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What does this mean? This sentence especially is quite confusing:

"It works! As your competitors rise, eventually they have done to them what they did to you, and if you sit there a while, you don't have to do a thing -- nature takes care of it. "

whaaa???
Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food Control
They wouldn't fit in standard cup holders though. For some reason, I feel shipping a soccer ball sized bottle of coke would be less efficient than the current design
I often watch movies and TV shows (via. MythTV) on my iPod Touch.

I often favor the convenience over the artistic experience.

If I want to appreciate the art I go see it on the silver screen.
Congratulations, you're one of the %0.1 of people that wants to manually copy files from your manually-organized arbitrary directory structure onto your music player's filesystem. To support that, the player has to index all the files itself when it boots up, which is why the old Nomad took minutes to be ready to hit play.

Everyone else uses a database-backed program that automatically organizes their collection (iTunes), and expects to synchronize from that database to their device. If you weren't so set on doing things the way you did them in 1998, you'd be fine with iTunes — it can automatically download the podcast files, and synchronize that playlist when you plug in the device to charge it.
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It seemed like point-free style to me. "Blog insightful x", where x is {ideas, posts, articles, etc}, but dropping the x.
Why don't more police cars have video cameras? (2006)
They're attacking HTC's TouchSense modifications, not Android itself (yet)
I would argue that the Mac is easier to use not because it is pretty, but because it feels considered from the ground up to be a pleasure to use, rather than an afterthought.

Things people mistake for "pretty", such as the genie minimising effect are actually cues that show clearly what your action has done.

Similarly, having a single menu bar at the top of the screen gives the menu items infinite height, so they're much easier to target than the menus on Windows (this is especially important on laptops with trackpads).

..of course, some of it is just pretty. damn pretty.
I'll admit that I'm not happy that they're doing that. The good thing that comes out of this is that the more software patents are abused, the more likely they'll be abolished.
What is Matroska?
Haha, grin fucking. Same thing happens in academic settings when students make up an excuse about their granny's death. I'm going to use this whenever students come up to me and tell me a sob story about doing better on the next test. I'm gonna say "Jonny, don't grin fuck me".
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Ask HN College Seniors: What are you worried about right now?
I've been asked to address the senior class at my university this week. It's a seated dinner with students and alumni where they can ask the alums about life, career, family -- whatever is on their mind. I'm supposed to give some remarks at the end of the dinner. Expected attendance is about 500 students and 100 alums.

My question to the intersection of HN readers and college seniors:

What worries you?

Getting a job? Finding happiness? Applying your college edumacation towards something useful? Saving the planet? Finding a date for next Friday? Deciding whether the 3-week-old milk in your fridge is drinkable?

I would like to know what's on the mind of a soon-to-be college graduate.
Eventually people that make fun of you die.

Of course, so do you.
They specifically named the Nexus One as an infringing device, which uses stock Android.
7 real estate APIs (2008)
But he invented blogging!!!11!!

... several years after everyone else did.
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"The decision about what to charge for should only be made in terms of how useful it is to your users, not how hard/easy it is for you to do."

This was a lesson it took me a bit of time to learn. As a contractor/consultant I needed to figure out what to bill. I started out thinking in terms of how hard something was; if I had to bust my ass, then I was going to charge for it, and if something is easy, how can I justify a high rate?

Which, as it happens, is idiotic.

The real metric is, How much value am I providing?

Realistically there are some constraints, such as what are competitors charging (a concern if you don't want to chase potential customers away), but personal effort is not a main factor.

There's a belief that hard work should be rewarded, but that just encourages people to work hard regardless of the end value of their efforts. Valuable work should be rewarded. If you can do it with out breaking a sweat, more power to you.

You're kind of screwed if you go about thinking that because you worked hard on something that people will ultimately find it valuable and reward you. That only happens in some politician's stump speech fantasy.
Why did you buy the iPod instead of a competitor's product that offers the features you want?
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I know several Facebook app developers who have moved down there and are living like royalty for $2500 / month.
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Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam

Awesome Internet access, amazing food, great culture, the nicest people. "Backpacker" cost of living is under $500/mo, and "Expat" cost of living is under $4000/mo. (For those who may not be familiar with the expat lifestyle, it includes niceties like a driver and a cook.)

My wife and I lived in Southeast Asia (several cities) from 2002-2004. In the interim, the infrastructure has gotten even better and the prices have remained flat.
One way to look at it, if the idea of "free" is too troublesome, is to consider that at the outset people are paying with their time and attention.

