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Whats next? Somebody discovers what a High-pass filter can do to audio or even images?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-pass_filter#Applications
Would they have cut off his Nest? If google since G+ thinks of itself as a single product, it might not be smart to let them into your house, or to depend on them for anything important.

That being said, these kinds of apps are what make the phone app market a cesspool. Would the iOS app store accept youtube channel viewers?
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Disclaimer: I work for a real estate brokerage (but I'm a software developer).

Real estate agents can help in a number of ways (chaossphere2112 outlines a number of them), but one of the easiest ways to think about it is that this is a very large, complex transaction that happens rarely. That means that, while you could learn all the ins and outs of:
- contracts (often regulated by the state)
- negotiation (in whatever kind of market you are in--one favoring buyers or sellers
- house value (both use and resale)
- what can be changed about a house easily (finishes) and what is hard (layout) and what is nearly impossible (location)
- neighborhood characteristics
- typical home uses for people in your shoes now and in two years and five years, which might impact your purchase
- the minutiae of a purchase (deadlines, appraisals, inspections, etc)

you might want to consider paying someone who does this as their job to help you out.

As for the 'pumping up the price' to get paid more, or 'making me hurry up' to get paid faster, there may be some agents that do this, but good ones are more concerned about the lifetime value of a consumer, which can easily run into mid five figures (if you move every 7 years starting at 28 and ending at 70, and buy the median house price (~200k) and use the same agent every time at 3% commission, that is 36k in commission).

It's dumb to burn a customer for a few hundred bucks when their LTV is ~40k (if you pay 210k for a house when it is really worth 200k, the agent earns 6300 instead of 6000).
Consider the buyer persona (other independents in the hospitality industry in emerging markets). Find forums, meetups, trade associations for those people. Point of strategy, focus on the value, features, & benefits of this app to potential buyers, versus discussing what you're trying to get out it.
It depends on how you interpret it. I'm treating "spelling and grammar" in this case to be a single object. It's techically wrong in an English language sense, but in a logical sense treating them as a singular is more appropriate, since it's rarely helpful to have one without the other.

Alternately: I done goofed :)
Direct question: are you using the app to collect info about the users to you can enhance your database also based on that data?
It's not too complex but I think this might help: http://codecombat.com/
As someone from the UK, I've never heard of either of these sites.

Kind of amazing that a business that's limited to one country can be worth so much.
The walled garden I can live with. The problem is that his actions inside the walled garden had effects outside. It's like crashing your car while drunk driving causes your insurance company to cancel your credit card (because the same company owns both your bank and your insurance company).
Actually that sort of semi-custom simple rebranding is an exceedingly common business model for boutique software shops. You find a market where the framework for your application works with minimal changes across a large variety of clients. The sales cycle then becomes the scaling bottle neck. It is sort of the other side of the coin of low touch SaaS.

You are making a common mistake on pricing something based on the amount of work it requires, not on the amount of value it provides. I can't imagine that a rebranded youtube viewer provides 50K worth of value to anyone, but it wouldn't be nearly the most outlandish work/value ratio I've seen.
It's not the specifics of Boolean logic that's interesting, but the idea that computers can think logically and make decisions based on logic and data.
The difference is Firefox doesn't put one app for every website it accesses in the App Store named after the website and using the websites logo.
I find this comment amusing, because a recurring theme in the article is that of concern over the way many automated systems mine the past looking for discontinuities in politicians, criminals and "potential criminals" - that this does not allow growth or change of a person. In politics particularly I agree that this is dangerous - I want my politicians to be human - for it to be acceptable for them to change their opinions as their understanding changes, and as society changes around them. A strong requirement on rigidity and consistency of position is, to me, just as bad as a politician who has no opinion other than what the polls say that day. Rather than either I like a carefully considered opinion and position that acknowledges new data, and changes if necessary upon understanding said new data. Further, I don't mind if my politicians make mistakes, sometimes say stupid things, and occasionally show their human foibles - I think its awful to hold them to superhuman standards as we see a lot these days.

