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A huge chunk of dentists will be taken out due to the biology revolution, which has been fueled by computers. Actually, I am really surprised that the dentists have lasted this long.
I realize the further I use OS's that requirements determine quality. I only skimmed the post but I already noticed he mentioned resource management, while most OS's perform decently on stuff.

When was the last time someone encountered a task that was impossible to perform due to limited resource management (unless you're working with experimental stuff)? Most people come up with better strategies, or they're too stupid to think of alternatives.
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They found out that they had unfiltered input, which is usually used for XSS.
People joined Facebook because they could connect to all their old schoolmates on Facebook. And this was because they started out as a school network. Myspace would have failed even if they kept improving it, if that one feature was missing.
Interesting question. I'd say that a game that goes F2P should exclude their lifetime members from whatever revenue model they have. If they're supported by advertisement, don't show ads to the lifetime members. If they're supported by selling premium content, let lifetime members have access to it all.

It seems like, in that case, lifetime membership could actually make for a decent ongoing revenue model. Want everything in the game, or want to go ad-free forever? Buy a lifetime membership for only $BIGNUM! Price it right and you could still make more money from those people than you'd make from having them buy bits and pieces over time. If you're F2P, presumably you've already structured the service to be very cheap to provide.
Some things are only really useful as protocols. We don't pay for the email or http protocol either. We pay for the hosting, not for the ability to interact with others - we pay for the actual resources, not proprietary ideas. At least those of us who live in the amazing world of wonders that is the future.

Why pay for federation of content and relations, and subscription to updates? I mean sure, feel free, but for me that's just throwing money on something that isn't just pointless, it's actually counterproductive.

It is NOT buying a powersaw, it is making a contract with someone who saws your stuff. And the criticism is "when that guy runs away or starts being silly, you will STILL have to learn how to saw a piece of wood, so maybe learn that right away." - not that it's always bad to pay money for convenience.

It's the difference between a literate person paying someone to summarize the newspaper for them, and someone who can't read doing the same, never developing the desire to learn reading and writing. The latter should raise red flags. In that sense, app.net offers zero improvement over twitter and facebook. It's just another dead end.
>Sure there will be some complexity around what defines your cut

This glosses over the whole problem with this model. The more apps there are, the more you have to share out the subscription income. At some point, there will be so many apps that there is not enough subscription income to cover them. And how do you judge the value of each app?

Besides that, I really don't see the problem with ads. I buy things all the time, I want people to sell to me. What I don't want is people selling me crap I don't want, but I have zero problem with people selling me crap I do want.

I'm perfectly able to filter advertising online, it does not interfere with my browsing at all.

Ads aren't the problem. Privacy is the problem. But you got to let sellers know what you're interested in for them to sell you the right stuff.
I have been so conditioned by posting on HN to not reply with the banal, 'this', or, 'good one', that it almost seems wrong to just say, 'thank you for that post'.
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Yeah, I left a comment on the SO post noting that and my need for bigrams rather than trigrams.
It's not available for me in Indonesia with this message:

This title is not available for customers from your location in:
Asia & Pacific

What will it cost when it's released later?
well theoretically, as the more apps come in, more users will join, so there will be more wealth to be spread around. Though - I don't see myself paying for a social network ever.
It just needs to get there

Which is an ongoing problem, given perpetual interference by politicians. Consider Sam Kinison's solution: If 10 people pitched in $50 each, they could move one of those people to where the food is.
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This is like falling into a worm hole that takes you back to when Twitter was competing with Pownce and Jaiku for marketshare.

What a bizarre situation.
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If that's the call to action, it's the worst I've ever seen. The signup page doesn't even look like it has anything else to scroll down for.
The reason social networks are not for pay is because of "network effects":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

It's hard enough to get a network going, let alone make people pay for it.
Why, I thank you! But I will also have you know that "Sorry." is a sentence fragment. When correcting others, you should always try to correct them rightly, not wrongly, even if it may sound odd sometimes.

(tee-hee :)
Your comment is correct, but misses the point: grandparent was contesting "infrastructure seems doomed to commoditization", not "Twitter is ultimately infrastructure".
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It is a form of a verb, but it essentially becomes a noun. Which brings me to my next point- [VERBing] is a participle in this case, not a gerund, since it's an adjective modifying "people."
Instagram updates app to focus on consumption
For me it shows that it's original cost is $9.99.
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This is fucking excellent satire. Hilarious.
For those without a Kindle, remember that Kindle editions like this can be read using the PC or iDevice clients.
Yes, let's. Because by giving him money on the basis of a promise, he risks losing money (in the form of future subscriptions) by breaking them. On the other hand, to Twitter your value to them is measured in change per year. I'm willing to bet Twitter doesn't break a lot of promises it makes to its true customers, advertisers.
> do these corrections

Oh the irony.

