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Yes, Color's technology is impressive. Especially if it can detect which floor you're on etc..

I'm betting they have some hidden tech or application or some sort of insight which causes the valuation. It's also very possible that Sequoia just really wanted to get into the space and just needed a team to team up with and make something epic.

Time will tell
I've discovered an elegant proof that HN is like Reddit, but ... oh, darn, that doesn't work online.

Maybe submission upvotes in a short time shouldn't front-page an item. I don't see why not putting these links on the news page should make a difference - if anything it would make it impossible to get non-bot upvotes, if I understand what you mean.
Someone who submits only for the karma can already make lots of mediocre submissions and boost their karma far more than under a logarithmic scale.

The only case I could see where your point is valid is if "karma abusers" withhold lower quality submissions in the hopes that they'll submit a really popular one. Do you know if they do this? Or am I misunderstanding the rationale?
Easy, just focus on everything going on except the actual code, just people talking about some of the stuff they are doing at a more basic high level and how it fits into users ever day usage of the site. That and looks like the random fun going on around people doing work.
I was thinking about doing that for the next node knockout :)
There will undoubtedly be a crash. Prices are rising for two reason:

-Speculative buying (that's the cause of all the empty appartments in places no one wants to buy)

-Cultural reasons. When a guy wants to marry a girl, he has to own his own appartment. No when, no ifs, no but. If a girl were to marry a guy with no apartment her whole family would lose face. Because of the sex imbalance in China, there is a large "demand" of girls, and little "supply", so the "price" (quality, location and numbers of appartments) keeps rising. So this means parents of boys are constantly upping the ante, to get more and bigger appartments to try and ensure their son gets married. (my girlfriend is Chinese, so I am very aware of these issues...)

While the first reason would seem to indicate that the bubble would burst sooner rather than later, the second one seems to indicate that demand for appartment won't fall anytime soon.
That wouldn't work for bot-submission of Jacques' posts, though. Unless it cost 50 or 100 points, which would make HNN a much, much quieter place.
Did no once else even consider that there would be a problem with this? I figured it was just access of my data that I upload to a server and that only I can access. I already do the same with MediaTomb, but I didn´t know it would make a world of difference to move to a third party instead of my own private server.
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Did anyone ever think of creating a proof-of-work system that would allocate some CPU time to do something useful for humanity? Maybe for medical research or something... Could it even work technically?
You're awesome. Keep me posted. The go world needs more apps!
Agreed. I find karma average of little interest. Unfortunately it does encourage a certain type of bad behavior in those who do. I can appreciate what pg is trying to achieve with it, but I don't think it's helped the site, and in fact has perhaps detracted from some conversations that "could have happened" except the people came late to the thread.

I personally sometimes won't bother commenting on a low comment simply because there is little chance of an interesting coversation happening there.

The other thing that's messed up now is duplicate submission. They should be forbidden again. Find a way to get the duped article to the front page if we're trying to make sure it's seen (maybe with a different decay constant), but allowing the resubmission takes away the original conversation.
The very best submissions get virtually no discussion.

One measurement to make might be the votes divided by comments.

Let V = votes

Let C = comments

Let IT = 1.0

Let R = V/C

If R > IT then the article is "worth IT"

Let "the paper it's written on" be 0.1.

If R < "the paper it's written on" then it's not worth the paper it's written on (not that it's written on paper, but you get the idea).

But all this is tinkering around the edges, and doesn't feel like it's significant. Perhaps a new model of how a site like this works at all is necessary.
Well I guess somebody had to play devil's advocate and defend it.

Personally I'd be staggered if the government made anything other than positive noises on entrepreneurship. And some of what they do in future might have a positive impact. But we're a critical bunch even when it comes to weekend projects here, and I think we had a right to expect an initial offering announced with such fanfare to be more than a link list apparently less thought out than your typical Mashable "top 10" blog post.

List bloggers wouldn't claim to be dragging the economy out of the doldrums, and they also would entitle a link to Dotmailer.co.uk "Google Analytics", or put staff incentives in a "creating a brand" list - the sheer randomness is a little amusing. After you've crowdsourced your logo and built your free template site on Moonfruit you apparently need a $10/month heatmap to monitor where people are clicking. And some discount glasses c/o one of the site's backers.

Hard-up freelance designers also have a right to be irritated by the suggestion than small businesses should eschew their services in favour of setting up a competition for people overseas who consider £400 a major prize rather than enough to cover rent.
Goodie he mentions join. It's a darn powerful tool :D

Sadly, he missed ptx -- which is quite hard to replace with something else in a concise way.
Nice. The single-player mode is a bit slow, though (client-side - FF seems pretty busy.)

