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The reason I want to avoid Twitter & Facebook is that meaningful use requires constant attention to check for incoming messages and respond.
The biggest startup industry in Australia is certainly milking other startups.
speaking of YC, worth noting:

http://ycombinator.com/dan.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117
What's wrong with Australia's start-up scene?
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Sure, but the point is that the JVM makes you pay that memory cost up-front, so it looks a lot more resource-heavy than it really is, whereas the scaling cost of things like PHP and Ruby is back-loaded.

People worry about scaling too much in general, IMO, but you'll actually get more mileage out of your hardware with something Clojure or Scala than you will with Python/PHP/Ruby/Perl.
Honestly, frameworks like Mahout and Weka have their place, and that's typically for exploratory data analysis. My belief is that for large-scale, extremely intensive machine learning, your best bet is to implement algorithms tailored to the job at hand. Algorithms like logistic regression work fine if your data is linearly separable, but it's not a panacea. None of the algorithms are.

If you're interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence, I very strongly consider "enrolling" in Tom Mitchell's machine learning class at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml -- the lectures are long and the mid-term and final are extremely difficult, but the material covered is an outstanding primer for these types of analyses.

After going through all of the lectures, you will look at things like Mahout and Weka as mere toys, and will be equipped to write your own implementations for whatever task you and your company are working on. It's a lot of front-loading for rewards that may at first glance seem illusory, but investing the time now will pay dividends later.
Patrick makes money, and runs a business. What normal users (which I assume form the majority of his customers).. what they want is high on his list of important things.

Any geek selling (or wishing to sell) to non-geeks (i.e., the vast majority of people) should likewise endeavor to get wise about non-geek opinions tout de suite.
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Then enforce those rules and block people using AdBlock. Problem solved.
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A fair amount of this is like Strunk & White in that it's bad advice made to look good by a disingenuous example. For instance:

Avoid using nouns as verbs. [...]
avoid saying "He authored ...", instead say "He wrote ...".
avoid using "obsoleted", instead say "made obsolete".

You won't often see the verb 'to author' in technical writing, but not because 'author' is also a noun. It's simply the case that technical writing aims at plainness, and 'to author' is a bit hoity-toity. So the example, while accurate, doesn't illustrate the intended rule.

Anyway, I wish I could say that tips like 'affect vs. effect' are unnecessary for working writers, but just last week I had to fix several instances of 'insure vs. ensure' in an old document, so. Yeah.
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I hope making a game never gets easier. I think it is so many people's path to programming. When I was 11 or 12 I was intent on making my own games. I really had no idea how to do any of it. So I went searching for an easy tool(was hoping for a gui of some kind) I stumbled on RPG maker which was ported by some Russian guy. Then I found this product called the GCS (Game creation system) by pie in the sky software. Both of these tools made games, but not the games I had in my imagination. So I decided I needed to learn how to program so I can make my own engine, and make those games in my mind. Little did I know the path I had just embarked on. Along the way I learned C++, win32, Direct X 7, and more. My interest in programming games soon waned, but what was left was a skill, and a lifelong interest. Had there been a GUI that allowed me to create the games that were inside my imagination, It probably would have been just another one of my fleeting obsessions that got lost along the way.
NB: UC Berkeley does the same at http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

In each case you can browse by department.
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So Youtube should ask you to pay, then? Same with Facebook and Google?

Advertising is what allows us to have great, free content on the Internet. Saying all sites should ask the customer to pay kills most startups and popular sites dead.

Either admit that you don't care if you're helping them succeed, or don't run adblock.

Actually, the one killer feature I could see adblock implementing is automatically adding sites to your whitelist if you clicked a link in a given domain. The articles I read on Hacker News are interesting and I'd like to support them. Therefore, automatically whitelist any domain I visit from hn. Seems like it would be both simple and solve the "I only want to support good content" issue.
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The Qwikster/Netflix thing is not at all simple

As far as I understand streaming and renting are two unrelated businesses. On the surface, there is no good reason they should be tied to each other.

It one of the very basics of organizing corporations: If there is no synergy between different divisions then you should spin the company (at least Russel Ackoff is behind me on this).

On the other hand, having these two divisions together allows them to hedge off each other. If rentals get unpopular and everyone starts streaming then the business as a whole isn't in the red. So there might be good reasons to keep them together.. but I don't think it's a no-brainer.
Oh, and here's the source:
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I'd love to someday have a failure as awesome as NeXT.
I work for what you'd have considered a start-up but we're successful now so I don't know what you call us? http://envato.com/

We still qualify I think, we're one of the ones that made it! We've been featured on 37signals' Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud series: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2594-bootstrapped-profitable-...
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The statements are not contradictory at all. Some local storage is needed for people who will out of range of wi-fi. Like airplane travelers. But they don't need a lot of local storage. People just need enough local storage to bridge the gaps in wi-fi coverage. Internet access is ubiquitous but it isn't universal.

