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I think this has to be done extremely carefully - we don't want governments interfering too much in the operations of companies but it is clear that something has to be done.

My own personal scheme is that some public body would monitor companies and try to identify those that belong to the "too big to fail" category. If any organisation falls into this category then the executives of the organisation would be notified individually that if the organisation fails and has to be rescued using taxpayers money that they personally would be on the hook for all of their assets. It would then be up to the executives to reduce the size of the company, e.g. by splitting into smaller organisations that would be under the threshold, or accepting the risk if they believe their organisation is perfectly well run.

Of course, there are a lot of problems with this scheme - notably that banks would simply incorporate somewhere else, but something like this has to be put in place or the same thing is bound to happen again.

[Edit: In one of Vernor Vinge's short stories he has Earth being conquered by an alien race whose only form of central government are officials who have the power to order any organisation to be split up if it becomes too powerful.]
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I know a place that does unlimited bandwidth. You're limited to 10Mbit/sec throughput though, so your theoretical maximum usage per month is only a little over 3TB.

How much throughput does a Linode server get?
"Each tranch gets a separate rating since senior tranches have a different risk profile than junior or equity tranches"

But wasn't that based on the assumption that there was a low correlation between the mortgages that made up CDOs - which turned out to be completely wrong (and for fairly straightforward reasons)?
wtf? Most likely the biggest heist in history and you want to go after the people who couldn't even afford to pay their mortgages? What do you expect to get from them? They obviously don't have any money.
Because you hadn't heard about Western Governors University, and thought you needed to enrol in a brick-and-mortar university to get a half-way credible degree?
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If only it was that easy. One major benefit of having many investors: essentially no one has enough control to fire you, break up your company or dictate strategy.

"You want 1 really strong investor locally to meet you for beers after work when you have strategic issues to go through."

.. and who gets monopoly on your knowledge to brief their goto CEO once you're no longer useful or detrimental.

I've seen it happen.

There are probably other ways to retain power beyond ownership percentage (voting rights.)

Get as many investors as possible, do well independently of them, (maybe pick the best ones for later rounds, with that promise driving initial contributions)

Case in point, Facebook: http://dnetzone.in/dhawaldamania/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/...
More than anything right now it's a gut feeling. Digging into why I have this feeling, the first few thoughts that come to mind include:

- Let's say you are offering me a free starbucks, and I have to click 5 adverts to get it. When I walk past a Starbucks do I buy a coffee, or do I think "that reminds me, I need to click more adverts before I go into Starbucks"? Perhaps even bigger, let's say it's for a graphics card, I decide I want it, but I don't want to buy it until I've seen enough adverts to get that 5% discount I was offered... What if I never see those adverts again? What if I forget about it, or see a different product before I've got there?

- I assume your tracking is based on cookies/etc rather than a login, and a huge number of people browse from more than one device, so that would be annoying

- Interactive "get something free" adverts are generally assumed to be scams, how do you get around the association that people will have between "get a free iphone" and "get a free starbucks coffee"?

The concept of engaging users, rather than just shouting at them, isn't new, and it does work, but I'm just not convinced that through banner adverts is the way to do it.

From your site, "If you’re an advertiser or publisher who is interested in trying out PLAY..." I'm a publisher / work in digital advertising, and while (as you might have guessed) I'm not sold on it, I'd certainly be interested to hear more as you move along. So if you fancy trying to change my mind any time, corin.c.cole(gmail) :)
at berkeley, or at least the college of engineering, there's no way to test out of classes (according to my adviser), so you have to take the course, but you don't have to go to lecture, unless the class has an attendance requirement.
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Those are the kind of shares I like to see - multiple browsers all with a share of the market, so that it's impossible for any one company to dominate.
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Number two is nothing to do with social at all, it's simply analysing what adverts you click on to work out what you're interested in. Just like Google do.
I'm worried about the apparent disconnect between my brain and the world of web startups or maybe even simply the world. I think YC numbers are proof enough that startups like this can become popular and commercial successes.

Yet as someone who likes movies and watches a lot of them it's completely beyond me how something like this could ever be more than a minor feature of some movie site, one that is trivial to copy for anyone in the space with the advantage of an existing user base.

I have no reason whatsoever to trash this startup, quite the contrary, I'm in a completely different space and I wish only the best to any and all fellow startup founders. I'm just honestly puzzled, fully aware that it's probably me who is going to be wrong again.

