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Use Facetime.

The rest of us use Skype because we can use it to talk to people that just happened to buy a computer from a different company than we did.
You are presupposing your conclusion. It absolutely makes sense to compare freedom between countries, and these organizations have very detailed ways of doing it. In these comparisons, the US comes out looking pretty good, beating other first-world, western countries such as France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Israel.

The idea that "super-powers" are fundamentally different than all other countries when it comes to freedom is an argument you have made without support or evidence.
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"Social is pretty overrated."

One way to look at it is to say that the Internet didn't really turn out the way we all wanted it to. Another way to look at it is that we're not there yet but we're making progress.

Personally I say it's the latter, if for no other reason than on principle.

That said, remember what we all used to think the Internet would be like. Damn.
yes? why would/should it be otherwise?

if you try and use your money to travel out of Nowhereistan, then we got you, but so long as you haven't broken the laws of your own country, and you stay in your own country, you absolutely should be immune.

What other approach would make sense? Should you be able to be arrested in the US for acting contrary to laws passed in Pakistan?
All of your cited indexes examine only macro-freedoms, especially the ones that institutions in western societies are generally built upon, while completely ignoring the concept of personal freedom.

Specifically, this 'Civil Liberties' category is only a subset of civil liberties as applied to the inputs of democracy. Most autonomous governments directly attack political free expression, which is what this category is designed to measure. (USG however has become quite autonomous and oppressive while allowing free expression. This takes longer to develop, but is much more robust)

As for examples of civil liberties that are not reflected in this category - presumption of innocence, equal protection under the law, the sorry excuse for "due process", unintelligible and de-facto private laws, rights granted by the "supreme law of the land" being somehow mostly inapplicable, excessive punishment, drug laws and every other area where government meddles with individuals' lives to make society "better". Your standard Frito Pendejo celebrates his "excellent" rights while simultaneously cheering on fascism against those in positions of actually requiring said rights. The fact that the process is democratic is of little importance when the results are poor.
So besides the YC connection, I am genuinely curious what is different / better about FundersClub than any of the other 100 crowd funding "platforms" that have emerged?

These types of exchanges connecting companies with investors have been tried tens of times before, and they always fail because building a two-sided network is hard. People will only invest if good companies are there and good companies only show up if real money is there. Nothing I saw on the site suggested theyve solved this issue.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the Jobs Act but see so many of these platforms cropping up that seemingly don't have a solution to get quality dealflow and quality funders. The key to that IMO is not the fee structure which FundersClub spent a lot of time detailing or ease of the legal process. These are details but the key driver is getting quality startups and check writers on the platform who want to get "hitched". The legal and pricing details are next.

Lastly, the only folks really uniquely positioned to build the required two-sided network are the team at AngelList. I've not heard they're doing this but of anyone, they have the assets it seems to pull it off.
A lot of people are probably going to blow this out of proportion as Apple looking to buy Twitter and lock everyone out but here's what I think:

Tim Cook knows a lot of his users use FB and Twitter as their primary e-communication channels and that that's where they spend a lot of their time and is the primary use of the mobile devices he sells them.

Deals like this then have a single aim: to ensure the optimal consumer experience. Tim wants the Twitter app on iOS to be the best in breed. Not just today but in 5 years. When Twitter introduces a new feature, Tim wants that thing to be working smoothly on iOS on day 1. When Tim launches his search engine with iOS 7 or 8 he wants to have Twitter search built in.

That costs money and as it turns out Apple has a metric crapton of it.
The launch for google+ was so upsetting and disappointing. I oh so badly wanted to tell my friends/family to join me on it, but I didn't care enough to make an account separate from my google apps account, which were restricted from google+ for quite a while. I know I'm an incredibly small fish in a big pond, but I believe a significant percentage of google apps users would have gladly evangelized for google.
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I was offered a job by Mega and flew to visit their primary development office which is actually located in Bangkok, Thailand. All those guys have walked free.

When discussing their projects with me, one of their managers dropped how much money they were making. It was said that some reports indicated that when they were shut down, global internet traffic dipped 4%.

As someone with some knowledge of the issue, I nevertheless chose to remain silent. Until now.

Why?

