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But demo day really isn't their market is it? Demo day is YC companies with tons of amazing access to capital with pretty great terms (Milner, A16Z and Ron Conway cash) and a group of other attending investors who aren't interested in writing $1000 checks.

If they could convince YC companies to forego the available money and use their platform instead, that would be a coup for sure. But that seems unlikely.
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There are several flaws in this article which was pointed out in a Forbes article [1]. It highlights the failure of a company's strategy against the background of changing macroeconomic factors.

Also, here is Ballmer's reaction [2] to this article.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/07/25/the-real... (print version)

[2]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2012/07/11/microso...
Ask HN: How to set up a landing page to collect email from a niche group?
I would like to start an Appsumo like web portal which will provide ridiculously cheap deals on instruments and lab kits to a bunch of people in a particular niche group. Say for the people who are in universities and Govt. organizations doing physics and astronomy. However, I have no technical background(coding) for launching a good landing page which can collect email address from these niche groups. Also I have no business experience how to collect enough numbers of email address to start with.So here are my questions.
Q1. How should I set up a landing page to collect required information.Should I go with any landing page template off the shelf to test the idea or hire a freelance developer to do it?

Q2. 1. How do I go out and collect large number of email addresses from a particular niche group?

Thanks.
> maybe the RIAA is a tool of some other, greater, force.

Honestly, I don't think it needs to be that complicated.

RIAA is the anonymous 'evil' face that Sony, EMI, Universal and Warner use to do their dirty work. It doesn't matter what RIAA does because their backers are protected from public ire.

As long as RIAA's backers are protected, RIAA can and will do whatever they think they they can get away with, no matter how unethical, if it results in even a tiny gain for their backers.

People who want to oppose RIAA just need to do one thing - call the organization what is: SONY, Universal, EMI, Warner.

It isn't "RIAA" that's pushing for internet censorship. RIAA is nothing. Blame Sony. Blame EMI, Blame Universal, Blame Warner. The rubbish will then stop.
Excited to see what kind of cool projects people come up with using this data. I'm trying to think something up right now myself.
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This is the one of the cheapest PAAS I've ever seen. How about the performance?
Actually, we are big fans of modular libraries. We know that a lot of the code in Derby and Racer is too monolithic, and we intend to restructure as the projects mature. For example, we already refactored out Derby's simple HTML parser (https://github.com/codeparty/html) and our wrapper around Express for routing on the client and server (https://github.com/codeparty/tracks). These are now indendent npm modules that were originally part of the Derby codebase. Also, as you mentioned, the Racer data-syncing and model library can be used separately from Derby.

Derby is an npm module, and developers are in control of their own standard Node.js/Express server files. We use Browserify (https://github.com/substack/node-browserify) to bundle up scripts, so you can use any standard npm module on both the server and the client without modification.

We have a long way to go in terms of customizing Derby; however, it is already very flexible in some ways. For example, Derby apps can be rendered and sent to the client from Express routes or via Derby app routes. There's also a method to simply get a blob of rendered HTML or render a static page using the same templates. Derby includes model-view bindings, but it's simple to bind some things and not others or nothing at all.

Much of Derby and Racer is very different from how web apps are written today, and we are focused on iterating quickly to start. As it matures, Derby will become more of a collection of independent modules. That way, most developers could use Derby out of the box, but others could fork the project and customize or use features of the framework independently. It's a ways off, but that's the long term goal.
> USG however has become quite autonomous and oppressive while allowing free expression.

Again, completely unsupported.

> As for examples of civil liberties that are not reflected in this category [...]

Did you actually read the report? Equal protection is an explicit criterion. The ability of citizens to successfully petition the government for redress of grievances is another, which addresses many of the others (as well as an independent judiciary).

HackerNews used to be a place where most people had an informed perspective about how the world really works. I'm sad to see the rise of useless naive indignation that plagues so many Internet discussion boards. There is plenty to criticize the US for. The Kim Dotcom case looks pretty unreasonable from what we know. The jump from there to the US being Russia or China is absurd and betrays sloppy and/or uninformed thinking. The fact that I even have to argue this point and spend time digging up sources that state the obvious is disconcerting, and I regret the time I've wasted on this thread.
True. That is incomputable though. The trickiest part is figuring out P(T).
What about reliability. A multi-az paas would dominate heroku at any price.