To address the last point: I know nothing inherent to the internet that requires a strongly consistent piece and prevents open discussion about a topic. Heck - there's nothing inherent about the internet that requires it to be a debate. I've found debate tends to arise from proclamations of "this is the truth" rather than "here's what I'm thinking" anyway - internet or no. The latter tends to just lead to discussion but unfortunately also draws people who try to discredit the author on inconsistencies because they mistake a "my thinking right now" piece for a proclamation of truth. I don't think this is built into the internet, so much as a broader social issue or quirk of human psychology that causes or at least allows for that mistake. I lean towards a social issue of some sort that causes us to think everything people write is a proclamation of truths rather than a fundamental human thing - and that there is some psychological quirk that once someone is attacking a mistaken proclamation of truth it causes people to have to defend their team, rather than ignore the incorrect premise. I'll admit it, I've done both before - but I'm not sure it was the right thing to do.
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The full-page photos are fine. I have no issues with them. It's everything else that's annoying.
Don't sleep on Homesnap!
* Snap a photo of any home to find out all about it
* Similar to Redfin in terms of model and data access
* Unique iPhone, iPad, Android and Web experience

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Good point. I didn't thought of it because I never thought of liking my own music. I will filter them out in the next release.
There are companies that will set up a local shell company for you to own whatever TLD you want.
Fuck them and fuck TOR, when I had a similar service years ago the feds shut down my data center and started cold calling me with weird questions.

You get in bed with these guy, not only will I never use your service, you yourself (TOR devs) will pay the price when they are done with you.
reminded me of an onion title.
I disagree, it is still hard: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70290

Further, there are still things for which there is not a right way to do it. If you look at the man page for "unbuffer" (part of expect), there's a "CAVEATS" section that describes a bug... that can't be fixed while PTYs are in their current state. I wouldn't call it "well and truly solved".
They did tell him, didn't they? They told him 3 times.
Do you plan to be able to input 3rd party private information? I would like to import my 3rd party phone numbers database and related information, being only accessible for my API account. This could lead to interesting integrations with sales databases.
It's hard to have much sympathy when your app already has an identical name (and a very similar logo) to a mobile web browser launched four years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(web_browser)
If you stretch a little, it is possible you can see the inherent enculturation of ideology within your statement.

A) Why does it sound “fake”?
B) Why would you have to see this in person to believe it?
C) Can you see the metanarratives you constructed in the “I'm willing to believe...” sentence?
Can't wait!!!!!!!!
It would be possible, but expensive.

NASA has been doing gardening research aboard the ISS for years:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/10-074.ht...
http://www.gizmag.com/veggie/31613/

An orbiting satellite with plants would be expensive because it would need climate control and a way to both protect against too much sun and radiation and at the same time allow some sun for growing the plants. You'd also have to find very specific bacteria, fungus, plants, and other organisms that could survive that kind of environment, if you miscalculated then the experiment would quickly fail and it would be a huge waste of money (because you can't bring the capsule back to earth to study what did/didn't survive and it would be hard to visibly see what failed with just a camera and misc sensors).

You can probably work with a NASA project to get something aboard the ISS (if you're very lucky) but you'd have to show how it could benefit them rather than it just being cool to do.
I hope they change the name.

Since Instagram is owned by Facebook and Facebook has launched Slingshot, a Snapchat rival, I'm wondering why they need another one?
Sure the public appeal is a better option for a small start up to put pressure Instagram to use a different name rather than a behind the scenes legal notice...
Very true. Far be it for me to defend the competition, they probably are still teaching it certain phrasings. My Cyman assistant is pretty good at understanding a variety of phrases, but I'm still teaching him.
Indeed, this company has chosen a generic name "Bolt" and registered a cheap knock-off TLD of .com

This is like patent trolling on a smaller scale, I believe I considered naming my company bolt or zip or whatever, but until you have big lawyers who can sort this out behind closed doors you are just begging for publicity in a soliciting way.
We know there may be some privacy concerns regarding the use of our data but we don't allow anyone to systematically query our API to build phone number lists (We just allow 180 requests per min) We are very strict in the way people use our API. That's the reason we don't have an open registration process.
The $35,000 will be starting after rebate

Citation? You might be right, but I thought I read that 35k was before the tax credit.

For that matter, I believe the current EV tax credit is only available for the first X number of EVs produced by a given manufacturer. It's possible the same credit won't be available anymore by the time the 3 comes out. Or on the other hand, there have been talks of raising the credit to 10k and making it permanent. Hard to know what will happen in the next few years.
Which really isn't that bad. Slightly less ride comfort than some SUVs, but better interior luxuries for the price and much more versatile in an urban environment, with better gas mileage.

