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This will shake up the broadband industry the same way ebook readers are transforming the publishing industry. This is HUGE.

I am in NY and I am waiting for years for fios in my area. Hopefully this adoption will move faster than FIOS.
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This led me to the JUNG Java library, which looks pretty cool. Thinking it could be fun to play with this in Clojure.
I do not have my PhD yet. Yet I am clearly inside the academic system because I am at a university.

A PhD is a researcher merit badge. Obtaining it means you've been trained by people in your field how to do research. I have real difficulty calling anyone working on their PhD, or anyone who has a PhD, an "amateur."
Even worse is the Monolog Box! http://humanized.com/weblog/2006/09/11/monolog_boxes_and_tra...
Thanks Andrew. I didn't get to see it live, but that is my favorite interview you've done (and that is in a group of quite interesting ones). Also thanks to pg.
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Right. At Google's scale, it will even benefit them a lot if other broadband providers provide a better service, since it promotes more use of the internet, and thus more ad income for Google.
Because getting a PhD requires doing research in your field.
I really like the design. Good choice for the logo, looks great.

I really think the Timeline editing page could use some Ajax/Dialogs. Instead of going to a new page for "Add Event" and "Add Layer", I think a dialog box popping up with the form in there would be great.

The top padding on your buttons seems to be off. I'm using FireFox 3.5.7 and the text seems to be down by about 5 pixels too many. I changed padding-top from 15 to 10 and height from 30 to 35 to get the button on the right in this screenshot: http://imgur.com/FouGq The one on the left is the original that you have now.

When scrolling through the timeline it would be nice to see if there are any events to the left or right. Maybe even stop scrolling if there are no more events back that far. I kept scrolling back to the 1800s on one timeline because I didn't know I'd already seen everything :P

The yellow helper text at the top is really good for helping me get started. I like that you've put thought into blankstate pages.

I am also curious how you'll monetize this. Any ideas?

I was looking at your FAQ page and noticed this line: "This FAQ page is a work in progress. Chances are if you have a question, others have it too. On that note, please email us if anything is unclear". I'd like to completely selfishly point out my FAQ app, BreezyFAQ.com that would let you manage these easier. There's an "Ask a Question" form on the FAQ page and any asked questions get put into a queue that you can answer, and/or add to your FAQ page.
Yes, I do this with svn easily enough (Local install of svn). Simple enough...

Maybe that's a good selling point for people who aren't connected to the net much though,
Sweet, can I use this to build a resume?
Case in point: The Internet. Microsoft has been reacting to that since 1995 and still hasn't gotten good at it. Given the ungodly amounts of money that they have put behind MSN/Live Search/Bing, you'd think that they'd have more mindshare than they do. This is a case where Microsoft was trying to react to the situation on the ground, rather than create the situation on the ground (like a Google).

Another case would be digital music. After using partners to create MP3 players (which is their traditional strategy), they switched over to making their own (Zune). They just kept reacting to the iPod and iTunes Store. This meant they were playing by Apple's rules in the market, not creating the market.
It's as if all the collective anger towards comcast and time warner will now have an outlet.
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Seriously? Do we really need to post sensationalist headlines? What is this? Reddit?

"An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage."

They are not talking about _blocking_ political protest videos. They are talking about filtering ones containing graphic violence for those who want to opt in.
Take a chill pill. This isn't a plan by The Man to keep you down. It's a feature to help parents who want to filter the content their children see or for people who don't want to see graphic violence at all.
Totally not compensated for this mention: ~$15 will buy you any of a few dozen great CRUD themes from ThemeForest. Again, you're an engineer -- $15 is less time than it even takes to read the linked article. http://themeforest.net/searches?term=admin&type=files
I'm curious if Silverlight or VS actually caused any Windows sales. IE too, really; would someone who's not already running Windows actually switch to it for IE? Seriously?

But point taken; that it worked (or not) doesn't negate the fact it was done. Thanks!
Right, I have the option to choose from many nearby locations but they're all very precise (even if they're not accurate). I want something that's accurate but not precise. It sounds like Goolge Latitude has it. Hopefully they'll add it to Buzz too.
To me, Microsoft's dilemma is that they need to keep market share in their core products while at the same time be quick and innovative with new ones.

Their corporate structure seems to be geared towards managing their complex, large projects like Windows and Office. With a vast project like Windows, it makes sense that they need teams devoted to certain specifics with middle managers. That structure keeps things focused on the goals coming from up top.

Unfortunately since everyone is focused on their little piece of territory, innovative stuff is happening on the outside and they don't realize until its too late. Then when they realize something is a big idea they toss it into the same machine they have rolling for huge projects like Windows or Office.

