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We will be more than happy to be part of the dream!
Dreams => ideas => innovation so Dreamon!:)
Based on what Chris Anderson said, if a talk about global warming made direct statements about political parties, they would reject it. That's the difference between controversial and partisan.
Everyme Circles are completely private, and everyone knows exactly who they're sharing with, whereas Google+ Circles are a confusing concept.

Everyme also uses your address book to do some amazing things, like magically create Circles such as family, co-workers, college friends, sweetheart etc., and then keep in touch with them using the address book (this means not everyone needs the app!).
Show HN: Wayin.com - Ask questions and "weigh in" on things you find online
We're a Denver, CO-based startup. This is the second release of our website—not just a re-skinning but a fairly radical re-invention of what we offer. Now that the service is live and has gained a small core community, we want to make it better. Any thoughts or criticisms from the knowledgable folks at HN would be much appreciated. Here are a few sample pages:

Home page: http://www.wayin.com/

My stream: http://www.wayin.com/u/greim

The mashable domain stream: http://www.wayin.com/d/mashable.com

Question detail page: http://www.wayin.com/q/g-2e214z71sb7xs9o69z0
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> Pinterest: [...]

Pinterest is not without risk but the potential is huge and it has many obvious monetization options. Risks include:

- clones and insufficient network effect;

- spammers/marketers creating noise;

- someone does recommendation better than they do.

I suspect Pinterest will either need to or should adopt a revenue sharing model with "pinners", copyright holders, etc with revenue coming from affiliate or affiliate-like sources (ie from driving traffic to a site in the case where the same item is sold from multiple sources).

I see the wedding market being particularly huge for this. Wedding planning essentially comes down to selecting a huge number of different things (clothing, where to have the ceremony/reception, food, decorations, etc etc etc) and this could be a really great platform for hosting that sort of thing and tying it in with recommendations.

Twitter as a counterexample I view as ultimately doomed. IMHO within 5 years it will be bought by one of the big players. They haven't come up with a good way to monetize it yet because there isn't one.

> Youtube: [...]

> ... owners had amazing amount of luck ...

Every man and his dog, prior to Youtube, had been trying to do VoD (video on demand) for years. 1-2 new startups appeared every month. I certainly agree there was a timing element in play but Youtube was also the most accessible and easiest to use. Everyone else was terrified of the bandwidth costs. Youtube had the courage to burn through an incredible amount of money to become "the" place for online video-sharing. That could easily have become a disaster instead.

As far as rightsholder issues go, I think Youtube is the poster-child for "it's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission".

As much as people (myself included) have criticized Facebook's privacy blunders I do agree with Zuck on one point: you need to drag people kicking and screaming into the future. What people jump up and down about today they won't blink an eyelid at 5 years from now. Innovation is brinkmanship.
We are working on that for web (which is in beta), I'm assuming that's what you are mentioning. Our backend is ready to do Google Contacts and Yahoo, but haven't had time to wire up the front-end. If you download our app for Android or iPhone, you can use the address book there and create Magic Circles.
Ask HN: How many active users does Google (search, not plus) have?
Facebook claims 800+ million 'active users'. I'm wondering how Google compares to that. Not google Plus, but Google search.
If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.

This idea is an article of faith for republicans and seldom challenged by democrats and has shaped much of today's economic landscape.

What's so f*cking partisan about it?
And also includes the intent to defraud, otherwise insurance would meet your criteria.
I believe this particular decision was not about the message but about the way it was delivered. My hypothesis is that the same topic presented in a wikipediish NPOV style would fare much better. And symmetrically if you spiced a talk about climate change with jabs at replublicans it would share the fate of the talk in question.
Relevant pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

The power of PR can be pretty amazing sometimes. Especially scary given the susceptibility of the masses (ie, the Reddit firestorm).
Thanks Tommy, we love it that you liked it. The urge of doing something more drives us all.
The implication is that the Republicans are wrong and the Democrats should challenge it. In other words, "Hey, Democrats, here's an argument you should use." That's partisan.
Probably a combination of people who don't want to work for Google, developers with families that don't want to bet, and developers who don't want to/can't live in SF (or Austin, or NYC, or...)
I have to agree with Ford[1] on this one... Facebook ads offer a terrific ROI (in my experience). I'm very surprised by all of this negative press.

[1]: http://www.freep.com/article/20120517/NEWS09/205170633/Faceb...
We are using a combination of sources, not just Mechanical Turk. We plan to modify this as we find which ones deliver the best results.
And we try to steer clear of talks that are bound to
descend into the same dismal partisan head-butting
people can find every day elsewhere in the media.

