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Very nice. But the concept is not new. Don't you remember Kad/Kademlia network which was introduced together with eDonkey/eMule and invented back in 2002?

It didn't get any traction then but it was completely decentralized (based on distributed hash tables).
Extrovery & Introverts compliment each other extremely well. Imagine if Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak where both introverts.... or if they were both extroverts. That tandem would have never played out as well.
On the issue of trust. You are asking people to give the site their personal information, but you have no privacy policy -- a big no-no. And, given your statement above, anyone could join a group and then collect the information of the other participants -- another no-no. Technically, in the US, there is nothing illegal about that but you really should at least disclose that to users before they sign up.

Briefly, best practices would suggest you let anyone signing up know exactly how you intend on storing, sharing and using the information they provide. You should also get explicit consent to do so when they sign up.

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This should be old hat at this point. Flash is done on mobile. (Had it ever begun?)
So he doesn't know how to configure nginx, or the db. So what? It's already running. Database skills are fairly important (since they are your bottleneck), and it's important to have some internet knowledge (to prevent security breaches), but if a startup is hiring it should already have the stack in place. The big advantage of a "starup generalist" is they have probably played with a few different stacks, and know which one to pick, but it's too late for that.

And big company people know all the stupid mistakes that big companies do, and can help warn you about them as you grow.
From my perspective, after reading the above conversation, FourSquare provided a good level of support, and you were a rude and unnecessarily confrontational user.
Note, that you can change the language using the little link titled "en" in the upper right corner.
Replace Flash with IE6 and I think you'll get a clearer understanding of where people are coming from.
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A few months ago, we put together http://www.privacyparrot.com which uses machine learning to try to classify what's in a privacy policy. (right now just trying to determine if a site sells your data or not). I am unfortunately confident that there isn't a viable business model in selling people online privacy for free services.
Advertising. Some services are hit-and-miss (Facebook Ads, Google Adsense...), and you may have to play around to see if you can get any sort of reasonable return. Unfortunately, depending on your market, ad spending at a small scale may just be a waste of time.

Spend some time talking to your target market. Based on that audience, you may be able to come up with a more creative (and less expensive) way to get users in the door. It's a slow, steady trudge until you get traction.
Let's imagine he worked, instead, on the SMB stack, Office and Hotmail. Or DAV integration into Explorer, SQL Server and Dynamics.

I can come up with many 3-sets of Microsoft products roughly in the same areas as Calbucci did.

OTOH, once about every 6 months or so someone from Microsoft recruiting calls me. At first, I told them right away I'm not interested (I had enough contact with MS in the late 90's). Now I just let them go on. It usually takes them a couple weeks to google my name and conclude I wouldn't be a good fit.
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Agreed as well. I often make use of Flash on both my tablet and my Nexus One. The times I notice it most is when I'm using the new Firefox Mobile and I have to copy the URL and paste it into the stock browser to get to flash content. That tedious process makes me realize I do it a lot more than I expected I would. I am very very disappointed by this decision.
But won't the engines have to be identical? Won't Chrome have to use the exact same engine/version as Mobile Safari? Chrome for Android actually uses a newer version of Webkit than Mobile Safari, according to Anandtech, and it has a higher HTML5 score.

And what about V8 and all the other features? Or they only have to use the same rendering engine?
The distribution fragmentation, then the DE fragmentation, then the Gnome fragmentation. As a user, I applaude diversity. As a developer, I wonder... what's next ?
iOS could prompt the user for permission when the contact list is accessed, with temporarily/permanently allow/deny options. If the user says yes, the app gets access, if the user says no, the app gets "spoofed" access, to an empty contact list.
The usual, I guess. Search engine marketing, affiliate programs, advertising in general.
I have my PATH updated based on the current directory, but this is just... ugh.

$ cat m/example.com/fishy
cat: m/example.com/fishy: No such file or directory
$ cd m/example.com
$ cat fishy
I'm a fishy fish.