As HN readers know, resourceful startups can get a lot accomplished with a small team. If startups had a huge organizational structure with everyone at the top trying to get a piece of the action then nothing would get done.

It would do Microsoft a lot of good to have an internal YC-like program that gives resources to small teams with a good product idea, and then leave them alone until they had something to demo.

Edit: I read my last point and realized something - it sounds a lot like Google's 20% thing. Does Microsoft have anything like that already?
And just because you don't watch the violent protest video doesn't mean you are unaware of what's going on. I can read about how violent the protests are with out having to watch some guy getting his head bashed in.
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What about things that aren't developer tools? It seems to me that a lot of the more interesting things coming out of Microsoft have been developer tools and languages. These just scream like something that should be bottom-up style innovation.

No one ever said MSFT didn't have top-notch developers. And developers tend to produce cool tools for themselves to use.

What about something more consumer facing? Has there been anything like that to come out in a while?
I'd argue that there was more interesting video content being produced for TV in the last ten years than movies. (Maybe you don't consider movies art either...) I'll put The Wire up against any movie in the last ten years.
all we need to do is repudiate all the debt that China currently owns

At which point every other holder of U.S. Treasuries will wonder "Am I next?". This will lead to a massive sales of U.S. debt instruments around the world, and would not be good for anyone.
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While I understand some of the concerns about privacy with Google, one thing I like about Google is that instead of shouldering competition through backdoor deals (like MS did with OLPC), they go out of their way with superior products and services.

They are late comers in search, gmail and Browser, but their success has been smashing thanks to superior products. You have to give them that.
You may have a problem in NY.

In general, the more built up a place is, the more vested interests there are, and the more they are able to manipulate the legislative process.

Google moves at Internet speed.

Out in the "real world", it's still illegal to sell cars and wine over the Internet, because the local car and liquor distributors have gotten their preferences written into the law.

You may find that Google can't go the last 20 feet to your house without buying off a few hundred interest groups, politicians, and unions.
Jakob Lodwick on his site: Hybrowse - Tag-based search
Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off
Is the endless data stream eroding our attention spans?
Worth noting: We had something quite inspirational up in the Lakeland fells recently. One villiage (Alston Moor[1]) was so sick of constantly being set back by ISPs, that they organised a community action group to lay their own fibre optic cable during some planned roadworks. Everyone pitched in, cloudsourced infrastructure if you will, and with just enough people they look set to have 100Mb broadband before a lot of places.

The guys who got it off the ground set up www.cybermoor.org and are encouraging similar grass roots development for other remote areas. I like that.

[1:http://www.cybermoor.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task...]
I don't get it. The site (www.tonidoplug.com) touts all sorts of ways one can share his desktop computer with the world. Presuming that the desktop computer is on the network, why would a software-only solution not be sufficient? I understand the home NAS use case, but that's a well-solved problem already. The author of the zdnet article touts how great the "plug" would be for education, but why wouldn't someone's old PC running Ubuntu be better (or at least good enough)?

Oh, look! It's a computer IN A PLUG!
Thanks man. I feel much better now.
Isn't there already a button you have to press for content that may be unsuitable for minors?

Sounds like this may be the first step for Google identifying content that needs to be removed if youtube were to operate in China.
Very good point, but a lot of the whole grains I eat are things like organic lake wild rice, which is actually a wetlands grass plant that has probably been eaten since before modern agriculture was invented. Do you do a paleolithic diet? I heard about that, but to be honest, eating raw red meats sounds pretty scary, unless you're going to be eating grass-fed animals that are not grown in a "factory farm" like most meat is now.

edit: I read your links and found them very interesting. I think one of the problems that agricultural societies in general have is that they started milling their whole grains into flour. The articles mention tooth decay as a problem of modern agricultural societies. Flour is a huge problem because it is easily processed and turns into sugars quickly, growing bacteria that causes tooth decay.

As long as you stick to whole grains, and not "crushed" or milled grains, you should be ok. Brown rice instead of white rice, buckwheat, quinoa, wild rice, amaranth, and a host of others. The important part is not to break or remove the outer shell or husk of the grain. The husk has most of the vitamins and fiber in it anyway.
Somebody's got to write the libraries.
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I don't dare click this at work :/
That was exactly the value of twitter, before it started to get co-opted by big media, celebrities, and social media consultants.
How is this sensationalist? It's a user-enabled mode that allows for optional blocking of potentially objectionable content.

