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People often miss the point of that quote. If he had asked people what they wanted, they'd have said "faster horses."

What they REALLY were saying was "I want to get places faster."
I'm sorry, I feel I came across as making a broader point than I was. Probably because of the "birth and death" bit which really isn't what I meant to focus on.

I'm talking about a few specific examples that are astonishingly easy to clone yet are being assigned enormous value. Groupon is what I was thinking of especially, but I didn't want to "name names"... which is probably why I came across as making a broad point. Dropbox is now being challenged in this way, and many have been talking a lot about their sustainable competitive advantage since the whole Steve Jobs "feature" quote. Instagram.

I wasn't making a direct comment about tech startups in general, many of which are carving out real markets they want to crush.
I don't see our competitive position as different than any other typical company. We've got a great product that people love, and we build new things into it that our competitors can't predict or move fast enough to build. We've built a brand that students and teachers know and like.

One deliberate competitive advantage is that we're a free, ad-supported site. Most education products go for a subscription model, and that requires enterprise sales (selling to districts, blech) and fundamentally limits the number of people who will use and enjoy your product.

The ad model only works when you have scale (which we do). If we had been in a position where we needed to make money quickly, we wouldn't have grown into the size and scope we have now.
Yeah, would be interesting for me as well :) !!
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The mathematics of economies falls in the field of evolutionary dynamics. This is a relatively young field, having its origins in the 1960-1970 time frame, and much of the fundamental principles are still being worked out. For one thing, evolutionary dynamics necessarily involves quite a bit of graph theory, much of which is difficult or impossible to describe with continuous functions.

The mathematics of climate, on the other hand, falls in the field of statistical mechanics. While still a rather complicated field, statistical dynamics is much older, starting with Boltzmann in the late 19th century, and considerably more of the principles have been worked out. Statistical dynamics also deals more with continuous functions which, while not exactly easy to work with, can still be manipulated more easily than graphs.
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I tend to do general freelance web-design as well as working with a couple of startups on a part-time basis. About a year ago I started to encourage my clients to provide a mobile option.

Since then I've worked with a number of responsive frameworks (bootstrap, foundation, less framework) and found them pretty decent for rapidly providing a responsive site. However I've come to the conclusion that for a fair amount of client work the non-responsive but device specific may be a better option.

Don't get me wrong I've secured work by demonstrating how a responsive website behaves by resizing the browser. It instantly conveys the flexibility and use case for clients. And for some of the simpler client work it works perfectly.

However I've also seen that usage behavior and expectations change from mobile to desktop. Increasingly I'm finding that what content is delivered to what device is far more important that whether the layout pops into a single column.

This article is exactly the starter pack of development techniques that I'd like to have to move from responsive frameworks to a more considered mobile and device specific approach.
I don't really have an opinion on the actual thing being discussed though, other than my comments back and forth with "paul"

I.e., trolling. Yeah, I know.
Won't it end up being hell for good-looking girls/women?
Off-topic: Is it my tired eyes, my broken browser (Chrome on Ubuntu Linux) or a special javastrick: The screenshots appear "suddenly" when scrolling down the page, a bit like a lazy load of images or something similar. NB if you scrolled down to the bottom already, you have to reload the page to see it, and it seems less noticeable than at first load.
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Thank's
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Yeah, the parent makes the point not to conflate the NSA with 'the US Government'. There's the adage that a team is only as good as its least able member - guess that would apply to the US Government's knowledge of IT security.
Thank you for taking the questions here seriously and taking the time to address them thoughtfully.

This sort of topic brings out high emotions on both sides, and it's good to bring the rhetoric level down a bit. Certainly it's the way to win people over to your way of thinking and have even more of an impact.

I'm curious, has your wife written about the sorts of topics raised here? Would she do so on the web, if she hasn't already? There's a notable portion of the entrepreneurial community that has these sorts of legitimate questions and it would seem like she'd be in a unique position to discuss them and sway hearts and minds.
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Maybe had he done the sleep study they would have fitted the right mask to begin with :-)
I can spend the $200 I would have spend on a Windows license to buy more steam games instead.

A decent gaming desktop that runs OSX is too expensive.
Thanks for these, do appreciate the work so far.

I was really hoping for a graph of commits as well though, ala git log --graph . I know the network graph is intended for this, but it fails pretty badly.
What an over sensationalized headline. I realize it's the same as the source but I thought HN was better than this.
Nice, I always wonder how other developers (like in bigger companies) style their code. I'm even gonna try to send this to a few outsourced developers I work with to see if we can improve that area, which is basically their aquiles kneel.
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Of course, doctors should just give the patient whatever he asks for. What does all those years of medical school matter, this guys runs a blog and he has done research before going to the doctor!
That's not equivalent; the equivalent is the board deciding to give 50% of their own fees to charity. (Note that it's only the general partners, i.e. fund managers, doing this; they do return 100% of profits to their limited partners, i.e. clients.)
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Please back up your statement that "ReCAPTCHA is broken past 7 days" with a link that provides more information.

Providing only a link to Recaptcha --- since no information relevant to your statement is presented there --- doesn't help anyone.
The page loads [0], which, given its name, probably means they do some lazy loading. I've seen it too.