Really, the worst thing about driving a minivan is other drivers. People have such a perception of minivans being slow and pokey that people will attempt to pass you on the freeway regardless of the speed you are travelling. If you drive a minivan and another vehicle on a regular basis, how other cars treat you is very noticeable.
Curious how this impacts Streeteasy, which Zillow just bought some time in the past year. Streeteasy is the defacto MLS (in a sense) for NYC (Manhattan doesn't have an MLS, nor does Brooklyn. Uncertain about Staten Island, Queens or Bronx).
This is not fair use. No court has ever held that it's fair use to reproduce copyright images because you think they look cool, you think they're funny, you think they illustrate some point you're trying to make, etc. And using an image of DeNiro as your avatar does not even begin to approach a legally acceptable form of parody.

Just because hardly anybody ever gets sued for using copyrighted images as avatars, as humorous blog illustrations, and so on, doesn't mean that they couldn't be sued — and the copyright holder would unquestionably prevail.
Odd to see something about Amazon from Microsoft.
It sort of annoys me how the article keeps talking about a gender problem in "tech" and yet I see no actual mention of anyone technical in the entire article (other than at least some of the people pitching). The article should have been called the gender problem in venture capital. A angel investor or a VC is not someone in tech, they're first and foremost all about business, just because what your pitching is technical doesn't automatically transform the situation into a technical one, it's still business.

My guess is it's a lot harder to pitch a story about business people discriminating against women (classic glass ceiling story), than it is the current fad of lambasting the tech sector as being misogynistic.

Edit: This may have come off as more critical of the article than I intended. The article is good and does have a point, it just annoys me that it makes it sound like tech is to blame when this is really just a facet of the existing misogyny in business. Change all the occurrences of "tech" with "venture capital" in the article and I'd have no problem with it.
Just in case, I am looking for a community manger...
The "hackathon" spirit has caught on at the state level. Get a bunch of college kids to slave away for free and give the best one a paltry sum for their efforts and retain all rights to the work.
Great article, and a refreshing take on the issue. I think Weinblatt's view on the topic is spot-on. There shouldn't be women-specific investors any more than there should be men-specific investors. Homogeneity is the right solution, and hopefully we'll get there soon.
Nice title...also not a sentence.
I don't see a trademark claim for the name Bolt on their website. I bet, had they gotten one, they would have an easier time defending the name. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
What do you mean by "no intention of getting Instagram to actually do anything"?

It seems like a pretty clear-cut public appeal to Instagram/Facebook to actually do something, which is to choose a different name before the product launches..

One has to hope/assume that Bolt has already tried private channels and met with little or no success, which is what forced them to go this public route..

Or are you implying they want to be paid off?
I think there's a company that does 3d printing as a service. Try shapeways, maybe?
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Also, Facebook have a library named bolt: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/01/30/let-s-b...
With acquisitions, Facebook has generally left the acquired company mostly alone (if it's big and successful already). Instagram, Occulus and WhatsApp as examples. Instagram competes with Facebook in some ways, too, but it's still separate.

Their goal is more data, not less competition.
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The definition of "full" decreases steadily over time, all the way to the point where "full" is no power at all.
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Fortunately, Bolt browser no longer exists and names, especially four letter common words, can't be reserved forever.
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This explains why it takes so long for them to release new features in AWS. Fascinating.
Beginning with an action verb is already a better start. Another possible way to reword could be, "Listen to tracks your favorite musicians love."

Side note: what's up with the background moving along with mouse cursor? It was a little distracting at first, but I'm guessing the purpose is to make the site feel like you're browsing through a record store?
I absolutely agree, and I find this sort of total surveillance mentality completely abhorrent. My comment was mostly meant to illustrate the sort of reasoning that goes with people seriously suggesting that collecting newborn DNA is a good idea.
Lets go with "Dolt"
What is the price of this after 1000 queries?
What if the person who calls doesn't want to show his profile to man that he call to?
Source? This is what they said during one of their earnings calls:

Barclays Capital – Question about $35,000 price point – before or after tax credits?

Deepak Ahuja (CFO): The $35,000 does not assume that the $7,500 federal tax credit is no longer available, but that the 35,000 Tesla Gen 3 pricing is without any subsidy.

Elon Musk: Helpful to have credits, but Tesla is not counting on them.