This chain of commands offends my sensibilities.
Most affiliate programs I know reward actual purchases, not clicks, and share only a small fraction of profits. I don't see how 100k people ordering a book could ever be a bad thing for Amazon.
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I'm confused. Doesn't a writable DVD work on the same principle of using a laser to heat small portions of a spinning disc? Why should this methods be so many orders of magnitude faster than writing to a DVD?
To be honest, after I had used iPhone for a while I preferred the flash-less web so much that I also disabled the plugin on my computer. I haven't really missed it at all, and the web experience has been much better for me.
indeed, this was my first reaction as well...seems like a bit of marketing gimmick to toss the word "hacker" into the title.
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While uglier === is much more specific and enforces types... Which seems germane here.
> and they are accepted by the Webkit project

No, Apple doesn't implement every feature that is pushed to WebKit, they maintain their own fork like everyone else.
My argument isn't 'Flash is great'.

It's 'Flash works and I see no need to break a bunch of websites when the replacements are not yet up to the task'
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that/which is probably there to highlight the dubious restrictive vs non-restrictive "rule": http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/t.html#that
Kind of hard to believe, given that iOS was and still is the only mobile OS with a browser that does not suck. Even Android has only been catching up. iOS and Android have been an unambiguous blessing for the open web on mobile devices.

I don't even understand what you want Apple to do. Not allow third party developers to make native apps for iOS? Apple did that and nobody liked it. I can't imagine that you think this is a realistic solution.
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Same interesting article as previously submitted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559527

(from the Wired Science wired.com domain, hence no trip of HN's duplicate detector).
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> see my other comment in this thread about the business case.

OK, I read it and I think you've a point.

> Without a business case, any exciting project would eventually disappear.

I don't understand what you're arguing here. What is the `business case' for GNU Emacs?
Yes, you're wrong. We don't get a subsidy or any other special treatment from Broadcom; they are helping us in allowing us to purchase chips in much smaller numbers than they'd usually consider, though. They're also very happy for their engineers to volunteer on the project (we have four or five who chip in) - outside work hours.
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I agree too (though I can't remember the last time I myself had to use Flash on my phone); but it doesn't feel like an entirely unreasonable argument for not supporting Flash.
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Isn't the current stock browser open source, while Chrome is only mostly open source? Does this mean that open source ROMs like Cyanogen won't be able to distribute with a browser?
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The battery argument is just silly. Playing HD movies on a phone will suck battery faster but we don't remove the user's ability to do that.

As for the others, I use Flash frequently on my phone and none of them have occurred for me in the last year or so. I have Flash set to load on demand. It's not about Flash being the future (it's not), or even continued development in it. It's about access to existing content here and now and for some users that is a continued need.

Edit: One quick edit since HN doesn't seem to want to let me reply to the below. I think the crux of it is that it removes the option to access content... key word option. If it's not the default, etc, that's fine... but you're placing the disadvantages of Flash over my ability to get to content I feel is important. The "no Flash for you" argument hinges on saying "our opinion that Flash is bad is more important than your opinion that you want to see the content you desire, even if it's not available in other formats". And for the users like myself that like to retain that option, we feel very strongly the other way.
Flash is a proprietary standard with one major implementation, HTML 5 is an open standard supported by multiple vendors.

Accessibility (i.e. for the blind) used to be an issue, but Wikipedia claims that has mostly been fixed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML5_and_Flash#A...
Node.js only has a single thread for the event loop. (where the user's javascript is run) Internally it uses a thread pool.

You could certainly do what you describe and it would be very similar to node's Cluster module, which uses multiple processes. In fact, I believe in the next release they're giving you the option to replace processes with threads under the hood.
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That would be useful, except that there's not a single comment on the link you posted. Also, it looks like you submitted it. I'm not trying to imply anything here, but nonetheless, it seems like you have a stake in pointing out this is a duplicate in that you made the previous submission.

I would really like to see these kinds of comments stop. They don't further discussion and coming from the people who champion better discussion, it seems like an odd pattern of behavior.

So in the spirit of seeing this change, I'd like to say that these photographs are absolutely phenomenal. I'm currently using them as my background. Given their extremely high resolution I can imagine there being a number of creative uses for them as well. For instance, it would be really interesting to experiment with printing these out on large posters.
"But look at it from the startup founder's perspective. He's in a race and he can't really afford to take on someone who can "get in shape" after joining the team. He really needs someone who can start running right now."

Yes, the emphasis is on right now. That leads to the question: is it better to have someone like Pete now, even though he needs to learn a few things as he goes, or leave a hole in your company for 3, 6, 9 months until your perfect fit comes along?
Kademlia did get traction; it is the protocol for BitTorrent's use of magnet links, trackerless torrents and other features.

