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Your question is not as funny as it sounds. To quote http://money.cnn.com//2012/07/17/technology/yahoo-earnings-m... the market has pretty much dismissed any non-Asian *.yahoo.com properties: "Yahoo's Asian assets are worth $20.5 billion, according to Yahoo's latest financial report: $14 billion for its 40% ownership stake in Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba and $6.5 billion for the company's 35% share of Yahoo Japan. Yahoo's market capitalization currently sits at $19 billion. Ouch."
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yes, usually that was all that they asked, and that were mostly for the senior level positions
That was required reading at the conservatory I went to years ago. (Not by the teachers, among us classmates. We made everyone read that we interacted with)

Got to play with Kenny at a jam thing a decade ago. Absolutely amazing experience.

There is so much that I can extrapolate on this subject, but I believe the greatest hurdle for a serious musician is that after you master all the dexterity, independence and music theory, the biggest hurdle is your own fucking self.
Opportunity cost is an important idea to keep in mind.

However, there are some other factors which are also important. For one, money now is worth more than money later. It's easiest to imagine future earnings discounted based on how far in the future they are; I think traditionally they are discounted exponentially.

Another is that time worked is not necessarily linearly proportional to productivity. Perhaps for the most menial of assembly line work this is true, but for creative endeavors like programming it isn't. In fact, working more can make you less productive in an absolute sense!

You also have to keep your risk tolerance in mind. That is, a 1% chance of earning $1000 is not the same as a 10% chance of earning $100.

And, of course, opportunity cost also applies to all sorts of resources like money (especially in some liquid form) as well as time. This is something to keep in mind if you plan on investing money in something illiquid.

In short: opportunity cost is important, but so are a bunch of other things.
First book I ever read was an Encyclopedia Brown book. Sad to hear it.
Conversation is pretty worthless when it's speculation piled on speculation. If that's your thing, then well... okay.

I mean... if there's much ado about little data, why is it that MORE ado is better?
I'm in China and nobody gives a shit about home-grown Chinese brands. I mentioned to a friend I wanted to check out a Meizu MX and her boyfriend asked "what's that?" To which she replied "Oh, just a shanzai iPhone".

The first meizu store I went to, there was a guy selling rugs inside.

The second meizu store had two very bored looking sales assistants and in the half hour that I poked around and pestered these guys nobody else came in.

The technology malls are filled with Apple, HTC, Samsung and even Sony phones. Zero obvious brand presence for Chinese phones.

In the future this will change, I'm not saying that the Chinese phone industry won't be a powerhouse, but for now temper your excitement.
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My error.

Unless I'm misremembering, that was not a part of the original statute & was added later. The criticism I gave was fairly common immediately following passage of the DMCA.
Like I said, you'll find out. I heard the same stories and dismissed them. I kept a balance with them in the 6 figures because of the relatively high interest rate I was getting in the money market account (when they had it). Then they froze my account. No biggie, right? I'll just wait 6 months. Still getting the high interest rate. Before they unfroze the account, they took a chunk out of it. Only about 10%, but it was still quite a bit of cash. No explanations, just email stating the obvious. My recourse? Nothing. They refuse to speak to you, only by letter. Letter gets a response 6 months after the fact and it's just a form letter pretty much acknowledging receipt. Like I said, you'll find out. If you do business with a local bank, at least you can take them to court if there's a problem. With PayPal? Good luck.
You probably shouldn't spend your day calculating trade-offs for every purchase you make. Theoretical value added is still just theoretical value, but cash outflows come from finite cash.

The best values and leverage are found high repetition or high scale activities. For example, everyone has to commute to work every day. Considering moving the office closer to a train station/highway/bus terminal so that each of your employees shaves off 15min of commute time is a highly leverage-able decision.
I want this to be awesome. I feel the void of great apps while trawling through my flat feed, searching and scanning for info that should flow to me through a thousand different apps, just as I need it. BUT, I won't spend $50 on a dream, without seeing some kind of real demo. Prove that you can do this right by showing off something awesome twitter can't or won't.
Unless you work as a software dev in which case you get 65k/year here.

