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Why not just download original db files from http://www.imdb.com/interfaces ? I mean parsing the whole db through the API may not be a good idea.
There's a tool (http://www.jmdb.de/) which parses the tables you need to mysql or postgre.
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While I share your enthusiasm, I'd like to point out some problems with "Sending rovers to all the planets": 4 of them are gaseous giants, literally no solid ground to land on. Venus is a no go too with its crushing atmospheric pressure, sulfuric acid clouds and 400+ c° temperatures.
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There's also the "fad" and "uncool" factor.

When everyone's mom and dad (and their mom and dad) is also on facebook, it's going to slowly start losing it's edginess.

Then the next "cool" site will emerge.
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Oh, it's snarky. But not for that reason.
I was just relying on personal experience with programmers and IT people.

When I started programming 20 years ago, pretty much anyone who worked at any level with computers could build a PC. These days, half the programmers I know can barely maintain their machines, let alone build one from parts. [1]

If you told them they should oppose some piece of legislation because it would bar them from loading whatever OS they wanted on the hardware they purchased, they would (and do) shrug. They fully consider their choice to be synonymous with the hardware they bought in the first place. They don't think it at all odd that Android phones ship with locked bootloaders.

[1] I don't mean to disparage them; some of them are fantastic programmers. That said, I do know far too many of them who are running home wifi with whatever configuration the Comcast/UVerse guy set up.
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This is great news for HTML5 game developers!
>Counterexamples? Would love to hear them.

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For the Moon, we would use rockets, or a crane attached to a vehicle with rockets. For Mars (and Earth, or Titan) we add parachutes to the mix because there is an atmosphere. From hovering-stage until rover deployment, everything is the same except for wind, which would be absent on the Moon.

The idea is that you have to lower a car-sized rover from a hovering rocket-powered platform that has to remain relatively still regarding the ground. On Mars, the platform would use parachutes to slow it down. On the Moon it may not be needed at all, but you would use rockets, if you still needed the hovering platform approach (say, landing a very heavy habitation module).

Throwing the probe out of a plane, letting it descend on parachutes for some time and then making it hover using rockets until it gently deposits a rover on the surface seems a good way to make sure we know how to do all the required steps for a successful deployment on Mars. Lots of important variables are very different - Mars' atmosphere is very thin, so the crane would have to use far more power to slow itself down (or a much larger parachute), but the gravity is lower, so the rover would descend more slowly and it would require less power to hover. There could be some wind, but the forces applied to the vehicle would be different than what would be on Earth (Martian atmosphere is thin, but the winds are faster). The whole operation appears to me somewhat similar.
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> Nowadays that past is characterized as a time of patent medicines and scam artists.

What is more pertinent is that it was the time of the Tuskeegee syphilis trials.
Possibly because the link you listed is 404'ing.
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I disagree. The reason why the most innovation has occurred in this sector is because we're some of the best-funded. Look at the arms industry and you will see a similar pace of advancement - mostly due to the bottomless and nigh-unchallengeable defense spending of Uncle Sam.

Why this unprecedented level of funding? IMO this really is the heart of Thiel's argument: internet companies are capable of general obscene, absurd, ludicrous profit margins.

Think about a company like Facebook - employs a few thousand engineers, but generates revenue and impact far in excess of what you might expect from a crowd of that size.

And this is really Thiel's argument, the way I understand it. He's not saying that the iPhone isn't a "technological" breakthrough, but rather it's not a "societal" breakthrough. In the old days, when someone introduces a product, it creates new jobs across the board.

When Ford introduced a new car, it didn't just mean jobs for the people in the boardroom and drafting tables. It created jobs in their factories, and indeed tens of thousands of jobs across a wide supply chain necessary to build the product. It created new jobs in dealerships, and auto shops. The job-creation effects of a product were incredibly far-reaching.

Now, fast forward to today. What jobs are Facebook creating besides the ones inside their walls? There is no employment ecosystem, no supply chain. And in this way, while Facebook is extracting record revenue from their business, the rest of America is no better off.

It used to be that success in capitalism is the tide that floats all boats, but this is increasingly not true, especially in our sector.
It’s hardly calm and cogent — in fact it’s sort of a wild accusation — to describe a post as “flinging wild accusations” when it does nothing of the sort. Yes, Anil’s post is sharply argued and it’s definitely a polemical pushback against Facebook’s practice, but it’s a valuable part of the debate (especially with the added value of the comments below it), not a flame.
Google scans for malicious sites as well. The difference is of course, that on FB people share links whereas Google can just decide not to include a link in the results and the user will never know.
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"The up-shot of all of this is that any computer program complete with arithmetic functions, boolean/propositional logic, list processing, etc. (i.e., Turing complete) can be expressed as a sequence of these base combinators. "

Now, that is interesting. It mirrors some thoughts I've been having lately but unable to express fully. Tell me more.
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The more I hear about IPv6 (these comments in particular), the more it seems like it contains many solutions to non-problems. Yes, IPv4's 32 bit address space is basically full, and upgrading that is a good thing.

