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developers live and die by the app store, they won't ever affect anything. nerds yell really loud but they are comparatively a very small bunch.

what's going to positively affect change is android eating apple's lunch. charging 30% for in-app purchases and restricting content is going to seem completely out of line when a better majority of people have phones that are wide open and are doing some super cool stuff because google just doesn't care.

time will tell, but only when the public realizes what they're missing out on and starts to yell about it will things swing back in the developers' favor
Maybe this will be clearer. Downvotes are supported, but only people with a certain karma (I believe its 200 now) are able to downvote to help prevent flamewars and other problems.
Someone should setup a public site to petition google to get sites like this banned from the index.
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Thank you for the detailed reply, not all of which was responsive to my reply. My claim is still that if comparable amounts of money were put in my own pocket, I could make sure that my family members who are of employment age would be going about producing more externalities beneficial to all society than many of the workers whose jobs have supposedly been saved by the current stimulus package. Reasonable minds can differ on how to count the present value of this worker being unemployed today and for some reasonably expected time thereafter, versus that worker being employed today, but that inquiry, to be worthy of relying on for endorsing a public policy, has to be done carefully and with great attention to detail. One first detail to look at is the actual dollar amounts involved.

Is it really foolish to ask if money is being well spent?
Not only massive computing power, but also some pretty smart and creative folks too. I sometimes wonder where Google will be in 10 years.
It means that if you are so ADHD that you bounce from app to app like a ferret on a double-espresso the hardware and software platform will not get in your way; it will enable you to accomplish nothing in a way that feels much faster than similar devices.
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This is unresponsive to the idea that private actors individually acting in the aggregate may make many more better externalities than a few "targeted" government programs funded by deficit spending.
Eston Bond did something similar with the dashboard for this home automation system called Sarai: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eston/3805310805/

Very nice all in one interface with time, appointments, news, and weather. I really like this idea...
Unfortunately I think spam must still work, or spammers would have stopped sending it. They're pretty pragmatic. It wouldn't take more than a couple months of making no money before they switched to some other racket.
I agree with this post.
People should be able to do whatever they are able to do. If it's supposed to have a fairly narrow range of topics, use the voting system to achieve that.
Who nowadays does not consider himself "well versed in social networks" and "not too busy to make money"?

I'll cheerfully admit that I'm pretty clueless about social networks; and I'm too busy on my own startup to join someone else's. :-)

But I agree that the requirements are rather broad.
IQ isn't the issue. Most failures in statistical reasoning are failures of rationality, which is not tapped by IQ tests.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stanovich1/Engli...
I would if I could, but this concept is so ridiculously simple that I can sum it all up in one short sentence.
I guess I don't see where it reduces the distractions. 90%+ of my distractions at home and at work are the same, involving the internet, getting up to make tea/coffee, getting lunch, etc. The office even adds new ones, like coworkers making smalltalk.
Some of the stuff in the middle is bound to be the 24MB cache.
Dear EFF, "If you've got a better way to make ice..."

If you have a way to design, produce and maintain a device and platform that is as interesting and compelling to both developers and customers as what Apple has done, and you can do it without any restrictions on what third-party developers do with it, by all means, go for it.

The "smartphone" and similar devices have been around for at least a decade. Apple didn't come up with some magic chip or something to suddenly make them viable, it is their system that is the difference.

Is there a cost to developers? Certainly, but nothing stops you from writing code for more than one platform and if you think you have a killer app but need more freedom than Apple allows, release it somewhere else.

I think what most people miss is that there is a relationship between the control Apple exhibits and the quality of their results; if you don't believe this is true then there are other options for you out there.

I'm tired of hearing about how Apple is "abusing" developers, unlike shared global resources like the Internet and clean air, there's nothing compulsory about using or coding for the iPhone.
Recessions are bad for health insurers, because when people get fired, young and healthy people tend to drop their insurance while those who are older stay on the plan (with COBRA).

It is also the case that insurance companies invest a large portion of their premiums in short and medium term investments; few are allowed to get so fragile that they are in danger of having cash flow problems due to some small fraction of the policyholders shifting the cost basis. When the market tanks they have less income from investments and must cut costs (e.g. deny coverage) and increase income (e.g. raise premiums.)

