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Yes, there is. The fold is exactly where my browser viewport ends.

Worse yet, google says that most people don't look beyond the third result. So the mental fold is even higher than that.
Because the reason you were allowed to in to the country was for that job for which there were no acceptably qualified american applicants.

The formal reason for a policy and the real reason have nothing to with each other. The phrase "job for which there were no acceptably qualified american applicants" is pure nonsense - the number of applicants is always dependent on the wage, make the wage low enough, you'll get no applicants, make it high enough, and a bunch of bankers will start retraining to go into software.
1. Projects cannot be deleted at this point -- only completed (closed). This is bad, I admit, we're going to fix it.

2. Double-click for edit - yes, absolutely. It's completely obvious now you mention it.
Some context:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/67gu9/take_the_...
The leaderboard is about the number of story submissions more than comments.
iPhone is fine since I have an Android.
Laws have varying degrees of clarity. Laws about what side of the road you must drive your car on are clear. Others aren't. Consider the FTC Act: "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful." Turning that into mathematical language would not be useful, because all the work is being done by one, largely undefined, word: "unfair." Courts have, over time, given a rich and complex meaning to that word. In English.

Some law is already formalized, enough so that it can be, and has been, translated into software code. TurboTax is a good example of this; it doesn't capture the entire tax code, and it apparently doesn't get everything right (ask Timothy Geithner), but it does dramatically illustrate the extent to which the tax code is determinate. (Self-plug: the U.S. federal sentencing guidelines are also highly determinate, although actual sentences are not, and a web site I run lets lawyers calculate these sentences).

If you are interested in this area, take a look at XBRL, an XML dialect used by financial institutions to make some legally required reports in a highly formalized manner.
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Really? The notion that this many (http://www.statsaholic.com/twitter.com) eyeballs a day (with a lot of those people being early adopters) is worth $100 / month strikes me as completely incredulous. I personally would pay well over $100 a month to buy ads on their site.
Investors will invest in a team that they believe in. They pretty much never invest in a "a site", regardless of whether it's a demo or up and running.

And, of course, given that this is Hacker News, rather than "People Who Outsource Their Hacking News", we might not be the best people to talk to. Just a thought...
I think some of the reason people obsess over Final Fantasy VII is that it really was a brilliant game.
Yeah, would be cool to a see a split of submission points and comment points.
Sorry but I don't see an arrow for downmodding. What are you talking about? I thought there was only upmodding on HN?
The simple answer is no.
Case sample: Rush Limbaugh

An interesting theory.
> Saying "For one business to pay back what it owes, another must go bankrupt", he reveals a childish idea that all business must be zero-sum, so that there must always be a winner and a loser.

I think he's making a comment about the fact that fiat money bears interest. So if there's $1000 of fiat money in the system, then there's a total of (say) $1200 owed to the central bank. So we have 2 corporations, each of which has borrowed $500 from the central bank, and owes $600 to it. If the bank were unwilling to increase the money supply through further loans, then one of those corporations would necessarily default (assuming that they have to pay it back in the currency they borrowed.) But fiat money doesn't really work this way, so it's a very moot point.
Well, be thankful you had it up, running, and actually making money BEFORE you got bored with it. I'm willing to bet a lot of side projects never reach those milestones before they were abandoned due to boredom.
In an interesting side note to all the death of the newspaper stories, our local NPR station (KPCC) just opened its own Washington DC bureau! It also has its own iPhone app, and widgets for embedding its feed on your website.
All of the sites hosted at engineyard.com use Nginx (github is one of them, for example). Works great.
His current options are dialup or satellite and you're thinking there's maybe a 3G infrastructure in his area? I'm thinking maybe Verizon and AT&T haven't gotten around to his area yet.
Yea. I became a big fan of Olson when someone else on this forum brought him up - I never heard of him before then.

I've been thinking about the issue and it just seems that the only people who can make a change are the ones who benefit from keeping things the way they are.

I think it would be difficult to improve things gradually and you'd need something more urgent - maybe this crisis will lead to that, who knows.
Would some please explain how the article's actual headline:
Do influential people develop more conventional opinions?
led to this being a Ask HN question. Is the question suggesting that more karma = more conformity with mainstream views?
How does a search engine know what words mean?
IANAL, but I think many of them write complicated contracts mostly in an effort to protect their clients. Simple contracts may not include verbiage that has survived court challenges.

I'm not trying to defend the system, just pointing out that lawyers aren't necessarily trying to do anything but make the system work for their clients -- which is what they got hired to do. If we want simpler language, we need legal decisions that will back it up.
My understanding is that Nginx is the server of choice for static content and Lighttpd for dynamic content (particularly FastCGI). Is that still the latest and greatest advice?

