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It seems that it boils down once again to the network.

Consumers have had to put up with phone/network couplings for too long. What can realistically be done to break this (or any monopoly), aside from moving to Europe?
One reason would simply be you won't be at 100% if your heart isn't in it..

Also, there's a huge difference between building something bare bones to release with and setting out to build something 'crappy'.. The latter sounding like a recipe for disaster.

In any event, that's a pretty big disagreement to be having this early on...
I wish FlightCaster was available last June.

Fresh from my wedding, I waited in Dulles airport with my wife to take a trivial flight to JFK. From there, I would catch an international flight off to my honeymoon. Of course, things are never that easy.

It started with United claiming weather issues at JFK. Understandable, as getting delayed in to New York is a common occurrence. But we noticed things weren't adding up when the scheduled departure time would come and go while we were still on the ground. United delayed our flight -and no other- 30 minutes at a time for 6 hours straight.

I tried to find out what was going on. I checked FAA reports, I called multiple airline booths in both airports, no one could explain why -only- our flight was delayed and why it had been delayed for so long.

With FlightCaster, I get the ability to calculate opportunity cost. For my case, we missed our international connection, had to pay for a last-minute hotel in New York, and lost a day of our honeymoon. The direct cost to us, in both economical and emotional terms, was WAY higher than the cost of switching to a different flight.

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Could search technology improve this process?

I'm assuming that's where he is going. From his twitter bio: Currently co-founding an ecommerce search company.
precisely, ideally this should just work:

var result = do_x() + do_y();

and could. Again, if I understand the documentation for node.js correctly, simply automatically appending a .wait() to every promise returned should in theory give you this behavior (and be as performance/non-blocking/etc) as the other method.
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If you have a high-value site, none of those will work. By making your form different than the masses, you've protected yourself from common attacks. Diversity is good.

However, if you are implementing a sign-up form for an email service there really isn't a great way to detect fraudulent signups without using a captcha.

That being said, the end game is that the bots will be able to detect anything a human can. Already, they can detect better than elderly or disabled humans. The path to take in this is to get better at automatically detecting behavior we don't want (wether via human or bot) and to block or delete it.
Previous comments from JimmyL :

"I work in a moderately-progressive workplace, and if I ever need to seek the input of a supervisor on a big issue/something that may come back to haunt me, I'll talk to them about it, and then send them an email saying what we decided. This makes it clear what the decisions was (and more importantly, how I interpret it) and provides documentation to both sides that the issue was discussed and a conclusion reached."

"When I know I am wrapping up a coding session, I'll often leave a few trivial things unfinished - so that when I sit back down again for the next session, I'll have an easy place to jump right back in, and it will force me to (consciously or otherwise) get back to somewhere near the mental state I was in when I half-finished the thing."

Are you really as important as you make out?
What I would really like to do is view other peoples courses, I cannot immediately see how.
Isn't the solution to simply be more conservative with what you post on facebook? we all know that nothing on it is private... If you are looking for a private more secure social networking site, use intronetworks, not facebook...
Posting pictures of yourself is a cry for attention...
4 hours out, airlines notify users of ~4% of flights that will eventually be delayed 1+ hours.

FlightCaster right now captures 40% of those flights 4 hours out (and growing as the algorithm is improved).

That is the origination of the statistic.
Actually, strictly speaking, Copernicus's system has more epicycles that Ptolemy's (or at least no fewer, depending on how you work out the details of it). Copernicus's big win is getting rid of the equant, easily the most mathematically ugly thing in the Ptolemaic system.

The equant has a planet moving in a circle around one point, but moving uniformly from the perspective of a different point--essentially a way to avoid the restriction to uniform circular motion. It's a cheap hack, and it's the flaw that drove Copernicus away from Ptolemy in the first place. Or anyway, it looks like a cheap hack, until Kepler comes along and realizes that it's hinting at, as you said, "equal areas in equal time".

So I guess what I mean to say is: yeah, Kepler's pretty awesome.

(Sorry, don't mind me. I just spent way too much time reading Ptolemy in college, and I have no reason to believe there will ever be another opportunity to apply that bit of my education.)
Yes, I had the same idea after reading his comment above. I went back and read his last X comments.

He seems to be a Canada-based programmer.

