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I think the only _great_ dating app is okcupid, which is only really just starting to touch upon using facebook.

Making it harder for apps to spam users, will actually benefit the fb platform as a whole. I actually think they're mostly doing a good job, given most project sponsor's initial thoughts around gaining users are to try and spam all existing users as much as possible, and then try and import all their contacts. There was quite a bit of this in the early fb days, but not so much now. This is a good thing.

Now, how to write an effective dating app?
How to get women using a dating app. These are the real challenges.
P.o.F. is an ok site that I've used in the past, but always felt it could be better. Though I guess if you've got a steady income stream, you're more worried about breaking it, and loosing an income, than innovating. Have you thought of doing a sister site or two?
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I am deeply saddened to hear this. The ones who start revolutions without wanting to, those are the most precious.
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Do you think it might have something to do with how easy it is to find a public toilet?
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This is very true for public companies.

If the correct solution (say, maximum profits over the next 100 years) for newscorp is to become 1/3 its current size, it probably can't do this. As a public company it would probably collapse completely instead. The best it can do is keep taking chances on growth even if they are less rational then alternatives.
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If exponential progress of technology had kept up, we would have been getting Helium and all sorts of minerals from the Moon since 12 years ago. Oh... And I would be flying my car to work.

Sadly, technology goes by leaps and bounds, subject to the winds of politics and economics.

It's not impossible that, 12 years from now, we will be living in a post-societal-collapse agrarian society and our achievements will be little more than legends.

No. Not that bad, but you get the idea.
Photoshop is to design as a text editor is to coding.

That's the tool you use to get it done, but it's says nothing about the talent you need to do a good job.
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The weather--maybe. The local laws--absolutely.
It's not impossible that, 12 years from now, we will be living in a post-societal-collapse agrarian society and our achievements will be little more than legends.

Well, I guess that's one way to match the demand and supply of helium.
Can't we implement RethinkDB as features of MySQL or PostgreSQL
its really interesting to see ui developments take more of a focus recently, this looks like some really hefty work and its great to see it in action on applications I use every day, I might have to take some time to see what can be done in javascript, the expanding cursor is vaguely familiar but looks like a great idea.
Impressive work which I could definitely foresee being used by malicious code to seamlessly hijack existing GUIs. The security implications are spine-chilling.
I can only go on personal and anecdotal experience, but having known a lot of investment bankers, I cannot agree with this at all. After a few years, the folks who truly love it are a definite minority. But many get snared by money/lifestyle. I see the same in management consulting where I get told over and over "I'm just here until I figure out what I really want to do"
Of course, you can just setup your own load balancer on EC2 with HAProxy and stunnel, but that's a PITA.

and PITAs add complexity and cost.Using ELBs is the best solution, but it's a non-issue if you go dedicated.
There's a spelling mistake in the last phrase. It should be:

This is why you don’t build companies that are completely dependent on spam.
The moon has helium? It sounds like it comes from alpha-decay of radioactive elements and I don't think the moon has much of that given its size, no iron core and all. But I'm not a planetary scientist...
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Interesting.

But it's only multi-platform in the sense that it can recognize the underlying widgets. I am also concerned on the added complexity of bolting a layer of behaviour on top of software that's unaware of it and was not designed to take it into account.

I also wonder if is it a coincidence that it's research focused on adding a layer of complexity to closed-source software is from Washington.
In terms of building your professional network, when you get to Seattle, look up @littleidea (he's also littleidea here on Hacker News). He's awesome.
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With regard to atmospheric helium, I don't believe that we know how to harvest that yet. So, it's out of our reach, at least for now.
Well, "most abundant" in the heterosphere doesn't really say much given that the density at those altitudes is sufficiently low that the molecules have a large mean free path. We're basically talking satellite orbit altitudes here, so it would be seriously difficult to haul something large enough to gather enough mass to be useful. Certainly it wouldn't be cheap.

And 3000 tons per year is not that much given that Wikipedia says "2008 world helium total production of about 32 million kg helium", ie 32000 metric tons. In other words, demand exceeds production by a factor of 10, even if (and that's a big if) all of the He in the lithosphere could be captured.

No, I think the solution is to go to Jupiter and scoop up a huge load of it (gotta be Jupiter, Saturn's atmosphere is deficient in He). And given that we need it for spaceflight, better do it before we use it all up!
Except it's not, really.

Right now we get helium by distilling it out of natural gas, which means that we only tap a tiny fraction of what's actually present on and in the planet. And although right now we're using helium faster than we can extract it from the dwindling supply of natural gas, that doesn't preclude the development of other methods and sources in the future (and, once the supply is low enough and the demand is high enough, somebody will put up the money to figure it out).
I've avoided learning anything about HTML5 for the past year, but as it is getting adopted fairly quickly, I'd like to learn. Anyone know of any good HTML5 books or online resources?
I live in perpetual design envy of most Web 2.0 apps and Mac shareware shops, but my very... unspectacular design has not succeeded in totally dooming me yet. I am agnostic on the truth of this, but I keep hearing everybody and their dog saying that the iPad is made for Real People. I sell to Real People. You don't need to win design awards to sell to Real People.
I read an article yesterday (believe it was in the Times) about the Ipad. The article itself was pretty underwhelming, but there was a part that stuck out at me. The writer mentioned that he had a meeting with Steve Jobs. He comes in to the conference room, and there is Steve with his black turtle neck and his feet on the table.

