skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't think the JVM is the savior, applets are a far cry from a good example. Applets usually cause the browser to lazy load the entire JVM as a plug-in, from scratch. Very little effort has been put forth to make this process fast. It's likely if the JVM was directly integrated, it would remain resident.
Nah, there isn't enough money to be stolen here.
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Squareeater has a page about the science from real journals:
http://squareeater.com/howitworks.html

From that page:
<i>We are often asked "aren't the effects just placebo?". While there certainly have been users whose response is largely imagined, there have been a number of studies (see research below) published in legitimate scientific journals drawing a correlation between binaural beats and brainwave functions. While the research is insufficient at this point to fully understand how the brain reacts with entrainment, a variety of responses have been well documented.</i>
Mono team presses on with new startup after Attachmate layoffs
Laughable.

On 26 March 2010 the North Korean military launched a torpedo sinking a US ally's warship, killing 46 of it's 108 crew during a time of peace. The Cheonan represented a significant loss to the South Korean people, and though economic relations between the two nations broke down, no real military action was taken by either the US or South Korea.

And now you're telling me we'll go to war if someone takes out the internet?
I'm inclined to think that the management help (or "help" depending on one's attitude) that typically accompanies funding plays a significant role here. Funded companies usually get access to market(ing) expertise that solo people don't. I don't think that's an absolute rubric, but it can help companies penetrate.
You're always going to feel hobbled by a standards-based, compatibility-driven platform like the web where you must maintain compatibility with fairly ancient software. This is just the way things are. If it wasn't the web, it'd be whatever layer was used to allow your applications to run across multiple devices.
The secret power of bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are special links that users can add to their browser’s favorites.These special links include code (i.e. not just a target URL), and they trigger various kinds of useful functionality, allowing you to modify and extend any web page.Once you begin using and building your own, you will no longer see web pages as static elements that you have no control over.
You are right that any truly transformative tech company has raised outside money. However, it seems like there is a shadow tech scene comprised of substantial companies that have self funded. e.g.

CSN Stores - $300MM+ annual revenue/ bootstrapped

MailChimp - Approaching $100MM/ bootstrapped

Club Penguin - $350MM acquisition, heard they had a little angel money, but no VC

Ganz/Webkinz - Kind of a startup within a small manufacturing biz, but they have mid 9 figures in revenue.

SparkFun/iFixit - Both $20+MM in revenue with no outside investment.

Provocraft has $100MM+ in virtual good sales

Granted, most of these aren't household names in the tech world, but all thrive based on web tech. I'm sure there are others beyond the ones I know, but there seems to be a playbook that can get a company to $100MM+ without VC.

In closing, I agree with your thesis, and Sequoia's old homepage would back you up 100%, but do you think companies like the ones above are just outliers or are not successful enough?
However, the energy costs are upfront and non-recurring. The number of bit coins produced every 4 years is halved, capping out at about 21,000,000.
Beware of online filter bubbles
And the kicker: The AMI you suggest qualifies as free for a year with a new AWS account. Free hosting for a year to play around with Node. Thanks a lot!
http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/research-pape...

It's possible that the design could be flawed, but the same is true for browser implementations and mobile application sandboxing.
And having our more specific needs met. As a consumer, I have never bought into this idea that I need packaged channels. I am happily moving along into the on-demand culture, a culture that is also crossed with intelligent recommendation systems tailored to me as opposed to the general viewing public in an area.
90 of top 200 sites have no mobile version. Opportunity?
FYI, if the developer is reading this, please let me delete events from the widget.
Alan Cooper, Father of Visual Basic."windows api was a technical embarrassment"
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perhaps, but being paid _something_ if significantly better than getting nothing at all -- let us not forget that in their heyday, CD prices went up to $15-$18 apiece, and people paid because there was simply no other option.I seriously doubt that the record industry wants to made obsolete to everyone but the few vinyl enthusiasts that are still out there.
The Best Ruby Books
July 09, Tumblr Did 250 Million PgV. May 16, 2011: Tumblr Did… 250 Million PgV
I mailed him about it earlier, he says he hasn't decided on a license yet.
Yes it does, but I'm having so much fun deploying these things, I've created more than one... =)
> Do you have cited studies to back this up?

At first I thought this was satire. You'll excuse me if I take this in a more interesting direction.

Cited studies are not the first and last word on anything, especially when the question is "are scientists better than everyone else?"

Cited studies promote all kinds of false or questionable beliefs, particularly on political issues. As far as finding a study that answers the specific question "are diverse businesses better run?", I promise you won't have to look very far or very hard.