[EDIT: also, the AI tries a bit too hard to lose.]
Here here.

If your guys can't get it done in a normal timeframe they never will.

Especially so if your guys are already working 70 hrs/week. Adding another 20 won't help you. Go back to the drawing board, plan better, go MVP for each iteration etc...
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Yeah, most student/general job application advice focus on building a great CV and how on getting internships / jobs at corporations, which are really different from startups.

Thats a good advice on keeping up what's happening in the landscape and in your professional domain. It also helps you to develop taste what's good and what is possible and show that you're enthuastic about your profession.

Also a good tip is attend hackathlons, RailsRumbles or others contests, or just doing other couple of small fun projects during a year. You might do well and gain some reputation. Atleast you'll end up with a impressive resume of projects that you can actually 1) show 2) talk everything about them since they're yours (not under some company NDA).
"A lesson in how not to respond to criticism"
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I really don't see how the response is being perceived as rude. Aren't we being a touch sensitive (a trend I have noticed before here on HN).

Agree with your general point.
Someone else submitted this, but now it's dead. I did put a comment pointing to the earlier, related article, and I hope they didn't delete this link because of that.

If so, you appear to have mis-understood my intention - sorry if I didn't make myself sufficiently clear.

Here's the comment I made: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386292

Here's the earlier, related submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380668
It is non-deterministic in the sense that the program itself and its inputs are not sufficient to determine the program behavior, as the amb operator creates a set of "possible worlds" in which the same expression has different values. Of course to implement it on a traditional computer, one has to simulate this behavior and decide on some order of evaluation. In SICP, where this is discussed in more depth, one of the exercises asks the reader to modify amb to return a random choice instead of just the subsequent one and this expands the range of problems one can apply this technique to:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-28.html...
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-28.html...
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How is that a vulnerability when pictures are public inthe first place anyway? (the geolocation filter is a mere convenience)
Was your girlfriend born in China? It seems this kind of mentality has gradually changed with the rise of the communist regime. China is now one of the most feminist countries in the world with women and men on equal feet in most spheres of society. My girlfriend is also Chinese, has always lived in China and as far as I know, her family doesn't care whether I own an apartment or not. Perhaps the rules are different for foreigners...
What's with all the Quora submissions lately?
You can (and probably will) burn out at that rate. I've heard this argument many times, and of those times 50% of burn outs left the industry.
Obviously it depends on the nature of the work but I believe the research actually supports this position.

Certainly my experience of coding is that you can do extra hours for a short while and get some benefit but more than a couple of weeks and that starts falling away pretty rapidly.

Even in the short term though it's limited. Beyond midnight (assuming that I've started at 9am-ish and worked relatively solidly) I'm pretty much breaking as much as I'm fixing, plus I tend to be setting myself up for a pretty significant productivity hit the day after.
WTF has a CG'd face got to do with anything? Seriously, I'd like to know (I've never seen that film either).
Can you name some of those services that spring up? So far i have not been able to find anything that would make use of Bitcoins in an interesting way.
A small comment since people are upvoting and I did a rather meaningful edit: I wrote 'it's too easy to lose karma', but I meant (as was elaborated on in the rest of the sentence) that it's too hard to lose karma.
If there's CAPTCHA, then submit an app that collects these images and sends them to your phone. Send back the answer to help the bot.
Yes, this is the other reason for China's interest in Africa. It's not only minerals they're interested in... But also doing something about ~50M young Chinese men who will never be able to marry a Chinese girl. No-one ever thought about the long term effect of a one-child policy + a cultural preference for sons (or they'd simply have passed laws incentivizing daughters). I can't imagine the locals will be too happy when they figure this out...
Congratulations, this is how it should be. I run a business and have managed to hire people who come in late, leave at the regular time and still get more than enough done. I mostly work weekends, but I'm a masochist. I don't wish it on my employees. They need to have a life.
Quite a poor quality post. A table showing origins for the none standard or none GNU Coreutils would have been helpful. htop for example is not (by default) available on Solaris or Mac OS.
I'm in Australia too, and this didn't work. Was really looking forward to using it to store my music online to play anywhere.

Uploaded an mp3 manually and tried to play, but got the warning of being outside the US :(
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This is very, very cool. I wanted to look at that for a long time. This gives me a good reason.
More powerful is not better. More powerful is more expensive to buy and to run, noisier, hotter. He was bragging about how low his power draw was, and how cheap his box is. I suggested getting a cheaper box that draws less power yet still contains all the functionality he needs.

