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I find this morally dubious for the same reasons as SwellJoe -- it's an awful gamble, even by the standards of slot machines or government lotteries.

I hope competition and education can drive their take down to the level of other money-based game operators. For example, what if there were an alternative where the max collected on any item was capped at 2X retail?
The confusion of correlation with causation is everywhere in the social sciences. The entire profession suffers from the keys and lamppost fallacy. They study intensive mathematics and then they end up trying to attack every problem with regressions, and miss out on the supporting logic that proves causation.

How many useful and accurate predictions do you see coming out of economics? Or out of nutrition for that matter?

This article is a classic example of confusing correlation with causation. The author simply does not detail a chain of cause and effect. And the correlation she poses, does not explain such facts as why Baltimore was really safe in 1900, and is violent wreck today.
The funny thing is he is trying to be legit. For 5-10k he could've married some random woman in US to get in, same for his wife.

It's not surprising power is shifting out of US and Europe.
Uh, what? Your parent essentially complained that US immigration, institutionally, favors low quality immigrants over high quality. It's hard to fathom how you don't consider this an example of that.
> double-your-bet-after-you-lose strategy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
Agreed. The fact that inequality can exist is part of what drives capitalism.

If you couldn't get rich and become unequal, a lot fewer people would be out there creating more value for others and driving the economy.

A more equal society = a lower growth economy. And having a strong economy matters because it gives your country power, control, and influence, which from the most basic point of view, enable its citizens to be protected and survive.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to get USB functionality out of the chip at the software level? Or is speed the issue?
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Interesting until I got to the price: $250, with no built-in storage or wireless. No thanks; I'll the extra $109 and get a Kindle.
"Probably"? Do you have data on that?

And if that were true, what explanation do you propose for that? I bet something that affects mental health and criminality rates can have an impact in IQ distribution.

Anyway, the study compared 20 different countries, and each state of the USA. Low IQ in the US wouldn't begin to explain their observations.
What should be predicted in nutrition that isn't?
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-- Richard Dawkins

(Hes got various versions attributed to him)
Ruling the world is not equal to doing good or being good. Nor is goodness measured in dollars. The good countries are the ones with the largest percentage of happy content and healthy citizens, not the ones with the most power and biggest bank accounts.
This is my question as well.

Your website seems to be very web-centric business (according to your user page), what is it that you cannot accomplish regarding this remotely?
Yup, where did you go to singapore from? (i am from sg)
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I forget the exact numbers now, but I called them about it for my college paper and the numbers seemed pretty astronomical (at least, to a college student like myself) for a CMS. I was quoted an amount in the tens of thousands to license the source, and a still-hefty sum to have them host it.
The northern cities of U.S. were very unequal in the early 1900's, but had much lower murder rates than today. In Baltimore and Philadelphia mansions inhabited by old money sat blocks away from immigrant tenements. Yet the murder rates were a fraction of the rates today.

London in 1900 had a much lower crime rate than London today, despite being far more unequal. ( http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.... )

Crime is the default state when you combine low class people with lax law enforcement (and by low class, I mean the cultural attributes of the lower classes. A rich drug dealer is still low class. A grad student living on ramen is not low class). In general, the countries with more low class people will be more unequal. But if you just give the low class people McMansions with pools, they do not become any less violent ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/us/09housing.html ). Conversely, if you take an unequal society with a huge lower class, and just get rid of the middle and upper classes, you get Zimbabwe.

Edit: If you're going to downvote a well reasoned argument that provides supporting evidence, you better post your own counter argument.
The author fails to explore the possibility that perhaps "doing well" leads to "equality", rather than the other way around.

Or, perhaps "doing well" and "equality" are both caused by something else.
Um, did we watch the same video?

1) It ends with "See how Grasshopper empowers entrepreneurs to succeed" and "grasshopper.com" bouncing up and down to call attention to itself.

2) What "causes" are sponsored?

I completely disagree with your statement that "a marketing ploy with an underlying purpose of selling stuff isn't necessarily lame"- in general one should run screaming away from anything that can be described as a "ploy" with an "underlying purpose".
How do you handle that? I mean, your server has to be able to write to the backup server - so the attacker can also.

