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My view is that it isn't the nature of the people on that site it's the nature of the frame of mind those people are in on that site. There's a link that was posted here a while ago which I think explains it.

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/whittling-part-of-b...

"The human brain just seems to have a need for resting, for passing some time in a low-energy state. Computer role-playing games are perfect for that. When I fight fifty basically identical combats against darkspawn in Dragon Age or spend five hours finally getting my level 13 druid in World of Warcraft to level 14 or piled a hundred bricks on top of other bricks in Minecraft, I’ve done more than waste my time. I’ve given by brain rest that, for reasons I can’t begin to understand, it craved."

This rings incredibly true to me and I think many of the people who are reading this comment and who have read reddit & HN today are doing exactly this, they're putting their brain into a low(ish) energy state to give it a rest. I'm not implying that we're in that state all the time, if something of particular interest pops up we can be jolted out of it into something much more productive but for the most part people are grazing over the news and seeing what's going on in the particular corner of the internet they're interested in. All while not having to think too hard.

So what irritates me is people who look down on others because they like to watch reality tv, or read bad vampire romance novels or play video games when actually they themselves do similar but different "low energy" activities, only they've convinced themselves that their activities are better and more worthy and that everyone else is just wasting their time.
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I agree that all of the Google X projects of today will ultimately be what defines Google tomorrow. The fact that they have the guts to tackle projects that are incredibly risky for a business but meaningful for humanity is a major reason I'm happy to use their products. I love the geek factor.
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Definitely. There's a teaser screenshot of Flyash (the big, reusable chunk of our dashboard) towards the bottom of http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3091-pssst-your-rails-applica... (that post also details some of the major emitter components we use).
Surprisingly Google ventures doesn't seem very savvy to date. Kevin Rose will probably be the highest performing partner in no time.

Smart move for everyone involved.
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At the current rate, in 2025, the government will be spending more on entitlements and interest alone (NOT taking into account government spending on defense, education, etc.) than they have revenue.

According to the pessimistic "Alternative Fiscal Scenario" in the 2011 CBO budget forecast estimate, this won't be true until after 2035 (the last year they estimate for). Ms. Meeker decided to use an older 2010 CBO estimates to make her point.

Also the CBO makes it clear that it is healthcare spending, not social security, that is causing the vast majority of the trouble. Alas, 64% of the increase is apparently due to baby boomers. If the US government would stop passing the "doc fix", the Extended-Baseline Scenario of the CBO estimates would kick in and we'd be looking at nearly no spending growth past 2014.
Really? Most of that chart is just big text. Big text is not an infographic. I would say the most interesting one I've come across recently is http://xkcd.com/radiation/.
It seems that Google's products have future utility to them that seems to be lacking from FB.

Facebook is focused on sharing. That can be an action, but until the action is focused, it doesn't seem to be useful (other than as a time-suck of course).
In the context he used it in, an lay office of a Protestant church. They typically serve as advisors/leaders/mentors.

Usually they seem to be middle-aged or older, IME.
I've actually had an easier time setting up Phusion Passenger with Apache than I've had setting up PHP. Ease of deployment isn't necessarily a major advantage in PHP's corner anymore.
The fact of the matter is that most people are less concerned about personal privacy and data security than they are maintaining social relationships, so while I don't disagree with your premise I would argue that your point is fairly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. I fully expect we'll end up with a few competing Skynets in the next couple of decades, but the best we can hope for is that their overlords are reasonable people. Imho, trying to avoid this is a fool's errand; we're better off educating people and creating peripheral controls to help guide the megaliths into an agreeable position.
not-stereotypical-geekery like ... martial arts[2]

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I agree.

I made the argument only this weekend with a family member that technology companies come and go and tend to be cyclic. However, Google is here to stay. They might be search/advertising at the minute but those guys are really taking crazy problems head on and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Google had a breakthrough product in 5years with Cars.

We can all criticize Google+, but Google is one of those companies that I look at and stand in awe of day after day.
No, they do not. They issue convertible debt with a cap at $5M-$10M. A debt conversion cap is not a valuation - the current valuation is by definition lower. It's lower by at least the amount of the discount, and almost certainly by much more than that.

Simple thought experiment to make this obvious: when a company raises convertible debt with no cap, are they infinitely valuable?
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> And doesn't he being that kind make you regret suggesting people drop his article for a trivial typo?

