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Why only economy? The football discussions is almost the same, but there are no experiments, because it is "a game"! (no, it is certainly not a show)
Or this cosmo-style discussions? Seems like it is the way people prefer. This style has its name - 'blah-blah-blah'.
For me, it was the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Il. It was all about getting to be up close and personal with the science, especially the body slices! Science is so much more fun when it's interactive. I've never left science since...
Yea, but besides Google, Facebook and YouTube havent been profitable in 5 years, let alone 90 days. I'm pretty sure that if youtube doesnt come up with a viable business plan in the next year it might not even be worth keeping. Facebook on the other hand has serious revenue potential.
I tried python under windows for learning purposes, but I did not like it at all...

I feel it fits with linux!
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When I was in college, he returned an email of mine. I asked him if he was any happier now that he could have anything in the world. He told me that he was just as happy when he lived off of happy hour food and lived in a dumpy apartment with his best buds.
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Hi, Jamie from Snaptalent here.

The approach many companies take to hiring students is significantly different from that of hiring people later in their careers. We don't feel like that has been modeled appropriately yet online.

The end goal is the same, match students with companies (and vice versa), but the method by which this is accomplished is significantly different. Once we are able to get the more developed home pages of the site up (one for companies, one for students) we hope it will be clearer how it is significantly different from post a job, get candidates.
Not only very funny, but very true. If society as a whole just took a moment and pondered on some of the great things we have, I think it would make a huge difference in the way we treat each other.
My favorite comment on that blog, by far, is the dude who wants Cuban to fly him out to texas so he can pitch him on his Star Wars Toy sales startup.
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I am not comfortable with using python under windows...
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Really depends what the scope of your project is. I'm a developer, I could build a site for the cost of hosting (and time). If it can make a few bucks a month its "profitable". But you still have a ways until you are generating enough revenue to have a payroll, benefits, an office, etc.

No one really knows what the scope of his investment is. Mark is a smart guy, I'm sure this is a testing stage. So, he gives you a few thousand dollars (if that) to "test" for 90 days. If it has potential to make money, who knows where it could go.
Most of the revenue generated by cell phone service providers through their walled gardens seems to be from voice and not data. It would be interesting to see how long these service providers would continue to be profitable given their decreasing margins. Usage of the so called smart phones that help provide value added data services is not to be found in large numbers. Also, access to data is pretty expensive (when compared to the quality of service offered in the US). There have been instances of a few startups that have worked around this problem of expensive data services.

For example, there is this startup that strips and forwards email from lets say gmail, yahoo etc to an email associated with the cell phone number as an SMS for a very low price. SMS seems to be a very viable and inexpensive solution to target a large user base.
...if the customer encounters a bug, he will send you an email, stop using your software, and use a competing solution until you ship him a new release.

What kind of software was it?
Sorry about that Drew, we'll look into it. We may have an incomplete list of schools. Like Sumon said earlier in the thread we didn't expect this to gain too much early attention.

I just created the help@snaptalent.com email so you should have no problem with that anymore. If there are any other issues feel free to email me directly - jamie at snaptalent
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I hope to write a post on this sometime in the near future. I'll be sure to post it here.
The main issue is that unlike micro or other sciences, there are no experiments.

Which is somewhat frightening. There have been something like five or so actual macroeconomic experiments performed. There is no precedent for what we have done, and for what we are doing.

Even the most knowledgeable macro people are still limited by the fact that their models have little evidence tying them to reality (look at the debate between neoclassicists and Keynsians today). Macroeconomics people are somewhat stuck, they don't have enough information, they don't necessarily have consistent models.

As a result, it's hard to tell the difference between the nutjobs and the experts. And that gives the nutjobs a large sway where they otherwise wouldn't. Furthermore, basic economics is taught to a lot of people (I learned it in high school), which gives them the (false) idea that it is easy (which high school/intro college econ is).
Thanks to comments like this, I think HN is a time saver after all.
the "open source" nature of it perhaps? The fact that these business plans need to be posted in full - means that other places can duplicate them.

