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Most people feel the inevitable urge to gamble in the stock market. Some advisers advocate a 10% allocation to "stock picks" for this reason.

Personally, I feel that a smart and tasteful person can outguess Wall Street in areas he's an expert in. I don't think anyone could have predicted the meteoric rise of Apple, but I think plenty of nerds could have looked at Mac OS 10.1 back in the day and thought, "this is a good bet". The ideas is that Wall Street can efficiently price financials (except in speculative bubbles, but if can't judge if a stock is in a bubble then don't buy it!) but doesn't have the computer nerd expertise to judge the long-term viability of a product line or engineering culture. Along similar lines, I made a tidy profit in 2008 on banks because I knew a few people at these banks and knew which ones worked and which ones were dysfunctional at a high level--a sort of perfectly legal "insider" information. Of course when you do this stuff you're assuming risk.
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They should fix that, yes.
And if the risk is too high, just buy more US treasuries and less stocks.

US treasuries can carry high levels of interest rate risk if their duration is long. In otherwords if the maturity is really long, 10 years+, and interest rates go up, the principal value of your treasuries will fall dramatically.

Now, you can wait it out, but that won't help you in the long term when the market is paying out 10% and you are getting 0.25%.

Just a few days ago I read that Bain Capital's nice 20-30% returns were mostly based on leverage in a favorable market environment... I think there are a few people who really are good at choosing market segments or individual stocks, but you or your advisor-for-hire are not likely to be them.

Bain did this by taking companies private, then re-IPOing them. They are a private equity company and to my knowledge do not choose stocks and market segments like mutual funds do.
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Your last sentence is the important part that I think most people aren't really seeing.
The fact it's easy to falsify and that such a false accusation can ruin lives doesn't change the nature or severity of the crime.

And the fact that the CIA have a real history of crap like this doesn't change the possibility that this is a real accusation of a real crime with real victims.

I'm not saying he's guilty and I agree that what we know of the evidence at the moment means that the whole thing isn't cut and dried (rape cases rarely are, the nature of the crime makes the investigation and prosecution of them messy in the extreme and there are far too many false accusations - something which should be a crime). What I am saying that he's wanted for questioning and that situations like this where things aren't clear are why we have due process.

Is it possible that he's being set up? Yes. Is it possible that he's committed a significant crime? Yes.

How best to deal with this? Using an established, public process based on solid principals of justice established over centuries which may be flawed but is the best thing we have at present, or some curious combination of political manoeuvring, PR and who knows what else?

The Swedish justice system may not be perfect, but it's surely a far better way of establishing what might have happened between Assange and the two women than what we're seeing now. If the case is that weak and the police have been that remiss then his lawyers should have a field day.
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I was quite disappointed in my RPi buying experience, living in the US. I'm still waiting for it to arrive (despite preordering the minute the sites came back online). They notified me that it was being shipped a couple weeks ago, told me that shipping would be about 12 weeks. The exchange rate threw me for a heck of a shock, with my RPi costing about $50 minus shipping.

The RPi might be the soup du jour, but it's an incredibly frustrating device to get your hands on. At least the Pandaboard can be placed in my hands; for all I know the RPi might not even exist at all.
I wonder why Joyent thinks they can get away with this. "Q: How long is it good for? A: As long as we exist." seems to be a pretty good definition of "lifetime." I would think they could only get out of their promise via bankruptcy. Maybe Joyent is trying to substitute for legal bankruptcy with moral bankruptcy.
Amazon EC2 on the micro plan maybe? It's free for the first year as a trial.
They should, but probably wont.

If you sell a service, but decide not to provide it you should refund the money. Judging from the comments most of HN assumes if you "attempt" to provide the service you can keep the money.

Yes, I get it's a losing proposition for Joyent to live up to their obligations. So what? You either live up to them, or refund the money, it's really that simple.
In Sweden you do not have to be in the country for questioning, and JA has offered to be interviewed over phone or video link.

In the US there's the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.

Even if you know nothing of the law, surely you've at least seen a television show or movie where someone says "Am I being charged with a crime? ... Then am I free to go?"

That's all you need to say.
Right here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/12/julian-assange-e...

This is from testimony given by Assange's lawyer.

It does lose the context of the lawyer continuing on that Assange eventually did find and use a condom.
Thanks Jeff for clearing this up
Swedish law is totally fucked up.

