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nationalizing all of the media doesn't sound communist, it sounds like dictatorial fascism.
Freud is not taught in psychology departments, Marx is not taught in economics, and Hegel is hardly taught in philosophy

I don't know much about Hegel but there's a simple reason that Marx and Freud are not taught anymore: because we know that they were wrong.
Is the critical mass really a problem for dating sites? In Germany, the big dating sites simply spend a lot of money on advertising, which seems to work well enough. Also, I would expect that people frequently switch dating sites, so new sites should have relatively good odds of attracting new members.
The Wall Street Journal disses Wall Street!? ZOMFG
Ditto. Terrible omission from the project page for a graphing lib.
Creative at what cost?

Politically correct at what cost ?
The government would not have any role in producing or censoring media. Just paying for it, according to what is listened to the most, seen, read, etc. This would actually result in a flowering of original media; successful artists could get paid without having to rely on big businesses to distribute their work, and people would be free to remix music, re-edit video and text, etc.

And in a sense there would be no "censorship of the wallet"- when anyone can read science papers, books, etc., there's a lot more intellectual freedom.

Hopefully I've allayed your concerns, at least in theory. The government has a hand in almost every walk of life, and not all of it takes a fascistic turn. The Founding Fathers even used government to make patents and copyrights possible :).
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I was just going off of what Graham wrote- "But no one wants to use a dating site with only 20 users—which of course becomes a self-perpetuating problem. So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that you're going to offer. That's the easy half. Focus on novel ways to get around the chicken and egg problem."

Since I have no specific familiarity with dating sites, all I could suggest was a vague, general approach. Of course a big dating site might have a lot of money to advertise, but a small one probably can't afford it. But that's obviously one possible way to get some users.
Why there are no viruses for OS X
I don't know whether to be enthralled or appalled that my startup's idea isn't mentioned on "the list".

I'm going with enthralled!
Interview with the head of Stanford's new Pervasive Parallelism Lab
I recently deleted my account because I don't think RescueTime can measure my productivity.

The thing is that it tracks application names and not its content. For example, If I used TextMate for 5 hours (which is in the "Dev-Tools" category and set to be +2 productive) the app doesn't know for what I've used it. I could've used TextMate to do something totally unproductive.
Even when I use TM for coding, how does the app know that I'm working on the project I should be working on? I use TextMate for so many things, its impossible to track if I'm using it productivly.

Same with websites, you can't tell the productivity of a domain if you don't analysize the content. Is wikipedia productive? It depends on the article.
IRC and IM are also good examples. The app doesn't know if I'm using it to be productive or just chatting.

Then there's iTunes. I often leave it open, dim the screen and do non-computer stuff. After 500 hours of tracking, iTunes was my most "used" app because of this. Oh, and I set it to be productive -2, so the webinterface showed that I was very unproductive every month.

Even showing me how long I've used an app doesn't really increase my productivity. Here's a quote from one of pg's essays (disconnecting distraction):

"At first I tried rules. For example, I'd tell myself I was only going to use the Internet twice a day. But these schemes never worked for long. Eventually something would come up that required me to use it more than that. And then I'd gradually slip back into my old ways."

Same happens when showing me that I've used application X for Y hours. Shomething always comes up and I slip back.

Don't misunderstand this, I like the RescueTime guys and the work they've done, it's just that the idea of tracking application names/website uri's isn't perfect.
I think that your assumption is incorrect. The optical sensors are comparing images, currently looking for translation. There's not reason they couldn't look for rotation.

However, it is a firmware, rather than software change.
New images show water once flowed freely on the surface of Mars
Android Will Have an App Store Like the iPhone
Ancient DNA used to attack present-day diseases
The hardware is open source too.
Kevin Mitnick signs tell-all book deal
Videobox: Lightbox for videos
I don't think dating sites and "critical mass" are bound together forever. Change the game with a new approach. Dating sites are walled-off surroundings. That has to change.
Its more of a social survey of the current economic situation and the (lack of) outrage among the masses at this point in history. It's off topic but a worthwhile read.
Bug-free software, possible?
This is a big part of why I like the idea of an interconnected web of knowledge - as opposed to the silos most students are forced into today.

As long as the learner is interested in one small area of knowledge, they can easily follow links to related areas they didn't know they cared about. Because the system shows how knowledge interrelates, motivation in one area can spread naturally around the system. This way, learners work with their interests, instead of being forced to think about things they don't know why they should care about.

Maths is a great example. A lot of kids dislike maths because it seems boring and irrelevent to them. But since maths underpins so much of knowledge, many learners would find themselves needing to understand a mathematical concept to advance in their primary interests - and because they can then see the benefit of learning maths they become self-motivated, and perhaps even gain an appreciation for maths in its own right.