Try graphing DJIA, unemployment rates, and insurance premiums and see when changes in the first two lines best match increases in average premiums...
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Again, I would love nothing more than to be extremely specific and go into detail, but I can't. Anyway, this may not be the right forum to look. Thanks.
If it makes you feel any better, there are currently 23 upvotes on the comment you linked to, even though its score is -3. So there are a lot of people who are ready to give you a hearing, if you want that.

It's true that users here can sometimes behave like a mob. But there are also a lot, possibly even a majority, who can be convinced by cogent arguments regardless of who they come from. Whereas if you give up and get mad, you lose those as well.
Does your auto insurance pay for your defensive driving courses? Your homeowner's policy pay for additional smoke detectors? Your life insurance policy pay for a treadmill?

What would those policies cost if they did?
In fact, there is good evidence that a few molecules are directly responsible for obesity. Fructose, ethanol, and galactose all increase appetite. http://blog.nutritiondata.com/ndblog/2007/08/fructose-swee-1... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125848.php Appetite increases caloric consumption, which causes obesity over time. Exercise counteracts this effect.

We are in some ways in a similar mess to the scurvy problem. We've known for years that the Japanese diet, the Mediterranean diet, exercise, and the Atkins diet all work to reduce weight. We know that high fructose corn syrup is bad. And we know that fat consumption has little to do with weight gain (see Atkins diet). But despite the preponderance of evidence, I continue to hear nonsense spouted by people with MDs about how a low fat diet is the best way to lose weight. And when I tell my friends, they are amazed at how quickly they lose weight with no work other than switching fructose for glucose in the diet.
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What happens if - for example - the company is acquired before either founder's equity vests? Who gets the payout? Someone owns the company at all times, which means at least one founder (possibly both) does not have a cliff in any practical sense.

(Since the original poster said he is not incorporated yet, I am assuming he doesn't have any outside investors and is the sole owner, i.e. he now has 100% equity.)
I remember when 24 MB was a respectable size for a hard drive. Now we've got CPU caches that big. It's downright ridiculous.
If its adwords for Twitter, its been done.
Looks like a pretty generic layout. And it's not as if there are limitless practical possibilities to the sorts of layouts you could have, so there are bound to be many that look eerily similar.
"As one can see in the video above, the lava lamp continues to operate well at three times the force of gravity."
Couldn't help but recall this pic I saw a while ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thevoyagers/518750492/
A lot of the stuff in the middle is the cache. But a lot is also interconnect, it's pretty easy to tell the cache, it looks like blocky things. :)

There's a lot of interconnect on that chip. Which is not surprising if you're using the same type of on-chip network they've been doing. Clearly they're blocking some things together so it's probably not all to all, but it's not exactly the types of on-chip networks you can expect to scale a whole lot further than where they're at.
Wow, I want this :)
A) The template system rocks

B) Use PISTON for APIs: he could have had it working WAY easier

C) Use SOUTH with the ORM. The ORM wouldn't make much sense on its own unless you like wiping your database a lot during development.

http://ericholscher.com/tag/largeproblems/
"Large Problems in Django: Mostly Solved"

It is a shame the tutorial doesn't point out South and Piston, everyone should be using them.
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Reminds me of this submission that I had made once upon a time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407 - it's about the relationship of locales - and specifically, of changing them - to productivity.

It understandably never got read or voted up due to its unappealing wall-of-text presentation, but I think it's an important angle on the issue.
Visually, it's quite appealing, and it feels snappier than Quicksilver or Google QSB. I think its grammar is more limited than Quicksilver's though. I prefer the "direct object, verb, indirect object" structure that Quicksilver uses over Alfred's "verb, object".
No offense, but this reads like a posting on a game development forum looking for an engine programmer to complete his awesome vision.

Edit: cperciva made a good point. If you're idea is so fragile that merely finding out about it would give your competitors the upper hand, then they're probably going to have the upper hand no matter what you do. Is your startup very early stage, and explaining your idea would give them months of dev time?
Some of us don't like corporate monoculture. Give me insanity any day over the rat race.
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I can't pretend to have familiarity with the subject taught in this guy's class, but as someone who teaches a subject that requires multi-step derivations, it can be really devastating to have interruptions. I do not have such a policy in my courses, but I can understand why someone might want this.

