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You should look at the H1B numbers. Close go 120000 people apply for it and uscis selects 65000 people by lottery. E eery single person who makes it through has at least a degree in the areas they work on. These people leave their homes and friends and everything they know back home in hopes of making a better living. Does that ring a bell from history? However the h1b visa restricts them to one company and the same job till they get a green card which may arrive after 8 years. Once they get a green card many folks start companies of some sort.

Folks who don't get h1b or green cards often apply for Australia, U.K or Canada. Recent additions to the list are Germany, Scandinavian countries(petroleum), Dubai, Singapore, brazil. Many of these countries offer a comparable standard of living, and government incentives for immigration and establishment of businesses. Also some cities in india and china are fast becoming vc magnets. There may be a day soon when venture capital too gets Bangalored.
Does anyone know if this is different than using powered USB hubs? I imagine attaching an "unpowered" USB hub (no power cord), and then attaching a powered USB hub to that, and then another powered USB hub to that one (...to infinite and beyond). Same thing, no?
I don't know. There are many examples of good digital audio workstation applications. Some of them (I'm thinking Cubase) even contain a music notation subsystem. I think the market for an affordable music notation application with a refreshingly usable interface (for the iPad or otherwise) would be sufficient.
When can we silence TechCrunch?
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I'm not so sure about that (the initial comment)... there are a lot of musicians out there. Even a casual composer like myself (who only composes every couple weeks when I feel like it) owns a copy of Finale. And almost all of my music-oriented friends do too. Definitely a smaller market than, say, Quicken, but I bet it's still pretty big.
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Well, I think a lot of the problems comes from stereotypes. Trying to fit into one of them is not authentic at all, and abusing them like this should be considered harmful.
I'd be more willing to believe that TC is trying to hedge criticism of their non-existent editing and their over-inflated self importance.

TC confuses criticism with trolls.
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good call.. I'll look into that
Frid.ge is trying to do something along these lines.
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Judging what people do with their last hours .. not so cool :(
Its their life (and death) and the least we can do is to not judge their final decisions. Just my two cents. No disrespect to anyone
I'm confused by your usage of "it's OK". I suppose that if something shows a lack of respect for your friend, that thing is "not OK" by definition.
How about pooling together cash and hiring a freelancer to do #2 as another option.

Just out of curiousity, how big is your 'group' and what's the role assignment like? Who's going to be doing what? The reason I ask this is because it sounds like there might be too many 'non techies' involved in the project. Is everyone going to learn to code?

From my short experience in teaching myself to code in python, there is an entire sys admin side to the equation that is often left out of conversations but is really important as well. So I think that's something you need to factor into your to-do list as well. If you're going to be learning Django, you kinda need to know Python. Otherwise the terms will just fly over your head pretty quickly and you'll be making really obvious mistakes (like not putting a comma at the end of a tuple). So having kind of walked this path already, I recommend doing a 101 on Python to begin with (its not that hard to get the basics down). You might find my blogpost on this useful: http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/how-i-am-le...

If you do not want to bother yourself too much with sys admin, you probably want to consider hosting your mvp on Google App Engine (GAE) to begin with. But having said that, I don't think there have been many startups who have gone down this route in the mid-long term. The general consensus from what I have read seems to be to use GAE to host weekend projects and then migrate away once you decide to take your project more seriously.
This shouldn't surprise anybody who has lived in a small town -- when you are in a fish bowl, you manage how you present yourself differently than when you are in a big urban anonymous situation. I choose not to live in small towns, and I choose not have a facebook persona, precisely because I don't want to have to worry this crap. (I think Facebook has already lost its mojo because of these issues, but that is another story.)

Regarding "authenticity": please, give me a break about the "real you". The part inside you that wants to rip off your clothes and tell dirty jokes is no more "real" than the part, also inside you, that maintains your social persona. Without sociality -- and the maintenance of personas and ethics -- you don't exist, period. Even the idea of "authenticity" is given to us, a (rather lame) invention of the 19th Century Romantics, Freud, and the 1960s.

(Edit: Some of the existenstialists would even go so far as to say there is no "real you", and that the anxiety created by this lack of anchoring is one of the most important aspects of the human condition.)
But the other interesting thing we’re seeing is that whereas trollish garbage used to infest the comment section, now we’re seeing almost the opposite. Many people are now leaving comments that gush about the subject of the article in an overly sycophantic way.

