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> IMHO, the single most valuable asset of a creative mind is curiosity.

All the minds curious enough to explore exhaustively every new website have been pruned out of the reproduction pool since the 2000s. They still haunt some websites, but the only one left are now those able to form an arbitrary judgement of the value of a website from its homepage.
Ask HN: How do you deal with mean and angry users (before launch)?
I've a launching page up that collects emails and comments. It's been up for almost a month so far. Recently, I've started to get a few quite nasty and sarcastic comments from potential users who are evidently excited about the product. This is, of course, something of a mixed blessing.

Any suggestions for how I should treat these users?

Thanks!
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Maybe he phrased it badly, but his point still stands.

More users downloading more stuff requires more infrastructure.

At some point enough users downloading enough stuff will saturate the hardware, and they'll have to throttle usage, or spend a boatload on new infrastructure.
You should get added as an Apple TV "app" similar to Youtube, Netflix etc, so people can browse the topic of the video they want and then watch them sorted by the max rating or something like that.
Your first paragraph relates to another study that Wikipedia cites: "a study by John Gastil found that while the plural 'they' functions as a generic pronoun for both males and females, males may comprehend 'he/she' in a manner similar to he."

"his/her" is a bit of a bugbear of mine in any case, not only for the ordering, but because it lacks cosmetic elegance. "They" is an ideal alternative.

It is interesting to note that in most figures of speech, the male variant is listed first. For example, "his and hers", "Mr and Mrs", "he and she", "his/her", "Lords and Ladies". Yet, "ladies and gentleman" is a popular counterexample. Funny stuff this English language! ;-)
Meant to upvote you, sorry.
An orphan olive branch to Mercurial (named branches in git)
This makes sense in the same way it makes sense in every other industry. They need to recover all of their sunk costs within a few years and marketing greatly increases rate of uptake and overall sales. Marketing frequently provides a positive return on investment, and in cases where the window to make a profit is short it is essential.

It would be silly to invest marketing dollars in R&D if none of the developed products were able to return the cost of R&D within the patent window due to slow market uptake. The idea that these are independent or that marketing is a waste of money relative to R&D is pernicious and incorrect.
This was exactly the point addressed in the OP. Quote:

* SGML is a good idea when the markup overhead is less than 2%. Even attributes is a good idea when the textual element contents is the "real meat" of the document and attributes only aid processing*

In your example where you want to add a small amount of markup to a large amount of text, SGML wins. JSON is a worse choice for such cases.

It seems to me that we have collectively solved these problems, which is why we have both JSON and XML. Naggum was right when he said that XML was being applied incorrectly, and Douglas Crockford solved the problem by introducing JSON.
This reminds me about bosses of incumbent French telcos when Free launched at a third of their prices for a better plan: "this is terrible, our margins will go gown!" instead of "That's terrible, now our customers will see we were ripping them off!".
That's a fashionable yet very narrow framing of the matter. If you insist on this formulation, then indeed many many problems are insoluble.
Or would Napster be more powerful than MPAA?
A website I started for $10 turned into a website doing millions of dollars of revenue a year. I would not have started that website if the domain cost me $500 because I didn't have $500. Hiking prices isn't the solution, all that would do is exclude "the little guy" and increase the resell values of domains, further excluding smaller organisations / individuals.
http://ideone.com is far better, with support for way more languages, including C++, LLVM, C#, brainfuck, and every other language on the planet. Oh, and it doesn't require registration.
Heh, Naggum. Why do we still talk about him? Did he build awesome things? Did he change the world? Affect so many lives by being a great teacher?

One thing he did do was hate a lot. You can find him throwing hate at whatever it is you hate, no problem. Perl, C++, XML... whatever (except Lisp), he probably wrote an article flaming it. So when you want to find a well-written article lambasting whatever it is you hate, you can look to Naggum.

And while he wrote those thousands of USENET posts, the rest of us were off building great things with the stuff he hated on. He was barely on my radar until he died, and looking through archives I realized he actually responded to me a couple times. I guess I was too busy making stuff to pay much attention.
Pah, kids these days. In my day Hacker News was called Startup News.
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Labels play a role in artist development that is underrated, so yes. They still play a huge role in marketing and promotion, although that power wanes as we get better tools for surfacing great artists on the web.
Does the federal government have the power to prevent slavery? Surely they have the power to enforce the rights laid out in the constitution, right? How can they enforce it without some form of federal police force?
Depends on the entry barrier of the business. For ISPs, media companies, telecom companies customer dissatisfaction means very little.
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I see the issue with name, but I think it's pretty marginal at this point.
I'll consider to release some pics of the product really soon.
Thanks!
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i agree. I think We should create and use extensible languages (both written and spoken) that are better represented and understood both machine and human.

