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Really well done guys - it's always lovely to see a great product but so much rarer to see it placed into a great market. Congratulations.
In my opinion, Scala is a little "type-y" (a significant fraction of all characters entered are type names), but it is a legitimate functional programming language and it is pragmatic. The libraries are there, they're just a little ugly to use.
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I'm increasingly coming to believe that the worst wars - French Revolution Wars, US Civil War, World War I and World War II - were caused by the rise of universal suffrage. The decline of war is a result of the United States establishing a hegemony over the democratic part of the world.
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It does indeed look very good. Nice design and a good concept to boot.

I hope it does well.
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Can Getty buy up its competition faster than new competition can be created? Once Google Image Search becomes decent then any photo hosting site or any photoblog will become a viable competitor. The barrier to entry here is almost zero.
To be fair, this is a big piece of doodoo for a host to have to deal with for the few $100 that they tend to charge.

If its anything more then a bare basic, just getting a lawyer to look over every piece of mail they get & advise them could cost well over what they make on hosting a site. Even on a high plan, if they are getting these love letters frequently.
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2nd?

BTW, any idea how much?
I was reading the beginning and thinking "Gosh, I could really use a local business search," and it's true - I've had a terrible time with Google and Google Maps trying to do that exact thing. I want businesses of a certain type that I can walk or take the train to.
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They do, but they're getting aquired Soon(tm) (before the end of the year, they say), so it might be a good idea to wait a while and see who is buying them before choosing them.
Yeah, we did. Buried in the discussion was a link to this article, which I felt merited discussion of its own.
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Sorry, it was a bit rant-ish and I openly admitted to it :) I almost never do that, but I was so tired of reading about all the junk Apple was doing to make developers' lives harder.
It depends on your readership & your topics.

If you are writing constant posts on personal finances: remortgag, consolidating, getting a financial advisor etc. & the ads that get posted are reasonably relevant (very dependant on the industry) & the readers are 'get a cup o coffee & read' type (digg/stumble/slashdot are reportadly click happy 15 second visitors), then you can get a good amount.

Its important to think about this from the advertisers perspective. The industries where click costs are high are where a large number of clicks can become substantial sales. Services are a biggie: everywhere from mortgage consultants to plumbers.
Your answer is a better one for software engineers, Atwood's is the better one for software entrepreneurs.
The design is nice. One suggestion would be to better mimic the ui/colors/look and feel of WoW's ingame ui. Also add some sort of clan feature where someone can register a clan that they could also use as their clan/guild website so like a facebook group.

But disturbing too... A social network where instead of being about the users personal life, it is about a video game character they play. Luckily there are a boatload of people whose lives evolve around WoW so it could do very well.
First of all, there is no google phone :) Let's be fair to Google, there's Android and then there's the G1. I don't have a high opinion of the G1.

Yes, in an ideal world openmoko would go head-to-head with the iPhone OS and it'd have a better interface and all that stuff. However, it will probably never be something mainstream users will want or care about. Android is the closest thing we have right now to be a rich, open mobile platform that will be on phones that a lot of people will actually buy and want to have. Until around the time the iPhone came out, people hated their phones, by and large. I give credit to Apple, though they do not get sole credit, for helping stimulate more innovation in cell phones.

Anyway, my point was that Android actually stands a chance against the iPhone OS but it's not a done deal and we still need good hardware for it. Ultimately, I want it to cause Apple to loosen up on these stoic principles behind the app store.
Really helpful, thank you. I am in a similar situation and have felt pretty uncomfortable assigning different weights to each of the founders, but I can relate to your situation where different members are contributing different amounts of time. One thing I was a little unclear about - what is the "total vanilla" line about? Thanks!
Really fascinating and insightful essay by Taleb that he wrote about two months ago about the crisis: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb08/taleb08_index.html Definitely check it out.
There is a nice app - http://www.quotag.com It has been an inspiration for some apps competing in rails rumble.
I didn't mean to cut out from the loop the developers who have been making a lot of money from the app store with their great apps. And Apple can do whatever the hell they want with the iPhone, it doesn't belong to developers. That being said, it's just not fair for them to be so completely arbitrary in how they run the app store. Is it legal? Of course. There's nothing wrong with it, it just doesn't make sense.

