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Admittedly, this is one of our biggest challenges.

It's the classic chicken/egg problem (posting ideas and actually evaluating them).

Based on feedback (from this post, for example), we'd like to figure out exactly how we incentivize that "egg" side of the equation.

One idea was to have people post a (optional) perk with their idea (i.e. how we're letting anyone who signs up post a free first idea), but this may be hard for ideas that don't exist yet.

Another idea is to have a ladder of "I'll build X if Y sign up" so 1000 users interested gets you a basic web app, 10000 is iOS and Android, etc.

Outside of that, we're going to gauge the interest in the idea and translate that buying up traffic initially.

The last thing we want is a repository of awesome ideas and no one to evaluate them. Addressing that is a top concern for us as we build out the actual product.
At least the performance of context switching should scale with the number of cores, which seems to be the main direction of increased performance in hardware looking into the future.
> “this is an evolution of where we want links to our content to go.”

Strange that he describes photos posted by users as "our content".
I am okay with governments betting on winners as long as these were similar to the Ansari X Prize. Any government interventions should be there to stimulate and reward competition and not to decide winners and losers.
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So the difference in "sexy" between Ford making a few hundred thousand electric cars and Tesla making a few hundred thousand electric cars is worth risking half a billion dollars of the taxpayers' money?
(One of) the first social network where you can sign in with Facebook.
> If you are good at design, you wouldn't need to start from Bootstrap.

I completely disagree with this statement. Bootstrap has nothing to do with design - it's all about structure.

The responsive grid layout is great. With some good planning, you can get desktop and mobile optimized versions of your site with much less effort than a custom framework. As a bonus, you also get a great deal of Javascript UI elements for free. And the fact that all of these elements are unified and tested across browsers is a huge time-saver, too.

If you do know what you are doing design-wise, the LESS stylesheets are well-structured. You can do something as simple as changing the base color of your links to diving in to completely customize the look of your app.

As for Flatstrap, it's great to see an alternative base design to the Bootstrap framework.
"The name "Wayland" comes from the town of Wayland, Massachusetts. Høgsberg was driving through that town when the concepts behind Wayland "crystallized"."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_proto...
I half agree with you - I don't expect Twitter cares that much - the people sharing photos on Twitter via IG will keep doing so, but I wouldn't expect any Twitter based service to replace IG. The two things are used pretty independently (as in I don't see many people just using Instagram to push filtered photos to Twitter).
Exactly!

That's why I think App.net. is great!

It's hard to have a consumer product with subscriptions as business model, but I think worth the try. This way you treat the people who make you pay the bills with the respect they deserve.
I for one would NOT use this service. There is a lot of mistrust in this industry, and no one wants to potentially give away an idea for the sake of third party market analysis that isn't that well known or confidential.
Thats exactly what the Recursive Labs post did for me and what prompted me to start writing everything down. This post is kind of dry (I didn't expect this kind of traffic), but the next two have a lot more interesting stuff in them so be sure to check back!
Instagram is not about the filters. It's about the community of people sharing photos.

Unless Twitter creates a section/site dedicated to just photos, it will not be a threat to Instagram.
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No.

There are two things here. Sampling rate for calculating page timing and using sampled data when generating reports. Confusingly, they are two different things with the same word "sample."

Sampling rate only affects calculating page timing because it's client side and slows down the client. (http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...)

Google Analytics will collect all the unfiltered data for the web property. (http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...)

However, to speed up ad-hoc querying, like when you create a custom report, it will limit the amount of data it will fetch to generate that report in order to make the user interface faster.

You can increase/decrease that using the slider. YOu will only see the slider after something like 250k unique pageviews.

Google Analytics Premium increases the number. If you really want to get a better sense of page timing, you should look both at the client side timing and the server side timing together. All you can really control is stuff going out. You can't help it if the user is running a netbook with 512 megs of RAM :)
What has Peter Thiel built that is so earth-changing? (And don't say Paypal.) He sure likes to talk a lot, but I'm waiting for him to come up with the next game-changing, once-a-millennium innovation. It isn't hedge funds or other financial trickery.
By their very nature, all open source licenses are variations of "Ride on my shoulders!"
Valid point.

LaunchRock takes a while. While you're waiting for DNS settings to go through, adding a favicon (still not sure why that's required), you could've tried out 10 ideas.

LaunchRock is an amazing tool, but it makes you bring your own traffic to your idea. In addition, it's not the quickest thing in the world.

