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I wonder when we will cross the post-scarcity point on housing. Considering that about 50% of my monthly expenses goes to rent, I think reducing the cost of housing is where most of my mental energies should be devoted, instead of yet another social/local CRUD app. My partial solution is Commodity Housing in urban areas, i.e., housing so abundant that what you pay is close to the maintainance costs, which I estimate would be on the order of $50-60/month (excluding electric/gas, water/sewage and garbage collection expenses which most of us already pay for separately). I can't seem to figure out why, when there is so much land in the U.S. [1], the rents are still so crushingly high [2]? I only have a partial answer in zoning laws and (ironically) rent controls [3].

[1] http://persquaremile.com/2011/01/18/if-the-worlds-population....

[2] http://shine.yahoo.com/green/simple-life-in-manhattan-a-90-s....

http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-113345-10728....

[3] http://www.baycitizen.org/columns/elizabeth-lesly-stevens/sm....
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You missed the point of my post. The point is that the poor are disproportionately pressured by this kind of market, black or otherwise. A non-black market will just make it easier for the poor to sell their organs, and the rich to obtain them. Re-read what I posted.

I've read your other post on the subject and it frankly makes me sick. You've clearly never been poor and exploited by people with money, felt the range and depth of their manipulation to obtain what you have, without them giving a shit about you as a person.
Even if the money spent is constant, the money is moving from the distribution cost (marketing, CDs, etc) to the artist (concerts) in the case I described above.
And to be pedantic, there's a third step:

3) When you make an authenticated API call, send the access token along with the request, and make sure you're using HTTPS.

The HTTPS part is important to give a bunch of the security guarantees than OAuth 1 gives you with plain HTTP and some complicated crypto dancing around.
Any estimate as to the time of transcoded content? Also, does the term "video" mean # movies in, or # of streams (movie at certain bitrate/width/etc) out?
I reject your world. I'd like to live in a world where access to culture is unrestricted by artificial monetary barriers.

If that means that music is only created by those passionate enough to make it themselves as a hobby without any thought of remuneration ... well, that actually sounds like a pretty good filter to me. If you think that that means that music will die out, then that probably means that nobody cared enough about it in the first place. If you think that that will decrease the overall quality, I've been surprised at what dedicated volunteers can do, see open source.

Growing up as a kid, I was excluded from the culture of my peers as my parents (despite my pleeding) could not afford it. The plight of the starving movie director does not convince me.
Started skimming the article and my eye fell upon this:

> If you want any meaningful error messages, you need to opt for the asynchronous URL connection methods. Why does that suck? Because it takes a really easily architected, synchronously-called API layer that is run in a background queue with Grand Central Dispatch and turns it into a bloated, complicated asynchronous pile of spaghetti code.

Sorry, dude, but you definitely are stupid. You're seriously advocating tying up an entire OS thread purely to do synchronous network IO. That's incredibly stupid. It's pretty trivial to throw asynchronous network IO onto a worker thread. You're still using a thread, but now you can multiplex _all_ of your IO on to one thread instead of using one thread per network call.
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Yeah, this is an interesting topic. Why did Foursquare win? Was it anti-cheating provisions that were too strict in the early days? New York vs. Austin? Better PR? Simpler product? Dodgeball users as jumpstart? Who knows. One thing we do know was that it wasn't money.
Having price ceilings would cause shortages in supply which would possibly lead to more deaths than cost increases. By meddling in the marketplace you are bound to create a lot of unintended consequences that will be detrimental to patients.
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>No. Not even if you send it to your kindle via name_num@free.kindle.com.

This actually changed with a recent firmware update. I haven't bothered to update my kindle firmware to try it out, but personal documents should now be synced just like kindle books.

Edit: This hasn't come to the apps (iOS, android, et al) yet, but will be there in a few months supposedly.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/16/kindle-third-gen-update-br...
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Interesting... I would be like to look up the direct quote. Would you have the chapter or section reference?
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Objective: To use all of my skills to change the world for the better. Again.

I normally glance at career objectives, sigh, roll my eyes, and move on to the the meat of the resume, but this one is actually good. Anyone searching for a job, do yourself a favor and follow CmdrTaco's lead. Your career objective shouldn't be long or full of bullshit corporate speak, and if it is that will hurt you more than it helps.
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I went a long time refusing to buy any DRM content for fear of whatever.

