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I don't have an MBA, but lots of other businesses follow a knowledge work model more closely than an assembly line model. Some obvious examples include an investment bank, an advertising agency, and a TV network.

While I can't vouch for business school curricula, I would think that a business school that only performed cases studies in a narrow range of industries would simply be a poor (or alternatively, a specialist) business school.
Birthdate includes year
So, he was right in stating that

"pretty sure it's more likely that the 7 billionth person won't be born in India or China."

31% it will be in India or China, 69% it won't be in India or China.
You also aren't locked into iOS for all mobile app purchases. My point is that this debate is usually really about whether you do or don't want to participate in a walled garden and less about whether you want to participate in a monopoly.

Using the loaded term monopoly feels like an attempt to use emotional persuasion rather than debate on the merits. Which is a shame because I think the walled garden deserves some good criticism in a lot of ways.
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A very valid point. If you are a solo founder, nothing happens unless you make it happen and as you experience the downs it becomes very easy to lose momentum. Co-founders can provide a good counter balance and keep progress steadier.
My wording was ambiguous, I should have said of any significant size.

Anyway, "some economic benefit" is the understatement of the year. A multinational simply can not do business without secure communications. History is irrelevant; Wells Fargo wrote out every transaction on a slip of paper and manually reconciled it every night 50 years ago, but to do so today would be utterly impossible. In todays global economy, countries need to be able to do business with foreign companies or they will be a backwater plain and simple. China certainly makes some of the tradeoffs you are talking about, but do they outright ban secure communications? Of course not, because that would be suicidal.
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In his short tenure, he's shipped Google+, coordinated the redesign of several Google properties and reorganized the entire company [1].

Even if he wasn't focused on these long-term projects, it would be foolish to judge him this early on. This piece speaks more about the cynicism of WSJ than of Page & Google.

1: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/exclusive...
Including birth year helps significantly. Assuming an even distribution of births, you'd expect 54000/365 ~ 148/day. Then knowing gender lets you cut that in half. Dividing again by the age distribution of voters gets that down to a reasonable number.
Yeah I really don't get it? Google is valuable because (the theory is) you buy advertising and you get more business and you make more money. So the more money you spend on google the more money you make. Ok I get it.

Facebook is valuable because it increases the (perceived) size of your social circle, and maybe you make more friends, maybe you get laid more. Ok I get it.

Dropbox you get synced files? Ok that's useful obviously but so what? It seems like at best a 100m business to me, not a 4b one, what's the angle here?
Is Dropbox using S3 as their storage platform?
You are obviously not married
Interesting probabilities on x random people sharing the same birthday:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
It can't do anything with your facebook account or contacts. It just gets your friends list as a list of facebook user ids, and your name and other public info.

EDIT: Despite the down votes, my statement is still perfectly true.
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Not convinced. They are being valued at $4b not for some extra profitability by cutting costs, but because of a huge opportunity to grow. They need to do what they need for growth not hire expensive people to get into the server farm and storage business. Maybe later.
I think there's no doubt that you'll have much more resources at your disposal (like proper office hours) if you are actually enrolled at Stanford.

if nothing else, part of your 50 grand is also paying for the fact that our career fairs are always super crowded :)
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You don't know that - they could very well have sold some of their shares in this round. (at this valuation why not take a point off the table)
Agreed on all counts. I was there in February, and can't recommend it highly enough for any self-respecting nerd. Many wonderful artifacts from the history of human ingenuity, and an incredible sense of place. It was there that I saw my first Dekatron!

Mr. Sale's enthusiasm for and dedication to this functioning piece of history -- and to educating more recent generations about it -- were truly inspiring. It was fun to see a group of schoolchildren hanging on his every word as he pointed out parts of the machine ... after which he simply went back to tinkering with it alongside his colleague.

I'm really sad to learn of his passing. But I'm deeply grateful for the legacy he's left behind.
Update: filed a bug http://crbug.com/94732
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No. I'm saying exactly what I said.

> Yes, there are people here who spend a lot of time behind computers. I'm one of them. There are kids who spend a lot of time playing video games. I've met some of them. But, that's not the whole picture...
Given that the tablets are still fetching that price on eBay right now, over a week after the firesale started, I think that's exactly the price they need to hit. The tablet simply had no demand at $500+, but at $250, people are willing to buy in.

