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Gradesquare (http://gradesquare.com/) was launched with the idea that folks would want to plan and track their (perhaps diverse or fragmented) online learning experiences.

I tend to think about learning in two different categories:

1) Learning for the sake of the subject itself: the goal is simply to learn - no need to specifically prove competence to a third party.

2) Learning for credential. We need to pay the bills - or want bragging rights. Credentials are required to signal that we have obtained competency in a subject area.

For myself (not-quite-youngish with a BA, MA, other graduate work/certifications) , I sign up for online classes with 1) primarily in view. For my kids (high-school age and younger) 2) is also a concern.

It is likely that Coursera (or Udacity or MitX) will eventually create certifications based upon groups of programs. A third party might well group classes in logical sets across institutions. So I hope you are not too fearful - change may bring about some remarkable new opportunities :).
It is worth noting that they are an educational charity, not a for-profit organisation.

I think it is great that they have released this - and I think that Broadcom also deserves credit for allowing them to release a schematic giving away the pin-out of the BCM2835 SoC - it makes the Raspberry Pi so much more useful to know what the outputs of the system are.

This opens up the possibility of trying to work out how to use the unused pins on the BCM2835 based on the names. I haven't been able to work out what the HD pin group does (probably not SATA or PATA based on the number of pins, and HDMI has its own pin group). There seems to be a CAM0 not connected to anything - given CAM1 seems to be a camera, it looks like it is for an additional camera. It also has CCP2 outputs for a CCP2 camera. I also haven't been able to work out what SLIM is - but given it has two pins, CLK and DAT, I guess it is some kind of serial data protocol.
Is that 'MacBook Pro' you're wearing?
But did Instagram have revenue? The question wasn't if investors back then had money, but if the company they invested in were making any money. Facebook had money, Instagram wasn't making any. So to me that's very similar.

Also he's right that now that Instagram was valued at $1 billion, we're already starting to see others like Square immediately looking to raise capital at huge valuations, just because Instagram was valued so high.

Besides, doesn't it even that even Facebook and others are valued based on how much more others will invest in it later on? That's pretty much how Facebook's valuation grew, and how they got the $100 billion IPO, too.

But isn't that a flawed philosophy? Shouldn't companies be valued based on how much potential for making money they have in the future, and not how much potential they have to attract more capital at a higher valuation?
Misspells the Oracle software architect Edward Screven as Edward Serevan throughout.
A somewhat similar project : https://github.com/copperhead/copperhead
In other words. Just build something of actual value and the bubble talk is of little relevance to you.
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Certainly you agree that productivity increases lower the amount of labor or labor-time necessary to produce the same output, right?

Then let's follow how society has treated technology recently. We've kept improving our technology, while never shortening work-hours. This means outputs should be up. Indeed, outputs are up, but the demand for those outputs is not very far up at all. Why? Because the profits from the productivity increase didn't get divided in their original proportion, or evenly, between business owners and employees, they went almost entirely to the owners. Without more money in their pockets, workers mostly aren't demanding the increased output (and when they have, they've bought it on debt and damaged themselves in the long-term).

So for the demand levels we've maintained, all we've accomplished with technology is obsoleting vast amounts of labor. That means businesses need to either shorten working hours, or lay people off. Shortening hours is a tragedy-of-the-commons, because then your competitors can always produce more output and capture more of the market than you by working longer. So businesses have pocketed the productivity as layoffs.

We could fix this pretty easily by strengthening labor's interests in higher wages and shorter hours. We only refrain from doing so for ideological reasons, actually, not business ones.
"GroupOn is a much better indication that a bunch of non-technical people are eager to buy overvalued tech stocks."

Eh, if anything it's a counterexample, not evidence in favor of a bubble:

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GRPN

(Zoom out to "all".) It closed today at 11.76. The official IPO price was 20, it peaked at just over 26. That's not exactly a stirring argument in favor of a generalized tech bubble.
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Can someone explain a few use cases for this library, and the capabilities it brings?
Just like anything else of value: whatever people are willing to pay for it.
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Law enforcement can of course do seizures when it's warranted. But in this case they, as I understand, did not try to get logs in regular ways (i.e. just asking for them) and there actually is no logs useful for them. So it sounds like an intimidation move - "keep logs so we could have them or we'd just take everything". Using you analogy, it's like when FBI wanted records from gun store and the owner said he doesn't have them, they would just demolish the whole store and move it to FBI facility in case they could find something hidden in the walls. Clearly looks like scenario of "you better give us what we want and quickly, or it would be a world of pain for you, regardless of your innocence and absence of connection to any crimes".
Case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3865942
The sandboxing of third-party scripts that we talk about in the paper (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jterrace/docs/jsjs.pdf) is one possible use case
There is a Java port of Stella -- I converted it to an applet for a buddy of mine back in 1999. Get it here: http://weirdkid.com/jstella
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No...no.

