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They were a big supporter of the SOPA legislation, for one.
My fault then. I shouldn't have gone for the double very. No hard feelings :)
Google is also starting to screw with the search results ... personalized search results for example... Maybe Mozilla should start a search engine
Saying that 80 hours weeks are what it takes to become the next Google is like saying being an asshole is what it takes to be the next Steve Jobs.
Yes, talking in house. You mean just the TeamCity install takes half an hour... then you have to add the tools steps etc,
People begging you to take their money.
Cryptography driven anonymity or subversion is not in need of PR sensitivity or timing. It is a technological progression that has been happening for decades and will continue on it's own rapid pace.

In this context of Zerocoin, they released a technology research paper. It should be treated as such. Not a company PR dept.
There are many sources of competitive advantage, which includes but is not limited to good hiring practices and the development and retention of talent.

Companies which were not dependent on cheap/competitive talents were able to get away with many inefficient work practices. Companies which are not dependent can and will still do that. Introspection is stressful and costly, change even more so.

"This is why great designers, salesmen or computer programmers are still highly valued": A very narrow selection of professions where productivity is very sensitive to variations in ability.
At first glance this appears to be a virtual currency along the likes of Bitcoin but then you actually read what Amazon Coins actually is and it's merely a points system along the likes Microsoft Points merely capitalising on the whole Bitcoin virtual currency craze. The fact that it's US only for the moment is another limiting factor, not really that impressive once you break this thing down.
Then as an electronic musician you know very well that 90% of the current acts in dance music scenes would never be capable of clearing an album because of the overhead in licensing.

Really, I see nothing particularly special in a 4 or even 40-second section of music to warrant an unusually high level of protection. Most samples are completely unrecognizable, and when present and recognizable they are honestly a minimal fraction of the creative output in a song.

And really, what makes samples so special over riffs, or even FX?

The fact that you agree with him doesn't change the fact that current situation is a historical anomaly that greatly limits the publication of creative content, and that the negotiation rates are basically a form of economic oppression as they stand.
"The artists you mention are all already famous and can write off the time spent on doing free mixtapes as a promotional expense."

True, they are famous now, but all of them used mixtapes to become famous. Wiz came up as a rapper through mixtapes. Lil Wayne released "I'm Me" as a mixtape, which was supposed to be "The Carter 3" but it was leaked so he released it for free. Not to mention, he pretty much invented the "free mixtape to use a marketing tool" which I think he did by accident. His music sucks now, but The Carter 2 is a great CD and I don't think I would have found out about him at 16 unless it had been for his mixtape work.
I appreciate comedy a lot. But it is not funny when the bully mocks the victim.
However, an administrator or exchanger is an MSB under FinCEN's regulations

Would they not try to claim that using Zerocoin is, in effect, making you an independent exchange? Or are you only an exchanger when going from Bitcoin to USD?

An exchanger is a person engaged as a business in the exchange of virtual currency for real currency, funds, or other virtual currency.

There is this clause, but it only refers to businesses.
Boy, sounds like that process would result in one super Excedrin headache number 195,455,223,391. Go ahead. I'll give up my place in line. You first!
Background - despite the absurd name, a friend of my posted this (relatively anonymously) to Reddit last night. Unfortunately, it got downvoted into oblivion for not possessing enough cute memes.

The data shows what happens to a currency like this is very predictable, and the behaviors we're seeing (deflation, currency hoarding, stagnation of real bitcoin output) are great predictors of crashes like this.
I think this blogger isn't understanding a fundamental reality of corporate structure that has little to do with some pie-eyed plan for what Google thinks the web "needs".

This behavior isn't indicative of any design to "improve" the web, which I think could be said that a fair majority of programmers desire on a personal level and indeed what most laymen would admit to wanting as well.

This has to do with Google focusing on brand homogenization. This is marketing, not web fundamentals. It's a company trying to extend, homogenize and monetize its brand and the services its brand can offer under those circumstances.

I also thinks this differs in nature from the path Microsoft took with its OS strategy, though there are certainly some similarities.

Is corporatism infesting Google? Of course it is! That's what happens when a corporation grows to the size Google has over the past decade. Now, this is in no way meant to be in any way a defense of corporate culture or an argument against lobbying tech companies to do what's best for the web. We generally want to see the web evolve in a positive way.

However, if you're expecting that from a major corporation that at the end of the day has responsibilities to shareholders... well, to say the least you're going to be disappointed.

Positive evolution will generally come from non-profits, because they can take risks. I defy any programmer to point to one of these tech giants and say they "definitively moved the web in a positive direction". Google's the absolute closest you could get using such a narrow criteria and that's largely due to their innovations in search that stem from their less profit-focused days and their more recent Google Fiber efforts. Even then, Google Fiber is an extension of Google's long-term corporate goals.