If I had actually suggested that people not read the article then, yes, I would regret that. Fortunately, I did not do that. Instead I said why I did not read the article. Perhaps you find that distinction trivial. That is fine. But I do not.
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Briefly, probably not (everyone here at 37signals got treated to a 3000 word treatise on our statsd journey a few weeks ago). I did write up a few reasons at https://github.com/noahhl/batsd/blob/master/doc/why-not.md.

In short: we as a company have a ton of Ruby experience and comparatively little Python/Node.js experience (both in terms of understanding the tools that we use, which we like to do, and simply just in being able to confidently manage dependencies, etc.), and we knew we were going to want to build our own UI eventually anyway, which limited the utility of Graphite itself.

Edited to add: I can't say it enough, Etsy and Graphite are both fantastic pieces of engineering, with fantastic communities and support behind them (there's a fascinating writeup about Graphite in particular at http://www.aosabook.org/en/graphite.html).
Yet another sad example of how ideology got the best of science.
I don't want to go into specific details, but I am aware of this defence being used for real about 10 years ago in a similar kind of case.
Not yet, right now I have no need to learn yet another scripting language. I've been spending most of my language learning efforts on Erlang lately.
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someone on HN believes in God? No judgments, I just thought hacker and atheist were deeply intertwined. Perhaps I just picked up the wrong impression from Reddit.
Fundable.com or Kickstarter.com?
Which of these are best for funding a startup? Either or Neither? I thought Kickstarter was only for creative projects, but I'm beginning to see more and more projects that look less like creative works, and more like straight companies seeking funding.
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Initial issue/concern I see is that it would seem people who have more internally-interactive/colleague-facing job roles would unfairly receive more unicorns/more $$. So workers who are pretty independent or mostly external-facing would be less likely to receive equitable bonus/appreciation for a job well done. Of course the client-facing positions can more easily have another metric for determining bonuses, though I think many times those metrics are pretty flawed.

Anyway. I like the idea of crowdsourcing a bonus, but think it needs to have a lot more nuance in it than it appears exists in Shopify's approach in order to actually be a fair and robust tool for bonus determination. Love the unicorn touch, though!
As long as it's just companies that can be regulated by states and laws it's managable. The main task we have imho is to keep the governments out of the loop - we don't want the force monopoly combined with the data collection.
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You are right. In the talk I gave I briefly referred to Hierarchical Database for instance. It's not in the slides because of the timeframe for the talk.
... and probably a better fit for Rose ?
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Yes, and fragmentation of your data. Resulting in e.g. data quality problems. It's not just choice, it's choice with downsides that many seem to not really care about at all.
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Another way of wording his (and my) concern is how do you securely identify the user? Nevermind the permissions model (ACL), how do you actually ensure the user is who they say they are, and how tamper-proof is this authentication.

Nothing in their documentation provides any details on this. The security section is filled with details on how to specify access levels, but I can't find anything about how they guarantee Fred is actually Fred and not Bob with firebug open.
The Google+ Local landing pages are the replacement for those Maps pages. It may take time for this to roll out but it's what I see when I click "more info" or the restaurant name from a search in Maps. It's a huge improvement.
What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up?
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Great article that hits home since I work for a company that uses Github Enterprise and Basecamp and the company bends over backward to avoid adding new users on Github Enterprise while having no such concerns about Basecamp.

The decision to use Github Enterprise to begin with was not, IMO, a good one (we could be paying $25/month instead of $5000/yr while having many more users and saving on admin costs too), but the IT culture is such that if they can bring something in-house, they do it (even if the cost structure results in having to stupidly limit use). But the fact that we also use Basecamp shows that if the service isn't available via the in-house model but is still useful, we will still adopt it.
That data from the 90% on slice X is valuable because you're trying to confirm, or falsify, that X is better, quickly. The strategy is "look closely at this pointy thing to see if it's a needle or a sharp piece of straw."
Surely that's not the best we can hope for—or work for. It is not out of the realm of possibility that distributed social networks, like email or Diaspora, can gain popularity. But I don't know how to make that appealing to average people.
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The ATM example at the end of the article is awesome and a must-read, even if you just skimmed over the rest of the article.
Have any YC companies been born out of VA besides Reddit?
Does anyone know of any significant web startups birthed out of the state of Virginia?
I'd say their investment in Nest was pretty savvy. An incredible product that seems to have consistently sold well.
What you really need is stick a virtual memory manager on top of NVM instead of RAM.
In this case NVM works like disk and RAM as the same time. In your file system you just have a /ram file which is used as system memory.

