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Are you talking about partnerships or what sort of bizdev efforts?
I don't think it's really the case, more like a writer fascinated with Darwinism and equilibrium finding them everywhere.
do women fund these 'research' ;-)
If Fansnap is pouring money and resources into business development (getting long-term partnerships and contracts in place), then this might not be reflected in their numbers for some time. It still makes them a very dangerous competitor.

A three-orders-of-magnitude difference in development resources might not be scary to people who believe smaller is better when it comes to programming, but it's hard to make up that kind of ground in other areas.
where I live, the fuel hose reaches either side of the car, isn't it like that where you live?
That appears to be the time when they had a major launch, a meta-search for ticket comparison shopping:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/fansnap-is-the-new-kaya...
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Might be harder to directly access the fuel tank (since either the engine or trunk would be in the way)?
When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call 'reproductively focused'.

I guess this is the scientific term for horny.
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There have been consumer, production, cars with the fuel door in the back. I believe the early Mustangs had that feature.
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I thought it was about how women aren't primarily attracted to intelligence (unless you mean a different article)? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=567807
Sometime, often actually. But not everywhere.

If the hose is too long it dangles on the floor, so they try to avoid that with springs holding it up, but I assume that costs extra.
Many old cars have the door behind the license plate in the back.

It's not easy to find if you don't know it's there. It's not common anymore.
He did have a reasonable salary, so compensation is not a problem.
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Or the cook at Alaysa.

I'm surprised at the number of Aussies in here.
As great as those are, they still don't provide a replacement for student interactions with a professor and/or tutoring, which are things a site like this could conceivably provide for a monthly fee.
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Even if they do, most people don't know that (seemingly) or don't trust that so they go to the 'right' side anyway.
What surprises me is that it seems that this is a "new" thing. I thought computer trading has been happening for years.
That's been the business model of nearly every successful startup, and several unsuccessful ones:

Q[Facebook]: Isn't asking every teenager and 20-something to provide all their personal details, and then selling that to advertising partners, a massive privacy violation?

A: Maybe! However, it will take years for that question to be resolved, and in the meantime every teenager and 20-something will happily provide those details so they can throw sheep at each other (and more importantly, hook up). You are, of course, welcome to not use FaceBook, but then your friends will stop talking to you and you will never get laid.

Q[Youtube]: Isn't allowing anyone to upload video in seconds going to encourage massive copyright violation of all videos ever made?

A: Maybe! However, it will take years for that question to be resolved in your favor in court. And Google over there has a vested interest in making certain that it will not be resolved in your favor. So before that happens, they will buy us for exorbitant amounts of money and sic their exorbitantly-priced lawyers on you.

Q[Napster]: Isn't providing a peer-to-peer music service just a way to encourage massive copyright violation?

A: Maybe! However, it will take years for that question to be resolved in your favor in court, and by then we'll be the world's most influential Internet company, and you'll still just be some sap with a web page. After we're a billion dollar company...oh shit, your lawyers are faster than we thought.

Q[Craigslist]: Isn't an anonymous classified-ads website just going to be a haven for prostitutes to pick up clients?

A: Maybe! However, chances are that whatever judge you get uses those prostitutes' services, because he is not on FaceBook and hence doesn't get laid. Case dismissed.
Most manufacturers put the fuel door on the opposite side from the exhaust pipes. Also, even though it may not seem like a specific side would make any difference in the performance of the car, but when the tank/door are on the opposite side from the driver it keeps the suspension more balanced than if it's on the same side. As such, many performance cars have the gas cap on the right
maybe the long fuel lines are not long enough to reach around superawesomemegabigsuv4x4hummertrucks.

on a different note, i've always wondered why the bike chains are always on the right side.
I'm not sure if this is true across all models but someone who works in the industry once told me that the dashboard graphic of the fuel tank is situated the same side of the speedometer as the tank is on the car.

