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Firstly, I don't think your hypothetical qualifies as basic health care. I understand your concerns, but they just don't seem to be huge issues in the countries that actually have implemented universal health care, especially compared to the current situation in the US. Getting caught up in the semantics of where your rights start and end (by the way, many rights are regulated by laws created by politicians) is a distraction from the pragmatic approach of looking at expected outcomes.
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> but with $100m in cash from VISA,

I was unaware of this; that does make a significant difference.
Mmm, I like your line of thinking with a subscription model for apps although there's still an unknown time investment for any new app.

Try out this app and spend five minutes on it? Eh, maybe.

Subscription music services work very nicely because the time investment for listening to new music is essentially zero. There's no download or queuing wait at all.
>But these profit-seeking corporations are now standing in the way of futher progress. The gatekeepers need to go.

Neither IRC nor Email are companies that own the rights to their communication method.
I think "publicly" was a typo. The article seems to suggest privately withdrawing, not publicly bashing while withdrawing. It can be a good tactic.
I was about to comment on the same thing. I thought the title was pretty misleading myself.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I've been using vim for 6 months, but I still feel like a n00b. Looking forward to checking this out.

I started my vim experience using Janus

But I didn't understand how anything worked or why any of the plugins were there.

That led me to starting from scratch (I forked my cofounder's dotfiles) and now I feel like I know my vim config waaaay better. If you've been using janus, I'd highly recommend giving the ground up strategy a shot.

https://github.com/sud0n1m/dotfiles
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Very interesting. The idea of human a human superorganism as a host to a variety of specialized and essential symbiotic bacteria should appeal to the Unixers in the audience.

The following quote is unrelated, but talk about counter-intuitive:

"This bacterium, which causes life-threatening distension of the gut in some people who have been treated with antibiotics and thus had their microbiomes disrupted, is a bane of hospitals. It kills 14,000 people a year in America alone. But recent experiments have shown it can be eliminated by introducing, as an enema, the faeces of a healthy individual."
Both Marks say the same thing one year apart.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...
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Especially ridiculous is that the judge complains that he has no remorse for "making available" content that "infringes copyright". But of course, he didn't make any such content available. (Do .torrent files "infringe copyright"?)
And if they get 1% of twitter's population, it may well be a MUCH higher percentage of the subset of twitter's population that's willing to pay for something.
Regardless of how different Diaspora is from Facebook, they still tried to do the "social network" better. I'm pretty sure every startup wants to make stuff less suck.

By the way I remember last time when Diaspora first surfaced as the real alternative of Facebook and I was kinda excited with it. For the first time I can customized everything I want from my social network. But then the project run out of any traction and suddenly just disappeared. So I guess, while we can dream big and aim big, the big stuff would come up eventually and not just boom in the first place (as Google comes out from home garage and Facebook comes out from college dorm). It's a big disturbing how App.net just really booming in its first release but I wish them the best and hope they will succeed.
No one is arguing they aren't in their rights to do this. I mean sure a lot of people are indignant about the fact that Twitter became what it was through the ingenuity of the developer community, and without them Twitter would never have grown to its current size, but that's neither here nor there.

The bottom line is that Twitter's communications make it clear that they are grasping at straws for their profitability and that no developer is safe if they think you are capturing too much value. Obviously you always run a risk building on someone else's platform, but Twitter's direction and language around this would make any developer a fool to start anything new on that platform.
This article lack of detail derails the point that it is trying to make. Yes, there are millions of people who try to enter certain creative fields at any one time but a very small percentage truly have what it takes to enter the business. And when I say have what it takes, only a small percentage of that is talent. Talent is important but it is only the first step.

The lucky part is impressing the right person at the right time that you can become a star. After that you still need to be set up with the right team, proper motivation and yes some talent. But the most important part of that equation is the right team, especially the marketing team. If you look at the music business, they usually try to sell you a rags to riches tale when it comes to their artists. They want you to believe that the person was found on the street, signed to a record deal, and now millions of people love them. Very rarely is that true. The music business has a formula and they try their best to stick with it.

You can see that happening right now with an artist named Azealia Banks. I use her as an example because she is in the middle of that process now. Not mainstream yet but on the cusp of it. Her label(Interscope) is pushing her as an independent artist that just happens to be getting some attention. They want you to believe that luck and her talent is why she is getting any attention at all. The truth is her marketing team is doing a tremendous job at getting her name out there. No luck at all. A well planned cosign by Kanye West, the use of Twitter to get into well publicized problems (beef) with other artist ala the 50 Cent strategy, Several big name magazine covers or articles before anyone knows who she is, a "just so happens" controversial Dazed and Confused magazine cover that is getting a lot of attention now, another cosign by fashion designer Alexander Wang, and all of this before she has even put an official album out.