The tax credit applies for the first 250,000 (domestic?) units per manufacturer though, so if you pre-order a Model 三 you might be able to get it for $27,500.
It sounds fake because I've never experienced a professional interaction of such a condescending manner. I'd have to see it to believe it simply because it sounds so fake. I'd be willing to believe something that is far more plausible than something that isn't.
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Swift is a complete fail unless you think Apple can get the coldplay guys to write code. Which they can and it will be GREAT code.
I agree, if the email account is going to be used for long term purposes. However, an email account for someone at the high school level should be fine. Presumably, the kid is going to go to a college somewhere - and will use the college account until such time as the kid graduates and moves on into the 'real' world -- whatever that means. I'm just trying to say that a gmail account for a kid isn't a necessary burden that needs rescuing at even the meager upfront cost of $0.50... plus the massive cost in lost privacy - which is an ongoing fee into the indeterminable future...
50K of "billing" time for a prototype that views one youtube channel seems excessive. At $150/hr that's over 2 months of fulltime development for something a real developer could knock out in a couple days.
Looks like it's a personal directory for Leslie Lamport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport), who is cited several times in the paper. Think of it as a professor hosting research papers that cite him in his field on his university site, rather than a business site.
I think the difference here is that the Bolt web browser was discontinued in 2011 (according to the Wikipedia article you linked), whereas the OPs "Bolt" voice/SMS service is very much an active project.
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Idunno, the web browser has been discontinued for 3 years now. It also seems that bolt.co and Instagram's Bolt are much more similar to each other (apps dedicated to person→person communication) than Bolt the browser is to either of them, so the risk of confusion is much smaller.
Sorry dude, got a little over excited when I see particular issues that I feel I (hopefully) have addressed, so make sure those particular people know of my attempt. If I was just spamming, I'd go for all of 'em :)
Your parent is implying they are taking this as an opportunity to get some publicity out of a David-Goliath story.
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>What do you mean by "no intention of getting Instagram to actually do anything"?

GP means with this blog post Bolt is using this opportunity not to appeal to Istangram, but to get free publicity for the company.
Python itself. Check out the developer guide at https://docs.python.org/devguide/ and the mentorship list at https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-mentorship/ to get started.
These days people seem to prefer using actual words as names which can only result in conflicts like this one. At least names like Flikr are pretty unique.
> the way i would generate revenue would be to hold the successful ads hostage. Shadow ban advertisers accounts if they don't play ball. Literally remove viral commercials, but do it quietly.

Playing whack-a-mole with YouTube/imgur/etc. rehosts of a constantly growing list of content is a losing proposition.
Well, I'm just some guy on the internet. You really have no idea what I think is important in life, so withhold your judgement.

You're probably right that I overestimated the amount. Since frugal investing isn't my goal in life, $5M was a made up figure. What I'm saying is that the number is higher than it might seem.

It depends on how aggressive you are with your financial planning. Remember, this is the rest of your life you're planning for. Are you just going to get lattes and travel until you're dead, or do you want to raise a family? Do you want your children to go to good schools? Do your projects require capital investment to be successful? Do you want to be an angel investor? Are you interested in philanthropy?

Counting on 6% interest in perpetuity is reasonable, but is probably more aggressive than I'd be willing to go. What happens if the stock market takes a dive? It's not out of the realm of possibility that your net worth could be cut by 30-40%. That means that your interest income would be cut by the same amount.

Also, once you're out of the industry, it's hard to just come back and get another job. The software industry is pretty strong right now, but will it be in 10 or 20 years? Will you still have the skills you need to compete, after years of working on whatever you want to work on?

Let's say your planning figure is 4% instead of 6%. Although $1M is a lot of money, if you're talking about living off the interest, each $1M yields $40K gross a year at 4%. After 20% in capital gains taxes, it's $32K. If you have to pay AMT (which you will, if you're an American making money off of investments), expect an effective tax rate closer to 30%. This means that you can expect a net yield of $28K in interest per $1M of capital.

Also, remember, if you're spending every cent of interest that your investments earn, they will never compound, and you will be at the mercy of inflation (about 2%) and your risk exposure will be dramatically higher. You should try to plan to have net income that you can reinvest.

$5M gives you $200K gross or $140K net. That's a very handsome income, but if you want money to reinvest and you want to keep a conservative risk profile, it's not Bugatti-Riviera money. If you're willing to burn down your initial capital, it's a lot easier, but then you have to consider your risk -- and whether you're interested in leaving an inheritance.

Regardless of the actual amount you're talking about saving, my point is that it's probably more money than it seems like, and it takes a tremendous amount of time to save it working 9-5.
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