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Funding Total: $7.5M (per techcrunch)

Server bill: $35k/month, $420k/year, per estimates in other comments.

Personnel, overhead, other expenses: $1.5M/year (guess).

Runway: 3.9 years to figure it out.
Maybe on iPhone. On Android and WP7 Foursquare has been better designed for a long time.
I bought the Kindle DX and was actually disappointed that it didn't serve ads. Instead, it puts ugly pictures of dead authors as the screensaver.
> On another note, I do not know why working at Facebook would be intrinsically more rewarding than working at Jane Street.

Because the former actually makes a useful product?

> Finally, the finance skill set is not quite the same as what is needed at Facebook.

At least at the entry level, the hiring is for credentials not so much skill set. There is a decent number of math/cs majors who end up in finance (not even necessarily something like computational finance, just state up IB or trading) instead of engineering.
Because you aren't contributing to the thread, just complaining.
I appreciate all of the insightful comments. All of you have very valid points of course. Do what you feel is right for you. I'm thinking long-term goals though. I've been burned by using services like Tumblr and Posterous, but not in that they're bad services, just that it's much harder to migrate your data to a self-hosted solution after the fact.
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>Disclaimer: It's an open source project that I have some commits to

Is that like a 'full disclosure' notice or are we supposed to be terrified of your code?
Reddit has vote count fuzzing to throw off bots, maybe HN has something similar and you got fuzzed into the negative for a short while?
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A woefully inadequate tl;dr at that. A real summary would be nice though. In another piece of irony, I think it would have benefited from a thesis statement. It's hard to tell what it's really saying, at least after the first run-through.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/flurry-outlines-gender-s...

In short: "Men spend an average of 31% more per transaction, or $15.60 versus $11.90," explains Flurry. "In fact, male spending dominates female spending across each age group by a relatively consistent margin. In the 'sweet spot' of revenue generation, 25 – 34 year olds, representing a whopping 49% of total revenue, men out-spend women by 37% per transaction."

Granted - these stats are for a different company, but I'd be surprised if they are markedly different for Zynga.
You need to look for Blockstackers in the document rather than Rob or Jeff.
I had to write essays for subjects other than English from middle school onwards. IIRC mostly for history, with some geography as well. Key point being from my education, essays have always been about making a structured argument, and not exclusively about literature.
why do people care about HN karma?
The performance on this is looking very good and with the results of 4 test runs the average is over 8 Mbps download speeds and over 2 Mbps upload speeds

Of course this depends on the location of the test, but on T-Mobile HSPA+ in Los Angeles, CA I am getting speeds of 16Mbps down, 1.7Mbps up.
I'd go for Scheme or even Factor for code-as-data. (Joy, Factor's ancestor, is really code-as-data, and unlike Emacs Lisp it's hygienic because there are no variables. Scheme also has the most Perlis-ish macros.

I think either J or K is better than APL in this category.

I would also add Pure <http://pure-lang.googlecode.com>; for general term rewriting (lambda calculus? Just a special case!)
Most startups are funded by VC or angels. They gotta see their return somehow.. you can't just be sustainable for 100+ years (or however long you plan to live)... I mean, how else the investors gonna get their money back?

Go big (IPO) or get acquired.
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Rob, if you're still looking at this thread, check this out:

http://cyclos.org

Change the world for the better by changing the money for the better...it can happen. This software even has a built-in karma system.

Thanks for /. Cheers.
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You laptop has a _hardware_ H.264 decoder? What laptop is that? GPU shader code != hardware.
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Facebook does have a solid design team, but I wonder where all that talent is being directed? Visually, their hires in the past year or so haven't made an impact with facebook.com. At least with Google's new design team, you can see what they're doing.

So, one has to ask, what are these people working on? A facebook phone? Facebook X.0?
I hate to start a meta discussion but there seems to be a lot of karma police trolling around lately who think the downvote button is there to vote down opinions they disagree with. I think it's time to raise that karma limit on downvotes again.

