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I found this one on bit coins:
http://longbets.org/611/

Nobody has taken the other side of it. I'm skeptical (but intrigued) by bit coins, but I wouldn't take the other side of this bet, simply because bit coins have just started out and aren't yet a "fully mature form of money". That is to say, its a lot easier for a penny stock, or any other cheap commodity, to double (or outperform by 2 orders of magnitude) a global currency or form of money that has millions of owners, and relatively stable value.
All those things are cool, but compare with airplanes, which made the world drastically smaller. Or with the Haber-Bosch process, which prevents us from starving. That's the kind of big breakthrough technology that Thiel is talking about. The iPhone, while really neat, doesn't quite measure up.
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You know what's incredibly creepy? 3000 faceless people in Palo Alto know more about your distant friends than you will ever know.

Depending on how much time you spend on the site, they probably also have profiled a sizable portion of your thoughts simply by tracking clicks and pageviews.
I'm covered under the same Apple warranty if I buy from Best Buy or the Apple store. From anecdotal experience people buy from the Apple store because they don't know that it's the same.

Are you assuming Apple has a hidden policy to treat customers who purchase from the Apple store differently?

IMHO customers either don't know non-Apple stores sell Apple products or they don't know that AppleCare is included if you purchase your $apple_product from $authorized_retailer.
No, you just have to avoid bad luck.
Thanks! Don't know how I missed that...
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3 hours? You're doing something wrong. I just built PyPy in 49 minutes on a $99 3 GHz Phenom II.
Robert X. Cringely has two documentaries that cheered me up a lot: Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1. There's also Pirates of Silicon Valley.

There are also two movies documenting the creation of Linux and open source (I forget the names right now) that you might want to look into.
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Would love to read a post about how you measure sample engagement through this and other cleverness!
I'd say if all you're seeing is Soulja Boy and Chocolate Rain, you need to get around the net more and seek out some of the great independent music that's out there. Even on YouTube there's plenty of good music that has become really popular, like Pomplamoose. To me those guys typify a group that gets it. They've adapted their strengths to thrive in the new era. It's good, fun music that never would have survived in the old system but does now:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1257832...

The idea of simply being creative with your music and relying on some system of promotion and distribution to hold your hand through an album-tour-radio-album-tour-radio cycle is dead.

It's unfortunate, but artists have to do things they're not used to doing: manage and promote, social media, new creative expressions that go beyond simple videos for songs. They'll have to learn to leverage the full range of visual content possible, create more 'meta' content that their audiences can stay engaged with.

That's the tradeoff: those old industry dinosaurs will die off, but the artists that survive in the new era will have to do things they didn't have to previously, or find someone else that can.
Unfortunately, the details are being kept confidential, so I'm not sure what is being counted as "hedge funds". There's "hedge funds" that engage in very risky investments, ones that engage in investments that wouldn't normally be risky except that they incur counterparty risk, and then there's hedge funds that could be fundamentally very conservative, even more conservative than Buffett.

For instance, if you ran a fund that simply bought BRK shares, and, each year, bought just enough out of the money options to protect against a %10 decline in BRK, that would be a hedge fund. Buying the puts is a hedging position, but I would say that such an investment would be damn conservative, and certainly in line with Buffett's investments strategy. (He cautions against derivatives, but covering a long position with puts isn't what he means.)
I might be totally lying here but I think I remember seeing something like that promoting Angry Birds for Chrome. My memory's not great so it might've been somewhere else.
Problem is, big firms still need work being done. In the long run, social games like this are extremely counterproductive.
I see 503 service unavailable far too often in the logs of my twitter API apps...
Currently it is because of the page view controller, but I'm thinking about dropping that in the future. I'll definitely being iOS 5 only at that point.
I thought that was going to be something and then it wasn't.
Great post. Would love to see more scientific analysis of private company internet data, especially given its abundance and proliferation. Props to Facebook for collaborating with outside academics. Johan Ugander (@jugander) at Cornell is top notch.
Even when the webapp is great? I don't see why they or anyone else should maintain several versions of the same app, focusing on one version and iterating quickly is surly to everyone's benefit.
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Why does the Android Nook app stink so much?
Less and less web/software development jobs are specifically requiring a CS degree, based on my own observations. The ones that do are typically large companies with codified hiring standards, and governments.
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User-generated content. Make a list of factual information. Accept submissions from users. Watch it grow. Then partner with a large company to sell products. And sell licenses to the data for $15K/year. (Give the top contributers a "free" membership to something to keep them from suing you.) Yeah, that could work.