A common sense, thoughtful argument, backed up by information, trumps studies every time. And, surprisingly, an error-prone poll of a population of average intelligence trumps an intellectual's well-thought-out argument---this is why we have polling stations instead of a politburo.
Understanding this attitude towards both blog posts and previously published content is very, very, very important for people publishing on the Internet, which should be substantially every business on HN. It came up in discussions with two clients and two prospects just in the last month alone: whatever you make, don't call it a blog post, or it will a) autocommoditize the perceived quality of the piece and b) cause it to start losing value immediately upon publication, which is the exact opposite of what you want.
The applet model had/has major issues:

* Takes way too long to load the JVM. Deal-breaker for many sites.

* Horrible (AWT) and complicated (Swing) UI toolkits that ignored any look-and-feel parity with the rest of the web site or even the web browser itself.

* The environment is controlled by Oracle. I don't think they're looking to compete with JS, Flash and Silverlight. Thus web applets (except for niche internal apps) are dead, RIP.
> Construct a list of the most successful technology startups however you like

At this stage in my life, I'm not so interested in most, but in average, meaning: sure all of the really huge companies took funding, but are people who took funding, on average, more successful? In other words, I'm more interested to a surer path to a million dollars than an outside shot at 100 million.

I don't know the answer, but it's an interesting question.
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I haven't worked with many other languages, but in my experience, most PHP projects are a tangled mess that are hard enough to figure out when you're an expert, much less a novice. I would recommend a language with a better user-base, and one less susceptible to newbies building big projects. I'd wager that given any 100 PHP projects vs any 100 Rails projects, the rails projects would be easier to read and understand.
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At first glance I thought the title inferred that Tumblr hadn't increased in traffic in two years, which was very confusing. A better title would be something along the lines of "Tumblr now does as much traffic in one day as it used to do in one month."
Any comments/suggestions/questions are most welcome.
He even ported his tcc compiler to it. Brilliant! I wonder if we could tap into the device file system. Given the increasing number of sensors in mobile phones and no standard way of reading from them, a linux like interface would be awesome.

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int f = open("/dev/android_accelerometer");
double ax = f.read();
double ay = f.read();
double az = f.read();
printf ("Current 3d acceleration: %d %d %d", ax, ay, az);
return 0;
}
I agree that China no longer fits the traditional definition of "Communist". Then again, Maoism didn't quite fit the mold either. China has a strong societal tradition that is different than the west.

While they may not be ideologically communist, China does continue to practice the governance style of communist governments. Think about the Soviet Union's model -- a major part of the Soviet story was purging the old in favor of the new, "scientific" way. China is doing a similar thing, but through different means. The "science" may have been quakery (witness the Aral Sea), but the central planners saw themselves as guided by logic and science, not petty feelings or popularity.
Got halfway through the list and gave up. So no one builds products anymore.
Which technologies get better faster?
So I guess you share your photo's via email still? Really, theres only a few you know would be interested in seeing those, but you share them with all.
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The entire point of NaCl is to run native code securely.

I won't get into the details because there's tons of information out there (http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/research-pape...), but code must be compiled using a special NaCl compiler, then before it's executed the client runs it through the NaCl verifier to ensure it's safe to execute.

Of course it's possible there are bugs in NaCl, but Google won't enable it in Chrome by default until they're very confident it's secure.
The real answer is just as much about our industry’s culture as it is about technology.

No, it's entirely about our industry's culture. Which is a shame. It's a fantastic framework that should and could supplant the JVM. It never will though, thanks to Microsoft's boneheaded choices and the blog posts like 'Why I don't hire .Net developers'.
From the Cult of Mac article, "But when I asked how many people had spent 20 bucks on a game in the Android store, there was a big difference."

Please point out how many $20 games there are in the Android market, or for that matter in the iOS market? Not many, I'll bet.
I thought I was done saying my piece but I looked up the references for some friends and they dovetail nicely into 'nl's comment here ...

I disagree. I think the second-worse nuclear disaster in history is a huge disaster, especially since it looks like it will leave a large area uninhabitable.

This isn't born out by the monitoring done by the US Dept of Energy [1] and others. There has been some Cesium-137 detected outside the plant, but its in trace amounts rather than large quantities.

If you look at the data collected by the DoE you will see two things, first that they haven't detected any deposits that have occurred after March 19th, and second that their highest reading was 91uSV/hr (9.1mRem) which corresponds to 218 mRem/day. which is high (relative to background radiation) and below what is considered a public health hazard of 1000mRm over 4 days. (slide #10 in the link). Third to get that dosage you would have to lay down in the dirt 24/7.