EDIT: However:

"I mentioned that I've got no in-industry peer networking contacts, but I have a few very good ones in politics. Specifically, I've got a possible job offer through one to be one of the two or three advance guys for a very senior national politician. It would be a year of traveling around the country with them, likely including an election, and would be incredibly exciting."

Note: It is scary how much we reveal ourselves through our Internet postings

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667547
So the question becomes: How can News Corp. best convert attention into money?

It's too easy to say "If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living." That's exactly the problem. They make piles of money out of attention, just not at the margins they have historically.

It is an intractable position, perhaps impossible. However, history has not looked favorably upon leaders who do nothing and watch their empire and margins shrink even if it is the only option. These times demand bold blunders.
Believe me or not, it's up to you.

As for who/what I am, wallflower is correct in that I used to be a Canada-based programmer. While I'm still based here in Canada, I now do something 100% different (having nothing to do with software development) that necessitates this kind of travel.
No, I wasn't talking about fitness. And is "coordination" indeed not trainable? Perhaps people who do gymnastics are, as you say, more "coordinated" because they "coordinate" more (i.e., train more)?

Swimmers are, on average taller/bigger than gymnasts. In a fight, the bigger guy/gal usually wins. That's a lesson you should have learned in the first grade. Schools these days!
There is something fundamentally flawed when we discuss a system where budget cuts must be made because of gross misspending in other areas of the state budget. The solution should be to attack the source and clean up California's budget, not raise tuition fees and scare off potential students. With California's (and the U.S') budget in such a deep hole, is it fair to rely on the HOPE that a raise in tuition will be consistently matched with an equivalent raise in financial aid?
Poor decisions lead to more poor decisions....
These times also demand picking yourself up, brushing yourself off, saying you'll get it right next time, and trying again. Too many of these old guard Big Media would rather just sit at the side lines rather than take a lead and show us where we should be going.
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Especially the end. Really. They make him out to be the Chuck Norris of game creation.
He asks if its even legal. That's an accusation of wrongdoing in my book.
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It'a already here. At least in India. Mobile payments could be involved when you are recharging your Airtel phone. There is also an mobile banking (payment) app that comes with Airtel's new SIM.

And of course, South Korea is a global leader in mobile payment technology, but in this case I cannot provide my own actual experience. =)
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Is there any explanation for calling Jessica 4 of 4? Is that a Seven of Nine reference or something?
"I am, probably was, the sandwich maker for a small tribe. It was a bit embarrassing really. When I first arrived, that is, when they rescued me from the wreckage of this super high-technology spacecraft which had crashed on their planet, they were very nice to me and I thought I should help them out a bit. You know, I'm an educated chap from a high-technology culture, I could show them a thing or two. And of course I couldn't. I haven't got the faintest idea, when it comes down to it, of how anything actually works. I don't mean like video-recorders, nobody knows how to work those. I mean just something like a pen or an artesian well or something. Not the foggiest. I couldn't help at all. One day I got glum and made myself a sandwich. That suddenly got them all excited. They'd never seen one before. It was just an idea that had never occurred to them, and I happen to quite like making sandwiches, so it all sort of developed from there.'

I'd tell them the same thing I tell people now. What you think you know, you don't know. There is more to learn than you can possibly imagine, and, most importantly, there's nothing like a good sandwich.
The idea on the table is basically an exclusive distribution deal. These deals have a long and profitable history. Points of access will often make a sweetheart deal to have something special to differentiate themselves from otherwise interchangeable providers. It's why Howard Stern gets paid a premium to be exclusively on Sirius, and why certain smartphones are only on certain networks.

That's not to say this is a good idea for News Corp, but it's not a nonsensical idea.
I took that job - hence the travel.

If you're interested in the back story, shoot me an email at M8R-houvju@mailinator.com and we'll chat.
These piss me off more than job interviewers that ask me how I would make a bicycle for a blind man or how to figure out how much a plane weighs ect...

That's a lie. I find those questions more amusing, but I hope my point is still seen =p
Congratulations on getting to go behind-the-scenes in a way most of us only wonder what it could be like. A real "Ops" job.

