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This is kind of silly ...

It's basically just a one-time-pad, with a magical shared pad that can't be intercepted. They just assume away all the problems with OTPs.
Good quote. There is something suspicious about the whole idea, it sounds too much like an economist trying to solve every problem with the same hammer.

But Gary Becker is not a loon. He has a Nobel prize in economics. Before dismissing his ideas it's worth having a very close look at them.
It's just a one time pad with a novel key distribution system, where instead of directly sharing the key, you share the information necessary to extract the key from a random stream. In addition to not introucing any new security advantages, it brings in a potential weakness - what if the source of random numbers isn't as random as the designer thinks? Someone could potentially retrieve the key without having access to the key extraction information...
Wow,

It makes me think of someone who once said "I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet" but in an opposite kind of way.

Actually working half-time at an average programmers' salary sounds great - assuming my current gig goes through. But it also sounds so much better than what these boobs were doing, during the "good times". Awesome.
The site looks absolutely amazing. Tried a free account for now, and I like the overall feel.

One thing I'd love to see: Implement autosave of invoice drafts, or at least a JavaScript popup whenever I try to navigate away from an unsaved form.
I noticed the other day that I am using Google significantly less than I used to. I fulfill my internet needs by either searching direct on wikipedia or finding things on social networking sites, social bookmarking sites. My home page is now this Safari top sites page which I love and helps me avoid Google even further. And when I can't remember a domain, I use a QuickSilver trigger function which lets me search and open up the "I'm feeling lucky" or the number one result on google automatically.

I don't mean to suggest I don't search or that we are moving beyond search but trends in which we are navigating and interacting on the internet are changing.
This is Andrew from MetaLab. I just wanted to say thanks for all the compliments on the design. I hope that you guys will take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

Quoted from cominatchu:
"The 'under 10k' price tag is misleading because it does not include the opportunity cost of the web designers time. In other words, one has to calculate (the hours spent by Metalab web designers * their normal hourly rate) and add this to 10k to arrive at a more accurate cost for building this site."

Yes, we really did build it for less than $10k. Our key expenses were: Rails development (1 developer a few hours a week), a SliceHost server, and some custom icons we hired out. We're planning to break it down in more detail on our blog in the next little while, but I'd like to debunk this a bit here. You're absolutely right about the cost being higher if you consider what it would normally cost at a full consulting rate, but I feel like that's kind of fallacious logic:

If you learnt how to woodwork, built a bookshelf, then told your friends that it cost you $15 (the price of the wood and a couple of screws), they aren't going to argue that the true cost was $500 (the hours spent learning woodworking or a carpenter's rate).

If a founder who was an incredible programmer paid himself $1,000/month during the early months of his startup, would you say that his time really cost the company $15,000 (what he would have charged at a consulting rate)?

The point isn't that someone with no technical skills can do this for 10k (after all, this is Hacker News, and I assume most of you are highly skilled in the field), we're just pointing out that we managed to create a business by pulling a few extra hours a week over 6 months. We didn't have to quit our day jobs, move to the valley, or build a board of advisors - we just went ahead and built it. This isn't to say that it's an especially complex app or that it is some sort of technical feat, just that a little bit of money went a long way.

I don't think taking funding is always bad or anything, especially small seed funding like YC. Sometimes advantageous ideas need money to make them happen. The point is that most of you already have many of the skills required to build things, so funding really shouldn't be a barrier to entry. If your idea requires more money than you have, boil it down to the bare minimum and build it within your budget. We could easily have decided that we wanted to build the best invoicing app ever, figured out that invoicing was a 1.3 kagillion dollar industry, secured some funding, built up the stakes, then gone crazy with features. We could have convinced ourselves that we needed to close down our consulting business, hire a full-time Rails developer, and move in together. Instead we took a simple idea that we felt wasn't being done right, boiled it down to its core, then built it when we had the time.
It is interesting they seem to practice something akin to the 'pirate democracy' of 17th and 18th centure pirates. The old pirates also gave every man an equal vote, regardless of previous rank, and the captain was elected by the crew.
So if you don't need VC money you don't get in?
Being able to travel to rich countries is a strong status symbol in poor countries, and corrupt rich foreigners risk not being welcome in their country at some point.

But in a sense you are right, such a scheme would lock out the foreigners who have most to gain from immigration.
The Diggbar is only visible to Digg users and links shared by Diggers.So if Digg users are revolting against it, that makes sense. But obvious Digg haters like John Gruber revolting against the Diggbar looks like a cheap publicity stunt to me.Calling Digg users "mindless, borderline illiterates" and greeting them with "F* off" message to Digg, is just hating Digg. Doest look like this has anything to do with preaching standards.

As a Digg user, i dont like Diggbar on pages linked from Digg pages. But i would appreciate this,if the url shortening service along with Diggbar was an independent feature.
I'm thinking of Ayn Rand's Ellsworth Toohey.
Admittedly, we do have a bit of an obsession with Gotham. It's our Helvetica.
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90% of the linked article is a waste of bytes. Here's a summary of the other 10%

VMWare released a patch to address a critical vulnerability in the virtual machine display function that might allow a guest operating system to run code on the host.
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000...

