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Well, banality of evil cannot be an excuse, it was not accepted at the Nuremberg trials for example. If you don't care anymore, you are a monster, and monster are destroyed.
In this case, the safety of a few Afghan informants could be considered collateral damage: you can't expect WikiLeaks to keep their hands completely clean, when they are trying to out pools of blood on the hands of others.

I wonder if wikileaks will start posting some videos (hopefully edited and annotated out of context) of the deaths of the people they just caused.
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I think the content demands analysis and cross-examination that incumbent news organisations are not used doing. Most current media formats (TV news and debates) are ill suited for such as well, so it's not going to happen.

Furthermore, incumbent news organisations loathe WL, and have incentives to ignore them.
Jobs has a wonderful concept of the user experience that he tries to enforce on all of Apple's products. If you notice, the underlying technology is really 2nd or 3rd on the list. How the user interacts with it, what their workflow is, how the software presents itself. These are all paramount.

Ballmer's focus seems to be on metrics and sales figures instead.
By removing the physical keypad you totally screw everyone with vision impairments. Check out the keypad and side-screen buttons next time you use an ATM, they most likely have braille on them. The 90° thing is a good idea though.
Personally, I lean toward thinking that sort of thing is too complex and unpredictable to determine algorithmically, but then again, dating sites have evidently done well in the last 10 years, and analog matchmaking sites did well before that, so maybe. My problem with solving the friendship/dating problem algorithmically is that it seems like a good answer to the wrong question. My best friends are the ones that I have a ton of shared experiences with (going to high school or college together, knowing each other for 10+ years, etc.), and the best "dates" I've been on have happened serendipitously. I don't know how you'd address those dynamics with something as necessarily superficial as a questionnaire. If anything, I could see a questionnaire being a good screening device for people you almost certainly would not click with, but I think it'd be almost impossible to predict the opposite. Just my two cents, though.
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Ask HN: What is the success/failure rate of startups?
This link from yesterday got me thinking about this interesting question again: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/30/conway-numbers/

So, if I start an average startup today, with an average team and an average idea, how big is the chance that it will be a success within five years from now?

I know this is a very hard question, because it depends on so many things, and it is also kinda hard to come up with a good definition of what a startup is. Perhaps a good definition of a startup is a company that has received funding (and therefore some kind of external approval/stakes in it)?

But let's discuss anyway :)
1) The former.

2) Not easily. The biggest problem is that the people who most need help finding friends are the ones you least want to find on a friend-finding site. Every dating site seems to be drowning in this problem, which means they have to resort to scam techniques and exploiting new, naive users as much as possible. OkCupid is the only exception that I've seen. Hard to say whether you can replicate what they're doing (that is, not sucking) in the Platonic realm.
Sexual love is a human need as fundamental as food and shelter.

In America's individualist society, friendship is a "nice to have."

Dating sites get over the hump of "oh my god this is creepy" because their users are desperate. It also doesn't matter how well they work: desperate users will pay money for hope, even if their hope is unfounded.

Without that driving desperation, I don't know that a friend-making site would ever get traction.
I don't think going college or going on a cruise are that difficult places to meet people. In fact I think that holidays in general and college are easier than every day life since people often have few friends with them and people are more relaxed and open to making friends.

For moving to a new area, I would expect that real life networking events are best around a common interest or joining sports clubs.

I think eHarmony and similar sites are aimed at matching two people together, where as male friendships tend to based around groups of friends, so I'm not sure how you would modify it to fit. Might work for women though.
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The algorithm is quite doable. A good-enough algorithm would be fine -- I have higher standards for those I exclusively date than for those I grab an occasional beer with. An opportunity to meet some new and interesting people would be great.

The viral loop probably lies in encouraging people to sign their existing friends up so that we can better classify the kind of people a user gets along with. I think people would use it, given that it had some mild game mechanics and some real social benefit. I'd push hard against making it in any way useful for dating and hookups at first, otherwise it would quickly get a stigma.

