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I have a few good ideas, and one that's really good.

One of the good ideas can be implemented while still keeping my job, because it requires relatively small amount of resources/time to get started. It's far from original and won't make me rich, but it will give me valuable experience. My plan is to try it and see what happens.

The really good idea can become a huge success, but also fail completely because it depends on many things that are out of my control. I'm saving that untill later.
I've always seen it as them reclaiming the word "pirate", which has been misused as a slur for the last 300 years. Queer used to be a derogatory term too - now many will proudly identify themselves as queer. My dad called me the other day to tell me he'd finally given up and downloaded a song for my mum from Limewire after becoming exasperated at trying to buy it from the various legal channels. Due to some ridiculous licensing disputes between the recording companies involved, it was completely unavailable in his country on any album or compilation. "You're a proper pirate now, dad", I said. "Yes, I suppose I am", he replied... there was more than a hint of pride in his voice at having defeated the ridiculous.
Java calling Clojure.
Start with Visual Studio (VS) and program in either vb.net, or preferably c#.net. VS helps a lot while you're learning, and you can choose to program for either windows or the web. Add the MVC framework and you get a fairly decent web development environment where you can then look into JQuery and maybe even SQL.

Once you're happy there, a move to Python, PHP, Ruby or Java will be relatively easy.

You don't need to know a language like C unless you plan to work with the elders.
Agreed on Python. The PythonWin gives you a handy interface and access to the Windows COM world. I don't suggest you stop with Python, but it's a fine place to start, as far as I can see.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702048
Exactly right. The MakerBot is not a threat to Stratsys, Objet, or any of the other big 3D printer companies, but it does open the door to any school with an engineering bent and the ability to run a profitable bake sale.

It helps teach the principles of 3D printing, give people a good reason to pick up CAD skills, and hopefully will produce a cool product or two.
It's just a first impression (I'm still reading), but the discussion seems kind of sad to me.

Krugman once wrote an academic paper on interstellar trade, Stross is famous on his way to notorious for far-out concepts, and they both seem to have this vaguely pessimistic view of the future.

Somewhere in the middle of that conversation, Stross mumbles something about "Eric Drexler's pixie dust". I guess that's a cool attitude to cop if you're a science fiction writer. Nanotechnology is so obviously too good to be true that it isn't interesting and so must be hokum. But the actual research that's now getting published -- in Science and Nature, no less -- promises that we'll probably see radical change sooner rather than later.

No one in the scientific community talks about it in those terms, of course. That would be... un-serious, and in a research field that was saturated with nutjobs before it formally came into existence, that's a kiss of death.

Drexler posts the article citations on his blog, though:

Here's a Map of China, assembled from a fabric of interlinked single strands of DNA: http://metamodern.com/2009/08/06/asia-and-the-elements-of-in...

DNA Origami for nanoscale 3D structures: http://metamodern.com/2009/05/22/a-third-revolution-in-dna-n...

DNA Origami Box (with locking hinged lid and DNA sequence "key") http://metamodern.com/2009/05/10/a-dna-origami-box/

A big-picture post: http://metamodern.com/2008/11/10/modular-molecular-composite...

Software tools for protein design continue to improve: http://www.nanorex.com

etc, etc.
Ask HN: Should I register several TLDs for our domain name?
Is registering the .org, .info, .mobi TLDs etc. and all the country TLDs necessary for a start up?
Jokes aside, there is a very good page on the project site called "What we prove and what we assume"

http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml

I think it's very good in terms of being very honest and up front about the limits of confidence provided by formal proofs (which is not just applicable to this project, but to all attempts at formal verification).
The MakerBot can't print gingerbread, but they did create a "Frostruder" a printhead that deposits cake frosting. The Fab@Home project also lets you print with liquefied chocolate.
We also need non-quant developers. We need Java people (with experience in modern Enterprise Java stuff: Spring, Hibernate, etc)

We do agile development, and are very effective at it. There's a dedicated product team so that random passers-by can't just drop work on our desk.

We do have some particularly exciting things in the works.

Send me a resume at jason.ganetsky@gmail.com
The article creates the impression of information rather than actually
providing any. Just look at the bar chart they give:

49% Failed to make connection... but WHY?

21% Loading or off-loading error... but HOW?

16% Ticketing, tagging error... but WHAT error and HOW was it made?

8% Arrival airport mishandling... but HOW and WHY was it mishandled?

6% Restrictions placed by airport... but WHAT restrictions and WHY wasn't
it noticed at check-in?

