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No. The best way to disrupt an industry is to do something unrelated - something crazy and something different. You'll never break the mould and explode by copying incumbent industries line of thought.

For example the real estate industry has been upset most in New Zealand by trademe, a company started by someone who wanted an easier way to buy a used toaster. The industry here is still scrambling to catch up, instead of competing with a startup trying to emulate their business model.

By doing what the article suggests, you'll be above mediocre at best. Think different (tm).
>Stated alternately, there's an awful lot of people online with regularly updated blogs, twitter accounts and other social profiles who seem particularly compelled to tell me how amazing their lives are.

Yes, though chances are if they have "regularly updated blogs, twitter accounts and other social profiles" and especially if they "seem particularly compelled to tell how amazing their lives are", then they are miserable.
"Aw shocks, I seem to have forgotten my password since I haven't logged in since 2007. Can I use your account instead?"
Interesting point, though the I wonder if the data is a bit skewed since gov't agencies tend to attract more lawsuits.
You forgot to mention that the kindle app is available free on stock android.
I hope you don't mind if I'm not interested in spending a few hours tracking down all the sources I've referenced before but to give you a short answer to your first paragraph: for the past decade or so women have held 20-30% of the CS degrees with recent times being somewhat higher. Women also hold less than 20% of the software positions (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/04/science-engineer... ctrl-F for "19 percent"; it cites the Bureau of Labor Statistics but I'm not sure what part). Obviously there's not a perfect correlation between degrees and jobs for a number of obvious reasons but it's evidence against equal chance of CS majors staying jobs. And I've seen separate sources more clearly showing that there is larger fall-off for women than men. Unfortunately, I don't know what the cause is exactly.

However, your second paragraph sort of has things backwards. The current scheme of things strongly signals to women (pretty accurately) "your odds of getting hired are lesser than your equally talented male friend." Such signalling as I described before isn't about saying that their odds are better than their male friend but rather that the company is actively trying to not disadvantage women.
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I know you're joking, but it's actually stated TSA policy[1] to allow photography of checkpoints. Whether that policy is followed, however...

1. http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/03/can-i-take-photos-at-checkpoint-...
For some reason Marissa reminds me of the King in that Bugs Bunny cartoon.
"Where's my Hasenpfeffer!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDe8fTgVUZw&feature=youtu...
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"For some people, this wouldn't be interesting. For me, though, it's a kick"

In a nutshell, this is why I find your assertion that most people live "lame ass lives" quite callous. A lot of the things you've listed as "interesting" things you've done in your life sound to me kinda dull and pointless. But that's fine - it's your life and if there is anyone to say "Fuck Em" to, it's people who pass judgement on your life.

For the record, I ran a successful company at 22, made a lot of money and have traveled extensively. But those experiences I've had are no more valuable than your experiences with your kids on the My Life Is Amazing, Look At Me Index (MLIALAMI). I know one guy who is ridiculously thrilled with his life as a professional Starcraft II player. And another who is an amazing mathematician who loves his work and who probably wouldn't trade places with any of us.

Happiness and satisfaction in life isn't defined along a one dimensional axis or measured by variation from the beaten path. Want to travel the beaten path? Loving it? Keep doing it, and fuck anyone who says your life is lame.
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This might backfire on you because if the person you want to hire has a similar line of thought, he/she wouldn't want to work at your company.
Well, until 2017 there's a pesky promise to Chinese regulators: http://news.cnet.com/8301-32969_3-57437774-300/china-to-goog...

Of course, Google's willingness to make that promise says something about their current plans and the contingencies they foresee.
This came off offensive to me. Kids and a house may not be your ideal life, but many people have that life and don't consider it "lame ass". Some people are actually happy and not constantly regretting roads they didn't take in life. I'm wondering if you're the one who is insecure and depressed.
Just banned from doing it? That's way too mild. Those employer that were caught doing this should be fined and/or disbanded. If they think they have the right to ask for social media passwords what other rights do they think they have? This is a very severe breach of privacy by an employer.
What an outrageous thing to say! This guy stole the iPad. Period.

You also seem to be implying that his "mistake" was taking something easy to track. Wow.
Why is branding a priority right now?
This is likely the in-house rebranding of Karma, a gift giving app they purchased back in May [1].

Also seems to be a play for monetization on the mobile platform. From the mashable article, linked:

At the time, Linden said that the majority of the gifts sent from the app were actually done via SMS.
“The average response rate for an SMS gift is less than 60 seconds,” said Linden. “Email is four to five hours. On Facebook, it’s a day.”