I had an interesting chat with some salesguys a couple of months ago, where we talked about an application that lets you say, "I'm in Denver on a layover for four hours. I'd love to grab a beer with somebody who sells into the enterprise software space and has some time to chat." That's one possible revenue source. Permission marketing is another one.

If I were to go the social-media-startup-route, this is the problem I find most interesting.

http://www.njl.us/social-networking-but-the-other-way-around
I think it's going to be tough to work remotely in that capacity. Most funds do allow that -- but only if you have worked for them for a period of time and have really proven yourself.

If Poland does not have many funds you ought to consider moving to somewhere that does (maybe you could apply to one of the graduate degree quant finance/financial engineering programs?)

Or, if this is the work that you love and are good at - consider trying to raise capital. There's not much to know. Most people tap friends and family for the initial capital and give it a go. There are plenty of great traders that started with little more than a small sum of capital and a tiny room to work out of.
One problem that springs to mind is that while a romantic relationship is usually one-to-one, a friendship is often part of a circle of friends - even if you'd get along well with somebody on their own, there's no guarantee you'd fit comfortably with all their friends, to say nothing of whatever group dynamics might be involved.

If there was an eHarmony-style site for friendships, it would probably involve mining social networks like Facebook for more information than just a simple personality quiz.
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On the point about serendipity, there is a dating site called HowAboutWe.com that focuses on spontaneous dates rather than matching.
ya. being friends with someone is a social thing. If you can't befriend me in real life, I probably don't want to be your friend. (or rather it just would not sustain itself)

Also, at least guy to guy, you don't really go out looking for friends. That's just weird. You just happen to do stuff and gradually, subtly, you become friends =)

I don't think most people remember how exactly you become friends with your friends. That's indicative imo. A forum for "friendmaking" is just weird.. as in it probably wouldn't actually work due to the dynamics.
I would like my mail to be automatically archived on viewing, unless I take specific action to keep it in the inbox, à la Emacs Gnus. (Emacs Gnus hides read email unless the user has ticked it.)
Not to put to fine a point on it, but does anyone use feed readers anymore? Hell, does anyone read feeds at all anymore? I'm the geek in my circle and no one I know relies on feeds.

I've tried to 'get it' about why they are good and have given them a try, but I end up back at HN or Reddit for my updates. Am I missing something that everyone else knows about? Is my time being wasted checking web pages instead of checking feeds?
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This is precisely how my friends use okcupid.
After reading the manual I had to donate.

1. Entertaining manual
2. Made me excited about a new technology for the first time in a long while.
as long as it doesn't look desperate (rather than going on eharmony for friends destination site, you'd give a service on your favorite socialnetwork/communities which proposes you //twitter"who to follow") ?
For the "algorithm", why not partnering with Hunch a bit?
Actually, it may be a good idea if it is an information site(rather interaction site not a match.com w/chat etc): people would just check which profiles around "could" become friends (based on near values/tastes/etc). It gives you an idea of who is around in your new town for instance. So that if you meet them IRL, you can say hello.
Development doesn't make money - choosing the right things to develop do.

I've been arriving to the conclusion that the code that gets laid down is really the last 10% of the work that needs to be done.
The webapp market is limited by people's leisure time. There can't be 10 Facebooks, because if the average person spends 30 min per day on Facebook, then it would have to spend 4h30min on the other 9 webapps. Nobody has that much time. The market for electronics, photonics is almost unlimited... because these technologies are meant to automate, not to entertain. This is not a matter of electronics being "nobler" than webapps, it's just the realization that one encounters certain limitations in the webapp area that do not exist elsewhere.
Sounds like he set up a provisioning profile early on and hated the process so much he just kept using the same one for his final project.
I've tried match, harmony, yahoo, friendfinder, and tickle. okcupid actually has compatibility testing & matching that seems to work and that does not suck. No one else I've seen has been able to do that. The problem with okcupid, is that it seems that women would rather interact on the site instead of meeting.
While it may be true that WikiLeaks had no incentive to put innocents at risk, it's also beside the point. It's entirely reasonable to believe that laziness/stupidity/lack of resources caused them to leak informants names even if that wasn't their intention.
I feel like meetup is a "good enough" algorithm and found many friends when I moved to a new city.
"with your irony button switched on"

Or your romance button.