I read that as "it is controversial, so we don't want to talk about that." If some new science showed that human consciousness begins at X days after conception, would that not be aired because it is a hot-button topic too?
Going out of the way to not seem partisan has the same effect as being partisan.
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How big are those slipstream effects compared to speed scaling? Drag power goes as the third power of speed; take average urban speeds from say 30 mph to 300 mph, and the drag goes up a factor of 1,000x -- to on the order of a megawatt.
What, no teleportation?
That is an interesting thought but China complicates things since a good chunck of new internet users are Chinese but Google and Facebook are blocked there.
I don't think PS3 games use the same degree of hardware timing hacks so you can probably get high degrees of accuracy without the same level of overhead.
Sir, you have hit the nail on the head.

It was the work of the disgruntled speaker whose talk was refused in a normal editorial process and who proceeded to hire a PR firm to create this ruckus.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988515
I invented Twitter. Maybe you did, too.
the market believes in a very high potential for growth. That just doesn't seem reasonable.

It is not unreasonable to think that Facebook will expand beyond its current incarnation, similar to how Google is no longer just a search engine, and Amazon is no longer just an online bookstore. That's what the market seems to be saying here.
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Facebook IPO priced at $38, raising $16 billion in biggest tech IPO ever
"TED: politically safe ideas worth spreading."
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Yeah I agree. For reference, 'astroturfing' is not what happened here. Astroturfing is when a large entity funds what looks like a grassroots, anti-establishment movement. Astroturfing is about orchestrating grassroots tactics to give the appearance of a genuine movement.

None of that happened here. Instead what happend was someone posted and article to the internet, the internet got outraged, and someone else issued an apology. Same cycle that happens every day.
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astroturfing (ˈæstrəʊˌtɜːfɪŋ)

— n
a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
Forbes recycling recent news and extrapolating rather baseless conclusions.

HN needs a Forbes filter.

Edit: turns out the HackerNew Chrome extension allows domain filtering. Yay!
I notice bands in time with these IPOs. Very interesting. We're in the middle of another band it seems like.
It's a shame that this is set in stone, and that Facebook cannot do anything to change or improve this.
To say a child is black, is understood to mean they are of African descent. That's not a label, that's phylogeny.

As for the rest, it is a simple fact that the different regions of the world are home to communities with distinct differences in phenotype. Combine that with the (very human) tendency to be cautious around unfamiliar peoples, and there you have it.

I'm not saying it is Just, or Right, or any crap like that. I am only observing that there are simple explanations for why children might behave as described, other than "their parents must be hateful bigots".
Show HN: ActiveTextView: Selectable, multicolored text views for iOS.
The fact that they are bubbles makes that an obvious comparison. But from the IPO perspective, things aren't nearly as crazy as they were in the ~1999 timeframe. The sheer number of IPO's back then was nuts, and most of them ended up falling off a cliff. Sure, there are a couple of bigs ones now, but it doesn't seem like mass delusion as then.

What are you looking at to draw that conclusion?
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I think that's the only sentence / segment in the whole talk that refers to one party or the other. Indeed, this talk is relevant even in countries where neither party exists. It seems a heck of a lot less partisan than what passes for news on a daily basis around these parts -- pick your cable news network of choice.
'Reality has a well known Google bias'
Actually everyone except blacks could vote. Contrary to popular belief, gay people can marry, just not same sex. This isn't a statement against same sex marriage, I'm just making a subtle distinction. Gay people have never experienced the maltreatment that blacks have in this country.
FYI - Another fairly common usage of "nerfed" these days (especially in the gaming community) refers to something being toned-down. E.g. if many players are complaining about a character ability being too powerful, the developers may consider "nerfing" that character.
This is also available from Line 6, in a slightly different fashion. Line 6's solution would require more DSP programming knowledge. Open stomp looks analogous to a hardware version of Native Instruments Reaktor.

more info here:
http://line6.com/tcddk/
Are actually making that claim, or is that an attempt to archly demonstrate the point being made? Because if you're seriously making that claim as others had, I can barely count the number of fallacies and debate style errors it contains with both hands.

If you weren't trying to provide an example of how explicitly partisan debates can just shut down all conversation, you still did a good job.
"Censorship" is the wrong word, but I'll stand by my accusations of cowardliness. If what he said was an irrelevant ad hominem attack (like "Republicans smell and are ugly") I'd understand their reluctance, but it was an accurate description of the actions of a political party. By ruling such topics off limits, they are intellectually hobbling the discussions that can be had. We can not address the problems they are so enamored of without addressing the forces that have a vested interest in maintaining them.

