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My money is on Nate Silver's prediction of Brazil winning, with Spain in 2nd and England 3rd.

Full rankings (updated periodically):
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/spi/rankings/_/view/worldcup?cc...

Methodology: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/4447078/ce...
Whats your point? Or rather: How does your point differ from my point?

You're not getting one program for $385; you're getting multiple programs in one suite. 5-6 programs at $385 or 3-4 programs at $220. For example, Adobe CS Design Standard suite ($220) comes with 3-4 fairly big programs; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat. Four big programs - two of which (Photoshop, Illustrator) you're near guaranteed to use at some point if you're doing digital art. Comes out to less than $100/program.

I only focused on Adobe and other creative programs because that is what the OP I was responding to mentioned. My point would still stand if I used engineering/math programs instead of art/design programs.
Ask HN: Users who register but never use your web app
I've been analyzing the activity of users who sign up for my web app, Preceden, a tool for making timelines, and I'm not sure what to make of the folks who register but then show absolutely no activity after that.

For my app, about 25% of the people who register never add an event to their timeline. While I might be able to improve this with some A/B testing, my feeling is that these folks are not the type who will ever be very engaged in the app regardless of the changes I make.

For context, according to a report by RJMetrics, 40% of Twitter users never send a single tweet [1].

What type of people make up this 25% and how hard should I go after them?

[1] http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/01/26/new-data-on-twitters-users-and-engagement/
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No ctrl or meta keys on the iPad keyboard might make that tricky. (ymacs is amazing, though)
You're making the point that paying for content is good because it enables the artist to eat while concentrating on creating the content -- rather than some other task to earn money.

And no, record labels may not always be around in some form if they can't make money doing what they do.
In an all keyboard controlled app that relies haevily on chording, not a chance.
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Dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346241
If we have to stop calling equating it with stealing, then we also have to stop equating it with piracy, because pirates didn't make copies of the goods they stole either.
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I'll be amused that after some more investigation a pattern is found in the files (name, date modified, etc) and it appears chunks of the pattern are missing.
Do you have the emails of the users? Why not just ask them directly? Sure only a small percent will respond, but it might be able to give you some direct insight into why people aren't using it more rather than you trying to guess.

A lot of people just sign up for things poke around and leave. 25% doesn't sound like anything to be worried about.
Was this the Police Force. They regularly reject people who are too smart, because they would get bored in the job.
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Nah, usnet is overrated, themnet is where it's at!
Great idea -- I do have their email addresses and I can email them. I was worried it would be creepy "Why didn't you use my web app?" but it could be valuable if tactfully worded: "What did you think of the service? Any recommendations?"

Also, why doesn't 25% sound like something to be worried about? It seems like a lot to me.
Other comments have pointed out some factors of the L/GPL problems but I'll point out some and repeat that have not been mentioned yet.

Apps in the App Store are encumbered by Apple's right to disable use of the app by users who have already downloaded it. This is in clear violation of both GPL and LGPL.

Apparently (again, per the EFF) an app sold through the App Store may not be free distributed by other means. Another clear violation.

Also, you may not modify the app running on your apple device unless (and even then, only perhaps if) you sign the app dev agreement. That restriction on modifications is again in violation of GPL and LGPL (to, again, my non-lawyerly eyes and this is lay commentary, not legal advice).

We shall see. I'm confident that as a matter of principle the FSF would not support or endorse ports to these devices but what the EFF's discoveries make me wonder about is the extent of app store programs that are currently being distributed in violation of some of the third party code they use.

Finally, yes, I suppose that one may port GNU Emacs for personal use but, at the same time, it appears to me that one can not share the results lawfully, even with their friends. Taken to the extreme, perhaps everyone interested in running GNU Emacs (or XEmacs) on the iPad can do their own private port after paying Apple some money.
"Sounds like they're being sued for deploying an AJAX application."

You listed just the patent titles and then made a smart remark about them. Roc stated that you cannot tell what a patent covers simply by looking at its name. It sounds more like you mistake a title for an exhaustive 40 page patent. Otherwise, you were just wise-cracking for the sake of it.
Somehow "piracy" bugs me less, I think because in this context the usages are different enough that there isn't as much likely confusion. When someone calls copyright infringement "stealing", they often seem to mean it pretty literally: they really do believe that it is, or should be, morally and legally identical to stealing. But when they call it "piracy", I don't usually take it as an actual assertion that copying a DVD is morally identical to armed raids on shipping. It's just become sort of a jargon term disconnected from the original usage.
If you aren't paying for the music, you aren't paying for the production. If you were paying for the production, you'd pay what the artists' time was worth to create it, the studio time to record it, the post production editing...

