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It wasn't the first, but one I remember shown in the trailer for the movie The Craft (I have no idea what movie I actually went to the theater to see). It is memorable because someone yelled out in the theater "HOLD ON WHILE I GET A PEN TO WRITE THAT DOWN", and the theater broke out in laughter. Little did they know that this little WWW thing wasn't just a flash in the pan.
You admit the "skull and bones" kid because he will bring money and influence to the school...money that can then be spent on kids with more "g," as you put it.

The skull and bones kid is probably going to do alright in the world, even if he is a jerk (I'm playing along with your sterotypes here). The kids with high "g" are, like startups, a bit of a crapshoot. You might get David Foster Wallace, but probably not. Either way, the "g" kids aren't going to bring home the bacon.
Wow, honestly I was just going to watch bits and pieces of this video to "check out" the topic.
Instead I got sucked in pretty quickly with his stories/experiments/results.

It is fascinating that Dan Ariely studies society to the degree that he does. Kind of comforting.

saved... /social_hacking_201/
And the ability to use a phone outside the country your purchased it in. Hey Apple, early adopters travel! Stop raping your customers with stupid activation procedures!

(I purchased an AT&T iPhone, using it with an Apple agreed carrier in the UK, the phone won't activate anyway)
oil painting techniques: 9,900
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I think people would search for 'help' when their parrot is misbehaving, but 'techniques' when they want to learn how to paint.

Also, beginning/intermediate painters may very well be interested in becoming good enough to sell their work. As such, they might invest in lessons/ebooks, which could garner better conversion rate.
Most of us could easily afford it, free and clear.

$55 per $1,000 in assessed value due in property taxes, per year.

$75 if the property isn't covered by the "homestead" exception (i.e. you get one discount for a primary residence, everything else gets assessed at $75 per $1k.)

I rather doubt the city assessor's office will agree that the fair market value of your $1 house is $1, particularly after you invest money in making it habitable and/or after you successfully cause the neighborhood to be desirable.

Though for a fraction of what you pay in rent in San Fransisco you could own a perfectly suitable house in a perfectly suitable neighborhood in much of the Midwest.
I think the Woz updates are great. Every culture needs some heroes. When one of your heroes is in the spotlight, talk that stuff up!
Startuply, perhaps, or other start-up job sites? There's a few others but that's the main one I know of.
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It is true that a well built and projected portfolio would speak for itself. In this competitive world, any work you do needs to be done in a different way in order to impress clients and to attract more work. This becomes even more critical if you are an artist as there are millions of artists all over the world with good designs.Canvas prints would certainly be a different and innovative way of projecting a photographer’s portfolio as a masterpiece. This does not require any knowledge about painting and you need not paint it yourself either.
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The clamshell design on the Samsung A436 is deceptive because at first glance it might seem that there isn't much to this unlocked GSM phone other than a simple device to make calls.
Even better, a "but if you really want to, here's the best way" just after that.
usually, we preface these questions with "Ask HN: ". For this particular question, the answer is either a) Now, b) Soon, c) In a long time or d) Never. If you have to ask, the answer is probably c or d for you. You should quit when you can afford to and have some idea that you want to pursue. Having a cofounder is nice, as well.
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I have the previous model. It really is very small.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/3308713850/

Unlike most esoteric kit, you can buy these on Amazon.
The surest way to make money is to create and deliver value. If you skip on either of the two your chances are shrinking.
Not that I disagree, but boy does there seem to be some hate for scribd. I loathe using it, it's actually worse than adobe reader!

I have seen other non-technical users who enjoy the content available on the site though. Perhaps it's making inroads as an "easier" torrent book search for layman?
"At over 100,000ft the balloon lost its inflation" wonderful euphemism.

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Quite often I want to refer back to a particular phrase or word in a book, and I have a devil of a time finding it. At times I've methodically re-read 10 or 20 pages in failing to find it. I've wished I could just google the damn book.

I can. By using Google Books or Amazon's search facility. I mention this here, because I wanted to use an expression of Gladwell's in Outliers, about someone "customizing their environment", and then saying " "customize" -- using Lareau's wonderful term" on page 105. I'd misremembered it as "lovely euphemism".
I did some advocacy in a project that was supported under my last startup, http://www.opentextbook.org/

A huge amount of the cost is in publisher fees rather than material cost. And the quality is appalling at times - check out Richard Feynman's writings about just how bad it can get (panels of textbook reviewers recommending books that were blank other than a book cover). The quality of online sources is great, but physical books are going to be necessary for a long time.

