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It was a bit mangled when I posted it earlier, and still needs some fine tuning, appreciate the feedback. WP repeated and cut out a section on Publishing, but here's the gist:

I highly doubt that one uniform operating system will dominate enterprise computer networks in the coming decade the way windows has done so historically. Linux and other unix variants (BSD) are ubiquitous for web development platforms. Mac OS X is the developer and design operating system of choice among many talented professionals. Often times windows support will come later (or never) compared to nix alternatives. A strong advantage of compiling source and scripting tools on Mac OS X, is that the transition from OS X to other unix systems is usually simpler than from Windows to any flavor of nix or vice versa (with cygwin/mingw).

This year I’m up for a replacement for my desktop system at work and after completing the conversion to Apple last year at home, I decided it would also server as the ideal setup at work as well. I transitioned my home desktop from Ubuntu 10.04 to Mac OS X Snow Leopard and really enjoy the polished interface, system stability, and ease of installations for development and practical home software (Homebrew helped). My recent experiences with Apple personal computers makes them far and away the best personal computers I’ve ever had the pleasure of using for a variety of applications (development, design, gaming, web browsing, and reading).
At most CS conferences (save some of the biggies like SigGraph, SuperComputing), at least half of the attendees are the presenters or co-authors. Those ticket prices are intended for you. It's not an accidental oversight. Their funding for the conference takes into account the speakers paying.
Ok, thanks for that.

Perhaps my perception is clouded in this regard. I've only lived in the US for a few months (in NYC). I'm from Australia. Whenever I've seen phone plans they're part of cable plans (eg Time Warner) and the package options are either without phone or with ($30/month, unlimited nationwide).

I was also in the US in the 90s and saw the same thing then.

In Australia the move has been to cap plans, particularly for mobile. So you'll pay, say, $49/month for your phone and can use $400/month of credit on voice, SMS and data (actually a lot don't include data). Voice might be $0.50/minute, SMS 10c, data $100/GB, which may sound a lot but remember you're paying $49 for that notional $400.

Why do they do this? Because customers like knowing that most of the time they pay $49/month and because if you go over your bill can quickly go up. So it's really a tax on the stupid. My nephew for example has had bills of hundreds in a month when in fact a $150 cap would be more than anyone could ever really use.
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Heh - apropos....

I am working on this very thing. But for a specific vertical.
Wow, I would think there is some serious potential here. Awesome idea - very well thought out.

Monetization without ads might be done (at least in part) via a paid smartphone app? You could offer the full site experience for free, and ad-free, but charge for the app with shopping list integration etc?

With that said, I wouldn't fear advertising on a site like this. It's a great chance for targeted ads, and a few unobtrusive ones would not detract from the service or experience.

I had to dig in and really look for the faq to get an answer to why instructions weren't showing up in a recipe - should you detect when instructions aren't present and put a little note as to why? Even better, let me know that I can click edit and copy/paste the instructions in myself when they aren't automatically retrieved.

Might be an edge case you want to investigate: The first time I tried to use the bookmarklet was on this page, and it did nothing: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/banana_bread/
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Wow, this is one of the coolest projects I've seen recently on HN. I'm not sure why it didn't garner much attention, but I think the concept is clever and the implementation is great. Here are some random thoughts:

- I knew the purpose immediately upon page load

- extremely easy to use

- controls are very intuitive and fun to play with

- preset colors are appealing and easy to adjust

- email field and message field are ridiculously simple to add/remove and look fantastic

- only usability issue: text does not center properly and I'm not sure why the text fields for the welcome message are re-sizeable (running Chrome browser)

From a developer's perspective, it really seems like you put a lot of thought into the user interface. A user who is not tech savvy would probably have a painless time maneuvering about your site and understanding the product, which is definitely one of the most difficult things to accomplish when building a web app for non-technical demographic. That being said, I just re-read your description and it looks like you may be targeting the hacker crowd, which I think is a mistake. Any decent developer (or designer) can hack together a "coming soon" page without very much effort. Also, I don't think this warrants a $9/mo pricetag, regardless of the target demographic. Perhaps you should toy with the freemium model and see how that works out.

Keep up the good work!
Given that what Numair wrote in response didn't address the issue of inaccuracies in the movie at all, I disagree--the problem seems to be something else entirely.

I've written about the movie here:

http://www.quora.com/The-Social-Network-2010-Movie/What-part...
Isn't the Secret Service going to have a problem with this? I thought making your own currency was a huge no-no, and if it gets too popular they are going to have a hell of a time passing it off as something else to the government.
Actually I thought the story was pretty good, though it had a couple of holes in it (of the "cut scene" type, not the "bad plot hole" type). It stunned me in that it actually grappled with the consequences of the digitization process in some detail, rather than just blindly reveling in it. It was some decent sci-fi. Consequently it flew above just about everyone's head, especially if you went in with the preconception that it would have no story. (I liked it -> the series is doomed. QED.)

