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Well let's be fair, this is in the context of a story about pirating textbooks - if nothing else, the original post is about (mostly) not getting paid.
According to this line of thinking, Google has spent the past 5 years being freaked out by Yahoo.

Not necessarily, I think what is important here is the slope of Facebook's line, not its overall y-value.
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That's the beauty of revealing lots and lots of details about the measurement process: some "random guy on the internet"[1] can point out possible mistakes, or at least suggest where to search.

So some people from the telecom or HPC community who have much experience with lags and timing jitters can contribute their experitse.

[1] I don't mean to disrespect the author, just point out that he's probably not involved with the experiment at all.
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Some thoughts:
1. Jason Hirschorn's email list Media ReDEFined (http://twitter.com/mediaredef) does exactly what you are trying to do, and it is free and curated by someone who is fairly well-known in the tech world. I read it every single day. He does weekends too.

2. $0.50 a day is WAY too expensive.

3. Is your goal to be a curator or a creator? This seems like you want to be a curator, but what makes you so sure that your newsletter is going to be so much better than my hand-picked group of people on Twitter that I would pay $15/month for it? That is more expensive than Netflix, Rdio, Pandora, Dropbox, etc. not to mention free curation services like Flipboard, news.me (recently made free), etc.

4. What I found - people don't want to pay for content. Period. I had, over the course of 6 months, around 100 people subscribe to my paid letter.ly newsletter ($2/month, btw), while around 30,000 people visit my blog. It made me realize that it's more important to have an audience than it is to have some short-term cash. That said, I am not sure if the same necessarily applies to curators.

5. IMO, the rewards are much better if you are "known" as a curator vs. "paid" to be a curator.

Best of luck, though. Interested to see what happens!

Background:
I had a paid email newsletter through the service letter.ly for around 6 months from July-December 2010. I have also had an on-and-off blog since March 2009.
Well, it's true that option's only permitted by the EULA for us non-Facebook users. But aren't those the only people it has to work for? If you currently use Facebook then presumably you've already decided to not be particularly worried about your privacy, and Spotify seems like an odd place to try to draw a line in the sand.
Stupid chart, huge difference here. Google has the advantage of knowing what a user wants when they are searching for it. Facebook is always pushing ads when users are looking to stalk people's photos.
I mean that I never found the thing or a place to turn it on. That's why I stopped using Sublime Text 2; I found it's UX to be confused. (Or at least able to produce that feeling in me.)
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Roughly 2 billion people in the world have access to the Internet. 800 million of them are active Facebook users (30 day active). Last week 500 million users logged into FB in a single day.

Facebook is a very popular service that makes perfect sense to integrate with. Don't forget that they are also "ignoring" anybody that doesn't have broadband; streaming all your music over ppp or metered wireless isn't very desirable.
why HN don't provide this functionality as part of the site?
He did break the rules, but these rules were irrational and he didn't hurt anyone in the process. Thats the ethical and moral dilemma that hustlers have to deal with every day.

This is an inspiring story, but when I hear about founders cheating, backstabbing and hurting others in the process, that is not inspiring... and there is a fine line between the two.
Are there demos anywhere, or does this need to be run locally?
There is a "Search" textbox at the bottom of the page.
Google probably didn't do it for fun but rather because it was being exploited in the wild and they were unwilling to delay protection for their users. As a user I appreciate this. Adobe needs to get their patch cycle and updating to Google's level ASAP.
I would have immediately signed up for $5 per month.

At $15 you have to start thinking what credentials and sources do you have, or how could you filter news for me better than HN already does? this? that?

That being said, congratulations. There is definitely a need for PAID curated news.
or don't rely on a service with only 200 million total (not active) users
There is a search input field at the bottom of the page, which sends your search query to this site:

http://www.hnsearch.com/

You can of course go there directly.
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I would hardly call that direct. It requires Adobe Flash to work (which I don't have enabled) and I need to register if I want to download them, or log in with Facebook, something I will never ever do. I really wish people wouldn't use slideshare.
Facebook give's them an on-stage keynote plus smooth Spotify integration (just check out that gorgeous install flow) and they give Facebook mandatory FB accounts in return. Seems like a deal rather than a "move".
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So is the argument that Google should leave the vulnerability unpatched in its own browser until Adobe get around to patching it in their plugin for other browsers, so as not to publicize the existence of a vulnerability?

What if they have detected black hats exploiting the vulnerability. Should they sit on a fix?