That's like fucking a prostitute (somewhere where it's legal) and then refusing to pay her. You didn't rape her, you simply tricked (defrauded) her! Rape can't be decided upon after sex! (Unless you were legally unable to give consent in the first place.)

Saying that it's rape is really inconsiderate and insulting to the actual rape victims...
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They only had funding for about a year or so. And with a problem of the scale they were tackling there was simply no way it would've been successful. Everyone could see what was going to happen a mile away. They'd work on some flimsy FB clone, nobody would use it, and they'd move onto real jobs or start something else.
There weren't a lot of "false pretenses". Anyone who bought Facebook post-IPO did so with access to a lot of information that said the company wasn't worth 100 Billion dollars. There certainly wasn't a clear path to them being worth more than that any time soon (which would make holding the stock fairly pointless). Facebook needed a lot of breaks to ever get the stock above the IPO price. That was (and still is) a long-shot. The fact that people bought post-IPO stock with irrational expectations isn't a problem (at least not for anyone other than the buyers, who paid a lot to learn a valuable lesson).

The interesting problem here is what employees will decide to do. It's not obvious that Facebook stock will go up any time soon. It's probably a reasonable thing for employees to diversify their holdings (which means liquidating a large portion of their facebook stock). It will be interesting to see how individual employee decisions end up pushing the stock price.
Some context on the nuclear free policy in NZ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealands_nuclear-free_zone

It's an important part of the New Zealand national identity. There has been talk of allowing nuclear power generation but given how geologically unstable the country is most kiwis seem content to maintain the current policy.
This is known as "The Tragedy of the Commons".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
If only there was some mechanism for putting all the facts in front of a group of people who could work through them and decide whether he really did it or not...

I agree, it's not clear cut. That's why we have due process, and that's all I want to see.
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Definitely the artistic equivalent of "eating your own dogfood".
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Since the mid 17th century.

It's still perfectly possible to be a fundamentals trader/value investor and make a decent income. Look for undervalued companies or those everyone is selling, buy their stocks, hold them for the long term and be prepared for a bit of up and down. But there people who want to buy and sell these complex derivative contracts (well actually an option is pretty much the simplest derivative contract there is), and so the market will join them up with each other.
Had a similar experience with an old host, promised "lifetime price freeze". A couple of years later they started charging me more as they had 'moved me to a new server' which I fiercely contested. In the end we settled for a compromise.
It seems there is some misunderstanding. OP didn't say that there is too much production. The argument was rather that the barriers to entry are too high (very high capital costs etc.). This creates self-perpetuating oligopolies.

By the way, the whole point of the economy is to enable consumption. If there was no consumption, there would be no point to economic activity.
Email johnny.goodman@cpap.com with some times you have an hour free to run through a FizzBuzz etherpad. If you have the fundamentals down, we're hiring contract positions.

As many others have said, just don't explain the gap. Instead say "hi, I can code, interested?".
Apparently the NZ courts came to the same critical question that you did.

In all honesty, it seems ridiculous that the FBI thought they could withhold evidence.
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Yeah, the comments seem to be filled with people saying that it's not practical to provide "lifetime", and people buying it should have known they didn't mean it anyway.

I look at this the same way I look at "unlimited" internet service. Unlike a lot of the tech crowd, I have no problem whatsoever with metered bandwidth. My only quibble is that if you advertise "unlimited" you had better actually provide unlimited. If you want to charge for overages or enact caps, you don't get to call it "unlimited".
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Which (if you signed up at the end of 2006 and just got cancelled) comes out to about $7.50 a month. That's more than a EC2 micro instance on a 3 year reserved plan.
Dave's interpretation of the YC alumni network is quite interesting to me. I'm curious to those of you who are YC alumni: does it ring true to you? If you're thinking of raising a round, do you talk to YC alumni about it? Are they helpful?

As for his main thesis that VCs don't eat their own dog food, that strikes me as absolutely true. If the VC industry was any other industry, VCs would be trying their best to help a startup disrupt it.
The FBI seized his server farm independently on the raid on his house.