Then, fun things start to happen: You no longer need disk buffers, since your RAM is your disk. And mmap()ing no longer consumes "RAM" because you just map a part of your file to whatever virtual address you want. You need no swap. You never have to swap in or out. You never have to sync your disks or observe buffer dirtiness (if only on CPU cache level) because your buffer is a part of your file - once you write to it the file is already updated.

Of course, software will have to adapt: prefer mmap()ing file to read()ing one; use persistent memory structures. The goal is to minimize copy-on-write by either read-only access or safe in place data transformation.
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He delineates it fine, I thought. The quality goes down as you get further along--Number 11 says nothing, for instance--but the 1-4 are perfectly valid.

Does your "infographic" add clarity? If no, it's not an infographic.
Does your "infographic" actually use data? If no, it's not an infographic.
Does your "infographic" communicate more compactly than a paragraph or a spreadsheet? If no, it's not an infographic.
Does your "infographic" tell a story or make an argument? If no, it's not an infographic.

Basically, infographics are yet another one of those academic things that got subverted by marketers in service of the masses. Now that they have a different audience, it's a lot harder for them to hold onto their original identity of "a piece of tri-fold cardboard at the science fair".
For anyone who didn't rtfa, here's a cool link of Sebastian Thrun demonstrating Project Glass on Charlie Rose:

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12321
So you are saying that hosting is what makes the difference between products like Basecamp and other enterprise software? I am genuinely interested in knowing the differences. Specifically, I want to know what makes up enterprise software.Should anything that is not SaaS but is still provided to more than few companies be considered enterprise?
Probably, his investments have had a better track record than his products as of late.
Crazy futurist rant...

Traditional operating systems such as Linux and windows are 100% dead when non volatile memory comes along in force. Paradigm shift time.

There is pretty much no reason to use any filesystem APIs or filesystem any more. You just keep your data in the process address space - its just not going to go anywhere. Just make a data segment persistent across processes and you can survive restarts. If you backup, you can just dump the address space. Screw hard disks as well. i imagine some form of rpc will be in place between processes so they can talk to each other and that is it. Lots of small redis instances would be a similar concept.

Imagine an mp3 server process which can provide persistence in the heap, metadata and decoding services and you're there.

it'll be like a small internet inside your machine.

Lisp would fit nicely in this world. Imagine A persistent root environment. load a defun once and it's forever. Teracotta do something similar with java.

Then again I could just be insane.
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Sure. Plenty. Google for Virginia Tech incubator and you should find many. There is a whole small start up business center right off campus.
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While most elders tend to be older men, there's no minimum age requirement. I am young for an elder but there are pastors in my denomination in their early 30's. It's unusual but not unheard of.
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My feeling is that they don't enjoy programming or like the team. It is unlikely you'll be able to change this.
Usually hackers are very good at logic, which precludes believing the self-contradictory bible and religious dogma, but some people are very good at compartmentalizing their brains and avoiding applying logic to some parts of their lives, apparently.
1) That is even more true for tiered pricing. Is there an alternative you know of that doesn't involve the price going up as your usage goes up?

2) If you expect software pricing to match the marginal cost to the supplier, then I think you're out of luck. All software is this way. There are huge up-front costs to build the software, and the cost of actually selling an individual license is close to zero.

Pricing in general shouldn't be about what a product costs to provide, but rather what it's worth to the customer.
It's not even about agriculture. In medieval europe peasants had a lot of leisure. Of course harvest season was brutal, but much of the rest of the year was easy.

Asian rice agriculture was endless back breaking work. But that wasn't the case in Europe.
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Does Codeacademy work?
Can a site like Codeacademy.com actually teach a complete web programming novice to build a working startup in a reasonable amount of time? Is it that effective?
You probably heard of 7Zip and LZMA. xz uses the LZMA2 algorithm to achieve better compression ratios.
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That's a dangerous mentality and I hope it's on it's way out. The way I see things is that especially in tech, it used to be that doers couldn't just do. They needed to drum up cash / etc... to facilitate the doing. Now that's just not the case. There's a quote (I believe from reddit) "Pics or it didn't happen". The benchmark as I see it with very few exceptions is "Prototype or you're full of it".

