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I think you should maybe just do nightclub events as thats something eventbrite is totally not doing and theres a lot of money in it. I'm still working on my own startup but I've seen that the surest way to get a business off the ground is to kill another business.

If you can kill part of the nightclub promoter's business out there, you'd seriously make a lot of money. This would mean that apart from core ticketing you would also have to focus on helping your clients with creating a media-buzz etc. IT would definitely be something eventbrite doesnt do.

If you can keep yourself in a niche that eventbrite doesnt do then its possible they could buy you in the future.

Best of luck with this.
See http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/
There are (at least) two good points here: language power is a partial ordering not a total one, and Hindley-Milner type systems are probably the most prominent candidate for a purely language-level construct that Lisp wouldn't naturally extend to.
I actually think in the Bay Area, it's reverse. Having a Mac or an IPhone is conformity. I have never seen so many Mac/IPhone users anywhere else in the world.
When something bad happens most of the times its the situation/randomness that is the cause, when something good happens most of the time it is caused by a person.

Humans are the vehicles of anti-randomness, we make patterns.
Bajaj Bike: Plans to Launch New Motorcycles in 4 Months
Bajaj Auto is panning to introduce its second new bike for the year in November. The new motorcycle will be in competition with the Hero Honda Splendor and Hero Honda Passion bikes, which rule the roost.
You're right that there's no NLP going on. That's obvious from the results that "what is isk eve" returns (I get two, not one). But that doesn't mean there isn't any faith in NLP going on. :)
Read through Brad Feld's "term sheet" tagged posts: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/category/term-sheet - you can pretty much become an expert on term sheets.
the money looks very good, but clearly it is not in the interest of your well heeled employer to let you go. im sure as far as they are concerned they would most like to see you terminated permanently rather than just in your hr records.

so, any recommended reading here on "software that enables the buying and selling of shares in milliseconds". obviously not something that... obvious ;)
Perhaps the point is easier to see if you consider "no alien races" in isolation -- the lack of intelligent extraterrestrial life seems to lead directly to the notion that we humans are special (i.e., the most intelligent form of life in the entire Universe). On the other hand, the question of whether there are any intelligent civilizations within a distance such that contact could be established without both such civilizations inventing travel at relativistic speeds (if only one is near-light speed, maybe the other one ages and dies before being reached) may provide an "out". I'm not sure whether we can actually beat aging by driving toward each other at, say, 0.9c each relative to our home planets; it's been a while since I did time dilation in physics.
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Ask HN: Whats more important? Size of the target market or Passion for an idea.
I was wondering which of the following do you feel is more of an incentive to work on founding a startup:

A) The target market. Ie you only really care about making money. The bigger the market the more attractive it is to you. The idea is a means to an end.

B) Passion for the field/area which would be affected by your startup.

C) The very idea of starting something successful "from scratch". Ie independence from a boss etc.

D) The lifestyle that can be had from running your own successful company.

edit: Changed A). I think target market is kind of saying that you really only care about how much money/value you can make as soon as possible.
The possibility of riches.
Passion for the field/area which would be affected by your startup.
The idea of starting something successful "from scratch".
The lifestyle that can be had from running your own successful company.
Proper guidance? Does that ever rub me the wrong way.
I wonder how he kept track of all the phone company employees he gained the trust of, etc. Being blind he probably couldn't write things down easily.

