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I don't think Etsy was really a sub-market of eBay. This didn't occur to me at the time, anyway. I just thought that "handmade goods" are probably an aggregate multibillion dollar business.

I actually invested in another company that directly targets another eBay segment.

So yes, I strongly believe that other sub-markets of eBay are interesting to compete with.
Very interested in the % of the HN audience that has self-diagnosed Asperger's and what successful coping mechanisms they have developed for various social situations (mainly for relationships with: family, friends, romantic, work, etc.).

Have some theories about this, but would like to hear what others have to say.
I've been doing this for years: http://www.daz.com/
There was not other option of downloading at that time.
Cheapo laptop ($500), connected to my TV and surround sound, wireless keyboard + remote control to switch back to my FiOS TV is close enough for all of this for me.
How about a mailinglist automatically filters out posts based on relevancy? Using ardvark-like NLP?

A small niche mailinglist is probably the closest thing to a real online community, for two reasons:

- relevant emails always get read by everyone in the mailing list
- people read emails anyway, so there's less step involved as suppose to going to a website to read posts.

But a conventional mailinglist is not scalable - some of the lists I'm in get so many posts everyday that I become de-sensitzed to them.

There's a solution however.

The way to keep the posts relevant is to sub-categorize them much like subreddit, but that's also work and it's manual. That's where NLP and machine learning comes in so that the system can learn your preference and only email you the relevant posts. Of course, you also get an option to receive less-relevant posts too.

(I should probably make this into a post as suppose to a comment.)
Anyone else think that the constant Apple jabs at I/O are really poor form?
Don't get me wrong, Apple's flogged the condescension horse nigh into oblivion with their Get a Mac campaign, and there's some perverse satisfaction in seeing them get theirs. But, really, Google?

"It turns out that on the Internet... (yelling) people use flash!"

"We've discovered something (whispered) it's called the internet!"

"This isn't some kind of 'push notification' service that tries to make up for not having real multitasking"

I think it's right that Google point out where their products trounce the competition. I think the attempt to be pithy is just coming off as petty. If your products are better, people are going to buy them instead, that's your vindication. What are they trying to prove?
I haven't owned any other smartphones, but the N900 battery life seems OK. It easily lasts a day if I use it heavily (browsing, tethering, GPS mapping, etc). If I just use it as a phone/instant messaging device I end up charging every other day.
How does a VPN change anything? My point is that this gives Google easy access to stats about every website that is using Google-hosted web fonts. Like an old transparent tracking GIF...
Moderator should kill this now. It's only going to turn into a stupid religious argument.
Looks like it may be a C64c. That later model was more attractive looking than the first.
Ask HN: What streetsmarts have you learnt?
Hey guys,

I was listening to a podcast that made me realize how I'm surrounded by book smart people and am mostly book smart myself. I'm sure this describes a lot of people here on HN.

As an aspiring entrepreneur I'm striving to become more street smart and to be able to persuade people, not get screwed over, negotiate well, create and see opportunities, be able to make things happen that other people can't etc etc.

What stories do people have of experiences, lessons, things they have seen or read that they feel have taught them some more street smarts? Would love to hear them.

The irony of looking for books on how to become more street smart is not lost on me btw.

Thanks!
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Not to its target audience, no =).
Or, perhaps you just feel like watching that one show on Hulu by plugging your laptop into the TV?

That's what I do when I feel like it. It works just fine. You don't have to have a computer dedicated to being connected to your TV unless you want to. You can have them occassionally plugged in, and for not much extra work, either.

I just unplug one of my consoles, plug in the computer and violà
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You just described the Windows 7 laptop my wife just got at Costco for <$600 -- including wireless keyboard, mouse and remote.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366106
"Commoditize your complement"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
It's called Ask HN.
Little know fact, Julian's into Haskell. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2001-January/006410...

Maybe that's why they confiscated his passport ;)
The world could be starving but be rich on paper money.

Same goes for gold.

We could all be working towards a better world where food / shelter / medicine / sustainability is abundant, but people confuse this real wealth with money, which is an artificial interest bearing / government&Fed inflated accounting construct.
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No, "open" means "I can do whatever the heck I want with it". It's not open if you need to ask permission to run your code on it.
This is typical competitive business behaviour. I don't see a problem with it as long as it doesn't go overboard and I don't consider this to be the case here.

