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I have friends at Google, and have heard nothing indicating that salaries are anywhere in this ballpark. I also just spoke to someone whose girlfriend works there, and he too agreed that this article is bullshit. They might mean mid-level manager, or they may be counting all of the perks as part of the salary. But even there, a half-million retention bonus seems absurd to both of us.
First let me argue not as a socialist but pretending I'm a liberal. Are you saying that when you make a startup and sell a product you gain nothing from public services during this time? There is no reason for you to be taxed to provide those services?

There will be no 'startups' in the sense you think of, meaning dealing with capital. Decisions of production will be done democratically in communities.

If you want to think of yourself as an artisan that could be argued that you could still have your "startup". But you will not be collecting capital from investors and enslaving workers to a wage.

It is a very different way of thinking and living and can be hard to grasp. But so was capitalism and capitalism was a very progressive movement in its beginning. But it runs its course as it destroys the planet and human interaction and continues to concentrate more and more wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
I share folders on server with other Dropbox users (developers, designers). For me it's better alternative than webdav, ftp or scp. They work localy and everything syncs between them and to server plus it has some version control.

I would even use it commercially in my products but API lacks ability to share folders. For now you have to do it manually.
The new Apple TV rental model isn't really price-competitive - Hulu's free for current-run TV, and Netflix is cheaper for older (not current season) TV or for movies. At least the old model let you keep the file to re-watch.
Capitalism is a system whereby people are allowed to accumulate capital, and then with the voluntary consent of other people, form collectives, called corporations, where that capital and the labor of all the people is deployed to produce products and services with the hopes of generating profits to be distributed to the members of the collective based on the prior agreement for distribution.

Socialists generally seem to feel that this is unfair because the people who put up capital are rewarded. But at any rate, if you do Not have an external force dictating, at the point of gun, how people are to be organized, they can organize as I described above, and historically have.

Since this organization is a capitalist one, socialists must use violence to stop it.

There are two ways violence can be imposed. In one, you are denuding yourself or your partner or property. In the other you are attempting to steal the life or property of another.

I draw a moral distinction between shooting the guy who is raping my wife, and you coming along and redistributing the profits of my company, which you didn't help create, along the lines of your ideals.

You want to form a company that under different ideals, then that's fine by me... So long as everyone involved consents.

There is nothing in a capitalist society to stop you from having such a collective.

However, socialism is based on the idea that capital has no value and only labor does, and thus you must use guns to prevent anyone from accumulating too much.
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I just downloaded this and tried it out. Amazingly cool. Only about a 15s delay to broadcast live from your phone. There is a lot of potential to really change online videos and news/live events as well. Very exciting.
Apple salaries are not much lower, they are in fact much higher than Google. This article is bullshit, $150K is not what a mid-range engineer makes at Google.
Yes, you are. Whether you call it a possession or property, tibias the same thing.
Take a look at http://www.rapleaf.com/developer
> All those countries you list are not Marxist. Especially not Sweden, Singapore, Canada or Hong Kong.

That's right - they're prosperous and relatively free places (with Singapore a bit of an exception) that also manage to spend more or less money taking care of their citizens. They all have various problems and imperfections of different kinds, but generally fall along the continuum of "what works", whereas the USSR and Cuba, which are the closest to your ideals, are failures.

I can see how someone would be attracted to the Nordic system, or a more free-market type of individual would find things to like about, say, Hong Kong. Those countries, with their mixed systems, work in the real world. Marxism didn't and doesn't.
Hulu+ provides the full library for a lot of (primarily NBC right now) shows as well. For $10/month and a small media PC (Acer Revo R1600 in my case) my wife and I are able to watch more TV than we can reasonably handle. I love the service.

We've dropped our cable. We use a combination of streaming Netflix, Hulu, and Redbox for all of our entertainment needs. I just don't see where Apple TV provides any real advantage. Especially with XBox promising Hulu support early next year.
Do you have an idea of what they really make, then?

What I'm thinking is that Mike got "Mid Level Manager" and "Mid Level Developer" confused...
Canada lacks tech VC because the whole investment market is structured for mining and oil companies. Through the TSX Venture Exchange small companies (eg. one guy) can raise funds to buy land exploration rights and go off and start a mining company. But you probably won't find any Canadian software companies that got their start this way.
It's just that like others have said, Ping is so highly monetized. I can imagine Facebook shedding users as they get desperate for cash and introduce annoying adverts or disable useful features, meanwhile Ping will pay for itself and possibly expand to be a complete FB rival. Just wild speculation of course.
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From Drew's original YC application [0]:

# Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate?

This idea requires executing well in several somewhat orthogonal directions, and missteps in any torpedo the entire product.

