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It's also not just volume, Apple has an impressive margin on the iPhone and the other companies are selling commodity phones on paper thin margins, lets look at total profit and see why people are buying Apple stock and dumping Nokia & Motorola.
Because the pc game market has always been a smaller crowd than the console market, console is a cheaper solution as well as an established solution.

You won't ever see a release like halo 2 or halo 3 for a pc game because not everyone has a grand to drop on a computer than can play something somewhat well for a couple years.

Sure their is a separate online market for the pc but xboxlive and playstation network keep getting closer and closer.
It's not a game console. It's a set-top computer. Set-top and mobile are two of the major computing land grabs of the past decade.
That the LLC form is really 1 page and 1 follow-up form. This will cost < $100 in total if you spend 10 minutes googling how to do it. (I'm not a lawyer, but this is what I know)

1. LLC FAQ
http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/llc/llc_faq.htm

2. LLC Form (1 pg)
http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/bpd_forms.htm (search for LLC-1) — $70

When you get approved, you will need to submit a Statement of Information which costs $20.

3. If you don't make money you can waive the first year's min. franchise tax of $800.

4. Lawyers will usually help you for free if you are starting a legit business, but it will be costly (we just got a bill for $10k for starting up our s-corp).

5. Good luck!
I enjoyed the line "Sometimes, it's important to wake up and stop dreaming."

I think is a nice balance to all the advice you get about "dreaming big" at commencement speeches. Dreaming big is only good if you have the motivation to accomplish those dreams.
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The tax code is only complicated because of the people exploiting the loopholes. Way back in the beginning, it used to be ridiculously simple: you pay X% of your income. But then, people began arguing over what income was. And that's when it started getting complicated.
On the other hand, adding a few explicit lessons on mental 3d rotation at the start of some university's chemistry (organic? - I can't remember) significantly narrowed a male/female performance gap.
I've recommended this on HN before. xPad is woefully lacking in some ways (e.g you can't even search your notes) but it gets some important basics very right, and as a result, find myself unable to part with it. To quote myself:

"The simple magic for me is that you can just Cmd-N and start typing, and then when you're done, Cmd-R to rename/title it. No saving, obviously, but also no shift-tab or clicking in a title field. There's also a services menu shortcut for clippings: Cmd-Shift-X.

Contrast with Yojimbo (and many others), where a new note defaults to the title field. You have to either press enter twice or tab three times just to get the cursor to the note field. Even the "Quick Input" panel asks you for a title and tags first."

Whether it is the best for you depends heavily on how you take notes, but if all you want is a simple frictionless notebook with RTFD pages, it's worth looking at.
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> Computer vision is a subfield of AI...

One that isn't close to being to process images the way rats can.

> Robots can run, and running has nothing to do with consciousness.

An animal can learn a new gait if it loses a leg. As far as I'm aware, no robot can do that. I was giving examples of what mice can do, not of consciousness.

> You've totally missed the point of the Chinese Room [...]

Good point. Good things I dropped the philosophy major :)

> The only limit on the speed of computation is the speed of light (and the physical size of the universe limits parallelization).

Also, our architecture. The point I've heard Searle argue (not the Chinese Room, I guess) is that the computers we build now don't have an architecture are as likely to simulate consciousness, given the constraints of the universe, as a convoluted system of telegraphs.

Unless you can explain to me why no such deconstruction is possible, I have no reason to accept that deciding is not computation. In other words, if it's not computation, then what is it?

Let me give my point another shot - deconstruction of consciousness is possible, but not in a way which can be simulated by our current machine architecture.

It'll be a DFA, just like all current computers.

Do you suppose a brain is a DFA? Which do you suppose has more states - all of the computers in the world, or a single mouse brain?
Because they recognized that the most efficient way to collect taxes is by automatic withholding, which keeps the size of the IRS smaller than it would otherwise be.
Our current system keeps the audit portion the same size as it would be in the non-automatic system, but cuts out most of the collection-side bulk (which would be HUGE in a manual system)..
I don't know. We don't ask.
I no longer have any idea what you're talking about.
Of course it won't. It will be less powerful, because Turing machines have infinite memory and the universe is finite.

Aside - another place we disagree - how do you define "less powerful"? If you mean to say that a Turing machine can simulate a brain, I am not necessarily convinced...
I've moved to their sister product/company Mosso by Rackspace. It's about half the price & billed per hour... but bandwidth is not included. Bandwidth is billed based on usage ... and for low-traffic/new apps, that's a better deal.
This is a mine-field, and personally I think you can't win, you can't break even, and you have to play the game.

In my experience women programmers are treated very well. However, there's a school of thought that being treated well is being treated differently, and that's what some find so off-putting.

