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Hey all, Chris from Houdini here. This is a new idea we're currently working on - any feedback is greatly appreciated!
iPhone has the basic password to install things, and then beyond that:

1) Adult-rated apps need an explicit approval after the password before they will even install. Also applies to updates.

2) On first launch, apps that want to use badges or notifications or notification sounds have to ask for approval, although it is a generic approval of all three and doesn't discuss what they would be fore.

3) Before an app can use location services (current device location), it has to explicitly ask.
From the site: "The TinyFund is designed to provide monetary assistance of up to $500,000 per title to game developers creating any type of game played on iPhone, iPad or Android including paid and free titles. TinyCo will offer marketing, development and business assistance as needed."
Indeed, what a shame. Well, I hope some other ROM will integrate it then.
But the countries where Spotify is available only make up for 200 million people, out of 730 in Europe.
I dont know if this is naive, but wouldnt the data model/storage strategy of the index be influenced by the ranking algorithms that use it? If thats the case, then I would presume google's index tries to store the data in a form thats efficient for their ranking algorithm to work off of and it might not be in the best format for say bing/yahoo to use.
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What "index" is this article asking Google to open? The index against which they run actual queries has to be tied to Google's core search algorithms, which I doubt they'd want to make public.

So would they open an "index" of web page contents? In this case, why would another search engine access Google's "index" rather than the original server? The original server is guaranteed to be up to date, and there's no single point of failure.
> If by 'index' the author means the data the goolebot (for example) has downloaded from the internet.

That's what the author means by 'index'.
Shoudn't the goal of every technology company be to hire exceptional people?
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OK. So how does this speed anything up?

EDIT: To clarify, how does reducing the amount of bandwidth used speed up anything? Why am I being downvoted for this?
Every second spent on "programming font" choice is a second wasted. Every single second. Twiddling fonts is to programming what applying flame decals is to car racing. If the font doesn't become transparent to you after uhm, about 5 seconds of focusing at the code then you should permanently switch to iPads as you have no business doing any real computing.
... which will be automatically integrated with every Facebook account belonging to users in available countries.
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Here[1] is an account of a psychologist who got held up at gunpoint for almost 20 minutes discovering how he misremembered many of the details he swore he knew.

1: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/04/observations_afterwar...
Wow thats brutal. Poorly organized. Nobody knew to show up.
a lot of the "killer value" comes
from first-class functions

Dealing with first-class functions in Scala is awkward (getting and returning functions requires juggling with generics, currying is half-baked), and if you are ready to make that compromise it can be argued that Java doesn't need first-class functions as long as it has anonymous inner classes.

in statically typed functional languages,
type inference

Scala doesn't have the Hindley-Milner type inference that ML/Haskell have. It only does local type-inference, saving you from some boilerplate, but other than that it doesn't and cannot have type-inference where it is truly needed - in the declaration of functions / generic types.

The entire Haskell standard library could be
rewritten, more or less, in Scala

Haskell relies a lot on type-classes for its polymorphism, which aren't really possible in Scala, and if you are going to work around that, well, the entire Haskell library could be rewritten in Java too with those workarounds, only with more boiler-plate.

The question is, does Scala provide enough value to bother with its deficiencies (the type system is more complex and awkward, the generated code more inefficient especially for Android, which doesn't have the luxury of the Java SE GC).

Well, it does, but for Android at least, a version of Java that had local type inference and a lighter syntax for instantiating anonymous classes -- would have been so much better. And personally I'm not ready to commit to C++ version 2.
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Thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts. I think the niche is a bit wider than that - the response from gaming community has been positive so far, so it suggests quite a few people are having this problem.

Wrt 24 hour marathons/planned games, that is something I am planning on targeting more specifically after the beta.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate it even though I hope you are wrong ;-)

Mike @ Cloudfrag
While I think this is a really cool idea, for some reason the word hiybbprqag comes to mind. :)
Google would never do this.

Their attitude is to take everything in but not to let you automate searches to get data out.

This is the biggest problem I have with search engines - you want to deep index all my sites? Fine, but you better let me search in return - deeper than 1000 results (and ten pages). Give us RSS, etc.
Last.fm does this with their radio. I like to find new music from my friend in Germany (I'm UK based) and will find new good music from time to time.

Haven't you ever been in your friends car and heard a song on their CD and been like "wow that song is great, I wanna get it!" - same concept.

