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> The problem with B2B is that it doesn't follow the standard startup model

Is there even such a thing? Anyway, it's not that VCs don't fund B2B startups... they absolutely do, and there are even firms that specialize in that space (or at least have a heavy focus on it). A16Z, for example, are known for investing heavily into enterprise plays:

http://a16z.com/portfolio/portfolio-enterprise-companies/
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Assuming that we could seriously do this, I feel like the Mobile OS's and desktop OS's like Mountain Lion, elementary, and Ubuntu do a fairly good job of integrating with the internet that it would be hard to drive adoption of something else.
I don't see how SQLAlchemy and Jinja2 question statistics contribute to the popularity of Flask.

Not they are not related at some level, but this evidence is irrelevant.

Agreed on last parapgraph. Everybody needs to make sure their preferred environment matches their requirements. Django might be moving faster than Plone/Zope, but if you are a big enterprise looking into content management, the question is almost already answered.
The huge advantage of B2B is that businesses get to write off your payment as an expense, so they are much more likely to pay you more.
OK, let's put it this way.

You have to options:

Option 1: Ride in a car with a single button labeled "press to start engines, you will not be able to stop until they run out of fuel". This car has been driven about a hundred times.

Option 2: Ride in a car with a "start engine" button and a "stop engine" button, plus a throttle. This car has been driven several times plus extensive testing on the ground.

"Option 2 is a safer setup" seems like a fair statement.
He paid $10 for area that included India and Egypt, for only one day, receiving 1600 likes in one day.
He paid additional $50 for smaller area that didn't have these countries for 3 days, receiving 1400 likes, average 350 per day.

So: 1600 likes from India and Egypt in one day: $10 == 0.6 cent per like.
350 likes without that area: $16 per day == 4.6 cent per like.

Where's the surprise? If he pays for cheaper likes, he gets the cheaper likes.

Did he expect to pay for cheap likes and get the expensive ones? Does such an expectation have any economic sense?
Self-plug: I've been working on a similar outline app for about 3 years now: https://zetabee.com/text/

I made it because I was doing something very similar in my text editor all the time, especially with collapsing/expanding sub-lists. It has pretty decent keyboard support and very few unnecessary features. I was going to build a 'check' completed feature but I've realized I just don't care about things I've already done. I only care about what's next. So Control+Del to delete a line is enough. It is a slightly opinionated app but being mostly plain-text with indents, you can use it however you want.

I don't plan on making money with it and it has near zero operating cost. So it's free/secure/unlimited and will remain so forever.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335963
I can channel Eric's response to this,

"Hello Random Worker,

I see from your email to everyone in the company that you are interested in the California State Labor Law. I've sent Janice over, she is your Business Associate from People, Places, and Things. She is coming over to explain the part in California State Labor law that defines 'At Will Employment', she should be there by the time you read this. Oh and don't worry, she has a box with her.

Sincerely,
Eric"
I read it as, perhaps the incubator people would have helped shed light on the reality of the situation.
"I think the MagSafe connector is one of Apple’s best ideas ever."

If you're saying that Apple invented this, my mother had this on her deep-fryer in 1979. Nothing new. However, it's a good idea to add it to a laptop.
Exactly. The reason policy changes like this kill morale is because there are only two outcomes. 1) The problem in the email was not caused by me, yet I am being penalized for it, so I am resentful towards management and the policy abusers. 2) The problem in the email was caused by me, and my coworkers are probably aware of that fact, and now they resent me for bringing about this policy change.
I think the point is that Twitter can't afford to remove ads or broaden their terms of use. The idea seems to be that a for-pay Twitter with broad terms of use and no ads could become a valuable development platform. The gamble is, how valuable and will people pay.

I think your cannibalization concept is brilliant, but I don't think app.net is completely vulnerable to it. Caldwell's made it clear that he's not trying to find success of Twitter and FB's magnitude, that sustainable profitability is more important for this venture than unbounded growth and huge winnings, and he's not trying to steal Twitter's customers, whatever that would mean. But unless Twitter becomes wildly profitable I don't see them giving away ad-free unrestricted API access just to eliminate a small gadfly.

I think your concept has a lot of merit, but I'm not sure it applies in this case.
That is not accurate. You can have more average ad impressions per day by putting 15 ads on each page instead of 2, but with the same number of users, the performance of more impressions just gets worse with more ads.
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> JavaScript is crap

You don't have to write JS though, just use something compiles to it.

> And unsecured access to the graphics stack is a terrible idea. Flash already randomly causes my GPU to crash

Letting only safe operations through to the driver is the biggest part of a WebGL implementation's job. Hopefully HTML 5, WebGL, WebRTC etc can replace Flash. I'd much rather trust those jobs to Chrome than to Flash (Flash provides accelerated 3d too these days btw.)