I'm curious - how did you leverage your technical engineering ability to land the job, or was it more business/social acumen? I get a sense that you are very strategic from your advice about college to karate background. Especially, the novel idea about using Github to prove you wrote a paper (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757295)
Anyone have a copy of the text? It won't load and I'm intrigued by the url slug the-programmers-folly-simple-is-best.
ST did not do much on the software, tool and community side lately. The Atmel ATmega processor, which has been well accepted by the open source in Arduino moves ST to this subsidizing PR and marketing approach.
An interesting example how influential open source can get and how careful a chip company has to be with the overall system of the product, not only the silicon.
This article explains it. 2 groups of people (1) they just want to know they might be late, telling their friends, etc (2) business travellers will pay to avoid the risk of a delayed flight
warp drives.
She was anonymous among the YCers for a long time.
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We're hoping they are... If anyone in or around Palo Alto wants to help us build a really cool product related to them, let me know!
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To me, it sounds like the developer doesn't want to learn RoR, so he found a convenient excuse.
Yeah you're right! The only reason we did that is because we couldn't come up with a good icon :) So its sort of like a placeholder - anyone has a good idea what we could use for that?
I've had mine for a couple of weeks now. The OS doesn't quite have the Apple polish, but it all works and it's nice to be able to run things in the background. I used the navigation for the first time yesterday, and it got me (somewhat ironically) to the dealer to whom I sold my car, thereby working itself out of a job.

As far as I can tell the bottom line is this: Droid has a better network, while iPhone has better apps. Pick which matters more to you, and you know what to get.
:) I understand where you're coming from guys - I disagree since I've seen how many ppl react positively to the name (and some really hating it ;)) - but still thanks for letting us know!
You'll probably get better answers, but I'll start since no one has who's actually living car free has chimed in.

I think San Francisco proper and Berkeley are probably the only places where living without a car is a respected choice. There are certainly people who do so elsewhere around the Bay, but I get the sense that they aren't as thrilled about it. I'm inland in the East Bay, and most here would consider a car a necessity.

Overall, judging by the standards of major cities in other countries, the public transportation isn't great. It exists, it's much better than the heartland of the US, and for certain routes is very convenient, but it won't get you everywhere you want when you want it. You'll probably also want a bicycle, friends with cars, or even a Zipcar membership.

It would help to know where you are moving from, as that might affect your expectations considerably.
That most certainly could have been put in a twitter post....Or even in a simple picture
That's a good point - you can go to http://startup.supercoolschool.com or http://educators.supercoolschool.com to check out some classes/courses but we don't have a page that aggregates all the content from all the schools yet.
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How is that equivalent to new threads (stacks) of execution?
Debunked here:

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/783-this-crue...

(Link is getting a lot of traffic, may not be able to load it.)
Interviews used to be enormously long. I think Jessica said they were 45 minutes, though I'm not sure I believe that.
In Japan as well. I could use my cellphone to take the train at any station in Tokyo and probably elsewhere, buy stuff at the convenience store, etc. You can even link a credit card to your phone so you don't have to charge it with actual money.

I don't think you can checkout stuff on the internet though.
It looks reasonable, but is still unusably slow, at least on my fist gen iPhone.
No, the news sites have done the math and google visitors aren't worth the trouble.
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Who really enjoys futzing with their computer all day because the OS is so totally broken that they can't get work(or play) done? Really why would you want to spend six weeks configuring X so that you can have a usable system for two weeks before the next upgrade comes along and breaks your config file.

No thanks I'll take Ubuntu that gets out of the way and lets me play with whatever I find interesting over that configure arcana crap.
I agree, but that's not too practical. I mean, give me a system that will show [] to satisfy monad laws. You won't, because the definition of >>= for [] involves concat and map... both functions are recursive, and you know your system is going to reject that because it's not part of your strongly normalizing language, consequently rejecting [] as a monad.

Yes, it will work if you redefine the list constructors as functions...

(:) x xs = \f z -> f x (xs f z)
[] = \f z -> z

... and then we can define fold in a non-recursive way... but can this work in Haskell?
+1 name sounds really stupid :)
There seems to be quite a few issues with this:

http://nrbd.tumblr.com/post/55066018/apple-mobile-web-app-ca...

http://lists.apple.com/archives/safari-iphone-web-dev/2008/O...
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Here are a few broad generalizations:

The "tech gradient" progresses from component/hardware manufacturers in San Jose to data centers in Santa Clara to software developers around Palo Alto, to designers in San Francisco (or "The City," as SF hipsters, often call it). Of course, there are many exceptions to this rule of thumb.