What we need to know the how's and why's.

I'll give my own example of how my airline lost--by my estimate--about
60 bags on a recent flight out of Toronto. I was inside the plane watching
the bags being loaded into the hold when a cargo vehicle pulled up with
about 100 plastic bins of mail (Canada Post). After those were loaded,
the baggage handlers loaded a few more bags and then I could hear one
of them yelling and signaling to the other "no more" and "too heavy".
To lighten the load, they even took out a couple bags (but not any of
the mail).

The vehicle with the remaining 60 bags simply returned to the terminal
and our flight left. I got my bag at the destination but a lot of people
didn't, and--not surprisingly--they didn't get a true explanation of
why their bags didn't arrive.

If we knew the genuine reasons why luggage gets lost, I think we'd find
that this is not so much a technology problem.
You're actually nailing one of the major reasons why people start with filesharing here, they simply want some song, then can't find it anywhere. Other than from those pesky download sites... so they download their first mp3 or long-out-of-print movie.

And once the skill is learned it gets a lot easier to do it a second time.

Before long you realize that not only is the 'catalogue' a lot larger than in any for-pay store, the quality is usually better, there is no need to part with your personal information and so on. Convenience always was a great selling point.

Maybe it would be a good thing if everybody that ever downloaded a song would voluntarily report to their local jail to be locked up for a week or so. But all at the same day, just to show how ridiculous this is.
Thanks, it was unclear from the website and the article. No free lunch and all that, so when I see something like "What do we want in return? NOTHING!", I get a little suspicious.
What are you talking about? Pirates are glorified in all entertainment media. Almost as popular as ninjas.
Seems like a useful service. One comment: the "Request Invite" link should be much more prominent imho.
In a perfect world I would say the best case is to register the .com and .co.uk (and any other .co.XX country codes you wanted to launch in). And .mobi for mobile.

But of course it's not a perfect world and if you dont snap up the others chances are domain squatters will wind their way in.
The usual fate of a single issue party is that as soon as it starts to attract voters away from more mainstream parties they will update their programs to reflect the discontent felt by the voters, and like that the ideological element of the single issue party gets 'adopted' (some would say hijacked) by others. Then the voters will flock back, and hopefully some real change is enacted.
Sort of related, here is a formalization of the JVM in ACL2:
http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~cowles/jvm-acl2/
Have you read Thomas Aquinas in the original? Or even Maimonides?

There's a reason some minds stand the test of centuries, if not more. Those on the TV today are mere flickering quarks. Those whose names we still utter are galaxies of thought.

I think it's a mistake to dismiss, out-of-hand, the thoughts that lie at the foundations of Western civilization. Religious organizations have always been run by humans. Yet those structures also sheltered and promoted the arts and sciences for hundreds of years without a democracy in sight.

Consider: Your last statement is an example of itself.

Rejecting religion doesn't mean rejecting the religious.
I got a full set of .com, .net and .org to stop any jokers doing spam campaigns or phishing attempts using our brand, for the amount of money involved it was well worth it ($30 / year).

Beyond that, if you are in a certain locality and you plan to roll out with local press support it can't hurt to have your local tld version as well.

If you want to roll out customized versions per country then you may have to go further, lots of countries have some pretty weird rules about registration though.

Remember to get yourself a trademark issued too!
I'm sorry, but "I am proud to say that the end result was the world’s first operating system that is nearly 100% IPv6 compatible (with only a couple unavoidable exceptions), and able to run on a network that has absolutely no IPv4 service." is not exactly innovation. Yes, it is something that they did not have before, but is certainly not a new idea. But beating say BSD at thoroughness, I am not so sure.

And I would like to see citations for that being the first such effort--didn't Open BSD and possibly others have that way back?

But when you are deep within the belly of the beast it can be hard to get a perspective on what is truly happening elsewhere.

When I hear innovation, I think of the C compiler company that MS bought (lattice), the invention of C# after market pressure generated by the innovative invention of Java, buying their first OS, hiring Cutler to do NT after he had done three (and later paying $60 million USD to settle intellectual property issues), and in repeated scenarios being behind the pack on the Internet.
Honestly, it depends on how many albums the artist actually sells VS how large of a draw you are(there is a correlation between both).

Say for example an artist makes 1.35/album and sells 2 million(which is not too bad) and then does 100 shows (which certainly is not out of the realm of possibility)commands 40k fee + merch sales at the venue.

