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What about a voluntary small-fee subscription, something like $3/mo to remove ads and support the community. Works for Instapaper, and even for writers (eg., shawnblanc.net).

Often, asking users you've treated well to chip in works fantastically.
It's kind of like comparing SpaceX to Virgin Galactic.

Sure, both are likely to succeed within the year at their target goals, but it's apples and oranges.

I suspect that Virgin Galactic will eventually orbit, but I think their real money could be made in suborbital point-to-point, acting like an ultra-elite airliner, which they had (have?) as phase-2.

While Virgin will be testing that, the Dragon Heavy will likely be moving people into low earth orbit. Sometime after that, StratoLaunch might roll something onto a tarmac somewhere.
You paid the apple tax when you bought your computer. You can only access that $30 price after paying a huge premium for your hardware.
SpaceX is at least well known outside the industry. I don't feel like you're an outlier.
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That is excellent - I'd love to buy instruments hand-made by people I can connect with.
That's an interesting idea. Kind of like how you can pay Ebay to give your posting a yellow background, making it more noticeable.

There's something slightly icky about charging my users for visibility though. Who I consider "starving artists" (even though plenty are probably doing fine...). There's something nice about Fandalism currently being a level playing field for everyone.

By the way, Fandalism uses a version of the Hacker News algorithm to determine which posts get featured.
Anything a FIFA spokesman says is immediately suspect and usually 180 degrees from what is actually going on.

You know when those people are lying, the first clue is their lips moving.
I didn't read source as the "default mode of operation", but rather a necessary fallback that you 1) shouldn't shy away from and 2) you should demand lest you be unable to access the ultimate truth of what you're building on top of.

I definitely see a hallmark of experienced/skilled coders as not being afraid to follow the trail of code farther than I sometimes have patience for.
The Home version just lacks a nice GUI for the security stuff. You can still manage file and directory permissions from the command line using cacls.exe.

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490872.aspx
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From what I gather, a lot of artists make the bulk of their income from concert tickets and merchandise, as a large slice of the income from music sales goes to a label.

Two suggestions:

- Make it real easy for artists to sell merchandise through the site. E.g they just upload a couple of logo's and you deal with printing T-shirts, mailing them etc...

- Organising concerts. You could take a cue from Kickstarter and have a system where the fans of an artist commit to going to see them play. Once say, 50 people have committed, the gig goes ahead.

In both the above scenarios you handle all of payments, naturally taking your cut.
hey Philip - I agree with these 3 points. I lost your email address since we met at TED but email me at derek@sivers.org - glad to help.
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Nobody knows what happens to long term chronic users of MDMA. But we do know that the propaganda that was spread by US government funded studies has been debunked. Scare tactics should be treated with strong skepticism. Before club users got their hands on it and it got banned in 1985 (against a federal judge's recommendation nonetheless), MDMA was a perfectly acceptable drug used by monks, priests and therapists for couples therapy.

Edit: can you please link up the studies you're referring to?
Good Job.

How many PHP packages are on packagist.org? Is it just based on GitHub? Does it just link to tags on GitHub? Or does it host real binaries like Maven2, RubyGems and PIP?

The most important feature of a good package manager is that released packages are not anymore changeable. With GitHub tags that is not the case.

I am looking forward to the answers.
This is the most cogent reply yet.

Health care is mostly not insurance, is tied to employment for a purely historical reason, and is precisely the largest issue preventing people from ditching safe but boring jobs and going after something new.

(And YC clearly understands this: look at the age of YC founders. Young, healthy, able to depend on someone else's healthcare or none at all for a year or so. Oh, and no mortgage.)
You mentioned music distribution tools. Currently it's a huge pain in ass getting your music on iTunes or Amazon. There are services that help with this but it's still a pain in the ass (you need to register for an RIAA permit, get a barcode for your music.. srsly it's ridiculous).

It would be fun if I just made a simple "Get your music on iTunes for $20 per song."

Hmm.
Really good idea; and then just focus on smart targeting, e.g. show Spanish metal bands -raising money for their new album- to Spanish people who follow metal bands.
It warms my heart to see so many get excited about "bare metal" low level implementation.
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I've made some suggestions for monetization below, but I also have a suggestion for improving user engagement and stickiness:

Have a ranking system page for the most popular artists. It can be based on both views or a more explicit voting system by other artist peers. One of the first things I looked for was a popular tab.

Also, by having such a ranking system you can identify who are the most influential users on the site, and do all sorts of other projects with them to further increase site engagement.