I've found Lighttpd way easier to configure than Apache and am having it serve my static content simply because we don't need to worry about every little bit of performance just yet.
Or maybe it's a cop-out to say that you didn't care about your sand castle's security in the first place. If you knew of a way to keep it from getting knocked over, you'd use it.
tack! and förlåt, I was pretty sure I tested this, but obviously missed something, thanks!
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"Show don't tell" is an extremely valid point. I guess I was pleased enough to see that it was so apparent that they told their designers what they were excited about and that it was not the sort of thing that a professionally designed marketing-style website tries to ever communicate, that I was blinded to the fact that I was being punched in the face by a lot of telling and not a lot of showing.
Homemade Cathode Ray Tubes.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. Sure what he did wasn't "cool" since it deceived users who are part of a community that is based on trust and responsibility. But he found a potential exploit and instead of using it irresponsibly he brought it to the attention of the community. Maybe the right thing would have been to contact PG. Maybe he takes lessons from the Windows world of bugs... If it's not made public for exploitation, it may never get fixed.

In my opinion this should be looked at as a learning experience for web developers. We need to take these issues/exploits into account when building websites. I'm pretty sure PG accounts for XSS attacking, no? If we trust each, shouldn't we trust each other enough not to post malicious code? Unfortunately it just doesn't work like that. Security by obscurity is never the answer!
Twilight never really bothered me, it's Harry Potter that really irked me. I can't stand the constant cliches, the bad metaphors, hypocrisy, her use of every adverb in the English language and the patronizing old-schoolboy crap British schooling hasn't been like since decades before even I was born.

I mean what's the whole deal with Dumbledore essentially saying "it's not what you're born with that matters, it's what you choose", but everyone in the school is there not because they chose, but because they were born that way.
I am in this country because the US government thinks it's beneficial to the US in some way

This is factually correct but it's half the truth, and is probably misleading. Any transaction executed by two entities at their own free will is generally supposed to be beneficial to both the entities, otherwise the transaction wouldn't have taken place. Yo mentioned only one side of the deal and it sounds as though you are here purely to help the US.

Coming to my argument part, I was not actually arguing that the immigration policy is good; it has its own problems. I was wondering about why ambitious people behave this way when they face obstacles. The fact that I have been seeing this attitude for quite sometime including on HN drove me crazy and I probably sounded more sarcastic than I would have wanted. Sorry about it.

Anyway, my point is this:
People who are ambitious and want to achieve face many obstacles. If you are really serious, you jump over them, work around them, crawl under them, move ahead and work towards your goal. Obstacles won't stop people from realizing their dreams.
In Randy Pausch's words "Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things." [http://www.cmu.edu/uls/journeys/randy-pausch/index.html]

Look at this guy for inspiration,http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500021 he finally did what he wanted when he found himself under similar circumstances. I would say he would have probably done better; why waste five years? Probably US did a disfavor to itself by not giving him greencard.

But what I'm trying to figure out is why are people saying things like "if immigration policy would have been that way" we would have created startups, etc., Well to me at least, that sounds like "If only those angels had put in money, I would have my business running by now". Things don't quite work that way in reality; do they?
Wow that is amazing. I have the NYTimes Iphone app but I haven't been using it much. My roommate and I both listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR...hilarious!
I really like the idea and how easy it is to add tasks / manage them. Some feedback:

1. It's confusing to see the equivalent of two checkboxes on the left, one that is an icon and one that is an HTML checkbox. What is the difference?

2. In general, the icons could be a little more intuitive. I'm not sure what "D" means (discuss maybe? Then why is a discuss button also on the left?

3. Going to a new page to discuss / comment is kind of annoying. I'd prefer something like FriendFeed-style inline commenting.

Good luck and thanks for the invite!
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Oh no no, I meant most sites...twitter could be making thousands of dollars a month, probably tens of thousands. But they're going for acquisition/valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars. Ads would slow their growth, if only a bit, but even a few hundred thousand in ad revenue at this point isn't worth that, in my opinion, and apparently theirs as well.
It would depend upon why you failed.

Failure because you just gave up, not so good.

Failure because Google bought you, and then deadpooled you: eh, not so bad.

Failure because after 6 months of living in an EDAR [1] you still weren't ramen profitable: a bit too stubborn for corporate existence, better try another startup.

[1] http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0225/building_2-1.html
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I can think of Summize which became Twitter search.

