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"Calling 'methylchloroisothiazolinone' unpronounceable"

That seemed a little strange to me, too.

The other day, my wife was reading this article. She got to the part about methylchloroisothiazolinone and said, "methyl, uh, mechlo..."

"Methylchloroisothiazolinone?" I said.

"Yeah. How did you know?"

"What, you don't read the ingredients on shampoo bottles?"

True story! But she's a neurotypical, not an aspie.
Ask HN: How to sell a start up.
Let us say I have completed coded and prepared a project. Hypothetically lets say its the Twitter. i have the entire code ready. Now I just want to sell it. What do I need to do ?

I know that if I put it in public domain and it gets millions users it is a successful venture and hence will get sold for a high value.

But i am not interested in a high value. Do you think with a reasonable product I will be able to sell it for say a $100k ?

Note: you might ask can a reasonably good product be "developed" in $100k ? Then what profit do you make by selling it? The assumption here is that
I alone have developed everything and it is of GOOD quality (however unlikely it might be)".
The other question is the legal ramifications if the continue TPB's current "illegal" activity and profit from them. I think even in Sweden the legal base there is questionable (after the judgment against the four founders of TPB)...
Yeah, it's becoming less common here too, but is still way more prevalent than in the US. It's not uncommon to see something like 1/3 of small shops closed in your average northern Italian town in early August.
I love the quote "And since the engine doesn't release any unburned hydrocarbons, CO2 emissions are minimal"

We really should start teaching science in schools.
Hello, you work for Posterous? Good work so far, congrats. ;)

Could you please reveal a bit of your future plans, for example what will be in the paid version? ;-) Or at least, I'd be very grateful if you can tell whether you are planing to allow displaying ads in the future.
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Does anyone have numbers for average earnings for programming jobs with/without degree?
Since you just want to know the challenges and are not really concerned about "whether url shortening is a good thing" I will put one challenge here. I am sure there will be many more.

At a higher level there is nothing difficult. you have to only maintain a table with shortened code to actual url mapping and then use HTTP redirection requests to redirect the URL.
But what should be the length of that shortened code ?
Should it be fixed or variable ?
How do you generate that shortened code?
Can the same URL have different codes?
Should we generate the code based on some hash stuff (in such a case looking up for duplicates will be simple) or should we just increment the last generated code ?

Once this is done let us say we create a table in mysql with code => URL mapping. The able type is MyISAM which supports only table level locking

If there happen to more writes on table than reads. The read operation becomes slow. Hence the table type needs to be InnoDB which supports row level locking.

These issues might be corner issues but they do exist and sometimes they can matter as well.
I suspect IE's market share will never go below X% (where X is high enough to be significant) as long as it's the only browser bundled with Windows and Windows itself has most of the desktop market.

As long as that's the case, businesses will have to support it. IE may not be driving the market, but can still hold it back.
You could sell it on sitepoint or eBay.

> But i am not interested in a high value. Do you think with a reasonable product I will be able to sell it for say a $100k ?

How much is it currently earning? What future earnings potential does it have?
I wonder how different this would be, in practice, to the typical on demand service. My take on it, being familiar with Verizon's fios on demand service, which has no excuses for bandwidth, is that it would be kind of a hassle to deal with and probably fairly unpopular compared to tivo-style devices.

All that being said, it's not a long leap from centralized DVRs to making television available on demand in general, and that is a move I would encourage, even if I did end up having to watch the commercials again.
Ask HN: Good PR service?
In "The Submarine" (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html), PG claims that the PR firm they used was one of the best.
I have been looking at various PR firms, but it's really hard to compare them. Does anybody have recommendations for a web startup-friendly PR firm?
What happened in 1965~1966? It was flat since 1955 or so, and then started to decrease again.
Now the court can finally raise the fine! :)
Don't know of a single place that does that here in the UK. Best not to paint broad strokes under that "Europe" term.
I write my blog on tumblr and am not aware of any length limit there either
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10 minutes is 1% of 17 hours, 0.1% of a week, 0.01% of 69 days, or 0.001% of 23 months. So they could maintain "five nines" if they had an outage like this every two years — except for people like jme.