1.35/album * 2,000,000 = 2.7 million
100 shows * 40k = 4 Million + merch sales - costs

So it really depends, the more albums you sell the more money you make from albums. The less albums you sell but the more you tour, so for a middle tier artist who generally doesn't sell an obscene amount of albums but does a lot of gigs, they would certainly make more touring.

Someone like U2, probably makes more from album sales.
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Especially if you become anywhere near successful, and it is cheaper to get the domains right from the get go than to buy them back from some extortionist later.
Not gonna work if the whole reason for needing IE6 was some ActiveX control that interacts with your desktop.
I was SURE I saw another project which used formal proofs of kernels.. though perhaps it wasn't machine checked. In any case, I cannot remember the name and can't seem to find it.

I do find this interesting though, L4 is an interesting microkernel (and one I've played with before).
Argh, wish I had read this in 2007 when I was starting an enterprise software company. Every one of these resonates with me, mostly in a bad way. :)
Where I work the conversation would go something like this: TECH: Who gave you permission to use uncertified software? USER: Uh, noone TECH: I'll have to make a report about this. MANAGER: You're fired.
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SAMSUNG C506 SILVER Electronics has prepared an inexpensive, but stylish GSM phone for the Latin American market. It’s a folding phone under the Index SGH-C506. It features original design, which somehow differs from company’s traditional solutions. As for the extra functionality, I’d mention a VGA-camera only.
I wonder if more permissive licensing for libraries, allowing them to be redistributed more easily, would have an impact. (This is pure, uninformed speculation.)

MS tried making DirectX 10 a Vista exclusive in order to draw in gamers, but I AFAIK the response was lukewarm at best. I think they could've sped up the adoption with an XP version, but this might've been too difficult to backport.
Sorry for being picky, but don't "average drives" rotate between 5400 rpm (rotations per minute == 90 rotations per sec) and 7200 rpm (== 120 rotations per second)?
DreamIt shows off their startups (like YC)
Maybe it'd be better to just print one or two really good replies and bring them to the interview.
Sofa is hiring fulltime employees to work in our nice Amsterdam office(1) in the city centre with ~11 other talented people on our mac apps, web apps and interaction design consultancy.

We need a financial mastermind, web/ui designers and python/cocoa developers. See madebysofa.com/jobs or shoot me an email at koen@madebysofa.com

There is a pretty good program to get a permanent working permit in the Netherlands called the knowledge migrant arrangement, and we can help you get it.

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I had an identical reaction when I found this website.

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
Yeah, agreed. I rather think the main message of this graphic is to show how far away we're by now from each other. So the details whether texting or IM is more intimate are not crucial.
Social Media Marketing for web company vs. brick-and-mortar
Is it much easier to conduct social media marketing for companies that are already web based? Difference between inticing an online user to make just a few extra clicks away from your post or ad while still sitting in the same chair at their pc, vs.... asking them to physically get up and commit to traveling to your brick-and-mortar location. when "s.m.m."-ing, at least have something online to show.
You may hate me for this, but I'd recommend e-lisp.

Why? It's got many of the advantages of scheme, and it's a language that'll treat you well the rest of your programming career (assuming you continue to use emacs).

Also, the immediate feedback and lots of example source is pretty nice.
The title is misleading, this article is actually an examination of economic distortions in the US healthcare industry, and a quite good one at that.
There's nothing particularly astonishing about predicting that history will repeat itself...
"1.35/album * 2,000,000 = 2.7 million"
It should be noted that especially new artists often start getting royalties after the costs of making the record and music videos have been paid. I believe that is a big reason why many one-hit wonders might sell millions world wide and go broke soon after the success fades.
Going "GREEN" with the world's most powerful engine
With all this talk about going green and renewable energy, is there a
way for us to develop a way to harness the power of the worlds most
powerful engine, the search engine, via the form of search hits or ad
clicks (cpm, cpc, cpa, ppc), to create energy, or at least renewable
energy credits through strategic partnerships with power companies,
the companies placing the ads and getting the search hits, and a
search engine. Or could the concept be presented as a game and/or
mobile app? Think of what Lil Green Patch (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7629233915) has been able to accomplish
for saving the rain forest via their facebook game application. Im working on some creative ideas. If you'd like to partner up, contact me at lorenzo.dickerson@gmal.com. Programmers, Electrical Engineers, those working with firms that handle online ads, and whomever else has any constructive criticism, welcome. What do you think. Please give your opinions and ideas.
>Q How do you respond to the counter argument that research costs are huge and patents help companies protect their investment?

