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I've had luck at places like careers.stackexchange.com, but that's me coming into the picture with four years of intensive real-world object-oriented programming experience in the likes of Ruby and Perl, and a smattering of exposure to Big Data. Also, you need to live in New York or Silicon Valley or a close equivalent.
The money will definitely slow down if the return from the industry as a whole (the industry being SaaS and web apps) is less than the investment levels put in. It's worth remembering that while the initial investors in Facebook have seen amazing returns which will subsidise other investments for decades to come, those returns are only because the hype in the industry as a whole has lead other people to buy into facebook. Facebook itself has fairly low revenues and they're struggling to grow them. Equally while anyone who'd invested in instagram would have walked away with a nice sum, the money to fund that acquisition came from the same Facebook investment.

There's a lot of hype about "tech" (in this context really only web apps) which has lead to a lot of money pouring in from people desperate to grab a slice of the pie. The reality is that while web apps and SaaS is a large industry, the size of the investment funds targeting the industry is due to hype and investors saying "me too" rather than a reflection on the available revenues. You have to look at even the success stories in this context.

The money won't run out completely, but if the money from investors late to the party slows down then the value of the successful web apps will fall to levels which reflect their revenues.
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You can get people competent with jquery for much less than $120/hour. Much much less if you are willing to look at remote workers overseas.
The article is mostly about the data he gathered, not the methods he used to acquire the data. I agree with you that it is hard to draw conclusions from his analysis without knowing more about the tests and how they work, but that is exactly why I was hoping the comments on HN would provide some clarity in this area rather than a debate about whether what he did was "hacking", which is wholly uninteresting as far as I'm concerned.
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But what about wi-fi? Even if his thing doesn't require Internet, still, no Stackoverflow?
> It implies that the company is building a database that could be used to reconstruct an enormous network diagram.

It's actually fun and trivial to do this yourself with a spider: go to http://www.snapchat.com/username, mark 'best friendships' as followthroughs. A fun thing you notice pretty quickly is that the 'best friend' designation isn't one-to-one, prolific snappers will appear often in peoples' friends lists.

I think a SnapChat API is likely on the way, and once they figure out a way to market this stuff to advertisers (hey, ten seconds of undivided attention towards an ad is probably worth more than thirty seconds of ignoring a commercial) they're going to have a whole new host of problems.
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You line up the list of virtuous things (curing AIDS, feeding poor people) and the list of valuable things (Ruby on Rails programmers, inanimate chunks of metal) and discover that they just don't line up. At all.

Ruby on Rails developers are scarce and valuable just because there still aren't a whole lot of them, and because they can crank out CRUD apps (which are just data collection apparatuses) more quickly and efficiently than anyone has been able to before. Once someone invents an even faster/more automated way to design and deploy a data-collection tool than RoR (which might be just a future version of RoR), then that will be the next big thing for a while.
I follow the thrust of what you say, and it's nice to hear that the OP is doing so well. Some of us though are still living hand to mouth.
Nice job busting out a rant that no one provoked.
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I can't tell whether this is a fake or not. But ever since calling the one about the one night stand woman in Denmark that wanted to contact the father of her baby I've had a healthy dose of unbelief for anything that goes viral and that involves some personal tragedy.

Another couple of those and real people with real problems or calls for help will find it impossible to be heard.

If this is real I hope he makes the most of whatever time he's got left.
While I disagree with your overal premise, I agree with what you then go on to say. Don't make general criticisms about previous jobs or employers ("it sucked") -- be specific about bad things, how you changed or tried to change or would in future address them, and what you learned.

Saying bad things about previous employers in a constructive manner is not a red flag. (Wasn't there a recent study showing that the people who complain also tend to be productive?) I sure hope so, because I complain a lot.
Never downloaded or used Snapchat... but I know very clearly what some of the use-cases are.

Clearly the solution is just to create a toggle for that feature in Settings. Boom... make your "being shady" user persona happy in a matter of minutes.
Of course I meant in the industry itself. Project-based programmers working until midnight for $40k annum with no extras, that's back-breaking alright. Working 9-6pm, comparatively for $80k isn't.
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> For instance, consider the depictions of Mary throughout the centuries. In most, Mary is depicted to look like a young woman, but not as a 13 year old kid.

