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What a nice talk! Really intressting stuff. The Idea not creat a new datatype and reuse the datatypes we allready have is great because you get to keep all the features we have atm with the clojure datastructures.

Im not sure about this:
If you would use pv... function all the time (where it would be reasonably easy to implement on) then the overhead would basiclly go away because all threads would have plent things to steal. (I mean the initiall overhead would stay but it would break even really fast, so you would not have that overhead for every function that is called that way). Help me out if you know (or know at least more than I do).

Sidenode: The recordings was better than in the other videos so far specially in the beginning. Did the second camara stream get lost in the end? Anyway very lookable I'm so happy that we have recordings from conj.
You try to find a way to increase competition.

For example, the smartphone market is heating up to the point that the celluar networks are being reduced to lowly bit haulers.
FYI, the article is shorter than all your comments. cough
I used to work for a startup (employee) and I was wondering the same all the time. One of the perks of working at this company that you were allowed to speak at as many conferences as you wanted to and everybody who worked there made good use of it.

On the one hand, this was basically our primary marketing tool. We talked about our tools, other engineers saw them and convinced their companies to buy our software. On the other hand, our engineers were constantly in contact with people from big companies (Google, MS, ...) that tried to recruit them.

Curiously, only one of our engineers ever left the company voluntarily (that was me, after four years), so apparently the boss managed to create a work environment that was so great that even constant top-dollar recruitment attempts by other companies had no effect.
History, philosophy and international relations undergrad degrees are all great ways to prepare to go into law or business school professional programs.

There are people that go into them for "silly" reasons, and there are people that go into them that come from upper-class backgrounds where being bankrolled by your parents while doing an international relations degree at a private university and spending time at unpaid internships in cities with high cost of living is a status symbol and a way to weed out the lower class from certain career tracks.
I'm trying to set up Amazon with my account... I can't seem to change from the United States?

P.S. http://upstartly.com/startups/view/23
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Farmers work whenever they want.
Going by Toyota sales, Americans have already forgotten (or simply dismissed) the hype.
(disclaimer: I haven't looked at Cassandra in 6 months)

Riak doesn't involve Java. It sounds trite, but that was a huge plus for our team. It has commit hooks. Search. Builtin JS VMs for mapreduce. More straightforward administration. Most operations are automatic or on-the-fly. Even though I think Cassandra+Hadoop is a technically superior product for managing absolutely huge gobs of multidimensional data (especially with its support for range queries), Riak's ease of use is pretty sweet.

Plus the team is superhumanly helpful about addressing bugs and gotchas. Everything's on Github, and contributing is pretty easy.
It's a strange place. Not walking distance to anything, not train adjacent, not school adjacent, .... The buildings are pretty though.

I haven't been to the Sun campus, but does the Google campus in Mountain View not share these traits?
"...Facebook plans to move all operations to Menlo Park by the end of the year."

Does that mean other offices are closing?
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If you were to set up a rotational program that identified leadership, it would be beneficial to both parties. Imagine a group of high potential workers who rotated around doing each other's jobs. They would have new skill sets and would be able to do their original jobs better. Productivity would go up for each individual task and they would be able to cover for each other if one were to fall sick or get laid off.

There seems to be a bias that a career path exclusively means promotions but in this case rotations can provide new challenges and benefits that will naturally cause an increase in pay.
I agree that he missed the point about what argumentation really is. If you do it right you, your 'opponent' and everyone else listening learns something.
Basically what you are describing is a coworking space. Coworking spaces are great, but from the perspective of an operator (I recently opened one) it's not a business to go into if you are looking to make money with it. Rent can only be so cheap (and in the US the commercial real estate market is already picking up again), you only have so much space and people are only willing to pay a certain amount. It's also logistically more difficult to manage and monitor an hourly pricing structure than one that's per visit/day/week/month and those longer periods require larger lump sums then some people are willing to pay.

Coffee shops, which are more profitable but also not usually a huge money makers, can make money from walk-ins and, due to the lower upfront prices, require less commitment from each customer. There are a few hybrid coffee shop/coworking spaces, but it's unclear how viable the model actually is. Commercial espresso machines are very expensive ($10K-$15K+), barista salaries are an additional expense and you need to balance serving people who walk in with the people who are on the coworking side. Also, if you have things like enclosed booths that means you have to fit in fewer people per square ft.

