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Well, it depends what you are after. Do you actually want to get rich, or do you just want to get a warm fuzzy feeling reading about getting rich? Because if the latter then Rich Dad is exactly what you need.
Yep. Suits, spammers, scammers and diehard hackers (using mutt in a tiling window manager no doubt). Everyone else is jumping ship. I'm not saying Facebook/Twitter or even Wave is the future... but something else than email is, and we'll probably see it within a year or two.
While I think REST is great (and the only hope for some sanity in the future of the web), it doesn't seem fundamentally different from the "everything is a file" model, except for some historical limitations (like making navigation of the resource/file hierarchy extremely painful due to no standardized way to list resources/files).
ioctl was a mistake by people that didn't understand the "everything is a file principle" (a huge mistake I might add).

The original Unix from Bell Labs had no ioctl, Plan 9 has no ioctl, and the Linux people have been claiming to want to eventually get rid of all ioctls due to all the problems they cause, but the inertia and all the people that seem incapable of writing interfaces without ioctl means it will be ages before they get there.
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Ken also wrote another paper describing the same compiler suite which is a bit more uptodate: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/compiler
VMware's awesome... but its roots are also in academia, the company was started by a Stanford professor and his PhD students.

It seems like a circular argument if the criteria of an academic project "successfully influencing industry" is widespread adoption but that adoption cannot be facilitated by a commercial entity.

[As a side note -- the impetus for Xen, and also somewhat for VMware, was in a vision of global appliance-based computing, not in "virtualization research." I think that is really interesting given what just happened in this area in the last 3 or 4 years.]
i think this is the whole script.

http://brembs.net/SWH.html
On the other hand, it strikes me as odd, when using a decentralised method of identifying myself, to use a centralised means of providing my avatar. Particularly when that centralised means depends on 2 third-party sites (Gravatar and OpenIDAvatar) being up.
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That ie8-vomit-ad is funny AND sad.
Subtractive design is an expected-but-unintentional occurrence if the project is running over scope. And the stuff that is subtracted is dependent on the size and status of the project. Big budget games will typically cut large swathes of content and some of the less-critical features. Small budget games may end up gutting the entire concept in favor of whatever gets some gameplay with the available assets and tech.

It is a meme, almost a cliche, for designers to battle programmers over the quantity of features in the game, because more features (usually) allow more gameplay. There's a lot of inertia to avoid cuts if possible; a cut is viewed as "wasted effort," and each one potentially violates the interests of stakeholders.

On the other hand, if you view games as being like other art forms, it's not uncommon for other mediums to overproduce and then cut to reach the final product: Pop songs are cut to about 3 minutes, and movies get cut to about 90 minutes. Big budget games have been steered towards shorter length recently, but this is done mostly because it costs too much to produce 40+ hour games at the current quality bar, not because of a move towards "cut to perfection" methodology.
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Something I've been thinking about - "Everything is a filesystem" seems to be a more powerful focus than "Everything is a file". It encourages you to think about wrapping file-system driven APIs around applications. This is a focus in my current project.
They are more in line with self service wholesalers like Metro AG in europe
Well, in the seventies IBM mainframes had the Control Program (CP) and what is now the z/VM hypervisor, so yes precisely the same paradigm was dominant in architecting systems back then.
Ask HN: start with python 2.6 or 3?
if you were learning python right now as your first language and you wanted it to play well with others (django, scipy, matplotlib, GAE etc) - do you start with something stable with loads of documentation and then migrate to python 3 (heck it's 3.1 already) or do you skip the mental overhead of unlearning some things that'll get baked in by using 2.6?
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The human brain already does some selection based on genetic traits. And not just simple heath/fit = good DNA, but it also evaluates your immune system. Apparently people look for other people whose smell suggests that they have an "apposing" immune system so their children will have a wider range of immunity.
"The New Turing Omnibus" has a chapter on P=NP, and is a "light hearted, not too maths-heavy" introduction to about 50 other basic problems in CS.
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A few random comments ...

Sports are something that require initial talent followed by hard work and dedication to reach the point where you can earn a sensible living. However, some sports can be spectacles. People can watch and appreciate the skill and excitement. Getting large numbers of people watching can generate money, which can support the teams and players, and so talent/work/skill gets converted into money.

Engineering, math, science, etc., are something that require initial talent followed by hard work and dedication to reach the point where you can earn a sensible living. Turning them into a spectacle seems unlikely. Hence they will never generate mass appeal, or money from popularisation. People will never watch a scientist at work and appreciate the skill, and so will never, by that route, aspire to be a scientist (mathematician, engineer, hacker, physicist, etc).