While on the internet Fire users will stream their content. They don't need a high powered device to do this as Amazon's cloud infrastructure will be doing some of the work. While off the internet the device just needs enough power to play videos, read books, and play songs and games. This doesn't require a heavy duty processor.
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I recently had to implement a version of GetTickCount64 for older platforms that only support GetTickCount(32). It works great as long as you remember to call it at least every 49.7 days. :-)

(Luckily the process already had a thread which wakes up to perform such maintenance every hour or so.)
> irrelevant because the value of what is art changes with person to person

Well, this means there is no discussion possible about art.

This is a kind of relativism. Other kind of relativism include moral relativism ("What is good or bad changes with person to person"), and cognitive relativism ("Truth changes with person to person").

Sorry to tell you this, but relativism is sometime dangerous (eg. one could say that, for some people, it is considered "good" to rape old ladies), and often just wrong (you'd have hard time to find someone who would honestly declare that Bach's music or Chinese landscape paintings is really not art).

Apple's products have many impressing qualities, they are beautifully designed, engage their owners a lot, etc. Art do not need to come into the picture.
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Patents are designed to provide an incentive for companies to invest in heavy research and to publish the results, while being guaranteed a limited monopoly on the invention in order to monetize it. (Or at least that's what they should be for). That is in the interest of society as a whole.

Sorry to nitpick, but the patent system doesn't directly incentivize heavy investment in research initiatives. It incentivizes publicly disclosing how to practice the invention in exchange for a limited monopoly on practicing that invention. The government and other interested organizations incentivize research by offering grants, prizes, or outright subsidizing the research.

What is not in the interest of society as a whole are (1) patents on inventions that did not incur any cost (2) passing on these monopolies to entities that do not plan to produce anything.

I disagree with point (1) if by "cost" you're referring to financial expenditures. Psychic cost and other non-tangible costs are still very real. More than that, however, the patent system's purpose isn't to make people money. Its only purpose is "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." US Const. Art. 1, sec. 8, cl. 8. As implemented in Title 35, the Patent Act accomplishes this by requiring disclosure of the patentable subject matter in exchange to this exclusive right to practice the invention for a limited time.
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The majority of video games have been operating under the walled garden model since the days of the NES; while such limitations are annoying, I hardly consider them evil. (As a geek, the frustration is somewhat ameliorated by the knowledge that I can choose to trade time for additional freedom using various gray-hat methods.)
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On the back-end they are different -- but from the consumer's perspective renting and streaming are just different means to the same end: watching content.

If you have a movie you'd like to watch in mind -- regardless of whether it's available on instant or not -- it's a lot easier to just search on one website then be forced to go through two (and maintain two accounts). Not to mention that it makes sense to maintain user ratings for both instant and rented content in the same pool (for movie recommendations etc). I see a lot of synergy there.
I'm sorry, english is not my first language, so I maybe that's why I thought the word advertising didn't include craigslist postings. In portuguese we have a very specific word to the advertising I'm referring to, "propaganda" (which also has the same meaning as in english).

Craigslist/Ebay are exactly the kind of things we need more, especially ebay, where you can see different offerings side by side and compare them on objective grounds, then decide which one better fits your needs. And that's the key, if I'm on ebay it's because I'm looking for something, people are not trying to convince me to buy groupons when I'm actually looking to read a fine article from HN.

If "I" succeeded in banning the advertisement I'm talking about (basically impossible without censorship, and that's the last thing I'd want), more sites would spring up to help people who are looking for something. You wouldn't always buy from the same brand/store because you would have these tools to help you make sure (with the least amount of effort possible) you are making the best buy you can.

Furthermore, I think it's the existence of advertisement that is reducing the incentives to create alternate business models (for content websites, for example), like micro-payments (think very small subscription fee for a site like salon.com), and basically tips, which could be considered donations but would be too small to be worth it with the current payment processors.
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Just like how Depression is a choice and OCD is a choice and Schizophrenia is a choice.

Your views on mental health are a bit last century.
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perm (-XX:MaxPermSize) or heap (-Xmx)? They are separate spaces in sun's jvm.
Exactly. Just because I declare something doesn't mean I have to back it up with facts. I trust my gut. That's where the truth lies.
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I had to click around a bit to find the video. Here it is:

http://vimeo.com/30555070
Yeah, he won a Nobel when he was 31. He's only unsung among the under-read.
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after 1946 ... late 1940s ... immediate postwar period. These sources contradict your claim, and suggest that both America and Australia were disgracefully antisemitic when Oppenheimer wrote his letter.
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From a comment on the Google+ discussion came this corroboration, of sorts, from Gabe Newell.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economic...