None of that is luck or because of talent. When a label thinks it has a hot property then they step up the marketing gas. Gone are the days of putting gigantic posters up & magazine ads and catering to radio stations. Now the job of marketing is to fool the customer into thinking the artist popularity is all organic. The web is used to break the star, traditional forms of media is used to mass market them. So to the outsider it seems lucky but it really isn't. It is really the music business equivalent of SEO.
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Thank you for this. Perhaps it's early, but the fact that the site is a parody wasn't initially obvious... I was thinking it was just another start-up with a snarky copy writer.
This article has incomplete information and is about 10 years out of date.
A 20% shot at a 5 billion dollar bushiness may be a perfectly rational choice on their part.
"publicly" with all relevant stakeholders. Not "publicly", we're going to post this on our Sales Tumblr.
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If you send me your email address I'll lend you my copy for 14 days (the limit set by the publisher).
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This is a web service, do I have this right?

Wow, so Google is going to collect business and scientific raw data as well.
Things have changed; I bought a .it domain a couple of years ago very easily (i.e. just like buying a .com)
My problem with his article is that he seems to only define "success" and "recognition" in terms of being within that top 100.

There are a lot of startups that are profitable and have users loving their products that will never sell to Facebook for $1 billion. Using Salmon's argument, it takes pure luck to get to that Instagram-level of success. I buy that. I don't think it follows that all of those small profitable startups are therefore financial failures, which seems to be the conclusion he's drawn.
The point of the stock market is to create a liquid market for businesses and investors. HFT who don't actually keep any skin in the game is just a market efficiency which is best dealt with by changing how the market operates not flooding it with 100 billion meaningless buy and sell orders a day.

EX: Put a 24 hour hold after a stock transaction is held before you can sell and you just killed 99% of HFTing.
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> the answer is 'be as popular as Twitter and Facebook'

Also, proper URLs.

"Add your voice to the conversation! Just go to plus dot google dot com slash 114124849657167573853".
Asking them to do it is fine, but you can't obligate them to do it. A contract can never force you to perform work, because that is slavery. It can force you to perform work or suffer some kind of penalty. In this case, I think the appropriate penalty is a full refund for all of the affected customers.
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I mentioned "federated" too, in case you missed it. You are right, that's the most important part. Yet another reason to support things like StatusNet over walled gardens like Twitter and app.net.
The UK has a spectacularly weak judicial system for an industrialized country.

From the lack of judicial review of primary legislation ([1]) through a huge abundance of archaic haphazard laws, to lack of representative judges, to the ease with each political, police, partisan and private organisations can influence the judiciary, the UK system is ripe for abuse and disruption by any industry. It is also fertile ground at this time due to the dual US/UK government focus around issues of "Intellectual Property".

From a general perspective, the only saving grace, which is a relatively minor one in practice (by volume not significance), is that EU laws normally have precedence and judges are therefore unable to act completely unilaterally without risking being overturned.

Just think: what other industrial country permits unilateral criminal prosecution from private entities with explicit support from one of its judges?

[1] Yes, I am aware that without an arms-length written constitution, this would potentially make things even worse.
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I don't have enough data to prove or disprove this statement - although I do know a lot of working and non-working artists, and anecdotally skill seems to win out.

I'd agree, if you're intending to be an A-list star and won't settle for anything less, luck is going to have to play a pretty significant role. But there are a lot of jobs and opportunities for an actor, for example, outside the "best of the best" situation.

I was mostly replying in support of the comment above from randomdrake, however.
It's increasingly becoming clear that the practice is very different. There's several cases, most notably Assange and the current Megaupload trial that indicate that private entities are putting pressure on governments, who in turn put pressure on their peers in other countries. And it can't all be written off as conspiracy theories anymore.
It was a matter of understanding how politics plays a big role in these decisions, more so than which product is best. I agree with you, it didn't have to do with "cut throat sales" or anything like that... just understanding your customer, even their internal struggles.
Anything I would use Perl for, I use Ruby instead.
Thanks, you just get me the exact term I'm looking for. It's hard to explain to "smart" people without using any computer-ish/science-ish/math-ish terminology
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> And so what happens? They spend the 6 months they could have used learning to code, trying to find a cofounder instead.