Anyone know about reliability?
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Some kind of algorithm for speeding up 'boring' segments is of course top of the list of features, perhaps something that allows the users to 'edit' the video. Great work!
This explanation of the work the automata rule needs to do was interesting: http://mrob.com/pub/math/quad-grid-glider.html (from g+)
Making MongoDB queries fun again
Ask HN: What is App.net? I really didn't get it
I thought Derby was an embedded Java database...

Look at Voldemort Nosql DB. Now that's a unique (to software) name.
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Another resource that has existed for a while is the "Integrated Public Use Microdata Series". Though I don't think they have an API, they do provide a vast amount of data and have tools for online analysis.

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> Customer may not redistribute any work based on those files

Well it's a good thing I'm not a customer!
Not true. Maximum likelihood picks the hypothesis/theory that best "explains" the data, hence you run into issues with overfitting, etc. A Bayesian starts with a prior over a set of hypotheses (the P(T) term), and then uses the data to update their confidence in the various hypotheses. Assuming you have a sane prior, you end up with a simple theory with a record of making decent predictions (i.e. the kind of thing you look for in science, cf. Occam's razor, etc).

I don't see any conflict with the scientific method (at least in a fundamental sense). Scientists aren't oracles - hypotheses need to come from somewhere. Some call it intuition - I would call it an implicit application of Bayesian reasoning, where the data is experience, and the prior is governed by genetic constraints of the brain. From this you obtain a set of intuitive hypotheses to be (further) tested (i.e. those with large posterior P(T|O)).

Testing a set of hypotheses then just involves collecting observations that differentiate them (i.e. where they make conflicting predictions). This can still be considered an application of Bayes' rule, but usually one tries to collect enough data that it's quite obvious which is consistently making the best predictions (in other words has posterior close to 1), in which case it becomes a theory.
GNU grep also supports PCRE.

chunky:~$ otool -L /usr/bin/grep | grep pcre; grep --help | grep perl
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-P, --perl-regexp PATTERN is a Perl regular expression

Many users choose ack over grep for the same reason they choose htop over top, tmux over screen, zsh over bash, and postgres over mysql -- the perception that one is significantly better than the other. This advocacy often comes from folks whose use and understanding of either tool is superficial at best.
Bravo sunlight
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Googles_hoaxesand_easte...
I beg to differ. Twitter is my primary source of real time information. In fact I go to find relevant information from people I follow from time to time. By the way, Twitter is very popular amongst younger generation.

Relegated to infrastructure?
They have users and they have eye-balls. That's what matters. By the way, don't forget promoted tweets are really working for them.
Oh ok, I thought there was a more complex feature of the Twitter API. Getting the list of people a given user follows is such a basic API feature that I was genuinely surprised Twitter would disable it for Instagram.
The website explains it perfectly well https://join.app.net/

Watch the video.
For the record, OS X actually doesn't have a lot of buttons called "Advanced", though there are some. In fact, in general, as an OS X user and former user of Gnome 2 applications, my unscientific impression has always been that Gnome 2 had significantly fewer (user-visible) preferences. YMMV...
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Perhaps eventually. At the moment you need to be an "Accredited investor" in order to actually join and invest. They define an "Accredited investor" as meeting at least one of the following criteria:

- Someone who has made $200k+ for the past two years and will continue to do so.

- Someone with joint income with a spouse exceeding $300k for the past two years.

- Net worth or joint net worth exceeding $1 million.

While this does make sense, it basically means the type of folks who are already quite rich and would be making these sorts of investments just have the tools and ability to make investments at a lower scale, and through a website.

It's definitely an interesting idea, but I'll be more excited about it when the investors they allow get closed to the "average people" in the industry who aren't sitting on a million dollars.
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Anyone know if there's an easy way to get the 2010 census data all at once the way they've made the 2000 census data available? (http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets)

For ease of exploring new ideas it would be super handy to be able to push it all into a hadoop cluster on aws or some such nonsense.

EDIT: Found it! Hopefully...
http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/
Direct link to the library:
http://derbyjs.com/

Ironic that i come to know about this framework via Techcrunch.
I'm with you--it's hard to put the idea of upside risk out of your mind. (What if you tell the world and the world loves you so much your server turns into a pile of slag?) But try to put it out of your mind anyway.

