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An interesting aside. I teach English to a Rakuten person, and they apparently have an internal countdown page, with everyone's name which is below (i think..) 750 on TOEIC (an English exam), ticking down to when their whole company must internally use English.
This is the only article I've found about this news to be honest.. TorrentFreak seems to cover everything Megaupload related quite well.
> asking Facebook and Apple to open-up their core products is like asking Google to publish their search algorithm

Nobody ask Facebook to open-source their algorithm or other fabrication secrets. What we should be asking them is to allow users to choose to open doors in the walls.

I, as a Facebook user, would much prefer getting the few baby pics I receive there from some friends directly into any "social content client" of my choice. I wrote something about it there: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104035200377885758362/posts/EWjN...

I am no Apple product user, but if I was I would require Apple to allow me to have full ownership on the files I store on the gadget, and I would require to be allowed to install manually any app I choose to install, however "harmful" it may be to my user experience.
More obvious link up there now.
I think we should just privatize it.
Also...

• he seems to be comparing his prior 'take-home' (after-tax) pay with his new venture 'profits' (monthly pre-tax).

• as another redditor points out, he may be in for a painful 1099-reclassified-as-employee showdown with the tax and employment authorities

And yet, good on him. He's found a niche and will now rapidly get to learn the tax & employment law details.
I think the issue here is the material being workable for a ship. The Titanic carried hundreds of people and tonnes of cargo.

The density of the material would have to make up for the weight it was carrying, plus any water it was liable to take on in case of an accident.
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My article has nothing to do with computer science, but with a human community built around a technology.
We did. USPS doesn't receive any public funds, but it's still technically owned by the United States government. It also has near-crushing prepaid pension debt.
I haven't read every comment he's made yet, but skimmed many of them...

Why can't they be contractors? He said they're providing their own transportation and supplies. So he's just handing them clients and appointments, and a checklist of cleaning tasks to complete and a few limitations on the supplies used. Isn't that analogous to handing a contracted software developer a requirements document and a deadline?
That is exactly what makes them vulnerable to losing out to competition.

Have a look at this app :http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/shazam/id284993459?mt=8

What does it do? Given a music sound input it will give you the exact and song and all metadata related to it.

This kind of apps are the biggest threat to Google. Because they do vertical search far too well. And too many apps like this cut off oxygen bit by bit on the longer run making you vulnerable. Facebook realized this, hence they acquired Instagram.

The thing about Apple and Facebook is they allow such kind of apps to not just thrive but also remain profitable through their platform. I am sure a lot of iPhone apps have eaten into the potential of Google products. Apple's platforms are becoming start up incubators. The same with Facebook. This is the biggest threat. Because they are setting the momentum in a very different direction.

Now imagine, if something like Apple consumer TV brings this platform to every living room. I bet that is going to really hurt Google a lot.
Not only are they full of false positives, they're full of false negatives.

Some sites that appeared to be a personal dump of harmless images were blocked, while sites with various 'porn words' in their domains hosting as much porn as their owner could fit in them were fine.
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I agree. Just pointing out that it's not doing anything to emulate any of the behaviour of any device. It's still rendering as whatever your browser will show for those sizes, same user-agent/css/javascript behaviour. Still, as a demonstration tool it will be very useful.
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I'm sure that with Apple's declining and certainly minority market share in one form of computing (cell phones), that would be the biggest issue here? When the web is fully accessible on these devices, and something like Wikipedia can and was created there?
In the UK the Royal Mail works similarly:

http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services
The 80% I was talking about.
It's not taboo - just observe the success of Visual Studio.

I think charging for tools does limit the potential user base of those tools. After all, why pay for an editor when vim is free? The same applies for a lot of development tools.

Another potential reason is that charging for something creates an expectation of quality and support. This attracts certain classes of user, but not everyone wants to provide this expectation. Giving the tool away for free helps absolve the developer of responsibility at a later date.
Tell YC (Justin Kan): possibly interesting?
Justin, I was digging around for something else and stumbled on some
sites/companies in roughly similar market to your new "Exec" company.
If you don't already know about them, I figured you'd want to know.
You probably get tons of email, and hence make your address difficult
to find, but by posting these here, others can add to it.