$250 for what is essentially a handy, high-tech toy is about right. Plus, HP wouldn't be senselessly bleeding so much cash. Ebay sales show up people are clearly willing to drop $200-250 on the things, there's really no reason they should have or should keep selling them at $100-150.
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Psh, you can still spread messages person to person, you know, in REAL LIFE. It's sad how we're all tied to the Internet and try to make it the first and foremost way in which we communicate.
This makes me second guess how much I'm valuing Facebook at this point in my life. I took one look at your app and told myself there's no way you're getting access to my Facebook data.

Damn you Zuckerberg...
Script Boxr has been a small spare-time project for me over the last 10 days. The goal was to create an environment in which I could write and execute JavaScript and share it easily with a nephew who wants to learn some JavaScript.

This is my first "Show HN" - thank you in advance for any feedback!
Solution: don't use it with plain text, but with compressed files such as photos and movies which have high entropy by virtue of their compression (if it is effective, that is).
I think the idea is that the force multiplier WORK(2 people) / WORK(1 person) < 2, which IME is very true.
I agree, I won't implement all 15 for the launch. I almost feel into the trap though. I have categorized the improvements into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Coming Soon. I have knocked out the "1st" ones already.

Thanks for your feedback.
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I wouldn't consider discussing Ruby vs. Python 'fluff', but either way my comment above was about people arguing passionately, not having an intelectual discussion.
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Most people are perfectly capable of drawing the necessary inferences from a generalization. If I say that 'cows have four legs', this is not to deny the fact that some cows come up short in the leg department. Games with shitty UIs tend to fail rapidly in the marketplace, because few people want to play a game with a shitty UI.

There's a reason that I included qualifiers like 'I wouldn't want to overthink it' and 'ideally...' and 'players in the middle of the normal distribution...'. The reason is that I'm sketching out a philosophy of UI design in only a few sentences, and want to signal this to people who are reading. You seem determined to interpret my remarks in the most literal and narrow sense possible, to the point of completely overlooking the contextual qualifiers that accompanied them.
This is a great idea, please do!
Everyone looks so young. Sam Altman looks exactly the same. (he still looks super young)
Simple information theory; in a world of 6 billion people, 33 bits serves to uniquely identify anyone. 33 bits is a really low bar. It works because it can't hardly help but to work, sort of like the birthday paradox. In the US with approx 312 million (wikipedia) that's approximately 28.2 bits.

It doesn't tell us much about zip code distribution because zip codes are chosen to have approx the same number of people in each. As it turns out, that's exactly how you'd go about maximizing the amount of information the zip code carries... which is unsurprising since that's the entire purpose of a zip code. Gender is almost exactly one bit, and date of birth is 15ish bits with some bad uniformity assumptions, zip is another 15ish with bad uniformity assumptions[1], that's 31-ish total, subtract off 3-ish for the bad assumptions and you get 28, which covers 2^28 = 268,435,456 people, which is pretty close to the number cited (.87 times 312,000,000 = 271,440,000). I'll cop to tuning the fudge factor of three bits to nicely match the number given, but the bit count itself just comes from the space of possibilities.

Lots more info on the topic can be found here: http://33bits.org/about/

[1]: http://www.carrierroutes.com/ZIPCodes.html 43,000 ZIP codes => log2 43000 is approx 15.4 bits assuming perfect uniformity.
Dunno... but I get the feeling that everyone thinks that computers should be easier, and nobody should have to learn anything in order to use the. Uh, what?

We're living in a world where digital technology more and more becomes the dominant driving force of our society. We already lost the ability to change hardware to a - relatively small - group of people (yes, considering the amount of people using the stuff, the group is tiny).

So what now? Make sure there's only an elitist circle of high paid, influential "technology gods" left? While I definitely consider my self as a geek, I would not like such a society at all. It can be the target of humanity that ordinary people get even "dumber" than they're now.

Sorry, but I think people should strife for new knowledge, they should keep their spirit of discovery. By simplyfing the whole world around them, at least in my eyes, it becomes harder and harder for kids to figure out all these things on their own. And once all the knowledge is locked away from them, the elitist will choose who gets insight into the then "magical" workings of the world.

Yeah, maybe my picture of the future has a little bit of a dark taint, but well that's what you get when even your colleagues, which are the same age as yourself, are light years behind in terms of thirst for knowledge.
goingtofail.com isn't registered. (Yes, I know it's not the same name, but I thought it was a good one)
>Sure they can - they did before the internet. (No, the postal mail is not secure.)

It's several orders of magnitude more secure than plain http.

>Besides, the effect on economic development in the short term will be almost unnoticable.