<sarcasm>I mean if Steve Jobs does it then it must be alright.</sarcasm>
To anyone who found the themes here interesting, I'd recommend Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Bingo, just what I was about to make a post on.

There's a fantastic difference between someone who goes straight from an undergraduate degree to an MBA vs. someone who gets some number of years of experience in the real word and then goes back for an MBA to learn how to do it better.

Sort of like how the very best lawyer I ever worked with had started as an embedded engineer (in some California nuclear power plant there's a Z-80 of his monitoring valve wear). While he could certainly do the work, he just didn't find it to his taste, so he became a patent lawyer (in the long term, he first also discovered that being an associate in a big law firm was seriously negative fun).

So e.g. when we had to weaken an external cryptosystem of ours to make the export guys happy, he knew exactly what I was doing when I explained the context and said "we zero these bits of the key"; together we wrote the application (which was accepted). And he taught me a lot about the law (this was the company that went kaboom in a cery bad and big way and we spent a lot of time in the local law library to get our back wages etc, etc, settled).

So I'd view the one with real world experience who then got an MBA or became a lawyer favorably (and probably tend to run away from the one without :-).
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Found it: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-fir...
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Just one example:

Then: http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad
Now: http://gizmodo.com/5506692/ipad-is-the-future
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Thanks Ryan. Will update accordingly.
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I guess that could be a contributing factor, but not being able to find a public toilet has never inspired me to take a shit on the street in broad daylight, and I presume most other people would say the same. So it must be more than that.
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Who said putting your feet up is bad manners?

A sizable* chunk of society? We're talking about "social conducts or rules defined by society" here. They may make no sense, you may not like them, but you still have to live in a human and social world.

It may be overly casual, familiar, or informal

And I'm fine with that, just as long as you also understand it's unhygienic and, after being brought up to your attention, selfish (I'm comfortable) and inconsiderate (live with it).

*I do not have exact numbers, but judging from this thread, >15%?
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That posting is from 2003.
The government has to outsource in a governmenty way. So in the US, they're not allowed to unfairly favor one company over another (at least there are rules trying to prevent it). This makes the steak and strippers kind of selling illegal, and employees of contracting companies are legally required to go through training on how not to bribe officials. Companies have to re-compete for contracts they've already won. Then you have subcontracting, which leads to situations where your boss works for a different company than you and isn't allowed to know your salary.

Maybe it makes things simpler for the government itself, but probably not to the extent that it could.
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You know, Chicago has tons of homeless people too, but I've never seen this sort of disgusting behavior there. I can't understand the difference?
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An interesting view, but I don't think it will last (it might with you, but not in general).

Our online identity is becoming more important and people will increasingly rely on it for a part of their personal identity in the coming years. Hopefully, however, it means that as people invest more of their identity into their online interactions they will become more sensitive to the fact that others do as well.
The technology they demonstrate is impressive and clever. That's just a neat way to improve GUI's. But what they use their method to do (implement bubble cursor and sticky icons) seems like it would harm usability. With bubble cursor, the downside is that any accidental click of the mouse (those happen with touch pads on laptops) is guaranteed to trigger some gui element. Also, if you are in the midpoint of two gui elements, a tiny, tiny shift in the mouse could lead to clicking the wrong thing. Which could be very back when the "save draft" and "discard" buttons are right next to each other, as in gmail. The upside is... that I don't have to move my mouse quite as far? Bur if not having to move your mouse as far is a good thing, why implement that sticky elements feature, which guarantees you will have to move your mouse much farther after moving over an element? Both the bubbles and sticky things seem designed to make ui elements much easier to click on, but unless you have muscle control problems (which I suppose some people do, especially the elderly) I don't think that's generally a good thing. There are too many buttons that do things that you just can't undo.
The more I learn about raising money, the more I realize that it is impossible without extensive networking. I am European, living in Japan having a start up focusing on the US market. I can work online, meet my friends online, why not raise money online? I guess before that will become reality we might have to wait a while longer...
Some quite cool ideas... the image processing based approach is a clever way to avoid the platform specific nature of UI and the fact that lots of apps do their own thing to render APIs like EnumWindows useless for stuff like this.
What other sources are there that we're not tapping?
Ok, this thing is cool, and they wrote a paper. Where do I get the code? It's a bit ironic to use the tagline "What if every GUI were open source" and not link to the code.
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Assume that: (1) universal adoption of X is good, (2) individual adoption of X takes a few time and effort, and (3) individual adoption of X provide no benefit whatsoever (such benefit will come when everyone has switched).

I think X will never be adopted before either (1), (2), or (3) becomes false. That or you actually scheme a "Grand Plan forcing the [adoption]".

