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If money is valued as an end in itself, it is only valued that way in abstract, because money itself is worthless, but it is a reliable substitute for other things... things one may wish to exchange it for at some point in the future.

So money is fine as an abstract end, because it allows the end to be "time shifted" nicely.
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I'm in the same boat - I had the choice between big-name school at $lots/year and no-name school for $free. Bad decision.
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It is interesting to me when people say that "search is not a market". So pardon my ignorance but if search isn't a market, why (in the case of antitrust clauses against Microsoft) are browsers a market?

Can somebody explain what constitutes a market?
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Works for me. Using SBCL 1.0.14-gentoo on x86. Which common lisp runtime are you using?

And yeah... Lisp-2 is a stupid idea.
I agree but what I think should be done, and I'm speaking from personal experience (I don't know how education systems work in other places), is to allow those who gravitate towards some fields really start specializing more than average student in these fields and only give them bare basics in the rest of the fields.
I disagree. Should the pirate bay win, politicians can argue that current laws aren't strong enough to prevent illegal activities on the Internet. Thus, freedoms that we enjoy nowadays might be taken away in the future.

This is a classic case where the misbehavior of one segment of the population (in this case quite a large segment) could make stricter legislation necessary. I think that real world traffic laws are a good analogy here:

Most people are violating speed limits, and speeding in moderation is socially acceptable. Compare moderate speeding to moderate file sharing, i.e. sharing files with say only 10 of your best acquaintances. Legislation would not be required. However, gross violation of speed limits by a certain group of drivers brought us the traffic police and radar controls. I hope that the gross copyright violations of a certain group of people do not ruin the Internet for everyone.
I would be happy to brain storm with you on your startup, but I'm not sure what kind of problems you are having. I've posted a bunch of personal insight into basic entrepreneurship on my blog, but I'd be happy to get more specific if you could share your situation.

http://logic-shop.blogspot.com
Thanks for your feedback. Users can add comments in facebook app. I'll get around to dealing with user reg later on, but for now I wanted to deal with the core functionality of the app
I don't buy into the identity concept as PG pitches it. My identity is that I've got a beard and flat feet -- I could care less about those issues. My identity is that I own a Jeep and love philosophy -- feel free to rag on both of those all you want.

It's just an oversimplification and not useful in the real world.

People get defensive when you call into question their competence or judgment. Some people feel that any criticism calls into question their value. Some people (like myself) are used to it. Identity != Value. I'm lots of things. I make lots of decisions. Unless you can assault the critical part of my judgment system that makes choices you're free to say about anything.

As for college, simply separate out what you want and go do it. I think college is great for forming connections, for finding a cofounder. So if I didn't have one (or a few good candidates) I'd go in a heartbeat.

If I wanted a good liberal arts foundation, which I think is crucial to living a good life, I'd go get that. Colleges do not own the monopoly on liberal arts educations, though.

So take ownership and go do what makes sense. There is no "right" or "wrong" answer here.

I think it's a good discussion to illuminate what people's goals are. People need to think about their own personal goals instead of having other people on the internet tell them what to do. You do that best by thinking about it: hearing people argue/discuss. But if it devolves into a right vs wrong thing it _is_ a waste of time.
Maybe they mingle with other Asians in school? In any case, it would be interesting to see the study you are referring to.
While I agree that university provides plenty of opportunities to explore pursuits outside of the academy, I think that your estimate might be a bit off. I'm not sure where you go to school, but for Engineering students it is not uncommon to have over 30 hrs/wk of class/lab/tutorial time. Homework in the form of assignments, lab reports, presentations and projects can easily double that number. Then, of course, there are tests and exams that must be studied for. If one is to have any sort of social life, then there not much time left for a startup during the Fall and Winter terms. The summer on the other hand is a great opportunity.
Millions of citizens with camera-equipped cell phones linked to Twitter. ;-)
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Proofreading is useful, so have some of my time. Or skip to last paragraph.

Now for the downside: I'm not looking for the position in your job posting. I'm much more inexperienced (I believe the business term is "cheap to hire[no period here]") than you want for that position[, and - period here. runon] I'm a junior in high school looking for a summer job working remotely - [, as ]relocating is unrealistic given my age.[avoid brackets] I would be able[really?] to perform the Rails and Java work [that you want done - remove], but I would do so from my house[you've mentioned this], and after summer[, no comma here] I would have to drastically reduce my hours. [I would need drastically reduced hours?]