So much of education today goes against the individual's grain - relying on a factory-mentality, where each child/product must move along a variety of production lines in a pre-ordained manner. With a system like the one I imagine, the learning process works with the learner's natural motivations, rather than against it.
About half of them are hilarious. "Solve the chicken and egg problem". He should have added "solve the teenage angst problem". You don't solve it - you endure it.

Ah youth. I wish I had known about YC when I was more idealistic.
FAR too complex - you already sound like you're demeaning someone who is going to have co-founder as part of his title. How's it going to be three to six months from now? Are you EVER going to see him as an equal? Because if you don't, the entire project will collapse.

And by the way, you'd be shocked how much of a business person you'll need even with your first idea - a person to do relations while you code, a person to do design, UI, all of that (I'm on the business side, but I've piled on a load of coding and non-coding skills to make sure I carry my weight with any web start-up).
So the big question everyone is asking is, now that this new release doesn't include Installer.app, what is the point? Would I still be able to SSH to my iPhone and run a tunnel to use it in a tether like fashion with my laptop?
This is one of the most intense links and discussions I've ever seen on HN/YC. I'm going to have to take an hour at least to sift through 185+ comments because I've already seen several valuable insights. Just incredible response.
At the root of many issues I think is interface design. I'm not just talking about software, I'm talking about hardware. Computers really haven't changed how we interact with them for a good, what, 30 years? Is the mouse and keyboard really the best ways to interact with a computing system? Why don't we have integrated HUDs in our glasses, all of our new cars (granted some like BMW have them optionally on expensive models), or even on clothes and/or accessories we wear?

It would seem to me first that maybe we should rethink human-computer interaction in the first place.
Ask YC: What do you think about Startuply?
Our new site for startup jobs launched on TC early this morning, and we'd love to hear what you think. Play around with it, and you can easily reach us through the feedback box on the left side of the site (thanks to the Anyvite guys).
Um, to determine what is listened to the most, don't they need to track the listening habits of every American?

Ignoring that, do you really want guys like Al Gore (want to censor Prince), Hillary Clinton (wants to censor GTA) or John McCain (wants to censor the Sopranos) having the ability to stop payments to artists they don't like?
A decent client-server model of office could definitely take it down. Sharepoint is ridiculously heavy for what's needed. It has too many features and doesn't present the key ones easily. Document production is conceptually simple in people's minds. Even I have found it awkward to adjust to appropriate use of sharepoint (and I still hate it).

Office users need something that places a genuinely excellent wordprocessing frontend as a frontend to a repository. Within this you'd have to facilitate good search, allow for data flexibility. Generally at the moment you need to be able to produce views of word processed documents as PDF, single-page HTML, multi-page HTML (oh - there's a style need I missed in my other comment), XML and IP-based API. The frontend needs to effortlessly handle massive documents without compromising the frontend and it needs to be possible to edit all of a document at once, or sectors of it. All this can be coordinated with a smart approach to use of the existing filesystem model.

The storage format needs to be textual to facilitate source-control and version diffing.

With the office space it's important to separate the things that users care about from what they don't. They care about the lovely frontend and a small subset of features. They don't really care if it backs on to a powerful custom engine. They care about features in the big-picture sense, but would not necessarily demand that they be offered in the frontend if they could be better achieved through another mechinism. Fortunately Microsoft have provided stunning tools for third party developers who want to extend Word and Excel and there are masses of good docs around on it.

Office can be done, but the people doing it need to look at the problem itself rather than trying to beat Microsoft at their own game by producing yet another crap monolithic arbitrary-format grinder. Think wiki but with a fantastic frontend (and by that I don't mean some horrid javascript GUI in a browser that is unresponsive and chooses to sometimes lose your data).
> some sort of trading system that mixed FX with a whole bunch of wacky synthetics to allow you to easily take positions on things which are normally more complicated

Heh, what's this? I worked in FX at one point in time and found the whole thing very intriguing and inspiring. Maybe you can elaborate? There could be an overlap of interests.
The health care market in the US is severely dysfunctional and will either collapse or be dramatically reformed within the next decade. If your product is dysfunctional enough to make money in today's market it'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes. If your product is sensible then you may be stuck waiting 10 years until incentives are aligned to direct money toward sensible things.
I'd point out that some of Popper's criticism of what science is and what sciences isn't was based on a response to Marxism, which was wondrously flexible enough to handle any sort of new information without changing its underlying beliefs.
Is the American economy too big to fail?
"His message was signed 'moot', a code name he uses on 4chan for reasons no one has yet fathomed."

