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After watching the success of Double Fine Adventure and the Lois CK video. Do you guys think it's reasonable to assume that in the future, big hollywood blockbusters would be funded this way?

A common argument from copyright supporters is that it wouldn't be possible to fund such movies without heavy copyright enforcement. But after watching the recent success of Kickstarter and Lois CK. I feel it's getting easier to convince artists that a better world is possible.
A periodic topic that has come up on HN in the past few weeks is how people can make money in a non-copyright world. A common example brought up is the commission model, where payment is made in advance, but I think people subconsciously discard it as a real possibility because they can't imagine how it could actually happen.

Here it is.

Yes, Double Fine (and Brian Fargo with the Wasteland 2) come in with a pre-existing reputation worth millions, but while you're there, poke around on Kickstarter's other projects. I never had before, and I am astonished what is on there and has been successfully funded with no apparent name-brand power that I'm aware of. Just look at this stuff: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games/most-fu...

There are things that targeted $10,000 and handily blew past them.

Relevant to HN's interests as I browse through: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meetpoint/startup-fever-...

Anyway, back to my point. I think it's time to stop theorizing about how maybe the commission model might work someday in the future maybe sorta, because it's happening now. (The fact that I never even considered browsing around on Kickstarter is itself a testament to my own subconscious bias against the idea.)
The copyright owner can't give the bare right to sue? What about those legal firms sending DMCAs on behalf of copyright owner(s)?
> Here's a valid explanation, which wasn't explicitly given, although it was hinted at: kernel threads take resources that become significant when you want a very large number of threads (say, one million).

Untrue. Kernel threads take the same amount (plus or minus) of resources as userland threads.

You probably don't believe me; that's fine. But at least have the decency to test your preconceptions empirically. It's ridiculous that people parrot these hoary old memes dating back to 1995 when writing a simple program to see for yourself would take literally 15 minutes.

P.S. Creating 1 million threads is never a valid solition for any problem.
The world is full of so many possibilities, and so many broken half-baked solutionss, that if you can't think up anything at all I question if you have the creativity and desire to really create a successful technology business.
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The sweet immaturity of the OP is amusing, but of course, he's in good company in expressing these sentiments. Many people have written about it but I think Paul Bowles nailed it in The Sheltering Sky:

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
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I recall Encarta as the first CD that came with my CD-ROM back then it was 2x read speed.

I was extremely amazed how entire encyclopedia full of content with pictures, sounds and charts that I could most likely never read from start to end can fit into one single disc of a palm size.

History goes on... can you actually imagine in next 250 years what will replace Wikipedia? Imagine this: "After 250 years, Wikipedia shuts down its remaining servers due to lack of traffic".
This one is $18: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/bluetooth-incoming-call-vibrate...

$35: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet...

$35 (in red) http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet...

As a (man's) watch, $54: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/0-8-oled-bluetooth-wrist-watch-...

I'm sure there are more on Alibaba.
Wasteland 2 being successful is far more impressive to me than Double Fine Adventure.

DFA was a perfect storm. Amazing and funny front man in Tim Shafer. A proven studio that has released multiple games of similar small scope in recent years. Plus a pair of guys (Tim + Ron Gilbert) who practically invented the genre in the early 90s. Amazing, awesome, and wonderful that they were so successful but not necessarily a sign of things to come.

Wasteland 2 on the other is a different story. A front man with strong pedigree, but most people have never heard of. A game that came out in 1988 and only ever sold 100k units (plus lord knows how many pirated copies). A studio that few have heard of.

With DFA it's easy to say that this Kickstarter fad is just a fad. With Wasteland 2 it shows to have a little more leg. I can't wait to see what large scale project is successful next.
Not true at all. I know the founders of MixRank and HelloFax had no such background (among others).
If life were a movie, all the "advice" Steve Jobs gave to Larry Page toward the end of Jobs' life was completely bogus, and part of a long con aimed at destroying Google in retaliation for Android being a "stolen product" (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/20/steve_jobs_vow...)

We all know Jobs was enough of a mastermind to pull it off; but was he that malicious?
Interestingly enough, there is already a tradition in the valley of doing this with VCs. It's called the "EIR" program, standing for "Entrepreneur in Residence." Basically, the VC pays for people with a proven track record (Former COOs, CEOs, CTOs, Principal Engineers, etc..), a salary to evaluate startups and business ideas that come their way, and, on occasion, get involved with them - sometimes as managers, or contributors, but also quite often to reboot them under the auspices of the VC. In general, these EIRs of the "reboots" consider themselves closely akin to being "Founders" - though their equity stakes are usually somewhat less, but, at the same time, they usually have a guaranteed round of funding from the supporting VC.

