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> A rapid climb in income inequality over the last generation (check the historical gini index for reference) means that there aren't very many quality, well paying jobs available to young people.

Inequality doesn't mean that there aren't quality, well paying jobs and equality doesn't mean that there are.

Inequality is a ratio. Ratios tell you something about the relationship between things, but don't tell you anyting about their absolute values.

Do you really want to say that you'd be better off if everyone was starving (gini=1.0) than you are with plenty of food, a computer, apartment, and so on because someone else can fly to Maui on a whim?

Envy is stupid. If you're unhappy, greed is your friend because it's not about what someone else has, it's about what you have. (Disagree? Compare the gini coefficient in any hell-hole to the coefficient in any place that you'd be willing to live.)

And, frankly, you've got it pretty peachy. Stop whining.

Oh, and another thing. Most jobs are shit and always have been. Dilbert has a better job than most folks. If you're looking for something to give your life meaning, get a pet.
Best couterargument that I've come up with: ask them what a computer really is. As in "a computer is a chunk of metal, glass and plastic that can actually do things when you tell it to". And apparently, our "getting off on detail" and "stupid rules" are working well enough that you feel a need to be frustrated that this slab of plastic sitting on your desk isn't quite as smart as you wish it was. I've seen a lot of people's attitude change when it's explained like that.
This makes me wonder why, instead of hundreds of millions in lawyer fees, the RIAA didn't simply buy them themselves!
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hope it means this bug is fixed now....

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2978
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One must be a fool to believe that they don't get any money at all...

The foreign company certainly belongs to them, and they are trying to cash out twice (once by selling their company and by getting donations from their loyal supporters).

And even if the site belongs to a different party, they are running the site and are responsible doing the copyright violations. You can also not hide behind a company when you are commiting murder.
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To me one interesting thing about this article is that -- relating specifically to the question of whether you can get rich by picking a "safe" job -- it is actually incorrect. The changes in corporate compensation practices are such that, particularly in financial industries, you can work in a everyday job and end up rich, even by the definitions he uses in this article. It will be interesting to see if that continues after the current crisis. I would have guessed no a few months ago, but now it is seeming more likely to continue.
Happy to see this big step towards transparency. Don't like that it has waterfall concepts built in and excludes defense spending completely. But hey, it is progress and Fed CIO Vivek Kundra made progressive comments towards the importance of releasing early and often. To wit, the new dashboard site is a "beta" release.
Gred Linden likes Introduction to Information Retrieval: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-... (free online).
When compared to some 3 Strike sentences Madoff got off pretty easy. 25 to life for stealing 4 chocolate chip cookies, nine video tapes, or golf clubs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_strikes_law#Controversial...)
I don't see this as a competition with Digg unless they also implement some sort of social aspect to it. I think a lot of people use Digg, Reddit and the like more for the conversation and community aspects than anything else.

The article posits the theory that Bit.ly, with access to more URL submissions a day has an advantage over Digg for that reason. I don't but it. The killer app of social book marking is as a filter. Bit.ly will still have to lick the filtering issue, just as other social book marking sites have had to. I just find it funny that the article seems to state that Digg receiving 20,000 links a day is a disadvantage when in reality, it's sort of the entire point of a service like that.
The internet's mostly been about psuedonymity; the *chans have been the main bastions of full anonymity. There's still a place for establishing a psuedonym disconnected from your offline identity to various degrees, but with a history and a reputation of its own.

(viz. me; I have a comment history and a karma score, and it wouldn't be too hard to get a sense of my identity here and on reddit; but I believe it'd be a non-trivial exercise to determine my offline identity even with a lot of googling and tools like Maltego).
"Compared to them we might all be very poor"

Seriously, I think that's likely.

"and there is no way for anyone to become rich."

Well, living longer. Also, you may improve your chances a bit with cryonics. :)
> 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.

Huh? There are lots of things in the public domain with millions of users that haven't been sold for a high value.

"In the public domain" means that folks can pay virtually nothing.
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11. Run anywhere between 4-10 miles (depending on fitness), shower in hot water, then drink black tea with sugar whilst under a blanket in an armchair watching a crappy sitcom.

12. Laser Tag. Play it.

13. Go to church and make fun of stupid people.

14. Motorcycle. Ride it. At illegal speeds. At night.

15. DXM (I use it several times a year, when my brain gets overflown from either work or just natural depression).
I think he means "public" - available to the public at large, rather than the legal definition, which is the first thing that came to my mind too.
Hmmmm. Will put that into the googledoc. Shall we say value of scam = approximately $1. Life term = approximately 40 years? On that basis using ROS analytics Bernie would be serving 25,999,999,999,999,996 years! (I think that is about 26,000 trillion years).

