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Personally I think the internet (and multimedia) should be changing the whole paradigm of formal education... of course universities are using IT but their lecture hall + library short-loan shelf approach is still at the core (and has been for a long time).
I don't understand the "bad thing" which is happening here. Are we supposed to be so thoroughly invested in the quality of Google search results that it's a personal affront when someone games the system?
Of course I have, but that appeals to maybe 10% of the market. The vast majority of porn is created for and consumed by men.
As the title of this posting suggests, that's apparently the backup plan because they lack enough original content.

The fact that they attribute it is nice but does not detract from that point.

JC is on the record stating more than once that mahalo.com is built using user supplied content, he seems to have stretched that definition to now include the content of other sites as well.
I'm completely in favor of gay marriage because it merely removes unreasonable restrictions on an institution.

Reasonable restrictions on marriage include being under age and certain close relations.

Polygamy isn't a relaxation of a restriction of marriage, it is expanding the concept. For example, if I am in a coma, my wife can make medical decisions for me. If I have two wives, what if they disagree? If two people are married, must they both agree on bringing a third into the marriage? What if one person from a three person marriage wishes to leave?

None of these questions arise with gay marriage. The closest gay marriage comes to these problems is that it exposes the inherent sexism in child custody issues, since with two men there's not a mother involved who the court can presume is the better parent.

As a libertarian, in theory I favor getting the state out of the marriage business, but in practice, marriage is a useful bundle of rights and responsibilities. That is, it's a standard contract between two people. We should make it possible for larger groups to enter into agreements granting the kinds of rights that marriage grants, but there is nothing discriminatory about saying that the state provides a standard simple contract for two-person marriage but if you want more than that, you'll have to see your lawyer.
Damn. I literally had an idea to build such a device last night, looks like somebody beat me to the punch :p
...we can conveniently blame him entirely for his current predicament.
Why should I care about this? Because right now, I don't, and I'm about ready to start flagging any article that mentions Jason Calacanis.

If you hate someone and what they do, don't give them reams of free press! Nobody would ever have heard of him or Mahalo if it hasn't been for people whining about him/it on their blog...

Also, the GFDL, one of Wikipedia's licenses, says you can "copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially".
Most arguments around either reproduction or tradition don't logically lead to polygamy. One such argument (which is not my opinion):

"Marriage is an institution with the primary purpose of providing a good environment for children and their biological parents. We only permit sterile straight couples to get married to promote the illusion that marriage is about love and happiness for the married couple. Since a polygamous household is not a good environment for children, we ban polygamy."
"Redistribute under the terms of the GFDL."

Let me guess... Linux distributions are "stealing" Firefox? Oh, there isn't some holy war against that, so it's a good thing. Right.
It's a little tougher than this article makes it sound. iPS cannot do everything that embryonic stem cells can do, and he cited a paper that has been retracted:
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/journal-ed...

(bottom line - the "sperm" created for iPS don't really work as such)

It's still probably coming eventually. And why stop there? Polyamorous n-tuples could have a kid who was a mix of varying proportions of the parents.
The outsourcing part of this piece is a red herring.

The situation is...

1) A piece of software that the original company gave up on.

2) A single developer (single point of failure) that knows the software but "went postal" so now the new company has unknown software and no expert.

Strongly implied in the story and the advice is that the source code is a mess; the original company gave up on it, and "refactor" is a repeated refrain.

The advice is to hire a "good project manager" who will become expert in the software and parcel out pieces of work to hired hands (the outsourcing red herring).

OK, we've traded a single point of failure who "went postal" for a new single point of failure, but labeled him "project manager" instead of "key developer." That sounds to me like the same problem, the same failure mode, just a different title on the business card.

A further disconnect is the reference to open source as an argument that the "program manager outsourcing the work" methodology espoused will work. The "program manager" methodology as described is centralized control taken to the extreme. Open source is the epitome of decentralized control. That is a major difference in philosophy and methodology.
I agree. Here's what I posted on YouTube:

This seems really fishy to me. First of all, the detail simply﻿ cannot be 'unlimited'. The point cloud data is necessarily limited by memory. And unless the search algorithm is O(c), there must be a limit to how much point cloud data can be searched in a 60th or a 30th of a second (pick whatever frame rate you like).

It also seems like animation would complicate things greatly.