It may help to realize that this is a parallel universe to ours and the way their computers appear to work is that they really are an interface to the world of Tron, which is subordinate to the conventional universe but by all appearances is every bit as real. Thus, Clu's plan is not a violation of the conservation of mass, because it's all working differently here. It's much more a 1960s/1970s-style scifi rather than an "ultra-realistic 2010 scifi" (ahem), but within those bounds I was actually pleasantly surprised. Not that it will ever amount to anything but in the back of my head I've actually been working out the physics of Tron, which could be really cool for a 2020-era MMORPG (would take too much processing power to be feasible today), and there's actually enough consistency (perhaps surprisingly) that it's not all in vain; there's different rules, but there are some rules.
If you would read the link I posted above, your misconceptions about his agenda would be cleared up.
OK, my reading for self improvement for today (or this week) is done, this is so good.

A quick look at the first page reveals gems like the concept of haecceity (my Firefox dictionary doesn't have this) and Haim Harrari's wonderful analog of extremism and the "edge of a circle", although as you would expect, there is lesser stuff like Lakoff's blarney.

I was surprised to see people mention probability as an important concept. Totally right. I would add a favorite quote (more for the cognitive toolkit of grad EEs): "A random variable is neither random nor a variable."
If they start allowing the sale of non-digital goods on Facebook, they had better drop the 30% cut

Agreed, 30% is a ludicrous amount for anything outside of Facebook. Now, if they could offer comparable rates to PayPal, I for one would sign up overnight. Is it that crazy to think that they could topple PayPal's current monopoly on low-end[0] payments?

[0] I couldn't think of a better way to describe it, but if you aren't based in the USA, UK, Australia etc, there aren't a lot of options for getting your first buck for your web app etc.
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From the article:

"the high-fructose corn syrup of entertainment," providing delicious pastimes without much nutritional value, so to speak.

But then they list games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. I would say that games like Farmville (along with its ilk) which are little more than incentives to continue playing at bite size intervals are more the "junk food" of the gaming world.
My guess is that a significant portion of business website technical infrastructure has some dependence on being able to access the search terms. Tons of commerce websites would scream if they lost this information.

It's probably a complicated web of business relationships and strategies that is the answer for why Google would be reluctant to make such a change. It would cause a lot of upheaval and potentially ill will from companies affected by the change.

It would be an extremely bold move by Google to make to prevent search leakage by default. Does Google believe that encrypted.google.com appeases the users who are concerned? Does Google believe that it is only a minority of users that are concerned?
Blog post: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/01/keep-your-opt...

Extension source: https://code.google.com/p/chrome-opt-out-extension/
Exactly, you should modulate your base carrier domain knowledge with some random fluctuations to beat the herd.
Its not going to be an issue, I think. I mean, Microsoft is already doing something very similar with Microsoft Points on XBox Live.

EDIT: Actually, all the major game consoles use "credits" rather than actual dollars for their online transactions. If they can do it for their platforms, Facebook can do something similar for its own platform.
"You may not accept Credits as payment for a currency or other stored value item that can be used outside of the application."

"You will not (and you will not enable or allow any third party to) sell Credits to, or trade or otherwise exchange Credits with, any third party."

In short, Facebook Credits cannot be a commodity / currency. They're closer to gift cards, storing value only.

[0] http://developers.facebook.com/policy/credits
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Is it the beginning of the end?
I'd gladly pay the author of the paper, the ACM not so much.
IMO, the reason desktop linux never took off is that you need to draw developers to the platform, and developing desktop linux apps completely sucks. I recently wrote my first large gtk app and was appalled at how painful it was. Gtk has been around for like 15 years and half of it's widgets are unuseable and the api is clunky.

I don't understand why kde/qt lost so decisively to gnome in terms of support by the distributions, although I will admit gtk apps tend to look better. Things may have been better if QT had gotten more community support, or at least more designers working on pretty themes.

There can't be many experienced linux desktop developers who would voluntarily do their next project on that platform. As Steve Ballmer famously bellowed in his drunken rant, "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!"
Thanks for explaining, I can now see how this might be a problem.

Through this same mechanism wouldn't the advertising networks be privy to the content of the sites that I am visiting? It seems that even if we eliminate this, we still have issues with advertisers being able to track and create a profile based on the content of the websites you are visiting.

The headers do seem to create a direct link between a given search and a set of visited sites, but can't things like cookies and tracking pixels be used to the same effect?
Possibly then using NLP to figure out the most important words on the page? Or the SEO terms that the website uses to get picked up by the search engine?