I don't think they actually have much _evidence_ that they plan on using from the raid; I think the main action out of that was his arrest.
He isn't accused of rape - it was "unprotected consensual sex", which is quite different. The charges were withdrawn by the women, but re-instated by someone TBD.
I think the parent poster's description is closer to the mark.
Democracy? Each to their own I guess.
Futures and option contracts have been around for hundreds of years and there is some evidence that ancient societies also had similar financial instruments.
So to further their monopoly, they are REQUIRING PC OEMs to let you turn Secure Boot and add your own signing keys, and they are subsidizing the cost of signing for other operating system vendors who would like to use Microsoft's key instead of provide their own?
You have your facts wrong. There is no rape case - it's an alleged rape case. He's only wanted for a secondary questioning. There are no charges, so none can be dismissed. He's being extradited to Sweden for questioning only - at least that's the official story. They could easily do that in London as well.
The existence of a government do not mean it is desirable. It is an act of authority on people. When people are enlightened and can choose for themselves and govern themselves, the power of governments to arrogate themselves the power shall wither away - but the secretive regimes are fearing just that - they do not want their citizens to be informed or enlightened and are a regressive influence to the progress of humanity.
For an example of what the US will likely to do Assange you need look no further than how they have treated Bradley Manning.
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London's definitely not a no-helicopter zone - I see police and media helicopters over my house all the time. You can get what's known as SVFR clearance (generally below 1000ft), see http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-68430.html
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I'll add that even in the high net worth category, buyer beware. You really need to do your own research as the quality of advice is uneven at best -- and quite likely to be self-serving (to the profit of the adviser). And if you believe in the Bogle-low-fee approach, you will not find a receptive audience.
Would love any comments/suggestions you have-- this was our first iPhone app for those involved (mainly one designer and one engineer), so it was quite the learning experience. We're expecting a lot of, um, good feedback :) Thanks!
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You are really clueless, aren't you? The problems that you see on reservations are the direct result of centuries of oppression. It may look different to you than the situation in India, most likely because you're probably white and male, and hence belong to the side that's been oppressing; but the situation is the same. Systemic denial of equal rights, denial of services, forced segregation from the rest of the society .... fundamentally, it's the same.

You may disagree, and I don't blame you; but having lived in India and the US for equal parts of my life, I see the same patterns.
That's the traditional definition, but it's neither a good nor a modern one.
> NB: rounded corners was itself a copy of the webOS viewport system.

Rounded corners have been a part of Apple's design for the entirety of the Mac's life. Only "recently" in Mac OS X has the Finder not had rounded corners. Those widget apps, such as Calculator, also had rounded corners way back when.

That said, it does seem very similar to WebOS's beautiful design. But who's borrowed from who? And does it really matter?
They don't have lifetime accounts -- everyone pays the monthly fee ($0)
An investor is best served by keeping things as simple as possible. The most they should be concerned with is the simple ratio of stocks/bonds/cash that meets their risk tolerance and time horizon. This can be easily determined through some simple survey questions[1] or comparison charts[2]. Most fund companies even offer target date funds, which make this simple decision even easier. And by keeping things so simple, the investor is discouraged from doing harm to their investments by repeatedly transferring it between the latest fads, something which advisers are definitely prone to do.

Basic investing is only made to look complicated by people who depend on selling expensive advice and guidance that most people don't need. Paying an adviser 1% per annum means you lose 30% of your balance in 40 years, not including any bad decisions they make with your money in that time.

[1] https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FundsInvQuestionnaire
[2] http://www.mymoneyblog.com/choosing-an-asset-allocation-step...
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Sorry to say this, but really the best, and to some extent only viable way to keep yourself always "hirable" is to always be employed.

This is because about 80%-90% of the time, employers (and even more, recruiters) aren't looking at all at any of your intrinsic traits, but rather at proxies, e.g. where you went to school, who you worked for.. and how long you worked there.

That is to say, to a large extent their logic goes like this: "I don't have time to parse all of this candidate X's attributes and traits; but I can see that entity E (school,employer) has conveyed the following attributes {a1,a2..} to candidate X in the recent past. So as a matter of expediency, and to get make some headway this inbox of resumes before I need to get coffee again, I'll just X++ or X-- accordingly."

And it also happens that one of the must highly valued attributes they have is whether the candidate was recently (or even better, is currently) employed by some company they consider to be cool (by whatever criteria).

Of course, it's perfectly fair to say you wouldn't want to work for an employer with such a shallow way of looking at the world... and that anyone who's willing to just close their eyes, and look at the real you not only won't ding you for taking off a year to live in a squat in Barcelona with your hot girlfriend, work at a coffeeshop, and not only start to learn from scratch, but make commits to the source tree to some emerging language Y that's decades ahead of its time, albeit with precisely zero value in the current job market... but might even find you a potentially much more valuable, well-rounded candidate for having done so.

But the vast majority just don't think that way, course.