What YC is doing, (particularly with the guaranteed convertible) is extending this concept to people (presumably) somewhat earlier in their career.
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It is the senior engineers that are normally being asked to patent what they've "invented". Also, there are not millions of new software engineers every year, maybe 10s of thousands. There are only a few million programmers in the whole world.
I know a number of project managers who read Jeff Atwood's blog intently. I really hope they don't go out and buy stuffed animals and put them in meeting rooms so people can ask the animal questions. Unfortunately, I think some will.

The theory is definitely sound, but simply saying "phrase your question in an email to me, making sure to be detailed" should suffice. Talking to stuffed animals is probably unnecessary!
Personally, I love Google+. It doesn't replace Facebook for me, but it has definitely replaced Twitter.
Clicking through that link still shows the no-idea app for me.
Bay Area Google sounds a lot like Microsoft in terms of bussing people in from SF.

And good point--I guess most of the super big tech players in the valley are located in the bland suburbs.
Android has this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handyandy....

I believe iOS 5 can have difference vibrate patterns for each contact.
First, patience.

Second... if you don't try to pace the AAA games on graphics quality or the other de rigeur time and money sinks that add disproportionately little to the final experience, you can do a lot with that amount of money.
Or you may be acquired by a bigco and your product killed to eliminate nascent competition. Frankly, I'm not convinced the usual VC-funded startup ecosystem is a great match for healthcare. If you think consumers might be afraid of companies going out of business, you should see how some of a) large businesses that make all decisions for five years at a time or b) small practices that still use Access and macros from 2001 because they work feel about the situation.
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Assuming the YC guys get about 3000 applications (based on published acceptance rates and class sizes), they can probably either do some a/b tests in the reviewing process, or just substitute extra manual labor to evaluate based on other metrics if something goes wrong. It's not all all-or-nothing single test.
I was only using that as a comparison of how controlled use of antibiotics might be a better approach as it's worked well for us and maybe it would work well in an agricultural situation as well.

I see now that I didn't word my response very well.
I want to disrupt the auto parts industry, where do i start?
I had an idea of creating an auto parts price comparison site for warehouse distributors but after doing some research, i found too many sites all competing on price, and came to the conclusion that there is no value add there. So where do i start with the daunting task of finding a niche in the auto parts industry?
Imagine how was it like googling in 1993... There was life before the internet, pal.
In a slight counterpoint to there being "too much parking", every low rise (3 story) apartment and condo complex around me in the suburbs is built with too few spots, meaning they spill far out into adjoining neighborhoods. Then, thinking about it a little deeper, we do need at least 3x as many spots as cars (one at home at night, one at work during the day, one to get groceries or go out to dinner in the evening....)

Parking above and below buildings is better, but until the cost of land rises high enough, it doesn't happen. When the cost does right high enough, it does happen...

There is certainly room for improvement, and collocating housing, office, and retail so the same space can be used across more of the 24 hr day makes sense, but also increases of coming home or to work and not finding anywhere to park- something that has happened to me several times...
A recent (few months ago) flight neighbor sported just such a thing. A Motorola-designed Android watch. Rather large and clunky, but it could do some apps. He was a Motorola engineer.

This is where Steve Jobs would have a coronary. It's a device that screams "Tech!!!!!" (yes, with five bangs), not "style".

Wouldn't swear on a large stack of bibles, but I might use strong language on a small pile of Jesus comics, that this was the MOTOACTV:

http://phandroid.com/2011/10/18/motorola-actv-a-smart-fitnes...
Who was saying it wasn't?

Read through the thread. Nobody.
I can also assure you, CSS and choice of UI framework is the absolute least of your priorities over business development, marketing, revenue generation, and security holes.

Unless, of course, people find the design of your MVP so utterly boring that they dislike the product entirely. I don't believe that design can be treated as an optional feature, that it's something you can add on later.
Lets see how things are going to play. AFAIK they burned $70MM so far and have some issues with copyrights in re to all those pictures "pinned".
I'm sad about the end of the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica. But not that sad.
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> The people we accept without an idea most likely have accomplished a lot.

I'm taking that to mean, as an engineer, accomplishing a lot would entail building a lot of things? Or at least a few neat things? Even if they're in my spare time for fun, like the cummy OS I'm trying to write or for startup ideas I have that probably won't pan out?