The word "block" does not imply that the block, for lack of a better word, is server-imposed rather than user-selected.
The fighting's been fun and all, but it's time to shut up and get along
Not to mention it's harder to build a network where everything is paved over and digging requires navigating through a couple hundred years of previous projects (and having to use union labor for it). I don't envy anyone having to plan a network buildout in NYC.

In many other parts of the country it's mostly digging through dirt and in when you're in a neighborhood using a water jet to tunnel under driveways. Piece of cake.
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I don't understand the down-votes here. This is exactly what I was thinking.

Google Phone, Email, ISP, Website, Checkout, Calendar, Docs, Search, Stats, your DNA .....

People are making a stink about Comcast buying NBC, but Google seems to get away with much more and people cheer. If the argument is "sure, but they make great products", that doesn't cut it for me.
Bingo: the US military or at least the Army has long had the reputation of starting out the greenest and learning the fastest.

What struck me the most WRT Vietnam was the learning part horribly broke down, at least in the Army (I actually haven't studied much about the Marines there).

One reason blue water navies tend to do better right off the bat in a war is that just doing the blue water navy thing (keeping your ships from colliding and sinking when they're out at sea per the doctrine) requires a minimal level of competence that just isn't required in ground force exercises (assuming you can get the money to do any of any scale).

Hmmm, gunnery exercises probably also work better. On the other hand, every major naval force at the beginning of WWII had major flaws with their torpedoes ... and the US Navy was pretty much the worst in dealing with them (Washington refused to listen and the various flaws had to be debugged in Hawaii; by contrast the Germans found and fixed theirs quickly and cashiered two officers responsible for them (the latter from memory)).
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Seems that you could make your own private Dropbox-type environment with this, no? I know it wouldn't have all the features of Dropbox, but it could function as a private 'cloud' with the ability to selectively share out public URLs.

Very interesting, I'm curious to hear the impressions of someone what has spent some time with this.
I suspect it will encourage incumbents to roll out FTTH only in neighborhoods where GoogleNet is available. For the other 99.9% of the US, nothing will change.
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Hitler makes a comeback...
I think you're underestimating the effect of the US pulling something like that. One of the main pillars of the US's strength is the absolute reliability and inviolability of its government debt. Attempting to unilaterally annul that debt, and for such capricious reasons, and I imagine the consequences would be both immediate and profound.
That poses a rather large privacy problem. If word gets out that every stream on the site is being recorded, people will feel much less secure in their anonymity on the site and will probably stop doing interesting things with it. This will be even worse if Chatroulette starts publishing streams.
http://store.cablesplususa.com/riinar.html

http://www.gardeners-world.net/prod_show.asp?id=853

Alternatively, look into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
Great feedback.

Regarding the logo, I used CrowdSpring to run a design contest. In total, it costed $230. I'm really happy with it. I originally was leaning towards a different one, but HN helped set me straight (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059075).

I just fixed the centering issue--it should render correctly now across all browsers. Thank you.

I think I will add some sort of note or maybe color the years differently when there is nothing before or after the area you're scrolling. It confused a few other folks too.

I ran a bunch of tests using FeedbackArmy, which sits on top of Mechanical Turk, and found a lot of people were confused when they got to the dashboard. I added those instructions, which improved the successfully-added-event conversion rate a lot. It's easy to forget that what's clear to you as the creator is not clear to new visitors.

Monetization TBD.

BreezyFAQ seems really useful. I might just roll my own to allow greater customization, but you're absolutely right in that it could be a lot better.

Appreciate your thoughtful feedback. Let me know if you ever need any testing for your projects.
"Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 will mark one the most anticipated events in the mental health field. As part of the development process, the preliminary draft revisions to the current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric diagnoses are now available for public review and comment."

Do the categories make sense to you? Do the criteria defining the categories make sense? Here is the opportunity to comment to the authors of the new manual while it is still being drafted.
It's safe, and hilarious. Unless your office really has something against Nazis.
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You can use it for whatever you want.*

* Assuming its legal.
Be sure to check out PG's q&a in the live announcement discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112617
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Probably because there's no content to the comment? It doesn't even explain which "hmm" is being hmm'd.
Sorry to sound like a d-bag but that transparent grass image in the footer really slows down my browsers (both Chrome and Firefox).

EDIT: I appologize, it's the box shadow around the content container.
Comcast is slowly getting into enterprise fiber-based bandwidth for business; my guess is that they will use the enterprise to grow their installed base, then eventually go wholly into fiber based delivery. Of course, at a price... whether this will spur Comcast into a faster rollout is the question.
I had no idea what this is, and I guess I'm not alone, so:

"Celery is a task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

"The execution units, called tasks, are executed concurrently on one or more worker servers. Tasks can execute asynchronously (in the background) or synchronously (wait until ready).

