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I think the most notable aspect of the 1911 edition - and every edition before and since - is that each is still around, distinct and readable. I don't yet know whether people will be able to reference a '2011 edition' of Wikipedia in a hundred years time. I'm aware of various archival projects, but unless they receive continued support, we could very easily be at risk of losing vast checkpoints in the history of humankind. The written word on paper and stone has been proven to last hundreds of years in general and thousands in rarer cases. Magnetic and electronic storage is yet to prove itself in that respect.
Would this mean that if anyone wants to get out of their AT&T contract instead of paying ridiculous fees, they simply need to tether their phone?
If you think you're tired about hearing about Python 3 try sitting in my seat! I got asked "when's Django moving to Python 3?" about thirty times a day at PyCon, and I think the other core devs did, too. We realized that although we had a plan in mind we hadn't communicated it well. Hence the blog post.

Sorry to bore you. Back to your regularly scheduled hacking.
seems like the idea of platform for funding ideas (kickstarter) has proved itself as a valid idea.
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Hi pg et al.,

I'm not at a point where YC is feasible for me (so I won't be applying), but I think this is a great idea which could lead to some very unforeseen ignition of sweet stuff.

If it was feasible for me, I would apply.
But not as famous as Google.
I agree. If you don't have an idea, on what basis are they judging you? what is their filtering process? If you are in your early twenties, what exactly have you accomplished that would separate you from the herd? Nothing, except which schools you have attended. I'm guessing the main filtering process YC will do is to filter based on which schools you attended, so in that way, YC is basically adopting the recruiting process that investment banks do.

I wonder what % of those YC funds attended the Ivy League or other private u's vs. those who went to state schools?
'freshness' may be as good as Google, but unfortunately 'relevance' is still way, way worse...
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Hmm. I think I'll give it a try and replace my default search for a week or so and see how the results are. I imagine I go to Google more out of habit than quality. We shall see.
Or Google could make a deal with Facebook: If Google makes X without Facebook's data and X+Y with their data, they can offer Facebook Y/3.
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Thanks for the input, will have to research more to see if this already exists.
Indeed history is gradual, but the thing that shocks me about this is that in 3,000 years when our successors look back, is this the period they're going to think our society ended?

Is their society going to be digging through the buried remains of silicon valley and saying "their civilization seemed to disappear when they started mass producing these 3.5" and 2.5" boxes containing sheets of metal.

It seems far fetched, but when all our data is digital, how long before we have a "burning of the library of Alexandria" moment. Thankfully all the companies ripping wikipedia articles and serving them with adverts are actually helping avoid a moment like this. Multiple-redundancy is likely the only method to prevent huge amounts of information from being lost.
Meanwhile, he had been contracted by the Winklevoss twins to implement their idea, which he didn't do because why would he?

Well, let's be fair here - he did implement their idea, at least the important part of it, the bit without which Facebook probably would have been a flop (the early elite school exclusivity, which was a major selling point especially at the first few schools, since there was nothing else particularly special about the site itself).

He just decided to keep it for himself rather than hand it over when it was ready.
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Duplicate of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3701650
I find it just as good, actually.

There's always the point, though, that you can't be "just as good as" an entrenched player to win. You've got to change the entire nature of the playing field.

So long as MS doesn't do that, it's "lost" (for certain definitions of lost that include making hundreds of millions of dollars).
Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma" was motivated by DEC getting killed. He claims that DEC was a victim of a disruption: a new technology that offered something that didn't seem to be a threat, become successful in other markets and eventually improved enough that it was threat - then it was too late. There, the old technology was minicomputers; the new technology was workstations.

The new technology isn't perceived as a threat because it is not as good and will never be as good in the old market. It manages to survive in a different new market (because it really can't compete in the old pond). As it improves, it never catches up with the old technology - but it becomes good enough. That is, the old technology has also improved, and is definitely better - but the old market doesn't care for that extra improvement. You can see there are a few things that have to happen for disruption to occur.

One of the reasons for Google's 20% was to try to prevent this kind of thing, but it never worked out. Some business types redefine terms, so that "invention" is a new technology (make something), and "innovation" is a new business (people want). Google's made a lot of stuff, but most isn't wanted and didn't create a business. They aren't innovations. Closing down businesses that aren't making enough to move the needle is the classic mistake of disrupted businesses: Christensen suggests setting up separate, autonomous business units (even separate businesses; startups), with limited resources, that will get excited by small wins - because new disruptions start small. (YC is pretty much doing it right...)