All people know of science, and math in particular, is that it's hard, and they can't see the point. With sports they can see the potential for adulation, and enormous sums of money. Hence the "youth of today" aspire to be sports stars. Or celebrities.

Where are the celebrity geeks?

I have, and on occasion wear with pride, a "Nerd Pride" badge given to me by Gerald Jay Sussman. Maybe we should all be proud to say we're geeks/nerds/hackers/engineers and wear such labels with confidence.

For reference, Ron Graham worked his way through graduate school by performing in a circus with a trampoline troupe. Bela Bollobas represented Oxford University at modern pentathlon, and Cambridge University at fencing. Paul erdos was astonishingly good at table tennis, and these are not isolated examples. Many distinguished scientists and mathematicians are extremely good at sports.
How to Get Rich, by Felix Dennis

A lot of the book is biographical, but that part is very entertaining. Dennis is very upfront about drive, sacrifice, and luck required. Definitely not warm and fuzzy.
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heh this was in england, however looking at their site its £17 a month for 5GB bandwidth?

I have to say I have little to complain about when I went with virgin, which was ~£15 for unlimited downloads. the difference between 20GB and unlimited is quite a lot for me, even if I almost never used 20GB.
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true. I know there was a proposal at one point to set an avatar standard within the OpenID protocol. But I think it fizzled out.
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A checkbox for mask/unmask will suffice, masked by default.

Fact: there is a lot people in the world that in the comfort of privacy would like to see what is being typed.

Solution: give them the option to decide.

Everybody else can have their password masked anytime, no compromise.
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Klein has the potential to be really special - applying the immediacy of Smalltalkish systems like Self to VM design.
Another great article and I would recommend it any day but if you are in the mood for a more fuzzier and feel good read with some good-living advice thrown in then grab a copy of "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles, available freely as a pdf on the internet.
> recently I got much more to grips with the idea ... Something that isn't too math's heavy ...

You're asking for contradictory advice. If you're starting to get to grips with the idea then you want something that goes beyond the basic concepts. OTOH, you're asking not to get into the math.

Tricky.

Let's start here.

Do you know the difference between an instance and a problem? Do you know what it means for a problem to be in P? In NP? Do you know the difference between NP and NPC? Do you know a proof that a problem - any problem - is in NPC? Do you know how you would go about that?
I guess now is a good time to be a burglar, as people will be stuffing money into their mattresses.
We released one of our products as a public beta in June last year, because we felt it would be useful to people, but not quite good enough yet – by our own standards – to charge people for.

This worked out great, within a very short timespan we had thousands of beta users, who apparently agreed with us that our product was useful. With all the email we received from these people we were able to assess what kind of features people wanted added to our product (and which bugs really needed to be fixed right away) to be 'good enough' in their opinions. We mixed in the feedback with the improvements we had in mind already to release 8 more betas to incrementally get the product to a 'good enough' sweet spot that was being redefined/refined with every release.

Finally, we released a 1.0 (for pay) version of the product 5 monhts later.

Our application now has a large, very loyal and mostly happy group of customers and it won an Apple Design Award last month. I'd say our ideas about how we took it from beta to 1.0 worked out pretty well.

So, I'll echo what others have said here: Make something useful, release that, then work your ass off to turn it from something that's just useful (which is already a hard criterion to achieve) into something great.

If you just need 'testing': Hire someone to be a tester, or employ some friends to play with a private beta and give you feedback. We did this too before taking the beta public, and thereby prevented a lot of annoyances for our users and a ton of nearly identical emails in our support inbox for issues we really ahould've fixed before we released.

Even with this precaution in place, we still received multiple hundreds of emails a day just after the public beta release about other issues that we could have fixed before shipping but didn't yet know about. Releasing prematurely can not only turn away your earliest users, but it can also overwhelm you with a support burden you don't want to deal with when what you really should be doing is continuing development towards a solid 1.0.
> An elementary school teacher is only paid a small amount relative to most celebrities because their impact is small. They cannot reach more 10-30 students at a time. A baseball player is paid millions because he (through cable TV) can impact/entertain many more anonymous people indirectly. Is it fair?

I would say it is fair, if you define fair to mean that what someone gets paid should roughly reflect the utility they create for others. Rockstars and baseball players can reach a large audience and give pleasure to them.

If a teacher is only helping c. 30 students, then even if each one of them gains far more utility from him than from a rockstar, the total amount of utility the teacher is creating isn't going to be as much, because of the smaller audience.

