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So you're arguing that you don't need to know anything more than a steady stream of new languages to survive? That's not a matter of belief -- there's ample evidence to the contrary. The knowledge requirements for industry programmers has been rising steadily for as long as I've been coding.

"Web developer" is today's equivalent of "Visual Basic programmer" in the early 90s. Those kinds of jobs will always exist, but they'll be increasingly marginalized -- just as they have been since the early 90s.

I expected someone to argue that university isn't necessary to learn CS. I didn't expect someone to argue that CS knowledge isn't necessary to have a career in software. Yikes. Whither hacker news?
I would love to switch from Facebook to something like this. However, I would probably be my only acquaintance on this new network :(

I already lost a ton of credibility when I convinced many of my friends and family to try Google+.
This is a really cool service/product. I have always wanted to do something more with the kinect, like attach it to a robot like the MIT people did or something like Minority Report. I'll definitely use it and let you know if I have any questions or concerns. Keep it up!
Would Hacker News reader's play a mobile "projected reality" game, using a laser pointer as the primary interaction device? The next phase is going to be taking the machine vision to the next level, whereas you're not simply detecting bright dots on a wall, but actually interpreting the player's environment and actions. It wont be easy!
Thank you! After deciding to go with Jekyll for my website I was wondering how to do A/B testing. This is perfect.
I'd love to see the space elevator come soon using carbon nanotubes. We could put nuclear (and other) waste on it and shoot it out into space. With such high costs in waste disposal, and how profitable such a device could be, you'd think it'd happen sooner rather than later.

More exciting than the moon landing or the Facebook IPO!
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I think the idea of letting the courier add notes is amazing. And yes, there are a few things we can do better in regards to the actual status of the delivery. I personally don't like the pickup in 0 minutes either. Give us a few days :)
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What do you think, is there a true friendship? How many real friends do you think you are having? I am sure this picture will tell you how to see that difference between a good friend and a best friend.
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Those are both terrible metrics. They're sensitive to IPO timing, for a start. Facebook is going public very (!) late, it's already achieved market dominance and very significant revenue. Contrast Microsoft, which went up before Windows 3.0, when they were mostly a software supplier to IBM (their other offerings were distant second place products to market leaders like Wordperfect or Lotus).

And "after 3 years" misses a lot of detail too. Apple looks pretty good in that metric. But their "after 12 years" numbers are a disaster. And of course "after 30 years" looks to be pretty fantastic for them.
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I think something that only works once is a "gimmick".
I made copper bars once, just for having done them. I guess by the time I got into democoding (96/97 or so), they didn't impress as much anymore. It was cool that they were technically full-colour in a 256c screenmode, but apart from that they were just horizontal coloured bars to me :)

However there was another very useful trick to changing colours wrt sync. Basically you wanted to have all the gfx drawing done before the vertical retrace (which is quite a bit longer than the horizontal one), then flip the buffer (during) so you'd get a flickerless display at full framerate. Now if you'd change palette colour 0 (background, including screen edges) to red right after the flip, and then back to black again after your drawing routines are done and you begin waiting for the vsync again, you got to see the top of your screen's background red, up until some percentage of the screen height.

This was basically your performance meter. Code more complex routines and the red area becomes bigger. Add even more calculations, it gets to the bottom of the screen, and when it gets too far you won't be done calculating before the next vsync and your framerate drops to half.

Some times I even micro-optimized bits of assembly code by marking the position with pencil on a post-it on the side of the monitor to see if switching around some instructions would make it go up or down a few millimeters :) It really was that stable (given you did exactly the same calculations every frame--which is often the case for demos, but probably not for games). That is, until Windows came along: multitasking meant you were going to miss that vsync every once in a while and the red bar jumping up and down like crazy.
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Thanks, yes US is the country I'm primarily interested in
Having been at this stage awhile, I've come to the same conclusions. Also validated by almost every VC, Angel, etc. has said the same thing...over...and...over...

(BTW, enjoyed the concise writing that was too the point, which gave me time to even write a comment about it.)
"But this is clearly not foreign income"

The IRS themselves disagree with you on that statement.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p54/ch04.html#en_US_2011_pub...
>> "Your argument comes down firmly on the side of one party."

This would imply that climate change would also be off limits at TED, which it isn't.
That's the great thing about Everyme! Not everyone needs to be using the app for them to receive your stories, because it's integrated with the address book.

