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According to the article, they bid up through $4 billion but eventually "tapped out".
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I supposed that a same URL is a single post in HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687588 but it seems to not be the case here. Is it a feature? or a bug?
Seriously? YALBSN? (Yet Another Location-Based Social Network)

The social-network chicken-egg problem (SNCEP?) is even harder when it's location-based... not only do you need to convince people to sign up, but they have to be clustered location-wise to give them any functionality at all.

Without major marketing/promotional campaign and a really good hook, a new social network will never get off the ground.

"See who wants to... do.. stuff..." is not a suffiently compelling value proposition.
heh, that would make me gulp if I had spent 4.5bn on some paper 0_0
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Can you tell what would you have them do instead of going invite based? Also, considering the constraints that others have mentioned.
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That would be kinda odd, considering the drinking age varies from country to country and it isn’t 21 in most of them. In Germany, for example, you can drink (in public) and buy beer and wine when you turn 16, all other alcohol when you turn 18.

Wikipedia has this informative table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

I would summarize it as follows: 18 wins. I suspect not for any scientific reasons.

So what’s the history of the 21? 21 was the age of majority when prohibition ended. Most states set their legal drinking age accordingly and that’s that. Today all states have 21 as the legal drinking age since they would lose federal funding if the didn’t.

By the way, today the age of majority is 18 in all but three states.

All those drinking age limits are arbitrary. I’m actually fine with that, as long as grownups can buy alcohol. Alcohol may still be harmful for 18-year-olds (well, even more harmful than alcohol is anyway) but I don’t think it’s the government’s job to tell grownups what to do when it comes to things like alcohol or smoking or various (not sure whether I want to write all) other drugs.

(It’s even possible to have a sensible argument about whether younger kids should be allowed to buy alcohol. When you drink too much beer when you are 16 in Germany you can’t kill anyone driving since you can only get your driver’s license with 18. Maybe those two years give those kids the time to get it out of their system and to learn about the effects alcohol has on them. On the other hand American’s can already have up to five years of driving experience when they are first legally allowed to drink, but I don’t think experience helps you when you are drunk driving. You just shouldn’t do it. That would be an interesting social science study – are young Americans or Germans more likely to drunk drive?)
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Ah, so that's why they didn't use e as one of their bids! I had been wondering.
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that would also be interesting, but I was also interested in knowing about people who first got into the world of startups by being hired/joining after start.

So many interesting things to ask in a single monodimensional poll!
1. Alot people wants something like this.(Big market)

2. If he succeeds the space is easy to defend, since it was hard to succeed in the first place.

3. Since, when as a community HN shy away from hard problems?

Right now, you are suppose to be giving advice on how to make this work. He came here for clever hacks and minds, don't disappoint.
Looks like their strategy was to just push the bids up, so as to force their competitors (who are competitors to each other) to bond together in a giant bid: divide and conquer.

Either that, or they didn't like the Feigenbaum constant.
Thanks for the historical correction. It looks like it was set at 21 for states before Prohibition as well. I'll admit then that research on teenagers is more rationalization for keeping the limit where it is, and you can similarly find other rationalizations for keeping/changing other seemingly arbitrary age limits like 18 for adulthood, 16 for driving (and counter-reasons, etc.) Also I may be putting too much stock in the available evidence, e.g. here's a writeup from 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/health/04teen.html
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Yes, I didn't mean to turn this into a debate on the merits of alcohol consumption or the role of the government in regulating it. I was using ex post facto research (that's probably not very strong anyway) as a rationalization for the current drinking age to suggest it's not just an "arbitrary number", but as I said in cousin comment there are similar justifications for other seemingly arbitrary numbers.
I am 26 and am in the process of my first startup. Looking at all the young start-uppers makes me feel out of place. I am also just starting to code :| In fact when I was in college I hated writing code, but something about starting up wants to make me do it now.

What are the chances I will make it ? Low, I reason. High, I feel.

So does that make me stupid?
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Your demo hangs at 'Connecting' in my version of Chrome (12.0). Do I need to configure my firewall or something?
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"Everyone in the City of New York now has Google+: enjoy!"

(Also, I'm somewhat confused by the question, as I specifically demonstrated something that is akin to a suggestion by way of demonstrating what Facebook did right... why are you asking this? There are a million ways to do "invite closed communities rather than random people", like allowing Google Apps domains to join rather than people: that way you at least could get "my company/organization circle" or something; you could imagine inviting e-mail domains, so "anyone with ucsb.edu e-mail addresses now gets on", etc.: the problem is that I now know a small handful of my friends who are using Google+, but as most of my friends can't I will rapidly tire of posting there when I can post to Facebook.)
You beat me to it. I just couldn't pass up an opportunity to correct the English of someone who is talking about good English.
It might turn out to be closer to unite and submit than divide and conquer if they find themselves on the business of a buch of new IP lawsuits. I doubt the winners plan to sit on these.
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They are the DVD rental people. I remember seeing the service the original poster is talking about, but the name escapes me as well.
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You're right that it should be int main() to be valid C++:

2 An implementation shall not predefine the main
function. This function shall not be overloaded. It shall
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But note:

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The other two points I disagree with. =P
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Edit: it needs a way to make parts or joints fixed when bending, so I can't turn my train upside down when I rotate a wheel.
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This one made me go "Huh?" and reread.