So no area outside the plant will be 'uninhabitable' [2] Some places will no doubt be targeted for local decontamination, the Cesium will decay on its own making each year after the accident less of an issue than the day before. Is it great? No.

It's not, and not by a long way. For example, there was no damage caused by any aftershocks, which was incredibly lucky.

Actually that wasn't luck, the plant is designed to handle violent earthquakes, it would be astonishing if there were an aftershock greater than the main shock. Anything signficantly less than an 8.0 was part of the design.[3]

People are told these reactors are safe in the event of a terrorist missile attack - it's pretty clear they are no where near that safe.

Think about that statement for a moment. The energy released ina 9.0 earthquake is the equivalent to 475 million tons of TNT, or 23,000 bombs the size of the one that hit Nagasaki. [4] If North Korea dropped a nuclear bomb into the plant it would clearly destroy it, but there isn't a terrorist organization on the planet that has the capability of deploying that much energy to the plant.

I understand that nuclear power can be a scary thing to some people. But if you take the time to educate yourself on the risks and the engineering which goes into keeping those risks from turning into accidents. It might be possible to get past the fear factor and see them in a more balanced light of power delivered over time vs their risk factors.

[1] http://blog.energy.gov/content/situation-japan/

[2] I am predicating that on no further release of any material which is unlikely given the state of the reactors.

[3] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870355540457619...

[4] "Question: How much energy was released by this [9.0 quake off Indonesian coast] earthquake?

Answer: Es 20X10^17 Joules, or 475,000 kilotons (475 megatons) of TNT, or the equivalent of 23,000 Nagasaki bombs. "

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2004/us20...
loving what nick and bill are building - and if you want to join a smoked fish expedition to brooklyn, you really should.
Greplin has to do huge scale information retrieval. This probably counts as engineering. (See: SIGIR)
Quora's on the list. Go figure. :)
I think you are very wrong in this case. The list is not looking for the largest companies in any of those categories. Clearly those that are huge companies took funding along the way to grow, but the list is of young founders and you can easily generate a list of young founders with huge success that did not take funding.

I think the problem with lists like this is it creates a culture of celebrating the funding part only, not the hard work that comes later and the true success that the investor wants.
Global domination is a funny thing. Did Britain impose its ways on the world and change it forever, or did the world change it?

The answer is "all of the above". Of course many Brits got rich at the expense of the others.
That and editing are now at the top of our list. Getting 1.0 out the door was our #1 priority :)
> 1.There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.

To me it would sound better this way:

There are three forms of doing: not doing (procrastinating), doing (specific action), and done (moving on).

"Being" is not a "doing". Being is existing in the "now", without a past, without a future, with no desires, without action. It is a state that is achieved by only a handful of people.
Valuation is not revenue is not profitability. Say your dicey tech stock has a beta of 2 & the S&P500 is expected to make 5% this year. CAPM says you'll have an expected return on capital assets of 10% given the zero risk-free rates we have now. That 10% figure in turn drives a valuation model where you plugin rosy growth probabilities & factor in the exploding populations in the emerging markets & do the all important scenario-analysis on what if just 0.1% of those folks bought my product. That spits out numbers that'll make your head spin. I've seen $1 iphone apps valued at $100 million simply cause that's how the valuation model is set up. Financial math is simply legalized delusion :)
Getting a PDP-10 up and running
Anyone here have plans to attend? I am considering...
That's a matter of opinion though, I would much rather take the phone and iPod Classic because I do not wish to deal with the memory cards, especially since most Android phones require you to remove the battery to switch cards.
Ok, having sold apps on both Android and iOS platforms I can tell you with 100% certainty that the same app will have sales that are an order of magnitude larger on iOS than they will on Android. Android users don't like paying for things as much as iPhone users do.

Yes, Angry Birds makes a lot with ads, but they still made more on iOS. I think they had made something like $10 million on iOS before they made $1 on Android.

So, yeah go and do Android dev, but you will easily make 5-10x as many sales with the same app on the iTunes app store. Build and app for both and try it.

Also, if your app doesn't suck you can make way more selling the app than giving it away. I tested ads and they don't make nearly as much as paid downloads do. Now, I didn't have a top 100 app, so maybe if you have a big hit ad-supported stuff is good money, but if you have a top 100 app you should be making great money either way.