What if they were building their own implementation of a programming language or tool. For example, what if they found a bug in JS that could be used to exploit browsers. Arethey allowed to fix the implementation in V8 or must they sit on it until everyone else patches JS in their browsers?

(These are sincere questions, not rhetoric. I am not a security professional, and I am fully aware that some things are more complicated in practice than they may appear from the comfort of an arm chair.)
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Take a look at Smart Brief. They do this for social media and a few other verticals. There's value in human curation, but more value in creation I believe.
As a Facebook user, why exactly do I want to see a notification about each and every song that 100 different friends are listening to at any given point in the day? Add in the fact that Rdio does the exact same thing (spam my Facebook "ticker"), and it's even more ridiculous.
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Nobody in their right mind wants to build a business that is 100% beholden to record labels. Facebook is focusing on building a platform first, and anything else would be a [time|money] distraction.
I expected from the title a story about the future where Google uses purchase history collected from its Wallet service to predict items to be purchased next time, and even sends them to the home. Certainly that will kill many retail jobs.

Amazon does this, though imperfectly, and in fact it suggested me a periodic purchase plan of diapers after I bought it from them a couple of times.
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To me it concerns such as:
- how fast is it changing? Am I going to have to re-learn it every 6 months?
- how good are extensions for this language? Will people still be supporting their gems (for example) 2-3 years down the line or will it be a wasteland of abandoned relics?
- will a new language have significantly better native libraries that will allow me to do more straight out of the box?
- will a new language allow me to do more in fewer lines of code, thus decreasing the amount of mistakes I make?
- will there be tons of questions asked about this language so I can google for answers to my heart's content?
Well, I guess my digi-wallet asking me if I want to order groceries is slightly less weird than my internet-fridge going ahead and doing it without asking.

Still, I'm not convinced that it makes sense for my 'wallet' to be doing this.
Has anyone figured out how to use tumblr in some "meaningful" way e.g. not just reposting the same old memes over and over again?
I still struggle to get the point of using it.
Probably have the best luck w/ a "site:news.ycombinator.com" search in Google.
Use this format: site:domain.com keyword(s)
Include the sub-domain, if applicable, and the keyword can be anything from a title of a post, a word, user, etc.
No, I suggest you name it after what it actually does. "Controller" is a role that's only defined in terms of what it interacts with. It's essentially a declaration of rank with other types; it doesn't say anything about what functionality the class provides.

If I'm looking at the components of the software, and I want some code to do X, or wonder what a class Y does, what does "Controller" tell me?

If you're doing constraint verification (for example), my preference is to have a container (e.g. vector<>) of Constraint and just run find_if() to see when Constraint::Valid(environment) returns false. Then it's a class called ConstraintVerificationUtil and it has a single static method: VerifyList.
I'm not sure what's going on, but Google clearly does support the new format on some sites. Try http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http...

I know it's the new schema.org format because I added support for it myself, and Google finds the data I'd expect it to find.
No, whats asinine is how Spotify employees do not know that FB accounts must contain your real name and real information and that users are not allowed more than one account. Its against the TOS to just create a fake account solely for Spotify. Pardon me if I don't want guys like you to have all my FB information.
I am sick of everything being social. I listen to and read things I enjoy and often don't want to share it with the whole world. For example battle.net in SC2 tries it's damn hardest to make me post achievements and connect with my friends online, and I just want to play a game alone when I happen to have some free time. That kind of game wasn't social for me in the first place, and I don't want it to be. Same with my spotify usage, I want to listen to the radio, I don't want the whole world to know I am listening to jazz radio at the moment.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in "Tipping Point." Early adopters tend to be disproportionately passionate about the platforms they sample (they wouldn't be early adopters otherwise), and as a result more likely to share and report about their positive experience to friends, family, professional contacts, etc. as well as provide the most valuable customer feedback.
You mean besides the "Search" box at the bottom of every page?
I wish this article was programming related somehow.
Why is empty private Facebook account a "bogus" Facebook account?

Is it now required by law to actively use your social network accounts?
Google offers browser add-ons to opt out of analytics tracking: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
That does not explains why they had to make Facebook mandatory.

Optional Facebook auth would save every one person and still gain those two people.
I'm curious, why exactly are languages such as Scala/Erlang/Clojure/Haskell often mentioned as the "end goal" of one's language journey? Is that because they generally allow you to do the most with the fewest lines of code?
I suggest making it free and trying to make money from advertising. Unlike websites, newsletters are able to command much money per 1000 impressions.
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What is so impressive about the story is that he didn't break the rules, he found a clever way to work within them. He was confronted with a brick wall most people would have seen as non-negotiable, and he found a way around it. This required subtlety and cleverness.