I can't think of anything else because everything about my resume and past is just unimpressive at it's kindest and failure at it's honest.
> Colleges do this already by accepting smart students who don't know what to major in yet.

Colleges do this to get their tuition money, not out of the goodness of their hearts. Who cares if they don't know? Society standards dictate most of them will stick it out and pay for four years of something.
I used both products while growing up and I think that Encarta sucked. It was in no way a competitor to Encyclopedia Brittanica.

I read in a book ("Blown to Bits") that one of the reasons why Brittanica flopped was because the sales people did not understand what they were selling. They thought that what they were selling was knowledge.

But most of the customers bought the books to assuage parental guilt, that they were doing enough by their children. Once the computer came around people stopped buying encyclopedia's so that "Johnny would do well in school," and bought computers instead.

Encyclopedia Brittanica did end up becoming a victim of changing technology, but in the short term at least, not in the direct way as is assumed.
Google has almost 90% marketshare in Brazil. People love Google here (only this year Facebook overtook Orkut as the main social network), Chrome is also marketleader already.. Yahoo barely exists in Brazil, aside from a few emails.
Where did you get the $70MM figure? Published reports show half that.
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The day we obsorb all incoming energy from the sun for solely our own use, is the day we destroy all other life on earth...
While re-imagining parking lots is certainly a worthwhile exercise, I am reminded by a recent and very intriguing HN comment (sorry couldn't find it) that compared our avg utilization of automobiles (low) to the avg utilization of airplanes (high) and suggested that we must re-imagine how we use cars.

Specifically, why do we buy cars only to have them sit around unused most of the time (in front of our house, in a parking lot, etc)?
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"I think of if like a relationship with person. Do you want to be friends/lovers with a thief/liar/cheater? Reputation matters."

It's entirely possible to have good feelings about products, value the reputations of brands, and trust companies (or not) without getting caught up in politics. I like Whole Foods because they have really good produce, not because they're "not Safeway".

You don't have to choose sides in a religious war to make product judgments.
The Economics of Anime
I think building parks on top of parking lots would be a good idea - http://www.aaronloringdavis.com/2008/10/parking-garage-green...
I wish people cared more about money that was spent effectively, and less about money that was given to a charity. It's not enough to just spend money on charity, as Givewell.net notes:

Conventionally, most people expect that charities are
probably accomplishing good unless there's proof that
money is being misappropriated. We disagree: we think
that charities can easily fail to have impact, even when
they're doing exactly what they say they are.

They've raised questions about Kiva.org's effectiveness and screening process; see http://blog.givewell.org/category/kiva/ and http://www.givewell.org/giving101/Accomplishing-Nothing.
This is a good observation, What is the rough percentage of those who don't attend MIT/Stanford/Berkeley/Harvard who have huge start-ups? Is it the same as presidents not from Yale/Harvard? Major Southern musicians not from Athens,Nashville,Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis...?
Why a niche? Why not just set the professional standard for auto parts price searching to include an array of all models old and new. It sounds daunting, but can be done. Unless of course someone else has already done it.

Then your course of action would be to find statistical data on auto parts that have a high volume of demand, and begin there.
How is this not brilliant?

Like Hollywood that created the studio system and theater chains, and Music Labels that created radio promotion and recorded music sales, Y Combinator has created the cookie cutter vertical for this century's hot new tech opportunity- the Internets. And God Bless them. They invented it, this model, it works and they are going to be billionaires cause they are creating the Value.

If I could buy 7% of a the future (earnings and primary asset) of an elite college super achiever (with a proven skillset and a track record of cool hacks,) in exchange for 7 Grand, man oh man, that is a no-brainer. Like signing Marilyn Monroe to a studio contract or getting half the Beatles catalog for a ham sandwich, or whatever they were advanced by Northern Songs.

And no, I'm not being snarky, because Marilyn Monroe without the movie studios would have been a waitress or whatever, and the Beatles without the music copyright machine would have been guys who worked day jobs who had a cool weekend band that was their real passion.

Sign all the boys who can sing and dance--its Menudo Monkees Backstreet madness!! If your Johnny Bravos can fit the suit, I say sign them up! Everybody wins, except the wannabes who find a reason to complain instead of doing anything awesome because they are, in their hearts...and in their lives, afraid.

