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> … but isn't this Economics 101?

The problem, in my opinion, is that this is only Economics 101. During the last 50 years or so, economists found quite a lot of exceptions from the rules taught in this class.

What I find puzzling is that many American libertarians seem to be so intellectually lazy when it comes to Economics 102 if you can call it so. You may want to read "How markets fail" by John Cassidy to get an overview over the topic.

Here's a review by Business Week: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_47/b41560797...

> This isn't about right or wrong, it's math.

You may want to read Hume, again. "Is" cannot justify "ought". Given an "ought", though, economic theory tells us that we (as a society) will be willing to bear the economic costs for a particular policy based on ethical considerations.

Material wealth is not the only thing worth having.

> They turn the world into an "us" vs "them" environment, where it would be more optimal to have a "me" and "you" environment.

Yes, it would be nice to have an 'me' vs. 'you' environment, but that's not going to happen under any law. Read up on a good book on social psychology: It will always be 'us' vs. 'them'. Men and women, for instance, have opposite preferences when it comes to mating. Young women will always have different preference to old women when it comes to finding a mate. Young men will always have different preference to old men when it comes to distribution of wealth. And these are just the preferences inspired by sex.

What would you do when all the roads around your house are owned by old men who double the prices for usage because they can?

How much liberty will you have, then?
Creating a social app in the valley is a long shot, particularly one with no business model. Don't take this personally, Twitter doesn't have a business model.

You're also stuck with the chicken egg problem which is hard to solve: You have no users so you're not useful. I'm familiar with how tough the geo chicken-egg problem is since I built a foursquare app 4 years before foursquare came along and it also didn't fly because of the wide distribution of users. It's still online here: http://geojoey.com/

My advice to you is to walk away and chalk it up to a learning experience. Then go and build a paid application that solves a problem people have and that isn't being solved by anyone else. Make sure the problem you're solving is worth money to users, that they have money to spend and that they're the type of people who spend it. Usually this means the people who use your app get some kind of direct or indirect ROI from using it. Also try to do it in a space that is under exploited. The app store is massively crowded and very noisy.

Don't write a social app. Don't make it free. Don't ever plan to get funding. Don't give away shares in your business to anyone. Don't feel compelled to take on a co-founder or partner. Don't use bleeding edge tech for your business. Don't bother with incubators. Don't surround yourself with other entrepreneurs all day long. Don't think you need constant input from advisors or mentors. Do your own thing, be an individual, create real value. Find a problem that you yourself have and that you would be prepared to pay for and don't accidentally persuade yourself that you have a fictitious problem - find a real one that no one else is solving that that is costing you money until it is solved.

Money talks. Build an app that makes cash and it will change your life. Sitting on a balcony drinking a mochito at 5pm as your settlement email arrives telling you you've settled $2k today because people paid for software you wrote is a feeling few developers experience in their lifetimes and there's nothing like it.
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The only thing I changed is the prefix to Ctrl-A like Screen.
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I think some degree of affirmative action is good. Racism still exists, and explicit quotas to ensure that a few black applicants can get a spot at a college or a firm seems like a reasonable strategy to counteract kneejerk discrimination. It doesn't seem unlikely that given two equal applications, one with a black name and the other with a white name, that someone might consistently accept the white one instead.
Put a photo of a smiling girl/guy in the background. Isn't that the problem you're trying to solve?
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If he really was such a good entrepreneur, why didn't he choose to create a legal business? Sorry, but I don't think organized crime is cool.
I had an app idea a few years ago, a few months before the 2008 election, that I never got around to developing, that would fit right in with what you have now, and the time is soon going to be right for it. I'm not going to ever get around to this one, so feel free to take it if it would enhance your app.

The idea was to provide an app that would schedule people to meet up over coffee or lunch, but with the purpose of having an interesting debate or discussion, so the app would offer a list of debate topics and you could say which side you were interested in taking, and it would match you up with someone who wanted the other side.

Topics could include things like: Republican_X vs. Republican_Y, Republican_X vs. Obama, vim vs. emacs, pro-life vs. pro-choice, Edward vs. Jacob, Newton vs. Leibniz, Python vs. Ruby, Protestant vs. Catholic, Should Marijuana be Legalized?, Legalize Gay Marriage or not?, controversial state or local ballot issues and initiatives, and so on.
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I wasn't putting down Scheme's efficiency, but pointing out that there's not much room for another new OS in Nokia's software lineup.

