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Interesting topic, but the article is unfortunately almost completely lacking any real information! It's basically a tease.

Would be really interesting to see more in depth writing on the subject though.
This article reminded me to go buy some Google ads. I just allocated $20 for them and we'll see how it turns out.
Not 300 million - that's Y/G territory.

Twitter had almost three million monthly users as of June,
I did. That's why I mentioned xCruiser - it definitely looks old but works nicely. But being old it also lacks the usability and polish that a more modern app might have.

Some more of old goodies are mentioned towards the end of this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-163664.html
The notebooks really are price-competitive, especially right after a refresh. People compare numbers saying "oh I can get this from dell with the same processor and memory and harddrive for half the price!" but neglect several things:

-Almost all those inexpensive PCs are significantly heavier than the macbook.

-The screens are not as good as the macs, at all. Even at the same resolution the macs have better backlighting and better color & contrast.

-The macs have better battery life.

Show me a PC that weighs 5 lbs or less, gets 5 hrs of battery life and has a screen as nice as the macbook for the same or less money. They don't exist.

You can get a Sony with all these qualities except the price.

You can get a Dell with all these qualities except the battery life and nice screen. (Or you can get a nice screen in a machine that weighs 6+lbs and still has terrible battery life).

You can get a Lenovo with all these qualities but the screens are awful.

And so on.
Point 16

Wordpress + Yahoo Boss Search Engine API = designed Search Engine

http://hongxiaowan.com/2008/08/hongxiaowan/116.html
Dan Kaminsky finally talks about the DNS bug (PowerPoint included)
Related, Evilgrade Will Destroy Us All:
http://blog.metasploit.com/2008/07/evilgrade-will-destroy-us...
Unfortunately the price of Google ads is driven up by people that don't measure or don't care about their ROI's.
Integration with RescueTime would be very interesting!
Interesting, but I'm not sure it's a "killer" feature.
The 'is it alive' was always the sort of semantic bickering that biologists have always been prone to. Like all that arguing about classification (going back centuries). I don't mean when it's arguing about facts or their interpretation. As often as not it's just about naming conventions.

Anyway, 'is it alive' is not an interesting question. That's just about defining 'organism.' Like defining, human or mammal, there has to be some grey area.

'Is it life' might be a better one. Because then you are talking about something that has consequences. In the absence of 'true organisms' can viruses themselves start an evolutionary chain? This discovery might mean that they can.
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Because they're wrong.
User "curation" is the new UGC.

c.f. Muxtape, etsy's treasury, the rise of linkblogging, etc.
"A hosted solution within thier control"

Having the customer host a complex web application is likely going to be less secure then a hosted solution.

Consider the customer has to manage the code, applications that support the code (mysql, apache), manage the web server, and manage the physical security of the web server.

Your data is safer hosted.
They're comparable in the US, but in every other coutnry there's a massive premium on Apple hardware compared to non-Apple. Check out the prices on apple.co.uk or apple.com.au.
Just tell them you already support him and they'll go away. I had one of those guys going door to door asking for donations, so I just told them I donated $2,300 to Obama already and they left me alone. I got rid of them within 1 minute, and they didn't feel awkward by trying to persuade someone to give when they don't want to.

I actually don't plan to vote this election, my state will go Democrat no matter what, so if I do go to throw my vote away, I'll just throw it to Liberterians.
If Schwarzenegger could fire him, I'm sure he would. But, just like Arnie, he's been elected by the wise and wonderful electorate of this marvelous political entity.
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The seeping in of web 2.0 makes one look back at the advent of computing. Of the many changes brought, the best undoubtedly has been bridging distance, i.e. world wide web. An apt term. The internet truly has worked wonders.
Indie Music + Pyramid Scheme = Popcuts.

Awesome! It's like Amway for mp3 bloggers.
After finally conceding the demise of the Commodore Amiga around 1996, I started using a mixture of Windows NT and GNU/Linux. I loved the Unix way of doing things, especially for software development.

But I am not only a programmer; I also spend a lot of time doing music arrangements and production. I hear that things have improved, but last I tried, music-related applications for GNU/Linux were fairly woeful.

I ended up getting a Mac in 2002, largely as an experiment, and have bought three more since then. I would likely prefer GNU/Linux systems for software development, but MacOS is plenty adequate for my needs there, and I can run my music/sound applications.