Music is so ineptly social.
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Thanks for the pointers.

1. The design of the site was actually done by a well wisher/professional web developer.

2. I definitely need to work on the copy.

3. Blogging is definitely an option I am considering. I am also looking into providing a private forum to people who have purchased my ebook.

4. I had not thought about adding photo/video testimonials but that definitely sounds like it would be helpful.

Thanks for your suggestions!
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> I would bet the true negative:false negative ratio for a good VC is very, very high

I'll take the other side of that bet! VCs are trying to optimize their TP:FP ratio; they don't get paid for minimizing FNs. I'd bet, in fact, that their TN:FN ratio is little if any better than average.

There are exceptions, but VCs on the whole have a reputation for groupthink, not for being visionaries.
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This is a side project I have been working on while at college to help make it easier to have my favorite web apps, rss feeds, videos, and search engine wherever I go and whatever computer is available.

Right now, I am just looking for feedback on the concept, bugs, etc. I also will apologize for it is still being a little buggy so be gentle and it prefers Webkit browsers.

Also, I am about to graduate in three weeks in a major I don't care for(Business Administration). So am asking for advice on if I get nowhere on this, could this site help me get a job being a web programmer so I don't have to look for a non-tech job?

http://www.republics.us/
basically his point is that the internet is the open index. At least that's what I think I understand.

Centralizing it all so that one company has to run the index would mean that company would have to foot the entire bandwidth bill which they won't do, so it would end up distributed as the internet already is. It's just a shifting of the traffic to a centralized db which would need to be kept up to date.
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I think they are referring to the data in its rawest format before they have indexed and ranked the information themselves. They will all crawl the information in exactly the same way. They will just take the plain text and store it. I don't think any bot would actually do anything else with the data on the fly.

If you think about it, it does make sense in a lot of respects. I have dealt with a lot of companies that sell data, the only difference is this data is freely available to everyone so everyone thinks they should crawl the information themselves.

The only people who lose out are the people paying the bandwidth bills. The internet would actually be slower due to the amount of information passing around when it is not needed.

This idea makes more sense the more we discuss it
I definitely plan on running the business again as soon as I have recovered from my accident, but until then, I was hoping the ebook would help keep me busy and earn some income.
By whose measure is it the "programming language of the year?"
Google doesn't know when you will update content on your site so it has to almost constantly hit it with crawler bots. The idea would be to move towards a push-based model wherein sites could push updates to an open index instead of waiting for bots to crawl the site and use up extra bandwidth.

Of course, if this is the primary issue, I don't see why Google couldn't just implement a closed push-based index. When your site updates, you push the changes to Google. The index is still closed but it solves the bandwidth problem without opening Google resources.
I think let's just agree that Jpeg has a lot of problems and we'd like to seek the best replacement. Obviously high-compression rate is important or else everything should migrate to PNG, but the current Jpeg tradeoff between quality and size is not just not very good. Also interestingly, there seems to be a very wide spectrum of Jpeg lib quality from decent to very bad, and I found out about that while experimenting with WebP.

WebP is different from WebM in that there are IP issues. I think WebP is more like SVG/Canvas in that vendors don't see any "hurt" in supporting them once there is enough momentum behind. Of course, your point about making sure that we don't want to support any half-baked image format. I think WebP is beyond half-baked, and an initial pledge of experimental support -- instead of an outright rejection which seems to be tone -- doesn't hurt.
The user base might be really huge. So, solutions such as google apps are not financially viable. Hosting your own server might be a pain. Please share any experience (exactly how painful is that). Both cloud based and server based are options and something really cost effective is desired.
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The whole article is about information in its rawest form and nothing to do with searchable content.

You would write something that takes the information they are referring to in this article, it's how you digest and index that information yourself that makes the difference
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Sorry to sound pessimistic, but how much could you change in a 24 hour hackathon? I've seen a surge lately of hackathons and they seem to discredit the entrepreneurs that spend weeks, months, and even years on their projects. Furthermore, they perpetuate the notion among non-techies that you can build the next google or facebook in a weekend.
You're totally wrong about the (true negative|false negative) ratio. Most early-stage businesses that pitch VCs get turned down by more than half the VCs they approach (this is changing as angel rounds are getting businesses to traction). The phenomenon of "hot deals" is very rare.

