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The problem is that products "that people were willing to pay for" are not necessary products which will EVER get you into startup mode (high growth).
It can be a very good business but it will never be a startup.

So in SV a lot of people abandon these kind of ideas because majority of VCs and incubators will not invest into these ideas. So young entrepreneurs ends up chasing non-profitable "get eyeballs" first think about profit latter ideas.

And, no - market is not saturated with high quality competitors - for example, you can make Basecamp for "industry X" (i.e. teachers?, doctors?) you will make money to live quite comfortable.
Yes, affairs that turn into marriages happen. That doesn't actually detract from my point, which is that they're vanishingly rare. In a population of billions, I'd expect several hundred cases quite easily.

> It's beyond me why the Americans feel the need to cannibalise their highest public achievers for trivial personal faults.

I couldn't give a rat's ass about this scandal myself. I've been super-unproductive today, and this comment thread was an effective diversion. But the article I linked suggests that this scandal is a good opportunity to recognize some more interesting things about Petraeus' history that have nothing to do with his personal life, per se.

My favorite part about the article was what it didn't talk about: namely, Broadwell barely figured into it except as a secondary example.
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And that's exactly why I avoid eating any ground or processed meet products.

Actually, I avoid eating meat in general, unless it's a 'grass fed' & 'certified organic'.
Going back to "Edit" mode in Safari seems to be broken http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1229269/Screenshots/58.png
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> "We are seeing better than human-level performance in some visual tasks," in particular, for the problem of extracting house numbers in photos taken by Google's Street View cars

Can someone explain to me how this is news, given that the handwritten addresses on snail mail envelopes in the US have been OCR'd by neural networks for more than twenty years now?
Thank you! "Whenever you're ready" is my favorite part.
How the guy decides to spend his own money that he earned is none of your business. Mind your own, please.

If you think it's such a travesty that the guy has money and enjoys it, then maybe you should go to all the people who consensually traded with him and tell them what bad people they are for buying his products and services.
I wonder how JVM garbage collection impacts real-time systems vs. Erlang.
You avoid eating them due to kottke.org posting videos about the process?

I'm not sure what's so offensive about this process.
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Please tell me whether the term "deep learning" has any meaning at all, and if so, what is it? It sounds like a buzzword to me, like "data scientist."
The order of complexity difference between recognising figures on plain paper perpendicular to a scanning device in a controlled environment, and doing the same thing on huge amounts of non-standard chaotic data is why.
If I recall correctly, I think Facebook used to allow you to fine tune who you saw on your news feed. Not sure if it's still buried somewhere, gone, or what the uptake on this feature was.
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They might not be there yet, but I'd bet that Kickstarter can see "Camp Paypal" from where they are.

I'm not sure there's much of anything they can do that would be worse for their business than to start applying secretive, arbitrary rules that even smart people can't figure out how to abide by and then following that up with a clear demonstration that said smart people aren't even worth a phone call.
It's understandable why Kickstarter has enabled and are enforcing their new project guidelines & rules. It's a shame however when good products that are fully functional and prototyped are tossed into the photo-realistic renderings or simulations bucket.

I think the Lumawake team is doing the right thing by using the http://selfstarter.us open source framework.
any theories on why they were rejected? it does seem a bit arbitrary like they didn't bother to read any of their justification.
Love your correspondence, but changing names is actually par for the course in early startup land. I did the same when we encountered a USPTO trademark objection. Better to drop the name than fight an uphill battle -- better use of your precious money resources.

Besides, think of it this way -- why would you want a name you couldn't get major Google search SEO / a twitter handle, facebook page, and other benefits? Sharing a name with another company is more hassle than its worth, even if there wasn't a trademark conflict.

Some ideas for you. Try reverse names:

Nedloh is Holden backwards. Or your county is Penobscot, which has an interesting (almost) backwards name, minus the P: Tocsbone.
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The origin of human speech is obscure and may never been known with any exactness or certitude. However, language has been known to develop nearly spontaneously in human groups: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandt...
All of these "How it's Made" videos show immense industrial processes, but they usually include a number of jobs in-between stages that I definitely wouldn't want, eg: 4m00s. (the job isn't disgusting - but for the fact that the guy must do this for more than 15 minutes each day...)
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"US whites continue to act as if 1 black president out of 44 demonstrates progress as opposed to it being an indictment against them."
Virtually all house numbers are either painted from a stencil or composed of mass-produced shapes on a background of uniform color, whereas addresses on envelopes are handwritten by doctors, six-year-olds and people with Parkinson's disease. I'm not convinced it's a harder problem.
We're having a quick discussion tomorrow - we currently have .HTML. We are going to add .CSS and .JS.

