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@khangtoh - American Idol online - Isn't that just Ourstage? won't fandalism already capture this with the "props" feature that already exists on the site?

@mladenkovacevic- Re: A Discovery engine for Musicians to find one another and "jam" over the internet - +1 Others have pitched this, but not with @pud 's vibrant user base. As far as monetization worries, a cool tool of this kind is just as much a sound business model as any site fueled by display ads. Here's why in my opinion...at this stage in the development of the consumer web every product's success is a function of its ability to capture the waking hours of the consumers' disposable leisure time (this isn't the 90s when every web site was supposed to have the same business model as the new york times). Consider this assumption. Musicians spend a lot of time playing music alone and with each other, possibly more than instagramers spend taking pictures. Ultimately, especially if the bull market for venture backed companies continues, someone will create a way to capture these disposable leisure hours from the wide user base of musicians. but @pud it would be a lot easier with half a million users...

@replax
Mic Quality Problem
a) A fair point, but its worth considering the fact that most musicians would cede a high quality mic for the ability to interact with one another. Also, lets not forget that the barriers to entry for a powerful microphone have come down considerably in the last ten years. Today, a Blue Snowball (<$100 used maybe new) will compete with microphones that were well above its price range ten years ago.

Also check out the iRig. The possibilities are endless and could tie back into the mobile platform @cruso (building a quick mobile app) and the online @mladenkovacevic jam session idea.

P.s. its interesting that crusso's was the only post that mentioned mobile

@replax again
Bandwidth Problem
b) key problem that every video chat service has been able to overcome, and if we can't solve it now we will be able to solve it shortly as bandwidth improves...

Thanks for the opening up the dialogue pud. This is an exciting space. Excited to see where people take this, but you have a one up with your years of experience and rock solid user base (don't leave them hanging!) :)

P.S. ur servers were down temporarily last night ;)
Actually, that's a beautiful comparison.
He is the board. Guy has a tremendous amount of shares.
I am surprised that a leavy-lifting rocket capable of achieving orbit only develops 4 times the thrust of a 747.
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...there's no demand in Spain. If my sales aren't growing, there is simply no need, full stop.

No demand? Really? Spaniard's won't pay $0.25 euro's to have their house cleaned, or $0.50 for a restaurant meal? Demand is not completely inelastic at 0.

The reason there is unemployment is because something is preventing markets from clearing. For example, it's possible that the government pays people more not to work than employers are willing to pay them to work.

Incidentally, there are plenty of reasons I might hire even if sales aren't growing in my sector of the economy. For example, I might want to increase my market share.
re: the downvote.

This wasn't an attack on space-X it was a celebration of them having continued the tradition of the frankly astonishing work that skunk works started.

ps. it is a very good book
I totally agree about the pervasive distortion by mass media, but don't you think there's a fundamental difference between most everybody being subject to the same reality distortion versus different bubbles for individual people? Especially when those individual bubbles are completely opaque to the people trapped in them? It's easy to tune out most of the bias of mass-market broadcast culture, but much harder to be aware of what's being pumped to you specifically. If a company is going to tailor their behavior for what I "like", the least they can do is be up front about it and provide a transparent way to change those alleged "preferences".
Please explain why this is better.
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To borrow from The Onion, like violence, my favorite programming language solves all problems. If it doesn't solve a problem, use more!
Without meaning to be tedious, Daniel do you mind explaining what a metric (a measurement?) is, what a structured observation is, and (if not immediately clear) add a sentence or two on what the difference between the two amounts and why they might be confused? (I didn't get very far into reading Wittgenstein.)
Well I agree that it's better to talk with people who did the exact same thing you're planning to do. The experience is more detailed. But her article is about entrepreneurship in general, not a specific type of business. That's why one of her advice was to work for a company that specializes on the industry you want to get into.
That was one of the first things I thought about too. Transparency helps everyone. If a space company can do it so can your SaaS company.
This is why SpaceX is my favorite company.
Star Wars stole the idea from the Dune series, actually, so the idea is even older than that.
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The Cold War had ended, the "new economy" was in full swing, the future looked golden. Historians like Francis Fukushima called it "the end of history". Then the world was plunged back into social, economic and geopolitical uncertainty. People look to the past for comfort.
"Metadata" can also be painful. One abstraction's metadata is another's "data data".

For example, there was a structured store where each entity was a byte array ("blob") with certain searchable, indexed "metadata". (The "data data" was the blob itself.) However, demands on the structure required certain additional fields regarding the content of that "metadata" that were allowed to break the contract of the original "metadata" and were therefore metadata on the metadata.

