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Summary: people who get rich from founding high-tech startups tend to found and fund more high-tech startups later on. Nothing new there. Article's author badly lacks historical perspective (HP; Shockley, Fairchild, Intel; Sun) and basic proofreading skills. Article not even worth skimming.
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What a misnomer! I thought the article was about horizontally scaled servers.
The social contract theory of democracy was I believe appropriately dispelled in Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia. This theory may have held up while there was still the frontier, but since there isn't available land for people who opt to settle it is really quite a weak argument.

We are forced by law to accept these pieces "green and gray ink" to settle all debts regardless of what the debt is really in -- you cannot make contracts in gold, and expect them to be enforced. Commerce is most definitely possible without that paper, in fact in California in the early 1900s you were blackballed if you used Dollars instead of gold.

"In California, as in other states, the paper was legal tender and was receivable for public dues; nor was there any distrust or hostility toward the federal government. But there was a strong feeling ... in favor of gold and against paper ... Every debtor had the legal right to pay off his debts in depreciated paper. But if he did so, he was a marked man (the creditor was likely to post him publicly in the newspapers) and he was virtually boycotted. Throughout this period paper was not used in California. The people of the state conducted their transactions in gold, while all the rest of the United States used convertible paper." [ref1]

I am unhappy with the level of services and taxes, but instead of leaving I hope to change and improve it. Just because someone disagrees doesn't mean they are forced to leave.

ref1: Frank W. Taussig, Principles of Economics, 2nd Ed. (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916) I, 312. Also see J.K. Upton, Money in Politics, 2nd Ed. (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1895) pp. 69 ff.
He's referring to something specific:

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
Did the good Larry or bad Larry buy Java?
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Posted earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637594
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Just so you're aware, the JoS/SO/ServerFault job boards do not even have a concept of applying via the website. The idea here is to reach the crowds that are on StackOverflow and ServerFault--not to force you to expose your profile in your résumé. Doing so is entirely up to you. Don't like your profile? Don't mention it in your cover or résumé. Simple as that. The résumés are always cross-listed, so there's no way for your employer to even know that you necessarily saw the post on SO instead of Joel on Software.

All that said: admitting I might be atypical, if you gave me your SO profile, I'd be curious whether you were asking well-thought-out questions and providing reasoned answers--not what your question:answer ratio was, or what topics you needed questions and answers on. Although I see one hell of a lot of posturing, both her and on reddit, that "real" programmers would never deign use StackOverflow, most "real" programmers I know, no matter how experienced, at some point, have to use a technology they've never used before, and get stuck with something simple. The ones I'd hire at that point go ask a question; the ones I wouldn't spend the next eight hours stumbling through manpages because their pride prevents them admitting they might have a knowledge gap.
Adam Carolla goes from radio to podcast
Radio/TV celebrity Adam Carolla has bent his own daily podcast after his popular radio program was canceled. Let's support one of the funniest guys on the air as "new media" becomes just "media." The first podcast is due out Monday morning
Economists to Obama: Get the Government out of the Banking Business
On the eve of Barack Obama''s inauguration as president of the United States, Wharton finance professor Richard J. Herring discussed with Knowledge@Wharton some of the advice offered to the new chief executive by the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a group of economists, former regulators and lawyers, of which Herring is a co-chair. Among the recommendations: As quickly as possible, unwind federal investments that helped keep U.S. banks afloat. Herring also assessed the deepening woes at Citigroup, which this week named board member Richard Parsons as its new chairman, a move intended to provide stronger leadership at the troubled bank.
The aircraft itself has a radio beacon that self-activates on a crash. Having one on the black box would be redundant and very likely ineffective since the black box is buried in the guts of the aircraft (e.g. if it separates enough to have a clear field of view for transmitting, it is probably going to be too damaged to transmit).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Position-Indicating_R...

The ELT is to locate the debris field. (OK, it is officially to locate the survivors, but they tend to be in the debris field.) If the crash is on land, another radio to locate the black box is unnecessary. If it is in the water, a radio transmitter is useless, but a pinger is very useful (see other debate threads why floating black boxes aren't a good idea, and impractical to boot - the armor is very heavy).
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I've noticed that as software and similar projects get older and more established, the developers believe they know how you should use their software better than you do.

This is almost never true, and leads to situations like this.

