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They seem to be doing pretty well focusing on what they've been focusing on - end user experience.

They didn't go from nothing to #1 for no reason, you know.

Calling it a cargo-cult dictatorship is a bit unfair as well - he's footing the bill for a huge chunk of the work, why shouldn't he get a say? Nothing's stopping you from ponying up and starting your own distro dev team; you can even fork from Ubuntu and just fix the thing's you think they're lacking.

We'll see who gets more user mindshare...
A lot of the comments here about memory, recall, and learning are dealt with in Daniel T. Willingham's Why Don't Students Like School (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047059196X?ie=UTF8&tag=...), which describes a lot of things, including how we move from a state of no knowledge to shallow knowledge to deep knowledge in particular problem domains. People with no knowledge and who have some introduced tend not to retain that knowledge well; people who have shallow knowledge tend not to connect that knowledge to other knowledge; and people who have deep knowledge can fit new information into existing schemas, webs, or ideas much more effectively than those who can't.

It's not an easy process, moving from one state to another, and it's also not a binary one. Willingham's focus is on how teachers can do this more effectively, but he also describes how people in general can or should.

I'm guessing that we can't remember books because many books give us relatively shallow knowledge and because most books have too many details for us to remember the finer points of them. But this probably changes over time: when I used to read fiction as a teenager or just after I started college, I mostly remember whether I liked the book or not. Now I'm in grad school for English and tend to remember the plots, how characters express themselves, the main conflicts in the novel and what those main conflicts signal, etc. So in reading Emma again this week, I realized that many of Austen's characters are actually judging themselves when they judge others, because their views of what is "right" or "proper" is mostly about preferences (and I actually wrote a post on the subject: http://jseliger.com/2010/09/29/jane-austen-emma-and-what-cha...). Now I'm likely to remember when Emma admits she's wrong and so forth.

Granted, I've read the novel before, but that happens with other novels too.

Finally, I now often write blog posts about books or take notes on them using Devonthink Pro as described by Steven Berlin Johnson: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... . This dramatically increases retention.
Nice initiative, I have played it once for 8 hours, in a trip by train :)), just a remark: in the website you say 'Ever played.. when you were young'? It kind of limits your target clients, as it suggests it is a game for the youth and you would try it just for nostalgic reasons. I would use 'addictive game' instead :))
Everquest has destroyed more marriages than alcoholism. I can only imagine what it has done to credit scores.
I don't understand the cynicism. Do you have any evidence for this whatsoever?
How? Will messages really disappear out of inboxes? Or is it just an embedded image that gets deleted from the server eventually?
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now a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
Arrington seems to be unreasonably excited about the gifts. What will he do when the dump truck pulls up with all of the 'recycled' AOL CDs as gifts. :-)
Um....ok. At my day job pay roughly $150 a year to Canonical for support. I don't really need it, mind you, as most of the time the system operates as expected. However, it was a way to give a little back to a company who has done a lot for Linux over the years.

I have used it on occasion, and aside from the rather crappy salesforce interface they're using to track cases, it works very well. The responses are quick and the engineers are very knowledgeable.
thanks a lot for your comment, happy you like it.

Regarding your remark: it was exactly our aim to make people think about the good old times. But you are right, it might be a bit limiting. We'll have a look on how to improve it.
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Boned = sex. Never seen it used successfully in any other context; certainly not here.
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I bet small monitors DO have an effect, and small monitors + instant is probably worse.

But what that effect is exactly, that's harder to say. It's not quite as simple as the OP seems to think, IMHO.
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There are two blog posts with real data from tens of thousands of search queries showing that in reality, the impact of Google Instant has been negligible:

- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-instant-fewer-changes-to-s...

- http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/impact-of-google-instant...

I wish this type of sensationalist supposition without data to back up the assumptions received less attention here at HN. I've always been impressed with the culture of "show me the stats" when it comes to subjects like financing, startups, technology, engineering, etc. Not sure why that dissipates when a marketing topic arises.
Your grandma's cellphone will have 18,446,744,073,709,551,61665,536 address available to it.*

Good to know they're not being wastefully allocated this time around.

"Man said, "Carefully husbanded, as directed by the Cosmic AC, the IPv6 addresses that are even yet left in all the Universe will last for billions of years."

"But even so," said Man, "eventually it will all come to an end. However it may be husbanded, however stretched out, IP addresses once allocated are gone and cannot be restored. Entropy must increase to the maximum."