People tend to choose between competing products based on comparisons so the perceived value of the android platform would be based on how it compares to the iphone platform.
Another little known fact: Julian wrote Strobe, the first "fast" portscanner, and the immediate predecessor/inspiration for nmap.
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You're right, police do not check passports at the airport building, they're immigration officers - often they do have members who are trained police officers, but they're very rarely the people at the front dealing with the 300 people getting off a plane; the real officers are in the back who deal with the few hand picked out.

This holds true for every country I've been in, and I know for sure actual police officers are only in the back in Canada and the UK (I'd safely assume Australia uses the same commonwealth practices though) as I've been directed back there a couple of times (entering Canada) and my wife was directed into the back (entering the UK).
I think it's fantastic. I like Apple. I like Google. As an iPhone/iPad user, I think I'm going to benefit enormously from the genuine competitive pressure Google will apply.

The more direct and pointed they make it, the more likely it is Apple is going to respond.
The story of NUMMI is an amazing one. This American Life dedicated an entire show to its unique history several weeks ago: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/n...

It's a full hour, but it goes by fast. By the end of it you'll probably be as excited as I am by today's news.
All browsers are leaking the referrer information, so any unique url representing a user will do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
Those are truly tame quotes. They could go far stronger and I wouldn't think it's a bad thing.

Google should give as hard as it gets. Apple dishes it out very rough, and Google should fire back. These are technical put downs, not personal. And they're honest, not FUD.
Valid point. I changed the title as per your request - was not trying to be misleading and apologize if it came of as such.
Here are my questions about this, hope you smart folks don't mind chiming in:

How do you physically put DNA into a cell? A very small needle? Or is there something fancier?

How were the synthesized pieces of DNA produced? Very tiny robotic hands pushing the molecules together in the right sequence?

How did they stitch together the synthesized pieces of DNA? What would say which pieces go with which?
> he original point was about how he does that when he actually does it. And all or nothing is a legit thing to do here.

yes, that's what I meant.
> Drooled over the Crunchpad too and we all know how that went.

I know, it's awesome how it turned into an iPad!
When Apple takes jabs at MS we applaud. When Google takes jabs at Apple, we boo?

I think that Google's identification of a 'competitor' gives them alot of internal momentum. Hate, wether legitimate or good natured, is powerful for an organization.
Well... the person who grabbed it wasn't the person it was intended for. The whois tells the story.
A subreddit's moderators can make all the difference in stopping trolls and keeping content on-topic.
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I see you do settings through a cookie or URL params. I'm out of ideas unless you hash the cookie + ip for a session ID fir that purpose.
Wikileaks is not blocked in Australia.
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I would argue that Etsy didn't identify an underserved market inside of eBay but rather intelligently saw a need to service the 'flea market' circuit. Based out of Brooklyn, there's no doubt that Etsy's founders frequent places like the Brooklyn Flea and other places where jewelers, knitters, and other small time crafters hock their goods on weekends to escape their day jobs.

This, to me, was the win, not going after a piece of eBay's pie.

Rather than asking "Other markets that could flourish by being spun out of ebay," I would search for more organizations helping 'micro-entrepreneurs' (i.e. from the bedroom to a small booth rental) make their living.
I agree. Of course, we also benefit from everyone playing along (Google Maps on the iPhone, for example). But I think we need to have more all-out competition between the big companies in the mobile market.

When everyone plays it too-nice, we end up with situations like the current cell provide market or cable provide market: essentially rackets of collusion that occurs passively (through a refusal to compete hard) instead of actively (through smokey backroom meetings)
Brilliant phrases. They appeal greatly to the emotional part of people and are sure to make you look different in front of them. I won't have many opportunities to use them (non-English speaking country), but I'll for sure keep this list at hand for when the need comes.

Just take more care with typos:

"frist friend"

"dbonstrates interest"
Major social networks (yes, Facebook) sending data about you to advertisers
The world is a much smaller place these days. Simply drawing a religious figure or even making fun of that figure does not give anyone the right to start chopping of each others heads or otherwise hunting them down and killing them. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs but given how interconnected we are we have to figure out how to live with each other. That means Muslims have to be more tolerant too.

Given all the bad press Facebook has generated lately, I'm not surprised they took it down. However, taking a stand here might have been somewhat redeeming on some level. I hope they bring it back.
As perhaps the only HN member who lives in Downey, CA, I have to say that I often suspected Musk was up to something but his actions were almost totally convincing otherwise. He had plant layouts done as recently as a couple of weeks ago. Well-played.

The city also did well to try to close the deal, but business is business -- a tough and frequent lesson in economic development. Tesla just kept working the deal and reeled in a big fish. It is sad the way the city got strung along, though.

