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I understand why my previous post would have seemed non-committal (especially when you pull out certain soundbites), so I've denied it again in stronger terms:

http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/_/9525592
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Actually I find every public mention of the singularity interesting. Especially the 4 lines about fai :)
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Or do something (but that is not such a catchy headline).
In most situations it is often better to keep momentum, keep going, than overthink. Take some action, a decision, if it's wrong take another.
Don't get into analysis paralysis.
There are studies showing that you really use your emotions when doing Decision making and people that have head/brain trauma in the frontal brain have harder to make 'any' kind of decision.
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PMI only works when a small number of people default at any one time. I would even suggest that PMI makes the system less stable when markets collapse. I suspect that people tend to push the edges of any stable system so structures like PMI don't really help things all that much.

PMI is just a method of moving risk around the system, it's still there, but it does not look like the bank is taking the risk. However people selling PMI know that they will be bankrupted if X percent of mortgages fail at the same time. (AIG) At which point the person / group holding the mortgage get's the rest of the risk.

PS: PMI is part of the derivative market and a large part of why all those bad loans where written.
Edit: I am totally wrong in this comment.

<strike>Last.fm is owned by CBS which is part of the RIAA.</strike>
This web page reliably crashes my web browser (complicated situation - don't ask) so I've pulled out the plain text of the item for my own consumption. Posting the whole thing here amounts to outright plagarism, so I won't do that.

Here, however, are the highlights:

Greg Gottesman: ... the three most important factors in determining the success of a start-up are (1) team, (2) product or service, and (3) market (timing, size, etc.).

... added one factor to the must-have list: the right start-up culture.

1. No politics
2. It's not a job, it's a mission.
3. Intolerance for mediocrity.
4. Watching pennies.
5. Equity-driven.
6. Perfect alignment.
7. Good Communication, Even in Bad Times.
8. Strong leadership.
9. Mutual respect.
10. Customer-obsessed.
11. High energy level.
12. Fun.
13. Integrity.
Yay! And I was looking for interesting opportunities to try out data mining tutorials recently discussed here in HN.
http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/

Now we have ready to analyze dataset, ability to get immediate feedback on performance of my model, and compare it with the rest of the world.

P.S. I'm new here.
It would be nice if you describe on the page what Evom converts _to_.. Why would anyone need this app? That's not clear from the text, a bit more clear from the screenshots.

That said, I haven't tried it yet, but will try it later today.
>"For Mac and Linux users, there’s still no Google Chrome for you."

And this is when I stopped reading. If Google was truly committed to opensource they'd make a Linux version.
CBS is not part of the RIAA (http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=aboutus_mem...) and has not had a significant music recording arm since it sold CBS Records/Columbia to Sony in 1988.
We do deny it.

http://www.last.fm/forum/21717/_/535934/_/9525592
Great; I think that is exactly the kind of direct statement everyone was waiting to hear.

I now feel pretty much the same way about the issue as I did 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489805 , although I suppose it's not just about Erick Schonfeld anymore.
Do you think that US treasury bills are not a relatively safe investment? That would be quite a controversial thing to say.
Trilogy isn't an insurance subsidiary, but yes they did work with a lot of F500 companies in the finance and auto industry saving them millions. As a company it might not have succeeded big way (they are a services company - they won't be sold) though at some point it was worth more than a billion.

The best achievement of Trilogy it created a cult and I bet most Trilogians value the Trilogy University experience for their life.
It is indeed light on read. But I do find their HR negotiations way too smart, may be it sounds funny on paper but ask a Trilogian who took that offer I bet he was under a total charm when he said yes. And not many repent that anyway.
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Relative to what? I'll take precious metals over a fiat currency (any of them) any day.
He's probably referring to inflation reducing the value of a (non-inflation protected) treasury bill investment. Of course they'll honour their obligations, but they may pay using dollars that are worth less.
(disclaimer : I'm French). Instead of answering the US-bashing comment, better read what Nikola Tesla has to say about the US in 1919 :

I wish that I could put in words my first impressions of this country. In the Arabian Tales I read how genii transported people into a land of dreams to live thru delightful adventures. My case was just the reverse. The genii had carried me from a world of dreams into one of realities. What I had left was beautiful, artistic and fascinating in every way; what I saw here was machined, rough and unattractive. A burly policeman was twirling his stick which looked to me as big as a log. I approached him politely with the request to direct me. "Six blocks down, then to the left," he said, with murder in his eyes. "Is this America?" I asked myself in painful surprise. "It is a century behind Europe in civilization." When I went abroad in 1889 - five years having elapsed since my arrival here - I became convinced that it was more than one hundred years AHEAD of Europe and nothing has happened to this day to change my opinion.