The only point I want to argue is that we need to look at this situation through a realistic lens. When we lose sight of the realities of Corporate America and its relationship with technology, that's the point when we start engaging in counterproductive hyperbole.
In some ways it's like you're offering couchsurfing + bundled travel insurance, which seems like a pretty awesome way to hedge the downsides of crowdsourcing.
Perhaps I need to think about what I don't like about html-formatted emails. I can't really put my finger on anything. I am not against html when I think about it. It just feels like it is not the right tool for the job. (I know I am doing a pretty poor job at explaining myself. Sorry!)
It was a very successful failure. You are much more likely to succeed given what you learned from it. I'd say that it is a blessing in disguise and very much appreciate that you shared the experience with us.
Because you can not get anything done without them trying to up-sell you services that you do NOT need, they use some questionable tactics. You have to Opt out of services you don't need, it goes page after page. Safe yourself the headache go with NameCheap.com or some other respectable company.
Ask HN: good locations to live in Portland, OR?
I'm moving to Portland in a month and I am going to rent an apartment. I am looking for suggestions for a location that has a tech vibe, decent bars and restaurants, and all around good quality of life.

I have heard good things about the Pearl District. I think it is a bit out of my price range.
Most samples are completely unrecognizable, and when present and recognizable they are honestly a minimal fraction of the creative output in a song.

Top charting hip hop tracks have used samples of other songs as the entire basis of the song, for two decades.
Thank you for sharing your experience but to me, the whole post is about how you didn't really listen at all and built something that people didn't want, which ended up failing, yet you still learned a ton. I bet you learned something but did this experience really teach you a LOT? You don't mention any other learning experience in this post (you say you'll write more later) but somehow in the end, this failure was super insightful. I just don't see how... Sorry if that sounds negative. I wish all entrepreneurs success but the end of this article just fell flat for me.
One such example could be the Microsoft Points - perfectly falls under your description. I can never remember the exchange rates, and they deliberately offset the prices so you always have residual points. For example, the minimum points you can buy are 400 ($5) but the cheapest item is 80, then 240, then 360... so you will never be able to spend ALL of them entirely (barring many, many transactions).
Using uniform distribution definition from Wikipedia ("all intervals of the same length on the distribution's support are equally probable") we get
P(X \in [0,1)) = P(X \in [1, 2)) = P(X \in [2, 3)) = ...

By countable additivity
P(\Omega) = P(X \in [0, \infty)) = P(X \in [0, 1)) + P(\X \in [1, 2)) + ... = P(X \in [0, 1)) + P(X \in [0, 1)) + ...

And this evaluates to 0 if P(X \in [0, 1)) = 0 and to \infty if P(\X \in [0, 1)) > 0.
Every web site out there that wants engagement from users encourage visitors to create an account.
Google is trying to consolidate all of their services under one account. Like it or not a Google+ is just public facing page for a Google account. In away it dose make sense and answers an age old internet problem. It requires users to be responsible for what they put online.
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One time I was at a party and Kanye's 'Harder Better Faster Stronger' came on. I remember saying "I didn't know Kanye sampled Daft Punk" and someone replying something along the lines of "nah this is all original Kanye"

And Daft Punk sampled the hook for Harder Better Faster Stronger from unknown Edwin Birdsong's "Cola Bottle Baby"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wals6HONqxk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPdVVOmbz4
Money laundering only applies when the money is obtained illegally in the first place. Also, Zerocoin doesn't have a network to itself, it functions within the existing bitcoin block chain.
Bitcoin explicitly allows for creating alternate ways of defining who can spend a coin, this is simply one such alternate way.
This would not work; suppose someone was using the point distribution "wait one hour and then withdraw", then it would be trivial to deanonymize Zerocoins.
Opera still has the icon.
App store link. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratch-off-photo-sharing/id...
I yield to no one is my disdain for bitcoin, but this article is just stupid.

"Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme"?

First, the article isn't specific to bitcoins; it applies to gold, silver, and a large number of other similar currencies.

Second, the article isn't actually arguing that bitcoins are a ponzi scheme; it's just saying they won't work as a currency.

So a more accurate headline would be "Law professor claims gold cannot work as a currency; ignores theory, history, and evidence."