I don't understand why you'd need a custom HTTP server. It might be overly simplistic, but just write a module for nginx? Surely that would have been faster. You get controllable timeouts, you could tweak their throttling code to stop it throwing 50x, and modify/take inspiration from nginx-ey-balancer. And you get a bullet proof HTTP engine for free?
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That's a shame. The tax and other advantages for both parties are significant. In your position it's something I would familiarize myself with.
What if you use a cheaper hash function (e.g. bcrypt with a lower work factor) on the server? The bcrypt hash is the password, but a very long one compared to the password that the user entered, so presumably it is very expensive to brute force even with a relatively cheap hash function.
The worst bit it, I was 24, but my boss was 21!
Hey, even I barely remember kazaa :p
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I think you have Planck's constant (about 6 * 10^-34) confused with something else. It would be about $0, which is still less than $4.5 billion.
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$750,000 per patent--$4.5B divided by 6000 patents--is clearly absurd.

Or is it? I'm thinking that it does make economic sense, but only if
you buy in bulk.

The vast majority of patents (not even limited to software patents)
make no money, are never enforced, and are completely unused in every
sense of the word. Even a patent lawyer has admitted this to me.

But in very rare, unpredictable, and seemingly capricious cases, it's
worth a fortune. The best example is the patent purportedly for inventing
wireless email that allowed NTP to extort $600 million from Research In
Motion a couple years ago.

If you buy patents in bulk, you might even be able to achieve a
return despite the randomness in value.

I'm going to make the analogy to owning a gun and deciding how many
bullets (patents) to buy:

- A dozen bullets and you can (maybe) protect yourself.
This is your defensive patent portfolio; if sued, you can maybe
find some way to countersue.

- Thousands of bullets and you can wage war.
This is your attack patent portfolio.

- But a single bullet is good only for suicide.
Start-ups that spend their time and energy filing one
patent application probably kill themselves. I saw one case
where it happened.

I think I'm going to call this principle the Patent Portfolio
Price Power Law. In a ruthless business sense, a LOT of software
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is there a way to make parts or joints fixed when bending, so I can't turn my train upside down when I rotate a wheel?
This will sooner or later be an antitrust issue. When Google is getting so successfull in their game that a new feature is impossible to fail and is even expected to dominate the market then it is getting dangerous. Microsoft is still getting flak by the European Union for bundling stuff and is forced to sell some Windows versions without their media player or have to show a "web browser choice screen".
Google+ is awesome, but these are not good reasons why it will be a Facebook killer.

Just because Google can shove it in people's face doesn't mean that it can or will succeed.
I actually think Facebook got the balance right. 400 characters (approx) of unformatted in the default status updates, and a notes function (which can optionally be configured to import an external web log) that needs to be accessed through a separate user interface.

Facebook statuses are long enough that you can actually say something meaningful without allowing you to ramble on for too long.
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A lot people wants something like this.(Big market)

Do they? I know a lot of startups want to tackle this space, but I haven't seen much in the way of demand from anyone besides startup people.

For OP to succeed he needs a more compelling hook (e.g. foursquare had the gaming aspect) and a solid PR strategy for solving SNCEP.

Some questions that might suggest strategies:

* What is going to make me open the app right now? And again and again?

* What will make me think that I'll actually see any offers near me right now?

* How can I convince folks around me to sign up and use the app? What usecase might we have in common? (and how does your app make that easier/solve that problem?)

* How do I know the person making the offer isn't creepy?

* How can I make sure the offers I see are relevant to me?
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He's not trying to be humble or modest, he's just being honest.
Yeah, that's becoming quite usual. Change one thing and you have self entitled UI experts all other the place to explain that it's awful because their personal taste doesn't allow for change.

But apparently it works. After all, I clicked the link and I'm here commenting.
I don't think this counts; it is using the sum operation, even if the operator doesn't look like +
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I'm as big of a Chrome fanboy as anyone else, but that chart is wrong in so many ways.

Just to give an example: the end points of the chart show the browsers at roughly 22%, 34% and 54% -- around 110% market share..

ok, maybe they're actually predicting the total growth of internet users to grow 110% in a couple of years, but you can still do a percentage calculation...

Also, like te_chris mentioned, IE is getting better and I doubt we see such fast changes. But hopefully IE goes below 40% even 35% sooner than later
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I think for the next two month he's stuck in Vancouver, but I've wholeheartedly forwarded your comment to him.
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I love Melbourne (well, the inner north and city), I just think it's broken for the reasons I've outlined. Sure, the coffee is good and as I travel that is more and more obvious. But so is the fact that just about everything in life is more expensive there, especially housing. Even if I could buy a house in an area where the culture is about more than sport and violence, most of my friends wont be able to. I only see it getting worse as the population increases. My life is awesome and I live it to the fullest, this is just my conclusion about Melbourne & Australia.
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I know this is essentially what us geeks do - we think about minute details, obsess about them, and hope that this ends up mattering. Usually I find this kind of compulsive preoccupation inspiring, but this article was so out of touch with reality I found it uncomfortable to read.

Suppose we grant the author that his criticism is objectively valid from the point of view of a UX designer (obviously a huge concession). Still, you're left reading an article in which a person complains that he perhaps prefers reading white letters to black, that a piece of software takes away the ability for him to tell what day it is, and that he cannot find his calendar on the page because he's so distracted by blue buttons.

On top of it all, looking at the screenshot provided it's pretty clear this person is not an average calendar user. Designing a usable calendar for someone with this many appointments each week is a completely different challenge to designing a usable calendar for me.

Perhaps a deep breath and some perspective acquisition is in order.
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The over 18 limit is nothing to do with US law, it's Google making a moral decision (or more accurately, a PR decision that, if they are to have any privacy issues occur, they want to be able ot say "at least no minors were affected").

As to the 13 and over, it's very common for companies to make that a global policy, partly because US isn't the only country to have that law (off the top of my head I can't recall which others do), partly because it's a fairly common sense decision from an adult's point of view, meaning that few would argue against it, many would argue for it on grounds of morality rather than law. And the only people who'll ever complain are a few years away from being able to vote politically or with their wallet, by which time they will be allowed to do whatever they want, and will have stopped caring. So it's pretty win/win.