Purely by way of background for the Hacker News audience, I am working on a startup in the payments area (Mega also was running a Megapay project) that my current and entirely distinct employer and I quietly hope will assist other people working in the area to remove barriers to participation and innovation that segregate both western societies internally and the first world from the rest of the planet. I therefore have a strong interest in the less discussed aspects of modern economic systems, the arbitrariness of international law (in general, but in particular regarding finance), and other such matters. This brings me to the main reason I now write. Due to the above background, I placed a fair comment here regarding the link between this case and the recent Wikileaks and Iran blocks, also at the behest of the US, and it was deleted. A second briefer comment noting the fact and asking for a reason was also deleted.

It seems reasonable to observe that this site apparently has something of a 'keep them young, dumb, and apoliticized' agenda when it comes to matters of fiscal-technological control that are in "Mr. Lispy" and his investors' interests, and I for one am leaving in disgust: 'Hacker news' indeed! Since when did arbitrary censorship of on-topic discussion become the norm? How un-hacker. Good riddance, censors. Oh - and if you delete this one, you are asking for its alternate distribution.

Those posts, FYI:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304260
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4303941
"To prevent birds from flying into the mirrored walls, they have been clad with infrared film. The colour is invisible to humans, but visible to the birds."

Nice. I wonder where they buy theirs?
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The multiplication algorithm I was taught in school was something like this:

for each digit in the bottom number, starting with the ones digit:
begin a new line beneath the current state.
write a number of trailing zeroes equal to the number of digits of the bottom number you've already processed.
for each digit in the top number, starting with the ones digit:
write (carry + top digit * bottom digit) % 10 to the left of the leftmost digit on the bottom line of the state.
the carry for the next digit of the top number will be (carry + top digit * bottom digit) / 10
use the addition algorithm to compute the sum of all the numbers you wrote this way.

If you hard code it to only handle two digit numbers, it's a bit simpler. It computes the product of two numbers 10A+B, 10C+D for one digit A,B,C,D as (D * B + 10 * D * A) + 10 * (C * B + 10 * C * A). That sounds really confusing, because it is. The visual explanation relates it to something much less confusing in an obvious way.
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Are you serious? $650 a night to stay in a treehouse with no shower or toilet? It would seem that after Ikea, the swedes think they can sell anything.
I've been a jack of trades in the web dev/IT space for an embarrassingly long time (considering how little money I make). Two years ago I decided to go back to school to finish college (I'm 45), this time w/ the aim of pursuing a degree in computer science. So far so good: I'm less mystified/intimidated by math than I was and the intellectual stimulation of the academy is a refreshing change from corporate software engineering shops where innovative, forward-looking ways of doing things is not necessarily embraced as a virtue. Anyway, nothing ventured, nothing gained I say.
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"Another couple of days like this and the great tech bubble of 2012 might recede into history."

One can only hope. The early 2000s was one of the best periods in the history of the Internet. The stuff that's hot today is all just extensions of stuff that was pioneered back then. Having the money go away for a bit so that folks can once again go back to truly innovating without the insane short term pressure can only be healthy for the longterm state of things.
I can't stand people that routinely mute ads because that in itself is an interruption. Even worse is a friend of mine that shouts violently for the ads to fuck off every time he mutes them.

The problem for me is that with muted ads, you have to visually monitor the TV to find out when to unmute. I find it much easier to just use my mental ad-filter, though I'll happily grant an exception if the station is doing the stupid loud-volume ad trick.
I know of one company that "did not complete" the YC program, but that was a while ago. One of the co-founders had a family situation that was a factor.
I'm not sure. I think to myself I'd rather have the development time spent elsewhere in the operating system, but whether it'd make an actual difference in reality is a guessing game.
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And he appeared there, sitting at a desk with a NeXT Cube, keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

(Though I think the monitor was a prop, as it appeared to be glowing bright yellow, which a bluish greyscale monitor shouldn't do. It was probably a shell with a light inside, to illuminate him and act as a stadium-visible version of monitor illumination.)
I'm starting to wonder if FB has discovered/created the world's lowest value entertainment. If there's nothing better to do then sure I'll consume my "friends" food photos and drinking stories. But it doesn't take much to steer my attention away. Simple things like boiling water for coffee evaporate my fixation on some friend's inane status message.

If FB's content is really that valuable then put it behind a paywall and cha-ching! Just like Netflix or Hulu+. However I think it's the first massive-scale "default because I have nothing better to do" entertainment. Which may not lend itself to monetization as well as search traffic.
I think it has a chance of going both ways, what both you an TokenAdult were saying, depending on how they execute.