For example, there's an academic/theoretical component: designing the protocol and app to behave consistently/recoverably when any power or ethernet cord in the chain could pop out at any time. There's a gross Win32 integration piece (ditto for a Mac port). There's a mostly Linux/Unix-oriented operations/sysadmin and scalability piece. Then there's the web design and UX piece to make things simple and sexy. Most of these hats are pretty different, and if executing in all these directions was easy, a good product/service would already exist.

I'd find it hard to believe that there isn't some very tricky stuff being done in the clients which gives them a big competitive advantage over competitors that pop up.

[0] http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html
Yes, it's in the specs page that there's a speakerphone and a mike.

Walk around with a wifi hotspot dongle and an ipod touch and seems like you've got an iphone4 and unlimited VOIP calls.
That quote or statement just shows that an individual living a "thug life" or succumbing to the tremendous peer pressure of youth basically is completely out of touch with the larger mechanics at play, such as congressional decisions and corporatocracy.

"One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country."

That's a quote dug up from a (spam?) comment, article or forwarding at reddit.

I agree about the manipulation and control terminology, to a point. Perhaps some people consider that "smarts" but mostly I reserve "smarts" to be a term for people sort of half way in and half way out of the system. It's a compromise of sorts to be nimble and not get run over. The cumulative effect of that might still be bad, though.
Agreed, and I own an older AppleTV. It hardly gets used anymore other than to stream Flickr photos now and then as a screen saver.
I've tried to use this on syncing my mp3 directory between two boxes and it seemed to be horribly slow. It needs to stat each file for a second or two before it even begins to sync, this takes way too long.
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Would love to hear any feedback on a app we just launched.

It's a collaboration tool for designers and it helps them receive feedback from their clients and their team.

Check it out at http://www.draftboardapp.com
Yes I know many people at both companies and have had offers from both. Even glassdoor skews in favor of Apple.
How about tons of downloads and only 2 emails, both with that annoying feel of not-a-real-person to them, FBI or some crazy ass CIA or enemy company or God knows what. It kinda sucks when your mathmatical model of reality is out of whack.

Ironically, I once suggested spreading love on the Internet by randomly visiting people to make hits. They're gonna be confused when reality comes apparent.

Hit and download generating searchy things probably make a lot of people delusional and completely out-of-touch with reality. When numbers are low, it's especially an issue.

One thing you immediately discover( I hope!) is that software reporting hits on downloadable files is way different than full-file downloads. There's a crazy thing where a hundered hits will be generated but is for pieces of just ONE download. Source forge stats are worthless -- I know they just multiply hits by file size and make bandwidth--completely bogus!

I just know there's lots of people deluded by hit numbers.

Then you see crazy things on source forge, like thousands of hits in a day, that are obviously phoney. Are they doing it or is it robots who are probing for file changes or something.
http://searchyc.com/submissions/benford?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1429336
Could "Mid-level developer" might mean a super developer who's considered at the level of a mid-level manager? IE, mid-level != mid-range?

Google is a lot bigger than Facebook currently so I'd assume Facebook would be aiming to pick what they consider the "cream". The article mentions 118. Google has ~20K employees and a good portion of them would engineers.
And on the other hand, major facets of our society (e.g., public education, labor unions) that clearly are socialist, are never referenced as such.

Don't forget the military. Universal health care, pensions, subsidized housing, job security, etc are all socialist; except somehow when applied to the military.
I saw a demo a couple weeks ago and can confirm that it is kickass. Can't wait. Nice work, Bill.
True, but a separate ruling says that they have to rule on the merits of the case and that they can't just dismiss for lack of standing as one court attempted to do (something that would've slammed the door shut to these cases).

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/...

In other words, they have to actually prove this at trial, which can be expensive, even if they have a fairly low bar to prove that they meant no harm.
I imagine we would lose the ability to learn about certain aspects of the planet (atmosphere, etc) if we changed it, but would the trade off be worth it given everything else that would be infinitely easier to study? I'm asking because I don't really know.
How old are you? I've found the good 'ol GI tract and related equipment doesn't work as efficiently as you start to approach 30.

Also you can't read magazines or check email while you're "perched" so maybe that has something to do with it. ;)
I see, so you justify the use of violence, eg, taxation backed by laws and menvwith guns, based on the erroneous assumption that the victims of your violence want the so called services you claim to provide.

Well at least your no longer pretending to advocate for freedom from oppression.

Fwiw, every capitalist would happily pay for the services they used, they do it all the time by going to other companiesvand hiring them or buying products.

The whole taxation racket is awoke, tax first then justify it because the services-- which would be provided cheaper and more efficiently by a free market, of course-- are used because were forced to use them.

Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc.