Who goes from not knowing how to code to being a decent to good coder in 6 months? Maybe I'm just not that smart, but it took me many years to get to that level. Learn a few basics, hit a plateau, light-bulb is triggered on some concept accelerating your growth, hit another plateau, and on and on like that.
I think you are right. People want to build on App.net. The problem is ~10,000 people have signed up and there are already ~100 apps for app.net[1]. To me that sounds like a developer circle-jerk. Developers and other technophiles typically have disposable income, love to bash incumbents and jump on the next bandwagon. App.net satisfies all of those desires. It will be interested to see if anyone else really cares.

I just don't think trading one man's walled garden for another is what we need. We need an email-like solution to this problem. Something open and federated.

[1]https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/wiki/Directory-of-thir...
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Or Mac, or "Cloud Reader" through your web browser.
Well if the standard is open and popular, there will be free open source implementations, and they will be important. And if the standard is open but not federated, it's not very useful.
No one has asked yet, so I guess I have to: is the Perl binary written in Perl?
To some extent, they do this already, right? There's a big difference in price (5x or so?) between a drip coffee and their most expensive drinks.
I wrote back several words with a link http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=64656#p64656 as well as a screenshot like http://cl.ly/image/2y3k0x3p3a0v. Let's see where that brings us.
.... and you've just embraced (in a limited inconsistent way). using "ORDER" is outside of the relational model, where order plays no part.

ORDER was there from the beginning, but CTEs, nested columns, window functions, connect-by recursive selects and similar stuff is being added because SQL and the relational model are actually quite limited when it comes to real world problems.

Of course, SQL will keep getting extended to solve real world problems; however, that does not mean SQL is "the best solution out there" (or "the worst solution except all others that were tried").
I agree... People started developing Twitter clients BECAUSE of its popularity. Why hasn't as many people developed a client for MySpace, or Friendster, or Diaspora instead?
Keep at it, I've been using vim for 15 years and I also still feel like a noob.
If anyone didn't notice, this story is from Wed Apr 6, 2011. It is linked from a larger story about hundreds of warriors being found in the bog which was posted yesterday:

http://news.discovery.com/history/army-danish-bog-120816.htm...
I know. All I'm saying is that's not the whole point. The walled garden is a fundamental aspect of both of those strategies, and in both cases the walled garden works against the best interests of the users.
Yes, they are. The entire premise of this stupid god damn thing is that everyone who joined app.net just wanted to shout to the world that we have $50 to spend. Well, I'd also like to shout to the world that whoever made this is a killjoy and an idiot.
I just bought it and I'm from India.
It is true a new CEO could potentially improve things, but it shouldn't be taken for granted. Disclosure, I'm generally a Facebook skeptic, but I don't think it can be denied that bringing in another CEO who focuses on money, money, money could end up crashing Facebook ten times faster than Zuckerburg could. There are a whole lot of very appealing money-making answers that boil down to eating the seed corn, at wildly varying levels of subtlety. (In fact the source of my skepticism is whether there is any way to make money that doesn't fit this description, but who knows?)
Just a short note of clarification about the GPL: The intent is to protect the freedom of the users, not the developers. Essentially so that every user can potentially be a developer, too.
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> It will be done by xmas or it won't.

You claim to be talking about estimation, but I believe that you're actually talking about being given unrealistic, non-negotiable deadlines. (How did we know that the estimate was unrealistic, you ask? We did an estimate.)
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Where Dalton is going I don't know (and I feel he's generally a pompous ass when he speaks/writes) but... I think app.net is a matter of OWNERSHIP. Ownership of your data and ownership of the company.

Companies are beholden to those who pay. If it's the users who pay, the power is with them. I like that idea. If it's the advertisers, they don't need to care as much about the user, see FB and Twitter.

Stuff DOESN'T have to be free. I pay for many things, and in general the things I pay for are better than things which are free.

I have no problems with the $50 or the request for it. Those who do should buy GIMP, while I use Photoshop.
This has already been posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4394973
The parody quality of the site is more readibly apparent to someone more skeptical of app.net in the first place.
Well it won't be publicly searchable unless you decide to share it. One of the features is user-based access permissions.
India != Indonesia
Citations provided: http://blog.bethcodes.com/is-the-internet-convincing-women-n...