-- extract from "My Inventions"
I think you might have a point if the success of the US economy was the result of the failure of others but that's simply not the case (and this is also why Argentina seems like a fairly apt pairing given that Argentina also had people who preceded the colonists who lived there).

Examples abound of countries who have pursued more liberal economic policies like that of the US who have done tremendously better than those who took routes similar to Argentina (e.g. take Hernando De Soto's work on property rights for example or any myriad of economic/regulatory indicators used by the World Bank/Economic freedom index). If you want to see countries whose people and economies were truly destroyed, look at those who sided with and aligned their economic views with the rivals of the US (e.g. Soviet republics) or Peronists like Argentina.
Suit yourself, but the price of gold will go wherever the powers that be want it to go.
A mention of xargs might be worth slipping into this. A lot of the time it doesn't really matter whether you use that or -exec, but it's faster on large lists of files. And some commands (grep) act differently if there are multiple files specified as input.
May I suggest packaging it as a dmg instead of a zip? Doesn't make much difference other than that's what's usually expected
It's hard to be a superpower with 37 million people, but in 1900 Argentina didn't yet have 5 million. And in 1950 it hadn't reached 20. Uruguay was vrey rich in the 1950s, yet it had no influence in the world because it only had 2 million inhabitants.
Err, this is different from the Treasury how?
I really wonder what they'll come up with. Unlike you, I really enjoy my tabs. They work perfectly for me. They give easy access to and a quick overview of open pages. At a cost of almost no display space.

I've been hooked on tabs since before they were called "tabs" (Opera's MDI taskbar). They haven't changed a lot in those years and I generally love these things. Any replacement that comes at a price of losing one of the features mentioned above, will surely be hated by me.

So yeah, I'm curious what they'll come up with. I'm also sceptical they will find a replacement. But we'll see.
Very difficult to follow: "...five years since having elapsed here" Where is here? "...it was more than one hundred years AHEAD" Who was ahead? Didn't he just say America was behind? Also he went abroad in 1889, five years after having arived here? What??? I though this was from 1919? Plus, he went from where to where, and when?
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Yes. It's "safe" in that they're likely not going to fold, but they're worthless for maintaining a relatively stable purchasing power.
"Cog" and "Play" both do FLAC playback, but lack hotkeys and/or ReplayGain.

Fluke doesn't seem to offer any advantages over those.
Yeah, the problem isn't so much in analysis. It's that you think you've got all the right info for analysis while in reality, without a working prototype -- or something -- you don't have the info.

Without the info, no matter how much you analyze, you still will be behind those who actually got the info -- by launching early and not wasting time on improper analysis for example. Or hacking into a secret database of marketing leads.

Sometimes there is a time for analysis and sometimes there is time to get out there and gather information. A lot of people try to substitute former for the latter because it feels more secure but it doesn't work.
"You can literally feel it when you walk into a great start-up culture. The room has energy. There’s a buzz. Doors are open. Whiteboards are filled with hieroglyphics. People are getting stuff done. Meetings are short and to the point. You might trip over a dog."

This is quite possibly the best possible description of a good startup.
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Probably not many, if any at all. Sites love to carry these stories because they almost always degrade into flame wars which is great for your hits & ad impressions. A developer merely needs to write a paragraph long e-mail and CC 4 or 5 popular tech tabloids.
xargs was my first thought as well. I think I type in this line almost daily (why have i not made an alias already?):

find . -type f | xargs grep needle

gnu find and xargs have the -print0 and -0 arguments for piping nul terminated filenames, so special chars in file names wont bite you.
OK, so when he arrived, he thought America was 100 years behind. Five years later, he had become convinced that America was 100 years ahead, and even after re-visiting Europe, he still hasn't gone back to his old way of thinking.
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The frightening thing is that the U.S. is now pursuing Argentine-style fiscal policy with massive new borrowing and spending, and the specter of protectionism is emerging here with all of the new subsidies and bailouts for domestic automakers, banks, and insurers.
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Quote:

Susan is the living proof of an amazing theory,
that any ordinary child can be turned into a
genius.

