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That's pretty similar to what I was thinking for fanatastic. It's on hold right now, the site that's up is probably 2 years old now with no fresh data.. anyway the idea is users would be able to sign up and pick their favorite teams. They would then have a customized page of all the news, twitter and facebook streams for their teams.

I'd then allow digg style voting up of stories in order to bubble things up to the top page of the site. The social aspect comes in when the news stories are tagged by teams. I'm a big NFL guy and a Redskins fans, well a story about a Redskins/Cowboys game would show up on both Cowboys and Redskins fans pages. That could spark entertaining dialogue, if for example you've ever tailgated at a game and seen how things go there.

The challenges are the news gathering initially, once it matures users may feed the site news themselves. Also moderation will be a big issue. It will probably be the factor that causes the site to succeed or fail.

Marketing would have to be a bit more old fashioned. I'd go after people at the games, they're the ones who spend so much money to see their teams live, get them hooked and the others will follow. Big signs, free t-shirts/hats, even a free stand passing out water bottles to people walking towards the stadium would be great in a lot of cities.

Out of all my ideas I think this is the one I think would be the most fun to work on, from development to marketing. But I'm a big sports fan.
There is no mechanism currently on the AppStore for doing a SaaS strategy for Apps. In app purchase is set up for one time purchases, not for recurring subscriptions. This is a brand new feature, and it dovetails right in with the SaaS business model.

Apple doesn't take %30 of "ALL subscription revenue" though people seem to keep saying this because it plays into the "apple is taxing us arbitrarily" meme.

IF I wanted to, I could set up a webpage with paypal, and charge people directly, and save %30, minus paypals fees. However, paypal has proven itself to not be a trustworthy company in the past so there's an additional cost there, but that involves a lot of setting up servers, dealing with customers, etc. There really is a lot of effort required to sell things directly to the customer, there are liability issues, and if I were to outsource all that work I'd be buying several services that ultimately would take around the same total cut.... and I'd be more stressed on top of that.

All that stress and time is energy that would be better spent on additional features or products. In fact, it would produce much higher returns because it is more highly leveraged. The effort that requires on the current app is just maintaining the status quo (I think there are zero customers who would rather pay by paypal than iTunes).

I find it interesting that you say I'm leaving "a huge amount of the fruit of [my] labor on the table", as Apple is freeing up a huge amount of time and energy to improve the app or do new products.

Look at the alternatives- I could give the app away free on android and let google advertise on it. How much would I be giving up in "google tax?" %60. And they only revealed that it was %60 after Apple made it public that they give developers %70. Who knows what it has been for the past decade before google had to be public about it. Plus, I know how many copies of my app are sold, I don't know how many clicks google disallows. Sure there are competing models, or I could do paypal with an android app (this would at least have the advantage of selling into all the countries paypal supports but not google checkout.) but again, that is time I have better use for.

OR Amazon which will make me give up price control and possibly %80 of my revenue. These terms are not "just as bad" they are far far worse.

And finally, before this, I was paying %30 on the initial sale in the Appstore. Nobody seemed to be complaining when Apple originally introduced that model-- and for good reason-- before that Carriers controlled app sales on phones and were much worse than publishers, taking %90 in many cases.

Apple has greatly reduced the friction, and has added a new feature that lets me offer a better, more profitable model while simultaneously capturing many more customers.

It's a no brainer.
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If the reply gets beyond a certain depth there is a built in delay (that gets longer the deeper you get).

It's there because Hacker news has decided that there is no value in deep conversations, they prefer the more shallow ones and feel that they get a better result that way. Presumably it also serves as a brake on certain kinds of anti-social behaviour such as flamewars and trolling.

It's in the terms of service or rules for newbies or something like that.

(edit: went looking for the text in the guidelines so I could link it, but couldn't find it. Sorry. It might be one of PGs articles that I was thinking of)
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Here is our tech(presented at nVidia's ECS): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGrXPTShuqM

Getting it to work on iPad/iPhone is tough due to the limited memory. We're hoping that some of the newer tablets give developers more memory to work with.

More at: http://www.aqumin.com
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> Part of the problem is that there is an internal inconsistency in play. You can subscribe to the Wall Street Journal Web edition and use that on Safari on your iPad just fine. Why should the WSJ app that gives you access to that same content be any different?

The WSJ is the producer of the original content. The music subscription services are but another remora in the food chain. Were they the original producer of content, this would be an entirely different discussion.
You're not necessarily missing anything. I tried learning rails twice, and neither time did it really click with me. Then I tried learning django and it was a much better experience. I think it's just a matter of going with what works for you. As long as there's an ecosystem around the framework / toolkit, it doesn't matter what you're using.
Ha ha! The leak that blows the sockpuppets/trolls wide open! We knew this day would arrive, and it finally did.