"Celery is already used in production to process millions of tasks a day.

"Celery was originally created for use with Django, but is now usable from any Python project. It can also operate with other languages via webhooks."
That's a terrific interview, but now I'd want an interview of Jessica Livingstone as she appears to have the nag to spot what makes great founders.
Author is clearly not a sports fan - it's the only reason I have a TV, a PVR, a subscription to innumerable channels (because here in Canada you need to sub to many 'basic' channels to receive any of the sports-specific channels) etc.

Ugh, just made me realize how much I spend just to watch sports - but that desire is not going anywhere and I'll continue to do so.
This is a great idea.

I remember as soon as P2P chat came out on the net, I was using the random chat function. It's just a fun thing to do every now and then. You meet all sorts of people.

I think this app has a lot of potential.
Those "headlines with attitude" are going to get old really fast.
All of that data entry of already digitized information ah!

Never used it, but is Mint a possible solution?
I used to be a dev at a financial data aggregation shop (pretty much mint for wealth managers, wouldn't be a good fit for Carbonmade) so I understand the problem pretty well, and also understand the solution.
I forget where the link was (I think somewhere on yc), but it showed a chart of internet access speed through a few years, rated by countries. Most of the large-nation world had grown by 10%+, many over 50%, in a few years, while the US had dropped by a couple percent. This is in addition to most of those countries being higher already, so it's not merely a 5kbps -> 8kbps jump. My price for internet access not going down, and speed not going up (personal experience) in several years implies the ISPs are gouging because they can.

Proper competition is essential in every industry. If Google can provide it, good for them. This is an area where only the big players can compete, but nobody's stepped forward to fix things. Maybe this will be it.
Though he points out that if your PHP script spends most of its time doing algorithmic calculations, waiting on I/O, etc., or if you're using an external template library already, then you might well not notice the difference anyway.
It's not just NY. It's a lot of places. Many towns have locked down franchise agreements for telephone and cable tv "utilities" just like they do for water or power.

If Google admits they're going to deliver advanced Google Voice or YouTube services over these lines, that's infringing on these agreements and the towns face lawsuits from the legacy carriers.

You can't just hop on poles and start stringing wires all over the place.
Yeah, after Google starts selling broadband significantly below cost, no real ISP will be able to meet customers' inflated expectations.
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The biggest causes I've seen of early startup failures are founders giving up as soon as the going gets tough, and fights between co-founders. Therefore, I think determination is the most important quality in founders and there must be a trusting relationship between them.

Founders also need to be basically level-headed. They need to think big enough to have crazy ideas but not to be themselves deluded about how hard it will be to pull them off.

I'm collecting interviews now for another edition of Founders at Work!
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Crazy Google just wants to scare Comcast and AT&T with fiber plan
Bubbly Sun stock in 1999 would make a guy rich. Good timing.
> It's disappointing how a supposedly "civilized first world nation" is so overly focused on revenge and punishment, and so little focused on rehabilitation.

You seem to be assuming that rehabilitation would work, if it weren't for {insert bogey-man}. How about some evidence beyond "wouldn't it be great if we rehabbed more folks?"

> And, it's getting easier and easier to do a background check - so, a single misstep in life and it basically eliminates your chances to every recover.

If you're correct that ex-cons are a tremendous untapped asset, there's a huge economic advantage to tapping them. Why do you think that "everyone" is ignoring that resource if it's actually real?

Note that most felons in the US have a long history of "not felonies", a history that most people don't have.

In the (paraphrased) words of Law and Order "His parole officer says that he's a good kid" "Yeah, all the best kids have parole officers".
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Thanks for sharing that. What are you using on the backend to handle all of those AMF connections? I'm not intimate with AMF but it seems there are at least 10 server implementations that support AMF.
I'm not sure if you've done this, but I'm interested in some of the details on your venture.

1. What technologies are you using?

2. How long did it take you to code?

3. Is this your full time gig or just a side project that you hope takes off?

4. Do you plan to do any additional marketing/advertising?

5. What are some of the results from your split testing?
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Giving upon on the idea or entrepreneurship? I am curious to learn on when should pivot and when to stick with an idea. Thx!
"Yes, I do this with svn easily enough (Local install of svn). Simple enough..."

Yeah Right :-P
Obviously I meant if you were working on a project with its repository on a remote server. Assuming you want local version control (as you seemt o do, since you are locally installing svn) you'd maintain a separate local repository, maintain the same project under both, and synch them both when you get back online?

And if you had two laptops say (apart from the remote server) , you'd maintain 3 repositories?
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