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Really, all these bubbles are just an economic manifestation of the hyper-information processing problem that our society has yet to learn to deal with.

Just like it took quite a while for my Dad to learn to stop passing around "Bill Gates pays you for every email forwarded" email, members of our society have to learn to ignore all the internet marketing and media-generated hype.

Just like snopes.com was a valuable piece of infrastructure in weeding out the urban legends and reducing our forwarded crap email -- other societal/internet support is going to need to come into place to help investors weed through all the media and marketing hype.

The sad part is that change like this always produces victims who didn't catch on quickly enough. Given the magnitude of the changes brought on by this stage of the "Information Age", there's a lot of learning to be done and it's going to take another generation to develop the infrastructure and mind share needed so that typical members of society aren't so easily fooled by the falseness of the latest investment bubbles.

The genie is out of the bottle now, though. We need to get to learning, informing, and building solutions to the bubble problems. My biggest fear is that governments will [continue to] use this time of change as a power-grabbing excuse to drastically curtail our liberties and destroy many of the advantages of the Free Market.
Wait, how does crowdsourcing make money?
Nice tip. Perhaps with https instead of http in the redirect URL, though? :)
Or do they? If you look at the big industries of the past, they came with real time constraints. In agriculture, for instance, if the work wasn't completed in time, the food would spoil. While skilled farmhands are more valued, in the absence of them, anyone off the street will be given the job simply because it has to be done one way or another.

What are the consequences to not building on your technology by a certain date? Maybe your competition will beat you to the punch. Maybe the costs that could be saved by implementing the software will continue to be expensed. Beyond that, not a whole lot.

This leads us to a situation where just having anyone on the job is not viable. It is prudent, in many, cases for a business to simply wait until someone who is "top talent" is freed up to do the work. Simply knowing how to program isn't going to be enough.
Matt & Pierre, thanks for your thoughts and sorry that this ended up being a rookie mistake. I have a rel canonical good to go. Thanks again for your time.
For the curious, this started out as a D3/SVG chart that we ended up porting over to be 90% canvas, just for performance reasons (especially in Firefox). There's still lots of nice ugly "if (USE_CANVAS) {" stuff in there.
Or Scam? Or Hustle?
Creative Labs made a 3DO like that back then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DO_Blaster
You don't really have to guess. Last I saw something like 15% of Facebook revenue was Zynga-related. So it's likely they're truly worth a quarter of their current valuation or so, on the basis of funny t-shirts and social gaming writ large.
Does it have value? Yes.

Is Facebook worth $100bn? No.

There is a difference between value and price, and startups/VCs love to play with both terms to make their economic case.
> Why would I care?

You buy a game. It sucks. You wish to sell it, and use the money towards buying another game.

Games are moving towards not allowing this type of sale.
This is a nice little cheat sheet. I sometimes wonder if the profusion of cheat sheets for Git says something about its design, in particular the human interface aspects.

Few would deny that Git is one of the most powerful open source SCM systems to come around the bend in quite a while, but sometimes I think more attention should have been paid to making the 90% of tasks most developers need easy, rather than enabling the last 10% for the edge cases where it's required.
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My interpretation of that would be that if we already have one of the world's harshest tax policies in that regard, why would we want to have a reputation for being even worse? Do we want to make productive foreigners even more wary of acquiring US citizenship?
The simple answer is either to short sell(http://www.investopedia.com/university/shortselling/shortsel...) stock or buy options (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(finance)). There's probably more complicated ways too.
I recently bought 'Racing the beam' book which goes into Atari 2600 VCS details and programming - http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... I recommend this book to everyone interested in this topic.
You will almost certainly be able to spin up an emulator and feed it whatever.
Those who are sad it is windows based might be interested in resurrecting Justin Frankel's http://www.cockos.com/jesusonic/
What were you building?
But all the hard work is done: bsnes emulates all of those chips. Sure, it's not trivial to convert bsnes to vhdl, but there's no need for further reverse-engineering unless you want to make pin-compatible replacements. The bsnes code and documentation contain all the information necessary to make an FPGA into a SNES-on-a-chip.
How often have you been able to hire a core contributor or creator? I ask out of curiosity because it seems most of the OSS guys I follow are independent consultants, and don't fit the profile of being an employee somewhere.
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Speaking of which, I would give the female picture on the homepage a minor makeover and tone her down a little.
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I read it that way as well - that could be intentional: it makes it more memorable.
If someone renounces citizenship, the loss of freedom in the nation they were once a citizen of should be loss enough.
Despite your assertion that the "grandma" mode of knitting isn't programming and mostly doesn't innovate, that (rather more diverse than assumed) community is responsible for the vast majority of new patterns and often experiments extensively. I think it's great that more (computer) geeks are getting into fields that have always had a high geek percentage and you can definitely make it a really geeky endeavor, but there's a lot of wheel reinvention and failure to RTFM. Fun, definitely worth doing as a learning experience, but perhaps we shouldn't be so much with the patting each other on the back and insularity. For that matter computer geeks aren't even in the running for geekiest approach to knitting - for that you have to go to the heavy math folks. It's intellectually, visually, and tactilely beautiful stuff.