Mathematics, English and most notations are too full of nuances to represent things unambiguously.
Totally agree - this material is better than 95% of business books I've read and I think could be a best seller (certainly in terms of quality, not sure about marketing/promoting it). Maybe you could co-author it with Peter.
We have very different definitions of "unusable." I don't like the crapware, and I eventually did root my SGS2 and removed the crapware. However, my phone was definitely usable, and the main benefit I got from removing the crapware was that my app drawer was less full, which is nice but not a deal breaker of a feature.
It raises my eyebrow that a third party controls MSN, Google, and Facebook's DNS entries while also being a trusted certificate authority. This makes a man-in-the-middle SSL attack "somewhat easy". Does anyone publicly audit the DNS entries of major services? I haven't heard of any browsers alerting on SSL certificate changes (a la ~/.ssh/known_hosts).

Perhaps I like my tinfoil hat more than the average Joe, but this sounds like an excellent way to execute wiretaps. I can only imagine that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3929507 reminded the submitter of this old (Feb 17th) paste.
I don't have a downvote button, so I'm guessing you aren't able to undo a downvote?
There's also http://codepad.org/, but it doesn't support as many languages.
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Ah, I see. I added a similar feature to Command-T, because scanning one of my projects trees takes a couple seconds.
"What pays for government funding? Taxes on profits."

...those profits don't have to be drug company profits, so that's irrelevant. Not to mention, focusing on the status quo source of government spending power somewhat begs the question in the context of "does capitalism still make moral sense?"
Romania definitely has the answer!
Just like I said in this Quora answer: http://www.quora.com/Business/What-is-the-best-to-invest-now...
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I don't remember anyone saying that.
Update: rounak (whose comment is [dead], unfortunately) has noted that this post is basically a copy and paste from an original TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/04/startups-com-is-shutting-do... - Curiously, someone linked to the original TC story yesterday on HN and it didn't take off at all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928703 .. I suspect this was because TC's title wasn't very good.

I was going to delete this "dupe" but since the discussion has kicked off here, I'll keep it. However, if an admin wants to "fix" the link to point to the original TC source, please do so! :-) Mea culpa!
> What do large companies gain by not being the first to disrupt their own markets?

They can continue to extract massive profits from their existing market.
> Post the photo to our Facebook
Page or Twitter with the caption...

Guess I'll just have to wait this one out for now. Hopefully they'll open it up soon.
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I was just going to write similar thing. This shows that there is a significant percentage of HN users, who haven't had formal introduction to basic CS concepts.
I think the answer is yes but they would not be so obvious. They would be more like business developers but dedicated to the music business on the web, web music consultants which is what they should be focusing on learning how to do now.
totally agree, this idea can go further
As I commented on the article. I ctrl-shift v works for paste on Linux. Haven't tested on other platforms
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Yeah, definitely JavaScript. Don't forget web fonts too. I can't tell you how many times I see an entire page load then have to wait several seconds for any text to show up. It's always good to write clean efficient CSS but I think articles like this are more like coder porn than anything else. The performance gains are trivial especially when compared to JavaScript, embeds/like buttons, videos, images, and slow database queries. I know DB queries arent rendering related but I know many somewhat experienced developers working on sites that run a CMS who start optimizing everything except their database and drive themselves crazy trying to figure out why pages are loading so slow. Point is, optimized CSS is probably not that high of a priority for the vast majority of sites.
Great opinion piece! Thanks Mircea.
Apparently its not obvious because he seemed to feel that there wasn't an easy alternative. I understand that perspective.

If I were a sole developer or designer, who wanted to participate in the app store, seeking a complement that I could get along with well would be a high priority.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the major proponents of doing away with traditional higher education and questioning the value of a college degree are people with at least one degree (in many instances advanced degrees as well) from very prestigious institutions. They believe that in a practical sense, what you really need to know to perform you can gain more efficiently by doing. They ask "Who knows better than somebody with expensive degrees how worthless they are?"

