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See Slackware's jump from version 4 to version 7, or more recently, Mozilla's reconfiguration of its versioning system to make the numbers more closely match Chrome and IE version numbers (where v11 and v9 are the current stable releases respectively -- Mozilla is on a measly v4). This doesn't just occur in commercial software.
No. It could be a design licensed from HP, but I am not sure.
And to their credit. Their customer acquisition rate appears to significant indeed.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663349/infographic-of-the-day-a...
@ChuckFrank said that buying property for the purpose of short-term rentals is responsible for "artificially increasing housing costs for residents". I was just pointing out that the cost increase wasn't artificial; the property value was intrinsically worth more than the market rate before short-term rentals were common.
Yes it says 1 billion+ valuation not a billion dollar business.
i'm not necessarily talking about any specific apps per se. My understanding of their rule is that you cannot create third party apps that mimic the twitter user experience. Now this experience is going to involve photo-sharing which developers might have spent a long time creating but now might not be able to continue work on it.

I'm also concerned about what other features they might create that might infringe upon what a developer thought at the time was not a direct user experience on twitter...

In the end, I'm more interested in seeing how it all plays out. I like twitter and I'm pretty sure developers will continue to find innovative ways of using their rich data
You could argue that even as CEO he still doesn't get it.
Previously posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2572229
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Do you folks carry around pocket notebooks? Or has this practice become most popularly digital?
There are in fact many licenses that meet the open source definition, and any concerns about the restrictions of one might be dealt with by looking only at projects based on other licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category

For example, basing a business on GPL as you stated may be a problem because it would compel everything in the stack (including something unique built on top of established code) to be opened up...so it would be hard to build something truly competitive without showing all your cards to your competitors. Other open source licenses such as MIT's have fewer restrictions and amount to preserving copyrights and the right to reuse but without any warranties.

Of course you can only build on code that is "compatible" with the license you choose. There may be solutions that are only available under GPL licenses, in which case you have to decide to live with those restrictions or build your own.
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Uh, yeah. Is it really that unimaginable that they want to A/B test (or beta test) the features before they roll them out to everyone?

And keeping the media away the new features is just common sense. They're going to publish a huge story about a new change... Once that isn't complete and isn't ready for everyone. That just can't end well.
There is no rule that you can't create apps that "mimic the Twitter user experience". You have them confused with Apple. What there is is advice from Twitter that such apps are not a good bet, because Twitter is aggressively promoting their own apps and has no compunction about making changes that advantage their apps and disadvantage third party apps.

What other features might they create? Who knows? They're clearly going to bake in anything that makes sense for Twitter-the-business. That's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.

I don't think you're right that Twitter is particularly dependent on third-party apps. I think we talk in a geek echo chamber that is particularly enthralled with apps, and with the best possible Twitter clients, but that most of Twitter's users --- and, in particular, Twitter's most lucrative users --- could give a flying whale about them. But they do need to share links and photos.
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AMAZING. A great addition to this discussion.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=airbnb%2C+vrbo&ctab=0&...

Google trends airbnb v. vbro.
Very fair. That's the great thing about startups, there's no magic formula. What works for one group probably won't work for the next.

But I would say this, if your a business guy and you don't have much of a clue how the product works, sit down with a developer and chat for an hour or two. You'll probably be a little bit overwhelmed, but you'll definitely have a new appreciation for the product and hopefully be able to talk in a bit more depth in the future (where appropriate).
I generally carry around notebooks even though I have Evernote on my android device.
Don't make me think! - http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html Still as relevant as ever
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Ask HN: Yammer-signup-like companies
Are there other companies using the Yammer-like "sign-up-with-your-work-email-and-your-work-buddies-can-join-you" thing? Looking for some examples of this approach. Also, thoughts on pros and cons?
The success of Airbnb and many others like it raises the interesting question - How many other billion dollar ideas, never got off the ground because investors thought they were awful ideas? We may never know. But it should give every entrepreneur something to think about and not be discouraged by rejections. Your idea does not need to be accepted by investors - only by the market! So if you really believe in your idea launch it and see if the market accepts it. If not tweak the parameters till it does. Build a minimum viable product and try to fail cheaply. If it works, investors will come running to you. A good way to look at it is that your startup is like an experiment and your product/service is the hypothesis you are testing. If it fails, your hypotheis is wrong - so change it and try again.
blog post on hacker news here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599755
I think that's a little bit too broad a generalization. Rubinius and MacRuby (probably the biggest Ruby implementations after MRI and JRuby) are both based on LLVM.
My outlook on this comes from a quote attributed to Steve Jobs: "When you're the janitor, the reasons matter. But somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, the reasons stop mattering."

