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95% of non-conformists are sheep. Just look around you. All dressed the same, all act the same, all with the same too-cool-to-be-conforming attitude.

It would really take a special kind of defiance to say "no thank you" to what the non-conformists clique expects their own to be.
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> When you start to ask "What is it all for?" you stop competing and working hard, because you realize it's an old man's game.

That's one possible result. There are others.
You seem not to be aware that he's joking.
>"A CEO is not an average consumer. It's his job to understand how and why people watch video"

At a publicly traded company, that is rarely the CEO's job.

There, the CEO's job is usually to keep Wall Street happy (or less unhappy).
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I do wish this wasn't downvoted to grey. This is content I think most of us will find interesting and relevant to the discussion.

I understand that HN allows downvotes of disagreement, even though in this case it buries the most relevant information.
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I'm not saying that guns are strictly non lethal tools, but there are different uses besides killing people. You could shoot the tires of a fleeing car, or you could stop a person by shooting into his leg. (a civilian probably wont be able to pull this off successfully in stressful situations) Or use it for sport or hunting.

It does depend on a countries situation and culture, how excessively such weapons are used, and in which situations.
When a countries population on average tends to not escalate situations, and shoot burglars or people running away, you can end up in a situation where it is hardly justifiable to use such weapons against persons.

And then such laws are okay. I mean there are criminals here like everywhere, but I honestly don't know anyone personally here that has ever been threatened with a gun or a knife, though I know of one case, where someone was beat up by a burglar. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't see a lot of use for a gun as a tool for protection if you lived here.
HN has the readership to effect positive change in the tech journalism arena. Can HN blacklist the most egregarious plagiarists?
That's part of the problem in a way. Rails-style large applications are kinda poor by-design. Even Express suffers from this more than I'd like (express-specific plugins etc). Ideally Express "plugins" or extensions would just be thin wrappers around things that the rest of the Node community can utilize. I'm guilty of this too of course but that's largely due to time constraints.

Anyway, writing Rails for Node won't be anything revolutionary, it would just be... Rails on a different platform. Frankly lots of developers including myself prefer these smaller frameworks, sure some things might be a bit slower to get started with but ultimately you're not fighting a framework, it's just another block of lego.

I used Drupal for about 3 or 4 years, and you can get things going much faster than Rails even, but you'll spend a lot of time fighting the thing.
> I'm honestly amazed that this is crawling up Hacker News quite frankly.

C'mon, it's never been pointed out that you're kind of a douche? Seriously, never?
I didn't say any good writers, I said Shakespeare. There are many routes to becoming a good writer.
I don't think so.

Last four gigs I had involved nothing even remotely resembling an interview.
Some people have complained that Chrome apps "are just web links". This is a way for the Chrome team to show that Chrome apps can do something more advanced than what HTML5 allows today.
"We are slouching toward a glorified form of vocational training."

What's wrong with vocational training? Maybe the issue is that the market is demanding vocational skills yet schools are trying to find, or trying to artificially create, a market for liberal-arts skills.
We could block them from HN...
It would be nice to get some standardization among app hosts. Are you guys supporting Procfiles/buildpacks ala Heroku? Most of that code is open source now

(disclosure: working on an app hosting service)
I was reading along and nodding my head until I got to the 1000 line haskell program that handles issues stemming from a lack of consistency.

I'm not exactly a SQL fanboy, but maybe ACID is kinda useful in situations like this and having to write your own application land 1000 liners for stuff that got solved in SQL land decades ago isn't the best use of time?
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I think that there is a feeling in the community among many people that all genetic information should be freely available, which at this stage I feel is wrong. When people go to a doctor, they expect answers, and the reality is that in many cases the researchers just don't know. This technology is so new, relatively unproven and potentially dangerous that circumstances such as the one you describe are likely to continue to arise.

An interesting thought experiment would be, what if Mr Lyons had been wrong, and had claimed that the fetus was carrying the mutation when he was not? What if the test had been compromised and he had told the Mrs Grondahl that her child was going to be sick when she wasn't?

In this type of new research, the chances of the researcher getting it wrong are very high. It takes years for people to truly understand the complex nature of disease and its interaction with DNA.