You need to do something to attract users, and allowing non-paid usage may be cheaper than the cost of additional advertising that gets people to sign up and pay.
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Karma on HN is meaningless. Don't think otherwise.
And they would have done that whether Android was open source or not. You could argue that if Android was not open source, it wouldn't be doing as well as it is, but the lawsuit is about Android's success not the open source nature
Playing it safe and taking the amazing job I have lined up.

OR

Moving to a place with little to no tech jobs and putting it all on the line for a chance at happiness with a girl.
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This quote from the article is what bugs me about these national firewalls: "While considered a noble idea..."

It's not noble at all - it's an outrageous, secretive, information-blocking filter with no accountability whatsoever. It's a great way for a government to get its foot in the door into controlling what information is acceptable for its citizens to consume.

While this sounds like a slippery-slope fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope), I'd like to point out that leaked copies of blacklists from Australia, Denmark and Thailand all contain entries which, IMHO, a reasonable person would not consider worthy of a block:

http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/denmark-net-censor...

All of my Google searches for supporting references ended up at somebodythinkofthechildren.com- I'd recommend reading further there for anyone interested.
Even better, use facial and voice-recognition so it was like a web chat with a game board superimposed over both of you. You compete against each other using a combination of voice/mouse movement/and hand gestures. For instance, one round would be a 3D Tennis match where you had to put your hand up and literally swat the ball as it came at you on screen. Same kind of concept as that interactive windmill thing there you hold up a barcode and a 3D windmill pops up on screen. It would be like a visual, physical, and aural overload akin to that "4 second frenzy" flash game. Easy publicity. Then every 5th game they play against the "Coca-Cola Bears" or "Bud Light Frogs."
Ask HN: Ideas Needed Google SoC 2010.
Dear HN Users,
I'm planning to apply as a student to Google SoC 2010 tomorrow and I was wondering if the HN community has a wish list of awesome projects that would make their already-awesome opensource software even more awesome.

Here's the list of mentor organizations for this year: http://goo.gl/sHNq

So, I put it to you to give me something interesting to work on this summer. Darth Vader voice: Do not fail me.

A humble code nymph,

Gursikh
Thank you. That is epic. FWIW, I vote girl.
am i the only one who feels that the book is just going to be another iteration of the usual mantra and thus not really worth the $12 or the time?

the last couple "summary" posts seem to indicate that this is indeed the case.
Try that in Linux.
At the same time, the single top menu makes it harder to access menu items of two programs simultaneously. If you have two different programs side by side, in windows you can just click the menus on either one, but in mac you have to click the window you want to use, then move up to the top to click the menu, then back and so on.

I'm a bit biased, I have double display set up so I constantly switch between 4-5 windows at a time. If I had to click on the top menu all the time as on a mac I would go a little more insane.

Personally I think both the mac and windows setups are junk, which is why I'm making my own desktop shell.
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Jason Fried's response on Hacker News when I asked a similar question: "this book may not be for you".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179086
That sounds like a good plan. Food, sunlight and physical activity are signals for circadian cycles. You should try to incorporate each into every waking period, at least in the beginning.
Really nice blog design, I like it a lot. I've always thought that a split post design like that would be interesting for any sort of blog that revolved around the participation of a couple/pair.

Good luck
Amen, Micah. Just between us geeks, I charge for a one-line if statement. My customers certainly don't perceive it that way, though: they see the paid version as uniquely allowing them to accomplish the task they've set out to accomplish.
There is no such elephant. The Coca-Cola Company ships bottles of concentrated syrup around the world, but dilutes, bottles, and carbonates it at hundreds of plants around the world. (Possibly even thousands, actually -- there are apparently 300 "bottling partners", and I imagine many of them have multiple plants.)
Gtkpod works reasonably well.
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0.1% of what population? Anyone who uses P2P music sharing is going to store their music in a manually-organized directory structure by necessity, and as a result, will have few problems dragging and dropping the root music directory into another one.
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My understanding of the comment was that the author was complaining about Apple's tight vertical integration, which is a legitimate concern.
Holy crap, that's a cool site. Thanks for the pointer.
Square bottles enclose a smaller volume of fluid per unit surface area than round bottles, so these waste more plastic.

That's only true if the bottle is fully cylindrical, whereas most soda bottles have the narrower top and further narrowing along the body.

the marginal fuel cost of shipping bottled beverages depends much more on weight than volume.