[1]: http://mashable.com/2012/05/18/facebook-karma/
Yes, that is what i meant.
What specific points make your project more ambitious? I'm genuinely curious.
This is the same Microsoft marketing material that NSS Labs puts out every year. It's devoid of any of the information you'd need to quantify, validate, or falsify the findings. In past years NSS at least admitted that Microsoft sponsored these "studies." Now they lack even that transparency.
> But Wikileaks seems to be pretty even handed in their dissemination of data they get

Of course "even-handed" can be read as "non-discerning", and I think that's one of the biggest problems with the attempts to classify what Wikileaks is doing as "journalism."

The NYT, for instance has released "state secrets" (the Pentagon Papers), but they did so because it revealed policy errors in the government's prosecution of the Vietnam war, which were clearly in the interests of the U.S. public to know. They carefully judged the value of the data, and released it because they felt the value of the making the information public in that specific case out-weighed the value of keeping it secret.

Wikileaks, on the other hand, seems to have applied almost no judgement at all: they just released an enormous "bluh" of data, much of which is both problematic diplomatically (and so actually has the potential to harm U.S. interests) and yet of little obvious value to the U.S. public.

[An example being all the various cables where an ambassador says something like "The public here thinks president Y is a doodyhead, and we should be careful when talking about subjects A and B." In many cases this is essentially common wisdom, and yet seeing it explicitly stated by U.S. representatives may enrage "president X" and cause diplomatic problems for the U.S. in his country.]

Unless Wikileaks actually tries to follow journalistic practices, I don't think they can reasonably be called journalists. Journalism entails responsibility and judgement as well as freedom, and Wikileaks has shown little stomach for the former despite claiming the benefits of the latter.
No. I'm saying not only was his action inexcusable, wrong, and illegal, it was also stupid.

I'm not sure why people downvoted me and replied with such stern disagreement. I used as many hedge-words as I could ("slightly incorrect", "isn't quite as bad", etc) and was describing my subjective impression. In no way did I blame ABC for the loss of their iPad, and I called the TSA agent's action inexcusable.

We're on the same side here.
I'm currently living in an apartment that never went on the market, because my roommate (a broker) knew the management company and he gave us a great deal. Brokers who frequent buildings get to know which apartments are coming on the market before they are listed because the supers tell them.
It's a very careless thing to say "Fuck'em" to all the people that care about you enough to take an interest in how your life turns out. For the most part they aren't trying to box you into some mindless, slave-like existence, but really just want you to have a plan-B in case your rockstar/pro-snowboarder/billionaire-entrepreneur career doesn't work out.

I think many people who advise us in our young age grew up in a time when "travelling & writing" just wasn't a conceivable reality because there wasn't a market for any of that "finding yourself" bullshit. They were part of a society that was too busy putting a car in every garage and a chicken dinner in every dining room (and eventually sending kids to college and on Euro-trips).

I'm not saying you shouldn't go couch surfing across Eastern Europe if that's really what makes you feel alive, but don't dismiss an entire cultural mindset that made it possible for you to do so with a passport that will allow you across nearly every border in the world. "Travelling", for many non-westerners, means waiting for 2 years and checking with an embassy every single day to see if your Visa has been approved so your family can board a plane that allows you to leave your country for more than 6 months.
So it's also fine if they determined that having half as many women would increase their competitiveness?
I agree, using the term 'earned', rather than 'deserved' is an excellent suggestion. For some reason 'deserve' has always bothered me. I believe in working for and earning what I receive. Deserve in my mind implies something given to you, or perhaps something you feel you are entitled to, rather than something you earned. So for me, earning something would provide a greater sense of accomplishment/achievement, than being told I 'deserved' it. Though I've never heard the reference to 'Imposter Syndrome'. That to me seems like a case of low self-confidence?
It wasn't that, but it does seem to tie into that whole idea for sure. Good link.
Totally agreed; this and paying Gavin were my two main motivations upfront.

I really desire bitcointalk'ers to have some objective way to assess business quality when they consider how many percent per week return is a reasonable no-risk promise.
Actually it did happen to my sister.
Don't quite get what his beef is with Windows 8. It doesn't really seem to be "openness" issues like he is saying. If that were the case why would he have ported his code to Xbox (another closed microsoft platform). If he doesn't like the Metro UI why is he complaining about things being closed. I guess people don't usually really think about what they say when they tweet.
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Well, for one, this was kind of a sarcastic comment.
Second, if I really did this, once the interviewee refuses to give out the password I would congratulate them, saying they passed my test of modern technological common sense: "never EVER give out your password to anyone for any reason".
This certainly helps my understanding; thanks for responding.
They offer downloads in the major formats (open epub, Amazon's mobi, and regular pdf). Also, you can read and convert ebooks in pretty much any format using Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
The whole point of Android from Google's perspective was to give them the ability to control search on mobile without having to buy their way in like they did on the Windows desktop and they do on iOS. Every year Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars to Apple, Mozilla, Dell, HP, etc. to be the default search provider, have their toolbar installed, have Chrome be the default, or whatever way they want to be the search default, and it is worth every penny, but owning their own platform in Android means they control their own destiny on the future computing platform - phones, tablets, tv's, and other embedded computing systems.

