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outlier means that you shouldn't be using them to describe normal behaviour, full stop.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about now. Normal behavior? Whose normal behavior? I don't believe I've indicated anything like that.

They don't keep their hair at more normal lengths or shoulder length plus.

This bizarre statement caused me to go back and review the thread again. I now see where the misunderstanding is. Your initial statement, to which I responded was:

'bald is sexy' only applies to shaved bald, not pattern baldness.

Shaved bald means something very, very different from cropped short, or 'buzzed', both in appearance and effort. I assumed you understood this distinction.

The celebrities you pointed out are men who shave their heads or crop them very close. They don't keep their hair at more normal lengths or shoulder length plus.

We're both advocating the same thing. Nobody who is balding looks good with 'normal' or shoulder length hair.
Multiple. webOS and Android.

It would be interesting if you could somehow tie into webOS Synergy services.

If the internationalization app is sufficiently smart, it should be able to detect local numbers for different countries and at least make an attempt.
Interesting article, but what about Steve Jobs? Warren Buffet? Bill Gates? It's easy to pick a few examples of anything, but it doesn't make it a real trend.
I'd imagine that this isn't nearly as much of a problem for an extremely famous/well regarded company that's also very small.
If you think about it, building a company takes about 5 years (if everything goes right).

So essentially for someone to "steal your idea", it implies that they have to commit their next 5 years to it.

So really you can talk freely about your idea to anyone who hasnt already started a company and is working in a similar space or someone who has a vested interest in a company which is working in a similar space. Thats basically it.

Another thing google did was to never give out specifics - even the number of computers they used was a secret for the first 2 years after they became successful.
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Ask HN: Has Facebook licensed CPC bidding patent 6,269,361 from Yahoo?
I tried Facebook ads for the first time today and was surprised to see a CPC bid model. Google paid Yahoo millions in stock to license the CPC bidding model covered by patent 6,269,361 (also called patent 361 for short). Has Facebook done a deal with Yahoo to license 361? Or is this patent ignored by ad networks these days?

I'd like to know what the view is on this patent because it prevents a lot of entrepreneurs from innovating in the CPC bidding space.

Screenshot of Facebook CPC bidding:

http://i.imgur.com/xdVfX.png

The patent:

http://1.usa.gov/eEFi2Q

WebProNews article discussing 361 and that it may be the cause of Microsoft's interest in Yahoo (back when the rumor was flying that MS was going to buy yahoo).

http://www.webpronews.com/microsofts-yahoo-interest-patently-paid-search-2008-07

Googling the patent and Facebook yields a deafening silence, unless I missed something.
The Xoom hasn't launched outside the USA yet...I'd put that fact as #1. I've been waiting for a Canadian release for months and it still isn't here. What a bummer, I really want to own one. It's only available to 4.5% of the world's population so it's no wonder nobody's buying it. Only rich Americans are even given the opportunity to buy it. That's why its sales are low.
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Displacement of the zoo environment's pool.

That gives you the elephant's volume. What's the density of an elephant?
I read through the Architecture doc and it explains how they do it. However I cannot get an idea of how large the mono runtime on Android would be. Any ideas?

For small apps, the runtime could be the largest part of the app since the 'callable wrappers' are just proxying calls to the app.
There are all sorts of ways HN could be monitized (which is what I meant by commercialized) without at all impacting its usefulness for evaluating Y Combinator applicants. I just think it will take real investment to upgrade HN, and if it's not monetized it's hard to justify that investment.
I've been thinking about how I'd educate my own kids, and currently it's a tossup between the Harkness approach a la Phillips Exeter, the entirely home-schooled approach, and something like this which seems like a hybrid.

If anyone has experience with any of the above, I'd love to hear about it.
We are in the very early days for finding the profit-maximizing prices for ebooks. If publishers stand in the way of experimentation, someone else will find the sweet spots (I don't expect there to be just one). I read of a mystery author recently whose sales went up 20x by dropping the price from $3 to $1. The additional profits of finding the optimal price could be enough to offset the publisher's advantages.

It's an interesting dog fight, if you don't have a dog in it. As an author, though, it looks mighty risky.
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I really like the idea of Montessori, and if I have the cash I'd like to send my future kids there someday.

That being said, I see correlation here, not causation.

To be a little bit tongue and cheek, I could write the headline:

"99% of successful people do not attend Montessori schools"
Honestly this article is an embarrassment and is exactly why I don't read CrunchGear.