So if you get into a car and the fuel indicator is to the left of the speedometer, your fuel tank is too. I've only had a couple of cars but it seems to be the case so far.
Maybe this is what happened: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458947
I think that pg was making a point...a company with only $15,000 investment was able to compete with a company with $10,000,000 in investment. Is the company with 650x the amount of resources going to have more traffic in the long run? Yes. And I don't think anyone is surprised.

The idea is that the overall funding environment has changed. Companies don't need to raise millions of dollars, because you can often get a similar result with far less capital. If you look at this compete graph, his point stands. 1/4 the traffic for 1/650 the investment.

The main thing this says to me is that someone should pump more money into ticketstumbler.
What surprises me is that it seems that this is a "new" thing. I thought front-running has been known for years.
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Hmm... they have the capability of scientists: take current financial theory, e.g. Journal of Finance... these guys are high caliber mathematicians and physicists...

Also, the work done in Econometrics and Statistics in the field is totally solid. So, I wouldn't say they're not scientists. Or take Game Theory etc. - a lot of fields in Econ could just as well be in AI.

Anyway, macro's set of classical assumptions of modeling aggregate decisions based on rationality/ price-taking is too simple. Eventually we'll have to embrace more ideas out of complex systems analysis... but then all those neat macro formulas might not work out so well.

My two cents.
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After we're a billion dollar company...oh shit, your lawyers are faster than we thought.

Thank you, I needed a good belly laugh today.
Tell that to users that have to download the flash player to access your client's project
One can very well argue that accreditation system is very biased against new entrants, that's why the hack had to be devised. Whether accreditation system should be changed, is another discussion.

Personally, I see StraighterLine as Netflix of online learning. Not necessarily a bad thing.

Then again, it sounds like StraighterLine is currently a PG-13 version of Netflix with a selection of 100 DVDs.
I think you're right that such pressure has not been applied via market selection, in that a carmaker has never been advantaged/disadvantaged by its choice of fuel door sides.

However, merely realizing that such counterplanning would be possible, should a bias to one side emerge, does provide pressure in a game-theoretic sense. It makes any attempt to synchronize a car fleet on one-side self-defeating, even in the thought-experiment stage. So it works at the level of conscious strategy, for any design team that even begins to consider a placement strategy other than 'whatever fits our other choices'.
Maybe bike chains are always on the right side because the right leg is typically the strongest and most dexterous, so it will cope better with jammed trousers.
Ask HN: Post your OPMLs? What are your must-read sites?
I just installed Shaun Inman's RSS reader Fever ( feedafever.com ) and I'm trying to collect a nice range of feeds to act as Sparks (feeds that help surface hot stories from your main 'Kindling' feeds). I trust the taste of Hacker News' participants and—furthermore—I'm curious to see just how long the long tail of sites we like is.

Care to post your OPMLs? In the name of broader discussion, what feeds can't you live without? What's a site that you think more people should read?
A snapshot of my subscriptions of the moment is at http://brianseward.com/feed-me.opml

I am constantly impressed by the curation of applications on http://www.creativeapplications.net/ . Their posts inspire me to imagine creative, engaging interfaces for my own projects.
Most modern dashboard fuel indicators -- and certainly dashes in rental cars -- include a little triangle pointing to the side with the gas cap.
Safety precautions, I think. It might increase the risk af damage to the tank in a collision.
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I suspect there's more to this story than this 'just so from a biz/econ/evolutionary' analysis.

For example, somewhere, sometime, there must have been a regulator or dominant local supplier that achieved de-facto side-standardization. Did the gas-station-clumping emerge, or a later-entrant benefit from opposite-placement?

Is there a car census anywhere to tell us if regions have different distributions, or if it approaches 50/50 everywhere? (That writer who tallied driver cellphone use could tackle this next.)

