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Not sure why that would be so. If I recieve about 10 million USD in my account and move 8m of those into another; and then pay income tax on the 2m, would I not be ok?

A concern could exist in case the money in question was involved in funding nefarious activities, but that's not always the case with the story presented by these people
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Are you famous in your field? No? Then it won't work.

HN works because PG is here. Reddit worked because PG was there to help it start.

Digg works because Kevin Rose is there.

StackOverflow works because Joel and Jeff are there.

Unless you've got a large audience to toss at the project on day one, expect a long, hard slog.
In this case I think just the title was enough of a warning.
A completely unscientific observation is that in the Phoenix area, there seems to have been far fewer discussions about Africanized bee hives forming over the past few years.

As far as I can tell, plants are still being adequately pollinated here. I wonder if CCD affected Africanized bees in an equally strong fashion? (The article only mentions European strains of the honey bee.)
In every interview you must be clear about when you will make your decision, and when they will. It's basic politeness not a negotiating tactic. When A calls you back, tell them thanks and that you will let them know by X. When dealing with B, tell them that you will make your decision by X as well.

If A want an answer now, be firm but polite. If they want you they'll wait. If they think you are a dime-a-dozen they won't. Better to find that out now. In the future make date X clear from the getgo.
Once it's in circulation for a while, its origins do not cause distortions.

yes it does. paper money is an artificial commodity. its value is a function of how much is available. While the origins of any ONE particular dollar does not matter, the total amount does.

Thus the demand for food, rent and movies was perfectly real.

right, but this demand was only satisfied through the non-productive counterfeiting of money. thus supply was increased without proper cause. The proper cause of higher supply is higher productive demand.

Every market contract is written assuming there are are $10 trillion Federal Reserve Notes in the world.

actually every contract is written assuming that the currency will continue to inflate at more or less the same rate as it has historically.

companies failing

where is the evidence that financially prudent companies are failing? it is only because GAAP are so biased that people are allowed to run companies so close to the wire. Companies with decent cash flow are just fine. Expecting that companies with poor cash flow are healthy companies just because they were able to survive in a time of easy credit has warped perceptions. We will now be forced to return to good business practices. This is a good thing.

What you're talking about is the problem of unwinding all these leveraged positions. No, I don't think people deserve to have their positions rescued just because they didnt understand what leverage meant. No financially prudent company would do ongoing deals with a company that was leveraged 30 to 1.

The whole world has forgotten how to run a business in the absence of easy money. It's time we remembered.

Solid cash flow. Not dependent. Produces something of value.
Yes it was changed, and I thank the mods who changed it, we don't need to stoop to the level of snickering 12 year olds.
I've heard this statement before. Often along the lines of "why should i do something to benefit others"...since its clear that somebody else will.

Now imagine for a second if everybody thought this way and left it to somebody else...

I say, if it is in your power to have a positive impact, then it becomes your responsibility.
I understand where you are going. If we lost it all tomorrow, it would be quite hard to reproduce tools, machinery, high precision equipment, etc. to get back to where we are. For new inventions, you need both to do all the building of the machinery that builds that machine that will build the new invention, but you also need the novel new idea that is the invention to be made. 2 hard (and quite different) problems to solve, instead of just the first (which, as mentioned, is ridiculously hard in and of itself).
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Code completion and code suggestions in IDE's has gone a long way to make us more productive but, a new tool in the works at the Technical University of Darmstadt is aimed at creating the next evolutionary step forward in developer productivity. To learn more about this I hooked up with Marcel Bruch.
That was a very good read whether you are trying to be an investor or not. Really laid things out and lets you know where investors are coming from.
I think tag clouds are a fantastic idea. They just happen to be terrible for navigation. I don't know why anybody thinks that's their primary purpose.

If I go to a page, one glance at the tag cloud shows me what the author writes about most. I can't think of a smaller/simpler/quicker way.

The fact that they're clickable is basically irrelevant.
A friend of mine once described getting a college degree as "getting your union card". A college degree doesn't indicate knowledge or experience per se, but what it does imply is that person can make a long-term commitment and complete it. A college degree is a significant investment in money, time, and effort. Lots of people don't attempt it or quit along the way, so someone that completes one demonstrates that they can complete long-term tasks.
Very boring, who cares. Shut up and code.
Nope, but having a degree makes it easier.

If easier (for varying values of easier) is worth your time and money is up to you.
Session recording is something we are very interested in.

We currently have a session recorder that is run as a zero-configuration proxy. I.e. you don't need to install any plugin or anything, and you don't need to change your browser configuration.

