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Both of these techniques are drool-worthy. As a designer who spends a lot of time using the creative suite, I want both features YESTERDAY. Nice post.
Indeed, here's the direct link:

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I don't know whether or not the Seedcamp T&Cs are legal.

But, they are logical IMHO. You get about 25 hours worth of advice from Saul's high-value network of entrepreneurs and investors. In exchange for this advice, Seedcamp gets an option to invest at a reasonable valuation given the stage of the companies that attend.

Rather than make this option a legal Security in your company, they take you at your word. Seems better than wasting everyone's time with legal fees to actually formalize this option.
I'm pretty sure that you can't sign away such rights. It's very simple: as CEO, don't sign any more papers. What is SeedCamp going to do? Force a financing on you? I don't think so.

It's ok for them to strongly warn you that you shouldn't approach them if you are not interested in taking their money. Why waste their time?

On the other hand, cold feet is always acceptable.

It's called a covenant of good faith.
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I think one of the great things about the web is having client interfaces tailored specifically to the domain being dealt with. I don't think a traditional desktop interface - that is something that is great at handling disparate/undefined domains - is a good choice for something with a finite scope.
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There's another reason to do this, beyond Wolverine DVDs costing more than My Little Pony DVDs: inventory utilization. The demand curve for a new release goes something like this: BIG FREAKING SPIKE, two weeks pass, long-tail until the sequel is released. To accommodate peak demand, Netflix would have to do what Blockbuster does: order a metric truckload of Wolverine, then either let it suck up shelf space or dispose of it somehow after the spike was over. Alternatively, they could just not accommodate peak demand, and have users perpetually ticked off that they can "never watch anything I want to watch".

I use one of the Japanese analogs to Netflix and this is the #1 complaint everyone has with the service. You're lucky to be able to watch a new release within a month of them getting it, which sort of defeats the purpose now doesn't it. (Note that they offer plenty of UI features Netflix doesn't which tend to exacerbate this, such as "Sort by Popularity", "Sort by Release Date", and "Most Popular Recently Released Movies". They also have "Sort by Availability", which is essentially "Show me popular new releases from 2 months ago where you now practically can't give away the DVDs.")
Hopefully "deactivate" simply means preventing the owner of the account from logging in. It is possible to deactivate an email account while storing incoming email and preserving the contents of that person's account - just in a way inaccessible to them. That way, it could simply be temporary - especially if appealed.

It's an absolutely terrible decision, but I think (hope?) it will be more akin to them changing the lock on your PO Box and not allowing you to access its contents until the situation is cleared up. Clearly not an acceptable decision, but it's better than permanently losing everything and can be appealed by the account's holder.

Plus, if the deactivation was a destruction of the person's data, that would put the bank at huge liability I would have to think. People have important emails and I don't think any jury would side with the bank. Imagine presenting that case to a jury. "The bank screwed up and to cover their ass, they destroyed all my email - all my personal and professional communications; important documents. . ."
Nerd Tree is indeed a good one, and I'll add to this vimfs, which isn't a Vim plugin but rather a CLI file system browser with Vim bindings. I hardly ever actually browse my file system (zfs, grep, and locate do all of the work for me), so I'm not sure how much mileage one can get out of this (especially compared to something like Midnight Commander).
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You have made my day.

To make this work with MacVim on a Mac:

:set editor="/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim -g -f"
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I haven't even learned one tenth of the features in CS3 yet. And yet, surprise, surprise, I seem to do just fine. More feature bloat as far as I'm concerned.
> To accommodate peak demand, Netflix would have to do what Blockbuster does: order a metric truckload of Wolverine, then either let it suck up shelf space or dispose of it somehow after the spike was over

Or just burn more copies. The cost of a disc is probably less than the postage. But they'd have to get a license for that, which leads back to same reason: studios charge more for popular movies. Renting good movies on Netflix is hard for the same reason it's hard on iTunes, which has no inventory problem.
Is it in fact the longest post you've ever written or just similar to the longest post you've ever written which also happens to be on this same topic?
We implemented a seam carving algo in our computer vision course. We found "perfect" (minimum cost) seams, so the algo was very slow. It's great that more research has gone into faster (although perhaps not as theoretically "perfect") algorithms.

If we're allowed to destroy our pictures by non-ratio-holding resizes, then we should be able to destroy our pictures with cool seam carving techniques. Think of the possibilities!
seam curve is not slow. I implemented seam curving to shrink 800x600 image into 800x200 image on one core computer with less than 1 second.