I have a WiFi Xoom and the thing is a disaster. The feature I use most is the hard reset. Everyone I've spoken to agrees this is the problem with the Xoom. TechCrunch's resident Android fanboy Jason Kincaid even said he was returning the thing because it's so buggy (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/05/ipad-2-xoom-fight/)

To not even mention that in an article about why the Xoom is failing is insane. As for the author's other points...

1. Xoom's aren't sitting on the shelf because Google decided to hold back the Honeycomb source. Motorola HAD to Honeycomb source. So the first point is just stupid.

2. The ads do suck. On this he's right.

3. If Apple's superior retail presence caused products not to sell than no one would ever buy a PC laptop.
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"When Barbara Walters, who interviewed Google founders Messrs. Page and Brin in 2004, asked if having parents who were college professors was a major factor behind their success, they instead credited their early Montessori education"

Ahem. I spy a latent variable in this correlation. Can you find it?

Hint: Montessori education may or may not have advantages. But unless you control for educational background and income of the family, your analysis has a problem.
Do you have a passport and a car? The WiFi version is available at stores throughout the U.S.
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Not being willing to talk about what you're doing to anyone is probably foolish, yes, but Elad's got some gems here, particularly around creating unnecessary competition.

In early 2008, when I was raising for Pinch Media, we got a bit lucky and managed to attract some name-brand investors extremely early in the life of our company. We hadn't figured out the business model yet, hadn't brought in a dime in revenue, and had barely launched, but I prematurely decided to make a big deal out of our funding from Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital.

In retrospect, this was stupid. Not every company that ended up competing with us did so because the USV hoopla introduced them to the opportunity, but a handful did. Worse yet, our competitors made the same 'give it all away for free' mistake we did, which made the mistake hard to fix. It's tricky to start charging for something that five other companies are giving away.

If I could do it again, I would've asked USV / FRC to keep quiet about the funding until we'd learned a bit more about our business - this isn't always possible, but other companies in their portfolio have done so. (Kickstarter, for example.) An extra six months or so of product development before the 'run as fast as you can to keep ahead of very similar competitors' phase would've been nice.
I think there'd be a lot more asterisks and exclamation marks.
Red Bull spends a lot of money on seeming cool. Some of their stuff is neat, but in the end its just marketing. Their core business is still selling overpriced energy drinks.
I saw the Xoom for sale at Costco last weekend - the demo unit was in a locked case, powered up and running a demo but untouchable. Not the best way to sell a touchscreen.
Eh, no. The first explosion of efficiency and economic prosperity was in Roman times, when there was peace in much of Europe and cities flourished, complete with sanitation systems, elaborate transportation networks etcetera.

When that crumbled, city states took over, and economic life was once again dictated by the whims of rulers who in reality depended on keeping the ruling classes of the cities in their empire happy; in these cities, tradesmen classes operated in rigid, protectionist and mercantilist guild systems. There was stagnation and in many fields enormous regression until the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution (when freedom brought back the drive for progress).
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I just started using Skydrive. 25GB of space for free. Competition does matter.
Oh, one more thing Abe:

http://dataprivacylab.org/people/sweeney/index.html

She got her bachelor's from HES. She's now running a department at CMU. You should drop by and visit her when she's back from MIT.
Sales of individual android phones/tablets are inconsequential - wait until the OEMs have flooded the market and then look at platform market share. Until then, most of these articles are fluff and filler.
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We've just launched a pretty cool and innovative feature at Labels.io called visual search. To get a better grasp of how it works have a look at http://labels.io/mediademo and click on the tags. Since we've really just launched it, it's probably not entirely bug free - if you run into any weird behavior I'd appreciate if you could reply here and let me know. Otherwise all comments are welcome!

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Four day work week in the summer? Holy cow that sounds awesome.
Maybe your title won't reflect your progression, but if you list responsibilities and things learned on your resumé then that would be a clear indicator of progression.
Right. If that code had been easy to find, _Lion's Commentary on Unix_ wouldn't have been such a big deal.
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Price fixing is when parties coordinate to set the prices of their items. It doesn't matter that you're able to sell your books at any price -- if two or more publishers got together and agreed not to cut prices below a certain point, then they were engaged in price fixing, by definition.

I'm not really sure what your point was. Was it that a self published $2.99 Jabba the Hut fan fiction novelette proves that collusion isn't influencing ebook prices?
I've had my xoom for two days now and I like it. No hard resets for me. Maybe in time it will be a problem.
Working with FAMiLab on creating a low cost sensor battery for classrooms as part of the Element-14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge.