The autonomy of the instructor and his/her ability to set policies that will ensure the common good in their class is an important cornerstone of academic freedom. People who would complain about this probably don't understand this principle.
I already have a programming team. What I need is someone who is familiar with social network ad rates and the companies who are heavy social network advertisers so that I can price my product properly. Thanks.
There is interesting story about moonlighting at Microsoft.

For many years Microsoft required employees with side projects to submit and get approved moonlighting request. The problem was that it was not easy to get approved for start-up-like projects: neither management nor legal didn't want to take responsibility and were pushing requests back and forth for months.

Finally, in the beginning of 2006, some brilliant legal head solved the issue once and for all: they removed approving process entirely and released set of guidelines you have to use _yourserf_ to determine if there is conflict of interest. So in one simple move they not only reduced amount of work legal department has to do, but also reduced possibility that employees would choose to create start up by pushing everyone in gray area and keeping door open for later litigation threat.

BTW, if you have day job you want to incorporate early so you can do proper assignment of invention related to your start up (in addition to incorporating for liability reasons).
Definitely not adwords for Twitter. I've looked. Hard. I've never seen this done before so i'm taking a leap of faith.
Alright, I made my edit before I saw you respond, so you can perhaps disregard the last bit about being at too early a stage.
How long does it take to develop a "good" product?
People well versed in social networks will tell you that it is the other way around. People will reply if they see an ad that pique their interest.

This thread has a lot of comments from people who are interested in your post. All they want is a few more details.
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I think it's far from won. While we work on better ways to detect spam and faster reactive methods. Spammers are doing the same. Writing better virus, testing better social engineering techniques. It's still very profitable.

"Analysis reveals a surge in spam levels in February to 89.4 percent, an increase of 5.5 percent since January mostly due to an increase in spam emanating from the Grum and Rustock botnets. Over the past year, Grum has experienced relatively little change in spam volumes, but from February 5, Grum’s output increased by 51 percent making it responsible for 26 percent of all spam, up from its usual 17 percent. http://www.messagelabs.com/resources/press/45666
Sure, but I think the salient point here is this: we've gotten good enough at filtering spam that looking through your email inbox is no longer a major headache. That's how I frame the war on spam, anyway, and in that sense I'd say we're definitely winning. Maybe not won, but winning.
"Instead, 'one large group of scientists,' a 'vanguard' that Shenk has labeled 'the interactionists,' insists that the old genes-plus-environment model (G+E) must be jettisoned and replaced by a model they call GxE, emphasizing 'the dynamic interaction between genes and the environment.' They don't discount heredity, as the old blank-slate hypothesis of human nature once did. Instead, they assert that "genes powerfully influence the formation of all traits, from eye color to intelligence, but rarely dictate precisely what those traits will be."

That's a pretty good summation of current human behavioral genetics research. An earlier comment of mine here on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=842315

cited and linked to a recent publication on this issue,

Johnson, Wendy; Turkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I.; Bouchard Jr., Thomas (2009). Beyond Heritability: Twin Studies in Behavioral Research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 4, 217-220.

with some interesting new ideas from researchers who have been working on human behavioral genetics longer than most HN readers have been alive.
Ad hominem is not a synonym for insult. It is used exclusively for when someone attacks the speaker, and not the speaker's arguments. In this case, there were no arguments. The question was "Who is X?" Someone answered who X is. That answer was harsh, but also consistent with everything that I have seen.

I agree its civility is borderline. But it's not an ad hominem attack because no argument was being made.
I'm in the exact same position. The crashes are very random.
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Okay HN boys, I think we can figure this out. Here's what we have so far:

- Its about monetizing twitter

- Needs someone familiar with social network ad rates and companies that buy social advertising so that he can price his product properly

- "Ridiculously simple" that it can be summed in 1 sentence

- Not adwords for twitter apparently, claims he's never seen this done before.

The fact that he needs someone familiar with selling to companies means the buyers will be businesses. The fact that its monetizing twitter means his publishers will be twitter users. So he'll be facilitating advertising from businesses to tweets on twitter users. I suppose publishers can join his network, select categories of products/services they're ok with tweeting about, and then get paid for tweeting out sponsored messages.

Anyone else have hypotheses?
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This quote by Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's head of product management was a great one:

"In the real world the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market."
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I worry that while this is true for us GMail users, it may not be true for everyone.