We envision LaunchSky to be an outlet for trying out your ideas to a sea of evaluators who are ready for evaluating them (and signing up as early users).
I would rephrase that to "making them want through marketing".
These assembly line workers are probably not college graduates with $60,000 in student loan debt, nor are they people who can expect to have a stay at home spouse.
Like lots of words, it caught on because it was catchy, not because it was etymologically accurate.
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> Your comments reflect all the certitude of someone who has never seen real evil up close

Real evil? Like Santa Clause and Heaven and God and Angels and Fairies?

I did not say that this system is worse than previous ones and I do not see how that ties into my argument at all. I was making a judgement on what currently exists - and it sucks.

> If the system was as broken as you claim, I seriously doubt we'd have the strength and standing among nations that you seem to ready to dismiss.

Since you appear to be in the US - here are some concrete facts about the judicial system in your country - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...

That's right, your country jails more people than any other on this planet. But it's not broken, right?

>an estimated 4.8% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men of any race and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men.

That's functioning perfectly well, isn't it?

> If you're getting all your information from magazines and wikipedia

Wikipedia is a reputable source and your argument is rooted in a logical fallacy (appeal to authority). http://news.cnet.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html

> And finally, statements like "The criminals are (for the most part) not the ones we should be worrying about" is simply indefensible. The justice system exists because people demand that it exist to protect them.

People also demand iPhones, junk food, drugs and violence. This is another logical fallacy (argumentum ad populum).

> I know many members of law enforcement.

I did not make a judgement on these people. In WW2, perfectly normal people committed atrocities because their culture and leadership dictated it. Normal people are capable of thoroughly horrible acts.

> I seriously doubt we'd have the strength and standing among nations that you seem to ready to dismiss.

You have your strength and standing because you are an empire with fingers in everyone's pie. The US has overthrown countless democractically elected leaders over the last century for profit. The world does not speak because it will be beaten for it. Why do you think the UN condems Israels actions but does nothing? This is not respect, it is fear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...

Disagree all you want but the facts speak for themselves.
I can't ever see myself using a service like this for fear of somebody developing my idea first. Many of the good 'apps' out there quickly generate copy-cat apps, this will just take the originators out of the loop :)
The question I would ask is: why?

And the answer has to be more than "we got rid of the fancy stuff devs don't care about".
While this definitely used to be the case (we used to find ~80% of incidents were internal employee issues), for the past four or five years we've seen that ratio change (not so much because the internal issues went down, but more because of the rise of external activity).

The reality is that organizations have to be able to deal with both internal and external threats, and a lot of the effort on that front has been around reclassifying access to no longer consider insiders as trusted (which an argument could be made that they never should have been trusted to begin with).
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My 128k Mac circa 1985 seems to be able to move the cursor around in proportionally spaced text without noticeable lag.
The margin on health insurance companies is like 8%.
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Point taken, and we do appreciate the feedback. The same can be said for KickStarter/Indiegogog/Everyone else.

We're trying to build the same model, but hoping (and assuming) that people are quicker to give their interest, and sign up as an early adopter for an idea if its built, than to open up their wallets to new ideas.

As far as giving away their idea, we're definitely going to try to do what we can to protect those posting from a legal side, or at least offer a VERY convenient way to say "hey! this was mine on this day"
This is awesome. Thanks!!
That's interesting, with two caveats:
- Many people may be wary of giving an idea for which they see a huge potential, but it may not be a problem for side projects
- I don't see what the people giving their opinion would gain. Maybe it's just the thrill of being pitched new ideas regularly?

Cool idea in any case.
Good apps generate copy-cats, not ideas of good apps. Ideas are worthless. Everyone has them.
I tend to agree with your worry. But I think many have the attitude of "Tough shit... if someone builds your idea before you then it probably wasn't defendable anyway."
Another idea:

Developer A posts there idea, and utilizes their social network to get feedback.

Developer A's social network looks at Developer A's project, then comments etc. then is forwarded to Developer B's project.

You will lose a lot of conversions between A and B, but it would add value to have completely outside people evaluating ideas and signing up for the email list.

You could create a system where the more people come through a link created by developer A, the more referrals they get. That would incentivize developer A to not be a free rider.
Is it wrong to say 'hopefully nothing much' ?

I mean, unless you're a windowing toolkit dev, in which case it probably means a lot of work.

And I know his is almost as much of a cliche as Gnome 3 bashing, but have there been any developments (other than a one-off POC) where remoting is concerned? I've been using that a lot this week.
> I don't think this approach is appropriate for the vast majority of entrepreneurs.