Movie information, restaurant reviews, video clips, you name it. The miracle of user-generated content.
How about a display ad presenter that a user places at the bottom of their blog or their posterous. It doesn't pop up
or jump around but needs to be dragged up as if you are resizing your window in order to view the ad. The ads would
compete against magazine ads, not Google ads. This would be a proof of concept program.
The iOS Gmail app was a sore disappointment, for me. I desperately wanted it to support multiple accounts, and the fact that it doesn't is my deal-breaker.

Granted, I get it, I'm probably a fringe case. But still, I think that elegant solution or not doesn't matter when it doesn't do what I need it to do.
Fantastic idea!

I'd recommend pictures of hands holding physical cards you've made. I have an idea of the size and thickness, but the mockups appear inconsistent. I want to see what these things actually look like.

Also, it'd be nice if "Custom Needs" linked to a card builder with custom icon/url (nothing fancy).

Edit: the "By app2card" is off-putting; if I'm paying for business cards, why do you get to have your brand on them? How about sending a few free samples with your link, but paid cards in larger orders are app2card free?

If someone who got handed one of these cards is looking for the place to buy some "app business cards" for themselves, they should be able to find it through google.
OK so I finally read Wikipedia's take on the bill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act).

At this point that no matter what happens we're screwed. I see why the people in industry want to back SOPA. As a copyright holder of something that costs a lot of money to make of course you want to make sure someone's not getting it for free.

I feel that laws like this could be way too broad and definitely hurt companies that rely on general Internet content like the people making noise against it (Google, Facebook, and Twitter for example). I couldn't imagine the chilling effect this would have for those companies to come up with ways to remove the offending content. This would eat into their profits and make their products less useful.

On the other hand I don't know what the solution to this problem is. Should the companies just accept that a certain amount of piracy is going to happen? Should they charge less for content and make it more accessible? That may be a feel-good thing to say but to create the high production values for your favorite movie today costs money.

As to why I think we're screwed I imagine that if (when?) this bill doesn't pass then the companies will enact even more draconian options to curb piracy or copyright infringement.
"I think it is opposed to the zero-sum thinking that characterizes much of Wall Street and political life right now."

No, I think OWS is very pro-zero-sum thinking. Its core messaging pits "the 99%" against "the 1%". It's class warfare in its purest form.

There are many smart people who are painting more reasoned critiques of our society onto OWS than the movement is actually articulating. Perhaps that's inherent to mass movements in general, but I judge OWS by its most common messages, which are far from what you've described.

There are two OWS-related messages that would have broad appeal, and I'd suggest they focus on those: "Our Laws Are Not For Sale" and "Too Big To Fail Is Too Big To Exist".
I'd say if all you're seeing is Soulja Boy and Chocolate Rain, you need to get around the net more and seek out some of the great independent music that's out there

That's exactly the problem. If I have to out of my way looking for it then I see a possibility of disruption. I personally might do this (because I love music) but I understand most people is not willing to do something more than open a YouTube video or take a quick look at a Wikipedia page.

I brought the specific cases of Soulja Boy and Chocolate Rain because people can relate to them (they know who they are). Pomplamoose might be great but I don't think they're anywhere near mainstream (that might be a feature instead of a bug but I'm not entirely sure yet).

Edit: I don't know why you're being downvoted but I think the idea of artists doing their own marketing is interesting. Stuff like this is what's making a living for people like Jonathan Coulton, but I still don't think every musician can (or wants) to do this.
Of course social games are extremely counterproductive, but that doesn't negate the fact that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
I think that's the subtle beauty of what Google has done here. Sure, we care about WebGL and the like, but consumers? They just want easy access to the tools that they use.

Your point about extensions is a big one, though. That's part of what makes Chrome and the Chrome OS so infinitely useful, and it's something that has a snowball's chance of ever landing on iOS.
Geez, Musk & Shuttleworth are both South Africans.
It could also be that the company is doing far worse than the business plan they originally showed out to the VCs : If there's lower growth rates, it's far better for everyone to notch up a quick 3x, rather than see the business dwindle into obscurity (the alternative case, in the minds of the VCs, if they're not going to 'go big').
Like many language features, it can and will be abused; and like overloaded operators it may be very difficult to determine where a custom suffix is even defined.

It will definitely be nice in a few places. For instance I can imagine that writing 01011011_b (after defining "_b") would be very handy.