I have no problem with the idea that she's an amazing chess player, but one example is not "proof". It's evidence that adds to a growing body of evidence. It's fascinating. It's intriguing. It's raises the possibility of amazing advances.

But it's not "proof".

Oh how I hate the hyperbole of journalism. It seems that everything has to be biggest, fastest, strongest, "best", epic. I wish we could be given the facts and the story. That's interesting enough.
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... there is no truth.

Interesting claim.

Question: Have you actually tried programming the way he sugegsts? Have you used it "in anger"? Have you worked in a team that has ubiquitous, all-encompassing, tests?

I ask because I'm interested. I've started recently, as an experiment, to run in that very, very small circle, and after an initial experience of paralysing culture shock I'm starting to run really, really fast.

I'm finding it liberating.
I VERY much dislike such webpages where there is no information what it is. Stop assuming some knowledge and start of the webpage with a two line description of what the project is.
Right, yes, good, ... a DOG?

Running a startup should be like going into a war about survival -- do you bring your pet dog to the war?

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In that case I suggest you step up your PR and/or legal effort one or two notches _together_ with your parent company. If you are indeed the victims here, I'm very sorry for you.
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Clean site and nice design. I don't have a Mac so I can't comment on performance, but on your home page "Macs spare power" should be "Mac's spare power" under "Built for speed."
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The xgamestation products seem good, but the website is awful. I've been there on and off several times over the years and never purchased anything because I've given up. There's now quite a few different products, but not a good overview of the differences. And the faux game look and feel is tedious and hard to read. View -> Page Style -> No Style helps somewhat.
Exactly. The irony is that these articles make worse my addiction to this site.
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To understand progress you must understand corruption for absolute power corrupts absolutely, and absolute corruption destroys all traces of progress.

Dictatorships exterminate thinkers, the fuel of progress, and turn great workers into mindless servants.

A ten year dictatorship can turn the clock backwards a hundred years, or more.

Cleptocracy, the modern dictatorship with a democratic facade, are far worse, they look completely legit, approved by the people, but they are just a maffia whose only purpose is to use and abuse the country's resources for their own benefit while manipulating the law to perpetuate themselves in power.

Just take a look at every single latin american country touched by a leftist wave of "socialism" changing their constitutions at will just to allow continuous reelections to stay in power forever.

May God save the US from a cleptocracy.

todo: s/God/science/
The name of the project tells you what it does. If you don't understand from the name of the project, you'll certainly have no use for it.
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It's predecessor, the Teensy, has been discussed before; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457740 But this is the Teensy++, despite having the same URL, hence me fudging the lameness filter. You get quite a bit more for a small price increase so it's well worth another look.
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No its like you are so busy at war that you don't have time for your dog, may be you live in office (except for bathing).

So the dog has to follow you to office for its survival and moreover most dogs are super spiritful creatures and all dogs are great morale boosters.
I love it. I can just drag my Youtube links from the browser address bar over to the Evom dock icon and it queues it up for download. It would be nice to be able to set a "default" capture type so it was automatic.

Also, some kind of bookmarklet would be nice. Maybe you can set your own system url handler which would make it easy to catch the links.

The popups are royally screwed up. There's no way to get rid of them (close). Examples are the beta notice, and the "Register..." popup.
I hate DMGs. I know it seems to be the most common way of installing stuff, but, really, what's the point? I have to mount, drag, unmount. Zip's automatically get extracted by Safari, and you just drag it where you want it (or launch it from Downloads). One step, vs 3 steps.

A short example: my uncle's been using a mac for 5 years and still has absolutely no idea how to install programs on mac because of this convoluted process. DMGs need to die.
Thats a good point. There's tons of free youtube downloaders anyways (I especially like keepvid.com). But I sort of like how Evom is a dual way helper, plus it'll re-encode the video for iPod.
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Not that the article is deep or all that well-written, but I get this point.

