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I've been thinking about the connection between biological signaling and advertising; like colored plumage or a large chest cavity, a multi-million ad campaign is a hard-to-fake signal, and in a way, such campaigns are as much about overt displays of power than the contents of the ad.

In that sense, this move is the pinnacle of the best form of advertising. Whether they are acting out of pure altruism or pure strategy (it's probably both), they are demonstrating their values with non-trivial risks and resources, thereby earning genuine trust with current and prospective customers. Awesome.
I am ashamed by some of the reactions here (appart from jacquesm which offers a balanced one)

AppGratis is a media, and like all media, it runs on advertising. The quality of apps promoted is shown in the fact that many apps stayed high in the ranking after the promotion and most apps (95%+) never paid to be featured by AppGratis. There was a cost - the cost of giving away an app with in App purchase credits or what have you.
Do you know many black hat marketing Companies with 20,000 - 5 stars ratings from consumers all over the world? I doubt eHow would have 5 star ratings...

Maybe AppGratis became too big for its own good, but still. But we are not talking about scams like offer walls and shady newsfeed hacks.

What I see is a bunch of jealous people that are now coming out of the hood to kick the CEO on the floor - and he is obviously hurting.
I have to agree, I was pretty excited when I started using nodejitsu but it's insane how little regard they have for uptime and reliability. Just the other day my app suddenly started pointing to some other nodejitsu customer. I asked about this in IRC and was told "I'm rolling out new balancing architecture today" and that once that was done my app would start working "normally." Totally. Crazy.
Hi James, thanks for feedback! It is very helpful, since you've shown us that we need to demonstrate the relation b/w tasks, goals, milestones and backlog more clearly. The backlog holds tasks and goals which haven't been assigned to a milestone. Each milestone has its own tasks and goals (but you can move them to another milestone or the backlog if you need). In general, all the interesting stuff happens in milestones, while the backlog holds tasks and goals whose time has not come yet.
The parent's argument still holds true.

Just because you "plan" to make money does not mean you will make money.
Shouldn't that indirect effect show up in analysis?
If you are independent, then can't you defend yourself in court?
>>>as a user I want to be able to find the best apps for my task. Quality apps. Apps that will help me achieve whatever it is I’m doing. And I want Apple to decide that

I stopped reading right there.
Even if you believe that, it's politically non-viable to propose demolishing SROs and kicking the existing semi-homeless out, many of whom are older, minority, genuinely mentally ill, drug addicts, etc., particularly in SF. So the libertarian or capitalist greater harm is keeping the TL as an undeveloped warzone, way beyond the cost of resettlement and assistance.
"I also think that patents should only be allowed to be resold twice. This would limit the number of patents which could be used to extort money."

I think patents should be entirely non-transferable. You should be able to license them to others, and perhaps designate a third-party that can manage the patent and license it on behalf of the owning entity.

The right to sue over the patent should never leave the original inventor.
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While you're correct in the sense that not all rapes end up with the victim and the perpetrator despising each other (many are between two people with an existing relationship, and he may have taken advantage of a situation they were in regardless of previously consented-to encounters), I think uid really hit the nail on the head; she's really going all in on this for someone that has so many allegations, but decided to speak to social media and Gawker before the authorities (ignoring the fact that she waited a year to do so, because in the off-chance that her claims are valid, these actions can damage/guilt someone into not speaking up until much later, if ever).

She's clearly mentally distraught over something, whether or not it actually relates to Arrington or if she's throwing him under the bus in some strange attempt to get/misdirect attention. It's unfortunate because these incidences of falsified rape claims are often leveraged by those that forget that these are the loud minority. I'm really hoping that's not the case, but even in a situation where she was not okay with his actions one night, she shouldn't have been sending him provocative photos the very next (I hope this isn't seen as victim-blaming on my part, since every situation is different and there's always the potential for Stockholm Syndrome-esque effects in these situations, I just don't think this is one of those).

The rest of her communications with him are clearly using him for who he is, and then quickly turn into spiteful posts when she realizes that she can't guilt him with sexy photos to invest in her and introduce her to others in the industry. Instead of informing him of being pregnant, she waits until the day she's "scheduled" to have an abortion to guilt him over it. Months later, when Arrington later asks if she wants to talk about it, she throws it in his face that she's "Facebook official" with someone "if that's what you mean", but is willing to meet up with him "as soon as possible" "near his offices" anyway (maybe in hopes someone would see them together).