I fell out of my chair, hoping the "kick" would bring me up a level. It didn't. I wasn't dreaming.
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Essentially running a regex and applying colors. Very cool for simple applications.

Given how difficult regexs are to write properly, this probably doesn't scale well. Sadly, there isn't a DOM for terminal applications.
Apple's next iPhone launch could be most important in smartphone history
What I want to know is, what's the benefit of representing your domain-specific datatypes with a literal like #htmlelement [:div {:id "foo"}] rather than just (htmlelement [:div {:id "foo"}])? It seems like all you save is one character. Is there some other benefit I'm missing?
If you want to understand why it is hard to get many people who will benefit to pony up, read The Logic of Collective Action.

Basically the problem is that it is a public good. If the good is provided, everyone benefits, not just the ones who paid. So unless your payment is going to make the difference between it happening or not happening, you don't want to pay. And even if someone gets you to pay, you'll be incentivized to pay as little as you can get away with.
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That's the thing, FP is not only a great model for writing a CRUD or any kind data-processing system, but also things like Haskell's type system makes it incredibly powerfull to "hack away" code while controlling complexity. And both are things that FP extremists doesn't seem to like to promote. The "scientific" culture seems to revolve around using it for numerical computations, while trying to get as close as doing "formal proofs" as possible.
> The space shuttle had a million competing goals - from the airforce who wanted a certain glide slope

You missed the one goal that was in the forefront of all others:

Justify a large budget / keep the permanent bureaucracy employed.

Elon doesn't care about this.

In the government sector labor force size is a BENEFIT.

In the private sector it's a COST.

That is why private sectors of the economy deliver more and more value relative to the number of people employed over time (farming, publishing, software, hardware) and why government dominated sectors move in the opposite direction (the only sectors to gain headcount in the recession are education, healthcare, and government).
Errr... perhaps you meant metastasized? Or solidified/ossified?

I think if it had metabolized, that would mean your body had burnt up the weirdness and gotten rid of it.
Ok, a little hyperbola. And some of it is due to ethnic makeup of the population.

But diet, pre/post natal care and screening for eg. cancer are the things that make a HUGE difference to life expectancy - not high-tech scanners and specialist brain surgeons. And these aren't things that are addressed by the US system.
Ok, it's clear now you have horrible reading comprehension and/or have never used Hadoop in practice. If you perform an aggregation on 10 fields in a log file, a common pattern, you are going to be generating more intermediate data than your log files during the shuffle. (Hadoop is, in this case.) If you generate a dataset that has pairwise scores for users, even if you are only sampling 1% of them than you are generating way more data than your input. (You are generating this data in this example, not Hadoop, which is why I included it.) Say N=1M. You want to compute the top 1% pairwise scores (pruned via some locality sensitive hashing.) Guess what, you are computing N^2 * 0.01 = 10B records. Perfectly tractable for a big data system. You seem too busy yelling at me to even read what I am writing, since I stated this clearly: "(I realize in practice you generally do not compute the entire space because it will be too slow. However your output will be closer to n^2 than n, ie, it will be much larger than your input.)"

You say: "These are benefits of EC2, not of map-reduce. The critique was specific to map-reduce, not of the entire principle of on-demand computing." This is patently false. The criticism of the author is that people using EMR are a cargo cult and do not understand the purpose of map reduce. Ie, they should not be using EMR, and he is so clever for realizing the folly of their ways. My claim is the author does not understand the purpose of EMR. By definition, EMR brings with it the benefits of EC2. I don't see how this is a strawman.

At least I am sure now that it's not my communication skills, I illustrated two perfectly fine examples and you glossed right over them without understanding. I've already spent enough time on this and argued in good faith and at this point I can at least be confident that you have no interest in understanding what I am saying and instead want to childishly prove me wrong on the internet.
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No, the 40 hour week was fought for - before there was ever a software industry. The 8 hour day and the weekend are union accomplishments.
Being able to download a blob != having your data available.
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Or just use devise. Backbone will work just fine with it.
Taking the January and Februry numbers for holders of Spanish sovereign debt, both unstripped (€433 billion held by non-residents) [1] and stripped (€22,4 billion) [2], foreigners own 73% of the central government's outstanding debt.

[1] http://www.tesoro.es/doc/EN/home/estadistica/06i.pdf

[2] http://www.tesoro.es/doc/EN/home/estadistica/07a09I.pdf
'Anonymous' make it to TIME 100 most influential list
"Do something you love is referring to creative passions. Find something creative you love to do and make it your profession."

There's nothing like being forced to do something for a living to turn what you love in to a chore.

I used to love programming. Then I did it professionally, day in and day out, for years on end. It didn't take very long to make it a boring chore that I felt I was forced to do.