Only the successful ones. It's one thing to create a product that answers an existing need (and that may already have competition). It's quite another to create a product that people don't realize they need until they see it.

The classic example is the personal computer. Steve Wozniak tried and failed to interest HP (his employer at the time) in backing his personal project, a small, one-board computer that anyone could own. HP didn't see the potential, so Woz was allowed to carry the idea away from his employer and pursue it on his own.

As Jobs often said, it's the difference between evolutionary and revolutionary.

Don't get me wrong -- I personally never got along with Jobs and couldn't work with him, but in this respect, he was often proven right.
To quote Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
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They are successful in the sense that they get lots of grant money and the professor has lots of political power in the field. They churn out papers. Thinking back over my reading, though, I'd say they're underrepresented per capita in producing really interesting science. What you are describing is also a peculiarity of biology and some parts of chemistry. It doesn't work that way in physics or in much of engineering.

However, if you're running a megalab and have lots of political clout, it's very important to keep anyone from thinking carefully and trying to look for inconsistencies. Academic empires fall from people doing things like that.

On the other hand, there were only a handful of professors at the Rockefeller University, where I went to grad school, who I respected as scientists. One of them had a Nobel prize. The rest didn't. The rest of the Nobel prize winners in that campus lousy with them you could have defunded and put out to be homeless on the streets and had no real effect on the advance of science.
So to put it simply, cash flow is like a differential of profit? So you can have a profit of -1M$, but as long as the next month you get more (like -0.8M$), you're cash flow positive (+0.2M$), right?

I'm having trouble parsing the examples given in this thread; the above sounds like what I more-less understood from them.
If your spouse also has a similar job, then you make $54,000, which is right around the median income in the US. You can definitely support a family on $2,500+ after-tax, afer-rent income every month.
Also more people should know about this - http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.de...
off-topic: you should edit your comment to get rid of the three spaces before your bullet point.

The three spaces indicates pre-formatted text, so it won't line wrap.

It creates scrollbars on your comment, so less people will be able to read your points.
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You've nailed both of the biggest things we'll be tackling.

For people posting: quick, protected, easy, elegant, keeps early adopters so that you can reach out them if it's built.

For those evaluating an idea: Their absolutely needs to be a clear incentive. We'll get this figured out. Maybe a field for "early adopter perks" or a ladder of incentives for how soon someone supports an idea. In any case, this is definitely something we have to nail.
We intend to borrow some strategies that have made Kickstarter and other sites for funding projects successful. For example, we'll devote a lot of attention to making individual concepts easy to share, which will ultimately bring more users to our site. We'll also keep the process of viewing, commenting, and voting on ideas itself simple and enjoyable. Personally, I enjoy seeing what ideas people are thinking about or working on - it's one of the reasons I spend so much time on Hacker News :)
"Varnish allocate some virtual memory, it tells the operating system to back this memory with space from a disk file."

I'm pretty sure the article's talking specifically about mapping a gigantic file into memory and pretending it's all in RAM, and isn't talking about swap at all.
Yes, absolutely -- often these "needs" are manufactured out of nothing by manipulating public opinion. Example: the pet rock (my favorite example).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
Ha, I figured. Thanks for the reference.
In my experience Google's measures are 1-2 seconds higher than what I personally experience. Not sure why. Take it with a grain of salt and look for trends.

Googlebot seems to give up crawling your site after about 14 seconds :) You might see that reported in GWT.
The reasons your iPhone 5 lets you get directions, communicate and make dinner reservations are the global information infrastructure and the tcp/ip protocol, both products of a national innovation policy. I know that most people under 30 directly credit Steve Jobs for everything that they do on their phones. But it took a massive national investment to set up the basics of the internet, which provided the iphone with enough relevant functionality to make it to a 5th version.

It sounds like you're equating the leap from "radio to tv" with the leap from "tv to 1080p". There's almost no doubt that the pace of innovation is slowing. Businesses will be more than happy to make billions of dollars by taking us to iphone9 and 2160p, because that's much easier than introducing an entirely new way to interact with the world.

I'm not sure if the free markets are the best solution to this particular problem. Thiel and Kasparov kind of have a point. The internet emerged from government funded DARPA research. Our communication infrastructure was built by a government granted monopoly. The moon landing, one of our species greatest achievements, was the result of a national innovation policy pissing contest with the soviets. Maybe everything would really be amazing today if we'd focused more on innovation over the last several decades.
Where's Android in all this?
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Gotta love opinions.
The market's an optimization system, it's not some religious object with holy precepts.

