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(Shrug) I grew up in that part of the country, and left for a reason. Life's too short to spend it around people who think Jesus rode a dinosaur to work.

Sorry if you disagree, but unless you're a robot, professionalism only goes so far.
But that doesn't at all prove that ideas are useless.

It just proves that ideas+execution is what matters. After all, the person who ultimately made the product your friend bought, needed the idea for the product before getting off his butt and executing it.

Just because some people have "great ideas" and never get off their butt to execute them doesn't diminish the value of great ideas to people who do execute.
Something like 90% of Google's net revenue comes from properties Google owns.
> written with a one time account

Smart move, but I'll bet you I can still identify you.

One really big eye opener for me how subtle this problem really is was this article, I've just posted it as a separate submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197072
They're in California too so they didn't have non-competes. I bet if they went to Kansas they would have had to sign them.
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If I'm looking to buy something and don't know where to get it, I go to Google. So the ads are actually useful to me. I never go to Facebook to search for something I want to buy.

I'm sure many people follow Facebook ads, but I'm not one of them. Especially since they are mostly trying to trick people. Like showing random pictures in the ads that have no meaning to the actual product.
Personally I don't see that much evidence that SXSW has gone down hill. Of course things change from year to year, and one year you might have a bad experience with other attenders being rude, but overall I think it is still a great opportunity.

Of course I live in Austin, so I am probably biased. Also I don't have to pay for a flight to Austin to attend, so the value for cost is much higher.
I think it's amazing that the Internet works.

Topical video (Everything's amazing and nobody's happy):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Google’s success constrains Facebook and Facebook’s success constrains Google (even more). I guess they aren’t completely happy neighbors.
I think "design" is being used in a loose sense here. It's not designing an experiment the way that Rutherford designed experiments to probe the nature of an atom. What it's doing is more like selecting an independent variable gene X and a dependent variable enzyme Y, and selecting concentrations of X and reagent Z to mix together to maximize the expectation value of the statistical significance of the level of Y that is measured afterwards. That's using a combination of search algorithms and Bayesian learning to optimize the parameters within a well-defined framework. Then those parameters are hooked up to physical beakers to get more data for the next generation of data.

Don't get me wrong, this is an impressive technical achievement, and I think it will do a hell of a lot to speed up the advancement of science in the field of microbiology. My hat is off to these researchers because this little guy they build is totally awesome. I'm just quibbling about what the word "design" does and does not mean in this context. I agree that biologists will still have a role in research labs, and I'm glad that they (or at least a well-funded subset of them) will be freed from the more monotonous details of their trade so that they can work on the more creative, abstract, and "science-y" parts of it[1].

[1] I do not know enough about biology to know what exactly those parts are. I assume they exist, even though I do tend to have the "stamp-collecting" bias against biology[2].

[2] Quote from Ernest Rutherford, mentioned above: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." I.e., biology is heavy on cataloguing and light on abstractions.
Is the "ideas are useless" meme being put out there just because so many newbies to the startup culture are too enamored with their ideas and think that the idea is all that matters, and so they have to be hit hard with the "ideas are useless" to snap them out of that thinking and start valuing execution?

I wouldn't exactly phrase it that way, but I think that does sum it up fairly well. I have spent a lot of time around the "gifted" community and I think an awful lot of extremely intelligent people are fundamentally lazy because, compared to most folks, they tend to skate through life and don't really have to work that hard.

When I was in 11th grade and a member of a college level math honor society, I tutored a mentally retarded 10th grade girl who had gotten herself into algebra. No one else in the honor society doing tutoring wanted to tutor her because it was too hard to teach her. So I always ended up working with her. She worked harder for her C's and D's than I ever did for my A's and B's. She never got in a snit over not understanding something. I learned to explain math concepts at least 3 ways without breaking a sweat and up to 12 ways if that was what it took. It was one of the most valuable experiences I ever had.

After something is built and makes a billion dollars or so, the world calls the founders/originators "geniuses". People who have the subjective experience of routinely being smarter than everyone else in the room often have trouble with certain realities and are often overconfident in their abilities in some ways -- for example, they tend to think if you disagree with them or have some criticism, you simply are too dumb to understand and can't possibly have a real point. They tend to think this because repeated experience in the real world has taught them this is typically true. So I think a lot of very smart people kind of identify themselves with the after-the-fact pronouncement of "genius" and gloss over what it took to accomplish the stuff that ultimately convinced the world this label was appropriate. And I think that is why you see this mantra that ideas aren't worth dirt, you actually have to roll up your sleeves and do the work to have anything of value.
Strangely enough, my topcolor is a powdery blue, at almost the opposite spot on the color wheel. I just set it to 'abcdef' when I created my HN account.