However, right now, Google is fighting for its life. At the beginning, facebook didn't seem threatening - or at least not that threatening. Then again, I'm not sure that Google ever could win this fight; social is such a different kind of business. Perhaps the best that google could hope for is to settle back into owning search forever.

My only disappointment is that google didn't manage to transform its internal inventions into innovations. I'm not saying it's easy or that I could do better, it's just that unlike winning social, it seems possible... and who knows what new disruptions might have come from that?

As it is, Google seems closer to Xerox: one fantastic invention/business, invents the future, makes no money from it.
The real problem with G+ is that I forgot about it. Facebook nags you with emails every time something happens, but G+ just has a dropdown box that lets me approve friends or not from gmail, and I never see my "wall". If they made me go to the "wall" to approve friends, then I'd see what my few active G+ friends were posting and maybe post something back. I went months without seeing the wall, even though I have close friends who work at Google and post things I'd actually want to read.

Also, the "circles" thing and their change of terminology seems like it's being different for the sake of being different, or to avoid being sued by Facebook or something. Stick to the terminology people know.

G+ should have tried an "import Facebook" feature that takes all your pictures off Facebook and invites your friends to G+. This alone would help me not care about Facebook. I have a ton of pictures on Facebook that I'll never see again if I were to close my account. Facebook might try to block a feature like this, but it's sorely needed to make the transition.

G+ is also a bad name.
I've been using bing quite a lot recently as google is sporadically blocked in China. Coincidentally I was remarking to myself this morning how incredibly poor the results are compared to google

Time for duckduckgo
The moment you publicly compare yourself to the dominant player in your field, you have lost.
From what i understand paper catalogs are much more reliable to determine part compatibility. what other areas do you see that needs improvement ?
One thing I remember about Encarta back when the Pentium 75mHz was king, If you copied a passage of text and pasted it into MS word, it automatically generated a footnote entry. To this day I've never seen any other software do that. (Not saying there isn't any, I've just not seen it)
I'm curious where you get the "600V" number from -- is that 600 volts? According to the Wikipedia page you linked the system uses "+270kV and −350kV", which is in the range I would expect. Maybe you meant 620kV, the difference between +270kV and -350kV?
Thanks for taking the time to critique my submission! I was excited to be able to share the project with the community since I had not seen it mentioned here before. I look forward to learning more about Gephi and plan to use it to simplify analysis of website analytics.

I chose 'CDDL1/GPL3' as the most concise way to share the project's reasonable balance between 'free as in beer' and 'free as in freedom' with anyone who would already care enough to recognize the abbreviations. The recent license change is mentioned in the summary of the latest release on the front page and in the blog post: http://gephi.org/2011/gephi-0-8-beta-released/

I felt 'The Open Graph Viz Platform' could be easily confused with http://graphviz.org and 'makes graphs handy' wasn't enough info, so I used the next prominent short description on the front page ('Like Photoshop for graphs').

Would you mind sharing the title you would recommend?
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I've tried it numerous times, usually every time I read another report about it being as accurate as Google. I have never found that to be the case. I tried it again today and as usual, the results were much less than helpful (particularly when searching for computer problem solutions).
Thanks for the warning! I'm just getting started and hope to use it to help spot patterns in web analytics.
For a happier ending, try "Sex, Drugs, and Unix":

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Closures actually do work without that trick since many versions back. It's setting a nonlocal that still sucks.
"The company's Caffeine index spans 100 million gigabytes of data ... "

That's a painful number. I wonder what Facebook's image data store is up to these days.
I'm just getting started with Gephi and look forward to hearing the results of your investigation. My impression was that Gephi has much more polished versions of a couple types of graphs.
http://zoom.it/Lxrz This was a few months ago when I was playing with Gephi and decided to visualize the user interactions on the #startups IRC channel (graph layout in Gephi, rendered in Batik)
That is just two... Look at all the others who are from such backgrounds
Do you know of any other large hurdles preventing the adoption of Python 3?
Not on my screen, this one is currently number 2 in the new posts feed, and the other is number 17 and I can click into/access it without problems.