http://www.careermums.com.au/

http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/job_site_for_working_parents/

http://www.beyondtheschoolrun.com/

http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/online-portal-parents-focuses-work-opportunities-school-hours/

http://www.knowhowmart.com/

http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/online-tool-connects-businesses-experts-one-off-advice/
I'm not sure I completely agree. The clients get vetted cleaners; and even a cleaner coop would need someone to manage/assure quality/market, and someone with those skills can earn more than a cleaner.
We were talking about now, not 20 years ago.
Maybe so, but I'm struggling to imagine a scenario where that comes true. As we generally think of them now, they're for the suburban commuter to replace their current car. As such, they can't be limited much, lest only a tiny elite be able to purchase them- probably not tenable politically. Furthermore, politicians don't seem farsighted enough to even set quotas if they wanted to; any limits set would likely be at something resembling estimated real-world demand, and since we're talking about a shift that would radically reduce the total number of cars in service, politicians would likely overestimate the need.

Plus, driverless cars can't form taxi associations with reasonably large voter blocs.
No FB please... if you don't need to login/register to post an idea you shouldn't need a FB registration to post a comment either.
It's the VCs that make the decision to pump that money into a company like Instagram. They do it for only two big reasons:

1. Align the interests of the founders with that of the VCs.

How else are you going to convince the founders to "swing for the fences" (read: IPO or $1B+ exit) except to let them take a large chunk of money "off the table" now?

Any company as hot as Instagram is getting offers for $100M+ acquisitions on a regular basis. That would likely mean $10M+ for the founders. It's just not rational to pass up a personal windfall like that unless you're already very very wealthy.

The neat thing is that VCs have solved this problem. In the past few years it's become common to let founders sell some of their equity for $N millions when they've reached a certain level of success.

Once the founders have banked millions of dollars they start seeing things from the same perspective as VCs. It's completely rational for them to attempt world domination. Instagram would have eventually tried to threaten Facebook's position. Had they succeeded they might have ended up with $20 billion (like Zuck). They also might have ended up with nothing.

2. To fund expansion.

You can't plan world domination if you don't have the servers and manpower to attempt it. Servers and datacenter space are expensive. Employees are even more expensive.
Waqasday, the "Do what you love" is just a nice sounding simplification of "Work on the topic you are passionate about" and is one of the best advice imho, generally for life. Although naturally not universal as any other advice. However in case of startups we could add "Develop your passions - learn how to do and enjoy new things (required to succeed)". But that's not as catchy for a slogan.
This entire debate is sad to me. It's sad - as a JS outsider - because it truly smacks of religious dogma. People have these debates about The One True Brace Style as well, but it all amounts to masturbation.

The amount of hair-pulling and whining over 1 byte really turns me off from the JS community as a whole. I respect BE's weighing in on this, and I respect people for disregarding his advice. The bottom line is: do whatever the hell you want and don't let anyone shove their opinions down your throat. Why can't we be happy with that?

The little JS I've written has been filled with semicolons. Yours may or may not be. If I work on your project and you don't use semicolons, I'll adapt. If you work on mine, you'll adapt. But I won't try to convince you to use my style on your project or vice versa.

Can't we move on from this pointless debate? Nobody will win, but in the end everyone will lose.
I wrote up a guide to working with HTML in HXT: http://adit.io/posts/2012-04-14-working_with_HTML_in_haskell...

You might find it handy if you decide to give HXT another go :)
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It would be awesome to rather have a wiki system for new ideas. Then it could be use as a collaborative tool, instead of having a chain of hundred of comments.
What is the advantage to you of a standalone system? I'll throw one together if it'd be more useful than FB for example.
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Guys, more background from 'Fat' on why he doesn't use semicolons written back in October 31st 2011:
http://wordsbyf.at/2011/10/31/i-dont-write-javascript/

Quotes:
On the use of '&&' instead of an 'if' statement: "If you were really having fun with it you could lose the if all together... Each is perfectly valid. Each behaves the same. It’s just a matter of preference and finding the style that makes most sense to you."
JSLint is described as a "unnecessarily strict linter".
"The majority of lines however don’t end with semicolons because they simply aren’t necessary and I prefer the minimalist aesthetic. For me, \n character is enough and the semicolon character is redundant."

... IMHO: Don't be a JavaScript hipster. Add semi-colons.
Perhaps the more women go into IT, the more jobs there will be for guys in nursing or teaching or whatever? :)

But on a more serious note, you cannot equate anti-male sexism with anti-female sexism, not yet, because one has a history of being both the oppressed gender and the exploited class, and the other just the exploited class.
If anything, this is healthier for people's personal information.

