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It doesn't work that way (inspire by Voltaire):

$ make life easier

Your life has been made easier: 70,500,000,000 dollars has been deposited into your bank account.

"There's plenty of challenge for anyone who wants to find it."

There are problems that haven't been solved yet and problems that can't be solved. Most problems can't be solved, since the majority of (our) problems are psychological (i.e. there are no axioms, assumptions, systems, etc to define this class of problem) -- the rest are impossible.

The problems that haven't yet been solved are actually interesting tho. The knowledge systems for these classes of problems are heuristic; i.e. a process of discovery and experience. The intention is often not to keep everything difficult but to keep everything knowable, which is contrary to the "don't make me think" principle of design.
A business without a business plan is still a business.

A codebase without users is probably not a business, sure.

But if you have users there is almost always a way to monetize that. Thus, a business. The plan doesn't have to be any more complex than, "Charge for something."
I agree with the parent. Facebook recently announced Facebook Deals (which allows advertisers to advertise based on check-in triggers from facebook's location platform) and the facebook location check-in platform I'm sure will soon dwarf foursquare and gowalla combined. That combination is just as compelling if not more so to advertising as advertising when people are searching. Facebook deals could very easily be the new adsense.

Google may have a stranglehold on web advertising but Facebook is in a very good position to get a stranglehold on local advertising.
> Every other piece of information that Facebook has on me is allowed to be exposed to my friends' apps without me personally connecting with the app.

Really? Because I'd love to grab that information for my app. Are you talking about the publicly available information?

> The motivation here is crystal clear: e-mail addresses function as (essentially) UIDs on the web as a whole, and someone like Google has billions of these e-mail addresses laying around. But since people started managing parts of their social graphs on Facebook instead of through (say) Gmail, Google's edge graph is starting to get stale. Facebook is terrified of the idea that Google could connect all the Gmail-to-Gmail edges without finding every one of those users.

Sure Facebook probably wouldn't want to do that even if there wasn't a privacy issue with letting friends export friends' email addresses. But I don't care about that, I just don't want them to let my friends export my email, and I don't think they have to create that feature. That feature would help google and other sites ride on Facebook's success at the expense of user privacy. I don't care about the former and I would be on Google's side if it were just the former issue but it is not.

> In order for Google to refresh that graph without e-mail addresses, they'd need every involved user to export their Facebook UID out of Facebook - if I didn't do this myself, then despite the fact that (say) 30 of my Facebook friends are on Gmail, even if every one of them exported from Facebook to Google, Google could never match my Facebook UID to my Google account.

> To anyone that doesn't already have a huge userbase, this is not a big deal, but to anyone that does, it's the difference between having effectively zero access to the social graph and being able to reconstruct your users intersection with it with almost perfect resolution.

Last time I checked (may have changed) Facebook let's you query email hashes to find the person's friends based on the email hash. Also YOU created those networks on Facebook. Why would you expect Google to magically know that? Sure google is trustworthy, but more importantly why would you want malicious third party site to know your email address?

I would love for Facebook make it really easy for sites to use their graph data as easily as possible but Facebook already does this. The people complaining probably haven't even seen the Facebook APIs or even used Facebook. They're just complaining because bashing Facebook for controlling its data is the popular thing to do right now.
Text on Bubbles Grid in 3D Studio Max
It is very nice a simple but a bit long tutorial, in this tutorial you will write text written by small circles on Grid of Bubbles in 3D Studio Max. You will also learn Lattice & Skylight effects in 3D Studio Max in this tutorial. Very attractive tutorial, must try.
Summarizing the article: "Genius is just hard work? Prove it, you have 10 years to produce genius level work. Any takers?"

On this subject, the best book I've read is talent is overrated. They discuss this subject in depth and provide a great deal of research and information to support their claims. edit Oh, and their claim is that there isn't much empirical evidence that supports the notion of genius or even innate talent at all.
I don't think anyone thinks they'll get $3.5 million, but I bet a lot of people now think they can squeeze Google for a hundred thousand.
And:

Plan = way to monetize the product + way for users to find out about the product
Do I even have to say it?

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
It staggers me that no one came to her assistance.

Disgrace to the TSA - but far more so to the onlookers. 'Sheeple' indeed...
The build process reminded me of Ikea furniture, where many components are pre-fabricated offsite.

Can anyone comment on if this is the norm for large buildings?
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My personal highlights (I'm a DSL fanatic):

"We all know that the only mental tool by means of which a very finite piece of reasoning can cover a myriad cases is called "abstraction"; as a result the effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. In this connection it might be worth-while to point out that the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

[...]