Doers will do and the leaders? They can go and lead each other around in circles.
Why does the general program usually start at 0x8000?
When we first launched we ran into the 30 second heroku timeout issue that was affecting us with some users and larger uploads. The easiest option was just dropping in the Transloadit endpoint. We have a dedicated EC2 instance that we have been planning on converting to our upload box with nginx and its upload module.
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is there a pbzip2 that doesn't eat all your memory ?
Being able to reboot is nice in case you screw up really bad.
Having a transparent storage (file system) instead of opaque cross-linked in-process structures is a good thing too.
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But yeah same effect - although links may need to be shortened - it wouldn't be hard to knock up a quick redirect service to make nice friendly short urls.

This is the part I don't understand. How does having a URL help?
It would be if we embraced Modern Monetary Theory :)

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/08/guest-post-modern-mon...
so you think the advent of agriculture was a godsend to humanity?
Yup, i was just as surprised, but I'm sure I have very similar beliefs to the author of the original post.
I swear he is the world's luckiest person. Implodes Digg, somehow gets $ out and does angel investing. Gets his next pos start-up bought out for an ungodly sum for doing nothing and not making a cent. And now a VC. This guy should play the lottery.
That trust fund doesn't exist, there is no actual money in it, as noted by the other comments.

The Federal Reserve ultimately will lend the US Government that money (the Fed is now buying 95% of all long term US govt debt), now with interest on the debt, instead of there being an actual trust there earning interest.

So any math that relies on that trust existing, is Enron accounting.
Well that's the mass media and government line, but the reality is that war spending has affected everything from state budgets to employment.
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And not all APIs are startups with a decent likelihood of not being around in the future.
His argument was about the fact that you're stuck using their APIs on their servers. This doesn't really apply to all APIs.

With other services you're stuck with their APIs, but at least you can host it on your own server, if the cloud becomes too expensive.
I will only believe this once it's sitting in my desk

And, for now, it won't change filesystems much. Unless you can get a similar ammount of it as a disk (or maybe a compromise, let's say today around 8GB ram is common, and 1TB of HD, then if you can get around 128GB NVM this can be your new 'SSD')

It is of course, a very important development, and may make things faster
That google glass picture scares the fuck out of me. It instantly devalues humanity and values voyeurism and narcissism over family.

If this becomes the norm, I'm going all Luddite.

I think it will also become: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8NbpCvSwo
I wouldn't rely on Reddit for too many things like that :-)

I belong to the Christian + Hacker set intersection as well.
I wouldn't exactly call that a clone since it doesn't support key features of statsd (e.g. gauges) and has unique features of its own (e.g. key/value pairs).

Looks brilliant otherwise.
Now this is good work if you can get it. $12m talent acquisition and then he quits in 3 months.

Maybe im just not a valley insider but what exactly has Kevin done that was successful? I'm not trying to be critical here, just don't see what warrants the hype around him.
What co-working space is it? Can I check it out? :D
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Exactly. I dont think having him as a Sr product manager on G+ was a good idea at all.

I think he is probably far better suited for this role as he does have a good pulse on the trends of the internet and that pulse should allow him to spot great opportunities.
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They're doing a lot of stuff that's not showy but will likely show very solid returns. Don't discount them because they don't show up on HN too much.
Great design decisions. In fact, this got me thinking.

I might just start out with Parse if it is so easy to convert it the other way as well.
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"457,739 different metrics in Flyash" Oh...kay... Flyash looks very nice from the screenshots, but I'm interested to learn how you solve the discoverability problem with that much data. (Too much of a good thing?)
Digg was a success once.

But mostly I think what Kevin offers is a very 'industry insider' perspective. He's created startups, he's worked with a lot of them, he's funded many more. So, experience and opinions/insight mostly.
One of the most recurrent metrics in Tufte's books is "density". Another is "comparisons on multiple axes" (I'm going from memory, I think he had a more technical term). How do you think this particular graphic does?

Graphics like this seem more like posters promoting an idea than tools for understanding complex data.
I disagree.

If you use a safe programming language which doesn't piss over memory (I.e. Haskell, Python, Ruby, Lisp etc) you won't need to reboot. Just reload the broken function into your environment and carry on. As for data, the same thing can happen to your disk...

The filesystem only exists because we couldn't put data in process due to the cost of memory. We cram everything through the filesystem API if it fits or not due to this.

It's why our machines are slow and primitive.

Consider the case of video - it is better represented as streams of audio, picture and metadata. To get this from a filesystem, we have to mux them all into a single stream and then demux them afterwards and hand them over to other APIs to process. This just wouldn't need to exist.
If all the non-volatile in-process data structures have the same semantics, with type annotations etc, one can imagine those structures being just as transparent and ready for inspection as modern filesystems are.