Also you know appear to know little about real world cooking outside of a recent, highly-distorted, and publishing industry-driven world view. Recipes may list precise ingredient measurements (though most don't), but they're rarely intended to be used as-is and there's huge variation in detail. Even more so, almost all cuisines are more a collection of common techniques and ingredients than a set of well-defined dishes, with much regional variation, and huge historical change. Most European-descended Americans and much of Europe use a _tiny_ subset of the ingredients our ancestors did and have completely dropped entire genres of food. Just take a look at the actual variety of citrus fruits versus what we use and the huge range of uses they were put to.

It's like someone decided Java was the only programming language, the standard library was the only library allowed, and btw we needed to get rid of half the syntax! In that metaphor you're lionizing a couple of programmers for making the jump to Objective-C or C# while somehow overlooking the vast majority of programmers using everything from for decades Perl to ML and mixing things up left and right. Yeah, a lot of chefs & professional cooks (these are terms of art, not just a fame thing) try new things... and no, they're not even close to the only people doing so. In fact it's mostly a recent thing that chefs are innovators, for a very long time they were the ones working precisely to recipe. Consider the formalization of French haute cuisine by Antonin Carême & Georges Escoffier and the subsequent rigid adherence even now.

Try learning cooking from a cook - not a book - experimenting for yourself, and reading one of the many books like "Cookwise" that actually get into what happens and how to change it. It's the antithesis of hacking to assume there's nothing to learn and no room for experimenting!
Well I don't think that resigning your citizenship means that you don't have to pay any taxes for that year. And if he didn't pay any taxes on the stocks he owns, that would be a much larger dodge of >$600 million. So people who have left the country within the last year still have to pay taxes on their earnings.
There is, you can short the stock. But that isn't allowed to start until a little ways after the IPO.
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Matt, thanks so much for being a part of the beta. We incorporated a ton of feedback from those orders into the product that is live today. Definitely let us know if there's anything we can do to improve the experience; we're paying super close attention to these early orders.
Today's bandaid to a small problem is tomorrow's income tax nightmare. See AMT tax.
Android kills the deal for me. Can I get it with linux?
Of course it is, but it plays well with the 'tax the rich' folks. Schumer isn't really proposing legitimate legislation, he's campaigning for votes. One technique he uses is to propose legislation that can't pass the full senate, much less the whole process of getting into law, so that the big headlines like these will get folks who want to 'stick it to the rich' to vote for him.

Sadly, this is an effective technique. A number of California state representatives use it as well.
I thought Crowdtilt was like kickstarter but then I read further and its different. I like the idea and I can definitely see myself using their services.
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I gladly accept grellas's arguments. But your examples are ideas, which would fall under patents, not copyright. Source code does fall under copyright, so we need reasoning to explain why APIs - which are a part of source code - do not.
It seems like they're still around, but their initial vision has been distorted.

If they do release something, it will likely be very different from what was expected in the past.
That's interesting, but I would think it would have limits. Would you be able to send small amounts of a drug that was legal in your country to a country where it's illegal? I suppose you'd only be subject to the laws of your country in that case, the buyer would be subject to the laws in theirs?

Of course, we're talking about Candy.. I'm just intrigued by the idea of shipping-worldwide subscription businesses in general.
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The tax revenues we're talking about here are roundoff errors to USG. This is just pure spite.
I think the general argument is that people are trying to head warning to those who are less fortunate about seeing the bubble begin to pop.

I think people are trying to be the next "big short" without knowing enough about finance to actually predict anything. Most of the conversations are boring because the arguments that are brought up show a clear lack of understanding and are based on huge incorrect assumptions about the entire world of finance.

In general institutional investors are seeing a trend of other institutional investors worried about bubbles. To me, the contrarian that I am, this says that there is probably no bubble and that the risk of said bubble is way overblown. The assumption that institutional investors are not intelligent and did not watch the same news you did about the 2001 bubble and housing bubble is a very dangerous assumption to make.

