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entrepreneurship is killing genius

I upmodded you because I think your post is worthwhile but I think you're conflating entreprenurship with short-sighted greed.

Entrepreneurship and genius are just different aspects of the same thing: solving problems in new ways, more often than not by challenging the percieved rules of the game.
Further, how is an orthodoxy/political belief murderous? I thought only people could commit murder.
Somewhere/Sometimes comes the point where fundamental ideas just evolve or merge's. Democracy is one of these examples, just from a other domain.
Future improvements would be massive parallelism and languages would evolve on this.
Indeeed. She says right at the beginning:

> I put 10% down and got a 5-year interest-only mortgage for about $576,000 [...]

That's a huge and leveraged to almost the maximum bet. We are all busted now just because of that crowd. And now we have to bail them out? (because it affects all of us, specially the savers as interest rates are practically zero.)
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Nokia featuring N79, with glamorous look with existing features and ensuring multi functions which let you do different jobs. If you love to surf handset and have habit of doing gossip hours and hours then this is the best one which let you talk and do many operations at a time. The phone is jam packed with high quality features and I think it’ll do very well in terms of sales.
Here's the link to Jason Calacanis' article:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/jason-calacanis-on-how-to...
Fantastic video, thanks very much.

There seems to be momentum gathering to improve education. Watching Bill Gate's TED video this morning and now this (albeit perhaps more motivational than educational), I'm aware this is a topic which fundamentally interests me but haven't considered yet. It seems an area ripe for innovation in the same way we've seen happen in computing.
Hmmm... so I guess you're S.O.L.?
XMPP and offline processing coming to Google App Engine
Probably the best timing of a product launch I've seen in a while.

You just filled a need for the guy who says "make something people want."
Some more fun dsp/digicomm sites:

Animated slideshow of how AES crypto works: http://www.formaestudio.com/rijndaelinspector/archivos/rijnd...

Digital communication tutorials: http://www.complextoreal.com/tutorial.htm
The biggest problem with HN on the iPhone is just that typing the comments takes too long. What we really need is to modify the spelling autocomplete to take account of our most commonly used phrases. So if the user starts typing s-i-r the thing knows they are actually trying to type "sir ken robinson" and just completes the phrase for them.
Who is doing the interesting things in startup space to solve the publishing problem, particularly the college textbook problem?
Agreed. I think one is for statements (or) and the other one is for expressions (||), so they have different operational precedence, even though you could use them interchangeably, as long as you knew what got executed first.
Not only that, but more importantly, on Twitter you can follow pretty much whoever you like without a required acknowledgment from the followed person/organization. To be friends with someone in FB, both parties have to agree, which pretty much sets them apart niche-wise.
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I once worked for the mail order arm of an office supply store which you all know. We have the same distribution-centers-across-country-situated-for-maximum-deliverability system that Amazon does.

All the company literature says something to the effect of "Order by 3 PM EST and your item will be shipped to you in two business days!"

This is, not to put to fine a point on it, a lie. 97% of orders put in by 5 PM EST will arrive the next business day. We expect that. We're '($# fanatical about achieving it -- if that number slipped to 95% heads would roll at several places in the company. But we never, ever tell customers that. Why? Because if we told them that we'd be pissing off 3% of our customers for forever. As it is we please 97% for forever. Much better deal!

This lie has some interesting consequences when a customer calls to expedite an order. (For example, "Oh crikey, I was supposed to have this order in days ago but I forgot, if it isn't here by Thursday I'll lose my job -- what can you do for me?") Our line representatives -- that was little $10 an hour me -- are given, have, and use the authority to upgrade customers' shipping at our discretion. So I could look at the big blinking count-down clock to 5:00 PM, note that there were 6 hours left to the cutoff, and say "Oh, no problem ma'am -- this will be there tomorrow". But that would spill the beans! So instead I'd say "I tell you what I'm going to do ma'am, I'll upgrade you to our fastest available shipping through FedEx at no extra charge." And then proceed to cost the company about a day's worth of my salary, just to avoid losing face in front of someone who I'm busy wowing the daylights out of.

I cost the company substantially more in "accommodations" than I did in salary for at least some of my tenure there. The computer flagged me for it twice. My line manager came to me and said "Hey Patrick, the computer has flagged you for being overly generous. Anything you want to tell me?" and said "I felt that accommodation was necessary knock the socks off of [customer name]" and my boss said "Right answer! Carry on."

Which is how you get a 99.X% customer satisfaction metric for the quite pedestrian business of selling paper and pens out of a catalog. (Quite profitably, I might add.)

