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The pricing models are ridiculous. I cut the cable cord over a year ago, cancelled my $150 a month plan, and now enjoy $30 a month Internet only with $10 a month streaming Hulu plus, $9 a month streaming Netflix, and save a ton of money every year.

The cable business model is dead. I'm sorry, but it does not cost $billions to produce these TV shows. I only watch about 3 TV shows regularly and spend maybe 2.5 hours a week doing that, so I'm not going to pay more than a few bucks a month. Also, I'm sorry, but if I pay for content, I am not going to let you get paid to show me unskippable ads. Not going to do it. The market has spoken. Technology is catching up to the cable companies and they are going to be relegated to bandwidth provider status.
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Is it really too sensitive to highlight gender in profession?
There's also Sencha and in a way jQuery Mobile (I am sure there will be a desktop suite to follow as well).
Congratulations, great news for guys that worked hard on it. May I ask what is the reasoning/breakdown of $20 million valuation? For example id Software was sold for, rumor has it, 105 million dollars - only 5X the amount, while they generated over $2+ Billion in revenue with their products over time.
Also added the http://thinktutorial.com/sitemap/ per your request!
It'd be interesting if there were a way to measure proportion of visitors from different sources who engaged, by some definition of engagement. Ideally I want to know "read the article", but that's hard to measure. Number of new feed subscriptions might be a decent proxy for "read and really liked the article", though.

One reason I want to know that is that for my own sites, I've generally found a large proportion of link-blog traffic to be very shallow, to the point where maybe one in 100 hits is a "real" hit. This is particularly the case at link-blogs without any summary blurbs. Slashdotters who don't want to read the article, for example, often just read the blurb and don't bother to click through, so a bigger proportion of those who do click through are at least somewhat interested in reading. A much larger percentage of people on sites like Reddit click through, but I don't think a much larger percentage actually read the articles; many are just clicking through to figure out what the article's about, since there's no blurb to explain it. And some don't even do that much, since a common Reddit use pattern is "middle-click on every article to open in new tab, then work through the tabs", often culminating in just closing the remaining still-unread tabs when you're done reddit-surfing, which results in a ton of spurious hits that involved no human eyeballs.

Anecdotally, the proportion of shallow-hits/not-even-real-hits goes up somewhat proportionally to traffic. Front-page of reddit delivers maybe 100x as much traffic as front-page of a more niche sub-reddit, but much less than 100x real readership.
That's true, but while my government-tapped phone can only harm my privacy, your government-tapped iPhone can harm everyone's privacy (by recording sounds and video and sending them to Apple's Centralized Server).

Now, I know there is no "expectation of privacy" in public, but does anyone really expect that some random person's phone is recording a video stream of you and storing it indefinitely on a private company's servers?
Except that this isn't a rich web application--this is a java applet.
vicious lying stinking reeking bullshit FUD

Isn't this exactly the same thing that you're speaking out against? Using emotional words to bias people in your favor?

People do it because it works.
And it must be acceptable answer -- it's not the only thing we don't know. Almost all of the things in physics are known only as observations, and as "laws" which fit with observations and allow us to predict the results of the similar observations. Then we intentionally try to find some observation that makes us refining the rules. Like Lorentz's formulas are the refinement of some Newtonian "laws." That's how science works.
Is "Pandorama" in title an intended invention? Pandora+Panorama == Pandorama

I like it.;)

However, the official name is Panorama.
vgr presented this as "Information Parenthood" in his newsletter:

In other words, the "interpreting reality" part of leadership is rather like parenthood. Call it "information parenthood." You have to sustain a happy bubble for others. At the same time, as a leader, your own parent is reality itself, and it isn't a very nurturing one. Drunk and abusive Father Reality, not nurturing Mother Nature. Constantly facing the doubts and uncertainties of unfiltered realities, while protecting others, can be brutal. When things get hard, you will want to scream, "Why am I the only adult around here?"

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I don't get why Apple didn't buy them. If anything, 280 North's strongest suit is Objective-J, which borrows heavily from Cocoa (obviously) and that should make iOS developers feel at home especially with Atlas's x(n)ib files.

But, yeah, I don't know why Motorola? It does seem desperate, but it's a good buy nonetheless cuz Capuccino is pure js (it's a superset of js after all) goodness.
Have you traveled through Europe lately?
The end result of this regulation will be more transparency in borrowing costs, and nothing more. From a pure economics point of view, it doesn't make sense that the overall cost of having/using a credit card will be any higher for any given class of risk since this regulation doesn't affect the overall risk of lending to any given credit class. Competition ensures this.