You even have the potential to either start your own record label or feed other record labels with up-and-coming artists. You'd have perhaps the best metrics-based system to find who the next great superstar musician will be; Even more so than Youtube as you'll be using a system of fellow musicians to determine talent/popularity.
You could sort of go the kick starter route... Raise money for bands, take a small percentage... Raise money for musicians to sign their own label? Raise money for something bands do like maybe equipment? Take small percentages. Do a craigslist for musicians. Sell things like Ebay.

Sorry for the sporatic, it was a brain dump...
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Maybe he fixed this, but this doesn't seem to be the case as I am playing it right now.
37signals is catching flack for yet-another-blog-post not applying to larger institutions, but this mirrors Facebook's culture in which every employee is "QA" by serving them the latest trunk if I'm not mistaken.

Sometimes people overanalyze generalized statements to hear themselves talk. This is just how 37s makes "making shit work" everyone's job to build a great product. Apple and Fb do it their own way. And so forth.

The key ingredient is empowerment (and recruiting). Employees must be trusted to own the product and customer experience without micro-managers getting in the way by shuffling papers and responsibilities.
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I don't think these guys used bitcoin, I think you're thinking of silkroad (another tor based drug network that wired wrote about a while back). As far as I know silkroad is still operating - although I don't have tor set up so don't know.
For more about ColdFusion and my ridiculous stack, see:
http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back...
Yeah I'd been looking at AppHarbor vs Amazon/RackSpace/Ninefold. I think this excessive value-less self promotion just ruled out one for me.
Big criminals arrange for 120 tons to be shipped to San Diego, but the last mile has to sell it. When you make a few dollars at a time in profit, you need new customers, over and over again. Thee big dealer can also get lucky once and retire, not so for the small fish.

Acting as a user wanting to buy drugs online is the easiest thing for an undercover DEA agent. And then they can use full power of the US Government to find out the rest.

Bottom line: do not sell drugs online day in and day out, you will get caught.
Remember the old adage, if you're on a site and you can't figure out what the product is, the product is probably you.

I would start polling your users to find out what they find valuable about your site, what they would like to see, and what features they would be willing to pay for. Why ask the lot of us who don't have a stake in your success?

Your users will vote with their dollar, or their logins, and will have the most powerful opinions of what paid features will be most valuable to them.

Best of luck, musicians are a hard lot to monetize.
Anyone know anything about what a "Display Serial Interconnect (DSI)" and an "MIPI camera connector" is?
Right on. In my experience sometimes you need to assert yourself and say "it's not my job" to the people using you as a crutch so they can learn to do their jobs and you can go back to doing yours.
Better to ignore revenue and be thought worthless, than to attempt to make money and remove all doubt.

(paraphrasing)
Well I tend to agree with PG as I have participated in start-ups with friends and non friends (tech geniuses). Friendship can be achieved through fire, but if there are three founders and two grew up together guess who will be wrong most of the time, and guess who will look like they are missing out on the fun.
How can you ask someone to leave something they created? Would you ask a captain to relinquish his command just because hes led the crew astray?
Interesting thanks. I hadn't seen that site before. Do you happen to know what their pricing is? I don't see it on that page.
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You can already get paid support.. by having an Apps account. This gets you access to an actual support line for emergency issues like, say, being unable to log in.

Not to mention a pretty reasonable SLA. At $50 a year, it's quite nice to have.
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Elon Musk has only invested $200Million of his money into SpaceX. Pretty impressive results.
I'm anxiously awaiting the time when I can buy a Pi without jumping though hoops just to check one out. In the meantime, for those interested primarily in the price of the product and the DIY-tinker factor but who haven't been able to snag a Pi yet, you can currently pick up new (well, not new exactly, but never used) Insignia Infocast 3.5" devices for about $25 from various resellers (look on ebay, etc).

While these don't have that much long-term value serving their original consumer-oriented role, they are pretty great embedded hacker boards for the price. You don't get a 3D capable GPU and the processor isn't as fast as the Pi's, but you do get a built-in LCD display w/ touchscreen, wifi, accelerometer , FM radio receiver, etc.