Man said, "Can wasteful IP allocation not be reversed? Let us ask the Cosmic AC.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It's map-reduce, not map-group-reduce.
After noticing this was written by Arrington, I think this was clearly tongue in cheek, and partially meant as a display of "Look, here's some proof that TechCrunch is not really changing and is not going to censor stories due to various financial interests. We're still going to complain about things that are dumb, and I think meetings are dumb."
They'll do what everyone does: use them as coasters, play dangerous frisbee games, and test their quality by breaking the CDs in half with their bare hands.

Theoretically they could connect to the Internet by accidentally sticking it in a CD tray, but I suspect TechCrunch already has Internet access.
Yeah, what's the pattern? Never heard that Ireland had a large grey economy, yet it seems to me to be the most troubled of the bunch.
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Yours is much more like CouchDB's MapReduce
The curious part to me was the possibility that masturbation reduces the chance of STI. How does that work?
one also gets a whiff of an ideological scent among hackers

Well, that made me laugh.

Yeah. Just a whiff :-)
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Or an iframe, or javascript that retrieves data from a server. Fun idea, but more trouble than it's worth, given how mail clients could bork a complicated implementation.
If they nudge people away from long tail queries, won't this mean that people will perceive the relevance of the search results to be worse?

I doubt Google wants to start driving people to other search engines by making it harder for people to find what they are looking for.
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thanks for the response. i think i see now how this approach is flawed. i will update the code and write an updated post.
thanks
Some of the best friends you make will be in college: life-long friends. These tight bonds are forged from living very close to each other, possibly in the same room, every day for years. In the real world of apartments and houses, a friendly visit can easily take a half hour commute each way and is centered around a big event. In college, you walk down the hall and just hang out. Moreover, in your classes, you learn both the quality of your friend's effort and how well you work together. A mutual trust is formed over these months and years that are hard to form in the real world. In college, you will find your cofounder, whether they be friends or friends of friends.
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"All 20 of the males observed masturbated to ejaculation and consumed the ejaculate."

I genuinely don't understand either point.
to everyone who called him a spammer: I think there's a big difference between a botnet brainlessly shooting out thousands of copies "Your sperm will become self-conscious and start carving - with SpermaMAX" and trying to target people who actually might want to buy the book.

This seems closer to the guy who used AI-magic to find people who'd tweeted about books and to tweet other recommendations to them. Both of them tried to pick people who seemed like they might be remotely interested.

If this is spam, it's a lite form of it, right?
A very small part of me thought that the look of disappointment on the alien's face in IE 7 / 8 was a joke, so I'm highly amused that that's actually how it actually appears on those browsers(well, I tried it in 7, anyway).
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You are an extremely valuable contributor to HN. Reposting your HN comments is great way to start blogging. I think you will eventually feel the urge to post original content once you see how rewarding blogging can be.

1-I would leave comments on. You never know when someone might have an extremely valuable tidbit to share.

2-up to you. 20 is as acceptable as 100.

3-Not lame

4-cool
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Every company is around until it isn't. Blockbuster just declared bankruptcy -- does that make Blockbuster a fad?

Facebook is six years old. 500MM people use it every month. They are profitable and do over $1Bn in revenue. They have a platform, on top of which there is at least one $1Bn company (Zynga).

Groupon, also a $1Bn company, owes its success in large part to Facebook's ad platform.

Facebook is now moving into location and online payments. They will compete with PayPal, another $1Bn company (before being acquired by eBay).

Zynga is PayPal's second largest merchant, after eBay itself. Through Facebook credits, Facebook will be taking 30% of each of those transactions. They are building a database of credit card numbers to do it.

Tencent QQ, a Chinese social network with gaming elements -- most of the popular genres on Facebook were taken from popular Chinese social games, e.g., the farming genre -- is 15 years old and did over $1Bn in revenue last year.

Tencent's IM product has 610MM monthly active users and 63.2MM people with subscription accounts.

http://www.tencent.com/en-us/content/ir/fs/attachments/inves...

When does this stuff stop becoming a fad?

Sure, fine, there's some universe in which Facebook vanishes tomorrow. The demand is still there. Social networking is here to stay.

The only way Facebook will fall behind is if they slow down and let someone else pass them, but given their history of aggressive and forward-thinking innovation, that seems unlikely for at least the next 5 years and/or until Zuckerberg stops caring.

And "it's popular because everyone else is doing it" -- you just described every business built on top of network effects. Craigslist is popular because everyone is using it. Does that make Craigslist a fad? eBay? VRBO? Etsy? YouTube? HN?

