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Yes. My company (RJMetrics) sells BI and dashboard software to web businesses. Our biggest competitor by far is internal development.
I don't run the programme and am not particularly trying to "reach" you. Just think it is of interest to the HN community and worth an upvote and brief comment.

I don't receive equity and don't have anything to do with the investors in the programme. I do expect to make contacts with interesting people who have an entrepreneurial bent - generally, people I meet like this help me learn things my team and I can use, and sometimes they help me find people I can hire. Those are two of my main missions as CTO of youDevise.

Springboard don't pay me. I'm not aware they're advertising using my name, but if they were I'd ask them to include my company's name too, which would help us to get better known and (I hope) attract more smart people to apply for jobs with us.

Edit: They _are_ advertising with my name! http://springboard.com/douglas-squirrel/ The bio's a bit tired but it does mention my company, which is good enough for me.
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That's correct. Watson only learns from correct answers after a question has been completed. This is mentioned specifically int he Nova documentary.
I've seen elsewhere it was suggested that whereas humans will want to get used to the question style of each category and learn from each one as they progress to harder answers, Watson has no such issues with jumping straight for high-value questions in all categories.
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The flip side of course is that these apps make the iPhone/iPad more appealing to more people. I can see Apple shooting themselves in the foot with their predatory practices against app publishers. Losing a big chunk of your margin while developing apps for free for Apple's products is only going to be sustainable for so long. And more likely then not, it will drive away the big players first where each percent means more.
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Ironically, it's copy constructors which show up to break exception safety horribly if you're trying to be ultra-safe - cf. no stack<T>::pop() that returns the value popped. What C++ adds with one hand, it takes away with two more hands that popped up out of nowhere like mutant growths.
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Hmmm....and if my app gets someone to buy your iPad, what do I get?
The flexible economy has been a threat to skill-building in many areas.

The energy industry, for instance, is facing a shortage of skilled welders. It takes ten years of experience welding full-time to become the kind of welder who can be depended on to weld natural gas pipeline segments or the primary loop of a nuclear reactor.

These days, careers are so unstable that in ten years, somebody might get shoved through job training 2 or 3 different times, never get good at anything, and then we find that in our quest for short-term gain and the delusion of compound interest, we don't have people with the skills we need to keep our economy going.
I understand Apple taking 30% from the initial app sale, but not from the subscription. Apple is only acting as the credit card processor in this case. They don't host or deliver the in-app/subscription content you buy, so you are taking this hit as well after the 30%. What if Mastercard/Visa charged you 30% to process cards?
Sure, but no matter how you slice it, you need to put 10,000 hours in to become an expert in something. That's a lot.
Amazon with their current pricing structure with ebooks can NOT, because on anything priced from 2.99 to 9.99 their own cut is only 30% of the sale price.
With news/magazines, at least, yes, they will. They're already handing over more than 30% of their subscribe revenue to the folks who print and deliver their stuff.
From my impressions of how he conducts himself, Linus is usually yelling with no reasoning what so ever.
I have to agree. I like STL + Boost a lot.
I hope to try glib + C sometime. From what I see, that might allow me to C and still meet standard application needs.
This opinion article is poorly written. It's a bunch of assertion with no empirical evidence to back it up.

So the market for books and inventions is unraveling, how? Who are these law professors and experts that says these things? What are their arguments?

Ignoring evidence? Put the data into numbers we can understand. Is there any case study of a country with no IP laws? What does history tell us?
Nonsense. User-led innovation can create breakthroughs, just read Democratizing Innovation.
Food, water, shelter, medical care. These are fundamental human requirements. The internet is not. Sorry, but it's just not.
Agreed. The most interesting bit of information from the thread is the structure of the Wave team and how the incentives may have contributed to the quality (or lack thereof) of the shipped product. Kind of like incentives on Wall Street rewarding risky behaviour.
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I wonder if the Watson developers did this because they were unable to simulate the benefit human players get by graduating through progressively difficult questions in a category.
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Hopefully Google will add import/export capabilities so it's easier to share lists like these.
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donohoe, I am sorry but I had to laugh. It's not just "being there" - you had to pay to build the app, sure, but do you know how much Apple had to invest for creating the platform on which your app could be built? And implementing app store, and running app store, etc. etc...

But yes, 30% feels a bit high for repeated payments with no added discovery by Apple, i agree with you on this one.
No, I don't think this is a valid reason - in fact, I think it's a prejudice which disguises an ignorance of why languages with productive IDEs are so good.

