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It is worth noting that both this Tor blog post, and the research paper it mentions, were published in April 2010. I initially assumed that this would be explaining why using Bittorrent with Tor hurts the network, like http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2006/07/09/why-you-shouldnt-run-... :

When you use BitTorrent on Tor, you're placing an incredible amount of burden on the network and sucking up the bandwidth that could have otherwise been used for the purpose of freely spreading information. You're discouraging people from donating their bandwidth to running the exit nodes that allow the Tor network to function. You're destroying everyone's ability to publish information without being persecuted by their government. You're destroying the privacy that so many people worked so hard to give us.
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Super Simple Summary:

1) Torrent applications don't always respect your proxy settings, bypassing Tor entirely.

2) Torrent applications sometimes add your IP address to their packets, so you essentially tell everyone where you are after coming out of a different door all sneaky-like.

3) You're probably telling all this and your port number to the tracker. Trackers are complete blabbers, they'll tell anyone who asks where to find you.

4) Multiple connections run through a single "circuit" for speed & a bit of anonymity (by reducing the number of nodes you're using, some of which may be watched; I don't quite follow this reasoning. Seems to me it's putting all your eggs in fewer baskets), but browsing + torrent may reveal enough info to deanonymize you, because you run through fewer exit nodes.

And last but not least, Tor can't handle the load:

>We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load.

Running torrents over Tor has always been a horrible idea, due to the load issues and 2 and 3. And because it's insanely slow. And because it's about as rude as you can possibly be to the rest of the Tor network. The fourth is new to me. I suspect most of the offenders just don't fully understand torrents or Tor, and are reaping what they sowed - there are plenty of resources to understand it, and Tor goes to great lengths to explain what it does extremely clearly.
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I like Jason Calacanis. He's done a wonderful job with TWIST, the This Week In network, the Open Angel Forum and the Launch conference. I find him to be very funny and entertaining, passionate about entrepreneurship, tough-minded and determined to succeed, forthright and honest about his opinions, and someone who isn't afraid to make hard decisions. I do wonder about the future of Mahalo, though. Unlike some of Jason's other ventures, it seems as if Mahalo - now version 4.0 - has struggled to obtain a unique and strong identity, let alone sufficient market traction, so far. If it can be the best how-to video site on the Internet, great, but given Google's recent stance on how-to content sites (i.e. the 'farmer' algorithmic change), not to mention all the other companies vying to be the best how-to video site on the Internet, the company certainly has its work cut out for it. On the other hand, these are precisely the circumstances that sort out the real entrepreneurs from the wannabes and from Jason's comments above... I wouldn't count him or the Mahalo team out.
Congratulations. You have every right to be thrilled. :)

Enjoy the ride and continue building new and useful things.

Clickables:

http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/find-out-how-well-your-friend...

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/02/15-year-old-creates-vi...
Also Tom Scholz of Boston. MIT-trained mechanical engineer, worked for Polaroid, and then left to found one of great classic rock bands.
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It is a great question. However, I look at some of the YC funded companies(including justin.tv) and I wonder what the answer would be?

Off the top of my mind, I can think of hipmunk,1000memories etc and would like to know how the founders would answer.

It is a much more piercing question than What are users forced to do today when your product does not exist.
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>Belgium was still Belgium when it was responsible for atrocities in the Congo, etc., etc.

Funny you should mention that, because at the time that the atrocities were occurring, the Congo was not a Belgian colony. Rather it was the personal colony of King Leopold of Belgium and was handed over to the parliamentary government of Belgium after the atrocities came to light.
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hence a little better informed about Facebook's intentions :)
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This is a prime example of people stacking complex tools together and expecting properties to magically combine. It doesn't work that way in the real world, it doesn't work with "computers". I may be an angry old fart, but this "screw knowledge, screw others, live in a dream" mentality is starting to annoy me.
> We demand that Google renegotiate this rate, either to a much lower percentage (preferably, no percentage) or give us some value for our money in terms of Market curation and support.

So either lower the price or add multi week review process followed by arbitrary denials?
Owls and lots of cats have no trouble seeing at night, and still sleep for half the day. I can't think of any organism with high-level cognitive ability that doesn't sleep.
We have a guy at work who uses J for everything, since he came of age doing data analysis in APL, when APL was the only interpreted and powerful matrix language out there. (Fortran was compiled and low level.) He loves it, but he doesn't know any other languages.