With tarsnap you can create a write-only key file (that is, a key file which only has the authentication and encryption keys for creating archives); if you do this, you can run unattended backups from a server and someone who breaks into the server won't be able to read or delete your backups. (Tarsnap doesn't have any concept of modifying existing archives, so being able to create an archive doesn't allow you to overwrite existing data.)
dang, and I was hoping it would tell me who I could pay to become an empowered entrepreneur...
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"By reducing income inequality, they can improve the health and wellbeing of the whole population."

In the short term, possibly. What they forget is the extent to which technical innovation is driven by economic inequality.

The UK already tried this experiment in the middle of the 20th century. That's why there's no Silicon Valley there. At the time companies like Intel and Apple and Microsoft were being founded in the US, the highest tax rate in Britain was 98%. It wasn't worth trying to start a startup, and people didn't.

http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html
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Well, virtually everything that gets spouted as gospel ends up turning out not to be true five, ten years later. Fats are good, then fats are bad, then they are good again. Then only certain kinds of fat, then other kinds of fat, etc. If you actually look into the studies, you find that the evidence for any the propositions is usually non-existent. I was reading some recent studies for instance, that were showing lower cholesterol increases mortality. Of course, I have no idea how good this study was. The entire review process for published results is broken horribly. You're pretty much better off ignoring everything and just using common sense.
Did you point out that the double-your-bet-after-you-lose strategy breaks down once you hit the upper betting limit?
On a side note, It's seems that the xkcd strip on "correlation and causation" entered into geek culture.
Ask HN: What is your opinion of Crypto-anarchism and anarcho-capitalism?
These ideologies might not be very startup friendly but I'm interested in your comments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
In terms of relevant effect? All of them. Ask me how well XYZ unknown tribe of ABC unknown regional geographic subsection is doing.
Oh, I touchtype, or close enough anyway. Typing capitals has little or no cost. But to capitalise on IM, and to use fullstops, now seems overly formal to me, inappropriate in casual conversation with friends.

It's quite fascinating, really, how these things develop. For example:

friend: seen reddit today?
me: no # <-- devoid of further meaning, a neutral tone
me: No. # <-- overbearing and formal, almost a put-down:
"No, of course not. Stop wasting my time."

Language, and its contextual use, evolves rapidly and I would now argue that capitalisation and full stops in IM have taken on a different meaning than when used in regular prose.
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It's not always easy to get in, which means the US tends to get immigrants who have a lot of initiative. This works out great for us. For you, keep trying. And as others have suggested, work wherever you are to continue developing your business in the meantime.

As an aside, have you considered having a usability professional do an evaluation of your web site and business idea? This kind of third-party opinion might be very valuable. It could even be a student in a usability program at a decent university, to save money.

Which leads to this thought: Now that you've announced to the world that you have a (very small) pile of money, I'm sure many people will be glad to help you spend it. You should be a little more careful and discrete imho.
So, the point of having this post on HN is pretty simple: to get you to post "I was born in 19XX, and here's why it was the best year to be born a geek" (or the worst, or whatever).

Obviously there's no science in the original post.
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A good friend is a very brilliant Welshman (born and raised there until age 18) now living in southern California. His father has been here for 21 years and has his US citizenship. My friend, who runs a very successful business and is also a quality contributor to the local economy, has been stuck in the paperwork system for 7 years now. Every 6-8 months they send him another letter telling him it will be another 6-8 months. He can stay legally because he got here just early enough to miss the "wait for your green-card in your home country" rule - but they won't grant him re-entry if he leaves - so he's stuck. Can't take his son back to Wales to see his grandparents, etc etc.

Meanwhile, his father married a Brazilian trophy wife last year who doesn't work, doesn't volunteer, doesn't contribute economically, who received her green-card about 3 months after they got married.

The system is flawed.
"... I wonder why America does not welcome entrepreneurs and have to rant from a hotel whose desk is smaller than my laptop."