My suggestion would be to think a little before jumping to conclusions on this. I do not know whether there is a bubble or not, but assuming one is forming, it hasn’t hit external markets yet and is largely captured in the SV echo chamber. Facebook will be the first big company to IPO from this. Whether they are a dud or not will have very limited impact on public markets since they make up such a small amount of money compared to the rest of world of finance.

If a single investor isn’t investing $500m in a single deal, it is relatively a nonissue. You may want to be worried if you see multibillion dollar investments by single entities. The top 3 asset managers manage over $5 trillion dollars. That means that 50 Facebooks could fit in just that number. That means that Instagram is a rounding error.

The world in SV seems big to you, but has yet to even remotely impact the outside world.

The big secular trend you should be looking at is the fact that everything will be automated. Everything. That will cause job loss for most, but for the hackers here, you can bet there will be a multitude of areas to save big companies and individuals both time and money. There may be a bubble in social, but there is probably not any bubble outside of that.
This is a great read, short and straight to the lesson. This has simplified my priorities and it will help me group my to-dos and essential tasks.
Are those real or nominal dollars?
Deep knowledge of general CS concepts -- the things emphasized by a good CS program -- are what allow an engineer to survive the fad-driven cycles that dominate this industry.

I don't believe so. I never studied CS at college, but have had no trouble learning new languages. I cannot write recommendation algorithms (though I'd wager that I could set up a massively parallel system using existing tools), but not every programmer needs to.

I don't doubt that a CS graduate is a better programmer than I am, but it's disingenuous to suggest that a non-CS grad will be unable to keep up with the industry. It just isn't true.
Uhm, or just use a document database without all that ugly procedural code that ruins testability and obstructs OO patterns and practices.

SQL is quickly becoming a legacy product.
I got to be honest with you, I barely skimmed the article because it was so long. If there were some examples, it would have caught my eye, and I think I would have spent some time reading around the example.
I was just talking about this with colleagues. If some piece of photo manipulation software centered its features for the web developer and actually outputted the CSS for shadows, blend modes, etc. I am sure that many would be interested. Photoshop is great, don't get me wrong, but it is shoehorned into being a web development tool. It isn't by nature. Fireworks and tools like it were never well rounded enough. Now we're in an era where CSS can actually do a lot of the stuff Photoshop is capable of.

Can't wait to try this out.
That's true EXCEPT the unit doesn't lend itself to that style of advertising. The biggest ad unit you can by on Facebook is 110x90 pixels. Try selling a car in that space well.
> Just to give a hypothetical example, could someone create a product that, when consumed, confers temporary euphoria but poisons the user with tar and carbon monoxide, eventually creating lung cancer?

Good question. We'll need some sort of legal framework whereby it's punishable for the creators of products/services... (I'll call them $ellers (never knew what that "$" key was good for, but it looks like an "S")) to make claims that just aren't true about their products/services. We'll also need to give victims a means to collect some sort of compensation when they're hurt by a $eller... particularly when it's the result of a false claim. Families of victims could also get compensation when the victim croaks. Croak? Funny. I think when a $eller lies I'll call it "Frog".

> How do we “value” such a product/ If it generates billions of dollars worth of “value,” is it worthwhile?

What are dollars? Is that how people vote for their favorite products? I was thinking "voting tickets" or simply "vickets". I'm open to ideas, though, so sure... let's use your dopey "dollars" term.

Anyway, the answer is -- No, because victims will be able to charge $ellers with frog. We can make it a crime punishable with jail time as well. That should discourage it heavily.

But otherwise for $ellers that don't violate these new laws that I'm drafting, we DO associate with billions of "dollars" with value. I think that's a great idea.

Next question?
raspberry pi has standard analog audio out, at one third of the cost.

In every use case I can think of, the Raspberry Pi wins hands down.
One of the reasons SPDY uses encryption is to ensure intermediate proxies do not mishandle the new protocol. A couple of SDPY devs gave a tech talk[1] where they mentioned the problems with tunneling a new protocol (in their example websockets) through HTTP (19:11 into video). Sending websockets over HTTP on port 80 only has a 67% success rate. HTTPS over 443 had a 95% success rate. The benefit of HTTPS is that intermediates cannot see or interfere with data transfer. The disadvantage is that caching and CDNs are more difficult to use.

As an interesting side note, tunneling HTTP over a random port (in the slides port 61985) had a higher success rate than port 80 (86% vs 67%). If I remember correctly, the speakers attribute this to intermediate proxies hardcoded to handle port 80, leaving other ports free of processing.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNBkxA313kk
This brings back to mind http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971212 (Somebody please, for the love of god, fix shipping/couriers)

This seems like exactly the sort of thing George Spencer is talking about - doing courier right. Kudos to you guys, I hope you'll be able to expand internationally to your neighbors up north and across the pond once you've conquered the US.
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Maybe a better question is, why do long-established websites tend to look like long-established websites?