But at the end of the day, I just write it off as an experience. I'm not paying $5 to own this book/song/software for eternity. I'm paying $5 to experience it for whatever duration it lasts. Much like paying $9 for a movie ticket to sit for two hours in a theater, I might pay $9 to read a book over several days on my device and possibly re-read it a few months down the road.

It's a different mentality. But it's one we regularly apply elsewhere without similar qualms. A nice dinner. A theme park ticket. A trip overseas.

I think the greatest argument against DRM is more anthropological than practical. It doesn't affect me that much at all today and now. But it would be sad indeed if future generations lost access to great works of the 21st century because of DRM.
Facebook used parts of FriendFeed actively after acquiring them: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/301/
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There's a kind of cosmic internet irony attached to throwing a tl;dr on an article about writing good essays.
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Any other sources to back this up?
Oh yeah, he's one of those guys that nobody wants to talk to when he's alive and in everyone's face, but will be widely praised after he's safely dead.
Obviously film as a medium is an art form and not everyone values it the same (or at all).

Reasonable analogies do have limits that it pays not to overextend them. Software itself has more direct and inarguable benefits then film: the software equivalents of Avatar save lives in our world and many of them wouldn't exist in RMS's utopia.
Facebook has now the best design team in the valley. Hands down.

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so they got 3 trainees without a clue how to operate a huge infrastructure to store private images? i hope they have a good insurance since a backup isnt mentioned.

how do they make money?
burning vc money can't be a successful business modell with a future.

we need more of those dumb vc's in europe.
Not only that, but Gnome, KDE and xfce all build upon each other - experience and code - and explore different ideas. This accelerates their evolution.
Ask HN: Whats the best way to get the initial 500 users?
How do startups get off the ground with very few users? What is required to get the first 500, any advice will be most helpful! :)
Hm, I've run many a 5000+ revision subversion repository through git-svn and had no issues. I'm not a git evangelist, but the tools for migrating from subversion are pretty good.
Pure-Finance style wealth creation, harvesting wealth creation, or actual creative wealth creation?
Your point about added services is interesting, but a bit askew, I think. For a performing artist, the actual creative activity is the performance. For no one is the actual creative act the distribution of recordings. A 40 y/o musician with a family might not have a market. Some people don't. A great composer might have to sell to other musicians. This is already a thing.

I think Kickstarter is potentially game-changing. Not only can you market-test an idea before you even execute it, but you can form a relationship with your audience and form a community. People don't really know about it yet, but I for one would gladly fund the efforts of some of my favorite artists.

Amanda Palmer isn't just doing concerts and t-shirts. She's doing all kinds of stuff like comics, weird collaborations, short films, plays, etc. She's doing everything and seeing what sticks, but she's also always forming relationships with her audience.

re marginal cost: I think it's a fairly basic rule of economics, that in a competitive market, the price of a product falls to its marginal cost. I wasn't making a moral judgment, just an economic observation. Maybe you're arguing that this is a special circumstance that doesn't apply? I'm curious as to how.

re changing my mind: I was for intellectual property before I was against it. Someone on the internet changed my mind. It happens, probably not very often, but it does. I guess a pertinent question is: what would it take to change your mind?
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There's a big difference between "not the official SCM system" and "a fireable offence". As a developer, I frequently use a pile of tools that don't have official support, because they help me get my job done more effectively than the "official" tools. Sometimes those end up becoming the official tools later, sometimes they don't.

But in any case, some of the issues you've listed represent bugs in development processes, not in Git.

> - People hiding their work in local branches where none of the other engineers can follow along.

Good developers using Git don't "hide their work" in local branches any more than they "hide their work" in an editor before they save it; sometimes you just have work in progress that shouldn't get pushed yet. (I certainly hope you have policies about when to commit, which include things like "the code compiles" or "passes tests" or "smells right"; if so, why aren't you concerned about people "hiding their work" in their uncommitted working copies?) If that work in progress has a sufficiently large scope that it needs more developers involved, then the branch may want to live in a repository accessible to others.