It doesn't necessarily make Twitter any more money but I do think they're getting a lot more growth because of it.
This is why security is essential.
My brother in law is probably single-handedly introducing a new wave of innovation into the Japanese prosthetics market and he's doing in YC style, living on very little income and iterating quickly on new designs. His work is truly beautiful and he's already come up with one of the most remarkable socket systems to be developed in the last 50 or so years. He's been in business for less than a year.

It's really great to watch a new startup in a country not exactly known for single-founder success stories, especially outside the IT world.
A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of '405'. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

Mind blowing to say the least.
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The memory is particularly a big deal if you're on a small slicehost/linode instance - a standard Apache setup without tweaking can take up half your RAM.
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That's what I was thinking. I hate seeing what other people think of opinions before I see them. Furthermore, they offer an "equalling" incentive: perhaps I'm the only person here that thinks like this, but if I see two points, and they're both well-argued, but the one I disagree with is rated higher than the one I like, I'll either vote up the one and not the other, or, if the one I disagree with is very highly rated, I'll vote it down to bump the one I like higher. The psychological impact of seeing the point I made go higher is one that modifies my voting patterns, which I don't like.
Once you get to a certain number you'll see the downmod arrows for commenting. It's around 2,000 points or so?*

*Not really, more like 50.
Just curious, what gems do you use for those sorts of projects? Any of them on github to learn from/check out?
The problem with catering to idiots is that unless you're an idiot yourself--the particular kind of idiot comprising your target market--you have no idea what your customers want. Also, this approach would probably be too demoralizing to sustain for anyone without the record-label-executive state of mind, which is the opposite of the hacker state of mind.
This is great news for all aspiring founders out there, at least some of now have a bit more time time to prepare our applications and hopefully our chances will be better due to the higher number of startups that will be funded.
You can click to enlarge the screenshots, but a tour might be a nice addition.

We're Dutch, so the timezone wasn't a lucky default ;) (i'll let you think about what time it is here in GMT+1 land :p), but I think in the end small things like the timezone-guessing help a lot.

Thank you for your other suggestions, and I'm glad you like it.
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Could it be use of the word "union" as well - libertarians (of a fashion) seem to be common place in these circles, the word would grate for many I would have though.
There's no need for Lighttpd when you use Nginx. It can do everything that Lighttpd can do and more (and has no memory leaks).
Hilarious, if you consider the only definition of "hacker" to be someone who breaks into or otherwise exploits computer systems.

Obviously that's not the definition we use here. If you haven't figured that out by now, perhaps this isn't the place for you.
"AOL: Acquired by Time Warner for $120 billion"

I'm pretty sure it was AOL doing the acquiring of Time Warner. I remember hearing this from an AOL exec, thinking it was absurd, and then looking it up online only to find out she was right.
Am I wrong, or is this just saying HN is CSRF-able? There are commerce apps that are still CSRF-able. And this is a comparatively clumsy attack, since there's no trivial way to get your username blindly.
Yes I do notice, but for some reason the cursor isn't enough. I probably assume it will unpleasantly popup a larger picture of the same.
I played it last of the games in the series. My two biggies were FFIV and FFVIII. FFVII I just played a month ago for the first time, and it was disappointing.

The plot goes really slowly. The writing's pretty iffy. The big death scene is way overdone. I played it right after rewatching Season 1 of The Wire, which has one of the most shocking death scenes I've ever seen, and it struck me as sad, how immature the writing mindset of videogames is. Even Half-Life 2, which is a pinnacle in a lot of ways, sheers away from really mature themes in plot.

Possibly for its time it was a masterpiece. But having played FFVIII to death, moving back to VII saw a lot of things suffer - this opposed to, say, Super Mario 64, which has a childish plot but the gameplay of which is still timeless.

(I don't like the slow-paced RPG battle system. Pen and paper works really well with it, but video games are played live. You should be thinking on your feet. For that reason I like the Kingdom Hearts system a lot, though I feel that got botched when KH2 came out. The emphasis switched again away from tactics and towards brute force.)
You should make the questions look easy.
Article mostly just cites Danah Boyd [http://www.danah.org/] of Microsoft Research and Harvard's Berkman Center, formerly UC Berkeley and the MIT Media Lab.

Had the chance to see her speak earlier last year. Hot stuff.
XSS, yes. CSRF, no, or at least not completely. You still need to know the user's username, which is better than it could have been.

This was a CSRF attack, which is mostly unrelated to XSS.
You're adding to the drama. Just let it go.
Why not start a startup in India?
Internet access to people in India is still on the way up and has not yet reached critical mass.
You could launch a business there targeting India-specific needs. The possible market there is larger and not yet saturated.

