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San Francisco

Nuzzel is a new social news startup founded by me, the founder of Friendster and Founders Den.

We are looking for a SysAdmin/DevOps engineer, and iOS engineer. This will be employee #2 and #3!

http://beta.nuzzel.com/passion
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/08/nuzzel-funding/

We just closed $1.7 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, IDG Ventures, SoftTech VC, and angel investors like Eric Ries, Gil Penchina, James Hong, Max Levchin, Michael Birch, Naval Ravikant, Philip Kaplan, and Rick Marini.
Sadly enough most people and their legislators find it hard to devote money to something that is extremely long term (Decades or even centuries). I think the best we can hope for for more funding in Space is competition from China in the form of a space arms-race.
My friend and I made something similar, for photographers:
http://www.youknowyoureaphotographerwhen.com
Yeah I don't think anyone here is going to agree with you that computing and life has been vastly curtailed in creativity after the dominance of Apple and its copyright-imposing policies.
I'm confused by the sarcasm, since we seem to be in agreement on this "obvious" trend. Yes, tablets/phones are absorbing the "fun" computer scenarios and PCs are left with the "work" scenarios.

Over time, will people veer towards doing "more work" on a tablet or trying to have "more fun" on their PC? I know which side I'd bet on.
Is early science education (K-4) with hands on discovery a good idea?
kids these days spend 28-32 hours a week in front of a TV compared to 1 hour of lab from second grade. We will be launching our startup shortly and would love to hear any views.
What I don't understand is why using this passphrase doesn't obligate the buyer to return the item.
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Retro Bootstrap
Within 10 minutes you've managed to listen to enough songs to judge they are "mostly crappy remixes"? I'm working on expanding the selection, I'm sure that will be a big point of feedback, but no need to make such a negative snap judgement.
Well....that sounds simplistic, but suppose he doesn't want to leave South America. Why should he?

The way he stays alive is by staying in the public eye.

It makes total sense for him to do what he wants to do.
"PS – Buy non-lubricated & no spermicide condoms."

Heh, yeah that Condom slingshot could be very dangerous if it is so slippery!
OK, yes, but these other red flags weren't included in your blog post, so for the reader it's hard to understand what they actually were.
For anyone looking for a little more insight into the whys and hows of the site:

http://natewienert.com/introducing-2u-dot-fm-1
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Chalk it up to message boards and at least be happy he didn't suggest you sell your kids to fund the company. :)

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This is the thing that drives me crazy. It's the 21st century, so just about every major bank in my country provides two-factor authentication for their customers to use their own on-line banking facilities and numerous similar alternatives are available as well. And yet if a company sells someone something, there is still no guarantee that when the money hits their account they actually have it short of real legal action to show that they must give it back. Moreover, because someone else might get stuck with that responsibility if the merchant bails, merchants have to jump through absurd hoops and accept all kinds of crazy one-sided terms just to get into the game.

I wouldn't mind so much if consumers were actually advised of their ability to use these chargeback facilities, but apart from Direct Debits it seems almost no-one gets told about this here in the UK. Certainly no bank or credit card service I used had ever told me before I started running businesses and seeing it from the merchant's side. The one time I got screwed as a consumer and a chargeback would have helped because it wasn't really worth the time/hassle of figuring out the courts' small claims procedure, I didn't know I could do that so the merchant won by default anyway.

So right now, the do-I-have-it-or-don't-I question over funds is a huge burden for merchants here, yet the supposed protection it offers to consumers here is mostly illusory as well. Nobody wins from this kind of arrangement. The entire payment services industry needs to die and be replaced by something fit for the 21st century, where you simply can't transfer money electronically without robust proof of who you are, and you can't accept money electronically without robust proof of who you are, but given such proof transfers are final as soon as they are confirmed. Is this really such a crazy idea?!
Something I have been doing at home since I got my hand on the command line client - but the idea to commercialize the package is just great !