Also only true if you don't take into account the overhead of the shipping mechanism. If you're trucking these across the USA, then reducing volume by half means you need half as many trucks and a comparable savings in fuel.
You do realize that if Apple has its way, developers must not only pay an entrance fee to release software for a system, but also run the risk of being disapproved? If X% of the market is iPhone/iPad, that is X% of the market where big brother Apple gets to decide exactly what software is available. That's even worse than closed-source commercial Windows under Microsoft, let alone FOSS.

Apple is a greater enemy to FOSS than Microsoft because where the latter's attacks center around FUD and legal threats, Apple's is a competent attempt to undermine open computing platforms. The walled garden begins at the hardware level.
That was my main point. He's almost certainly going to see traffic dip within a few months when he stops being in the NYT and such. He could innovate with stuff like these subroulettes and have it grow longterm, but now he's looking at real opportunity costs.

He's probably better off taking what basically amounts to a free $1M, then he can go to school if he so chooses, and then go start another venture.

And sure, maybe this is his best idea right now, but he'll probably have a better one within the next 10 or 20 years. (I think the same thing applies to DHH, but it's even more true when you're talking about a 17-year-old.)
But before you comment on how much you think its worth, have you actually tried it? =)
Note I'm kind of thinking out loud, and in this idea was about P2P conferencing, so it's not for local network or well connected offices. More like a very typical scenario of several people connecting from different locations (e.g. working from home plus remote offices.)

Using a VPN (centralized) adds a lot of latency and degrades the experience. Using a third party service (MS, WebEx, Lotus) often adds trusting them with your dearest corporate secrets and allows them (and the authorities on their respective countries) to spy on the conference or even simply detect your users's IPs to direct attacks to their more vulnerable home computers full of interesting data.

With some service set up like this the users can just have an "initiator" "server", who's software just checks its NAT external IP (thousands of existing free services and web pages give you this) and creates a meeting URI. They send it by some secure channel (e.g. email over vpn) to the other parties. The rest conenct to the initiator "server" and discover each other's IP. If the protocol is carefully designed the clients and server can have a shared secret on the URI to avoid Man-in-the-middle. Voilà!

This can easily be an open source product with zero server costs (unlike WebEx, Skype, MS.) Of course, this works only for clients with NAT access and others should connect in other ways (e.g. HTTPS and/or UPnP.)

My point was that even the corporate network and security teams can benefit from this in some way. It's not just to set up quake servers on college networks.
A sphere is most efficient on a per bottle basis, but that doesn't necessarily hold up when shipping them in rectangular containers.
The $2,500 to $10,000 per car figure doesn't surprise me, but does seem like it could be brought down. A webcam with a suction cup would be better than no video camera, and is <$500. Surely there is an $1000 solution that's acceptable?

My guess is that they're pricing Police Car Camera Systems, which is probably a market with very few, highly priced suppliers.
Thanks, but I already spend too much time on HN as it is! :)
I'm very sun-driven. I need to find a good way to incorporate that at night. It's been much, much easier for me to stay awake when the sun is out. Thanks for the tip!
Yeah, it's cutsey and all, but you should include a parenthetical explanation (so people don't panic over 10 year olds risking their health on that kinda shit).
I dunno, I can't comment much outside of my basic skillset, which is java on the back and jquery or as3 in the front... Security is a whole different animal, one that imho has to be added from the beginning.
I've seen this phenomenon on display in the fire service. Somehow the exact same axe you can buy for $20 at your local hardware store costs 5-6 times as much...
No, it means that you've licensed what you wrote to them so they can redistribute it (which they need if they want to show it to other people).
Purely anecdotally, i have found that applications that are native to the mac are not as reliant on the menu bar for the most of their tasks than their windows counterparts. As a result i don't find having to switch applications to access a menu particularly onerous.
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http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/index.html ... presumably?
Most any corporate site that allows user supplied content has similar terms. They need the legal ability to distribute what you provide them, which is why you need to license it to them.

Lots of them go a little more overboard than they should, I think, it's just the normal lawyer speak cover-your-ass thing.
Cops in my area have cameras on their dash, cameras on their tasers, and audio recording devices on their person. (Taser-cams can make for some pretty hilarious video...)
One thing I find a bit silly about this debate is how seriously we developers tend to take it. We toss around words like "enemy", "devil", and "evil", to describe a company that manufactures consumer electronics.

I realize that many of us care deeply about open source software, and hope that the field we work in does not become tightly controlled, but let's face it: it's not like Apple is producing weapons of mass destruction, or cheap guns intended for street gangs, or cigarettes.