I also wonder if he could have avoided being caught indefinitely by keeping track of information better and taking more precautions. How long would it take a superintelligent computer to effectively take over the world with nothing more than phone access?
No. 1 Hybrid Car (Prius) in USA expected to come to India in 2010
In this world of global warming everyone is looking for a green drive & for that the Hybrids are the best option because with the green tag attached to it, the fuel efficiencies also come with it!
Try using this if you can: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
OpenCL Rocks: Why You Care
The Venture Hacks archives have a lot of good reading material:

http://venturehacks.com/archives
The Funded Publishes Ideal First Round Term Sheet
function over form
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
The reality is quite the opposite. The history of ides is not a history of gradually discarding the assumption that it's all about us - rather, it's a history of building up and defending the assumption that it's all about us. Why? Because if there is no God, there is no ultimate being which we are accountable to. Although evolution doesn't have to lead to the conclusion that there is no God, we happily assume it does---because then we can all be our own gods, making up our own rules. Sure, we might not think the sun revolves around our world any more, but we are selfish in many many other (more subtle) ways.
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Since 10^12 is way way bigger than a 2^32, it's either the average of the numbers, or a strange degenerate case. (10^11 1's followed by 10^11 3s).

just calculate the average, and remember the item closest to the current average.
Can't reach self actualization without an Apple enema.

The whole "I'm a PC" response from MS was decent. Unfortunately, they didn't go after the fashion statement base, which are the only Mac users who bother me. They're the ones that could be surfing the same Internet on a PC for 1/2 the cost.
[F]or hosting providers that do not a) increase their hardware configurations or b) decrease their price on at least a bi-yearly basis, their profit margins are actually increasing over time.

Not necessarily. What about inflation? It's remarkable that technology continues to become cheaper while our currency is decreasing in value. It just makes me wonder what we'd be paying if we used hard money instead.
Berkeley Statistician Reviews Taleb's "The Black Swan" (Jan 2009)
Having your identity childishly hacked is unlikely to interfere with your ability to live for a higher purpose. It might temporarily make it appear as though you were breaking your standards, but are appearances really what matter to standards-upholding folk?

>They should just laugh it off when somebody takes their identity and has them say things they never would.

What advantages are presented by alternative approaches?
Clojure risks heading that way; for all its beauty, clojure is losing its culture fast! You can already see Design Patterns being shoehorned on top of it, Java programmers will embrace it and extend it in earnest.

The sort of applications being written with the language are a huge factor in making it attractive to other users. All the truly beautiful languages had operating systems or huge desktop applications written in them; you used the language to extend something already powerful. It rewards your programming. Clojure will most likely become a server-side programming language, with little user interaction.
"The real success of the cloud like compute services so far has been in bringing small and midsize companies to market incredibly fast." Totally agreed here, and I think this is why hackers and entrepreneurs are so excited about the cloud - it does away with traditional concerns of infrastructure, allowing more focus on ideas.
But here, there are two different ways to apply the article.
1) Don't be human centric, so there is likely to be another alien race that "created" us in some sense.
2) Consider randomness, so accept the possibility that there no intelligence behind our existence and instead a random collision of particles (or something) created us (or created the beginnings of life on earth).
Heh, it did me too. I charged into the abyss all alone, eager to demolish my self. And ... succeeded. It very nearly turned out badly. When I say guidance, all I mean is someone who has been there and can pull you back if necessary. An extended "trip sitter", although this doesn't involve drugs.
Cadence's SKILL seems to be a pretty good attempt. Looking at it still gives me the willies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_SKILL
Open Yale's ECON 252 - Financial Markets by Professor Robert Shiller was very interesting. It includes also some top notch visiting lectures, e.g. by Carl Icahn, Stephen Schwarzman and David Swensen.

ECON 159 - Game Theory by Professor Ben Polak is very thorough.

Both are video-based, no materials required. Questionnaire pdfs between "classes" for recap.

http://oyc.yale.edu/economics or on Academic Earth.
Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet
Ask HN: Real-world experience importing from China?
Is anyone familiar with the site alibaba.com? "Global Trade starts here" they say. As far as I know, alibaba is basically a hub for overseas manufacturers to contact overseas buyers....you buy products in minimum lots of 100, etc.

It seems logical to have one central source for overseas manufacturers to market their products to buyers, but to someone in the real know, are sites like alibaba just for suckers? Are you way overpaying for products vs dealing more directly with someone closer to the manufacturer?