I burst out laughing at that.
> "Human Resource Investment"

Oh yeah, humans just love to be called 'resources'.
This should be a bad hardware vs. good hardware debate, not a closed source vs. open source debate - people who try and turn these problems with an obviously poorly made product into an sort of 'open source debate' are missing the point.
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You raise a valid point. Implementation counts for a lot, as it does in everything, I suggested the data be anonymized. So, the govt. knows how many people have downloaded something, but not who. If that is being abused or music is being censored, I'm obviously not in favor of that.

My argument for why nothing should be excluded or censored, is that it isn't presently censored, and since fans of every type of music and media pay taxes, it should all be covered. And I'm certainly not suggesting politicians have any influence over that; I'm suggesting putting that in the hands of judges or arbitrators.

But, the whole idea is really to figure out a rough idea of what the artist would have earned under the "old" (present) market. That might be doable simply by tracking radio play, pop culture references, BitTorrent shares, downloads, how many remixes get made, sales numbers from concerts, Youtube views, etc. That would not be very invasive at all.

By the way, government courts are already frequently called in to assess how much one company owes another for something, or the market value of a service, etc. So the government already does this- however good it already does it, is probably the baseline on how good it would be implemented without any unusual data.
You can certainly approach it. The problem is, you can't tell for sure when you're there, unless a program has so few execution paths that you can check them by enumeration the way you'd check a proof.
No. I am using philosophy in its historical sense. The heavy use of predicate logic is a very recent occurrence dating to early in the last century or so.

Hegel's a bit thick for me, but I'd make the argument that Popper did with Marx that Hegel failed to provide a bold, falsifiable prediction. From what I understand, he made some great observations about how spirit evolves, but there was nothing you could hang your hat on -- not enough definition to make useful predictions or prove one way or another. No matter what happened, it could be explained as part of the historical dialectic. Hey that's great philosophy, but it's not science. It is not provable in any fashion.

You're right that the use of predicate logic has grown so in philosophy departments that one would think that philosophy is based on it. The jury is still out, in my opinion. The problem of induction (particularly Nelson Goodman's take) raises questions about whether predicate statements like if-then or a or ~b have real, applicable meaning.

Oddly enough, this is exactly the point I am making -- that a knowledge of the people and history of a subject bears direct relation to current problems in the field. That by saying "oh we don't teach X anymore, he was wrong." -- especially in philosophy -- we're acting a bit foolish.
A monthly email with playback history would be better: and the option for a voluntary payment to be dispersed proportionally to whom you listened, with the option of being listed on artists' or creators' audience list.

To do that, one's web browser and media player would each have a plugin that updates the central website's playback repository. Maybe an OS level app that integrates with many possible playback apps without the user worrying about specific plugins. Spyware free of course.

See this: http://www.oddsock.org/tools/gen_fairtunes/
I've been thinking the same thing. Some of the ways I think we can change the way this happens is by integrating multi-touch and gesture technologies and having a "double screen clamshell" design. I've seen designs like that around the internet, but I think that would be the way to go as a gradual move towards more natural human-computer interfaces.
People need to be told when to be outraged. Most people, including the majority of people reading these words, don't understand how the banking system works, even on a simple level, or how stock exchanges work, on a basic level, or how the mortgage system works, except via media oversimplifications. This isn't some symptom of our 'declining modern times' or some such, it is the way it always have been. Hell, most farmers don't even know how to be good farmers, feel free to replace 'farmer' there with any occupation. Most people just aren't very smart, and getting even a 'regurgitate the basic facts' understanding of any of the topics I mentioned above would take them weeks of fulltime study. So how the hell can they be mad? Mad at what? The complex system they will never understand and doesn't seem to have any effect on their lives, or the media which tells them it's nothing to be mad about, confirming their day to day impressions?
Sounds more like Techcrunch are exacting their 'revenge' for Uncov and giving these guys a kicking as they launch. Couldn't have seen that one coming...

I've used pressflip.com a little bit, but I think their (and any other search engine's) problems are going to be:

1. Competing with the default Google search box/tool bar in a lot of people's browsers. When I want to search for something, I instinctively go to the handy toolbar, not pick a search engine bookmark or URL.

2. Offer search results that are easily distinguishable as better than Google's by some criteria.
Ok, objection noted. The name isn't important- you can call it "Pie Love" if you want.