Anyway, what you said is spot on. It's easy to be an armchair quarterback and quite frankly there's far too many people spewing commentary like "that was stupid because I don't like it" and far less helpful things, believe it or not. Those who can go out and make dumb moves every so often. Those who cannot troll the Internet and criticize while trying to make themselves feel important.

I can't characterize all critics this way but there are enough out there to warrant my disdain. But I thought this whole post was a perfect opportunity for you to bring up what you said about startups. We really should be out there taking huge risks because the stakes may seem high but they're actually not in a way. I myself have gone out on a limb and experimented with my business. I'm small enough to do it and I sure as hell pissed off a few customers because of it. But in the end the risk was worth it because while I lose a few fans I ended up attracting more and was able to charge more money in the process. It allowed me to grow. I'm still small enough to take some risks and boy am I doing it. Your point is exactly what the guys at 37Signals talk about all the time. It's in their book. It's the advantage to being small and young.
is this true? I'd like to hear more about this? How can all code be committed to trunk? Don't they need to branch for releasing at least?
[1] demonstrates the use of default.

var optimist= require('optimist')
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.default('auto',true)

I'm not sure whether I like the usage pattern of this code, which uses promises to resolve argv's[2]. I'll investigate having optimist autogenerate a usage statement; that would be convenient both as a dev and as a user.

[1] https://github.com/rektide/git-ts/blob/master/publish.js#L3
[2] https://github.com/rektide/git-ts/blob/master/publish.js#L102
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I expect to see the code base quality increase and number of obscene bugs that make it to production decrease significantly.
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there is an industry designed specifically for getting better performance from your car by customizing the ECU

From what I hear, the ECU tuning industry works hand-in-hand with the automakers and they cooperate on the DRM.
> Taking away options without providing alternatives does not help, it just backs people into a corner, making them more desperate and more vulnerable to exploitation.

Selling your organs out of desperation is pretty much as low as you can go for money. Maybe selling yourself for sex is lower, but you can argue that you're still physically all there after that. So the argument of preventing them sinking even lower is a non-issue. Selling your organs is right down there with the lowest.

> what is your solution?

The solution is for people to start supporting sciences to regrow organs from stem cells. That fixes 99% of the issues. Which brings up another point, say you legalize organ sales, and businesses become established, who do you think is going to be opposing regrowing organs? The businesses brokering the sale of organs. They're not going to want kill off their whole industry so everyone can get the organs they need directly.

In the long term, selling organs will create more problems and suffering than they'll solve. Let's face it, this is only an issue to rich people who are dying with 5-6 disposable figures. You don't see poor people begging legislators to let them sell their own organs, because deep down, they know that they never want it to come to that.
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If you actually test it yourself you see that they only capture phone keypad presses, and the bottom hardware keys. They don't capture the actual screen keyboard at all, that's why Trevor's video does not show the actual keyboard being captured -- just like we found: http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/12/carrier-iq-verifying-your-l...

I'm not defending them, many of their practices are loathsome, but crucify them for what they've actually done.
I don't think anybody cares about patches to enlightenment, afterstep, or various X11 widgets written 15 years ago!
There are several HN readers on the app store I would look at. You'll want to see what you can offer that the others don't.
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foursquare's competitor is other mobile 'time wasters'. I mean that in a good way, not bad way. so facebook, twitter, instagram, etc are all competitors.

if you want to talk about check-ins.. check-ins are commodity, i'm sure foursquare knows this. noone says "hmm.. what app to check in??? hmm what competitors to try?" they go "hmm.. what's interesting and fun way to show off and impress others while i'm here in this restaurant? facebook? foursquare? foodspotting?"
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Sybase also uses T-SQL.
Gowalla's team has very good eye for design and user experience, so this is a smart move from facebook if this is a talent acquisition move.
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Yes, sorry, I should have been more clear: there are communities (django developers or scientists or ...) whose buy-in of Python3 is crucial for its success. If they do not move to Python 3 it can just as well pack things now.
This was here yesterday. Give it a rest.

This is old news, not secret, and barely even a leak.