You need a landing page that helps your target customers know that they're in the right place. That's a sentence or two that explains the problem you solve and how you solve it. It looks like you want attention from developers. I think a lot of developers would like to get a feel for the API without registering. (I went to the "developers" tab thinking I might be able to give you specific feature-related feedback.)

With that done, I'd think you don't need or want attention from the whole world. For a first round of feedback, 5-10 like-minded friends would do fine. If they're really friends, then they'll have encouraging words for you, but look for common points of confusion or concern. After that it's a matter of refining your message and finding wider and wider circles for gathering input.
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I can second this for sure -- they have a combination of intelligence, business ability, and product sense that is incredibly rare. I've twice missed the opportunity to work with Nate, and I hope I'll get a third shot someday. They are also some of the most determined people I've ever met.

I think Derby is really cool, especially the synchronization and conflict resolution model. Though we've made some different choices with Meteor, I think there are many people that will like Derby's direction. Everyone benefits when there are multiple choices.
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It's not a 10-15 year old version.

As of ~2008, a very competent technical friend and co-worker had fired up a virgin WinXP instance, on the corporate intranet, to access some HR website which was strictly MSIE only.

Within the 15 minutes that instance was live, it had been compromised.

Anecdata, from a mythical extraterrestrial at that. But I'll stand by that and his experience.
hehe, yeah. it's a bit forced. but who cares right? :)
Interesting, at amazon's regular prices that works out to about $12/month in services they are giving away (assuming 3 year reserved servers), but they'd have to cram 34 clients on to a server. But now you're splitting 26 EC2 compute units 34 ways ... thats less processor power then a Micro.
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"Microsoft has positions in all the right places."

This.

Microsoft today is still one of the world's biggest companies, with a lot of talented people and considerable inlets into practically every home and office in the developed world. Apple of yesterday grew to eclipse Microsoft in a matter of years--there's no reason Microsoft can't pull off a similar reversal with the right maneuvering of its own considerable resources.
Off topic, but why did you use a 0 (zero) instead of an O for "0r maybe your right..."?
If there comments were recorded as they watched the actual, live ceremony was, are they really lying?
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You can also sign up by email on the login page. We just put the linkedin icon on the homepage to make things easy on people. It's a work in progress still :)

Definitely appreciate the feedback!
I agree that it's more that the chosen examples are examples of overblown IPO valuations.

Pretty shocking graph though: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/07/28/technology/28fa...
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I'm predicting similar. Facebook is a company that's had 8 years to learn how to monetize, despite all the obvious ways of doing it (premium upgrades, etc.) so the wise bet is that if they haven't learned to juice it by now, any more than they already have, then they never will. Is it possible they might? Yes. But that's not the smart way to bet given the facts. Apple and Google and Amazon have tons of talented folks and have shown they can monetize and diversify their products. Facebook really hasn't. The Instagram buy, especially it's magnitude, smelled like fear to me.
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To clarify, I agree that RDBMS's are fantastic, and you pointed out many of the benefits. We are not religious about SQL vs NoSQL.

For our particular use cases, we think that document stores are a better fit, but I am not arguing that document stores are universally easier or better.
As a grad student I've TA'd several first-year courses and run into what is produced by, what independent studies tend to agree, is one of the best high-school systems in one of the best provinces in one of the best countries in the world for math and physics education. To be blunt, students are frequently taught things that are just plain wrong. Not short-cuts or half-truths. Not nit-picks like the slope mentioned in the article. Things that they should never have been taught at all. Whether it's bad text-books or teachers who majored in psychology being roped into teaching math, even one of the best high-school systems in the world doesn't get it right all the time.

I haven't viewed any videos from Khan academy, but I think a public repository of lectures that are rigorously checked for correctness can only be a good thing. Is that what Khan's academy really is though? Teachers are trained to engage young minds. Is it realistic to expect flawlessly correct lessons from someone with this background after just two weeks of immersion in a given topic, especially when reference materials (e.g. highschool textbooks) are so often riddled with mistakes? If you're teaching math or physics, why not collaborate with a mathematician or physicist? Let Khan's teachers handle how to structure lessons and provide engagement while experts in their field provide the material. There are plenty of experts out there who would jump at the chance to help, if only to save themselves from headaches when teaching first-year courses!