I'm just wondering if anyone else is struggling to convince themselves to take something as simple as this and run with it in a crowded market. Even if I had the slightest interest in solving this problem, I just couldn't bring myself to believe in it and that might be why I will very likely never strike it rich.
I don't use Google or Delicious for my bookmark but I liked your implementation as it doesn't require me to sign up.
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Yea, that has nothing to do with Bayesian vs frequentist, and everything with massaging numbers to get the results that where expedient. I'm sure that the people at NASA would have been plenty smart enough to work out how to get the 1 in 100,000 result using Bayesian analysis if they really wanted to.
Yeah, that's a big one for me, too. I think this whole online identity thing is overrated. Thanks.
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If I had to guess, I'd say that they have a larger vision that what you see today is just the first step of.

Remember that Microsoft started with Basic on the Altair. Just because a startup seems unimpressive when they release their first product doesn't mean that they're not building in an important space.
Does launch date matter?
From what I've noticed, the more you understand the subject, the better you learn from reading on your own and the less you learn from exercices, listening or conversing.
I think the cause is that there is a difference in focus:
With books, you can identify the things you already understand ( as-is or as an analogy to something you understand ) and focus on the new stuff, so the more you understand, the better you focus on the new stuff.
The problem is that when you don't understand lots of things well enough, your concentration is not focused, so you end up with a superficial understanding and forgetting a lot as you go.
The solution comes in the form of exercices, which provide an artifial focus, having your full attention until you understand them very well, which is good if you're a beginner, but redundant if you are experienced.
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I decided not to use Groupon just because of the fact that on one point pretty much every advert on the web featured their pink-colored deals for fast foods. I just got really, really annoyed.
For anyone who is wondering, for Android phones (not sure about iOS) there is an app called andchat which handles IRC extremely well, definitely worth checking out.

It handles IRC in a very native environment.
But a 50% pay cut is a massive amount to ask of an "employee" who will not be treated as a founder.

The term "employee" is not a good way to look at this. The employee is not a subordinate; he's a free economic entity, the startup is another economic entity, either it makes sense for these two entities to collaborate for mutual benefit, or it doesn't. Make it symmetric not asymmetric and what you should do becomes crystal clear.
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What about when they finally relaxed the iOS app store restrictions on third party tools last year?
Good question. The password is so that you can maintain ownership of your bookmark collection and so other people don't add and delete the links you've stored.
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> Human contact is nice too.

Said the man with the sexbot.
I really like the idea. What do you think about a bookmarking site similar to google+? or maybe an add on? Wouldn't it be a neat feature to just "pull" the urls into "bookmarking-circles"?
Something similar has occurred with LCD monitors, all companies advertise stats that are grossly misleading like "dynamic contrast ratio" and "grey to grey response times", but sound similar to the legitimate measurements like contrast and response times.

These fake numbers are much more impressive sounding than the "real" ones (1:100000 dynamic contrast ratio (DCR), vs something like 1:10000 regular contrast ratio (CR), when infact the monitor with a 1:10000 CR could be greatly superior to the 1:1000000 DCR monitor, which may easily only have a 1:1000 CR), so companies that provide the real numbers are penalized in the marketplace, so instead start to only publish the misleading numbers. This has made it all but impossible to meaningfully compare screens on manufacturer provided stats.

Information asymmetry plays a powerful role in marketing, and can result in a race to the bottom where consumers cannot compare things in real terms before purchase, so providers have no incentive to deliver anything of quality (extra costs, no meaningful way to market the extra quality as an option). This sort of behavior is also extremely common in residential ISPs ("unlimited" internet always sounds better to the average consumer than some kind of published limit).

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Seems like lab-grown milk would be easier than lab-grown meat. No texture issues. I wonder if anyone's working on that.
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A few years back, some wit on Slashdot (responding on a similar topic) wondered whether vegans might object to eating meat grown from their own cells...

That's even more twisty. Interesting, though.
>Price is not the only reason people are choosing Android devices over iPhones.

Citation please? Some people no doubt buy Android for phobias about "walled gardens", etc. but that's about all I can think of having used both.
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Aren't we expecting this? Editorial independence is a good thing here, so really no surprise here.
Actually I'm based near Birmingham, but I'm only an hour from London. Where do you find out about these meetups?

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I had my fingers crossed that Unity would be removed. I've been trying hard to give it a fair go, but I still find it awkward. Also, the big claim that it saves screen real estate is bogus.
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Did you miss my discussion of the problems of permission-based locking? You dismiss "using external tools" when this is a communication issue, not a permission issue.