Plus GMail is a bit strict. I still get lots of false positives.
That's my dilemma. I want to give more details but I can't without messing up my game plan. So for lack of a better solution, I will be waiting for someone who will jump off the page then discuss the project further with that person. Anyway, i'm going to muscle through with or without a co-founder. I just want to see this thing exist. And I want to do it right. Thanks.
Actually, this is the first Intel chip with a ring bus.
For a project in first year uni, I implemented nearest neighbour, bilinear, bicubic, and sinc. I remember sinc looking marginally better than bicubic, but not significantly so for most images (which is probably why Photoshop didn't implement it at the time - I don't know if it does now).

How hard it is depends on what you mean by hard. Coding these algorithms took an evening or two, but I didn't know about the gamma problem until I read the link in these comments, so it is not trivial.
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Paying for backlinks is garbage, just keep pumping out your product. When you're at a stage where you can write something interesting, whip together a press release and mail a bunch of tech blogs. If you get coverage from even 1 of the big guys, theres a trickle down effect where tons of blogs will write and link to you thereafter.
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To some extent, they do in the form of a premium rebate, though it is unlikely to be large enough to be a substantial reimbursement for a single policy period - perhaps over the life of the policy the cumulative rebate might cover the up-front cost. I haven't worked in casualty, only health, so I can only speculate.

The better comparison would be with Worker's Compensation insurance, where the loss control mechanisms are ongoing.

As far as what the policies would cost, I don't know. Even if routine medical care is fully covered, a lot of people won't take advantage of it for whatever reason. An insurer's actuarial models will build that expected frequency into the projected cost.

If it bothers you sufficiently, you may consider most health plans to be the sum of a "real insurance" policy and a routine health discount plan. There are health plans that truly avoid assuming substantial risk, although they do so by getting providers to assume the risk. Those plans do retain the risk of providers in their network going bankrupt where prepaid capitation would be lost.
Set a price. If nobody buys, it's too high. If it becomes wildly popular, you probably set it too low, but hey, it's wildly popular.

The reality is that nobody wants to advertise on social networks, because nobody that knows how to use Twitter wants to see ads. Have fun with that.
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I've got it. I'll know on the 13th if i've made it through to the YC interview. If I do, i'll just ask for their advice re cofounders. If not, i'll throw my plan wide open here and see. Thanks.
Not to sound rude, although I will admit that your tone annoys me. Why would someone need you for this? If they already have the key assets needed to make this project successful, what value would you add? The ability to annoy HN?
Ah, interesting. I assume there's multiple rings though, one can't really be satisfied with a 1x-4x difference in contacting other cores? (Assuming bidirectional.)

Also rings still don't scale, so they're really going to have to get more clever. I wonder what the perf hit for the ring is going to be.
This is kinda scary, there should be seal wrap , like asprin, to ensure that the product is correct.
That's the same laptop I have. Do you think it'll last for a while?
A DSP that does video and audio decoding, like Archos' device would be nice. The problem with Archos' device is their terrible customer service and even worse custom software.

I really want a nice ~32G music/video player that uses Android. I do have the Archos device, and the hardware is nice, but the software is So. Fucking. Bad. I will write it myself if I am allowed to, but I can't flash my own firmware or have root access, so that's not possible.

Also, the screenshot on your web page is not Android 2.0.
developers live and die by the app store, they won't ever affect anything. nerds yell really loud but they are comparatively a very small bunch.

Those petty FSF nerds started free software in the 80's and well, we still have it.

I compile native ARM binaries for the latest Android mobile platform with gcc — a compiler that was first released sometime in the latter half of 1980. Ironically, Apple uses gcc themselves, but they're keen on locking more and more stuff.

I bet a lot that in 2030's nobody remembers iPhone or any of the iPhone applications. You possibly can't even run them in an emulator if you wished as is the case with 80's and 90's games.

It may be really loud yelling from a minority but it's a philanthropic minority that doesn't think in terms of coming years but coming decades. Paul Graham wrote so aptly in some of his essays that nerds sense restrictions on the essential hacking freedoms the same way as animals sense an earthquake or a tsunami. (Or something like that.)
Sounds to me that they are just lacking some kind of mountable application system al a rack?
Not at the moment. There will be extensive work on the chef provisioning system in Vagrant before the next minor release (0.2), I'll add this to the list.

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You are assuming that a public entity couldn't run more efficiently than a system of private ones, which is exactly the point -- or one of the points -- at issue.
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