To put it another way: some jobs aren't scalable, some jobs are (e.g. musicians, sports stars), and the top people in the jobs that're scalable are going to create a lot more utility, and in a market economy earn a lot more money, than the top people in the unscalable jobs.
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I've never found a use for the word "dweeb". I always refer to the people that zimbabwe describes as "geeks", nerds with no particular interest or skills in an area of academics (but they still like to engage in nerdy activities).
Ask HN:Do you tailor your content specifically for Hacker News?
A couple years ago I ran a handful of mildly popular blogs and we would tailor our content specifically for a social news site like Digg or even target content at Twitter users.

Many of the people here have their own blogs and many frequent the HN front page. I was just wondering how many of you tailor your articles for Hacker News?
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Huh, I haven't read it for years, because it tended to report whatever people told it as gospel, without doing a scintilla of fact-checking. Perhaps I'll check it out again, one of these days.
I have a Buffalo WHR-G125 (couldn't find any old Linksys routers anywhere) and have been running Tomato on it since day one. The web interface is beautifully done with loads of AJAX and pretty graphs. So far I have had no issues or hiccups with either the wired or the wireless interface and configuration is a breeze with the ability to download and backup your configuration files if, heaven forbid, you ever need to reset the router. For more information check out the lifehacker article -

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"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is quite a good book; at any rate, I got useful information about it.

Don't bother with any of the sequels, they're content-free crap.
Thank you all for your comments, very much appreciated. It is a bit worrying that I get pretty much the same advice from everyone. I will get a lawyer asap and discuss with him as well. I think that part of his mind game is to deter me from getting excited with the whole business idea, and drive me towards signing off my rights (and hence my stake) and withdrawing from the whole deal, by building a tense climate during these early phases.

I can't see which one of the two routes I will follow will describe me as "self-destructive", withdrawing from the whole deal and find peace (and hence losing any financial benefits from it) or stay and fight for my financial rights in this company, in return for an anticipated period of struggle and stress, which is part of all startup businesses - or almost all of them, I don't think I will give up easily, I'm still holding a card in my hands, and that is there are no specific deliverables in my current contract. If the worst comes, I will just not deliver unless they become reasonable. What do you all think?
To be fair, trailing slashes were ignored all the time. By this I mean that treated properly with MIME text/html they would produce a bunch of ">" on your page — they have different meaning in SGML from that in XML. That's one of the reasons I stuck with HTML4.01 Strict: I don't like the idea that XHTML works in browsers simply because of the miss-implementation of a standard.
The content I post to my blog is certainly influenced by the interests of my readership; and HN readers (along with reddit readers and FreeBSD developers and tarsnap users) form part of that.

I wouldn't say that I tailor articles for HN -- certainly that is not my intention -- but at the same time I can't deny that there is some influence there.
Not really, as inflation is properly damaging more than this negative interest.
Well, if you were using XHTML doctype for 7 years, then you were doing it wrong. Unless you served your pages with application/xhtml+xml MIME type, that is. Otherwise no browser did use XML parser for your pages and munched them with old good HTML/tag soup parser.
BTW, HTML5 lets you include MathML even in HTML serialization.
Totally depends on the product. I love beta testing games since it saves me paying for them later and figuring out they're bad.
Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You To Be Rich was nicely written and has a lot of supplementary stuff, mostly centred around managing personal finance well. Probably not one of the "seminal" books - it's new - but a decent read.
It's not just about raising money for DEMO. A British startup I know launched there as their main market was the US, so overcoming the geographical barrier by throwing money at it really worked out for them. They raised VC investment in the UK after DEMO (but already had enough funding for the launch, clearly).
Sounds as if he got away with it and doesn't even have regrets.
I'd be interested to find anecdotal evidence from HN startups; did you apply for or launch at TC50 or DEMO? How did it go?
It's more than that. A designer's fundamental job is to distill the essence of a presentation to it's more powerful form. That means not only taking a clunky version and paring it down; it means reimagining what the piece fundamentally is or does, and presenting it in a way that conveys the actual meaning--not just what you thought the meaning was.

With games, it means figuring what makes it fundamentally engaging, then presenting that in a way that capitalizes on those aspects that improve it while cutting those that add nothing.
This reminds me of my favorite passage in the John Hodgman speech linked above:

"Some of you may take issue with my saying he is a nerd, since at the beginning I mentioned him being a geek.

You will say, 'there is a difference between a geek and a nerd.' To you I say: Shut up, Nerds!"
The Richest Man in Babylon - Old wisdom at is best.
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EVE Online fascinates me. A few years ago there was a news story when SomethingAwful's in game group decided to infiltrate one of the biggest corporations in the game, and then at a signal all their sleeper agents basically stole the company's entire inventory.