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And therein lies the black hole at the heart of the HN dream.

Sales, really good, professional, stab-you-in-the-back sales is still what counts. A winning, superior technology, was not the deciding factor here.

Anyone got the number of a good Oracle Headhunter.
It's available in Australia. Strange, because it's often considered part of the Asia Pacific/Oceanic region.
They sound unenforceable to me. I'm pretty sure fair use dictates I can quote a person from Twitter without regard to their lame guidelines.
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I just built a website that lets users track the thanks they gave and received.

It's a spare time project that I built for myself so it may contain bugs.

It uses Facebook login because I didn't want to code a complete login system just for a weekend project.

Let me know what do you think about it!

http://thank.st
Kentucky lawmakers shocked to find evolution in biology tests
Indeed, that line of argument is a form of the Galileo gambit[1], which is just a way to rationalize ridicule or criticism by claiming an unfounded correlation between opposition and eventual victory. Yes, many people who eventually succeed are criticized or laughed at initially - but people who eventually fail are often criticized or laughed at initially as well.

[1]: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit
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Same here, but I wouldn't expect much from a jQuery plugin that implements "infinite scroll". Like I need stuff to start loading by itself whenever I reach the bottom of the page.

Also, looking at their code, the first thing I laid eyes on was this statement:

var infinity = window.infinity = {};

Which, in this context, would be the exact same as

var infinity = {};
So, this paper is not really demonstrating anything against the standard game theory applied to the prisoner's dilemma.

In a single game, the proposition of the dilemma still holds true. The best solution is if both don't talk.

In an iterative game, then things change.. but that's pretty obvious. So not sure what is so revoluationary about this paper.
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you militantly miss the point of the comparison when you benchmark the experience of installing a new app against the enjoyment you get from a cup of coffee.

Actually, you're missing the point here. Yes, marginal utility blah, blah, blah, but you seem to be assuming I have infinite marginally useful dollars to piss away each month. There is, by definition, a limit to how much disposable funds I am able to spend each month.

I only have $X ± Y of disposable income to toss down the drain each month, and I'm going to try and optimize the value for that money.

A dollar at the margin for a person with a $600 phone on a $50/mo data contract is not an enormous gamble.

Sure, I have nothing to loose by buying your shitty app. But I don't have a whole lot to gain, either. I still have to choose where to spend money. I'd rather get my regular cup of coffee that tastes like dirt because I know its going to wake me up for work.
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It doesn't become an adjective, it very much remains a verb. If it is, for example, "people dying" then it's not saying "they are dying people", it is saying that the people are currently dying, i.e. an action, using a verb.
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It means they're going to have to remove Twitter.

Twitter doesn't want to be abstracted away as just another stream of messages.
Android as well.
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Morg: I can't reply to you directly, but it looks like you've been hellbanned. Might want to chuck a quick email pg's way and see if you can't get it sorted out.
"But what if we added a third choice? What if we formally, publicly and noisily withdrew from the account? The worst case was that we could tell our engineering team that we should have won but the game was rigged."

No, the worst case would be actually going through with "publicly and noisily" withdrawing. If you want to scare away future large company prospects I can think of few better ways than letting everyone know you will raise hell if your product isn't chosen in a competitive procurement. I respect Steve...but this portion of the advice seems a little shortsighted. Go ahead and withdraw and explain it to your team and the customer. But, there is not a good enough reason to publicly shame the customer.
It's a good feature but it is often done so horribly it becomes not liked. Rule number one: If you use infinite scrolling instead of pages, don't remove pages. Especially on pages where content is somehow ordered (shops, lists, ..).
People, not the least of which is the founder, keep proposing plans to divvy up the App.net subscription fee among third party app providers.

Such schemes worry me. The incentives are all wrong. App developers must fight each other for their share of a fixed number of dollars-per-customer. It'll be like Lord of the Flies in the app store. This is no way to grow a developer community. It'll be trade secrets and whispers and bitterness and dirty tricks.

As more and more popular apps come out, your revenue-per-user will tend to drop irrespective of the virtues of your own app.

How does one set the overall price? Pricing a simple service is hard enough.

And how much energy will App.net dissipate in building a complex profit-sharing infrastructure, adjudicating disputes, policing new and exciting forms of fraud?

Keep it simple.
I can understand your criticism against Slackware (though I do love that distro), but I don't agree with them against FreeBSD at all.