But of course outages follow a power law. On January 15, 1990, AT&T's entire long-distance network crashed for 9 hours.
I've switched to 1.9 and it's hard to find a gem that isn't compatible by now
The MS Dilemma: how do you get a browser on a OS without a browser?
Apparently traders on the Stockholmsborsen exchange see this buy-out as a good thing. Their stock is sky-rocketing: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/charts/cha... I wonder if this buy-out will effect how TPB conducts their operation though, I'm assuming it won't.
"Unfortunately", no. Not a single SEK goes to The Pirate Bay. Peter Sunde and the rest of the crew has instructed the buyer to put all the money into a monetary fund overseas.

Source (in Swedish): http://twitter.com/brokep/status/2400754726
It depends if we're talking about the oven or stove. I assumed this stew is made on the stove and 100C is not low temperature, but perhaps it's made in the oven.
The general rule in the field is that it is impossible to answer about other people/beings consciousness. Among scholars, this is known as the "what is like to be a bat" rule, after a seminal 1974 paper by Thomas Nagel (see http://www.clarku.edu/students/philosophyclub/docs/nagel.pdf )
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Awesome, very good news.

It took awhile before Hpricot, a widely used gem, was updated for 1.9, but it seems even that now works. Of course, with Nokogiri, people now have another choice.

Good to hear that most gems are working now.

I still haven't tried any of my Rails apps with Ruby 1.9, just standalone programs.
The end of the baby boom, I suppose; the infrastructure was there to take care of a lot more children but since the number of children dropped and the infrastructure wasn't donwsized, the quality of care increased. But that's just a guess.
I guess he gets a lot of spam from Rackspace customers.
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Half an hour, why it took him so long?
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1974: I was 12 rising 13 and my dad was fired (later it turned out that his boss was embezzling and was worried that dad would find out.)

My sister got a Saturday job in a corner store, and I got a paper round. 6 days a week, 05:15 start, 120 papers delivered before 07:00. I don't remember the pay, but it provided pocket money as my parents struggled to start their own business.

I learned a lot from watching them deal with cash-flow, customers, orders, invoices, manufacturing, deliveries, and having no money to spend.
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> At this point, computers will need a new architecture, one that depends less on electrons and more on... well...what else? Optics.

They got it backwards. What they meant was, the cameras of 2010 will depend less on optics and more on ... electrons. :)
The thing to remember, is that unless you have _actually_ proven that people want to use it, and are doing so, then any value that might be attached to the software is hypothetical.

If an investor had $100k, they could put it in the bank, and with no work and no risk whatsoever, they would earn $3K to $5K in interest (depending on the bank).

Now, if they were to spend the $100K buying your software, how much return could they be guaranteed? Not a likely or possible return, but a guaranteed return, without any risk?

The easy part in any start-up is writing the code. The hard part is marketing it, building the user base, and re-writing the code when you realise that what you thought the users wanted isn't actually what they wanted at all.

What you want to sell is not a startup, but just software. Depending on how complex the software is, it might sell for between $100 to $1000. Maybe a more for B2B software in specialized industries, but for any consumer stuff, that would be the upper limit.

If you have this software written, why not take the plunge and try to turn it into a company yourself? After all, you've put in the work so far, so shouldn't you get the rewards?
Here's the lowdown, for people morally opposed to clicking on TechCrunch links:

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164
It seems like the founders of TPB have had several projects fail because of lack of funding or support. Their effort to buy Sealand is a good example.

So the foundation could do a lot of good. It has a lot of money now, and the founders of the TPB probably will be able to give projects more attention.

I don't quite see how the Pirate Bay will stay in business then. Very few media companies are going to want to deal with it while it is still offering free downloads of drm free material. Just look at Hulu. While Hulu is a great site, they have limited the site's usefulness because of pressure from corporate partners. And I am sure that TPB will drastically change.
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So it seems the Quarterlife Crisis is nothing new, it was with generations before and it will be in the future. The good news are if others solved we will handle too.

In plus, in a similar way we both had a childhood crisis too, I can sharply remember when I was 10 I had the very sad feeling something very good ended and will never come back.

More, as the article says we are heading to the Midlife Crisis after we will solve the Quartelife.

So there is no crisis at all, it's just the human nature, the way life goes on.
I'm firmly convinced we are not living just one life but many-lives-in-one separated by such crises. The only common thing in these lives -- even the body changes! -- is the presence of the same Observer accounting all life periods.

Personally I'm enjoying these crises: there are so many things out there no one should stick to just one lifeform. Yes you are free to do whatever you want unless you are constraining yourself with the TIME.
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I start hacking by erlang and mnesia database, so I might not face your mysql issues.