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Hi Jake, I noticed that too. Will fix that shortly. Thanks for reporting
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It's a talent acquisition.

Your idea is important too, but mainly as evidence that you can have good ideas.

That's an important talent. http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
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It’s pretty good, but I wish it was as pretty on the desktop as it is on mobile.
Same here -- it's brilliant, and not just for this but there are plenty of other possibilities extending this idea.
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I think the bottom line is that pg et. al have proven that they can fish out the best from the best and trying out new things is certainly part of their success.

From a personal side note, I wonder how that affects applications with ideas? I mean pg said, that its already what they are doing, but the two track application makes me wondering
No, I don't think so. I think the moment the dominant player starts comparing itself to you, like the way Office ran ads comparing itself to Google Docs they have a problem.

If you're not the dominant player, you want to make sure you can back your claims up though, because if customers try it once and they find the claim to be wrong, they'll never try it again.
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Maybe I'm doing something wrong but just based on submitting sitemaps to google and bing I'm going to have to disagree with this statement. Google has successfully indexed over 1.2 million pages that I've told it about. Bing fails every time trying to read the sitemap files (says they are empty?? the same ones google uses...) and has only indexed about 3,000 pages.

I'm going to just go out on a limb here and say this statement is false. They can't even index pages you tell it about.

(If you're curious my site is http://socialblade.com/youtube and the 1.2 million plus pages indexed are statistics on youtube channels)
I think this is a great idea! This will only increase the amount of applications YC will get, which is great for the investors but more competition for the people applying. I expect that the quality of startups next round will be even higher than usual.

I hope YC is fair in their judging. I'd hate for them to accept a non-idea applicant over a more capable team who applied with a mediocre idea, just for the sake of seeing if the non-idea experiment works out.

They're pros though, so I'm sure that whatever format they come up with will be fair for everyone who applies.
http://octopart.com/ has been successful in the electronic parts arena. Study writings about them to see if there are any things that would be insightful.
Thanks Paul. I didn't much about how the ycombinator program works, except for what's available at this link:http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html. I just wanted to know if there is a chance it would work at all with our full-time jobs.

More than the funding, what we are looking for is some guidance and networking with like-minded folks.

Thx, Sesh
I don't believe that it is.

I feel like search queries can be divided broadly into two categories: general and specific. General queries are things like "what is python" or "java tutorial". These are subjects that are well known and have a lot of relevant information on the web. Specific queries are queries things that you and maybe a few hundred people in the world have ever encountered. Think: really esoteric programming erors.

What I believe - and I don't have any hard facts to back it up past my own experience, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt - is that Bing excels in the first category but not the second.

The other day I was doing some schoolwork involving SSL, where I had to write a man in the middle proxy. I ran into this really bizarre error message: "valid not before not set." I had no idea what it meant, and since I was using a proxy SSL server for the assignment I ended up using bing to search for it - no results. Google has exactly 1 result for that phrase, but it's the one that you need to get back on track.

This happened often throughout the project. Bing gives pretty good results; I certainly don't wish to disparage the website. But whenever I started running into really esoteric or weird bugs, Google turned up the right page time and time again. Bing felt like it was taking a hazy guess at the right answer.

These are the specific queries, and this is where Google stays ahead. I've used Bing in the past for a month or two; I've also used duckduckgo. Both are very good. I certainly don't consider myself anything of a google fanboy, for that matter. But when it comes to specific queries, I still can't find a search engine that holds a candle to Google.
Why ditch the suits? I love wearing a suit. Why is our industry so adverse to celebrating the art of clothing and in turn the aesthetics of the human form?

Why is it OK to be wearing ill-fitting jeans and an oversized stained t-shirt from a tech conference? Is it thought that if someone is in to dressing well that they've taken time away from learning a new technology or focusing on their product?

Disclaimer: I dress in a somewhat dandyish manner.
My favorite part of the article: "Sometimes in the middle of a workout ... I can imagine nothing more painful than continuing. Sometimes my hands bleed from doing pull ups." A true hero, this guy.