Outright breaking the rules is a shortcut that will often be morally wrong and will also carry practical ramifications that you probably don't want to deal with. I.e. you'll be a jerk and get nailed for it.

It takes nothing but shallow bravado and sociopathy to "break the rules." It takes a lot of smarts to work with / around them, and will work out a lot better for you.
I've recently been looking for ways to do powerful admin interfaces quickly.

I've been looking at Cappuccino since it does support stuff like tables with > 10.000 entries and 'complex' controls.

Now with GTK+ HTML5 support this might also be an avenue to explore.
Interesting, there's also http://hackermonthly.com which digests this very site into a print magazine format.

There's huge opportunity in filtering - availability of information is not the problem, but filtering the signal from the noise and turning the firehose of information into useful, actionable knowledge.

The Economist does an incredible job of providing high-level overviews and forecasts, and has subscriber numbers going through the roof despite being a) a print magazine and b) one of the most expensive on the newsstand.

Will your offering provide editorial and forecast, or just a list of links? What makes your list of links better than everyone else's?
So you're basically saying that all Java apps are made of shitty code?

Interesting.
What I still don't understand is, what would I put in place of the Controller? Events are raised by the user, these are all fired off and I want to handle them in the same place in the same way.

I certainly don't want event handling code all over the application just because this means I can then have noun-only classes?
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Forget signing up, I was about to send them my resume for an opening that sounded interesting. Needless to say I won't bother.
Cool, I'm interested in this. I tried to sign up, but it looks like you have to enter your credit card info now? Is there no way to enter it after the free trial month? I'm just not sure yet if it'd be worth replacing my daily RSS habit with this, and I'll have to remember to cancel, etc.
following pivoting offer: newsletter free, but three ad-links (startup related though, can be for upcoming startups!). thoughts?

I'm trying to maneuver to good content, nothing more.
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This looks very cool, and I will just add that I don't think it's specific to even apps at all. It's relevant for anything that would get talked about on blogs, twitter, etc.

I have my own annoying aggregation stuff set up, and I'd love to be able to use what you've done instead. I can use google alerts for a lot of stuff, but I have not automated checking twitter search results.
It's strange that nobody in this story seemed interested in studying why the program crashed. If I'm a novice programmer and I do something ambitious like reading a lot of data, and that results in a crash, then I will want to know what particular behaviour is leading to a crash: for example, if I'm using the right functions and not something that becomes pathological when used naively.

Also, from what I can tell, he ran a Lisp system that used virtual memory, which the Scheme system didn't.

It's also incredible that Sussman is reported to suggest shutting down Scheme just because of the problem in this story. And that Sussman himself (coauthor of the legendary SICP book) doesn't seem to bother studying the program.

Nothing in this anecdote makes any sense.
>BSD is losing its ground against Linux (and Windows).

why is that important? why do the BSDs have to be gaining on Linux to be a viable, useful system. If your entire goal becomes "competing" with Linux, you miss the entire point many people chose a BSD to begin with, a stable, well thought out, usable system. The ZFS integration clusterfuck with freeBSD pretty clearly shows the results of trying to rush things so they are somehow better than linux.

Merging all the BSDs together to "fight" Linux is stupid and shortsighted, the OpenBSD philosophy is about more than security tweaked defaults for freebsd, its an entire process from conception of a new program, to implementation, to maintenance of the code. If you try to reduce it to a common codebase, it is just going to be freebsd + tweaks, which negates the entire reason people want to use OpenBSD to begin with.
Hm, tinyletter doesn't offer putting the CC info in later. How about: You sign up, email me and I'll remind you three days before you free trial expires through email that you can cancel if you want? :)
but d3 is delayed, will not be out this year.
I got my start in Elementary school. Sadly, it was an advanced class and not available to everyone. (You had to skip a day of regular classes each week, and your grades couldn't fall behind in them... So you essentially did 6 days worth of school work every week, instead of 5.)

They taught us the basics of programming, and that was about it. But it was enough to light the flame and I've been passionate about it ever since.