(also - that's probably the secret - this is probably not a tech play.... Think small local (but replicatable) businesses)
While none of the economic arguers on the web are convincing enough of the rightness of their views to take without multiple grains of salt, some of them are quite capable of convincing me of the incompetence of many of their opponents' arguments.
Web 2.0 fails because there is no business model. Ad revenue works for some businesses, but for the majority it doesn't (they live of VC funding and hope for an acquisition). There is also little chance that you could attract enough sustainable traffic in 90 days to create a worthwhile revenue stream.
There is a subtle but important difference between money and currency. Only government creates currency, which is-a money. However, both banks and government can create money in other ways, such as through the fractional reserve system or through buying/selling securities (government only).
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Because they were the result of bubbles bursting, not the Fed raising interest rates. The 1981-82 recession was very steep, but the recovery was very quick, precisely because the Fed induced the recession by raising rates, and then ended it by lowering them. Our recent recessions have featured bubbles bursting, so the Fed has ended up lowering rates to try to induce recovery, although each time monetary policy has been less potent. As our mega credit bubble has burst, we are now at a point at which monetary policy has no traction - we've reached the zero bound, and are only left with more unconventional measures like buying longer term Treasuries - so we can expect a steep decline, and a slow recovery. At best we will have a U shaped recession; at worst, an L shaped depression.
This page, linked from the article, is also a nice read: http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2008/03/mr-googles-guid...

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I've been doing it for ~2.5 years now. See blog in my profile.

Comments: just do it. All the administrivia is trivia. Don't worry about the competition. Build something. Charge money for it. Get better at marketing it. Make it better. Continue repeating "get better at marketing it" and "make it better".

Optionally, stir in a new project.
I just "discovered" Eminem. I've known he's existed for a long time, but I just realized how incredible his music is.

That's 4 years old now, yeah, but it's an example of how you might be missing what's going on right now. This year, for instance, Chumbawamba's The Boy Bands Have Won was an incredible folk tune album. Atmosphere's hip-hop album If Life Gives You Lemons, Paint That Shit Gold. Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping did stuff I've never heard in pop before, even if it was a pretty inconsistent album overall. Fleet Foxes blew my mind last winter.

Last year, there was Streetlight Manifesto, half a good album by They Might Be Giants, Radiohead, Freezepop, Flight of the Conchords, Dr. Dog, Burial, Arcade Fire.

I can't think of a single year in the last 40 that didn't see major pieces of music come out. Every maligned era has had some incredible gems.
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That's not a fair method. Rock began with Elvis. Before then, it was blues. Yeah, Elvis was inspired by black Americans, but his music was all his own.

The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who both moved music forward, were both white.

The indie music scene nowadays comes from Jeff Magnum of Neutral Milk Hotel. He's white.

Techno was inspired by minimalist classical music. Steve Reich? Philip Glass? White.

I agree with your first point: music changes. I disagree with your last point: genres are interesting from the start. They become interesting for fans of other genres after a few decades, but for people who comprehend the musical theory behind a genre it tends to become interesting from the beginning.
I have an idea.

Selling whiskey. Cheap.

To Mark Cuban. Profits in 4 minutes.
That's not a bad way to read it. I read it as: Holy cow! An honest venture capitalist.
Taleb has not claimed that the current crisis is a Black Swan; in fact, quite the opposite. While this crisis has thrust his ideas into the spotlight, he has maintained in interviews that our financial crisis was entirely predictable (and he, among a handful of other prominent economists, did in fact predict it).
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The US Government isn't good at things like this. We don't need it expanding into new areas. Let the market handle it.
Combine that with a scorecard and "all time high scores" display and you could pretty much retire the janitor.
If one has no identity that one can not even say "I am".

God said: "I am who I am". This is actually what the name Jahwe means.

This would keep God's identity the smallest, hence making Him the smartest.
You nailed it. It's a great local stimulus and it could put a bunch of people back to work, locally. The condition to be sustainable means that he doesn't want to pay your salary for more than a few months, while you open your store.

The fact that it's open means every person in every town can open the same store and succeed as well, without directly competing.
I was this close to downmodding you for saying Elvis invented rock. Chuck Berry, dude.
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The thing is, even if you believed that the government would do a reasonable job of investing, the money is either going to come from issuing bonds (increasing the supply of attractive low risk investments and proportionally decreasing the attractiveness of high risk investments which cause growth), or they're going to already have it from taxation, much of which has come from money that would have been invested anyway.

While I'm certainly more in favour of the government giving e.g. entrepreneural low interest loans than bank bailouts, I can't help but think that the money would have been better spent had it never been removed from circulation in the first place.