There's lot to be done still, and you can score bug bounties from Mozilla and Google if you manage to poke holes in Chrome/Firefox :)
Google Translate: tail sed cat nano sudo vi perl ne ri
It took about 1 minute to load.

Then I got this:

This page (http://www.jgc.org/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version.
You are nonetheless mistaken. If "indentured servitude" is being used in that way, it is being misused as a tool of the slaveholders to whitewash their actions. By joining them in that misuse, you have conceded your own mind and become a willing collaborator. This matters: tyrants gain power by controlling minds, not bodies.
Being social is about being able to decide how to be public, how to be private, and to what degree.

Systems that allow others to know what I've read or said, without my direct control, disrupt my ability to thoughtfully tailor my interactions with different people. "Oversharing" systems disrupt my ability to decide how much context to include or what to emphasize, and they mesh poorly with my ability to prioritize my life.

That said, I think people are more understanding than this article gives them credit for. If I have to go change a diaper between reading a message and responding to it, most people seem to handle the delay just fine. I don't think the notification is specifically helpful, but it's also not as harmful as this article suggests.
I liked malcolm gladwell a lot more before I found out he is a big tobacco shill.

http://exiledonline.com/malcolm-gladwell-tobacco-industry-sh...
Having blocking computation is much better than having blocking IO - - especially, since most web applications spend most of their time waiting for the database/caching layer. And blocking computation can be solved in node using the clusters feature.
I disagree that telnet is fundamentally a remote login protocol. In fact, telnet has no login parameters built-in at all, like SSH does. Telnet is simply a TCP communication program, any login functions are part of the remote telnet daemon and have nothing to do with the local telnet client. Telnet is a networking tool first and foremost, and the login portion is what has been added on.
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I have made this specific feature request on an application (Mangler) and I have no affiliation with XDG.
I'm a moleskine guy, what do you all doodle and brainstorm in?
If you're coming from a foreign country, you've probably got a foreign phone/data contract, and probably don't want to be streaming huge amounts of data over it at roaming rates.
Thanks. That's just what I was looking for. As with all real tests that thing you least expect happens: I managed to cause DoS detection to activate on the origin server and it took itself offline. Now to chat with the hosting provider...
So the thinking of the average athlete is "I want to win the gold medal so that I can earn lots of money and donate it to cancer research"?

Whatever - admire all you want, I simply chose different heroes for myself. And "bread and games" is always coming to my mind during such events...
You misunderstand me. I am not whitewashing anything. Indentured servitude is slavery. It describes one particular form of slavery, common in some parts of the world. I don't know where you get the idea that I'm saying it is tolerable or OK.

What I am saying is that college debt from middle class 1st world adults is not indentured servitude.
That's an interesting point, and I definitely think that sponsoring an event attended by your target audience is a big step up from TV or billboards.

Now this gets heady: "People are willing to pay a premium for things they can track." Perhaps advertising vectors which are easily tracked, thus optimized, yield more valuable per dollar spent. If this is the case, demand for this inventory (Adwords, etc) increases. You would expect it to become more expensive by forces of the market. This is why you don't see people lined up to fill billboard inventory, especially in the last 10 years.

It is a chicken-egg problem in some ways, but I think people are willing to pay more because their advertising/conversion math enables it, and that math is easier to back up with facts.
Emacs' org-mode is pretty much the same philosophy. Not quite as simple, though.
Same thing, except it tells me, "No cached version is available."

Worked a couple minutes ago, though.
I work in advertising and haven't found that true at all. Obviously there's a limit to how many adverts you van usefully place on a page, but clicks tend to relate much closer to page impressions than uniques. What is important about uniques is that each advert should ideally be frequency cap so nobody sees it too many times to get the best results - therefore unique numbers do impact how many impressions you can show of any one advert.
True, though to the extent the mullahs believe that, they also want to blow us up.

What I'm really saying is this is more than disliking how a country on the other side of the globe does things. When citizens bicker with each other, you see one side of government. When foreigners harm citizens? You see a completely different side.

I'm not saying what the US did is right. But I am saying it is expected, given how they perceive the situation. Your-people-are-hurting-my-people is the sort of problem resolved with treaties, covert military action, or outright wars. Gloves come off as the government does what it has to to make it stop.

