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It seems like they're disconnected from reality nits like there' this Silocon Valley bubble that the VCs are living in. I'm up on all the trendy tech news too but I'm out in Chicago so maybe I'm able to see things differently from the outside. Haven't they figured out that unless your some huge corporation like Google you can't break into the social space. It's already been dominated by the big 3 (Facebook, Twitter, G+). Social is becoming cliche and its actually turning people off now. That's not to say the startup party is over, it's just that now that we have entertainment and novelty all squared away they can focus on other things. Dropbox for instance is a company that's not exactly serving a humanitarian purpose but they're doing awesome things that are going to change the way we work with our devices. Spotify I think is also worthy of the money because it has given us something a lot of us have dreamed of: access to pretty much any music, on demand, for free. Like on demand radio. Again, it's not helping people in profound humanitarian ways but they're doing awesome things (opinions on artists pay and all that have nothing to do with what I'm talking about here so please don't go off on that tangent).

But instead of finding these truly unique and innovative companies they throw money at exactly what you said, Facebook for cats and other lame wannabe sites with founders who think they're next in line to dethrone Zuckerberg because it's cool to be a billionaire. I think there are still people who get it and they're smart about where they put their money but far too many are getting into this like some gold rush. They invest based on "oh tech startups are trendy and they'll make me rich no matter who they are" kind of thinking. Honestly, I'd totally forgo funding for something I can do on a shoestring budget (and I am) and I'm the end come out with a better product that I'm in control of completely. That's real success. Funding has its place but it's being abused nowadays.
It was like that (which is pretty cool btw, thanks) but more oriented to designers. I think website owners were encouraged to put a button on their site that invited designers to alter the css and submit a variation.
Bless the toolmakers... but I'm worried everybody wants to be one.
Fair point. Why don't you create a gist with an example of what the model + hint declarations would look like in separate classes. I'm not convinced that this distinction matters, but I'm sure the DM developers would respectfully take a close look at your insights. They are a really great group, very helpful on IRC, etc.
If someone implies that there is proof that the perpetrator picked up the tape when there is no such evidence, are they right?
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How did the perpetrator plant such a device in the first place? Did he have permission? If not, perhaps a different crime was committed.
For anybody interested in the topic, I would also recommend to read Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis:
http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

It is a well written text on building reliable distributed systems in general, and Erlang in particular.
That number only includes sales of music online in the US. If you add in global sales, CDs, concert attendance, etc. then you get a far larger number.

At no point is that number "almost nothing" though. Hundreds of billions of dollars is more than enough to finance the global music industry and provide a generous living for all of the world's musicians.
They have iOS for idiots now.
Great chart and SF downtown has a denser deep blue color; always suspected that is a more risky place for pedestrian.
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There software is not on all phones so the total number of SMS messages is irrelevant. Assuming the average text message are 80 charters and they can be compressed 75% then 10GB could be 500 million messages a day and 180billion / year which would be 10% of the total messages in a year. Or with enough meta data 10GB could represent a tiny fraction of that. So, IMO the real question is what information they actually collect not how much data they are storing.
The family of the kid enrolled at Le Rosey is probably living beyond its means

I doubt that.

http://members.forbes.com/global/1999/0705/0213126a.html
FOUND IT! It was called 'csspivot' and it appears to be dead now. Here's the old blog: http://blog.csspivot.com/
Not if the device runs out of memory or on older iOSes. You should always address this case.
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I think this is where proper mentorship is extremely valuable. If the student was consistently coached from the get-go he might have pulled it off.

On that note, is there a community online where one can seek out mentorship. It doesn;t have to be a community of who's who - just some decent nice people with common sense and desire to succeed should suffice. I am at a stage where I could use some advice as well.
Probably not all phones sends the data every day, they can be scheduled monthly or they request data from phones only if there is a network problem.
The point isn't how many texts they're getting --- one would be too many. The point is "10 gigabytes per day of metrics" doesn't itself imply that they're getting message contents.
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I can't find any info for developers. Has anyone else?
While I'm not saying that's not a real concern, I don't think I've ever seen code that would blow up from that. I think this comes from the concept of "limited surface area" that the OP outlines.
Haha seriously! $50 million for something that requires a VPS and some code to start? I honestly don't think I could put that much money into a photo sharing app if I tried. Even if I paid the developer a million dollars to create it, a million dollars for servers, a million dollars for someone to maintain it, a million on design, and 5 million on marketing I still have $41 million left. So do I just pocket that? What's the deal? I'm honestly perplexed and I've asked before and the answers I get are never able to explain why these startups need or are even worth such amounts. Everyone pretty much says "yeah, I don't get it either". Please, I'm being serious, can someone educate us on how this makes sense?
By that logic we should all be very angry at our TTY drivers.
If you think SF is bad, look at Manhattan.