Your job as the CEO is to make sure work gets done, regardless of what happens. Doesn't matter if you're a $1B company or a 3 person startup. Get. It. Done.
well, that was quick.
See, now, this is great stuff. How do you not hire this guy? A near-perfect example of the form:

* It's gorgeous

* It's simple

* It's precisely targeted and relevant

My only critique is that he didn't find a way to work Pocket into it; the story about his six-year-old sister using it is a winner.

Anyone want to put odds on how long Loren stays on the market? I give it a week. :)
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Here's another one, a simple Applet that lets you apply various classification algorithms on 2D data: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~rani/LocBoost/
I am completely in love with the persistence of the console between pages; Really, really helpful for a whole bunch of hard-to-debug cases.
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> a shuttle in the making.

A key thing is to keep the design simple and realistic. The shuttle was doomed by conflicting design requirements, a design-by-committee approach during its development and an ignore-the-cost mentality only a government agency can create. It's designed to be too many different things and does nothing well.
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haha, i like the analogy with the whale.

But I don't think twitter is dependent on third party apps. I just feel that as an organization you can't necessarily think about and implement every single permutation of features that can be created with your data. Obviously it's your data and you reserve the right to release or not release it as you please.

Thanks for pointing out my erroneous assumption though. I just thought that if there are restrictions to what you can create and twitter obviously would keep adding new features to the product, it's not enough incentive for you as a developer to create twitter clients.
But like you clearly pointed out, their most lucrative users might not really care about them. We agree to disagree
Yet that candid advice didn't break through to someone like Fred Wilson. I wonder if more visionary ideas are harder for investors to truly recognize with their templates of "experience".

Ebay for Spaces is a very clever shorthand, but it seems just abstract enough to question without a concrete instance. Now, of course, it is one of those brilliant with hindsight instances that seem easy but require immense dedication.
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Thomas - thanks for the kind words and support! Highlighting Pocket totally slipped my mind, but I did include it as a project on my resume.
Nota Bene: Loren also made the Snowpocalypse T-shirt site, which garnered a lot of HN attention and praise: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173155.
Summary of Ed's talk:

- Success hides problems. Big organizations fall slowly.

- Daily reviews. Everybody gets reviewed everyday; this removes the embarrassment factor so that no one waits until "it's perfect" before presenting.

- Communication structure is not the same as organizational structure. A firm might require a strict hierarchy to ensure control, but that doesn't mean everyone should be prevented from talking to anyone else.

- The only measurement that matters is whether the team functions together.

- Don't copy successful products, even if they're your own product. Either invent something new or fix an unsuccessful product.
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This is an excellent example of what I'll call "Resume 2.0" or "How to get a job in our new economy".

It's always boiled down to an employer knowing if you can handle yourself and get the job done. The only facilities we had available to try and assess that in the past were those stump-the-chump questions and interviews at a desk sitting across from a committee.

I love what technology has enabled us to do. It has enabled everyone to be a self-starter and enabled us to brandish our accomplishments in really damn creative ways (e.g. this Loren fellow rocking the AirBNB application).

HN is a bit of an echo-chamber for these types of cutting edge job acquisition moves, I don't expect most people to try and get a job this way, but it is the beginning of a trend that I think will make everyone happier as a result.

Loren, best of luck to you. You certainly got an upvote for me and it sure looks like ABNB would be lucky to have you.
WebSockets will generally provide latency improvements over long-polling as they won't have the overhead of creating and breaking down many HTTP connections (as to "push" using long-polling you need to return to the browser). XHR-multipart communication is better than long-polling, but only Firefox supports it.
That's not strictly true: the end-run around the GPL is SaaS - if you are not distributing your software, merely running it on your own servers, then you can keep what you've built on a GPL foundation as secret as you like. The most high-profile example of this approach is Google. They do give away a lot of stuff true, but their core tech, like BigTable, is kept under lock and key.
Nice. And renders on a few browsers I tried. I'm always surprised with how many people consider themselves professional web devs, but can't bother to get IE to work properly.
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Tantalisingly hints that the next posts in the series will cover more ground, but doesn't link to them. Here they are:

* http://nevercertain.com/index.php/2011/02/scala-android-inte...

