to play the registry game, after years of watching domaining and repurposed cctld's making millions for others. The root is all they have. So, like a registry, they want to open the root zone to domainers, which will also force the hand of trademark holders who need to register defensively. ICANN knows exactly how this all works, and this is a calculated move to enrich insiders.

The person at ICANN who was supposedly running the program just resigned. A replacement was just announced.

I'm always surprised when people defend ICANN and their root. The root is not so important. If you have your system tuned to access the .com/.net servers, you can access the majority of the internet. Add .org and the cctld's and you have almost 99%. The root zone is not very dynamic. You can run your own copy. It rarely changes. But the root is all ICANN has with respect to naming (IANA is the real jewel of their crown, though the US Dept of Commerce may take that away if ICANN is not careful). ICANN wants to play the domain name game. If this whole new gtld proposal does not make you see the level of double dealing going on at ICANN, I'm not sure what will.

ICANN's role is overstated. The addresses of the tld servers we all use rarely change. Any user could manage their own copy of the root. The root really just serves to prime DNS caches. It is not something that should get queried very often.
I think it's only bad because it would break with future changes to typeof. Of course I may be completely wrong on that.

This works just as well and is more future proof though:

function isNull(x) { return x === null }

At which point you don't really need a function at all. Perhaps the version using typeof is from a time when there was no === operator. Was that pre-ES3? I think so but am not certain.
Ah, the joys of dynamic typing.
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Difficult to disagree. However if you use 20h, you're probably doing it wrong and should use w/e/f instead.
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I don't have my own children yet, but hope to some day.
Thanks for the story and a lesson on good parenting.

Nice to read such stories in today's world of doom and gloom.
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Steve, thanks for the feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to read the post, but am sorry that you felt it was terrible. Hopefully I can help to ease some of your concerns.

Although Maslow's assertion that humans progressively strive to fulfill needs was not relevant to the point I was making, that's just one part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. His classification of the needs into categories was still very relevant, as it served as the backbone of my argument re: how need fulfillment in the startup community differs from mainstream need fulfillment.

As for the perceived bragging, I did not intend it to be so and am sorry that I came across that way to you. My goal here was to briefly tie in the experiences from my life that had triggered my awareness of my own potential so that readers would be able to identify experiences in their own lives that had played a similar role. If you have any suggestions for how I could have conveyed my experiences without coming across as "bragging," I would be happy to hear them and to take them into future consideration.
We became poor after deciding to adopt agriculture and systems of debt - previous to that, your wealth was momentary and related to your immediate friends, the seasons, and location, so the concept didn't really exist as we know it.

As civilization gained wealth, some people became rich, but they were only rich relative to everyone else's poverty. The wealthiest people of Rome had, in most respects, less than what someone on Western unemployment benefits may have now. They could do better on basics(which are important), but the technology of today was unfathomable.

But one of the technologies we haven't found is a way to escape the status differentials, complexities, and failures of our debt system; solving that problem is the key to solving poverty.
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I can reduce it to two words: bid rigging

There, I just saved you like an hour.
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I'm not disagreeing with your statement about credit card companies, but to me it is hilarious that American credit card companies and banks still honestly believe that the customers think of them as brands which represent the epitome of honesty, integrity, and family values.
Distributing profit as dividends is not "falsely allocating income". The only issue is whether you have to pay yourself a reasonable salary or whether minimum wage is sufficient.

Almost everything you wrote is false. Not all bonuses are income, they may or may not be taxed, they may or may not be subject to higher taxation than ordinary income. You have a very US-centric view of the world.
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Millions of people couldn't post a status update for hours. It's a terrible day on the internets.
why do you think business school would have helped you?

From my experience with business people? those with degrees seem to be generally of less skill than those without. (maybe it's just that if you are good and have a business degree you are high enough I don't encounter you? Possible.)

I don't see this correlation in computer science; I have no degree, but I certainly don't think less of people that work alongside me that do have technical degrees. Usually (but not always) it's obvious that they learned something that I missed.
Meh . people rig stuff everywhere all the time, only the naive believe there's ever anything like fair business.

Worse, IT people should realize that if Intel's doing it, everyone's probably doing that kind of stuff too.
If you really think it is tax that is making people poor (ie, your number 1 & 2 suggestions) then you may wish to consider other factors.
valid point - I think it's unique in the application of the technology more than anything else. They seem to think outside the box in all the right ways.
I'm not trolling, I've read Keurzweil's book... It's extrapolating. If I was a risk assesor, I'd err on the side of a mass extinction event over us consuming the entire universe as data.
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Don't worry about it. It's on the house.
I wonder what accuracy would human get if you trained him/her only with 10 million static 200x200 px images in complete silence.
Problem 1: The old versions do not get security patches. For example, entering the number 2.2250738585072011e-308 hangs the interpreter in old versions, as far as I know this is unpatched in PHP <=5.1. This allows a very effective denial of service.