I'll take the liberty of keeping the company anonymous and slightly altering the above internal metrics. They always treated me well and that buys a lot of loyalty. So if you need to buy your office staples, well, you'll just have to find your own preferred service provider.
Javascript's design owes a lot to Self. Modifying an object's slots in realtime was pretty much the whole point of Self and what lead to the concept of a prototype language. (Well, technically, I think Self was simply an implementation of the already-existent prototype language idea... but is an idea actually useful before there's an implementation of it to test theories with? Chicken-egg... :))

The DOM (as in Document Object Model defined by W3C) has nothing to do with Javascript - it's just an API originally designed for accessing the various parts of HTML. It was set up so that it could be implemented for almost any language. In fact, had it actually used some of the more advanced (Self-inspired) features of Javascript within the definition of the DOM, the DOM may not have been such a pain in the ass. :)

What Javascript did manage to do that was very important is that it ended up becoming not only the most installed programming language of all time, but unlike BASIC, it's actually a pretty damn good language under the covers. So if anything, the fundamental innovation of Javascript within every browser has basically yielded another BASIC-like inspiration to a whole new generation of programmers. Except this time, their intro language was much more abstractly powerful.
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The theory is great for, as the talker said, innovative fields...

For a programming business which needs, let's say, a Java programmer, I think it matters more (to the recruiter) that the programmer knows its fu well, than being very interested; basically, the theory doesn't quite apply to existing businesses which use common technology.
I'm not sure when type-safe generics came on the scene (perhaps that was C++), but introspection/reflection has been around since Smalltalk at least.
What would you change on our site to make it better?

Here's a start: don't use javascript for link navigation. Try browsing Craigslist with javascript disabled and you'll see that the site is fully functional. Then try browsing your site the same way and see how far you get.

Craigslist quickly presents a lot of useful information in an accessable manner. It's successful in part because everyone and everything can traverse their site.

Craigslist on lynx:

front page: http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/lynxcraigslist/cl.p...

sf bay area: http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/lynxcraigslist/cl2....

software jobs: http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/lynxcraigslist/cl3....

specific job posting: http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/lynxcraigslist/cl4....

Although not particularly pleasing to look at, nothing stopped me from getting right to the information. Now consider menkle on lynx:

http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/lynxcraigslist/menk...

Unfortunately this is as far as we (and most search engines) are going to get because your links depend on javascript for navigation.
Bigger upvote arrows. Everything else is largely ok as is. I don't recommend a wholesale style change. Tweak one thing at a time and see how it looks.
Wikipedia says Ada:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming#Generics_in...
598,000 Jobs Cut By US Employers in January
US companies cut 598,000 jobs in January, bringing unemployment to its highest level in 34 years, a report out today has illustrated.
I'm sure most Java recruiters agree with you.

But, as a programmer myself, I've only met a handful of other programmers whose knowledge I'd value over their interested-ness. I'll probably never have the opportunity to hire such a person, so when I interview I look for competence and learning potential (curiousity, humility, ...).

Also, I regard programming as a maximally innovative field. There's no reason in principle to do the same thing more than once in programming, and the practical reasons all seem to derive from a combination of mistakes and misfortune.
Please keep HN as it is (or expose a way to turn off the new CSS). I browse HN daily from my iPhone, and it works fine. Also, pages load extremely quickly because of the minimalist site design, which I love.

Basically, you've already met your goal, which is to "make HN work well on the iPhone" -- it currently works great.
Will file sharing etc. become as big a problem for the book industry as it became for the music industry?

Howo are writers going to earn their income in the future?
The content already does stretch across the screen for iPhones. I'm probably misunderstanding you, though.
It is pretty much the iPod effect - a nice product with a great integration of the marketplace. I guess this makes it appealing to a broad audience who are looking for simple products with name recognition.

Maybe other reader are better, faster, more feature-rich, but it seems to be the ease of use that people are looking for.
Easy to say when you already have f*ck you money. Why does he not take it upon themselves to make things better, rather than suggesting that he, along with EVERYONE ELSE, should do it. What's good for you, isn't always good for me. I don't like everything you do. Stay out of my business. Don't tread on me. Sheesh.
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I often browse HN from my iPhone as well, and my main problem is readability. Its viewport sets the width to 980, and at the screensize of the phone, the text becomes too small.

I have a bookmarklet that tries to set the width to 480. It works really well for the front page, but not so much for comment pages when there are lost of nested comments.
You are absolutely right... if you're an interpreter...

From a user's point of view, the redo says "run this block again"; and since the block == the method it's just another way to run acc(). Of course, it's still faking, but I've never claimed anything else :-)
1.9 supports it, together with some other optimizations, but everything is turned off in 1.9.1. 1.9.2 will be sweet :-)
I wish I did more of the "accept any offer"/plussing improv stuff discussed in the first minutes. I'm too curmudgeonly and cynical and self-trained to fill the devil's advocates role.