How about getting entirely rid of tax on businesses until they issue dividends? So the money only gets taxed when it's withdrawn as profit (and this itself is only necessary to tax foreign investors). Businesses are on average quite profitable, so why take away money that they're planning to reinvest? It will almost certainly be reinvested wisely (because they were already profitable, they presumably know what they're doing).
Seconding this. The first few times it stands out, then it becomes unconscious.
I'm curious how they measured and came up with 80%.
Does anybody else find the concept of liking rather loathsome? Tumblr implemented this too. It adds nothing. I don't care who "likes" something. If anything, it just adds to the addiction that builds up online, where everything is a numbers game. Getting "3 people liked this" as feedback tells me nothing and if anything makes me more reluctant to put up something that won't garner likes.
> plummeting disposable income

Actually spending on entertainment and culture has tended to do well in previous downturns - even severe downturns. Its another escape that gets a boost like alcohol, tobacco, gambling etc.
We weren't talking about a random grouping though, but about the people who were happily living in some neighborhood when I moved in and decided to open up my munitions dump (I agree that things are a bit different if I were the only one there with my dump, and they all decided to move in). What groups of people we're talking about matter in policy terms - companies, which are far more towards the 'voluntary' end of the spectrum, should be treated differently than local neighborhoods, which should be treated differently from larger aggregations of people (states, or countries).
...They're both 1955. Neither knew the other when they began. They're completely, utterly different in style. Elvis's Sun sessions invented the basis of what I'd consider rock.

Berry is riff-based. He's all about the guitar. He did incredible stuff, but for me rock was about the advent of the larger-than-life music personality, and about the attitude. Elvis had attitude. Berry didn't, not in the same way. Elvis was the first rock heartthrob.

My point was that it's not a race game. White people do music too. To add to my above list: punk was Sex Pistols and the Ramones.
What a damned rambling article. It never addresses the question and just meanders on about the company.

To address the title: if Twitter is a dreamworld, then there are almost certainly others on the way.
It should be noted that the internet is not overthrowing the newspaper business model. Newspapers have historically derived almost all of their revenue from advertising. Subscription prices didn't even cover all the costs of printing the physical paper, let alone the cost of producing the content. The problem, then, is that for whatever reason, advertising isn't as effective online as it is in print.

I can't remember where I heard this from originally, but Matthee Yglesias makes similar remarks:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/02/what_to_d...
The software was part of a scientific computing system. We were an upstart product competing against a decrepit seventies-era product with an eighties-era interface. The competition was markedly inferior in performance and usability, but it was a known quantity and thoroughly integrated into the customer's workflow. By comparison our product was faster and usually more accurate, but less predictable. Our new bugs were much more disruptive to workflow than the existing product's old, well-understood bugs.
Don't laugh, I have actually seen one in a club that played a crowd-cheering sound while you were hitting it! Wouldn't be surprised if there was a scoreboard version around somewhere...

For background: The ball actually moves when you hit it. It is attached to the main panel with a small plastic string. The one that made the sound probably had a simple "electronic greeting card"-like circuit board in it.
Ontario and similar jurisdictions cannot hold back the tide of secondary ticket markets. The internet prevents it. Consumers who want tickets to sold out shows will find a way and the web will help them to do it. TicketsNow does not even come close to dominating the secondary market.
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The article says Newsweek is cutting back its guaranteed circulation from 2.6 million to 1.5 million, focusing more on big name personality writers and pulling way back on its coverage of major news....

...with the goal of "creating a new niche" for advertisers to target.

What aspect of the mentioned changes has anything to do with creating a new niche? It sounds like they're just cutting costs and hoping they've got a core audience that can become their niche. What problems will Newsweek solve? And for who? It doesn't sound like much is changing here.
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I'll concede those points.

If you really want to see where music is going, you should just pay attention to what white people are buying.
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No, it means that you should approach things with an open minded, questioning attitude, rather than thundering on about the gold standard or some such.
Thanks for the interesting reply. Perhaps I'm guilty of not reading Taleb as carefully as I should have! I definately respect the guy's technical chops - he was mandelbrot's student.

I'll think a more critically the next time I see a straight line drawn on a log-log plot. I remember reading a sermon by cosma shalizi chastising physicists for making basic errors when estimating the exponent of power laws. I'm sure there's a lot of suspect results in the literature due to the error that you described :) maybe even a few bank failures.