When you have the potential to make even more money on a great product and make the user experience better and bring in even more users in the process, why wouldn't you? Yes, it does remove the control that Apple has had over their products and, arguably, has kept the quality of their products at a high level, but they're not doing the best job of filtering so that bad apps don't get in the app store so it simply doesn't make sense.
I was going to say something intelligent, but all I came up with was:

How many NYT employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? About 11,615.
Simple but genius idea - could come in really handy during some random situations: I'm always afraid to rely on wake up calls at the hotel, and I have a nasty habit of forgetting my phone charger while traveling. Besides, anything that makes me feel more super-heroesque is pretty clutch.
polyphasic sleep is potentially revolutionary. I heavily suggest it for those that want to do their own startup but can't break away from their job. Get a part time job, go polyphasic. You'll suddenly have plenty of time to work on your own stuff, work part-time, and still have a social life.
That's because many key VS contributors are Emacs users! Sometimes, during heavy code churn, major features break or otherwise can't be trusted. You have to revert to your text editor of choice and printf style debugging.
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He doesn't give a strong reason for getting rid of the ads other than that they aren't directly for products he endorses.

It's nice that he makes so much money that he can afford to have principles. :P
I'm not sure about your last point. It seems there are some extremely important implications from the determination that "black swan" events are often of incalculable risk. I already posted the link farther down the thread, so I won't repost it, but I highly recommend reading the article - it is written by Taleb and reframes this concept in terms of the current crisis. It really is one of the most interesting high level overviews of the problem I have come across.
I think you got the support you were looking for to write a book.

You've got a good list. You sound like you've got interesting things to say about every item. Come up with a practical example (preferably but not necessarily a real one) for each, and you've got a decent read on your hands.

Hustle, hustle, hustle! ;)
Never heard of the guy before. I checked out his bio on Wikipedia and it says this:

"After being arrested for grand theft in Sacramento, CA and given 60 hours of community service, Steve claims that this was the impetus he needed to turn his life around. He claims to have earned two college degrees in three semesters from California State University, Northridge - he says that he partly achieved this by attending a college that was generous in awarding advanced placement credits for courses he had taken in high school, thus reducing his required course."

The citation links to his article where he claims he did 30-40 units per semester and no summer school. I don't know, that sounds pretty ridiculous to me. Very hard for me to believe he earned 2 degrees in 3 semester on technical subjets of mathematics and comp sci.
The have previously promoised to start giving more resources (and charginr) at the end of this year. Now it's a part of roadmap though Q1 2009.

Until then the biggest app they run is under 500 Mb.
Yes, this really helps me make the decision to use emacs.

There is a lot of useful information in this post for a non-emacs user.

I am not being sarcastic.
It's not just you. The compressed version was mechanical and even out of tune, although the crescendos sounded about right.

It's obviously a waste of time as a recording format, but it could have applications in decoding instrumental performances -- maybe helping students to see what they are doing, or providing some quantitative insight into great performances.
But it seems like you'll also go nuts. If you impose a polyphasic sleep schedule on yourself, you must follow it without fail. And that means a 15-minute nap every N hours. It doesn't matter if you're watching a movie, or out with friends, or "in the flow". If you slip up, the whole sleep pattern comes crashing down. So not many people have that much discipline, for one.

But even if you do, it doesn't seem possible for a human to work 100% of the time. Each time I've tried, I simply end up wasting time rather than using it -- e.g. I'll stare at my computer screen for awhile thinking, try some minor change that doesn't work, then repeat the cycle over for a couple hours. And the next day, my work has often proved to be shoddy at best when I was forcing myself to work.

On the other hand, I've had plenty of experiences that went like: There's a bug to fix. Can't seem to fix it. Go to bed. Wake up refreshed. Spot the bug in ten minutes.

