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I added some of my thoughts on how to make crowdfunding work as a method of generating a seed round for a new start-up. Curious to see what others think...
Many possess, at various times, the potential for brilliance in our ideas, connections, and intent. But how many will follow through?
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There is a fundamental difference between a scientific study and data-mining.

Science is based on probability theory. Until we discover the "grand theory of everything", out other theories will be only approximate, and out experimental results not 100% predictable. Therefore, scientists consider a prediction as correct if the chance of predicting something at random is less than some probability, usually 10%, 5% or 1%.

However, for this to work, each study must be based on new data. If you use the same data to check e.g. 10 predictions, each of which has 10% chance of happening even if incorrect, you will in average confirm 1 of your predictions, even if all are incorrect!
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Ask HN: Did anyone else get their Peek?
I got email about three weeks ago saying "your peek is shipping in the next 2 days". Nothing has arrived and there is no activity on the shipping label.

I was fortunate enough to get on the list for one, I'm curious what happened. Has anyone received one?
It's common to use double letters (ii, jj, kk) as inner indices when writing tiled multi-dimensional array code. Regardless of whether you think that is a good convention, you should be preserving that convention if you are editing legacy code that was written that way.
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Is that an insult? I'm not sure what you mean.
Post it to TechCrunch comments or something
Andreas. I posted a response to your post on my blog. http://aentan.com/design/pinterest-rip-off/

I was in fact one of the early adopters of the fluid grid layout after being deeply inspired by Grid-a-licious. I got really upset when I saw you being accused by Mashable.
Weak and winning is "underdog", weak and losing is "loser".
IMHO, this is exactly what the issue is. When my market app upgraded to play, there was no indication that the actual name of the app was changing also. I'm running MIUI with the ADW Launcher and the upgrade also didn't remove the market app icon on the desktop.

When I tapped the Market icon to launch the market, nothing happened and after the first tap, the icon disappeared. Thinking WTF? I checked all apps and it was nowhere to be found. Having had this issue before with different launchers where an icon will exist on one launcher but not another, I switched to Go and the Market icon wasn't there either.

I hopped online to download an apk for Market when I stumbled onto something that indicated it might be "Play" now instead. Sure enough, the icon was there all the time, it's just now called "Play".

Not a very user friendly upgrade/name change of the Market app if you ask me.
For big ideas that others clearly understand to be problems and of which investors are afraid to get in on there always is... crowdfunding! I wrote about the pros and cons of raising money through crowdfunding to pay for your startup here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687835
Seeing as how you're on HN you may have heard of 37Signals, Fog Creek, and Atlassian. All sell products which are domain-specific improvements for email. They collectively have, conservatively, X00,000 paying users. These are small companies in this problem space - IBM has at least 48 options for I-can't-believe-it's-not-email at every price point between $200k and $200 million. Ditto Microsoft and a dozen other big software companies.

"The web" includes a bunch of stingy twenty something's on the consumer Internet, but it also includes the producer Internet, and the producer Internet is one giant system for turning piles of money into bigger piles of money. Something which makes that happen is cheap at any price.
I checked my last three months and March 7th was the largest drop I've had, but my numbers as of today are rebounding.
I agree with one of the comments. I should be available on all countries first before they do this.
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stop fucking post like this, fuck your 30min, do you belive that software development is consist of only blogs and fucking web sites, NO! stop this. fuck Django, ruby and python.
Could China easily down US military's air-refueling logistics in cyberwar?
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Pinterest layout is certainly not something that was just invented. Not sure why it's being attributed to them so much. Only because they are the most prominent example of it. I wrote a piece on raising money for web projects through crowdfunding in order to compete with the big guys and to validate ideas: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687835
gnuvince may be referring to C++'s lack of automatic bounds checking, which can contribute to exploits via buffer overflows. (But I am neither a security researcher nor a particularly competent C++ programmer, so I may just be completely off-base!)
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Worse: that bit came right after "I can look after your kids".

Stop and deconstruct the world the narrative is implicitly painting. The android is going to be sold to a human -- presumably male -- master who has children (check) and may also expect to be buying a sex slave (this is her recital of her canned default brochure).