> How do you generate that shortened code? Can the same URL have different codes?

It depends, I will assign random hash to the specified URL.
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Assuming it's legit... I cant help thinking this is just a sideways move again like in 2006 to avoid the lawyers.

That said it is interesting The Video Bay appeared earlier this week - could be financing that?
You should focus on your I/O ratio, the balance between getting input (learning) and producing output (creating new knowledge).

I've found when there is no balance there is no productivity: if you read too much without writing you'll get frustrated by not producing anything; when just writing code without reading you'll realize your work was not fully productive, in the meantime some nice technologies were published which would make you far more productive if were used.
Yes, we might be sold say the Pirate Bay
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yes this is a bit of a win for the media companies - now there will be a paper trail to sniff around at and the company is leaps and bounds more open to legal action.

I suspect some media company execs are getting quite excited at this. I cant figure it out becuase TPB MUST know that the original model will probably have to die - unless they havent told the whole story?
Yes, IceBreaker is a very good one, one problem is that an app with this name could also be easily taken for a game (a FrozenBubble like).
There are lots of minor browsers, most with miniscule market share, so the first question that must be answered is "how many competitors do we want to introduce". On the one hand, a healthy market will have a lot of competitors; on the other hand a lot of these potential competitors will be niche products for a Very Good Reason (i.e. they're crap) and it would be unfair to make Microsoft present them as valid alternatives when they clearly are not (and it might tarnish the reputation of other, better browsers included in the same list).

This is a very difficult question to answer in a fair, objective manner. One way might be to say "all browsers whose current market share on Windows is greater than x%", but you have to push the value of x pretty far down before your list of alternative browsers expands much beyond Firefox (ISTR Safari's ~4% share is almost exclusively on the Mac, and Opera is under 1% across all platforms). If it were possible to draw a convincingly fair line selecting Firefox, Opera and IE, that would be my preferred outcome.

As to distribution, since every PC needs a default browser, I think the only reasonable thing is to let the non-IE browsers selected in the previous step compete with each other for OEM bundling deals, then legally restrain Microsoft to compete on the same level (price must be the average of the other competitors, no sneakily giving discounts on Office in exchange for IE bundling, etc.)

Finally, this age-old misunderstanding from the article clearly needs to be addressed yet again:

Surely if Microsoft is fined 900 million Euros for bundling a browser with
an Operating System, the same should happen to Apple?

Ever heard the phrase "go pick on someone your own size"? If you have a monopoly, by definition there is nobody your own size in your market, and hence there are things that other entities are allowed to do that you can't. APPLE IS NOT A CONVICTED MONOPOLIST, THEREFORE ANTI-TRUST RULES THAT APPLY TO MICROSOFT DO NOT APPLY TO APPLE.
Well done! At 6'6", I've lost 25 lbs in 3 months (from 252 to 227) strictly from keeping my calories between 1200 and 1700 per day. This includes a high intake of alcohol and otherwise I eat the same crap I always have - just far less of it. Although, now that I'm beginning to plateau, I guess I'll have to start going outside to play a little more often to get rid of the next 20 lbs.
Ah... check out the http://www.globalgamingfactory.com/ site

and the technology company Peerialism, that has developed next generation file-sharing technology

so their going to try and combine TPB traffic with whatever product it is Peeralism have "developed"?
Learning RoR -- and maybe other web frameworks too -- is not easy.
There are at least two phases of the learning process: learning Ruby as a language and Rails as a framework, then get acquainted with the RoR ecosystem -- github, deployment, existing reusable projects and components, best development environment, how the community works etc etc.

As a first step I recommend reading books, start coding, participating in simple open source projects/gems on github. Get the RoR style.

Then get on the flow by reading RubyFlow, try other things than Rails like Sinatra, ruby screen scraping etc etc. Get the RoR/Ruby perspective.

I highly recommend community-powered resources for all of these:

- Rubyflow, PlanetRubyOnRails : the everyday news, announcements
- Apidock : ruby, rails, rspec guides
- Rails Guides : up-to-date Rails doc in a readable format
- Ruby Toolbox, RubyTrends : all about the ecosystem in real-time. You'll learn here what modules to use/digg in, how to extend your sources of information.