Companies seeking such a service typically resort to purchasing homeowner information in bulk from other services. With such a USPS service, it decreases the demand for such databases, and with it the incentive to create such databases.

It is unlikely that the USPS will overwhelm homeowners. Presumably the USPS will limit received promotions to one per day. That can potentially give the USPS an additional $60/year in revenue per household, at marginal cost.
That is truly humbling! Thank you for this experience.
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I'd imagine that in the presenters' mind, this picture wasn't worse than people inserting lolcats or funny pictures into their presentation. I'm not saying it's the same, just that those creating the presentation see it so.

Whether inserting reddit into presentations is an appropriate means of lightening the mood or plain immature is another discussion.
Depends if you're using Flash to play the video :-p
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I already get tons of fliers from nearby restaurants stuck in my door every week. Might as well be in my mailbox.

It should be a very effective marketing tool for local businesses and it helps the USPS stay in business. If they would just add opt-out there would be nothing to complain about IMHO.
He probably meant ambient music for space. But even that is probably not true.
I don't think Microsoft's primary worry is Internet business at the moment.

Their primary worry is mobile computing, and Android and iOS seem to ruling at the moment, the future is really bleak for Microsoft. And they want some internet services like search, news and email ready when they actually make it big in mobile areas(If at all they every make it big).

So at max MS would be looking at internet services as a catalyst to be ready to get into the reaction at the right time.
Maybe a fitting summation of your argument would be:

Don't just fight the symptoms, fight the reason/root/cause as well.

(?)
The cleaners are vetted/trained by one of themselves. Even if they have to hire a manager later on, he will be getting paid the worth of his contribution, not all of the profit.

I'm not so sure about it either, but I have a tendency to be a bit idealistic :)
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I'd be fascinated to learn of one such experience. I'm not saying it cant happen, I am just saying, people demanding to or not wanting to sign NDA's over sharing just ideas revolves much more around ego than it does around practicality.
After having my Google account suspended because I made a stupid mistake when creating a YOUTUBE account, and all my appeals (with my ID) denied until I chose to have my CC charged (what would happen if I had an Android ?
).

After having my Adsense banned without warning, with money cancelled and no (real) appeal feasible.

It opened my eyes and I really want to move away from Google more than Facebook (which has only stupid data about me) or Apple (which I don't use any product).

I use more than 10 Google services that are somewhat critical to me and now that I have the feeling that it can be blocked anytime it has become very uncomfortable.
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As at least two other comments have responded to you

https://www.google.com/takeout
I don't know about the US, but over here if you have to follow orders, work under constant supervision or on the clock, you can't be classified as a contractor anymore (in theory).
"You can't search it" isn't entirely true for Android apps. Android has had a pluggable search framework for quite some time (I think since 1.x, but I'm not 100% sure about that). It is straightforward for apps to respond to searches on your phone and some do, though like some of Android's other extension points, more should.
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As both stories note, Google's purchase has not been completed yet. Read harder next time?
Exactly. That's why it's silly to talk about iPhone as an "idea" that others could have had before. It's a Product, not an Idea.
I understand that, but the maids are not working under constant supervision or on the clock.
Google could also be more open:

- They introduced 'rel author' HTML attribute to assign authors to web-content. Despite being an OpenID provider, they only allow you to 'verify' with a Google+ profile. This doesn't feel much like the 'open web'.

- Google+ isn't crawlable from the outside. (just like Facebook isn't).

- The Facebook API allow a user to 'connect' with a site so they can pass data back and forth. Google+ does not.

- Google search now strips your search term from the referrer header so webmasters cannot analyse the data. They state privacy as the reason, yet will sell you the data if you pay via Adsense!

Google are great company, who have done some awesome stuff and been a positive force for the internet. However, since Page took the helm they seem to have changed direction somewhat.
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So with term time coming to a close, I had the random idea of creating an application that would enable people to help each other with their exam preperations. So I sat down with my friend and we threw together a little app that combines video chat with a collborative white board.

Try it out at http://tutor.nodester.com and let me know what you think!

Ps: Only one person can write on the white board at a time(It's a little bug that can be fixed if
need be....somehow) Click the "Start a chat" bar on the bottom to enable video and audio chat Oh and the escape key clears the whiteboard
Agree with your comment. To elaborate a little bit:

> After all, why pay for an editor when vim is free?