I've never been a TechCrunch poster, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but: duh! All they've done is amplify the negative consequences of unpopular posts a thousandfold, because the stigma will attach to your real-life identity instead of an easily abandoned online identity. The mechanism they chose deters people from posting comments that might engender personal hostility. That isn't selective at all! Everyone feels shame when they say something wrong online and a little twinge of pain when someone attacks them; that's only human. Trolls just feel less than others. Crank up the pain to get rid of the trolls, and you'll get rid of a lot of other people, too.

Compulsively positive people, of course, are safe anywhere because they don't trigger anyone to viciously lash out in defense of their favorite technology or company, and they feel even more welcome than they are because they're blind to any subtle negativity that is directed their way.

There's another breed of posters who will stay, too -- professionals in whatever is being discussed. They're used to standing behind their opinions, but more importantly, they actually benefit from the positive impression they make, because it bolsters their professional reputation. Sure, you won't lose those guys, but why would you be surprised at losing other positive contributors? I'm only a professional at programming, so the consequence of connecting my personal identity with my words about anything else at all is pure downside.

Let's not turn every corner of the internet back into real life. Every time you open your mouth with a critical opinion, you run the risk of personal negative blowback. In real life, people spend their "negativity" budget carefully. I use mine up in person on personal issues and work issues. I have no desire to blow any of it online. The nice thing about the internet is you can shut down your defenses and relax. We're playing with Monopoly money here, and even so it still hurts a little! I've built up decent karma here and at other semi-anonymous sites with my only incentives being my self-respect and the meaningless little number next to my id. The anonymity that is allowed here doesn't liberate me from my morals and my pride; it just liberates me from the constant oppressive calculation of honesty versus risk.

When I comment anonymously, I get a chance to clarify my ideas, express myself, and receive feedback. (Sometimes I do this by expressing opinions I'm not sure I personally hold, and which I am not ready to personally endorse -- does that make me a troll?) Connecting my personal identity just adds personal risk and forces me to turn on all of my social defenses. Ugh, that's tiring and paralyzing, and it isn't conducive to clear thinking. It makes me feel tired just thinking about it. No thanks!
I probably should have explained it. The newer logo is a little darker, more pronounced bevel, and darker/less spread out shadow.
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Metering your social interaction based on the audience is just a fact of life. It's not inherently good or bad.

Based on reading The Facebook Effect, I think that Facebook's change-the-world vision is to get rid of exactly this. It's part of what they mean when they say the world would be a better place if it were more open.
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I take it that your images are rather static. If so, you should be adding caching headers which will cache them for free in Google's front end servers.
You can use a yahoo account as well which is essentially anonymous.
$449! Are they allowed to change prices at will just like that?
You can use a yahoo account as well. Did anyone in this thread try it?
Text/Language search in general is much more useful in the GUI now than it ever was. For instance, I use spotlight for everything - I hardly ever dive into folders looking for something.
When enough sites start using Facebook Comments all the trolls will just make fake facebook accounts.
Absolutely agreed. Buzz is used internally in exactly that way. And is very popular. But the lesson taken from that was, "We have a potentially great product here!" and not "We have a great product to use inside of corporations here!"

Your launch strategy would have worked much better.
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HN users aren't by definition anonymous as long as they value their HN identity (I'd say most do). Their "real life" identity might not be known but as long as they value their HN persona, they will try to remain respectable and responsible as their reputation is at stake. This is very different from the situation at TC where no one has a permanent identity.
Facebook is enforcing that there is only one authentic you.
Yes, it is the case. If you have established skills, a lot of places will hire you in a heartbeat.

Note, though, that that if is a big if. It is always difficult to get your foot in the door because everyone knows that it takes a lot of energy to get a new programmer up to speed on programming and your environment, and there is a high possibility of it not working out.
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Nice project. What language did you use? Python, Php, Ruby? and what framework? I'm just curious :)
I'm fairly new to HN in terms of commenting, but have been here for a while lurking. Your comment and blog post in particular was very helpful. I carry a very strong design background myself and the only development experience I have is front-end.

I'm also looking to start learning Python and Django so I'll be sure to give your learning process a try. Many thanks for this!
This reminds me uncomfortably about that crazy "internet ID" program Obama has been advocating.