On Scoble's status, she races to at the opportunity to insult another woman for being Arrington's new girlfriend (she isn't), drinking his "Kool-aid" and (if her claims turn out to be invalid) ironically accuses her of doing a disservice to victims of rape and abuse.

TL;DR, even if there's something remotely here for her to stand on, she needs some serious help. As such, I would absolutely call this evidence "damning" to the innocence/ignorance she's trying to portray.
fascinating writeup
That's more of a problem with the traffic management than the density. Mission district has a density of only 25,000 per square mile.
Yes. I love the bay area, but the idiocy of the city council when it comes to building stuff is absurd ; especially when they then complain about a lack of affordable housing.
Zynga (and most games).
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This is true everywhere. We sacrifice quality of life for old world living.
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The HN community has been especially supportive. Thanks guys - I hope you'll stick with us. There's a lot of awesome stuff coming.
The Old Spice social media campaign was very successful:

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/08/30/11-social-media-marketi...

As anecdotal evidence, both of my late-teen/young adult sons have started using Old Spice deodorant since that campaign started.

Edit: I think Barak Obama's campaign would be another example of well-spent social media dollars.
Would you have been okay if Feynman diagrams were patented?
Charge them $2 each. That's worth a couple of millions at the very least.
As DanBC pointed out, "moot" means the opposite of "open to debate." Honestly, I think Moot is kindof silly for sending the letter in the first place, but he's totally right that your name (moot.it) will cause confusion. Add me to the list of people who thought "Moot.it" meant "Poole."

If Moot were trademarked by 4chan (now there's a laughable proposition), there really would be a case - and a pretty strong one, at that. As it is, I imagine you're right that Moot has no real case against Moot.it, but it also sounds like the letter made no specific C&D demands.

I imagine your product can rise above this based on its merit, but you gotta acknowledge the subtle trolling inherent in the name. I understand why you can't publicly acknowledge this, but it's there anyway.
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Check out John Walker's PATO proposal from 1993, following Autodesk getting hit with a bogus patent: http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_105.html
Social media won't bring a whole lot new customers but it is a great tool to build a brand or to provide support.
agreed... this article ignores the fact that lots of people simply don't like pepsi, Diet Coke sells more than pepsi

If you're in third place... you have to make it a choice until you're first
ditto. There are huge problems in filtering authority with such a massive source of real-time information that is so easily gamed. The barrier to tweeting a link is magnitudes easier than putting up a new webpage. I would argue that the only real value they are getting currently is rel="author" information with plans for giving value to other signals later. I really think the SEO hype about social media is an extension of the hype the article talks about.
The difference is, we expect this sort of Evil behavior from AT&T, Palantir, Oracle, VeriSign and definitely Microsoft. But when a company with the supposed motto of "Don't be evil" backs it, it's news. Yahoo, though, I'm only a little surprised. I'm also not surprised Apple is a member, nor that you (and the headline) didn't mention them.

Sure, sure, you can't keep track of the political positions of every group you're a member of. But if a group holds opinions that are evil, that might just be a good reason to not maintain membership. I could easily Godwin this thread by mentioning certain groups I am not a member of for exactly that reason. The company you keep and all that.
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"Antitrust deals with breaking up colossal monopolies like AT&T and Standard Oil."

Not true there is also collusion to consider, price setting, dividing markets etc. For example web hosting companies can't band together to set pricing or to determine certain things as a group. (Obv. companies get together to set standards etc and other things).

I'm just raising the issue but I know this from back at the beginning of ICANN registrars we had to be concerned with what we did and what we said to each other when we had group meetings on the advice of attorneys in our registrars constituency. And I'm not saying that the lawyers weren't over reaching or that particular behaviors had merit I'm merely mentioning it as a point of discussion and consideration.
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One of the problems here is that an exchange buying and selling one thing doesn't benefit much from scale. The core of a matching engine relies on knowing everything that happened before it, i.e. every trade submitted which has not been matched or cancelled. This pushes the matching process down to a single thread on a single machine.

I am building a matching engine now (for pleasure) at

https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine

(Having said all that I have no idea where their performance problems are coming from - the matching engine may not be the culprit)
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I like this approach. I would be mathematically surprised if there exists any patent that cannot be invalidated via prior art. It seems there is a strong correlation between the amount of information online and the probability of there existing easily accessible prior art for any arbitrary patent.

