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Examine what he says a little closer:

"...the market is very crowded now for certain kinds of apps. Especially location-based and social network ones. So, if you're gonna pitch me something it better provide magic. Angels better sing when I open your app up. Otherwise, why should I use your app instead of Instagram, Foodspotting, Foursquare, Yelp, or my new ones, Batch, SocialCam, or Oink?"

So yes, he's not concentrating on the business sector. On the other hand, the very first piece of advice he gives would rule your hypothetical application in in:

1. Have at least one very clear, and cool, use case. I.E. have something you can show someone else that makes them say "oh, my, that's freaking useful."

In fact the first 5 pieces of advice also apply.
I watch 33,000 of the world's best users and if they aren't using your app I probably will delete it after a few days and forget it

Laughable. The world's best users. How do you qualify for that? By adding Scoble to your Facebook graph?
Of course the great thing about Scala is that you can pretty transparently use all the Java stuff out there. Thanks for reminding me about Mahout.
Also, this article is from the summer yet is listed as the most read article presumably because his new book Snuff is being released and causing people to search and read related stories.
Everybody can - in theory. But few people do and make the results freely available.

I'm a not a big Scoble fan, I find him verbos, and sometimes smug and self-regarding. I dropped him from my Google+ circles due to the sheer volume of marginally useful stuff.

However this article is decent.
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If he didn't have his "safe" job, you'd probably dismiss him as just another unemployed blogger! Ad hominem is a slippery slope.
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> Although one would still have to rewrite the app to use the LRBni instruction set (512-bit regs) to fully exploit the computing performance...

http://drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/216402188 ("A First Look at the Larrabee New Instructions")
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We're still in line with our "no useless boilerplate" approach in Play 2.0. You can look at the samples and make up your own mind about whether we've been successful or not:

https://github.com/playframework/Play20/tree/master/samples
Andrew Mason may only own 7.5% of Groupon, but the absolute value of Andrew's stake right now is almost certainly much higher than if he had decided to "preserve equity" and skipped one of the many rounds Groupon has raised. (Long-term, maybe not.)

YC's advice for founders is the opposite: don't optimize on valuation (or valuation cap, for debt)-- whether you give up an additional few percent matters less than other factors, like how much value the investors add or the time and effort spent completing the deal (and not working on product).

This is related to YC's argument for why they're worth their 2-12%: http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
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Did you ever do number crunching in Haskell [1]? Experiments by the developers of the repa matrix library show that repa (which exploits data parallelism) does not even outperform a single threaded C++ implementation when 8 CPU cores are used:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~benl/papers/stencil/stencil-hask...

The most glaring problem is that GHC currently does not support SIMD vector instructions. A problem which is now, fortunately, being addressed:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SIMD

But currently, Haskell is not really an option if you want to write serious ML software that rely on vector or matrix operations.

[1] I did, for maximum entropy modeling. Believe me, it's not near competitive to C or C++ yet. But one day, it will probably be.
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This was to be expected. In a classic disruptive innovation fashion, Intel is starting to move upmarket, where the profits are higher, and in a few years they'll be leaving the mobile and notebook/PC market to ARM.
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FPS Multiplayer is pure skill (frag better than your enemies). FPS Singleplayer is mostly puzzle (find the trigger, figure out the right weapon use). Both elements give you a feeling of achievement.

In addition there is story telling, which is not game-specific, but games are a great medium to tell stories (and not just with cut scenes).

Another aspect is addiction, which is discussed in great length for Farmville, WoW, and others. This grinding/leveling has little to do with gaming in my eyes.

The question of wide-open/non-linear vs linear and the choice of soundtrack belongs to the story telling aspect.
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VERY TRUE!

Don't try if you look less sexy than XYZ is NOT the way to go. Every startup has different dynamics. For some design is core for others timing might be.

Scoble is a tech blogger he hardly knows anything of startups. Oh wait, he never had one! There are just too many moving parts to declare why a startup failed, Scoble is the last person I'd ask what those parts are.