COINCIDENCE??!?!?!
Well this is certainly disheartening as I'll be moving to Kansas City in a few months with my girlfriend as she attends medical school... My job hunt begins soon and all I'm hearing is negativity about KC.
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Actually this happens very frequently when companies are acquired into larger more stagnant environments (or as Peter Lynch would label 'de-worisifcation'). It's not uncommon at all, and generally a good example of when these employees lockups or vesting has either completed, or reached an acceleration.

If Garmin wanted to move these people, they should have done so during the acquisition.
Let the hyping of semi-vaporware commence!

Haven't we learned anything at all from the W95 -> Chicago -> Memphis -> Cairo -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Longhorn -> Vista -> Windows 7 replacement hype cycles? Oh, sure: That'll be fixed in X, for sufficiently far away versions of X.

NT was the "first OS with a merged file system and heap cache" or some such, when Solaris and others had the same thing for years. Even the hype terms get appropriated from elsewhere.
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The SSRN web site continues to be a pain (for me, at least). Here are some alternative URL's:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/anonymization-fai...

http://epic.org/privacy/reidentification/ohm_article.pdf
Regarding "I'm Paul Graham, and I've got a fantastic, knock-your-socks-off idea for a business. How much will you pay me for it?":

First off, if you patented it, and I can see a lot of value from licensing the idea, then yes, I will pay a lot for it.

Second, I don't get why people are so focused on valuing an idea in-and-of-itself. Just because when some Joe says "I have a great idea" we don't attach any monetary value to that, doesn't mean that "ideas are useless".

It's like if some Joe says "I'm great at executing". Nobody will pay him for that. That has no monetary value. But that doesn't mean that "execution is useless".

It's the combination of idea+execution that has monetary value.
On one hand, Garmin probably got what they wanted. Moving a whole office from San Francisco to Kansas seems like a passive aggresive way of downsizing.

On the other hand, they probably weren't exactly expecting this reaction. And I have a feeling they aren't gonna like this. Well played ex-Garmin team, well played.
Social Media Experts are just people who can't design or build.

In other words, they're like the other 99.9% of humanity? The ones we built the web for, the ones who bring all the money and attention and customers? ;)
So what if it was plagiarized? The idea is what made the book successful. Whether that idea was Dan Brown's or he stole it from someone else says nothing about the value of the idea behind making "The Da Vinci Code" a huge hit.
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While Facebook may know more about its users, Google still knows more about what the user wants right that moment. The average person looking for a TV is more likely to search for one on Google than post about it on their profile (or tweet about it, for that matter).

I'm also curious if the people that spend the most time on Facebook are the people who earn Facebook the most money. It seems like the high school and college students who can spend all their time browsing the site are also the people least likely to spend money. Does anyone have any insight into the relative value of different demographics?
"16 issues, 80,000 print copies distributed, another 100,000 or so copies downloaded, and countless new friends, fans, and collaborators all around the world later, I may still be nuts, but I have zero regrets."

Doesn't sound like he's too worried about that. And rather foresightfully: " It won’t surprise me at all to find some of our ideas strategically implemented elsewhere in the months ahead"
Young high-school/college demographics spend a lot of money, overall -- look how much TV/movie/radio media is directed at them. (And, they form brand loyalties that last through their later peak income years.)
It's not all politics. What I've read so far says it happened because scientists figured out how to measure blood cholesterol, and learned that fats increased it. That was (iirc) the core of the 'health disaster'.
Don’t try to predict the future, go out and invent it
Also the stupid "Are you 31 years old? Then you can get a FREE <product>"

I wonder how many people seriously think that the adverts aren't pulling your age out of your profile. Enough to make it work I'm sure though.
IE 9 will not support XP. Now take that to the IE 6 user-base. Ref: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5572&tag=col1;post-5...
Having the best time ever at SXSW. Like anything else, it's what you make of it.
Facebook ads are less compelling from the supply side, but in some cases more impressive from the demand side. Companies like Groupon make extensive use of Facebook's demographic targeting, for example, and local advertising is only going to grow over the next five years.

Facebook is also finally moving into virtual currency, with the launch of Facbeook credits. Did you know Zynga is the second largest PayPal merchant after eBay itself?
When my Geocities 'Computer game novellas' collection page went down (after Geocities shut down), I uploaded it to a Tripod site, but Google refused to index it. Later, I put it on my corporate site under /homepages, and added that to Google. In just a few days, I'm again top of the list for 'level 9 novellas' in Google. I updated the link to the novellas site in Wikipedia (from the old Geocities to the new site), but I don't know whether Google took notice of that, or just the fact that my corporate site is not a Tripod site (and thus more legitimate?).
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I don't know where you're getting the impression that the website was rude to Garmin. All it said was that Garmin had relocated the project from SF to Kansas, and most/all of the team was declining to follow it. Just the facts.
Thanks for fixing it.