I think examples that attach units instead of just metric prefixes are missing the point because the result is always a number (or a string), not a particular kind of object. If you say "assert(1_kg == 2.2_lb)" that is completely misguided because you haven't specified the context; again, these are just numbers so what do you end up with, kilograms or pounds or something else? Far better to name suffixes only in terms of scaling factors, e.g. "_kilo" or "_K" defined as 1000x would be applicable in more situations.
Maybe, but they look like two separate problems to me.

Russia's is a "resource curse": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

Our current financial system looks more like a twist on a "rent seekers": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking

They're kind of similar, but only because resource curse countries end up with a bunch of rent seekers and corrupt officials.
At my previous job I had 2x 19", and that worked great because I could run my VM in one screen and everything else on the other. When I developed, I just switched to another virtual desktop and ran eclipse and a browser.

At my current job I have a 24" and a 19". I'm not sure about the extra 19" and how much that gains me, but I'm stuck in VNC all day so I can't alt-tab like normal folks.

My 22" 1680x1050 monitor at home is a bit lacking sometimes for pixel space, but I manage to get stuff done with it.
Eternal Vigilance is the price of scalability.

Twitter caught up with the curve for awhile, and maybe this is a short term issue, or maybe the curve got a bit more steep, I don't know.
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bar.com seems inaccessible. Can someone who saw the site in the past few hours confirm that http://web.archive.org/web/20110707211652/http://bar.com/ is up to date?
The problem with longbets is that you can post a challenge without being required to accept a bet. I emailed the organization and they helpfully confirmed this.

>[Me:] "Must the makers of predictions (eventually) accept a challenger? I get the impression that several of these predictions are dubious yet have been sitting for awhile without forming a bet. It seems against the spirit of the site to allow predictors to grand stand without having to put their money where their mouth is."

>[Them:] "Predictors put their money where their mouth is by paying $50 to be published. They do not, however, have to accept challenges to their Predictions."

If it were up to me, they'd also allow bets with odds other than 50-50. Still, I think it's a great site.
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[T]hey differentiated being a varsity college athlete, preferably one that was also a national or Olympic champion, versus playing intramurals; having traveled the globe with a world-renowned orchestra as opposed to playing with a school chamber group; and having reached the summit of Everest or Kilimanjaro versus recreational hiking. The former activities were evidence of "true accomplishment" and dedication, whereas the latter were described as things that "anyone could do."

This seems perfectly reasonable to me. Almost all of the "top achievers" I know also demonstrate exceptional talent in a completely different field.
I think Stamped will be useful while Oink will just create more noise
I think this article has it's heart in the right place but I don't see labels or music management going away. The services that labels and managers provide are still useful to get exposure, it's just the terms have traditionally been vary unfavorable towards the artist. Distribution isn't the only key to success - now more than ever since anybody can distribute on their own.

I'd like to see the industry head in a direction where the artists retain control over their art and finances. All of these the industry companies like labels and managers will become more like service providers, hired by the artist.

I happen to work in the music industry and I can tell you that management companies are busier than ever and they are happy to have use of all these services that are supposedly "disrupting" their business. The artists are not usually disgruntled with their services because they are doing a lot of work that the artists have no interest in. It may be a different story for labels.
IBM's 1984 keyboard with it's excellent tactile feedback is the best ever I typed on.
Chrome OS or not asides, wow, I really love the UI presented in the new Google Search app. If they add some more browsing features (address bar, open in new tab), it would become a really great Mobile Safari alternative...
One of the advantages of repackaging webapps is that they can be quickly iterated upon and in any case that is the Google way: release early, iterate often. The app should gain the missing features soon enough.
Some desktop app developers don't see why they should maintain several versions of their app, put out a single Java GUI across platforms, and get shunned for it. (Granted, web look and feel on mobile likely won't be that bad).

I think this issue boils down to perceived ROI on development costs (and 'push web technologies' agenda in Google's case) rather than quality.
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I really doubt that there is all that much meaningful diversity in most of those areas.* After all I can create a 50+ gigabyte image file by scanning a white piece of paper but that does not mean it's worth the disk space.

*Now if you can go really high resolution you might be on to something. You can gather useful information from DNA sequencing dirt samples from your back yard. But, we can't do that with rovers and photographs, temperature, and PH levels etc would be far less useful.
He has very childish points. He complains about people who want to be paid for work they were contracted for (and then hires them again after not paying them only to complain about it). The client didn't pay is not a good excuse, unless the terms of the work specifically said "Will not get paid until client pays".