Nokia is known to be already working on a new cheap Linux-based featurephone platform, "Meltemi". If Smarterphone is to live on at Nokia, it needs to be so simple that everyone can be convinced that it has no overlap with Meltemi; otherwise Nokia's corporate immune reactions will destroy Smarterphone soon enough.
I submitted the Netcraft article four days ago, and it got a measly 2 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3421864

EDIT: My title was also better.
Based on the discussions I can't help but wonder how many people here recognize that this article was written for Hungary and not the USA?
If you want a shell in a vim buffer, try ConqueTerm: https://code.google.com/p/conque/

Seems to work quite well, both for simple shell-like programs and full screen-oriented commands.

It does depend on a vim with Python support compiled in, but that doesn't seem like a huge constraint.
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Rubbish. Not only is it completely feasible, (and easy) to use Apache as a front end server, not only is it incredibly common, but we have absolutely zero evidence that Nginx has passed Apache, and considerable evidence to the contrary. You're suffering the Hacker News bubble effect.

EDIT: BTW, I'm not an Apache fanboy. I recently moved my personal site https://grepular.com/ from Apache to Nginx. I just like using the right tools for the right job. And Apache is a great server and can be configured to perform extremely well. I've personally configured and run large server farms of Apache boxes in shared hosting environments.
I also came here to say that. What is the motivation behind this work or just "because we can"?
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In Russian roulette, is it best to go first?
Assume that we are playing a game of Russian roulette (6 chambers). Assume that there is no shuffling after the shot is fired.

I was wondering if you have an advantage in going first?

If so, how big of an advantage?

I was just debating this with friends, and I wouldn't know what probability to use to prove it. I'm thinking binomial distribution or something like that.

If n=2, then there's no advantage. Just 50/50 if the person survives or dies.

If n=3, then maybe the other guy has an advantage. The person who goes second should have an advantage.

Or maybe I'm wrong.

Interesting discussion Math.SE about this question.
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Seing code is the way to go in job interviews, and in my opinion can't be compared to solve puzzles, etc.

Thanks to Open Source right now there are tons of public code from people, that's why we have created masterbranch.com a service to aggregate, analyze, and list all you OS but also with the option of include non-open source code (the code is not visible if the project is not open source).

Also, the idea of open sourcing a component, a side project, etc. and ask the candidates to contribute I think is a great way to have an idea about how they work.
They will attempt to massage the language into something that is easily digestible by the vast majority as politicians have always done. The aims of which language would include disarming or flustering the passion of the opposition.
You, as a person, have not failed! There is no shame in what has happened.

This kind of startup is very high risk, as it has numerous "problems", such as chicken-and-egg, being dependent on the app store rankings, saturation in the app store, saturation in the social space, etc. Also, as you said "we didn't have any programming or design experience", no funding, no accelerator program. In other words, your chances were very slim to begin with. If you have good friends [+], they probably said something along those lines to keep your expectations close to the ground.

So, your idea was most likely to fail and that's what happened. On the other hand, you learned a lot! You learned about programming, design, releasing apps, and all the countless real-life issues one encounters when trying to launch a new product. That is invaluable.

You're still young, so no worries, you have lots of room left!

As others have pointed out, if you want to push on with this idea, just pull the app from the store and relaunch a rebranded version in a smarter way. (Can't you geo-target by calling the app "XYZ for San Francisco" and "XYZ for San Diego"? Once you have enough traction, you can unite the apps, don't worry about it now.)

Or you can do something else. If not having an income is an issue, perhaps you can do some consulting work on the side, like 37signals, the company you cited.

Or if you had enough for now, take a job and chill for a year, there's no shame in it!

Best of luck!

[+] A true friend points out your mistakes, even at the risk of losing your friendship.
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This article reads to me as "What I learned from watching Scarface and pretending to have connections with underground."
I know I'm ranting, but what can you say about this bunch of vague cliches?
The idea is good, but if you are explicitly interviewing I would add an honorarium to the whole thing.

This way it's not officially a probation - the candidate can even say they were freelancing during this time - so the CV problem doesn't come up AND you don't look the tiniest bit like you are exploiting people.
How do you avoid this trap in learning?
In the information age we live in, it's so easy to be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of reading material we have at our disposal. I love learning new things, as well as improving my understanding of topics I'm already familiar with. In the little time I have to learn/read, I find myself falling into a trap of jumping around a lot. Some days I find myself watching Machine Learning lecture videos, some days reading up on computer architecture, design patterns, and the list goes on.