What better achieves the desired results?

1) Having many files, only some of which you can save changes to, but working on those files otherwise totally unguided when you can.

2) Having many files, all of which you can edit, but only some of which you have been told via email or IM to work on.

Obviously (I think) #1 is a joke and #2 is the only practical way to go.

> As for using an external tool or process to manage the locking

You're thinking of it from the wrong point of view. From the POV of the development manager using gantt charts, using the CVS permissions to convey intent is that horrid external tool.

> I don't see how you can state that contention isn't a failure, if people are then to have to redo work!

I didn't say that. I said it's not a failure of the VCS. It's a failure of the process that led the people to doing two inherently unmergeable things.

As I said in that post, they'd still have done the useless work but they'd simply have saved it under a temp filename after finding out the file was write protected. Then - as you read, I said they'd have to do the painful merge anyways - or watch their work be totally wasted.

> These are real people [...] better things to do [...] paymasters have better things [...] than spend time redoing changes that they've already done.

Yeah yeah, I get it. But you're missing the point. I'm saying developers waste more time doing this your way, despite the locking.

btw, redoing changes they've already done is redundant.

> It sort of sounds like you don't think non-programmers would ever have the need to edit a file at the same time as anybody else might be editing it!

Not at all. But the non-programmers are less likely to notice the permissions and deduce their ultimate reason and impact and do the right workflow thing.

Falling back on the false security of a broken process instead of fixing it is like using broken crypto - you think you're doing well but you'd be better off if someone painfully opened your eyes and realized you were totally insecure all along.
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However, it's not really advertised in any of their catalogs, but I've been told they still carry it and you have to ask for it. Not sure about availability in the US.
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You are too charitable. I think it's a medieval tradition, dating back to the days when lecturers were real authorities on the courses they were teaching.

I'm not saying that lecturers are no longer competent at the stuff they teach, or that they aren't great authorities on something, but they don't have the edge that they used to.

If you want to understand the cutting edge of a field, you go to conferences, and listen to top researchers talking about their field. Perhaps that's what undergraduate lecturers used to be. But research gets more specialized and eclectic every year, while the foundations become more firmly bedded down.

Undergrad education is mostly a solved problem. Courses don't change much from year to year, except the useless faddish ones. New research gradually seeps down, but it's rare that you need an expert to bring it all together.
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I think these prices should be compared to what are known (in the UK) as "short lets" -- fully furnished flats let out for 1-6 months.

In the UK these are usually let to business people, the flats are much smarter than long lets, and the prices are 2-4x higher (and I assume the occupancy rates are correspondingly lower).
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It's even worse here in the UK - the government now pretty much owns the huge RBS Group and the much smaller Northern Rock and has a large stake in Lloyds.

So not much point the government suing something they (i.e. we the taxpayer) own!
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Hmm. What you're saying sounds cool, but I don't think I actually fully understand what you mean. Are you talking about more sharing between collections, and sort of adding other people's links to your own lists? I think if people start to really use the service, a lot of cool stuff would become possible. I'm definitely interested to hear more if you have ideas!
I wonder how many people will take advantage of this given that you can't get it in stores or online.
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I try to give educationalists the benefit of the doubt, because they probably mean well, but at the same time, this stuff is important so I want them to be held to a higher standard.

I can't help but feel that this image they used sums up the whole project. Two (basically meaningless) numbers, presented in a 3-D bar chart.
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But not one single executive who made the actual decisions will serve a single day in prison.
I share your thoughts around finding a problem 'big enough' for undivided attention...

Similar, but this hit the app store about a month before:

http://trailrsapp.com/ *

Its revenue model is simply selling the app. Which does make me wonder what's behind this particular YC startup. As another poster says, maybe there is a bigger plan?

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I've recently started going through http://www.amazon.com/Data-Analysis-Bayesian-Devinderjit-Siv... and can highly recommend it. The benefits of Bayesian reasoning can be grasped somewhat easily without a detailed knowledge of the math, but at the end of the day scientists and engineers still need to learn how to use it and write programs using it to do stuff! One review mentions the book dives right into the subject, it does; I believe Bayes' Theorem is shown on page 6. Some people find a brisk pace hard to follow, personally I like it since I can always fill in the gaps with other material if needed. (Like Jaynes, or http://uncertainty.stat.cmu.edu/ )