It's okay for people to be bad at some things, or even not care about them. Schools should spend more time introducing arts and skills to students. Let the students decide what they want to study beyond the basics that everyone needs to know.
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I generally don't want to link any of my accounts - especially when I'm paying for the service - to another system. I don't trust Facebook, Google, Twitter, or any other company to act as a centralized place for managing my identity. And given Zuckerberg's statements on the idea of having multiple identities online, I trust Facebook even less than the others.
In Twitter's case, a revenue source besides ads is data. They're selling some feeds directly (to Microsoft and Google), and seem to be reselling others via Gnip, taking a cut (http://gnip.com/twitter).
Does it compile to native HTML5+Javascript?

From looking at it, it seems that it doesn't - that it is running the app in the server and updating the screen in HTML5 canvas. It would be cool if it compiles the code to Javascript though... so that you get complete client side platform independent apps out of the current entire Gnome repository!
at the beginning, just the links. editorial and forecast may be added later, depending on how it evolves. reasons see my answer below.
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Ask HN: ClojureScript for Clojure newbies?
Is it possible to learn ClojureScript without already having (at least a rudimentary) understanding of Clojure proper? Or Lisp in general? I have a pretty basic understanding of the ML family of functional languages (through Ocaml and F#), but haven't ventured into Lisp.

I have a strong interest in learning ClojureScript. I've never felt that the DOM translates to objects, so modern javascript/coffeescript frameworks feel a little square peg round hole to me. I'm not sure if the functional paradigm will work better but I'd like to give it a shot.

I've been working mostly on static web sites recently, so learning Clojure proper is unnecessary at this time. I'd like to jump straight into ClojureScript. Is there any guides for doing this, or is ClojureScript too young for an audience such as myself? The wiki seems to assume you are already a Clojure programmer.
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Thanks for the motivation! :) Yeah I even saved the link to the tweet for a long time, but it got lost somewhere :(

Paid is difficult if you don't have an audience though. :)
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I'm all for automation reducing society's opportunity costs for making stuff. But if the market wage for the median person's labor drops to zero, they will be much worse off, and using wages to ration out the newly abundant goods (as well as living space) isn't going to work. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm weighs pretty heavily in my thinking as a plausible future, and we're just starting to see the first pebbles of the avalanche as grocery stores replace clerks with vending machines. "Grocery clerk" is a lousy use of human lifetime, but our treatment of the unemployable is currently even worse than that.
What you explained is a very well known problem in marketing and advertising. It's not enough to be the "thing" the customer is looking for, you have to be there at the time they want to purchase. That is Google's greatest advantage: when you're looking to purchase something, you turn to search, not to social.

I see a couple of things happening though:

* Not all purchases are customer initiated, and based on the time users are spending on Facebook, they're in a much better position to capitalize on impulse and casual purchases.

* I've seen an increase in the number of friends who post "Hey, what phone should I get" and similar questions. This social behavior was commonplace prior to the advent of relevant, usable search. We may see a return to this leveraging of social knowledge for important purchases. Facebook has a significant advantage there.

Even with virtually zero effort, Facebook is going to begin to eat in to Google's territory, simply as a result of the sheer volume of eyes on ads. Right now, Facebook is continuing to focus on engaging users. They're digging deep roots in to our lives, and appear to be focusing on partnerships that aren't ad-related right now. These partnerships are also in markets that are inherently social. Music, for example, is a very social product. It makes perfect sense for Facebook to form strong partnerships there.

It's difficult to say when (or if) Facebook will focus on general advertising as a revenue stream. They certainly have a product, but I don't know how effective it is. I've seen a fair number of anecdotal write-ups that suggest it doesn't work all that well, but for individuals with a rational, causal mindset, advertising frequently "does not compute", so it's hard to say if there isn't significant bias there.
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Good point, same answer as above: following pivoting offer: newsletter free, but three ad-links (startup related though, can be for upcoming startups!). thoughts?
Sorry my question wasn't precise enough: I was referring to the algorithms of the iOS Appstore.
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Just to be clear: while reasonable people can disagree about patch and disclosure timing, the point that this article makes isn't a fringe point. Virtually every vulnerability researcher goes through some kind of elaborate dance with vendors to coordinate the safest reasonable release of bugs and patches.

So it's not as if there's an widely accepted principal of "patch as quickly as possible". There are tens, probably even hundreds, of terribly severe remote code execution bugs known to major vendors and not yet patched. Patching takes time and money. It's not instantaneous.

It is somewhat widely accepted that if people are actively exploiting a vulnerability, it should be disclosed. But if there were known exploits for this vulnerability, chances are Adobe wouldn't be sitting on the fix.
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Would you imagine what happens with speed when all the code is compiled into javascript (megabytes of it) and gets loaded into browsers VM?
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