Fragmentation is not a problem because Google still is the primary Android services provider. If Samsung or HTC started doing what Amazon is doing and selling Android phones without Google apps and search as a default, then Google's in trouble.

Google's biz model is to give away Android for free, but make up for it in money from the Play market, mobile ads, and mobile search.
Generally agree, it would be nice to say "fuck em" but if you dont have someone to support your fuck-em lifestyle then you still need to eat and have a roof over your head, pay for a passport, travel etc etc :-(
Exactly. A good friend wouldn't. That's a comment from someone looking to find a reason to explain their own lack of success. A good friend would congratulate you, regardless of whether you beat them out for the job or not. Sounds like a case of sour grapes to me... and some people don't just have a few, they have entire vineyards. Nothing will ever be their fault, it can't be because the other person was more skilled, or had more more experience, they must have had an unfair advantage. That's easier than taking a hard look at yourself, being honest and addressing the real issues.
But that's exactly the problem -- the best deals get taken on the spot.

Reminds me of:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/canadian-women-are-waiting-fo...

And then that kind of led me to remember this:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html

Some of the parallels are striking.
That's the spirit
And now ask yourself the key question: Is Google more a mobile OS vendor / mobile device manufacturer or more a mobile application developer?
The article lists many tech celebrities whose dire predictions have made other articles. I'm still waiting to see the technical problems each has with Win8.
Most real estate startups are complete and utter crap. I've used dozens of pieces of software targeted at real estate agents and I can't think of a more broken software market. It's truly shameful.

Usability is among the worst you will find. This is particularly egregious since RE is filled with some of the most technically incompetent people you've ever met. Some real estate agents are fantastic and have found their calling in that job, but the overwhelming majority of the ones I met ended up in that industry by accident. I tend to joke that if you're too incompetent for all other careers, go ahead and get a real estate license.

One of the biggest problems is that not one solution I've ever used considered flow. They solve small pain points, but none are workable into the more complex workflows that need to be accomplished.
The Xbox never was an open platform to begin with, unlike the PC. The PC has never been the kind of platform to lock stuff down; while Microsoft may have their merits for doing so, a lot of people are up in arms about it and rightly so (as the PC is so widely distributed).

Plus, while Mojang did license and partner the code with another firm for the Xbox port, they didn't create it directly themselves.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-24/tidal-energy-could-pow...
Does anyone have a link to a more detailed summary of her turnaround plan?
It's fairly clear the SOPA/CISPA anger was a lot of bandwagoning when many of the opponents don't even know what it said.
Yes, that's correct, because most of us subscribe to Bayesianism.
agree and disagree. if a fork is demonstrably, significantly better, then adoption will grow and eventually, in general, the better will win. this is how evolution works.
> (I would very much believe, however, that in bartending, it's stacked against men.)

OTOH, bartending is a customer-facing business, and partially entails "entertainment" (e.g. the bar-tender talking with the customers), so in many cases there's an actual business reason to prefer female bartenders (when most customers are men who prefer talking to a woman bartender).

No such excuse exists in software development...
I've been seeing more Kickstarters after funding lately. I guess it's a good way to test demand and get the word out. But it feels like it's against the spirit of the thing.
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Beta? I've made my own persona years ago: http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/95515
Well, XBox was a closed system to begin with.

May be his beef is that Windows, up to now fairly open is now becoming a walled garden. And he is being vocal about it.
Wait, so he's refusing to put Minecraft in the Windows Store because it's "less open" than Windows 7? Didn't his company rewrite Minecraft so that he could sell it on iOS?
What market knowledge are you talking about specifically? I haven't met many brokers who wouldn't sell/rent you a place because they felt it wasn't worth it.

Your argument that the 15% broker fee is to make up for a "low hit rate" is pathetic. Many people working in retail see just as many clients with low hit rates, yet they don't make exorbitant six figure salaries.
That seems unlikely, DRBGs are really quite solid little things. Or in other words, if the other NIST DRBGs are significantly broken it would almost certainly imply that the hash functions upon which they were built are broken much much worse.
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I would just like to thank you very much for sharing that link. It was an amazing read. I found so many of the points made in that article things that I already practice, but I had never dreamed they could all be tied together in one cohesive whole like that.