I don't think that stuff got cashed out, but this isn't the first time something like this has happened in the game.
I think reality has catched up with a lot of what RDPD is about, namely buying real estate properties and then letting others rent them, when the housing and credit markets crashed. The one good lesson from the book now seems to be that you cannot expect high returns without high risks.
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Windows does preserve exactly what you put into it, it will never change the case of your files. It will not let you call two files the same name (with different case) and it will not care if you reference a file with the wrong case.

This is utterly brilliant behaviour. Case is a pain to remember and a pain to communicate with other people, it doesn't fit well with our language. You only need to try and read a password to someone to see that. There's also no pleasant way to remember that two files are the same name but different cases.

One of the first things I do when installing linux is set bash to case insensitive tab completion, and vim to case insensitive searching.

You may as well ask for an OS that preserves the speed you typed a filename and wont let you access it unless you match the speed again.
I'd be annoyed if that's all I got.

For 3.2 million, I'd hope for some good documentation, guides, and some fanfare, preferably some evidence of the QA procedure it's been through, too. You can't put ten thousand dollars+ of polish on a project in a week, can you?
to fight inflation you raise interest rates, so that citizens spend less and save more.

by cutting interesting rates they are encouraging spending, and increasing inflation!

they can of course just move their saving elsewhere (another country) where rates are better! Which is what I would do, at least in the short term!
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Agree with The Richest Man in Babylon and Think and Grow Rich.

I recommend: 4 Hour Work Week, Mommy Millionaire, and The Millionaire Next Door, Gorilla Marketing, and Execution.

LOL, if I had to choose two, they would be Think and Grow Rich and 4 Hour Work Week.
The very reason they did this is that inflation is currently negative -- that is, Sweden is suffering deflation. Money stuffed into a mattress appreciates in value as time passes.
Actually: I think you meant what I'm saying in the earlier version of this comment. But yes: if "P==NP is undecidable" holds then for any provably-polynomial sat-"solver" the following possibilities hold:

- you'd be able to find a proof it was an invalid "solver" (eg: the algorithm that assigns 'YES' to each of the N variables is provably polynomial and provably incorrect)

- you wouldn't be able to find a proof it was incorrect (in a strong sense: this isn't 'because you aren't clever enough' but b/c you've stumbled upon one of the 'true' polynomial-time algorithms, ergo there can't be a valid proof it's an invalid solver)

I'd guess you couldn't prove that a given polynomial-time algorithm couldn't be shown to be "provably known to be incapable of invalidation"; such a proof => doesn't exist a counterexample (in this case a SAT instance it doesn't get the right answer for), b/c such a counterexample is a refutation => proof the algorithm is correct => contradiction of "P==NP undecidable", but I won't remove the 'I'd guess' from that unless I had a better understanding of the field, as this kind of reasoning is the kind of thing where the technicalities are the important things, and I'm not up to speed on them.

Thus in the "P==NP undecidable" universe if you found a creepy algorithm -- in your example provably-polynomial but not known to be correct or incorrect, but "empirically" correct over a very extended period of time -- you'd know not to waste time trying to prove it correct (b/c such a proof would be obviously impossible) but you'd see every attempt at proving it invalid also fail, like you said.

Edited for clarity. Edited again for correction.
What would you aim to get from a two hour programming session with a complete stranger who hasn't seen your project?

Would you really expect to get useful work done, or would it be an excuse for you to have a two hour chat with Mr Beck?
Can you explain how that is possible? In my understanding, if the interest rate is negative then the bank is, in other words, charging you a fee to keep your money there plus you are still taking a hit from inflation so at least if you take all your money out of the bank you are only taking the hit from inflation and not having to pay the bank a monthly fee to do so.
I'd go with 2.x, simply because theres more code written in it, and more code one can read and learn from. Especially if its a first language, its good to learn from real code. In the beginning it was hard for me to read source code, but eventually i started "getting it". 2.x will eventually evolve in to 3.x with 2.7 and 2.8 so its safe to go with it for now. Plus the mental overhead is not that big, 3 is not that much different from 2.x, its still python.
The only thing about what he did that was against the T&C of Eve was converting his credits to real money.

Eve online is modeled after a frontier, and as such, many things that are strictly banned in other MMOs are actually encouraged in Eve. If you manage to gain the trust and passwords of someone high up in some alliance, and transfer all his assets to yourself, it's considered good intrigue and gameplay by CCP.
This is such OLD NEWS. I remember reading about this WEEKS ago.

Not to be a snob or anything, but it's funny how long it takes the "real media" to cover a story like this.