That's about it. There's also two barely related links to

http://www.invisiblethings.org/papers/redpill.html and http://bluepillproject.org/

The first one is a technique for detecting the presence of a hypervisor, the second I can't quite figure out, but it appears to be a kind of hypervisor.
This is an old thread from around Nov 2007
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"Finance is safe in that it provides the certainty of getting rich within ten years (unless the industry changes in some on a fundamental level in some unlikely way)"

--Hmmm.. . I wonder how is it working for him now, if he is 'rich' yet. Remember, this post was done in 2007.
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immigrants who make it big in internet seem to be from young kids who gain permanent residency later

are there any greencard holders having thru h1b (6 years?) and then found startup and be as successful?
I've not had a really detailed read of all the comments, so apologies if I missed it somewhere, but how do you justify it as "a policy that would cost nothing"? Or am I confusing monetary cost with something else?

The rest of the idea seems sane, though, as long as the application for the visa made it clear what the intention was, on top of "I want to found a company or companies please".

Non-US resident here, for what it's worth.
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According to an interview I just heard on NPR, you stuff a million dollars in a plastic tube, attach a parachute, then fly over the hijacked ship and drop it. Pirates bring bill counters along on raids, so don't think you can shortchange them. Also, make sure during negotiations that the pirates have it all worked out about how much each of them gets: you want a nice orderly transition, free of inconvenient last-minute violence.
Still, I can see that bugging me. I could number a list with all 1.s, but that's like writing code with no indentation or extra spacing. The style of source material matters to me.
Yet this has no visual feedback (there's a quantum leap between using a Cintiq and say one of the Bamboo's or Intuos'.. I have an older Graphite, used a Cintiq and fell in love instantly)

Plus, to Wacom's credit they have the many different pens to be able to quickly simulate different effects (and make it more like a traditional workflow) while the artist is using it - yet this stylus has no such thing.

The Cintiq's also have a very cool swivel stand for turning/tilting the device to make it more reminiscent of an animation disk. There's also a special wrist/pinky finger strap to help your hand move over the device more smoothly and reduce smudging.

Plus this patent looks like it has a rolling ball. I don't know of many artists who use ball point pens to draw with.

Specifically, most use felt tip pens, markers or pencils. Some of those artists even stop using pencils when the shaft becomes too short because it throws off the balance of the whole thing and becomes less intuitive for them to draw with.

In fact, in the pencil community (go read some pencil niche blogs, these people are REALLY passionate about their writing tools) there are several people who refuse to use a pencil with an eraser on the end (and the opposite is true) because of the counter balance effect.

Then there's also the fact that different pencils (both brands and grades) move across surfaces in different ways. I know of at least one artist who actually switches between 2 pencil brands of the same grade to achieve different effects while drawing.

Moral of the story, not all writing instruments are created equal - you can't just substitute one for another and expect the same result.
Current rules of engagement are that a pirate can be apprehended while in the process of committing an act of piracy, but cannot be engaged otherwise.

Left up to the military, nuclear subs would have already torpedoed the pirate motherships and Marines would hit their shore bases (it cannot be coincidence that the task force includes USS Boxer, a ship whose sole purpose is doing forced entries into other countries - you don't use assault ships to patrol shipping lanes).
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It would be cool if we could see PG (and other good programmers) code with Etherpad. Watching a sophisticate peice of code "evolve" from the first line/function would be fascinating.
On the other hand, if the restrictions doesnt exists:
(1),(2)Employees can quit anytime for a better paid offer , effectively nullifying the value of efforts and investments the original employer made on the individual.
(3)Huge inflow of foreigners will hurt US citizens.

If a foreigner is ready to accept a job with a company offering him a lower salary,it depicts that just he want to get into US somehow.
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It's quite depressing that shooting someone can become an acceptable way out of the society you're placed in

You have to remember that these pirates are only really interested in ransoming cargoes - they don't set out to kill the crews like pirates back in the day.
and in the concept of Y-Combinator itself...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/y-combinator-gets-the-s...
As a lawyer, I was both fascinated and horrified by the replay.

Imagine a company routinely using EtherPad (really cool, BTW) to create documents -- in the process saving thousands if not millions of interim drafts.

Now imagine the company getting into a lawsuit. Some subset of N documents -- and of all interim-draft snapshots of those N documents that are still in existence -- will have to be screened for possible disclosure to the other side. (There are tools for partially automating this, but lawyers and paralegals will still have to individually look at many documents / drafts.)

In PG's case, there were 2,886 such snapshot drafts for just one document.