There are one of two possibilities: all is not as it seems based on your story, or because the U.S. immigration "system" is idiotic. The latter is a fact, and the only question is whether it applies to your particular case.
I used to be on the fence, but I think things have changed for me within the last year. I don't think there's anything wrong with ads starting on launch day. I think it's easier for users to accept it when they first come to the site, rather than a few months down the line when they appear out of no where. It's just less jarring. Note: I have no data to back this up, it's just my feeling.
Yes, you can, but obviously speed is an issue. You will never saturate an USB 2.0 link with a pure software stack on an ATMega, but reading out a few sensors or some input device that is limited by the speed of the user's fingers is possible, search for avr-hid or hidkeys (can't copy and paste URLs in Opera Mini).
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All of them did huge amounts of good along with whatever bad they did. The Romans (to take an uncontroversially ancient example) were brutal philistines, but can you say the pax romana was not a net win?
In hindsight, the tone of my comment seems condescending to business and marketing types. This was not intended, and I apologize if any offense was taken.

Those are just as important to economic progress as the engineer type. Assuming there is a real global shortage of a given type of skill and an excess of others, we all benefit if appropriate reallocation is inspired.
Its not about status of the country , each country is given a fixed quota . Usually from developed countries less number of people are trying to come to America than from say a third world country, so the backlog of a applications is less , thus the faster processing.
I agree with rscott on the appearance for users, but one thing to be careful of with services like Adsense is your click-through ratio (CTR). If your hits on a big launch day skyrocket, but the traffic isn't the ad-clicking type, you could find your ads devalued due to a poor CTR. If it happens enough, you could be losing money.

I had this happen on a site that was hosting some popular files that were being accessed way more than other pages, and the result was that no one coming for that specific file would click on an ad and my CTR would drop to 1/10th of its original mark. I went from making about $200/month on Adsense with about 1,000 users to making $200/month on Adsense with 10,000+ users. If I'd known at the time and managed my CTR more successfully, I could presumably have turned that into something more like $2,000.

Just one other thing to consider :)
I think what he means is that the real test of how good things are in various countries is net immigration.
Really old one, but still good!
If the author's hypothesis is true, then if the state grants the lower class a level of material well being equivalent to the middle or upper classes, then then social indicators should improve. Unfortunately, we have tried this already, and it did not work. See this article about Antioch, CA, where the welfare state gave the underclass McMansions with swimming pools, yet crime did not abate ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/us/09housing.html ). The same thing happened in Memphis (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime ). Or in Britain read this article about violence and drug abuse ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/world/europe/10britain.htm... ). Note that the subjects of the articles are already taken care of by the welfare state. What more should we give them, so that they will stop committing crimes?
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As others have said , stay away from America . It's full of nationalist/protectionist rage these days and guess where its all directed at - yeah immigrants . I am assuming the reason you want to move is to collaborate with really smart people and feel the vibe , there are other countries with lot going on for them without all the nonsensical stuff. Come to India , seriously.
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It'd be nice if links in downvoted comments would get grayed out like the text.
This reads like the MBA-speak version of "make things people want".
When you say that your ads get devalued, do you really mean that each click is worth less simply because it is less likely for a click to happen? This sounds silly to me, and I think you meant that impressions (i.e., your server costs) get devalued, because clicks are where the money comes from.
Well I'm a bit older than that ('63) but I experienced all those things the same way. Star Wars, arcades, Atari, learning to PEEK and POKE on an Apple ][+ from the one-liners (255 characters) at the back of nibble magazine, Byte mag. and Robert Kurosaka's mathematical recreations, plus Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor. The birth of the Mac, the Amiga, the Jackintosh (DR's GEM), all the the CPU wars... BitNet before the Web... Many other sci-fi movies are just as geek-worthy if not more: alien, Terminator and T2 (the special effects!) the Matrix.

Pah! anytime in the last 50 or more years is a great time to be born for a geek. It continues to be great.
The thing people reacted negatively to was probably you unfounded claim about the causal relationship between lax law enforcement and criminality. Just look at the US which has a law enforcement that is ridiculipously rigid by western standards (IIRC an embarrassing 1% of the adult population is stowed away in jail) and still has considerably higher crime rate than many european countries, and especially the more egalitarian european countries.
They want to launch an AppStore for an e-book reader? I am not sure this is a good idea. The refresh rate is a killer for most visual applications and the battery life kills the others.