(For those familiar with chumbies, the Insignia Infocast 3.5 is basically the same thing as the chumby one and the chumby hacker board, but the price has dropped even further than the price for remaining chumby ones because of the stupid name and lack of nostalgia factor).
Etsian here :D

http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=guitars&...
wait when did DCPU-16 get a framebuffer/higher-res graphics?
Au contraire, you delivered a reply within 2 hours. :)

Perhaps you are too hard on yourself. (Although given you live in the UK that's likely a pre-requisite for continued residence...)
> "Being someone that was alive long before Facebook got big I can assure you this statement is wrong."

Funny, you seem to know a lot about the experiences of myself and my friends - all of whom predate Facebook by a pretty wide margin.

This reminds me of the age-old and tired argument that Apple wasn't first to the smartphone game, as if that somehow robs their accomplishment of any weight. LJ never transcended being a niche online community, FriendFeed is a footnote, Friendster was well-known but not widely used... The only social network that had any real claim to popularity in your list is MySpace, and it was steamrolled by Facebook so quickly I'm sure their heads are still spinning.

Likewise, Nokia was first - but does it matter? "Smartphone" didn't enter the common vernacular until the iPhone. The fact that similar functionality (available with much poorer relative usability) existed prior to the game-changing product is supposed to prove... what? Remember "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."? The execution of an idea is as important (no, more important) than the idea itself, and is worthy of recognition. Similarly, Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but he certainly was the one who brought it to the masses - and that is well worth recognition and respect.

So yeah, you're right, niche proto-social-networks existed prior to Facebook. So what? Facebook was the first mass-market social network that had any significant traction, and it remains the king of the hill. It has changed the way people interact, even if it wasn't the first to come up with the idea of it.

What's with the blithe dismissals of Facebook and Zuck-hate? This isn't a zero-sum game - there is plenty of space for Musk and Zuckerberg to both do their thing, and impact the things they will.
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Interesting. I thought about doing something similar to unRAID in the cloud where you essentially designate one provider as a parity drive and can rebuild it or the others easily should one of them somehow be compromised (shut down or whatever). Would make it easy to add additional providers to the mix on the fly.

The parity drive could even be a local mount.
This is a long post, but a fascinating dive into the business of music. Here we have facts, hard numbers, more-questionable numbers, anecdotes, experiments, and some rambling hyperbole from an industry veteran. I have rarely seen this kind of detail in discussions of online music.
Ask HN: Should I learn PHP?
I'm a designer + WordPress developer looking to up skill into making web applications.

I'm getting to grips with Ruby in anticipation for using Rails but I'm wondering whether it's worth learning PHP too?
It's about half the size of the legal (pharmaceutical) drug trade, which is big.

Taking out a group with $1 million revenue is like taking out a local pharmacy.
Sounds like the classic free rider problem.
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this is a great idea, i had someone the other day ask me to make an app like this. have you thought about expanding it to help people when choosing groceries in the supermarket? i guess that would be a bit of scope creep though. good luck!
ok, page is like-able now. Thanks frankdenbow for suggesting this fairly obvious miss on our part :)
Just to put it out there - why not continue on the rejected idea?

YCombinator are good, but not infallible. Just because they reject your application doesn't guarantee that your idea doesn't have legs.
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Odd bug -- when I lose the game and then hit enter to replay, every map only has a single mine. :(

Otherwise awesome.
Why on earth would an online drug marketplace use traceable currency? Silk road got it right using BC.
I'm having the same thing... and it shouldn't be the browser in this case...
This idea is awesome and will make Fandalism something different than just another marketplace. It's also a nice time to show that not only do we not need the RIAA for distribution, we don't need them for promotion. Your site's design is also beautiful enough to do it.
I'm not sure that it does.

Backtype seemed much more powerful than twitter's search function currently is. I would be surprised if it regressed that much (although, I really don't know).
I don't think there's going to be much, and I'd say any, confusion.

Firstly Windows 8 RT is only going to be pre-installed and only on ARM devices. So you can't decide to buy it at all.

All home PCs and consumer laptops people will have Windows 8 installed already. Therefore people won't need to make a decision.

Businesses will be able to use Window 8 or the Pro version if they require the more advanced encrpytion or domain management features. (I can also see some high end business laptops having this installed.)

Enterprise users will have their computer installed for them with the Enterprise SKU.