Problem 2: You are delaying the unevitable; it's nice to use new features of the language, having to code in old versions is a pain for developers. Small continuous upgrades are easier to handle than rare gigantic ones.
Oh yeah, of course. There's no need when you can just do === null.
Native apps are the way to go to fully take advantage of the target platform, specially when doing games.

HTML/JS/CSS is a lousy way to code applications. I feel the pain everyday.
None of us want to work for 60 years, particularly not for someone else.

Also, our Bay Area apartments cost $2M.
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I wonder how the browsers will be in 2015...
yeah its probably a troll
I replied by adding to my comment above as it wouldn't allow me to reply earlier. Reference that.

tldr; High-level features generated by this unsupervised network are so high-level that one of them aligns with "has a face in the image", another to "has cat in image" (see the section "Cat and human body detectors") and so on.
Note however that they select the "best neuron" for face classification -- the only way they can do that is via using labelled data and testing all the neurons (where each neuron's activation is a feature).
Thus, these features cannot be used without labelled training.
"Growth hacker" is a term of art, and for the kind of people who they want to receive email from, it is adequately specific.
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I don't think this was "complete silence" in this case. They actually trained the computer (meaning they provided data as input).
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One thing that jumped into my mind when I was thinking about using pedals at the computer is a pedal to switch the current shell into «su-mode». So that commands will be run as root while I'm holding the pedal.

Sadly, I don't think it will be trivial to implement.
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I'm looking for a solution like Heroku where I can push my code to but without the restriction of the limited resources that Heroku provides (without me having to manually upgrade resources).<p>I know ec2 can handle this kind of thing but if I understand correctly, it would still require me to write extra code to start and stop ec2 instances based on traffic.<p>I want to be able to just upload my web app somewhere and have it scale no matter how many requests it get. I shouldn't have to manually purchase resources, that should happen automatically based on the traffic the app is getting and the resources it needs to support that traffic.
Small continuous upgrades without ever changing your code is the same cost as a gigantic one without ever changing your code - they either work, or they don't, in variously subtle or spectacular ways. The tipping point lies at some changeset, you just need to hit it.

You upgrade, you may need to change things. It's just a fact of life. Or, you pick a library / language / framework / everything that guarantees 100% backwards compatibility as documented, that never has bugs (since fixing those breaks 100% backwards compatibility), and you never use features in even remotely-unexpected ways. Like in this case.
Very interesting. Could you share how many apps you have bringing in money, how they are priced, and provide some category rankings?
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true. but that's only for long term. i have no idea what short term tax is, but i know it's also less than 30%.

i was trying to overestimate taxes (so that the reported annual income, if anything, would be less than actual annual income) and use a nice round number so i didn't have to use a calculator.
Which bits do you have a problem with exactly (or do you work in finance and the article has just rubbed you up the wrong way)? If you strip out the Rolling Stone literary tone and just focus on the facts of the article, "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia" is a fairly accurate title.
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I don't think this is practical, especially for what I do. The websites I build are intended to generate new business for my clients. We don't support IE6 but we do support IE7-8 because, between them, they are the most commonly used browsers to our sites (supported by stats) and turning those people away would lead to a massive loss in potential business.

Perhaps your web apps and websites are targeted at the type of people who always stay up to date with their browsers bug I can't see that being the case at all for what I build based on the data we've collected.
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me for example, as I really like reading a brighter font on a darker background. OK, maybe not a pure white on a pure black, but something with enough contrast.

Maybe I am just too used to working on a shell...
"Growth hacker" aside, would you put up a recruitment post like this?
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"I think it's only bad because it would break with future changes to typeof"

You're completely right.

The proposal (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:typeof) suggests the change of typeof null to actually return "null"; however, as Douglas Crockford points out, "existing code cannot anticipate the change". Additionally, Brendan Eich states that "neither this proposal nor the bug fixes in that proposal are backward-compatible".
You can't win, people on one side want this weird behaviour made backwards compatible whereas people complain that the language has a large amount of weird edge cases and should be better standardised around more sane expected values.

In this case they were standardising parameter parsing code, which I think is definitely the direction you want to head.
Do you really think the average business owner makes more as a business owner than they would as an employee? I don't have the statistics at my fingertips, but I'd find that surprising. I know I'd be making 3x-5x what I'm making now if I was working for other people.

