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Well, if Facebook wants to be really serious about mobile, they can purchase RIM.

RIM has essentially everything facebook lacks - expertise in building consumer hardware, carrier relationships, retail channels, top-notch systems engineers, etc. They are also very cheap, with a current market cap of $5.5B.
1. You are right, but there are both potential copyright and potential trademark infringement claims in this suit.

2. The right of publicity is recognized in many states, and may be implicated here. You could place it under the umbrella of privacy or IP. There is also potentially a claim for commercial misappropriation of his likeness.
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I find it quite humorous that you're participating in an online conversation through use of a computer when you could go talk to someone instead.
Report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg drops off world's 40 richest people list
Days of Wonder CEO explains the dangers of Android game development.
Groupon proposes $8.5M settlement to a number of lawsuits
I've never had an issue redeeming Groupon offers. Has anyone had any issues with them in the past?
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You Wish You Knew Before Your Job Interview [infographic]
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Anatomy of a Partner API Initiative
When I am against given them the right to vote it is because I don't consider those areas as something that the government should take care of.

Think gay marriages -- should that really be something the government can decide? Or should the individual church be able to decide what they want to do?
Other discussion:

How to hack yourself a standing desk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438140

Good Aeron / knock off alternatives: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588203
Taxes are very much a centralized mechanism. You suggested one in this domain. So you suggested a centralized mechanism for eugenics. Now you say you don't trust them... rather confusing.

On the other hand, the eugenics institutes I mentioned ("organizations" maybe you like that word better?); well, those could be lots of different groups of like-minded people/sub-groups spending their own resources the way they want to increase the frequency of traits in the world that they value.

If I and some friends want to pay to subsidize progeny of our choosing, how is that more scary than the various states of the world financially penalizing people (even sterilizing or jailing people in other suggestions of yours) toward similar ends?
Maybe less dangerous in the immediate term from overdose, but isn't ketamine potentially rather dangerous to the brain? Wikipedia seems to suggest that frequent ketamine usage causes memory issues, and there might be possible brain damage.

Whereas opiates, to my knowledge, don't actually have any serious side effects, or long term health issues (apart from constipation and perhaps lowered testosterone). Apart from the overdose risk, that is.
I don't see a great deal of evidence that they wouldn't.
I still don't understand what you mean. How are they designed for the "top 5%"? And how does that mesh with the fact that I am certainly not in the top 5%, and yet program in haskell for a living? Ocaml in particular is very simple and easy to learn and use, haskell is only more difficult in the sense that it is a higher level language than say, python, so obviously you need to learn higher level abstractions. That's like saying python is written for some elite class of programmers because it has "strings" and C doesn't.
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Was just thinking this was the next logical move for Parse to really blow up. Nicely done too!

I don't see examples of file handling through the JavaScript API though, did I just miss it?
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> I had actually been unaware of Opera before today

I can't really take him seriously after that.
It is, basically. The "entitlement" framing is a republican trope at this point; it's designed to make it sound like we're handing out cash to people who don't deserve it. If you relabel it "Medicare" and "Social Security" (concepts that are more familiar to the reader and thus make the graph easier to interpret) people tend to view it as worthwhile spending.

Likewise the revenue numbers look a little spun. They appear not to be including the near term bump due to the expiration of the 2001 tax cuts.
I once had the privilege of driving a bunch of astronauts and cosmonauts around town. They all expressed the attitude of "regardless of our political differences, we've all experienced the same extraordinary thing, and that makes us brothers." Though the space programs in the 60s were very competitive in a political sense, those who were actually dealing with the realities of space (including the engineers on the ground) had tremendous respect for each other. There was a huge amount of cooperation between the two sides.
it also means that, in the future, you might be able to call out a quadcopter to recharge your mobile phone

That's probably the dumbest, least practical idea I've ever heard. No wait, that's pointless hyperbole. However it is definitely a dumb and impractical idea.

Now, the idea of recharging remote unmanned facilities such as weather stations using UAVs? That makes sense. I don't know if the economics of it quite work out versus, say, solar power, but it makes some kind of reasonable sense. Recharging my phone, though? No sense. No sense at all!

What gives, random click-whoring author? There's a press release about a perfectly sensible, kinda-cool technology, but you know that "recharging weather stations" will get far fewer clicks than "recharging your smartphone" so you decide to make up your own pointless, clearly stupid application for this technology and lead the story with that. Shame!
My take on Parse is that they do the grunt work that is necessary with every new project. I am currently building an iPad game on top of parse, and while the pricing is a bit concerning, I figure one of two things will happen:

1) The game takes off and the $200/mo is affordable
2) The game doesn't take off and the 5mil requests is adequate.