An IDE with code completion means you can get more done without having to waste time studying API docs; in fact, the IDE's editor can itself become the most efficient doc lookup tool. This gives you more time and attention space to point at your problem domain, rather than mere incidental details.

Object orientation with static typing is a big contributor to this, because you start out with what you want to act on - the noun, which is usually a local variable or field - and get completion on the actions available on that noun. The contrast with functional and procedural styles is stark: there, you need to know the symbolic name of what you want to do to something you already have in hand, but editor completion is almost powerless to help you, because of the order of tokens in the syntax.
So arrogant - "We get you subscribers"!

How did they do that? They didn't create the ad, they didn't put it in the app, they did diddly-squat in fact. You (the app developer) did the work, take the risk, and now cannot even get paid properly - you have to essentially make iPhone your sole outlet, or charge 30% premium everywhere else.
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related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219294

I don't see this meme lasting more than, oh, the next 15 minutes?
This was in today's "Now I Know" newsletter (http://dlewis.net/nik/) which is run by Dan Lewis who is on HN. Highly recommend it for great finds like this.
Cletus since you work at Google, can you share what the feeling was internally about Wave? Were people excited and sure of its success or was there some doubt?
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Looks like this isn't too clear. An IBM spokesperson said he can't hear what other players are saying at all and only takes input from the question board. (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/02/ibms-wats...)

Regardless, Watson only selectively takes input, if it does at all.
That will all depend on what competition emerges.
Thanks for your feedback @markszcz

This app does quite a few things that Facebook's friend suggestion doesn't - such as cross network introductions and creation of a private discussion page for you and the introducees. However I agree that the home page doesn't communicate what the service does clearly enough.
On major platforms. But on embedded etc its hard to use any library - there are unintended dependencies.

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The longer the question the longer Watson has to generate an answer. Isn't that an important advantage?
Good move by both companies.

In South Korea, Naver dominated the search market with a combination of algorithmic search and Q&A. Back in 2006 when I was doing web strategy at Microsoft we proposed a similar plan ... instead they killed the Q&A product. Oh well. Still, the idea's a sound one, so it's great to see it moving forward.
"They created the iPad, they created the App Store. Where was the NYT et al when the canvas was blank?"

Isn't that similar to saying Google can ask for a cut for all web subscriptions made in Chrome? Apple created the iPad, true. But it's not that I have not paid for the device.
You got lucky. I went before a traffic judge with photos and printouts of the relevant statues with the critical phrases highlighted, and he told me right to my face that it didn't matter, he was upholding my fine.
Given the subtitle "Just ask Apple and Ikea", I was hoping for some examples where they tried user innovation and it failed. But the only supportive examples in this "article" are two people from the respective companies saying simply "It don't work."

Much of the rest of this diatribe seems to be based on the conflation of user-led innovation as focus-group and committee based design.
Why does everyone (even blogs that should know better) think that in-app purchases are the same as in-app subscription purchases?? The Kindle is brought up, but what does Amazon sell through the Kindle on subscription??
The first thing I noticed last night was Watson's strategy of sweeping the questions across instead of down like is normally played. My instinct tells me that humans get more context out of the category name and feel comfortable sticking to one category at a time.
I think you are sort of missing the point here. The idea is that when you are the 3rd of 4th person down the line of "do it like $THIS, it's the best way", the $THIS has usually morphed. Most of the time that morphing is going from a generalized, loose rule to a strict procedure. But it can also take the form of dogma (goto is always bad, vs the original goto is bad except those few cases where it is the RightThing). Sometimes it is good to challenge the status quo for just that reason, the original good ideas may be lost in the noise, or the initial assumptions may have become invalid. So the point is that beginners don't know that this stuff is "always good" or "always bad", allowing them to look at it from a fresh perspective. This often allows for breakthroughs.

As for the worry thing, I submit to you this:

1. The Beginner is an ideal beginner. As such, this Beginner is expected to make mistakes, as it is part of the learning process. (S)He is expected to struggle while grasping the difficult concepts -- they are difficult. (S)He is expected to wander down "wrong" paths, as exploration is part of the road to mastery.

2. Worry almost always comes down to some underlying fear. Usually a fear of something being taken away, be it a job or a possession or something else tangible, or something less tangible like a reputation or a status, perhaps this is tied to one's personal estimation of self worth.