If you want to criticise bitcoins, knock yourself out. (Want some suggestions? I can rant for ages about the sillyness of bitcoins.) But please refrain from arguing that since bitcoins are just like gold, it's a ponzi scheme and thus literally cannot work as a currency because the value will fall to zero. Because if you do this, someone will then point out that you are a flaming idiot who is embarrassing himself, the school he teaches at, and his family name.
I disagree, the web of the 90s was really awesome. I remember one of the first things I did when I got online was look up Star Wars websites (using Webcrawler). There were dozens of sites, all made by fans, all amateur, all full of cheesy graphics, .wav sounds, but all unique. Here's the Google results for "Star wars". Tell me when you get to a result that wasn't created by a corporation: https://www.google.com/q=star+wars
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Continuing the music industry to start-up scene analogy as used above, the same could be said for start ups.

I do have to agree with what you said, though. Most mainstream successes really are puppets of the big labels. If you notice, all the songs sound (about) the same sound, same shitty lyrics about whatever, ego-stroking, and bits of flamboyance to flaunt how much money they are making. They all even have the same career trajectory of talk shows, scandals, dating habits etc. Makes me wonder if the labels are, indeed, behind this or if these new "artists" are all just really damn similar.

Lots of good Indie Music out there (in every genre), but too much of it sucks. Surprisingly in the last year or so, T.V commercials have been a decent source for finding good Indie Music. Sam Adams, Sprint, and Cigna commercials all turned me on to great artists that I would have otherwise had no idea existed.
Overall I am a big fan of Google and admire their ability to create products that are not only technically superior but fairly open for most useful definitions of that term.

But Google+ is a poison spreading through the rest of the business. Their ridiculous, disingenuous defense of their real name policy was the first thing they did that made me second guess my reliance on their services. Their agenda of shoving it down everyone's throat on the back of their other services seems sinister.
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While you may not want to comment on Google Play apps publicly, there's a lot of value for other users in being able to see what their actual friends said about an app rather than just random anonymous commenters. (And we've seen the issues on places like Amazon with ratings spamming.)

It's just reality that some features may benefit the larger population but might not be to your taste - obviously every feature can't be loved by every user - but I'm not sure that justifies rage.
Also the step where you can buy many more things on amazon than you can at Costco. That said, if you want 300oz of peanut butter Costco may ne the winner there
Sorry, PC companies: you've apparently managed to perfect the PC
I wouldn't generalize this way. P( Y | X ) != P( Y ).

X: Hired by google, good grades, good school.

In fact, it doesn't test the difference between institutionalized tertiary education vs a lack of it, only differing academic performance among those who are already relatively successful in it.
Regarding being ready to found a startup, I'll fall back on the Justice Stewart's line that, "I know it when I see it".

When I was a young kid, I had an idea that I was going to have a plant store (really. I had just learned about splitting African violets) that would have 'low price days' and 'high price days'. I swear. They idea was that people would be so grateful for the low price days that they would go to the high price days to help keep the place in business. This would have been an idiotic company.

You ask when the authors of the blog post should have given up vs persevere? I would say either when the drew up the business plan or after the beta when the found that people didn't like their product and that they couldn't execute on their idea.

I'm unromantic on this point. To me a startup is to make money (as a profitable business or on the exit), not find creative outlet or have a life experience. I'd rather see 20-somethings blow the ~$5K spent on EC2 hosting apps with fundamentally broken business models instead on (AirBnB) trips through Europe or South America and getting a little bit interesting as people first.

It's up to them, but (to avenger123's point) almost nobody is a Jobs, a Zuckerberg, or a Musk. Most startups fail. Plenty of YC class startups fail, and they're the winners of a highly selective process with access to unbelievable connections.
"If I'd intern, I'd first find an internship in a totally unrelated field (like metalworking or gardening)and see whether I can help to implement systems to make work easier. And if it works, you have a first product which the company you intern at won't try to sell."

Thank you. I stated this as well but was missed by so many 'readers', glad you mentioned it here!
The one time I made the mistake of buying something from them -- a domain-name evaluation -- they treated me like a patsy. I feel like I lose brain cells every time I come anywhere near their site or their ads.
I wonder if there are people who can visualize what a color will look like just by reading the hex value of it.
I changed mine to match my editor text color (greenish).
I think you're fixating on Google+ as a social network, when that's not really the point. Google+ is meant to serve as an identity layer for Google, so you don't have a bunch of different logins / passwords to silo-ed properties, which makes a frustrating user experience. They give you pretty damn good tools for deciding what parts of the identity are shared for this exact reason. You can enable Google+ and basically ignore the 'destination social network' entirely if that's what you want.

As for having Play store comments attached to your G+ identity, what is your complaint there? I'm sure the quality of reviews is way higher when you can't hide behind an anonymous account.
It's not the responsibility of the Chrome team to promote RSS if the large share of users aren't asking for it. To do so would actually be kind of anti-user. Much of what Chrome's done over time has been to remove extraneous UX elements and reduce the browser to a frame; this seems consistent with that.
Frontman Johnny Rotten did eventually get good at singing, but he made history and a million bucks along the way.
The original argument was about governments making bitcoin de facto illegal. That's quite different from a deliberate attack.