But honestly, burning 64 bits of address space for a redundant global identifier just so "nat+dhcp" are only half as complicated? And then needing privacy extensions to keep the uuid from leaking out? All while doing nothing to solve the problem that caused NAT to spring up in the first place.

On the surface, "no NAT" sounds like a reasonable goal, but ignores the realities of what NAT is actually used for - keeping your network your business. How long until consumer providers offer different tiers of plans based on number of devices that can be connected, and smart users are back to NAT anyway? The proper solution to NAT problems is at layer 4 - a standard way of making connections from the outside to a device inside based on some kind of onion address, where the upstream can only see the outer part.
I applaud the author's use of detailed documentation and the ability and willingness to dig deeper into the technical side of what he believes to be the problem. As soon as I had installed the Firefox addon Noscript I began to notice the facebook scripts put in place on many sites having nothing to do with Facebook. Their real interest is not in being nice by providing you with a free service, but in using data aggregated by its large user base in order to find patterns - and to sell that information to the highest bidder. Pretty soon advertisers and governments will know more about you than you do yourself.
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I view these lab companies as following the publishing model. A company like Milk produces say 12 apps a year hoping a few of them are hits.
Actually yes, I have written a recommender system.But if there's 1 thing I've learned over the years is that you don't go overestimating the complexity/intelligence of any system unless you take a peak underneath. For all you know, Hutch could be just hiring curators with good taste rather than write some complex system that would need to be constantly changed and updated. But people have all the incentive in the world to "over fluff" and overcomplicate their work to make it sound valuable. It's smart, but you gotta be skeptical.
The first flying jet aircraft was before WW2, the Heinkel He178 on August 27, 1939.

The first freeway network was in Germany before WW2.

Before the internet gained popularity, about everyone with more than one computer tried to connect them together. There were quite a proliferation of networks before the internet subsumed them all (after all, even the term "inter" net was derived from connecting disparate networks together, not computers). There was BIX, FidoNet, Compuserve, Prodigy, MCINet, just to name a few off the top of my head. Some students at Caltech in the 70's built their own ad-hoc network when I was there.

While the other networks have all been forgotten today, to suggest that without the ARPAnet networks wouldn't have happened is without foundation.
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If we look at it this way, we should address the problem of sandbox escape on WP7 because it can happen we don't know exactly how.

One way to check for malicious software on Androids would be to automatically run it on virtual hardware and flag malicious behavior for review by human beings.

It's probably the same process Apple uses.
The app is indeed very nice to use but while minimizing (five finger gesture) I get a red (Recording) bar on top - not sure what is going on. Anyone else get this? I have already denied location permission to the app.
This is almost becoming a cliche, but that's a good thing, because I look forward to it becoming a massive trend!

I'm dong a similar thing. In 2008, my cofounder and I sold off all of our stuff, and became full-time nomads. Our reasoning was simple: Our startup was designed to be build able with just the two of us, and almost anywhere in the world is cheaper than the West Coast of the USA for costs. So, we could extend our burn rate and see the world. Win-Win!

Reality is, our burn rate has been extended, but there's another cost to traveling while doing a startup, and that is time / distractions.

We tend to spend 90 days in each country (the usual visa limit) before moving on. But the relocations are enough of a hassle that we lose 2-4 weeks in productivity each time it happens, or about %25 of a year gets "lost". Of course, much of this "loss" is great experiences-- like the week long layover we had in Venice Italy. (We saved money on a transatlantic flight by taking that "sacrifice", even including the marginal increase in our cost of living from staying near Venice.)

AirBNB is a great thing for this. We almost live full time in AirBNB places, the exceptions being locations where AirBnB doesn't have great coverage, or places where the visa lets us stay long enough to get a short term apartment.

We also use a passive income stream approach. Our past products have been on the AppStore, and the nice thing about that is, even a year or two later, they still earn. They take periodic maintenance and updates (Which increasingly becomes a distraction when you want to move from the "lifestyle" business of iPhone Apps into a more "startup" business, which we're doing now.)