That said, there isn't any viable replacement out there yet, not even one that's at the very beginning stage with only a couple thousand users. My thinking is that even if Facebook executes mediocrely from here on out, Zuck is at least smart enough to keep the whole thing afloat until something else comes along that's seriously disruptive.

That's going to happen, but it just hasn't yet. You have to keep in mind that the thing that replaces Facebook isn't going to look anything like Facebook. If anything it's going to look more like Udacity, Starbucks, YouTube, etc.
A16Z don't like non-US companies? They thought Skype was "US enough" then?
This talk of "echoes of 2000" annoys me.

I see this as the market acting reasonably rationally actually. Facebook shares are off ~40% from their IPO because they were overvalued. They gained valuation in a hype bubble on secondary markets with limited volume between a small set of players. Once exposed to greater liquidity, easier price discovery and a wider market, the share price has headed towards something I would consider more realistic.

The risks for Facebook are enormous. Apple and Google (disclaimer: I work for Google in display advertising) are far more established and have a much broader product offering than Facebook across the Web, mobile and other areas. They are both profitable and can sustain a long drawn out campaign.

Facebook is reliant on social-gaming income (which is increasingly going mobile and out of Facebook's ecosystem to Apple's and Google's) and what amounts to display advertising, where they are competing with Google's Doubleclick offerings.

The price paid for Instagram is a clear warning sign on the risks to Facebook, that a company of 13 years in 2 years can become what amounts to an existential threat to Facebook should concern any Facebook investor.

I also stand by my (many) previous statements that I think the utility and value of "social search" is far more limited than it's hyped up to be.

But whatever the case, these are real companies with real revenues. This is nothing like 2000.
I think you're overstating the importance of perfect design principles or things like UML diagrams, whatever those are. The point of a software company is not to write great code -- it's to write a program that does what you need it to do as quickly and cheaply as possible.
I admit I was skeptical at first, but after watching the clip I am duly impressed. Sadly, I know only a (shrinking) handful of people who still use a Blackberry, and of those most are looking to switch. RIM, hurry up and start shipping some of these experiments before the tumbleweeds roll in.
The main difference regarding today's "Social Sites" is they have money in the bank earned from advertising, etc. (Zynga over $1 billion, twitter over $600 million, facebook making over $1 billion per quarter, etc).
That's an issue if you don't have a DVR. If you do, you can just rewind if you've missed something.
> Knowing when the car is braking is trivial - the vast majority have a dedicated brake switch wire.

Yes, that would work, provided it didn't affect the signal going to the vehicle's own computer. (It doesn't seem like it should, but I spent some time as an automotive engineer, and one thing I observed is that the car will do lots of things you don't expect.)

[Edit: after seeing another comment below I'm not sure the switch would be enough; you need to know how hard the brake pedal is being pressed so you know how much braking the driver is requesting and can adjust the amount of regen accordingly. But there are ways to do that as well, as the commenter notes.]

> Why do you want to prevent the normal brakes from engaging when regen braking is happening?

Because the normal brakes prevent regenerative braking (regen) from happening. Both processes convert the vehicle's kinetic energy into something else--regen into electricity, normal braking into heat. You can't convert the same kinetic energy into two things at once, so any energy converted into heat by normal braking is unavailable for regen.

> The majority of braking needs to happen up front due to dynamic weight transfer.

Which will limit how much regen you can get, since it can only withdraw energy if it is actually slowing the wheel down. It may still be worthwhile to do regen, but not nearly as much as if you could do it on all four wheels.

> Instead, use a simple brake balance controllers to reduce the mechanic braking effort at the rear and make up for it with the regenerative braking.

Are these controllers dynamic? That is, can they adjust the balance depending on whether regen is happening or not? There will be circumstances when regen can't happen, or can't take all of the energy available (for example, if the battery is close to full or unable to accept charge fast enough).

If the controllers are dynamic, then I agree you could put together a solution this way. But you would still need to do a lot of tuning of the controls. One thing I would be worried about if I were doing this is being able to get everything tuned smoothly without having access to the code and calibrations in the vehicle's own computers.
Microsoft would look like a huge success if it wasn't for Apple & Google, is what that article is saying.
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Exactly -- what an amazing amount of momentum to have wasted!
Many times (here and elsewhere) I've stated my opinion that I believe Twitter to be ultimately doomed. It is being relegated to infrastructure (and thus will be commoditized in time) and (IMHO) it is floundering in finding a monetization model.