Hosting has become a commodity - but you can sell ease of use - especially if publishing a website is a dropbox drag'n drop away.
I don't find it funny. So what if he moved to a 'banana republic tax haven', aka home to millions of people, that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed?

Come on man...I know this is the internet, but this is someone's life we are talking about.

Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur. Even if you don't like him, he built a software company from the ground-up and sold it to Intel.

I would think that given where you are (HN) and who he is, there would be more compassion. He is like one of our own.
I'm inspired, and I'll give it a shot for sure. Just went to the site and added a design - will see how it goes. http://teespring.com/basketballelite_rise_and_grind
Poster can file suit in his local small claims court, and then enforce the judgement in Ohio afterwards. No need to travel to Ohio to file the suit.
The best way to avoid this altogether is to set the image width and height in the img tag. That way, content can be shown right away, even before the images are loaded.

Another thing to be careful with are social buttons, whose height may change after the initial item is rendered. That's easily avoided with a fixed CSS height, though.
We have a keyboard dock for our Galaxy Tab 10.1, but haven't used it much. When I've tried to use it, I've found that apps developed for the tablet tend to be clunky when used from the keyboard.

I have a Surface RT with touch cover, but haven't let the kids loose with it much. :-) It's not replacing any of my real PC gear, but mainly because it doesn't run any of my existing apps. However, the Surface Pro is going to be a very interesting mix of capabilities.
Impressive-- it's incredibly polished and professional looking, especially for something you call a "side project" :)
Ok, change it to: the iPad is eating the growth in the consumer PC market, plus a little bit more, plus the Mac is eating a little bit, and way on the outside, Ubuntu, 21 lengths back, is starting to make it a four-horse race.
Why would a game developer want to create a new port of their game to a completely new system when they could just optionally add controller support and publish to Steam?

Because that's exactly the same thing as the OUYA for Android developers. All they need to do is add OUYA support to their existing application and publish it on their store.
Doesn't Dropbox impose transfer limits? I've seen public items hosted in Dropbox become popular and then quietly inaccessible as more people tried to reach them.

Perhaps that's not the use case that's intended here?
Maybe it's just me, but the photo itself looks very fake, specifically John McAfee, more specifically his head and the lighting. Why is his head distorted/skewed (on his left eye area, as if from the lens) when the other guys head isn't. There are way better compositors where I work, oh well maybe he just has a crooked smile/face. :P
It's not even that hard. If Paypal has someone who supposedly bought 4 iPhones in quick succession and all 4 were "not as described", either he's the single unluckiest person in the world (in which case Paypal should get rid of him, in case his bad luck is infectious), or he's a scammer, in which case Paypal should get rid of him.
The less he talks about these red flags the happier he will be. Just the concept of interviewing someone and then writing a negative blog post about it is skeezy.
If you're talking about small-time bitching in forums, then probably, but when's the last time someone's blog post about a defect on their Dell is considered newsworthy?
Oh come on. The Macbook Air is sexy no matter what your "brand politics" are. It just makes your screenshots look more beautiful than say putting them on a picture of some plastic laptop you find at Walmart... or Best Buy... or everywhere. Why put it on a computer at all, you may ask. It gets people imagining themselves using it on a physical device. A screenshot can be beautiful and persuasive by itself but having one on a piece of hardware allows you to imagine using that hardware along with the software. And if both the hardware and software are beautiful then it makes the effect more powerful.

Honestly, I don't see how it alienates anyone unless you're actually against the vendor. I mean, you say you aren't but let's be real. It comes off like that's where you're coming from.
I'd assume it's getting sync'd to a webserver, so dropbox isnt public
Really? Is it really that different to double tap a hardware button than it is to tap one? You must feel the same way about single-vs-double clicking a mouse then, I suppose ... because it's the exact same thing.
Downward mobility haunts US education
> the values it places on hacked up gimmicks (under the
> guise of "more than one way to do things" and "see!
> it's a one liner!") is a large part of this.