I the case of IPv6, the author proposed to solve (2) by embeding the switch in the normal upgrade process, and (3) by making IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. That is not forcing anyone. It just removes a huge amount of friction, solving the chicken-and-egg problem.
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According to http://uxmag.com/design/the-impossible-bloomberg-makeover the terrible Bloomberg interface is a way to "sustain a fictive status symbol". I am happy to hear that sustaining a status symbol just got a lot more stylish.
You are kind of arguing with a sidebar to the main point which might read: "If finger biting Charlies is the direction TV is going, the movie industry will not be able to adapt."

This post is about the principle (complexity leads to collapse), not the premise of that particular example.
From the title, I was hoping this was some metaphor relating to code or business.
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Helium can be created by ions striking hydrogen.

Helium is also created by hydrogen fusing in the sun and being blown out on the solar wind.
Not only does the moon have a great deal of helium, It's got vast stores of the He3 isotope.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1550246/Russia-see...
The moon has large amounts of He-3 compared to Earth, acquired as atoms of it were jammed into the rocks by the solar wind.
Woops.. I read this as "Updating, showing, and deleting users is out." I was thinking, "what the heck did they replace them with?
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I recall that one of the reasons frequently given for returning to the moon is that it is "rich" in Helium-3 (the commonest isotope is Helium-4) and it can be used in nuclear fusion[1].

If wikipedia is to be believed "rich" is relative here and corresponds to 0.01 ppm. He-4 is slightly better at 28 ppm. However as He-4 is 5ppm [2] of the atmosphere here on Earth the Moon seems a long way to go to achieve just a 6-fold enrichment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Composition
What something like putting an entire country behind a NAT firewall? Not sure that would represent progress - more likely a Balkanisation of the Net.
Ask HN: advice on enabling features "per user" ?
I have a few apps that I want to work more like gmail labs: I want to be able to selectively enable/disable a feature on a user or a group of users.

Are you doing this already ? Would you have tips to provide ? (known caveats etc ?)
I wonder, if we keep moving bees around this way shouldn't the problem eventually go away, because of evolution. Of course I have no idea of long something like that would take.
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I am drooling over the idea of my web-cam tracking my eye-movement and combine it with the power of the bubble cursor. Just imagine, you would not need a mouse anymore, all the problems of touch-screens are solved. You would just have your courser on wherever your are looking at.
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Very good points.
What they do is interesting, but useless—at least in the way it is presented.
The main problem is—you cannot bolt on good UI, it must be designed from the very beginning. Anything else is just a lipstick on a pig.
I have been reading about the pending helium shortage for the last 10 years (for example: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html). That WIRED article gave us 10 - 25 years. The Seed article gives us 10 - 15 from today.

I never know what to think of these things, given that we have been "running out of oil" since the late 1970's. I suspect, just as with oil, that there is no economic incentive for anyone to go looking for new supply while the price is so low. Once it gets high enough, someone is going to figure out some crazy way to extract it.
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I've been reading HN for about a year now and am pretty familiar with many of the concepts of web startups, but one that I wish I had a much firmer understand of is that of funding.

Could anyone on HN list sites, ebooks, or physical books I could read on the basics and more in-depth reading on funding, the terminology and how the whole finacial side of startups and in particular, web startups work? I don't want to miss anything and want to be naturally know the whole picture.

pg's "How to fund a startup" <http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html> is a good start, but I was wondering if there were any other important/good resources you all could point me and others too.

tl;dr: Got any good -- preferably online -- resources to learn about startup funding, seed cycles and the like?
Actually, the helium in the solar wind is not the helium the Sun has made, it's primordial. The helium made by the Sun is in the core and does not get to the surface, because the Sun's convective layer does not reach into the part where fusion is happening.
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Good point. I can't believe there's that much mass arriving in the solar wind, though.
It shouldn't even be possible to segfault an interpreted language like Ruby, let alone the "current stable" version. Sounds like it's Ruby-core's problem, not Rails-core's.

Heh, good point.
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Ruby 1.9.1 needs to go.

I agree, but I don't think Ruby 1.9.2 is slated for release until the end of August.
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I've heard that for very large service providers, it is possible to run out of 1918's. IIRC Comcast did a presentation where they figured they needed 100 million IP addresses for a nation wide rollout of their triple play service. They appear to be highly motivated to use 6, as the alternative - partitioned 1918's would be a nightmare.

I agree, though, that exposing your services to the Internet via both 6 and 4 and leaving the backend internal data center at 4 is probably the way to go for the next decade or so. Heck - we are still running DecNet on production servers.
There is a reason this stuff is still experimental. However, it's easy to think of new options like bubble cursor + maximum bubble size which you want to explore. How about a Bubble cursor preview with a touch interface? That seems like a pure win, but how about using the iPhone's keyboard preview when clicking on non keyboard icons etc.

What's hard is finding out how this impacts current applications which is the whole point of this demo.
The moon, solar winds, nuclear fusion, nuclear fission, the lithosphere, other planets, local sources.

Currently the easiest way to get it is as a byproduct of natural gas drilling. But the planet has been outgassing it for, geologically, a very long time. The low hanging fruit might be running low but if there is a demand it for then there will be someone willing to sell it to you.