Too many details to sum up nicely, but one is that when they did not advertise prices changes for CS they say almost perfect elasticity.
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Fantastic! Looks like desktop colour management is finally starting to happen for Linux. I don't really feel like I trust the low end commercial offerings anyway - at least this will be something that can be examined.
Spokes must have a much bigger cross-section than those loops, making them less likely to cut you. Otherwise the loop wheels would be WAY heavier.
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Tried reading it several years ago and flung it down in despair at its veboseness ~quarter way through. My French friends laughed with & at me, saying I was lucky it wasn't mandatory reading like it was for them in high school... I hear glowing reviews very occasionally, but when I think of the sheer bulk of the book, I don't know if I can give it another chance.
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Or you find someone with nothing to loose (i.e. no assets to loose).
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Co-Founder of Grabble here. IRL Gaming are going well. Another Aussie company that has just moved to the states is http://recoveryrecord.com - an eHealth startup. Disclaimer: I helped build their MVP.
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It's not a class issue. A more accurate appraisal would be that one is paid highest for strategic work, next highest for tactical, and the least for operational work.

If you're great at operational work, but are no good with tactics or strategy, you won't ever get a huge salary, in the office or in sports.

After all, look at pro-sports salaries and you'll see that the highest paid players are the ones who are put in situations where they have the ability to make potentially critical decisions, and who have a history of being relatively good with those calls.
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I think you are correct here.

EDIT: However it has been shown that some of the content companies have been less than diligent in their issuing of takedown notices. This could easily backfire on them..
I've been living here a while now, and only recently started learning french. You don't need to speak it at all to get by, but it will limit your business opportunities to some degree.

These links contain some decent information about some of the different neighborhoods. But they're definitely far from comprehensive. If you're looking for an predominantly anlgo neighborhood with a decent amount of families, close to downtown, and not too expensive, I think NDG is your best bet, but there's certainly other options:
http://ask.metafilter.com/71911/Were-Moving-to-Montreal-Wher...
http://www.city-data.com/forum/montreal/1183273-need-help-fi...
I just cancelled my Kindle Fire order (which I made the day of the announcement, perhaps too hasty) based on the review by David Pogue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/personaltech/th...

My take away is that if they can't get the included apps to perform well, it is likely not a device I will enjoy using. I'd rather pay another $300 for something that is a joy to use. Probably be better off using the Kindle app on an iPod Touch.
Thanks for posting this. I love these time lapse videos of Earth / space.

A few more I like:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110328.html

http://vimeo.com/22439234 (same author)
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Just so. Ilya was one of the most creative and clear-eyed people I ever met. He had a gift for projecting possibilities into the future and condensing a great deal of thought into a few observations.

I was inspired by time spent with him, and my own ideas flourished as a result. It's painful to think that noone will get to talk or dream with him again, but I am grateful for the brief time I had.
The LZW patent has expired in 2003. GIF usage is now free.

Also, you can probably blame the slow adoption of PNG on Internet Explorer, which dictated what became a standard on the web and what not.
Linux only? Fail.

You pretty much didn't cover any of the market that need this (e.g. photoshop users, graphic designers, photographers).
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I have gone from spending 6k on adwords to about 15k with fewer sales.. I have done everything possible but there is no reversing the decline. My employer is quite unhappy with me luckily 80+ percent of his business is not driven by Google. I became adwords qualified, deleted all of the non performing keywords, hired a $200 an hour consultant a favorite of Google's from the help board, the website design is very professional, and keyword targeting is all perfect for the business. It is quite depressing.
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if you can afford to spend an extra $300 like that, and like to read, you owe it to yourself to get an e-ink kindle.
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I won't elaborate too much on this point because it's been made many times here in the past, but I'm pretty sure you don't understand G+ if you think G+ is a short sighted move to combat just Facebook.
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Actually, they fail to demonstrate the smooth ride. The ride in the movie is on a clean road, with no bumps.
Hey William - nice idea. I'm Jenna, Stanford Institute for Entrepreneurship 2011 grad, PhD Clinical Psychology dropout and Aussie Founder of early stage E-Mental Health startup http://recoveryrecord.com. Would love to chat about the Australian startup scene, and my experiences in it.
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You don't have to. I use mahout from Clojure, not a single line of Java needs to be written.
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I noticed a similar trend from my much less successful app. I tried price variations from $0.99 up to $10. It seemed that no matter what price I set, I would average sales of around $10 per day.

The trend lasted for quite some time until someone released the app onto the pirate channels, at which point my sales almost disappeared. I guess a free option can change the dynamics.
If you have a Flash/ActionScript background, I recommend checking out Ansca Mobile's Corona. It's a (commercial with free trial) Lua programming environment (including device simulator and Lua debugger) that can generate iOS and Android apps.

Corona's media and physics libraries are a great match for 2D games. Other types of apps would be more difficult.

I have no vested interest in Corona; as an ex-Flash guy, I just think it's really cool!

http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/
This answer bothered me. Is he just saying that any supposed delays of "light" we can set up through experiment are really just delays in instantaneous absorption/emission pairs, or is he talking about entangled photons, or some preferred space of simultaneity, or photons not being particles but vectors in a timeless configuration space?