FreeBSD has binary repositories as well plus even it's source repositories (read: ports) is just are reliable as the best Linux has to offer.

Furthermore, ZFS is a killer feature (yes, I know Linux has BtrFS, but as far as I know it's still not yet classed as 'stable' - while ZFS is already tried, tested and depended upon in many servers right across the globe).

And personally, I think FreeBSD has a lot saner defaults than Ubuntu Server.

/Laurence (FreeBSD and Slackware user for the last 10 years)
That is bizarre. The government is, in theory at least, non biased towards any particular private interests. The fact that a private entity can launch its own investigation using its own methodology and then use said evidence to take away someones freedom is downright terrifying.
OH, NOW I GET IT.

Good night that was painful.

ihave50dollars.com is a spoof of join.app.net (duplicate layout of main page, text changed), which is a no-ad paid-membership version of Twitter, which apparently got VC funding to some people's amazement. An attempt to sign up takes you to an "end slavery" charity.

Yeah, sounds stupid to spell it out like this. Not everyone knows what app.net is, nor what its backstory is (I still don't). Ergo the spoof garners a well-deserved WTF.

WHY someone felt compelled to create the spoof is still a mystery to some of us.
Do we have any dna samples of humans from 2500 years ago? I'd like to see What has changed genetically since then.
You would get close to a zero yeild. Short duration treasuries are for cash management, not investment.
I agree it should be done well, but I don't agree you always need pages. For instance, when I use google images, I'm usually just looking for a few specific images in a sea of pictures and I don't care too much about keeping my place in that list. I care a lot more about being able to quickly scan through a very large grid of images, though, which infinite scrolling allows me to do.
Little hint for the next time.. "bog" is british slang for "toilet". At first I read "blog", then "toilet", and by the time I got to the article I was already in quite the silly mood, which is inappropriate for science.
Funny, because "Makr.io is a new kind of meme generator." is their tagline.
> Question: is there anything stopping an app from using an invisible embedded web view to pull content from Twitter, mimicking a plain browser, and then scraping the content from the DOM as a poor man's API?

Yes, it's called iframe busting. You can't force a page into an iframe that doesn't want to be there.
I don't think this move, in an of itself, will doom Twitter, but it is just another example of why Twitter and its model aren't working.

The problem with Twitter is the same problem that plagues innumerable startups - they've built a product without even once thinking about the business model, and are not scrambling for revenue.

Inexorably, everything they do in the pursuit of revenue is going to involve making the product worse for users. Ad injection, loss of 3rd-party apps that support the ecosystem, all of that is just example after example of how a business with no built-in monetization will eventually cannibalize itself in the pursuit of revenue.
You think that's bad...

http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/18/confronting-the...

There's a reason why it's still really difficult to buy .it domains on regular registrars like name.com.
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Paid software just has a bad emotional association. People are usually goaded into paying for Windows/Office and antivirus software, not exactly rewarding. Games
are an exception but people don't think of them in
the same category.
Stripe just offered a $250 per month fee.

I think they win.
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I'm not sure 2600 years old is particularly 'prehistoric' is it? I appreciate I might just be being English ('in america a 100 years is a long time and in england 100 miles is a long way' etc) but I mean that's not far off being contemporary with Plato and about contemporary with Parmenides. Prehistoric in the UK, in my anecdotal experience, is more like >=5000 years old (for example Stone Henge falls squarely into being 'prehistoric'.) And I'm sure the Mesopotamians felt pretty old by then anyway.

Any historian HNers know more about if there are any culturally specific definitions of prehistory?
D'OH WHY APP.NET IS STILL AWFUL
Gotta love this password handling bit ...

pw = getpwuid(getuid());

if (!pw)
usage("You don't exist. Go away!");
MySpace grew from music. Every single band was MySpace—all of them. This is what they leveraged to go from Friendster-level early adopter popularity, to mainstream youth popularity. This was huge, but they never got past this because MySpace always felt like an Internet underbelly sight. For the same reason that 50 years ago, grownups did not spend hours gabbing away on the telephone like teenagers, MySpace could never make inroads into the 25+ market segments.

Facebook rolled through phase 1 by being exclusive, then phase 2 by first saturating college students, then they exploded beyond what any social network had ever known by offering a clean, curated and controllable experience that steadily roped in older people by being the place to stay in touch with younger friends and family.

I always laugh when people trot out MySpace as a cautionary tale for Facebook, because it's irrelevant. MySpace was the 500lb gorilla in 2004, but Facebook is the only 5000lb gorilla that ever existed. Whatever bring them down won't be for the same reasons that MySpace failed.
2010:

"Check out this site. Design is awesome."