Personally, I found J a very interesting interesting exercise, and APL is historically SUPER important, but for practical uses they have been way superseded by matlab/ Octave/ R and the T/P/R* scripting languages. (At times my friend will say something like "in J you can compute the sum of a matrix IN JUST ONE LINE... and I will point to "sum(A)" in matlab, as opposed "$&$%^%$%M" in J, or whatever it is.)

K may be more brain friendly than J. But as far as I am concerned, J makes assembler and badly written Perl look easy to read.
> Mojang was formed after Minecraft's success

No. Mojang AB was formed in May 2009. That's the same month as Minecraft's original public release, long before its success.
And don't Walmart and Costco have an excellent reputation for quality!

And actual retail stores need to pay for their property, their employees, transportation, and utilities to keep their stores running.

I thought someone would say this - as if developing the infrastructure and maintaining it is extremely low cost. Development of enterprise level software is expensive. Having individual reviews of every app is expensive.

This is just apologism for people trying to get out of the rather humdrum retailer/wholesaler relationship.
By formed I mean as a development studio, not as a legal entity.
> it's a clean re-implementation ... not an open-sourced version of "real" K

Thanks, I didn't realize there was an ambiguity here. I've updated the GitHub page to be clearer on this point.
It doesn't allow for surfacing popular/controversial comments. It keeps everything chronological, which is a good reference, but encourages people to post quickly, without considerable thought.

Would you want Hacker News comment threads ordered chronologically? Exactly.
Get the invitation first, then worry about the rest.
The content producers could encrypt their data so the hashes would only give access to encrypted blocks. They would still have the issue of distributing keys securely.
Justin.tv (neither an online streaming live show of some guy's life, nor a streaming platform for live video) didn't exist before we were funded, fyibtw.
My favorite quote from him, "One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new."
The Parallax BASIC Stamp used NRZ encoded bit tokens. The ROM for the interpreter was 1K words (14 bit words) as I recall. It is really efficient in terms of space.

Build a bit aligned FPGA CPU would be pretty cool, and using a serial EEPROM quite efficient in terms of I/O busses but like the PDP-8/S probably very very slow.
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Didn't cryptic comet do something similar with Armageddon's empire and solium infernum?

Also - cryptic comet deserves a mention - last I checked it was a one man show, (may have added 1 more person)and he had launched 2 lovingly created card based strategy games.

The first was pretty good fun to play (post-apoc earth empire building with card games! quite fun), and the second was very ambitious (you played as a prince of hell, and an entire meta game of subterfuge underlied your attempt to take-over hell.)

Whats cool about it is that I can easily see him with a little help getting his games on the mobile markets and crushing a lot of the competition. Worth a look - His blog on how he designs his games is here - http://www.crypticcomet.com/blog/
Website - http://www.crypticcomet.com/
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How many weeks severance did you give them?

Did you pay it in actual dollars, or Mahalo dollars, with the patented Mahalo exchange rate?
Justin, I totally agree that what you did with Justin.tv was novel and didn't exist before. However, how would you have answered Why doesn't it already exist?
"slaved".. were they not compensated?
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You like brutal honesty and you put yourself out there, so I think it's fair to ask you. Why don't you leave your role at Mahalo and do what you're the absolute best at? (TWiST, LAUNCH Conf, TC competitor)? Plenty of people can do a video eHow, but almost no one else could rival TC.

It seems like a pride/ego/money thing from the outside. Is it something else?
Apple don't buy stock and sell it on.

Sure they do - they just buy it in a JIT fashion. Someone orders the app, Apple supplies them a copy. The 'stock bought' is the payment to the wholesaler.

If you buy ten shirts from a wholesaler, they get paid for ten shirts. If you buy ten apps from a wholesaler, they get paid for ten apps.

I don't think a department store would necessarily take 30% of all sales made within it.

A department store has different expenses, but yes, a good quality department store will take that cut and higher.

Apple and Google are not just providing market space. They also provide quality review and payment processing. It's not like your Sunday market where you pay a fixed price, take a fixed amount of stock, and then spend your own time hawking your wares and dealing with payment. Instead it's a market where you supply your stock once and take royalties on it. Apple/Google take over some of the advertising and all of the payment processing. You don't have to worry about bad credit cards. Or making the payroll. Or keeping the servers up.

In fact, that's the better way to look at it - rather than a bricks-and-mortar store comparison, apps are more like music or prose. You do the work once. You can rerelease the work if you like. It's in your own interest to help market the work, but you don't have to. But once the work's done, you can just sit back and let someone else deal with making money for you if you like. That sounds more like royalty-based industries than brick-and-mortar shops.