So, there's often a market there, but the economics are such that it's hard to make it very profitable, certainly much harder than many other businesses. Still, just so this doesn't sound completely pessimistic, it's not much work to maintain a straight coworking space (not much more than a regular office), it's entirely possible to make enough money to offset the work you put into it and there is a lot of value that extends beyond the immediate financial compensation.
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It's interesting to me to see this comment getting up-voted (has 12 points as I'm writing this). It gives me a new perspective on what could a seemingly inconsiderate person be thinking of.
You only need one brain to tell the hands what to do.
The apple tv was also released in October, that could also attribute to the growth.
And people haven't been using farm schedules to justify DST for several decades. It's now supposedly about electricity use.
Sure, but it's just another point of failure for dubious benefit.
The point is the assertion that the government "doesn't understand the challenges facing startups", based on the example that health care should be higher priority than something else, is incorrect, if taken to mean that the "government doesn't understand that access to affordable health care is a key challenge facing startups". Maybe that's not what it means but it sure seems that way.

The government placed access to affordable health care at the top of its priority list from day one of the administration. The notion that a $75 a month plan ten years ago might now be $1000 a month is specifically targeted as a primary issue. Again, you can say the legislation is awful and won't work at all (I've no idea myself and I'm in the "something is better than nothing" camp), but they certainly understand the problem.

Edit: And I APOLOGIZE for quoting a paraphrase, I am no longer able to edit the comment else I would remove the quotes and fully explain what appears to be what you are saying. I sincerely hope that I am correctly understanding your assertion, which again appears to say, "the government doesn't understand that health care is a huge problem for startups", and if I am not, then I withdraw my comment fully.
Sadly there isn't a single co-working space in this city. Starting one doesn't sound like a viable business plan either.
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Were you expecting higher or lower?

I was expecting closer to 0, unless they include things like messenger and laptop bags.
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It's fascinating to see the balance the game's origin finds between inspiration, perspiration and calculation. It seems, to many I'm sure, that the game was a happy fluke that some company stumbled upon like the Beverly Hillbillies.

Rovio made a strong calculated and risky move with the game which has payed off 100 fold (more than that most likely.)

It is inspiring to see how masterfully the plan and move was made, like watching a perfect move in Chess, or a well timed play in any sport.

Great read.
I know others probably disagree, but DRM doesn't work.
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Indiana just went to daylight savings a couple of years back. Pissed me off - the new Republican governor said it would attract jobs (which is the reason anybody ever does anything in Indianapolis), and the success of that was predictable.
The top businessmen in China all carry Pracla purses.
I did some work at the main branch of the Chicago Public Library yesterday. It was okay, but full of homeless people and not really all that quiet.

The Lincoln Park Whole Foods is my new favorite spot. I work all afternoon, have a really healthy dinner, then do some writing over a wine flight.
Its a common dilemma. Generally I find it relates to pay and skills rather than age. In that for a given skill there is a market rate. If you're an engineer and you've been in the industry for long enough you may find that annual adjustments moved your salary above the market price.

If you're middle age, and you've kept up with the latest technologies, and you're adding to your skills basket, generally it seems you're still employed. If you 'retired in grade' at some point and thought you would work until you could collect social security doing the same thing you've always done, well that hasn't worked out in practice.
> He either does not care, or more likely does not realise that these cheap shoes will probably fall apart soon

Or, he's got enough money for a cheap pair of shoes and something else he needs, but can't afford the latter if he pays more for the shoes.

> Taking a less evil example, a man buying a cheap pair of shoes from walmart

BTW - I've done the relevant experiments (including shoes). Yes, some of the walmart stuff doesn't last as long, but the price discount more than makes up for the difference. (In other words, something that last 2x as long costs 3x as much.)

Since you disagree, what products, specifically, support your assumption? (You have relevant experience, right?)
I know this will vary from startup to startup, but how do you know when you have traction?
I was under the impression climate and storms were dominated by thermal processes in the troposphere, not ionization or charged particle flux. Any climate guys or meteorologists care to call this out as BS or not?
I see and empathize with your point, but you're getting into some tricky first amendment issues if you attempt to police what people are doing (short of playing videos at high volume).

Strangely enough, I often study at a public law library (where I am right now) and I occasionally see the staff kick someone out for misuse of the computers here, even though it's run by the county. Perhaps it's because there are only 6 of them and they're meant for accessing legal databases like Lexis/Nexis, not checking your facebook status. (I'm using my laptop, they probably wouldn't approve of me using HN on a library machine either!)
I'm talking about the acceleration that the sensor is measuring. If you are holding it still, it measures 1g toward the ground.