From the beginning we focused on passive income. In fact, we didn't start an online business or web oriented business because we didn't know if we'd be able to have internet access when out on the road. I didn't want to have servers go down and not be able to deal with it.

That's the nice thing about the App Store. It never goes down, and you don't have to maintain it.

In the interim we discovered that most AirBnB places have internet. The times we've had to get our own internet have been the most painful.... mobile broadband is not as convenient or cost effective as I thought it might be... and that was, it turns out, in a country where its really cheap and readily available compared to the US!

I can't comment on the specific strategies recommended in this article, but I can say that it can be done, especially if you're young and willing to live cheap, cheap, cheap. (we're not either so its a bit harder for us.)

Anyway, I think that over the next decade, the US will continue to deteriorate some, the infrastructure globally will improve, and more and more people will discover that they don't need a lot of funding to do a real startup, and thus real startups can be done on the road.

Outsourcing, or even just having the incredible leverage things like the App Store give you makes this more and more possible.

The more mobile the workforce becomes, the more integrated the global economy, and the better for peace and the better for prosperity!
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If they had a limited objective of stopping malicious sites like Google does, they could reject the malicious domains at the moment they are attempted to be posted, instead of scaring users from leaving facebook.com each time they try to navigate away.

I happen to run a well known service, and we encountered the malicious links problem. It has never even crossed our mind to display those pop-ups, instead we stop malicious links from being posted after a domain is reported or detected otherwise.
These are great! I'm looking for a good foursquare button as well.
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How ironic that this blog's own comment system relies on Facebook.
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Hi Anibal. I haven't opened the links; I'm on my mobile browser. Can you please explain what makes your ads 'premium'? Thanks.
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Anyone know of reviews of someone putting a recent chromebook build on a macbook air or some laptop with decent specs?
Yeah, just like the generation that dropped acid at Woodstock is now running the DEA.
Google Closure does precisely that, although it may require some annotations to do so reliably.
Yes! People think it's impossible, or scammy, but that's only because they don't understand that passive income is about building something that REALLY provides value. Do something amazing, help other people do something amazing, and help connect people with what they want.

Traveling and doing it cheaply is easy. I have a ton of posts coming up about how I did this. Here is a video where I talk about how I built my first passive income business--this was featured on Tim Ferriss's blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg

Live cheap and travel to lower cost countries. I spent less than $400/mo in India!
I’ve been concerned about privacy online for a while. There is an implicit trade that occurs on most “free” internet sites, your private information in exchange for some service – and it is not in the best interest of the sites to be transparent with the trade.

Chances are, you’re already on a few data-broker lists, have shared something embarrassing out of context online, and have no idea how many different accounts you’ve signed up for.

I’m hoping to get some feedback on a site I’ve put together that is working toward solving this problem. It’s called Identity.io and it tires to makes privacy online automatic and simple for everyone. So far, the site does the following.

1) Sends you an alert if a site you use materially changes the way the site works which reduces your privacy (i.e. auto-opt-in on linkedin to using your face in adds)

2) Detects all the online accounts you register for, or have ever registered for in the past. It (optimally) does this by connecting to your gmail and running lots of regular expressions against subject lines, sort of like tripit.com.

3) Provides video tutorials and a checklist of what you should do to lockdown your privacy online for all the account types you have + how to opt out of data brokers and other spammers.

It would be great to hear your thoughts and feedback.

EDIT: We are aware we haven't posted up a privacy policy or an about page - trying to get some feedback on the concept and technology at this point. For the privacy policy, we expect to use one similar to our other site's http://www.privacyparrot.com/privacy.
The terms and conditions seem pretty clear that you can't save site content except for page caching:
http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions

>IMDb grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of IMDb. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of IMDb. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents or any derivative use of this site or its contents.

(and no, I'm not trying to be a negative nancy. I've wanted to analyze imdb for awhile but have known that it's not possible to do so without breaking TOC)
You are right, it doesn't expand power, but it legitimizes it.

When questioned years later by some potential opposition, they can can state that they were on the right side of the law.
Agreed. I'm sure people would pay for the convenience factor and there's be a boatload of money to be had considering the cost of a VPS account even if you charge something like $5 a month. The catch is that you'd have to run it underground. You'd be in a class with sites like PirateBay. Once word got out the powers that be would make it their mission to take you down and for all you're worth. Good idea though. Keep thinking and maybe you'll come up with an idea that more on the up and up.
When your server crashes like this... you can easily fix it by going to S3. just create a bucket with your domain name (Eg: maneeshsethi.com) then load a static page into that bucket, turn on "web access" in the S3 control panel, and redirect your DNS to the S3 CName.