Before I had git-svn, when I had to work with SVN repositories, I ended up having several local copies of the repository, and doing the "small self-contained commits" thing manually by copying bits into and out of working copies. Git provided much more structure to that process, as well as making it faster and more efficient.

> - Getting massive rebased commits once every day (or worse yet, every few days).

Don't do that. You can and should push arbitrarily often.

> - An open-source Linux-inspired development model consisting of a massively distributed ecosystem of competing/disparate/intertwined branches.

If you have a project anywhere near as large as the Linux kernel, you'd be lucky to end up that well organized and optimized. But while you still have a team that can regularly communicate with each other on a list low-volume enough for people to read all the mails, you don't really need that ecosystem of hierarchical branches and repositories; nonetheless, you can get a lot of value out of Git even when using it with a single central repository.
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Commercialization isn't necessary for innovation. Stallman sees a world where software is free because it's abundant. There's a whole different system of economics there. Your current business model is based on our free market system where profits rule which means that giving away your software for free is stupid and unsustainable.

Different economics means much less competition and much greater co-operation. Even if there are perfect copycats selling overnight, they're hitting a different market than yours. They may going after a local market or one based on a particular language
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I think it's pretty clear that Dennis Crowley has been thinking about this problem space for more than a decade, and foursquare is the third (fourth?) iteration on his original vision.
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It's really ludicrous we all know the business model of record labels and movie studios, of selling the right to use and possess something that costs nothing to duplicate, is dead while we are still delusional about our ability to sell software licenses...
I just use it offline, on my laptop. The UI is just a nice frontend to an idea that you know will work. Then you might have a ton of ideas that you want to check before publishing. One question may want to answer is if the behavior on HN predictable?

Google App Engine doesn't support R but you can use NumPy:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/using2...

http://numpy.scipy.org/
Basically we need socialism. Everyone should be guaranteed a standard of living (including a house and food) at a certain level that will increase as our productivity increases. The freeloader "problem" won't be seen as a problem. We should actually be looking it as the model for the future...how can we increase productivity such that we can support as many people as possible who want to be lazy or who want to pursue what they love?
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Rob, if you are still interested in the social media space, have you thought about:

a) applying at reddit

b) starting up a reddit competitor (your karma system is still among the best I've seen)?

If not, what kind of area are you thinking of? I'd imagine your varied skillset would be awesome at a very small startup.
I'm an engineer at Etsy and went through this transition. I am certainly no expert on either svn or git. To mirror closely how i used svn means i need to run a couple more git commands per push, a little annoying but no big deal.

I think the real pain comes when there are problems. How do i unfuck what i just did?. You're getting stressed out, there are people waiting on you to get your commits in. I had my flow down with svn, but now what do i do? Compound that with 100 engineers experiencing that on some level as we transitioned, it was trying.

It's true of changing any tool or workflow, though. You rely on muscle memory or run on auto-pilot and suddenly you don't know what to expect from your day.
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I guess my question is, how do they make money? I really like instagram images. I've used the site myself, but it certainly isn't something I'd feel the need to pay money for.
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I just got out of an interesting conversation regarding mobile communication and I would like the the HN community to help me figure this out.

The conversation begins with this question: If we remove cell phone towers, is it possible to have direct mobile-to-mobile data exchanges? This means no WIFI, 3G, etc, to connect the data from one mobile smartphone phone to another. Instead of utilizing cell-towers to connect us, why not a direct transfer of data? Some examples of data exchanges can be phone calls, text messages, media sharing, etc (or simply the transaction of local data from the phone itself and not data from the web). If mobile phones are equipped to send and receive data, why do we need cell phone towers as the middle man? We tend to accept the current structures in place as permanent, when they are not. They currently exist as a gate-keeping mechanism to charge people for services that we already have the resources to bypass!

The conversation ensued regarding everything from rights to frequencies, to drivers and antenna design, to all the things that phone-makers do to make it purposely difficult for this to happen. For example, why can't you use your mobile phone to request data from your home computer (given you are within wireless range for your smartphone to transfer data), which then forwards the data to your phone? What if your mobile phone could connect to a private network with every other mobile phone which locally transfers data from phone to phone?

Some benefits include:
1. cost reduction of bill for voice or data from wireless carriers.
2. direct mobile-to-mobile data transfer instead of through a cell tower bottleneck.
3. privacy.