If the drive is falling, certainly it is accelerating toward the ground but the sensor measures zero acceleration. This is the relative frame of reference.
The USA variant of this is the briefcase or (more recently) the messenger/laptop bag. Not quite as expensive, but (arguably) still used as an indicator of social status.
4 choices isn't enough to result in better options for consumers when it's nearly impossible for new entrants.

Compare this with internet search where there is a clear leader (Google) but its possible to create your own search engine (DuckDuckGo) without fear of being arrested for violating some regulation designed by the incumbents and enforced by the government.
This is one of the things about Obamacare that I truly do not understand. I am a self-employed, type II diabetic. My health insurance premiums are massive. As I understand it, the law doesn't provide you free health care unless you are in the poverty range. For everyone else, it merely mandates that you buy insurance. How does adding a mandated expense on top of startup costs make entrepreneurship more feasible?
Apple's a signatory, but I'm not convinced they'll abandon the iPod / Phone / Pad data cable. Maybe supplement it with USB charging?
Good point. Email addresses are now only shown to the actual user. Also, I made it so if you choose to make your startup stealth on signup, your user will be stealth too.
The British library also has a coffee shop within. Not a bad building, plenty of reading rooms, fairly attractive, too.
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I went to your survey page, and find it somewhat difficult to respond to your questions for a few reasons.

1) you're expecting your non-customer to price the product for you. I don't believe this is the same as asking your customer to price the product for you. You should have beta users, so after they have used the product, they should be able to tell you what they would be willing to pay

2)Is monthly billing really the best way to price a product like this? Am I going to use it every month? How many email newsletters do most people subscribe to? How often are they going to 'unsubscribe'?? Isn't this more of a one-time thing, or maybe once a year? Is there another business model that would work better for you?

3)don't all newsletters have an 'unsubscribe' button on the bottom of the page? Why would people use your service instead of the unsubscribe link from the newsletter provider? Though I actually think many people just 'send to junk', so you've got two free alternatives that you are competing with

4) Personally, I wouldn't provide access to my gmail so that a 3rd party can go through my email looking for newsletters.

To me it seems like you are trying to kill a fly with a wrecking ball, but maybe I'm misunderstanding the market.
That did cross my mind. Differences: google is right off the interstate, it's attached to a concert venue/park/golf course/bike trails/running trails, it's walking distance to dozens of other tech companies, and it's next to downtown mountain view.

So, google still comes out ahead.
Tell me I'm wrong, but my concern would be floating my idea out there where someone faster, I'm working on it as a side project, would beat me to the punch and launch before me.

Valid concern or no?
"Google" - A search engine that is better than others because it doesn't rely on keyword frequency but rather other sites that reference it.

"Facebook" - A social network that relies on exclusivity through both signup and connecting to others to engage customers. Stickiness is applied via user's updating their status, linking to sites or subjects of interest, discussing upcoming local events, and various methods of social graphing (i.e., how users are connected to the people they want to connect to and the people those connections are connected to).

"Wikipedia" - An online encyclopedia that is created, edited, modified, and updated by Everyone. Accuracy is mostly preserved by off-page discussion and off-site citation. It's goal will be a recreation of the Library of Alexandria [<-- that's the stinger selling point.]
Relevance is besides the point, you're paid to work. Your job title isn't some kind of license to refuse work you don't want to do.

You keep trying to frame this as being an issue of relevancy when really it's that you're simply not eager enough to get dirty like edw's father wanted out of his people.

You tell me to clean the bathroom on my first day, I'll ask where the scrub and bottle of 409 are.

Now if we're talking months down the line, the dishes need done, and you want me to do them, I'll wonder how my value diminished enough that it wouldn't be more cost effective to hire a cleaner.
Reminded me of this article about Chinese women:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-13/chinese-women-milli...

Seems in the West men buy sports cars and women buy luxury handbags, and it's the reverse in the East.

It probably doesn't come down to any significant cultural differences either. Buying expensive things is a way for some people to feel more confident about themselves, or to spoil themselves, or some area in between. Basically, it's a curious statistic, but ultimately a non-story for actually doing business.
Isn't winter time the standard clock and it's summer time that is the deviation from that? So Russia would be abolishing summer time that is also known as daylight savings time?
> Lots of European countries have very powerful teachers' unions and tenure (off the top of my head France, Germany, Sweden, Norway).

It's easy to do things in those monocultures. Heck, look at the "scandanavian" states in the US - they work even better.

The US as a whole, for better or worse, is far more diverse. (And segregated.)
An MVP is the product with the minimum set of features required to start learning from customers. They created their MVP long ago iirc.
This article is so sadly wrong and misguided. The following comes to mind: Profit in art? http://www.weareoca.com/photography/profit-in-art/
Without reading Chimero's mind, I dare to say he loves what he does, and does it so he can keep doing it. If he needs some money to start right now doing what he and I love, I'm willing to help him.