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Are you serious? This is one of the dumbest things I've read on here. Writing a novel is execution. There are hundreds of these books with similar story lines that never got anywhere because of inferior writing. There are thousands of fantasy books that never became Harry Potter.
I like this idea on the whole, but isn't it using a bit too much of the branding/trademarks/etc. of the company they left? You can make factual statements about your former work, like "I used to be part of the Garmin Connect team", but this is verging on taking the name with it, with a no-longer-Garmin-affiliated organization still calling themselves the "Garmin Connect team", using Garmin Connect material (logos, demo videos, etc.) extensively on their site, etc. As a now ex-Garmin set of engineers, they can't really advertise their services using Garmin's name, though it can be listed as relevant experience.
It's not just about syndicating ads. If anything syndicating ads is just another way to expand reach. Facebook has plenty of reach on it's own site, with 450 million users and counting.

Facebook might have nice structured data about demographics and other user information but dollar for dollar investing in Google Adwords is exponentially more effective then Facebook. The reason being advertising on Facebook is more akin to advertising on TV, people using the service aren't searching for anything and ads feel exactly like ads. Adwords works because they actually help people find what they're looking for.

Facebook may have achieved several hundred million dollars in advertising revenue (and search deals with Microsoft) the last few years, but if they are going to convince people to invest a billion dollars, or at Google's level several tens of billions of dollars, in advertising dollars, they need to figure out a way to make advertising on Facebook at least as effective as Google.

I for one, simply don't see that happening - ever. I see Facebook's destiny as a very low margin potentially public social network company, but the next Google? That's a long long loooooong shot.
Why is passion so important to a startup?
> Google uses Gmail internally (obviously), switched over from Microsoft Outlook at launch (about 6 years ago)

I was under the impression that pine was a popular client at Google.
We seem to be less than 3 years behind schedule on the Kurzweil timeline. Everything he predicted for 2010 is either here right now or is just around the corner. One of major 'misses' was real-time translations of voice phonecalls, and both Microsoft and Google are launching this service very soon.
It only works if (1) you own the site, (2) the content is 404, (3) your credit card number appears in a result, or (4) it needs to be under Search Safe.

Any other case and you're SOL. Sadly, "remove angelfire.com/*" doesn't work.
I don't see Facebook replacing Google as the primary advertising medium on the Internet--ever.

'Ever' is a long time.

The key issue is that right now, Google is a better place to start a commerce-oriented (and especially high-dollar commerce-oriented) task, and reveal (by your queries) your intent in a way advertisers can hook into.

But, with enough work and experimentation, could Facebook become a better place to start such tasks, and reveal such intent?

It's not out of the question, and Facebook should have internal experiments trying to create -- and be on the lookout for acquisitions of -- features that bring the initiation of ad-friendly commerce-oriented tasks into their platform.
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That would explain why I woke up and found myself chained to to a router.
I can't imagine there are that many companies out there who are making products like this. Nike+, Runkeeper, Garmin.. Who else? Having only ever used one application like this, Runkeeper, I find it interesting how similar it looks to Runkeeper's UI and feature set.

If you've got a ready-made team that can make a product like this but is unwilling to leave the bay area, it would seem there aren't a lot of companies around that can absorb a whole team like this overnight. I wonder where they'll turn up.
If you have the ability to execute on your idea to test it's validity, then it's worth a lot! Think Chatroulette...hotmail....youtube...etc. Conversely, if you can't execute on the idea then it's worth far less and you should share it widely, get feedback, and work towards building a team around the idea that can execute upon it....

I think the meme has gotten popular because it's mostly oriented to people that can't execute on their ideas....and thus it holds some truth.
Garmin has been consistently clueless about how software should be developed and deployed. They are the Verizon of GIS. No surprise that they jettisoned one of their more promising projects.
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I never intended for this comment to get to this level of ugliness. It doesn't really matter now, but my intention with it was merely meant as a piece of advice rather than an attack on OP's persona.

I realize this is bordering towards something that might still be slightly taboo, but over the years online I have developed a slight allergy towards women (or others pretending to be women) who use the very fact that they are a woman as a leverage to get something rather than by merit. And hold on before you judge me. My comment came from the fact that OP might not want to come across as that type of person here or anywhere, in my eyes, or anyone elses. So it was a friendly advice.

But when all is said and done, this got way off topic + a bit nasty and for that I apologize.
This is interesting. I see some people tweeting / facebook status updating saying things like "Any recommendations for a good TV?" or perhaps, a cryptic ... "shopping for HDTV with 3d @ bestbuy".