To that end, check out connexions (here's a video detailing what it's about: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_...) for very high quality stuff. There are certainly some areas which don't need expensive copyrighted textbooks.

Please keep us up to date on your findings, this is a topic dear to a lot of the hn crowd.
>"No surprise, financiers ripping us is nothing new either."

Is this what you really think about finance?

If I were to weigh the good and the bad that finance has done for the human species, I have little doubt to which side the scale would tilt. Finance is an essential part of an advanced economy, and advanced economies are much more fun to live in than the other kind.

Populism is driven by basic, tribal emotions and explanations that appeal to the lowest common denominator. Humans fear that which is complex and hard to understand. They are envious creatures with a poor natural grasp of economics. They reason that if the goldsmith is getting richer, why, then I must be getting poorer!

Populism hasn't really progressed since the days of goldsmith banking. That's not what it is built to do.

I don't think populism is the wisest way to modify the banking system, but sadly we have decided that voting is the best method to make such decisions. Since populism is simple and appeals to the gut instinct, it wins out in votes. So populism is what we get.

> "Because we failed to get it right once doesn't mean we should stop trying"

The first failure caused immense human suffering. What we have now needs some tinkering, but it is immensely better. It would be foolish to make large, rash actions to experiment recklessly when the costs are so high. Speaking of which:

>"or we nationalize the banking industry like others have done and admit that the only thing that's really to big to fail is the government."

I can think of three nations off the top of my head that nationalized banks. One was temporary (Sweden). The other two had immense problems with bad debt in good times (Japan and China, if I recall correctly). It turns out that the profit motive does help banks make good loans.

> "But our current system has clearly failed, something needs to be done, time for another experiment."

Our system has produced the most prosperous society in the history of the world. It did a bad job reacting to a novel circumstance. It needs to be patched, not scrapped.

>"Talking about possible solutions on a website is pausing, it's not like we're implementing policy here or anything. It's just an interesting things to speculate about."

There are a few places where temperate, informed discussion of these issues take place. None of them has little voting arrows to click on next to the content, nor do they exchange information in short soundbites.
Every time there's a Scribd-related post on HN, the comments are negative and repetitive. I don't use the service either, but:

1. It's successful, at least in terms of traffic, so it's worth watching and perhaps learning from.

2. The web hasn't obliterated the old document formats (yet). Not everyone that has content in those formats has the time or inclination to replicate the layout in HTML, so Scribd is making distribution easier for them. It may not be solving your problem but it is solving some people's problem.

People here usually have a soft spot for YC funded startups; not sure why Scribd's treated like the disowned member of the family.
I think the reality is that most early adopters are now mac users.

I am generally fairly skeptical of the notion "Reality is a social construct" but this particular usage of the word "reality" is very, very much a social construct. Early adopters in our little echo chamber are perceived as mostly using Macs.

Its funny how much we think we know about early adopters, or any other demographic, for that much. Do we know whether the user is a man or a woman? Do we know which way they voted in the last election? What do they think about gay marriage? What model phone do they own? Have they ever played World of Warcraft? Have they ever been to a NASCAR race?

Does the typical early adopter happen to share all the above with your answers?
is there a good search engine for searching these things? houses may be low enough to buy for recent college grads; if no such engine exists .... ycombinator idea? :-)
This was actually suppose to be a submission for this link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/375263/when-should-you-le...

Somehow the link got lost. Can others flag this post to be removed since I can no longer delete it myself? (unless folks want to discuss the topic anyway.)
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Samsung E2510 is a Quad band GSM phone designed in a simple structure. However, the simple design does not make this phone uncool.
That's probably the best strategy without putting much effort, but I bet some enterprising HN user will come up with a more complex strategy that has a higher expected value.
IMHO, our understanding of ability to hedge risk is still in infancy. The idea of complete diversification of risk is only good on paper and a lot of mess is a result of companies naively (or greedily) thinking that they can achieve it.
I recently attended a presentation by some very respected actuaries where they showed empirical evidence that while risk can be diversified in general (across assets as well as asset classes) in the tail end of economic scenarios all asset classes have strong positive correlation. In other words in general you can ensure consistent returns by diversification, when things go bad, you are screwed and nothing much you could have done would prevent that; writing derivative contracts which would save you from such scenario are contingent on counter-party not defaulting, which it did (until the US Gov. paid the counter party taxpayer money to prevent defaults).