3. An expert has to fear his expert status, or at least his respect as such, being taken away. This is the worry aboyt mistakes that the article was talking about, an expert who makes mistakes is not long for being expert.

Given these, I am of two minds on this thing you said. First, perhaps the beginner worry comes from not understanding the role of beginner, that mistakes are expected and should probably be encouraged. Second, perhaps the beginner on one thing is an expert in a related thing, and thus is worried about losing status all along. For instance, if a child is the expert at school, he worries about losing his wunderkind status, even when facing his first maths class. If a programmer is really good with Java and and has a rep for being fast a picking up new languages, but has only faced down basic OO stuff, perhaps Haskell would cause a big worry in him?
No wonder you find C++ pleasurable, you are using it as C with classes!

I also find C++ pleasurable (90% of the time) and in my code, I make heavy use of templates (including compile-time calculation/preparation of data, ie not only simple "templates as generics"), exceptions (well, not heavy use, I use them for handling exceptional circumstances, nothing more), STL (especially the containers), std::string (C strings and custom string classes are evil), Boost (not so much, but it has some great libraries), Qt (GUI mainly, but also the support libraries) and Intel Threading Building Blocks. I do not use multiple inheritance, but I certainly use classes and single inheritance, pointers, smart pointers and memory pools.

But I still like C++.

I agree that it has its problems and it certainly isn't a good language for beginners [1], but it is a very flexible and powerful language that is useful for a range of tasks from low-level to high-level code (though I guess it excells at mid-level: higher level that C, but low level enough for performance sensitive code, eg games). I certainly wouldn't recommend it for a lot of tasks, but I wouldn't avoid it either.

I'm not a big fan of the FQA, but the FAQ Lite is very good: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/index.html also, Bjarne Stroustrups FAQ is excellent: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html

[1] Even experts got this quiz wrong: https://scapecode.com/2009/10/a-simple-c-quiz/
I too am inspired by all the possibilities this implies for human-computer interaction. I picture a portable device that records events from your surroundings and provides personalized reasoning similar to this. It could remind you of people's names, it would know all the details of your personal finances and could provide budget and stock tips, remind you of events if you have a pattern of forgetting to plan ahead, etc. Aside from the fact that Watson fills up a whole room and its knowledge is tailored to Jeopardy, it really doesn't seem that far off combined with a few other technologies like machine vision and translation that are already out there.
And also to steal the humans their chance for a late comeback in the game.
Is it just my reading of it, or does this just seem to be a flat revenue grab and attempt to integrate everything into an iTunes account? The press release is definitely targeted at the word subscriptions, so from my reading of it, individual purchases like Kindle books are safe from this requirement.

However, I wonder about Netflix, Hulu, et. al, and what this will mean for their apps, especially since they seem to be basically required by Apple to include a subscription model that uses an iTunes account, and they can't charge extra to make up for their profit loss due to Apple's absolutely ridiculous 30% charge for payment processing. Seriously, all they're really doing for those apps is requiring that they add iTunes as a payment processor, add a little bit of app to handle that, and then hand over 30% of their revenue? Which basically means that the publishers will make nothing on iTunes-only subscribers. How is this a good move for their platform at the 30% charge? Do any other payment processors take 30%?
"Get 37signals style customer support for $3k/month" is a pretty compelling pitch. This type of service seems like the perfect fit for a growing startup. The founders and early hires can focus on building product value and don't need to get too bogged down in setting up quality support systems that ensure customers are taken care of and retained. If you get too big for CoSupport they have a training option that could help you move the support in house.
This was always a winning strategy. Be quick on the buzzer and use the time you have to come up with an answer. It's the way Ken Jennings kept winning.
> He hops from category to category, while most humans pick a category and stick with it.

Ken Jennings himself did that for the express reason of throwing off his opponents. As the category selector he would have an extra couple seconds to start thinking in that direction. Totally fair game for Watson to do too.

I agree that Watson started with a higher value clue in order to look for the Daily Double. Statistically the fourth row has the highest concentration of them. DDs are valuable not just because of the opportunity to double up or bet more than the clue's actual value, but also because you get exclusive access to the question without buzzer competition.

As for Watson's early lead, that happened because the clues chosen early happened to be the types of questions it could answer quickly and reliably. Computers are great at stuff like 4-letter words and searching Beatles song lyrics. Computers are less great at clues where the hint drives the answer, like the one about "don't name Voldemort" or the "Final" category where the hint is in the category name. It just so happened that those harder clues for Watson came after the easier clues.
I assume that when you block a site, Google are sent the search term as well as the site you blocked.