I'm curious where there is official documentation of Perl as a language putting emphasis on "See! It's a one-liner!" Sure Perl has things like Perl Golf[1], but I could equally point you to The International Obfuscated C Code Contest[2]. That doesn't prove that C as a language encourages you to intentionally obfuscate your code.

> when someone tells me that perl is their language of choice
> [...] i won't hire them

Perl isn't my language of choice, but I'm not sure that I want to work for someone that has such a view of the world. You're attempting to use a small piece of data ("I like to program in Perl") to extrapolate a whole lot about a person.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Golf_Apocalypse

[2]: http://www.ioccc.org/
Yahoo sees several flaws in $2.7 billion Mexico ruling
Good work, sir!
It's been a while since I was in high school, but aren't students still required to write long-form reports? I recall writing book reports and essays about historical events. In college I distinctly remember having to write a least one multi-page document for most courses (and for virtually all courses outside the hard sciences). Most people stop there, but those continuing on to grad school (even in the hard sciences) will need to write many 5- to 15-page documents, as well as a 50- to 100-page thesis.

I don't doubt that most people will not need a keyboard most of the time, but not needing a keyboard in the house seems more likely to be the niche. The niche will be 23 to 30 year-olds who have finished school but don't yet have kids in school, and the 55's, and up, whose kids have finished secondary school. Perhaps the computer will again be relegated to the spare bedroom / home office, but I can't imagine a scenario for the majority of middle-class households that doesn't have some sort of physical keyboard.
Hence the insurance.
I had a different experience with apple. my 27" imac screen had some strong ghosting and i got it replaced near the end of the 3 years of apple care. i did this without ever visiting an apple store.

when i first phoned them, i had some low quality photos of the screen and the guy said he wasn't sure if it was really a problem. i didn't want to take a 27" imac to a store b/c i have no car and apple wouldn't send me a box. so he gave me his email address and said i could contact him any time in the future with better photos.

months later i got a new ios device with a better camera, took a larger number of pictures, emailed him the link, and he sent an on-site repair guy to give me a new screen. no problem.

i think it depends on which customer service people you talk to. some are great, some are not so good.

(the on site repair guy was great too, btw. he gave me a lesson on how to open up imacs, change stuff, and put them back together)
So I agree, PCs aren't really the greatest platform for content consumption (except perhaps for very involved 3D games). But how much has this been a driver of PC sales historically?

The PC was doing just fine before websurfing came along and even before DVD playback.
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shut up.

two things: 1) I would say all of this to pgs face if we were discussing this. he is a man, not a god, and if he can't handle criticism than he should do some personal reflection and work on that. disagreements are not necessarily bad. 2) you obviously can't counter my argument, otherwise you would have done so. you have added nothing to.this discussion except tried to debase my arguments and ideas by essentially calling me rude. who cares if my presentation is rough if the ideas are good? idiots, that's who. this is life, not preschool.

edit: you edited your comment after I posted. I respond.to your edits by saying that pg doesn't need you to white.knight for.him and you should stop being such a brown noser.
Even so why would you write that boilerplate code out each time?

Something like this would work even better:

result = src.asyncMap { |e| dowork(e) };

Except Google Go returns several values instead of tuples, so you can't just collect all the results as-is. And with no generics it would be annoying to actually use e and the result, since they would need casts. Too bad.
So Good They Can't Ignore You - by Cal Newport
Growthathon: Like a hackathon but for marketing & growth
Thank you for BitBucket! If you ever need a C# dev, let me know ;)
Regarding #3, it's shocking that Ebay feel the need to remove all auction information after a few months. Is hard drive space that expensive?! The Ebay site is a remnant of the 90s, it's crazy they're still a viable company.
That's actually not a relevant metric. What matters for MS is when someone buys an ipad instead of buying a new pc. That can mean not having a pc but it can also mean forgoing updating an older pc. That phenomenon seems to be occuring and it very much is affecting pc sales to the tune of billions of dollars per year.
He has pre-written material that someone else is posting on his behalf. He claims to have up to a year of blog posts written up on the event of his capture.
Nice. I haven't even checked advanced features links, but I imagine it wouldn't be difficult to copy the files to a more suitable cloud storage if dropbox transfer limits become an issue.
It's called "friendly fraud":

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

Cute name, serious problem.
> If anything, your dismissal of the guy's work ...