Anyoine have any experience in this sort of thing?
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http://www.slideshare.net/pieterh/restms-introduction
Scientists Develop "Intelligent" Coffee Mug
I love the slides comparing the old gas pump to the new one, it really demonstrates how high-quality appearance brings about feelings of trust.
Thats not really accurate. There is a difference between believing its "all about us" and believing "we can do whatever we want." They are in many ways counter to each other.

If what we do doesn't have any meaning (i.e. if no one is watching) then we might as well do anything we want. By discarding the idea of god, its true that we do tend to place ourselves as the highest beings in existence, but that doesn't mean we put ourselves at the center, we just discard the idea that there is a center.
Great line to pull out, and most relevant to the Y crowd for sure. What's interesting is that all of that hacker success has really made enterprises take notice and they are trying to figure out the magic too. Problem is they aren't nearly as nimble at writing new apps for this paradigm.
This really depends. Is the purpose of your startup to make you financially independent for the rest of your life? Are you already set and are now wanting to try changing the world? Can you live in your parents' basement for a few years while your great idea 'changes the world'?

If you don't love what you're doing, it will ultimately be difficult to stick with it for any extended period of time (2+ years). However, many startups can be sold off in that sort of shorter timeframe, making it mostly irrelevant if you care much for the work.
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No offense to PG, but I really feel this is a better piece on, maybe not the same idea, but a similar sentiment:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178211966454607.html
Am I the only one thinking this is all rather convenient?

As any good PR team should do (and I know Apple's are excellent), after the big backlash they experienced over the GoogleVoice debacle, they are now slowly but surely turning it around.

OK, I am cynical, but using the old "you didn't understand my inflection" to win an argument is something I used against my sister - when I was 10.
I begin to think that it would be easier to burn the universities to the ground and start over.
That's true, although before we get too smug about those "out of touch with the realities of building software systems" academics, we should remember that often those seemingly absurd and fanciful little corners turn out to be serious game changers. Lisp itself, for instance.
I've thought an unhealthy amount about this. My solution is for everyone to copy the vote of whichever one of their friends seems like the best voter (most intelligent, unaffiliated, conscientious, etc.) If someone thinks they are a better voter than all of their friends then they decide who to vote for themselves. The advantages of this system are twofold:

1. On average, better politicians get elected because the voting decisions of society's best-equipped voters are being amplified.

2. Only a small part of the population has to bother themselves with following political news. Since they're such great voters they'll probably do it in much greater depth (reading actual bills and scientific papers; carefully scouring campaign websites instead of believing rumors they hear on TV.)
Ok, agreed - discarding the centre doesn't necessitate that we put ourselves in that spot. What I would argue though is that by our human nature have a strong tenancy to put ourselves in the centre. We're not always blatantly selfish (or proud), but if we really look at ourselves, we're pretty good at it in lots of small ways.
I once signed up with alibaba.com to get some leads on sourcing LCDs, since then they've been spamming me 3x daily about LCDs, so they're certainly efficient. I wished I could get off their list somehow :) Other than that no experience with them.
Interesting, but not entirely new.

One thing, I've heard before that removing profits does not stifle innovation, but the economics/game theoretic argument (essentially lack of motivation) seems convincing. I'd be interested to see if anyone has an explanation for the continuing innovation.
Oh....so, the app isn't rejected...it just.....hasn't been approved. Ok, you've won back my trust apple!
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In my opinion this is a good argument for getting a degree in something somewhat unrelated to computer science like math or engineering.
A great example (seemingly effortless on Gruber's part) of integrity & accountability in journalism. Thank you.
My only experience on Alibaba involved someone sending me a free sample of a fake product. Whatever you do, get references and make sure you trust them before you wire the money.

As far as a general answer to your question -- it depends, but Ali Baba is certainly not only for suckers. It's too big to be worthless.
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> have you ever heard of, or does it even seem conceivable, that someone could get killed in the "beer trade"

It happened during Prohibition, so it's unclear why you think that it's inconceivable.