With this type of research, I feel that we are going to see a number of incidences where the researchers do in fact get it wrong, and do a lot of damage by being cavalier with their findings.

Medical research moves slowly for a reason.
In fact, someone did ask him and he responded quite reasonably:

"A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity"
is a great title for something that's written about one ... but I
have to admit I didn't get further than that in reading this piece;
the title didn't make it seem likely to be very reasoned or reasonable.

In a recent blog entry, Wolfram names that one his favorite of the colorful quotes from negative reviews: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/05/living-a-paradigm-shi...
He was able to get around the 140-char limit fine by bombarding OP with replies.
The metadata may be zeroed out, but I'm unaware of standard Unix file systems that will zero out the contents of the files.
I always wondered what would happen if someone leaked the source code to OSX or iOS. Would the forked versions outshine new releases? In my opinion normal users would prefer apple's versions while hackers would take the other route for greater flexibility. Maybe Woz should anonymously leak iOS 4 or OSX 10.4 source. Apple wouldn't have to worry about maintaining documentation and it would also give them a nice buffer to outshine any competition.
After about 10 years of not doing "rm -rf *" I finally did manage to hose an entire system when I entered the wrong directory (/) for script I had written to randomly alter files. 'Course it was on a test vm, but it was still pretty amazing to watch what happens when 10% of the files on a system had random data added to them, or were randomly removed. :)
I was hoping the two versions would be called "The Prince" and "The Discourses".
yea I thought the same.. why PHP!! there are a lot of other languages to learn, Java, ruby, python etc etc
the founding team of Quora were on the founding team of Facebook = extraordinarily strong leadership team.
An interesting thought, there is a difference between gradually replacing your cells with mechanical/electrical equivalents, and copying your consciousness to a machine.

How? Well, think of replacing a hard drive under a running process. Compare that to migrating a VM to another machine. In one, the process is truly continuous, it just begins using new hardware; in the other, the process is cloned and the original process killed.
Integration with the small couriers systems would be a problem. You'd probably have to design the thing end-to-end then get them to migrate

(note: I'm only just discovering EDI, it might be thai this isn't as big a problem as it appears)
When I think of topology the first I do is remember that size means nothing in topology.

So the long sleeve of the shirt? Shrink it right down - you are left with just a hole, and no sleeve.

Then flatten out the curvature of the neck and other parts, and you are left with a flat sheet of clothing, with two holes in it. There is no inside or outside to this, meaning the two sides are interchangeable, and that's why you can turn the real shirt inside out.
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I get what you are saying, but you can only pick one square to fire on next. Knowing the exact probability of every square left (differnetiating between white and almost white), does not help you if, on each move, you take the square with the next highest probability.

If you have a bag containing 85 red balls, 10 yellow balls, 3 blue, and 2 black, and had to draw one and predict its color, are you going to change your answer about red even if you are told that someone stole one of the blue balls before you picked? :)
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Wow, no apology. Wow.

Zee, everyone can see the online record, which shows you plagiarized Joshua Gross, publicly threatened him on Twitter, and then publicly denied plagiarizing him.

And you're still not apologizing?

Wow...
Nonconforming is not the same as anticonforming. And the fact that you observe and analyse trends doesn't mean you're a slave to them.
Fanny Mea and Fredy Mac pushed down the cost of housing (the where allowed to directly lend from the fed, that had low intresst rates) and set false insentives to build houses. That (among some other small things) was the big thing that led to the crash.

The deregulations allowed banks to be more agressiv, that is only bad if you give them a strong insentiv to be agressiv. Maybe it mad some of them more unstable but it would not have changed the fundamentals of the crash and it is in such a situation only more importent that YOU DONT BAILE THEM OUT.

Prof. Selgin is btw a well regard specialist on banking and money, he does not earn his money from the Cato Institute and they dont direct his research. Its nice that only attack where somebody is working not what they say.kj

Since all you did was paste the first counter argumetn you fund on wikipedia I highly doute that you even no any ecnomics, and only posted it because of your 'deregulation = bad' bias.

I was only mentioning the Free Banking School because of the comment "suitably sized and regulated" is not the only way of looking at things. Infact I think pretty much every economist agrees that the banking regulation pre 1933 where very bad and made the great depression worse. Passing rules to make banks smaller does not really help in itself.