But the bigger question: why didn't dailykos.com link to the Aaron Barr email in question? I ask for two reasons. First, it seems kind of Mainstream Media of them to not link to it. Trying to keep us on your site, Kos, or is this one of those "sensitive" things that must be kept out of the common man's hands, a gatekeeper function that newspapers used to exercize? Second, I want to find out more about the Persona Management Software. It seems like an opportunity for an open source project.
Look at his example A, he's describing an accusation of distributing child pornography to justify removing domains from the internet.
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A google search on 'ipad quadriplegic' turns up a bunch of posts on people using a mouth-borne stylus ("mouthstick") to interact with a normal touchscreen --- a similar idea, but the electronics stay dry. The obvious problem either way, at least for the Apple devices, is that you'd need alternatives to multitouch for some functions.
Tech is multiplying faster than the rest of the economy can deploy it. With so many options, committing to a particular framework infrastructure means opportunity costs appear to rise unusually sharply. It reminds me a bit of the MSX & Commodore computer period in the 80s, not long before the PC moved down from the business market to the consumer one.

Remember that post a month or so back about how there were too many different Android phones, and iPhone was so much nicer - there's a new one every June or July, so you don't have to worry about your shiny new Android phone feeling old hat after only 3 weeks. I don't feel that way, but I could see where he was coming from. Same thing with Facebook; the secret of its popularity is that it's fairly simple and consistent, which was also one of AOL's key selling points. Most people don't want to reconstruct their internet/computer experience on a regular basis, as demonstrated by the histrionics when many popular sites decide it's time to clean up their layout or switch to a new logo. Google's approach to this is to just be in permanent beta which I like very much, but sometimes I get frustrated at the way things seem to evolve (or slow down) on 20 different schedules.

I have felt for a year that we are approaching one of the periodic phase transitions that result in a whole new wave of growth, and that the leadup to such periods is characterized by great energy and inventiveness, but also a lack of focus and rising overhead. My gut says what's needed to progress will leverage semantic web technology, but that we're another year away from achieving the required information density which would allow it to be useful. Also, it's going to be quite C/GPU intensive, and take advantage of the fact that many modern processors are underused.
This is brilliant! Now he can offer a vertically integrated night out.

All he needs now is a motel next door or a cab service.
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The Chinese government has the "50 cent army" which is a 300,000 strong persona ops set. Many are Chinese students in the US who are required to post pro-China posts while in school and pretend to be a random western sympathizer. This is the largest and most organized, but there are tons of these and you see them on all the major boards. Can identify them when there is something really indefensible and they are in defending it with statements like "Well, as far as I know, none of the Wall Street companies broke any laws. So if you are concerned, maybe you should blame the government for deregulating." Their accounts are full of certain themes that enable you to identify them.

At first I typed up here techniques on how to recognize them but on second thought I don't want to give them ideas on how to correct.

Of interest to me right now is whether this propaganda war can be widely unveiled. It's hard since there are likely thousands of different PR ops posting stuff so there's no single pattern, and it's subtle to distinguish between this and zealous and sincere advocates of things. It would also be pretty easy to dismiss zealous advocates as PR ops as an attack strategy against advocates. Maybe that will eventually mean sincere advocates will end up having to blog more with their real name and photo to be taken seriously.
Why are so many people angry about this? Lots of our country's wealth and jobs comes from companies started recently (e.g. Apple, Google). And we have to develop alternative energy sources to break our dependence on oil (which is coming to an end sooner than the foreign oil cartel will let on).

Not only that, but if we can end America's retarded policy of running around in the deserts of the middle east -- a policy largely fueled by oil money -- we can shave a lot of the ridiculous $800 billion/year defense budget ... which is higher than THE NEXT 15 COUNTRIES COMBINED (yes and that includes China and Russia).

I think that is worth the government investing a few billion dollars into startups to help spur innovation. If anything it's a great image booster for entrepreneurism in America.

The president has long talked about his focus on America out-innovating the rest of the world. Now he is putting $ where his mouth is.

And if I heard right, they will be cutting capital gains taxes for startups to 0. I can't imagine that those of you who are running a startup are upset about that. It's a nice move, why tax startups so much in the beginning for actually growing and making money -- taking less now will make them bigger later, create more jobs, and create more taxable income later.