I love to mentor. At work, the fields I'm much more experienced in than coworkers I try to spread my knowledge but there's only so much I can force on them. And they seem reluctant to ask for help. They want to do it on their own. I notice them struggling for hours over something we could resolve in 15min working together. I want to boost them up, not make them look bad/one up them. I seem to be failing...

How can you make people into collaborators?
There is no such thing as an "optimal experience".
Has any actual research been published or is this just a cute narrative blah blah? Doubting the veracity.
Being a product of/advertised by one of if not the worlds biggest book retailer had more than a little to do with it. In fact "integration of the marketplace", "broad audience", and "name recognition" are all symptoms of being Amazon.
My second biggest gripe with the iPhone, after the virtual keyboard, is, ironically, the phone. I just can't hear the damn thing, even at max volume (perhaps due to too many years of using an mp3 player) when in public. The ringer is too quiet as well, all of my friends who have iPhones always end up missing my call and calling my back.

But then maybe they just hate me because I'm still rocking WinMo.
It's been a non-problem for the book industry long before it became a non-problem for the music industry.

Books were first because they are small enough to schlep around the internet back in the days of modems. Few noticed because few read books relative to # that listen to music. And music industry lobbyists are legion.
No offense, but that site is terrible:

- All that has changed is the front page, which already displayed fine on mobile devices. Every other page (comments, etc) is unchanged. Comments sometimes have rendering problems on mobile devices (they're sometimes way too wide), so it seems like the Comments pages should be modified, not the front page.

- Valuable information has been stripped, including login status and current karma count.

- The header color has been stripped.

- Items should be spaced further apart.
allfacebooknews.com != alltwitternews.com

Uh-oh, that's not taken yet - domainpidgeon, where are you?
Bigger arrows for up/down votes. It's pretty hard to hit the right one on the iphone.
http://www.lulu.com/ is one of many, many. There are books sold in iTunes App Store today. Many I've seen are just lame repackaging of public domain texts.
NYT best-selling author: "your writing will always disappoint you"
I love how they mention data. It uses your Wi-Fi to give the iPhone 3g data. Or the iPhone user could just hop on the Wi-Fi for 10x the speed.
Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the best treatise on writing (and by extension, creative expression) I think I've ever read. Here are some excerpts - I believe its worthwile reading the entire essay many times:

"I often hear people say, “I’m not good enough yet to be published.” That’s quite possible. Probable, even. All I’m saying is: Let someone else decide that. Magazines, editors, agents – they all employ young people making $22,000 a year whose job it is to read through piles of manuscripts and send you back letters telling you that you aren’t good enough yet: LET THEM DO IT. Don’t pre-reject yourself. That’s their job, not yours. Your job is only to write your heart out, and let destiny take care of the rest."

"There are heaps of books out there on How To Get Published. Often people find the information in these books contradictory. My feeling is -- of COURSE the information is contradictory. Because, frankly, nobody knows anything. Nobody can tell you how to succeed at writing (even if they write a book called “How To Succeed At Writing”) because there is no WAY; there are, instead, many ways. Everyone I know who managed to become a writer did it differently – sometimes radically differently. "

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/writing.htm
Submitting essay link for what it's worth..
Sorry if my original post was not clear enough, but this is exactly the point I was trying to make. Maybe it's not fair, but all these points do matter for the target audience just as much as technical superiority matters for the tech-savvy crowd.
Coloring our perception: blue for creativity, red for safety
Sometimes, pv(1) doesn't help. For example, `tar cf - foo | bzip2 -9v >foo.tar.bz2'. You don't know the size of the data that needs to pass down the pipe. But I sometimes find watching tar(1) open the files to read is handy; `strace -e trace=open $(pidof tar)'.
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You don't need a US business and bank account to accept credit cards. That would be a major hassle for all the businesses outside the US.

There are credit card gateways in other countries.
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Maybe the book is too long for the point she tries to make. I think we are starting to need a shorter format for this kind of books; some of these ideas can be really useful, but they couldn't ever fill an entire book (another example: Gladwell's books, which can have an interesting point -even if it's a conjecture-, but they are too long for the ideas they try to tell).
I'm not exactly sure why the two would be compared. Isn't that like comparing the number of Worlds of Warcraft players to the number of Microsoft Word users? I understand that they're trying to make the point that StumbleUpon should be getting more press because it's bigger, but, honestly, there's only so much one can write about it. It's a nice little utility to help people discover content, but it's not disruptive by any means whereas Twitter is actually changing the way people, governments, journalists, politicians, and corporations do things.
I do hope that in the event that banks start renegotiating mortgages at current market values (i.e. in the event government forces/pays them to) that the borrower does get their credit wiped out. They deserve it.