As said, I agree that bitcoin may be heading for trouble, I just disagree it will happen through legislation.

And more generally I disagree it will happen by a third party deliberately disrupting it (either via legislation, the 51% attack or by other means). For a simple reason: A collapse of bitcoin (for any reason) will inevitably spawn a new, more resilient crypto-currency. The exact opposite of what the attacker was looking to achieve.
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Now this is a bubble.
Someone should make a new Amiestreet. The business model worked (dynamic pricing) and the company was acquired, then it went away...
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On the other hand, the investment in [Startup X] is partly justified by the idea that spending money on "10x" talent is a chance for "100x" returns.
How, in any way, did they "sabotage open standards like RSS"? That's a pretty broad statement to throw out there - that Google is somehow undermining the open standards process. I'd argue it's done better than other companies, including Apple and Microsoft, in supporting open standards.
You done good. It's not supposed to be easy. You get an A for effort, and next time when you place your 120% into something you'll thank your younger self for getting the early learning phase out of the way when you were young and had unlimited energy.

Do take a break. A year sounds about right.
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Exactly! I work on oDesk and this is more than enough. You, as my employer, don't need to see me working.
There's a huge difference between an old-style transponder and ADS-B in terms of spoofability. To make a transponder position show up on radar, you need to actually put a transponder there. You can spoof altitude to an extent, and you can potentially spoof being farther away by delaying your echo, but you can't spoof the radial at all. And you can't spoof being closer than you really are, which means you can't e.g. falsely trigger a TCAS system.

ADS-B is a simple broadcast of coordinates. Spoofing a position there is just a matter of broadcasting coordinates that aren't where you actually are.
I used http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/ on a recent project. It was pretty simple to use and it works well.
That's just treating the medallion as a deposit. If that's the point then why not use an actual deposit and not artificially limit the number that are issued? Or just treat the cab itself as collateral and seize it for any violation that would have caused forfeiture of a medallion? It may not be worth several hundred thousand dollars, but it's certainly worth enough to have to take it seriously.
I like duckduckgo.com. Somehow, whenever I try it I always end up back over at google. The results arent really better at google- they are just tied into the way we work and live. Its hard to untangle it all.

I also like firefox and opera. But again, I am at this moment using chrome. I dont know how it happens.
>Then stop using their products. Switch to bing, switch to Internet Explorer, get an iPhone and shut up about it.

And who exactly are you to tell him to "shut up about it"? He made his case. You might disagree. State your case and let the discussion continue. Anything else --like telling him to "shup up"-- should be beneath HN standards.

For one, people do use alternative products. It's not as if Chrome is the ultimate browser. It's not like Android is the ultimate phone OS. The only real Google stronghold is search. Even there, Bing has come a long way, lots of geeks prefer DuckDuckGo, and 1.3 Billion Chinese could not care less about Google Search for example. More than that, people would be really happy to see a real contender in the search space in the West too.

And, more importantly, one market leading service does not justify taking abuse from the company that offers it -- or putting up with their other mediocre offerings.

Actually, come to think of it, nothing justifies taking abuse from any company or putting up with BS schemes they make. Even if they are the only ones selling water in Sahara.
Nah, switch to DuckDuckGo and Firefox please :)
I have my own personal moral reasons for not wanting to support them financially, but I also find that from a technical standpoint their shared hosting and domain management is terrible. I find the control panels extremely confusing, and the few times I have had to host WordPress sites with them they were slow as molasses in January.
Really? Then how do we have progress? I mean, I prefer current notation, but who's to say that this is the best possible notation to express musical ideas? Although Hummingbird isn't going to supplant it for a lot of reasons, there may be a better system that will.
I'm actively trying not to use Google+ and it wants me to create a profile!
I doubt ACARS requires particularly high power on the receiver end. For VHF aircraft voice communications, a simple handheld transmitter/receiver running off a boring rechargeable battery, drawing little enough power to last all day while stil fitting in your hand, will easily reach 100 miles line of sight.
Crazy, didn't know that, thanks for sharing! It's samples all the way down!
This is why I don't. If you don't support an open internet I don't support you. I'm also not crazy about the hunting elephants thing.
The article seems baseless and a little sensationalistic. Keeping post graduates and PhDs from American universities who have job offers here makes sense to me. There are genuinely creative/productive individuals with job offers, waiting for but unable to get H1B visas. I appreciate Zuckerberg's initiative and hope we will see a change in immigration policy soon.