That seems pretty valuable as a time saver, so it doesn't seem wise to sacrifice your "unwind" time lightly.

I'm sorry. I don't mean to sound like I'm coming down on you. I'm merely trying to point out that, in the end, polyphasic sleep seems like a form of masochism -- and perhaps that's why Steve himself stopped doing it.
"Support for a new runtime language"... would that be perl perchance? http://groups.google.com/group/perl-appengine
You know, that's the response a lot of people have when they hear of Bill Gates' or Warren Buffet's donations. But the truth is, they are unique. Billionaires don't all give their money away. In fact, very few.
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Well, that's not difficult to do if you simply adopt the policy that anyone you don't know approaching within n miles of any asset you care about gets immediately hit from the air. The reason Gulf 1 went so well is that the Coalition played to its strengths: air and armour in open country. Gulf 2 is going badly because the Coalition is dancing to its enemies urban guerilla warfare tune..
Obviously a great story and he does sound like quite a class act.

However, I strongly disagree with building a company that lacks proper equity distribution for employees. A lot of the culture problems he alluded to could have been prevented by keeping the team smaller and increasing team ownership.

It's great to be a founder and own 100%. But I'm not sure it's smart to build companies where people aren't on the same page when it comes to owning the creation they build together.
The intention is good: making a modern, yet simple programming environment for beginners. The result is bad: including GOTO and omitting parameter passing makes programming simple as in assembler, not simple as in helping you do the right thing.
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I actually think that a siesta type biphasic pattern is much healthier for long term (better than monophasic too). But I also think polyphasic can be a major productivity booster for 3-6 months.
it worked. We're all talking about it on here.
There are a lot of papers who can reasonably make that claim (e.g. The Times here in England). The problem, structually, is that newspapers in general are retailers of wholesale product provided by PA, AFP, Reuters, etc etc. Their value-add is in their original content, and that tends to be quite localised i.e. it doesn't scale. I worked in Manhattan for a while, I still have friends there, I enjoy reading that content in the NYT but I've no plans to go back and I wouldn't pay for that content (tho' I will see ads which I will ignore). Original content is expensive to produce. That is the problem for newspapers.
Isn't that kinda what Calacanis did at Netscape? ie - Free Money for the top contributers at Digg / Reddit?
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congrats scott & jeremy! great writeup.
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You fail it. ("it" is: providing a cohesive statement, not trying to a start yet another editor flame war, and not looking like a jackass who doesn't know how Google works.)
at least try to use joe or nano for those same editing tasks

I believed you were serious until this point. And then I realized that you were merely trolling.

Better luck next time.
I understand pretty well what I am bringing up here. If you did follow the saga during the protests against quota system - there are two broad categories GM & OBC. No government entity can deny admission to OBC. As for as GM goes - in some institutes where applicants have to go through interviews or they are recruited on a demand basis there is always a huge influence of clan - which makes the concentration of Brahmin clan.

Regarding distribution of castes in the entire population - it is of no interest. We are speaking only of the institutes - IISc, ISRO, DRDO and that it is skewed with Brahmins and SC/ST. Additionally, existence is not same as power/ influence. I can bet the environment looks better at any of the IITs or RECs. That should suffice as a response.

Please follow up offline (Again I think u joined yesterday just to fire this debate with no info on profile) if u do want to fire a debate or do some follow up or walk into IISC or ISRO. I think HN is not a right place.
1) A place called "Science Daily" using the phrase "x Times Smaller Than"... arrrgh. (offtopic: Google "times smaller than" in the next couple hours to get a peak into how Google seems to be ranking sites... I was surprised to see this topic was 60% of the first page)

2) Outbound links! Please, people, this is what the internet is about!

3) This is an interesting article. Unfortunately because of a lack of (2) it's hard to tell if they're making an effort to do this in a way that supports a wide array of instruments (an instrument synthesis API would be pretty cool), or if this research has a more limited scope.