"I put 10% down and got a 5-year interest-only mortgage for about $576,000 and a HELOC at prime +2 for the remainder, about $154,000."

AKA, I'm a financial moron and don't deserve credit.
I'm not a language connoisseur so don't know if this meets your paradigmatic quality test and it's kind of old, early 80's, but significant indentation as popularized but not invented by Python. http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-language-de...

I believe it is a large factor of why Python has/is gaining mindshare in technical but non-programmer fields, education, science. If true and continues seems transformational to me.
Is technology eating our brains?
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you can't patent ideas. Even if you could, you couldn't afford to actually prosecute an offender.
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Since we're having the discussion in two places, I'll be quicker here.. ;-)

"run this block again" signifies "loop" to me and "loop" signifies "iteration." If I see a block of code being looped, I don't think (as a coder, not as an interpreter) that it's recursive. Perhaps others would, though. If we got in a time machine back to the 80s, I kinda feel that "redo" would turn into "goto".. :)

(Hey, we should be doing this on RubyFlow as well - you could be earning some serious karma :))
God, this comment earned more karma than I earned during entire stay with HN community (which is more than a year).

BTW, I really like threads where comments earn more karma than the article.
Actually, at least for me, for a while now the super saver shipping hasn't had the constraint of needing to group all your items. Indeed, they explicitly warn you that your items may ship separately (at no extra charge).
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It's called "paying back your investors."

If I get rich, it won't be because I'm some superman. It'll be because I had good teachers, good public health, a stable banking system, adequate military and police protection, etc.

If I'm making $10 million a year, I'll gladly pay half of that to support the institutions and people who helped me get rich.

During the United States' golden age, 1945-1975, rich people were taxed heavily. Nowadays, when the country is in decline, they're relatively lightly taxed. No coincidence.

Greed is bad. Selfishness is bad. Community is good. Public investment is good.

As for, "Don't let the bureaucrats take your money!", our government can work well. It has worked very well in the past. It just hasn't lately because it's been run according to conservative ideas such as "Don't let the bureaucrats take YOUR money!"

Your money is not all your money, it's partly our money, because we all helped you make it. Pay back your investors.
Yes, that's true.
But what is it about the site that gives it that feeling?
I can't really place it.
Maybe the color scheme? Or is it the layout?
99cts books, sell a million and you're done.

As long as they try to sell ebooks for $20 or $50 they will fail miserably.

iTunes is about the right spot between price and convenience.

Make it expensive and I'll pirate it.

Make it affordable and put it at my fingertips and I'll pay for it to avoid the hassle of viruses or bad copies wasting my time.
I've been working on something for a while that I think could represent a fundamental shift in constructing software. It's essentially an environment that takes collections of nodes and assembles them into self-defined constructs. Since there's nothing more than these simple key-value nodes, anything that is created is a matter of cloning an existing node, removing one, or setting the nodes state. There's no textual syntax besides operators in expressions. I haven't published the results yet, but if you're interested in finding out more, feel free to email me.
ieatpaste, can you give us some evidence to support your claim that retail is still shrinking? These are some of the largest retailers in the US and they are now reporting GROWTH in revenues... that does not equate to shrinking...
Joshua Klein makes a hot presentation. And shows how one can turn an intellectual obsession into a potent scientific/societal contribution.

The crow-intelligence demo is also a great rebuttal to those who complain that scientific experimentation is necessarily the /enemy/ of nature or of species preservation.

This video might also serve well to encourage school kids to consider science careers.
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Wait, coming from Allfacebook? sure must be true...
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This is why I love hacker news :)
I get to learn something every day
well first things first you need to realize that your audience isn't tech savvy. So your site should work without javascript.

Install Noscript in firefox and try your site out. When you do, you'll see that your site is completely unusable if the person doesn't have javascript.(can't change categories)

So either remove it, or add a javascript check that shows different content when it doesn't detect javascript
There are one million sites like yours out there. Half of them scammers. Yours looks like one of them.

It has to be clean and professional to give me some confidence.

And let me tell you, I really really hate CL.
I don't know how demanding the degree program is but becoming a teacher includes a lot of hoops to jump through beyond that. A friend of mine wants to be a teacher and has just about finished her master's, but may move out of state for a couple of years for her fiance's sake. Apparently she has a limited time after finishing the master's get certified, and if she spends much of that time out of state it will be very difficult to accumulate the required teaching experience.
I suspect the Hindley-Milner type inference algorithm probably showed up in the early 80's, since ML had it, and I was taught Standard-ML in the 84ish timeframe.

Of course there may be pre-ML work predating even that.