I've seen a woman programmer turn up at a meeting and have someone bustle over and say "Gosh, hi, welcome! Nice to see you!" In contrast, everyone else is given a generic "Hi!" and then ignored until they join in. It's that different treatment that can irritate.

Something I've heard is "Why can't I just be treated like everyone else?"

Perhaps treating everyone very well should be the norm. Too much to hope for, methinks.
Submission upvoted because it is an interesting issue, particularly to me as a second-language user of Chinese. But I'm appalled at the choice of commentators by the New York Times. I wish they had asked someone with some real expertise on the subject, like William Boltz

http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/people/faculty/boltzwm.h...

or James Unger

https://pro.osu.edu/profiles/unger.26/

or some still living student of the late John DeFrancis.

A linguist would quibble, of course, that strictly speaking the writing system is not "the Chinese language" at all, because people use language whether or not they are literate, and indeed whether or not the language they speak has a writing system. What is desirable in a writing system is mostly efficiency, but what is usually preserved in a writing system is precisely it's most arbitrary and least efficient features, as it is passed culturally from generation to generation.
Compliance is easy, unless you're trying to hide your income. Pay X% of your total gross income for the year. Subtract the standard deduction (which is fixed every year). Subtract state income taxes, if any.

Done. What's so hard about that?

The tax code is only complicated for people who choose to make it complicated.
Indeed. A year ago, Microsoft's stock was around 30$/share, and then this past year fell to low of about 15$/share. I don't think anyone said anything about Bill Gates losing almost half of his net worth (which is presumably still mostly in stock).
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I am surprised you haven't gotten -28 points for this response. HN used to be better than this. The death of Flash is critical to survival of the web as we know it.

I don't know why but reading this made me laugh out loud.
Taxation is about funding the government. It doesn't give a rat's ass about "controlling aggregate demand for dollars".

Remember dude, EVERY CIVILIZATION HAS HAD TAXES. Rome had taxes. Ancient Mesopotamia had taxes. TAX PREDATE AMERICA. Tax predate fiat currency. Ergo, taxes are not about controlling the money supply.
Their beautiful copy/paste ready articles and fantastic support in their Campfire chat room is what sold me when I started with them. Recently, I moved over to Mosso.
xpad is great, but i think it is no longer under development (which is why the author changed it from for pay to freeware).
The problem here is that "default deny" means merchants are constantly chasing after Amex to actually get money owed them - disputes are a particular hassle for Amex as compared to Visa/MasterCard. Besides which, merchant costs are higher with Amex. In Australia at least it's the exception now to support Amex and additional fees are charged by the merchant to cover these hassles.
Beware that a lot of networking events take place in 21+ places (read: bars) so that may or may not be a problem.

You're planning ahead a lot more than most kids that move to SF for a summer. Most end up homeless on haight street before calling their parents for a ticket home (I've hosted two separate street kids who moved here with starry eyes and ended up on the street before they went home...) -- so kudos for planning ahead a bit more than them :)

I moved here with $7,000 + a $2,000/month contract gig and settled in nicely. You're cutting it close, but it's possible. My $0.02x4:

(a) It's possible once you have the network and people who will vouch for your skills. Be aware that CL is full of red herrings; people are not hiring as many contractors in the downturn, but it still happens. Expect to see far less C++ than RoR/python/PHP.

(b) It will be challenging, mentally and physically, but it's possible if you're strategic about it. $700 can get you a sublet __if_you_look_long_and_hard__, but $100 for food is tough. You probably won't have much of a kitchen to prepare your own food. When I went through YCombinator I lived off of Vietnamese sandwiches and Dim Sum for days at a time; you'll get sick of it but $3 sandwiches and $4 for a plate of dim sum is hard to beat. $7 mission burritos are also a good bet, El Farolito's has burritos that'll easily feed you for a whole day.

c) SF is going to be cold during the summer. You should have been able to find this out, it's no longer 1968 ;)

e) You're in high school, you get to be crazy. :)
"I do wince and get bummed out whenever I read certain comments here, [...] but even when things make me sad..."

Does reading comments you think are misguided make you sad? I feel like there's an interesting academic study in here somewhere.

edit: If the parent comment was made by a guy, would I still be getting downmodded?
It's true that the best person to choose the solution is the one implementing it. But what if many people are implementing it? When you're choosing a corporate database that a large IT staff will be developing against, there is no one person closest to the problem, so the decision goes up the ladder.
Well, quite frankly, I'm glad YC look at other criteria. Positive discrimination is a terrible thing. Imagine being a woman funded by an investor making an effort to focus on female-led startups. The world knows you were only funded because of your chromosomes. Self-esteem is a big enough problem as it is!
Yeah, Any day now people are are going to realize that you can plug a 360 into a monitor, add a keyboard and mouse, and with a good web browser have access to a set of office apps (thanks Goggle) and, well... the internet.