In other words, if the amount of information on the web doubles every year, the probability of finding prior art that can invalidate any patent doubles as well. By this point in time, with the amount of information that has been moved online, the probability of having a patent not subject to prior art claims seems astronomically low.

As an anecdote, I just saw "The Mother of All Demos" (1968 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs), for the first time the other day. That video alone contains dozens of inventions that I thought were relatively recent.
Ah, yes. In a parallel programming class at the moment and now I can't stop thinkin about cache boundaries, volatility, weird efficient instructions to use.. Is this false sharing and throwing out the cache line? Where can I use rsqrtf? Am I utilizing the SM fully? Is this busy-wait killing the memory controller?

It goes on forever.
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The best design tends to be emergent; http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsAnAdvancer

Writing the tests first forces you to think about how a given interface will actually be used, which tends to lead to better code, because you're writing an interface that makes sense for the client rather than for the called code. In turn that means better encapsulation. It's probably possible to do this in the abstract, but if you're writing the test code anyway it doesn't cost you anything.
What does a Bing reseller have to do with social media?
Well, the problem is that reaching the top of the charts matters, because being at the top of the charts is where sales come from.

If there were something about the app market that really led itself to a winner-take-all tournament-style compensation, then I could shrug and think that AppGratis is merely the manifestation of another problem, and if it weren't them it would be someone else.

I'm not sure the app market really needs to be that way. Rate people based on average rankings, for example, giving new entrants a grace period before competitors can bomb them into 0-star region. Quality will eventually out.
I've literally stopped my SEO efforts.. most are just price checking anyways, looking for 'the lowest price' (web design services)... I tend to find building a relationship and educating my potential clients better than trying to get a sale from SEO window shoppers, I can do that best with social media... I've started driving people from my website to my social media profiles, and I'm doing the same with my clients
The $24 cap mitigates this.
Most of the money spent in that campaign was spent in TV Ad spots. I would call it a TV campaign with a successful Social Media component.
> The idea that "density" is "miserable" is a uniquely post-war american one.

Right, once Americans were able to afford cars and could physically remove themselves from urban density, they did, and it became part of the "American Dream". More so on the East Coast, where farm-land for development was cheap and relatively accessible to urban centers of business. On the West Coast where cities are either crammed between mountains and coast, or stuck in the middle of a desert, owning property required paying the higher prices driven by high demand and little supply.

> It really doesn't work that way.

It works that way for anyone who doesn't want to live in dense urban environments.
7 billion people in cramped boxes, some of them with limbs amputated and some of them with body parts in their box, with no ventilation, waste disposal or food supply. Sounds like a great xkcd what-if. That reminds me that you can fit 7 billion people on Rhode Island, but the geopolitical effects of that would be less than beneficial.
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One of the best GitHub-related apps, honestly
Almost a year ago, the author, Matthew Yglesias, wrote nearly the exact same article with respect to Washington, D.C. (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/04/d_c_...).

Washington, D.C. is an interesting & relevant case-study in this regard because of the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_Buildings_Act_of_191...) which restricts the maximum building height in the District. Depending on your viewpoint, the law has led to the desired "lightness and airiness" of D.C. as envisioned by planners of that generation; it has also led to expansion and sprawl into Northern Virginia and the Maryland suburbs of D.C.
You guys need to understand that these guys are super Japanese, complete with the culture of never wanting to show dishonor. If they were American I would be much more suspicious, but they have consistently fixed the problems that they have had and are desperate to hire western developers to move to Japan to help the not only build the exchange, but expand the community's trust in them.
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Yes, and it isn't just zoning boards. The planning process on all levels is often skewed toward following strong "visionaries", benefitting large real estate developers, and mollifying certain interest groups. These factors silence a lot of peoples' concerns. Look at what happened in the 1960s in just about every big city.

Worse, deeper thoughts about the future of "the city" and what projects make sense for the greater community to invest in are both crowded out.

This is happening on a smaller scale where I am right now in Ann Arbor. In our case, density is briskly proceeding downtown without enough thought toward things that people living downtown need such as parks and social services for the homeless.
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A single exchanges influence over bitcoin, is showing us that "it can not be controlled by a single central authority" is a false claim.