The recorder rewrites all URLs it sees to go through itself rather than directly to the destination. There are other similar proxies that do this - I think one is called phproxy or similar - but ours can also handle javascript, which is a bit unusual.

Anyway, if there are people here with bright ideas they feel like sharing about how to construct the greatest recorder of all, don't hesitate to get in touch with us (Load Impact). We have some experience with this and are always interested in collaboration with others.
Also, we've used up a good deal of what got us started the first time. Unless the metal ores were returned to their starting places in the ground when the technology disappeared, the quantities reachable and usable without high technology simply aren't there anymore--a chicken and egg problem. We'd also have far less runway to wean ourselves off fossil fuels this time; coal would be useful, but whale oil would be a more workable solution than petroleum. So even if when technology disappeared we lost the need for food and water, we still might never make it back.
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Nice logo, good pithy tagline. You need some variation in the background colors on the map.

Maybe needs more explanation of who will use this and how: planners, event hosting, exhibitors, guests. EG, "Going to FooCon? Looking for the Sony Booth?"

Overall, looks very nice. Good luck!
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but what a label! deutsche grammophon is the finest classical music label out there
"I write about Macs and typography."

"I love David Foster Wallace and interface design."

You can say more in a sentence than you can in a cloud, and it's more personal that way, and it's not ugly.
That's fine but marketing doesn't build bridges or cure diseases.
Was Kevin Rose known (on a PG level) before Digg??

I would say no.
"beekeepers have had some success at preventing colony loss by redoubling their efforts at improving their colonies' diets, keeping infections and parasites such as varroa and nosema in check, and practicing good hygiene"

... uh no shit.

It's quite pathetic that we've come so far that BEEKEEPERS don't KEEP their BEES.

Between things like this and the financial catastrophe I have very little trust for money. What a shitty measure of success.
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Add to that the fact that, without the GIL, there becomes a need to define what qualifies as an atomic operation. Since Ruby didn't have a standard bytecode until recently, this ends up being an implementation-specific nightmare (even with the YARV bytecode, it's still an implementation-specific issue not likely to be resolved soon). In other words, without GIL, what's thread-safe in MRI might not be in JRuby or vice versa.
I tried this in about 2005. Getting any kind of custom was HARD (mostly the only customers were clients from my freelance web design work).

After 4 years (wow that seems so little really!) we have only a few regulars and are unable to bring in new custom because of being unable to compete price wise.

You'll be better off offering "simple hosting" to niches. I.e. one idea I had was to offer cheap gaming clan websites - with a small forum & all the default pages a clan would need with a couple of nice looking templates to choose from (your welcome to use that BTW, no way I have the time to implement it).

Sucessfully reselling space from an account like you have takes serious legwork.. if it's just for fun I would pass it by :)
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I would suggest Shiller's Financial Markets lectures, I'm checking them out right now and they seem extremely interesting. Shiller's a good lecturer and clearly knows his stuff.

Also, if you're at the intro to physics level, you should really check out Shankar's physics lectures - I had Shankar several years ago and his classes (and books, for that matter) were excellent, he's a real fun teacher to have (though I can't specifically vouch for these lectures, as I haven't seen them).
More drivel posted by Atwood. News at 11. Seriously, Atwood is so passe at this point. He doesn't post any original ideas, only posts about other posts he has written or has seen somewhere else. It's hard to call much of his entries "writing" as they are more just "quoting with bolding." I'd reckon if you took all the text from his post, the ratio of non-quoted to quoted text would be about 20% and probably about 50% of that is just paraphrasing what was quoted.
Tor is great, there are lots of in depth technical discussions about onion routing online if you're curious.

Tor gives you anonymity not encryption, but you can always combine encryption with Tor.

I wish everyone would run a tor node, however very few people do and they can come under very serious bullying by the powers that be.

Also online you can read accounts of how the government intimidates people who run Tor nodes. They ask you questions, they show up at your place of work and ask questions, etc.

Nothing you're doing is illegal, this is just them using their power of intimidation.

If a lot of people ran Tor, the game would be over, but because so few do, intimidation still works, sort of.
Why did you not implement a real proxy instead of that rewriting hack?

Zero-configuration doesn't sound like an argument to me in that context.
Lack of marketing could prevent your cure/service/product from being noticed...
I pay my blind limo-driver a ton...
I think his level of infamy far exceeded PG's before Digg. Check his bio.
Once issue Hulu will face in the next few months is that their exclusivity deal with NBC will end. This will make TV.com more of a threat.