Regarding the impact of rare words: misinterpreting certain rare words like "teratogenic" or "mesothelioma" could conceivably have a pretty high impact!
Absolutely to the point: Advertising isn't as effective online as it is in print. One possible reasoning is a web page is transient as opposed to a news paper ads, most of us involuntarily would have stared at the first page ad at least 2 times in a day. The conversion path has been made short and efficient online but a lot of branding aspect is taken away from these ads.

Additionally one should also note that there is a small guaranteed price we all pay to read that daily newspaper. Which probably does ensure that journalism doesn't go completely bust in leaner times. Which is exactly what NYT is proposing and I agree with Matt Maroon's opinion completely.
The difference between Utopian and nightmarish, no matter what you're programming, is the ability to attach a debugger (or at the very least insert some print statements to reveal internal state).
Anyone have any experience trying to view the books through the O'Reilly Safari site on the Kindle browser? Any better or worse than on the screen?
Try again now. Both Yahoo! and Live are pretty close to Google right now in terms of relevance. Branding is another story, but the results aren't bad.
I'm disappointed that you didn't like it. I've been working hard on those dance moves. Incidentally, that's our startup's "secret sauce." Our dance moves.
Reminds me of this father's attempt to hack his daughter's genetic code:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441314
> The same way he became an expert on the level of expertise among "geeks" (whatever that means) in macroeconomics.

It's pretty easy to observe that amongst geeks (or at least those that post a lot on the internet), there are way more people, compared to society at large, who believe in what most actual economists consider to be fairly fringe theories, like "Austrian" economics. I think this is interesting enough in itself to warrant thinking about.

To cite an example, this could be any number of people on this site:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473812

There's definitely lots of curiosity about the world there, which is definitely a hacker trait, but also this element of going from socialism to the another extreme, rather than, say, settling down somewhere in a range between, say, Krugman and Friedman, who are probably at two ends of mainstream economics.

I'll also add: sometimes "extremes" are correct. The concept of the US was pretty extreme at the time. (Many?) other times, however, they aren't. Plenty of smart people thought communism was a pretty good idea, and we are lucky in the US that during the 30'ies, the most extreme we got was FDR, rather than the wild swings that were going on in Europe.
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"Normal" human behavior is a lot more schizophrenic than most of us are comfortable with realizing (myself included). "Flashes of genius" and other moments of great creativity are often the result of background processes in the mind communicating with the foreground processes. Elizabeth's recommendation of treating this communication as if it were with something external can be very effective in practice even though she doesn't claim to know why "the genius that lives in your wall" behaves the way it does. However, I will claim that the less mystical explanation described in the book "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less" is more effective still. I thoroughly enjoyed the talk, but I think her goals can be even better achieved with that book's psychological insight as a foundation.
I'll be honest. I'm testing a HN button that I wrote for my blogging platform (Blogengine .net) and that's why I posted this. So you can feel free to ignore it and I apologize in advance for the shameless self promotion.

That said, it is an interesting issue and I always appreciate people's thoughts on what I write so if you have a sec I'd love for you to check it out.

Anyway...
I am an international users from Italy, and I was very frustrated to learn that apple cannot open internationals markets not only for the ability to download content from everywhere, but also because it does not have the rights to sell 90% of the ebooks outside US.
I think we're pretty much on the same page. The only distinction I would make is that I think more people + more money + a shameless willingness to copy your competitors good features might equal better execution.
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There are a lot of people who have searched on various search engines for the phrase "payday loans no fax".What would be the inducement for typing in this question? Why would someone bother whether they needed to fax documents or not to provide proof of various things? Get every thing clarified here.
I think this post of lbrandy is very similar to your post on identity. Not relating to identity part but about general public's expertise in certain matters. People involving themselves into subject matters in which they are not really experts but with a false-ego of expertise.

If one agrees with your above comment they would have to put both posts in the same bucket and in fact the whole thing is a meta-problem of expertise, as you mention it: "The same way he became an expert on the level of..."
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"Advertising isn't as effective online as it is in print."

Is the effectiveness of online advertising the problem? Or is it the relative price?

I have the impression that advertising in print is vastly more expensive than advertising online. Does anyone have any insight as to why this is the case?