If you're the sort of person that thinks piracy doesn't hurt anyone, the situation is a tragic misunderstanding. But you can also expect more tragedy as a result of the misunderstanding because of the class of problem it is.
Nexus 7 locks when close to magnets (possibly for 'smart cases'?)
One big problem: a picture is worth a thousand words, and there is no photo capabilities.
Blue_velvet: use your Facebook page as a CMS/database
That's wonderful - the more private contracts they win the better - and the brighter all private space initiatives will hopefully be. Unfortunately, accepting several million dollars from the US government leaves SpaceX (and other Musk ventures) vulnerable to government meddling. When the government starts to meddle in your business, they are the ones that decide where to stop. You cede control of your company's destiny often when you accept the first cheque.
PC laptop touchpad drivers and hardware are so pathetic, they alone make we want to get Apple laptops. You'd think that at least one of the PC makers would realize this and distinguish themselves by making a quality touchpad and driver. This baffles me. Why some company would make crap and wonder why Apple is beating them.
Correct. Outside perspectives from top notch people could have helped us a lot.
I surely don't want to use this site as gospel (especially since I can't pull up a better version of that graph) but it claims that the losses are around 25% at sea level. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/07/commercial-shows-reig...

Going by raw math, if the Earth were a perfect magic sphere with no atmosphere, you could attain "orbit" at ground-level by accelerating to 7.90 km/s. Then you could Hohmann to LEO with one 0.06 km/s burn to transfer up and another 0.06 km/s burn to achieve a circular orbit, so that's only 8.02 km/s in an ideal world. [Oh, I forgot that you start with about 0.40 km/s from rotation if you are near the equator.]

Oh, finally found a nice reference, on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit#Human_use The delta-v needed to achieve low earth orbit starts around 9.4km/s. Atmospheric and gravity drag associated with launch typically adds 1.5–2.0 km/s to the delta-v launch vehicle required to reach normal LEO orbital velocity of around 7.8 km/s (28,080 km/h). It doesn't break those out, unfortunately.
Yes, when I went to MIT in the 80s, Stanford was often considered to be the best overall university in the country, and MIT wanted to become more like Stanford.

I don't know when it achieved such stature, but it also had been one of the Big 3 Computer Science graduate schools for quite some time. (I.e., MIT, Stanford, and CMU.)
The Lorem Ipsum example sucks for two reasons:

A) It's at the bottom
B) No one will relate to it

The first thing I wanted to see when opening the site and reading "Beautiful emails to people that matter" was examples of those beautiful emails. Put examples to the top, and show "real life" examples, not Lorem Ipsum.

Otherwise, cool idea. Congrats on the beta launch and good luck!
What's the avg age of the participants? Do you find any interest from 40+ year old developers applying in order to refresh their skills?
It means build something that big companies have thought about or maybe even could build, but have not built because they're afraid they'll lose money in doing so.

Facebook and Instagram was a perfect example. Facebook has money, time, and resources to build an Instagram competitor. But they didn't, because they still don't know how to monetize their mobile traffic (which should answer the question, "Why is Facebook's mobile app so awful?") They tried last minute to build Facebook camera, and when that had no traction because Instagram had already captured that market they had to cut their losses and buy it. My guess is Instagram realized that Facebook was basically forced to buy them and made them pay for it ($1B).

So I work on a startup in the news/journalism industry. If we're to follow the argument (which I believe is spot on), our goal is to build something that the New York Times or Washington Post wouldn't dare build, because it would destroy the revenue from their newspaper sales (yes, we have to compete against the likes of the Huffington Post too, but it's easier to illustrate it against the background of business models that haven't changed since the 1950's).

What Steve Jobs always preached was true - if you're not willing to cannibalize yourself, someone else will cannibalize you. As a startup, one strategy is to find those companies not willing to cannibalize themselves and help them out a little bit. But in doing so you run a risk; if you don't generate traction quickly enough and they see that it's inevitable, they'll just build it on their own and leave you hanging out to dry.
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How Apple's new vector-based Maps leave Google Maps looking jittery
The ARCA team, one of the competitors in the Google Lunar X Prize, had the same idea. I'm not sure if they're following the same design now, or whether they changed it.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/arca
Well by 'evidence' I mean, metrics that quantify the quality of the educational system. As I explained in another comment in this thread, I think a substantial part of the goal of education, for many people, is in bettering their lives in the material sense; so, if we define 'quality' as 'the extent to which something fulfills its purpose', then the quality of education can, in some aspects, be measured by the amount that it allows people to better their lives; for example, to put that more concretely, in a country where a big enough portion of the people receives an education, and if we attribute an increase in GDP at least partially to an increase in education (a not unreasonable assumption, imo), and if other factors remain relatively stable, then we can measure the success of the educational system by using prosperity as a proxy for it.