The right language parsing makes these incredibly high value targets for TV ads, review sites, etc.

Probably a few years down the road, or alternatively FB just needs to get a few mutant geniuses locked in a room for six months.
You lost me. The founders of Garmin had a killer idea, well ahead of its time, and they're terrible people for not lavishing the resulting riches on some lucky schmo who happened to be a talented electrical engineer living in Kansas at the time? You fail to appreciate that, while many people could have done the same job as your father's friend, it took a singular amount of vision and balls to build a company around a satellite network which wouldn't even be functional for another 4 years. If GPS failed, got axed by the gov, whatever, those guys would have been ruined while said friend would have walked away scot-free. People always seem to forget these points when bemoaning how undercompensated engineers--who after all, do all the "real" work--are.
I use an Android; it has copy-and-paste. I believe I have used it exactly once in over a year of using the phone - I had started composing an SMS to the wrong person and decided to copy/paste the text instead of simply typing it again.

For most users, I am guessing the most common use case is copying a browser link to an email/IM/SMS, and this can be supported without an actual copy/paste implementation. The hard part of full-blown copy/paste isn't implementing copy/paste storage, it is figuring out the UI for selecting text on a touch screen.
I wonder which will grow faster over the next 5 years: Facebook or the rest of the Internet?

If it's the rest of the Internet, then Google is better positioned.

What's striking to me is how much Facebook's approach is not "of" the Internet; Facebook is a site that takes the best of the Internet and places it within the borders of its own site. They've done a great job of that to date: my mum uses it every day and loves it.

Google appears much more inclined to believe it will grow as the Internet grows, and they are investing accordingly. True, they haven't hit many home runs outside of search, but they are willing to contribute to the web, which is the ultimate vendor-agnostic platform.

Google is investing in things it can't control. Facebook is investing only in things it can. I'm overgeneralizing of course, but over time I think Google's open nature wins because consumers eventually reject those companies who gain too much control.
Peter Lynch labeled "de-worisifcation" as companies, for the sake of diversifying, heading into markets that have little relevance to their core business. It doesn't really apply here.
If you want to partition (shard) your data, then this will work roughly the same in MySQL and Redis. But this article is only about partition tolerance. Neither MySQL nor Redis are inherently distributed, so it's not possible to generally state that either is partition-tolerant or not. The article is misleading here. You could use a replication strategy that is partition-tolerant or you could use a strategy that's not partition-tolerant.
If you take a look at successful companies you'll find that the ideas behind them are in no way unique, and more often than not they're not based on an idea but on a market. Here are the ten most profitable companies in the Forbes 1000 list and what they do:

ExxonMobil - Oil & Gas Operations

Gazprom	Russia - Oil & Gas Operations

Royal Dutch Shell - Oil & Gas Operations

Chevron	- Oil & Gas Operations

BP - Oil & Gas Operations

PetroChina - Oil & Gas Operations

General Electric - Conglomerates

Microsoft - Software & Services

Toyota Motor - Consumer Durables

Nestlé - Food, Drink & Tobacco

Only General Electric and Microsoft seem to be based on an idea, the others adress a market and create a product to fit that market. And it can be argued whether these are successes because of the idea - Edison tried thousands of different configurations before he actually invented the lightbulb, and Microsoft bought their first hit-product DOS from Tim Paterson and became successful by selling it, not inventing it. Execution apperas to have been paramount in their success.

These examples aren't unique. Even Google, often touted as the canonical "idea" company couldn't sell their technology, even though they tried. They only created Google after futile attempts at selling the idea to among others Yahoo.
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Nitpicking, but the title isn't very clear.

"Facebook.com overtakes Google.com as most visited domain by people living in USA." might be better.

Title makes it sound like 'google.com and facebook.com are both USA domains, and facebook has overtaken google as most visited'.
We spent $860,000 rebuilding our intranet...

That's where you went wrong.
A slight oversight, technicality or link bait? Here's the real deal:

"But Tatham noted that when he added up traffic on all Google properties like Google Maps and YouTube, the company's sites comprised 11.03% of visits. Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) was second with 10.98%."

Facebook still has some catching up to do.
I have successfully swapped a SIM from an iPhone to a E72 nokia. Worked just fine.
Transistors. The sheer complexity and speed of what can be achieved by stacking together a large number of electrically activated switches never ceases to amaze me.
There's a tmbundle (haven't used it yet):
http://github.com/nullstyle/clojure-tmbundle

Although the installation doc says it uses the REPL and screen (and ruby, though that's mostly true for most tmbundles).
Nice work man, congrats!
Contact Google. I bet there's a good chance they'll allow you to exchange it.