Sometimes you need to give optimization systems a hint.
there is a more general problem here. why does <insert specialty> insist on using domain specific language when ordinary words do fine?

derivative or gradient = slope

is a classic example. mention the word calculus and someone panics in a fit of imagined complexity. describe it in english, clearly, and its very easy...

however the classic counterargument is that it is easier to invent words with context specific meanings for clarity. this makes more sense if you try and describe a functional integral for instance... you need the concept of a function, and an integral which themselves rely on other concepts etc. and would require several sentences to explain well...

also, you have made a faulty assumption about programming - new syntax and language is invented, but the old syntax and language is not replaced - we are stuck with the old stuff too. there are still plenty of areas where C is the only choice - nobody has yet come up with an alternative which addresses the same problems - so 30 years on we still use C - and its use pollutes all of the terminology associated with programming.

(tangent: i still don't understand why we can't compile e.g. Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript etc. to native code with the benefits of C [Haskell does this quite well for instance - but is held back by general quality of compiler vs. C compilers having billions of dollars and thousands of man years poured into them] - VM or JIT should be a choice if you like spunking away performance - it would be nice if C would die... as much as I enjoy it - GCC, LLVM etc. make the same code gen available for any language with a little work - this feels to me an infinitely better solution than any VM or JIT can hope to be...)
There's no shortage of life-sucking ways a bad fit can ruin you. Unfortunately, it can be rather subtle, a la the metaphor of putting a live frog in a pot and bringing it to boil.
Good point. Wars between userspace processes and the kernel are very short.
The thing is, he didn't when the iPod came out. There were a million other MP3 players; the market was well saturated and everyone had their favorite which was not an apple product. Nobody was waiting in line.
>> Zero a branch to do something radically different

There's another way to do this:

git checkout --orphan new-branch
I'm surprised Microsoft's actions regarding boot loading are legal. They're clearly economically inefficient by forcing an association of platform and preventing multihoming.
It is a fundamental issue of volume. Unless we assume that backbone providers and Internet companies habitually over-provision, then it would take about the same size pipe, and the same size data centers, to "copy" the Internet in real time.

Consider how big the Internet is. Even if the NSA has 5 100,000 square foot data centers, think about adding up the aggregate data center footprint of Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Rackspace, etc, etc. That comes to a lot more than 500,000 square feet. And this does not even get into the enormous data resources in Asia and Europe.

A much more likely scenario is that they are heavily filtering the data in real time and keeping just what looks useful or suspicious. That is still scary, but less fantastic than the idea that every packet is getting stored by the NSA.
You don't need to be Steve Jobs to be a successful visionary. It's all about what is the vision, and how you can implement that vision. Committees take shortcuts, and will approve a lesser quality product because there is no direct ownership. When its you personally responsible, you take more pride in your product. This site will be great for the leeches and bottom feeders, but I would bet everything I have that there will not be one great product that emerges from this site.
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Prototypes can be costly.

Prototypes no one wants can be costly AND devastating.
From the article: "There are certainly those who believe that the wellsprings of science are running dry..."

What a load of horse shit! We're just getting started here, the "Internet Revolution" just discovered non-computer devices! And biology is just getting tapped...

And those thinking along the lines "most people already have everything they need": well, duh, it's always that way. It's the unreasonable, the uncomfortable, and the restless who create and self actualize. The majority of human nature looks around themselves, takes care of their "necessities" and lives and dies with what is given to them. We, as those hard ass freaks that can't be satisfied, will always push against our limitations, our "gifts", to self actualize, to grow beyond our capabilities, and create something unheard of, unexpected, wonderful and disruptive.

Now, sure Mr. Thiel is a wealthy entrepreneur, but his wealth and fame derives from creating PayPal - a translation of existing credit card transactions to an online environment. I have no doubet it took great effort, but PayPal is hardly innovative, and hence his dark view of real innovation. Plus he's now a VC, so he sees all kinds of half baked startups failing...

As far as Mr Kasparov, I don't consider him an authority on anything. May as well be a super model, considering Kasparov's involvement in invention, new technology and start ups. He's merely famous for chess and writing essays. Not exactly developing science or new ideas at all...
An interesting take on your comment: would people be more open to the NSA snarfing everything if they also acted as a personal Google, giving you access to all your own "lost" data?
> KickStarter/Indiegogog/Everyone else.

Don't you generally have to show something off (as in hey, look what I'm in the process of, care to join?) with those to get backing? This is just pitching an idea, right?
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I have no problem with people posing idle thoughts on their blog. But this is Hacker News ... and this was not news, nor was it particularly interesting.