* http://nevercertain.com/blog/2011/02/18/scala-android-intell...

* http://nevercertain.com/blog/2011/05/04/robospecs
You're right, but doing things like falling back to another handler or doing anything meaningful is hard. That is, top-notch experiences in the face of failure aren't obviously easy.
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This is an article from April 2006, so was written around the same time he was rewriting couchdb in erlang.
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Ditto on

So, to what do I think Airbnb's success comes from? I think it's Airbnb's marketing / hype / buzz that has been carefully choreographed to maximize their valuation. And to this, I congratulate Airbnb on their latest success, and to a dance well done.
But without something as quirky as the cereal story, you would have rejected them?
Fantastic stuff. Best of luck to you!
That's funny - my Core 2 Duo MBP played it smooth as butter.

And you don't get to claim extra cores because of hyperthreading - it's just not the same thing at all.
Indeed. This article is me trying to explain what's been missing from most server side languages, it became so much more obvious once I learned Erlang. But at the time, almost no one had heard of Erlang, so it mostly just gets a passing mention.
Yep. This is a no brainer.
Batteries have seen continuous improvement for ages.
Is your Android 4G phone and getting full 4G?
Your standards for any co-founder should be very high.

I have to agree with dasil003. You're making all kinds of biased and unfounded assumptions about basically half of the world of founders. Saying that online marketing is technical in nature and that a business person probably has no prior experience doesn't make any sense to me. I don't know any hackers who have the depth of marketing experience that I have, and very few who have managed as many people across as many types of job functions, which is crucial to running an entire business. That being said, our technical founder is obviously crucial, as is the founder in charge of our music department. Every founder should bring something important to the table, and most founders are no good on their own.
I assume you won't be willing to but... any chance you'd shed light on how you worded your email, ranging from just a link to "you have to hire.."?
Oh, for those curious, the actual product Chesky designed that I reference in this article is called the PUREFLUSH. Here is the presentation on American Inventor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAWB5wzSUb0
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For most of the examples cited, it doesn't really matter whether someone is faking it or making it. The whole idea is to connect up people with ideas of what can exist (entrepreneurs) together with people with ideas of what should exist (customers). There's no money changing hands; all you're giving is an e-mail address. If the product ends up not existing in the end, you're out the 5 seconds it took to type it in. If the product does end up existing, both you and the entrepreneur end up winning big.
They pretended to be nicer people before they were very successful.

That's why the waiter rule is so weak -- it has a lot of false negatives.
You're assuming that you're more likely to be right than other investors.

There's an adjective for that kind of thinking, which I won't use because in context of hn it would be downvote suicide.

And yes, I know you're THE pg, but other investors, like Fred Wilson, John Doerr or Marc Andreessen are also THE investors.

The argument that I would find more persuasive would be that YC can help because it's willing to take more risks on "out there" ideas due to dramatically lower investment in any one startup and higher number of startups it funds.
Your points are all true and he may make a great web designer. As for front-end engineer position there is a room for improvement.
Luckily it's not me hiring so all the best to Loren.
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Lots of B2B companies will sign up a customer first and then use the revenues from that to build the product. It's no different from contract development - you spec out what you'll be delivering, agree on a price, and then build it. The only difference is that you retain rights to the product, so that you can sell it to some other customer as well.
I tried getting a meeting with him several times back when I was still a student at UIUC, I read how he launched a t-shirt web site and made some money from it, and it seems every response I got was: "sorry man, I didn't get any sleep last night, I was busy working on something. Can we try again next week?" Seems like a hustler.
So, while this is novel and all, it seems to me that these "resume 2.0" applications indicate a real failure of systems like "jobvite" or whatever backend air bnb is using to simplify their hiring decisions.

On HN we've been seeing a bunch of these hyper-targeted reverse resumes in the past year because I suspect people have gotten tired of submitting waves of resumes and hearing nothing back within a reasonable timeframe from companies that advertise open positions on their websites but never, for whatever reason, respond.

What i'm seeing here, is that traditional recruiting practices are failing in some way because priority is achieved by a) making it to the hn frontpage which b) gets pg to vouch for you. Which is basically no better (or efficient) than the traditional method of hiring folks that you've networked with via friends/school/etc or what have you.