So for every VC investment into a Facebook, Zappos, Zynga, etc. there are multiple VCs who turn it down, pushing this ratio under 1.
Videos at Disrupt aren't showing up. At least not in IE9.
But couldn't you copy that memory as well? Eventually the 1's and 0's are crossing a bus somewhere and you don't need iTunes for that.
That's basically exactly what I did for the six months in Japan. It's amazing how people's impressions are changed by one small detail. :-)
Bummer for the guys who weren't present when their names were called.
What does he mean by "Design iterations based on user testing"?
Not really. The goal is to hire people who get the specific job done for the least amount of money. Lots of companies pay lip service to wanting exceptional people, but they pay crap and have a horrible work environment.
Yes, we could give you the logs,.. but if we have a multiple tenants in one machine, then the logs are going to show those users activity as well... This is a little trickier than made out to be.. Still doable, but some of the companies/products mentioned, (i.e. Salesforce) have customers on there that wouldn't want you seeing they're activity. You could begin to draw assumptions about some salesforce customer you share a machine with by looking at their log activity. That company would then not be very happy with salseforce...
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>The only reason you can rip a CD is because of copyright law
Without copyright law you could rip a CD...
I was really impressed by this. None of the questions he asked were so surprising, but when I asked myself the same questions, such as which demographic desperately needs you, I was embarrassed at my lack of good answers.
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What is the difference? I am having a little trouble drawing the distinction.

Employment means you are employed. If you start a company, you are an employee of said company ("self-employed" is a misnomer if you have a corporation). "A project," implies that there is not a company, otherwise you would say that you started a company. "A project," does not constitute employment.

You can talk about edge cases of pet projects making sales, but it doesn't change the fact that claiming a project as employment experience is unlikely to get you very far.

Again, I am not saying that people should not work on projects. Just don't confuse projects with employment.
Companies that care about their employees will invest on them, one of the ways they can invest in people is by training them.
> Surely kids as brilliant as these ones sound are getting full scholarships to college?

I see it's been a while since you went to college. Let me introduce you to a concept called "need-based aid:" it's virtually impossible to get a full-tuition scholarship at a top school based on academic achievement.

See also, market segmentation -- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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I would genuinely like to know what you hope to convey with your comment.

People shouldn't vote with their dollars? People who vote with their dollars shouldn't bother the mighty giants with their lowly opinions? Only a CEO can affect change within a company? Opinions are worthless unless they garner the attention of the CEO?
Not at all. But in contrast to most forums and message boards, people seem to be pretty intelligent around here.
Sweet! Any plans to provide this as an add-on in Heroku?
I can understand why fine-grained permission selection would be an onus to developers without really providing much of a benefit for the average user, but I would love seeing brief explanations under each permission ("needs internet because: downloads ads", "needs to read messages because: analyzes text").
so basically your conclusion is that something like a dedicated standing desk or the adjustable geekdesk is needed to make standing work over time?
> It'd be much more fascinating if you found relics of ancient civilisation which weren't concentrated in that part of the world.

The earliest egyptian pyramids were ~2600BC, corresponding with the rise of civilizations in China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Emperor) and Peru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caral). We've found a lot more iconic relics of Egyptian civilization from that time period, however.
The title is a bit misleading. The author suggested it and the Google Brazil head supported it and said 'You should write a position paper on it'.
> I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.

Unless all your friends have shitty taste.

note: I do find it a technically interesting feature
I might just have skipped something o heroku's docs, but is there any similsr service/app to allow spinning dynos automagically as needed (in traffic peaks)?
did someone correct it for you?
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How long did it take you to build this? What did you use?
I agree it's not going to make millions, but it might be a viable side business. Niches are where it's at for small bootstraps! If your friend is sufficiently technical to build the site himself, on the cheap, I'd encourage him to give it a try. Who knows, it might bring in a couple thousand a month once it matures. Hey, for most of us, that's worth doing!
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Numbers from NYMag article:

"In the past 30 years, private-­college tuition and fees have increased, in constant 2010 dollars, from $9,500 a year to more than $27,000. Public-college tuition has increased from $2,100 to $7,600. Fifteen years ago, the average student debt at graduation was around $12,700; in 2009, it was $24,000. Over the past quarter-century, the total cost of higher education has grown by 440 percent."