Also, I'm not giving TechCrunch my Facebook login. I don't want them messing with my Facebook, and I really don't see any reason to trust them.
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Absolutely, and it is completely normal. The Japanese even have this concept explicitly ingrained in their language - 'Tatemae' (socially acceptable reality) and 'Honne' (informal, personal reality) [1]. This is essentially the difference between saying "I'm fine" or "Actually, my dog just died" to a random person or to your close friend.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A571565
I agree, Square has the best possible strategy -- they catch the laggard businesses who still don't have merchant accounts, individual people who have never had merchant accounts (i.e. everyone) and let them get away from PayPal, AND get a platform deployed which can handle NFC or some new payment/loyalty credential for early adopters on the merchant side.

On top of that, Keith Rabois is one of the top operating executives anywhere, and has extensive paypal experience.

NFC has been "the next thing" for years. I worked for an NFC reader company in ... 2003, which had been around for years. (ViVoTech). We don't even use chip and pin cards in the USA -- the magstripe is going to remain a major part of the market for the rest of the decade.
Based on your reasons, it sounds like while you found the job exciting and cool, you didn't like the culture.

So you went with your gut and made the call to reject the offer. For most people, that is a very acceptable reason to justify to your missing zeros on your paycheck. Right now you're perhaps wondering if you made the right decision -- afterall, Goldmans is creme de la creme no?

Like others have said, only you can answer that. Personally, I have a different take on this. I think early in your career (you sound like you're early in your career), it's all about an information land grab even if it means forgoing short term rewards (like a nice salary). The experiences you gain in the first 3 years of your career will have the most impact on the rest of your career and life. So, my question to you is: are you learning more at this company or do you think you would be learning more at Goldmans?
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<p>Imagine a freemium model like Pownce. Why has it not been tried again, instead of the approach to slap ads and get going.
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I was inspired and wrote a blog post expanding on the fear quote. Check it out, if you like. http://www.modernsutra.com/2011/03/a-month-of-shame-for-a-li...
It depends what sort of web company / product / service you intend to build. Regardless, if you have freelancers make parts of it, you should get your toes wet in programming so you can vet the deliverables etc.
Perhaps they should use Disquss for their actual startup articles, and for their troll friendly iPhone/Android/etc posts they can turn on the Facebook comments? Or better yet, stop posting the troll friendly articles...
What year are you in 1998?

I let my Yahoo account die over half a decade ago.

:)
Blame it on being a Fundamentalist if you wish, but you'd do better to just take responsibility for it.
Far be it from me to stand athwart your argument against realtors, but: how effective can they be at seizing control of the market via the MLS? Yes, you have to be a real estate agent to list there, but when I bought my house in '05, I had no trouble at all getting access to MLS listings.

The MLS --- which, I probably agree, is a shady system --- is not some secret parchment guarded by the Stonecutters. Pretty much anyone can get access to it.
I waited 11 years, if it makes you feel better. And yes, I do know the difference between then and now. And you know why it's worse now? Because the demand is much higher! So, despite the INS's dickitude and the so-called "broken" immigration policies, MORE people are wanting to come here.

The INS doesn't exist any more, and that's the least of the changes. It is not a simple issue of supply and demand, and while I don't want to minimize the headaches you went through 20 years ago, the legal landscape has changed considerably since then.
yeah, and they're normally pretty good about using it. My girlfriend bought a Macbook Pro and the next day they announced a deal where you get a free iPod touch. She went back to them and they refunded it and sold it to her again along with the iPod touch.
You effectively outsource spam and troll blocking to Facebook. They allow test profiles (I have around 4) - but they know who you really are.

Fake accounts get shut down very quickly, they have a mechanism that seems to detect those accounts very quickly.
Thanks! I hope you find it helpful and good luck with the learning!
perhaps when I get my cupcake fully assembled.

(I'm the guy who made the Lego case for iPhone 4, so I've got the dimensionally down.)
Did people think "sub prime mortgages" existed solely to inflate bank revenue numbers?

Yes. Read _All The Devils Are Here_ for an excellent exposition about how the subprime market was first invented as a vehicle to get private banks out from under the thumb of Fannie Mae, then turned into a vehicle for boiler room speculation, and then fed back to Fannie Mae. The interests of homeowners were not a primary feature of the development of the subprime market; in fact, one open secret of the phenomenon was how few of those loans actually went to first mortgages on owner-occupied sole residences.
Your assumption is wrong. Look at http://www.classmates.com/ for an example of a social product that tries to charge up front.