If you have read the article by Stigliz that is refrenced after your comment on wikipedia, you will see that stigliz agrees that the bubble was caused by inflation ("Greenspan presided over not one but two financial bubbles. After the
high-tech bubble popped, in 2000-2001, he helped inflate the housing
bubble.") and he says:

"The most important consequence of the repeal of Glass-Steagall was
indirect - it lay in the way repeal changed an entire culture. Commercial
banks are not supposed to be high-risk ventures; they are supposed to
manage other people's money very conservatively. It is with this
understanding that the government agrees to pick up the tab should
they fail."

What you will notice that he is pro bailing out bank! The banks that failed in the crash where not acctually banks that where "Commerical banks" but the government bailed them out anyways! Its funny that the free-market guys are the ones that are "pro-buissness" acctually its the other way arount people like him are the reason taxpayer are paying for failed banks.

Free Market guys dont go deregulate and then bailout, if a bank investment or not goes done thats what they deserve!
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Prescription: 2 doses of zen, stop thinking so much about it, just be and do.
the fact that you observe and analyse trends, doesn't mean you're a slave to them

Even if you are making the opposite choice, if your every decision is predicated on the trends, I'd still call you a slave to them.
editing: "Take examples on these states and seek stability, no matter what your regime type is." -- "take examples on" is not standard english (at least not in america). you want something like "Follow the example of these states".
I think a budding entrepreneur should think a lot more than twice about starting a company, but at the end of the day this post sounds like trying to "time the market" which just isn't possible. If you want to be an entrepreneur, then you have to be willing to start almost any business that has a chance to be profitable.
it is not only source code . its moral & ethics at play ...
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Yeah, losing $10+MM a quarter sure is "doing great" by any normal person's intepretation of the phrase.
Wow, can we spell "bubble" yet? This is definitely a 100% bubble-based valuation. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Quora is a completely worthless company, but unless they have some incredibly magic sauce they haven't showed us yet, I can't possibly see how they'll get that much revenue ever.

In fact, a simple check would do: let them show how much they made last year, projected growth for this year, and we can start talking about anything beyond a $10m valuation.
I've been seeing a lot of that as well. My advice is to stay away from the aggressive response unless the plaintiff is being really nasty.

Being an observant in this web-publishing business for a short while, and speaking only from limited experience, I've witnessed some unfavorable twitter posts in regards to content and how an editorial team treats them. They look into the problem and validate, devise a response through consensus that they deem adequate and one person on the team reaches out and tries to make right.

In Zee's case, it appears that he decided that he "had this one" and went the bully route. That's too bad because since he picked such a great Twitter handle, this clown is going to be hard to forget.
We should be stopping possible terrorist attacks before they get to the airport, not after.
This is somewhat true of Amazon as well, though they later went on innovate with their web services. Early on they just happened to be one of the first and capitalized on their access to cheap capital.
It's a fair point. Doing well in my undergrad classes felt like a game, and I've developed many rules of playing the game to score many points. I think it's fair to say that good grades are some kind of a measure of combination of ambition, perseverance and determination to be the sheep you're asked to be.

The most interesting people I think are those who excel at that game because they realize that it's just the way society functions, but on a side maintain a soul-- interesting extracurricular interests, projects, etc. They use their knowledge not only to pass tests, but attempt to expand on it and apply it in their own creative ways.

That's why I think the article's title is not very appropriate. I'd call it "Is Stanford training just (really excellent) sheep?". There are some good arguments to be made for an affirmative answer, and yet that's not who I see when I look around me.
I'm not buying that. I can understand that driving an inflated seed or A round, but at this point I would expect to see something more fundamental in the valuation.
Thank you for at least mentioning that you work for TNW in your profile. It makes this ...

(http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bradmccarty)

...less annoying.

Compare that to zeedotme's ...

(http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zeedotme)

...which just feels sleazy.
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I been an advocate of conservative valuations but, in this case, I highly agree with the number proposed.

Quora is much better than all its comparable companies (eHow, Mahalo, etc...) in every possible sense: community, technology, founding team, etc. Traffic is very strong, it displays strong social integration tools and has managed grow very impressively.