Shipping stays at top. No matter what. Even if startup fails, learning is priceless.
Have you traveled much? In lots of other countries, few stores take credit. Examples I've been to: Austria, Germany, Portugal, New Zealand… strangely enough the hot "latin" countries of Europe love credit cards, so it's easy peasy in Italy or Portugal. Also Finland, thankfully, because the amount of money you'd have to carry there'd be ridiculous.
Yeah, like the other commenter said, it might be a visionary 'toy', or it might just be a toy. I don't know which one it is yet, but at a guess, i'd say that it wont be world changing, because the benefit/effort is skewed too far in favour of retailers.

It reminds me of...i hope somebody can remember the name of some of these because i tried looking the other day...back in the 90's, there were a bunch of (legit, i think?) companies that gave you money if you installed a little application on your computer that showed you ads while you browsed the internet. Like, a penny per 3 minutes viewing, or a penny per 50 webpage views, something like that (anybody remember?!). This seemed like money-manna from heaven to my dumbass teenage eyes, until i realised how little i was getting out of the equation (my dumbass teenage eyes didn't factor in that it cost me a penny a minute to browse, at the time, too).

They'll need to un-chore it, if they're going to turn things around. And they'll need to come up with some big shift if it's going to be world changing...
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I have to mention OMeta, a language based on PEGs (plus a few extensions): http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/

It's dead simple, and quite powerful: it helps implement all compilation phases, from parsing to code generation. And it compiles itself in about 400 lines of code.
It's sad that this actually made it to the front page of HN. What is this world coming to?
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No one mentioned InternMatch so here it is. http://www.internmatch.com/
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One could also view statically typed languages as having "built in testing", at machine compile time, of types which would be covered by human written tests in a dynamic language.

It is easy to say someone doesn't have adequate tests but much harder to make an "adequate" amount of tests in a dynamic language (1).

Given a choice, I would rather have a machine checking for correct usage of types as opposed to human written tests.

(1) Note I said tests and did not mention systems level behavior verification which is in-depended of a statically or dynamically typed languages.
This is definitely true, but unlike with, say, Google and their products, that arguably have the same chain of product/retailer, Foursquare users get basically f*ck all for all their work. I don't think people are stupid enough to use something unless they see dramatic benefits from using it, and Foursquare just doesn't seem to be heading that way quickly enough (anecdotally, it feels too late to me, in my City anyway)
Ya, sad, but its funny nevertheless.
"Instagram? I had five comments within two minutes (and that was back when there was only 80 users on it)."

Take note: ask your friends back at the HQ to pose as enthusiastic users while you're pitching your next app :)
I did read that, but the focus of his article was clearly on quality good looking apps. I would push more for quality of processes. How does this app make the business more efficient? How much the client saves using this app? Etc.

He makes some good point, they just don't apply everywhere. And even if he says people are doing too many similar apps, his examples are still about the kind of apps he complains about in the first place. You see the flaw?
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Thanks a million man, so basically it seems like those people weren't actually meaning to use the operator at all. Sure you already parse them out anyway, though. Ah...i wont go on too much, i'm still surprised that so few people used it on purpose! Thanks again
If you can express the code using the functions and operators of linear algebra, you can simply write the math and get fast, elegant code. May even run on a GPU.

Fortran is frequently used for physics simulation. We used Mathematica, Maple and Matlab even in non-computing classes.

See http://www.netlib.org/lapack/

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming
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We use Play at work. It's the only reason I use an Algol dialect after 10 years of writing Lisps. It and Android, to be frank.

I believe we have one of the largest Play code bases. And I still enjoy it.

I picked it out of a line up, I tested Django, Rails, Cake, Java EE and buncha other stuff. I had just a month to pick a platform and budget limits for 4 staff and 2 years. So far I only needed just a gfx designer and I still do all coding myself.