On the other hand, as an original Saturn owner I had always hoped NUMMI would work out and was sad to see it shuttered. So I at least appreciate that. But oh man, what a Charlie Brown football moment for us here in Downey.
they would not have been able to compete with some open source port of the VNC client

That depends on the culture of your open platform. The Mac OS is an open platform -- in the sense that you can compile and run any open source software you want on a Mac -- but there are quite a few Mac apps that successfully compete against open source "equivalents". Consider Transmit: An FTP/SSH/EC2 app. Or Textmate: A text editor for programmers.

It's not the platform that matters. It's the customer base. It doesn't matter how many users the platform has; what matters is whether they have money and are willing to spend it for higher quality, less wasted time, greater ease of use, or some other value that your software provides.

I'm not sure there's any first-order reason why people couldn't develop a really polished VNC client for, say, Linux and make money on it. There are just second-order reasons: Linux is a fragmented software platform (many distros, many moving parts), running on incredibly diverse hardware, with a culture that actively discourages charging money for software and has therefore built little or no infrastructure or culture to support such business. Most difficult of all, Linux must compete with the Mac, which has built a culture of paying for quality and has used it to vacuum up many of the most valuable desktop-software customers.
Most articles are killed because users flag them, not because of a single admin doing things. You know, to head off the whole "Paul Graham's been cowed by Islamists" argument before it starts.
Ok, can you switch it off easily in the software, or do you need to recompile. Can you switch it on on a flash app basis, so a screen might have an ad and a video, then you can play the video only?

If so, that is great. I still don't miss Flash on my iPhone, and definately want to still keep on missing it.
I commend your diplomacy.
True, but I'd rather have features I like enabled now rather than when the company I just forked over money to decides it's good for their bottom line.
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You've pretty much perfectly outlined my reasons for not wanting the government to fingerprint me.

It's ridiculous, and it does not make us one bit safer.

The real problem here is that the general public does not understand the issues at all.
Why the downvotes?

This is like having Bill Gates critique a new release of Linux.
According to http://www.webmproject.org/about/faq/
"WebM support in Android is expected in the Gingerbread release (currently planned for Q4, 2010)."
I usually write full posts on this sort of thing, so I'll just pick one very simple (albeit very important) lesson I've learned the hard way:

You haven't made money until it's in the bank.
You could have been using a Nokia phone during all this time.
Bring your boss options, not problems. Your boss has plenty of problems. Don't add to the collection. When you bring options, you also get the chance to influence the direction of the company. One problem at a time.
When Palm OS came out, it was better than the others (which I guess were those old e-diaries). When Windows CE came out, it was better than Palm. When iPhone OS came out, it was better than anything else that was out there.

Now, things are a lot harder. iPhone is still great, Android is doing really well, clearly catching up. Palm Webos is also good, and Windows Mobile 7 would probably be a worthy contender when it appears. BB is getting more consumer friendly, and Nokia have some great OS as well. Looking at Mobile OS, it seems you are right now, but in the past it was a lot easier.
You've injected a premise into this argument that the original commenter never asserted (that Facebook is acting in defense of shareholder value, and for no other reason). You've damaged your credibility.
I'll tell you what flash-based site is missing. It's grooveshark. Without doubt it would be an awesome site to be able to access from a mobile device.
Sorry, not talking about the employees.

I am talking about the control carriers used to exert on hardware manufacturers like Motorola, Nokia, etc... Whereas you could get the same device in Europe or the US, but the US version would be crippled because the carriers only wanted you to get ringtones from their store, wanted you to pay extra for bluetooth, and wanted an ad on the start page.

Which means you couldn't use Motorola software to backup your device, somtimes you couldn't run Java apps, and so many other problems.
Just waiting for someone to do a Mohammed picture submission site. A dangerous project if there ever was one.

- there's an historical archive here: http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/
You should be able to construct rules per site. Facebook, Digg, reddit, HN should be obvious. It would work like ad-blockers. Actually, might as well throw one of those in there so long as you're going to have a proxy.

The reason why I proposed a browser, is that the thing is going to look and feel like a kind of Browser History. So why not just roll it into that?
Article ARS references here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870451310457525...

Additional HN thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1366199
For what it's worth, my friend Patrick Collison wrote an aware winning Lisp at 15 -- and is still hacking.
Precisely. A good example of this is vintage furniture sellers and refurbishes. They don't really fit well on eBay because of high shipping costs and difficulty to identify pieces and Craigslist is very hard to crack due to regionalization. For example, Hudson, NY has tons of stuff on Craigslist but New York, NY is hugely lacking in antique furniture.