On a side note, I expect Quora to move into the mainstream with much less friction than Reddit or Askolo. Being more design and experience oriented, Quora has the upper hand here. I hope Quora's team realizes and exceeds this valuation.
A kid, according to the story.
These guys are widely seen as a shifty bunch.
"It's good to see an apology."

After reading the response I feel he was avoiding giving a proper apology. Only thing he apologizes is that he didn't have all the information at first, which is a kind of non-apology.
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After 1 year and nine release candidates, OrientDB has been released as 1.0. The GraphDB market will never be the same. OrientDB has many features to replace RDBMS on large scale database where high performance and complex domain are needed.

OrientDB supports an extended version of SQL, ACID Transactios, Multi-Master replication, Server Side Scripting, an Object Database interface (with partial support of JPA) and much more.

OrientDB is already used in production by several companies and today is the second GraphDB in the worldwide market as user base. What about the license? Open Source Apache 2. This means free for any usage.
They're 40% Instagram, relatively speaking.
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Oh right, seeing this in the morning browse reminded me I was gonna test my offsite backups, but I was in bed with the iPad at the time.

pokes Backblaze and grabs a couple of random files

It works! Yay.
Totally hear you on all accounts! This is a problem that needs a serious solution - I'm working on an idea right now to solve it, BufferBox (corporate.bufferbox.com). Essentially we allow shipping to self-serve kiosks and when a parcel arrives, an email is sent to the user with a PIN code so they can pick it up 24/7 on their schedule.

In the UK, there is a service that may be able to help you on the receiving end - myByBox (my.bybox.com). Hopefully it has help you out a bit!

We're working to bring a similar service to North America because we believe it's essential for eCommerce to grow to the next level. We've been running a pilot project to gather some data (bufferbox.com) and now we're working to expand.
After 1 year and nine release candidates, OrientDB has been released as 1.0. The GraphDB market will never be the same. OrientDB has many features to replace RDBMS on large scale database where high performance and complex domain are needed.

OrientDB supports an extended version of SQL, ACID Transactios, Multi-Master replication, Server Side Scripting, an Object Database interface (with partial support of JPA) and much more.

OrientDB is already used in production by several companies and today is the second GraphDB in the worldwide market as user base. What about the license? Open Source Apache 2. This means free for any usage.
Bear in mind that the ivy leagues get to grade their own students whereas the etonians sit national exams...
A CEO should never respond to a situation in that way. He lost his cool; big time! I have always respected TNW, but today changes that.
Yeah, even with a simple Perl CGI, all you have to do is close STDOUT if you want the HTTP response to end, but continue processing the request.
I guess DHH will have to put his foot in his mouth now.
I don't think Amazon falls into the same bucket. Most of what Amazon does is a bit better than its would-be competition. Whereas what Groupon does is exactly what everyone else would do.
It's a development vs. operations tradeoff; we'd rather write code during the day so that when a database machine falls over at night we don't get paged.
Great timing on this. I'm training a very smart & academically accomplished new dev who's spent the last several years pursuing his PhD in CS, but has no idea about web development (I don't consider that a vice).

Fortunately he's one of the awesome, awesome people I can just point at an article and he'll be off and running.
Everyone forms groups with shared behaviors and values whether they realize it or not. This is neither good or bad, but it does serve to define each and everyone of us whether we accept it or not.

Most animals are driven by a desire to eat, sleep and reproduce including humans. There are exceptions like worker bees and ants that can't reproduce, there is no analog in humans.
Unfortunately "good" or surprising results do not justify a high valuation. Regardless of the company.

I won't get tired of saying this.
>Have you ever noticed how Reddit is full of people who all think everyone else are sheep?

Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/610/ (Also a great statement on solipsism.)

Actively defying the norm for its own sake is counterproductive. If your choices are based directly on trends by actively pushing against every one of them you notice your still a slave to them.
Thanks for linking to this. Looks like there's a pattern here. Too bad for Zee.
The name made me hope that it would let you communicate from python with akka actors. Apparently not.
Aren't quora and "mainstream" at odds though? Quora is about quality questions, the majority of mainstream people that would use a Q&A site are the sort of people that use(d) Yahoo Answers, the sort of questions that you want to exist for long enough to get a reply but once they have been replied they hold absolutely no value to anyone.

How can Quora "go mainstream" and avoid this problem?