Personally I don't need anything more than XBMC on my media center, and given the popularity of the device I had (ASRock NetTop 330) I doubt XBMC would add features that wouldn't run on it, historically they have always targeted relatively under-powered devices (original XBox, and now iPad et al).

On the power front, CPUs have steadily been getting faster and faster all these years, but our general requirements have not risen with the same speed. I have an Atom N270 in my netbook, which is basically a single-core version of what's in the NetTop, and I am running Windows 7 and frequently play Team Fortress 2 (it looks like minecraft, but it's playable!)

You can't really describe something as "underpowered" without a context of what it's for. If I was still doing video editing, I would probably consider your computer "underpowered", but if I was building a dedicated server to run iptables to replace my Netgear router then Atom would be overpowered.
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Patrick, I think you are well aware that much of the difference between your views on this issue and those of the majority of the startup community stems from a fundamental disagreement on the definition of a startup. As you pointed out yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382580), we waste too much time on naming things.

So, why don't we simply agree that you are in a different business than the OP's company?

You are a one-man operation who scales by outsourcing; they are a team who scale by hiring through investment ($1M).

You want careful, measured growth; they want superfast growth, whatever the cost.

You are an efficient time manager, who's built "passive" income and chooses to spend a lot of time on HN just for fun; they work crazy hours in the hope of making it really big some day, even if the personal cost today is high.

I'm sure a typical overworked startup could benefit from adopting some of your ways, but it is equally hard for them to see your point as it is for you to see theirs. You haven't been on the other side.
You seem to imply that in some pure, completely free phone market Apple would be priced out. Unfortunately, that market does not exist.

So Apple understood the market conditions and adapted to them ? More power to them.
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Probably depends on the family. In my case (she was indeed born in China), it's not so much her parents as her who cares a lot about that.
I'm pretty niche.. can I write you?
Great job, tried the single player, it was very slow on Safari and the AI couldn't beat me :)
Maybe a simple rule could be that if you run an undeclared bot on HN to auto submit stuff that you forfeit your account when you're detected, no matter who you are or what you've done.

That way we only get really clever bots that are indistinguishable from really good submitters.
The site mentioned in the article is a unique use of bitcoins. It makes it possible to give as you live http://witcoin.com/charities

The big upcoming service that will be able to utilise bitcoin is nfc which google is bringing to android. They recently introduced a bitcoin library so it will be a possibility at least.
Yes, see "bread pudding protocol". Or reCAPTCHA, for a less-cryptographic take on the same problem.
Blu-ray is the one thing XBMC can't do, I have a stand-alone player so I've never looked into the options for playing them on a PC. That said, people are pretty good at stealing decryption keys, and once the encryption is dealt with you're left with fairly standard video format that XBMC (and many other players) could play and accelerate. The other issue would be the interactive menus, but perhaps working out which title is the main film and just playing that would be satisfactory for most people?

It doesn't seem insurmountable, a good place to look for that kind of information would be the Doom9 forums.

As for netflix streaming, I'm in the UK, so I know nothing about that! I know it doesn't integrate nicely with XBMC and it isn't easy to do in Linux, though.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the XBMC Windows version has come along in leaps and bounds recently and now runs quite smoothly on my laptop, so if you play things other than bluray and netflix you might want to check it out.
It'd be useful to see a table showing the commonality of these commands -- POSIX standard, GNU Coreutils, X/Open, Linux Standard Base, or whatever non-standard package they come from. As it is, it's next to useless for anyone who isn't plugged into the author's own desktop.
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It kind if seems like a false alarm if one of the botters was just RiderOfGiraffes (whose motives I don't suspect), and there was only one other person, possibly equally innocent.

One would hope nobody here is irrational enough to seek 'easy/automatic' karma ... I mean the nice thing about karma for submissions is it's basically a whole lot of smart people saying 'well done for finding this, it's definitely valuable.' If there's no real finding involved then what's the point? You're the only person your karma matters to.
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Has Google learned Microsoft's antitrust lessons?
As Vetinari said: Nothing. The CPU is dual-core and barely loaded by video decoding. Depending on your connection speed and the piece size of the torrents, you may run out of RAM though (there's 2GB total in the box and it's quite easy to make rtorrent use that much).
Also in Chrome, it never switches to Black's move. It's always White's move no matter which player is moving.