I hope that my lack of job experience and inability to work permanently do not prevent you from considering me. I have solid knowledge of how to program[I am a capable programmer?] (see my resume for AP tests and projects [that prove it - awkward][. parenthetical notes don't get their own periods])[avoid parenthesis unless it's just a side note/quip]. I could be a jolt of energy helping you get a few new, cool features out the door. I also have a business-oriented facet of[to] my mind, so I could help think of [premium - don't need this] features that people would actually pay for [that would generate revenue, etc.] or possibly even float other business models[I hope you have serious credentials to back this up].

As a high school junior, I am looking for a summer job working remotely. [After summer,- move this...]I would be able to continue on a part-time basis [after the Summer [when classes resume]]. While[Though] I plan to continue my computer education in college, I have solid knowledge of how to program right now (see my resume for details). As a young person[you think older persons aren't "jolts of energy"?], I could be a jolt of energy helping you get a few new, cool features out the door.

Not bad overall for writing. It lacks tact in a couple of places. You need to make these of similar length, content, and quality if you want an accurate comparison.

I prefer A, ending right after "than you want for that position", followed by B. Make it casual but terse.
I did 2 years of CS and dropped out. For the past 3 years I've been very successful, but I regret lacking deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
"Probably earn millions"?

You a) don't seem to be following the case, where the people running it credibly claim to be pretty much broke, b) don't seem to know much about such websites - they're almost universally giant money sinks.
At my HS, when you were a junior/senior they had a deal where you could attend classes at a tech institute for free. I spent two weeks learning about wiring offices (pull cables, etc) before I decided I'd rather go the social development route in school.

But for a lot of folks, a technical degree from one of these places could be a real leg up in finding a comfortable paying job without incurring college debt.
What if I sold?
I've /heard/, only, mind, that Chinese reading/writing is so hard that kids spend up to 5th, 6th grade on it. Sure, schools in countries with Western languages do too but, my impression from where this info came was that it ate up a few more years of schooling all by itself.
This is cheating but it works, in Arc:

[let f nil (= f (_ [f _])) f]
I laughed out loud when I read that quote. Facebook's valuation is ENTIRELY based on what other people think it is worth.
I'd agree you don't need a degree to be a successful entrepreneur. However, as an entrepreneur I believe (since I can't claim to be one, not yet) you take risks that may lead you into the situation where you have to get a regular job so that you can survive, even if temporarily.

If that ever happens to me, I'm betting my X number of years spent earning my college degree will help me find a better job with a higher wage than if I didn't have a degree.

That was one of my personal reasons to go to college. I positive I could do without it but I think I'll feel somewhat safer in life knowing I can still have a good career if everything else fails.
I am saying that considering the average IQ of a country in deciding how difficult it should be for an individual (from that country) to get a visa would be stupid even if IQ was a good determinant of the value an individual brings to the country of his residence.
Whether or not you like it, TC is the "paper of record" for startups. Most of the new startups I hear about, I hear about there first.

But the reason I said that I cared is that I worry about Michael personally. The new kind of journalism people like him and Om Malik have been evolving is very stressful. They end up being constantly plugged in. It's alarming to watch
The rich do NOT pay inheritance tax (unless they want to) the middle class pay inheritance tax.

I come from a semi well off family on my father's side and have many well off friends. We all have either trust funds (family trusts) or our parents and grandparents just give us the money outright before they die or we get non-voting shares in our parents holding corporations that own 99% of the company or we get physical gold and silver before they pass.

The list goes on and on. The only people I have ever heard paying real inheritance tax were from the middle class. Rich enough to tax, poor enough to lack a good tax attorney.

There is no real way you can stop it. Even if you prevent parents from giving money to their children (!) then the rich can just turn it into gold chains and give them gifts of jewelry, or turn their wealth into priceless art and then give it to their children, or offshore bank accounts co-owned by father-son.
http://www.robmar.net/TexDiff/

Handy!
Heh, remember those cable breaks in the middle of the Mediterranean? Other sites might suggest it was a CIA or Echelon style operation, but here, I think we can all agree that it was the Pirate Bay ensuring their connectivity by splicing their servers onto it.
It's not just you, light blue on white is a bad combination for body text.
Anybody know how Gecko handles this?
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What I think would be cool is if somehow high school could be replaced with college.

Where I grew up there was a statewide program where you could attend college classes for free during the last 2 years of high school. I pretty much did this full time after my sophomore year. I believe this sort of program exists in many US states.
Same here, but back in Argentina after many years in Europe.