Did gas cap placement migrate to the sides -- and higher off the ground -- because the old center-rear gas caps were too low, too dangerous in crashes?
I read it as saying that the decision to standardise fuel door position has never been taken because there is no percieved advantage; only the risk of having everyone queue on the same side of the pumps. There's been no need to change this approach since no choice (left/right) has so far affected the 'survival' of a car model.
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"yet never acknowledges that nobody can identify a bubble that has happened without government manipulation of the market"

Well, let me identify some for you. The tulip bubble, which is the classical example of a bubble had absolutely nothing to do with government manipulation. The internet stocks bubble of the late 90s also was largely unrelated to government manipulation. The housing bubbles of some eastern european countries also had nothing to do with the government as those governments did not subsidise housing. Even with the US housing bubble government involvement was rather tangential, the most troubled assets were not in any way subsidized by the government.

" He goes on at length about Keynesian stimulus with no mention of its dismal failures, most notably in Japan."

Japan is not an example of failure of Keynesian economics, because it is not really an example of keneysian economics. There haven't been the large public works project perscribed by keneysian economics in japan. Japan has tried to get out of the recession mostly by secretly subsidizing its banks.
If it(hf trading and associated phenomena) lowers the spread for the retail investor at the expense of NYSE, NASDAQ and regular brokerages that would be a good thing. It remains to be seen if it really does.

Dark pools sound more worrisome though, one loses transparency through them.
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I've used Elgato's Turbo.264 dongle, and as far as I'm concerned it did a good job. It cost roughly $150, and outperformed any software encoding I could manage by a large margin. Of course, if I had the money to build a dedicated computer and figure out the settings to ffmpeg (or some other software encoder) I might get even better results, but for my needs (MacBook, don't want to learn the intricacies of encoding) it's perfect.

I think that quite a few "ordinary consumers" would share my opinion. If they don't mind spending hours or days compiling and tweaking a delicate chain of open source software, they're not "ordinary" - they're power users.
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why don't people wear sweaters and sweat pants over their clothes? and a hat. so much heat is lost through the head! if i did have a snuggie the first thing i'd do is sew on a hood.

when i go pond swimming in the fall and spring (in NewEngland), i didn't buy a wetsuit. i just wear the clothes i already have into the water. and sturdy hat. man, the hat makes all the difference.
The comparison of absolute dollar amounts is not very informative since we have no data on how much equity each company gave up per dollar of funding.
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It does not really go like that. The higher the dimension (actually VC dimension, but polynomial dimension is a similar concept) the more points you would theoretically need to guarantee that the classifier is not overfitting (ie, representing the noise in the data set).
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Maybe some of you know the feeling: you finished a big projects, it takes off, has some success & then comes the big void ... what next? It's easy to slip into complacency, taking it easy. Is this typical for hackers? What do you do about it? What can an organization do about it?

I've observed this in myself several times & now I observe it in the group of people I'm working with. I'm at a medium-sized internet company with about 100 employees. We're doing fine: fast growth, good revenue, great colleagues, life is beautiful. But complacency is creeping in, and I see many symptoms of that: "We have too many projects!", "We need to hire more people!", "Why do something new when we have so much unfinished business?", "We need more structures!", "We need more layers of responsibility!", "We should only do projects that can't fail".

I'm in a position where I can hopefully nudge this group of people in the right direction, so which suggestions do you have? Has anyone tried the Google 20% approach? Does that work? How do you launch the notion of "Fail often, fail early" in a rapidly growing organization? I'm struggling with fostering innovation in this environment. Ideas?
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If so, then maybe some middle ground will work. E.g. the more interested you are, the more you customize the message.
It bothers me that these data sets are very low dimensional, without noise and pretty-picture-like. This pretty much excludes any interesting data to try to learn (after all one could easily manually code a classifier for most os these "concepts" that performs 100%)
As I said, there is a huge variation. Quantcast often has dramatically different results as well.
I read about this several times and I think this whole button experiment is somehow screwed.
The measure some brainwaves and draw such a fundamental conclusion without really understanding what they measure.
Maybe we are just making our decisions in our mind before they get transformed into language or actions. But that wouldn't imply that these are not our own decisions.
If anything, the opposite of true. Long messages --> higher reply rate. Its the reply rate per message that is improved with shorter messages.