Pet rocks were a fad. Slap bracelets were a fad. Snuggies are a fad. http://fmylife.com is a fad.

Do you really think Facebook is that? Really?

I also notice that you didn't cite a single piece of data. Do you have any to support your argument, or is it just your "intuition?"
I dont fully agree with the author's view that between the two, CN failed because of facebook's "simplicity", "the Harvard factor", and some basic features. The difference between the two teams is much greater.

My thoughts on why CN failed: (1) The CN team. I think Goldberg shutting down the site because he had 250k user base while FB had got to a 1m says a lot. If Goldberg was really a visionary, the 1m user base should have inspired him and his team. (2) Montreal? Why? You want to dominate a web platform for University students and you go to Montreal? (3) Support network. Where as FB/Mark found great people to support him, seems like CN was going at it alone. If public profiles we're working, who better to know this then the CN team and advisors? If fb was growing because of the capital they raised, change your strategy and do the same.

In the words of Napoleon "Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires."
"Kick someone's ass on the first day, or become someone's bitch. After then, everything will be alright."

This seems to be Michael asserting his place in the pecking order, in his own mischievous way :-)
But not for the reasons you'd think -- mechanically they're incredibly reliable these days, even when violence is done to them.

What sucks now is the software running on the embedded drive controller, especially on the most recent highest-capacity drives available at any one time -- the most common bug is for the whole drive to just stop responding for several seconds.

There is still one type of hardware error causing problems -- single-bit corruption errors. They're much less likely than they used to be, and the drive will catch them with a checksum when read back, but capacities are so high that the probability of hitting one when reading back a full drive is nearly %100. This makes RAID-5 and other parity-based striping systems almost completely unviable these days -- you'll never be able to rebuild the array from n-1 drives without hitting a single-bit error. And because of the software bugs in drives, they drop out for no reason all the time forcing you to rebuild the array (which then fails because a cosmic ray caused a single-bit error).

SSDs won't save you either, they have even more classes of software bugs present in their embedded controllers.
"The constant streaming in of the thoughts of others must confine and suppress our own, and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of thought. Therefore, ceaseless reading and study directly injures the mine." - Schopenhauer
now a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
I don't think Warren Buffet or other Berkshire people do a lot of meetings after a buyout. Sure, they bring him over to show to an average worker, but they're not there to manage. If they don't believe in firm or management they won't invest in the first place.
> Some of the best friends you make will be in college:

...

If you go to college.

You could also move to a college town, save the 60k and hang out with your college buddies that live in the apartment below you.
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What is a book?
I don't think that SO's users are representative of google's as a whole. For example, there are a lot less advertisements on software development related searches. What I was pointing out is the high-volume, high revenue searches are being impacted. Plus I'm guessing that people who do those searches are much less savvy than your community. They are less likely to scroll, they have smaller screens and they are problem less discerning between paid and organic results.
i didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-)
great pictures.
Why is the performance of PNG so disappointing? The WebP sample image from the article (top image) is shown here as a PNG of 234kB...
Quick a dirty suggestions from an experienced blogger:

- Migrate to WordPress.org and/or get a nice looking theme + logo design

- Add a photo to compliment each post

- Add sub-headers and bold important thoughts

- Start a Twitter profile to promote posts and additionally submit posts to Stumble, Mixx, Sphinn, HN, Digg, Facebook, etc.

- Prominently feature email newsletter and RSS subscription options

- Add a short biography of yourself below each post + create an About page and Contact page

- Implement links to related posts to increase stickiness (Wibiya.com blog toolbar can help here as well)

- Utilize your blog footer to feature additional content
Good post, and I think it's great that Peter Thiel is providing an alternate viewpoint re: "stopping out"
But then what do you wear on your wrist to accessorize?
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What percentage of people actually visit google to search?

It's much less "instant" if you add in the time to get to the google page.

I user the address bar in chrome and my browser search bar in firefox.
In an ideal world this is true. But in reality we don't always have control over the codebase from birth until deprecation. Often, you find yourself a newcomer to code, and being able to reason your way though it can be time consuming, and scary.

I think this article's approach is a good one. Take precautions, use things like continuous builds, static analysis tools to boost your confidence, but DO make the necessary changes. Better sooner than later.
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obviously there's a lot of variation between teachers, but I think this will only work for kids who wouldn't have tried in the first place. my HS latin teacher would probably have given those a B- or more likely a C. not bad, not great.
Just to emphasize jseliger's last point, taking notes, specifically, writing reviews on books has helped me retain what I read more than I could have possibly imagined.