Don't get me wrong: they have an exceptionally long runway so this won't happen anytime soon but I think it will end up being acquired by the likes of Facebook, Google (disclaimer: I work for Google) or Apple.

I don't see a compelling reason for Facebook to buy Twitter other than to deny it to the other two (which could be compelling but given the direction of their stock price this seems like a hard sell to Twitter's investors and board).

Apple could marry its mobile ecosystem, particularly the messaging infrastructure, to Twitter and be a dominant player.

Google could do the same thing but I think Apple has the most to gain from picking up social assets (note: these opinions are strictly personal views).

Given that it makes sense for Apple to buy a stake in Twitter. Large(r) companies often do this. It's a poison pill. Take a large enough stake and you can make it more difficult for others to acquire that company and be int he box seat to be the acquirer if it should come to that.

I believe that if Twitter gives Apple, say a 10% or bigger stake, they are insuring an exit strategy if they can't continue to exist independently.
> Yeah, or if nothing else install a button for the driver to engage regenerative braking when he knows he's going down a hill or coasting to a stop. Have the regenerative braking turn off if the driver touches the real brakes.

Just a button wouldn't work; how would the system know how much braking to apply? You would need something with variable input. Even then it would require considerable practice, I think, on the driver's part; it would be something like trying to control braking with the parking brake while the vehicle is in motion (which I have had to do on one occasion when my regular brakes failed--it's not at all easy).
How about a day without work? Times two. Make it consecutive. Oh now you have a "weekend." Keep trying and one day you'll shed the addiction.
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Apple missed on e-mail by making Mobile Me a paid service. This may be their way of making up for that, and having a solid foot hold in a consumer social network without that needing to be baked into their DNA.

Makes me wonder why Microsoft didn't turn its 2% of Facebook into a larger integration which both companies could have touted as value-added on both platforms.
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> That said, there isn't any viable replacement out there yet, not even one that's at the very beginning stage with only a couple thousand users.

I would say that Google+ is probably both viable and has more than a "couple thousand of users", though right now it certainly isn't getting enough traction to threaten facebook.

But if something caused a mass exodus from Facebook, Google+ would probably benefit a lot. Either that, or some new entrant.
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I would be very interested to know how their entry level plan is free and yet generous.

I want it to be true, I want the numbers to work for them. I have a small site that does 70GB/month and this would somehow beat shared hosting (dreamhost in my case) at only $3/month for the extra 20GB. Yet this is even more generous than their phpfog offering.

One thing I did not notice was any mention of disk usage. Either way I'll at least test them. I've been wanting to try out PaaS for a while.
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I'd recommend making a list or just have a few startups you like. Find their founders and cold email them personally. Perhaps try to meet them and then build a relationship and then get to the ask i.e job.
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Well, how about the stock? Certainly not a lost decade by any measure of Microsoft's stock price.

Some incredibly awesome denial in the comment thread of your link, rlu.
Inspired by reading this:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
The team behind it - these guys have each built multiple successful companies with exits or massive profits - together with the YC spotlight. You're right that being in YC alone won't cut it but as we've seen it definitely amplifies the power of a great team.

The YC spotlight is particularly perfect for this concept because of demo day. They might be the only startup that can get all their most important and prominent target customers (and thought leaders) in one room, very shortly after launching.
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Launching early is always a good idea, and there's nothing like real customer's feedback to help you prioritize your quadzillion ideas.

However, I strongly suggest you spend some time on copy and structure of your landing page - without reading your post here I would have no idea what your service had to offer me, and my motivation to whatch youtube videos on landing pages has been rather low lately. :)
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Not sure :/
I am currently an nreduce participant.

I see incubators providing three main benefits: 1. Community feel. Startups can get lonely, frustrating, etc. 2. Easier access to advisors/mentors/funders get to the next stage. 3. Credibility in the same way graduating from Stanford makes you seem more credible.

NReduce helps with #1, but #2 and #3 are unknown. It felt really rough initially, and has improved every week. We'll see what really happens in the next couple months. When people start getting access to their mentors and investors, we'll know if there are benefits outside of building a startup community.
Or presumably they could just make a movie version where the opening ceremony is in New York and they win all the medals?
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A Technical Explanation (of Bayes' Theorem)
Previous discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376631

Some other interesting explanations:

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2b0/bayes_theorem_illustrated_my_way

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13156