Why this is so would be a good case study for some academic research.
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ICAN says health insurance premiums continue going up
Every big software company needs an ax murderer, on my first day in my first professional job they told me "always write your code as if the person who will maintain it is an ax murderer who knows where you live.". So I guess they gotta staff a couple of those to keep people on their toes.
And that piece has just an 8,9" screen and an ARM processor.
Not at this moment, but as soon as I get the hosting I'll put it online for testing.
Django 1.1 support coming to App Engine
An amazing company called QL2 is based out of Seattle. It's not a startup though.
You also have the option to vote, or participate in the political process if you're that unhappy with it.
Where is the value?

There has always been important real time data like stock market prices, weather, air traffic control etc. None of this changes a bit with the proliferation of internet and web apps, so it is hard to expect any new value here.

The new real time data is generated by real time user interaction - between users and computers and among users (using computers as intermediary). The real time user interaction itself has value and this has been demonstrated: we have continuously invented new kinds of social media built on computer networks. For social media instant is certainly better than fast.

In fact, focusing on data seems wrong here, you'd better focus on the interaction. Even if the actual value is the data, this is where the data would be both generated and used.
Why Android smartbooks will eventually be free
Yes, but consider the Prevalent Hypothesis (http://prevayler.org/wiki/Prevalent%20Hypothesis):

"That all your business data fits in the RAM you can afford"

I believe this is true in many, not say most, cases. If not, don't use an in-memory "database", "persistent cache", "prevalence layer", or whatever you want to call it.
Maybe it's me, but I don't understand the appeal of this type of computer at all. Granted, I also don't understand the appeal netbooks, so maybe I'm way out in left field.

This thing seems like it's a big iphone. I already have an iphone and it meets most of my general quick-fix internet needs. I have a laptop when the iphone isn't sufficient. I just don't see the need for another device in the mix. Unless the pad is easily converted to a moderately powered computer by adding a quick keyboard and mouse, I wouldn't even entertain the idea of buying one.
DARPA funding small surveillance aircraft that can perch like a bird
No, "Option A vs Option B" isn't quite what I was looking for. Let us stipulate that, once I see the results, I decide that I don't care what guys think of my photo. I just want to compare the difference in response between 18-34-year-old women, 35-49-year-old-women, and 50+-year-old-women. I don't see a way to get that information from your current interface.
First look: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 shows some leg
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Ask HN: How much do you sleep at night?
How many hours of sleep do you average a night? How do you feel it affects your work life, non-work life, and everything else?
A total of 1 (one) job is posted in all of the United Kingdom.
Unfortunately I am not looking for work as a Python coder in Oxford, or I would answer it.
Profoundly "Meh" to me right now.
There was a poll a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328901
I found my current job through the Joel on Software job board and it's miles above any other job I've had. We only advertise jobs on Joel and ArsTechnica and the candidates that interview here are sharper than all but a couple people I've ever worked with.
The social contract theory of democracy was I believe appropriately dispelled in Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

I'm sure if you have libertarian, minimalist government leanings, then Nozick's work dispelled the social contract theory of democracy quite nicely. I don't find citing an unknown authority to "disprove" my arguments very helpful. It's a corollary argument to "proof by grad student".

I'm certainly not interested in arguing the benefits of alternate currencies, gold standards or fiat money here. I'm simply pointing out that we all recieve a lot of benifits from the taxes you pay, despite your unhappiness with the system.

And, I wasn't suggesting that you leave the country, I was pointing out that if you are unhappy with the system, you have options. Another option, is that you are free to participate in our tax supported democracy to change it by voting of participating politically.

Either way, you're not going to be forced to do either of those options at gunpoint. You do have that freedom. I grew up in Central America in the 80's. The term "being forced to do something at gunpoint" has different connotations for me than it must for you.

We'll have to agree to disagree.
This is the most detailed and well written write-up of a complex hack I've ever read. I was an absolute joy to read.

Thanks for sharing it with everyone!
Startup promises pay for social networking
As far as I can tell, you're confusing collisions with cycles. I don't think any of the main cryptographic hashes have problems with short cycles.
Competition is a good thing. This will ensure that Apple/RIM/etc... stays on their toes and vice versa. Hopefully in the end us consumers will benefit.
I think event-driven (as opposed to
request driven) is probably a better term to describe the conceptual difference being discussed here. Obviously you could then have different latency requirements for event delivery depending on the application.
It would depend on how the unallocated shares are handled.