Is it troubling that the public is probably being spied on? Yes. But WikiLeaks needs to cut down on the editorializing before they lose all credibility too. Secret technology that no one is supposed to know about doesn't come with brochures that look like they came right out of corporate marketing. Let's call this what it is: troubling, potentially harmful, but not a leak and certainly not secret.
I find it a little strange that they even mention their competitors, it feels like they're so far in front in terms of product that it may be unnecessary.
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"I've been working on a personal project - a mobile app to browse Hacker News. [...] I figured other people might like it as well (as there isn't a mobile app yet)."

I don't know about the other platforms, but there are several Hacker News apps for iOS, including News:yc, Hacker News, Hacker News Top Stories, Hacker News Reader, Hacker News Pro, HN Offline Reader, and Mouin HN.
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@cmdrtaco: not so sure about that one... ;)
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My bet is Facebook OS on top of Android ala Kindle Fire. the UX will be its only differentiator so much care is needed there.
I like clear and concise. I'm like that a lot (unless I'm intentionally verbose) and tend to get looked at in the same light.
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My university had an intellectual property office. I'd ask around your the engineering department for for their student liaison or the name of someone who won't yank you around.

They IP office would regularly send someone to the larger engineering classes when I was in undergrad. Hopefully you will be able to sit down with a cool cat and walk out a single page waiver.

I'm guessing you will have a harder time getting what I call an IP waiver if you are on a full ride vs paying sticker price for your degree.
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Neat. I didn't follow up with them when I had the chance, wishing I had.
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I noticed this, too. This statement stood out to me in particular:

> Our main shard cluster involves 12 Quadruple Extra-Large memory instances… We’ve found that Amazon’s network disk system (EBS) doesn’t support enough disk seeks per second, so having all of our working set in memory is extremely important.
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Foursquare always had a better design. Hear me out:
Design is about 2 things: how it looks and how it works. Gowalla always had a prettier coat of paint, pretty interactions. But what mattered more was the design of the game - becoming mayor on Foursquare was easier to grasp and get addicted to than dropping the original Gowalla teddy bears.

Coat of paint and nice UI doesn't always win.
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The availability of water is one of the limiting factors to the population density of a city. A lot of land implies large catchment areas over which to collect enough water to support a large city population.

Location still matters, or else there would be no such thing as startup hubs like silicon valley. I'm thinking more along the lines of...why is that outside of downtown SFO, most buildings are at most 2 stories high? Is it just due to prevailing zoning laws and rent controls or is there something more? There is obviously great demand for housing as indicated by the extremely high rents in this area, so why not just replicate the downtown high rises further south?

By the way this is what I found on a plaque next to the Golden Gate. The biggest faction opposed to building the bridge were the landlords in SFO, who feared that once the bridge was built, it would greatly lower the rents they could collect.
I don't quite get it - is this some weird hack people do to get their domains in to whois listings for other companies?

Is this just whois spam, or is there something more going on?
From what I've read his goal was always to start a streaming movie company. He just did the DVDs by mail thing while he waited for technology to catch up.
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This is well-deserved. I could never understand why Gowalla didn't gain as much traction as Foursquare despite their eye for sumptuous design. I often found myself rooting for the company, and I'm glad Google took notice of their talent. I look forward to whatever comes from the team. Congrats, Team Gowalla.
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And LLVM was bootstrapped by using GCC as the front end before clang was written to replace it.

The freedom to combine with another program _temporarily_ while you bootstrap something better improves productivity significantly.

And the world before GCC had a great many commercial compilers. Many of the crap. GCC replaced almost all the crap ones, so that only free compilers and a few commercial compilers that were good enough to offer something over GCC existed.
Someone overheard a conversation on MUNI who had never heard of Gowalla before. Plus, it was loud, so their brain just came up with the closest rhyming company name they could think of.
This is not far from reality, actually: most ATC programs run on oss stacks anyway. Only, I can't imagine anyone willing to maintain those vast mountains of unmaintainable code gratis.
The thing is, it doesn't affect anybody specific...until it does, in which case it self-validates.
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Well, that, and a pervasive constellation of minor infractions.
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I'm not really sure I understand your response because I can't tell if you are for or against annotations. But, I guess this begs the question... if it isn't done as annotations, what would the same functionality be? Spring's XML? Json? Just more coding?
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Facebook actually already has an advertising office in NYC right near Grand Central. The news is that they're expanding to include an engineering office in NYC.
Having engineers in the same timezone as customers makes sense.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29547/Study_Female_Spend_...