>A We're not trying to stifle innovation, what we're trying to do is set a legal framework that says 'okay, you can take a picture from the road, but pointing a camera at my bedroom window, that's not such a good idea'. Google Street View's a really good example of this. People were up in arms, saying 'no this shouldn't happen, yes it should happen'. We want to see laws in place before it happens, rather than after, so everybody knows where they stand.

That doesn't answer the question at all. I hope this doesn't become a trend with them.
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"Insurgence companies"? Do you use a Che Guevara spell-checker?
I made a pathetic attempt at 15 secs of fame with a Rams' Law of Enterprise Software Sales:

"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by corruption."

http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2009/05/rams-law-of-enterprise...

Dharmesh is rather polite.
Excellent point Robg, I take that back.

Thanks for the insight, seriously.

What I think is great about religion is its ability to inspire people to go over and beyond their normal view of the world and to use it as scaffolding to reach higher planes of thought or art. I think JS Bach is a great example of that, but there are plenty more, in just about all fields of human endeavor, including science.

What gets me though is the bigotry and the use of fear and other cheap and demeaning tactics that use religion as a control instrument for large numbers of people.

This is where I have a real problem with religion, my feelings are that if everybody would stop for a little while to pander to the humans that claim to have a wire to their variation on the 'invisible man in the sky' that we might be able to concentrate on the real problems at hand.

Imagine the amazing stuff that could happen if a truly enlightened man became a religious leader (say, a Pope in the spirit of the Dalai Lama or something to that effect).

A lot of damage has been done, now it is time to go fix things, and fix them without being shackled down by the past, but carrying along the lessons from that past.
One potential problem with the scenario outlined here by Krugman is the assumption that an economy organised principally around information will precipitate the devaluing of that knowledge. What's true for oil and steel is not necessarily true for information (a generic categorisation if there ever was one), and Krugman draws this analogy far too glibly. If anything, possessing information makes it easier to acquire more and more valuable information; the technological exponentiation we are living through today makes that point clearly. If information does not obey the basic rule of scarcity that physical goods do, it seems unreasonable to assume automatically that the effect of "information abundance" on the economy will be analogous to a glut of oil or grain.

A lot is also made of the outsourcing of "knowledge workers"; hardly a new phenomenon, even in 1996. And it will almost certainly still exist in 2096. But the inequities in living standards and expectations that makes outsourcing practical currently is steadily being eradicated by the gradual improvement in economic conditions which outsourcing itself helps to make possible. In some sense, the condition is probably self-throttling. The presumptive end of all this is a high-entropy state, where there is no strong "potential difference" between economies to make outsourcing worthwhile: it would eventually become pointless for everyone. I don't imagine we'll reach that point by 2096, though :-)
They can scout out potential recruits, and obtain ideas on how to improve their products. It's an HR and R&D cost.

-edit: also it's good advertising in just having the program, and as gratitude, people part of the program could advocate Redgate's products down the line (it's PR)
I would prefer not to derail this great thread about Hubble with further talk about religion. I'll be happy to share my thoughts if you contact me off-line.
http://yourstartupjob.com -- C# in Los Angeles.
My group at an investment bank in NYC is looking for a developer to join our high frequency order management system. The technology challenge is reducing latency for quantitative/algorithmic black box clients and the resulting arms race is fun to participate in. We code in core Java but are looking to bring in people who are great problem solvers, rather than Java experts. If you're interested send me an email: hockeytops1 [at] yahoo.com
Jut take the most important things with you on board. At least enough underwear for 3 days is the rule of thumb.
Can you name the last time you saw or used a .mobi domain? Or even a .info?

A couple of the others might be valuable, but moreso other country domains (someone else mention the .co.uk and such already). I just wouldn't worry about the seldom used variant tld's myself.
With all this talk about going green and renewable energy, is there a way for us to develop a way to harness the power of the worlds most powerful engine, the search engine, via the form of search hits or ad clicks (cpm, cpc, cpa, ppc), to create energy, or at least renewable energy credits through strategic partnerships with power companies, the companies placing the ads and getting the search hits, and a search engine.

Or could the concept be presented as a game and/or mobile app?

Think of what Lil Green Patch (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7629233915) has been able to accomplish for saving the rain forest via their facebook game application.

Im working on some creative ideas.

If you'd like to partner up, contact me at lorenzo.dickerson@gmal.com.

Programmers, Electrical Engineers, those working with firms that handle online ads, and whomever else has any constructive criticism, welcome.

What do you think? Please give your opinions and ideas.