As for the government picking the winners ... well, first of all they are MATCHING the VCs and working with the TechStars network, secondly you don't HAVE to take government money. They are just spurring innovation.

All in all I think this is a good approach.
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This is not about my mom, who is in fact a pretty plucky lady when it comes to technology, and I don't think it's confirmation bias. I'm speaking from my experience supporting lots of people who fit the general archetype of the Mom who had never used Macs at a job before.

In my experience, it takes more than two weeks before they stop missing the other way of doing things. The violation of their expectations bothers them to such a degree that it interrupts the part of their brain that would otherwise help them learn the system. They might learn eventually, but they will have to be dragged there kicking and screaming.
Somehow the left considers the Internet their backyard, and are extremely surprised and offended when opponents dare to play with "their" toys.
So, this is about the word “so.”
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Of course, it should be "... shall not put."
What type of entity should I form?
No browser in the market are smart and there's not doubt about it. Browsers don't grow with the users, they don't remember well, cannot spit the information back on demand. Until and unless browser reacts or come close to reacting like a human brain, they cannot claim to be smart or modern.
> Huge loopholes mean that the effective US corporate is the fourth lowest rate in the OECD (though the official tax rate is the second highest in the OECD).

Many corps actually do pay the official rate.

Advocates of higher taxes and higher US govt spending point to western european countries and say "look at all the great services they get from govt".

The problem with that argument is that the US govt currently collects about the same amount of money per capita as those countries. (It collects more than Canada.) In other words, the US govt already has the revenue to provide those services. Since it doesn't .....

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=4626
But don't you think we're seeing those in commodities and many stocks, including but not limited to tech stocks? You wouldn't see it in real estate, because popped bubbles don't reinflate. Whenever I see a company like Cisco drop huge %'s overnight not on a loss, but on "somewhat worse than expected" revenue, my alarm bells start going off.
You probably aren't the only one thinking it, but it isn't true. Sentence-ending prepositions of this form are quite common throughout the English-speaking world.
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The older and more educated the Brit, the more likely that is. I would sometimes say that, but the majority of Britons today would say "wot car are we drivin', eh lads?", or ask in Urdu.
It doesn't have to be corrupt to be a bad idea. Why should taxpayers underwrite the risk of the founders of your startup?
AFAICT, his only attack against FF4 being a modern browser is that FF4 doesn't do process isolation on tabs, which I would argue is unnecessary.

FF4 has process isolation for plugins, which is super important. Process isolation for tabs protects against runaway Javascript, but you don't need process isolation to do that since the javascript engine is part of Firefox.
I will sometimes compose an email, then while editing realize I've started most of the paragraphs with "so".

And if you weren't already aware of this tic, you may become hypersensitive to it for a while. :-)
They do on your website.
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Regarding "not a credit bubble," where do you think the money to push up these asset prices came from? Cheap money and low rates = financial institutions desperate for yield = pour money into high yield "hot" sectors.

The people purchasing FB and Groupon shares are only a few steps away from the Federal Reserve money fountain. This leads me to believe the bubble (or whatever we want to call it) is credit driven
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Apps have a while to come into compliance with the new rules or be kicked off.
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When you borrow money, you create a bond, right? So you have the money you borrowed (the principle) that you spend into the economy, and yet there's also this new bond out there. That bond is an asset. That bond is an increase in the money supply.

Borrowing money is the mechanism by which the currency is inflated.
Process isolation on tabs, when combined with a solid sandbox, also prevents a browser exploit in one tab from compromising others.
> "The money must come from taxes or inflation," that's not how gov economics work. You borrow that money, hence you only pay the interest (until you can't).

Not so fast. Borrowed money is money that is unavailable for other purposes. That happens immediately.

It's not like the borrowed money was under a mattress.

The payback is from taxes or inflation, and the latter works only if the inflation is a surprise to the lender. Expected inflation is factored into the interest rate.
If a person's novel is adapted into a film that does not mean that every subsequent thing they say can be sensibly attributed to "the film industry". What on earth is your stake in this bizarre interpretation?
Actually, before you go putting others down, you should read about how this stuff works. It's highly dependent on what the market ends up being defined as. If you're talking smartphones, Apple certainly has more than 4%. MP3 players, again more than 4%. Tablets, again more than 4%.

And if you don't like the app store, Apple prevents you from selling it to customers through other means. So you can't exactly go somewhere else. Customers also just can't pick up and move to Android because of all the money they've spent on apps and content on an iPad.

Also, there's plenty of points that have been made as to why Zach's comment isn't necessarily "spot on" across the many times it has been posted. Many of them haven't really been addressed.
Anyone living in the ghetto currently also has a choice.
Take the Red pill, dude.