Although I don't quite believe the hype, it is a fucking impressive piece of software and should be praised as such.
Four billion years of evolution have tended to make us prefer our own children to those of others.
Multiple people.

http://www.fitbit.com/
"Nobody would ever have heard of him or Mahalo if it hasn't been for people whining about him"

Except maybe people completing a Google search looking for meaningful information, and finding a MFA page with minimal or no content.
"Traction is the only thing that matters."

I could not agree more with this. If you get traction everything else falls into place so really you should be spending all your time figuring out how to do this and then making it happen.

The problem is as you say, it is of course non-trivial. However, while all cases are different, I do think there are strategies and best practices that one can employ. Your next post should be about the ones you've picked up. For my part, I'm doing a book on the subject with the goal to demystify the whole process of getting traction from every angle, http://tractionbook.com
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Co-founders skill sets should be complementary not similar. Essentially, one partner should have a deep understanding of the customer and the other should be able to add value ie. a salesman and an engineer.
Mass power outages can be huge disasters. Will the future bring with it 'mass computing outages'? How will we handle that?
I'll make sure to do that, no promises that I'll actually get around to this though.

Perl and others could definitely use the test work that was done on RE2 though, the way the tests are being automatically generated is really neat.
"Millions of other critics" was no strawman, for the simple reason that it wasn't an argument. Just my impression of the weakness of your argument.

Let me address it. You claim Objectivism claims all rich people are productive and all poor people are parasites. I claim it clearly doesn't. To prove my case I'll just cite a few names, which you, with your deep knowledge of Objectivism, ought to know: Jim Taggart and Lillian Rearden on one side; Mike Donnagan and Steven Mallory on the other. Even Howard Roark did quite a bit of manual labor, and presumably was never anything approaching rich within the pages of The Fountainhead.

As for who cleans the toilets in Galt's Gulch? Let's start with Quentin Daniels. Ever get that answer before?
I am, when they game the system without adding value to the end user (and note that's a general claim, not aimed at Mahalo specifically). And if you let one get away with it, others will follow, until the search-engine system breaks down.

Now that could mean a shift as revolutionary as the shift to search engines originally was. Or maybe, because at the moment almost all gaming is targeted at the Google gorilla, it may mean Google loses some relevance and falls back to the pack in terms of market share. Maybe either of those would be good. But why take the risk?
very cool idea for a book ... looking forward to it!
I though all they had to do was write "recreation" or "dramatization" in a little note at the bottom of the picture.
Yes, I would put traction right on top.
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I could talk about reason 5.2 for a whole afternoon. It is one of the best reasons not to compete on price.

Additionally, if you're doing ads on Google, there are some weird interactions here that Econ 101 would not predict. For example, although Google describes AdWords as an auction, it is really "auction-like": the highest bid doesn't necessarily win. One factor which can cause lower bids to beat higher bids is if the lower bids have account history. You get account history by winning the auction lots of times.

If you're scratching your head thinking "How does that matter?", consider a software market where one vendor has a product priced at $30 and another has a competing product priced at $22. Their conversion rates and CPCs might very well be similar on day one, resulting in a cost-per-action of $25. One vendor might choose to participate in the auction while the other does not. As the participating vendor's campaign picks up positive history, Google may cause their CPC to decline due to improved account history, perhaps resulting in a CPA closer to $12 ~ $15. Vendor #2, seeing this, might think "Darn! I'd sure love to advertise if it cost $12 ~ $15", and then turn on their ad campaign... only to find that it still costs them $25. (In some cases, it could actually cost more as a result of their competitor's success.)

The above example is somewhat simplified. AdWords can get complex fractal-style.
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And for those using nginx use this nginx.conf (read the comments for all the details):

http://brainspl.at/nginx.conf.txt
Since when does flash support this? And does it depend on upnp or something?

Just when I thought I understood Flash... now I'm confused again.
Have to disagree on point 4 about Boston. I have raised VC during the boom and the bust here, it is do-able, maybe not as easy as the Valley but not impossible either. Agreed on the importance of customer traction.
This is how my co-founder and I operate. We both code and we both swap business duties. It works VERY well when bootstrapping, as one person dipping out for a week for school/work/family time doesn't bring the operation to a halt.