Edit: Of course this doesn't factor in the guilt mentioned by someone else, but with all these other variables I don't think this data is very useful as is.
Is the company with 650x the amount of resources going to have more traffic in the long run? Yes.

I think that question should be: Is the company with 650x the amount of resources going to have a better chance at more traffic in the long run? The answer is probably yes but the more interesting question is 'by how much?'
I didn't watch the Ali G video, but I could actually see myself buying an ice cream glove if it was presented(read marketed) well..
I like ice cream and I hate using up napkins after eating ice cream.
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Actually, I'd guess this is selection bias, people who like zombie movies searching for others who like zombie movies.
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Sorry this does not show that it was the governments fault. This shows that the money supply in the Netherlands was essentially based on precious metals without any government involvement. The only thing the bank of Amsterdam did was keep the gold and silver in a central place and issue a receipt for it, so that people could more easily trade with the receipts rather than the actual gold. In fact this situation is pretty close to the gold standard that Chicago school people yearn about. Thus, any increase of the money supply was caused by the free market for precious metals not due to any govt involvement. So it is not "the government's fault."

Also the tulip mania cannot be explained by an increase of money supply. If that is the reason than why only tulips? If there is inflation and the market behaves efficiently and rationally everything should have gone up in price not only tulips. Why for example did one contemporary state that tulips became more expensive than the ground they were grown in? If the only reason is inflation, than the ground the tulips were grown on would increase in price proportionally to the tulips.
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On that note, it'd be interesting to somehow mix this data in with (self reported) happiness of people who end up together. Not sure how... maybe happiness (1 - 10) vs length of original message.
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its more like finding out the airline doesn't have insurance after a plane crash.
It was this one actually.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799344

However, its only about birds... I'd forgotten that.

Oh well, I still wonder if it happens to guys who are trying to show off their intelligence (probably a decent strategy in some limited circumstances).
I looked into the same dongle (also for a Macbook) and the general impression I got was that it was maybe better than Apple's Quicktime on slower machines but that you could easily beat it with open source encoders. The only reason it is difficult to make the comparison is that the software encoders generally didn't take the same shortcuts as the hardware encoder because they didn't feel the quality tradeoffs were worth it.

This was a while ago, but I have no reason to think the software encoders haven't improved faster than the hardware.

edit: rereading your post I see your main problem with the software solution is "spending hours or days compiling and tweaking a delicate chain of open source software". I can't help but note that if that is the case then you're doing it wrong™.
That's the first thought. Something more "useful" (application rather than media site).
One of my sister's friends, a short average looking bald gay man is constantly hit on by very attractive women (he lives and works in NYC). He says it might be due to the fact that he is totally non-plussed by beautiful women (since he has no sexual interest in them)

There is always desensitization training. In one day, you could probably approach fifty attractive women and effectively tame your fear. I've never done that, and I think it would be a courageous (courage comes after the action) personal exercise (probably to attempt in a city you do not live in)
I don't like to take the fuel hose over to the other side of my car because I don't want the dirty hose to touch the paintwork.
Run an internal competition (with a significant prize) to come up with a product that would outdo the existing product. Assuming the winning idea is good enough, that becomes the template for version 2.0
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Yes, like what's the actual success rate of finding a relationship worth pursuing from either approach.
I would expect that the average application reviewer has access to a dictionary though.
I had always thought European cars had the door on the passenger side, while Japanese and American cars had it on the driver's side. I admit to not having driven all that many cars, especially American ones, but I don't think I've ever encountered a counterexample. I'm sure one is forthcoming, though :)
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That's a great idea, we contemplated participating in some external competitions (e.g. Android challenge) but I like the idea of an internal "Kill The Company" contest.
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