So I ask, do any of you have insight into how this could possibly happen? Is something like this already in development/production? What changes in a smartphones hardware or software is needed to make this happen? Thanks in advance for your input.

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Yes, if it is accepted into the core then it means you will be able to run Django on Python 3 soon. Keep in mind though that:

* This port was basically done in a week so many parts still need analysis and discussion. It's a huge step though.

* When Django says 'soon' it might not be what you expect if you are not used to the project. This is the type of thing that depends on a ton of compatibility testing. Django makes very measured, deliberate steps and this will likely not make the 1.4 release.

* Your Django project may depend on non-python3 libraries that keep you on the 2.x branch. You have to make sure all of your libraries are compatible. This does increase the pressure on those libraries to get compatible though. (See http://python3wos.appspot.com/)
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The key that makes things click for me is, the Commit is the most important 'unit' of Git. Tags, branches, pseudo-refs like HEAD are all just mutable or immutable (like tags) pointers to commits.

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm... is absolutely worth your time if the above statement didn't trigger a lightbulb in your head
This can be true:

> I see stock moves all the time based on the prospects for distant future earnings - Amazon is a prime example. So is any stock with a high P/E.

and this statement can also still be true:

>And for the average investor, next quarter's earnings are much more important than earnings in 2015.
But in svn or p4 those commits are visible to everyone else immediately. With git they are only visible when you are ready to make them so - and you can amend or merge them into a single commit or slice them however you want beforehand.

Having your own private repo other than what is on the server allows you to experiment and make a lot more mistake without affecting others.
I think the multi-license model does work with RMS's views, it's just that you have to make sure that you're selling the same software; the GPL version cannot be limited or treated as trial software.

Using a proprietary license for businesses means that you can punish them for refusing to use GPL'd software by making them pay more. When they accept the GPL, then you reward them with a lower price (but not free, you can charge for GPL software too ;-) ) hopefully encouraging more GPL'd software to be released into the world.

The point is to reduce how much proprietary software there is and increase how much free software there is and multi-licensing uses a carrot and a stick based on pricing to do that.
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I just launched EZofferz.com – the first site that lets people make an offer on a home without a real estate agent. Think of it as the natural extension of Zillow, Trulia and RedFin.<p>Now, I'm actively looking for a Technical Cofounder in So Cal – how cliché, right?!<p>After meeting with most of the big VCs and Angel Investors in LA, I'm tired of hearing, "Get yourself a Technical Cofounder and we'll fund you. We love your platform!"<p>I heard it again today at lunch from a) one of my best friends who just launched a new $4M incubator in LA with money from the "who's who" in the VC space and several Fortune 100 Companies and b) an Angel Investor who’s put $100k+ in each of 35 companies over the past 3 years.<p>If you know how to program (PHP) and are at least be a little dangerous in the graphics arena, drop me an email…don’t be shy!<p>Jason
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I run KVM quite regularly on my laptop. I use it to test the results of Linux kernel hacking, to test bootable Linux images of various types (installers, live images, demos), and to test BITS (http://biosbits.org/) without having to run it on dedicated hardware (at least, the bits that don't specifically test that dedicated hardware).
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Um, of James Bond maybe. Sean Connery has a reputation for being a very nice guy.
Blood, sweat and tears, lots and lots of tears. Really depends on what you are offering. Focusing on a niche can help get users of a particular kind that might create a good base.
You should look up state-planned housing and in general, socialist , communist and anarchist ideas. I think the communists hit a dead end with their ideas of the state controlling everything while the anarchists have alternative ideas (which are continually borrowed though to various degrees).
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Reminds me of the following Terry Pratchett quote:

>A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

>I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

This post is about exactly those two attitudes, though here it has nothing to do with what side of the Atlantic you're on!
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In opensource code, you would have decentralized servers run by various groups that may or may not accept "cheating" (cheating is just a different set of game rules). You could have peers validate the game rule set for each of their peers as well so that everyone playing on servers is agreeing to the "cheats".
I thought this was just a talent grab. I don't think the actual Gowalla service is going to be merged into Facebook.
Credible like who? FOX? CNN? Al-jazeera?