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=r30GB1GeCe91EcZ1JQx-9...
Concerns about the results aside I found it wonderful that the people who carried out the experiment, while not producing a bulletproof scientific analysis, were very thorough and kept to the stated aim to have a fair scientific trial. Blinded randomization, repeated measurements, and further information about those tests would have been interesting to see, but the article manages to largely avoid jumping to unwarranted conclusions. They asked a fair question; performed systematic, documented experiments; and then produced compelling research to support their theory.

Altogether it's a testament to using science to explore everyday questions.
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Does it say where it is published? I can't seem to find it.
While I agree with your core point, this is basically an ad-hom.

"Penny" is a bit blunt, but she is saying the same things as a lot of other people - keep it simple, use existing words and terminology wherever you can, express yourself clearly, avoid acronyms where they are not helpful, a large amount of code is doing the same simple operations on the same simple types of data - this "bread and butter" manipulation ought to be as easy as it is common.

Is that last part what you are going on when assigning her into group 2?
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Over what time frame? Morningstar seems to paint a different picture, at least over the last decade:

http://corporate.morningstar.com/US/asp/popup.aspx?xmlfile=2...
Anyone have a link to the map site? I've checked nasa.gov but no luck.
"most adequate" - that's a very English (British) thing to optimise for.
I googled a bit and found this : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-103
I don't know where he got his safari 10 beta, he must be working secretly for Apple or something.

A serious note: I don't buy benchmarks with that kind of error
The fun part is, if Linux grows then all the other open source platforms (Solaris, the BSDs etc.) also grow (open standards, open source drivers, etc).
Hmm, I just checked. Their website is there, it's just that the press release was important enough to serve as splash screen.

See, e.g., http://www.globalgamingfactory.com/Organisation.html
[From the link in the another comment I have posted here]

For visualizations of the new Aster topographic data, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20090629.html

Data users can download the Aster global digital elevation model at: https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome and http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp
you and about 60,000 other people!
'Work for the sake of passion, not a paycheck'
Penny also refuses to acknowledge the inherent complexities in expressing computations so that a computer can execute them.
I'm going to upgrade immediately so I can use goto.

Why am I being downmodded? I'm quite serious. I think it'll help clean up some of my previous PHP code.
The picture is worth a look.

It floors me how up-to-date this looks even by today's standards. We don't see shapes like this until science fiction of the 1950's, and later in the design of the B-2 bomber which is still very much in service.
True, but I think that a good icon would help solve this problem. Perhaps a man's and woman's heads, facing each other, with a dialog bubble towards the man's mouth, and the woman smiling. An icon like that (instead of a cracked piece of ice or something) along with the name should put the premise of the app in context for 99% of Americans.

Also, it may be mistaken for a game on occasion, but are people really that eager to spend money on Apps that they'd just hit the buy button based on the name alone (before even reading the description or looking at the screenshots)?
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Compared to them we might all be very poor and there is no way for anyone to become rich.

Not sure about that. See this paper by Robin Hanson:
http://hanson.gmu.edu/IEEESpectrum-6-08.pdf
They committed murder? Providing links to copyrighted material may be considered bad by a lower court in Sweden, but you really can't compare it with murder.
Yes, when viewed through the prism of our our national cricket team's 'play for keeps' approach, we can appear to be aggressive hot-heads. However, what is considered acceptable on the sports field is not generally approved of elsewhere!

In my city there are many people from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as us Anglos. It's a pretty relaxed and friendly place.
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If you look, by his standards that would only make you comfortably poor, not truly rich :)
Duplicate of

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680721
Except that the world has been experimentally (and later observed to be) proven to be round, and we have experimentally (and later observed to be) rotating around the sun. There are no experiments proving global warming, and no observations that match the predictive models well. So it is just a theory. Theories have been wrong many times before. It may be right, but comparing it to rock solid facts like those is simply ignorant of the state of the science. It is probably right, but we don't know that for sure.
And the anger is always against the same culprits: Westerners who don't want their standard of living destroyed.

Why not get angry at China, India, and Africa, all of whose people aren't going to spend 5 seconds worrying about "global warming" when it means never becoming modernized? The answer is straightforward: China, India, and Africa are not political opponents of global warming fetishists.
Just a random photo from Flickr of a lo-fi solution. :-) I was hoping I had an old photo of a CD Baby booth at a conference but couldn't find any.
Ask HN: How to start a startup where team members required salaries to survive?
We are having solution (with partial implementation with some big new concepts in our mind) for small (10-50 employees) knowledge organizations (law companies, media agencies, Ad agencies etc) for "office intranet (HR process, Document Management, celebrative tools etc)". I want to sale this to the customers as SAAS as well as boxed backed with customization (for bigger organization and chargeable).