Otherwise, this is great. I salute you.
I suppose its not worth distributing this task across the network if each node will only have .5 second computing time each time.
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That's the same argument that the tabloid newspapers use, and it doesn't work for them either. What readers end up with is low quality information, popular conspiracy theories, sensationalism, voyeurism, etc. What's really needed is some kind of system which sets up a virtuous cycle rather than a downward spiral.
You're confusing introversion with shyness. An introvert looks in at themselves and isn't looking for a way to meet others. That's what makes them an introvert. Someone that's shy however may want to meet or interact with others but cannot overcome their shyness.

If Color does indeed help true introverts catalog the humans around them then it's actually pretty creepy.
I think the average person just flipped at the moment they saw the big 42 beside a new software they have never seen. I'm pretty sure if we would have seen the Color app and idea by its own, we would have taken much more time to investigate the story and potencial of the app rather than the reason of funding.
Point of order: It's not single-purpose. I had mine dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows 7, and it was quite capable in each (Windows 7 felt slightly sluggish compared to my netbook, which is strange because the nettop is faster). The hardware is completely standard, just an ITX form factor Atom + 9400GT pairing, which is a fantastic combination for decoding video for very little power draw or noise.
Given the ease of BTC as an electronic currency, there are not too many unique services. BTCSportsbet is cool and CoinPal allows you to buy giftcards, etc. but nothing ground breaking.
Witcoin is interesting/unique because it operates in this kind of "micro-economy" space that is disallowed in other currencies because of transaction fees and the hassle of setting up paypal, etc..

Bitcoin is perfect/preferable for very small transactions. This coupled with the fact that there simply aren't many Bitcoins out there probably points to unique ideas cropping up in the micro-micro-economy space.
Check out https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade for a complete list of services.
Do you want a job? :)
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I guess most spheres excludes family, the most important one for some people. Take for example homosexuality. You can work with, play with, and be friends with a gay person. But come out to your family and start dating someone of the same sex is a big problem.
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startup competition's results:
from 6 ideas: 1 talked about the TEAM, 4 showed the biz-modell, and 2 broadcasted video

my favorite was the CRMgraph.com
okay..thanks for the info everyone!
Well, you have to admit that the perceived option (c) "sue some people to make them pay you more for doing the same" would look appealing.... If short-sighted.
Probably easy karma, same as all the Mattheij submissions.

More conspiratorially, there may be an invasion of nontechnical co-founders who are finding out they need to be able to talk with developers.
From context, I assumed we were talking about users following deep links. This can be prevented technologically by the target website, and the burden of circumvention is obviously on the user.

Obviously there is no technological way to prevent "deep linking" by the referring website, because that is just creating an <a> tag.
"The very best submissions get virtually no discussion."

I'm not sure I agree with you on that. The best stories produce a high volume of high-quality discussion. Your proposed algo punishes submissions that generate discussion, which seems to be the opposite of what's desirable.
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You go to a challenging university because you want to take advantage of their knowledge, to the extent that you're willing to pay them for it. An employer wants to take advantage of your knowledge, to the extent that they're willing to pay you for it. The situations aren't comparable.

I agree that three month contracts should be compensated at contractor wages rather than employee wages, unless the company is also paying for health benefits, some sort of portable retirement plan, etc. Otherwise you're giving up those items in return for zero commitment from the company. Not a good deal.
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Given the input and output, why isn't a linear search a proper solution?
hi all, I hope that AI won't make your browsers crash. I've disabled its deeper search, it was accumulating time limit of search after every move.

BTW https://gist.github.com/889174
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You haven't really contributed anything valuable, since good articles tend to find their way here on their own.

Most people submit articles in some part because they receive karma points for interesting submissions. It's not just by magic that good articles "tend to find their way here."
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Agreed, but most states as well as federal laws also prohibit discrimination, and companies of any size/sophistication have HR policies to be sure they avoid being vulnerable to discrimination lawsuits in todays litigious climate. Probably fairly safe to fire a 20 - 30 year old white male for "any reason" but firing a minority or female or older person has to be done more carefully, following all established policy. With an explicit 90 probationary period there is more freedom in that initial window of time.

Also if you work 40 hours a week at the employer's place of business, are provided with all the tools you need to work, are paid directly by the employer, and are told what hours to work and how to do the task, the IRS will consider you an employee. Maybe if its only for 90 days you can get away with calling the person a contractor, but I think you're walking a fine line.
Maybe the problem is people upvoting uninteresting articles.

Without wanting to be mean, it's kind of crazy that this meta-discussion about someone's inability to remain off the HN scoreboard is number one right now.

Sycophantism and idle self-promotion are boring pursuits.

EDIT: I think we should be able to down-vote uninteresting articles.
On the other hand... I actually have Google Latitude turned on all the time, which gives me (and whoever's spying on me) data like http://goo.gl/23iBj all the time.