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I'm always wondering when Google will do their first stock split? Anyone care to predict?

I'm predicting never since I remember hearing that the founders looked up to Warran Buffet, and his company Berkshire Hathaway has never done a stock split (price is ~90K per share IIRC)

I don't remember the philosophy behind that though.
downvoted?!
> sad but true

BS. The "it's not what you know, it's who you know" maxim may be true, but it's myopic. Who you know is, to a great degree, a function of what you know. I consider myself well-connected for someone my age, but I didn't get that way through luck or through family ties. I did it by studying interesting problems and thereby meeting smart people who otherwise would not have given me the time of day.
It runs easily on personal computers, and because the development costs were low, it's cheap. So I was trying to compete on price and accessibility.
I know nothing about CLISP, but you might want to switch to a Unix platform just because the Unix ports are probably better maintained. If there's actually a character encoding bug, it could go for months without being fixed under Windows.
Ha. But still, 10GB of text is an insanely large number of emails-- more than any person could possibly read. Unless you're getting huge attachments or hundreds of thousands of emails, I don't see 10GB being a limit for many, many years.
speaking of which, yahoo's latest additions to its search are pretty impressive, i must say.

their front page is still a bit messy for my taste, but they've really upped the ante for google in ways that no other search engine i've seen thus far has.
Yeah sorry rokhayakebe you're way off. Try following your own advice if you like but good luck pal!
"I know a lot of investors who invest in something because they "need a play in that market sector" or because "they like to follow xyz investors in deals" or because "it's a hot company, we'll make a lot of money on this one".

To my mind, those are not great reasons to have someone invest in your company. When things go awry, and they always do, those kind of investors are not likely to hunker down with you and figure out how to solve whatever problems you are facing."

such a great point.
That may have been the point.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3930
haha quantum physics may as well be chinese to me. the only explanation that has ever made the least bit of sense is that cartoon with the old man super hero talking about light particles.
Inquiry into health risks of wi-fi in classrooms
I think more interactivity would help. Viewers could have more influence on lifecasters.
sounds exciting - let me know if you want any advice (petesmithy82 at gmail)
Nice movie plot for Jet Li perhaps, but they don't actually explain how to kill yourself in all universes. So, unless you're a cat or Solid Snake, you can get out of that box now.
How did the buxfers stay in the US before they got their H1Bs?
"there are limitations to how fast you can recruit people"

Imagine how difficult it will become once the stock stabilizes and options go under water.

The best hackers will go to startups with some real upside (if it isn't happening already).
Peak wind != peak demand.

That's all you really need to know to realize this is a storage and distribution problem.

Nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas, geothermal, hydro --- all the ways we currently make power are always available.
>Universes do not split like that. That would mean many universes were being created from nothing every instant. What actually happens is there are already infinitely many "universes" and they become different. And not one per outcome, but in proportion to the probability of outcomes.

It's not the writers of the article who have no clue. It's quantum physicists themselves.

In the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, a conscious observer induces wave collapse (a random process). In this interpretation, there are no other worlds. In Wave Collapse/Many Worlds, a parallel universe is created in which wave collapse occured but gave a different outcome.

There are different interpretations of QM (e.g. bohmian mechanics or GRW/stochastic collapse) which don't have this problem. If you are interested in QM, I strongly suggest looking these theories up. But Copenhagen QM (the theory in most textbooks) does have this problem.

The reporter did an adequate job of explaining the consensus view. The problem is really that the consensus view can allow for nonsense such as what was described in the article.
Well, your comment was almost completely content-free. Perhaps a down-mod is unjustified, but why bother posting the comment in the first place?
In Wave Collapse/Many Worlds, a parallel universe is created in which wave collapse occured but gave a different outcome.

That is incorrect. Many Worlds does not say universes are created all the time, it says they already exist and become differentiated.