While I'm reading I try to keep myself in a frame of mind of a book reviewer. What will I want my audience to know about this book? What do I agree with or disagree with? What are the highlights? I sometimes take notes while I'm reading, but more often I just try to maintain that mindset.

When I'm done I write a quick 3 to 7 paragraph review and post it on GoodReads. Knowing that my review will be public forces me to take an objective look at my thoughts on the book, are they intelligible, consistent, relevant?

Writing the review also makes my conversation about the book more interesting and confident. And the more I talk about a book, the better I retain the information in it, so it's a double benefit. I've also found that reading the review a couple years later will quickly bring back more of the book than I get by just flipping through the pages or wracking my brain to remember what I read.

Writing a review on a book doesn't take long, maybe 20 minutes per book, it helps my writing skills and helps me read less passively. It's also pretty fun.
Is there an echo in here?
Why do so many children repeat previous posts?? Do they get their jollies from saying someone else's words? Do they think they will get respect from those of us who saw the original post and can tell this new one is an imposter?

Go away, you flies and bugs!
Going that way will expose the market (ie. real) price of water and thus will significantly affect largest (and politically connected) consumers - Agriculture and Industry - kicking them off the nice ride they've been having on subsidized water _stolen_ from the Nature.
Here is the actual research paper that this news story is based on: http://appanalysis.org/tdroid10.pdf

Also addressing the point by ergo98 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744151, a single anecdote does not a convincing argument make. iOS's approval process has a number of explicitly stated goals, one of which is preventing what is happening in this case. So mentioning one app that happened to sneak by the approval process for a short amount of time is meaningless for drawing any real conclusions.

In general, having all the permissions of an app determined at install time seems very flawed to me (whether or not those permissions are optional). Why not ask for permission, when necessary, during the app use, so the user knows exactly what is requiring those permissions? That model is used by desktop apps, and it is the way I would implement it. The up-front permissions model is like sites that ask for your email first before they allow you to read their content- generally scams.
Funny. Do you have any actual information about how early they tried to find a business model? I suspect you don't.

So, the situation is this: we have a product lots of people want. The naive business model (freemium) won't work -- a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that.

What do you do? Go forward building a very popular product and look for a business model, or quit because you can't think of how to make money from day 1?
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It's also importing from __future__, which isn't necessary anymore.
Valleywag was probably a little more qualified to be called tabloid tech news.
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The state auditors are on top of this kind of thing, I think.

(I had to go through this - when I sold my last company, I was forced to relocate NY to CA, and I followed the rules about where to pay the state income tax at the right time. Got audited anyway, including having to account for my location every day for three years... Sadly the auditor found that I was correct, because if I could have paid taxes in NY instead of CA I would have been better off.)
At least until after the meeting...
Are galleries that important? I thought right now it's all about videos.
I never figured a camera can tell if you stop on red when turning right? That seems like it would require advanced AI. Is that really what happened to you?
Don't be an ass. You don't know the first thing about the people working there and what they have or haven't tried.

A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a freemium, subscription, or (uhm...) donation model won't work. We're talking six-figure revenue, most likely.

I guarantee you their current business model of modifying the SERPs and inserting links to Amazon and other affiliate programs is generating an order of magnitude more revenue than your proposed model would.
No.

He wants his own personal blog, on par with his comments here at HN, but with some active readers.

Most of this tips will turn his blog into a neon whore house of a blog.

Just write good stuff, and let people comment. Make friends with people and share your writings with like-minded people.
I'm surprised you say you don't get that.

Thanks for reading my comment so charitably ;-)

What I'm saying is that beauty to the professional user and beauty to an innocent bystander are different things. A professional actually cares more about usability and certainly cares about aesthetics as they apply to usability. The way a professional perceives a desktop will be very different from the way a casual user does. But some people are self-conscious about that; they don't want their professional exposure to change the way they perceive things, or at least they don't want anybody else to notice. So they want a plastic consumer case for their Hole Hawg[1].

Not that OS X doesn't have a lot going for it on the desktop, but a major part of the appeal for developers is that they can have a great desktop they love without non-geeks thinking they must be a little weird to love it.

[1] http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
They made plenty of attempts. You're just ignorant of them.
I think the ultimate answer is to convert stoplights to circles. I've heard they're safer and more efficient.
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Only government could lose money on something like this. They should just have a private company set it up, and make the companies bid on the right to operate it.