I understand that historically those online resume systems are a real losing proposition for applicants, but this suggests that they're more like a black hole rather than a mail slot.

Again, this is a critique of these automated systems which seem to be visibly failing because people are going out of their way to subvert them in order to achieve any success.
There are plenty of people who do this and I would much rather have the subject in the body as well, as my android client will put the subject at the top, a place I'm unlikely to look.

It probably stems from the fact that I visually filter by email address more than subject line.
I've seen more than a few people in shops or on transit that were using their iPhones, and it was only when I tried to see (out of curiosity as an app developer) what apps they were using that I noticed they were actually Samsung phones.

As someone who's very tuned in to the tech scene, mobile device trends, and the like, as well as a big fan of my iPhone (having owned each one since they came to Canada), the fact that I, from two or three feet away, would completely mistake a Samsung phone for an iPhone means that there's more than just a passing similarity.

Beyond that, consumers generally don't understand the differences. They see two smartphones that look pretty much identical (as far as they know), with similar packaging, form factor, and icons, the salesman tells them that they're essentially the same phone, and one of them is cheaper, they might well pick the Samsung phone over the iPhone, despite their intention being to buy an iPhone specifically.

Yes, consumers will do this. Apple's concern here, though, may be that people will be confused by the issue, whether they end up buying Apple's products or not.
Twitter has made their nut as the collective tissue of the social web. Sure the tweets are actual content, but they're always about something external -- twitter is most often used for seeing what people have to say and share about something else. If they move into photos that's a move into primary content, it means they're no longer just dealing with hosting the connective tissue - photos, videos, blogs are the meat. I dont have any conclusion to draw from there, because im conflicted. Philosophically that really bugs me, but practically I'll probably use it.
But that's exactly what the companies cited in the article did.
Ericsson has a working implementation for this, they do voice and video browser to browser with Webkit:

https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/web-real-time-communication

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600585
Agreed, there's always room for improvement :) Any specifics come to mind?
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Unfortunately, I have yet to write the promised testing post. The main ground I wanted to cover there was the legwork getting IntelliJ to run focused tests and whatnot.

Overall the situation has gotten much better thanks to the awesome guys working on the IntelliJ Scala plugin (details: http://blog.jetbrains.com/scala/).
I expect they'll contact you soon.

I don't think so. He mentioned that he "expects" that they contact him soon, but he is not even sure they'll do. It's good in case the founders missed the post.
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The article cited the quoted as an example of 'fake it before you make it'.

My example is how I tried that, starting 'lean' - handling some procedures by hand at first in lieu of writing a web interface and backend.

Part of the problem was my partner and I were learning to work together, but mainly lack of time. This was compounded by a Catch-22 situation: I lacked time to automate due to how much time it took to handle manually. The business was growing very rapidly while we were trying to expand features for the public as well as automate management procedures. It was my first successful venture and having failed to do this right, I learned my lesson.
This submission mostly pertains to English grammar and style, and is based on anecdotes. Another submission today

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600580

refers to mathematics, and is based on international data from two scientifically designed series of educational achievement studies.
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Hello everyone,

I am in the process of creating a web based application for an academic mentor. The problem is we did not discuss ownership details and it seems as though the network administrator does not want to invest any resources in helping facilitate the use of the program, if they do not retain ownership of the code.

I'm kinda of new to this but does anyone have any good advice out there on how to approach this?
Is it time for low latency user-level networking?
Ok....I would just like to say....dude...your marketing approach for this book is brilliant. I won't even lie. You have this treasure trove of interviews and every time they come up in news, you release some snippets from the book.

I think this is one of the most effective uses of 'new media' to promote a book or any product I have seen in ages.

After reading the Wufoo interview you released, I had to go and buy the book. Got it for the Kindle, am only 20% through, just read the AirBnB one last night and am loving it so far.

Every single time I see you post one of these things around the news, I just smile and think how brilliant you are.

So I figured I would say something.

Keep it up.

Edit: Would love to see some stats on how that's working out for you. In terms of sales and traffic - if you are going to do another post-mortem.
This may be a classic story of a founder who outsmarted an acquiring company. What hope does Conde Nast have of monetizing Reddit enough to recover its investment?
I do not like subject only emails. When I have such a message to send, I copy it to the body.