There is something creepy and unhealthy about the gender roles/relationships implied in the world in the background. Hint: sex slavery of sentient entities is just the tip of the iceberg: we're also possibly looking at a rollback of gender roles/expectations to the pre-1860 Deep South.
You forgot image 8 of 8, which is an ad.
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one more reason to use flash-block.
maybe chrome should play flash only after confirmation by default.
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Guys, please do something which will replace Word and Excel. These tools were good in the '80 and '90.

One of the main reasons I do not like to work for corporations is Word doc attachments hell.
Is the problem in universe; are people talking about what it'd be like living in that world?

Or is the problem with careless writing? With weird sub-conscious ideas that writers have?
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Fundamentally, robots can be made out of less stuff than us, by virtue of being a mostly-empty lattice material at all levels, and won't need recycling as repairs happen on smaller scales until the repaired item is as close to new as you want.
Even criminals have an interesting backstory, and if you look deeper into it, you might feel some empathy and understanding for why certain people act a certain way. There rarely are people who just kill because they are sinister and purely evil.
This leads always to the question - "bad guy" by what standards?

Something that most Western countries might judge as "bad" can be totally fine with the local natives. For example most Western European countries would probably agree on that death sentences are wrong, still death penalties have the support of over 60% of the US population. So deciding who is good and bad in tribal conflicts is becoming incredibly difficult, especially taking into consideration all the distortions of media and politics.
Whether you find "they" as a third person singular pronoun objectionable, it's not "new"--it goes back to at least Shakespeare (through Austen).
I wanted to watch a Garageband video (which is, in my opinion, the "killer app" of the iPad. It is the one thing Android tablets have or could even have until some future version eliminates the horrific audio latency), only it demanded that I have Quicktime. I have no interest in installing Quicktime.
Killer app for email is idiot-proof cryptographic signatures and cryptography.

It's baffling to me that a squiggle on a bit of paper is more trustworthy than a properly implemented cryptographic signature.
I was involved with the state government and scientific response to the GOM oil spill, and I can say it was disturbingly disappointing to see the degree of subjectivity and bias in all aspects of estimates. Every academic had a model, every government official had a political agenda, and every lawyer had a client. A reasonable estimate of the amount of oil spilled will never be known publicly. But, I hear stories from GOM fishermen that massive oil globs are still out there.
It's worse than that list. Millions of people have lost their children, parents, sisters, brothers and all other manners of loved ones.
This is highly dependent on the locale. Some places have outsourced prisons, usually with poor results. Most have not.
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It looks like this is an oversimplification. The graphics and text are doing stuff independently of each other -- this illustrates that the graphics and text are moving together, and they're not.

I would be curious to see how that -- the graphics and text moving independently -- really works.
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> Why is it that they think a single customer would be happy with 33% of a fee

Because most other providers would have refunded the customer 16 / (24*28) = 1 / 42 = 2.4% of the bill.

Microsoft paid out 10x that amount.

The type of an SLA that you are talking about (that pays out to cover all loss of business) does not exist anywhere, and if it did, it would cost you more than $10-$100/month hosting account that you'd normally buy.
It's been constant for me, absolutely no weird change. about 5% drop on the 7th, with a 10% increase on the 8th, but that's a completely normal variation.
Thanks codenerdz. I missed your reply. I guess, the purpose of the trip is to validate that this is something I am going to make happen. I had wanted to do some networking, but the few connections I'd come up with fell through the last second. Eh, c'est la vie.
Spoilers:

~ IE 9 users don't get a broken box that says "upgrade to Safari to see the animation".

~ They get an animation that's supported in IE 9.

~ When they get IE 10 they will probably see the slightly cooler one that Firefox/Chrome/Safari can see because they support it today.
Thursday and Friday were about 10% lower than normal, but I've seen variations like this often.
You don't really want to bring your RAM usage down. Unused RAM is a performance hit. Sure, some applications are hogs and that can result in a performance hit for background processes and task switching, but high RAM utilization is GOOD for performance, not bad.
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Yeah, that was the gist of it.