Anything else we are missing?
I don't think there's been nearly enough time to determine whether the internet, mobile or otherwise, as we now understand the concept will have a lasting (e.g. centuries or millennia long) influence. It probably will, but it hasn't demonstrated that yet.
While I think that people should learn the cryptographic primitives as much as possible, the point of my post was to use a well-reputed open source authenticated encryption library. In addition to NaCl, there's also Keyczar: http://www.keyczar.org/
I disagree too. Life is short, and you don't actually have to spend weeks on flatware:

http://blog.tryarrow.com/post/35672875816/no-soup-spoon-for-...
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How does Erlang compare to Haskell?
we're using the standard set of fields that all EMRs will be required to produce. you can def submit a design that includes those AND how you would represent genetics data.
To be fair, if you can sanely use options on the buy-side (as insurance or call income, as opposed to buying lottery tickets) you can also sanely use them on the sell-side too. The problem is, you need deep pockets to do so on the sell side, since you need to be able to buy the stock without breaking a sweat. Specifically, the sane way to use options on the sell side is to use them as a way to commit to a price you believe is (or technically, will be) fair, regardless of what the market says on the matter at that time. (Yes, this presumes you believe EMH is bullshit.) If they expire, you make a decent income. If you're assigned, you're content purchasing the stock at that price, regardless of the market price. (Or, if you're not due to some underlying change in the fundamentals, you can occasionally roll the contract forward. You should have probably done this before assignment day otherwise you are fooling yourself.)

Of course this leads back to your main point being unchanged: only experts are going to have confidence in knowing what a "fair" price is for a business, so selling options (or using them in general) should be left to such experts.
Others have made excellent comments here. I want to add this:

- Mention that unless it's for a certain price range, you're no longer in the market. However, you will keep them in touch when you're changing the policy again.

- If the pricing/arrangement doesn't work for both parties, say you're happy to refer them to someone else who could use those projects.

Also, stay in touch with them regularly, but you don't need to go overboard on this, as you want to focus on your company.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "portable". You can pick up a 512GB SSD (~$350) and pop it in a USB 3.0 enclosure (~$30). That's not USB stick sized, but you can get it down to about 3" x 5" x 0.5" which is not too shabby.

Or if you're crazy, you can get four 128GB sticks (~$450) and a USB 3.0 hub ($30) and set up a RAID.
It's a false dichotomy that you present. Let me preorder the phone. You have the money up front, and have an absolute lower bound on opening day stock.

The fact of the matter is that if the Nexus 4 sold out in less than an hour, then they must not have even had stock to sell to the people that signed up for "notification".
Is this just in the air right now? ( I built this over the weekend: http://dzucconi.github.com/haiku )
Great work. It's so cool, can't wait to take part in.
It should say (or at least suggest) what you do, who you are, and what makes you different; your position in a word or two.

I spoke to a branding/marketing guy the other day that had a very interesting philosophy behind product and company names. His idea was that your name should make _no_ sense until you explain it to someone.

If you name your company "Stan's Golf Lessons" then you fit into the crowd. You don't stand out. Your customer know's exactly what you do based on your name and they don't dig for more information. They also don't remember you in specific when they want golf lessons. Instead, name your company "Perfect Lies". This gets peoples attention. They have no clue what you do, but it piques their interest. They ask what it means. You tell them you give golf lessons, and suddenly the name Perfect Lies makes more sense (for non-golfers, 'lie' means where your ball sits on the course). They remember you.
Great question! Let's see...

EVOC: green, especially with the cute tagline, "learning, period"

BREV: green or yellow; slightly shorter than wikipedia

GREP: green; perfectly greppable

GOOG: green; perfectly googlable

PRON: green; perfectly pronounceable

SPEL: yellow or red, given the confusion with "learn dot dot com"

VERB: yellow; the verbification isn't obvious but probably verbable

So all in all I think it's a good name!
I've never tried it myself, but I've heard people have had decent success using a combination of Twitter searches + live chat.

You can monitor people on Twitter complaining about the problem you solve, @reply them to check at your site, and then chat on oLark/SnapEngage to help convert them into users (or just do customer development).
This is definitely the right move for you. It's a higher-level fighting move for you to turn a blow to your advantage.
Aside from inline object literals, and using strict equality (which you should always be using IMO), what does this specifically have to do this Javascript? Everything else applies to general programming.
Thanks for explaining that. I understand it now. I wish they'd do a best effort attempt, and say so in their reply, if they don't understand the copy on the site instead of skipping over it.
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Oh another iPhone dock! Kickstarter hasn't had enough of those lately, is it possible they're having an attack of conscience / trying to keep from being too pigeonholed, and thus the rejection?
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Interestingly enough, in Australia the standard full-time work week was 40 hours, but Fair Work Australia recently changed it so the maximum an employer can ask a full-time employee to work in a week is 38 hours.