Reality is, this is all rationalizations. You wantbot use vioelence to comp ell others to live according to your dictates, and this is why all socialist system save turned into tyrannies.
I understand that iTunes runs much better on OSX, which is why your Macbook Pro doesn't have any performance issues. I'm sure it runs great on a quad-core i7 too, although if you're running Vista or Win7, it's still not caching nor preloading the album artwork, and if you scroll through the album art, it's going to redraw the artwork. That's admittedly a nitpick on my part, but it seems like a simple thing to do that would go a long way, sort of like how they set the LED to pulse at the same rate as human breathing or whatever.

Aside: It's interesting to watch the points on my original post fluctuate. I would be interested to hear what people voting it down have to say. I do HD video and multitrack audio editing on my computer, I promise you that it's a capable enough machine for a media librarian. And I really do think the AppleTV is a good deal at $99.
There are few TV episodes that I'll watch more than 3 times, so the new Apple model is at least a win over the old Apple model for me.
We were just talking about this topic earlier today while speculating about a new appleTV. If all TV goes to a direct 1-to-1 streaming system, exactly how do you get people to watch new shows?

Ping seems to find that requirement exactly. Watch this get used on the TV side pretty quickly if it takes off.
I've found the good 'ol GI tract and related equipment doesn't work as efficiently as you start to approach 30

Perhaps if you have a diet that consists mainly of cheese.
"Approaching 30" is a bit early for your colon to start clogging up... you might want to get that checked out.
"Ambassador to the East" sounded a little like East as in Beijing :: at first, and perhaps only to English ears.
Not only are you ignorant, and unwilling to be enlightened, but your are dishonest as well.

Bottom line is, you want to use violence to make ores subsidize your lifestyle, and that makes you scum. Arguing with your rationalizations of this ideology is pointless because you don't have any arguments, just propaganda. It really is pathetic.
I love Chicago's private street meters. They are so much cheaper than public ones... WAIT A MINUTE!
If the boxes are in a random jumble when the prisoner enters, there may be no practical way of having 100 prisoners consistently assign an ordering from 1 to 100 for the boxes. The approach outlined will then fail.

Were I a particularly evil warden, I could meticulously place all the boxes in the same such "jumble" after each prisoner left. One of the prisoners would certainly derive a different ordering of the boxes than one of the other prisoners. The approach might still have a better than random chance of succeeding, but it would be lower than that outlined in the article, since there are now two (or more) chances for a cycle of length greater than 50.
checkout the crystal hd addon chip and the compatible XBMC builds for a reinvigorated apple tv experience on the older boxes.
I'm not sure how price competitive it really needs to be. A HTPC is a non-starter for most people. The other limited function boxes out there not well known to most people. Gaming consoles are considerably more expensive. It seems like a good price point at $99 especially with the AirPlay stuff tying into iOS devices.
I wrote more about doing my master thesis on freemium at http://kimjoar.net/why-i-want-to-write-a-master-thesis-about...
The logistics of this baffle me. Do you have the seat up? Any problems with splashing? Do you do this in public restrooms? Friends' houses?
This looks interesting, but I still can't tell how it relates to the CAP theorem. Are they sacrificing global consistency? Availability? Partition-tolerance? Or do they have a subtle reformulation of these constraints which allows them to "get around" the restrictions imposed by the CAP theorem?

Most of the popular NoSQL solutions were designed to run as large server clusters, possibly distributed across multiple data centers. They're designed to handle such problems as, "Our fiber backbone is down, and our database has split into a 5,000 machine cluster and a 7,000 machine cluster! And it's three days before Christmas!" (This is more or less the problem Amazon's database is designed to survive.)

For any given "NoSQL" database, you want to figure out how they handle this problem: Do they allow the 5,000 and 7,000 node datacenters to become temporarily inconsistent? Do they block writes to the entire database? Do they block writes to the 5,000 node database (because it doesn't have a quorum)?

Any of these options are valid—you just need to know what tradeoffs you're choosing.
No guarantees.
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Obviously, we're not going to come to any sort of agreement here. And we never were. The point is, your worldview is not the only one. That doesn't make mine any better or worse. Just different.

Thank you for the discussion. I'm not going to respond to you any more.
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Thank you for the discussion. I'm not going to respond to you any more.
Alexis as our Ambassador to the East and Steve (with Hipmunk) in the summer batch-- needless to say I am bursting with joy.
Sad to see Hacker News people are just as ignorant on socialism and capitalism as say... Diggers for example, or watchers of CNN/MSNBC/FOX.
The thing is that implementing ACID is, well, atomic - you either support it or you don't. Anything else is one of a series of different types of compromise. All currently available NoSQL systems I'm aware of compromise it very heavily, resulting in greatly increased programmer complexity for the types of applications that really require something that looks like ACID. I'd be interested to know which ones you think support ACID - as far as I'm aware none of them claim to support anything like it (with the possible exception of VoltDB, which has its own set of problems).
Your dishonesty does not constitute misinformation on my part. If you cannot be honest, or are so ignorant and unwilling to be corrected,o then there is no point in discussion.