But you'd never pay that much. That's why the artists/record labels/whoever spreads out that cost over all the copies of the of the recording. Then they account for risk, some cash to reinvest, and profit.

When you buy a book, you aren't paying for production either. Nor when you buy a piece of art. Or watch a movie.

All this arguing on behalf of the people who think stealing music is okay is really immature. Everyone knows it is wrong and no one would want someone taking their livelihood away from them -- yet plenty of consumers argue, "oh, it's fine to 'pirate' music... because of yada yada"

Everyone knows it's not okay. It's not okay.

Look at the arguments you make:

A) It's not stealing -- it's a copy
B) Record labels deserve it
C) Piracy is actually *good*!
D) Everyone else is doing it!
E) It's so easy!

Seriously! These are piracy proponents arguments! It's a pity really. Pathetic that people of rational minds would stoop to such irrationality when it suits their wants.
The patterns of who and when will also be notable. Were cheerleaders more likely to have been watched?
Ask HN: hacker pets
What pets do you guys have/want? Some people like pet rocks, I'm thinking a sloth - http://vimeo.com/11712103

Any other suggestions?
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HFT is zero sum in wealth, but positive in expected utility for both parties (when one part is a market maker and the other is a market "user").
It's the same as the political party noise machines (primarily Republican) - keep repeating a falsehood and enough people might believe it to be true to serve your ends.

This is mainly why Adobe's marketing tactics are pushing me away from the platform - instead of making a legitimately good product, they're more interested in telling us how good it is.
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If you don't want to be creepy you could also word the email as a more generic request for feedback like "if you don't use the app why not, if you do what do you like about it" to make it seem less like you are tracking them although I'm not sure how that would affect the response rate. I think if people know they are being asked their opinion for a reason rather than a blanket request for feedback they will be more likely to respond.

As for the 25% I don't really have anything to base that off of, it was just my impression based on how I use sites (I'm one of those that signed up for twitter and never tweeted). If I hear of a site that sounds interesting, but I have no use for their service, I still might create a login and check it out just to take a look.
"Black swans" occur quite often in sports, so statistical modeling only goes so far. One torn ACL is all it takes and it can change models around.
I had a similar problem, and by far the easiest thing for me has been:

1) Add lein-swank to the dev-dependencies of the project I'm working on (i.e., add this - :dev-dependencies [[leiningen/lein-swank "1.1.0"]] - to your project.clj file

2) lein deps

3) lein swank

4) M-x slime-connect in emacs, then accept the default host/port

edit: Blogged it http://increasinglyfunctional.com/2010/05/18/my-swank-clojur...
> Students don't set the industry standard. They follow it.

I don't think this is entirely true, which is one reason companies have student-discount programs, often pretty aggressive ones, sometimes going all the way to basically giving the software away for free to students (Microsoft does the latter fairly often).

If nothing else, what students are familiar with affects the cost/benefit analyses of companies making decisions. If a lot more graduating students are familiar with technology X than Y, then a company will find it harder to hire for Y, and will pay more for the employees when they do, which pushes some companies to choose X. Obviously how much effect this has depends on a lot of factors, like how big and how persistent the imbalance is, how entrenched the industry standard is, etc.
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Every world cup we see predictions like that. Every world cup these predictions are wrong.

The beautiful thing about football (and maybe the reason it is not that popular in the US) is that stats don't matter nearly as much as they do in baseball, american football and basketball.
My father raised me the opposite. He was always open about salaries but let me know other people weren't always comfortable talking about it. It resulted in me being pretty open about it personally, but I can understand where the awkward thing comes from.
If you want to try and build a version of emacs for the iPad that would be a fun exercise. If you bought an iPad with intention of downloading and installing a version of emacs you're doing it wrong, regardless of how Apple chooses to manage its app store.

Anyway, Apple ships emacs with OS X, and I think they're one of the last *nix venders who still installs emacs by default.

How ironic?
It sounds like you're trying to build http://www.notableapp.com/

With no partner, still learning, no designer and running out of cash, you'd be better suited doing something else.
I'll believe it when I see it - it will be very interesting to see if other VC firms in the area (Sigma, Greylock, Matrix, Polaris, North Bridge, etc) get involved in this at all.