Ranching is all about moving cows from pasture A to pasture B; looking out for disease; and making sure animals have enough to eat.

Wild west stories are still fun.
Noam Chomsky calls it "irrational jingoism."
Music, movies & books are good indicators of taste and therefore you can use them as parameters in similarity search on user-user matrix. It is called nearest neighbors search or clustering in academic jargon and there are many possible solutions, mostly based on some sort of matrix decomposition.
Look at this one for example, the winner of Netflix challenge: http://public.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/BellKorICDM...
I concur, but one of the things that this could be useful for is touring places that are too "dangerous" (to the places) for a full-weight human to tour. But a tele tour of Italy would not have been as good as the tour of Italy I took earlier this month.
I've seen people on twitter with a lot of followers doing the "I'm in such and such for 4 hours lets meet" invitation, though of course that only works for people with a lot of followers. So I think there is an opportunity there.
I know a guy who's working on this: http://preacquaint.com
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It looks reasonably useful for the remote person, who can see and hear what's going on in the room. (As long as it has stereo microphones so you can get some 3d sound perception, that's always been my beef with videocons.)

However, there's much less information going to the people who are with the robot: there's no body language, no facial expressions. How do you even know who the robot is?

Personally, I would not feel comfortable having a discussion with such a robot because of this. It's like an extreme version of talking to people who wear sunglasses inside. At least with video chat you can see people's faces.
The phone operators are scared shitless that people will run VOIP over their smartphones and so get to a much lower effective rate per minute than what the operators charge at the moment.

Typically a VOIP stream is between 2400 and 9600 baud, or 300 to 1200 bytes per second. At E0.25 cts per MB for instance that would make their voice tariffs look ridiculous and people would switch en-masse to VOIP.

They can't really win this one, either people will not use their data networks and they end up in front of the anti-competitive agencies (OPTA etc) or they lose a pile of money on their voice side.

Sucks to be them.
You're talking about people participating in the killing. I just mean people who are hearing about it from the other side of the world.
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Here's a screencast demo http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/demo-what-is-... and a downloadable demo http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/try-office-2010-FX1018...

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The abstract offers what I think is a good reasoning for this.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/
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Ask HN: Your experience with Pinax
I have just recently learnt Django and found Pinax to be a great source for creating websites quite rapidly. I was toying with the social project on Pinax 0.9a1 and realized I could make something quite easily by removing the excess apps in it.

I checked the last serious Pinax discussion on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764566) which was almost an year ago and most of the people here were rather apprehensive about using it. I was wondering if things have indeed changed for good in favor of Pinax now that it's closer to its first stable release.
Ask HN: Would you buy Facebook stock?
If facebook ever went IPO, would you buy their stock, and for what reason would you or would you not buy their stock ?

(I know this is almost a 'poll' style question but I'm much more interested in the reasoning than the numbers)
Well, the easy answer would be to arm the robot.
Define Success...

If success is a living while not working for 'the man' then the numbers are quite different when compared with say $200K turnover per employee per year.

If your team and your idea are 'average' I don't give you much chance to get off the ground, let alone to become successful.

Good team, good idea, good execution -> You have a chance.

Any of those 'average' and you'll more thank likely fail.
Oh how I would love to see both Craig Venter and Stephen Wolfram together, in the flesh, in the same room, at the same time.

I would love to see if it were possible for both their egos to be occupy the same portion of space-time for longer than 20 attoseconds.
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"The problem with okcupid, is that it seems that women would rather interact on the site instead of meeting."