I often know what "feels right" that I should be doing, but that doesn't mean it's comfortable to do it.

Example: I was not comfortable canceling my conf speaking engagement next week due to illness, but I knew that was what I had to do. Writing that email made me feel bad, and it was hard, but now I feel an immense relief.

This is not just me with this canny "uncomfortable feel-right spidey sense," but all of humanity, as far as I can tell.
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Actually, no it's possible.

I did "blackhat" back in 2006 and had about 500,000 pages indexed into Google. A few real queries and I saw my own site as the first few listings.
You make an interesting point although our target market for Evom is people who aren't necessarily the most competent at using their Macs. We may consider switching to DMGs in this instance... may being the key word. :)

Thanks for your feedback though!
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Also, making Chromium on Linux more efficient is a Google Summer of Code 2009 project: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2...
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"Mainly, I'm convinced, by people who haven't done things themselves"

I assure you that some of us have :-)
It's not unheard of ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_warfare ), after all, people routinely take their best friend into war.. so taking "man's best friend" makes plenty of sense.

That said, my office is in a no-pets building, and I'm happy for it. It makes it a non-issue.
I used to use the find | xargs grep idiom a lot too until I installed ack ( http://betterthangrep.com/ ).
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A quick look-around and I find that they're working on it.

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-li...

I'm sure you could help out. I mean, if you are truly committed to open source.
There are no technical constraints, only bureaucracy constraints.

Everybody in that company is standing around in a giant circle jerk telling everybody else in that company how hard it is to get anything done. Meanwhile, the company is going down in flames, and the web site is one aspect of it.

"Woe is me, my boss won't let me do good work! It's so COMPLICATED! You can't underSTAND BUSINESS! There are MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS!"

People, life is too short to make crap. If you have a job like that, quit.
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I'm question the value of "Equity-driven." Equity - possibly counterproductively - bundles the distribution of 3 very different things: profit, sale, and decisions.

Trying for both profit and sale creates conflict unless all workers and investors share views and desires. For example, an investor roadshow typically hurts profits for sale proceeds. Or more complicated, imagine one investor is a fund that's forced to liquidate due to losses as the market goes into a panic. Selling is likely to hurt everyone else. Of course, increasing sale value sometimes requires working for some profits, but there's no guarantee that's the best route for profits. At best, you usually end up compromised.

Decision rights (typically voting) are even more complicated. Many think it shouldn't have the same weights and rights as the other parts, so they try to rectify it with share classes and complicated operating agreements. That's crude, expensive, and each "fix" becomes exponentially harder. Tying voting to the other two only seems logical as a way to support sale value.

I'm all for massive (up to total) profit-sharing, but I'm less sure about the others, especially as entangled by equity. Venture/angel-backed start-ups logically will end up either in utter failure or conflict. It seems like it'd only make sense for someone long-term if they turn into a more typical public corporation big-shot post-sale.
The core of this issue:

Big[1] companies tend to collapse under their own bureaucracy.

Executives either don't really care, don't hear about problems, or don't trust anyone enough to delegate power to someone who would care (or they are incapable of hiring people who do care / are trustworthy)

Middle managers don't get rewarded for risks that succeed, they are motivated mostly to CYA

Committees are inherently unproductive, and become "scorekeeping grounds" for petty people who are in otherwise denied any power

Jobs are staffed with people who won't rock the boat because the reward for rocking the boat doesn't offset the downside of getting fired

Everybody down to the "productive" employees (somebody who might actually redesign the site) gets so whipped and dispirited that they tell themselves that this is how The Real World is.

Turtles all the way down... apathy, self-deception, excuses, and groupthink.

[1] I say big, but at one job, I saw this happening in a team of about 20. It really depends on the individual group's inclination towards buck-passing and bet-hedging
This post being first on HN this afternoon has triggered some kind of recursive irony loop I can't get out of. Turning machine off for rest of day ...
Slogans are good but not enough - Just do it. Catch the moment. Today. Less is more, and so on. There is a wisdom in language itself, in slang, proverbs, jargon, folklore, but it is not enough to do business. Practice - the process of creation of an experience is the second side of the coin. And, of course, thousand miles long way begins with first step.

btw, my favourite chinese proverb is "The man without smile shouldn't open a shop."