Let amazon handle the load for you, and then redirect back later. (for this reason it might be good to have your DNS set up with a 60 minute timeout.)

PS- I have to laugh that I'm getting down voted for trying to help here.
It could be, but virus scanners don't use FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING? It seems relatively easy for them, and if some did and some didn't you'd get reviews like "slower than the competition".
The problem you're having is that you're equating usage/features with value. They're not the same, or even correlated as much as you'd think. Precisely the same software can be an order of magnitude (or several!) more valuable to one customer than it is to another. You can't always use features and usage as a means by which to price discriminate, because sometimes there is literally no difference to go off of.

I run a bug tracker with one plan- $20/month. I have customers who are stretching to pay the $20 a month, and others who would easily have paid $200. Yet there is no way to tell one from another by looking at how they use the product. It's kind of frustrating. I am giving up 9 customer's worth of value because I can't figure out how to charge one of them more than $20 per month. (Actually, I can, but my billing code isn't finished yet).
I agree with your first sentence. Whether it worked in the past is arguable, since they continue to do slimy things. But one thing is sure: they can't abuse your data if you don't give it to them.
The Ghostery plus RequestPolicy addins. Don't leave home without 'em.
I'm migrating a Phonegap app from Backbone + jQuery Mobile to Backbone + zepto + jQM's CSS. I might use jquip instead.

Parse time is very important on mobiles. jQuery -> zepto shaved off more than 500ms in startup time.
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If you incorporate this with good deploy scripts, it becomes rather convenient to test topic branches in different environments. No more dev/stage/prod branches, just branch off master, test and deploy the topic branch to an environment, and merge it back in to master when it's ready to live in production. I believe this is what Github does internally.
> "It's because the public understands that traveling at highway speeds is desirable and checkpoints to serve a special interest are not."

15 years ago I'd be agreeing with you. But the drunk driving checkpoints, the Patriot Act checkpoints, border security and the TSA nonsense makes it a little difficult for me to trust the public's ability to recognize serving a special interest for what it is, when it's bearing a promise that honest citizens have nothing to fear.

If the RIAA were lobbying for checkpoints, if they insisted it would only affect "rogue" streets and that the critics of their proposal were just those who profited from the flow of illegal goods, I honestly would not feel comfortable enough to bet money on whether people pushed back.
Sure, I wasn't implying eBay overpaid by 80x but 79 million dollars is a lot of product development once you've paid 1 million for a proven state of the art proof of concept.

Obviously eBay must see other reasons for the acquisition than just the tech itself.

Also, if it's also in large part a talent acquisition then they're going to paying more than 80 million since they're going to need to pay for some new pairs of golden handcuffs to keep the talent around.
A quick skim reveals many words that are plainly innocuous in all but the most devious of contexts.
This isn't right. It's certainly meaningful to own less than 50% (or a controlling interest, whatever) of a company.
anyone know of a good place to get Movie data (and possibly Cast/Crew) info for free or low cost for a commercial project?
I am no great fan of facebook. The timeline sucks.

I think the warnings fb use are necessary, there's so many worms and spam wall postings. You can debate the wording and motive. Many users need paternalism.

You can AUTOMATICALLY have posterous post a link on your wall every time you write a blog post. It doesn't use the notes system at all. It sounds like fb are stopping people using notes for something they weren't designed for.

If he's saying every dumb aol/xp/ie6 user will be too scared to ever leave fb for the rest of the web, wouldn't that be the end of the Eternal September, which some would welcome?
As an older and occasionally burnt out elder:

#2: If the intern was interning in a janitorial/house keeping role, then sure make them take out the garbage and restock your toilet paper. But chances are they're not. If you're not giving them work that is much more significant to the role in which they are interning you're basically just trying to take advantage of them.

#3: Not really sure what the anecdote has to do with the point.

#4: Honor your agreements. If you hire someone, you pay them.

#5: Craigslist is full of people who think they have a great business proposition and if you do X for free this time it is guaranteed to result in much more money later. Sometimes, they'll even let you use it in your portfolio.

#7: I've seen this exact same attitude employed by large well established companies. It has nothing to do with youth.

#8: Thanks for perfectly demonstrating why your point #7 has nothing to do with youth. Pot, meet kettle.

#9: I'm beginning to see a pattern...the author of the post seems to hire only idiots.
15 to 20 what? Dollars?!?! Wow. I'd go with $5. Maybe this guy is on to something! If I were him I would totally hope all my users thought it was worth that much. Make no mistake, I'm not mocking you at all, I'm just surprised that it would be worth that much to someone. Maybe I'm cheap though.