The lock-in concerns are valid, but right now their API isn't so mature that it would take eons to build out the pieces I am using in a week or two.

As for the concern with them going out of business, they've raised a good bit of funding, and offer data dumps so you can migrate elsewhere if need be.

For me, right now the ease of development outweighs the risk (we'll see in time though...)
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Since you are so green (read: young) this will teach you a lot about business. Not the good parts (mostly), though.
You kind of lost me when you started telling me that I should consider useless the same things you consider useless. I'm sorry I openly questioned the mismatch. I'm just glad that the OP gave an actual answer... rather than just ridicule me.
Other Picplum cofounder here -- hope to write an in-depth post about the particulars of our Backbone usage. We've been working on something that was quite a big app refactor. Complete with require.js modules (require 2.0 just came out, had to fork requirejs-rails to get it working https://github.com/stammy/requirejs-rails)

Anything in particular you guys would like to know about our Backbone usage?
"Water on the moon" and "water on the earth" have very different values: the cost of transport dwarfs the cost of the water. A barrel of water on the moon is worth millions because of those costs. Beyond that, "water on the moon" is relatively cheaply converted into "water in space."

I still doubt that a war would end up happening over it, if only because it appears relatively cheap enough to extract that it's not worth the effort and risk to build a war-making apparatus to prevent other people from extracting it.
I don't understand either of your first two sentences.

The 50% risk thing came from you: you suggested calculating based on a 1 in 2 chance of successful outcome. If you're forecasting based on a 1 in 2 chance, you divide by two, right?

Second: as an employee, what do I care whether investors take a haircut? We're computing my outcome, not some notion of fairness.
Don't forget overwhelmingly male.

Also, I've noticed anecdotally that the average age on Reddit seems to have dropped over the past couple years. It used to be early 20s, but now I'm seeing tons of comments from high school kids and younger whenever I dare step out of the few subreddits I still bother to read.

I won't even get into Reddit's more serious developing issues like the explosion of casual racism.
Proposed Lego set that aims to inspire girls interested in engineering
Megaupload has 25 petabytes of data, according to the company complaining about having to host it. There was a company at one time who could put 50KB of binary data on a fax page [1]. 25 petabytes / 50 KB =~ 550 trillion sheets of paper. Heck, let's let them double-side it, so it's only 225 trillion sheets of paper.

Even the United States Federal Government would choke on trying to produce that.

[1]: http://faxauthority.com/3d-fax/
It could also make all the difference in margins because it might prevent you from hiring backend developers at all. that said, I see multiple problems that need to be overcome.

1) security. what is preventing an end user from opening a js console and going crazy on the db? How can you ensure consistency when the user has access to the code?

2) Growth. if you choose parse as a platform, the lock in seems like it could cause significant pain down the road.

seems great for toys and demos. I would not run a functioning business on it.
I was irritated at the re-use of "eye-popping" hype and the somewhat re-hashed statistics.

But the series of never-ending "Re-imagining X" slides really dramatically demonstrate technology's impact on every part of our lives.
Not to mention the massive bias.

If it's anti-rich people, pro-gay, pro-drugs, anti-corporation, anti-government, anti-religion, anti-foxnews, socialist etc etc then it'll get upvoted endlessly.

The worrying thing is that people who constantly moan about how misinformed and biased fox news viewers are, are on a website with a ridiculous bias, which also often carries untrue stories because they fit the agenda.

There's a reason why news sites are still very very popular. We need editors. If you allow people to upvote what they want, you end up with complete rubbish and endless circlejerking. The front page is often (When you remove the funny pictures) lots of "We all obviously agree with this. Who agrees with me?!!"
Word. Facebook's iOS apps are really really poor. Even their performance in mobile Safari with the standard Facebook website is very bad. I really don't get why their performance on mobile safari is any different from safari on a desktop. It's just pathetic for an extremely profitable mega corp to ship such poor products.
The paper describes a system that is a library which adds distributed transactions to effectively every data store available (distributed and non-distributed).
I see no reason why this technology should not be available really soon given the broad applicability.
Alexis Ohanian built AOL?
How to Gauge Reaction to Earthquake Using Social Data
The flipside of this is: how much Internet in our lives is a good amount? To get a look at internet usage "from the outside", Paul Miller (on of The Verge's top editors) has quit the internet and will write about his observations for one year. The articles he's written so far are fascinating, and he's just getting started. http://www.theverge.com/label/offline I recommend reading them in chronological order, from the bottom.
True&Co Takes $2M Seed Funding To Shake Up The Bra Industry
Ask HN: Teaching Entrepreneurship – Where Would You Begin?
::Problem::
I have six students who are extremely interested in learning "how to be and entrepreneur". Given the premise (assume) that building a company is more a science than an art and is teachable. What would be the very first lectures in a class that teaches entrepreneurship look like?