In case you couldn't tell from the post, I was talking about investing in the talent people have. I'm not talking about slave labor, I'm talking about doing the kind of stuff Y Combinator does, and making it even more personal and supportive over the long haul. A real partnership, so that people are even more likely to succeed in the long run.
It does slightly worry me that the bubble is growing and getting frothier. When you start seeing companies starting up to serve companies starting up, you have to wonder. Is there that large a market for such a niche? Do monster etc do such a bad job?

The site itself looks cool though. Although I don't understand the business model. Recruiters and job sites etc would expect a large commission on each successful pairing, but I can't see anything like that on startuply.

Sorry to be slightly down on it, but I can't quite see how it can grow that big, or make revenue. Are you planning to expand out of the 'startup niche' and take on the big job sites? If so what will you do better than them?
It has no genes. What's displayed is the genome.
The second (it's always the second). And you're right, I was wrong, the maximum efficiency of a power plant is more like 50%.

Perhaps I was thinking of the efficiency of the turbines rather than the whole process.
it seems to me that you have really nothing to offer, considering you can only manage 10 pages and a one line comment. If you only want the design and not the reasons for it then you can start here, http://web.archive.org/web/20060615193321/creatocracy.com/pr...
Looks interesting, but has anyone got a text version of the same information that won't consume 46 minutes of my life?
This is pretty much what universities do, especially the more elitist kind. Alumni don't have a contractual obligation to pay x% of their income, but in practice they end up making donations to their alma mater for the rest of their life.

However I don't like this idea at all, it's what creates elitism and closed circles in the first place. Our society already is institutionalized to the hilt, I wished people again found their natural ability to create trust relationships, from scratch.
As I go along...

1) First thing I care about is localising the jobs to my area. I live in London, and most jobs on this site are irrelevant. I was only able to localise to London from the "Startup Companies" tab.

2) Only one job in London, but oh well, I guess it's still a new site. Surprised not to see Songkick on there, considering a) they're YC-funded, b) they're looking for rails hackers atm.

3) Clicking on the map brought me to the company description (I suppose because i had to browse by company to drill down to London), and i had to find a link on the right hand side to figure out what the job was. If there's only one job opening, it should really be displayed too, surely?

4) Interestingly, I clicked on the "Head of engineering" job for Covestor, and was surprised to find that although the company is in NY, the job is in central London... Why wasn't it on the map?

I think it would really help your traction with international users to:
1) Make it easy to drill down by geography.

2) Allow jobs to be attached to locations, not just companies

3) Make a guess at determining the visitor's country (very easy with libraries like GeoIP) and automatically drill down to their country by default.

Hope this helps.
Ok, replace "ideas" in my comment with "worthy ideas." Still applies.
Tag Maps: Animated Tag Clouds designed for Long Tail Navigation
Backing into per-second transactions from larger numbers is far more suspect, Holmes. Those transactions
could be spread out perfectly evenly over the course of a day (hint: not likely), or 80% of that traffic might come in a 6 hour window in a pattern shaped like a bell.
The problem is that productivity is a function of both time and what useful product was derived. RescueTime is using time to measure both. It has no effective way to tell if anything worthwhile was produced. For example, the statistic about users achieving an average 9% increase in productivity in 3 months actually means that they increased the proportion of time spent in applications labeled productive by 9%, the assumption being that the two are absolutely correlated.
It would be nice to have European startup community represented more there - or perhaps brand another site to serve folks with EU-wide working capability.

Easier said than done perhaps, given the cultural and linguistic diversity but as a soon-to-be jobhopper towards Central Europe with natural affinity towards startups, this sort of thing would be sweet.
No I couldn't tell, because I stopped reading at "human resources". But since you stand corrected I'll stand corrected too and wrote a thoughtful reply above.
Great design is the difference between Apple's version of no extra crap, and Google's.
Don't underestimate open-source fans. I know a bunch of guys who just can't wait to get their hands dirty with this phone. I believe OpenMoko will be a success later on.
put simply, .com is a brand
no space for a 'stealth' startup without entering in dummy info.
To give you one idea about the design and how it would treat people like you within it, (I notice that your kama on HN (jerry5) is -10) The creatocracy recognizes that one size does not fit all, treats all according to their history and respect. You would find that your voice counted less with regards voting rights and you may well find that if your attitude became a burden on others that your tax level would rise higher than others.

Self organizing self regulating. Feedback is an essential component!
Very good and simple to implement feedback.
Sounds vaguely similar to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71871
I certainly agree with that. The way to displace Google is to work on something they despise as inconsequential, the way the "portals" in the late 90s did search.

There are lots of things they despise as inconsequential: stupid consumerish stuff like celebrity gossip, cool design, things that aren't technically demanding, etc...