I do think Macs look pretty spiffy, but when it gets right down to it, they just proved to be the best option for what I need my computer to do. They might not be the best option for everyone, and that's okay too.
The interaction curve.
How do you figure out if the candidate is going to be able to meet your goals though?
DefCon Paranoia?
Cool I'll check it out.
Not impossible. The limit is cooling air flow. If you blew air through a 4m x 4m radiator at 30 m/s, 43 megawatts would generate a 68 C temperature rise.

Those sort of energy densities aren't strange. A hair dryer dissipates 1000 watts in, say, 10 x 8 x 6 cm. So a cube of hair dryers 2.7 meters on a side generates about 43 megawatts.
Ask YC: how to delete my YC account?
How do I delete my account, and all stored information about me?
Totally different. Socializing is happening around a directed activity here, and it's asynchronous.
You probably want to be careful about how you word "we've added HackerSafe" to corporate customers. I will say the following things:

* "Off-the-shelf" scanner-based certifications are not held in uniformly high esteem by companies with IT security groups.

* HackerSafe just won the Pwnie award at Black Hat for "Lamest Vendor Response".

* Talking about how you have a security SDLC, code reviews, and secure architecture will offer much bigger warm fuzzies to customers.

Also, avoid blanket statements like "so the data is secure". Marketing 101. If you're going to invite objections, make sure they're objections you want to deal with, not ones where you'll eventually have to concede.
That link had the best thing I read all week in it. Thanks for sharing.
Why was this voted down? He said "Apple's NeXT-descendent API really shines. There is just nothing like it in the Linux world" when GNUstep is very much like it.
I live in downtown Seattle and walk or take public transportation. It feels strange to visit my parents in the suburbs of Atlanta. They recently moved about 10 miles further away from the city, to a new suburban wasteland of cheap but expensive oversized wooden houses and badly landscaped enormous lawns. There are no sidewalks in their neighborhood. The closest restaurant is at least 1/2 mile away.

The main reason they moved is that had begun to feel unsafe in their previous neighborhood. Apparently a lot of poorer people have been moving out to the suburbs, some of them bringing crime and gangs.

I'm glad that they enjoy their new house and neighborhood. But I wonder if it will still be a nice place to live when gas is $15/gallon.

I could tolerate living in a suburb if there was public transportation to reach some decent restaurants. It would need to be a streetcar, train, or bus that runs every 20-30 minutes until midnight.
99.99 percent of the time, using a computer, you are not using the OS but the applications. Firefox, an IDE, a music player, an IM client, etc. These don't vary too much.

This is actually false. The Mac development culture is far more UI/User-experiece-centric than those of either Windows or Linux, and so the OS X applications tend to be more polished and simply more fun to use. Please try it for a while before trolling.
Best introductory statistics book to develop intuitive grasp of topic?
What's a good introductory statistics book? I've found a few but they suffer from one of two faults:

* One type glosses over everything and just spits out a bunch of formulas that you are supposed to apply. There's no thought given to explaining the conceptual understanding...such as WHY confidence intervals vary as the square root of sample size.

* Another type is made for theoretical math majors and is based on extremely rigorous proofs of arcane details which I'm not interested in.

Is there a good book that strikes a balance and teaches me an intuitive grasp of statistics? I'm already very familiar with probability.
Great marketing sense by this developer.
It seems to me that Popcuts is not so much a pyramid scheme itself, more of a platform which makes it trivially easy to start one if you are so inclined. It will be interesting to see whether that becomes the typical use pattern, or whether the discovery and reward process ends up being more organic than pyramid-like.
email pg or say please :)
Seattle also built an ugly elevated highway all along the riverfront. Since Seattle is built on a mountainside it doesn't spoil the views from/of the city, but the noise is very bad. They also built I-5 just 7 blocks away.
The "hottest Web startup since February"... what?
I hope you have made progress in the two months since you posted this. I developed an iPhone app called FatWatch, which is modeled after The Hacker's Diet Palm application. Perhaps you can get an iPhone now, if you justify it as an aid in your weight loss effort. :-)
This may be the workout log I've been looking for. I've been wanting a web app that will let me easily enter, e.g., "went for a run", and then allow me to view a graph of my workout history (i.e., how many workouts I've done).
I agree.

I also felt the same way about this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/keith_barry_does_brain_ma...

It raised the topic in a very entertaining way, but never went beyond that.
Does YC require all founders to hack or can one be the business guy you describe? I can't code - I have enough trouble with SQL SELECT statements - but I do think I'm not too shabby at the partnership/sales stuff.
This is a neat idea, but it will be interesting to see how quality artists can be convinced that they should try this business model.
I don't think we have to be regular about it....
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OK, I thought I was having a bit of a tough day at work today (slight head cold but not enough to go back to bed).