The section "Don’t be a professional idiot…or a thief" is beyond stupid.
"Denying your own or someone else’s inherent value makes it quite easy for you to become a thief."
There you go, if you work on free open source out of sheer enjoyment you are supposed to be a thief.

And what's up with the pompous language across the piece?

Argh
Well, I sure wouldn't want to play Starcraft 2 in a browser, so I think you're right to question that statement.
Just because I'm sure at least one other person won't know the acronym, but I think SHDH is Supper Happy Dev House.
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When I worked for a public library system (for, not at; I was a library employee), a fair amount of my time was spent watching the public internet stations. Mostly, helping people use the internet, keeping track of who was out of time, etc., but occasionally that meant kicking out people we caught looking at porn.

It's not like it's encouranged. Be realistic. It's usually grounds for banning, and I doubt my library system was unique there.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759069

Some people spent time on facebook, myspace, flash games, etc., but some people spend lots of time on Hacker News, too. Not sure what your point is, there. It's not like kids were allowed to sit playing flash games all day when people wanted computers for schoolwork (or whatever).
Yes, thanks for that obvious problem. The expected retort then should be, "All that Render Script stuff we saw for HoneyComb is going to get cut right? HTML5 is all you need?"
I don't want any employees doing jobs they find undesirable. I want employees that enjoy their work. And if they ever find that they don't I want employees that ask for a different internal job, or quite to find a new external job.
Zero is a number, but you confuse people that way.
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None of this makes any sense:

Nearly all the people in NY are in areas of high cost of living and, thus, are relatively well paid. That should also make them relatively competent and relatively good as parents with relatively accomplished children.

In Manhattan, the cost of living, etc. are higher.

In contrast, I went to a public high school in the South; nearly everyone graduated; and 97% of the graduates went to college. I did well in math and science, but English literature didn't make much sense to me, and somehow the way French was taught I just didn't 'get it' (my father and brother were both quite good at French but somehow didn't help me). My SAT total was over 1400; still, except for math and science, high school was not so easy for me; my high school was not really easy; in some of the courses, a lot of the students did better than I did.

I did well enough in college, especially in math and science. I went to a relatively good college, and there the girls in the humanities classes were much better than I was; my only retaliation was to totally blow them away in math and science, which was easy to do.

So, not doing so well in a public high school in the South, I was plenty successful in college.

So, I don't 'get it': If my public high school in the South did so well, then why are NY and Manhattan having so many problems? Where are they missing it?

At one point, here in NYS 70 miles north of Wall Street, my wife and I were considering having children and wondered about the quality of the schools, so she called a local high school and asked to visit. She was brilliant, Valedictorian, PBK, 'Summa Cum Laude', Woodrow Wilson, and research university Ph.D. In college once she wanted to take a history course, didn't need the credit, so wanted just to audit. The prof asked audits also to take the tests, so she did. It was a lecture hall course with 300 students. At the end the prof told her that she should have taken the course for credit since she got the highest grade in the class. Brilliant. So, with her credentials, she got a good reception for a visit. She sat in on a senior class in history and concluded that it would have been challenging for her.

I'm not 'getting it': Where are these really bad schools in NY?

Just what is it about college the students can't do?

I've taught undergraduates at Indiana University, Georgetown University, and Ohio State; except for one 'special' collection of students at Georgetown, the students were from good enough down to not so bad. Just what is it about NYS students that are much less good?

What is all the screaming about in NY? Just trying to get more money for the teachers?

Maybe we need to see the some distributions of SAT and CEEB scores for some representative samples of students from Manhattan, the rest of NYS, and some other states.
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It may be easy for you or for me, but there's not shortage of deranged teachers in rural India.
My local branch of the SF Peninsula library (Redwood Shores if you have to know) has a cafe with wifi and plenty of wall sockets. Nice place to work.

As others noted, hacker work spaces are also good.
That is very valid concern. I built in 'stealth mode' so your startup is only available to people you send a special link (with a generated key) to. Check 'stealth mode' when you create a startup.
Links are awesome in a small dataset, but on a larger cluster, the probability that each link walk means both an extra seek and a network roundtrip makes them less attractive.

Local graph databases avoid the extra seeks by keeping extra copies of the destination vertex immediately next to the source vertex on disk, but I don't think Riak is doing this, or that it is actually practical in an eventually consistent system.