"Yeah but did you view source? Terrible semantics and inline css."

2012:

"Check out this site. Design is awesome."

"Yeah but did use 3D View? The element stacking is terrible. Doesn't have those nice symmetrical pyramids you like to see."
Whoa there! It appears that they indeed had this in the bag, but the IT department wanted ultimate control. I've seen this sort of thing before. In this case, all they could really do is indeed pull out. While it was a smart play, in actual fact if AutoDesk had run with it and let them go, then they would still not have been any worse off.

Given that the CIO did the keynote for their conference, I'd say that it was outplaying the dreadful politics at the company. I can't see any real backstabbing from anyone but the CIO on this one!
This is a bad way to think. Many of the costs of running a business are per-user, so revenue must also be measured per-user.

As users join the per-user revenue stays the same (to first order) but as apps join the revenue-per-user-per-app tends to drop.
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There is a non-trivial group of us who would be ready and willing to do that. I happen to be in Turkey currently, but if you could have caught me when I was a bit younger... ;)

I think the trick is that you would have to have someone taking care of all the government interfacing -- work permits and the like. That's probably the hardest part of working abroad.
There really isn't /that/ much difference between BSD and GNUs user space. And definitely nothing that can't be found out after spending a few seconds in Google or the UNIX man pages.

Plus FreeBSD docs are excellent (in fact I've found them to be a more reliable source than even Ubuntu's - but that's a whole other topic)
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What's to stop someone from maliciously buying follower bots for you?
NASA's Mars Curiosity carries parts made in France
The Starbucks coffee cup also has a definitive endpoint. I buy the coffee, I enjoy it, the end.

When I buy your amazing app v0.1 I'm also signing up for a time investment of unknown quantity. At the very least I will have to wait for it to download/install, start it up, figure out how to use it, evaluate it, and delete it if it sucks.

Rovio can release Angry Birds N and it will be a hit because that time investment has already been validated and quantified. I liked Angry Birds N-1, these screenshots of Angry Birds N look similar, I will probably like Angry Birds N.
That's true, BUT to query you need to have the ability to perform joins. That is what makes raw MapReduce such a pain and even higher level abstractions slow. I like the idea that Dremel is showing, I even downloaded the Google paper to read tonight, but the Apache implementation needs to have joins otherwise it's not a "query tool".
College-educated people being hired for jobs that high-school educated people used to do is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is that those jobs are disappearing. That was the major point of the research article that this is report is based on. So, it's all fine and dandy for college-educated people to whine that they're only able to find jobs for which they are over-qualified, but high-school educated people face both increased competition from college-educated people and fewer opportunities (even if college-educated people were not encroaching) and can't find jobs at all.
> MySpace sold to News Ltd, and then went downhill. Maybe Twitter won't sell itself to a company that is actively internet-hostile. But yes, you are correct: potentially any company could fail.

I don't think that's it. I don't remember the acquisition disrupting their strategy much. Rather I think the quality of their code base and inability to keep up with Facebook's agility is what drove the nails in the coffin.
It's almost as if there is more than one person involved in these actions!
Salmon's point isn't that there is no variance in creative skill, it's just that there isn't enough to matter in the scheme of being "the best in the world". There's not nearly enough variance to compensate for the luck required to be in the top 100 out of several million.

What you're describing is a "3-sigma" difference, but to be an A-list Hollywood star you'd need to be in something like the 50th sigma. That just isn't explainable by skill.
Hurd seems usable ( this video shows many interesting features http://archive.org/details/SamuelThibaultOnGnuHurd )

With the "let's rebuild everything" trend I hope Hurd could be brought to light again. Just to shook the view of what an OS is, and how its design influences the upper stacks.

BTW, how many single-lang userspace projects exists ? perl, lua, any other ? lisp ?
Indeed. When choosing which OS to run on a home server, does it really matter that BSD doesn't legally obliged developers to make their modifications public? And to state that FreeBSD's future is in doubt because it's not GPL is just stupid.

If I didn't know better, I'd accuse this article of being pro-GPL propaganda.

At the end of the day, they're both popular platforms released under "copyleft" licenses. And what's more, neither licences have any baring on the performance nor stability of the OSs. So all his harping on about "must be headless" (though oddly he does contradict himself latter on by stating he doesn't care about the DE/WM) to maximize performance was completely invalided when his final choice was down to something as arbitrary and irrelevant as whether other developers have to contribute back to the base OS.