In quite a large number, Mary looks like a woman of young-but-marriageable age of either the same culture/ethnicity of the place where the depiction was made or one idealized there.

> Still, even the young actresses act mature

Which, given the depiction of Mary in the Bible, is unsurprising; even if social context didn't play a role (along with brain development) in maturation, it would be inconsistent with the source material to depict Mary as typical of her age.
Both Facebook and Snapchat were created by students in college to suddenly explode in popularity.

I'm definitely not a Mark Zuckerberg fan, but imagine one of your hobby projects suddenly turning into this phenomenon, when you probably just created it for a certain social circle.

I think we should cut "incidental start-ups" some slack for a while, but Snapchat definitely need to do something about their privacy, especially since it goes against the entire value proposition.
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Prediction accuracy cannot be computed in a purely unsupervised setting: you don't have labels for the samples.

You can compare the cluster found by k-means run several times against what you get with a randomized version of your dataset though: http://blog.echen.me/2011/03/19/counting-clusters/
>I'm not necessarily making a moral judgement on Snapchat but I do think it is something to consider. You can see the same mentality around Chatroulette. I realize the value of something is not concrete at first; Twitter comes to mind. I think we all agree that Twitter plays an important role in society today, yet that was unclear a few years ago.

I tend to assign the values the other way around; Snapchat seems like something people get a lot of fun from (and I don't mean affairs, just friends sending each other pictures they don't want to post publicly). It's not a "worthy cause", but it's a moral good, possibly the greatest such thing.

Conversely twitter seems like a net negative; the main way it impacts me is that news organizations now seem to think it's ok to publish comments from random people as if they were news. And people in fora like this seem to think they can dismiss an idea by linking to a witty tweet about it. It's a dumbing down of discourse and I'm seeing no upside; I think I would genuinely have a better life, and be happier, if twitter didn't exist.
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I'm sure there are useful scenarios like yours. But that alone doesn't magically make the app have a net positive impact. I'm not claiming it is positive or negative but rather something to consider.

The comment about email isn't really logical. Crow bars help you kill people but that doesn't mean we should treat them the same way as guns. I'm sure there is a technical term for it (logical fallacy) but that's besides my point and I'm on mobile :).
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Apparently Swedish forests have 3G coverage.
The UI looks great, downloading now and will try to give feedback later.
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In his first post (http://thomasbacklund.com/2013/03/lean-startup/) he mentions some of the tools he's bringing with him. This includes mobile broadband.
As an example of why Nanex is worth listening to, here is an article [1] describing how Nanex claimed Monday's ISM manufacturing data was leaked 15 milliseconds early, leading ultimately to an admission by Reuters that it caused the leak. Eric Hunsander, a software developer at Nanex, went so far as to hint to Reuters that they should check their NTP settings since a drift of 15 milliseconds is allowed by default [2].

Eric is very interesting to follow on Twitter [3]. He highlights mysterious HFT related events on a daily basis. My only complaint is that his articles and charts, in particular, are very difficult to interpret. As an outsider to the HFT industry, I don't know where to find the resources to learn enough to interpret most of Eric's insights.

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Just an update, I ended up using Citadel Easy Install, which honestly, was extremely easy. It did give me IMAP and SMTP mail access and was incredibly easy to use using the web admin that comes as part of the suite. Thanks everyone for their help!

PS. Citadel isn't very pretty looking so if you are just using it for webmail, I would suggest installing roundcube on top of it (you can setup the web admin to use a different port and still run apache/nginx for your site)
I congratulate the team involved in this. I don't think this signals any change of course for Google. Perhaps corporate will notice this and tell them to shut it off again, because blablabla google+ blablabla social blablabla. Whatever.
Regarding the public transport chipcard: you _can_ recharge them with cash. Using the machines of the railways, you can only use coins, unfortunately. But at least the machines of Amsterdam local transport accept bank notes.
Surely there's 3G, 4G or whatever coverage? The forest is probably pretty close to Stockholm
But from a security perspective, I understand the need for better information. I'm kind of playing Devil-advocates, but it's naive to expect your government to provide you safety, lifestyle, freedom, without having to play behind the scene - or openly fight oversea - when the rest of the World lives a completely different story.