Yeah, running a business means that you have a possibility of making a whole lot of money, and yeah, if you have the contacts to get investors to give you money in a situation where you get paid well if things go well and the company closes (with no fallthrough to you) if things go poorly, sure, you are doing pretty good; but that's not how most real businesses work.
This paper is actually more interesting: it automatically learns some "neuron" which its firing represents a detected face, without any supervise technique. It shows the possibility to extract complex information solely from data.
An option to edit past comments is absolutely fine for as long as anyone can see the edit history. I've seen this done in one place and making the edit history public had a very positive effect on the quality of comments. Basically the system gives you right to change your mind, but what's said is said, and it's on record.
Well, any school obviously helps you learn if you don't have a mentor or otherwise to help you sieve through the information. It's not like I can just walk into a library, go to the business/accounting section, and become an expert once I've read every book on the shelf. You need a way to manage what you're taking in, and courses help with that.

It doesn't need to be an academic course though, gaining the experience through work is good too, and I'm guessing that's what you meant about the "less skill" of graduates - their lack of actual experience.

Unfortunately for someone who didn't really know any accountant or business person until recently, I had no knowledge or confidence of getting my foot in the door, but if I'd studied the subject back in school, I would've been more competent earlier.
That in itself is fairly interesting, it says we can make dramatic improvements just throwing more processing power at the problem. Whatever happens on the algorithms research side of the problem in coming years, you can count on us having access to more processing power.
This is most likely true for Chrome yes, but it's almost definitely true for IE. I feel confident claiming that at the very least half of the IE users use it because they don't have a choice or because they got it as default on Windows.
PHP is doing the right thing here. Way back when I first tried PHP out, I tried joining strngs together with a + operator.

I made a mistake, but I kept getting back zeros instead of some sort of NULL or an exception. This is a bug, in the sense of its not how I wanted PHP to behave. I'm glad PHP is fixing its string-to-numeric bugs.
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Here's to not using PHP for anything serious! The whole point of a dynamically typed language is that arguments could be of any type. Language built-ins should account for this. Of course PHP doesn't and shouldn't be expected to. The fact that Facebook, MediaWiki, and WordPress are so successful is still a mystery to me.
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And being rusty in it no less.
I'd like to add something to the mix for any up-and-coming consultancies around the world, especially in parts of the world with weak currencies. If you're struggling to find clients locally, you can always try your hand at reaching out to consultancies [with the philosophy of DockYard] that have a floor rate for client work. If something like $25k would do well for you but doesn't qualify a client for the bigger consultancy, try to form relationships to be an entity they can refer these potential clients to.
Sorry.. I'm not sure what you mean by 'exchange risk'.

To your question though.. no I cant bill directly in USD. I am very new (and ignorant) to receiving online payments, so I'm really curious what the issues for Americans are. The on-line currency converters are accurate to (I would guess) +- 1hour currency fluctuations so would give a very accurate estimate (to within cents) of the cost of a transaction... Wouldn't this be good enough?

Otherwise if this is an issue then paypal should do the job... 2 mins to set up and gives an alternative option.

Would be good to hear your own personal experiences.
"Also, when dealing with something as important as that, you ought to know better than to base our technology on top of PHP."

Upon reading the conversation I was amazed he didn't get that response right away.
If you had read the article you'd have seen the scheme relied on corrupt brokers to share bid information between buyers. This obviously suggests that without the corrupt broker, the buyers wouldn't have been able to rig the bids, despite all of them being knowledgeable and knowing each other (in so much as BofA knows of SocGen etc.).

I think the Mafia tag sticks. The brokers bribed politicians in return for being given control over shopping a municipality's bond money to the banks. They then took kickbacks from the banks to rig that bidding process. That sounds like organised crime to me.
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I meant linear algebra, mostly matrix related analysis and such.
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You can get something similar to that with the Firefox vimperator plugin. Press ctrl-I in a textarea and a vim pops up. When you close it the text gets copied back. I use it a lot!
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Thats simplifying the matter down to a single key axis. Which is always an issue when dealing with the human condition.

You will be right within a certain subset of human lives, but for others - say a favela dweller in a Rio slum, or a taxi driver in dharavi - both of whom are motivated, willing to learn and doing everything they can to get ahead, their outcomes can be vastly different.

Heck I don't know if this has been covered on HN yet, but a few months ago 2 MBA grads decided to see if they could live on the poverty line decided by the Indian govt. Something like rs 28 a day - a about than $0.5 today.

They even went below the poverty line, at which point just being able to afford transport was impossible because they had to scrounge to maintain basic calorific intake. If they had to go beyond a certain KM radius, it was impossible because of the constraints they faced.

And these were guys who had to cut down their food intake, and when they did shower, they did so by cutting their soap in half iirc.

Their final comment was that if they had fallen sick during their below poverty line experiment, they would have had it because they would have had no recourse whatsoever.

Ah found the link - http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/living-like-the-ot...

http://www.timescrest.com/society/the-buck-swaps-here-6532

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15542957

Actually, they have a great website of their own with a lot of data which probably deserves a post of its own on HN, now that I've seen it.
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