"The cost of college in the past 30 years has gone up tenfold. Health care has only gone up sixfold, and inflation has only gone up threefold. Not only is it a scam, but the college presidents know it. That’s why they keep raising tuition." -James Altucher

http://nymag.com/news/features/college-education-2011-5/
Solarized is nice, but PragmataPro is vomitous. There's such a thing as too compact, and man does that qualify.

I use Consolas at 16pt, but I also do most of my work on a 2560x1600 monitor. Consolas at 14pt on my laptop.
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I was hoping to actually create a brand out of a whole bunch of "easilydoable" ideas but even with this being my most successful idea, I am having so much trouble marketing it that it's truly frustrating.
1) The charges will be in hourly increments to keep things simple. I might explore different options in future.

2) I'm not sure about this one, I think it might need to be an option the user can set. I would hate to be in the position where someone asks for a refund because they forgot to turn their server off. It could be ok if there is a big warning that ensures they realise they have to pay if it is left on.

3) Yes, definitely pre-payment. Credit card on file is a nice idea, I will look at that in future.

4) Couldn't agree more. There will be multiple locations so people can choose the closest one.

Thanks staunch, I appreciate the feedback.
Unless you'd otherwise be spending your time doing something else unproductive, in which case it doesn't matter.
A bit off-topic, but I find it interesting how motivated people are to post stuff on HN. It took just under 2 minutes for the person to find the post, 'digest' it and submit it. The video is 50 minutes long.
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How about a more descriptive title?

ie.

"WordPress adds a shedload of security fixes and hardening in 3.1.3 release"

Nothing in the guidelines here say titles have to be so plain vanilla.
From my understanding, the premise is that the 'index' generated from each crawled site will be some set of metadata smaller than the site's actual content. So instead of many robots, each crawling through all the data on your site, there could be one bot, which updates a single (smaller) index that all search engines can access.

I agree that Google's index is probably optimized to work with their search algorithm. From what the author claims, though, this doesn't mean that Google would be losing anything by allowing other engines to use the index, as "all the value is in the analysis" of the index.
This is not #twitter, you don't need #tags.
Ask HN: Ok, so i have an awesome app, and 10K in budget, now what?
I am a tech guy, creating apps is easy. I can get around the coding, design, ux and make it shiny. But how the hell do i get users? 10K/life is all the money i can spend on this.

Social sites are bullshit, unless you got an army of friends, no one is going to notice you.

CPC? Even with insanely low 0.2 per click, and 5% ridiculously high conversion, that’s only 2500 users. Only 5% of them will be loyal users, so we are down to 125. What about next month?

Hoping to get noticed by techcrunch / mashable is stupid.

SEO is also no good, it will take months to get ranked. And If the idea is unique it won’t help (did anyone search for "how do i send 140 char messages" before twitter, or even after?). Trying to rank for more general keywords like ‘find friends online’ is retarded, would take years.

Solution one: Get lucky, get noticed by the players.
Solution two: Get funding, switch 10K/life to 30K/month.
Solution three: ????.
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=losing%20weight&...

This is strange:

US Web Search activity for losing weight and rental homes (r=0.9418)
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I like the concept and it seems like you've already got a handful of good ideas there. For a nontechnical guy you did a great job!

The design isn't bad except for a few things:
1. The choice of the "Yanone Kaffeesatz" font. It just doesn't look right to me and it's a little distracting.
2. The blue link color seems off too. Maybe something darker would go better.
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It's amazing how good pg is at sizing up startup ideas within minutes (seconds?). I imagine with enough experience many can achieve this, but impressive nonetheless. Not sure if it was the nerves or what, but it seemed like the startups chosen couldn't quite get the "tell me your idea in 1-2 sentences" down pat. Took a while longer to see where they were going.

Fascinating for non-YC folk to see this live.
It sounds like you and your friends are the type of people I am building this for.

Email invites are on the to-do list, although I am not sure whether or not I will enable that for the beta yet. I haven't thought about the implementation yet, but I will keep you guys in mind.

Thanks for the feedback!
Definitely not a record.

I remember a professor at Princeton who got his first PhD at 17, but he was bored, so he got his second at 19. One was in physics, the other in mathematics, but I don't remember the order.
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Also, why not use a single base station at each location for all mobile mobile service providers? Rather than having multiple 3G base stations for each provider, polluting our radio space? I think when there is competition, there is always a multiple of something, it's just a fact of open market and we may have to live with it.
The relevant term for what you describe in psychology circles is "rumination" in case you're interested in that kind of thing.