Let's say you issued 1000 shares of stock upon incorporation. It does not matter how we got there, but you end up with 1 person owns 500 of those shares, another person owns 250, and the remain 250 are still owned by the corporation itself.

When a corporation is "bought", the general concept is that some new entity is buying all the shares from the current share owners. They can do this with cash, or they can do it with stock, where you get shares of stock in the new company in return for your shares of stock in the existing company.

In your case you're obviously talking about a cash sale.

A corporation exists separately from the share holders. One person cannot really sell they company, all they can really do is make a proposal for all the share holders to vote on. Of course, if that person has a majority control position, their "proposal" is basically a statement.

So the person with 500 shares could sell HIS shares, and make a proposal to sell the unallocated shares for some net amount (we'll say $75). The person with 250 shares would end up with:

250 shares and no net change (there is just a change of control). This scenario is similar to what happened with Craigslist where an employee sold their 25% stake to ebay. Granted this was not a majority control scenario.

More than likely the first person was looking for some kind of exit, and the new owners don't want to be left with any hangers-on, so the "proposal" would be that the new company can buy back shares from existing share holders at a set price, and you get a check for $25.

Or it could be that the proposal is the $100 is divided among ALLOCATED shares, and you get $33.3 and the person with 500 shares gets $66.6.

More than likely though, it's none of the above. When you buy a company, you also buy that companies liabilities and commitments. Many times all that the acquiring company REALLY wants is the customer base, or some piece of intellectual property. So the "proposal" is basically:

Incorporate under a new name, with existing share holders remaining with the same stock

Sell the intellectual property and old company name to the new company for a set price (we'll use your $100 number).

You are left with: a shell corporation that has no assets or value (likely) BUT has retained any debt or liability. This allows the new corporation to expedite the "purchase" process without having to worry that they are inheriting some unknown liability.

As for the $100, the majority shareholder could "propose" that the entire amount be paid to him as a bonus of some sort, or could propose to dissolve the company and divide any assets among share holders, or any number of other things.
Very cool, though I hope this doesn't get abused by google spammers.
Jeff Atwood gets a ton of flack on here for his blog content, but what he, Joel, and the rest of the Stack Overflow team are creating an incredibly valuable resource (especially for the type that frequent HN). Props.
I wanted to know what Eastern Time Obama's speech was going to be. I spent 10 minutes on google with no luck.

I went on twitter search and immediately found 100s of people with the same question. It took me a few minutes to find a post with the answer.
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You might try out Lunch 2.0. http://www.seattlelunch20.com/, or the Seattle DORKBOT scene http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/
If 'smartbooks' continue to have the same form factor as laptops (and netbooks), I think consumers will continue to buy them as low-cost, low-powered replacements for their computers. Hopefully, manufacturers will introduce new form factors (e.g. like the Kindle, or the OLPC XO-2) that break this paradigm.
I'm also building one, been blogging as I go: http://push.cx/tag/athenge

And, yeah, I have a similarly low opinion of the game industry as this article. Looking at it from the outside I see no reason to be part of it, I'm happier to be a software company that does games rather than a games company. http://push.cx/2009/the-game-industry
LuaJIT 2 approaches C in some SCIMark benchmarks.
I still think doesn't help. I liked the idea and did the turk for one of your questions (this was my first time doing the turk, btw). I was asked to visit a myspace webpage, listen entirely to 2 songs and say which one I like better and why. All this for 3 cents? I did it, cause I am a good fellow but I have hard time thinking of people who are willing to spend 10 minutes of their time for 3 cents.

the FAQ example is a bad example: I can always answer "yes" and then supply as reason "every questions I had was answered". No need to read the FAQ page, of course.

I think if you want to insert any kind of validation system you would have to count the time it took for the turk to answer your question and make sure we are in that range for every hit.
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Would be interesting to see if someone could use this data to incorporate into an intelligent Google squared/ wolfram alpha type search engine for programming questions.
I, as an engineer, was appalled to learn from a lawyer that they didn't study rhetoric in law school in our corner of Europe. And debate teams, in high-school or whenever - forget it.

That's like sending soldiers to war without a single visit to the shooting range. Never mind the common citizen.
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Yes, and as the article points out, this behaviour is sub-optimal. You should always be debugging yourself and figuring out how to improve. Eg. what can you learn from "jocks"? They work out a lot and are/look healthy, which leads to success with girls. Take that and internalize it. What can you learn from... and so on.
It is refreshing to see a C project that is not totally obsessed with premature optimization.