If you are going to let an advertiser post content on your site, it seems to me that it would be very difficult to keep said advertiser from tracking your users.

If the user uses Adblocking software or otherwise blocks the advertisers' sub-domains, does the advertiser still receive the referral headers?
I'm not sure having 55% invested in bonds after one of the biggest runups in bonds in recent history is a good idea. What happens when the Fed eventually stops buying Treasury bonds? What happens when states and municipalities start going under (currently states can't declare bankruptcy but if you think the US Government is going to let California, Illinois, New Jersey et. al go under, you're crazy)? I think bond holders will be forced to take a hair cut.

The OP also seems to not fully understand why precious metals and commodities have had just a big run up, namely the possible end to our current fiat monetary system. As long as the Fed continues to try to increase liquidity through Treasury buying, precious metals are likely to see increased demand.
Right now the vast majority of Credits are spent on gaming, but it’s very likely that Facebook will eventually begin allowing third-party websites to offer a ‘Pay With Facebook’ option, and that may include everything from digital content to physical goods.

Why would physical goods sellers use an upstart payment platform that takes a 30% transactional cut when there are tons of established financial firms who will do the transactions for 3%-5%?

I mean the fact that they are making this mandatory means that they can't even organically convince vendors who are selling virtual goods on facebook's own platform. Surely this is facebook worship hand waving.
It's not much different than eBay requiring PayPal.
What bothers me most is that plenty of the research is funded with public money and then ends up behind paywalls of commercial organizations.
Nope, at the time of these incidents, I could request GMail's login page over HTTP, though the login form action pointed to a HTTPS url. This was fixed a day or two later though. Same with Yahoo.
If someone doesn't like facebook, now is a very good time to have DOJ slap them around for anti-trust, just like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

If those major developers were told "close a deal because we're willing to mandate using credits" then Facebook deserves to be punished for anti market practices. There is little difference between "hey my OS is popular, let me use it to bootstrap my browser share" and "hey my Social Network is popular, let me use it to bootstrap my payments product".
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Oh god no. As a Facebook app developer if something like this becomes official it would be like the end of the world.

Where are you GOOGLE ME?! SAVE US!
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Tracking relative motion at 60 mph isn't really an exotic skill. A good Little League pitcher can throw a baseball 60 mph, and dodging rocks thrown by children seems like a low bar for survival. I imagine spears can travel that fast. The tip of a club could reach that speed, and arrows travel much faster. A cheetah can travel faster than 60 mph, and while cheetahs are a special case, there are many animals that can run faster than 40 mph, and it isn't necessarily fundamentally different for faculties that evolved for 45 mph to work at 60 mph. As for reaction times, the quickness required to dodge a punch, or the hooves of an elk kicking while it is being taken down, is more than adequate to drive at 60 mph. Even so, we find it unsafe to drive 60 mph except in an environment that has been engineered to be especially undemanding on our reaction times.
My experience of corporate IT is that "X is better than Y" is a long way down their list of priorities.

An IT department in a large organisation will typically customise the OS heavily, meaning that upgrading the OS (such as from XP to Vista or Win7) happens rarely, and switching platforms is unheard of (I've seen this once, when switching from Unix workstations to cheap NT4 boxes).

What I think is more likely is the use of Linux or OS X machines to remotely connect to Windows desktops or Windows virtual servers.
Does anyone else see "(techcrunch.com)" at the end of the submission title and think of the boy who cried wolf?

This may be true but, for me, TechCrunch has gotten to the point where anytime I see one of their headlines I think it's sensationalist linkbait and I'm better off assuming what they're writing is exaggerated or simply not true.

As for the claim, it may be true but I really don't think it matters and this is something that's important for anyone assessing FB as an investment.

Facebook used to own social gaming. Arguably it still does. But it faces a huge threat, one which it hasn't remotely tackled: social gaming--and non-social gaming for that matter--is going mobile in a huge way.

Facebook gaming is built on Flash. As we all well know, Flash is incompatible with iOS and doesn't really suit touch-based interfaces for those platforms that do support Flash (eg use of rollovers and so on). That's not to say that you can't write a mobile-friendly game with Flash but, to date, most people haven't (in my albeit limited experience).

Facebook is, for most people, three things (IMHO): games, photo sharing and chat/messaging. FB's revenue seems built on ads and games. They're acting like they've got the market cornered on games but the don't. As Facebook usage goes mobile (as I believe it increasingly is), the draw of those games goes down and consequently so does the potential revenue.

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo should already be scared to death of Apple as far as portable gaming goes. I think Facebook should add itself to that list.
That's completely bizarre. Hats of to you for speaking anyway, I would have been on the next available means of transportation back to my point of origin. Not that I'd ever be invited to speak at an ACM conference ;)
In Gabriel's defense, I'd say there's something very antithetical between FUD and a detailed description on how to fix the (alleged) problem. I don't know of any other FUD campaign in which a simple solution was provided -- one which won't directly benefit the entity raising the objection. It's Google, et al.'s decision which way they want to go -- whether they take his advice or ignore it.