If we showed an iPad to the average person, and said, "Look how EVIL this is!", they'd probably be more than a little confused.
That was a stunning long post with which to deliver the message "don't bullshit people; live up to your commitments".
I don't even want to think how long it would take to tag 4,000 albums properly either. This fear alone keeps me away from database-backed music systems.
.... "for advice".
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100 terabytes = 104 857 600 megabytes, which is a factor of 524 288
Freemium does not necessarily imply scaling issues. If you're doing a commodity business with marginal costs like file storage, you might actually worry about cost of goods quite a bit, but if you're primarily charging for scales-to-the-moon-IP rather than server resources, it is highly likely that you'll never have serious scaling problems and the scaling problems you do will be tractable to well-understood solutions. (Most of what makes Dropbox a great backup solution is the non-commodity part: the user experience, which a) rocks and b) is hard to duplicate and c) can be offered to the entire world for free. Then there's the portion of the business that is "save gigabytes of data to a spinning metal platter" -- that is a commodity with actual marginal costs.)

Take a look at 37signals, StackOverflow, or FogCreek, for example, in terms of the scaling needs of real, stupidly profitable businesses. I think you could probably fit all three companies' hardware in my closet and have room left over.

Or, at the lower end of the scale, take my business. On a very good day I might get a thousand people to sign up for the software. That's a huge number for me (more people than I know in the entire world!), but it is a very little number for a computer, even a modest fraction of a modest server sitting in Slicehost's rack.
Maybe. Although I can see Apple being much happier to split the market with Microsoft and their equally closed Windows mobile devices than with Android. Open platforms lead to disruptive innovations, which are often bad for market leaders.
One factor of pretty that wasn't discussed is that a pretty (rather than just bling-fueled) interface is often one that has a lot of attention to detail paid to it, thus it is an indicator that other aspects may have received equivalent care.
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I think the real point was the spread the term "grin fucker". At least that's what I took from it.
Basically hope you're young when you get screwed over, if you're old the chances are you'll die before you get the karmic justice you desperately want . . . at least that's what the authors point seems to be.
Sounds like something heyzap could easily implement.
try SharePod
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Perhaps a good compromise would be hexagonal bottles. You can pack them just as efficiently, but they have a lower ratio of surface area to volume.

From a marketing perspective, you could make a new flavor and call it Hexa-Cola. I'd try it just for the name and hexagonal bottle. (If you think that's a silly reason to drink a particular beverage, then consider this: the name is probably the only reason people drink Tentacle Grape soda. Names matter when flavors are so similar.)
Really? Really? I'll probably just let them figure it out.
if I understand what you are saying about the top menu, you're stating that the ability to have unlimited menu items in a single menu is great???

You have to be kidding! When have you ever run out of space for a menu? If your menu has that many items in it, I suspect there is something very wrong.

I may have completely misunderstood what you meant (I hope I did).

On the other hand, having the single menu at the top means that the menu is not explicitly linked to the program window. In Mac it is possible (though I haven't done it yet) to save a file, from the wrong window, as it is easy to get confused as to which is the 'active' window.

I think the top menu bar is exactly the kind of thing I'm referring to when I say it keeps the mac pretty, but not necessarily functional. It keeps the menus in a highly ignored location so the features of a program don't mess with the clean look of the window.
I've wondered about this as well. I've been exercising, and I'm curious as to how sleep will effect that. I'd be intrigued to see research on the topic.
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This is not really hacker news. I am sure most people here also are aware of reddit et al and are capable of being on both sites if they want stuff like this.
All mentoring organizations have a list of projects on their sites. The Scala projects for example are awesome. Why do you need more ideas?

There are a few hundreds of them online (on the gsoc pages of the mentoring organizations). Pick one and get to work!
That made me think of TextMate 2.
These aren't "scholarships" they are free passes to conferences and the write up is marketing for those conferences.

"Lean Startup" is the new agile - more consultants, gurus and conferences than actual (startup) activity.

Imo Eric Ries jumped the shark when he transitioned to being a conference speaker/consultant than actually building stuff and running startups.
it does not matter exactly what you think different about, but just somehow be different from them

I think it does matter. Believing that 1 + 1 = cucumber, for example, has gotten me nowhere over the years, and I'm giving it up as of now.
unfortunately, if they're not lying and simply trying to be even keeled despite the circumstances, then you'll be the asshole instructor with an unpleasant paranoia about being grinfucked.

(next time please use something less emotionally loaded such as "a dog eating their textbook" as your placeholder example)