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The thing I'm thinking about is, IF the girl is decently attractive enough to warrant such bids and attention, she should have no trouble getting dates. She might actually be wary of displaying herself on a meatmarket full of hungry males with 99 cents to lose.

I had a somewhat similar idea I fleshed out a couple of years ago that also involved local dating, but was more targeted at the 9-5 working crowd and bringing them together on an invite/want basis for quick coffee/lunch dates that brought a couple together long enough to 'get to know' but not so long that it got uncomfortable. What I couldn't figure out was how to monetize it, but your 99 cent 'participation' fee is intriguing me enough to try and resurrect it. I wouldn't mind exchanging a couple of no-strings emails with you if you'd like to discuss.
It doesn't seem to me so much as a victim of Sapir-Whorf (i.e. in the strong form, the hypothesis that the set of concepts that can be conceptualized is constrained by the language used for conceptualization) as a victim of some presumption that everyone thinks of their code "out loud".

I wonder if there's a correlation between this kind of thinking about code and a predisposition towards imperative languages and thinking of all programs as recipes with lists of things to do in a particular order.
and what are these "sources"?
you're covering it up with the term "actual" what does that mean?

your second assertion doesn't make any sense either. "account" would imply that pzombies would be different from "normal" normal people I guess?
The promo video is nice!

But does it recognize foreign accents?

Does it work on a train :-) ? Or at a coffee shop.

I have never had good experiances with voice recognition... so no, I wouldn't use this.
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People who are really serious at work, get into jobs in the last year of uni or before. There are loads of programs at uni, that you can get involved in, to help businesses. Some of these even pay, i did one that involved stochastic modelling for a large car company. That is when you should get involved, companies don't want someone with no experience of how to act in the work place.
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Though if you enter "business plan" into the search box you get a pretty relevant page.
"Bowdlerize" is more specific than "censor". I don't think it applies here.
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the problem is that he looses the key difference between short-tailed and long-tailed distributions

Isn't this basically what the entire "Black Swan" book is about? The difference between what he calls "Mediocristan" and "Extremistan", and that physical reality is in Mediocristan, is the basic concept he starts out with.
You know, I was told if I worked hard I would get a job. I did, and I did. Many people I know did the same, were always working during Uni, and had little problem getting a job. Many people I know don't work hard, slacked around at uni, and can't find a job.

I found this advice to be quite good, although I am sure it doesn't work for everyone. Then again, I never felt I was entitled to a job.
"After about a year, he could do over 100 squats and 50 push-ups in near perfect form."

I hope you don't seriously consider push-ups depicted on the picture below to be "near perfect form"...
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I wasn't thinking of callbacks, but rather of the generic plumbing for, e.g., GUI elements that contain other GUI elements. And I never suggested it was necessary, only useful: it's nice to have Button be a type, but it's also nice to have addToWindow take any Element. There are GUI systems that don't do this---the DOM, for example---but they have their own warts.

I don't follow the last two sentences.
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And we already know that the population of the universe is 0.

After all, there can only be a finite number of populated worlds in an infinite universe of worlds, and any finite number divided into infinity is effectively 0.

(And yes, I appreciate the fallacy of assuming an infinite universe while assuming finite anything within it.)
I wouldn't say that. It's helping him expound upon the entitled morass that is his life. He'll have reached true zen when he realizes he could've saved $40K and said "Fuck You." to the world without college.
Headline almost makes it sound like Google Voice is "dead" or like something political happened legislative-wise to prevent Voice from operating. When I saw the author, it actually made some sense; during the Nov. election, I was a poll worker (volunteer) with Kessler's son. In Atherton of all places.
I was very interested in BOSS and was manuvering to convince my employer to start using it. Then I gave up since I assumed it's days were numbered / it would end up being ruined by MS/Bing (they don't have the best online track record).

Is the "backend" of BOSS not being replaced with Bing?
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Facebook is so powerfully useful. It's easy networking. Super easy to pass a message to anyone you know. No need to remember their email, with just a name I can find out roughly what anyone of my friends is up to and if they are available. Yes it gobbles up huge chunks of time, but it does have a functional purpose.
Well written opinion, but misleading title - I was expecting WSJ to have found out that it was AT&T who killed Google Voice, although we don't seem to know that yet. One can hope that this is high-profile enough reporting to let out some info about what happened, exactly.