I now feel like a whimp.

Thanks for the detailed writeup !
I just wanted to give a shoutout to thesixtyone which I got hooked on to recently. It seems to be a somewhat similar approach: the user is rewarded with karma points for speculating correctly on the future popularity of a song. I suppose step 2 could be to make points redeemable.

FYI: I am not affiliated with thesixtyone nor do I know the founders.
The suburbs around where I grew up had sidewalks... but no one used them. There was no point, you couldn't actually walk anywhere in under an hour.

Oddly enough, we also had some local ordinance that you couldn't ride your bike on the sidewalks, which removed the last use we really had for them.
It's sad that so many companies force overtime without compensation. My time is the most valuable thing in the world to me, I couldn't imaging being given the choice of donating it to my company or finding another job. Maybe I'm just lucky to have avoided that situation so far?

I understand that there might be times when it's necessary but they should be few and far between.
"Some from NYC tend to forget the rest of the state is here."

We don't forget; we just call it "upstate". ;)
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Introduction to Statistical Thought is nice: http://www.stat.duke.edu/~michael/print.pdf

Also I think below links are all quite interesting:

http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html

http://www.stats202.com/
I think we were both using Gentoo at the time, which probably qualifies as "oddball" I guess

More than oddball...Gentoo is just plain retarded. But you have my sympathies and condolences for the hours you lost to Gentoo.

And never let it be said that Gentoo has good package management. Clever, perhaps. But not good. Good package management requires good packaging policies, good maintainers, and good technology. The software involved is only a small part of the picture, and while one could possibly convince me that portage is a reasonably good piece of software, the other two pieces of the equation simply aren't there for Gentoo. And, because the policies of Gentoo are actively hostile to stability and predictability, even if the project does gain enough good maintainers, it will never be a suitable operating system for servers, or any system that you don't want to reinstall every couple of months (unless, of course, their policies change...at which point, the reasons people are so excited about Gentoo will have evaporated and all that will remain is Yet Another Linux Distribution).
Vaguely like 'Stuff To Do', which I ended up open sourcing because I just didn't see the demand in that space. Of course theirs is prettier (lots prettier), and more professional looking. Still, I wonder about making money in that space - it's quite crowded, and there is probably a lot of competition from "good enough" solutions.
"Micromanagement" and "Time Poor" - 2 concerns that scream out when I look at this product.
RescueTime did a fantastic job at removing the "time poor" component for keeping track of where you spend your time, hence living up to its name.

Having worked in the corporate world and in start-ups I can tell you now that most corporate clients already have a time sheet system that is a pain in the a. Employees spend at least 30mins or so a day writing everything they did throughout the day and billing their time where appropriate.

When it comes to getting management feedback for each task you did, again managers are time poor having to deal with more then 1 person in their team + their own tasks from higher management. Hence why performance reviews between you and manager occur every quarter / 6 months / annually and only focus on the high level picture - the stuff that counts - the outcomes / results.

Micromanagement is another issue; no one likes to jot down every action they did. What "matters" is always the end result not the bits in the middle. I.e. taking a client for coffee spending 2 hours out of the office is a step to a potential sale (building rapport). At the end of the day, the sale is what will count on your performance agreement not the coffee break. My manager doesn't want to know that I went to coffee with a client unless I managed to get a sale.

I'm sure some of you would have heard this before but the best workers are those where management give them what they need to do their job and let them do it without micromanaging their time. How and when they do it doesn't matter, all that matters is the end results (outcomes).
YC has no specific requirements, their have in fact been more than one startup with only "business" guys :)
In your experience; is that always true or only for certain keywords?

Sounds like it would be amazingly good for Google if it was true but not sustainable.
Advice on doing development for equity/deferred payment
I am the founder of Ideas2It(www.ideas2it.com) which has a onshore/offshore team. The idea is to be technology partners for startups to bring their ideas to market without taking too much funding. A good case of this model is www.scoobydeal.com, a rails site which we implemented from concept to completion in just 3 months.

Though I am willing to share the risk on ideas I believe in, by taking part of the compensation in equity, I am being repeatedly asked to do the whole work for equity or deferred payment.

There is a particularly interesting(very interesting technology, good background of the founder,etc) project on the table, which I am being asked to do on deferred payment. I.e. payment on Angel funding, till then 1% interest after first 6 months.