::About the Situation::
Assume I am qualified to teach entrepreneurship. Assume I am successful. Assume I am here looking for others opinions on how they would solve the problem. Assume these students are extremely gifted, passionate, driven, able to learn, but lack the tools and knowledge to launch a company. Assume the students currently have no idea's for a startup.

::Ideal Solution/Responses::
Ideally, HN will help me figure out where to begin, what to teach first, and why to teach that first. Also, HN will ideally suggest entrepreneurial tools to teach them, specific skill sets, theory/theories, etc.
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People wont be able to turn it off unless they install adblock.
Huge congrats to arithmetic (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arithmetic) on this!
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Wow, you are so "The WELL" circa 1997. Communities grow (and thrive, even) as the swell of users come and, ultimately, go.

Besides, there are more than enough subreddits to subscribe to that are almost completely devoid of any "drivel" you refer to (r/science and r/TrueReddit being just two; and I contend that r/programming and r/coding are even more useful to hackers than HN).
Wow, that was specific.
I'd suggest posting this under an anonymous handle. Not only for the sake of maintaining a good relationship with cofounders who may not appreciate this issue being aired in a public forum, but also in case there is any sort of legal dispute surrounding ownership of the company at a later date.
I'm not sure that's fair, Ian Laurie has been a solid blogger for years and is often critical of current trends. He ventures into technical topics from time to time too.

He may not be your cup of tea but he's certainly not the cheap PR stunt kind of internet marketing guy (I'm not sure you're insinuating that, just wanted to let folks who are interested in web marketing topics that he's worth paying attention to IMO).
How To Do A Startup On The Side And Not Lose Your Family
as with almost everything interesting, cherchez la femme or follow the money...
That wasn't the question; what percentage of the economy is from purchases that fall into the category of "I could do without"?

The question is, the NYTimes article linked on HN with 120 comments... would you pay 5cents to read it?
That looks like a post from someone who fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics involved in evaluating value in a startup environment (and likely in business period).

There are too many variables to consider in order to make a generalization like that. Even if you have a firm handle on the financial variables (how much you're earning, what your opportunity costs are, what the company will be worth, etc.), it doesn't at all consider the intangible value. So your friend is going to get 1/2 pay for 1%... maybe the experience alone in being able to evaluate his self-worth in the future or in being able to start up his own company will more than make up for a couple of years at 1/2 salary? Who knows. I'd be willing to bet that this blogger doesn't.
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Most of the people nowadays have problems with fats... But, do you have to give up once you tried and the attempt to lose weight was not successful? NO! You should try again and again. Remember that sometimes losing weight could be hard, but it IS achievable.
> "If some country say US manages to extract it all for itself"

They found a bit of water essentially just by drilling down. If it's like that all over the moon, or even over an appreciable fraction of the moon, then getting it all for yourself is an unmanageably huge task.

Remember, the moon, while considerably smaller than the Earth, is still a very big place.
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You can ask for these things, and I think a company's ability to have an informed conversation with you about your options will tell you a lot about the founders (both in terms of their expertise and their character).

Keep in mind, though, that founders have a lot more discretion with respect to how much they pay you than with respect to your options contracts. Garbage options contracts (no triggers, no guaranteed contract, huge cliff, etc.) are generally insisted on by VCs, in order to prevent employees (read: you) from negotiating an agreement which makes the company a less appealing acquisition target. Pay is generally more flexible.

So I'd suggest asking those questions, having an informed conversation with the company about the way options are structured, and then insisting on a good, solid salary and treating the options as gravy. By the time you get diluted, you end up in a locked up IPO gone south, or the acquirer comes up with some creative stock-and-cash acquisition with employee pool conversion that scams you, there's a very low chance of your options being worth anything anyway.
Right now, we don't have binary data support (which includes file handling) in Javascript. It's a bit different than Objective-C and Java because Javascript doesn't have great native support for a binary data type. So we can't just expose the same API for binary data that we use for native SDKs. We're working on figuring out a really clean way to support binary data, though.
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Yes, several slides require more context. The talk was recorded and, hopefully, will be available online at http://www.nosql-matters.org/ soon.
Why does this cost $85,000? Uh?
Just apply order by price filter and you'll see what I mean.
Seriously?
I never even look at settings if I don't have a specific goal I mind. I just can't be bothered. I often try not to use unusual settings because people will not have anticipated it, and things will break.
1). I'm not an ORM lover in general but, yes, if you're going to use an ORM and are basing your project on PHP, Doctrine is generally accepted as the best.