I think the one place where there is a good chance of making money in Android land is to do android specific features that the OS should have had in the first place. Like, better UI/widget stuff, better keyboards, and so on. Things that can only be done on android.
I guess they haven't seen War Games (the movie).
I have used and written applets, and they are horrible, but it's not what I'm suggesting. Applets run in their own area on the page and can't interact with the rest of the page like javascript does. I'm suggesting to replace the javascript runtime with a JVM runtime, while supporting everything javascript does through an API. Here's the use case I'm imagining:

1. When a user starts loading a page (read 'web app') the browser spawns a new JVM for that page. How long does this take? You can bring it down to the price of a fork if you keep a JVM running at all times.

2. Instead of running javascript that's embedded in the page, you compile and run Java/JRuby/Jython. Better yet -- have the server precompile the embedded code and send you the bytecode. Load it dynamically into the JVM and run it in the page's thread. With a modern JVM you get JIT for free and the code runs at near-native speeds.

3. Want long-running background tasks? No problem -- the JVM code can start its own threads. Suddenly AJAX, and all the other stuff we use to make web apps behave like desktop apps becomes trivial.

4. User leaves the page / web app? Kill the JVM.
I completely agree. Especially with tools like Mono that allow you to run .NET code on Linux/Mac OS X.
Recorded Future: data mining the past to predict what's coming
Sizing up the LinkedIn bubble
Angry Birds made a lot more than that on iOS before it ever went to Android. Name an Angry Birds like success story that started on Android. All the big apps start on iOS and are ported to Android later.
I wonder if this data will change anything about the argument for net neutrality? The big telecom companies were already complaining about companies like netflix, skype, google etc. making huge piles of money by driving lots traffic and pulling lots of bandwidth for users; I'm sure Comcast wouldn't mind being able to charge customers a premium for a "Comcast Netflix package" with faster movie loading times, etc.
Applets are terrible but it's not what I'm suggesting. See my reply to mythz.
Elsewhere it was clarified that he asked about spending >$20 total on Android apps, not just a single game.
As much as we like to think of ourselves as cold and calculated, able to cut through emotions when making decisions, more often than not we're just like everybody else.
I'm of the current generation, and I'm into owning CDs. As far as music goes, burned albums have been around since middle school and earlier, but to me having the actual jewel case signifies ownership and support of the artist, even if I mostly listen to their music on an mp3 player.

But that's just my thing; DVDs I care much less about. I do value physical books significantly, though. The difference is, of course, is that a stack of dead trees is independent of electricity (unlike CDs or DVDs) yet has higher resolution than anything electronic.
Another answer is it's because most startups are consumer web-focused and MS traditionally hasn't been.

ASP.NET was traditionally an enterprise framework. Which got long in the tooth. ASP.NET MVC is quite good, but probably just caught up with the leading FOSS with MVC 3. Give it a year. And in general people aren't doing startups for desktops anymore, although they're still huge in the enterprise, which is why .NET is bigger in the enterprise than for startups.

The other big space for startups is mobile, but MS isn't big here at the moment. Why are startups using Cocoa now? Well because iOS is huge. If WP7 becomes huge, guess what happens? C# becomes a hot language for startups.

The author of the referenced blog (not the Piehead one) clearly doesn't understand that domains tend to dominate language. And further doesn't seem to understand that you try to pick the best tool for the job. A manager begrudging you for selecting the best tool for the job is not someone you'd want to work for.
Or maybe give the world a break and don't fly!
Practically speaking, I almost always enter calendar entries on my phone nowadays. Still, the way it parses the entry in real-time and shows the result is very smart. I expect Google Calendar to copy it immediately since they already have the natural language parsing, but it can be a bit of a shot in the dark whether it gives the right results.
Having trained as a hydraulic engineer doesn't make Hu Jintao a scientist, it makes him an engineer. There's a difference.
It seems like the US is just adding this to its list of excuses for attacking other countries when it sees a benefit in doing so. They can no longer effectively use the WMD bogeyman, so a new one is needed.
They are not scientists, they are administrators with science and engineering degrees.
No one person can invent robotic creativity, therefore a team is necessary. If we presume that the team is comprised of members renowned the world over for their robotics and programming work, and are leaders in their field it doesn't guarantee success (even with technology 200 years from now).

We cannot even agree what creativity is and where/how it comes from the human brain. Without a full understanding of creativity, which I'm sure a few bus-loads of philosophers and psychologists could never agree upon, that is communicated without flaws to an expert robotics team... I hope you see the ridiculousness of this idea.

For all our understanding and consensus on the matter, creativity might as well be magic. And, as much as I've programmed and studied theory... I still don't know how to implement magic.

Unless, of course, Ruby or Python already have "creativity" metaprogramming?

class Robot
include Creativity

creative :language, :syllables => 2, :syllabary => %w{ ja ya ri je pi ze ku zo re }
end