In other words, people in the credit class of FICO 800 or better should not see any additional increase in their interest rate, while less credit-worthy people who in the past were charged more hidden fees, will see an increase in interest rate to recoup the lost revenue needed to justify lending at that class of risk.

If there is currently an overall upward trend in the cost of having/using a credit card, this would be attributable to something entirely different, say a smaller overall pool of lendable capital due to a weaker economy, or maybe a regulatory change that did impact the risk of lending, bankruptcy reform for example...
Loved the briefcase technique, but Earn1k wasn't exactly for me. I just emailed you, if you have a minute. Keep up the good work Ramit.
I worked in one of those call centers, albeit not stoned, so I'm speaking from experience. Stoned teenagers are more than qualified to spend 30 seconds on the phone with you every day and tell you you're awesome. The quality control where I worked was quite good, especially with pronunciation issues. Calling a paying customer to tell them they're awesome is far, far, far less demanding than what we did where I worked.
Yep. Kind of like Gene Ray, who has been bucking the status quo ...
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As someone who's done a fair amount of work in materials science and "nanotechnology", I have to admit there are some valid points in here. Drexler-type nanobots are still just as far away as when he wrote his book, and a large amount of the "nanotechnology" work out there is called such mainly to get funding.

But the author here overstates his case quite a bit. "Millitech"? There are many microscale mechanical systems out there, both in the lab and in industrial applications. Accelerometers are one example; the actuated mirrors in DLP projectors are another. If there's no microtechnology out there, I know a lot of MEMS engineers who are going to be surprised to here it.

A lot of what's called nanotech now could have been called physical chemistry thirty years ago, especially a lot of the "let's put nanoparticles in it!" projects out there. But there's some pretty real nanotech out there too, even if it doesn't qualify under the self-replicating nanobots definition. One example I can think of is the work being done on nanoscale printing--not lithography, but actual physical printing of materials into nanoscale patterns. And there's some pretty cool controlled nanoparticle engineering work out there too.
Interesting point! I'm guilty of that Reddit use pattern and, in fact, wish HN had a similar toolbar so I could remember what link it was that I opened in the first place :)

Feedburner (now owned by Google) tracks stats on # of subscribers and is kind enough to let you see the history. In my case, I started out with about 10 subscribers and reached 44 on launch day. Today, I'm looking at 24 subscribers.
Azure is too new to be used by much in terms of internal MS. It's usually the other way around (other MS software is being used to power Azure).
At least as far as Me.com goes, Apple made a bet on Sproutcore.
"How could any user be confused by that?"

Because it looks more like an static image than something you can interact with?

Not that I have the problem now but I remember the first app I downloaded in osx was Quicksilver, which, at the time, the DMG opened to a grey background and a giant quicksilver logo. My windows/linux brain assumed the DMG was empty due to a corrupt download or something and I ended up downloading it a second time. Of course turned out the logo WAS the appfolder.
I am well aware of SproutCore, but Capuccino is more cleaner than Sproutcore in that you just write Obj-J, not worry about HTML, CSS. The Capuccino framework works well because it's exactly like iOS kit and the native app export option is way better than Adobe AiR - no flash, all JS!

I wish SproutCore dev could be faster - it's god awfully slow with dev server and preview. But, that's not a big problem for now.
I can share a little data. Yesterday we got 7157 uniques for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627619

It has 76 votes, so that's pretty close to the 10 HN votes -> 1k uniques rule of thumb

Of those 7157, 602 clicked on at least one of two links at the bottom of the blog post to do more on the site, but I'd be surprised if more than a handful return in the future (other than thru another blog post).
Teraforming an entire planet would, in many respects, be simpler than safely teraforming just the Sahara and nothing else at the same time.

We don't even need to make Mars better than the Sahara. The primary objective would be to raise the pressure to that at which a pressure suit wouldn't be needed, and the temperature such that that too would meet what we currently can handle on earth. Once we've got that, the rest would be fairly straightforward (I'd argue that atmospheric manipulation is harder than getting life to colonise the regolith).
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I don't think this is true anymore... I think we're using COSMOS now? Maybe someone else wants to help me here.
It's a chrome bug. Or a Chrome/Java/OSX combo bug. The game plays fine in Safari or FF.
Maybe they were being sincere and actually thought it was a good choice or they are just bored of the repetitiveness of the more default "ok" response.
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That's Microsoft Research. There's no real direct pipeline from MSR to production.

Edit: To clarify, I know MSR is using F# in a lot more places than we are.
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Exactly. Motorola doesn't have a great track record at successfully integrating software companies that it acquires. It feels like where software goes to die.
I just commented about it here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631336 (sorry about the separate threads)
I hadn't heard the 10HN votes -> 1k uniques rule of thumb before but that seems spot on.