2). See: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/ (Why yet another template engine?)

3). Personal preference I guess but I hate gettext. I much prefer the pattern of using labels in your template (e.g. menu.item1) and then looking up that label in the desired language file e.g. messages.en.yml. And I've never had a problem with translators working with YAML files (i.e. the syntax is easy for them to grok)
How to deal with colleagues asking you to hide problems with their work?
How does parse save you time building your ipad game?

Sorry if that's a dumb question. I'm still trying to wrap my head around what it is.
The decision to require ISP's to block the Pirate bay is currently being appealed by the way. It's a judicial issue based on existing laws, not a political one such as the net neutrality one. And as long as the appeal is going on nothing is definitive.
The Future is the Future (of the social web)
Whats wrong with estimating the number of API requests the average user makes and figuring out a price based on that?
the tldr; version is "there is no bubble...there is no bubble...there is no bubble..."

Saying "there are a lot of possible sources of monetization and a lot of people on the internet" is fundamentally useless. It is a meaningless statement that every wide-eyed naive entrant to any business originally thinks.
While I agree that it's hard to have a real discussion about SS or Medicare without people sensationalizing one side or the other, the math is very real and the consequences are already here.

SS is bleeding out right now with a negative annual run, and will get worse every year for at least the next 20 years. There is no SS trust that we can tap into. It's all going to come from Fed monetization.

By the time this decade is out, SS will be running a negative $100+ billion per year cash flow. We were supposed to have eight more years of surplus than what we did, that didn't happen.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/02/democrats-deny-social-secur...

It's also worth pointing out that we're taking on over $5 trillion per year in new liabilities that we don't have the cash flow to pay for, when you count debt + entitlements that have to eventually be paid for.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/fed...
As am I. I'm hoping someone will chime in and get us low tech folks updated.
Really? None of your friends have pictures of cats or their babies or grainy shots of them and four other friends as their profile pictures? Because sometimes it feels like half of mine do.
It's not that easy, you have to think of things like:

- If I debug this code, will there be meaningful intermediate values? (One clever line of code might lack those)

- Can a less experiences developer understand what this does?
This is also IMHO why the whole 'karma' thing doesn't work. It's a measure of how much time you waste on the website, rather than any actual merit.

The people who waste the most time upvoting, commenting, etc, are the ones who decide the editorial. So you end up with a front page comprised of stories that people who like wasting their time online agree with.
It's much better on Android, if you ignore the 20 second wait everytime you open the app or navigate around too much.

The mobile webpage is nearly identical. Minus push notifications, but it renders instantaneously, scrolls great on my GNex, etc. I just have a Facebook icon Bookmark to Chrome for Android instead of the Facebook app installed (and my battery life improves!)
A commenter noted on a previous thread that Opera owns fastmail.fm - I had no idea. I've been very happy with fastmail since migrating away from GMail earlier this year — I bought 5 full years' worth of custom domain service just a week into my trial — but suffice it to say I will immediately cancel my account should Facebook acquire them.

I am not looking forward to (another) batch of research and email migration. Rackspace mail looks worth a try though.
Maybe instead of bashing infographics designers would benefit from figuring out why they are so popular? This "Cult of Tufte" stuff is kind of grating. Minard's map showing Napoleon's march into Moscow is a great example. It is an elegant chart that shows 6 key bits of information (# of troops, location, direction, temp, time, attrition), but it's a bore to look at.

It might be the greatest piece of info design ever, but it will draw less attention than a lame "infographic".

I think "Infographics" have huge potential, just like blog slide shows do. Both are universally reviled by "serious" thinkers, but are incredibly popular. I see them revealing a need for more condensed, actionable information, not a scourge. There is signal in that noise.
My core argument is that what Chrome OS sets out to provide is what most people need from a laptop; a web browser and somewhere to get "apps" (Chrome webstore: Netflix, picture editing, etc.). If it can do these well, the market for these is massive; that's my point to people claiming there's no market.

You might say that a current laptop can do this and more. The "and more" part is the issue because it ends up causing the average user more trouble than it's worth; seriously, talk to them. They still have issues with anti-virus software, paranoia about getting a virus, performing updates, anxiety resulting from worrying about what might happen if they do/don't update, resolving issues that result from updates, resolving issues that result from not updating, what to do when when it runs slow, drivers, handling files, dealing with the inevitable mess their system will be in after a year or two of use, etc.

First paragraph - second paragraph + fast boot + good battery life = massive market of potential happy users. Again, I don't know if Chrome OS will succeed but the market's there waiting for something better.