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I'm taking an assault rifle to my hidey-hole just in case someone finds me before running out of bullets.
It depends on how fancy of a place you want to get, and if food is included. Last time, in Costa Rica, we had 16 people in a $4 million dollar mansion with a private chef preparing all our meals. It cost about $10,000.
Google Drive will fail because Google actually thinks everybody loves and trusts them. People are getting smarter, and they're starting to understand that the type of centralized cloud computing that Google is forcefully pushing on its users is the exact kind of distasteful scenario that Orwell warned us of.

People really do not want their entire digital experience curated, controlled, and highly manipulated by a centralized, autonomous entity, with zero-human interaction, and zero-support if something goes wrong.

The Google's free ice cream business model isn't going work forever. Eventually decentralized, private cloud computing is going to come along and make their entire business model obsolete.
>> Over time, oil and gold have tracked each other extraordinarily well.

you're just wrong. here's prices over the last 6 years: http://imgur.com/a2mMZ (CLH is crude oil)

>> They're priced in junk dollars.

you're confusing real and nominal prices. if your point is that inflation exists, i don't think you will find anyone that disagrees with you. if your point is that real prices of oil and gold are driven primarily by inflation, you're absolutely wrong.
I OCRd it using Acrobat: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/980684/Jobs.pdf

Probably not perfect, but better than nothing.
Yeah, we didn't anticipate this making it to the top. We just scaled up so it should be faster now.
Um, Grindr is for casual homosexual encounters, which is admittedly a big market, but not as big as "lonely in a new city and looking to meet new people".

Glancee looks wonderfully polished, I'll give it a spin and see if it works.
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I made an MVP last night for a site that would allow people to start topics about annoyances they have that, presumably, developers/hackers would be interested in solving if they knew there was an audience out there that would appreciate the solution.

I had written a web app that I never released a few months back that would, if modified, be perfect for such a discussion site. However, as it would take a bit of reworking, I wanted to see if there was any interest out there for such a site first.

Any advice as to what direction you would like to see such a project take or what would make this project useful to you would be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Nick
And AppEngine, the infrastructure it runs on.
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marketing -- schafer has built up sizable good will so he can bring a lot of attention + third-party passion to his kickstarter project.
Technically, I could still buy 16oz of gold and have a pound... So I officially declare all my metaphorical gold is measured in international avoirdupois ounces.

Which I learned about thanks to Wiki University.

Thanks.
I am grandfathered on their old pricing, which is $200 for 250k IIRC. My blog occasionally sees spikes of 100k hits in a day. More typically it is 20-50k on a new post day and about 2k to 3k on any given day.
In 2 months SpaceX will send a Dragon capsule to do a near docking with the ISS. That will be an exciting milestone.
Good point, but I think they want to go well beyond pretty girls in coffee shops. I like that they use your Facebook likes behind the scenes to generate connections that might be serendipitous.
So Better Place and their switchable Car Batteries then? http://www.betterplace.com.au/drivers/solution-for-drivers/d...
If you open up a graph of the ratio between gold oz and barrels of oil over the last 40 years, you will not see anything resembling a straight line. They don't track each other. At all. Not even a little bit.

There are literally thousands of charts and graphs that you could find a reasonable correlation with gold, but oil is not one of them.

I don't know where you got the idea that they tracked each other, but it is simply wrong. Gold does not track oil, CPI-U does include food and energy and inflation is not anywhere near where you think it is.
Understanding the risks and ignoring the risks are two entirely different things... The current law basically says that anyone without $1 million and $200k in the bank is too stupid to invest in a startup but someone with that money is smart enough to. If they don't have to make those disclosures to people with lots of money now, why should they have to make them if they're crowdfunded (where people actually stand to lose less because the risk is spread over a larger pool)? I could see an argument for making those disclosures even with the system as it is now, but that argument is something entirely separate from the crowdfunding argument.

Edit: It seems I missed your "can of worms" comment. I guess I just really don't like the fact that the US govt has and is continuing to treat its citizens like they're mentally incapacitated. Now a lot of us do behave that way, but I don't think it's the government's place to try to change that behavior. The market will do that when they lose their money. If they don't learn their lesson, that's their own problem.
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If you try to value gold objectively (its industrial and possibly jewelry use), its price should be significantly lower than what it is today.

I think you might be misunderstanding what gives things value. The $20 bill in my pocket has little objective value by your definition. Sure, I could use it as a building material by papering a small piece of my wall with it or I could make an origami ring out of it, but the object's value is not determined by what can be made out of it.

Value is subjective to people's desires and beliefs about what is worth trading for. Gold has value because (almost) everyone anywhere on the planet will accept it in trade.