Some people at the company I work at do work quite a bit more, but this is actually discouraged by the company (it counts as time in-leiu so they can take that time off later). This seems a massive contrast to the US where articles like this make it seem like people work far longer hours to make it look like they're a harder worker. Does that really happen?
Darn, my guess is it's flexbox weirdness, since Safari only supports the old spec. I tried to fallback to the old spec when possible, but that could be something that was never fixed since the old spec was abandoned... sorry about that!
Indeed. Tell me again why people say it's better to save for retirement as an individual...
At what point does it become to difficult to offer feedback? Might some English copy be hard to understand if it contained software, medical, or legal jargon? Why not just offer feedback that's consistent with the Google employee or contractor's understanding of the site, and say so in the response?
but you're glossing over (conveniently) that the vast majority of crap is made in china. Not to mention the fact that China has no regard to intellectual property, is always the first to produce cheap knock-off products that blatantly ignore the inventor's IP.

And, this doesn't even mention human rights.

If you take off your politically correct hat for a moment you'll see that the comment "cheap, hacky, non-reliable, lawless, and poorly done" is warranted and quite generous in its phrasing.

It's not racist (since China isn't a race), and it's perfectly ok to make statements about a countries exports. Just as its ok to say that Swiss trains run on time, Swedish cars are built like tanks and french wine is good stuff. Not every french wine is great, and not every export from china is crap, but most french wines are good, and most chinese cheap plastic goods are crap too.
These apps are great. Does anyone know how they plan to make money in the future? Just start charging for the apps once they're ranked #1 in each city?
> where you can do nothing productive yet still live.

It's actually not possible to do that. Humans simply can't. As soon as a person has no reason to live, they start deteriorating.

If the person is healthy enough they turn to vices and intoxicants (legal or otherwise) to try to feel something. Other people simply wither. But in all cases a persons life is cut much shorter.

In lieu of a job, having children works too, since meeting their children's needs gives people a reason to exist (unless they have too much money, and hire a nanny).
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The missing piece is your own analysis. They cannot tell you how to solve their problem, you must do that. They can only tell you where their problems lie. Combining your greater understanding of the wider internet domain and your ability to ask pertinent questions, with what you and your team might be able to accomplish, possible solutions will sometimes reveal themselves.
Usually badly. Erlang got one thing very right -- private heaps for each process. So when garbage collectors run they never have to stop all the processes and collect, and that is very important in types of system Erlang runs in.

I know Java has "pauseless" garbage collector but I think that is just marketing talk. Given how references to objects can be shared between threads I don't see a way for it to work.
Why not just leave for a job at BigCorp?
Actually the US has a pretty fantastic supply of rare earths. the US used to mine a TON, then imports from China got cheaper, so they stopped mining domestically. In this process, lots of "knowledge capital" was lost, but we still have vast reserves of rare earths. The big problem now is the lack of infrastructure to get at them again.
I still think there is one middle man that is very tough to get rid of: banks or payment gateways, like visa.

They still are getting their cut!

If bitcoin is going to change that, it is also going to create opportunity!
It doesn't matter. If the announcement is made later you buy the tickets later which makes them more expensive.
Look what happens when western companies try? Google, for example...
It helps that the internet is a medium that makes it very difficult to harm other people, either intentionally or accidentally.
The question, of course, when you liberate the poem from rhyme, is "what is a poem?" What now differentiates a poem from prose?
Great idea, but desperately needs to list prices. I would also consider how to best organize & present the products on the page.

Grabbing the relevant comment text might also be helpful (e.g. why was something recommended? what is it good for?).
Ignoring the hours argument. If incentives for the founder do not align with the incentives of other people involved in the company there is a completely different problem at hand.
The problem with people, markets and efficiency: They see markets and go - wow - that's pretty fucking good, my prices just went down, I got better service and it's harder for others to make money now so things must be priced competitively.

Problem is they go to far. As soon as they state that you can't make money in markets - they've just crossed into stupid territory. If that were true - the world would be efficient and no one would ever make any money, because everything would be priced correctly.

What is with people separating stocks from businesses. If you work at a business, you are by definition stating that the market you work in is not efficient and hence EMH is bullshit. It's like massive cognitive dissonance - stocks are completely separate in people's minds from the shit that actually gets done - it's insane. It's just like religion. I mean you can happily see someone flying in a plane and the next second they'll be telling you how god exists and how science is bad. YOUR IN A FUCKING PLANE! Your life depends on science and engineering and they state that you are wrong.