Edit: if you mean the total minimum cost of all curves, I am wrong.
I use Grooveshark and I agree that the autoplay is very naive compared to Pandora. A better autoplay algorithm will definitely help but it is hard give you feedback unless we know what you are trying to do with the new algorithm. Currently, correct me if am wrong, your algorithm for recommendation is heavily biased toward genre. It is really hard to discover new songs that I like with it and that's when I fall back to Pandora.
A few months ago, I went to a let's-see-if-you're-presentable-to-my-clients interview with a recruiter for a contract. I wasn't working at the time, so it wasn't as costly as it would be now.

The rate quoted to me was absurdly low, so I asked what the bill rate to the client was. Middle-men I've worked with in the past have disclosed this to me (and the margins are lower than what one might expect), so I didn't think much of it. The recruiter told me that I was arrogant and asked me to leave. You can bet that I'll never refer anybody to his firm.

The irony was that the guy was an idiot. When asked if the quoted rate (to me) was W2 or 1099, he said, "Well, whatever you'd like" and was perplexed when I remarked that I would surely insist the he take on the payroll taxes if the nominal rate was the same. Very odd for a guy who claimed to have been in the business for years. It's too late for me to give this story much justice, but it was genuinely surreal.
I like studying all sorts of different things, even if it's not deemed the best route to success these days. I don't usually do what I'm supposed to do, anyway.
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I have to disagree with you there. I formerly worked in the CPA industry and we saw a lot of people with sites that weren't build around specific offers able to monetize them very well using CPA offers. As I said before CPA won't work for all sites. Same with CPC and CPM but it does work on a lot of sites both old and new. The difference is you have to spend a bit more time understanding your audience and researching offers.

I understand that you've had issues monetizing a site with it but that is far more likely to be an issue with your target audience or your advertising strategy.

If you don't get conversions from your CPA offers I'm guessing your CPC and CPM ads aren't converting well for the advertisers either which as we all know isn't going to last for ever.
For autoplay, I think the algorithm needs to give the initial song genre a little bit more weight, especially long term.

Short term it works fine, but long term(couple of days) it'll go off on a tangent. For example, I'd start out with a fast paced upbeat song, and eventually it'll go to playing non-stop slow country music.

For new discovery, I think you should let the user be able to select a new song style mid-way through. Something like "Play more like it" button, that would reset the algorhytm around the current song you are listening to.
GV doesn't emulate the functionality of a common carrier though. Which is the point.
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If I were the owner of the gmail account in question, and I were planning to sell or otherwise misuse the bank's customers' information, I would certainly reply to the bank and claim to have deleted the file. In fact, I would actually delete the email, but I'd have already transferred the data to some very heavily encrypted storage elsewhere(deniable encryption, of course).
From TFA

"Patzer says he does not have an earnout, but is on contract with Intuit for three years."

After MintRunning Quicken/Online will be like being neck deep in quicksand and trying to run. But I guess one can suffer sme boring meetings (Intuit is big on meetings) for 3 years for this kind of money.

Is 17 million (assuming a 10% share for him) worth three years at Intuit? I think so, at his age. (He'd be 31 when he is free again).
>I have to give Google the benefit of the doubt in any case, because I like Google's services and use them willingly on a daily basis.

That's not a good reason to give someone the benefit of the doubt in a legal (or, now that I think about it, just about any) matter.
Sounds like a troll turned professional. Very funny.
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That makes 100,000 companies manipulating you to be more conformist and 1 company manipulating you to be less conformist.
I like how you and vaksel gave diametrically opposed suggestions...poor Chris.
Ah, no, that's a legal structure set up in such a way as to prevent commercial transfer. Not necessarily funding related at all...it's more like reconfiguring it to be a non-profit; it can still make money and pay salaries, but it can't be an investment vehicle.
Thanks, I've made frequent use of doing that with -o (horizontal split) and -O (vertical split).
I was thinking keyboard shortcuts would have been implemented, went to the demo page , opened "my computer", hit Alt+F4 (thinking that itd close the "my computer" modal, boom, my browser closed.

Would be nice to integrate keyboard shortcuts in there as well. Good job though.
The original algorithm uses a mix of strategies to select songs. Its more or less hand picked. One thing that makes Grooveshark special is that it is all user-submitted content which is terrific from a selection and discovery point of view but an unwieldly problem from a data point of view. Note that our library stands somewhere around 6 million songs compared to Pandora's 600,000 so generating recs has to be done at great scale. The way in which users interact with our site is fundamentally different as well because you can add any mix of songs to your queue at any period in time.
You mean toolbar?
We see a lot of ":q" messages in #vim.
Experiment: No Comment Scores
Over the years several people have suggested not displaying comment scores. I finally decided to try it. There are so many users now that voting is starting to have a bit of a mob feel to it. We'll see if this makes the site feel better.