Additionally, having two founders familiar in tech and business allows you to become very productive when one needs work over the other. The ability to tag-team and push out work is fantastic, because there is often a lull in one or the other.
We barely know anything about cosmology at all, when you get down to it.
taxes

oh, I thought this was an "Ask HN"
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i'd rather make something...
Take a look at these guys, http://aaaccess.com/ (based in Atlanta, Georgia USA). They provide a gateway to software/web companies.
I am not quite to full-time on ridewithgps, but it's so close I can see it. Just knowing that I will, in a matter of a couple months, have only one focus is enough to get me working like crazy to make it happen. Until then it's odd-jobs to make rent.

If there was a single founder instead of our team of three, we'd be at ramen profitability - a hazard of a larger bootstrapping team, however, it has huge benefits in ability to actually produce something.
The conclusion I deduce from these news stories is that there is still quite a bit of prejudice against porn workers (one can argue esp. in the US; in Europe I have the feeling that they are more accepted). This, of course, doesn't make their profession inherently bad.

You cannot have it both ways: You are either (i) against the widespread stigmatization of porn workers (female and male, you don't see the male stories because they don't make for juicy journalism) and fight for them to become legitimate members of the society; or, (ii) you hold that porn is a dirty thing that should be eradicated (along with its workers). In the end, you can't be against porn and for porn workers (this actually was/is? the self contradictory stance of feminist activists against porn in the 70s). A lot of them see that as their job.
There's currently a feature request to make this more clear:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017933

Voting for it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! I'll post the link at the bottom of the article.
A pet may be "potentially dangerous", but cigarette smoke is "actually dangerous". That's the difference.
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Do Linux distributions take Firefox and laden it with advertisements?
In that the majority of all people cannot pick their job based on whether or not smoking is allowed where they work.

Unwilling may technically be the wrong word for that but it’s close enough.
That wasn't always "true," though. It can take a long time to convince the majority of the truth of something if it's inconvenient to them personally. What do you do about determining the danger of things in the meantime?
Btw, I think your website is down?

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.alfajango.com/...
You can make this argument now, but as recently as 40 years ago there wasn't such a thing as an workplace that banned smoking. You wanted to work, you inhaled smoke.
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I posted a response comment on the article itself, and I'll expand here.

Customer acquisition is more expensive in some markets and cheaper in others. If you are building out a tool for a group of people who already have an internet presence (forums, news sites etc), acquisition is MUCH cheaper. In the beginning of the business you have time but no money, so use that time to talk on those forums, get those people helping you design your product. They will become fanatical users and spread the word about the cool new site THEY helped shape, not to mention provide you insight that you never would have gotten yourself.

We get a huge amount of comments/suggestions/feedback from our users (10-20 a day), and it is very very common to see ones like this, which came in today from one of our early acquisitions:

"BTW, I continue to 'pimp' the site ever chance I get. I post my rides on facebook, BF, and RBR, and share rides and routes with club members. Garmin Connect and TC are so weak, but thats what a lot of them use. Should be low hanging fruit!"

The best advice I can give (in my limited experience) is to engage with your users and build that sense of community and loyalty. It will payoff big, as we are starting to finally realize!
Logically, adding in the frequency works - I totally agree. In reality, though, people don't understand frequency and how it applies to them which is why we get into these security theater situations in the first place.
The "bad thing" is the inconsistency with Google letting large sites get away with the shady practices while punishing the little guy.
That econometrics project that's due next Friday mostly. Also a past examination paper I want to have done in same as practice and a Macroeconomics paper. I iz lazy.
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These guys constantly surprise me. Which I suppose is the complement of relentlessly resourceful.
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Another difference is in the fact that all the regulation does nothing to stop people from abusing their previously-safe pets until they become dangerous. Before any consideration of whether a law is just, we should really stop and notice whether a law would even be effective.
I would recommend photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's book, "30 Porn-Star Portraits" (http://www.amazon.com/XXX-Porn-Star-Portraits-Timothy-Greenf...) to gain a better understanding of how and why people choose to work in the porn industry. In addition to nice photos (of course) it includes essays by porn workers, e.g. Nina Hartley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Hartley) and biographical information. This comes in handy next time you encounter someone who claims all porn actresses are drug addicted victims who are either brainless or over-sexed.
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Some do. Ubuntu replaces the default home page with an Ubuntu-specific search box that points to the highest bidder's search engine.