Many big-name venture capitalist firms are located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, situated in the middle of the Peninsula. With a BMW (also known as Basic Marin Wheels, after Marin County, to the north of The City), Sand Hill is easily accessed from 280, the quicker of the two Peninsula freeways. Some of the more interesting VC firms are actually located elsewhere: downtown SF, Oakland, warehouses in San Bruno, by SFO, Mountain View (in the case of Y Combinator)... Then again, given that you're posting this on Hacker News, vulture capitalists may not be your primary concern.

More and more pedestrian pockets can be found outside of SF. A few that come quickly to my mind are:
- downtown Mountain View (Castro St., with an Asian market)
- California Ave. in Palo Alto (with a co-op)
- downtown San Jose (actually getting kinda lively)
- downtown San Mateo (with a great Japanese grocery store)

All of these places happen to be on the Caltrain line, which runs from SF to San Jose (and points further south). Find a Caltrain stop and you'll find a cluster of start-ups and condos and cafes.

Much as I try to bike and walk everywhere, I've had a number of around-the-bay days, that begin in an office in Mountain View, progress to a meeting with designers in the East Bay, and conclude with an investor pitch in The City. With demo computers to schlep and a schedule to keep, unfortunately, I just gotta go with a car. But perhaps that's what Zipcar is for.

Finally, let me put in a pitch for Berkeley, where I live now. It's a little apart from the SiliValley action, which can actually be a benefit in the personal sanity dept. Easy biking, good food, nice sailing, lively city, a world-class university...

Good luck!
thx for your feedback :)

a) you're problably right - we're still figuring out what is important and what not for our users
b)true - but what does that have to do with us? ;)
c)same as b

Regarding the b2b market: we actually started in the enterprise space and have sold Supercool School to large tech companies in the valley (yeah - even with our name ;)) although its very profitable it is a slow moving space and we thought it would be exciting (and rewarding) to open up to the general public and allow everyone to create their own Supercool School. For the first week we've seen some very good results with over 10 schools launched! But we are well aware that we are doing something completely uproven and new...
The new GigaOM looks like the NY Times.

That said, it doesn't seem near as cluttered as before, so kudos to the designer(s).
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You're probably right. Hygeine would probably be the single most useful thing you could tell them about.
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thanks for your feedback and your time! when it comes to allowing ppl in developed countries use Supercool School we hope to see the wiki integration we have being used and later the more bandwith intense delivery methods. can you tell me what is unclear / or clear for you about the idea? that is very crucial for us since we are sure that we can improve the way we communicate what we do but need to get more feedback from others on what we are missing to get across! thx :)
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This is in response to http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/11/apple_is_not... ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=957314 )
"If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living" - News Corp made almost $33b revenues from attention last year.
That's because their video product didn't have enough traction. It wasn't an accident, it was a choice.
New Zealand has recently changed their immigration laws, but in return for your investment (which starts at NZ$1.5 million), you get permanent residence only.

The investment has to be in a viable business (property does not qualify, obviously, nor does deposit in a bank), and cannot be for personal use.

Citizenship takes 5 years of residence, like most places.

I don't think any country will sell you citizenship (at least, not any country you'd want to go to :)
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... or at the very least discover that what we call 'elementary objects' aren't really that elementary. It's turtles all the way down. :)
Loic is as well connected as anyone in the valley. Or are you saying PG is known to bro down with Chamillionaire? You're not saying much...
No. There is nothing virtuous about it being difficult. If you need to feel clever, write some code.
When Vidly told me about this I thought Chamillionaire was the name of a startup.
I've gotten sales emails from TrialPay saying that I should offer it as a form of payment on my site.

I refused, of course, because I'd imagine those people would be the worst customers and I'd probably get a bunch of support emails asking about canceling Netflix. I don't know why any software developer would go with them.

The one company that does I've seen is Smith Micro, but they're kind of scammy anyway: http://www.stuffit.com/mac/expander.html
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I think Seth is wrong here - if you can make money selling attention, why on earth should you not do it?
Flightcaster is all about the probability of being delayed though. The big customer is business users who will rebook on a flight that has less of a chance of delay. Airlines don't want that.
So I'm shopping on Amazon on my laptop, and I want to check out. So I go to a different device, and wait for a message over a different communications medium, type in a response, send it back, and wait for the web app to refresh?

I guess mobile phones are becoming the only easy and reliable means of identity verification.
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