I actually ended up taking his advice though. Since the article wasn't illuminating, insightful, enjoyable, or in any way worth my time, I renounced any obligation I felt to continue reading it.
Pro: Pretty cool, being able to close/hide stories I've read and don't want to see in the list anymore.

Con: I couldn't switch to browsing HN this way without a link to the comment thread for each post.
Well, it's not completely backwards compatible.
I'm sure more carbon is being used in cutting down the trees to turn into paper, and then shipping all of that paper to customers.
When I was in Grenoble, France (back in 1999!!), they had a system where on the Autoroute, and in key locations within the city, you would see signs that showed the available parking spots in the government-run garages.

This had two benefits: 1) you could tell if you were going to get a spot in/near centre-ville or wherever you were going. 2) you could tell if it was likely you would find any spots - if all the garages nearby were at/near capacity, you probably wouldn't find parking on the street either - be prepared to park further away and walk.

This was possible because of government control of parking and signs - the city itself (not to mention the residents) benefited from lowered gas usage, less congestion and less frustration. Thus it is economics/government as much as technology.
Uh. You are taking the opposite position on a random event. It's still a bet.

And we have already gone past "letting the at risk group decide for themselves." it's hard to be succinct and explain the many reasons why we dont use that particular system when it comes to medication.
It's a standard attorney-client relationship. The attorney acts as a representative for the client in legal matters. Just like an employee represents a company when they go to work.

What's the difference here? Righthaven tried to acquire some right to sue people for itself and they would pay royalties to the original copyright holder if they won. If Righthaven represented clients instead of becoming plaintiffs themselves, they might have had a workable business model.
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In the novel Lucifer's Hammer one of the main characters built his personal library around that sort of "whit if" scenario. Books like "Way Things Work" vol I and II. texts on primitive pharmacology, how to make insulin, etc. And he did use his stash of books (well hidden) to barter his way into joining a community that was trying to rebuild it's corner of the world.

So yeah, EB would be useful as well.
What's with the weird use of stock corporate photography in this article?
I would put the difference this way. I used to feel like Google was providing me cool, useful services. Now I feel like Google is trying to figure out ways to collect my data.

I think they will learn to their cost that trust doesn't grow back.
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Could you expand on that, or point to where I can read more on it?
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I'm a bit worried about cases like this. A cash injection of 20x the desired budget is just as likely to lead to poor financial controls or tax errors as it is to enhance the prospects of the business in question, with potentially serious administrative liabilities that could end up hurting customers or lead to overreaction from legislators. Perhaps there should be some cap on Kickstarter fundraising, like if you raise more than 3x your initial goal, the rest goes into an escrow account or something until you begin to ship product.
Q: How do you know someone knows the "How do you know someone doesn't own a car/tv etc." joke?

A: They tell you.

Including me!
Well, Apple ran those annoying Mac vs PC ads. And while the ads themselves may or may not have worked well, Apple has not lost in the personal computer field. (Well, depending on how you define "lost" I guess. But I think they haven't lost by most definitions.)
This is correct, although there wasn't any code to be written, at least not in that phase of the business.
Hope that when the "smart grid" or whatever you want to call it does come around, it comes with the electricity equivalent of net neutrality.

The post I was responding to was specifically calling for it to be government controlled.
Did a quick search, 3 drugs were removed and of them 1 had abused rumors in rat trials, the other increased risk for heart attacks and the final was qnexa.
Tht was in 2010.

From what it looks like the FDA is going to renew qnexa by April 2012.
> I got asked "when's Django moving to Python 3?" about thirty times a day at PyCon, and I think the other core devs did, too.

Get custom T-shirts printed? ;)
uh, no, lawyers bill their clients by the hour, they are not salaried.
Do you own winsupersite.com or something?
Going through a gruelling workout and feeling happy afterwards is okay, but going through a gruelling TV series and feeling happy afterwards isn't? This guy is moving the goalposts.
Using that infrastructure has incremental costs. Plus, building it to accomodate data replication in addition to other things costs more than just building it to accommodate those other things.
To what purpose?
> corporate sales job making $600K per year

This job does not exist.
I doubt they were as altruistic as you describe. They probably viewed it as a good business investment. When you consider the elevated prices they pushed these books out at, and the fact that their online website is festered with ads, it's pretty clear that this is a firm that is primarily interested in the bottom line.
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