Sigh.
Look at it differently. Would you be impressed if the highest paid developer in Canada made 80k?
Can you allow specific site exceptions? I'd like to check specific coding education sites and my local server.

Other than that issue, great app!
It's not really a "hack" so much as how all networked multiplayer games work these days.

But it doesn't really get you around the speed of light. If somebody is 100ms away, you can't know that they shot a rocket at you until at least 100ms after the rocket was fired.
What are the advantages of this over regular flow cytometry? I guess it would allow instant imaging of morphological changes, but this would require staining anyway (right?) at which point one could use flow to separate out suspicious cells and image at one's leisure using more conventional techniques.
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AFAIK, cards processed with card.io are processed as if they were "card not present" transactions, which have a different risk profile (and thereby different fee structure) than "card present" transactions (that requires some information that is on the magnetic strip that you can't just read off the card itself).
If Google wants to prove to the world what a huge success G+ they could do this in 10 seconds by giving us some pageview, photo, post, etc stats.

From the linked article:

During the Google I/O Conference in June, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced that the Google+ mobile traffic is now larger than the desktop traffic. Gundotra also announced that Google+ has 250 million accounts, 150 million active users during a month and 75 million active daily users.

So there is that.

The fact that they don't do this is telling

Facebook has never given number any more detailed than the ones Gundotra gave.
Any iPhone developers looking to work on a kickass ready-to-build app?
I'm a UX designer/front-end developer by trade, and have spent weekends designing a complete iPhone app that has the potential to blow your mind and top the charts.

However, I can't make iPhone apps, and due to my day-to-day commitments, don't have the time and capacity to learn the craft.

So, if you'd be willing to take a look at my designs and consider building it -- with a the ide a of splitting the revenue once we release it -- please get in touch!

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If Yahoo were a startup trying to ante up then I'd agree with you. Yet Yahoo already has the cards they need to play big: users, branding (especially in Asia), core products, content partnerships, profits, and financing in place to join the big 5: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft.
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Hey all,

Am needing to create a quick info video for a landing page. I've checked out a few sites and they offer sweet products, but are a bit pricey considering I just need one video.

Was wondering if anyone can suggest free or cheap alternatives to creating short animation videos? Even if it's combination of creating my own through iMovie/quicktime/etc... open to all suggestions!

Thanks
Realm of The Mad God used procedural generation for its levels, and was hugely successful, so yes, this way of doing things is a change, but it's also not completely unprecedented.
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Has it been moved?
> However I do not know if there is a easy way (a "litmus paper") that could say she is 5x better.

Quantitatively? Not my area, but you could boil it down to something as simple as "number of features shipped in a quarter." However, I think the real value comes in when you're talking about non quantitative analysis of these coders.

What awesome, innovative products has Yahoo! shipped in the last year?[1] What are they doing to make Yahoo! Mail better than GMail, or to make people stop laughing if you give them an @yahoo.com address? No, registering ymail.com does not count for much.

A single, highly productive programmer that's shipping useful features, inspiring ingenuity within the team, giving back to open source communities and, at a high enough level, giving interesting tech talks at conferences/hackerspaces/etc, can easily be as useful to the company as five average coders. Maybe not 5x as productive, depending on measurement, but definitely that much more useful. Rock stars, when they aren't full of themselves or throwing that term around like little kids, really can make giant differences.

Think about it - would you trade five of your company's management team for Paul Graham? I sure as hell would.

[1] Okay, Hadoop is pretty cool, but even that is based off of Google research.
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I'm just curious as to how others look at domain squatting.
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working effortlessly in the background

Not sure what you are trying to say here, but I'm pretty sure someone working effortlessly in the background isn't adding a lot of value.

If anyone should be worried it should be Google, Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest because many seem to forget MySpace

Wow, there is a bold prediction.

the landscape is going to be marginally different come 2013

A much less bold prediction, and somewhat at odds with what you wrote earlier.
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Hi HN, I'd be interested in the topics one must learn/ master in order to become a Data Scientist.

Also, it would be great if you could include any learning resources you would recommend (books, tutorials, websites, classes, etc).