I admit I don't know enough about sound and music to speak intelligently about what this research could do, but it seems like they could abstract it to multiple classes of instrument and open a whole new field of synthesizing instruments that sound like they should exist but don't. I'm thinking of the sound equivalent of the Memristor -- the (1940s?) math and physics showed that it is possible but nobody had made one until >2006.
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Oh, don't worry - I wasn't complaining about immigrants. I'm talking about people who (according to their CV, and by the sound of their name) had spent all their life in the UK.
I must say I find it rather unhelpful, almost Appelesque, not to disclose which language they are working on. That has nothing to do with release schedules.
No interest in material wealth? Charitable remainder trusts are a standard old money tax dodge. He gets a tax free income for life, and when he dies, the charity gets what's left. It also saves him 3.3 million dollars in federal capital gains taxes. It is shrewd but not particularly ascetic.
Well, the examples don't work on Opera. I know the market share is tiny, but I can't shake the feeling that this is a really fragile method.
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His word, not mine. :-)
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scott gave me a demo a few months ago and i was impressed with the idea of taking what's typically considered "invisible" data and exposing it in a measurable way.
I don't think that lack of marketing skills is a real problem. You could have a friend that would do it for you. Think Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.

It's ok to be bad in marketing and good in hacking as long as you are not alone.
Would guessing still be needed if I said it was a non-subscription website? :P
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"The issue about the toilets I get completely, I had a similar experience with a request for a prayer room on our floor for one muslim employee which was denied. He claimed that we weren't respecting his religious rights and got his prayer room and was the only person to use it. When he left we still couldn't reclaim the space"

OK, now go and ask some women about how they would feel about having to share their bathroom with the men at work. As I live in a foreign country, I actually took the time to survey literally every 'native' woman that I know just to verify that this wasn't just a cultural thing. Every single one said that they would consider the situation unacceptable.

You on the other hand seem to think that my male colleague was being reasonable. This gulf between what women expect, and what men consider to be reasonable is a very large part of the reason that women are not well represented in IT.

Oh, one other thing. When people say things like 'No offense intended, but', or, as in this case 'I'm sorry to be blunt, but', the person saying that isn't actually sorry at all. It's just a passive aggressive communication technique designed to deflect criticism like mine. Try replacing "Sorry to be blunt" by "I'm going to be blunt" in the original post, and you'll see that the meaning of the phrase changes not one little bit. And regardless, the whole idea of 'being blunt' is designed as a condescending swipe at the understanding of the person/s concerned "you're not capable of understanding a refined argument, so I'll be blunt". Again, return to the original post, and remove the "I'm sorry to be blunt, but', and the post would have expressed the poster's intended message, but without the condescension. Which is exactly my point.

Now, I imagine I'll get voted down again for daring to suggest that the comportment of men in this industry is anything less than magnificent.
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But the best bit about this post is the first comment (on the article not HN) - brilliant - gave me a laugh.
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Clan/Guild features are definitely something that I am interested in looking into. For the initial release, I just wanted to keep it simple and let the users tell me the sorts of extensions they would be interested in :)
Looking at the comments seems like I am an exception. But I really appreciate these tests especially if u are hiring at start-ups. One got to be hands on and ready to fix anything and everything.

The biggest test is that of go-getter and not be finicky about the kind of work you do.
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The dates on the page threw me totally... The individual items are mm/dd/yy and the headlines were mm/yy...
FWIW, I'm not a player, but your design looks great. I'm a little iffy about the menu links near the top. I feel like they shouldn't be separated, and could maybe use a background that's a little less translucent. Also the word "legend" is a bit tough to read and should have a period after it.

But the color-scheme and fonts are great. Overall it's pretty solid.
I don't think that that's correct. I think that the 'short selling ban' banned actual short selling, and actions which had an equivalent effect. So your example of shorting the index and buying all the stocks except one would have fallen foul of the ban.
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I have no idea where this un-natural fear of the goto comes from - I suspect it is a university CS dept. myth. I feel pretty confident that I can write well structured maintainable code in any language that is Turing complete - and this little basic exceeds that requirement and then some.

I can't wait to give it to my young son and see what he can do with it.
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