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Also they're getting the dev unlocked version of the phone which is $400, not $180... a lot of subpar reporting on this, giz isn't alone in having the facts wrong.

It seems to me like you get much better bandwidth talking about books by meeting in person. Do internet book clubs work?

Why did you make a sock puppet account to complain about the stories on HN? Why not just read the FAQ?

It is not clear to me whether you should date lots of girls, or just know lots of girls who you could date if your current relationship falls apart.

I think I agree when it comes to clients and investors, but in terms of major technical (or business-plan type) components, once you have multiple avenues you'll need more resources, more planning, and it seems like you'll inevitably lose focus.

Date lots of women but only marry one?

There are some interesting questions about net neutrality that shouldn't be dismissed off the bat, but "google doesn't pay their fair share" isn't one of them.

Internet connectivity and bandwidth are now largely commodities, and hence not as high-growth or profitable as, say, Internet advertising pre-crisis. It's only natural that telecom companies want to cash in, and I personally think that all such companies* should be able to regulate packets as they see fit.

*that are not taking advantage of government-mandated monopolies in their infrastructure

There are four entries in your startup diary and four submissions to HN -- this ratio seems a little bit off to me.

What's the advantage over all other digg clones? Don't mean this in a snide way -- couldn't tell in thirty seconds, and I was looking...

better titles on "This wikipedia page is interesting" posts, please!

Sorry, I'm meaning to order this from Amazon -- it got a lot of props in an ask.mefi thread. Didn't mean to imply that I had read it. Do you have a better suggestion?

This is a deep question; I think the answer is a mix of economics and philosophy. Depending on how interested you are, consider maybe "History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell.

The final not I think is a goal that OCW is working towards. I doubt the first three will ever be goals.

* MIT is not the University of Phoenix. You have to attend the school to get an MIT education.

* OCW is a project to provide open courseware. It is not a school.

* MIT faculty have their primary responsibility to enrolled students and their research programs (and not necessarily in that order). It doesn't scale (e.g., is impossible) for OCW to grant access to them.

MIT is an excellent engineering school, but there are many others. Among other things, I think some of OCW's goals are to offer/help provide a superb curriculum for those schools -- where, if enrolled, you would be able to get an education, degree, and faculty access.

fwiw I have a masters from MIT, but no involvement with the ocw project.

had I seen this, I would have flagged it for deletion, the same way I would soething asserting:

"If sharks exist, Darwinian evolution tells us to expect intelligent sharks. Killer sharks with head-mounted lasers will be found by marine biologists within five years. Have you factored this into you start up's expectations?"

Your post was absurd and uninteresting... most likely it was categorized as spam, not 'censored'.

From his website:

"I'll probably keep working on topological quantum field theory and other wimpy subjects"

I would be careful what you tell him to go read...

What's the technical underpinnings of the stateful stuff? Is it more than multithreading? Ruby specific? Seems neat, but hard to tell if it will really be useful (in possibly the same vein as javascript-based "OS in a browser"s). Can you come up with a killer app? Or reproduce a well known mashup with very few lines of your own code?

On the backend, you'll definitely need sophisticated monitoring/resource allocation stuff once you have users, right?

Your suggestion is open to:

a) echo chamber: you'd get a lot more lisp/arc startups funded than you should

b) gaming: I'll get all my friends to join so they can vote to give me money

I haven't reread "Wisdom of the Crowds" recently, but this answer just rings false to me. For example, I don't invest based on comments on Google finance.

does anyone have experience with windows based HPC? Seems like this is an area where *nix has long dominated.

Nothing on the front page of the website says beta. It's only when I get to the step of my book being created that I have multiple timeouts and I need to refresh multiple times. In fact, the page even has in bold:

"We're having some occasional time-outs; until we crack that, if the information takes longer than a minute or two to come up, just refresh this page."

I think this is poor user experience, and not having the site clearly marked as beta may give users undue expectations. Not trying to be too harsh, but I have spent five minutes and haven't seen even the TOC of my personalized travel guide.

Your blog gets to be whatever you want, but if you want one that is HN submission quality, one thing to consider given that you're just starting out is to have a (or a few) friends edit your writing before you post it. You'll notice that all of pg's essays have a "thanks to x,y,z" at the bottom.

Thesis of the book (article is a book review):

"it’s almost impossible to raise academic ability, to turn the below-average into even the slightly less below-average. It’s only “educational romanticism” that makes us think we can."

I disagree in principle, although I don't have a lot of exposure to the science/data concerned here. What is pretty clear to me is that currently, the United States as a whole is not culturally geared to hold education, science, etc as important and/or "sexy". Consider the ratio of how many people watch Reality TV compared to Mythbusters and the like.

I would be interest in what kind of applicants you get for this kind of ad, especially from your posting HN (assuming evn=twitter.com/ev). Seems like a nice chance to work with senior people, but it seems like it would be a rare hacker who doesn't mind running errands and fetching coffee.

I hope jobshare tracks referrer URLs so you can see where applicants are finding the ad.

If you're going to have a humorous, content-free post, at least try harder. Even on a rainy Saturday!

I find this blog post poorly written. Too informal to be informative, to me. Points made are overly general rather than insightful. Sounds like the author has interesting things to say (and relevant experience), but the presentation ruins it for me. E.g.:

"I guess I don't suck at design. I just suck in certain areas."

"It's impossible to be great at everything. You just can't do it all on your own."

I don't think its mentioned in the version of the article you linked (good choice on the printed version to link, though): this article is from February 2007. It also focuses on the failures of ex-CEO Terry Semel, not Jerry Yang's current predicament.

Closing argument for the lazy: "At Yahoo, the marketers rule, and at Google the engineers rule. And for that, Yahoo is finally paying the price."

Also given that there are competing, comparable, open source/commercial wiki projects (a mindtouch cofounder commented on the article), the developers do have other places to go...

The article sites Wilson Sonsini as an investor in Twiki.net, but they're actually a law firm. I'm confused.

Isn't this just temporary? I mean, shouldn't we wait like a month before complaining?

Did you miss the part where they say "Google supports the OpenID 2.0 Directed Identity protocol, and provides authentication support as an OpenID provider"?

They're supporting 2.0 which supports discovery requests...

I don't think your last point is very fair. See e.g.:

https://www.23andme.com/gen101/

as well as the very long disclaimer you're given before you can actually sign up for a 23andme screening.

I a lot of interesting info that I haven't seen linked yet:

From 11/24/06, via Google cache: http://is.gd/5cvU

"How much profit does DropSend bring in each month?

    * Revenue: $9,041.81 per month (and growing by 8.6% per month)

    * Costs: $2,100 per month (Servers at 365main.com + maintenance)

    * Profit: $6,941.81 per month"

This is silly. I know where you work. In case of emergency, I would mail your bosses and have them pass word on to your parents.