Use crazyblinddate instead of OKCupid. It's down now but hopefully it'll be back online in the next year or so.
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Not all web-apps are leisure oriented. Plenty of them are B2B and plenty of them are giving a tangible return on time invested to the users.
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GP's point is that the truly breakout success redefine what it means to be successful. e.g. Google wasn't taken seriously because there was no money on the internet, MS wasn't taken seriously cos there was no money in software, etc. etc. You don't see the revolution coming, you're in it or you're not.

With FUD and spin making such big motions on startups (see diaspora 2 months ago) you're as well off making random bets, bets on personality or some other arbitrary factor that works for you.

There isn't a winning strategy, or all invested startups would succeed, so it's pretty much a die roll. People like PG pick a few criteria that work for them and to some measure stack the deck in their favour, but it is and will always be a gamble.
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Of course the definition of success is different for every entrepreneur. My definition of success in this case is a sustainable company that is still alive and growing after 5 years.

Maybe the formulation of my question wasn't very good. What I meant was more like "How many percent of startups who get funding are still in business five years later".
I like the tilde tip, but I've noticed Google does this by default quite a bit (and seems to be more and more nowadays). I'm sure that explicitly giving the tilde activates more of the synonym checking, but I'm sure Google's goal is to eventually make it unnecessary to use any of these keywords.
The real question is, at what price would you buy their stock. Surely if it was $.01 for 1% of facebook we would all buy.

Is there a place we can get financial data for facebook?
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If try PB for more than moment or two, you'll see that one of the main features is that every node allows notes. Selecting a node displays a note field with full formatting and unlimited length. Nodes can also have attachments that can be any type of document.

Aesthetics are a factor, but the icons, for example, are generated automatically by favicons when you link to a webpage. No procrastination involved!
Canada is much the same way.

That said - that's not true of the entire world - many societies still accept cash as a regular form of payment, and electronic methods cost extra.

(And darn it, we SHOULD be worried about the non-anonymity of electronic banking. There is nothing wrong with cash.)

I still get a kick out of the shock from surprising places when I go shopping with cash... people get freaked out because you have some whoppingly HUGE amount of money like $200 in your wallet, and ask "Aren't you afraid you'll get robbed?" and whatnot.
His sale of his (first) startup was just one scene from a movie that is still running.

His current thinking reflects a learning process that he might well not have engaged in without the sale.

And who knows what he'll accomplish with the benefit of that learning?

All in all, his first sale was definitely +1 in the W column.
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Well there is certainly a market for it, there are a lot of lonely people, I doubt the ability of a questionnaire and algorithm to match friends together. There are too many variables.
He should change the name.
Looks nice. I'm interested. Design is very similar to http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ though. C'mon, guys.
I keep bringing this up (I keep my drum on me 24/7), but I run http://EveryMentor.com/ and we're trying to be something like that but for folks that are looking for a more business aspect. Basically, its a place where you get a workout buddy for work in general. Kinda aimed at startups or single entrepreneurs that don't have lots and lots of contact as is.
That would be a great feature for Foursquare. They could add a profile for users, and let you opt in to sharing that with other users who have checked in at a certain place. It could be interesting to see who's nearby with a similar collection of badges and interests.
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There is kind of a leap between being right handed and that being the best hand to drive with.

When I was young, I drove a tremendous amount--pretty much 10-12 hours a day during the summer. We were wheat farmers, and the majority of that time was spent on a tractor. Because of the way that we went around the field, the right end of the plow started out next to the edge of the field. The best view of this was to sit facing the edge of the field (body turned to the right) so you can easily see ahead as well as the right edge of the plow readily. With a 32-foot plow, some degree of skill is involved in not overlapping already-plowed area (or taking out planted crop during the first round), and not leaving a gap between two rounds.

This meant that I did the bulk of the driving with my left hand, even though I am seriously right-handed.

And the result is that to this day, my left hand knows how to drive a straighter line than my right hand does.
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I have been using EH for 2 months now. Every week I ask myself, "why couldn't this just be for meeting friends?"