BTW all the other interpretations are ridiculous attempts to avoid facing counter-intuitive facts. See, for example, David Deutsch's speech at the recent Everett conference http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/everett/Deutsch%20-%20Ap...
Yes, I hope they open an API soon! I want to create some JTV widgets for my channel!

Besides being used to broadcast your life this could be used with some development for video conferencing or group video chat. Video Skype through a browser.

I embedded my friends Ustream video into my JTV channel and we were able to have a conversation, albeit an extremely delayed one.

Congrats on the article Justin!
J.TV & YC's PR skills are awesome. pg, who does PR for YC companies these days? How do you guys manage to get into these amazing publications?
> Paul Graham/Ycombinator weren't interested, so I gave up on trying to sell it.

They can't take every idea, even when they are good ones.

I like your idea, if you could make it more of a turn key system.

I believe the customer would want a photograph of the vehicle, the license plate (in plain text), and time/date, and statistics on how many autos an hour/day/month pass by to add extra value.

It could be sold to gas stations or even city governments for deployment in high crime areas.

It would compliment video tape / dvr systems. If you can get the price below $1,000 then it would be affordable to security conscious companies. It would have to be automated, and be a server so the company can login and view the data.
A very nice development for SF. There does seem to be a growing trend of programmers wanting to live in SF. The downside is that they then typically have to commute south - thats been the case for the very large fleet of wifi enabled Google buses for a while. (Which the new Google office solves). Apple is about to launch their own fleet of buses to get their SF dwelling programmers down south too.

I must admit, the Apple headquarters campus is a very unattractive set of buildings, especially given Steve Jobs as CEO . (Although I think the building program was done before his return.) It would be nice if Jobs decides that living in style is as important as computing with style, and moved the HQ into one of the many rising towers in the City. The more hackers in SF, the better. :)
I had a real hard time building an HTPC quiet enough to use for movies and music. The real problem is that graphics cards powerful enough to decode H.264 for 1080p material usually have big, loud fans.

nVidia recently started incorporating HDCP and onboard H.264 decoding on their low-cost 8500 and 8600 graphics cards which is a huge relief. Some companies such as Gigabyte even make completely fan-less versions of these cards for <$200.

Now if blu-ray drives would just come down in price I'll be set :)
Encouraging and amusing PG comment from last cycle about the odds of being accepted
in what world is exactly not allowed to show your enthousiam? and what is content-free anyways?

is there a law i must always contribute 2 million paragraphs to show my opinion?
I'm working pretty hard this weekend, but I'd be up for a beer on Sunday evening. Where will you be in the City?

For a funky restaurant (before the beer) in North Beach, you can try the "Stinking Rose" where food is added as seasoning to the garlic. It's a bit touristy (because it has been so successful), but definitely an experience to remember and the food tastes good. Beware of the garlic ice cream though :). If you like sushi, the best sushi I've had outside of Japan is at Ebisu at 9th Avenue between Irving & Lincoln (Right off Golden Gate Park). They don't take reservations, so be prepared to wait in line to get in - its definitely worth it.

Another less expensive but extremely authentic restaurant is the Canton Seafood & Dim Sum Restaurant in the heart of SOMA (1 block from my office at 655 Folsom). If you know Dim Sum (where food is carted around and you choose what you like when you see it) theirs is hard to beat. As good as in Hong Kong. This also locates you in the heart of the technology center in SF, and you can check out all the highrises springing up on this side of Market.

To really dial in the perfect place given the genre of food and price and location and atmosphere that you want, go for http://www.zagat.com/ . (I think we have more restaurants here per capita than anywhere else in the US)

What mode of transport will you have during the day? (To give you some ideas on what to do)
I believe the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" show has been alerted and are on there way to the YScraper to give everyone there makeovers.
Facebook Has LinkedIn In Their Crosshairs
Perhaps it is just because what Justin.tv is doing is innovative? They were featured on the Today Show early on as well.
Banks May Pool Billions to Stop Securities Sell-off
Military proposes $20B power satellite to shorten logistical tail.
Points for Discussion:

1. Too bad this wasn't proposed in the seventies. Justification for a long-lasting commitment to building orbital infrastructure is just what the space program needed back then.