The article I wrote seems to have come pretty close as well with ~9k uniques @ ~100 votes

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600693
From a point where he goes slightly off topic, but I really liked it:

It's not so much that the game favors evil, but that the definition of "good" is really twisted:
Good adj: anything which increases the stock price.
Considerations about employees, products, customers and community are all secondary. They only enter the equation as ways to achieve goal 1. Morality or high principles have no place in the corporate discourse. They maximize the stock price, within the bounds of the law. Corporations like Oracle and Exxon tend to be perfectly rational. They "buy laws" because it's perfectly legal to spend money on lobbyists and political campaigns. While you and I might think that it is morally reprehensible to buy elections, like the recent case with Target, it is nonetheless totally legal. Given the rules of the game, it would be bad for a corporation to not buy an election, if failing to do so would negatively impact their stock price. I could rant for a long time on this one, but not today… The whole modern concept of a public company is deeply flawed. But the game is what it is.
My own data for a recent /r/programming submission:

Around 3500 uniques, from net +35 score (50 upvotes, 15 downvotes), of which around 200 clicked through to something else on the site (even if only loading the domain's root page), and around 100 clicked through to at least one other article. Seems like ratios in the same ballpark.

Unfortunately, it's still hard to tell how much of that is substantial engagement. I can imagine a decent number of people skimmed the first article, clicked to see what else was on the site, skimmed another article, lost interest and left, especially since reading reddit puts you in a sort of "idly click on things" mood, at least in my experience. I did get one email about the article with some thought-provoking comments, so that puts a lower bound of one engaged reader. ;-)
Except Apple purchased PA Semiconductor and designed the A8 chip in-house. Samsung fabricates it.
Wait, you have Hulu plus already? I thought it was still in preview invite only? Do tell us if you are a preview invitee.
The same way you get a master's in astronomy without knowing how to operate a telescope.
Yeah, PAE wasn't a good idea when Intel did it in 1996 and it's not a good idea now for ARM, but Linux already has highmem support so I'm sure ARM highmem patches are imminent and people who need more than 4GB RAM will use them.
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As an IT Director managing multiple people/offices over many states, and a former senior engineer at a fortune 500 I would say:

"I'm a Computer guy"

No one actually cares about our jobs/titles. If you were interested in that, go be firefighter. There are vanishingly few people that even know there's a difference between sysadmin and development.
Hmm, this is in a way Apple's entry into the home console wars with iPod Touches, iPhones and iPads as controllers.
I doubt this will do much - people have found out that you can download whatever tv show you want online, why should they pay for it on iTunes?

It might have a very, very small chance of working in the US, but outside its borders it faces an even bigger problem: most tv shows that can be seen here are several seasons behind, how can Apple compete with that handicap against free downloads for anything other than the "I am too scared of computers to even go near them crowd?"
Interesting. Client libraries now no longer have to be kept up to date, but are up to date automatically with all the functionality that the API exposes. I wonder if this level of abstraction makes it through to the real world. Just might. Cool.
I'm not sure what you have to gain by planting a 'pseudoscientific crank' flag in a response here, but I'll address it anyways.

I don't follow Kurzweil's diet, and I haven't read any of his books, but to the best of my knowledge, Kurzweil invokes no chakras and no crystals. He doesn't promise unrealistic weight gain, and he doesn't seem to be advertising any harmful methods. He may be guilty of overselling the possible benefits of synthesizing several positive regimens (e.g., light exercise, low glycemic index, antioxidants, nutritional supplements), but, with the exception of alkaline water, I don't see any cogent criticism or glaring 'lack of supporting evidence'.

Would you care to supply a context for your tar, or did you just have an agenda?
I wonder if these guys would have gotten funding in today's corporate world, showing off that clunky device! It seems like this is a good example of the kind of leap that management needs to be able to take to see the potential of research work. We've all been so habituated to expecting "the world of tomorrow, today" that now researchers have to get a lot closer to productization (especially with respect to aesthetics) for higher-ups to "get it".
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Actually, the market forces I see right now value experience and knowledge over intelligence. I can hire people who are vastly more intelligent (but also vastly less experienced) than I am to work for me for a very small fraction of what I can charge for my own time.

However, people who are as experienced as I am, even if they are clearly less intelligent, can usually command wages similar to mine.
Pretty sure YCombinator's stake would be diluted, unless the 250k was raised part of the YC round. Which is possible but unlikely.
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I was familiar with the names of the bands but not with their music. IO sent me MP3s with no identifying information. I had no idea who I was listening to. I'm old enough to have listened to Ozzy when "War Pigs" was released…I just never happened to. Who knows what different direction my life would have taken if I had! http://www.claudiafriedlander.com/the-liberated-voice/2010/0...
Didn't work for me. The text of the article spilled off over the bottom of the white overlay panel, and then catastrophically collided with text underneath.
"Common sense will always trump "science" in our understanding of areas such as this and will allow us to sense intuitively what we really don't need people in white lab coats to tell us."