What are the pitfall of such a deal? If I go for it, how should I structure the deal?
Before BitTorrent became a company, and I was operating my first startup (which was a web caching and website acceleration appliance vendor), I thought that an amazing business could be built on making BitTorrent a competitive advantage for ISPs rather than merely a huge bandwidth cost. The problem with BitTorrent is that it's wonderful for consumers, and horrible for ISPs. Help solve the ISPs problems while providing better consumer service, and you've got something that ISPs would pay huge for.

Technically I'm not exactly sure how it would be solved...you'd have to look to Akamai for starters, since they've solved the data locality problem in interesting ways. Basically, you'd probably have an aggressive local caching BT tracker and a friendly deal with all of your peering partners to provide lower cost lower priority BT traffic during slow hours. I tinkered with a BT cache for a little while, but gave it up when BitTorrent the company came into existence as I assumed they'd be on that problem in no time, and with the BitTorrent name would be the champs of the block in no time. Turns out, they have no idea how to make BT make money.

Of course, I could be wrong. Millions of consumers vs. a few thousand ISPs makes for a hard decision to make, and a startup usually can't address both markets successfully. And, of course, the only way a BT cache could work is if it were active, like usenet, and was pulling new stuff all the time rather than just on request like a web cache. Which brings up more interesting copyright issues.
Anyone have experience with the machines from System76? I've been looking at their new Darter Ultra laptop:

http://system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_i...
"Many failed attempts by brands to 'crack the social nut' have failed or backfired because they are engineered by people who are foreign to these cultures and who haven’t taken the time to study them properly."

Most attempts by "brands" to "crack the social nut" will fail because our digital communities are organized around authenticity. For the most part, attempts to introduce a constructed brand into these spaces are inauthentic because the brands are not built by the community itself. Their failure is a good thing.
Thank the end of the crack boom for making cities relatively safe again.
People buy into Hackersafe for many reasons, including the fact that a Hackersafe badge and customer link will boost your Google pagerank (this was the case last year, but google is always improving).

Also the little green badge does slightly improve conversion rates for marginal and otherwise unknown ecommerce sites.

So Hackersafe can be some good marketing, even if it's rather a joke from the standpoint of what they check for (if you fail their scan, you really fail; passing tells you little).
It annoyed me that he said "feel free to correct my math," yet there is no way to contact him.

There aren't 504 ways (P(9,3)), but only 84 (C(9,3)), since order is irrelevant.
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Do you guys have an API?
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If it's programming then have them do some programming. My least productive hire kicked ass on the math questions that another programmer asked but did poorly on the practical programming project.
why dont u just shut up companies are doin there best to help out the environment and u just sit on ur butt and complain
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You hit the nail on the head. When valuing a privately held company, an investor will almost always apply a discount for lack of marketability because unlike 100 shares of stock in say IBM, for example, an investor doesn't have an easily available market to quickly sell their shares in a private company.
I've not been a Dell consumer often enough or recently enough to really know about declining quality. My current Dell has been solid, but it's a few years old now, so things could have gotten worse since then. It does have a crappy audio signal flaw (the power is fed into the ADC unfiltered so it has an atrocious buzz when recording), which apparently existed through multiple revisions of the board, without a fix from Dell, despite awareness of the problem and dozens of posts in the Dell forums about it (I guess a redesign was more expensive than sending a USB audio adapter to the few people who complained).

Anyway, I'm tempted by the XPS M1330, which has gotten excellent reviews, and lots of recommendations from HN readers and on reddit. I am about due for a new lappy...the Asus and Thinkpads also look good, but Dell being a bit greener certainly isn't a bad thing.
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Good common sense by Apple...finally. Apparently this app has now been pulled.
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Quote: "It [EU Information Commission] said anyone using Phorm must ask for the consent of users before going ahead with any further trials." Slightly worrying that such a comment needs to even be made.
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thanks! I will check these out.
I have disabled the translucent menubar. But you cannot disable the translucent menus. I have disabled Spaces because it breaks Cmd+Tab switching but I would like to use it if it actually worked.
Seriously, I think this is a bright idea: After all, I could use a less daunting word processor than MS Word that is still fully *.doc-compatible.

The problem is rather: If they sell it at a 30$-price point, how are they going to compete against the shareware crowd?
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The bar for the product is certainly low. The bar for adoption is a much tougher challenge... hopefully Anyvite figures out a way to handle it.
I'm considering to do that. It's just that last time I looked the atheros wifi chipset wasn't supported by Linux out of the box and I was simply too lazy to mess with drivers again.
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The Vaios are insanely sweet - but really expensive. Personally, I have a Panasonic CF-W4. I like it but often experience issues with the low amount of memory (512MB).
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