2. Is it better to have a semi-competent, underfunded, civilian space program, or a semi-competent, overfunded, military space program?

3. Isn't it neat to think that somewhere out there, somebody's "running a startup" with a nine-figure budget?
It's not that you're not allowed to show "enthousiam"; the point is that you might get downmodded if your comment doesn't contribute anything meaningful to the discussion. Expressing your opinion is all well and good, but why post a comment if you don't have anything interesting to say?

(And IMHO whining about downmodding doesn't exactly help your case.)
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"From the lack of authentication I would guess that they don't call it directly from the client"

I don't see how lack of authentication has anything to do with requests coming directly from the client.

Do you make people authenticate before they can read your website?
It isn't the same amount of fuel. If the car's engine is going to power something else besides the car, it is going to have to work harder.

Imagine the car is running in a vacuum and gets 30MPG. Now, add normal air resistance. It will not get 30MPG anymore. Now, add something else that further increases wind resistance. The car will get even fewer miles per gallon.
Facebook Fanboys - Arrington/Calacanis: "Building Facebook-only apps is suicide"
Ruby Matters: Contracts vs. Promises
In teaching Ruby to Java developers, two things seem to shock and annoy developers: open classes and the lack of interfaces. Because Java developers are inundated with interfaces, it's hard to imagine a language whose libraries are strictly defined in this manner.
All-You-Can-Eat IT Service for Small Businesses
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OK, great. Our flight back is at SFO at 11PM so ideally we could meet at 7PM or earlier. Did you have any spots in mind?
The question, though, is how does one add API calls to Justin, and, more importantly, Justine...this is not a trivial FFI problem.
We don't have a PR firm and I don't think J.TV does either. They're just doing something colorful.
<i>That is incorrect. Many Worlds does not say universes are created all the time, it says they already exist and become differentiated.</i>

Actually there's no real consensus on that point, even among many-worlds theorists. Some folks suggest that universes "split", others suggest that they "become differentiated", and a third set of folks say that they do something which isn't really properly described by either of the above options. Deutsch has one of the more widely publicised many-worlds interpretations, but it's not the only one out there, and it's not necessarily the most widely accepted.
search.yahoo.com is the equivalent of www.google.com .

www.yahoo.com is a portal page with a search box.
Not to sound curmudgeonly, but this is a completely useless blog post.

He's essentially saying, "To submit your executive summary, just submit your executive summary, though it's better if you have a mutual friend with the person to whom you're submitting the summary." What's non-obvious about any of this?
We are staying near the Presidio on Lombard street... I get the impression there isn't a whole lot to do around there, so we'll probably be elsewhere in the city though I have nowhere in particular I need to be on Sunday evening. We have no transportation other than public transportation and cabs (not 25 yet to rent a car) which hopefully works out.

Thanks for the food recommendations, I love Asian food and forgot that San Francisco is one of the best places for it. Will probably hit up Ebisu and the Dim Sum place. Ebisu actually seems extremely reasonably priced based on how much good sushi goes for in Pittsburgh.
I don't really care what views are popular, (though MWI is popular among top experts to whom it matters), I care which views are true. So what matters to me is which proponents say things that make sense and give good explanations and arguments. Deutsch does, including a powerful and concise argument in chapter 2 of his book. When someone gives a reasonable counter argument then I will reconsider, but that has not happened.

And, of course, Deutsch isn't the only example of the MWI side making more sense. Here is another source:

http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm

Edit: If you can give a non-ridiculous summary of any other interpretation, go ahead...
It's really frustrating to have spent all this time polishing and refining our site for the last 2 weeks nearly non-stop to have them poop out on us like this. Literally hours after submitting our application for review, and more than likely, seriously affecting our prospects of being accepted.