Social products depend on getting a critical mass of people. Unfortunately charging money anywhere along the process makes it difficult to acquire that critical mass.
"The question is not "are journals biased?" The question is, are more respected journals less likely to publish a falsehood?"

What you said originally was that if the author's evidence was sufficient then he would have been able to get in published in a better journal. But if you're admitting that journals are biased, then surely you must see that your original assertion doesn't always --or maybe even often-- hold. Maybe it's true, but I'm certainly not willing to accept it on faith.

"If the "better" journals have more accurate reviewers or more reviewers then yeah, they will publish fewer falsehoods."

Your definition of 'better' journals sounds like a tautology. How do you know that 'better' journals have better reviewers? Can you actually prove that having better reviewers is what makes 'better' journals better?

I'd certainly be willing to be persuaded by evidence, but right now I believe that the best journals are the ones with the best vetting process about as much as I believe the best vodka is the one that costs the most, the world's best author is the one with the most sales, etc.
Possibly. Depends where you are coming from and where you want to go to.
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> Sometimes I do this by expressing opinions I'm not sure I personally hold, and which I am not ready to personally endorse -- does that make me a troll?

No, a devils advocate.

There are many times that I will play devils advocate only to foster more interesting discussion and to get a viewpoint out there that may not be popular but necessary to get the full picture of something.
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The font size on the Login fields and several of the main pages were too small, it's just annoying to read for me, but I'm very picky about fonts/font rendering/font size.

I would suggest to just look around on the website for fonts that are the same size as those username/password fields and increase them by one or two, just be careful though because it might mess up the layout/sizing of things.

I like the blue-theme though, it's very minimalist. It kind of mimics Facebook though, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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I don't know what to call this. Part of me has an instant reaction that it's a terrible idea, but on reflection that's because I'm uncomfortable with it. So that's prejudice talking. If I look at it rationally, it seems like this just might work. It's kind of brilliant.

One suggestion: people who don't reach out to others are not going to buy this product for themselves. So, it should be giftable. Imagine if you have a friend who's kind of a sad sack or is going through a divorce or death in the family. You and N other friends record motivators. It's like signing a condolences card, only way better. Actually more personal.
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No offense and I don't know your background or association with Goldmans but this sounds like a kneejerk reaction to populist sentiment.

The existence of practices that goes on at Goldmans and every other IB is a symptom of a deeper underlying problem. You really have to question the foundations of a system that has enabled such institutions to come into play.
Interesting. I wonder if they did that and then bought it themselves a few times to juice it into the list.
Totally jacking this from a friend of mine on repost of facebook but:

Gotta cache them all!
If you look at a site like FriendsReunited (http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/) in the UK, they used to charge an annual subscription (around GBP 5 from memory) for you to contact people that you found on the site. And that was pretty much all the site did. Along came facebook and friendsreunited quickly suffered a decline in users - even after they abandoned their subscription model. The site is, for me, next to useless as there are so few active users on there. And so a spiral of decline begins. You need users - lots of them - to make a social site work.
To illustrate the decline in value of FriendsReunited, they went from a sale to ITV in 2005 for GBP 120 milion to a sale in 2009 for just GBP 25 million.
If this works for you, then more power to you. I ran my life with nothing more than an occasional daily todo list for years. The thing is though, once you get busier, once your startup is growing into the double-digit employees, once you start receiving 100+ significant emails a day, once you have a family, the stuff that has to get done starts to outstrip your mental capacity (at least it did for me). And then that's when the stress starts building.

I am not a fan of productivity porn. Ironically I think it's often just a way that people procrastinate from what really matters. But eventually I had to give in to the fact that however I used to cope wasn't working anymore. I recently picked up David Allen's Getting Things Done, and I'm applying it using OmniFocus. The thing I like about it is that it acknowledges the mental baggage that information workers carry around, and it provides a practical system to free your mind from remembering tons of tasks (something which we are not evolutionarily set up for). It's hard to overstate what this has done for my stress level and creativity. It's not about maintaining lists, it's about freeing up my RAM.
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