Not that you could wage a full-scale war with deceived pilots never finding out. But that you could quite likely staff an operation that would otherwise be illegal/unconscionable, with soldiers who wouldn't even realize they were party to it.
Beez as a twitter app, Bank of America app, Spotify, Facebook's app, all have a real sense of the Metro UI but look different from each other. Foodspotting is another good example as well. I think when the complaint is that all apps look the same it is due to those apps that use the styling of the people hub. Black background, with just text everywhere.
Around 40% less downloads, seems like something is wrong.
I'd be interested to know how they solve the babysitting problem. I know there is no way in the world I would ever allow a random person set up from a company into my house and then leave them alone with my children. That is a level of trust far beyond what I would have of any company. Now... if they opened a "daycare" agency with a physical local you can take your kids to, that might be a possibility.
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It's probably worth mentioning how Steve Jobs was introduced to (what became) Pixar:

http://engineering.stanford.edu/profile/alvy-ray-smith-ms-19...

> One of my champions at Xerox PARC was Alan Kay. So I knew Alan Kay, who was by this time a fellow at Apple. And Steve Jobs had expressed some interest in computer graphics, so Alan Kay said let me introduce you to the guys who do it best. So Alan Kay brought Steve up to spend an afternoon with us at Lucasfilm. That’s when we first got to know each other. I had actually had one earlier conversation with Steve at some design conference on the Stanford campus one summer, but that was just a first meeting sort of thing. The first serious meeting with business possibilities was that one at Lucasfilm with Alan Kay.

> Shortly after that, Steve and Apple broke up. And meanwhile, Lucasfilm was trying to sell us. Steve ended up buying us from Lucasfilm for $5 million.

So not only was Jobs alerted to Pixar by an existing contact, in buying it he was to a large extent reusing the business model that had already worked with the Macintosh: take PARC goodies and commercialise them, hiring some of the PARC guys themselves.
I like this article, but am I the only one for whom gmail is still seemingly as fast as ever? I don't doubt that it is painfully slow for PG, would be interesting to see the distribution of performance and what impacts it.
Law enforcement does have a choice, because their resources are finite. The cynic in me would say that, when choosing between having to deal with dangerous criminals or raiding a bunch of white-collar nerds, it's easy to see which one is the most appealing. Servers don't shoot back.
That seems to be incredibly well-detailed, much more than Amazon's or others' responses to their outages so far.
Have you seen IMDb's 404 page?
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1986-1995 is a bit closer, I think; from 1979-1986 they were in effect an R&D division of Lucasfilm, and it wasn't their job to even think about making films. They were supposed to develop new tech and do special-effects in films, which they did do for quite a few prominent films.
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Reality is self-limiting.

There are no exponentials, only sigmoid curves.

Unfortunately there is a lot of money to be made convincing people that an early stage sigmoid is actually an exponential.
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Actually, I was saying lifestyle companies make more people rich, not people more rich. Depends on your definition of rich, of course. :)

Not sure why you thought I might have changed my mind based on the above. Misreading perhaps? I wasn't PERSONALLY expressing any of the sentiments in my comment above. I was echoing what I see & hear from people who do care about acquisitions.

My position is, and has been for years, that the VC game is way more of a game of chance than a game of skill. (Unless you think it's a skill to have friends who can bail out your failing startup with an acquisition. It might be. But it's sure not the skill everybody promotes.) A game that, in a lot of ways, reduces your potential for self-determination. That's why I'm such a tireless promoter of bacon busines (http://baconbiz.com).
What moved from A to B was coal, ore, wheat, manufactures, but mostly by rivers. You can see this on a good map of northeast U.S. -- ask yourself why Pennsylvania is essentially rural in its center, with large cities at both ends, or why New York State is essentially rural 50 miles from the Hudson. Inland water transport was so important that the major capital projects of the early 19th century were canals.

The initial advantage of railroads over barges wasn't reach but speed. By moving goods faster, merchants were able to sell and receive payment faster, no small thing when credit was scarce, uncertain and expensive. I expect the initial rail lines served the same markets as the canals (that's where the business was), then began to extend their reach with spur lines.

There was probably some rail demand creation as the roads extended into the West -- farmland near a railroad was no different than that 20 miles away in anything but railroad proximity. But that was later, after the technology's dynamics were well understood and the players well capitalized.
It's also fairly easy to, even unwittingly, begin tuning some of your procedures to the data set (i.e. overfitting), even if you're employing the usual precautions, like cross-validation. As an extreme example, if we had one gigantic fixed data set and gave researchers 10 years to work on it, by the end of that 10 years there would be entire techniques at least partially specialized to that specific dataset, with poor generalization outside of it.
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Because it makes the Apple stuff look better, particularly in comparison to the latest of the Microsoft browser products?
I've heard it described as the post-employment era. Scary consequences if you let your imagination run with the possibilities.