Now for the fifth argument. It has to do with the influence of the tool we are trying to use upon our own thinking habits. I observe a cultural tradition, which in all probability has its roots in the Renaissance, to ignore this influence, to regard the human mind as the supreme and autonomous master of its artefacts. But if I start to analyse the thinking habits of myself and of my fellow human beings, I come, whether I like it or not, to a completely different conclusion, viz. that the tools we are trying to use and the language or notation we are using to express or record our thoughts, are the major factors determining what we can think or express at all!"
Absolutely agree with the poor build quality. The velcro tie is particularly poorly sewn on. However, in the US, they were carried by Totes which had a lifetime warranty. I've swapped mine twice now, but I don't know if they still are distributing them (not on their site anymore).
That post was way more interesting than you gave it credit for.
congrats, really, you had an amzing spirit of humility! my admiration goes to you!
This guy seems legit

(p.s. - my charity of choice gets 30% of your winnings for being a moral backer)
Oh well. :-)

All turned out wonderful in the end. We never needed to re-rip the CDs after all. Apple took bulk-uploads the same as all the other companies. An incredibly efficient way of delivering over 2 million songs+metadata from one company to another.

A nice little collection of Ruby & PHP scripts on a stack of Linux servers & Windows encoding boxes did everything.

Unfortunately I'm not allowed to open-source that software since I sold it.
I look at the Yahoo site and think, "14k employees to make that happen?!"

Surely a few decently complex Perl scripts could replace a large swath of them! (said with tongue somewhat in cheek)
and is psychologically designed to be so.
Afraid I disagree
And ME...
And yet, people still wait in line full knowing Jobs has a reputation for being an ass sometimes. A rich, rich ass.
Build your own computer using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays).

Bonus points: Make it capable of reconfiguring itself based on the program
it's executing.
I'd love to work there - just a few more years to get out of college :)
As a current Yahoo! I agree with you.
your right I was replying to the wrong comment.

While I may have educated my children in how to defend themselves. I have also taught them that every individual has value. My hope is that they understand the aggressor is also valuable enough treat with respect.
Notable things I'm proud to have achieved/hacked/made, in no particular order of importance:

- Built a HAM radio-vacuum tubes were involved.

- Developed a useful library of JavaScript tools

- Developed my own MVC web framework

- Collaborated on the design of, developed and launched custom child-still tweaking that one for performance

- Started a successful business

- Be a part of a popular Open Source project

- Wired a house

- Participated in the saving of a few lives
It's actually a marvel Pipes hasn't been shutdown yet. When that inevitably happens, it will be sorely missed.
these are very, very broad strokes that basically anyone who has done a single freelance project would already know. is this really HN quality?
Not really. Real world examples would have been more useful.
I don't see anyone arguing that white on white text is hard/easy to read.
For a virtual environment to qualify as 'a sandbox', your users must be able to create turing machines, out of stuff the found lying around. - Locks Law (which I just made up :).
This article (and all the other web commentary) is silly. In any competent company employees are be valued not by their skills, but by the value they bring to the table. For all we know this guy is a proven contributor and $3.5m is a bargain.

What if this was three years ago, and the person in question was Paul Bucheit? What if by staying, FriendFeed had been a Google property? Would that be worth $3.5 million dollars?

What if it was seven years ago, would it be worth Google paying $3.5 to retain the person who would go on to basically invent AdSense?

Of course it would. Case closed.
Reading this in 2003

It looks like it was published just now, so the author is looking at it in hindsight, knowing Apple's current reputation.

(I still agree with your comment, just thought that warranted consideration.)
I never redeemed the credits, and I got a few of these. I suspected it was because I reported issues with a couple videos. (Most disney sitcoms my kid watches seem to have audio and video COMPLETELY out of sync)

What would make their customer service just a little bit better? Being able to report a problem that's NOT on their list.

I've had a few movies I watched that were at the wrong aspect ratio for the TV, and I couldn't fix it with my tv "zoom" menu. The frustrating thing is there's no way to report it (though I guess you could drop it in the "picture was unwatchable or blurry" bucket)
It's actually a hard question to answer. Being a good place for innovation (as pg suggests) is definitely part of the answer. But if you look at a list of rich countries (excluding mineral wealth & havens eg Qatar,Norway & Luxemberg,Andorra), it's hard to put a finger on a cause. If you asked the residents of those countries why they're rich, you'd probably get few commonalities.

US: freedom, innovation

Singapore: extreme k-12 education, trade center

Switzerland: dunno

Netherlands: Progressive culture, social justice

Ireland: Intelligently designed & centralized tertiary education system, bribing key companies to set up shop

France: Liberte, egalite... ( just kidding, sort of)
Value isn't measured solely in dollars, even at work.
My personal favorite: Steve Jobs Says 7-Inch Tablets Are ‘Dead on Arrival’... Apparently, these devices are too small for a pleasant touchscreen experience.