Ask me anything about Play.
Browser support is still a huge issue that people tend to gloss over. It's a problem any standards based environment will face. Native will always develope faster and be more consistent.
The truth is that most of a founder's "preserving equity" comes from stealing it from someone else, be in a co-founder, employees, or early investors. Anyone actually involved in startup financing (as opposed to counting IPO shares and generating percentages) can attest to the veracity of this.
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Wow! Maybe they will add music, but it has a great atmosphere without music! And the buildings are great!
I am aware of that, as I said this was more a mental exercise. normalizeMap is harder to understand, but it was interesting to write - it wasn't meant to be a stab at your code or claim it's better :)

In terms of do syntax, I try and avoid that because I find it detracts from the overall flow of data. With: "putStrLn . spark . map read =<< getArgs" I find it easy to see that main doesn't do much other than transform the users input. maybe a personal preference thing though...
I think I've read that they're distributing part of that 30% to their partners. But Google is really making money of _every_ new internet-connected device at one point or another via AdSense.
Given that he's a writer, he is following his advice by focusing on Apple/iOS.
So what? New ones also spring up and sometimes the new ones are big enough to eat the old ones. From what I can see, the market is in a continuous state of expand->consolidate->repeat.
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You have a pretty low opinion of people who've managed to make large sums of money. If they're as stupid as you think, maybe that money would be better utilized by people who aren't?
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Congratulations guys! Great group of people :)
I know this doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of happening, but I wager if Google, Facebook, etc. were to shut down their websites for an entire day--or even part of a day--that congress would get the picture. Give the entire Internet a blank page stating simply and concisely what is at stake. Just imagine the deluge of calls.
Yup. It's not about being able to get on Melbourne trains for free, it's about being able to get access to your competitor's research lab, or to their mergers & acquisitions plans, or whatever. In that context, a few hours and a few thousand euros is absolute peanuts.

I used to work for a DRM company, and the physical protections designed into those things (not near-field, just standard smartcards) was ludicrous. self-destruction on exposure to light. Measured to ensure that you can't detect good or bad keys by: thermal emissions, electric resistance, electrical consumption, time to respond, and rf emissions.

All of that on top of the standard cryptographic requirements makes smartcard design an incredibly challenging proposition, and one that is ultimately futile in my opinion. For example, the last I heard from friends in the biz was that the crackers are still just using agregate measurements, but what happens when they start using high-res thermal imaging? You'll have to make sure that there is no special hotspot (or coldspot) on the chip when decryption succeeds. The same applies to RF emissions. Not easy.
Good point, and I might have done a better job at it.
I originaly thought the iphone would be an iChat client running only on data via a network. With facetime and iMessage it looks like that's the way things are heading...

Wireless networks are essentially ISPs.
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If it doesn't do something with both Facebook and Twitter (with Google+ to come) then you are gonna look lame.

Am I the only person who feels slightly bored that about 50% of startups I hear about are basically all about sharing links on social networking websites?
I can fully agree to that. I am not suggesting censorship or refraining from criticisms. I just like to see people doing that respectfully and in a way that actually adds something to the discussion
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That's all happening on the servers, so it's not the sort of thing you'll really ever get access to.
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That's where I quit reading. The time for most companies' IPO comes just slightly after pigs fly over a frozen hell. Is strategizing your way to a personal multi-billion dollar exit really how you should be running a company in the early days?
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From my letter:

H.R.3261, the 'Stop Online Piracy Act', is going to be the Volstead Act of the 21st Century. Like Prohibition, creating draconian laws like these to stop online piracy is going to do two things: 1) destroy respectable businesses that thrive on user-generated content and 2) drastically increase the number of pirates online by expanding its definition, and in doing so, massively expand online piracy. SOPA will literally create a generation of internet bootleggers.
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One happy side-effect (for Jobs) of Apple not running a network was that AT&T got the blame when there were bandwidth issues due to heavy demand for data, not Apple. ("I love my iPhone, but that damn AT&T network.....")
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"C is faster" is a tired argument. The ability of this compiler or that to produce the most efficient possible code is almost never relevant outside of a few niche cases. Even UHF finance is such that the fractional return in computation time that you may get from using C isn't worth the development overhead. There are any number of great reasons to use C, but speed is rather outdated.