The kids will love it because it has all the coolest games, the mums and dads will love it because it's cheap and only needs upgrading every 5 years.

I can only assume Microsoft is not pushing it because of antitrust issues. I imagine people would freak with Microsoft dominating both hardware and software.
"I do wince and get bummed out whenever I read certain comments here..."

I used to. I don't anymore.

My (totally illogical) belief system regarding hn comments:

If we agree, then I think, "Great! I'm on the right track."

If not, then I think, "They just don't understand (yet)."

May not really make sense, but I always leave hn feeling better, never worse.
Exactly. It's little things like the "Hi" above, or like having to bludgeon people with geek talk because - despite your thinkgeek t-shirt and dubious personal hygiene - they still think you're in Marketing.
This "problem" seems like a major feature to me.
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Yelp (or Qype/Citysearch/TrustedPlaces/Tipped etc.) are not deliberately misleading their users, but fundamentally they’re all broken, the foundations on which they’re built are unsound.
Who said "instead of"?
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I'm female on the internet.
I can think of two small targeted communities that had a pretty good m/f ratio.. Probably only <3000 members each though. Neither of which exist anymore.
One was targeted by location/religion/age -- and the other was kind of similar. So hitting a small niche - High School aged Buddhists in Iowa - means that you identify nicely with the niche whether you are male or female.

EDIT: Just remembered a site I stumbled upon one time.. Don't know the full details but seems to be pretty evenly split: http://www.themarriagebed.com/boards/
Tough metric to measure, but talking about the top 3% of wealth without looking at their power and/or influence is meaningless.
Accepting long passwords may mislead people to use passphrases, the first 8 characters of which are very vulnerable to a dictionary attack. If you're only going to consider the first 8 characters, you should make it impossible to type more than 8 characters on the entry form.
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Fogbugz often has fairly sensitive info. All our bug reports are in it, including attached data files & snippits of source code. Often customer names are in it, and sometimes customer data files. So it does matter.
Also forgot to mention, you can do the opposite with:

"2n9c".to_i(36) #=> 123456
The pleasure experienced while consuming products that happen to contain caffeine is a beneficial effect, no matter what the study says.
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I think the reality is that Microsoft needs to not lose money and mindshare to Nintendo and Sony. If Microsoft didn't have a console, then people would write games for the Wii and PS3, not for Windows. Microsoft would get nothing in that case.

Also, since Microsoft controls the APIs for the Xbox 360 and for Windows, they can ensure that an Xbox 360 game is "just a recompile away" from being a Windows game. Then they kill Apple, Sony, and Nintendo all at once.

Finally, who wants to play video games at their desk when they can play on their couch instead?
This is a pretty poor example of "same underlying structure" - you have to glue together two different models and the whole curve fitting is approximate anyways. If you want a good example of math that pops everywhere, look at the normal distribution, or a Poisson distribution.
i believe tolerance and respect require concerted attention to counteract cultural ignorance and bias. treating differences with equality is not about not caring or not thinking about differences--many racial and gender prejudices result from not questioning or investigating preconceived notions. it takes work to sufficiently care about ones interactions with others and thus conscientiously react to and surmount differences.

it may be that you know as many or more female hackers, founders and entrepreneurs as male, and that your cultural norm is completely surprised by the notion of gender inequality in this context. in that case: cool. your experience validates the irrelevance of gender in these roles.

or it may be that you are ignorant to inequality. whenever i want to blurt out "who cares" or "why do people care", i try to stop and think about other people's perspectives. i guess the short answer is: equality is often useful.
Flash has the same problem as IE -- nobody upgrades it

I know someone else replied to this, but just had to add my 2 cents here. This is in fact flash's biggest advantage: how quickly they are able to push new versions out to 98% install penetration.
The only cross-platform development environment in the world which has the luxury to consistently push out new features on a yearly basis. As long as there are new features to be pushed flash will have a space. Though that is a question, what is left? They are running out. Perhaps hardware accelerated 3d.
specious reasoning. you're assuming that our current economic system is similar to other economic systems. our economy (bretton woods) is an massive experiment with no historical precedent.
My guess is that some of the various Yahoo! communities are pretty well balanced (certain mailing lists, flickr groups, etc.), but I don't participate in any of them so I have no idea.
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In fact, 3% may be about the number of people who put most of their effort into making a lot of money rather than, say, doing work they enjoy or having a life.

The bulge around the average is because you need at least an average income to have a regular life, raise kids, etc. Many people work just hard enough to have an average standard of living.
Attentiveness to fashion is a cultural difference, not a gender difference. "Celebrating" the gender gap in engineering is a very bad idea.
Ask HN: Printing every post from a blog
There are a few blogs that I recently started subscribing to and I'd like to go back and read everything that's been written since the sites began. I'd like to be able to print them so that I can mark them up as I go through them. The problem is that some have several years worth of posts and I don't see a way to do it without going page by page through the archives and clicking Print on each one.