If I were a more religious man, I might think it to be divine.
You don't sound like you have enough nerd pride.
"... The worse times got economically, the later the age tended to be. ..."

I'm not sure how true this statement is. How for instance does it explain the late marrying trend today where many indexes of wealth are very high. [0] In Australia at least scores of women (and men) are delaying marriage so the age over the last 20 or so years has been on a steady incline. [1]

Australia is by any standards an increasingly wealthy country as evidenced by the close to parity AUS dollar to the greenback and the resources boom triggered by the growth of China and India.

A simpler answer might be the array of choice women have, more schooling, travel, careers. Though I can't help but think factors such as high cost of education, very high cost of housing and wealth re-distribution might have some effect as you suggest. [2]

[0] ABS, Measures of Australian progress, 2006, http://144.53.252.30/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/39433889d406eeb9ca257...

[1] ABS, Marriages, Australia, 2006, Age at marriage, Median Age at Marriage, http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/3306.0.55.001/

[2] ABC, Research finds skewed distribution of wealth in Australia, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2004/s1093582.htm
"... feedback wanted ..."

I'm one of those outlying data points with dodgey flash. Is it possible to show a static page if the flash applet fails?
From the report: "a single kilometer-wide band of geosynchronous earth orbit experiences enough solar flux in one year to nearly equal the amount of energy contained within all known recoverable conventional oil reserves on Earth today." Damn.
hmm...

http://www.zombo.com/~miyoteen/
what I looser I am, here it is ~ http://www.zombo.com/frames/frames.htm
Breaking: Know why they're not doing the next round in Boston...?
Becuase the Indians are going to beat the Red Sox, and pg & co. don't want to hang their heads in shame.

:-)

(And not that I'm really a sports fan, but I do currently live in the Cleveland area.)
My thinking is they would open their platform to the developer community. Like Facebook and Joost, for example.
That would put you right near the Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/ which you might find very interesting and unlike anything you've ever seen.

I highly recommend a cable car ride while you're here, especially up some of the vertiginous streets in the City.

From Ebisu, you can catch the N-Judah light-rail street car at the corner of 9th and Irving (designed by Porsche - converts to a subway when you get downtown) for 1.50, and then get off at Powell Street station. Be sure to get on the train heading downtown (toward the lower numbered streets).

From the Powell station you can head up Market and turn right on Fourth to go up to the top of the Marriott Marquis http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sfodt-san-francisco-ma... and hang out at "The View" lounge on top, and/or head over to the Metreon http://westfield.com/metreon/ at Mission, a very interesting place with a great urban plaza with huge waterfall fountain on the north side and inspiring views of the City. Also on display there now is "Da Vinci - an Exhibition of Genius" http://www.davincithegenius.com/sanfran.html and they also have a huge IMax and theaters and strange arcade games, etc, with a Sony store, etc.

On the other side of Market from Powell up 2 blocks from the Cable Car turn-around is Union Square, the heart of retail on the West Coast which is definitely worth seeing. If you are there during the day time, there is a great Frank Lloyd Wright building at 140 Maiden Lane right off Union Square - it served as Wright's experiment with a spiral ramp with central space that influenced his design of the Guggenheim in NYC. It is the building that is all brick except for an arched glass entry.

And finally, one of the most inspiring interior spaces in SF is at the Hyatt Regency at Market and the Embarcadero. If we meet up, maybe I'll drive you up to Twin Peaks - the ultimate view of San Francisco and the surronding Bay.

I'll email you my cell number if you want to meet up once you reach the Powell station (a few blocks from my office) Have a great time :)
"... You're diluting news.yc, man ..."

How?

Value is also derived from a variety of interesting articles like this one. This article is interesting because the understanding of humans is a superset of understanding startups. Plus it's pretty interesting to know how "minds" work.

"... What makes yc news /valuable/ is that it's not diluted with off-topic stuff ..."