As it is, I've not seen very many business-or-startup friendly movements coming from the local and state government, so we'll see.
Ask HN: Review my Chrome Extension
7 months ago I posted an "Ask HN" about an extension idea I had for Google Chrome. I didn't get too much feedback, but I felt strongly enough that the idea was worth tackling so I started working. I lost motivation shortly thereafter and the project sat dormant for months until I saw another developer had released something nearly identical in the Chrome Extensions Gallery. I quickly got back to work and released what I believed to be a better take on the concept. 2 weeks in, I'm still struggling to match the quantity of downloads the other developer has and while this isn't necessarily a competition, I would still greatly appreciate some feedback on how I can make my extension more useful, user friendly, etc.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kepjmeignbgkeglpbdmcendkoapjkekn
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It always surprised me that Apple still ships Emacs. It strikes me as just the sort of thing--bulky, unintuitive, feature-laden, slow--that Steve Jobs would have a personal vendetta against.
Caffeine helps with really boring work. I just make sure I've got 6 hours before I plan to sleep.

Unrelated, but: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/caffeine
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It's never been easier to form contracts across national boundaries. The same goes for publishing. Legal systems just aren't built to deal with such quantities of international trade.

The data protection side of it is important, but what about more mundane issues, like enforcing small contracts? I expect it's possible a lot of the time, but wouldn't be worth it for small transactions.

So yeah, I agree it's a big issue that can only be solved by concerted action from multiple goverments. I'm not holding my breath...
Georgia Tech started off doing this and switched over to a fake 9 digit number while I was there (2001?ish). Since I still remember/recognize it, I use it as my SSN more or less everywhere except for work/W2.
No, I think it was in the health care industry, but I'm not sure.
They probably have other items at the store that people do return. It's not worth having a different procedure per item.

And besides, maybe you got the wrong size for your printer?
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This always irks me, particularly because I feel uncomfortable questioning protocol. Sometimes I refuse. Sometimes I pay by credit card and they say they need it for confirmation.
I'm also curious to see whether these 'community' concepts actually deliver results or are just well dressed display ads.
I'm not disagreeing but I'm curious if you have any source that shows soccer results correlate less with "rank" than other sports. Do the low scores have something to do with it (similar to hockey maybe)?
No. Fat-fingering is a real problem on the iPad. Small screen + big fingertips => large minimum size for any hitbox => bad for getting lots of code on the screen
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How is this different from using the Outlook Social Connector (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c87...) - and why would you want to use a layer in the middle (Xobni) other than for portability? Will there be performance issues?
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In case you haven't seen it, David Greiner from Campaign Monitor wrote a fantastic, in-depth blog post about his team's success (or otherwise) with FusionAds, the Deck and others:

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Ask HN: Startup international employee hiring
Has anyone had experiences hiring someone from another country to work fulltime at a startup? We are a c-corp with a name brand lawyer, but before I ask them, I am interested in learning what issues other people have faced dealing with stock grants, taxes etc. in these situations.
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There's no account at all: it's just a normal embed.

The sign-in requirement only exists when viewing on the YouTube site.
Just curious: what evidence is there that the stats matter less?

There are certainly fewer stats altogether and the stats that exist are more team-oriented stats, but I still don't really buy your conclusion.

For a counterpoint, baseball is pretty much the king of sports in terms of statistics and it's still pretty damn hard to predict a world series winner at the end of the regular season, much less at the beginning of the season.
I've found misinterpretation and usability to be the most common causes. Eg. the capabilities are not clearly mentioned and so users sign up and see what can be done with it. And then decided that its not worth it. Or users sign up and the interface is not intuitive enough to guide them through the steps of what they need to do. Simplifying things helps a lot in these cases.
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I love these things. Here's a template:
"Scientists find dubious link between ___ and ___."
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I'm calling bullshit on Paul Graham (and Lisp).
Full Title: I'm calling bullshit on Paul Graham (and Lisp). Or how I learned why Lisp is relegated to the basement of Computer Science buildings, where its users don't socialize too much with the real world.

If the Lisp dialects are as powerful as pg claims, why is it so damn hard to do simple things?

Like, oh I don't know, print something to the screen?

(format t "Text goes here.~%")

What part of Computer Science culture did that atrocity descend from? Everyone else uses 'print', or some variant thereof; and just about everyone else uses "\n" as a representation of the newline character. Does Lisp have 'print'? Yep, but it does not do what you expect (i.e., it completely violates the Law of Least Surprise).