But one could excuse the billboard potentially to a person trying to highlight that this is a big issue. But again, this seems quite different from an incumbent that is trying to cast doubt via obfuscation, which has usually been the case in FUD...
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The redesign is much better than the original! The proposition is clear and I like being able to interact with it.

That said I don't think there is sufficient value yet to compel people to fork over cash, given that your target audience is likely able to throw up a static page with an email form rather quickly. Or perhaps the value prop. does exist and I just don't see it, in which case I'd suggest that you focus on making the value prop. more clear.

I would find the service more compelling if you provided some analytics re. visitor information (where/when they came from, bounce rate, etc.). And/or if you were able to aid in the promotion of the "coming soon" page (not sure how ... maybe advertise coming soon pages within the network of coming soon pages .... or profile the coming soon pages and then the launched service i.e. early seo help).
I doubt that 1/4 of them are active, and even with the adjusted active user base it doesn't seem like a highly lucrative platform.
Quite the opposite, actually - I tried to write a fluff-free business book. I think that's why readers are finding it useful. If you can read it in 20 minutes, I'll be impressed. :-)
And its that 30% figure which is going to prevent Facebook credits from becoming a wide-spread e-currency. There are many payment systems out there (Paypal, Google Checkout, etc.) that have lower fees and looser terms of service than Facebook. Its one thing for Facebook to mandate this for their own network. It'll be quite another for Facebook to push this service out onto the Internet as a whole.
A good number of movies are being released in the theaters as 3D only, this is what has people annoyed by the fad.
if you aren't based in the USA, UK, Australia etc, there aren't a lot of options for getting your first buck for your web app etc.

http://flattr.com? They hail from Sweden, and are quite eurocentric.
What does having a Facebook account have to do with being willing to use a virtual currency? I'm willing to use virtual currency and have a Facebook account, but I'll never use Facebook's credit system. I don't want Facebook to know what I'm buying.
Speaking despite having made a lot of money on ARM Holdings in the '90s: this logic of looking one vertical level below the most-hyped companies is not as clever as he seems to think it is ("I work at a hosting company, I have an iPhone and an iPad, a-hah! ARM Holdings!"). It is a 101% certainty that the pro's trading ARM in the market are every bit as well informed as you are, if not more so. Picking stocks is picking stocks; knowing that an iPhone has an ARM chip in it doesn't constitute an edge.

Similarly, having read the Wikipedia page on Contango wouldn't be enough to get me to go up against professional full time oil traders.

Also, aren't commodity ETFs supposed to maximize the risk of trading uninformed against professional shark traders? I didn't follow the hype cycle on this story, but I know it started with "DO NOT BUY COMMODITY ETFs".
Accurate in no false positives or accurate in it captured it's best fit to you?

I was in the same boat as you but then I investigated what all it could flag on my account and realized that I tricked myself. My categories were actually closer to fortune-telling type stuff. 'You like video games', 'You like online videos', 'You like computers & electronics'.

But when I drilled down I found it missed lots of things it could flag me for. Google did not recognize I was a programmer despite me googling for various C apis and programming questions commonly. Last summer I spent a good amount of time learning to garden with much help from google but nothing about that category. I often google books for reviews rather than goto amazon.com directly.

Given the amount of interests I have told google about I am actually surprised that they have flagged me for such a conservative set of categories.

That said: it is nice to peek under the covers in such a convenient way.

Edit: And now I am, oddly, pausing before opting out. If you had asked me if I would have opted out before I had the choice I would have said yes. But now, given the choice to opt out, I wonder if I am actually giving up value. If I opt out do I lose something of value to me: having a better chance of that spacing being filled with something valuable rather than just noise. Is it a fair trade: My interests for a better signal-to-noise ratio? Before I had the choice it felt, to my human brain, that I was getting the short end of the deal. But now that I have a choice my human brain is wondering if it is a fair deal after-all. funny.
Would you be against tracking in real life? Cameras everyone out in public? In your home?

To what degree is privacy not an issue for you?

I only ask because your answers are essentially this:

Tracking is okay because you are being tracked.

Which, in practical terms, means little as far as opinions go. You are simply apathetic to privacy on the web.
For what it's worth, the executive director made 480k plus ~27k in benefits for FY ending 6/30/2009.

Revenue breakdown:

Conferences & Seminars: 23.25m

Publications: 14.8m

Membership Dues: 9.2m

Advertising: 1m
It's the long tail of publishing. What is more interesting is what all the money they make like that ends up doing, where do the proceeds end up?