Mt.Gox has became that controlling central without consent from even itself.
Damn, I had my hopes with that name.
Nah, I just scrolled to the right and forgot about any meaning or reason.
Rackspace is really smart here. By making it a public policy they're showing patent trolls that they're out of luck trying their antics with them.
It totally depends on the field. In software, perhaps this would work nicely, because rapid iteration and expansion prevails.

That said, in the pharmaceutical or material science worlds, the cost and pace of research require that protection be afforded to those who choose to invest and disclose the fruits of their labor to the world.

It's not so black and white that there are no incentives for disclosed innovation, but patents are a big booster in some areas, for good reasons.
has anyone seen the HTML5 based runescape 3? http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape_3

Crazy!
History is a good point, but does TCAS really care? I thought it was a fairly simple device in that regard. It has only vague directional sensing.

As for twiddling the autopilot and acknowledgement with ATC, I'm not aware that either is the case. TCAS simply informs the pilot, and current systems never advise any horizontal maneuvers, only climb/descend, because their ability to detect horizontal position is fairly crap. A TCAS advisory takes precedence over ATC commands and is expected to be obeyed immediately unless there's an obvious immediate danger to doing so. You never inform ATC of the TCAS alert and ask what to do, you always obey the machine, then tell ATC what's going on when you have time. If ATC notices the impending collision and gives you instructions that contradict the TCAS's instructions, you follow TCAS and ignore ATC.
What do you think separates route from trello? It seems like a similar service, but with a flat UI and less features.
The Pepsi example is a brain-dead application of social media. Of course it didn't matter when people are deciding on healthier beverage choices and the market is increasingly saturated. Not to mention Pepsi hasn't iterated on their product in years, and people simply are getting bored.

No social media campaign in the world can save a shrinking business.
You clearly don't understand how the diagnosis of these things works.

There is a spectrum of behaviors, raging from healthy to problematic.

Drinking alcohol has a range too: from abstaining to enjoying in moderation to alcoholism. Neither abstaining nor moderate enjoyment are problematic. While the parallel is awkward, just as occasionally having one beer too many doesn't constitute alcoholism, occasionally avoiding social situations is different from always avoiding them (the reasons for avoiding them are important too!).

If you don't understand the criteria for determining when a behavior is problematic enough to warrant a symptom and when it is not, and you read through the DSM-IV (which defines mental disorders), you will think you qualify for many of the disorders listed: in all likelihood you do not qualify for any of them. Why are the definitions written this way? Because mental disorders are often characterized by normal behaviors happening to an extreme degree (being anxious before a big potentially career-altering presentation is healthy, having panic attacks as a result of everyday situations is problematic). Also because the DSM-IV is meant to be used by trained professionals who already understand this distinction.
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I don't know why this should come as news to anyone here. It falls under the general category of: If you don't want to come across as a self-absorbed prick, give people your full attention. We've heard about Bill Clinton, that when he spoke to someone, he made them feel like they were the only person in the world at that moment.
The nineties are missing some zeroes. It's over 9000.
... or build more BART stations & increase the number of trains. More density == more resources for infrastructure improvements.

That said, as SF gets more expensive the Peninsula will slowly become more attractive, and I suppose things will work themselves out.
Tell AppGratis' CEO to give a 30% cut to Apple, like in any other Apple app store financial mechanics, and his app will be back in app store in no time.
He has also written a book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO...
Moot architecture is a distributed cloud based service - unless someone wants to set up the dozen or so servers it would require for a basic Moot setup, it wouldn't be feasible even if the infrastructure setup was open sourced.
If I was a person with Aspergers, I would be extremely annoyed that the term 'Aspie' is used here. Why not, 'for these people,' type of wording? Coining or perpetuating a term like that only serves to isolate anyone that might otherwise have been just a person with Aspergers.
> I think for buyers, agents make a lot of sense. Largely, because of how the system works, they're free to buyers, as the seller's pay the agent fees.

When we bought our house we didn't use an agent. Our offer was instantly 3% more attractive to the seller. The seller's agent told us after we closed that there had been 5 other offers and the 3% put us on top.

A better way to think of it is this: the party bringing the money to the table is the party that is paying for everything.
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The research team at my university on driverless cars.

http://vislab.it/

From Parma (Italy) to Shangai(China), 15000 kilometers

report http://vislab.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/21-VisLab-VIAC-d...

Without hype and before Google.
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