I typed this from my 3.5 inch iPhone.
It's actually OK if you need to learn a load of best practice before you're able to be productive. It stops people making a lot of mess.
Why are multimillion dollar bonuses accepted and standard for management but somehow shocking for engineering?

I like seeing recognition that a top engineer's work could net the company many millions of dollars of revenue.
It was scarier then, because it affected my business deeply, then.

Now it doesn't affect me at all - it's just an old tale I can tell, that someone might find entertaining or helpful.
I've always wanted to switch emacs from elisp to perl. :)
Facebook's doing well now, but it would not be shocking if fewer people used it in 5 years.

Why wouldn't it be shocking? They've shown that they can ship and see through to maturity several revolutionary products. Stop thinking in the abstract: if a company employs teams who can build stuff, ship it, and bring it to maturity, that's what they'll keep doing. The tech industry isn't exactly lacking in revolutionary ideas to implement.
It's possible that it's worth $3.5 million to prevent the damage he would do to Google if he worked at Facebook.

Not that he's worth 3.5M to Google per se, but that if he took his skills and knowledge to FB in an area where Google is vulnerable, he could harm Google far beyond that figure.

Say he was the top guy in targeting ads socially or locally at Google, for example. What is it worth to prevent FB from getting a leg up?
This is a definition http://www.practicallaw.com/8-203-6625 - you'll have to play out a few scenarios to see the terrifyingly stark implications...
Steve jobs may be a much greater innovator. But surely, can learn a thing or two, on integrity, from Derek Sivers.

Also this is a lesson in on how to have only loosely-coupled relations/dependencies with other companies (particularly, if they are big).

When need to go for tightly-coupled ones dependencies, expect it to break, and have a back-up plan.
Was it scary because it was Apple or because it was a big company that you had no influence over?
Ask HN: Know of a Gmailish Interface for Self-Hosted Email?
I'm a long-time Gmail user and love the slick web interface. I love the searchability, threading of emails, intuitive reply mechanism, built-in chat, etc. However, I don't have full control over it. I would like to run my own mail server, with my own domain, and host a comparable web interface to it for my own purposes. Built-in chat would be great (maybe compatible with XMPP so I could still chat with my Gmail contacts).

Does anyone know of a package out there that fits the bill? I'm not looking for "Google Apps for your Domain". Does anyone else think this would be useful?
Is anyone else infuriated by the use of vague words like "genius" without a good metric to measure it?
It's absolutely hilarious (and sad) that people here are jumping all over that nonsense line, and now's there's an actual debate over whether Facebook is worth $100 billion.

1) These are numbers Arrington pulled out of his ass.

2) 0.1% at present valuation is already beyond his $3.5 million counteroffer. Nobody is getting 0.1% anymore.
This - and it can't be emphasized enough.
There is no such thing as absolute worth.... you are worth precisely what people are willing to pay you for combined with what you are willing to settle for.
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I think that's fairly accurate.

I think the key is a metric which is just a strange thing we are born with as I can't exactly explain why I like computers. They are just neat.

Given a metric and enough hard work, a work will be considered genius quality by someone else. The number of other people is going to be what determines if someone goes down in the history books as genius.
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There is no way to possibly find this out.

What you 'personally think' this number is should suffice.
0001: Does F# count?

0010: Done that. the last project I openly released to the outside world now has at least that many users (6x that in downloads):
http://dl.qj.net/psp/homebrew-applications/ebootr-v15.html

0011: Nope.

0100: Ditto.

0101: I use gvim and Nano. Sue me.

0110: Did that in high school. 我贏得了比賽

0111: Working on it.

1001: I run a few (ebooter, and my first work on Git: http://github.com/indrora/creed )
Maybe my experience with high school bulles is atypical. I went to a very small high school (my graduating class had 32 people in it), and I was also a big kid. I was (and am) 6'4", I played tennis constantly. Despite being in alright shape, I was definitely a "fat" kid, definitely a nerd, and I definitely took a lot of flak for it.

Until I stopped taking flak for it. Bullies are just trolls in real life. Letting them make you feel dejected (or showing it) just feeds them...it's just like internet trolls.

Responding back to them, not violently, but trolling them back meant that you were no longer a victim, but were just playing the same game. Eventually, I made friends with the kids that used to tease me.