FWIW, I'm kind of the opposite of you.

I'm an American citizen working in India.
Because each of the cables is a different length, and each of the things plugged into the computer is a different distance to the edge of the desk, and each cable has a different stiffness, and tendency to retain the shape of having been tied up with a twist-tie for much of its life, and so hang off in different ways.

The article better describes why I have to struggle with my earbuds for 5 minutes after they've been put in a pocket.
Isn't this just an alarmist way of saying "nobody knows the real value of these derivatives contracts"?
Thanks for the bug reports.

1. We'll fix the @today @today bug. Dropping the second today is probably the right behavior.

2. No google calendar plugin yet, but we plan to do a lot with extensibility. Since I use google calendar myself it a plugin is on the todo-list.

We haven't decided on pricing yet - but there should be a plan for everybody.
No mention of Calacanis and the recommended list?
I agree with this to a point, but I think that it is also important to test out ads from an early stage, just to see how "viable" the business model really is.

There are so many variations in placement, eCPM, clickthrough, etc across different sites that the only real way to know whether or not something works for a particular site is to test it. Without this sort of testing, it's difficult to gauge how much you really have to grow to become viable.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of companies use this argument to justify a non-sustainable business model, in the hopes that once they get enough "eyeballs", the monetization will follow. So they don't put up any ads at all, then when they do eventually put them up, they are likely to be shocked at the actual (likely to be much, much lower) earnings.

Another advantage to putting up ads early is that users become accustomed to them from the start. Going from no ads to ads, especially after a community has grown used to the concept of no ads at all, can cause the same loss of users.
See, Harry Potter I love. I don't call it perfect, but I'd say it's the best children's lit I've read, despite the fact that Rowling's writing isn't as good as Lewis's or Pullman's.

As I wrote on another thread yesterday: Rowling's point is that we're not born equal. People are born more talented than other people. That's a fact. What doesn't change between people is that we can all choose how to live despite what we were born with. You can be brilliant and still be an awful person. Similarly, you can be pretty talentless and still do some great things.

Her writing never strikes me as bad. I know the criticisms, and I can see them when I read, but it's an acceptable level of bad. It gets out of the way to make room for her plot, which is one of the best plots I've found in any series (she writes mystery better than anybody), and for her characters, and her characters are among the best in literature. She has an extremely subtle hand at creating character traits, and a lot of people miss that because they feel that the way they feel about the characters is so obvious that it must be because she states things in an obvious manner, which she doesn't.

(I wrote my senior thesis paper on Harry Potter, and I have a huge essay crammed in my throat that's waiting for me to write once I have some of my other writing plans out of the way.)

Twilight, on the other hand, is awful in every way. The characters are terrible. The writing is sawdust. The plot and the morals are such a step back from the shades-of-grey of Harry Potter that I want to slap Meyer and all her fans in one grand-tour slapfest. Perhaps you escaped college before Twilight hit, but it brings out the worst in its fans. I cannot think of a single redeeming feature of the entire series.
The real value is zero minus applicable fees.
do the interviews occur prior to application cut off date or after ?
Well, I think that a room full of idiots is an overstatement. An occasional idiot sure, but even that's beside the point - before this supposed decline of the community, you wouldn't have posted your credit card and social security numbers in the comments, no matter how much trust you placed here.
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Do some projects for fun to build up a portfolio, then apply showing your sample work even if you don't have the years of experience to qualify. I think a lot of dev leads and managers would hire you if you show that you're passionate about it, even if you don't have the years of experience.
Is proof-by-induction different from proof-by-contradiction?
As long as you believe giving up 2-10% of your company to YC will improve your outcome by at least as much, you should apply.
There's a problem with providing two sets of an agreement.. For a (150 year old) real world example - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi

The gist of it - What the Maori's thought they signed - and what the English thought they signed - were two different documents.

"The English and Māori versions differ. This has made it difficult to interpret the Treaty and continues to undermine its effect. The most critical difference revolves around the interpretation of three Māori words: kāwanatanga (governorship), which is ceded to the Queen in the first article; rangatiratanga (chieftainship) which is retained by the chiefs in the second; and taonga (property or valued possessions), which the chiefs are guaranteed ownership and control of, also in the second article. Few Māori had good understanding of either sovereignty or "governorship", as understood by 19th century Europeans, and so some academics, such as Moana Jackson, question whether Māori fully understood that they were ceding sovereignty to the British Crown."