Wow, there is so much wrong with this sentence I can't believe it got up votes. This particular study may have flaws, and/or there may be errors in extrapolating the results of this isolated game to general workplace dynamics, but that doesn't mean science is bad.

"Common sense" does not, ever, trump science. "Common sense" is a lazy excuse for "I have an opinion that I can't back up with any data". How many times haven't we all read someone trying to make a claim like "It's common sense that marriage should be between one man and one woman".

Different people might have wildly different ideas backed up by "common sense". That's why we do studies - to find out what the truth is, even if it disproves our initial guess or we are uncomfortable/unhappy with the result.
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oh, if you want them, most places have plenty of courses that are all reading papers, or talking about managing development, or crossover with cogsci departments. then you do a thesis on how developers are affected by some lights which change color depending on the number of bugs in their tracking system.
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eat it a couple more times and it'll be ok =P A lot of street vendor food is worth being in the john for the next couple hours.
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Presence of mass [1] shapes space time so that standing still and moving undisturbed looks like traveling over conic curves.

[1] also presence of energy and movement of mass and energy
Google suffers when advertisers fail to deliver a good user experience. Google's solution to this problem is Quality Score ("QS"). QS weights the value of a bid in the auction for ad placement and forces the advertisers delivering the worst user experience to pay more than those with better user experiences competing for the same query.

Does anyone know anything more about this? It seems counter-intuitive. If Google wants to maximize revenue then charging more for less relevant ads doesn't make sense if their goal is for ads to be more relevant. That may change advertiser behavior but wouldn't it decrease their revenue?
The video is a very detailed presentation of what the Diaspora guys have been up to, complete with code samples.

It is a much more interestig project now that there is more than just a bunch of promises being made. I am looking forward to checking out the code dump on github.
How/where did you get $30/month internet? As soon as I ditched the TV part of the package from Comcast (and lost the BS 'bundle' discount), internet-only service went up to $60/month.
I only meant to suggest that whether or not someone is intentionally "profiteering off of people's fears and ignorance" in andreyf's words isn't necessarily the best criterion by which to judge their credibility--and conversely, that your defenses of Kurzweil's honesty and earnestness miss the underlying point.
Right you are. The $145/month was a bit of hyperbole. I think expecting this market to allow 50% of its revenues to dry up is pretty optimistic. 93% (as the article suggested) is just very naive. They'll find a way to extract our money.
Great post. I appreciate your honesty in how the fear of ending up back there dominates your thinking. I don't think there is such a thing as security; we all could end up there, given the right situation, no matter how much money, property, etc. we have. And not taking risks isn't so bad; if one is content to not be I-don't-have-to-work wealthy, it reduces the amount of risks one needs to take. And if it's any encouragement, you sound mighty resourceful, so I think you'll thrive in any environment.

I did want to ask a followup about being homeless. You clearly did not want to be homeless. In my (U.S.) city, there are a lot of options for people who don't want to be homeless, and most of them are not out on the streets. The ones who are, are mostly there because they are happy with the lifestyle and have no desire to stop being homeless. At least, that's my understanding, based on articles like this one and people I've talked to. Would you say this is a correct view based on your experiences?
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If you'd like to learn from a book, Agile Web Development with Rails is nice. http://pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with...
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In the hard sciences, you are absolutely right.

In social sciences, I am not certain you are correct, there is at least a solid counterargument.

All social sciences are dealing with topics with numerous confounding variables that cannot be removed, and many others that they do not try to remove.Common sense on the other hand is the accumulation of your observations of humanity over a lifetime.

I think Mr. Grellas' statement may be too strong, the social sciences likely will eventually catch up to and surprass any individuals common sense in understanding humanity. But I think that day is a very long way away and it will likely include the subjective observations of trained and worldly observers like Desmond Morris even when it does arrive.

For the forseeable future, I suspect he is right and that the common sense of an observant and worldly person is a better predictor of human behavior than the formal social sciences.
He is speaking about Drexler's PhD Thesis, that was the draft of Nanosystems, and it's freely available:

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/27999

But I also want my (120) seconds back.
I believe speed of light in vacuum is invariant because universe has maximum speed and light can't go faster. If it wasn't invariant then in some cases it would have to.

Then again why universe has speed limit? Does it have anything to do with causality?
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That's almost verbatim from this movie iirc:

http://www.thecorporation.com/
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