Makes me shudder just to think about the legal expense.
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So the first thing all immigrants learn is that you're taxed for absolutely nothing in return. Paying a tax to be allowed to pay taxes. Thank you very much :)
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Well, this would mean that being powerful assumes lack of integrity. Disagreeing with this does not necessarily mean missing the point. I've been guilty of committing to some of these laws, consciously or not. So, another use of that list would be as a checkpoint of one's integrity. Kind of.
These days you'd do best if your idea either makes people money or saves them money

You might do even better if you save them time, or perhaps fill their time with entertainment, or maybe fill their need for belonging, or self esteem, etc. Money is not everything, perhaps money in fact is nothing.
Basically, he contrasts two types of thinking. The narrow sort of thinking, where you're totally focused in on one thing, and the "juxtapositional" sort of thinking, where you can hold multiple ideas in mind at the same time.

The first type of thinking is associated with high stress environments, and the second type of thinking is associated with productive programming, scientific exploration, learning, etc. He goes on to explain the many ramifications of this, which are fascinating, IMO.
Don't take this the wrong way, it's meant as a little meta-joke:
Based on word count, you're "summary of the other 10%" is exactly 46.8% of the original. :)
It's a matter of cost versus benefit, right? If the US is able to attract successful startups the additional cost will be more than made up for in additional taxes.

Second, pg's proposal seems to be a more targeted version the of E-1/2 visa with the additional benefit of shifting some of the administrative burden onto the shoulders of investors. So it's probably less work for the INS than the existing E-1/2 process.

Sounds like a pretty good deal for the US tax payer.
What I find fascinating of the idea is the multiple win-win:

1) The USA benefits: more companies that pay taxes and pay for services, and create jobs for americans.

2) The founders benefit: they get a chance to bring their ideas to fruition, and get rich.

3) Paul Graham benefits: improved competition in the startup world would bring better founder teams to Y-Combinator.

4) The general public benefits: good ideas get implemented and are available as services that improve, in some way, your life.
> Employees can quit anytime for a better paid offer , effectively nullifying the value of efforts and investments the original employer made on the individual.

I don't get your point, are you saying this is a bad thing?
The zero-sum-game fallacy is at the heart of every single immigration debate I have ever followed. The size of X depends primarily on expected returns. That's how investing works. So if you assume that X is constant for any particular country, you're implying that returns are independent of how many good founders are available. I think that's not a reasonable assumption to make.
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If you take a step back from this you realize that the news industry is the middlman.

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To add insult to injury they make all their money from providing eyeballs to advertisers leading to the same race to the bottom you see happening online.
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Actually, I'd love to see the difference in reactions in Boston and other cities around the world/US.
Another goodie comes to mind:

Imagine that in a lawsuit, PG were to have his deposition taken by the other side's lawyers. The lawyer representing PG or his company would almost certainly insist on prepping him beforehand by reviewing with him, page by page, each of the documents the other side might ask him about. (Failure to prep a witness for deposition can result in the other side's playing a video for the jury, consisting of damaging sound bites harvested from the witness's testimony.)

The lawyer's prep of PG will likely include at least a glance at, and perhaps a discussion of, each of the EtherPad snapshot drafts for each of the documents in 'the PG collection.'

Imagine what a time sink that could turn into.
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> Downvote for the "Mexicans" reference. Perhaps saying, "There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Would 1 million engineers and scientists be a bad thing?"

Saying there are over 5 million Mexicans in the USA is a completely factual statement. It is true that you have much higher immigration (both legal and illegal) from neighbouring countries than parts of the rest of the world.

> And, 1 million engineers and scientists would depress salaries in the US.

Maybe. But either companies move to where the engineers are (outsourcing, new companies) or the engineers move to where the companies are. In the latter case they still pay tax for the US.

And American engineers will have a depressed salary in any case.
> but I think your last sentence assumes that being Mexican and being an engineer is exclusive, which it obviously isn't.

No it doesn't. I am sure that there are Mexicans from the whole spectrum of the population (doctors, engineers, manual labourers, etc...).

With highly skilled visas you can assure that you only get immigrants from a certain section of the population (Engineers).
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So it's primarily an aesthetic issue? Shouldn't your argument be that paying to immigrate would not let enough productive immigrants in? You seem to be saying that the problem is it will also allow a few other undesirables to attend the cocktail party.
> How are H1B visas an alternative? I don't see any reason to believe that if H1Bs were less restrictive then we'd see H1B holders leaving their jobs to create start-ups.

A lot of people start startups while they are working. This simply makes sense, because getting capital for a start-up is fairly difficult.

A lot of people also try a startup and if it fails, re-enter the job market (after 6 months for example) and start again when they get a new idea.

A general visa that would allow a person to move from employment to starting his own company back to employment would be much more useful than just allowing people to either work or only have a founder's visa.

Also, how many start-ups where founded when a group of employees broke away from an employer and started their own thing? Neither a founders visa or H1B would make provision for such a situation.

> Comments of the form "the article is loosely related to one of my pet issues, so I'm going to say my schpiel" are not interesting.

That may be true. But I see little use in commenting on something that is not relation to any issue that I am interested in. If the comment is out of line then that is what the moderation is for (either flag it or downmod it then).
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