What's with all the 99 year old deaths in NYC? Bad data?
A few independent musicians have noted that they make so little from Spotify (and the users don't get guilted into buying anything on iTunes) that it actually isn't worth it.

I think Spotify will slowly lose independent musicians and eventually lose market when they lose more artists (in fact, didn't a record label recently pull all tracks off Spotify?)

I can see a collapse approaching GroupOn proportions (let's face the inevitable there ;)) if things don't change soon, and for similar reasons (screwing over small business vs. screwing over independent musicians)
You made me wonder- is jailbreaking an iPhone the equivalent of rooting an Android phone? It's just about becoming the root user in the Unix system right? I've never played with either.
I think the idea is that enthusiastic hackers are more likely to try new and "weird" things than, say, somebody who learned a language in school, got a job at some BigCo that happened to be using that language, and spends their days sticking that language's libraries together with bubblegum and Popsicle sticks.

You'll probably filter out some good candidates, but people who make it through at least stand out from the crowd in some positive way.
What I'm reading in your sentiment is that you believe that such regulation prevents the "hard sales" approach of getting people to invest wonderfully demonstrated by the junk bonds and Boiler Room movie. And I agree with you - such crap tactics are what ruins it for the rest of us.

But I also don't believe that simply barring access is the right way to go. In an environment where barriers to entry are falling everywhere, the funding aspect still remains the most difficult. A talented small group of engineers can put together solutions that rivals the best of fortune 100 companies, but those same engineers are usually not capable of marshaling the resources they need to execute, often more efficiently than their big company counterparts.

Start-ups are super risky. If people understand that, and have means to diversify, than we have a good model. To me, Kickstarter is an awesome way to crowdfund for a product or a finite project. By promising something in return, you essentially get a head start on sales revenue, and use it to fund the development.
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Most population graphs of the USA look like this in general.
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I dunno, Manhattan is sloooooooow-moving, I'm not sure how you can fatally injure somebody at 5MPH gridlock!
> I'm hoping eventually all the browsers will have something low level and fast enough to realistically do this kind of thing (e.x. Native Client)

I don't think Native Client is the solution. For technical reasons, the sandboxing mechanism there has a big cost to entering and leaving the sandbox. The worst case for that is something like a codec, where you constantly stream information in and out. NaCl works better when you have lots of computation and very little input/output.

(That might be fixable in theory, but just as fixable is the speed of JavaScript.)
Other ways to move the web forward: stop supporting Internet Explorer altogether...when you start having to support Trident then it's almost like having to code a site twice

Really? I've been pretty happy with IE9, generally 98% of my code works perfectly, it's just a matter of drop shadows, rounded corners, etc that don't work. I honestly want to know what breaks so horribly that it's like coding a site twice.

My memories of IE6 make IE9 seem like a completely different browser. It is somewhat, since they rewrote their rendering engine to fully support CSS 2.1 in IE8.
Not just that but also the fact that the devices used for producing are much less likely to be bought in homes if they already have a consumption device.

In the post-PC world, a home(especially in low income homes and the developing world) having iPads are much less likely to have Windows or Mac machines (on which an enterprising kid might install and play with Eclipse, Visual Studio Express or XCode, or even Linux).

This effect will be further amplified when the PC prices rise to lower demand.
I know some corn/soy bean farmers but not very well. All the farmers I know really well (and have to a point grown up with) are livestock farmers, and they live on a farm and do farm work because they love it. It is not their primary job, most of them do contracting, some are mechanics, some are auctioneers, and others are nurses.

Despite farming not being their primary job, they still make a few thousand dollars a year from sales, which I believe should classify them as a small scale farm.

Farmers don't make a lot of money at all, and they tend to get screwed a lot, this is why you always hear of the angry hillbillies taking over the city. It's kind of like musicians making a living. (Farmers are more important because they provide food, but that's not the point).

As far as industrial machines taking over the business, this is just the nature of needing a lot of food in the world. The morals of these industrial machines are questionable at times, but in the end we need food and most people aren't willing to vegetarian so I guess we are going to have to suck it up until we have better methods. Small scale farms also fill a niche market with local meat/produce and often end up trading/selling their products to other farms.

Back to the point of the main topic; your father wasn't scammed out of his life because he worked hard on a farm. I'm sure at some point he realized that he could sell the farm, move to the city, get a desk job and work less hours much like many other people did in rural areas.