Gold is priced in dollars and when dollars are flying off of the printing press, but very little new gold is being produced, it follows that the price of gold would increase in terms of dollars. It is inflation that is mostly responsible for driving the price of gold up, not fear.

I'm not suggesting that everyone should be 100% into gold, I merely think that people looking for real value, would find gold very attractive as a reliable way to preserve it.
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"It was 'crippling the economy' in the same sense that Bill Gates and Warren Buffets money not being spent is "crippling the economy". "

Umm no. What happened was people took their money out of the bank to hoard gold which crippled the money supply and credit markets. Which is exactly what would happen if Gates et al. decided to hold their money under the mattress instead of in the bank.
This part stood out to me:

> The app compares your Likes in common with Wikipedia listings to identify similar categorical interests. Examples I’ve seen: If the other person likes The New Yorker, a line of text might say “You like The Econoimst.” If they like The Sopranos, it says “You like Mad men.” Sometimes these comparisons end up better than others, but overall the feature does succeed in showing you things loosely in common that might not have been obvious if you only compare Likes.

Any chance of making this an API sometime soon?
Worth noting: You don't need to join somebody else's program to take advantage of this. Big cool rental properties in exotic locations become really cheap when you split them among an entire product team, especially if you consider the alternative to be a month's lease at a cube farm.

My personal experience doing this:

http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2006/12/chamonix-branch-of...
If you bought 1 lb of gold in 1970 and sold it today after taxes you would not have kept up with inflation. Also, the S&P 500 does not include dividends. If you actually buy it's stocks or a fund that tracks the S&P 500 you do much better than the graphs suggest.
Unbelievable response. I am a lowly CS grad student at the moment so investment is not my greatest concern, but hopefully in the near future I will have some money to invest. When that day comes I will take a second look at your advice from a practical perspective. At this point it is fun to fantasize though...
I am sure there are plenty of us here who might have invested a small amount of money in facebook in 2004-2005, the first time I saw it I was pretty sure it was going to kill myspace.
Pure awesome!! How about synching two Kinects for a more complete space? Grouping pixels into meta-primitive triangles? Agree w/jskopek about positioning a color video camera near the Kinect for sampling color of each primitive. Can't wait to see further developments!
I find that, in Settlers of Catan, if you're winning - it's skill. It's only luck when you're losing ;)
How does it differ from Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
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Everyone working there IS an educator.

People saying "they don't hire educators" really mean that they don't hire as many people with Masters degrees in Education, which is known to be one of the degrees that attracts the lowest possible GRE scoring students, and which produces legions of incompetent "teachers" that have created a nation of ignoramuses.

It's a good thing they don't hire more of these folks. They are the ones that have destroyed education in America, why would we want them to have anything to do with Khan Academy?
Websites would probably be stuck with "pay for inclusion" and all the other nastiness of the early days of search. Google also labeled our ads clearly; the FTC had to warn ~8 other search engines not to label paid results as "partner" listings and similar things. We also took a stand against pop-up ads in the early days when many other major search engines were doing pop-ups on their site. Not to mention that search engine spam was pretty bad in those days.

Certainly I'm glad that Google disclosed DMCA complaints (instead of dropping them, which every other major search engine did), push backed on overly broad DOJ subpoenas that tried to get 2 months of user queries, worked hard not to partner with scumware/malware companies, helped to push back on things like SOPA, and launched a transparency report to shine a light on government requests to take down information around the world.

Google has also been a major proponent of open source (e.g. Summer of Code, Android, Chromium), not to mention espousing principles like data liberation: http://www.dataliberation.org/ . Overall, I think the web would have been quite a bit worse without Google: slower, less organized, more closed, and definitely spammier.
Who knows, man. He could have solved world peace, cured aids and cancer, gone back in time and killed Hitler.
Instead, this happened.
I guess we'll never know...
Just a guess, but Microsoft makes a lot of money from Office so I suspect the Office group insisted on being there at release to show existing customers their commitment. No doubt there are currently a lot of restrictions about what you can do on a WOA desktop, they may not have even provided anything like the full Win32 API. It wouldn't surprise me to see them loosen up those restrictions eventually.

Plus, by keeping all the desktop utilities like Explorer and Control Panel as desktop apps in WOA it reduces the amount of work that needs to be done. When Windows 8 is being used on a desktop PC you'll want those to still be desktop apps, and they probably won't be used enough on a tablet to justify rewriting them all as Metro applets.
Really cool idea. We could use this everyday. Have you thought about what the price is going to be? Will it be per doc, or per GB of storage used?
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Cool, so a CRUD app is easier in knockout, while anything that doesn't directly display the data is easier in backbone.
But what about labour prices? Why have they not shot up?
Long story. My blog is the most trafficked site I run (well, exclusive of BCC) but I have about 15 sites on that server. One of them has a hard dependency for Apache. Moving Apache to 8080 and putting Nginx on 80 got me going with only about an hour of configuration tweaking, but doing the blog totally with Nginx would have required spinning up a new server entirely.
Luck is a factor, but interpersonal dynamics and alliances are most important, in my experience.