Maybe websites that have been around for a while tend to fall into certain design patterns, which may be a reflection of bureaucracy or other patterns that structured orgs fall into.

What looks like a startup website is merely the lack of that. Just a thought anyway.
Wasn't he a US citizen when he sued in US court for proper recognition and partial ownership? It seems only fair to pay American tax on the fruit of that windfall.

How far would his case against Zuckerberg have gone if he'd filed it in Singapore?
That's not why. You can live in Singapore as a permanent resident for the price of starting a corporation ($150), which then simply hires you as an employee. Or you can have $20m and qualify for an investor exception—for which I'm pretty sure Saverin qualifies. (Note: The above numbers are from memory and may not be exact, but they're in the right ballpark.)
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I'd use WebGL if I did care about CPU and battery.
It's in 2011 inflation adjusted nominal dollars.
.. Except for availability.
If you can time it right, it is probably best to start your own thing right before the peak - get funded, and have a nice Series A war chest just as the lean times hit and the water turns red.

Although to truly weather the lean times, this would have to be a real business - ideally with customers cash flow - not a fluffy built-to-flip eyeball monetizing engine.
Structured data-sets about geographical locations?
I'm new to looking for this sort of resource and am not having much luck so far. Basically, I have an interest in having programmatic access to a semantic dataset (would think most likely from a government resource) where I can get data on geographical locations (such as a specific beach, for example or a city). Most basic example is that for a city would have population info, etc..

Any resources for this to get me pointed in the right direction would be appreciated.
Leading with the percentage is an editorial choice that implies that the model might scale; anyone who lands a spot in one of these groups has a 90% chance of getting a decent paying job the day after the program ends.

If you use the absolute headcounts then you waste headline space and you admit the statistically insignificant sample size.
Aren't there a bunch of knock-off systems coming out of Asia these days? I thought I saw a box that could be play NES, SNES and Genesis original cartridges down at my local games shop.
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You are number one on duckduckgo.Use social marketing if you really need the traffic.
If you want to get paranoid, check out Van Eck phreaking. In reality, experiment when riding a lift in the middle of a large building, doubt many radio signals will get through there.
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Kind of fun to just type in random short urls and see what you get.
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He still is a Brazilian citizen[1], non-resident Brazilians don't pay any income tax as far as I know.

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-12/facebook-co-founder...

EDIT: added "tax".
What worries me is if future generations will be able to enjoy the games of today. Will it ever be feasible to emulate a PS3 to the level demanded here? Will my grandchildren in 50 years be able to play GTA 6 on a PS4 emulator? Processing power does not appear to scale to allow this, and there will barely by any of today's consoles still alive by then (also, I doubt 2060s television sets will have HDMI input).
OK, so you've never seen one therefore they don't exist? DarkShikari and fuzzix here claim to have met them.
He was born in Brazil and has Brazilian citizenship.
So that's not the case
There's competing forces. Monetizing the private data means more privacy invasion, which drives users away and reduces adoption. But for marketers to give it a second chance, they have to know that more private data is being used. They can't keep it secret from the users and make it widely known amongst marketers at the same time.

This would buy them a second round of Ponzi-esque usage. But in order for it to be sustainable the second round has to succeed: they have to find a way to get FB users to convert. And so far, it looks like targeting ads to smaller and smaller more precisely defined demographics doesn't help all that much. Without a new twist, this is a limp-along tactic, not a road to viability.
Make magazine has a similar project featured this month.

http://makeprojects.com/Wiki/30#Section_12_000_Mile_Universa...
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Glad to see Google blowing everyone out of the water.
Actually, I believe that nowadays we live in even more cruel and lethal world than 50 years ago. On the other hand, we also have so many wonderful things. I do not believe that evil/good ratio has gone down in these 50 years.
Great to see Google responding here. Looks like the confusing 301/302 redirections are the problem. I love HN for this type of community stuff.
Right, I just realized I forgot another important effect if we go the autonomous taxi route. Currently we have somewhere around 5 parking spaces for every car. I bet we could at least cut that in half with autonomous cars, making it reasonable to develop more densely, meaning shorter driving distances, and making trains a more attractive option for some trips.
I was under the impression that cryogenic thawing has never been done on that level (human head).
That's really cool. What do the size of the circles represent? Is it the same value as shown on the Y axis or something else?

And what do the colors of the circles mean?