Voting still has all the same effects (on karma, and on position on the page), so I encourage users to keep doing it. The only difference is that comment scores aren't displayed in threads.
Interesting experiment. I thought I was going crazy all of a sudden.

A suggestion: Any chance the numbers could show later as the article gets older? I'd like to see how the votes resolved after some time. Or perhaps hide them only on front page articles?
Netflix doesn't even need to burn discs, they already have the video streaming infrastructure in place.

The studios don't want people to watch their movies. They want people to pay for the discs.
If a study cannot be replicated, then it's ripe for criticism; replication is the last step in the scientific method, after all.

If a study, significant at p=0.05, is replicated again at p=0.05, then the odds of that happening when there actually is no effect (assuming independence) are the product of the two (0.0025). Note: there are more rigorous ways to perform a meta-analysis than this...

I think p=0.05 is a good balance for noisy data. It's enough to publish, and publishing is frequently enough for others to replicate it. That's good science.

The conclusion shouldn't be that "we need to use a stricter test of significance (i.e. p<0.001)" Instead, I think it means the field is ripe for replicated studies and meta-analyses.

It can be hard on people's reputations when something is falsified, but let's face it: falsifiability is one of the best things going for science. It looks bad in the media, but it's really healthy for the field.

EDIT: I do want to mention that this paper is a really thoughtful analysis...
Of course, there is no zero on that graph. Add one, and the three companies look about the same...
Haha you'd be surprised by how many people love the current autoplay despite it's drawbacks. I have a feeling we're not hearing from the people who don't like it because they end up going to Pandora for better recs. I think it's a problem we can solve though. By our next product launch we'll have the logic in place to make both user groups happy.
"I thought I was going crazy all of a sudden."

heh! so did I . I actually asked a friend to look at it and tell me if he saw what I was seeing! (Long day, too much code, off to bed)

EDIT: I tried to vote up the comment above and got a "Can't make that vote" message. Then I tried to vote down a comment and got the same message. Bug?

EDIT2: Now I get a blank page on upvoting. I guess PG has a REPL open and is changing the site "live"

EDIT3: Blank page on voting (firefox/linux). This acts as a subtle disincentive to vote. "Oh I am going to see that blank page again and then need to click the browser back button. I'd rather continue reading(vs voting)".
Is this by design? I hope not.

EDIT4: Fixed.
I can still see the score on the "edit" page, which means I can still edit my post to whine about being downmodded. Since nobody knows the degree that I am being downmodded to (or corrected to), people might upvote more than they should.

(I have also noticed that people don't stop upmodding even if the score is visible. I got 80 points yesterday on a one-line comment poking fun at Joel Spolsky. WTF?)

Just like when there is the delayed "reply" link that isn't showing, you can still reply to a comment by clicking the "link" link.

Edit: why is this being downmodded?
And here I was, thinking firefox was screwing up the JS. I guess this should improve the quality of discussions a lot, since a lot of people tend to just skim the few comments at the top. Not displaying the comment scores might make them read more.
Any chance we can see scores when we're looking at our own comments section?

Often when I notice a bump in my karma I look at my comment threads to see what was so popular.
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It looks like pg is still in the middle of changing things. A moment ago I could see other people's comments' scores in the replies on my "threads" page; now I can't.
That's a great suggestion! Autoplay right now just takes into account your current playing song. We're hoping to build an algorithm that learns as your music moods change and adapts real time. If that doesn't give good results we might opt to give users more choice in how they want their recs to be delivered.
On a related note, I noticed that I'm just being shown a blank page after voting, rather than redirecting to the original discussion.
There is also ViewSourceWith which allows the use of different editors.
I'm a huge Pandora fan as well. For some reason one day I decided to quickly profess my love for them via email and actually got a response asking if I wanted a shirt or hat. This blew my mind, and I rock my Pandora baseball tee often as a result.
You are making the mistake assuming that the level of understanding of our climate for scientists is a limited as your own. If that was the case then certainly there would be good cause to delay action until further knowledge was gained. However it turns out that many brilliant people all around the world have been devoting their professional lives to understanding this. The data/predictions have been 'vetted', evidence has been 'rationally gathered' the urgency is based on fact and has been not fabricated.

Unless you are prepared to devote a large portion of your life to studying climate there is no chance you (or I) will develop anything like a sufficient understanding of the models to have a meaningful opinion their accuracy. All we can do is choose who to believe on the topic. We are all 'blindly following' other people's opinion on the matter.