But nonetheless interesting to watch the improvements in the JIT engineering.
Yea but like for the "wiki search" they can trust you know what you want to see.
do people still not realize that carrier subsidized is NOT free?

like people are still fooled by .99 omg it's UNDER a BUCK!
> taxes are part of the social contract

The word "contract" conveys an idea of some sort of fixed agreement, that can be recinded if one party doesn't fulfull it's obligations.

Problem is, you're pretty much obligated to enter into the contract in order to get education and work, and if you don't fullfill your part, the government recinds it by putting you in jail.

The other way around? What are even the governments obligations? If you're not satified with the police not doing enough to fight crime in your neighborhood, or fighting the "wrong" (in your opinion) kinds of crime?

Not happy with wars, schools or bailouts? You get to move. That's pretty much it. Yeah, you also get to participate in the democratic process, but that's not the kind of influence you normally connect with contracts.
It's nice to finally have some hands-on reviews, but the press has been effusive in their coverage of the Pre since it was first announced in a Palm slideshow. I'm eager to hear some user (particularly iPhone and G1 user) testimonials -- especially once they realize the Pre is incapable on an API level of reproducing their favorite apps.
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Something that's sold in a long-term contract but without an initial fee is not really 'free', is it? I mean, if the author really thinks that it's free, I've got a number of excellent business proposals for him (all free!).
I am cheered by the news that they tested for the presence of an AOL-style incident.
Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?
I can't live without Freshbooks. Recently i subscribed to BaseCamp (and loving it so far).

What are Your web apps that you can't live without that boost your creativity/productivity?

Thanks in advance.
I've found recently that at crunch time on uni work/ freelance work I seem to just omit the having a life part of my day to maintain a similar amount of sleep.

Also the sleep moves from say midnight -1 to 10-11 to about 5-6 to 12-2
Having played EVE I would suggest they use shard more than most games, they just let you move from one shard to another. They might call them star systems and let people move between them. And they don't repeat exactly from shard to shard, but that just means the world is filled with the same random quests given out by different NPC's. The point of shards is to limit the number of people in each area and they don't let 5,000 players into the same zone at the same time.

You could do the same thing with a classic MMO by having limited resources in a zone that respawn in real time. It actually a reasonable idea, kill all the gnoll's in that dungeon and they don't respawn. However, it's more fun to for most people to be able to repeat the same dungeon over and over with little effort. You could do the same thing with quick movement between zones but then you get the empty feeling when there are not enough players to fill the world.

It just works better in space, however, awsome random content generation could do the same thing on land.

PS: As to the market's being linked, City of Heroes does the same thing; all shards share the same market.
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Adding "Star Trek" as an additional column is pretty enlightening as well. Apparently Islam has a Star Trek value of "Set Phasers on Awesome!"
That was my first thought. That was a clever little app.
[Edit: this is a reply to alxp below who wrote:

"Haha yes, because good programming and good networking skills are so clearly linked."]

Clearly linked, yes, but inversely proportional!

When in my "rain-maker" mental mode, when I go for weeks keeping contacts and have a phone glued to my ear, my hacking skills are just about none. I make it a point to take TODO notes for later.

When I am knee deep in hacking; designing, writing, testing, benchmarking, etc. my social skills are none. I can't even form sentences when I am interrupted by the phone, the few times I forget to forward my number to my girlfriend.

I sometimes do vocal exercises "Mii Maa Mee Moo Muu" type stuff to get my voice back before I need to make an important call.
There is a range of timespans that Real Time applies to. In data acquisition, say a medical signal such as an electrocardiographic signal or an EEG signal, we are talking milliseconds.

I wouldn't think of web transactions as real-time, even though there is user expectation of response within a certain small number of seconds.

In the context of the investments mentioned, these seem like the data comes in asynchronously, not matched with a specific request, and that the interesting work to be done is to make sense out of this non-fielded data.

As someone else said here in this thread, Google made search interesting again using essentially unstructured data--no real metadata to get your ERD around. Similarly, the other sources we are thinking of also don't really have that much structure--no tag saying HERE-IS-WHAT-YOU-ARE-LOOKING-FOR. To me, this is why these are interesting problems.
Well, it's as free as it will ever get. Of course they need to make money somewhere, that somewhere being the contract. The point is that you will not have to pay for the machine, it will be considered a client acquisition cost. It is an old trick: give people something for free to sell them something of greater value.