Surplus of Capital

Since 2008, most traditional investment vehicles like real estate and the stock and bond market have had poor returns. Capital has been shifting from these traditional vehicles to Asia and Venture Capital in search of extraordinary returns.

So, what you have to remember is that there are actually several different kinds of economic catastrophes, and that a bubble is only one of them. You also have hyperinflation, for one, and it's much more plausible that this is what is actually happening. And while this is largely irrelevant for America as a whole, it matters a lot at a local level: if you're in California, for instance, you're alright as you're upstream from a lot of folk. If you're in the Rust Belt, though, you might find it's suddenly even harder to compete with Asia. So while there is something rotten in the state of Denmark, the tech sector is not the one in trouble.
The trial is examining both copyright and patent issues. But yes, one of the things Oracle is claiming is that they can copyright their API and you can't reimplement it without a license.

This does not seem like it should fly, in my inexpert opinion.
What is the definition of sitting? What about laying on a bed? Is that something completely different? Are they qualifying anything that isn't standing as sitting?

I'm an avid cyclist, does the "sitting" position have an effect on my death coming nearer? I think the more interesting question is what is happening physically while "sitting" that causes this?
> But did Instagram have revenue?

This is a tired argument. Everything is a tradeoff. In this case it's a tradeoff between adoption and revenue. Hipstamatic chose the revenue-first approach (they apparently made plenty of money) and Instagram chose the adoption-first approach. Which one is more valuable (and you must include strategic value in this evaluation!) right now? Clearly Instagram.

> Also he's right that now that Instagram was valued at $1 billion, we're already starting to see others like Square immediately looking to raise capital at huge valuations, just because Instagram was valued so high.

I'm very, very skeptical that this is the case. Has anyone involved in the situation made any statement hinting at that?

> Shouldn't companies be valued based on how much potential for making money they have in the future

Yep! That's what people are doing.
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We've been discussing this extensively in other threads: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859361 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854767
It all goes together, my friend. WHen you destroy the economy, you have to replace it by a state-fueled economy and therefore the totalitarian package goes with it. We have yet to see totalitarian states with free economy. It does not exist because it goes against its own logic. That's not hard to understand.
The term "Internet bubble" was very commonly used during the bubble. And the term "irrational exuberance" ganied fame in 1996, prior to the greatest craziness.

It was a lot more obvious than the real estate bubble. The real estate bubble was only visible to most people as a chart in the NY times that showed the gains in prices were historically unprecedented and clearly unsustainable. Most people didn't know that the ratings agencies were earnestly relying on models that pretended that real estate could never go down, and assumed that baskets of mortgages are uncorrelated risks. Both of those are obviously silly assumptions, but the population in general didn't know about it.

On the other hand, it was obvious to most people I knew that Internet valuations were unreasonable during the first bubble, but a majority of them werent willing to call a top at any particular point.
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The third point explains the first two. Something has to be done with the billions of dollars fleeing real estate and the general stock market. You get billion dollar valuations when people are saying "I have a billion dollars and I really need a place to invest it"

The startup community needs to get over the idea that "valuations" are based in reality. Rich people need ways to get richer. They could choose tech startups, they could choose real estate, they could choose tulips... it doesn't matter as long as they can make up money and push it back and forth between one another.

But alas, it feels much better to say "My company was valued at a billion dollars!" than it does to say "Rich people used my company as tool to transfer money to each other!" If we would just stop taking the numbers seriously then we could stop the debate about whether or not we're in a bubble.
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Check this out:
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Wait, seizing server running VM makes zero sense - VM can be run on different physical servers at different moments and freely migrated. What would they be seizing actually - silicon and metal in hope it somehow would given them a clue about something that happened eons (in CPU time) ago on the same hardware? That's like arresting a person because he was breathing the same air as a criminal did.
Even if Amazon does not actually migrate VMs I'm sure some other cloud providers do.
OTOH they could seize storage media where the images are stored. That would be a major catastrophe for any cloud provider.
By "operating budget" I assume you mean revenues.

For reference, the US spent $2.73 trillion in 2007 and $2.9 trillion in 2008. It plans on spending $3.8 trillion in 2012 and about the same in 2013. When you say "opened up the throttle a good amount" that amount is in the vicinity of ~35%.