Also, some of the advice is questionable:

Transition away from "owning" airwaves. As we've seen with license-free bandwidth via Wi-Fi networking, we can share the airwaves without interfering with each other. Let new carriers emerge based on quality of service rather than spectrum owned. Cellphone coverage from huge cell towers will naturally migrate seamlessly into offices and even homes via Wi-Fi networking. No more dropped calls in the bathroom.

But cell phone coverage reaches a lot farther than wifi. I'm not a radio physicist, but I think 802.11 allows communication over 14 channels, each of which can be crowded, and some of which can cause interference for others. It was designed with overlapping WAP and a (relatively) small number of people connecting to each. Now, I'm rather clueless about the implementations of cell phone protocols, but I know enough to think twice before saying "open her yup, baby! no dropped calls in the bathroom!" - it doesn't sound as if the author does. Can we keep GSM/GPRS/EDGE if we allow many overlapping connections? If not, are backwards compatible replacements feasible, or will we need to replace every cell phone in the country?

Encourage faster and faster data connections to our homes and phones. It should more than double every two years. To homes, five megabits today should be 10 megabits in 2011, 25 megabits in 2013 and 100 megabits in 2017.

Also, virgins should rain from the sky. The number should double every year. Five virgins today should be 10 virgins in 2011, etc.

These data-connection speeds are technically doable today, with obsolete voice and video policy holding it back.

What policy is he talking about? Is there a reason for this policy aside from holding back data speeds and virgins?
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The subhead says "failure is good" but reading further it becomes clear that what he's saying is "failures come with the territory" Most startups fail. Successes are of course better, but failures are expected and not seen as negatives, more as learning experiences and motivators to succeed on the next attempt.
@phreanix sure, would be good to talk. send me an email: j[at]jasonlbaptiste.com
"Forgets" is being too nice.
Great start, was enjoyable and informative. Looking forward to the next chapters...
Market size, basically. A company making software for, say, cataloguing butterfly collections wouldn't be a startup.
Hmmm. I didn't wait for it to load. <-- See that? That's my initial comment, then I thought better of it, came back and waited for the thing to load; and I'm glad I did. It was a very informative and fast read. It should be made into a web site. PDFs drive me nuts.
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Does anyone know a webservice that will distribute invites to your beta site? One that allows invitees to invite, say, 6 other friends.

I believe I saw this a few weeks ago, but can't find it now.
Sequoia's new an experiment to dissuade the technically challenged.

I suspect that they will change their website back to something more useable in a week or so.
Heh I just typed "submit a bus.." and it autocompleted to a really nicely designed page on submitting a business plan (http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas).
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Useful and productive are two totally different ideas.

Useful is the definition of Yelp or Google Maps.

Productive. Well, perhaps a GTD app.
Yeah all search that doesn't autocomplete seems to redirect to a China version and then use Google search (which has inaccurate links now). On a side note I wonder if they are giving Google an accurate index.
I don't feel all that entitled but I can understand why the "get good grades, goto a good college, have a wonderful life" crowd feels short changed. That message was drilled into their heads by teachers, family, friends, etc. I would probably feel entitled in that situation. You did all the "right things" and aren't seeing the promised benefits. No one mentioned sometimes it takes a while or just never happens. For any political issues like health care young people make themselves, and issues they care about, irrelevant by not voting in sufficiently large numbers. Again, the promise of democracy doesn't really live up to reality. I suspect it's just a common generational problem. In your 20's you're young enough to remember carefree youth but not successful enough yet to see your own life as living up to your expectations.
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Or how about "the presence of failure is good", since it means people are trying things and taking risks.
I failed :(

What minimum Firefox version would I need for canvas text support?...
There is a difference between not getting it and not having a use for it though, I've seen too many people complain about not getting twitter - suggesting they don't understand the simple concept. Perhaps this is a fault of the Twitter UX? I "got it" straight away.
Would someone please clarify exactly what has changed? I cannot make out heads or tails from the discussion here or on Paypal. How was it before? How is it now?
Welcome to the rat race.
I'm sorry to hear it. There's some pretty ugly stuff coming out, for sure.
Or just ditch PayPal altogether, and sign up for Google Checkout.