How to win: always be a moderate second while limiting the routes for first to win, concurrently reserve at least two separate routes to victory for yourself, and don't let the game get too lopsided. Then as the end draws near, finish it in a turn.

It would be interesting to have a Catan-AI competition. Does the Catan server allow bots?
Microsoft will be updating IE to the next version in the future. They've learned their lessons.
apart from chess, I don't know of other games based entirely upon skill :)
The real trick is predicting which ones will really stay productive over the long term. Just buying a broad index is often not a winning strategy when you factor in the taxes, inflation, and survivor bias. Certainly Buffet hasn't just bought a broad index -- he makes highly targeted investments.

This depends on how high you set the bar. If you're trying to be Warren Buffet then buying a broad index obviously won't get you there. With the bar set somewhere in the neighborhood of "I'd like to protect and increase the buying power of my money" then buying something like SPY starts looking a lot better, even with taxes and inflation taken into account.
Oh, that's great. Those are the only two I use :) Excited to try this out!
And I dare you to compare the cost of a big mac from 3 years ago vs today in comparison to gold.
TCO. Total cost of ownership.

I ran the numbers here:
http://colintheshots.com/node/10

They have: 5 cents per mile variable cost of driving. Cheapest insurance for vehicles in their price range due to five star safety ratings. Federal and state incentives.

They're cheaper than regular cars, if you can find affordable financing. Right now, financing is the cheapest it's ever been if your credit is good. Think of it as buying your fuel years in advance at low interest rates.
For one, it's simpler. One quick task = $1, and the turnaround time should be pretty quick assuming there are a few people browsing the open requests list at any given time.

Also, it's meant for small, short (one or two minutes if done by someone who knows what they're doing) one-off tasks, which isn't the kind of thing someone would be likely to use MT for.
Yes, based on same platform as Model S.
I agree, I tried it out and it was remarkably accurate.
> A startup is simply a company designed to grow at an exceptionally high rate

From the perspective of a VC, I can certainly understand why you believe that. However, not all new businesses are geared toward VCs. I was never interested in outside funding. I am now running my second profitable business. I never once considered rapid growth as something that is even desirable, nevermind something I designed the business around. My goals have always been sustainability and profitability.

There are many, many types of ventures out there, with a very disparate set of goals.
Inflation is the proper measure. The chart might not say what you want it to but that's not it's fault.
How do you define wealth?
"but that argument is something entirely separate from the crowdfunding argument."

True, but I'm actually less worried about the danger to individual retail investors, and more worried about the externalities to the system imposed by a mass influx of speculative crowdfunding -- externalities that can easily wipe out the retail investors, even if their losses aren't concentrated too heavily in any one company.

"The current law basically says that anyone without $1 million and $200k in the bank is too stupid to invest in a startup but someone with that money is smart enough to."

There are two ways to look at the meaning of the current law. The first is that yes, the law views net worth as a proxy for sophistication, and therefore those without high net worth are deemed "too stupid" to invest in private companies. The second interpretation is that those with net worth in excess of $1 million (or whichever benchmark we choose) are capable of absorbing speculative losses, while others are not.

I agree with you that crowd-pooling gets around this issue, and it's interesting in that respect. But I still think it opens the door to too many unintended consequences.
That seems likely.

I walked past that place a million times (used to live on 60th and Columbus, worked at 9 w 57th street.) Always wondered what it was.
Which is better than most people who just say "curl http://shortened.url/ | sudo sh", but inspecting the script doesn't really reveal much about what actually happens during the install. It basically just says, "We're adding this repo to your system, you'll just have to install heroku-toolbelt and see what happens!"
Is this a comment on the proposed Drive or Google as a whole?

If this is about the Drive feature itself then how is Dropbox different? They have the data of all their users. In fact they know for a fact that its valuable data since the user chose to pay to back it up.

The OP's link was a speculation just like Drive speculation itself.

Google might have problems as a company but that's not as relevant to the success or failure of a Drive feature in my opinion. It all depends on the experience and cost.
This is awesome. I love her initiative and even more I love how the guys at ridejoy responded in kind. Really shows they love what they do and are having a great time.
Any discussion involving gold unfortunately brings out the loons.
But the former being far more valuable for understanding one's own language, and preparing a young person for college-level reading and writing.