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"all you need to supply is a computer and power"

That would be an amazing achievement. So it prints stuff from nothing? Or rather, they convert energy into matter?
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I'd also recommend "The perfect health diet" [1]. Awful title but the book is superb, easily as good as Taubes, practically every paragraph has references to studies.

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What ! Russia landed a probe on the moon during Armstrong's moonwalk!

Incredible. The moon, or Times Square? Who could tell.
If you have ten ideas and do nothing, why would the next ten ideas be any better?

Unfortunately you don't get better at having ideas by simply having more ideas. You get better ideas because you have experience in trying to use them.
Whereas that may apply in terms of effectiveness, the opposite applies in terms of knowledge.
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So he's a great innovator. So stop complaining and sell it outside of USA.
The Go compiler is largely implemented in C. However, unlike most modern languages, Go has explicitly been designed to be easy to compile into fast code.
I made and operated a MakerBot. It was fun but they oversell the idea of just hitting print and watching an object come out. It's hardly like that. In reality you have to manually fiddle around with the print head and print surface at the start of every job; some prints fail half way, etc.

Honestly we don't need cheaper open source 3d printers, we need a more reliable, better one. Show me printing something from a computer without manual intervention, and I'll buy it.
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That's where the "option" part comes in. People who aren't worried about the cost simply don't turn it on.

Those of us who can't afford an extra £1000/month (or more if it's a dedicated attack) would love to be able to just turn it off when a threshold is hit.

Users may lose access, but at least you don't go bankrupt in the process.
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I think this is great, but I'm still unclear about why market researching your idea would have caused you to not pursue it further. If you had asked users when you first started, or even now, "would you use an awesome flashcard/memorization service that is FREE" I would expect the results that came back would encourage the idea of going forward with the business, because I know flashcards are a popular tool for studying and lots of people study.

Are you saying that the number of existing quiz/flashcard sites would create a research result that would discourage attempting another one? It seems like you knew while you were building Quizlet that you had something different in mind, so the only unknown was whether people would use it en masse. As it turns out, you were right, but, and this is a sincere question, was this vision or luck?

Isn't it more accurate to say that the art lies in knowing what questions to ask the oracle, and how to ask those questions, rather than ignoring the value of prophecy?
oh this one is funny!
did i get that right? i will have to pay google this moneystuff to create even more market research data for them? (because as the survey is done on their site the data will end up on their servers)

well, call me a greedy bastard, but in my opinion they would have to pay me, would't they?
Never till I went to MIT did I not feel that I was weird. At MIT, it felt ok to be me. I was like that, and others were kinda like that, and we were good together.
I understand this isn't the point of the article, but the leading remark is fairly unreasonable.

The lack of a clean module system in C++ is fairly directly a result of it's decent from C, a language designed earlier than Modula-2 and thus unable to learn from it. It would have been very difficult to add such a thing in the intervening time to the language given the required constraints of compatibility.
This is a good example of the liability problems that come with modifying systems that can be potentially leathal. However, applying them to ALL medical devices under a blanketed set of terms seems absurd.

Controlling radiation emitting devices? I can see where this would make sense. Adjusting an APAP or even O2 monitoring system? Not remotely.
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> chicken wings and burgers and fries and nachos and big macs

Thats loads of carbs. And they are probably also eating a lot of crisps, along with all the sodas and sweetened drinks they are drinking. What I am trying to say, is that its not the fat in those meals which is making them fat, its the carbs.

I am on a diet which has cut out all carbs entirely, and increased the amount of fat I eat drastically. I lost a large amount of weight fairly quickly on this diet, and the loss continues.

Edit: Americanized chips to crisps.
The first words spoken in the video: "Now I am not against sugar when it's appropriate and rare."

It might have been nice for him to spend a little more time focusing on appropriate sugar intake scenarios and what makes them appropriate. In previous videos he discussed the importance of fiber in more depth.
interesting stuff. it leaves me wanting more
This is poor advice. Asking people if they would do something may not give you good data: people are finicky, and may not do what they say they will. Alternate solution: put up a kickstarter. Instead of asking people if they would do something, get them to put the money where there mouth is. Kickstarter is real market validation, not just a throw-away survey.
Very commonly used in New Zealand, its used on TV with no problems, heres the iconic Toyota ad using the word bugger to good effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKY_OysWu3k
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I am impressed by the purity. Takes homoiconicity to the next level.
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I'm wary of online survey results as users just want to get through them as soon as posible. Their motivation is not helping you, it's reaching the carrot at the end of the stick.

I once had a prospective client who wanted to launch a health tourism website, he created a survey and came back to me excited about the results: people wanted to do travel tourism with four companions on average, one user even said he wanted to travel with 8 companions! Of course I was skeptical so I looked into the data.

Turns out it was all bot filled data, the survey company would give a monetary incentive to people who filled the survey, which is an open invitation to game the system.

Bad data is worse than no data at all, because it gives you false confidence in things that might be outright wrong.