Hooray for (New) Hollywood.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm not implying they need social signals to better target ads. But to give better search results. (as in google + your world)

The competition was already doing this, Google was threatened. Bing had a deal with Facebook. Users were already using Facebook to look for information instead of Google. They tried to outsource social to facebook and twitter. That proved an unideal strategy. Social was too important for their business to rely on the good will of another company. Social is the future of search. Google saw this coming a mile away and got into social before they could become irrelevant.

Social is the future of search, this fact is independent of advertising. Even if Google had a different business model for their search engine. They would still need social. They didn't get into social because of ads, they did because search needs it.
Chances are those people are high achievers outside of University as well. If you are really capable and have created cool stuff then I doubt it will matter much.
Virginia Tech's routers assign public IPs. I'm using a laptop as a server from my dorm room.
I submitted this story because there's been a great deal of talk from tech companies on how to disrupt Hollywood — and I think while anime is a niche (my favorite niche!) that this article gives a very good insight into just how hard that might be to pull off. It a very expensive and high risk market to play in — and this article gives the numbers to back it up...
See also StackVM.

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Yep, we targeted 10k for this project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tocguide/toc-guide-to-sf...) and with 24 hours to go we have 15k. We certainly don't have any name-brand power!
I very very often try mentally explaining problems to someone whose intelligence and opinion I respect. It doesn't really matter who, but it does have to be someone whose real world opinion I would value.

It's never hardware... except that one time that it was. [1]

[1] http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/03/06/coder-finds...
For me personally, I've always worn suits to interviews, but they haven't been for hacker positions. For me it was to show that I took the application process seriously and I really wanted the position.
People calling it as they see it, by nature of this place YC is going to be very popular and generally have lots of fans and positive feedback. Not everything they do though has to be agreed with all the time by everyone.

Same with Sam Altman, just because someone is a very prominent YC founder doesn't mean everyone has to agree with everything they do.
You realize achieving is heavily dependent of connections right?
An observation from the inside of what I've been seeing/feeling from the outside.

When Google started killing the "cool" stuff, I perceived (rightly or wrongly) the writing on the wall as far as attracting and retaining top talent. And they lost my semi-hesitant... "devotion". I wanted to believe they really did care about e.g. next generation energy sources, at a time when even our lame-ass federal government can't get its act together on that front. And Earth, Maps, various API's (Translate, for example), and the like produced fundamental changes in various environments and endeavors, both professional and hobbyist.

Now, sliding into "corporate", lame-ass Google. So sad. Perhaps inevitable; nonetheless, if so, then "just another".

P.S. As I reflect a bit more, I still have more respect for them than e.g. Facebook (manipulation) or Microsoft (domineering, monopolistic, and (perhaps resultantly) now fumbling senior management). But I fear the arrow is pointing in the wrong direction.

And yeah, this is just one random guy's observation. I guess I've added it because in the past Googlers (and "Google") seem to have occasionally observed and perhaps absorbed some of the collection sentiment expressed on HN.
:D I already have some ideas for this, especially with the current state of the anime industry and subbing. Bandai Namco closing their U.S. Distribution for anime was an additional amplifier for a need to disrupt it.

The main issue is licensing, and showing the "old guard" the new ways to capitalize on the market instead of relying on the current traditions.

Also wanted to add the "current traditions" are similar to the music and movie industry. More so in the vein of music, with the evolution of how fans can acquire anime. So they see no real need to pay for something that comes out months to a year later.
If you have the time, I strongly recommend checking out the Barry Schwartz and Dan Gilbert talks at TED on choice ( http://www.ted.com/talks/tags/choice ). If you don't have time, my tl;dr from them: people like the idea of having choices, people dislike/avoid choosing, and people like things more simply because they chose them.
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He said being able to come up with an idea, not having ideas.
Hollywood blockbusters are more of an investment banking scheme than a way to fund the making of movies. I don't mean to be cynical, really. But the Hollywood (in particular) works is incompatible with this funding model.
>...Then, thinking about it a little deeper, we do need at least 3x as many spots as cars (one at home at night, one at work during the day, one to get groceries or go out to dinner in the evening....)

But you're not parked at those other places 24hrs/day. So really, it doesn't need to be 3x. It's greater than 1x (closer to 2x) but should not be near 3x. People don't all decide at a given time "Let's all go to the mall" or "Let's all go to the grocery store." A small percentage of people at any given time decide to do one of these things. On a given day, if I stay home from work, I will see cars streetside. So even home plus work does not equal 2x.

BTW, in the article I don't know if they meant "parking stalls in lots" or "parking spaces". The latter to me, would include more inventory.
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