Their current position is like an agnostic who says, "well, we can never know..." when what they mean is "of course the idea of a divine being is a human invention, but if I say that some people might not like me as much." They are cowards, and I have little respect for cowards.
Sure. I see your PayPal subscription is $23.95 per month - which is fine, there's no need to change that. I'm just thinking from a UI perspective you could try using money.js (1) to show to the user the current price in their local currency:

Mystery sweets from Japan for £15.10 ($23.95 USD) / month

(1) http://josscrowcroft.github.com/money.js/
I feel like privacy regarding other users is a solved problem; it's privacy with service providers that bothers me.
I can't believe this comment. Segregation and poll taxes were no big deal, right? Things were great for black people back when it was enshrined legal doctrine to treat them as a lower category of people.

You want to know why black people vote for the same party every time? Because it's the alternative to your party.
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Thrasymachus is not going to be happy about this.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/callicles-thrasymachus/
But that is the problem, in a nutshell.

We don't want to "call out political parties", so we will ignore the truth that one of the political parties has deviated so far off course, in its anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-equality pursuit.

But let us not speak of it.
Facebook Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
except it calls out both Republicans AND Democrats.
Well firstly it is ridiculous to assume that their potential user base is nearly fully saturated. There is massive opportunities if they can get China and India onboard. And there is still plenty of growth as technology spreads through the remaining parts of the world.

As for revenue they don't need to have more ads. They just need to continue to provide different ways for advertisers to find the slice of Facebook users they need. Facebook already is much, much better than Google and eventually more and more advertisers will realise this.
Jeff Bezos describes Kindle e-Ink ... in 1998
The graph looks accurate, there has been no real breakthrough since the copper oxides.
I've used the Facebook secret groups feature and found it sufficient. Could you elaborate on what non-trivial benefits you offer over those? As far as privacy from the provider, it seems like I would have to trust you instead of Facebook, which from my point of view isn't a huge net gain.
Hard labor is valuable. Sure, it's difficult to get around when your GPS software is buggy. But's its also hard to get around if nobody has built any roads.

Generally speaking, our economy doesn't accurately price in how exhausting and difficult it is to work with your hands because there's less of a barrier to entry when it comes to labor. If there was equal opportunity, there would be a larger number of people competing for white collar jobs in an air conditioned office.
FB stock priced at $38/share on Thursday, raises $18.4 billion
I think because "{css:hat}", while interesting and amusing, doesn't accurately display what it does.
During an experiment, I hit the 4095 selector limit in IE <= 9. Even with that combinatoric explosion of preprocessing hackery, compilation still only took about 2 seconds with SASS. Sooo, I'm not really sure what problem you're having :-)
Do we need to know basic math as programmers?
You might be noticing the lack of IPOs following the 2001 bubble burst as well as the 2007-8 financial crisis. Since these are unrelated, these "bands" might not be a general trend.
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As the founders of Google will tell you, to know CS, it is obviously not necessary to "sacrifice business".

Fair, but I was trying to express that in the context of my career. I'm not going to be creating the next Google. If you're only reaching for a 9-5 job, as most outside of the HN crowd are, it is a sacrifice - at least from my point of view.

My argument is that this is short-sighted.

I really don't think it is true. Once you start in Rails, your thirst is going to become strong to learn everything else there is to possibly know about CS. I guess if you actually do stop at Rails, sure, but that indicates a lack of interest in the study, which means the chances of success in a CS program are low to begin with.

With that said, I've been in the industry for about 15 years now and I haven't really seen any change. The languages and frameworks may have, but the stuff most people are being hired for are, in concept, the same as it has always been. That is probably not going to change in the next 15, unless some radical technologies are discovered.
I haven't kept up with science fiction recently but I'd be surprised if most of these haven't already been written about.

rec.arts.sf.* would be able to give book titles, authors, and probably page numbers too.

It'd be interesting to keep the article to read it in 5 / 10 / 50 years.
It might be your music, but it's still not your cloud
I wish I could think of a reasonable way to normalize for the age of the company. A decade ago, there was no SOX and it didn't suck as much to be a public company, and it wasn't as easy (?) to raise $100MM from DST as an alternative. Facebook delayed its IPO for as long as possible and went to the private capital markets instead of to the public. Its valuation should be compared with companies at a similar point in their lifecycle.
Whether or not the talk was politically motivated, if this article is correct about what the speaker did as a result of rejection, the speaker is an attention-seeking demagogue that uses threats and deception for self-promotion.
100% agree, it should also be normalized against the value of dollar.
Actually that's misleading. If the radius of the circles go up linearly, the area/size of the circle goes up exponentially. So on the logarithmic scale, the height changes with the log of the value but the size goes up exponentially!

Edit: nevermind this, it's wrong.
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I personally think it just sounds awkward. Spivak pronouns can pick up all of the benefits of a singular "they" without the drawbacks, though.
This seems to hit a sweet spot between Path (share alike to a small group), and Pair (share with significant other).