I know Google is not naive and they probably filter out questionable data, but I have lost track of all the times I've responded that I live in Afghanistan (first item of the country dropdown) just to get through a sign up form designed by the marketing department.
And since the MAC address is visible in the ARP table and on the ethernet, if you're simply able to TCP connect, the MAC address is already given!
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I would rather have them compete over who can pull off the most awesome technological breakthroughs (asteroid mining, cheap space flight, life extension, genetic therapy, artificial biology, vanquishing diseases).

But honestly, how many of them were going to do that with the money, anyway? I agree that charity is better than conspicuous consumption.
This doesn't impress me. You get far better and more accurate results from running a Google ad campaign on a mocked up landing page than a survey would deliver.

An ad campaign gives you far more: number of impressions, click through rate, cost per click, key words and phrases potential customers actually use, etc. When it comes to surveys, people lie all the time (Would you hire someone from ethnic minority X? Answer: Of course, some of my best friends are...). People lie all the time, their Google search activity doesn't lie.
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My first real commit, while i dive deeper into python.

What do you guys think? How could I improve?
It could be an interesting problem to write a piece of code that performs one task when run as a Lisp program and another when run as Parenthetic. Or the same task even.
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He's getting 100+ requests per second.

You could rate limit the IPs.
The question is how many IPs is Feedfetcher using ?
How do you propose modelling and tailoring a custom leg attachment for "next to nothing"?
a potential problem might be it gives me too little information. For instance, id like a little more insight into your experience at LazyZach before i decide to contact you
For example, using Facebook Connect is a great way to get all that security (plus all our fake account detection) and the added bonus of not having to store (and properly hash) passwords.

With the downside of compromising your users integrity and open your users up to even more tracking as well as relying on a 3rd party for a system-critical component and force your users to sign up for a facebook account.

Storing and properly hash passwords is not hard to do.

While I appreciate the work you do, facebook connect (as well as most, if not all, similar solutions) just sickens me and any service that exclusively rely on it is just pathetic (for the reasons above).

Todo: Create multiple fake facebook accounts for such services, can't believe I haven't done this already.

If you would just care to acknowledge that there might be potential issues with the things you mention your posts wouldn't seem like pure PR-statements.
I'm new to HN, Python, and Git. So i don't mean to repost my comment, but in case it didn't go through...

What do you guys think? Where can I improve?
I have no idea whether to be for against government regulation in health care because it's a complicated issue and I am nowhere near an expert. But I would like to ask you if you think the same logic applies to food. Can the food industry extract as much money from me as they want? I will give you the shirt off my back in order to avoid starvation. If no, what is the magic happening in the food industry? Could similar magic apply in health care?
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According to Wikipedia, the Remote Desktop that's included with Windows Vista and later includes TLS encryption, which should be sufficient.

Of course, you could just set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which encrypts your traffic and then tunnels it to some (presumably trustworthy) computer. One convenient open-source solution is OpenVPN, but there are lots of open-source and commercial options. This may or may not be blocked in China.
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We use this for a mobile app and it's very nice. Haven't run into any issues, at least so far.
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I didn't know this, thanks for the link. But why google is doing this ? Is survey business that big ?
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And what if you acidently obtain usernames and passwords that are covered by the Official Secrets act or the eqivelent Act in the USA.

Its still an offence to have/read them even if some one else published them.

Even less important things like bank acount username and pass words and usernaens and passwords for a companies website are still trade secrets.
There's a big difference here. Basically, anyone can grow food, while not many people can make their own antibiotics or CPAP machines in their backyards.
"...creating its own clone social network..."

I beg to disagree but I think they all are clones. And in the last few months it have been more like Facebook mimicking G+ than the way around.
Not being a lawyer I really do not understand one thing. Why on earth is it possible for law enforcement to issue a subpoena on a cloudprovider, regarding my data, giving them access, without my knowledge (worst case).

when the data resides on my home-drive, they would have to use a search warrant, I would know, I could go against this decision, appeal in a court.

Aren't they taking basic rights of me, if (worst case) I don't know anything of the subpoena and cannot this way appeal?

Isn't an example case needed, that makes it clear, that my data can only be accessed by law enforcement via a warrant, independent, where this data resides (cloud or home).
"Every Entrepreneur". Yeah right. What about when your making something people don't even know they want yet.
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I got a peculiar sense of satisfaction about seeing someone (presumably US) having to ask to have an acronym or bit of country-specific jargon explained.

My brain is now full of terms that only exist in the States that get bandied around in discussions as if everyone knows what they mean.
Seems to me like a sensible option would be to try losing weight, since sleep apnea is strongly linked to obesity. And yeah, he says it's his muscles that are the problem, but it seems rather convenient to blame that when he admits he's overweight and suffering from this complaint where that's known to be a huge factor. I guess you could say that a hidden silver lining of the medical industry taking so long to fix his problem is that it'd give him time to explore that alternative...
Because the Support page is outdated? (Maps Labs is now a shortcut on the bottom left of the page.)

I just reported the problem via the short survey linked on the page. Let's see how long it takes to fix it...
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I don't see how altruism is more irrational than luxory consumption. Doing charity will make you happy and fulfilled - quite a smart move to do so ;)

(yes, I know that charity != altruism. But this is a very theoretical discussion)
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