And compared to other royalty-based industries, in this case it's the artists taking the corps to the cleaners!

Seriously though - they've sunk heavy investment into the product, why should they go for cut-throat margins in a booming industry? Besides, it comes off as whining for suppliers to have to pay a very normal fee for services supplied
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We built a backend similar to this for our NewsRoom mobile client. (Android and Pre) Actually used some genetic algorithms to do the training for our content extraction, one of the more fun projects I've done.

Word of warning, if it takes off, you basically start turning into someone who is both caching and harvesting the web every 15 minutes. There is an incredibly long tail on RSS feeds and it starts killing you to keep them all up to date. Storing and serving it is no big deal, but harvesting actually turns into real money when you figure out total bandwidth used. (we harvest about ~30,000 feeds every 15 minutes)
Durham, a wonderful community?! You ever get more than a block away from the American Tobacco Historic District?

I live there. Excepting a mile and a half wide strip that follows I-40 and a couple pockets near Chapel Hill, Durham is filthy, overrun with crime, totally lacking in services and someone important on the city planning commission thinks a Spirograph set makes a handy addition to one's drafting tools.
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>The reasons I won't be an exec at a bigCo-

..in Texas
Think so? Start at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Pick any direction and walk for a mile, then tell me Durham rocks.
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> I respect Jason and his business, and wish him the best of luck.

Serious question: why would you respect him or his shitty spam farm?

He's an abrasive, ignorant, no-talent douchebag who doesn't care the first thing about delivering actual value.

Fuck him. I hope the VCs of the world wake up and realize the only reason he has any money is because AOL was staffed by morons.
Why is it sad for social media?

Seems like a social media success story to me.

Also, there's a big difference between a publisher and a coach or agent or manager or assistant or tutor.
What about letting people from more countries sell applications on the Market?

I know a couple of folks -- long time Mac users and developers who did not want to develop for iOS on moral grounds -- who built some breathtakingly beautiful apps for Android. Simple apps. Prototypes, meant to test the Androidian waters. Beautiful nonetheless. They are currently thinking of moving to iOS because Indian developers can't sell apps on the Market.

I also know people who make spacecargoloads of money selling iOS apps from India. An organization I visited last week wants to build a few iOS applications. They already have a developer license. They considered Android ... for about 30 seconds. They quickly scraped all their Android plans the moment I told them they couldn't sell applications from India.

I see that as a loss for Google.
Sometimes, if the tools are designed really well, they do combine. Witness the success of Unix pipelines, or the nigh-magical ability of TCP to work over Ethernet, Wifi, a modem, or whatever other complex systems people dream up.

Being able to combine complex systems is a good thing, and it shouldn't be disparaged as unrealistic.
For context: Mojang started having employees in November/December 2010. At that point Minecraft already sold a few thousand copies per day. (It’s still selling several thousand copies per day, nearly 11,000 in the last 24 hours.)
He's honest, except when he's talking about himself or his ventures.

Then he's brutally and completely dishonest.

He gets no respect from me. It saddens me that he's conned you into thinking he's a decent man. You really are a fool in this game. He laughs at dipshits like you. Literally. He actually makes fun of you for watching TWIST.
Even if not everyone starts at the same point that doesn't mean they will continue to stay ahead. People operate under the assumption of a constant veclocity in development. And that development is non-inertial (in the physics sense). The rate of development function could well be logistic or with an asymptote or some like - removing that insurmountable gap implicit in so many statements.

We may all end up near enough (for all practical purposes) at the same endpoint if we all worked hard and performed necessary rotations and frame changes given our situations. The brain is very malleable.

There is also the fact that people start at different places for different areas and that chooses where they end up specializing. And there is probably some self-fulfilling prophecy going on that trains people to avoid smarty pants subjects which are vital for developing rigorous thinking. why is it a matter of pride to be terrible at maths and technical subjects? or the fact of growing up with certain teachers and society all but directly informing you that certain races aren't up for certain more mathy subjects. I can certainly attest to that stuff messing up your ability to keep on when things get difficult.
I think you may be confusing viral marketing for a pyramid scheme. Given, pyramid schemes are a form of viral marketing, but exponential growth through sharing is necessary without being sufficient.

In this case it works out fine for both parties. I signed up because I was interested in beta testing and socialcam gets to choose their potential beta testers by how social they are.