That said, based on my own experiences, I think that a fast-track program could be developed to create functional, real-world (e.g. CRUD apps) developers straight out of high school. Basically, technical school for the modern world.
We were surprisingly productive - I create most of escapist.me there. I'd usually wake up at 7am sharp (to the smell of bacon), do something active like waterfall rappelling until around noon, then work until 8pm.

But no amazing companies launched out of the first Startup Workaway. Maybe in Thailand. :)
The only thing you can measure is past performance. In investing, past success is not a guarantee of future long term success. Long Term Capital Management had two Nobel laureates among its partners. The fund was extremely successful in its first few years (~40% yearly return with little volatility), but then lost over four billion in just a few months, and eventually closed.
If you like this you might also like my friends at http://revisu.com. Can't quite tell where the features overlap or diverge. Would love to know more.

Congrats on a sharp looking launch, Pixelapse!
Go =)
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a) How long was your stay?
b) Was that $10,000 per person or for 16 people
c) Any information about amenities included
Nope, after I graduated I moved country and industry and wasted a good decade programming the mobile phones that help people create the CDRs that torment you.

These days I'm swung back more towards DBs and servers and stuff, but not a CDR in sight thankfully.

Liked your ruby; not a ruby ninja myself but it looks quite readable and almost pythonic :)
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The government doesn't even need to be unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

(Granted, many people simply shipped their gold to another country, but still...)
Several double-agents & spies were caught by living beyond their means, such as buying yachts etc. It was pretty obvious they had a second source of income, presumably from illicit activity.
It sounds like you're pretty new to this. Have you looked to see if there are any local angel investor groups in your area?

Investing through a syndicate gives you an opportunity to invest your money in a number of startups, and also to benefit from the additional scrutiny they will provide when assessing potential investments.

Not to mention using tried and tested teem sheets, agreements etc.
That's interesting, and appalling. I'll have to look into this more.

For the record, I went to a completely average high school in the Pacific Northwest. It was neither a rich nor poor district. There was no meaningful computer industry in the area. I have to admit that we did get a relatively awesome CS teacher when I was a sophomore, and without the freedom he granted us, I likely would not have gotten half as far as I did.
Brilliant! Can I ask how long this methodology took to implement?
Not to an outsider: Oh look... he's typing away at things for hours on end.

Our results may be cool, but the process certainly isn't; at least as far as other 'building' jobs look.
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Settlers of Catan has piles of luck compared to many other games that only get uncertainty from the chaos of a bunch of other players moves.

The die rolls, especially using the wooden dice that come with the game, are very likely to come out very biased and not very even for a given game, as well as the very rare powerful cards buried in a sea of knights in the dev card deck.

Luck is not bad. Luck is merely a thing you can put in a game or not, just like 'it is played on a field' or 'do you wager real money on the outcome'.

Games with too little luck make unskilled players unwilling to play them with skilled players (such as chess).

Does Catan have more luck than many other designer/german board games? More so than many ones originally published in Europe and a few of the US ones (Princes of Florence, Power Grid, Automobile, Chaos in the Old World all have far less luck), but many other games, especially "Classic" board games, have far more luck, such as Diplomacy (chaos based uncertainty is still something uncertain), Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

If you gasp at catan having lots of luck, think of this tidbit: When's the last time you have seen people who know how to play texas holdem play straight up 5-card draw with no wilds? Other than a brief interlude, probably not often: The game is too skill based. Whereas the much closer odds for texas holdem have MANY people willing to play a round, even drop 10k play against the pros in the WSOP.

If you're looking for more games in the vein of Catan, check out this list (some good wargames in there as well, read the description before buying):

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame
Interesting. Any concrete examples of how it can be useful in a real-world project?
Yes you are correct. I use fundamental or intrinsic value in the financial sense. That relies on summing the future income and then discounting it to the present value. As a $20 bill has no future income, it has significantly less value than $20 invested in even a government bond.
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In all seriousness, multimodal/HCI/UI/UX/AI/psych peeps will love this
I live in Chicago. I had no problem putting $5K down on a Model S. Its good enough for my needs. If I'm traveling more than 300 miles in a day, I'm renting a car or flying.
Clever of them to show a custom welcome message for Hacker News visitors. I love how it jumps you right into a demo app with no login or registration steps.

The functionality and usefulness of this service is fantastic, but I wonder how hard it would be for github itself to compete; they've shown that they can do simpler binary versioning and comparison with PNG/JPEG images, so all they'd have to do is add support for previewing PSD files as well. Whether that's a simple thing to support is not something I'm qualified to answer though :)