In this case, you're also guilty of putting optimization before the algorithm. Squeezing out the last clock cycle doesn't matter when you have raw data in one hand and some high-level objectives in the other. Effective machine learning is more about finding ways to obtain and reduce data into a useful form, and finding ways to map between your design goals and workable algorithms. Speed is the last step, and often the only one which can be improved by throwing money at it.

Besides which, if you want to have a pissing contest about speed, C is still going to lose to FPGAs. If it's that important, hire someone who knows Verilog.
You could substitute Facebook App in there and moved the clock back about 3-4 years and it would read pretty much identical to blog posts back then.
Talk to people. Find out what sucks about their lives, preferably in the vicinity of a pile of money. Fix problem.

Here, an exercise for you: go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Search careers. Sort by percentage of workers who are female (this is the one of the quickest proxies I'm aware of for "of little interest to Silicon Valley"). Find someone who does one of the top 10. Ask what about her job is terrible.
But if I want to send money to a family member (as an "online transaction"), and I have concluded that I do not need chargeback protection, why should I have to pay an extra fee to cover all those people who DO need it?

I believe there's a place for non-chargeback online transactions. Just as there's a place for non-chargeback in-person transactions (i.e. CASH).
We've seen a number of articles on this topic today, but this is probably the best written and will reach a greater audience than any tech blogger ever could.

Being from Australia, I'm not going to be writing to any politicians, but I sure as hell hope this bill or others like it do not come to pass.
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BTW, I've collected some interesting papers and whatnot on side channel
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Yeah. And that's just passive attacks. It gets even scarier when people start creating faults with precisely-timed laser pulses (this equipment is commercially available). Etcetera.

Theoretical cryptographers have recently begun studying this kind of problem (in fact, that's what my PhD is about). That may help. Or not. But throwing the problem "over the wall" to the engineers hasn't worked that well, and I hope that some theory can be helpful here.
I know it's mechs and all that, but that's a multiplayer-only FPS.

And if I'm honest, when you get past the fact it's Mechs, the gameplay looks a little dull to me.

The crux of the article is disappointment in the single player campaign.
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>>This suggests that Larry Wall was happy to create a kludgey language for the sake of just getting things done.

Don't really know what to reply to this. Is this your speculation, or do you have a citation to back this up. Have you had some programming experience in Perl?

Perl is the only programming language(the other tool is emacs) I have learn't so far which gives exponential gains in productivity with a linear learning curve.

No other scripting language remotely comes closer to Perl practicality and pragmatism in the real world. Python and Ruby aren't even closer.

All beauty and other merely-for-talk stuff aside, For serious applications nothing is beating C++/Java in the larger scenario. And Python and Ruby never came to match Perl's glory.

Python's glory is fading pretty quickly. The web crowd is going to the next cool framework. Ruby tends to be pretty famous these days.

Perl is truly among those first things done right tools. Nothing will ever replace C, Lisp, Perl, Unix, Emacs kind of tools completely. Because whatever tries to replace them, ultimately ends up looking up very similar to them.
If I say that he sounds like a Hollywood Producer talking about what he wants to see in his next script then I hope people follow the analogy.

He uses 33000 people to tell him it's good. So you get things that appeal to the average.

There is no place for niche apps and no cult hits in his world. Just the sexy and the summer blockbuster.

But there are other lots of other bloggers out there in the world.
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So, do one of these companies work at night, or what?

7am to 3pm = 8 hours
4pm to 12am = 8 hours
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Great! Nice, simple and easy. It can even search for negative numbers without interpreting the - as "exclude". A literal search engine, without Google's well-meaning "intelligence" can be useful in many cases.