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by aamar 15y ago
Even though it may be good policy for the Supreme Court to act that way, that's a separate question from whether they in fact do operate in that way. There is extensive literature (a subset of "legal realism" which accounts strategically fo
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by aamar 15y ago
Initially, movies were not protected by U.S. free speech laws, but they've (generally) been protected since the 1950s[1]. So today's opinion may not change things meaningfully (I haven't read it yet). There is likely good business incentive
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by aamar 15y ago
My colleague (with some help from me) created an interactive version of the 1932 French poem "Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique" by Roussel, one of the early experiments in this vein: http://withhiddennoise.net/roussel/
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by aamar 15y ago
Right, and liquid democracy is really a specific application of proxy voting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting A startup working with this idea: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8394883/J...
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by aamar 16y ago
I have heard from insiders that the founder viewed this feature--the count of people 3 degrees away--as the central embodiment of the magic of Friendster, an absolute must-have. I.e. people added friends in great part in order to feel more
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by aamar 16y ago
Earlier discussion (January 2011): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2074109
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by aamar 16y ago
I find a lot of good insight in this article (despite the classically linkbait title). Absolutely, execution is difficult; there a ton of difficult problems to solve on a site like this, e.g.: How can the system allow noobs to participate a
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by aamar 16y ago
tl;dr: Marketers control Hollywood production and are risk-averse gatekeepers. A bubble in independent/boutique production disrupted that side-channel. It's not a complete picture; why doesn't the independent/boutique side fire back up? I
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by aamar 16y ago
> If I go to Gawker with lynx right now, it will not work, period. As a specific issue, that seems like a minus, but an exceedingly minor one, as lynx is probably a negligible proportion of Gawker's audience. In principle, backwards-co
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by aamar 16y ago
I'm sorry if I implied that curl/wget handle this already. However, they could handle this with a very small wrapper script, maybe 3 lines of code, or a very short patch if the convention becomes a standard. That's not nothing, but it's m
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by aamar 16y ago
Very interesting points, but there are couple of errors which undermine part of your point: 1. If the application follows the Google proposed-convention or similar, the crawler doesn't need a full-stack JS implementation; it just needs to d
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by aamar 16y ago
The problem in this situation is that you have a smart technical person arguing for technical purity, while at the same time (seemingly) ignoring the mostly non-technical considerations of user-experience and economics. Yes, the old, conser
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by aamar 16y ago
The response time for individual pixels is quite slow, around 250ms. It takes that long to apply the necessary sequence of voltages to get a clear image without visible ghosting. That slowness is an obstacle even if you had no bus limitatio
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by aamar 16y ago
If there was no guarantee that a number would appear 1.9 times, then seeing singleton numbers wouldn't be a predictor. Let's say there's no such demand, and the boards are generated truly randomly and neutrally. If visible-quality X is di
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by aamar 16y ago
That procedure is vulnerable to the same issues mentioned in the article. Let's say you design a game that has outcomes Lose, Near-Miss, Win, and Invalid (tickets that must be suppressed, e.g. multiple wins). Then, imagine a rare, salient
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by aamar 16y ago
Yes, those are the common reasons that founders hesitate to sell. I'm sympathetic, especially with the developing part -- superficially it seems like optimal outcomes are generated by everyone focusing on their core skills. But the first m
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by aamar 16y ago
Plug this gap by reading and doing, not by hiring. The main reason is that you're still in the early stages of establishing a product/market fit. As Steve Blank (alongside others) says, that means you need to "get outside the building." T
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by aamar 16y ago
Agree with all of these points, except that I've never had to use a virtual keyboard; password entry does use sort of an odd widget, but I can type normally into the password field (typically Chrome/OSX). Thanks especially for noting the li
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by aamar 16y ago
Using SVB for a second startup; in my experience, they've been fine and even helpful. Good customer service. No experience with Square One, so I can't compare the two.
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by aamar 16y ago
The 2011 SS deficit is expected to reverse in 2012 and does not represent a short-term crisis. It would be much more sensible to bring up dates like 2025 -- when SS is projected to start dipping into principal -- and 2037 -- when the princ
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by aamar 16y ago
Good point; I think this is the right response. The author is making a good observation, but I'd suggest tweaking the statement of the paradox: "An increase in programmer skill will increase the fraction of programming time spent doing wor
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by aamar 16y ago
e.g. significant effort by a major corporation leveraging work done by academics, open-source contributors, other corporations.
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by aamar 16y ago
It's easy to dogfood an API. Not saying that FB does, but it's easy to.
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by aamar 16y ago
Site looks really good. A few minor observations: - Details page: Policosanol is listed in the table as 23mb instead of 23mg. - Blue box around product photo is distracting. - Main body font feels a little too small generally. - Possibly t
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by aamar 16y ago
Well, on the one hand, a legally-protected monopoly is not the same thing as mandatory. Anyway, UPS/Fedex/DHL may be operating under a loophole, but the loophole exists: it's easy to send a sheet of paper through services like those. The k
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by aamar 16y ago
The US Postal Service has existed for over 200 years, and at no point has it become mandatory. We could easily provide half a dozen other major government initiatives which intersect with commercial activity and do not seem remotely on trac
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by aamar 16y ago
You're right, there's an exploit there for the re-publishers. Great point.
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by aamar 16y ago
Well, you could ban misbehaving robots by IP address. That seems like a reasonable step for bad behavior and not in conflict with Jeff's general "sharing"/"openness" values.
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by aamar 16y ago
That seems good -- but I can imagine Google preferring to crawl the page, rather than receive it by API (so it's more likely to be what the user's going to see). I think Google can handle the scaling problem; one not-great solution: ignore
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by aamar 16y ago
What happens if other sites are scraping content faster than Google can crawl it? In these cases, will Google really be able to guess which site is the original? For all they know, SO is scraping a lot of its content from other sites. If

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