It is perfectly compliant with GPL/GFDL to take the product and fill it with ads. There is nothing wrong with doing that.
I would say be "smart" ruthless, not "dumb" ruthless. That
guy would destroy a startup. A person who has more leadership skills will be able to get to the top without dumping on everyone along the way.
Perhaps, like other government employees (public school teachers) we should only be paying them for as many days of work as it takes to accomplish what we hired them for, and expect them to take another job to cover the difference.
Fair enough, but if I do a total reversal of my Canadian Socialist morality and play free market advocate, isn't this a problem that the market for search engines can solve? Why can't Bing show off how their search engine ignores mahalo and other wikipedia scraper sites and thus provides a more useful experience?
People I respect (here and elsewhere) have a multiplicity of perspectives on the fulltime thing. I think you can make it work, for some value of "it" and some value of "work", on full-time, part-time, consulting-subsidized-time, etc.
outsourcing all your stuff to the same company/location is a huge mistake. For 'the cloud' to become a viable alternative to in-house servers, we will need more than one compatible provider.
Very good point, I wasn't saying it totally defeats all objections to gay marriage, just the specific reproductive argument against it. But I agree, politics does tend to detract from science.
They'd certainly be within their rights if they did.
I wouldn't call Apple's process of developing the iphone and ipad "starting over" software wise though. As far as I know, the OS of both of these devices is based on OS X which of course can be traced back to Nextstep. I believe Microsoft did exactly the same thing with win NT; I've seen "embedded" systems running it.
I would say what held back Microsoft's mobile devices in the past was UI and usability, which Apple seems to have well under control.
I've had a linode for a few months now. Last month we went over the (600GB) limit by 50GB or so, but linode didn't charge us or, throttle us, or even contact us about it, probably because it wasn't excessive.
Yes it was. Not really sure what happened there, as I could SSH in and all resources seemed to be fine. Weird! At any rate, it's back up now.
An observation with no content. Not a satisfying article.
You could totally take a displacement map and tessellate a model with it. In fact, that's what OpenGL4 and DirectX does in hardware.
From the PR: “This is not something we set out to find, but we cannot make it go away […]”

One can only imagine the drama if somone were to find such a sentence in a climate related PR :)
Any outdoor workplace would be completely safe from the harms of secondhand smoke.
In general, I think people who make the "reproductive" argument mean "natural biological reproduction".
It depends on what stage of life you are in. If you are young and have plenty of time to develop savings and family in front of you, going all out and dropping your full-time job isn't a crazy risk. You make it, or you snag another job when you can no longer operate without more income.

On the other hand, if you have responsibility to children, a partner, a mortgage payment etc then yeah, you need to know you won't let those things fall apart.

I personally am used to living off a small income because I've been going to school for the past many years. If I was used to $80k a year in earnings, it would take alot more to make the plunge to full-time.
It's a fair point - the consequences won't necessarily be negative - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1185598. But is it worth the risk?
I think the title should be changed to "Are you capable of being a kiss ass to get ahead?" Or some variation of the same - douche bag/manipulative etc.

It is rather naive to think that you get ahead by just making friends with those on top. Almost certain you are giving them something in return for the favor, in most cases it is the hide (skin) of those you publicly claim as friends right now.

All said and done, why is this Hacker News worthy?
I've found plenty of pages on the Internet with wrong or worthless information. Welcome to the Internet.
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Who is this guy and why do I care?
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For some reason, and I'm probably projecting, I thought hey, I'll be able to create my own bulletin board. I think there's still room for a good solution there since Y! Groups seems lost, Google Groups seems a bit abandoned and a ton of other people are in the groups space but trying for something complicated (Ning).

Once I figured out what it wasn't, I had a hard time figuring out what it was. What sort of discussions is this for? StackOverflow isn't just for any sort of questions, it has a very clear purpose.

I forget who told me this, but someone once gave me design advice along the lines of figure out what the number one thing people want to do and make that thing twice as big as everything else. I often remind myself of that once I've finished building cool tech that could be used for anything and everything. I think that advice would be a good starting place for this site.

Aside from lack of purpose I can see a lot of potential in this sort of software as a platform.

I hope that's helpful. I'm hoping to post a "Review My Site" here next week and I'm already nervous about putting myself out there. But early feedback is good to get.
When is risk taken out of the picture, though? A lot of successful startups have near-death experiences well into their trajectory. Paypal and YouTube famously did.
I'm not taking a stance on the inherent goodness or badness of porn at all,I'm merely pointing out that sex work is in no way equivalent to factory work.
That blog post that this one links to about YC is miles off (at least for W08). 6 of the companies listed as "active" actually have received funding (7 if you include SnapTalent). I think TechStars deserves a big congrats, but this is pretty shoddy reporting.