For example, most of my family don't use any social networks, but they all use email. So I created a Circle with everyone's emails inside, and when I share a story, they get a beautiful email with my photo inside. They can reply to the email directly to comment on the story, and all keep in touch. We've made email a first class citizen.
These are certainly the early days. SHRDLU was slow and inaccurate. In many way, it was an even impressive example of "things to come" (it could seem to understand some fairly complex figures of speech for example). The problem is that we're not sure example when these "things to come" will actually appear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
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I couldn't agree more. But that would be true if his tax rate were 5%, 15%, or 25%.

Nobody likes paying taxes, but I'm not radical enough to believe that someone who becomes a billionaire while working and living in the US as a US citizen shouldn't pay US taxes. Almost nobody does - it's the tax rate that people really disagree about.

What that rate should be is, of course, open to debate, but I don't really see it as central to this particular argument. I think this is more narrowly about the extent to which the money Saverin made from facebook should be considered money earned in the US as a US citizen.
First day value change seems misleading to me. I think it represents the value at which select shareholder can buy the initial shares issued by the company and not the value which they are first traded at the stock market.

Consider for example linkedin, which got "issued" at around 35$ per share. The first price to hit the stock market was around 70$. This is because the first shares are sold to a select few at the 35$ price so there can be volume at opening. Those people traded the shares at 70 right away.

We can conclude at least two things from this :
1-Banks will try to scam companies during IPO by issuing shares lower than market value so that early buyers can pocket instant profit
2-If you are not in the selected few, making big bucks during an IPO is much more difficult than what is represented in this graph
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Yeah, the real value of this chart from my perspective is the transition from slides 3-4 (watching things go up the first day) and then slides 4-5 (watching some stuff bubble up, and others fall off a cliff). So I found myself just cycling back and forth through slides 3-5 to get a feel for the data. The obvious cool thing to watch is the early-2000's dotcom waterfall.

Nice job. Could probably have represented things slightly better given what you are trying to get across (using colors & ball sizes), but cool nonetheless.
For data aggregated by country, http://data.un.org is a good source.
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> Just because naive advertisement doesn't work on Facebook doesn't mean all advertisement doesn't work on Facebook.

We provide local services and Facebook Ads have worked WAAAY better than Google Ads. We have a simple "lead-gen" type model. They are cheaper, they give MIND boggling number of impressions. Early 2010, they were really cheap.. then costs started going up. Still its cheaper than buying Adwords.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693023

Still, it's a great post.
I never really get the hate on Groupon from a business model standpoint, I get it from an execution standpoint but not the business model.

I've derived quite a bit of value from Groupon myself, as have several people I know. They failed in execution because it appears they don't value their relationship with vendors as evidenced by not letting them impose limits in the number of coupons sold. Mom and Pop restaurants don't scale like startups and many were left with really bad experiences from being ill equipped to deal with a massive influx of customers in a short time frame, and consequently the customers ended up having a bad experience as well. This wasn't universal but it seems to have been frequent enough to have severely tarnished the brand. If Groupon had been better stewards of their relationships with their merchants instead of sacrificing them in the name of growth I don't think anybody would lump them into the "ponzi scheme" camp. Groupon could have gone about it differently, Bernie Madoff probably could not have.
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The talk actually presents an idea that is, to some extent, a testable scientific economic claim: that the wealth of middle-class plays an important role in a feedback loop that creates jobs.

The Republican party should find this insight to be valuable, since their stated goal is job creation, right? Why might they not want to learn something about the process they are working so hard to enable?
It would be cool if it also backed up the extensions you've explicitly installed (as opposed to extensions installed by third-party software.) I'm not sure if Firefox stores the information required to do that. Another possible approach would be to select individual extensions to back up from a list, perhaps including the date in which each extension was installed.
Agreed. He made no effort to deny he or others who operate with TED have liberal minded ideas. He also gives a perfectly logical and reasonable explanation to the situation and in my opinion does nothing to deter my view of TED in any shape or form.

And to people who make this out to be a US political issue, income equality is a global issue, and always have been. It's not the issue being brushed off but the quality of the argument judged by TED.

But that said it's a really good talk.
Do we still have to do the redirects if we have this setup properly in webmaster tools? That is, under configuration --> settings --? preferred domain.