All joking aside, I think the long-term implications are closer to the computer on Star Trek than to the Matrix or Skynet. Better natural language understanding and information retrieval should make it easier to ask a computer to find information for us and do tasks for us. I don't think any of this has much to do with the computer become self-aware and deciding that it should take control of mankind's future...
This would be Alex's third time at GSoC after MultiDB support and support for non-relational databases, but hugely successful.

Plus Google decides GSoC students on a per project basis and the project's core developers get the pick the students; and Alex, already is a core developer.
Can you expand on your comment to explain how it makes any sense?
I'm thinking there's a logo somewhere.
The term "founder" has really no significance in an ongoing operation, other than the fact that it might make a few geeks happy and a few employees unhappy.

Scaling your business usually requires that you bring in more people and inevitably more experienced people in leadership roles. Those hires will need to be motivated through a combination of opportunity (equity, bonus, career advancement), compensation (base salary, benefits, perks) and environment (responsibility, prestige, office culture). You will end up giving some equity to them for that reasons (and only that reason - the fact that they were there on "founding day" is truly irrelevant). How much you give depends on the person, role and state of your company. If the role is important enough and your current status early enough then they might very well end up with half of the equity. Or more. Or less.

So go and hire the right person. The rest will shake itself out when you negotiate compensation...
Money is exchanged for the rite of ceremonial burial. Most people don't just stick their mum into the ground - it's just not "proper". Social factors require a ritual market in most societies.
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That is absolutely fantastic. Much better than the ol' star wars thing. I never thought I'd see floppy drives harmonising.
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Groupon has a $15 billion valuation and it is actually harmful to smaller businesses that use its service.
No, the writers at the WSJ are the producers of the original content. At some level, every producer is an aggregator. I don't think it's fair to categorically distinguish between the two, although you may disagree on the value of the aggregation.
Music coming out of an electric arc (no moving membrane).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeWtBAE5LY
Exactly. That means that an app that wants to offer a "rental" can continue to do so via an in-app link to another purchase process, and does not need to offer the same service (for the same price) in a way that Apple can get 30%.

The value proposition is pretty similar. Let's be honest. The chance that a kindle book is going to still work in 100 years is vanishingly slim. Might be unworkable marketing-wise, though.
I am currently using Django Nonrel with mongodb with very good success for some client work. It's actually deployed to AWS not App Engine, but the code between the two is virtually identical. AWS was chosen for video processing requiremets. The tools and short cuts django provides like the automatically generated admin have made the project viable. I haven't seen the db-indexer project before, but looking forward to checking it out.
Do any software development people here work from really remote locations?
I was just reading about of the most remote spots on the planet that is inhabited, Pitcairn island in the south pacific, only has 50 people living on the whole island.

Personally I have always envisioned living somewhere remote, like this, on a small island, up the mountains or in a lighthouse - well away from other people, ideally somewhere with a moat & drawbridge.....well maybe the drawbridge is a bit far...but I want the moat! :-)

I'm a software engineer (Ruby) so in theory at least as long as I have a reliable internet connection I should be able to work from almost anywhere.

Just wondering if there is anyone here who lives / works from such a remote location & what their experience has been like?
I've seen less than ten companies mentioned in this whole thread with large valuations like that. That doesn't seem bubbly to me.
I feel like Edward Tufte would have a seizure at the way this article juxtaposes two wildly unrelated charts.
He's saying that women are more likely to be trolled by someone using a sensitive topic (their gender) as a bludgeon.

Its the difference between someone saying "You're an idiot", and "You're an idiot because you're a woman".
That's not really relevant to the issue at hand, though. Bringing up Microsoft's misbehavior with IE 6 in this context is like bringing up the time a kid cut in front of you for lunch in third grade when you meet him in college.
Nah. The cold war involved a lot of saber rattling and political posturing. This is more like sporadic exchanges of small arms fire across the border.
That was the traditional rule, but in modern English, "whom" is a particularly marked usage anywhere except as the immediate object of a pronoun. "With whom am I speaking?" sounds formal but fine; "Who am I speaking with?" (or "...to?") is also fine. The form given in the title here is at best overly formal and stilted. What makes it weird is that it mixes the formal not-after-a-preposition "whom" with a sentence-ending "with", mixing register in a very confusing way.

It's like wearing a bow tie and tails with loud bermuda shorts: both are perfectly acceptable public attire and you might see either on a busy urban street of an evening, but it's jarring to see them together.