I proposed per capita GDP in the example above, there probably are others; maybe the weighted for cost of living median wage of those who actually got educations, for example. But analyses or data like that aren't that easy to come by, so if enough people get an education, we could use overall GDP as a proxy. I acknowledge fully that there are many more factors at play here, so I'm not proposing this as a one-size-fits-all measurement; but just as cash-on-cash-return can be a useful first-order indicator in some contexts and for some purposes to get an estimate of the performance of an investment; and just like lines of code can be a useful first-order indicator in some contexts and for some purposes to get an estimate of the complexity of a code base; GDP can be (I'm arguing) a useful first-order indicator of the extent to which an educational system fulfills its goals - which I'd argue is the 'quality' thereof.

But, to answer your question more directly, I guess that any metric on the material (or maybe even mental) prosperity of an educated subset of a population would be 'good evidence'. It depends on what one defines the goals of education to be; but realistically, I think that the material part should be a sizable part of any such definition.
Normally I'd agree, but I trust both Slate and Farhad Manjoo.
> Until you have actual experience with the weird stuff that goes wrong in the field, you do not really know what is going to go wrong. And the more complicated the system is, the more true this fact is.

A great lesson for software devs.
> having a near-monopoly on the Web browser market.

...And doing nothing with it.

There was no game plan other than, "embrace, extend, extinguish." It just happens that 1) they didn't fully scuttle it (i.e. pull IE once it was the dominant web browser) and 2) the Web is a powerful enough force that it was able to overcome this.

Microsoft gave us the Web 2.0 revitalization of the web via their introduction of XmlHTTPRequest, but they didn't do anything with it, and it definitely wasn't part of any sort of strategy. Mostly a happy accident.
It's not about managing your time, you need to figure out how to scale your business, especially operations and customer support, that's the most difficult part about running an early stage startup.

I previously worked at an early stage daily deals business so we were very operational. One of our major costs was the amount of time it took for our sales team to set up a deal with a merchant. One of our main focuses was to build internal tools to scale this part of our business. If we could reduce the time it took to set up a deal, we could run more deals and offer a better selection products to our customers.

Figure out how to scale the operational work. Build yourself tools that will automate parts of the business. Scaling customer support? Maybe offer a discussion forum so customers can help each other? Or at least build a help section that answers the most frequent support issues.

Just remember it's about scaling the process, not getting better at time management.
A lot of people actually liked it. The bigger issue is that I feel that we fabricated a problem.
Rails Developer needed to get kids off the couch
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We are seeking a contract developer to assist our existing team develop the Zamzee web experience. Our stack is Rails, Backbone, MySQL, and Mongo. While crafting an awesome and impactful product, you’ll also have the opportunity and challenge of learning about and meeting the needs of some of the smartest people around - tweens!

This is a 30-40 hour/week contract position. Our office is located in Redwood City, although we are open to a "long-distance relationship," patching in for meetings and with periodic in-person visits to California (on our dime).

You should have at least 5-7 years of strong web development experience
o excellent coders and comfortable tackling open-ended problems
o experience with Ruby and Rails
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Wow, rockets, drugs, expensive escorts, and now this! Sweeeet!
Just thought I'd let you know that whenever you navigate to the login page (http://sendicate.net/login) a notification at the top of the page pops out and tells me I've signed out successfully, but I don't even have an account yet.

I'm viewing this from Chrome, in case that matters.

-tpt
Using "beautiful" and "matters" is such a cliché. I mean it might work, but I feel like I'm looking at a corporate out of touch ad not a small personal human company.

Remember, it's not what you play or how you play, it's how you feel about what you play.
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Those comparisons make no sense and are just plain wrong.

First point: When looking at safety we care about injuries and deaths, not the launch failure rate. A broken parked car might not be reliable but it certainly is safe. Don’t confuse reliability and safety.

The two are certainly related – but not one and the same. The biggest problem with the Space Shuttle, for example, is that there is no plan B (most of the time). If you have a launch abort system you can decrease the reliability of your rocket (and thus change the failure rate for the worse) while still being just as safe.

Second point: It just makes no sense to compare manned and unmanned launch systems. Bringing Atlas and Ariane in the mix just makes no sense at all. You can’t meaningfully compare the safety between those launch systems and the Shuttle, if only because it’s impossible for humans to be injured or killed in those rockets.

On a deaths per humans brought to space metric the Shuttle is a horrible performer and very unsafe.
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This would work if you could really target people. Example: Women 33-36, have a Visa, married, children below 5 years old, own a house, own a car, work full-time, and make in average $30k a year.
I would pay a dollar for a thousand of them.