Second, in webmaster tools, should we always have the www and non-www setup so we can do the "change of address". For example, if www.mysite.com is my preferred URL, do I need to also make sure mysite.com is in webmaster tools and change the address to go to www.mysite.com?
Maybe I'm politically tone deaf, but the talk didn't seem particularly partisan at all. Sure, it had a particular perspective more in alignment with one party than another, but wouldn't this talk be just as relevant in India and the UK as it is in the US, and in which case, not particularly partisan at all? Don't all TED talks have some bias to one perspective on the world or philosophy or another? I don't get why there's such furor over this.
I think you're on to something there. GM ads probably took you away from Facebook and away from your social sphere, if they had instead kept the user inside facebook and continued the ability to interact with your friends, they may have created a lucrative opportunity for themselves.
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That is only true for "Earned Income" if he's not self employed. If he's a web contractor for example, he still has to pay self-employment taxes %15.3 of his UK earned income received from his UK clients, EVEN IF HE LIVES IN THE UK... to the US... fair? really?

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p54/ch03.html#en_US_2011_pub...
If true, the aggressively planned PR campaign indicates that this was more than just a politically-sensitive topic, but rather a politically-motivated talk:

He had hired a PR firm to promote the talk to MoveOn and
others, and the PR firm warned us . . .

TED should allow sensitive topics, but to allow others to use TED manipulatively as a pawn in the larger political debate subverts their mission and damages their credibility.
Google Plus sort of does that too, not sure about comments via email though.
Its amazing what a little truth sheds on an otherwise perfect angry mob. After hearing from both sides I hope those who accused TED of censorship will be kind enough to apologise.
It's fine as long as you don't name any political party by name I think.
Jon Stewart said the other 'liberal/reality' quote
Why would I pick this over Google plus, or in addition to Google plus?
Why aren't you appealing directly to Philip more often? Give him a list of what you need and he could have what he wants with 3 emails. Also I don't understand what "access" you need to Marge? You can't email her or something?
only if you could promise and guarantee that you won't sell to Facebook, I would switch in a heartbeat!
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Not only that, but letting all traffic through Varnish is not a good utilization of its resources at all.

The question is, how could I set up multiple servers on the same port? Or what else do I need to put in front of Varnish to route WebSocket connections elsewhere?

I'm starting to think this use case is not easy to solve under one IP address.
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Having tried Japanese candies (and deserts in general) while visiting Japan, I'm very surprised that this actually works.

When it comes to sweets and deserts Japanese taste is so different from what's popular in the west. It might be interesting but I'm not sure I'd want to pay for a continuous supply.

French/Belgium products might appeal to western taste better.

Other than that - Good luck!
I think you have it the wrong way around. It's not that this topic isn't up for public debate, but rather that the talk was part of a debate that was already highly politicized and TED doesn't want to get into that. Once the politicos see you as a good platform from which to shout their message, you will find yourself swamped by people who just want to yell party lines at each other. If you want to remain independent of party politics, you have to keep those people away.

This is also why I'm of the opinion that Internet forums which are not explicitly about politics should explicitly ban most political discussion. Otherwise the loud partisans will eventually drown out everything else. (Remember a few years ago when it came out that there was a huge conservative voting bloc on Digg downvoting anything posted by members they suspected of being liberals, even if it was non-political? You don't want those people around.)

This isn't to say that topics one party or another might happen to like better should be off-limits, but that you should be very careful when approaching those topics not to play to the political aspects of the topic. It sounds to me like this is what TED suggests as well.
What's up with the editorializing of the title? If you're going to post stuff that's on the edge of being too political for HN I think leaving the headline intact is the best approach.

edit it's been fixed, but for reference the original title had something in it about "astroturfing in action"
Did he say it first? The first page of Google hits is covered with Colbert saying it at the Correspondents' Dinner in 2006.

Edit: here it is, "I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias."
Candy is hardly a gendered product, and foreign interest in Japanese culture and food isn't either. Adding gendered advertising in such a way is unlikely to gain many new leads, but will certainly limit the audience dramatically.

For some reason, the "testimonials from random Japanese people" idea seems rather unsettling to me. It makes it feel exoticized, touristy, and fake.
The claim of partisanship is an outright falsehood. The partisanship is in Chris Anderson's reason for not distributing the talk, not the talk itself. He is making it partisan, by cowing to that which we call partisanship, a thing he must surely take for granted. Maybe he is evil, too.

There is nothing partisan about it. The 1% are not a party, any more than a single senator is a party. The ability of the Corporate Rich to spin the public argument, and make it seem like there is a split conflict, that is the root of what we "end-users" perceive as partisanship. In this case, they have spun & won. The public discussion about this talk is partisanship, not the issue itself.