Thanks,
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Well, there's a reason why there are games (DOTA 2, for one modern example I'm certain about) that don't do 'trust but verify': sometimes if you verify, you will find that the client is wrong, in a way that probably just means they are innocently desynced, but might mean they're cheating, and it's hard to tell the difference. Worse still, those minor desyncs end up causing major gameplay differences that make the player feel like your netcode is terrible.

Textbook example of the latter: Playing a melee class in Diablo 3. Rubber-banding and teleporting everywhere, getting killed by things you can't see or that are on the other side of the screen, etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFw6MYqUyKs#t=0m15s

I do wish 'trust but verify' worked at scale though. It feels like one of those brilliant technology solutions that lets you beat the competitor on server costs. :D
Interesting observation. Most startups fail, and most turnaround efforts fail. Makes success something you really want to hang on to when you find it.
I have trouble thinking of a market-leading business that doesn't adhere to it.

Wal-Mart, Exxon, Apple, Google, Toyota...

Companies that concentrate on creating real value naturally reap economic rewards. Companies that prioritize captured economic value over the creation of customer value have a nasty habit of failing.

I strongly suggest that you stop writing shallow, snarky one-liners. They detract from HN, they reflect poorly upon you, and they're against the guidelines.

If you want to post like that, please go back to Reddit.
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This can actually be captured with the simple recognition that opportunity cost is not entirely monetary, but rather it's about value. "Money now" has more value than "money later". This is described using a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_function

> It's easiest to imagine future earnings discounted based on how far in the future they are; I think traditionally they are discounted exponentially.

It's called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_discounting
Sounds like you're suffering depression. I suggest looking into some remedies, be it meds, an exercise regime or better diet. But really, look into it.

I'd also suggest looking somewhere completely different. Go get inspired. Do you know how? That's important. Refresh your spirit. Meditate. Pray. Befriend someone who is lonely.
Get your mind blown by learning something completely new.

The world may be radically different when your done doing that, a new world of possibilities.
The Great Brain series was awesome and inspirational. Definitely recommend to any budding young (7-15?) hackers afoot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain
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Learn how to do it yourself - or at least get a good start so that when you present your idea to others they take you seriously (or at least more seriously than if you only have an idea). Ideas in themselves are worthless, it all comes down to execution.

I believe this is what Drew did with Dropbox and YC (if I'm not mistaken, in his application he said that he was going to follow through with Dropbox whether he got into YC or not). Granted, he is technical person, but (IMO) the simple fact that he was ready to finish his product, no matter what, showed a lot to the YC panel.
PG - are you serious? you seriously think that their decline in growth comes from anything other than facebook users seeing through their scam and facebook itself shutting off their spam channels?

You think that there is any chance in hell that they can maintain that kind of growth. Come on
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I know people who worked directly with Steve and would write descriptions of similar length with nothing positive to say.
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Hi,

I had some really good ideas recently. Every time I got excited and was so looking forward to start working on it, just to learn that somebody already had a solid business running based on the same idea or at least executed some sort of website.

Should I still try to execute the idea myself since it's not original any more? Should I just move on and try to come up with new idea or try to compete, make it better, improve?

Sometimes I feel like it's not even worth thinking about, like everything was already done, patented ..

Any input welcome ...
That's funny, because reused assets have been a big part of some of gaming's biggest leaps forward.

We call them "mods".
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What do you think happens when there is gridlock? No confirmations of any kind. So the various departments out source. One does not need senate approval to hire consultants. ;)

In fact, there are lobbyists who push for grid lock because it's in their clients best interests.

In fact, I'd say about 60 - 70% of all federal government IT services are out sourced. It's a revolving door really.. government cuts back, claims it's saving money. Bids out for IT services. And of course, the ex-federal employes who were laid off now work for the winning (bidder) company. Who return back to their old jobs at twice the price.

That's how messed up things are in DC. What.. did you think it was only the politicians? Everyone is playing the game in DC. Everyone.
Yahoo has fantastic loyal customers. It also has niche consumer businesses - finance, weather, groups, mail. These are very big niches. However, precisely because Yahoo is a conglomerate of diverse businesses, it has been difficult to describe Yahoo. Yahoo is a portfolio company.