Some interesting reading:

http://www.wfs.org/content/postemployment-economy

http://www.impactlab.net/2011/10/11/post-employment-era-huma...
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Firefox 3.6 is dead. People should stop supporting it. Market share is around 3% and it officially becomes unsupported in April. If you don't like the new Firefox use a different browser.
</rant>

Sorry about that, but people can either support legacy browsers or add new features, and too much time has already been wasted.
had a little drop with one of my apps, starting march 5th, but seems to be recovering now (down from ~40 to 30 installs per day).
Ah yes, I didn't see that small fellow :)
We're surely working all the time to make search "more sophisticated"; many special case queries are already smart (from "2+2" to geo, stocks etc., you don't need to go to special sites like calculator, maps and finance). And we surely have plans to go way beyond, but generally, this is Hard Stuff(TM). For things like journal articles, the information is often behind paywalls like ACM, and even when it's not, specialized engins like citeseer are hard to beat because the info has very special organization needs like collecting and measuring citations. On your most advanced requirements, I think only an Asimov's positronic robot would be that smart ;) unless there's a specific effort to curate this data... which requires tons of human labor, so ads served to the very small amount of people who needs this service will not make it viable. It's the same problem we have with patents (see http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/opinion-the-...).
Agreed, particularly on my MacBook Air where ~1GB is reserved for the shared video memory. I have to close Firefox or Chrome if I want to do any development work (our research compiler is a bit of a memory hog) without having a process get swapped out.

I would offer ridiculous gobs of money to upgrade to even 6GB.
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It doesn't seem like having a picture of a noose in an ad attacking a politician is a good idea.
Who knows what robots will be made of far out in the future, and remember that humans have to be fed for at least a decade before they can do much of anything. Also, earth isn't losing any material as far as I know but I admittedly know very little about physics and chemistry. Can metals degrade into a lower kind of unrecoverable state like energy can?
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Your comment is a bizarre and rambling non-sequitur. What on earth gave you the idea that winning the desktop battle is Linus' measure of success or leadership? Why does Apple breaking binary compatibility imply that there is no cost in doing so? How can you say Apple is only targeting elite segments when you look at products like the iPad that are selling in incredible numbers and causing low-end market leaders like HP to drop out of the market?

It seems like you have some bone to pick with Linus, because there isn't any real criticism here. Binary compatibility is a very nice feature for Linux users, you haven't written a word about why that is not so.
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Not all possible AI designs are based on reinforcement learning or reward channels. You can code the AI with a formally specified goal instead. For example, "is there a proof of the Riemann hypothesis in ZFC shorter than a million symbols?" If such a goal requires converting the solar system into computronium, then the AI will do that. It won't settle for wireheading because wireheading doesn't give an answer to the formal problem.

To everyone who thinks intelligence might be limited in principle: there's no reason to think humans are anywhere close to the upper limit. In fact there's ample reason to think that humans are at the lowest threshold of intelligence that makes a technological civilization possible, because if we'd reached that threshold earlier in our evolution, we'd have created civilization then instead of now. There's probably plenty of room above us.
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The problem with emails is not the spam or the sorting, it's that they're not actionable. Tasks in a to-do list are almost directly actionable, and that's what most emails aim for.
E-mail isn't perfect, however as a transport system is is not meant to solve the problem you described in "Replace e-mail".

If someone wants to have a meeting with me, they might send me an .ics attachment[1] that will work with almost ANY software that I have my computer. Since most meetings are in fact in-person and something that we have been doing as a civilization for some time, the semantics are well defined and easy to model.

A task list will always be harder to model, but not impossible and there is certainly a lot of ideas on the topic. As long as it is an open standard this sounds great, but I wouldn't like to see my tasks locked into either a proprietary format or the cloud[2].

If you are going to replace something that is standards based, it should be with a new standard of some sort. Not code, that's an implementation detail, but standard.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

2. I'm too old for this shit, and not everyone lives in the cloud.
Anyone got any technical details about this? Judging from the "trap backfired" link posted elsewhere in the comments, somehow Chrome can ensure the specific flash crash ends up accessing invalid memory at 0xABAD1DEA... but how?