Before going on, locate where I did any such thing.
Yes, same here. It's an inspiring craft for me. I was enchanted by the program as a kid. Distant voyage, golden records, Carl Sagan... almost a romantic sci-fi novel :) I was a bit sad to know that it'll never be seen again. But now I think it's likely that one day we'll find it and put in a museum. Possibly on Mars :)
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Churchill is reputed in WWII of contacting a condom manufacturer to make muzzle covers for soldiers - keeps the water out of your rifle in the rain.
Looks really great. Just a thing I noticed, when you need to log in and click on the or log in without facebook link, the link persists and toggles back for some reason.
You say that like it's a long time! I think.
Start programming in High School? Help kids do the same.
"If the issue persisted and we could not reproduce the problems on our own machine we weren't allowed to push trouble tickets to our QA team."

Yup. There's often an air gap between the grunts and the QA people, who mostly pore over trouble tickets well after the fact.
Gabe Newell is a vocal critic of Microsoft and Win8, and Valve is sitting on piles of money. This is the least likely of these scenarios.
I like the concept, but I'd suggest showing a few actual items on the landing page. I spent my first 5 seconds wondering why you were trying to sell me white plastic stars and acorns to use with my phone.

Click here and what do you see? http://www.ebay.com/ Then click here http://www.amazon.com/
In Scala using the par function: https://gist.github.com/4199415

def ip(host:String)=java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(host)(0).getHostAddress
var map = Map[String,String]()
val hosts = List("google.com","twitter.com","facebook.com")
hosts.par.map(host => (host,ip(host))).foreach(hostip => map+=(hostip._1->hostip._2))

scala> map
res1: scala.collection.immutable.Map[String,String]
=Map(google.com -> 74.125.224.71,
twitter.com -> 199.59.150.7,
facebook.com -> 69.171.229.16)
Its easy to get caught up in metrics, sales figures and Google analytics.

Then suddenly out of nowhere you get a nice email from a customer and it can make the biggest difference to my motivation for the day.
> So what is the point of paying the Apple premium if they are just the same as everybody else ?

OS X and increased quality of some (not all) hardware. And they do have better customer support on average.
News Corp kills off iPad news app 'The Daily'
I can't say for sure whether or not John McAfee is innocent or not, if he were to get caught he would not get a fair trial in the country where he currently resides. His money and assets would all be taken from him, he'd be thrown into a cell and possibly tortured. There is something about the way McAfee handles himself that leads me to believe this guy might have some mental issues and require attention of a medical professional, he is obviously paranoid and whether or not it's warranted, I think there's a bigger underlying issue here.

Something seems fishy about all of this. The photo looks extremely fake (inconsistent lighting direction). Even if this were all true, why would Vice post the data including his address? If John were to be killed, the blood would be on Vice and the author's hands for getting him killed, where is the decency?
This is a completely horrible strategy, Hulu is a dog since without its current ownership it would pretty much lose all its content rights, Netflix is in a similarly precarious position though doing okay. Spotify is bleeding money because of its deals with the labels and Pandora is only scraping by. Don't tell me MS can get a better deal with the labels because Apple can't get a better deal with the labels. MySpace is intriguing at best but trying to crack Facebook's hold on the social space is not a great idea, go ask Google they've been throwing money at it for years.