For what it's worth the system may not be very effective yet. I have one referral and I've moved from #4000 to #600
No doubt he'll be back. That fat, arrogant fucker is an unkillable zombie of pure douchebaggery and dishonest bullshit.
Even though I could agree with you, I think that some things should not be put in front of many eyes.
iOS is more open than Android from where I stand. I live in India. A few months ago, I couldn't purchase Android applications. As of now, I can purchase applications but not sell them.
Regardless of the source, this is actually very good advice.
Whenever I think about the magical abilities of TCP I experience great pleasure.
>more committed than ever to the mission.

Oh my God, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. What mission would that be? Spamming the web with contrived content related to high-value keywords, for the money?
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I personally don't understand Bryce's action. If he doesn't believe in social proof, he should just invest independent of who else is investing. It seems a bit drastic to leave the service.

Also, Angel List doesn't push any investment philosophy, it just gives investors access to deals. As an investor, I would think that access to deal and information flow would be valuable assets.
Agreed. I found him annoying when I first encountered him on TWIT (wouldn't shut up about Twitter), but after viewing a few dozen episodes of TWIST would welcome him into my home like a brother.
This is missing some natural categories of things.

- Create a pet project. A subset of which is to create an open source pet project. As opposed to contributing to an existing one.

- Get a job. It does so much to improve programming ability.

- Also do exercises in books. It's one thing to do Project Euler problems, and it's a different kind of thing to do TaPL exercises or presumably CTM exercises, or problems in some signal processing book.

- Get a real ergonomic keyboard, now! And use it. Unless you get sufficient wrist exercise from some other activity, you should do this.
Boy, it surprised me how much like a real interview that seemed!
I am amazed that an idea like this hasn't been completed before.

I read this article and realized that this is the same idea I started working on 8 years ago as a high school freshman. I just didn't have the experiences or resources to finish it or do it right.

I just dug up the code though and posted it on my blog if anyone wants to see what a freshman in high school wrote 8 years ago in VB6. http://www.ra726.net/blog/?p=119

I can't wait to play this, I've been waiting to play something like it for a long time now.

Just goes to show what you hear here all the time, just ship it. An idea can be great but it goes nowhere if you don't do anything about it.
Directs some of them, too.
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Hui & Iverson (1991) The J Dictionary. http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall05/G22.2110-001/dictionary.pdf

This is the reason to learn J. It is a clean, fast course in a programming style that puts linear algebraic concepts at its heart. If you are interested in functional programming, work through this book. The "tutorial" part is about 60 pages, which should be worked through, and the dictionary part about 150 pages, which can be dipped into.
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After weeks of criticism on Google's results being spam'ed, it was clear that Google would react on this. The algorithm change was foreseeable.

On the other side this shows the monopolistic power of Google and how they can hurt individual companies like they want.

For us as search engine users, it is time to support other search engines, for instance DuckDuckGo.
Judging by the positive sentiment in these comments for TWIST and Launch - and AOL's acquisition of TechCrunch (Read: Once MA jumps, they won't be able to sustain content and traffic) - there may be a lot of good opportunities ahead for JC.
It's his company. I guess he wants to keep it going himself.
They're nice in that they force you to learn some subjects you wouldn't normally ... that and the college chicks.

Agree that the idea in that you have little worth without one is a bit absurd.
Did you live in Durham 15 years ago? It's gotten way better. It's not without its flaws, but it isn't nearly as downtrodden as it used to be.
And Tyler's or Bull McCabe's for the after-dinner drinks. Or maybe Alivia's. Or the Federal. Man, that place has beer COVERED.
I guess I'm a flake - hey, what can I say; I get bored easily and feel the need to switch projects often, especially when the project enters maintenance mode.

I also have a free advice to entrepreneurs - since I'm working remotely as I don't live in the US, I have to be much better / work much harder than US developers, just so I can take home barely the minimum U.S. salary in this industry. I also don't get any equity. When that attitude changes, maybe I'll start giving a shit.
I think it really is an ask. It was just framed so that it is consistent with the union theme that the group is following. Otherwise, what "right" do they have to demand anything from Google? It's not like Google entered into some contract with them.
Well, I really believe in the mission to build a site that helps people learn anything... and I believed in human-powered search before that (and still do to be honest).

I've got the education bug, and I want to take the promise we all see in things like Lynda.com and Kahn Academy and scale it into a brand as big as Google or Wikipedia.

LAUNCH, Angel investing and This Week in Startups are all fun, but they are not as challenging as MAHALO.

Also, keep in mind that Mahalo is a top 200/300 site with millions in revenue even with this hit. It's the most successful thing I've done.... despite the hits we've taken.