The includes links to studies (like Sapna Cheryan, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Saenam Kim, Classrooms matter: The design of virtual classrooms influences gender disparities in computer science classes, Computers &amp; Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 1825-1835, ISSN 0360-1315,) that show a "lack of ambient belonging", that is being alienated by other group members, was the primary cause, and another that interacting with sexist male engineers lowered women's performance (
http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~billvh/LWSIvHB.JPSP.09.pdf)

Few people seem willing to accept that the lack of women in tech has something to do with men, but it does. Included the "high school girls" who aren't interested: the Girl Scout's study found that the biggest thing keeping them out was expecting to face sexism if they chose those professions.
Wikipedia suggests that the early parts of the Iron Age[0] are considered prehistory[1], and this period ended around 2500 years ago in Persia, and as late as 1700 years ago in Europe (earliest on the Mediterranean and latest in Northern Europe).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory
The original reasoning can also be interpreted as an instance of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_bias
Hum, there is more than one ... Only in Amsterdam there are at least 2 (went there 2 days ago), one in Central Station and one not far from the Science Museum (that I could see from the train leaving the Central Station :D ).
And no doubt there are more in the inner city.

Then there is also at least one in Utrecht Central, so we are down to 3 already.

Anyway, I know it was not your point.

Besides, as a Frenchman (living in the Netherlands), I'm not fond at all of Dutch coffee, but hey, it could probably work in "New Amsterdam" ;)
It's apparently very useful for discovering some nasty XSS bugs. I think eventually, this might be one of the "last stops" in testing new front-end designs; a staple, but not something you need to be switching into every five minutes (unless there's something to be fixed.)

Very jealous of this as a Chrome user. :) Good job guys.
Mitochondrial DNA has been extracted from samples found in the UK which are up to 12,000 years old:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Man
Art, or tech?
but India == Asia & Pacific.
quality of their codebase?
Assuming this "pro" account would be ad-free, that would devalue their ad business. BMW isn't going to pay for promoted tweets if their target demographic won't see them. So you're left with junk food ads, which are fine, but not nearly as profitable.
re: Perl posts on HN - There's actually quite a lot of Perl articles posted here (and I maybe the main culprit of that!). However only a small subset percolate to front page.

re: startups - Ones that quickly come to mind... Lokku, Blekko, Moonfruit, DuckDuckGo, CareerJet & Adzuna.
But Google has access to it, which I think is vog's point.
I think the spoof was created was because (a) app.net has no value proposition other than wanting $50, and (b) that there were over 100K people out there who put in money regardless.

(No value proposition is more accurately no value proposition for the site by itself. It does have a value proposition if it does billions of users like twitter, but that there is no realistic way of getting there.)
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> I had a brain hiccup with respect to the test/training sets (I used it correctly later on).

Just to be clear, it's not just that you said "test data" instead of "training data", but that you said that too much is a bad thing. More data is always a good thing for ML.

[Edit: Actually, there are times where it may not be. If you're doing something like image classification and your data is being created by hand qualitatively, you can actually get overfitting from adding data. As far as I understand, this is because the measurement based on fuzzy perceptual qualities is biased, so the algorithm will overfit to that bias. Maybe this applies with your analogy; I'm not sure.]

>"Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively complex, such as having too many parameters relative to the number of observations. "

Well, that's in reference to overfitting as it applies to statistical models, not machine learning. To apply that reasoning to machine learning you have to look at the output of the machine learning algorithm rather than the parameters fed into the algorithm itself. That is, an overfit learned function will often be characterized by excessive complexity, but this is not a result of telling the learning ML algorithm to look at too many parameters. It's a result of telling the ML algorithm to train for too long given the size of its training set.

A key point to note is that an overfit function can be excessively complex even based on very few input parameters if it builds the learned function out of overly complex relationships between those parameters. Conversely, it can build a very simple function, even if many of the parameters prove to be irrelevant, by simply not making the learned function depend on those parameters at all.
after 21k per month, you jump back to the regular rate of 2.75% per transaction. Over $10,000 per month, Google Checkout charges me 2.2%. But of course with Google Checkout you can't do all of the cool things that you can do with Stripe.
Brilliant. I love free things.
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Indeed. The twitter announcement had the vague feeling of something produced after many heated words between product and engineering. This sounds like what it is, someone trying to sell their own personality.
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That should horrify FB. That means there will always be a direct correlation between Zynga's stock and FB's stock on a daily basis. I would not want one (3rd-party) company accounting for 15% of my revenue.
Sure, I guess my point is, how would they use it?
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It's a twitter you pay for where none of the people you follow are on it.

What's not to get?
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