OK, for starters, let's assume that "national defense" is a proper and just role for government, and even be charitable and allow that "some" secrecy is necessary. Now, how does any of that argue for allowing the government to record call record for everybody in the US? What is wrong with having them identify an individual, or small group of individuals, that are suspected of $WHATEVER, and then go get a warrant, and then ask for the data? I mean, by casting a net so wide, it's obvious they're collecting a TON of data on people that aren't involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever... why should we be OK with that?

And that aside, to the extent that this is about the "War on Terror", ask yourself this: How many people in the US have ever been killed as a result of a terrorist attack? Over all time the number is on the order of a few thousand. Now every single one of those was tragic, yes, and I certainly don't want to diminish the importance of every single life... but when you look at the big picture, cancer, AIDS, car crashes, accidental slips and falls in the bathroom, accidental drownings in ones own swimming pool and even "being beaten to death by a cop" outrank "death by terrorism" in terms of scale. And is anybody seriously suggesting we should allow the State nearly unlimited power in the name of fighting accidental slips and falls, or drownings, or any of those things? No? Then why should we do it for terrorism?

And finally, shouldn't we consider that people like Ron Paul have a point, that a lot of the hatred for the US is probably "blowback" as a result of our aggressive, meddlesome foreign policy? Maybe one of the best ways to ensure security for our nation is to have a strong military - at home - and trade freely with everyone. After all, it seems to be far less common for strong trading partners to attack each other. Free trade, and less meddling in the affairs of other sovereign nations, would - IMO - be more effective at protecting us, than allowing the fracking NSA to grab call logs indiscriminately.
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Yeah, for all people talk about evil company X and "if you're not a customer you're a product"...

If you're not a resident somewhere, you're not a constituent and the local government has almost unlimited license to tax the daylights out of you. Tourists don't vote, so slapping taxes on everything they buy gets the local government revenue without alienating any voters. My favorite is that, where I live, property taxes -- including school taxes -- are higher for second homes. That is, if you have a weekend or vacation home, you pay more for the schools your children will never attend, because you live somewhere else! But part-year residents also can't vote, so from the political standpoint it's a win-win.
Yes, this was available on the website, but how often do Snapchatters use the web instead of using the mobile app?

It's a reverse of Instagram's approach.
NASA's PR just kills me. Would it really hurt them to simply take a second picture from a different angle?

This is the kind of stuff that gets people interested in space exploration.
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Because it's within reach. If your HCI skills are weak you'll do less damage with minimalism than some alternative.
He does say "until my startup takes off". I don't think this is really that much different from the kid who kept sneaking into a big corp's office (was it YCombinator?) and sleeping under a table in a sleeping bag until he got caught.
He's also wisely doing this during a Swedish summer, where the daylight hours are so extreme that everyone's behaviour changes anyway (well, that's what we get here in England anyhow….)
It is not specific enough to end. Typically, wars end in either victory or defeat, but in the "war on terror" there is not even a clear definition of either.
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No government? Who said that? Where?

We need a simple and limited government that remains out of our lives in nearly every imaginable way. Every human being on this planet is born free. We created these monstrous governmental systems that, effectively, enslave us in one way or another.

I can't go for a swim in my local lake. My government will not allow it. I can easily swim 1500 meters or more. Swim every day. Yet, if I so much as stick my FOOT in the lake they'll warn me that this is not allowed.

Los Angeles County has a "no water contact" policy. I've had a lifeguard in a power boat rush over to me while walking with my children along the shore in six inches of water to tell us we could not get our feet wet. If I did try to go for a swim I could be arrested and fined. Really? Yes, really. And this is just one example.
I identify with the author of this post a lot. I tried a lot of things, but two stuck:

1. I got a big ol' whiteboard and wrote down everything I could be doing (project list, todo list, reading list, etc. etc.) The thing about using a .txt file or a Google Doc is that windows or open tabs can always be ignored, accidentally closed, minimized -- when an entire wall in one of your rooms is devoted to the things you want to be doing, its a lot harder to pretend they don't exist.