That said, this recession really seems to be helping them out. I know a number of older people that just found Hulu and are considering dropping their cable subscription. I think Hulu is really starting to hit the mainstream.
This is handy for pointing out some common and boring circumlocution. That sort of fluff is tiring to read, and when I find a piece loaded with it, it tells me the author hadn't finished thinking through what he wanted to write, and that he never went back through to clean it up. Worse, people see such wandering prose in official settings and think it correct, and try to "dress up" their own writing, perpetuating the problem.

That said, I could probably comment more concisely, but a good local minimum is enough to be clear.
This isn't an issue of transparency. This is an issue of a direct conflict of interest. I'm all for their names being brought out to the open, but for slanderous remarks to even be housed on a YC server seems to open a possible chink in armor should other incubators become hostile. That was my only point.
I went to Nielsen's first example (http://foodnetwork.com) with NoScript enabled (meaning it degraded to CSS-only solution) and it worked quite well.

It was actually quite hard to get diagonal issue to be the problem, you must follow rather unnatural path to get out of the active zone.

And 0.5s delay was detrimental, site felt snappier without it.
Somebody should offer this guy a job. I'm not dealing in an english-language market, but I'd bet he could make more money (for him and his employer) selling some product then scamming. He's bright enough, with social skills and decent english. And he's not shy to talk to strangers.
This article does make a good point. It has been my experience that highway traffic can move more quickly when people do not change lanes. I have seen this happen a couple times in very snowy conditions; the traffic density was such that it should have been stop & go traffic; however, due to the large amount of snow between each lane, everyone pretty much stayed in their lane. This made traffic go at a steady 20-25 mph. (Note that the set of circumstances in which snow can cause traffic to speed up is very rare).

The main problem that this article does not address is bottlenecks. Even with a perfect system, it is impossible to keep a constant speed if there is a large influx of traffic at a certain point or the road narrows to fewer lanes.
Time to change their name...
I've met him - he's a sharp guy.
The author (Brent Csutoras) "specializes in Viral linkbait". Could this article be an example, perhaps?
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Personally I never worry about people commenting on threads by making a blog post and submitting it. Obviously if it is not adding anything exciting then it's a bit of a pointless activity - but it's not hurting anyone (except taking a few seconds to skim & think "nah"..)

As to it being a sneaky way to draw traffic: I dont see why that is a problem! :D As pointed out already it's unlikely HN will add anything to ones revenue (well I can say it doesnt having had some of my bloggings posted here).

On the other hand by being taken offsite to someones corner of the internet could well find me a great new person to look at. Passing over crappy blogs / content is easy IMO but I'd hate to miss out on the posts of a great individual :)
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Absolutely not. The closest thing I have to a degree is a few credits towards my Community College of the Air Force degree (an Associate's).

Being involved in the open source community and being a wealth of knowledge surrounding your field is more than enough.

My interview went smooth as possible as I simply talked about my past and present projects, throwing in terms like "SVN," "jQuery," and "semantics." I'm not saying sprinkle your keywords around but why wait for the interviewer to ask the question - tell him right off the bat and just let him check that item off.

For me: 6 years USAF experience in System Administration, wonderful letters of recommendation from my Commander and Vice Commander (a 3-star and a 1-star), leadership positions within open source communities in my field, and an apparent knowledge of not only my specialty (PHP) but the surrounding technologies (web servers, version control, database management, Python, Ruby, etc.) landed me a Senior Developer position with the largest contractor in US Defense.

My family and I live a much happier life, I am less stressed, don't have to worry about deployments and our take-home income is three times what it was two months ago.
If the company is even minimally profitable, paying $25k for mobility may be a good trade.
Not only that, but on modern processors, the order of operations tends to be important. For instance, the FFT algorithm executes a fixed number of floating point calculations, but can perform very differently based on the ordering of these calculations with respect to memory access.

For projects that take advantage of this, see:
http://spiral.net
http://www.fftw.org/
How do you recommend altering it for leaner muscle?
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While it is interesting that there is "no overtaking" in the ant world, I don't think this really has any real bearing on humans and driving congestion (as suggested by the articles subheading). Having sat in long, single lane stop and go traffic I can anecdotally suggest it's irrelevant.

More importantly, there is a big difference between personal locomotion and commanding a vehicle. For example, the difference between my walking pace and that of an Olympic champion sprinter is not THAT great. However, the difference between my freeway merge speed and that of my mom is an order of magnitude. Add in fixed and inflexible travel lanes, the ability to speed up and slow down consciously and unconsciously, traveling at speeds that will knowingly cause death in the event of a problem, etc. and you have a lot more variance with higher stakes to the participants.