Anyone that is caught in limbo between eBay and Craigslist and thus resorts to flea markets or other 'in-person' gatherings for sales are good targets.
In general this is the question of personal security and it has been stupid to go back to the country which issued your passport and which would like to cath you.

It reminds me old movies and old books. So, ....
It's taken me a long time to learn this one. This will likely be the best advice in the entire thread.
When's the last time you can remember them doing that? I think they've moved on. Sure, they make a few jabs here and there, but from what I've heard it was just one slight after another towards Apple following every new product they announced.
The reason my Facebook picture is a cartoon stick figure of Mohammed today is precisely because I refuse to be cowed by threats from barbarians. Hiding behind anonymous distributed networks isn't much better than hiding behind censorship.

If free speech is only possible in anonymity, then you don't really have free speech.
If that turns out to be the case, then everyone should go back to H.264. But honestly, I have a feeling that Google looked into this before they decided to use it for YouTube. Remember that patents cover exactly what they describe, not things similar to what they describe.

Google could always also just buy the patent, if it turns out to be a problem. Basically, I am not ready to dismiss this yet. I trust Google's legal team over one H.264 programmer.
"Not surprisingly, Facebook appears to have gone farther than the other sites when it comes to sharing data."

This isn't really the expectation you want your users to have.

Interesting to note that Google comes up in this though.

This is leading to regulation. Hard and swift.
With the acquisition of SimplifyMedia, it seems like Google's aiming straight at Apple's "Digital Hub" strategy. (Which I doubt Apple is still really following.)
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Yes Facebook is evil. When I saw that Zuckerberg called users "dumb f*s" for trusting him with their data, and I mused on how criminals could exploit that data via phishing, pw guessing, and social engineering schemes, I joined the Perma-Delete revolution.
Transmit I would consider 'at risk', of having their lunch eaten one of these days, textmate (like ultraedit) has a loyal following and will be here for the time being.

If it was as easy to apt-get some package on to the mac as it is to install stuff on most linuxes (or 'yum' if that's your flavour) I think that would change matters considerably.

The initial hurdle to deployment is the hard one, if there would be a package manager with a sizeable repository installed by default on OS/X I think it would make life much harder for those earning a living writing software.

Just like 'tucows' changed the world of closed source utilities for sale on the PC platform, only then a bit more dramatic because the vanguard would already be pre-installed.

Openness includes removing barriers to getting at stuff, not just that it is 'open' to modification, I suspect the majority of the 'hackers' on this forum have never modified a line of code in most of the stuff they download and install.
But the context here is a group who are trying to manipulate their detractors by threat of force, and Facebook is allowing them to do it.

There are groups who will threaten violence against neo-nazis. That does not justify allowing neo-nazi stuff because there are still millions offended by it.

The same holds true here, IMO. Of course, I am very biased. But that also means that I am part of the OVERWHELMING group who feels offended but isn't threatening anyone.
tau, go fix mine please

http://www.mattmazur.com/archive/aol-files/downloads/people/...

;(
Why do so many feel this is exceptionally barbaric?

More like exceptionally emotional. Really, I'm not trying to start an argument, but this tangent seems both off-topic and unappreciative of the fact that no country (AFAIK) is obligated to permit foreign visitors. That said, to the extent the US can encourage well intentioned, law abiding foreigners to visit, I believe that it significantly adds to the culture, economy and general health of the society. Besides, isn't the information exposed by a fingerprint a far cry from that exposed by DNA?
There isn't. There is medications that help tangentially only.
Antidepressants, Anti-Anxiety & anti-psychotic medications are commonly prescribed to treat the symptoms.
Calling facebook a utility is silly. Utilities are services which require the building of infrastructure, with few or no alternatives, and often which are granted a government monopoly for building said infrastructure.

Facebook is a website to post some crap on. There are thousands of such sites, they weren't granted a monopoly, and they didn't build infrastructure.

I'm all for freedom of speech, and I think that the picture of Mohammad day is a celebration of that, and not wrong (do not liken making fun of crazy people to racism, it's not the same thing, and the draw Mohammad day event is specifically a protest against violent reprisals towards those who expressed their freedom of speech). However, Facebook is not a public forum, it's not government property, and it's not a utility. It is a privately owned website, and they can remove whatever they damn well please.
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