He hires interns to do jobs that their job description probably didn't mention. No one has to stay at some shitty job just because someone believes you have to work your way from the bottom up. If he bitches about not having a maid, then hires an intern to do a maids job maybe he should have just hired a maid instead of an intern.

He hates how people want credit for their work, but this is hardly unreasonable to ask. It also isn't very hard to do, we do it all the time in school so I'm sure he can find a way to manage. I find it funny that he complains about people not wanting to start from the bottom, but then refuses to give photographers credit for the little things that they do. People do build careers off of passport photos.

Often a lot of people get screwed royally on work because they were told that they just might maybe get commission if everything works out good. It's not unreasonable for someone to not accept work that isn't guaranteed to pay, he shouldn't be a bitch about it.

He also complains about young people not being able to handle the simplest tasks, but he was probably the person that hired all those people that can't do these tasks. Some older people have just as much trouble finding things on the internet.
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Arduino is Open Source Hardware, Teensy is a fine device, but it is not OSW.
Genuine question on this. Why can't you just scale a recipe directly? Are there ingredients that play a binary role (so to speak) so they just need to be present regardless of the quantity? What am I missing here?
I like to login to FB for several minutes once or twice a week - a quick way to see what some friends are doing. However, I logout as soon as I am done. I also went through and disabled all FB apps, except for my own test app.

Given these simple precautions, is there really anything wrong with FB? Am I missing something?
Well it's great that they would be creating more jobs but it wouldn't fix the fact that people got bailed out and then used that money for their bonuses.
Who can tell the vagaries of HN voting habits? It usually evens out.

I think the notion of "mainstream" is just as dead as the old industry models. Music audiences are more fragmented than they've ever been, and are learning to be more and more proactive in how they discover music.

Local live music scenes are thriving, even while most of the artists will never make a splash beyond their communities. Sites like http://one-track-mind.com and http://www.indabamusic.com, countless blogs like http://www.brooklynvegan.com have become popular destinations for music fans that want to find something new and more interesting than what passes for mainstream.

I suppose the new challenges that face artists also face music fans. Just as artists can no longer rely on industry hand-holding, music fans that want more than gagabeiberidolglee will have to be more proactive than they're used to being.

The good news is that there's a vast amount of talent out there and they're making high quality recordings cheaper than ever.
Make sure you're healthy, if it's an issue with you.

I was fired for being slow. I was falling asleep at inappropriate times, and was generally feeling stupid, to the point that I hated myself for being stupid and lazy. This was particularly hard working in a company that constantly touts the superior abilities of its employees.

When I was finally fired it was an emotional relief. I ultimately got treatment, and I don't feel stupid or lazy anymore, but I haven't fully recovered from being fired.
That's the argument that one of my fellow writers made, as well, when he felt I was overly-critical of the app. Here's the problem, for me - I didn't use it on day 1. What are the chances of me installing it later, if I'm Joe User?

Honest question there. I really don't know the statistics about that, other than to say that I'd guess the chances are lower after a poor first impression.
This is not the first time Chrome OS got onto the IPad !!!
Netflix raises $400 million in shares, debt
The author should distinguish between the concepts of gatekeeper and curator.

Is a music magazine or a radio station a gatekeeper because they can only showcase a limited number of artists, or are they a curator because they help the end user sort through thousands of bands to find the ones they would like to know about?

Even record labels have a role to play in the curation game. Smaller independent labels like 4AD, Wax Trax, Factory, SST, and Alternative Tentacles became valuable to fans in the '80s and '90s because their labels each created a "sound" of their own. You could confidently buy a record from a band you'd never heard of and know that if you liked the other bands on that label, you'd probably like this new one.

Curators provide significant value, and earn their keep. It's only when the curator turns into a gatekeeper and becomes a hindrance instead of a help that the problem arises.
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He mentions that his real email is jklsemicolon@asdf.com. Which is just as funny, and not as prone to cheap viagra offers, presumably.
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Yes it is. People don't understand my dishwasher is the one of the greatest robots in my house.
Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have reportedly been less involved in the day to day of the company since hiring Costolo to take over as CEO

Err.. this isn't exactly news. From March this year:

Well, it’s true and it’s official. Today, I asked Twitter about Ev’s current role in light of Dorsey’s taking over the product lead. A company spokesperson sent me the following statement:

Ev decided a couple months ago to be less involved day to day at Twitter. He continues to have a close relationship with the company providing strategic advice and, of course, he remains an active board member.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/ev-less-involved-twitter/
Netflix to Raise $400 Million in Fresh Cash
This article makes me happy to be a techy!