It was not designed to act as a gossip-like overlay network for indexing content (similar to eDonkey/eMule), it was designed to act as an overlay network for identifying metadata of known keys stored in DHT.

The BitTorrent checklist is as follows:

1. [X] peer to peer file transfer

2. [X] Kademlia/magnet links for decentralized metadata

3. [X] Kademlia/peer exchange for decentralized tracking

4. [X] Gossip protocol for indexing magnet links

5. [X] integrated data proxying for anonymity/plausible deniability

Tribler solved step 4, OneSwarm and some others are trying to solve step 5.

We're indeed on the cusp of an impenetrable file sharing network.
There will always be native code in one form or another. It used to be Windows applications now it is iOS apps. The web will coexist and thrive in parallell to this.
Sure this is a temporary inconvenience, but you're just feeling the growing pains of the web leaving behind flash (yes everywhere, not just mobile) which simplifies the space and long-term is a good thing for developers and consumers of web content.
Flash does not use any battery power at all, except when you choose to use a flash based application.

The stock Android browser has the option to load plugins on demand. That is: no flash application is loaded within the browser until you click on the application to enable it. The same is true for memory usage or bugs.

I don't think there are any advantages a browser without flash has over one that supports it.
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"I just learned language X, look at how I can fail to implement lisp in more lines of X than the original mccarthy code took to actually implement lisp" really just isn't relevant here.

I'm glad you're learning python. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm glad you managed to write something that you think is within spitting distance of lisp with it.

But there's no need to post it to HN. Wait until you've done something actually interesting.
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"With Nginx, it is possible to handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users per hardware server."

I like Nginx, its a great web server, but really?
To be honest, I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with monetizing links. Not to pidgeonhole this comment but I'd say its a damn sight better (not that I disagree with it either) than monetizing YOU as a person (read: Facebook).

If you walk into my home, its my domain, I can have whichever carpet, pictures or the worst potpourri I can find. If you don't like it, dont come back.

In the same breath, if your on a site who decide at their will, without notification, that they want to rewrite product links to be affiliate links then I don't see why that is a problem - you are in THEIR domain. Providing it is clearly labelled in their TOS/Privacy Policy (of course). Its their prerogative, they dont exist solely with the purpose of facilitating your leisure/browsing hours, they are there to make money and unfortunately for the haters, Affiliate's are a fantastic way to make money.

I could understand if by some black magic they managed to then follow you around, rewriting links on other sites (I know this isn't possible) then people would have a reason to be miffed, I just see this as them monetizing their asset in a smart, non-obtrusive way.

Best of luck to both biz's.
Well, if you claim that it's such a horrible thing you should at least try to explain why. Personally, I wouldn't mind if Amazon links from HN had an affiliate code attached.
If you haven't been spending time thinking about marketing and getting users as part of the process of building your product, then you've already lost.

The people who care about what you've built and are going to evangelize it for you aren't your friends and family or the people who see you on an ad platform, it's the people who's problem you're solving. If you already know who they are, and if they think you're as valuable as you think you are, then add incentives to their sharing with their friends. that's why gamification is the new big thing these days...

if you haven't found your customers, and i mean real people with names, not just the demographic or psychographic that is in your business plan. If you've found 2-3 people, then get them to use your product. then get feedback so you can make their lives even easier. as part of that feedback, give them the option of inviting others into the circle.

you can also go the easy route and get in touch with a mashable or TC writer. Even a small blurb will get you a bunch of random signups, 80% of whom will unsubscribe from your list and forget about you 5 minutes after they sign up.
Does this make it safe to assume that neither of the commenters here run marathons?
Thanks luke_s.

However, after reading your comment I still don't know what to do about it. As far as applications I'm familiar with... well, they are typically to other areas of math, as Slowpoke was complaining about.

Since you mentioned Fourier series, please imagine that I am about to teach an undergraduate course in the subject, and I want to follow your advice. However, I don't know jack shit about EE or any other practical application of Fourier series. What would you do in my shoes?
Yes, its important to note here that touch-typing as well as all the talk around VIM and Co. is less about efficiency and more about reducing the cognitive load per step/instruction.
Safari and Chrome are both based on Webkit. SVN here: http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html

Apple's original plan was that third-party stuff would be in web app form. They took tons of flak from the developer community over that, so no, they didn't "push everyone to apps".
Kind of hard to believe, given that iOS was and still is the only mobile OS with a browser that does not suck.