Is there an easy way to gather all the old posts so that I can hit Print once and be done with it?
Trauma medicine, race car engines, and lasers. What kid under 10 wouldn't be totally into those?
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Gaming by and large is dominated by casual games which do not require these "thousand dollar machines" (which outside of the true "enthusiasts" I doubt people are really buying anyway.)

Most everyone has a computer, and I'm sure anyone that has used a computer has discovered solitaire.

As for being established: I remember getting a CD full of shareware games around the same time I was playing games on the NES. Consoles and PCs have largely matured together and there is quite a bit of shared development.
I was also at his speech. He had a few good moments, but Sergey is definitely the better public speaker of the two. Larry was a bit awkward.

Oh well, it felt good to have such a notable alumni speak. Go blue!
This is the best advice so far.

I want to chime in and say DON'T move to the east bay or one of the cheap places on the peninsula. The 'savings' are misleading. There's a good chance you'll spend as much in transport as you'll save in rent.. For example, from downtown Berkeley to 16th and Mission is $3.55 each way. If you go back and forth every day, it's $210/m. Thus if you find a $500/m room in Berkeley but you still go into the city all the time, it's the same as having a $700 room in the Mission. Also, there is little chance of finding a cheaper room in the east bay that is within reasonable walking distance from BART. The east bay is way more spread out and chances are that you'll have to walk quite a ways to get to the BART. In fact I'm going to risk criticism and say that anyplace you find a shared room cheaper than $700 in the east bay is going to be a sketchy neighborhood. YMMV, but the shady parts of berkeley are the only places in the bay area I've ever been mugged or physically threatened by people.

I speak from experience. When I moved here in 2001 I paid $700 for a place in Berkeley, which was about as cheap as it got. I worked on 17th and Harrison in the outer mission. I had to walk almost 30min to get to Ashby BART each way. If something happened late into the evening I'd have to crash on a friend's couch or take a $40 cab ride back to Berkeley cuz the BART stops running at midnight. It mostly sucked.

I don't want to hate on the east bay, it has it's charms. But unless your job and social life is all on that side of the bay, it's better to live in the city. You can definitely find a $700 room somewhere in SF. That's what I paid for a room in the mission until 2006 (then moved into my own place).

Also don't drive here, having a car is a huge expense in SF. My car was paid for and it still cost me around $400/m for parking, gas and parking tickets. You almost always get a virgin america flight from SEA to SFO for $49 if you travel on any day besides friday or sunday.

If I were doing this I'd bring nothing except a backpack with a few clothes (you can buy more stuff here if you need it) and a laptop. Then I'd just float around different cheap places on AirBNB until I figured out what I was doing.
Since Flash is being threatened by Javascript, it looks like Adobe is being forced to band together with another threatened company (Facebook being threatened by Twitter).

I'm on the side of twitter + javascript to win this one - but overall it will make an interesting tag team match.
Simultaneous optimization of multiple functions is impossible in the general case. But if there is one function being optimized, then there is some trade-off being made, so that--to some extent--one parameter is being selected for instead of another.
icsson Xperia X1, Sony Ericsson Idou, HTC Touch Diamond.

Somebody can make a fair claim that the user experience of those phones falls far short of what the iPhone provides. But, if price were no object and/or if I didn't live in North America, there are probably 10 phones I would prefer over the iPhone 3G (not all of them have touch screens). Most of the best phones just aren't available (with 3G) in the US, or they are horrendously expensive because carriers won't subsidize them.
so adobe wrote an officially sanctioned as3 wrapper on the facebook api and published a press release? any half-decent developer can just work with the api directly - this is complete fluff
Ackk... Can't we think for ourselves?

What ever happened to trying to be original? It's fun endeavouring to be interesting in 140 characters or less.
Net zero? No. This proof you have constructed is ridiculous.

Steroids are the same in these regards. Your body builds up a tolerance. When you let your blood levels of the drug drop, your testosterone production is lower than pre-drug.

So these must cancel out right? Heavy steroid users must be the same size as weight lifters who worked as hard without the drugs?
I like Amazon's 5 star rating system because it also tells you how many people gave the product which rating. There's a big difference if 20 people gave a product 3 stars or if 10 gave it 5 stars and 10 gave it 1 star. Amazon's system makes this difference visible, but most others don't.
Absolutely right. LLC is intended to be, and is, very easy to self-file in most, if not all, states. It took me about half an hour to fill out the forms in Texas a few years ago.

Don't waste your money or time on third parties for something so simple. (Corporations are more serious, due to having stock, and you probably ought to have a lawyer involved, so online incorporation services are probably never a great idea.)