I wonder what kind of apps they're hoping for?
It hasn't done much good yet, despite ~twenty years of people talking about it. So, I'd say, so far, it is ineffective as a movement.

The one obvious example of digital currency that was sympathetic to these ideas (e-Gold) has seen the error of their ways, paid some fines, and now acts like any other company dealing with payments and storing money. So, they're now just another also-ran PayPal competitor, I guess.

I'm not sure why they wouldn't be startup friendly...except that if you tried to execute on them as a startup, you'd end up on the wrong end of the law pretty quickly. So, I guess that makes them bad business for startups. Peter Thiel is known to be sympathetic to these kinds of ideas, and he's made his fortune in startups (including the already mentioned PayPal).

But, I just don't know that there's a lot of interesting conversation one can have on the subject. It's pretty well-covered ground from a technical perspective. The problems are political and legal, and those are things that we as hackers and entrepreneurs are generally poorly equipped to deal with.
Looks like a neat little device but it's overpriced when compared with the Kindle.

I want a Kindle but I also want some better competition to Amazon's offering. Any serious competitor is going to have to figure out a way to disrupt the ENORMOUS content distribution advantage that Amazon has, short of something illegal.

And a 1GB storage slot? Give me a break.
Crypto-anarchism has a slightly cooler name than Anarcho-capitalism.
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Do these meet your requirements?

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When I first read this I assumed "crypto-anarchist" was perjorative, like "crypto-fascist". :)

I gladly support individuals using technology to defend themselves against or compete with larger organizations. That is very much in line with startups and underdogs in general.

But raw Anarco-Capitalism has never resonated with me -- it's such a narrow view of the world. Next time you run into a real A-C, ask them to explain how they would handle water rights, air pollution, a 70% rate of illiteracy, a pandemic, or a state of siege.
Personally I think you should keep your site clean on day one. I mean seriously, the first few months your adsense revenue will be a few bucks tops, is it really worth it to alienate people over such pittance?

Once you start getting high traffic, you can "sell out" and claim that you need to add ads to support your hosting bills
If it does the computations demonstrated for even the limited range of data indicated in the UI, it represents an overwhelming advance in search. Even if they have to slowly, manually add new data as they go along.

Think of it as a Wikipedia you can compute on. It will grow nicely.

Compare this to the pile of information in Freebase. Pretty nice they've already linked relevant data for you, and can compute on relations.
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I'm not a beta user, but offhand I would use it in my daily research to compare nations and economies, fact check articles on the economy, weather, etc. To contextualize, compare and analyze random factoids I come across daily but don't really understand.

Does it not actually work well for that?
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I've seen tons of these used by university lecturers.
Yes; it's almost identical. It's one of the simplest digital low-pass filters you can write. Basically, it does the same thing that an analog R/C filter would do (given sufficient precision and sampling rates).

The issue with the breathalyzer code wasn't that the algorithm was incorrect, but that the programmer used the wrong algorithm.
Headline is based on a totally muddleheaded interpretation of the recent sorting speed trial. Yahoo used 3800 machines to shoot for a sorting record -- not because they "need 40x the number of machines" as compared to a Greenplum PostgreSQL cluster for storing the data.
I used NoScript for a while in the 'temporarily allow the current site' mode, which I felt was a reasonable compromise between functionality and security.

However, there were still times I had to mess around to get certain web-pages to work, Firefox has a pretty good track-record with security, and the common annoyances on today's web (such as pop-ups and analytics code) are neatly blocked by AdBlockPlus or Firefox itself.

The recent furore about NoScript messing around with AdBlockPlus was the final straw - I removed NoScript, and I haven't looked back.

This wasn't very confidence-inspiring, either: http://adblockplus.org/blog/analyzing-huge-piles-of-code
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Or when you run out of reserves, which is inevitable in the long run.
I like your last paragraph. Its important to pump up yourself continuously.
I know a few anarcho-capitalists and they have explanations for everything you mentioned. Since, instead of elaborating on your problems with their explanations, you've simply implied they don't have any, I wonder how much you really know about their views.