Assuming that this is the case, it isn't very helpful to search for 'mahalo.com' and then block mahalo.com. What do you think should rank higher than mahalo.com for the term mahalo.com?

A better approach would be to install the extension and continue as normal, and then next time you search for "convert int to string" [0] and eFreedom appears above stackoverflow, you block that. That way you can enjoy the benefits and create valuable data, instead of just doing something you might as well have used a Greasemonkey script for.

[0] Only joking!
What we're seeing is the result of Sarah busting out her business with minimal overhead. Virb + Wufoo + Tumblr = She got started on almost nothing (at least as far as her web presence). She's setting a fantastic example and following the "Get something up and iterate" advice pretty well, IMO.
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It's pretty easy to measure some form of unemployment by the number of people receiving unemployment benefits. Does anyone have any idea how they estimate the number of people sidelined like in the article that have simply dropped out of the workforce and stopped looking for jobs because it's so bad?
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I think you should've been doing this on Sunday...
I don't get it - one of these posts was at the top of the front page the other week. What's the big deal about reproducing a bit of Java functionality in a few lines of JavaScript?
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What is an instrusive stack?
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Very useful, thanks! A nice addition would be random option like http://httpstat.us/random or even http://httpstat.us/?random=200+404.
Maybe it is less helpful for Google if you block it through the explicit search-term for the domain, but it's more useful to do it this way for the end-user; at least for me.
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If this machine is already so good, why doesn't IBM offer a system based on it? (honest question, not suggesting it's not good) It could decimate library research work, or legal research, by providing high-quality suggestions for simple phrases.
FWIW, I agree that it's not a black & white issue, and I don't have an immediate suggestion for a replacement language that would be better than Objective-C in every aspect.
> much is the usual personal preference stuff about braces and capitalization.

There's nothing wrong with that; having that stuff in your style guide means that you get more consistent code, which is easier for everyone to read whatever their personal preferences.

(General point: Having a rule that says "Everyone must do X rather than Y" doesn't mean claiming, or thinking, that X is better than Y. There's not much to choose between driving on the left side of the road and driving on the right, but it sure is valuable to choose one or the other and stick with it.)
You get heavy promotion. Look at how Angry Birds and all the other games did by being featured on "New and Noteworthy" or "Staff Picks" or "Top Grossing Apps". It's a two-way street; don't make it sound like Apple is taking advantage of your efforts.
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An enormous and unwarranted sense of entitlement.

Edit: Man goes to store to buy cereal. Buys milk, too. Cereal company asks store owner "But what do we get?"
Books not necessarily, but the Kindle platform does offer subscription services for Magazines, Newspapers, blogs, etc. Under Apple's current wording, it appears that Amazon would be required to add an in-app option to subscribe to those offerings and would be required to fork over 30% of all subscription revenue if a user chose to use the Kindle app to subscribe instead of using a different Kindle platform option.
The way I read it, this would only concern Amazon with the Kindle app if it had newspaper/magazine subscriptions in Kindle for iOS. Currently it doesn't, so I don't think it's a problem. That said, IANAL...
I ran an online retail company for seven years. In no particular order, these are the things that hurt us and killed our competitors:

1. Drop-shipping product is a cheap way to add lots of vendors with very little overhead, but the margins are slim, and customer service issues tend to take much more time and energy because you're dealing with a third party.

2. Good customer service people are worth their weight in gold. By 'good', I don't just mean people who are cheery with the customers - I mean that they know when to bend over backwards for a customer, and when the customer is simply a lost cause.

3. Thanks to Amazon, no one wants to pay for shipping. We experimented with every possible variation, from passing true shipping costs along to absorbing a percentage, to free shipping. We eventually settled on free shipping for orders over a certain price point. Shipping costs almost never correspond with a customer's perception of value for the shipped product. Bottom line, be sure that you're really charging enough for shipping to stay in business.

4. The simpler the checkout process, the more sales you'll have. Our conversions jumped 30% when we switched to a one-page checkout form.

5. Recurring sales are the foundation of your business. Build your list, and send (at least) monthly emails.
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Is this simply a move to sow seeds of confusion or point to something more fundamentally wrong with java.net?

I visited java.net recently to find out more about the Java Advanced Imaging project (which I discovered has some issues) but after seeing page after page of locked projects it will be a long time before I return, if ever.
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