I don't know your father, but I would go as far to say that he probably made a conscious decision to stay on the farm for probably a multitude of reasons. Maybe he liked the life, maybe he liked rural areas, maybe he felt a kid would be better raised on a farm doing lots of hard work, it could be anything really.

Farm work isn't smart work because it requires lot of hard hours with little benefit. Doesn't mean someone is wrong in choosing to do it because it is not only necessary for society, but some people really do like it.
> Does anyone truly believe that scores of software
> developers writing financial software for banks are
> going to trade in their PC to type on an iOS device?
> Don't bet money on that (at least for the short-term).

Not to mention most professional cases of photo/video/sound editing, and graphic design for magazines or billboards. Sometimes a laptop screen size is truly an impediment. Fast hard disks also help in this tasks.
Yet another article written for the pleasure of its author. Just tell us what data you have and how they answer the question in your (leading) headline. Three sentences and a table; done.
As someone with libertarian leanings I find puff pieces like this pretty frustrating. I generally sympathize with the idea of opening up private equity markets to more participation, but I also recognize that there are reasons for these restrictions.

The Senator's article doesn't bother acknowledging why those restrictions were put there in the first place. This sort of thinking give free-market policies a bad name and leads to bad results (like the financial crisis).

Let's take this quote as an example:

"Americans are allowed to gamble unlimited amounts at casinos, and can send donations to charities halfway around the world with one tap of a trackpad. Yet, we are legally prevented from making even modest investments in job-creating small businesses."

This is a bad comparison: Casino's and charities aren't marketed as investments, so people shouldn't have the illusion they're going to get their money back.

The article would be much better if instead drawing a false analogy the Senator would have explained just how the legislation plans to vet the crowdsourcing firms to ensure they're not scams.

Personally, I support the general direction of this legislation, but I object to the pseudo-populist slant of the article. It really weakens the case for freeing up capital markets.
I agree but only if more of the stupid masses pay for getting locked up in something like the Apple walled garden. They trade some of their freedom for thinking even less.

Considering how "smart" the general human population is they will be happy to opt in for no choice just to have the latest iOS device and think they are cool.
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But they are monitoring on the client side, correct?

Who is to say the carriers are not processing on the upstream? We certainly know that Carnivore was designed to do just this.

Let's just say; there is NO privacy on ANY digital communications. Period.

If you think otherwise, it is likely just being naive.

We know that the US and China have been in an extended cyber war fro more that 10 years now.
Ask HN: An app store for map/reduce jobs?
Our company has tons of social media data and we write our own map/reduce filters to perform various statistics, but I'm sure the imagination and skillset of the crowd vast exceeds our internal abilities.

So we've been toying with the idea of creating a store where devs can create their own map/reduce jobs to run on our dataset. Our clients would purchase these "plugins", maybe on a monthly fee, and the devs get paid for each subscriber.

The code would probably be in JavaScript, similar to how mongodb's map/reduce works with bson.

Any interest out there?
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I'm not sure why I would care to defend him, but it seems that his claim that the data is not real time can be verified by the first image in the parent comment's list. In that shot there's a column listing the 'Upload Reason'. The reasons include "Scheduled" and "Archive full", which seems to indicate that the software reports back at set times unless the user was particularly active and the data file hit some size limit.

There's also a third upload reason in that image which has it's own disturbing implications: "SMS_PullRequest_CS".
Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I understand completely that ggplot2 is a much higher level abstraction of graphics. I want to build my own abstractions from first principles, but though I have a lot of programming experience, I have essentially zero experience with programming graphics from the ground up. It sounds like this will be a good place to start.
Yes I know. Unless the app sorts out valuable information from noise (passwords, account numbers, etc), I think this conspiracy theory is invalid.
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I find the spinning in this article to be incredible.

The "limited surface area" is all well and fine in JS, because there is no object inheritance in JavaScript. The author tries to emphasize usability over extensibility, which is a false dilemma in my book since it's possible to code to an interface in other languages. You define a usable interface, and then everybody codes things that fit that interface. You don't even have to care about whether your objects are inherited or composed. Of course, languages with inheritance are even more reusable because it's possible to inherit from, and extend, objects which implement the given interface. This is a key tenet of design in Java and Python.

The second part of "limited surface area" talks about how namespaces and qualified imports are great. Yep. Welcome to the party, guys. You're only a couple decades late.

The "batteries not included" section is a great dig at Python, but he could have bothered to actually bring up examples. It's easy; things like asyncore are so god-awful that it's trivial to point out where Python's batteries have expired.