(These numbers are not adjusted for inflation. Sorry.)
They may well be doing that in many cases, but we only hear about the occasional dramatic seizures. And the dramatic seizures may be prompted by internal politics -- some manager needs to show that his team is doing something in order to justify his budget, so he makes a visible move and gets some publicity.

It would be interesting to correlation frequency of these stories with FBI budget cycles.
Here is an idea of how you could change the site.

* Content discovery pretty close to how you have it but with a better way to find local acts. I.e. a big read "Find Local" button.

* Have an admin interface for musicians to put concert dates, iTunes links, etc.

* Eventually you could become the one-stop shop for discovering new local acts as and figuring out who is playing in your town on a given night.

As an example you view some guitar video of a dude shredding a Metallica song. You click on it and you see what band he is in, where/when it is playing, songs from the band that you can stream for free(with user ratings), download for a price (or free if they want). That kind of thing.

The reverse of this is also true. You can see a calendar of all of the local acts playing near you. You can click on any act and see all of their fandalism videos as well as all the information I described above.

You should be able to purchase tickets and songs through fandalism.

Monetization

* Take a cut of said ticket and song purchases.

* Very subtle premium ads on the main page advertising shows in your area based on your tastes. Personally I would actually be interested in reading these ads.

EDIT:

Just had another idea which is an addon to my previous idea. A lot of people are coming up with ideas related to Kickstarter. This is a cool concept. I think it would be excellent if Fandalism partnered with music venues so that you have a list of a bunch of different acceptable venues and their seating capacity.

Bands or users could initiate Fandalism campaigns to have a band play a live concert. E.g. I'm willing to put $10 to see this band play live on one of these dates. Turns out 1000 other people were willing to do so as well. Fans vote on which of the 1000 person venue they want to go to. Band gets 5k, venue gets 4.5k, fandalism gets 500 bucks.

I think this plays to peoples' want to be ahead of the curve. How cool would it be to say "Yeah I funded the Red Hot Chili Peppers first concert way before they became famous".
"Tulips don't even pay interest"

Oh, but they do - in the form of more tulips. Yes, even that bubble started with a sane rationale. A thing to keep in mind.
Ah, best of both worlds. I'll have to try that.
We were talking about it at least as far back as 2006, for sure. Source: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116679843912957776-fF...

At what point is growth in an industry no longer considered a bubble?
RSS is alive and well in iTunes podcasts. It's just that people don't know or care that their podcast feeds get updated by way of RSS.

RSS will live on if content creators continue to provide it. I think the issue is that no one except tech people really care, so at least the tech blogs (and Hacker News) will continue to support it.

Getting content via social networks seems like a step backwards, but it seems like it's what most folks are fine with.
Are you talking in absolute terms or in % ? In % of total companies worlwide, companies with more than 100 000 are clear, small minority. Of course you can probably find a hundred of them or more worldwide, it still does not make them "common" versus the hundred of millions of small-sized companies around.
Exactly… but how much are you willing to pay for it? How much is it _worth_ to you, as a corporation? This too will fluctuate.
Few years ago I felt that Adobe Flex has excellent client side OLAP capabilities. But then that runs on Flash and you'll have to weigh in the pros and cons.

Also for large data sets, wouldn't make sense to do things on the client.
Yes, but the data on the server may still be valuable (e.g. to an identity thief).
People didn't die in the last collapse, my goodness. Many of them went back to banking (B2B) or back to Cleveland (B2C).

Nobody was F*'d, although there was a lot of self-centered melodrama.

The same thing will happen again and again. Areas of the economy will get overheated, and subsequently get overcooled. Fortunes will be made, fortunes will be lost.

And in the end it's just life as usual.
Yep. It would also astound me if they didn't have at least some cyber-competent people in their organization.
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Very clever! I think this is a great idea. There's a startup here in the Seattle area (http://www.glympse.com/) that's doing something similar, but—frankly—I think I feel a lot more comfortable with your model, especially since I think usage is a lot more likely (and abuse far less likely) in a 'pull' scenario like this one.

Good job!

Also, I have some 'constructive' feedback. Please note that I really do think your app is cool, and I'm only trying to help you make it better:

- whru.at should give me the option of typing in my location, or manually locating myself on the map.

- whru.at and Space-time are very different names. Which one do you want to use? (personally I like the 'texty' domain name better)

- It looks like you're using Titanium or something similar to build the UI. Kill this, and move to Objective C. The selection highlights on your table view are weird.