Not one of these suggestions would move the needle for Microsoft at all.
No tablet with less battery life than a cheap laptop will be handy for anyone.
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That looks great, but I would default with the red on red color scheme (which can be changed by hovering over the logo). As a designer, I find it much more eye catching, which helps pique interest in first-time visitors.

Also, two minor interface issues: your hover tooltip arrows don't point directly at the "Playlist" and "Me" icons at the top right. Also, the genre list in the sidebar would benefit from a Google+/Facebook style minimalist scroll bar. It wouldn't clutter the feel much, especially if it appeared only on hover, and would make it easier on people without a mouse wheel.

Outside of those very minor issues, this looks great!
Some mailers include an X-Originating-IP header, allowing a recipient to see the sender's IP address trivially. Gmail does not include that particular header. The headers it does include will simply lead back into the Google network.

More on the X-Originating-IP header, from 2001:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/06/44567

As for whether or not Gmail reveals your IP address, it depends on who's asking. E.g., we have the recent example of LTC Paula Broadwell.
Shimming your way to Linux on Windows 8 PCs
It's a valid comparison because most people do very simple stuff with their PCs. Stuff that tablets also do today, and will continue to do better and better.

Do you think comparing minicomputers to PCs makes any sense? Of course not, you can't compare those, PCs are mere toys compared to a minicomputer. Yet the minicomputer market (and DEC with it) is dead today.
Official: Mars Rover curiosity detects simple organic compounds
Could it be instruments degrading? 35 years in the cosmic wind is a long time.
Hah! I'm so used to seeing Dotcom mentioned that I entirely forgot about The Fugitive. My mistake.
Looks like a much more slick version of HypeMachine (www.hypem.com), which I've been using for years. Competition is never a bad thing, so this is great, I'll be trying it out.

Very well done for a "side project".
looks great in the iphone. teeniest bit of left/right scrolling is my only nitpick ;)
Nice work! It's impressive you were able to stick with a side project of this caliber for over a year without giving up or remaining in the feature abyss.

This app works really well for music discovery. I just found a Mumford and Sons track I've never heard before, and I thought I had listened to them all. Solid UX touch by never stopping my music when I move around to different pages too.

Where are you pulling the songs from? Youtube and Soundcloud?

Just FYI - I wanted to skip through a song to see if it was any good, and I couldn't find the progress bar at the bottom. It took my awhile to realize it was at the top. If I'm not mistaken, most music sites have the progress bar at the bottom of the screen (Rdio, Spotify, GrooveShark). Pandora has it at the top though so perhaps I'm wrong.
Here's what make the cost easy for me to deal with: resale value. A two year old Mac will easily fetch 75% of its retail price. Paying 25% of retail price for two years of use is pretty reasonable.
I experience the same slowness on IMDb as well, and I have 50Mbps internet in Los Angeles, CA. Surely IMDb would make sure they serve up fast video in the entertainment capital of the world?
yawn, office is going nowhere anytime soon. There isn't even a plausible path by which office goes away right now.
In today’s venture world, self-discipline is a virtue and denial is a red flag
Yes. We specify a height and width in the HTML and the CSS, but it's still nice to pay attention to the images' loaded status.
This is the most impressive side project I have ever seen. Everything feels polished, the UI is delicious and the site works and functions very quickly. Very nice work, I would love to know what programming language you built this in perhaps another blog post detailing the tech side of things?
Talking about simplification ...
if the buyer is complaining "not as described", there should need to be some sort of attempt to return the item

Exactly. I'm extremely confused as to why this does not appear to have been brought up by any of the parties in the OP's case.
shut up.

Wouldn't it be funny if that was all it took to get me to shut up? :)
Exactly. Site44 only uses Dropbox for the sync, then serves out the site over its own infrastructure.
but yet again it is compared to November last year (ppl waited for Black Friday then too), so the statement is valid.

you can also take into consideration the simple fact that each year there is a population growth to some degree, So naturally the figures need to be up. But that's macro economics i really don't know alot about, maybe someone else can explain?