And Hanauer points this out. The spin of the conversation is influencing the outcome of policy. This is not new under the sun, but it is an idea worth spreading.
"If you are willing to sacrifice business to be a better programmer, don't let me discourage you. It takes people who are willing to do that."

Hah. In the halls of the academe, we call that a "straw man fallacy". As the founders of Google will tell you, to have deep CS knowledge, it is obviously not necessary to sacrifice business knowledge.

That said, I obviously wasn't directing my comments at the specifics of your situation (since I don't know them), but rather, commenting on the general idea of someone skipping out of college to learn Rails and "get into the industry". My argument is that this is short-sighted. The sort of commodity software development enabled by knowledge of a web framework is the sort that is just as easily farmed out to the lowest bidder. Obviously, in-depth knowledge of a domain is much more valuable than knowing how to make a web app in Rails.
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Released video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI

"This idea is an oracle of faith for republicans and seldom challenged by democrats." Clearly against bi-partisan and not pro-democrat.

Very bad move by TED. Also, the quality of many TED presentations is a joke so they can't pull that card.
True! It does look like Google will accept https as a canonical homepage link. They do it for Twitter.
Disclaimer: I work at Facebook. I share photos and videos of my kid in a secret FB group where I have to approve membership. It has worked pretty well, I'd encourage you to try it!

https://www.facebook.com/addgroup

Alternatively you could create a list of all the people you want to see this content and restrict visibility to that list when you post.
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How many TED talks revolve around global warming, despite the fact that the right treats it not just as alarmism, but a liberal hoax? TED doesn't seem to be rushing to pull those down.

I can understand their reluctance to give Fox News ammunition to smear the TED brand. But it was the parties who chose to politicize ideas and issues which should belong to all humanity. Whatever happened to respectfully listening to people you disagree with?

Getting locked up for speaking your mind is only one way for free speech to be stifled; another is to convince people to self-censor for the sake of their reputation, and whether he admits it to himself or not, this is exactly what Chris Anderson is doing. And alas, in today's media-political landscape, one is hard-pressed to find organizations and individuals for whom this is not the norm.
It seems like there are three fundamental business models for tech startups right now, the first and most profitable being to impose oneself as the middleman in a real money transaction, the second and less profitable one being reselling AWS services with some frosting, and the last being the word "...ads?" scrawled on a cocktail napkin.

Seems like most tend to go for the last one.
Witness the trends... and tell me the bubble isn't about to burst.
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I'm confused about the 20-40% commission on purchases though. That seems like it would severely limit my use of the service. Why should buying a 200$ pair of jeans cost me that much more to deliver than a 50$ pair?
There is a difference between being controversial and being partisan. The talk directly calls out Republicans. Based on what Chris Anderson said, they would welcome a talk on that controversial subject, but it couldn't call out political parties.
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A P/E ratio of 30-45 would still indicate the market believes in a very high potential for growth. That just doesn't seem reasonable. Their potential user base is already nearly fully saturated (the SEC filings show no growth at all in some markets), and people already seem to spend as much time as they possibly could online using FB. What could FB do to grow revenues that much besides sell more of their users' data or cram every page with more ads, both of which would risk driving away users?
They all look the same to us, but not necessarily to the startup's users. Startups of all types are brought to HN which is why we notice the similarities. From the user's perspective a startup is just another website in the sea of existing sites that cater to their niche. Because of that dilution I'd bet that "normal people" (aka non-startup people) don't even notice.
Everyme is an app that works REALLY well on all platforms for your purposes, not just pretty well. I would encourage you to give it a try. You might like it better.
Won't this approach have a FOUC-type experience, where the A/B div disappears after being shown to some users?

I think it's cool you're attacking this.

I think you should check out Google Web Optimizer (iirc), which will do some of the heavy lifting for you.

For example, there's no stickiness here, which I think is a typical best practice.
I found these comments on the subject to be rather interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQw0eLzfGNI
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Quick note: why not integrate with the major mail providers to get my address book from there instead of making me enter them one by one? You had me on board until that screen showed up..
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Yeah, their response said exactly what I assumed had happened happened. They, like everyone else building a brand, are trying to erase the truly antagonistic dynamics of modern culture and worship some mythical conflict-free land of bipartisanship and kittens, where smart people never disagree they just have different evidence.

That myth is what TED is selling. Not truth, not even a better world, just a world where we can believe ourselves to be better people.
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