Markets are what I'd call "better than central" planning efficient. They are better than central planning - for example you are a young programmer - how will a government bureaucrat know that you should go start an app company - it's better if people figure out what to do themselves, because they know themselves the best and can on average pick careers more correctly than a "sorting hat". But they are still pretty crappy because people make shitty choices all the time.

I agree with all your points - sell-side is a great money maker for people who know their shit. Buffett is one example. He runs $60 billion in insurance float, with nearly $24 running reinsurance and mega-cat risk. He makes a lot of money. But unless you have the financial reserves to back up your claims - don't even bother.

Buy insurance if you wish to hedge yourself - otherwise - stay the hell away.
> Speak to me as if you are in the same industry as I am (medical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, communications).

Honest question: why is that appealing to you?

Whenever I see this on a website, I feel like they're asking me which form of bullshit I want to hear.
This looks really nice! Now port it to Android.
Whoah what? There's no data roaming? What does that mean? I can't use data in another state?
Check out Varnish's configurable grace period.

It will basically instruct it to continue to serve content that it considers "stale" (up to a point) until it is able to update it.
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Erlang VM is much friendlier to garbage collection. For example immutability removes one of the biggest overheads of GC--tracking reference mutations. Process isolation allows to run garbage collection concurrently and without employing esoteric techniques. Many processes are short lived and never reach GC point, when they terminated memory is reclaimed wholesale.
On the surface it may seem similar, but are actually quite different:

LinkedIn is mostly about connecting professionals to each other and companies

Facebook (in a business context), is mostly about connecting brands with consumers.

Consumers are not professionals, although the underlying people that participate in those roles may largely overlap (if you think about it as a Venn diagram)
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> Would it be safe to say Scala with the Akka lib offers the same robustness and distributed scalability as Erlang?

Depends why you picked Erlang. Erlang has unsurpassed fault tolerance built in. This mean ability to crash and restart individual processes, ability to hot code reloading. Its standard library by default comes with such things as a distributed application controller that will make sure you application will immediately start running on another machine if it crashes locally.

I don't know of any other languages or platforms that provide that as a first class.

Then for things Erlang would be used you really would want something battle tested. Eventually Akka will be battle tested and this won't be an issue but I think it is not there yet.
Let's see the real meat of the article: your trading program and algorithms.
Ugh, as a Linux BI hacker, I hate XLSX. I have to handle data imports from products that produce incorrect XLSX formats, apache POI blows up for the relatively small numbers of rows (<250K or so - I cheat by giving my JVM 16GB of memory to handled it and to be fair, I believe this is fixable but I have an ETL tool with POI embedded in a hacker-unfriendly way), but you are dead-on correct that you need some type of Excel output. Users love it. Particularly the kind of smart people who learn how to use the "Insert Function" wizard.

I actually rather like cubes, but find that simpler roll-up reports seem to satisfy most users. But I'm now in healthcare/research and remember in the finance world that cube slice-and-dice was more standard.

And I want to second the price range you mention - $20K to $30k per year is noise in the budget for groups that want an actual BI setup like you describe (not everybody needs hadoop). I have found that enterprises seem to have strong vendor preferences (e.g., they are OBIEE, Business Objects, etc shops and focus entirely on report devs with very narrow skillsets). So I am excited to see options pop up, but feel a bit of sympathy for a group that wants to crack the enterprise market nut.
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The most attractive website, with a catchy name, and all the bells and whistles amounts to nothing if your product is nothing to be proud of.

Why not choose a simple name with a different TLD? Basecamp has been basecamphq all these years. Also, read Evan Williams' thoughts on this: http://evhead.com/2011/06/five-reasons-domains-are-less-impo...
Good point, I can add prices (doesn't pull them automatically yet)
My theory is that Kickstarter expects there to be a high profile (e.g. $million+ light bulb pre order[1]) failure to deliver in the near future and is being especially hard on any new hardware campaigns. Some legitimate campaigns will be denied as a result of this, but Kickstarter is trying to preempt criticism.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light...
It could be a collective action problem. Everybody would be better off if everyone were limited to 40 hour weeks, but nobody wants to take the hit in perception that would result from adopting one on their own.
This really resonates. I've been integrating Open Graph actions into everything I've built recently because it makes everything more "engaging". I would gladly pay to promote actions my users are taking to their friends, as would many other developers. It seems like the right direction, away from a broadcast model from brands and towards more natural ads.
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