At the end of the day, yes, it feels right to not only AIG but those counterparties should also feel the pain.. at least they should not be given 100 cents on a dollar!
http://www.yahooligans.com I used to love that site when I was a kid.
That is indeed fascinating. Perhaps it was some sort of phone cloning attempt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_cloning ), in which cell phone subscribers' accounts are hijacked to make fradulent calls. I know almost nothing of the issue, but I hope someone can offer some more informed commentary.
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So how does an admissions officer predict college success? Is it just assumed that people with strong socioeconomic backgrounds do well, and the people without don't?
Why does there seem to be such anti-Scribd sentiment here?
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Sorry, I only noticed the potential ambiguity after I made the comment and I wasn't sure which reading you were responding to.

Perhaps you are right. But everybody having the ability to communicate cheaply with everybody else is a new phenomenon. We got along for a good long time without it.

I would think that the government's ability to control popular opinion was much stronger in the industrial age than in any time since. We got through that period okay.

I think the internet is awesome, and I hope people fight like hell to preserve it. But if some controls are placed on it, I doubt it presages a new Dark Age. Also, I think there will be some lasting benefit due to the reduced cost of global communications and coordination, even if blogs are outlawed.
As I understood it, my job was to "find the cool people...since they usually do really well."

And by cool, I mean people who are doing interesting stuff, interestingly. That was the definition I went by. Others had their own. That's why committee is so much fun.
It isn't solved until it is wrapped in a proprietary, inaccessible, bloated format like Flash. Or rendered within Javascript so you can get cool page-turning effects. Or put in a PDF inside a PowerPoint which can then be downloaded via a link on a site. Or... I am out of asinine ideas.
Yes this censorship is wrong - I agree with that. However the technical aspects of trying to censor the internet do have important ramifications.

To effectively make censorship work on the internet it would require the government be able to access all you possible means of receiving data - Email, proxies, bittorent, SSH, everything. It is just too easy to re-route censored data over different channels otherwise. Even then it is possible to hide data within other data (Steganography).

So without big brother constantly staring over your shoulder it won't work. Any government serious about making censorship work would be (possibly unknowingly) drawn down this path.
Stellar - Every two or three months I look around for something that will manage the four macs that I have of various ages with very much out of sync iTunes music lists on my systems. From the sounds of it - Echodio is that utility. I was _certainly_ willing to pay a substantial amount of money for something that would do this - the fact that it is free is mindblowing. Charge me money! This solves my foremost problem with iTunes on multiple computers. Thanks Tons!

This solves the "HAIR on Fire" problem in an incredibly simple manner. Looking forward to seeing how you monetize it. (Premium accounts? Direct MP3 purchases into our Echodio accounts - whatever, I'm sure you will be madly, madly successful)

Ironically - I don't know if I'll ever use the "Stream from Web" feature, but it's nice to know it's there if I need it.
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There's an abundance of materials online, the issue is that they're not collated or aggregated in such a way that a technically uninspired teacher could effortlessly utilise them.

This is a problem that I and many others are working towards addressing.

"Textbooks" however, being books written to directly accompany a course, are probably not going to constitute the prevailing paradigm online - they are static and structured in a way that traditional printing required but modern technology finds burdensome.
I'd like to know how to grow my own almonds.
So that one can go in circles( or waves for that matter ! )
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I voted yes. I like these and other apocalyptic movies for a number of reasons, but mostly because they allow time for thinking and planning by the characters (while not being a 'chick-flick'). Many other movies I find to be too action-packed to be interesting for anything other than choreographic purposes.

Similar movies to this are CIA based films or bank robberies/hostage movies. Each of them allow the viewer to actually participate by providing the time for the viewer to ask "what would I do in this situation? How would I respond given x resources and y amount of time?"

I particularly despise the go for gore zombie flicks. I like movies that stimulate my intellectually, not ones that remind me of student horror films.
Or a company might decide to try to solve the problem by gathering and indexing all of these documents so they are more accessible than if they were spattered over thousands of locations, unsearchable, and cost time and money to find.
I'm working through my high school chemistry, physics, and biology textbooks in a self-directed manner, as I hope to challenge my provincial exams without taking the associated courses.

Working from PDF copies of my textbooks has proven surprisingly comfortable, and has offered benefits over their dead-tree brethren. Though my first read of the material is usually in the paper version of the book (if only so that I may escape my computer chair), my second note-taking pass is always from the digital copy, for I've found taking notes easier when the material is on-screen and adjacent to my text editor. Taking screenshots of illuminating diagrams and inserting them into my notes is much faster than re-sketching the diagrams by hand. The ability to search the book's text rather than thumbing through an index is appreciated. The PDF version of my physics textbook is made available on its associated Web site ( http://physicssource.ca/ ) -- the electronic copy provided there is the latest printing, which resolves numerous ambiguities and errors present in my paper copy's earlier printing.