India has to be chock full of nationalistic script kiddies and legitimate hackers who will have a field day wrecking Pakistan's online economy if they actually try to implement this plan.
This is one of the reasons I'm creating a web site intended to show the connections between topics, and through that, how wide-spread the applications of the mathematical ideas are. Math should be taught with connections, applications, examples, demonstrations and, above all, by knowledgeable and enthusiastic teachers. Most high-school teachers don't know more than they have to teach, don't know the connections between topics, and don't have time to deviate from the prescribed curriculum.
I was alone for a long time with Playtomic, although I had a mostly-uninvolved friend helping with server bills and stuff, and then a second friend joined early this year.

Motivation is easy for me ... I love what I'm doing. Even on bad days. When it's too much though just do something else, or pick some low hanging fruit and knock out some easy achievements. You might have to just make yourself work sometimes, cause if you leave it too long it'll become another dead project/game/whatever.

Who do you talk to? Users. In my case I was fortunate enough to have lots of users including some really great, accomplished people.

You do have to wear every hat and that can make you uncomfortable but you just have to man up and do it, a cofounder's not going to insulate you from everything you're not good at / not comfortable at.
Please add todo for unbinding key maps (specific/all). For example if page contains ajax loaded partials.
Your point really does not apply anonymized datasets which are released and used to do statistical analysis on a population.

It may be relevant if you are trying to examine differences immediately before and after your 18th or 21st birthdays, but that would be pretty rare.
pg put it this way[1]:

"
1. Single Founder

Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence.

What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones who know him best.

But even if the founder's friends were all wrong and the company is a good bet, he's still at a disadvantage. Starting a startup is too hard for one person. Even if you could do all the work yourself, you need colleagues to brainstorm with, to talk you out of stupid decisions, and to cheer you up when things go wrong.

The last one might be the most important. The low points in a startup are so low that few could bear them alone. When you have multiple founders, esprit de corps binds them together in a way that seems to violate conservation laws. Each thinks "I can't let my friends down." This is one of the most powerful forces in human nature, and it's missing when there's just one founder."

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
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I guess people be fuckin' all of the damn time.
It appears Apple doesn't make money from apps, apparently they roughly break even from the app store with a 30% cut of apps:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649475

"...Peter Oppenheimer added, “We run the App Store just a little over breakeven,” implicitly making the case that the App Store was not a big profit generator for the company."

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_...

If Apple can't make money from apps, do you think HP can do better? How viable would it be to sell hardware at a major discount and hope to recoup it from apps (as others here have noted)?
Isn't Guile going to become the Elisp interpreter for Emacs, and someday become the new Emacs Lisp?
I had to deal with the converse of the problem when I was working for a company that ran the vehicle smog checking for the state of Illinois. A driver's license id was composed of birthdate, sex, and some location information (I dont remember exactly what) for the reasons mentioned by jdp23 it worked quite well, except for identical twins, who had the same driver's license id. (Registrations ofter were processed by hand at drug stores. The driver's license was used to disambiguate ambiguous renewals.)

The state of Texas complicated things by allowing a family to have the same license plate for all their cars. One family had seven vehicles, all with the same license plate number. Florida would issue the same plate to complete strangers. One man arrested with great drama, because a bank robber (or some such undesirable) had the same (legal) plates.

My GF has such a common name that her doctor has to check which one of three she is. The last time she tried to get her driver's license renewed online, she was told she had to go to the DMV in person. She asked why and was told she was a "Code 5". She reported to the DMV and told the woman that she was a Code 5. There dropped jaws and a hurried conference with a supervisor who called Sacramento and had a lengthy conversation with comments like, "Yes I'm sure. She's right here." Finally she got impatient and asked, "What's Code 5?"

The clerk said, "You're dead and it was verified by medical personnel." She did eventually get her license renewed. Officially I live with a zombie. It isnt as bad as the movies portray.
This has been the subject of many heated discussions in the embedded world. For a start, see http://www.embeddedrelated.com/usenet/embedded/show/91196-1.... and http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=292995 for a start.

There are code size limitations (your binary must be no larger than 16 kB, some of these devices have 128 kB of Flash), there are optimization restrictions (you can't use -O3 or -Os, and some -f flags are disabled), and the libc is closed-source. These are the things that bug most people.

The OP here is pointing out issues with closed-source peripheral stacks. That's a whole different issue.
Glad to see that someone else thinks this too. I really loved these machines.
I think it's worth explaining exactly why Wall street is not so excited about Google right now.