I'm very interested to learn how other people cope with this problem. There is too much to learn, but not enough time...
I think that's one of their biggest challenges, people are using meetup for this sort of thing. Another thing to keep in mind is 37signals encourage people not to quit there jobs until they have a hit. A lot of people forget that. Their motto is risk adverse, slow and calculated way of doing business. If you read their popular profitable and proud series, majority of the entrepreneur all seem to have work on their startups as a side project until they got traction.
... but many people nowadays don't have the ability to survive longer than a couple of weeks to a few months without a job, and being fired without any notice can literally ruin someone's life.

I don't find that a valid concern. If you don't have a cushion of at least 3 months (better, 6 months, ideally a year), then you're taking a big risk. You're living above or too close to your means.

Sure, there are exceptions. Not everyone is in complete control of their situation. But I've found that most people could be, if they really wanted to be. Instead they spend money on unnecessary stuff (often including families at or below the poverty line), or feel the need to "keep up with the Joneses". And sure, there's a whole psychology behind all this that makes it understandable, but the bottom line is that you're taking a huge risk with your financial health by behaving this way, and there will be strong consequences if you lose your job.

I'm absolutely not in favor of stronger protections. I want to be able to -- by default -- quit on the spot. I've never done it, and hope I never have to, but I want the option, as the default. If a company wants to fire me for reasons relating to my competency, then bad on me. If I'm not creating enough value for the company, because they want or need to go in a different business direction, then I don't want to be part of that organization, fulfilling a useless role. (And also bad on me for not getting myself into a position where I'm creating enough value.) If a company wants to fire me for a political or discriminatory reason, then I really don't want to work for them anyway. Life's too short for that crap. (Not saying that we shouldn't have protected classes and try to police discrimination, though.)

Admittedly, I'm at the "high end" as far as the workforce goes, as I'm sure many others here on HN are. My skills are in high demand, I'm good at what I do, and I'm able to live happily well below my means. So it's likely true that I don't "know how the other half lives". And frankly, I don't want first-hand experience. I want to keep my skills sharp and make myself valuable whenever and wherever I can. Maybe someday I'll find myself in a bad situation, but I have to believe that I'll have the skills and work ethic to keep myself on my feet.
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Probably a never-say-die attitude is going to help. Don't worry about your relationships, because people who love you will understand, and still be around. Those who didn't matter not anyway.

Pivot, re-brand and definitely as I read on most comments above - start with one high density city first. Then scale to another high density city. And go by gut feel now, rather than too much advise.
Signs of Nokia idiot strategies...

Android devices selling for under $50..check check
MS attempting to buy Nokia check check
Nokia attempting another separate OS strategy check check

Nokia fast heading towards webOS fate..
So what's the deal with Nokia these days? Android, iOS, Samsung, etc. are the new hotness, is Nokia a dinosaur who doesn't get that the world has changed? Or do they have a potential to be an A player? Or are they an A player that just doesn't get as much mindshare?
It was an interesting read, but the writer seems a bit uninformed when he forgets to mention the other CPU platforms which are dominant in their markets, such as PowerPC (PS2, XBOX 360 and Wii). Also, no mention whatsoever that Intel actually used to have an ARM license.
My mistake. I could have sworn that only C++ defined 0 to be equivalent to a null pointer. I guess my confusion stemmed from the fact that the NULL preprocessor macro in C++ is actually defined to be just "0" (or a magical-seeming "__null" in recent versions of g++), whereas in any modern C implementation I've seen, it's "((void *)0)".

Though there are cases in which passing an unadorned "0" as a null pointer can be wrong; there's a null-terminated varargs function example here:

http://c-faq.com/null/null2.html
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I was hoping you'd give me a lower level answer. I'm familiar with Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Lean startups, MVP, build, test, iterate, etc etc. But I'm sick of reading theories and the same one or two case studies being repeated as proof.

It doesn't sound like you started Parse with exactly the same core of the product that you are focusing on now. Reading about your journey towards it would be more useful than high level generalisations because they sound like magic mantras.

Sorry about the harsh tone, maybe I'm just bored of startup advice.
By reading the code and tweaking in (seeing the result in realtime) you should be able to learn how things work.

Also, don't forget to checkout the rest of effects [1], there are lots! :)

[1] http://glsl.heroku.com/
Our app makes one request over the internet to our
server to find if the product is a SOPA supporter.
We do not access any other data.