I also think people often overlook the fact that Khan Academy isn't really meant to be a revolution for the worlds privileged students. What KA really does is provide access to learning materials to people all over the world who do not have access to good teachers. People like to point out that recorded lectures do not provide the interactive element that real teachers do, and that's absolutely true. However, there is no substitute for homework. To learn math, one must do math. No amount of interactiveness can change that. If KA provides good exercises along with its lectures then it could indeed provide disadvantaged (but motivated) students with a road to academic success anywhere in the world.
Well the fact that people use the ipad with keyboard and mouse tell me that people want to be able to run other things on their device besides just touch apps. I think being able to run Sublime 2 or Ableton Live from a tablet would be amazing and worth the higher device price.
What license are you publishing this library under? Can I use it for commercial projects?
"Matesanz and his lawyers argue that, since Youtube-mp3.org does not use YouTube’s application programming interface, it does not violate YouTube’s terms of service."
His equation is that for Universal Inductive Inference. It is correct. Fully bayesian but incomputable.
Maybe they should start with an official Apple account of some sort on Twitter. ;)
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Actual ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google%27s_hoaxes_and_e...
It's really nice to see all of this information in a format that is so easy to access, and so easy to navigate. I look forward to sharing this with my students in the fall (in Alaska).

Can you share a little about your funding model?
Twitter's best days are yet to come IMHO.

If they were to partner with Apple and EVERY app, band and movie in iTunes was seamlessly integrated with a corresponding Twitter page it could be huge. It would blunt the growth of Facebook pages and forever relegate Google+ to the geek community.
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the whole Comcast Experiene is really bad. We bought new HDTV and went comcast store to get HD cable box to watch 2012 Olympics tonight. but they gave some wrong box and said they're sorry.
I like to think of Bayes' rule in terms of hypotheses and predictions. Take the hypotheses to be "is a woman" and "is not a woman"/"is a man", and the data to be "is over 6 foot tall". Our priors on the to hypotheses are roughly equal (50%). They predict the data with probability 1% (6' given a woman) and 7% (6' given a man). [Hence total probability of 6' is 1%50% + 7%50% = 4%.]

Now, our Woman hypothesis predicts the data more poorly than the Man hypothesis, so we need to update our confidence in the hypotheses appropriately. Bayes' rule tells us that this should be in proportion to how well they predicted the data. Originally we had Woman:Man odds as 1:1, so now it must be 1:7 (or 12.5% for Woman).

If you think of a column plot with hypotheses along the horizontal axis, where the width of each column is proportional to the prior, and the height is proportional to the strength of the prediction of the data. If you then "squash down" the columns, maintaining their area, but so that they all have the same height, the new widths give the posterior probability.
It isn't anything, besides a guy asking for half a million dollars because he thinks he can get away with it by throwing some buzz words about Twitter around.
> Khan offers a free educational service that is very popular. That is a Good Thing(tm)... PERIOD.

Yes, because when something is popular and free, its got to be good. cough religion anyone cough.

If that is considered to be the measure of quality these days, our society is doomed. Education is an important thing, ignoring it and treating this one man as some "messiah" of education when he clearly introduces wrong and obtrusive concepts for the sake of "getting it out to the masses" is not education.
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Social is only overrated if you have a limited view of what it means.

Look at the sustained popularity of micro communities and the rise of new ones e.g. Pinterest, Instagram. Not to mention all the communities most people aren't aware of for older people, mothers, children etc. And this is all without having the entire world involved.

Social is going nowhere so long as people want to share ideas, knowledge and content with each other.
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But once those users get through the entire song list they want the order to change. iTunes is just as wrong as picking each individual song at random but in a different way.
But Baye's theorem is not obvious to humans. The intuition is P(A|B) = P(B|A). Base rate fallacy etc. etc.

That said, Bayesianism is not the same thing as Baye's Theorem. You can be a frequentist and still apply Bayes Theorems or the like. Bayes theorem is straight forward once you train your mind on it.

Bayesianism is much more than that and is not a trivial issue. But you are also correct in that human philosophical intuition on probability is Bayesian. With a very broken application. Few people that claim to be Bayesians are actually doing pure Bayesian probability.

Hand wringing over priors and model structure is what Bayesianism is all about. Philosophically, the viewpoints of bayesianism and how to best pick priors are interesting. Also interesting is how Quantum Mechanics fits neatly into the bayesian perspective.
If the major reason for this behavior is so that you can press back to play the previous song, it can simply remember a short period of history.