A company's Return on Invested Capital is the ultimate measure of a company's valuation.
Basically, ROIC is a measure of how efficient a company is in using its capital to generate returns.

Let's compare Apple and Google's ROIC. Last time I checked a few months ago,
Apple's return on invested capital is 30.4% with 5 year average of 26.1% despite Apple having lower gross profit margins compared to Google. a 30.4% ROIC is amazingly high for a "hardware company".
Google's return on invested capital is only 18.3% with 5 year aveage of 17.2%. Now why is that?

Different types of growth earn different degrees of return so not all growth is equally value-creating.
Growth strategies based on organic new product development (ie. iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, etc.) frequently have the highest returns because they dont require much new capital.
Apple can add new products to their existing factory lines and distribution systems, without much capital expenditure.
The investments to produce new products are not all required at once. If preliminary results are not promising, future investments can be scaled back or canceled.

Contrast this with Google's growth strategy of acquiring companies (Motorola, Youtube, Android, Doubleclick, etc.). Acquisitions
require that the entire investment be made up front. The amount of up-front payment reflects the expected cash flows from the
target company plus a premium to stave off other bidders. So even if Google can improve the target company enough to generate an attractive ROIC, the rate of return
is typically only a small amount higher than its cost of capital. Factor in the additional traffic acquisition costs and costs of running hundreds of thousands
of servers to support Google search, Youtube, Blogspot, GMail, etc. and you'll see why Google's return on invested capital is much lower compared to Apple.

Google also has a habit of wasting money on money-losing initiatives with low ROIC (Google's $280-million solar power initiative, self driving cars, etc.)
which further dilutes its average returns. Wall Street perceives the $12.5 Billion Moto acquisition as an expensive and inefficient use of capital that will
further dilute the company's ROIC.The recent $500 million settlement with the DOJ is another concern.

and that is why Apple is the most valuable company in the world. Meanwhile, Google's market cap has been stucked in the $170-$200B range for a couple of years or so.

Here's the number one rule of conservation of value: "anything that doesn't increase cash flows doesn't create value".
Why would OEMs license a dead OS over android?

It would have to be a better ecosystem than android which I don't see happening after hp dropped it themselves.
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That was Jessica. She hadn't quit her previous job yet.
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I don't have an account at any of the music services, and would have no desire to play along to songs, so that being the default workflow is not useful to me, though I guess it might be to some players.

When I try to just use the search function, it can't find chords for most of the stuff I look for. My first two searches was for chords for these songs: "Over the Edge" by The Wipers, "Don't Wanna Know if You Are Lonely" by Husker Du. When it does find something, I can't choose other options (sometimes a transcription sucks, and you have to check other versions). Also, when it does find it, it seems to lose it sometimes for no reason that is apparent to me...I switched back here after it found a version of "Over the Edge" and when I flipped back here to note that it could be found by going through a few combinations of band name and "Tabs" vs. "Chords", it was gone.

It just doesn't fit my workflow, at all, and is far more frustrating than the old method of googling and clicking until I find a decent version. I don't want to have to guess whether there will be chords or tabs or whether I need "The" in front of the band name (I'm still not actually sure which change made "Over The Edge" findable, but it was something)...I just want it to give me the best option, and the ability to choose if there's more than one option.

So, it looks really nice, but functionally it's simply not usable.
It sounds like their solution is set up that way.

I think the question is whether the customer will be able to perform a point in time recovery, and what the size and resolution of the backlog is.
any screenshots? i don't have a fb account and am not about to set one up to try this.
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Bottle has no concept at all for this, besides sticking independent applications together.

You can do that with Flask as well, in fact the documentation there is an entire document describing various approaches[1].

Blueprints are a "new" concept but the approach is basically the same, however they are able to interact with the application at a Flask-level, they can modify the application and share information like the configuration.

This is something Bottle doesn't support at a framework level, forcing you to abuse the functionality it provides from a semantical standpoint.

This concept is more difficult to understand but than again it is very trivial compared to other concepts any web developer should grasp.

[1]: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/appdispatch/
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According to yclist.com (which is both unofficial and outdated), that first batch was Reddit, Infogami, Kiko, Loopt, ClickFacts, and Firecrawl.
It actually doesn't get anything but public info, which you can see in the permissions request page on Facebook. All it does is grab your name, profile photo and url. It doesn't even store anything in a database--it's all in-memory at the moment.