I completely disagree with that and I believe the opposite is true. Only people without degrees can speak reliably about whether they regret the decision or not. They actually put themselves on the line. I'm not convinced when I hear people with degrees say that they wish they had known that they didn't need them before or that they would have been just as well without them. That's like somebody who paid for flood insurance claiming "who knows better than I how worthless flood insurance is?" Perhaps the guy down the street who didn't buy it and lost his house.

Edit: And to the author's point about iTunes vs buying full albums- that analogy is faulty. There have been community colleges around for many, many years, but the reality is that companies just don't value individual coursework as favorably as an entire degree, particularly one from a prestigious school. The purchaser of a song has very different objectives than a hirer. A song purchaser wants one song and does not want to pay ten times the price to buy an entire album which might have three songs that he likes. Clearly, single purchases are more efficient.

But when it comes to hiring, there is no added cost. If I am hiring for a position with a stated salary, I want the most qualified person I can find. If I can hire a guy with three degrees in Computer Science from MIT, I don't really care about the guy with the Microsoft and Cisco certification, even if those are things that are precisely what you need to know on the job. College is absolutely an intelligence test and screening tool, and people are naive to believe that it isn't. If you pull back and decide you are going to turn down MIT and go learn just the skills you need for your job, there are going to be 5,000 people lined up behind you ready to saddle themselves with debt and work through four years of college to get the degree and you will facing an uphill battle. So in the case of iTunes, a comparable situation is if I had $0.99 to spend on a song, and had hundreds of full albums with that song offered for my $0.99. In that case, I am not going to buy the single song.
Earth. Seriously, we have been full time nomads for the past several years.
You're right. You'd be better off building a website.
whats that website address?
JSON and XML have two totally different application domains. For some XML is better for some JSON. People who think JSON is better never had a problem with changing data schemas, different parties and common interface.

In short XML is a lot more powerful than simple JSON. JSON is a subset of XML with a different syntax.
Ask HN: What are your favorite films about startups?
I can only think of Pirates of Silicon Valley and The Social Network. What are some others?
I'd love to be able to pay reasonable data charges per megabyte. The problem is that overages are currently insane, compared to what it costs for fixed monthly rates.
I don't know what do you mean by "end-user facing specs/apps".

But if enterprise apps where the content is formatted in XML count, then there are thousands (I'm working on OpenERP, for example, which uses XML both to define views and to transmit content to the client).

Then there's SVG. And the Office formats, both MS' and LibreOffice's. And obviously XHTML. And XMPP, which drives Google Talk and clients to FB Chat.

Just look at the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_markup_languages
Seriously now, why keep posting this OT piece of news?
http://minecraftforum.net http://minecraftwiki.net

both set up for $10 (each) at a point where I was unemployed, had nothing beyond the few $ I made freelancing, both now doing over 1,000,000,000 page views a year (with adverts). Wouldn't have existed if domains were priced at $20 or more each (I had $40 to my name at the time, if I remember correctly).
There is a lot of inertia in the systems, and if they should choose to try to disrupt the market in a way that doesn't work, then they will lose a whole lot.
Any SmallTalk hackers care to summarise the high points of the way maybe compared to the CL condition system? Wikipedia says they also have continuable exceptions.
I can't really be bothered to cite references since I'm typing this on an iPad and I doubt you'd care but I do like to point out for others than he has build great things and worked on influential projects (take SGML for example).

I can only dream to attain 10% of the technical prowess he achieved in his short life.
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That's why I always read the comment section before I give these bloggers free clicks.
Got Eric Ries to retweet! Whoa, nice job :)
Interesting how innovation is not an isolated incident in but rather seems to permeate many innovative peoples' lives.
Email me and I'll see if I can introduce you to some of the Startupbootcamp mentors http://www.startupbootcamp.org/europeans-cities/berlin/mento...

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The little I've been able to find on the kernel and TC (Traffic Control) is here http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/
Agreed. This exists for the same reason the costs of text messages are so exorbitant: lack of competition.
Premature optimization.

Normalized data is one of the important elements of relational database modeling, and almost all relational databases expect the data to be normalized, so they have optimizations in place to make doing those lookups fast. It will usually create some automatic special indices for the foreign keys or something.

The first thing to do is use a normalized data model and profile it. If it's too slow add some indices and profile it again. If it's still too slow, update the table to store redundant information and profile it again.
The same could be said of Argentina and some cities in Brazil, with the added benefit of being closer (timezone-wise) to the US. Don't know what's so special about Romania besides it being part of the EU.
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yes of course. just look at the job netlabels do at curating and caring for their (usually) consistent genre/style. as a music lover, I follow many netlabels and most provide me with stuff I like all the time.
What is the 21st Century blackboard?
It may apply in other industries, but medicines are different. You have the whole medical school system to do your "marketing". There are scientific publications galore.