However, he's comparing apples and pomegranates here; Node is not a language! It's a framework. It has a large library of its own which doesn't come standard with JS. That library provides stuff which is built-in on other languages, like unit testing, cryptographic primitives, zlib, filesystem accessors, URL handlers, buffers, iterables, type checkers, and a REPL. To repeat: These are batteries which are native to other languages.

Let's go ahead and compare with Twisted, shall we? I'll omit things for which Twisted provides protocols and Node provides streams, since those are (technically) equivalent. Node doesn't appear to contain these things which Twisted provides: Common protocols for handling lines, netstrings, and prefixed strings; non-blocking stdio as a protocol, serial port as a protocol, DNS as a protocol, a DNS server, a handful of RPC protocols like XML-RPC, AMP, and PB; and full suites for: NNTP, telnet, SSH, mail, more chat protocols than I care to remember... Not to mention powerful utilities like credential handling, and enhancements to the Python standard library like object-based file and module handling. And that's just what's included in the main tarball; there's a big community of third-party code which implements whatever you might happen to need. I didn't bother to list the reverse, because there is nothing in Node which is not in Twisted.

"Core distributions with too many modules result in neglected code that can't make meaningful changes without breaking everything." Are you not aware of deprecation? Write the new code, mark the old code as broken or deprecated, wait a few years, remove the old code. This isn't hard. Of course, if Node or JS actually provided useful tools to mark things as deprecated, it might happen more often. Python's got DeprecationWarning; why doesn't Node?

The "radical reusability" section is just the author realizing that modules are awesome. Again, welcome to the party.
Hoping Apple will include some NFC stuff on the next version :)
We don't open source enough
What I find amusing is all the modern schemes to try to communicate with one button (such as you see on a cell phone), whereas morse code does the job very well.

The neato things about morse:

1. you can key in the message without needing to look at the phone display

2. disabled people enter it efficiently if all they can do is tap (it just kills me to see them, like in Breaking Bad, using a bell while an aide moves a finger along an alphabet board)

3. one doesn't need to read morse code, a computer can ably decode it
Indeed! I always joke about financial graphs using 'opening value' (or whatever) as a base: if they used a 0-based graph, financial panics wouldn't happen.
The main costs are salaries and servers.
Recurly raising prices.
True, but if people spend more time in apps than browsing the web, then web apps might be harder to monetize than native apps on mobile devices.
I'm not even sure what I should say to explain the difference here. It should be obvious...
Unless there's a drop of rain on the road, then all bets are off and everyone drives 80 miles an hour less than the speed limit.
We're born worshiping ourselves. Now we just get to do it a little more publicly. At least since it's a closer group of friends and family on Path, those you "friend" will be more likely to know your true character, and they'll be genuinely interested in what's going on with your life.
And as such, the assertion is still wrong, imo. Not all types of value can be monetized.
great idea. do you have any solution to all of the shaky and unsteady video?
Where there are more people, there are more accidents.

It'd be interesting to see it corrected for population.
In addition, I suspect most of the people buying mobile devices still have a PC and will for the foreseeable future—because their PCs and laptops are cheap, as I discuss in detail here: http://jseliger.com/2011/10/09/desktop-pcs-arent-going-anywh... . It's not going to be "or"; it's going to be "and."
Anonymous is nothing more than a cyber-terrorism group filled with socially-inept children that can't get their own way, so they take it out on society in destructive ways.
It's my project for quite some time now. Note that it is in german and using data for the german market.

Basically it grabs as much cpus and gpus as possible from amazon and then uses two benchmarks to calculate the best combination for the budget.

I'd appreciate any feedback
Not yet, but I would check http://developer.spotify.com/en/ in a couple of days

edit: More quickly than I thought - http://developer.spotify.com/en/spotify-apps-api/overview/
I don't know where you live but I've never heard of angry hillbillies taking over a city. Where I live the farmers are all millionaires, work five months out of the year and spend the rest of the year in Tampa or Tucson.
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I used underscore templates. Rendering large complex pages is slow. Doing it client side on an iPad is not good.
I'm not on the list of authorized distributors.
I can sell a shit ton of Chanel merchandise.

How? According to Chanel's corporate website, they only sell through their own boutiques and authorized retail partners. This is known as a selective distribution agreement, and here is a 2008 report on internet sales models (prepared for Chanel) which articulates the differences from normal wholesale-retail models: http://www.crai.com/ecp/assets/Selective_distribution_Caffar...

My whole point is that no, you can't just go into business as a Chanel retailer, and you'll find the same is true for Hermes, LV, and a variety of other luxury brands. A great many high-value manufacturers make use of selective or exclusive distribution agreements to maintain price discrimination and market positioning for their brand across a global market.