However, Yahoo isn't a credible platform company. Microsoft is. Google is. Apple is.

While Yahoo open sources a lot of its internal components, heck, it was one of the earliest adopters of OpenID - my StackOverflow account still uses my Yahoo login - this is not the same as building a platform. Android is a platform. Google apps is a platform. AWS is a platform. Even AdSesnse is a platform. Twitter is a platform.

Here's my outline:

1. Yahoo needs to protect their base. Customers might move away from Yahoo mail when eventually people get their own domain names, or when they want to edit documents online on Google Docs. Yahoo should court the small businesses who already use Yahoo to spend more money with them.

2. Yahoo needs to aggressive court developers to leverage Yahoo signins, Yahoo mail to provide new services. If Yahoo would handle the payments, it would be even better. A 30% cut would make Yahoo a great affiliate for many devs trying to get traction.

3. On the Ad front, there is much Yahoo can do to copy Google in terms of display ad networks - once Yahoo has successfully courted smaller businesses.
Try adding Facebook to the mix too:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%20Plus%2CIns...

Absolutely dwarfs everything else. I'm not buying that G+ has 1/5 of the MAU's of Facebook
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The cover I had (which depicts the Civil War sword mystery) looked exactly like this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0553...

I always wondered why that boy behind Bugs Meanie had only a floating head with no body. But it's still way better than the red cover they have for it now.
The quote from Isaacson seems to fly directly in the face of the rest of the article. Clearly Apple and Facebook were not on very good terms for a long time.

It seems a really long bow to draw to say that Apple didn't create a competing social network because Jobs admired Zuckerberg. It's like saying Apple don't make cars because Jobs admired Henry Ford. Mostly likely, they didn't come out with a competing social network because that's just not the business they're in.
iPhone has it. If I remember right, this is a requirement of official exchange integration. http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/integration/

There was quite a controversy when people discovered that joining their company's domain gave them the ability to remote wipe the device.
All of those complaints are of the form "No way a kid would know enough to solve those mysteries." Hardly ridiculous.
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Then I think it's fair to assume the above poster was not the only person to propose it.
Original ideas are nice, but are by no means necessary to start a successful business. Air bnb and Facebook are a couple successes that spring to mind that are really just an improvement on other original ideas. Truly most businesses (even in tech) are just a better mousetrap. Ignore patents and don't overly focus on coming up with the next big thing and concentrate on how you might execute something better. Better design, engineering, marketing... What do you bring I the table?

In fact, this may even help you approach a more original idea from a tangent or pivot from your original business.

Just look at PG's comments and essays. He looks for founders with potential more than he looks for mind blowing ideas.
My main objection comes from the fact that I do both development and design, and I've seen a lot of developers act like art can be reused just the same as code, with no ill effects. But humans are excellent pattern matchers, and we do pick up on these things.

Personally I mostly enjoy games for their story and atmosphere, and the few times I've recognized a reused asset (e.g. a sound effect) it's been really distracting. It's like the Wilhelm Scream in movies... once you know about it, you can never stop noticing it.

A better idea would be to make an open library for procedural generation of assets, so that you can make infinite variations of every item, and tweaking is easy. We already have e.g. SpeedTree, but these things are so valuable they always end up being commercial rather than free.
Logarithmic scale for each item taken down incorrectly.
Your not alone, but remember there is always going to be competition. You have to find a way to improve on what they offer, and set yourself apart. Look at home many towns have Burger King, Mcdonalds, Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's etc. Being first doesn't always make them better. Remember google wasn't the first search engine :)
I always follow the rule of thumb that if I constantly watch my competitors, we will never be focused on growing and building a better company from within.
I too have fell victim to this same thing several times. Keep pushing forward!
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But mods generally fall into two categories... those that take place within the existing game's world, and total conversions. In the case of total conversions, what's being reused is typically the engine, not the assets, and in the other case, you're deliberately trying to fit in.
Agreed, NPR blog editors. It was 1957. Pretty sure the past tense is warranted here.

You got me to click. Congratulations. Still, I'd expect that tactic from Gawker, not NPR.