For life-saving drugs, customers aren't swayed by "marketing" at all: if they have a condition that can be helped by the drug, they will go for it, marketing be damned.

I know we like to jump to analogies in these forums ("digital music" == physical stuff; "no password" == unlocked door; etc.), but some situations are unique. I would like to think that the pharma industry, particularly the critical drugs section, is unique.
If he was just trying to make money by flipping the domain name, than it might be a savvy business move. But his goal was to start a successful business and make more than a few hundred thousand dollars.

He could have named his company: randomstartupdeals.com, or something not as succinct as startups.com but much cheaper. Then he could have used that $500k to extend the life of his business (possibly through another pivot or two).
great article. i have more respect for the guy after seeing that progression. it is not a trivial thing to switch into google corp dev. he must have a presence that pushes him up.
Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community
We are focused on API support, and building an awesome end-user experience.
> It showed that Engineering education in India sucks largely because of orthodox bad teachers who lack vision.

And pray, you being from IIT what makes you qualified enough to show this statement is wrong? I'm not saying the portrayal of the movie was correct but to make a sweeping generalizable statement above ; one needs to be part of a setup other than IITs.
BELIEVES??? What is this? A religion?

You can suspect. (That's honest.) Then, not being intellectually lazy like "believers," you have to apply the scientific method to test your suspicions. (Note: Using philosophy and semantics is no proof at all. It's physics or nothing. You could start with the double slit photons experiment.)
you must be the guy who did AMA on Reddit a few weeks ago.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/q6xkg
Ridiculous math and CS education consistently all over the map for over 50 years. Like advanced calculus in high school. Plus hungry.
We believed in a simplified, consumer-friendly experience with drag & drop support for major APIs.
A friend of mine (who recently moved down to Argentina) was saying Argentina would be a great place to recruit -- if you have any information about this I'm sure HN would be interested.
I'm laughing so hard at the mental contortions that went into thinking up this title.

guys, this title is LITERALLY equivalent to introducing a processor as

engineers invent electricity-eating heat that runs on silicon
The issue is not what the court decided, unless you believe the court is always correct and what is constitutional changes w.r.t what the court believes. For example, do you believe that in the period from 1896 (Plessy v Fergusen) until 1954 (Brown v Board of Ed), Jim Crow laws were constitutional?

If not, you must have some underlying principle that tells you Plessy was incorrect. Or, somewhat tangential to constitutionality, you might have an underlying belief as to what constitutes a legitimate function of the government (e.g., perhaps you believe that regulating same-sex acts is not such a function).

The question is, what is that underlying principle (or set of principles)?

This is what Nirvana attempted to ask, while unfortunately getting bogged down in other far more boring matters.
Having HTML as a native type in a language is something I could get behind. Otherwise, no thanks - I prefer specialized tools and languages.
To answer the original question, we would probably have viral music videos instead of records. And judging from the current quality of viral content, the music would contain lots of fart sounds.

Essentially as an artist, you need to make money

As a person, you need to make money. As an artist, you need to make art. That doesn't mean you 'll get rich.
I browse with Javascript disabled. And I have proper video drivers installed. Might be the shadows, I have no idea.
15 years ago I had Erik in my killfile. He's dead and I still can't escape him.
> College is absolutely an intelligence test and screening tool, and people are naive to believe that it isn't.

People always say this. If it were true, it could be done far cheaper.
I have to disagree with you. Normalisation is a very basic concept. Whilst it can cause a couple of problems, I am very sceptical about most startups hitting them. I'd like to see DBs introduce denormalisation as a feature, separating the logic from practicality.

Having said this, I like working with MongoDB. I like schemaless design and flexibility.
Traffic stats are quite telling:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/startups.com/
How to execute flv in c#
It supports formats like c# convert flv,c# convert video,flv in c#,c# avi,c# flv,ffmpeg wmv flv,c# to vb,vb to c# and net convert c# to vb.
I know a great team of devs in Romania. They were really good and really moved my project forward. Send me an email if you want an introduction (I have no stake in it, I just like them and want to help them get good projects).
So it's only a poor way to argue if the opposing side is a normal human, is what you're saying.

If you think you can fully separate beliefs about separate things from another, there's a whole slew of psychology research that says you're deluded.
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