So really there will be no confusion on the users side, the most complicated choice of the whole lot will be for small businesses trying to decide between the normal or Pro version, but I'm sure there will be an upgrade path.
I have an idea that probably doesn't have much revenue generating potential but it could be a cool new feature (to me at least). I spent about 20 seconds on the website so sorry if you already have this, but I didn't notice it. The users could have the ability to do interactive jam sessions, even if they are miles apart. Maybe something like a high fidelity audio only version of Google Hangouts.Each participant would need some headphones and a resonable quality microphone. I guess if you were looking for a way to squeeze some money out of this, perhaps you could sell recorded copies of the jam sessions to the participans or anyone else willing to pay for them I guess. Sorta like a demo mixing service :P I bet a lot of bands could get their start this way. You'd be removing any limitations of proximity between musicians. Can you imagine if every member of the Beatles had been born in different parts of the world?
Something a lot of us could learn from pud: ask for suggestions, actually read them and respond thoughtfully.

Well done.
For now I'd focus 100% on improving the product. You're building a social network of sorts, which means the network effect is your big hurdle. You're in a land rush. Forget about anything other than winning that land rush right now. Build a network so populous and engaged that even if someone builds a better site (and if your growth keeps going, they will) it won't matter.

If the server bill gets too high, toss in the least amount of Adwords you can to pay for it. Or just ask your users to donate. Or come up with some premium features that are just compelling enough to keep the lights on. Or raise money from angels. Again, keep the lights on while you improve the product and grow your userbase.
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We have a truly insane taxation system.

In a related story, InfoWars goes on their usual over-hyped tirade over the non-travel law being proposed. Even accounting for the usual hype, it is a serious problem to civil liberties. http://www.infowars.com/irs-travel-ban-revoking-citizenship-... (I tried submitting this story but it looks like the domain is on the auto-delete list)

I really can't believe the system has gotten as bad as it has.
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He's not slamming the entire service, he's slamming the redesign, and rightly so. The entire purpose of the site is to teach - and the changes to the design have obfuscated what course you're supposed to take next. The design is objectively not working as well as it could.
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While we all have our gripes, I am enjoying the various ways developers can write software for Windows RT. I understand Microsoft is (probably) just trying to play catchup to iOs and Android in terms of apps but allowing developers to create apps using languages they already know (C, C++, or C#(via Visual Studio 11)) is a nice touch.
Its all related to your perception; maybe the constructions falls over you if you hit them hard enough, and maybe there is a part where the place is full of mirrors and you hardly can tell the difference between an enemy and his reflection... but all this little things probably doesn't make it a "new game" for you; but for some people it does.
I understand, though I'm merely stating that from firsthand experience seeing my ex work, she was going at it like crazy just to get it up and running smoothly. Hard to understand the difference between 7h vs. 90h per week for two successful people who had never worked in the cleaning biz before.
No, they actually do not.

The visual design is poor enough, not to mention the actual code implementation but the interface itself is even more disjointed and incoherent, using a varied mix of metaphorical elements on the view that have no implied structure, hierarchy or continuity. It's as if each part of the view was designed in isolation without regard for the others.

That turkey wasn't ready to come out of the oven.
It is kinda confusing.

Agree with bad alignments but more importantly there are just to many options that basically do the same thing.

I find this type of page 1000x more useful ( the profile page as well), http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript

Several nice pages makes the cluttered http://www.codecademy.com/courses even more strange, which fails this first metric of UI, KISS.
I've always thought that the OMGPOP buy was an excellent deal for Zynga and the Instagram buy a terrible deal for Facebook.

OMGPOP is adding a significant amount to Zynga's topline revenue. Last reported, OMGPOP was bringing $250k per day.

Instagram? $0/day. Not harsh but just the truth.

OMGPOP doesn't scream bubble at all. Instagram's deal does. So are we in a bubble? The answer is in the eye of the beholder.
Orbital has done a lot of awesome things. ORBCOMM was pretty amazing at the time -- they were just more on the government contract only side than SpaceX (although both are less so than Boeing or the other big aerospace contractors).
Thanks! The monetization should be easier in shopping than many other areas because it's just one step away from purchase.

Btw we're doing lots of fun machine learning stuff, let me know if you might be up for interning here in Palo Alto. You can use the feedback link at the bottom of the site.
I absolutely agree, new design is absolutely terrible. Hard to use and understand where the last lesson I left off at.
I think this all happens in Comparison. For example try comparing something like 'sharing photos' with 'going to space'.

Sharing photos might be difficult, and it is difficult to do that at scale. But space travel is a totally different beast.

Its almost like we are in the era of Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci now. I mean its just totally a different thing. Its a whole new world to explore. And that itself if far more exciting than 'sharing photos'.

Objectively everybody does a great job. But subjectively somebody is working for a greater purpose than the other.