Then I switched to system administration. At first it was fun and interesting, but as my learning plateaued it became boring as well (not to mention very stressful).

Then it was on to something else. Rinse and repeat..

There are consequences to this sort of career-switching (not to mention to the burnout involved). Usually, it's the specialists with a simple, linear career path that get rewarded. Generalists and jacks-of-all-trades do not typically get much in the way of compensation or respect. Companies will look askance at your switching jobs (not to mention careers) so often, and you will find it difficult to compete with someone who's been doing just that one thing his whole career.

But the problem for people like me is mainly the tendency of getting bored too quickly. We pick up hobbies and interests for a while, but then they bore us -- even if we are not forced to do them for a living (though the rate at which they bore us tend to increase the more we are forced to do them day in and day out).

So what's the solution? There doesn't seem to be one. We just have to suck it up and work at a job that we'll inevitably get bored of and hate.. unless someone wants to pay us to play and to pursue whatever interest strikes our fancy at the moment. And, at least for me, that's probably not happening in this lifetime.
It's not the job so much as the market. There exist people on the market who are willing to put a lot of effort and are able to become very good at what they do. Even if you had a job that gave you half-and-half (20 hours for work, 20 hours to learn, grow, or ship), there would still exist people on the market who are willing to put in a lot more extra effort after the 40 hours.

Those are just the facts of the industry. It doesn't mean there's something wrong with the job, but rather, that there are inevitably going to be some highly-skilled people who got those skills by doing things on their own time.
> On that note, this might be the perfect opportunity for some never-before-herad-of Russian billionaire to make their mark as well by providing similar services to the rest of Europe that may be underserved if SpaceX really takes off in the US.

You haven't learned your lesson from the last 20 years.

There are no more "European markets for space launch" and "American markets for space launch" than there are "European markets for database products".

People compete globally.

The only reason that someone in China or France wouldn't prefer the use the best quality / lowest cost supplier is if their local government gets involved and distorts the marketplace via either taxation or regulation.
You probably want attr_accessible in there.
I'm all for Scottish independence, finally the Orkneys will be able to throw off 800years of Scottish oppression and reap the benefits of THEIR oil and closer links to their Scandanavian heritage.

ps. note British tongue firmly in cheek ;-)
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PG said it - Email/Todo's
I need a really kick ass web based todo manager and I need it to work like email (so I can exchange todo's with other people).
I started building one but... not enough time, too much todo.
I've seen one much worse: $stuff
Things people seem to keep forgetting through this entire affair:

1) Zuck, with his 57% voting proxy, has absolute control over the company. He doesn't need to consult anybody for his decisions, even Sandberg or the board.

2) With that said, he made sure they voted. The board still needs to vote for it to be legal, but if they were to vote it down, Zuck could simply remove the dissident board members with his 57% share.

3) This acquisition was defensive, not offensive, in nature. Yes, Facebook could have created its own filters, but it was worried that Instagram could become THE social network for sharing images. That would be bad for Facebook, since that's it's the undisputed leader in that space. Zuck knew it would be more expensive to leave Instagram independent than to take it out now for a high price.

4) No matter who acquired Instagram, there were going to be conflicts of interest. Twitter's CoI is actually worse -- it's Executive Chairman, Jack Dorsey, was an angel investor in Instagram. This is why Zuck doesn't make investments, I suspect.
Thanks for the new reward levels. I don't know how to code but $15/license for the opportunity to learn with lighttable is a steal.
For every rule an exception - data is a perfectly fine name for the scenario where we don't know what data the variable represents. For example in a logging framework that has to loop over the contents of a collection and dump it to the console then data or entry or something similarly vague would be a perfectly reasonable variable name.

Then data2 might be a reasonable name in a unit test that checks to see if a function can handle the traditional "1, 2, many" categories of failure.

Which is not to say that data and data2 are not, often, horrible names. But the circumstances dictate (or excuse) all.
This is the opposite of the truth. Supply and demand don't suddenly stop clearing because the government cuts spending[1]. Stuff the government consumes is stuff that nobody else gets to consume no matter what the tax rate is. Taxes and debt are just how you pay for it without inflation. This isn't a radical claim, it's Econ 101 stuff, and there are countries that have had economic expansions while running high taxes and surpluses.

[1] Actually government spending does affect the balance of non-government supply and demand, an observation that is a fundamental part of the Keynesian school. But that's a second-order effect, not a first order one.
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You are a random billionaire (i.e. not Mark Zuckerberg) with a billion dollars.

You could:
A. Buy Instagram.
B. Build SpaceX from scratch.