The study you linked is more recent, but such a massive swing in the other direction is probably not indicative of reality. Statistics reported by agencies are often interpreted incorrectly. The companies who run the survey are often biased and perform the tests incorrectly. I've been pitched statistics by marketers plenty of times and they usually don't know what they're talking about.

Nevertheless, your article goes to show that the spending gap between men and women in online social gaming is pretty small. My article mentions that women tend not to play console and PC games as much as men do, which supports the opinion that EA is not a good comparison point for Zynga.

I wish I could get male/female spending demographics for Dave & Buster's, but it would probably be closer to social gaming than console/PC gaming. Although you'd have a tough time teasing out money from men (husbands/boyfriends) who pay for their female companions vs. men on themselves.

Edit: Many years ago when I played Everquest some friends had a discussion of why so few women play games. One guy answered, quite aptly, "By putting scantily-clad big-breasted cartoon women and monsters bashing each other on the cover they catch the attention of men. If they wanted to bring more women in, then they should have smiling people sitting around a table and cooperating with one another."
Actual famous people have agents. For mere mortals who are very well known in a niche, put out the word that you are looking for work and work will find you. Resumes are not an accelerant for this process, since as soon as you're a resume you're competing with other resumes. Everyone in the market has a resume, but rather less people have a career that needs no introduction. I would not suggest downgrading yourself from that status (exception: post-offer pro-forma resume for HR after you have agreement in principle from decisionmaker).
What kind of job are you looking for, would make you happy?
You need a citation that some guy once said that the amount of wealth in the world is not fixed? What would the world look like if it weren't true? There's no reasonable or useful definition of wealth for which the world of today has exactly as much wealth as the world of 10,000 years ago. (Or 1,000, or 100. 10, well, that can be successfully argued either way. It's not been a great 10 year run.)
More than that you get free stuff if you checkin. I think this is the draw more than anything else. And this is the reason why foursquare solves a business need.
I just migrated my WordPress blog to Jekyll recently without much difficulty. Data can be exported to Jekyll from Tumblr and Posterous as well (I'm not sure how well those migrations work though): https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations
One downside to Google+ for this kind of thing is that it seems to use a lot of memory on the client. Not a big deal for people reading on desktops, perhaps, but it can be a killer on mobile.

On my first generation iPad, long Google+ posts that have a lot of comments just kill it.

I assume enough people at Google use iPads that they are aware of this, so I haven't bitched about (this is the first place I've mentioned it) on the assumption that they'll figure out some way to make it work well on mobile. But until then, if I get the urge to blog I'll do it elsewhere and just post a link on Google+.
The thing about high rises is that they require money to put them up, especially in seismically active areas. Typically the cost is such that an apartment in a high rise takes at least several years to fully pay off when paying off a mortgage with payments of the equivalent of today's monthly market rent.

Relax regulations, clean out zoning, remove market controls, employ people on the black market, do the construction not-for-profit and you might be able to slash the cost by half or maybe two thirds, probably not more. (There is a finite amount of people willing to pay to live in such a high rise, but let's assume demand really is huge.)

In particular, even at that lower construction cost it won't be worth it for anyone to build if the rent is to be comparable to maintenance costs, whether through supply/demand or otherwise. This will be the case until you can put up high rises at a total cost of about $900-1200 per unit (roughly 15-20 times the monthly payment), no matter how many you can put up.
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The difference is that currently the amount a kidnapper could extract from an average person is not very high. If selling organs is allowed, suddenly the body of every person walking in the street is a worth a lot of money. It will drastically increase the probability of getting kidnapped for one's organs.
I agree with tonyarkles.
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