The reasonable default position is to believe the people who are spending the most time and effort looking into the issues - the 'experts'. For whatever reasons you are choosing not to believe them but instead following a group that has devoted far less time and effort in research.
If I try and vote on a comment now, the ersatz AJAX trick no longer works. I'm actually taken to /vote?for=12345 etc.. so I get a blank page every time I vote. Bug?
Fixed.

I didn't see the comment you mention, but that is exactly the sort of thing I meant about voting starting to have a mob feel.
You have to sign up for some completely unrelated service to receive the "validate your email" link. So OpenID is nothing new in this respect; you have always had to have an unrelated service to sign up for websites.

The point now is that every site you visit doesn't have to have your password and email.
Just noticed this on the front page: http://zapreader.com/reader/
So when do we invade Canada and "liberate the people" ?

Seriously though, isn't Canada's oil in shale and I thought that was the most expensive to produce?
I have noticed things changing around too.

I hear there is this thing called a "dev server"...
I am not alone in the world! And to register this, I clicked the up arrow next to the comment above me, but it redirected me to a blank page. (Chrome, Windows Vista.)
And? Of course popular movies are in high demand, so the rental queue is longer. They avoid showing you movies that would cause a long wait.

The movies on Netflix's list are probably better than the new releases. In fact, the real manipulation is the idea of new releases, that half the demand should be for this season's movies. The actual best movies of all time are probably not on this week's best sellers list. It's a Hollywood marketing artifact: because buzz causes a superlinear advertising conversion rate, it works best to promote movies in short bursts. New releases also skew revenue from rental stores towards Hollywood (since rental stores have to buy enough for peak demand) so you can't blame Hollywood for doing it.
The lack of a dev server is what separates a "hacker" from a "software engineer". Besides, who hasn't gotten a thrill from tinkering with a live site?
Hmm, will investigate.
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PG: Will you be applying some metric to determine if this improves site feel? If so, what metric?
Those applications are Google's sole bargaining point with handset manufacturers and carriers to have them build Android devices meeting certain requirements in order to make sure the Google Experience is up to par.

Not sure that this is such a good idea. As soon as someone builds a phone that is otherwise up to spec but doesn't have a good enough camera, it loses Google Maps. Then the users say, "Android sucks, I can't even see maps" and buys an iPhone instead.
But don't votes also give feedback to the commentor? I have used this to learn what works within this community and what doesn't. Now, I only know by approximation to my total karma, or if i am bad, that I turn gray.
I like this already. How long will you let the test run?
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same here (FireFox 3.5.3, Ubuntu Jaunty)

EDIT: Fixed. Wow that was fast!
Ok, should be fixed now. Sorry, the javascript for modifying displayed scores was breaking now that there weren't any.
You say "guts to ship and see", I say "piss-poor engineering at best, unethical criminal negligence at worst"...
works fine for me. FF on OSX
It was this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840748

Although I don't have any data, I think that if the same comment was posted today, it would end up with more points. If I see a comment with 80 upvotes, I usually let it stay there rather than bumping it to 81.

One other comment; I find it hard to navigate my "threads" page now. I used to focus on highly-voted comments to improve and reply to; now that I don't know what other people like, I have nothing to go on.

I guess spending less time on HN might not be a bad thing, however :)

Edit: one more thing. I still have a reflex-like urge to click the upvote button when the author name says "pg". With no number, it is even harder to suppress the urge.

So far I have managed, but I can't guarantee that I won't change my mind :)
It'd be interesting to see the results of the experiment - level of voting before and after, volatility of the voting before and after, rate of change of comment ordering, before and after. Are you planning on releasing some sort of aggregate data or publishing some sort of analysis?
I usually do development on my local machine, but for small things like this I use the server's repl.
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This will definitely be interesting. While I think not having comment scores will have a somewhat limiting effect on groupthink voting, it will also probably have a counter-effect on pithy/silly one-liner comments by preventing people from noticing that no matter how humorous or witty the comment might have been it has already gathered as many votes as it deserves. The great karnak predicts a lot more early comments at the first level of two of comment threads being short witticisms that attempts to predict the herd and thereby gather a lot of early upvotes.
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I don't think this'll stop people from just skimming the top.

But, it will stop them from finding those highly rated comments hidden by a low rated parent comment.
Here's an interesting question for you. I do an experiment, and I reject the null hypothesis with p = 0.04. Then I do the experiment again, and get p = 0.09. Does the second run of the experiment make me more or less confident about rejecting the null hypothesis?