* ZERO visa problems, we welcome immigrants from hunger or financial disasters,
since 1890 :)
* Pretty women who like foreigners (never underestimate this!)
* Great nightlife (or this.)
* Projected economic growth (recession instead of depression.)
* After '01 default, the country works on zero credit already (no surprises.)
* But infrastructure and culture is significantly closer to US/Europe.
* The constitution is modeled after French and US.
* Hardworking culture.
* Affordable reasonably good health-care.
* Ubiquitous free Wi-Fi (cafés, bars, neighbors.)
* Hacker culture, many knowledgeable people around.

Granted:
* It is more expensive than China or India, but definitely within the
ramen-profitable range.
* Some places are not as safe as it used to be, but most of the country is very
safe. For example where I am people leave cares with the keys on ignition when
going to the shops.
* Banks aren't reliable but you can keep the bulk of money in US or use
safety deposit boxes.

YMMV, of course... :)
I found this pretty fascinating since everyone in the Silicon Valley echochamber seems to be basing their arguments on the assumption that the feature was covered under fair use.
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>> I'm a little scared of China

>How can you say this when the Bush administration has just spent the past 8 years systematically dismantling your privacy rights and running a global kidnapping and torture network?

Because he knows the difference between the current value and the derivative?

Besides, Obama has pretty much signed onto everything, so it's all good.

And then there's the "where is better?" question.
Did you look into the following two categories of GreenCard Visa's ? (EB4/EB5)It seems you get a Visa in 9 months.

1. Entreprenurs .... You start a business and hire 4-5 FT US employees
2. Investment .... Invest 500K in some Federal designated area.
Heh I'd forgotten about that.

I almost wish they had managed to buy seaworld too because it would have been amusing to see the Music moguls trying to get at them there :D
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As far as I can tell, Orbitz thinks its customers are chumps
> Weak dollar versus euro means that I won´t be able to pay my euro denominated mortgage while living in the U.S.

Are you able to pay your "euro denominated mortgage while living" elsewhere (and paying for a second household) in the EU?
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We do ;)

There are tax incentives and programs to help high skilled people coming back. I've heard this is happening on other countries.
So the line of thinking goes that people were once willing to pay for the newspaper to be delivered to their doorstep, they should be willing to pay for at least - some - of the content online. AND, without said paying subscribers, journalists will not be able to make a living.

But what is it that newspaper subscribers paid for? Was it to support the journalist who toiled at the police precinct getting the arrest log, or was it to have the Sunday comics and crossword delivered to their doorstep, with the added advantage of keeping up with local news and politics thrown in?

My point is, what content on a local news site - and I'm talking the Lawerence, Kansas World Journal kind of local - will people pay for?
Agree. What other things is twitter, however?
They don't have to make the service less accessible to the massed by charging per user. That was my original point, countering your point that they'd need to.

Customer service is just one example of making money. I think there are clear advantages to Twitter over Facebook related to the issue.

But there are certainly other ways. Freemium, content sales, live events, payments, etc.
As far as I can tell, this author has a dataset of exactly 1 item.

Crap articles like this are what give bloggers a bad name.
You are just being grumpy. The airfare to Hawaii from the bay area is less than $300 round trip. If you are going alone and want to stay in a "surf shack" style apartment, it's probably less money than renting a single room in Atherton or wherever Arrington lives. Plus the down economy means everything else is on sale. It's actually a great time to go to Hawaii IMO. (I am on vacation in Hawaii)
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"Not to defend the US Immigration service, but those samples aren't comparable - one is orders of magnitude larger and less reliable."

Not to defend the climate of fear generated by media scare stories, but it's more complex than that - the problem isn't that every once in a while someone screws up; the problem is that it can happen at all and they're not screw-ups, it's policy.

Everyone knows someone with a story about some horrible entry into the US. The fact that it happens at all, the idea that all "foreigners" are untrustworthy terrorists-in-disguise to be treated with suspicion and contempt, slowly sinks in. This is a very powerful antidote to the "land of the free" rhetoric, which starts to seem like a myth in itself - one media illusion demolishing another, if you will.

And it's just this, I don't know, malicious arrogance to the whole thing. From the very beginning, to be treated in that way, and for such treatment to be institutionalised and officially accepted, even encouraged, as the price to pay for the privilege of being allowed to enter the country? After a while anyone with any pride at all is forced to consider whether America is such a shining utopia to be worth rolling the dice every time you dare to try and get into the place. And as countries like India and China grow in wealth and stature, the pride of their citizens rises too.

But it's not just the risk of drawing the short straw on the "your name reminds us of something" list, every single visitor faces invasive biometric ID procedures to be kept for god knows how long, shared with god knows who, and used for god knows what purpose.

I am an Australian citizen from birth (a country which is a longtime ally of the USA and actually the only country who has fought alongside her in every war for a century), non religious, educated and of sufficient means. If I want to enter the US I face being photographed and my fingerprints taken like a common criminal. Jokes about convict ancestry aside - do you have any idea what kind of message that sends?