That's one amazing piece of writing.
In my opinion swearing is less an indication of stupidity and more an indication of being cliche. You can swear all you want but you won't say anything inventive. Take for example the best f-bomb ever: YIPPIE KI-YI-YA MOTHER FUCKER. I'm pretty sure that only meant `fuck you` with some country-style rebelliousness thrown in. Awesome yes, deep it was not.
It looks like you guys currently own the SERPs. Congrats on that. There is no way to do that without a ton of patience persistence, and not pivoting far.

I used your service 2 years ago to find my current apartment (I found it without a broker, and sight unseen). It worked great for me, and I am glad to see you guys are doing well.
You do not need a 16k RSA key.
Notch: Don't be a hypocrite about Minecraft and Windows 8
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> taking a lost item isn't quite as bad as actively stealing.

This isn't a thing where the TSA guy saw a pack of tissues left on a bench and pocketed them for himself.

This is a thing where travelers are forced to separate even from valuable items under stress from travel, family and time constraints. So the default assumption when you come across an expensive item like an iPad is "this must belong to someone." You know they're coming back for it, either in person or by phone.
betting against yourself as a pitcher incentivizes you to perform poorly and fail.

"paying" 3% of your company leaves you with 97%. Trying to drive your remaining 97% in the ground is idiocy.
That's a fine assertion, but it has the same problem as the other assertion: it's not widely believed by the people on the spot.
Hey, someone has to work at <insert your favorite low-wage-but-I-saw-the-world-and-write-poetry employer 'cause I don't want to offend anyone>.

Seriously now. The path characterized in the article as "the plan" is not for everyone. And that's fine. I wish I were an America's Cup competitor. I am not. I am a pretty good recreational sailor. And that's OK. I chose to follow a path that led me to engineering and serial entrepreneurship. We don't all have to follow the same path.

So long as the focus is positive there's value in every path.

A better title for the post might have been "...and that's OK".
I don't know if it is a priority, but the name is horrible. And alpha.app.net?? Not pretty.
OK, that's what I was trying to answer in the second option I gave. Based on my experience with the PTO, if you submitted prior art for general consideration, it would simply be returned to you or maybe discarded. There is no system in place to process and vet "loose" information. Everything submitted needs to be directed at an application file.

It would be cool if there was a database people could contribute to, but in theory the Examiner should be able to find this stuff in their prior art searches anyway.
Ask HN: How can we find a graphics artist to make mobile games with us?
Another dev friend and I have been making mobile apps for the past year. We turn them out pretty quick. However we end up making social/utility apps because we lack the skills to draw. We want to make games but are struggling finding a gfx artist that can draw characters/creatures. We do this mostly for fun but would be nice to make a profit. We are trying to find someone in the NY/NJ area. Would like to find someone to just do work with us vs paying a 1 off.

Anyone have any suggestions? We are both devs and want to split everything we make evenly with the team.
And yet they aren't blocking the Kindle. So how do you square that?
Something that people who are not terribly familiar with browsers often don't get is that it's not all about the browser. Content plays a major role.

I hear "Firefox 1.0 was fast and lean and had no bloat" all the time but if you download Firefox 1.0 and run it, you'll find it awfully slow and clumsy. (And the same is true for Chrome 1.0.)

So, what's changed. It's the content, stupid.

Back in 2004, when Firefox 1.0 shipped, a web page was usually a simple document that was a couple hundred kilobytes. Today, a "web page" is an application that might be multiple megabytes even if it's just a seemingly simple list of status updates.

Back in 2004, you might have had one web app, maybe Gmail, open all the time in a tab. Today, you probably have several of these web apps open in tabs all of the time, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, etc. and they're considerably larger and richer than they were 8 years ago.

Yes, browsers have added features. But they've also added massive amounts of performance and efficiencies that were absent in earlier browser releases. It's not as simple as "browsers get bloated over time."
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I personally think Twitter is missing the boat by not offering a tiered model, whereby members can pay to avoid ads (and perhaps other things, such as access to their complete tweet history).

Flickr offers this and I have always enjoyed having the option.
I'm sure they would if they could. Amazon is not a member of OHA so google has nothing to enforce that ban with.
Windows 8 app certification requirements
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh69408...

> 1.2 Your app must be fully functional when the customer gets it from the Windows Store

> 1.3 Your app’s trial functionality must reasonably resemble its full functionality

> 1.4 Each app must display only one tile after it is installed

...

Have no idea what he is complaining about. If he doesn't want to be on Metro, he can always be on the Desktop. He certainly doesn't mind it being on iPhones, iPads, and on Android devices.
how would google block Kindle?
so that they can eat Google's lunch?