If I could import from Path (which must be possible, since there's a third party Path "app" for Mac desktops), I'd switch.
> Twitter as a counterexample I view as ultimately doomed. IMHO within 5 years it will be bought by one of the big players. They haven't come up with a good way to monetize it yet because there isn't one.

didnt you just say this: Just because you don't see potential doesn't mean there isn't any in your previous post?

> As far as rightsholder issues go, I think Youtube is the poster-child for "it's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission".
I agree with you, but lets wait until all lawsuits settle or be resolved, and then see if they were forgiven. I am obviously not talking about the initial owners.

> you need to drag people kicking and screaming into the future. What people jump up and down about today they won't blink an eyelid at 5 years from now

It would be obvious Zack would say something like that, considering the service he is building. I am not sure if I like this approach anyways. While most people work on innovation the right way, there is lots of jaw dropping stuff coming up as well. On the privacy stuff, one day you may wake up with Police Drone in your backyard determining if that blue spot on your Google Maps picture was a swimming pool you haven't paid taxes for, or just a covered blocks of wood.
Hi, a small handful of first impressions:

- On the landing page, your signup form is far too long. You also seem to have a FB login option on the top nav bar, but it's not there for the main CTA on the page. It's also easy to bypass the signup by simply clicking on the links in the list to the left of the signup form.

- "Local Events" looks like it's just stuff taken off of public Facebook events. Stuff like "Johns Wedding" and "I have a phone now" aren't particularly interesting to me.

- The "Deals" section could use some work: Most of the deals which show up above the fold are nationwide product-based deals which don't really get me excited (a Dyson-knockoff fan, collapsible water bottles, a subscription to OK! magazine) - try to focus on local deals if you can.

- "Local News": It's just a list of text links. Try and spice it up a bit with some styling, images, or at least stating the subject matter (sports, fashion, business, etc)

It's a neat idea, but a lot of people are working on the content-recommendation idea now. Good luck!
I think we have good handle on how to get the messages down to the devices. Check out http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action-at-u... on how we handle connectivity and delivery to android devices.
Attacking a political party invites various cognitive biases related to tribalism - both for the people who like and dislike that party. It makes it more difficult for an audience to evaluate your arguments on their own merit.
Tech isn't only the internet. Microsoft and Apple both went public before the Internet and managed to do quite well without it.

Correlation != causation. Might as well graph it against the number of World Cup or Euro championships in that year and get a much higher correlation since the IPOs seem to all be in an even year.

It'd be much more interesting to look at perfomance vs sector and performance vs the index.
>Is this quote accurate, and does Ted have an official stance of avoiding controversial issues? The fear is not that Ted is in the pocket of any particular party, rather that the bounds of public debate are being set by parties (plural) who benefit from the absence of debate. If Ted isn't independent enough to start this discussion, who is?

When money and power is involved, you don't get to be independent in the US (or a lot of other places for that matter).

You have the right to free speech as long as you talk for inconsequential issues, if you talk for anything else you are labeled a "partisan" (that goes for both republicans and democrats, and even every other stance).

You are of course free to raise very important issues for society as a whole, but not in a way that implies that the way the power/financial system works is bad in toto -- the best you can get away with is "inefficient".

That is, you have free speech as long as you don't use it for real political causes. Any other partial view is allowed (gay or anti-gay, abortion or pro-life, etc...).
OpenSE and Majestic SEO databases are not really going to find the spammy links that penguin is targeting:

http://www.branded3.com/seo/penguin-update-renders-seomoz-ma...
Go ahead and speak of it. Nobody's stopping you. It just won't get you on TED's website.
Do you have any basis for being so sure?

I know of tens of people who owed capital gain taxes on IPO shares they couldn't even sell (due to SEC rule 144, look it up), the shares tanked, and they were still on the hook for taxes even though their best realizable profit ended up less than what they owed in taxes.

Yes, the US tax system is f*cked up in multiple ways. I'm not aware of any other country in which you can strike gold in an IPO as a founder, investor, or employee, and -- due to a market event outside of your control -- face a tax bill strictly larger than you could ever have legally derived. (again, look up SEC rule 144)

No, this is not fiction - I was luckily saved from such a fate by virtue of the "exit" event (an acquisition) happening before July; had it happened a few days later (July 1st or later), I would have lost money on an investment with a nice 3x-8x return (depending on how you measure). In the end, I didn't lose money, but hardly profited.

I know others who weren't so lucky, and if you (or someone you know) were in the tech scene/bubble in San Francisco in 2000-2001, you probably do too.
I've known Joseph for a while--I wanted to make sure he got credit for being right about this over a YEAR ago. Meaning GM could have saved $10M if they'd read his blog.
...or, the speaker is simply passionate about a topic that he believes needs to be discussed as openly as possible.

Aren't you now committing the same mistake of guessing the speaker's motivations as everyone who criticized TED?
R’s increasing popularity. Should we care?