Given your "Ad hominem" approach to discussion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem ) limited contribution ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=queensnake ) I suggest you take the advice of the previous poster. This site was "news.yc", now "HackerNews".

By the way. As a point of style

- use spaces b/w lines to achieve html "p" tags http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=67371
Don't forget YEurope.

Apparently, Hacker News user "enki" started this one if I'm not mistaken.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=enki
"... This does not make any mention of Nokia's mobile content push. ..."

Also the way Nokia is opening up their toolset by choosing open source tools. As new tools are developed, ported (cite Mozilla coming to the N800) users will be able to take full advantage of this.

The killer in my view is the restrictions on usage. Not everyone wants to use one service provider. While Nokia can still slip-up, using open tools and not tying users to one telco drives down cost and hurts Apple in the market.
have you actually worn a tie to work to be different? did it work for you?
Or not,

but because the medium is perfectly suited to Mr. Warhol's taste..."I like boring things," he once wrote

I guess the site might make its millions by stroking people's vanity (which is why I suggested a while back to rename it to something that doesn't so obviously stroke someone else's vanity, viz, Justin Kan), but it's so wrist-cuttingly dull I don't even want to think about it. I really hope it was more than high costs that marginalized Cinema verite so many years ago--perhaps that viewers want something more than voyeurism.
Some things that are technical possible and even cool are still "evil". I realize someone is probably going to do them any way, but it's sure as hell not going to be me.

This thing would be a great bomb trigger too by the way.
Whoops, Can't make it this Monday (I'll be in San Jose unfortunately), but for future dates let me know.
Some of the many worlds variants make sense. I prefer bohmian mechanics (I can reason about it better), but I have no objection to MW. Ultimately I don't care one way or the other: the predictions for MY universe are the same, whether or not it is unique or one amoung many.

However, the point I was making is that most physicists believe in wave collapse. The writer of the article was simply providing a reasonably good summary of QM with wave collapse. According to Q1 of your article, this is still a mainstream belief except amoung string theorists, apparently. I agree, it's almost certainly wrong. But that's not yet a mainstream position.

As for other non-ridiculous interpretations, just look at bohmian mechanics or GRW. Bohmian mechanics postulates that particles exist and are guided by the wave function. The testable physical predictions are identical to many worlds. GRW makes different physical predictions (possibly testable in the near future), but the theory makes sense as well.
Right, but could this type of small-scale generator partially alleviate the distribution problem? I think that's one of the main points of this invention...
I suggest heading into GGPark, the de Young Museum has free jazz at it's cafe (2pm)Angela Wellman's New Roots
http://www.sfstation.com/calendar/san-francisco/golden-gate-...
Steve's Ebisu, make sure you order the dragon and 49er roll, to live for.
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Did you know that superconducting power lines are commercially feasible, right now, for high capacity lines? Negawatt proposals account for a large part of the problem, if you make distribution efficient. And it can be made very efficient using superconducting lines.

For the brief periods where the world's overall wind production is low, if wind ever takes over most of the grid (it probably won't, considering the political dynamics), there is already a very effective storage technology -- liquid hydrogen. It has a practically limitless capacity (just add more tanks), and it avoids the toxicity problem of batteries, and it avoids the materials problem of fuel cells (still, nobody has found something cheap to replace platinum.)
Netflix says:  Outsourcing is For Quitters
When every other company is outsourcing or offshoring everything (especially call centers) Netflix opens up a call center in...Oregon? It makes you wonder how necessary it is for other companies when an internet-based company can keep it in the States.
haha, my girlfriend would beg to differ
I'm sorry. It's a bad habit to engage like this. Brings everything down to a bad level. I should know better. :-/
I meant the real deal in the sense of supplanting fossil fuels and/or nuclear power with regards to cost efficiency.

Dani seems to think that it is the real deal, and I hope that the Illuminati doesn't make the patent holder an offer he can't refuse.