- Please only use system fonts.

- Only use pull to refresh or a refresh button, and not both.

- The color scheme seems to be all over the place: black, white, orange, blue, gray... Check out appdesignvault.com, or other similar resources for pre-built iOS app themes.
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> (Please, please refute me: Tell me a good iOS feed-reader that syncs my read status between my iPhone and iPad, but doesn't require me to use Google Reader.)

Have you tried Newsblur (http://www.newsblur.com/) - has a great web app and complementary iPhone app. Samuel Clay (the developer) is often on HN too, although his username escapes me right now.
Although they look like they are in the middle of the BGA ball array, and probably on a pad that is just floating, so actually connecting anything to the pins that the board isn't designed to allow access to is probably effectively impossible.
Juxtaposition these:

> iiNet CEO Michael Malone welcomed the ruling and said Hollywood should now focus on increasing the availability of lawful content in a timely and affordable manner. "We have consistently said we are eager to work with the studios to make their very desirable material legitimately available to a waiting customer base - and that offer remains the same today," he said.

vs

> Michael Speck, a copyright expert who ran the music industry's case against Kazaa, said: "In losing the case [the film industry] still got from the courts a clear road map for how to successfully prosecute ISPs in the future and the next ISP that is prosecuted will find it almost impossible to avoid liability."

You'd think they'd learn. Sigh.
Came to say something like this. I know that iTunes is everyone's favorite whipping boy, but with a 10,000 song library on a 5200RPM drive that's at least 6 years old.. I don't seem to be having all of these issues that everyone else does with the Windows iTunes.

The worst problem I've had is error codes when trying to wifi sync, and that was solved by just disabling and reenabling the feature.
> At the management level, the manager -- who bears no personal cost for managing N+1 workers instead of just N workers, will almost always choose N+1 if given the option.

I do not know if you are familiar with how big companies work, but usually when you reach a large enough size, such companies start to track "productivity indexes" between their departments and against competition, when comparison is available. SUch an index would look like = sales of the department / headcount of that department, which basically gives you an "average value" of an employee in that department. Then in order to prove that you need additional headcounts, you need to have a high productivity index in the first place to justify it. So that's why big companies don't just keep growing forever: they start to become more efficiency-sensitive, and consider carefully the cost of an employee versus the actual benefit to have more.
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Instagram is an outlier. If you have ever looked at raw Internet traffic you will know that Facebook is largely a photo site. So it was a choice for Facebook between a potential competitor and making a jump ahead.

When these deals become commonplace, we'll be back to the bubble in full force. The rumor about Cloudflare worries me more.
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we have used it extensively in our applications, some of them with over 20 different views. The real power of the storyboard is to give you a visual guide to the flow of your application, and also a quick and easy way to get an overall picture of whats going where. We havent had any issues with it so far (but i know that some people have), but i am unable to offer a good reason why we havent had any issues, apart from maybe just dumb luck.

Our coders are now totaly in love with the storyboard view and i doubt i could get them to change easily. They are now producing code and apps 20%-30% faster than before simply due to the ability to see what is going on globally.

Another great feature is that you can easily demonstrate and allow non technical people to see the flow of screens and interactions.
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Or alternatively just seize the drives and let them keep a clone copy. This way they can conduct their investigation without causing so much unwarranted collateral damage.
They say they took the server for investigative purposes. If true, all they needed to do was take a copy of the disks. At worst the service might have been offline a few hours.

The purpose was to disrupt and stop the service with minimal effort and without having to wait for a trial. They were able to judge and punish a business without trial.

Why would they do that? In this case it might be the very common law enforcement motivation of doing something, anything.
>> There will always be room for businesses that make money, bubble or not

Absolutely. Cycles happen, and for now those of raising money can enjoy the peak. The problem is that with all the fanfare, people forget that companies need to make money.
At least on windows you have alternatives...

I'm still looking for a viable replacement on OSX.

Actually scratch that. More urgently I'm seeking a Finder-replacement that doesn't lock up for seconds at a time all the time. In 2012. On a 2 GHz computer. With a SSD. Truly magical!
Kodak had a good digital camera plan in place. They just didn't take it seriously and didn't move fast enough when a tiny subset of photographers were moving away from film. They were beholden to distributors, not consumers, of their product.
When they're doing it for political reasons, not always. Blowing up a building gets you plenty of publicity, and it's a lot more positive if no one was killed. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_bombing
Pretty ironic, given that the US is the only country I've been to (so far) where my fingerprints have been taken. Live by the sword, yadda yadda.