Whatever the intention is, I understand it as meaning that foreigners are not wanted in the USA, and I'm happy to oblige. You might think that sounds ridiculous and childish, taking such an impersonal message personally and all that, but think about it. Would you choose to visit a country that treats you like that, all other things being equal, which they pretty much are?
All companies are valued entirely based on what other people think they are worth. See also: the stock market.
Ask HN: Why are patent holders allowed to sue years after their patent was infringed upon?
It's obvious that patent holders/trolls wait until their infringed-upon patent becomes profitable before they decide to sue the companies that made it profitable. Why is this allowed to happen? Shouldn't the patent holder be responsible for defending their patent as soon as they know that it is being violated? It seems we would have less problems with patent-trolling if the prize at the end of lawsuit wasn't so big.
Is this really something of interest to Hacker News? It sounds more like political flamebait to me.
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You just have to deal with it. People _will_ get offended.

Being several (quite a lot of) orders of magnitude less influential than TC (and you), I try hard not to deal with it. I will invariably offend a more or less constant portion of my readership every article I write. I try to be as fair and as truthful as I can and, if that offends, say, 10% of my readers, so be it. There is nothing more I could do without compromising my own integrity.

And that is far more important than how many people I may offend.
There's a really nice Gizmodo hands on too:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5162584/always-innovating-touch-book-is...

Curious, is this the fabled TC tablet? or is this just another company who decides to make this?

I really like this concept of a dockable keyboard. I wonder if they/3rd parties will offer a way to dock separately. I'd like some kind of charging base to dock it on, so I could have it set up at eye height and use a bluetooth/etc keyboard.

I already have an acer aspire one - the touchscreen is not something I care too much for personally, but I am still curious and who knows, maybe I'll grow to enjoy it.
Hm... Take this as a suggestion/loud thinking rather than criticism:

Generally I don't experience the lack of results, i.e. mixing up flickr, wikipedia and usual google's output isn't appealing to me. For instance I can always force wikipedia results by adding "wiki" at the end of my search. Same with youtube, etc.

The issue I'd like someone else to solve is the opposite: show me LESS instead of more. Oftentimes my search strings look painfully long, only because I'm trying to filter stuff out. A typical example would be googling for anything purchasable: fake review sites, web stores and commercialized "blogs"/linkfarms are all good at playing this game, and finding a real PHPbb form where photography people are talking about a particular lens or a monitor is becoming harder and harder. The same goes for bicycling equipment, computers, nearly everything. The only searches I find satisfying are mostly about history/wikipedia/programming/science.

Google isn't interested at solving this problem: their business depends on merchants being happy, whereas users don't need 2 pages of full of buy now!! offers staring at them after every search query.

Basically I want more intelligent version of typing:
"high quality LCD -buy -price -cnet -bargain"
Obviously quite a few people, especially on Hacker News. Mr. Arrington is clearly a polarizing figure and if you wish to see him marginalized I would advise you to refrain from posting comments such as this one - It only fuels the fire.
That scenario is not likely to happen because the same Facebook users are also members of other social networks. It is not as if you are Facebook user, you won't have an affair with Brightkite.

Ultimately Facebook will end up being two simple things: the biggest address book (maybe) and the biggest photo sharing site.

Everything else will go on to sites that specialize in one area. Users will go to Twitter to share links and update their status, they will use Gmail for messaging, I'll keep using HN for Discovery and not the FaceFeed etc...
Skittles obviously thinks that mere mentions of Skittles is effective brand-building. I do, however, dispute that mentions are very useful except as a stunt. And surely at some point the association of Skittles with racism, vomiting, etc. doesn't constitute "brand building" in the least.
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Maybe you could help me out?

Sure, there are plenty of other forums where people encourage your sort of discussion. Go away.
I'd like a screen that resize correctly on a Mac, a car that gets 100MPG, and I want women to love me NOT for my great looks.

Not interesting problems to solve? Probably because they don't directly affect you. Find something that MATTERS TO YOU and solve that....oh, and don't give up after only a week of brainstorming.
If you've ever watched Jerry Springer/Ricki Lake/Montel Williams etc, I think the phenomenon is expressed something like:

Audience member: "You should have done X"

Messed up person on stage: "You don't know me! You don't know me! <Louder> You don't know me! You don't know!"
I actually think we should increase the rate. Double it. Triple it, even. There will need to be a concommitent infrastructure investment but with that, no problem.

This should be a time of amazing opportunity to absorb the talent leaving other countries.