Otherwise, trying desperately to get out of a recent spout of burnout, loss of motivation, and chronic perfectionism. I have, arguably, one of the best job situations in the world right now but I'm not enjoying it. The work I do is just not profoundly satisfying, despite being able to do weeks of it in a couple hours with minimal error and rework. Taking suggestions on that if anyone has any.
Sorry, but "Wanderschaft" is a rather old fashioned word for hiking. It is the noun version of the verb "Wandern" (to hike).

The stick is called "Wanderstab" or "Stenz".
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For one, all the people you mentioned were in preschool before the Montessori craze really took over in the States and all the ones the article mentioned besides Julia Child were later. And of course, you will never find 100% success in one method and 0% success in all others.

But the Montessori method is fascinating, and does have a few studies backing it. On a personal level as a Montessori kid, I know it definitely gave me a head start over many of my peers (by encouraging my math fascination, I was able to do long division before I entered kindergarten and my sister had a similar experience with reading) and a much more enjoyable/inspiring early education experience. There is no one true way, but I know I will personally place any of my children in Montessori.
But what if a young startup company want to use this approach. consider a programming team which its developers are not in the same level of expertise and ability. Is it possible for this team that the manager rotate among team members? Doesn't it lower the performance of the members and the self-management of total team?
I disagree slightly, I don't think this can be simplified to all competition doesn't matter at all.

Here's a few cases which I've found that competition doesn't matter:

* Competition is ugly.

* Competition is hard-to-use.

* Competition is broken to some extent.

* Competition is not solving the pain.

In these cases, ignore the competition, it doesn't matter. But some cases, I think competition does matter. If the competition really is doing a great job at solving the pain, has reached a significant scale, and isn't doing any of the above, then it does matter.

I think Mint.com is a beautiful product, easy-to-use, works well, and solves the pain. Competing against Mint as a new, better financial service would be very hard, because its hard to be an order of magnitude better. Some would argue that it is broken to some extent.

Dropbox is beautiful, easy-to-use, definitely not broken, and solves the pain. All others before it were hard to setup, or didn't work well, or didn't solve the real pain (e.g. Microsoft's 6GB filesize limit). I bet Receivd will be good because Dropbox doesn't solve the exact same pain that Receivd is, at least for how I understand it.
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"Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school’s alumni that one might suspect a Montessori Mafia: Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, videogame pioneer Will Wright, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention Julia Child and rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs."

"The creative elite" -> "so overrepresented" -> list of five names in tech, one rapper, one 20th Century culinary master

I stopped taking the article seriously at this point.
Fascinating insight. But isn't this a classic case of of correlation, not causation?
Depends on the problem you're trying to solve. If you are chasing a vision without a well-established problem, you won't have the capable people discuss it before actually making that change to the world as you dreamed, stealth can help you stay on that path.

If the problem is well-established and you are just shaking it, revisiting it with new eyes or fixing it forever, people will "get" it easier and will help you alot more.
Just read the tc article. Looks really promising! A nice twist to Facebook event checkins + Foursquare checkins and blogging all in one. Right up there with what's really trending and working out. Excited to use it when it hits the California ;)
The German system indeed has a lot more options between a full blown academic career to learning a craft in a structured 4 year program all the way to being an unskilled laborer with 10 years of school.

The drawback is that career paths are also more structured than in the US and take a long time. Want to start a painting business? Better get your Meisterbrief first and that will take a good while.

Here in the US things are more fluid, which leads to people changing careers and going back to school at a later age more willingly. The flipside is that almost everyone is an amateur and quality of work varies wildly.
The reactor vessels are within concrete, but the spent fuel pools (what was possibly exposed at reactor 4) are outside of the containment and ARE open to the air. That's why the tried to use the helicopters and were able to use the pumping truck to put water into them.
I had to lookup skydrive to find out what it was. DropBox is known, skydrive isn't. Even though it is a Microsoft product that doesn't guarantee success. What's the user experience? How is it growing? Are people recommending it?

You're right, competition does matter. It matters because it pushes people to constantly create improvements and better products.

However, the point of the article is to not fear competition to the point where you don't take action.
What's the risk? That I don't take a job sometime in the future from a short-sighted HR drone who can only judge me based on my resumé? If the lack of an archetypal career path on my resumé is a barrier, it's probably not a job worth having.
This is very interesting but I must admin, not very surprising. In fact, I find myself (in)explicably drawn to the images with redheads above the others. I'll be interested to follow this experiment and curious to learn your results.