2. I started working with other people. I have a standing man-date with one of my friends where every Tuesday night, one of us buys a six-pack and we just plug away on our computer with a new album or something in the background. I don't know what it is about being around other people that makes me inherently more productive, but I feel like I have a part of my brain that wants to do work and part of my brain that wants to goof off: when I have friends in the room, the goofy hemisphere can spend time cracking jokes and scattered conversations, while the productive hemisphere codes away. (Otherwise, goofy Justin hogs the computer and productive Justin just can't pry him away from /r/corgi.)
it would've been unfortunate if i had missed this post by Finbarr, because i was already using a chrome extension to block other HN users ...
Interesting points. I agree that "fun" is a valuable thing, or can be anyways.

Twitter isn't perfect but one thing if does is to give a voice to those who didn't have one before. I'm thinking specifically of oppressive governments and the affected citizens or folks being harassed by law enforcement.

I hope that benefit outweighs the media's misuse of it.
Depends on the place. In some places, unpaid vacation is a "perk" (I'm not joking, sadly). In other places it's simply not allowed. I've heard of places that allow it, though to get it in your first you will probably require negotiation.
> Ultra limited government.

Pretty damn close.
Thank you. This is an argument that I've made after much frustration and many other points. It never occurred to me to make it the center of my argument. You have no idea how glad I am to have seen this.
He said, "Ultra limited government."

Does ultra-limited government include government-provided roads, infrastructure, safe food, safe cars, electricity, water, internet?
The comment about email isn't really logical. Crow bars help you kill people but that doesn't mean we should treat them the same way as guns. I'm sure there is a technical term for it (logical fallacy) but that's besides my point and I'm on mobile :).

This is exactly my point.
> According to the latest Gallup poll, 46% of Americans are sufficiently fundamentalist (christian or otherwise) that they believe that "God created humans in present form".

That's not particularly either Fundamentalist or fundamentalist; "Fundamentalism" is a particular school of Christian theology for which specific creationism of that type is not distinguishing, and "fundamentalism" in the generic sense inspired by Christian Fundamentalism is "the demand for a strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines" and cannot be identified by simply belief in a particular doctrine on a matter of "what happened", its defined by beliefs of how you treat people who disagree with your beliefs on such doctrines.
I would argue that the premium you are paying for the wedding photos is attributed to the service rather than the content. You are paying several thousand dollars to a professional photographer rather than a hundred bucks to your nephew so that they do not mess up your special day. While I'm sure the photos are exquisite, no one else would pay several thousand dollars for the exact same photos you received.
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Very nice. Agreed with another commenter that the default animations could be snappier.

I have a complaint: like many HTML WYSIWYG tools, modes are not directly reversible. For example, select a word then click the "numbered list" button. Then click it again to switch back to a normal paragraph. Oddly, a new paragraph has been added above your selection.

So many HTML WYSIWYG tools have this kind of quirk, leading to very polluted output HTML (with empty tags, redundant tags, and so on).
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Personally, I found it did go as far as I thought it would, in NYC. It might even seem like a bargain if you're coming from Australia. You finally get to live large, banking the same sums as an apprentice electrician from Perth.
Thanks for proving my point so concisely.
For some reason, everyone is convinced that this is the sort of thing Republicans do. The very suggestion that the Obama administration is, in fact, on the right wing of the political spectrum is shocking to many of his supporters.
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That's the day I stop using it. If I get a few second ad every 4 or 5 snaps then I won't continue my usage of the app. I understand that good things that require monetary value to continue operating at scale need to have a way to make money, but advertising should be a last-resort option. We haven't even seen for-pay snaps yet (more seconds, more options like random clip-art to add in, etc). Advertising kills the product 9 times out of 10.
Is this actually "news" (i.e. new information)? Ever since the secret room business in 2006 (about events in 2003 or earlier), the handwriting was on the wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/att_assisting_...
Yes - I'd be very interested in this also.