Good advice. I used PayPal for the first time in years trying out listia.com the other day, and was amazed that they still haven't added autocomplete="off" to their credit card number fields - every piece of information one needs to make online purchases is cached (unencrypted, usually) to your hard disk. Idiocy.
Social security was never supposed to be reimbursement of money you paid into the system. It's always been a system of transfer payments - reimbursement of money other people paid into the system. That's why it worked: when it was instated, there were many more people paying into the system than receiving benefits.

The sooner people realize that, the sooner they can come to terms with its eventual bankruptcy. That's why I hate it when people repeat the myth that you're supposed to get out what you put in. It'll make for a very rude awakening when you don't.
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That's a good point.

One could argue they might have just made a bad powerpoint, but that sounds really weak.
Why is the data on all the traffic stats sites so far off for them?
I know those sites are hardly accurate, but my own startup with significantly less than 1M uniques shows at least as equal to dailybooth.com (and more often than not towers above them) on all of Compete/Alexa/Google Trends/Quantcast, even though their graph published on TC claims >3M.
Is there maybe something about the Twitter integration that those sites can't track?
I wouldn't try and judge by the picture.
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Very unconventional. I wonder who they consider their user base.
Four years too late. Sorry MySpace, nobody likes you anymore.
I was told if I worked hard I would get a job. I figured this was bullshit, so I slacked off. I never had problems finding a job. :-P

The plural of anecdote is not data. ;-)
I'll put my hand up as a Melbournite if someone is desperate to check up on Darren. Let me know if anyone is actually interested in some HN confirmation.

(for my behalf - I think Darren looks pretty legit - he makes money on stuff like photography & the olympics - and gets famous writing about blogging)
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Anything that lets you interact with anybody else in any way is going to tempt uselessness. If you want to take an objective look at the whole of technology, I'm sure you could sneer at all the people who play video games on desktops, or take joy rides in cars, or chat for hours on the phone, when they could be using the same technology to be productive.

Facebook's like that. You can waste yourself in a mire of hundreds of friends and pointless updates. You can also do what I do: Maintain a calendar and let friends invite you to their goings-on; write essays and discuss them with a closed network of friends; discuss goings-on in said closed circles. Facebook is a utility. It offers you a lot and lets you decide what you want. Most people choose to waste that tool. They're allowed to. It doesn't lessen the effect of Facebook itself.
That's actually really interesting, I've always interpreted the 'value' in that phrase to be a character trait. Whereas you are saying that it's 'value' as in an equation, so putting in hours volunteering = good outcomes.
The problem with Redis is its insane memory consumption. Memory space taken by data is inflated over an order of magnitude compared to its "natural" size on-disk. I'm not sure if this is inherent or is something that can be fixed (eg with some sort of compression) but it makes the DB pretty much unusable for me at the moment. Pity because I really like it!
Why is he downmodded? Try using the site. It really is horrible. Auto-complete occasionally takes over the text box and most search results seem to lead to missing pages.

Looks like the only function of this website is to attract coverage in Wired, TC and the rest of the hyposphere. This is the Bruno of websites (the character, not the movie), a unique combination of incredible pretense and complete incompetence rarely seen until now outside fields like art, fashion and architecture.
Tell that to the women who was crying.
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This was fascinating for me, they found the solution by analyzing how the sandcastle worm secreted a glue in seawater that glued pieces of sand together to make it's home. Key paragraph:

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3. Competitions help people learn teamwork under pressure.

Well said. I can honestly say that I've been in very few situations more stressful than the ICPC programming competitions. I guess I'm decent but not great at competitive coding, so I always expect more of myself than I end up doing :-/ Great experience though, wouldn't miss it for the world.
The rates haven't changed. They stopped charging business accounts a fee for personal payments, and clarified (made the UI more explicit) that they do charge a fee for all account types for goods & services.

See https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2009/08/a-clarification-on-pay...

The parent article is just wrong.
This post was ridiculously good, I hope more people vote it up so that it gets wider exposure.
The Fee page on PayPal's site doesn't exactly clarify either: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_display-...

It still says "Free when the money comes from PayPal balance or bank account", which is what I thought people were complaining is no longer the case.
Official clarification from PayPal: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2009/08/a-clarification-on-pay...
This sounds really cool and I will check it out next time I fly. One thing - is the patent on your patent-pending algorithm really appropriate? Necessary? I imagine there's some prior art, too, since I bet the airlines have statistical models to predict whether their own flights are going to be late based on weather, congestion, etc.
You're the first person I've run into who is 100% satisfied with the DMV. Which office do you use?