To make this happened we need money ;) (We can't survive without monthly salaries).

What should be my approach to pursue from here?

=>Should I make partial product (with include most potential features) during my weekends and then approach the VCs (Pros: Easy to approach VCs and customers. Cons: it will take longer time to start and also motivational factor)

OR

=>Should I create ppts with problem, solution and plan HTML for demos and approach to VCs once I get fund then start building it (Pros: I will be able to devote my full time into the product. Cons: Hard to approach VCs)

OR

=>Any suggestion is welcome (including about concept/solution)

OR

=>We can't do it because we require salaries (If any body did that please comment about you experience)

--Our Team--

Me: Pure Technical Guy
My Friend: Pure technology business development guy

We both are working with some decent organization earning decent salaries.
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Holy crap, 95 of my articles have been submitted here? I would not have guessed that.
Yesterday I read this report written by the Environmental Protection Agency http://cei.org/cei_files/fm/active/0/DOC062509-004.pdf. In 98 pages they basically show that the science IS NOT conclusive. It may well be C02, it may not. Having worked with the EPA before, they find pretty much every excuse to ban or regulate something so when they say it is NOT doing what others say, I listen.

Interestingly one of the main factors they contribute to their differing results from the IPCC report is that the IPCC report closed its paper submission windows in early 2006 even though it was published in 2007, so the work is 3 years out of date. This paper was written in the last 2 months and cites dozens of papers over the last 3 years that contradict the IPCC's "findings".
Some perceptive comments taking strong issue with the idea that the VC industry is broken from Jason Mendelson: http://www.jasonmendelson.com/wp/archives/2009/06/apparently....

His comment about today's investment environment for VCs is "what's not to like." Well worth the read.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654636
TPB is down. Related to sell-out or just massive traffic due to the news?
" Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
Edsger Dijkstra-"How do we tell truths that might hurt?" http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html
There are some ACM/IEEE journals that have relevant papers, but you have to ask yourself: is reinventing the wheel what you really want to be doing? Given that there are lots of available COTS solutions, shouldn't you be focusing on things that are unique to your app?

(Needless to say, if the search engine needs are unique to your app, and a COTS solution isn't viable, you might want to bring in someone with relevant expertise.)
You can read the cliffnotes from the book, here: http://sivers.org/book/HowToGetRich

(Though it's very worth getting the real book.)

One of my favorite quotes: "Money is exactly like sex. You think of nothing else if you don't have it, and think of other things if you do."
Not surprising really. Anyone blogging under their own name (whether in the URL, or where it's blatantly obvious like Cuban or Fred Wilson) is going to put at least a little more thought into what they post. People blogging for reasons other than selling ads are going to be direct and filter out more of the "crap".
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> the so-called "Mileuristas" in Spain (that is, people living on 1000 euros a month)

As a side note - is that considered an unlivable low wage?

Although I now have a comfy programmer job that pays a lot more than what I spend, I have for many years lived on less than 1000 Euros a month (sometimes significantly so, and in Vienna, Austria - which is probably more expansive than most of Spain).

Also, I'm pretty sure the Spanish parents of the current generation of late 20's/early 30's earned less on average than 1000 Euros a month (even adjusted to inflation) when they were their age.
First thing - congrats for even getting this far; most people don't.

Second - we can't tell you what to do; we can offer opinions though. Just keep in mind that our opinions, while well-intentioned, come from our own experiences and as such will be what we would do in that situation. We aren't you and so take what we say with a grain of salt.

Third - The demo approach is best in this situation IMO.

Fourth - Why are you asking us? Your partner/friend should really be handling this side of it IMO. If you trust him/her to be your partner then you should trust that person's experience and suggestions. I guess my question should be re-phrased as, "Why are you the one asking us and not your partner?" This is a biz dev question for sure.
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Thanks! I've fixed the original link too.
Some of his issues sound a lot more OCD than Asperger's-like. Caring about having an even number of gas pumps?

Our three year-old recently was diagnosed with Asperger's, so we're learning. Is anyone here an Aspie who could offer some advice?
I didn't know other HNers were such VirtualBox fans! I use it daily and love it. This release looks great.
Don't know Mochi Media but this is the very type of downstream risk for founders that Delaware poses - once VCs control a company, they can cram down a merger or sale without needing to get the consent of those who control the common stock (i.e., the founders).