Yeah, I see John Gruber likes to say that.

It is, so to speak, horse shit. I apologize for the language but it's all that satisfactorily delivers my opinion on that. Have you ever actually used the Android browser?
Linkbait title. I went in expecting to hear something about nginx developing a business model, but it's just a generic article explaining what nginx does, and why it's good.
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I still don't understand. Typing takes a definitive amount of time. Touch typing can cut that time significantly. I do agree with that. However, claiming that typing slowly makes you lose your flow appears a bit far fetched to me.
My assumption is that it won't be a huge problem, since Chrome is available in the Android Market. Note that Maps, YouTube, GMail, etc. are already closed source, c.f. http://source.android.com/faqs.html#how-can-i-get-access-to-...
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Funny you should mention it. While we're talking anecdotes, youtube's flash player is more likely to crash my browser than the html one.
"Flash allow you to create any kind of interface and experience you want."

Exactly, and that's the problem. It means that it behaves the way the author wants it to, ignoring the users preferences. That is poor usability. I have lots of small annoyances with Flash, take for example the inability to auto-scroll across it (at least in Firefox on OS X). This would not be the case with normal content.
What exactly does this do? I've read the overview and introduction and can't figure it out...
Inconvenient reality alert:

I can promise you that many companies in the wild actively violate their own TOS, knowingly or unknowingly. I can promise you that you will never find out about all of those cases, even after there's a data breach.
Maybe feeding the troll, but in case you were serious...

My point was that the author is forced to use some arbitrary standard like "publicly traded" since such a proposal is inherently unworkable for illiquid investments. But in doing so, the author creates an obvious problem: if "publicly traded" is the litmus test for this new mark-to-market tax, then investors will move investments into non-public vehicles to avoid paying the tax.

As to your second point, the amount of publicly traded float is not zero sum: companies regularly go public and take themselves private to achieve financial, governance, and other objectives. So it is not the case that anyone necessarily would be paying the mark-to-market tax on shares of a currently publicly traded company, any more than it is the case that having an X% corporate tax rate means US companies pay X% of profits in tax to the US government.

If this proposal were enacted, future-incredibly-valuable company F woud avoid becoming a publicly traded company entirely. Facebook, which the author cites because it's headline-grabbing, harms rather than helps his case: they've intentionally avoided going public until now, and could into the arbitrary future if it were especially onerous for the founders/investors for the company to do so. The rational expectation of Facebook principals right now is that the benefits of going public (at least for the founders and investors) outweigh the negatives, because there is a massive liquidity and valuation improvement from doing so.

But under the author's proposal, that cost/benefit analysis would change, and companies would simply stay private and achieve liquidity for founders and investors via other mechanisms. Over time, these mechanisms would evolve into processes that were as close to indistinguishable from public company registration as possible without actually triggering the language of the market-to-market tax law. SEC rules about selling shares to non-qualified investors would still hold, obviously, but I'm sure with so much potential tax to be saved, investors would find ways to legally aggregate non-qualified investors into qualified vehicles to get around this. Or just live with qualified investors, and no others, owning their companies.
Safari and Chrome are both based on Webkit.

And webkit derived from KHTML (loosely), the project coming to public attention as Apple came under criticism for taking but not giving.

Apple's original plan

And Google's original plan was don't be evil. I would never -- even if I ever got some screwed up idea that I need to defend a corporation online -- reference that to defend their honour.
I haven't read a whole lot on this - could you clarify on the ripping off of IP?

edit: I should have read the whole comment thread first - nevermind.
Also wondering about WP7. Right now it's clearly a non-starter, but there do seem to be plans afoot for a native SDK. Assuming that happens at some point, would an alternative browser be possible?
If a company seriously uses such tests to select hires, you're probably better off not working for them. Personality and "cultural fit" are important aspects (for some jobs more than others), but a much better way to assess those is to spend an hour talking to the potential employee; not through some standardized test.

I've also heard that some companies still use graphology in their screening process (though this may be just an urban myth).
Ok...I took the bait! This might be true! I run Linux therefore most configuration is done with a text editor. I suppose if you are not a developer and don't run *nix you might not see the importance of effeciency while text editing.

I guess there are many worse things to be obsessed with :-)
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