I'm not saying it isn't a fascinating bit of trivia, but I think Tom Vanderbilt's book "Traffic" is apt to lead to more insight than this particular nugget of knowledge.
Didn't you read? He's already "selling" "products" to his "clients"!

Seriously, I'm impressed at the extensive amount of self-bullshitting that can go on in the head of a scammer to allow them to maintain some sort of self-esteem.
How would you survive society's collapse?
The recent HN post about what would happen if all technology suddenly disappeared was interesting ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526458 ), but I think a more pertinent question is how best to survive a catastrophic break down of public infrastructure and governance. Possible causes might be (civil) war, epidemic, or space weather ( http://alturl.com/eo5 ). Technology and knowledge aren't going to disappear, but the power grid is broken, materials and supplies aren't getting distributed, the Internet and wired telecommunication are gone (at least on a global scale), and governance has probably heavily suffered. What would you do?
I could definitely see this paying off for the design community, help desk technicians or CS students (their numbers are one the rise).
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All real-world exponential curves I can think of eventually reverse precipitously, or at least plateau.
I agree. Silicon valley's successes tend to never start companies again. So the mantra "learn from failure" has more to do with keeping motivated than directly useful advice.
In fairness it depends on where you want to go. If you want to work for a big company like IBM, Microsoft, etc... you probably need a degree (though sometimes these companies skirt their own rules by hiring contractors)

But as far as other IT companies I don't think it's necessary.

Honestly I have a degree and if I were looking for a job right now I'd use a degree requirement to determine where not to apply. Because that, to me, says that the company is run by "managers" who don't understand the first thing about programming.

John Carmack's a dropout for God's sakes. That alone disproves just about every "devil's advocate" argument given in the article
He sheepishly reviewed his company on the geek-dense Screensavers program on TechTv (now Attack of the Show, I think, on G4).
I would say Firefox better watch it's back. Chrome, IE8, and Safari 4 are now all far more responsive browsers.

Savvy users may still avoid IE8 because of the mono-culture infection risk, but I think the only thing keeping people off of Chrome is the lack of a plug-in framework.
It is not so much money itself, as money combined with hyperbolic discounting -- some money now is much better than a lot more money later. Sometimes this is a valid decision; if you are going to starve tomorrow, a couple of dollars today is likely far more valuable than twenty thousand dollars next year. After that point, it is a matter of degrees; how much short-term constriction of lifestyle would you be willing to accept for the sake of longer-term reward, or how much long-term pain would you be willing to tolerate for a short-term lifestyle boost? A number of biases and beliefs come into play at this point including: whether you think yourself, or any of us, will be around for the long-term; whether you think that creating a prosperous image for yourself in the short-term will increase your long-term prosperity by playing other peoples' biases about image; whether you think you can gain enough in a short enough time-frame by taking shortcuts and being destructive than the ramifications of your actions will manifest after you get rich, and will manifest in low enough severity that get to stay rich.

The commonality between this and the financial catastrophe is that these people doubled-down on the short-term. In the financial world, they played hot potato with ticking financial "assets". In the bee-keeping world, they deferred basic hive maintenance as long as was possible and still have bees to keep. Some people get rich, some people -- sometimes a lot -- get hosed, and there is a lot of collateral damage. You might argue it is an unethical as all hell, but ethics doesn't enter into it. I get the feeling these people were going to be unethical however we measured productivity; give them a metric and they'll game it for their own ends.
Ants are not trying to text their friends, watch their GPS, and change the radio station while they are in formation.
There were some really good talks that weekend. The new format (more but shorter talks) worked well.

I'd be up for an even shorter format, but most people really did a good job of filling there 30 minutes with solid info.
Fine, I'll take my submissions elsewhere. I've had about enough of the Revenge of the Nerds wannabe-entrepreneur android attitudes around here.
I understand why you're writing this but I don't think you are making much sense. Don't get me wrong, I see how Stallman sounds utterly ridiculous. But he is Richard Stallman. Also, you are sort of making a whiny "wah wah let's get rid of this open source hogwash cuz I want my money wah wah wah -- but don't think I am against open source" argument.

FSF has a particular agenda, an agenda most of us here should at least understand. This javascript stuff does pose potential problems for complete free software types from following their principles and using the Web. It makes it difficult. So Stallman is proposing a means by which one can know if a JS is GPL. Fine. I had been wondering for a couple years now why I hadn't heard much about this issue.

If this is what put you over the edge about Stallman, then you just haven't been paying much attention.
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