Oh, and I'm always up for helping drink beer if you find yourself in a windfall of beer money!
Yes, but if we have hash(plaintext + site_specific_salt), then even if I use the same password for different sites and the hash from one of them is intercepted, it still takes a while until the others will also be compromised. I didn't say the system was perfect, but still better than sending the password in plain text.
This is the great thing about readership moving from paper books to ebooks: the only thing close to a controlled distribution channel we have is Amazon, and it's in Amazon's best interests to let indies expiriment with the channel.
Is this even correlation? Is there any evidence to suggest that Montessori students are over-represented among the successful? Or are they simply proportionate?
On the other hand, it's a little flaky that they set a parameter to try to get human-like response times. Statistical fitting.

We built it to hit this number, we're surprised when it does!

Cool calculation process, though.
I guess a lot of hacker news reader work in said startup areas. So is anybody willing to give it a shot?

I am located in Munich, Germany, not exactly a startup hup, but I have some connections to Berlin and would be willing to annoy my contacts there until they agree.

Also should the plans for my own company work out in the next months, I would be willing to offer exclusive intern/entry/mid-level positions.
Whoa... cultural whiplash. I get that there might be places where this kind of thing is a concern. Really, I do. But I can't imagine applying to work at a company where they'd look at the line on my resume that says "3 years at 37signals" and worry that I hadn't been promoted in all that time.
Title's link bait, article's about Apple buying some hard drives. Nothing to see here folks. Flagged.
I wonder what Warren Twoomey privately says about the SCO allegations? The Ctcompare program seems explicitly designed to deal with just such problems that SCO alleged had occurred.
I am viewing it as a protest of the company's practice. It is also vandalism. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Ummmm...Dropbox has had competition from the start. Skydrive, Box.net, Syncplicity and so on. So the article's premise really doesn't stand (though I don't disagree with him on the quality of Dropbox)
As in most things, people are more important than methods. Now, there is some correlation, as people who care about teaching kids to really learn will tend to be more involved in Montessori or other small private schools or magnet public schools.

But don't decide based on reading and abstraction, go meet the people in the communities you would be putting your child into (including home-school communities) and see if you fit in with those people and if they seem nurturing. And explore more traditional options to see if the people there are exceptional.

My wife works at a small Catholic school (who would have thought?) with an amazing community that fosters intergenerational, self-guided, scrape-your-knee-climbing-a-tree sort of learning. I'm sure most parents drive right by and think "pfft, Catholic school," and their abstractions are leading them to miss a real gem.
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A real-time chan/anonymous community. We want to explore the potential in the privacy aspect that it does have. Chans are known to be hard to break-even(server cost wise) and they look... bad/ugly.

So using node/socket.io and with a nice execution, in that "adventure" we want to create one that can scale cost-wise and basically own the market. We are developing a lot of cool features(and useful) and it's looking good now. Beta in july/august.

We want to change that narcissist/egocentric facebook culture that the web is built upon. Contributing to something and not getting credit for it is good. Altruism is awesome. We want to change the "crazy/sick" reputation that chans do have today.
I went to a Waldorf/Steiner school, which shares some of these traits such as the lack of a focus on assessment and grading and the emphasis on creativity.

We weren't taught the alphabet until the age of about 6-7 and basic arithmetic at 7-8. We did begin learning foreign languages at age 6, however. In practice my older brother taught me to read and count well before the Steiner curriculum did, but I still think that the education was very valuable.

I think that creativity in adults is often stifled because they don't want to "get it wrong". People are afraid of trying their hand at a new skill or taking a risk on a new idea because they are "realistic" about their chances of success. Children just do it anyway. I think that Steiner schools encourage this attitude, and no doubt Montessori schools do the same.

There's a reason the really big hitters are often first-time entrepreneurs - they are naive enough to try. Creativity works the same way.
Definitely. You cannot assume causality simply because a few results turned out a certain way. Although I have to admit I want to since I would have enjoyed building stuff much more than listening to a prof lecture for an hour.

To your point though, you could also cite a number of people not educated in Montessori schools who were very creative and achieved big things.
We have thought about things like that but to be honest, we want to keep the experience focussed on your friends. There are already enough top app lists around. What makes Zwapp different imo is that it gives you direct access to the apps and reviews of your friends instead of strangers.
before reading I thought this was some new virgin-branded enterprise. As in, I already had the wallet in my hands to book a trip.
Is this just a rival to Infochimps or is there something different with CKAN that I've missed?
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I don't know what this means. I see terms like "demand curve" and "key component of prices". But by your definition, the scarcity of any ebook is epsilon. Therefore, TAOCP must cost the same as Twilight.
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