"MUST HAVE: PHP 5.4 w/ Code Igniter, mastery of the latest jQuery plugins..."
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Some are visual thinkers but I am not.

I am a logical thinker and good at creating sensible (that is high-level or very granular dependent on importance) abstractions in my head. Once this is done, it's easy to think "this abstract data gets computed by this function which passes its output to this function, etc."

The actual solution will then appear from (0) the association of an (erroneous) result with a particular piece of data/behaviour, (1) strictly following through this model in my head, (2) a holistic understanding of the flow of data and the computational roles inside the system (or external to it in the case of end-users), or (3) a whim to subvert and reframe the question/problem in interesting ways. As Carl Jacob's said: "Invert, always invert."

Generally you progress from (0) to (2) before taking out a debugger. Most easy problems are solved at (0). (3) is unusual but intellectually gratifying if you find a way of solving a problem in a way that could not be understood simply through using a debugger and hacking a couple of lines of code.
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I’ve been hearing a lot of good about Git in the last few years, from the simplicity of use, speed to decentralized repositories. I’ve been a happy user of SVN for many years, and I know that it’s got it’s problems, but I suspect so does Git. The time has come to experience them though.
I was just thinking, " Hacker News".

When did we lose our interest in and support for hacking ?

It doesn't have to be "practical" nor "broadly applicable" to remain interesting and perhaps even a bit inspiring. And, as often as not, it's the thought of "What happens when I mash these things together?" that produces some real innovation.

As a community, we should continue to support such exploration.

People here do startups and businesses, but the community was never solely, nor perhaps even primarily, about that. Which comes first, the hack or the business?
That's not the sort of thing you can take for granted. Bradley Manning was a member of the US military and the world generally is relatively tolerant of countries abusing their own enlisted citizens. Assange isn't even American -- it would be a much bigger deal.
Except there's no "shared limited resource" in this case. Just an overvalued social network.
> but not hero worhsip

Does anyone?
> Like I said, I bet you use the scroll bar a lot.

Says the fellow that hoists incredibly simple code out to independent functions.

On the subject of age, since you broached it -- Given your seriously arguing for not commenting, coupled with the naive hubris so often associated with youth, I can only assume that you're ether young, inexperienced, and/or do little work in maintaining production code across the years.
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I highly recommend Webfaction:

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nearlyfreespeech.net is perfect for this sort of thing.
I'd be more than happy to have Kim Kardashian spent the rest of her life in the Ecuadorian embassy.

My point is that although Assange is well known, he is not a prisoner of conscience like Mandela, Ai WeiWei, Ghandi etc etc. He is not being pursued for bravely standing up to an oppressive regime. He is being pursued for taking sexual advantage of two women.
SEEKING FREELANCER: PHP expert - Fancy a working holiday in the South of Chile 
We are a Startup in southern Chile and need a hacker to join our team for a few months. The deal is; you get yourself here, we put you up. We can talk about visas and allowance offscreen.

You go snowboarding, hiking, fishing, hotpools on sunny work days and work when bad weather or tight deadlines. Kind of like a WWOOFer but without the organic farm ...

You solve the problem we are having with developers and remote communication by working alongside us.

You must be PHP/MySQL hero, CSS3, JS, HTML5. Keen, hungry, hands-on, involved, sane. Any other knowledge is good, of course...
I don't think that many people are interested in preserving their wealth until after 3000 AD, so let's forget about science-fiction scenarios.
I actually wrote a post yesterday about how custom IP / software shouldn't be a requirement for a new startup: http://planscope.io/blog/a-programmers-advice-to-startup-fou...

A lot of people would be surprised how many startups could be created leveraging just email and and maybe Excel, and only graduating to custom software when that becomes too much of a pain in the ass.
For anyone interested, there was an interesting article on this subject published earlier this year.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...
Well, this is just to purchase the property. Actually turning it into a museum would require an even inordinately greater amount of money that has yet to even be addressed.

This idea is half-baked at best, and I'm a bit astounded $380k has already been put up for it.

>Even if we raise the full amount and end up with $1.7 million, this isn't enough to build an actual museum / science center. But it will effectively put the property into the right hands so it can eventually be renovated into something fitting for one of the greatest inventors of our time.

It's not exactly comforting to know that my donation is to some hackneyed attempt at "keeping the building in the right hands". What about maintenance? Taxes? Revitalization? Who's going to run this effort? Who's going to reach out for donations of materials and resources? Run fundraisers? Curate exhibits?