I don't dispute that there are socialist liars whovcall themselves anarchists, just as there are liars who call themselves libertarian, like yourself. Linking to such liars proves nothing, but that you would be so presumptuous as to lecture me and back it up with a link shows that you are incapable of critical thought or debate, and thus a waste of time.
From a development standpoint, I don't quite understand the advantages of NoSQL over SQL. I get that you don't have to have a rigidly defined table structure, and that your data structure can change when your application changes, but I guess I'm one of those curmudgeons that prefers rigidity over permissiveness. I like that I have to think hard about my table structure and models before and as I code. I also rarely feel bogged down by SQL, although I've been using it for over a decade, so that helps.

As for scalability, as this post shows, I think the best thing to come out of NoSQL is the race for greater scalability it has and will continue to inspire in SQL solutions.
Maybe have him port Hacker News to use a reddit build. ;\
the tool marks left after the machining operations were "right"

I was wondering about that - why didn't they do a finishing pass to get rid of those?
Key difference: one is an island on Earth, the other is Mars.
It is pretty sad that this exists and there is demand for it. Anyways if it shows great numbers I am pretty sure there will be similar businesses all throughout Asia.

I can't help but think of the potential in China with their lack of porn access and a huge mismatch between the number of women and men.
It's kind of amusing how bad iTunes is on Windows, all while Apple talks about how writing for a meta-platform produces lower quality software. It doesn't even look good, IMO, at least not compared to running natively on OSX.
On the Mac side, there are a couple of widgets that use your iTunes library but provide a very simple / non-cluttered interface.
The concept of emergence seems a general term (as this can be seen on the Wikipedia page with the multitude of subjects covering "emergence"). But on the biological side, there is a simple experiment that can lead to nice emergent structures. Just take a cup of black tea with sugar and leave a bit in the bottom of the cup. In the next days, you usually see nice patterns coming from the bacterias activity...
My vague impression is that working at Apple gives you more prestige with the general public than Google or Facebook. Google has a geeky (well, even geekier) aura, and people don't like Facebook like they like Apple.
IKEA is about much more than simply ( if at all) saving space. Their stuff is relatively inexpensive and easy to assemble. The resourcefurniture.com site makes me "request a quote" when I try to see what stuff costs.

Looking over some of the offerings on the Web site, I much prefer the IKEA aesthetic. And IKEA has seriously kick-ass cinnamon buns.

IKEAFTW.
My friends built something similar - NiceReply http://nicereply.com/

It was originally custom built in their webhosting company, but now they've created a standalone product out of it. NiceReply has API, so you can integrate it in any CRM you're already using. It's really cool, check it out.
If you haven't seen this, it is also worth a look:

http://www.zohoartforms.com/
Yes, if Fb finds a strong monetization engine for its huge user base then $100b seems possible.

However, as I remember, Google had found their monetization engine before their IPO. Fb hasn't and the IPO is supposed to be just around the corner. Plenty of other large sites didn't work out like Google. I mean, Fb could wind-up like Yahoo, lots of users but no great monetization from them. In fact, Fb looks a lot like a better Yahoo since it more or less provides what Yahoo provides in a more integrated format.

Consider, if a brick-and-mortor company somehow offered free storage of real-world goods anywhere in the world, they could easily grow to millions of users too. The monetization question would loom large as well.
Yeah, it's bad form to alter a post in reaction to a critical comment, and not indicate there has been a change.
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After we bring "climate change" to Mars let's also bring huge government debts, religion, pollution, dictatorship and WMD's! It will be awesome.

Or, alternately, we could try to fix/solve/eliminate those things before spreading to other planets.
It is deliberately medievally grandiose. It goes with his name.
The labor theory of value has always struck me as self-refuting--if a given good is only worth the labor used to produce it, why not conserve the labor? Profit happens if you produce something worth more than the labor you put into it. This is true whether you're producing profit for yourself (a sandwich is worth more to you than conserving the effort it would take to make the sandwich) or whether you're selling your labor to someone else, who in turn uses that labor to produce profit. (As you point out, this might produce more wealth, since manufacturing labor is more productive in a robotic factory than in a back yard.)

It may be more economically sound for socialists to make a moral argument that profit morally belongs to laborers more than it belongs to the capitalists (in the sense of "people who provide capital"). The economic argument seems to fall down.
Come to think of it, that would be a good idea. So probably yes.
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