Most of them would probably buy instagram. :(
Sure and I apologize if my comment implies that, I don't think that I did though, I was simply stating that Iceland unlike a host of other countries, made the best worst decision available in times like these as such they should serve as an example of how to manage a financial crisis and more importantly as a reminder that governments need to keep their eye on what should be their #1 concern, their citizenry. When choices have to be made they should be made for the good of the people first, with all other interest being second.
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Using Safari, and not a peep.
char mander;

It intrigues me why this is not on the article
Yes that's why the countries in Europe with lax labour laws, low wages, low environment controls, and a weak workforce have the lowest unemployment - look at Germany.
If your website's full of trolls, it's your fault
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Just looked at your timeforzen project and think it's great. Sorry it didn't get as much attention as you'd like, but one thing that HN can help you learn is how to pitch. You'll run into the same issues in the market, only it's more difficult to get traction and it brings heavier implications (not growing revenue). Use HN as a lab to learn ways to get attention. Figure out which hooks work best.

Meanwhile, I'd be disappointed if HN didn't provide good discussion/insight on the FB acquisition. This is the only community where I could tolerate the discussion. Elsewhere it's just soundbites repeated from news clips. Most often, I click the comments link before the story link. That's why I like HN and won't be going anywhere.
In past HN threads, people wondered why Mark wanted to keep control of the majority of Facebook shares... Well the reason is he wants control precisely to be able to do these sorts of deal. He wants to buy a company when he wants to without involving Facebook's board of directors. He wants to run his company the way he wants. I totally respect and understand that.
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Reimplementing it would take time, and as with any large software project, there's no guarantee of success. How much do you think Google spent on G+, between wages, acquihires, and the like? Would it not have made more sense had they just bought facebook? G+ is still a nascent, fragile, pseudo-success. Facebook was proven and growing when Google made their offer.

Facebook could have remade Instagram, but there's no guarantee users would like it. Instead, now they have Instagram, its users, its growth, and its cachet; they've solved the photosharing hole in their app in one fell swoop.

Sometimes it's better to pay more for a sure thing. Plus, they got 12 new employees, so it's really only about $83MM each...
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frankydp, "There is a requirement to pay 6 months of unemployment for every 1 year of employment." that has never been the case.

furthermore, labour legislation changed 4 weeks ago, and it's at par with the rest of Europe now.
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>We've asked our users why they don't update to Mango, considering it's free, and most of the responses were because they didn't have a computer to update their phone with. Unfortunately this can't be done over the air.

Wow, this is very interesting. I was always under the impression that the smartphone crowd always synced their phone to their computer first. Maybe the way apple does it has ruined my perspective.
iOS and Android have a Kindle app, which means every iPhone, iPad, and Android device can also be a Kindle. This fact is conspicuously missing in the analysis.
[Taptitude Developer Here]

Hi ja27, thanks for your questions. We are currently doing $1,400/day and our data indicates we're still growing. As a part time hobby project, we consider this a success.

Yes, the top iOS games make much more, but that's not the point. Our game would never succeed on iOS because the market is too crowded. We feel there are great opportunities on windows phone that small indies may be overlooking.
Slightly. Having been through another incubator is sort of like being a single founder. We wouldn't reject an application just for that, but it counts against you.

As for the second question, that would be a bad sign, because it would be so stupid. After being accepted by YC you ought to be able to raise money at much higher valuations.
Seems to me a perfect example of "Parkinson's Law of Triviality" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality

I'm not saying that details aren't important. But I think there are more important problems for them to figure out now like "how are we going to determine what people are interested in by mining Tweets and Facebook posts. These information could be totally fallacious."
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So, in regards to fighterjets and things at least...

I've heard (and I'd love to hear whether or not this sounds reasonable) that one of the big problems is that you'll source a part like a resistor, ASIC, or something, and then for whatever reason it'll get changed--maybe a cheaper part became available and you were forced to use the cheaper part, maybe the part is no longer in production and has to be switched out, maybe the part just failed to function correctly.

The effect of this, of course, is that you have to redo all of your integration testing and verification work, and for something like a 6-month endurance test on an avionics box this just plain takes a lot of time and money.

I'm not sure that my friend was accurate, but it seems reasonable to me that that kind of thing could cause big delays.
I wonder how many decades until you can buy an earth-orbit ride giftcard at walmart.
Awesome! My extended family will love it.
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I believe downvoting is only available to users with high karma. This makes me believe that downvoting is meant to fight misbehavior. Unfortunately there is no way to report misbehavior of downvoting. If you already have high karma you have a conflict of interest in reporting downvoting misbehavior.
Nobody said anything against really short names.