Why develop a new editor if it's not gonna be better than vim?
> "For example, all the information in apps – that data is
> not crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."'
> Which in most cases is a true statement.

Is it? Not crawlable does not mean non searchable. Google cannot crawl my messages too (I hope so!), but I can search in them.
I've done this before, but let me know how you feel in 2 weeks.
That's why you have computer now. If no one want to do it, then it can be automated.
We need to focus back on the inherent meritocracy that is tech and entrepreneurship.

Every time I see this tired old trope trotted out again it has two distinct effects on me personally:

1.) I start worrying about my own interactions with the females in my team
2.) I stop thinking about technology and innovation

...and I'm tired of it.

Take the feminist struggle such as it is in 2012 to the world of politics from whence it comes.

You have something of value to contribute to the world of technology? Do it.

It is not in the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship to complain about and dissect the words and actions of those who clearly know no better, it is in the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship to Do.

This squabbling is for children and politicians. Leave it to them.

Go and Do.
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Do you really think this article didn't help? Do you really think that anyone who read it is going to behave like the Geek List guys did?

You'd have to be really clueless to read it and then make the same mistake that they did. For better or worse, public ridicule is an incredibly effective tool for changing behavior. It changes the behavior not just of the person who was ridiculed, but of everyone who saw it happen.

So yes, I think it is totally realistic to change people's behavior today, "by getting mad at them when they say something out of line." It's unpleasant for everyone concerned, but it works.

Your "better long-term solution" sure is "easier" for us men, but it's not easier for the women...

Also, fundamentally what you are doing is excusing sexist behavior. You're saying "these people, in some sense, aren't fully in control of their actions; it's not their fault that they didn't get the appropriate training as children; it's too hard for them to change." I think that that is a harmful idea to advance. First of all, it gives people cover when they behave inappropriately. Second, it's disempowering -- nobody wants to be thought of as a helpless case that can't change.
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There is: https://www.dmachoice.org/. It took quite a while (several months) until I noticed any changes, but my (very subjective) impression is that the (spam) mail volume decreased over time.

Another thing I'd suggest is https://donotcall.gov/. Registering there seems to have had a positive impact on the number of spam calls I receive.
Now there is no longer a proper Demoscene.

In the old days a 64KB demo was really that.
Now it is 64KB + several MB OS.
Again, there's an argument there for reinforcing incumbency, but just because something is the second result on a page and so doesn't get the traffic it would if it were first is not equivalent to removing it from the internet (in terms of this topic, at least).
Kinda sick of hearing this. I mean, you've been able to download an archive of everything you've posted to Facebook for awhile now. The Facebook APIs are way more built-out than the Google+ APIs. And here are like a billion other web sites out there that only make information available after logging in and so also qualify as walled gardens, but apparently aren't worthy of criticism.

Meh.
It would be nice, though it would be even better if we could settle on a more federated model (like Mozilla's BrowserID).

The lack of success with previous federated ID systems isn't encouraging, however.
They are working under the company's schedule, work guidelines and command. It's very subjective (for a layman), hopefully someone more versed in the area will clear this up.
> For example if the code is buggy and shared, odds might be higher that the bugs will never be found because nobody will bother trying to write the code again.

Your reasoning is a bit odd. It's a good thing that nobody will bother trying to write the code again. The world has enough people who can write code. We need more people who can read and dissect code, refactor them, and add tests where applicable.
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I assumed this was posted because they just redid the lossless support, but it's just a general link and the conversation has been therefore unfocused. The PDF describing the new lossless mode is here:

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=webm/libwebp.git;a=blob_pl...

It seems quite neat to me, particularly the way they encode the compression info as images though maybe it's just standard lossless image techniques, I'm no expert.

As for the format generally, I think better lossy compression than JPEG, better lossless with alpha compression than PNG, better animation than GIF, and a lossy with alpha mode and hardware encode/decode support is a reasonably powerful combination. Support from Chrome and Android means it's probably got niche uses already (on or off the web), support from Mozilla (which I'd like to see, since generally multiple vendors working together on something makes me happier, and seems to produce better end products, than one going it alone) could make it a standard practice for those trying to squeeze extra performance out of their web sites, which in turn disadvantages browsers that don't have it.

In the longer term there's probably going to be a shift sooner or later and webp is well placed by getting in early. Even if something better comes along later (and there does seem some kind of limit to the possible improvements), it'll have widespread installation on its side like png/jpeg/gif/etc. have today.