Personally I would recommend two books: Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen and The Art of Rails by Edward Benson
If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (2006)
"- You can't get a decent job without a decent education. "

Fibs. I have no "proper" or "decent" education and work as a tech lead. You just gotta work hard and find a way to stick out from the crowd. Thankfully with all the dossers in low rung jobs that isn't hard.
* does he really disagree with the idea that obesity is caused by overeating*

I don't want to get into a miscommunicated argument of language here, but he's more pushing for the idea that it's caused by overeating high glycemic load foods, and that this overeating can happen even within a diet where someone is eating a total amount food that would be called undereating or normal.

He's going to go on to say that it's not simply eating food -> storing fat, it's dependent on insulin causing cells to take glucose from the bloodstream, and the result of fat cells doing this is an increase in availability of {some_chemical} which increases the drive to store free fats in fat cells, rather than not doing so. As you eat foods that raise blood insulin levels, your fat storage grows and is prioritised, and you want to eat more.

But even if you don't eat more, food is being stored as fat as a priority instead of doing other useful things with it, so you can undereat and be both obese and malnourished, by eating the wrong types of food. Or you can eat more and have ordinary "eats too much, is too fat" obesity.

He's not arguing for a cause by aliens or bacteria or anything very different, but I think this model is a useful enough distinction from the model of "more food calories in than you use everyday -> fat storage, less food calories in than you use everyday -> fat burning" to say that he really does disagree.
It's an interview of Felix Dennis I found on the yc website. Not sure if it's been posted before.

As much as I enjoyed reading it, it also made me cringe.

Oh and you got to love the wealth guide at the end of the article.
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I seriously don't understand all the hullaballoo on the browser issue. All MS would have to do is insert a popup which shows the first time you run windows pointing out the fact that Explorer (the file manager bundled which is part of the windows shell) can very well be used to access the Internet. Ofcourse it's not going to be as convenient as a browser, so most people are just going to use it to google their favorite browser and install. Maybe MS could include a small Bing button on explorer using which you can search for any browser you want. Problem solved.
Get your own house in order

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
They don't aesthetically like the available ad options, so haven't made them available to their users. You shouldn't have a problem doing it yourself.
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Can someone explain why? I assume the link got changed a long time ago by now.
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there was a major outage less than two years ago iirc in the same data center, a transformer blew up and shifted a wall. they're not going to get their 5 nines for a long long time.
The chance of finding someone who just wants the code for a site that isn't already popular is very small. Not impossibly small, but small. The converse is much easier: if you've got a lot of traffic, people will throw a lot of money at a URL shortener.
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The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents
A Stirling engines emissions can be minimal because it does not use explosions to burn the fuel.

The real killer app for Stirlings is in AC, solar powered Stirling driving a secondary Stirling engine in refrigeration mode (backwards).

For transportation the efficiencies are good but not stellar, and maintenance (especially of the seals) has always been a real problem. Rollsocks anyone ?
2% is exactly the proportion I was trying to convey and it's plenty to make my point, which is that an automated system would surely be scrapped for killing half that many people, even though it would be saving millions of lives.

Systems that become safer by scaling back automation are anomalies. In general, efforts are better spent improving the automation.

The man vs machine dichotomy is contrived anyway. We personify and blame machines as a scapegoat. I prefer to think of automated systems simply as tools, extensions of human capability. Tools don't screw up, we screw up making them or using them.
The use of strongly typed languages would resolve all those problems.
Monkey 'stock market' prone to fluctuations too
Beginning of the end for Microsoft and other proprietary efforts?
Has anyone done something like this, but grouping by (user, domain), and maybe ordering on something like (number of user submissions / number of user submissions for this domain)?
Just wanted to confirm that piece of information. The fund will be setup to support internet projects and activism.
The experience of listening to FM radio on a portable radio with a small aerial, is not good.

I tried once, with my then phone's FM radio, to listen to my usual BBC station on my 25 minute commute train journey. I gave up (too many tunnels, bridges, cuttings, with poor or no signal), and went back to my MP3s. I certainly wouldn't want to try TV!
But that was my question - whether I am allowed to do it. (for example, wordpress.com doesn't allow that).
Factory shutdowns are almost unheard of now it seems as we (in the UK) have no factories left ...
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Yea, but in most parts of the country, one still can. Plenty of blue collar jobs pay pretty well, especially unionized ones like plumbing and welding and you make enough to do the little house and wife thing.

I'm not sure the problem is times changing so much as kids expectation changing, they all think they'll grow up white collar and rich now instead of accepting the obvious. They may not overall be doing as well as their parents as a generation, but they aren't doing that much worse either.