In California, they would need the approval of both classes of stock to do such a cram down and it could never happen unless the founding team approved.

I have posted on this on this site ("Why not to incorporate in Delaware"). See my profile under "submissions" for the link.
Reminds me of all the time I spent playing Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Good game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Weapons_of_the_Luftwaffe
US healthcare cost is actually dominated by overhead. Add up malpractice insurance, medical billing, drug advertizing, insurance companies (more advertizing, administration, reviewing claims etc.), hospital overhead, and proft every step of the way. Overhead just dominates heal care spending which is why Canida has universal heathcare while spending less government money per person than the US.
" The average American watches 4 hours of TV a day, and we don't call everyone TV freaks. It's perfectly reasonable to go the gym for 30-60 mins a week without having your life be devoted to it. Someone who simply works out regularly is not a freak. Go to the gym (especially one with a silhouette of bodybuilder on the sign) and you'll be able to see the freaks first hand."

Come on, almost no one here at HN is in the demographic that watches 4 hours of tv a day. I might hit 2 if I miss yesterday's dailyshow/colbert and watch both in a night. And even if I do, that is time I can also spend with my girlfriend or my dogs. And again, we're not talking about someone who works out "30-60 min a week" going 6 times a week, unless you're at the gym for 5-10 min at a time?

Personally, I was thrilled I had half an hour to myself the other night to go out photographing a local cemetery 2 blocks away. I then went inside, spent some time with my family, called relatives, and then immediately had to call up some PDFs on current topics I'm studying to keep current for my profession.

" Regular people all over work out because it makes them feel better in general. It's not because they are freaks, or gluttons for punishment, or love breaking a sweat."

I already explained to you what I meant by "freak", you just cruised right by it. You're hell bent on reading persecution here, when what I'm saying is that the post was a vacuous example of how someone with a lot of free time works out a lot more than any 9-5 family man has time for, and then starts saying, "This is how you too can be like me." If it were just a plea for credit where credit was due, that'd be the end of it. But it's not, and given my experience with fitness junkies and their blog posts, it was almost inevitable that it wouldn't be.
I've just finished comparing virtualbox and vmware, and not of my own volition. I needed to compare a bunch of different file system solutions for clustering (see post elsewhere) and after working with vmware for several days finally gave up (vmware server 2.0), and tried the same under virtualbox. Virtualbox did the job quietly without fuss or license keys, where vmware was nothing but a pita and eventually refused to work.

The host os on the test machine is Ubuntu, the guest of was CentOs 4.7.
Global Gaming Factory X doesn't appear to be a real company. It seems to just be some legal maneuvering by TPB crew. The punks fight dirty. I approve. This is the real news. "TorrentFreak was informed by TPB’s Peter Sunde that the site will soon decentralize and quit running a properietary BitTorrent tracker, instead encouraging its user base to use a yet to be launched third party tracker for their torrents."
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3.0 Already? Wasn't just sometime ago 2.3 the newest?

While VirtualBox is really great I like OSE (OpenSourceEdition) better. Unfortunately if one needs e.g. usbhotplug then you have to use the commercial branch :/

Does anyone know when OSE will have that feature?
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Hmm, a better way to expose and consume this information would be highly appreciated.

No, NASA is not user friendly.
Update: I've got the answer from their helpdesk that Adsense is allowed.
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I can confirm this, had a similar experience. Though the VMWare Player is a nice piece of easy software for people who don't need all the features.

On a side note, did you ever install MS Windows iso with a system running on a CPU with SSE3 extension? Wuuuahhh thats fast :)
> is to dedicate themselves to improving lives.

I believe improvement is something that is uniquely personal (e.g. to split hairs, the person is responsible for their own improvement and growth).

However, I believe adding value to the larger community by building something people want is along these lines, yes?
So this leads to a partly finished story with a "to be continued" link at the end -- and that's it? Who is Charlie and what is he building? Is it some fabulous company now?

It's an interesting start to a story but it's just the start.
What I see in that data is that the VCs are worried about the things they can't control (e.g. exit markets) and not worried about the things they can control (e.g. deal flow, management teams, etc.). Not really surprising.
There are dozens of valid reasons to hate PHP. I don't know why everyone keeps picking on GOTO though.

There are situations where it is the clearest and most concise way to express what you want (in modern times we emulate this functionality with continuations, exceptions, etc. because of the stigma attached to to GOTO). See http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pd... for a few examples.

Lots of perfectly respectable languages (Scheme, Lisp, C-Sharp, etc) have GOTOs in some form or another. Yes, you can abuse them, just like you can abuse functions, methods, objects, or anything else.