Or what about loading a data file, one line per array entry? In Perl that would be:

open(my $FH, '<', $file) or die "ERROR: Could not open '$file': $! ";
my @data = <$FH>;
close $FH;

How many characters does that take in Lisp? A whole lot more than Perl, and I'm not even trying to golf the above Perl code. But maybe I am being unfair; Perl is, after all, specialized to the task of text processing. What about Java, the very definition of repeating yourself (::cough:: instances, identical methods which only differ in their data types, etc. ::cough::) and verbosity?

FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("myfile.txt");
BufferedReader buffRead = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String[] data;
data = new String[10];
for(int j = 0; j < data.length; j++) {
data[j] = buffRead.readLine();
}
in.close();

(And that Java code still does not do everything the three lines of Perl does.)

So, again, what is so special about Lisp?
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Great work.

Please hook this up to ymacs!

Also, the highlighting in the tutorials makes the code difficult to read.
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You are most likely being downvoted for muddling the object(s) of your criticism. The Google navigation app runs on Android but so do other navigation apps. You've made a set error in your logic confusing the subset for the superset.

A fair criticism would be to try different apps, weigh them out and present a measured response based on that analysis or specify that you're criticizing Google's app specifically and constraining the boundaries to that app and not the platform it runs on.
I heard a thousand listens is enough to buy the author/artist a cup of tea. Today I discovered another service We7.com, which allegedly offers the same range of music as Spotify but with less adverts and without the need for software client (works through browser). And supposedly pays full royalties AND turns a profit.

A fourth theory could be that Apple have been planning such a service for years and labels want to beat them to the punch by backing Spotify et al
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Well, the NeXT engineers were firmly in the emacs camp, and that heritage is still present in the Cocoa text system.

I don't know if the iPad text system also supports emacs shortcuts, but if it did I'd rush out and buy a Bluetooth keyboard just as a token of solidarity.
Nice work.

Assuming you're trying to advocate Clojure, I'd recommend changing your tutorial to make things look easy (as opposed to highlighting gotchas). I recommend doing math examples first. Show how it makes a good calculator, but avoid discussion of ratios. That's (unnecessarily) confusing.. just like everything in the hello world example starting from the nil output on.

By the time I got to the sequence page, I just hit next to see if there was anything else of interest. I'd already gotten the strong impression this new language would just make my life harder. Worst of all though was when I flubbed up and typed (/4 3) rather than (/ 4 3).
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Say it with me:

The iPad is not a computer.

It's a web browsing appliance. Hackers want computers, full computers. And plenty of vendors (including apple) sell them in many different configurations, styles, and prices. Many other people do not want full computers -- they're a pain to manage and maintain, and their interfaces are too general-purpose and get in the way.

Complaining about the freedom about an iPad is like complaining about the freedom in your TV's firmware or (fairly-advanced) toaster.
The blog: The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau (http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/), writes a lot about bootstrapping and how he started out, he now has a self sustaining blog and affords to travel all over the world and blog about it. It's a great blog, lots of inspiration, and I think it'll definitely meet your criteria.
I'm about to try that (in the middle of trying another thing at the moment), and this isn't to you in particular, but as a general complaint, why do I have to have a project.clj file to get a nice repl in emacs?
Isn't the sloth an endangered species ?
Readers from non-soccer nations: every 4 years there's a soccer world cup. A few months before every soccer world cup, UK media is abuzz with predictions that, this time, England will really go all the way.

In the world cup itself, the English barely manages to graduate the group stage when, bruised and battered, it meets a Latin American or stronger European team that promptly wipes the floor with them in the next round.

A band of heros only few weeks ago, they then return to England to have the UK tabloids wipe the floor with them once again.

That's a soccer tradition many of us look forward to seeing again next month, in South Africa.
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Spencer Trask & Co. will be holding a startup competition starting in July that will award the winner $25,000 to locate a business in that part of the city

I can imagine that 25K going really fast once you pull up out of your apartment and set up a "real" office. The idea sounds half-baked to me.
I'm in the Boston area and would really like the startup culture to grow here, but I get the feeling that our local government just doesn't get it.
Microsoft says it only uses lawsuits as a last resort when a licensing agreement can't be reached. It sounds like they're trying not to be bad guys, but I read this as Microsoft using lawsuits to force companies to license their patents. I'm not under the illusion that any other company does differently, just commenting on their attempted PR spin.