The only downside I've encountered is the manner in which an electronic textbook tethers me to my computer. In your daughter's school's case, I doubt that this would prove a handicap to most students, so long as they were given access to their textbooks outside of school. Ideally, the textbook should be provided in an open format such as PDF or HTML -- not one of the proprietary, DRM-encumbered formats favoured by some publishers.
I never thought of it this way. Playing video games after exams might be helpful then.

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The preview of the new turn-by-turn API suggests that they may add a digital compass to the phone, just like the G1.
What I would use it for is to log in to my my school's wireless network. Not the actual network itself, which is open, but the gateway afterwards that requires you to enter your student email address and password. It's quite long and I usually end up turning wifi off when I'm on campus so I can still get emails. If I could save even just the email address in a note I could copy-paste it and save at least 30 seconds of time (which is surprisingly long when you need to want to catch something before the professor enters and starts lecturing).
As we live more and more of our lives online, this control is tantamount to having powerful cameras and microphones in every cafe, on every street corner, at home, in every public and private space, recording everything that happens in a convenient, searchable format.

If this was the case in meatspace, it would certainly have a chilling effect on freedom of thought and discussion.

This may still add up to a net positive for us, but for the next generation(s), who will live more and more of their lives online, the implications are disastrous and, likely, a net negative compared to no internet.
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Because the client-side of the software is a steaming pile of shit.

For a stellar implementation, try clicking 'view' on a PDF attachment in Gmail.
I'm often left to wonder this one myself, although I make a poor example for someone living in "my own country".

Much love for the folks in Silicon Valley, but lately we've got this series of tubes thing that can ship your code to your customers from just about anywhere. I used to live in St. Louis. Nice place! As of 2004 a roommate and I split a nice two-bedroom apartment, in a safe neighborhood with a nice twenty-something atmosphere, for about $800 a month.

If rent is $800 and your California-ramen-profitable startup is clearing about $3,000 a month then in St. Louis you can probably eat your ramen in a modest house which you bought to have a place to consume ramen in.
First, I'll note that what you wrote here somewhat contradicts your original post

Straw man argument. The original post was a series of questions. My reply to your comment was the hypothesis I posed to myself. They don't contradict each other as the questions were posed as a result of the hypothesis.

This is an absurdly small and misleading sample, even within your stated target.

This was never intended to be conclusive market research, this is just to see if it warranted further research into the topic. In a short space of time (4 hours) I've received some good feedback and suggestions from both parties and been directed to some resources (eg the zombie comic) that I didn't know existed.

I could have, for all intensive purposes spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours conducting extensive research - or I could just build the damn thing and release it for much less than what it would cost to obtain "accurate research".

versus a large, general audience of young viewers who enjoy (and pay for) digital animation content.

You know, this is where your false argument falls down. You don't have to have a customer paying for the actual content, or even advertising to be able to monetise it. They sure help, but it's not the only method.

You specifically stated that you wanted to do this as a low-cost thing

Finally, you got something correct.

thus you can't be making high-quality, specialized content

Oops, spoke too soon.

Just because the big name companies like Pixar and Dreamworks are throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at creating this kind of entertainment, doesn't mean that it is the only way.

Think about it for a second, really break it down into its component parts. Your typical animation FILM by those 2 studios is around 90 minutes of entertainment and costs upwards of 100 million dollars each. It's about on par with what Hollywood is spending on films.

Now lets look at your average tv show, 22 minutes of entertainment. So if we used the Hollywood blockbuster model, each episode should cost around $25 million plus right? No, it doesn't work that way.

Lost for example, which is notorious for being expensive to produce cost (in its first year) $44 million for 22 episodes at 43 minutes (approx) running time each.

That's an approximate 10 times the entertainment, for less than half the cost.

So if Film and TV operate at completely different scales, then obviously there is a huge disconnect between the cost of production and the amount that someone can be entertained.

To further back up my concept, I present to you a video called "Big Buck Bunny" - it is essentially a video demo that was created by the Blender Foundation for their open source tool.

This video is 10 minutes of animation, completed in 3 months with (depending on how you look at the team makeup) 7-9 guys from concept to delivery using only open source software

http://www.vimeo.com/1084537

That surely doesn't look like a low quality animation to me. So it's not an impossible task.
Thanks for the decent response.

So for payments received from other sources (non iPhone), you get the full amount, but if you were to make use of the new micropayments in OS 3,0, you'd be down 30%? I can see how that would hurt
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