It would be useful to have statistics available for this data. Which items are most frequently scanned? How many dollars worth of goods has this application steered users away from?
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One key; he knew that people, real individuals, took pictures. Kodak's terminal mistake was forgetting this, coming to believe their customer was retailers. Retailers, benefitting from the multiple visits customers made to process just a few dozen pictures, threatened to drop Kodak products if Kodak moved into digital on a large scale. Ego, Kodak stayed with film and wasn't ready for the mass migration to digital photography. Kodak chose retailers over end users ... abandoning Eastman's successful user-focused approach.
Well my first Job at a high end RnD place it was all small 2 or 3 person offices.

Some times you need a quiet place to think - though we did have some interesting brainstorming sessions in my office - one on the best way to measure the efficiency of flushing toilets was one I remember.

I remember looking into using machine vision to help with this but when the base cost of the kit was £250,000 we had to give that up (this was in teh early 80's)
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The comment seemed apolitical to me -- it was a statement on the future of purchasing where consumers have access to a great deal more information. Instead of only considering the price of a product, consumers of the future could be making their decision based on factors such as the environment, political stance of companies, reviews of return policies and so forth.
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Lots of good advice from others here. The point is reiterated that you need users to be useful--but that's not exactly the case. What you need is data, more specifically information on someone nearby your User who wants to meet up.

So searching your local existing user-base for nearby other users is the easiest way, and if you limit yourself to that, the only way. But since you really just need other people's information, you can just steal that information. Monitor places like meetup.com, public tweets, public facebook posts, craigslist, etc. Direct your Users to the results. Possibly solicit other people on behalf of the User. (There are a lot of "Anyone at Hotel X want to grab a coffee?" posts at conventions, for instance, often with hashtags you can set followup monitors on.) Sign up with the top competitor and route some queries through their network.

> During our last startup, we sacrificed all the time we had with friends, family, and ignored our relationships for the most part.

So you're not doing this any more, right? Good. Especially for your case, you should constantly be thinking about how you meet other people and how you signal your desire to meet other people, strangers or not, and work on figuring out how to assimilate the data and the action into your app.
I've been mulling over the idea of writing a small buggy program, one that doesn't compile, and providing some test cases, then post it on GitHub as a first pass filter.

It achieves several aims:

1. This approach scales. Send a prospective employee the github url and they can get started.

2. The programming puzzle can be solved in about 15 minutes. Kind of like a better Fizz Buzz.

3. The interviewee doesn't feel insulted that the employer expected them to do some work for free.

4. The employer has some assurance the person will have some source control competency, to be able to check out from a Git. repository.

5. You could test the prospective employee based on the skills you require. For example: You could even have the puzzle interact with a web service. Troubleshooting the program will involve firing up a proxy or packet sniffer to figure out why things didn't work. It might be a jQuery bug. etc.
Why do you only want to socialize with people who have iPhones? Make a web app that anyone can use.
That is a sensible idea - but i would go one step further.

Ideally you want to learn about a potential candidate's design/coding/debugging/bug-fixing/testing skills. Github project collaboration over a week or so would go a long way towards that.

But you also want to see how well the potential employee communicates with other members of the team, on a day-to-day basis. Some Developers, even good developers, have strong opinions that might rub other employees the wrong way. The key is to look at how well they work as a team.

Having them spend a day or so onsite with your existing team is invaluable. You might also want to consider paying them a nominal amount for the amount of time they would spend on the project. That just adds a professional touch to the whole experience.
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There is a spreadsheet/pdf link given in the site which has a tentative plan of which technology to use in which week. The actual app problem statement will be discussed before the week starts to keep it dynamic. The site mentions that they would change it as per suggestions from participants e.g. they might include Haskell instead of VB
It's more useful to look at the plot for the million busiest domains. nginx places 3rd and if trends continue, may take 2nd place from IIS some time in 2013/14.
In the third graph, what caused the huge spike in almost every kind of server just after April last year?
The idea sounds good, but I'll never use it because it seems to be iPhone only and I have an Android phone. If it was a website, or a multi-platform app, I'd give it a try.
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As I recall, Microsoft made it dead simple to port xbox games to WP7. So for the major titles, C++ shouldn't be the issue, and I would think the xBox thing could be a major strength.
I guess there is a lot of push for including Haskell and taking out VB, OpenGL.