I really don't think that responding violently to bullies is the answer. That just further serves to enforce an "us" and "them" mentality. Bullying them back, just playing their game back at them makes it into a game. Eventually, at least for me, bullying turned into friendly jabbings.
Yes, because they need $100 billion in revenue to be a $100 billion cap company.
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this is totally WRONG - it's 1000km away. It's like saying "Microsoft is headquartered in San Francisco" to make Seattle easily place-able in the mind of the reader.
Huh? People move to the valley for yc all the time, even if they don't stay there forever.
To be fair, an iPhone fits in your pocket.
I really don't understand everyone's reverence for Steve Jobs, but to me this shows how evil and manipulative he is ( not the first time hearing this about him). What people call timing, I call intentional to openly put it out there they want these independents, have others follow their lead and open their stores to independent artists, and then openly and publicly call every other service out there a joke because they let anyone on. Then the next day signing the contract. I highly doubt its all just coincidental.
Modern Perl, the book, is Available.
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I'd work this backwards.

Consider a high-profile late-comer to Google who might have an existing equity position not comparable to peers who were there for the IPO, or peers who had hired in early (e.g., his grants were at pre-bailout highs and only recently recovered). Accepting a $3.5 million counter-offer means that the immediate "sure thing" is greater than or equal to the expected value of Facebook's offer when the risk of Facebook falling short is taken into account. Say this engineer thought there was only a 50% chance of Facebook actually hitting their "quietly told" market cap. That would imply the Facebook offer was something in the $5-$7 million range, or 1/15000th to 1/20000th of the outstanding shares. For recruiting a big name, this is much more plausible amount to offer than the 1/10 of 1% in the story.

If the story is true, then I'd bet that the engineer is someone who came to Google late (or at the wrong time), probably is pretty comfortable with his standing at Google is someone fairly prominent, and is more comfortable taking a stable, sure thing than taking a risk on a situation as early in the company life-cycle as Facebook is. (And it wouldn't surprise me to see this engineer leave for Facebook 5 years from now if and when Facebook becomes a more mature company and more of a sure thing.)
You speak like someone who doesn't understand Christianity from the inside. Knowing God is its own reward. The Christian life is not a video game. Heaven is not an Achievement. Suffering is not inconsequential.
I think the "dumbing-down of programming" is the sign of a maturing discipline where the generation before us did a lot of good work to enable more people to enter the field at a fresh level of difficulty.

That being said, there is typically a fear that people hold that secrets used to build the present will be lost to time. I had this fear because I've spent a lot of time educating myself in how to do everything from how to build a CPU to how to build user interfaces.

The key to not worrying about the fear is as follows.

There were always be artists that preserve the beauty of old school.

There will always be people that love to know history and study the engineering efforts involved; this will create a labor pool. (people build catapults due to their beauty, people will probably build x64 emulators in the future quantum computer just for fun... Or in the future minecraft variation)

Even if these people didn't exist, we have books and smart people for the occasion if the problems arise again.
I actually think that YQL is an awesome tool that has alt of value to developers. I actually scrape a hacker news feed to my personal site with YQL.
I remember having a conversation with the athletic director @ BYU in my younger years. I naively asked why the football team had 92 full scholarships when only a fraction of that was required to field a team. He told me flat out, "because those 2nd & 3rd string players might make something of themselves if they played for another team."

So, there you go. A rock-star programmer can be a dangerous thing in the hands of the competition.
I can guarantee you that in the eyes of top young grads Google has looked less interesting than Facebook for several years now. Google is where you go if you aren't good enough for Facebook. It's a safe, stale, big corp that is the dream job of every mediocre, middle-aged programmer out there.
Facebook deals could very easily be the new adsense.

How? I don't have a Facebook account. I do need to search the web, though.

Google's advertising platform is strong because they put their ads where I need to be. Facebook is not as strong because I don't need to check-in with Facebook when I go somewhere. Some people think it's fun, but what I've noticed is that most people stop using Foursquare after the first week or so. Is Facebook any different?
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This!

People are itching for declarative testing systems. Writing testing code by hand is tedious and error-prone. Static typing works for a lot of things, but isn't completely satisfactory. Randomized testing is also useful (give a function that tests a property, give random_int -> value generators for its arguments, let it find edge cases), but those are only two facets of a much bigger picture.

I'm really interested in more modern takes on Prolog, but from what I've read about Mercury, it seems to throw out my favorite aspect: computing with partial information. Constraint logic programming seems like a more valuable direction, though I see the appeal in a Prolog-esque language informed by modern type theory, and I'm particularly interested in what it does with linear types.
What's any multiple of revenue have to do with making money? Revenue is easy, profit's hard.
Google nearly starts a war. Seriously.
Without data of any kind, this is merely a hypothesis. I do not buy it; it assumes all mental processing is serial rather than parallel, and takes no account of the fact that as someone types L-R in a text field, the momentum of rightward-moving attention is quite different from scanning static UI elements. Also, it's not hard to see a text field and search button as a compound single UI element, obviating the need to visually navigate it each time.

I might feel differently if I used my left hand to operate the mouse, but then again I might be used to it by now.
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