What is your interaction with the IRS and SS? (I haven't run into any problems giving them money, but that's all that I've done with them so I don't have useful data.)

I receive USPS mail for a different address at least twice a week. I haven't been burned yet by my mail being misdelivered, but odds are that I won't stay a lucky unicorn forever.
That must be an American thing. I've never heard of someone having to pay for incoming messages.
RIP AT&T

(too bad that was also said a generation ago)
Yes, Florida is a natural place to do launches. However, the question was why mission control is split between Florida and Texas.

This split predates the shuttle by quite a while.

Was Huntsville a hot-bed of technical expertise before NASA or its predecessors?
Social Security is (or is at least supposed to be) reimbursement of money you paid into the system.

This is true only to the extent that it reimburses/rewards/repays people who actually work. It isn't really based on how much you pay, but the taxable amount of your income. Also, how long you've been working.

Interesting that this topic should come up; just this morning I received my yearly information statement from the SSI. Have been working since age 15 (according to the statement, this is how long I've been paying taxes, too). Actually am pretty astounded at how little "taxable income" I've made in my lifetime. Has absolutely _nothing_ to do with how hard I've worked.

Maybe people who spend all day in nice air-conditioned offices who complain about how "unfair" things like Social Security are should try ditching their suits for a construction belt in the Las Vegas sun for 3 or so years. That's what my dad did (construction), and he passed away before he ever saw a penny of his Social Security benefits. Of course. That's how the people in the air-conditioned offices like it, don't they?
The rates have changed. I've noticed it in our own sales. It started earlier this month.
I'd rather go with "failure is better than not trying at all", which seems to be exactly what he meant but is also so obvious that I doubt it'd make a good blog post. ;-)
If something claims to be scientific but leaves you with less questions than you came in with it's lying.
It's a recent can&usa thing (was introduced in canada several months ago). It's very likely just a scheme to coerce most subscribers to get a text messaging plan and boost their ARPU by $3 to $10 dollars, since all of the 'plans' have free incoming texts.
An interesting post, greatly harmed by this little note:

(Linguistically, this same devolution has happened with the Web itself. Although it's TidBITS house style to capitalize "Web" - a proper noun that's a shortening of "World Wide Web" - it's commonplace to see even professionally edited publications lowercase the word, thus de-emphasizing the fact that it's a unique thing. I think they're wrong: "Web" should always be capitalized, as should "Internet.")

Linguistically, no one cares. This is so unimportant a point that it just points out how pedantic the author is. Just because someone doesn't know the origin of a word doesn't mean that they can't use that word correctly and to good use. That's like complaining that people spell the word "medieval" instead of "mediaeval" and trying to argue that it must then be impossible to understand the Battle of Hastings.
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Folks, like many of you, I <3 YC and tech startups. I know most of you are working on software, in particular web startups, so I've got a question for you all.

Like you all, I too have the YC dream and would love to do my own startup (& looking for co-founder also!). I've decided after much thought that I must be passionate and care about the target market, and the target market I've decided to tackle problems for is: entrepreneurs, specifically, web entrepreneurs.

For those of you who are running a web startup .. what are some problems that you wish someone solved for you? Obviously some problems you can't "outsource", but there's gotta be some problems that is shared by all of you that someone else can tackle.

For starters, the one thing I've thought about is UI/UX testing. Most web startups may or may not realize its value, may or may not know how to do it, .. perhaps an opportunity?

I would sincerely appreciate any feedback ..
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Look we all have to sacrifice some liberty for security. For example, we sacrifice our right to kill others so that we cannot be killed ourselves right? It's not pure liberty, or pure security.

When a police officer points a gun at someone that is harassment right? So we have to allow the police some degree of ability to harass people and to do it with a reasonable amount of suspicion right? And there's a line determining what acceptable harassment is. Well I believe that line wasn't crossed because that lady called the police in and they acted.

And I won't advocate it across the board, because there is a point where it crosses the line and while the last example of the cop with the van in the article would probably cross the line, I think the other reasons for its use didn't.

My point is that nothing is all-or-nothing. There is a gray area and you can't make a snap decision that they were wrong simply by reading that article. You'd really have to understand their situation. But given the details in the article most of the reasoning behind its use was okay.
I read that prior to asking for clarity! I want specifics. Can anyone confirm exactly what changed?