However, I'm compariing between drugs and booze.

I'm pointing out that the "{something bad} will happen" arguments against legalizing drugs almost always use a "{something bad}" that is happens while they're illegal. In other words, legalization doesn't change whether said something occurs, so said something isn't relevant to the legalization or not discussion.
Shipping Containers for Green Housing 
In previous articles we have touched on the fact that more and more contractors are starting to use cargo/shipping containers to build homes and commercial office spaces. What we haven’t discussed is that these containers also have an environmentally friendly aspect to them.
In fact one of the best reasons for using acargo/shipping container to build your home or office structure is the green aspect to cargo containers. These containers are built to withstand severe weather conditions when hauling cargo across the ocean and therefore are perfect for building homes…but that is not what this article is about.
This article is about the GREEN aspect of using cargo containers. The fact that there are millions of cargo containers sitting unused at ports around the world is another reason to start using these containers for things other than hauling cargo.
The average cargo container weighs about 4 1/2 tons and and it takes about 9000 kilowatt hours to melt them down. That is a huge waste of energy when you consider that these containers can be used for so many different applications.
The energy saved from melting a steel container down can power a 70 Watt light bulb for 15 years!! Yes, you read that right. Just from NOT melting a cargo container down you get the enough energy savings to power a light bulb for 15 years! And when you consider that cargo containers themselves are energy efficient you can start to see the clear green benefit of using cargo containers to build homes or other structures.
There are many areas of the United States, and other countries, where housing is critically needed and the used shipping container can help solve a lot of these housing problems. They are energy efficient, there is a good supply of them, and they are fairly easy to make into affordable….and nice housing.
The cost of building a home from cargo containers can be comparable to the cost of building a “regular” home, but the fact that the containers are made out of steel make them more durable than wood.
And…cargo containers used for homes has a much smaller carbon footprint than wood homes. Also, consider the fact that termites would never be a problem with a cargo container home! No wood to chew on!
Another benefit to using cargo containers to build homes is the speed and ease of construction, which also saves energy. The time to build a home from cargo containers can be half the time to build a conventional home. It is estimated that in multi-family homes the cost savings can be as high as 15%.
So the next time you think about building a home….just don’t think about the conventional way to build homes. Think about using cargo containers. People around the world are discovering that cargo containers not only make great components to homes, but they also help save energy.
As someone that runs a startup with a handful of interns, this is one of my biggest anxieties, that my interns will be sitting around waiting for "the boss" (me) to give them something to do.

To remedy this, I try never to give them tasks, but instead to give them expectations, targets, and responsibilities. Then my job becomes one of checking in on them and assisting from time to time if they appear to be struggling. They know they'll be held accountable for how things turn out, so they tend to work hard.

That said, getting away from task-driven management is a constant struggle.
> "You have to create images and sounds and if you can't you have to buy them."

As a hobbyist game developer, this idea is probably the most key thing to game development (for a hacker) - and gets a bit more nuanced.

There's a very real cost-benefit to the type of game you're making vs. the cost of content.

For example, in a first-person shooter content costs a lot more than, say, SimCity. That one wall you had to model, texture, and light? In the player's field of vision for may 2 seconds tops. The amount of labor required to generate all of your artistic assets is pretty prohibitive - which is why we don't see many shooters coming out of small shops, and shooters tend to be mass-market affairs so that they stand a shot at recouping the investment.

On the other hand, games like SimCity have significantly less content development going on. That one building? Replicated hundreds of times over in a single game, players keep coming back and seeing it, but never get bored. Each piece of content goes further and has considerably more lasting power than it does in an action game.

This is something many amateur devs disregard to their peril - the very structure of your game needs to account for your low-budget status. The alternative is to try and execute a shooter on a budget, and then compromise on the quality of the content (or worse, use bad design to gloss it over: e.g. making players traverse a level backwards).