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It's better if you have cellular reception (and sometimes you need your carrier to enable that feature for you).

Unfortunately, if you are using non-assisted GPS on these newer phones, you get poor performance. They were designed for AGPS and lack the necessary hardware that dedicated GPS units use.

Poor performance meaning usually very long acquisition time and less accurate reception (unable to handle many satellites, etc.)
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I make software for money myself. What kind of an ass would I have to be to pirate other people's software?
That bill carries no legal weight; it's an opinion, not a law.
I keep everything in Notational Velocity stored in plain text files, which I keep in sync between multiple computers with Dropbox. It also syncs with SimpleNote so I can view/update it from my iPhone or iPad or from the web. Simple, and I can access it from anywhere.

Within the text file, I usually group ideas by type and mark it with a '*' if I implement it, and a 'X' if I decide it's not a good idea/it's already been done/I've lost interest in it. Has worked well for me.
OTOH, the submitter might not have found these cool videos without TechCrunch so some appreciation via sending them traffic seems reasonable.
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I don't have dollar figures to back this up, but I'd be willing to bet that they spend more on hyping up a "clean" image than they do on actual alternative energy research.

Xerox never supported computers because they thought it would hurt their core business, even after they invented everything at PARC.
Unlike the ship dates, that aspect of the product has been very consistent for months, yes. (It's not entirely clear whether you have to keep the app running, but you probably do, and the bracelet is the whole point.)
>a big pinch of salt

Or you could just use bcrypt.

(kidding, kidding. couldn't resist :)
Ask HN: How to make money with a diary site?
I am running a diary site, on which users can keep their diary both private and publicly. People also comment on each others diary posts (if public). Me and a friend started this as a hobby project a couple of years ago. We have regular day jobs, so we have limited time to spend on the site. So far the google ads pay for the hosting costs, but that's about it (there are not a lot of targeted advertisments for diary posts). We would like to make a bit more money on it (we are not expecting to be able to build a real business out of it though).

We have started a test with premium accounts which are about 15 euro a year (about 20 dollar, not much) which gives the user some extra features such as changing the font color, size etc. Only a handful of users applied for it, a lot responded that it is too expensive (yes, the amount is for a whole year and still people say that) and that diaries should be free. There are a lot of users who dislike the idea that we would make money of the site (especially if it is their money). Also, a lot of the users are still in school/students, and can't or do not want to pay for this kind service. We are glad that a few are supporting the site, but do not expect to make a lot of money with it (the money we do get can be used for a tiny upgrade, which leaves us empty handed). My guess is that the money should not come from the users nor the ads.

So we are basically out of ideas, so any are welcome!

numbers:
- active users, that is, the amount of users that logged in this month (20 days so far): 1152
- traffic: 2500 visits a day, of which 56% is direct, 28% is search engines, and the bulk of the rest is from emails send by the application (users get notified of comments etc. if they indicated that they want that) if I read my Analytics account properly
I wish they had a site I could plop some text into as a demo. Hmph, Now that sounds like something Google would acquire and add to Google Translate. Google Emotional Translate.
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My impression is that mac users tend to buy software more often than windows users as a percentage of the whole, at least for small to medium applications. Examples: Textmate, Transmit, Sizeup, Divvy, etc. I highly doubt that would apply to behemoths like photoshop though.

Not that I have any data to back that up, just my general impression.
Ask HN: When do startups typically hire their first Product Manager?
I’m a Product Manager at a B2B SaaS company that is profitable and has grown to over 250 employees – I have acquired some excellent experience along the way. We have some top-tier financing from VC’s and we are cash flow positive. I’ve been working there for about 5 years and have recently moved to the Bay Area (got married). I’m now looking to spread my wings a bit – and find another role at a smaller company - I miss the old days of small teams, faster decisions.

I am one of those “didn’t finish school and started working at an internet company in 1997”-type people. I have a knack for being the guy who can bridge developers and users needs…I have previous experience in IT running a server farm and ISP, as well as working on the Sales Engineering side, managed a SaaS product support team of 15 and currently am a customer focused product manager for an enterprise product in a fast growing vertical. I know that I can contribute to a company in a variety of ways.

The reason for the post - I am trying to figure out what to do next here in San Francisco. Ideally I’d like to have the ability to work at a small company where I can make a big impact on the product/operations side of things as a company scales up and moves from being “pure engineering” to a more wholistic company that needs things like product management/marketing, operational systems and processes put in place (ie: Marketing/Sales operations).

I’m wondering 4 things:
1) reading HN, It seems everyone on the startup side is looking for a co-founder with coding abilities (makes sense), when does it make sense for a guy like me to get involved with a growing company?

2)When do YC companies tend to start opening up to “non-coding product manager types”?

3)Know of any cool companies looking for a well rounded product guy who is fun to work with, thinks creatively and knows how to market web apps/products?

4)Do technical founders in the bay area consider founding companies with “non-coders”? I know there is a bias on HN towards “no”, but does it happen?

TL;Dr – I’m a Product Manager and want to work at a startup in a non-coding capacity, what makes sense?
The day I make any sort of money from the software I pirated to make it happen is the day I'll start buying licenses for it.
I agree. While I note upvotes while I'm looking at the discussion threads, I rarely look at the leaderboards or a user's profile for upvote counts.

And if it wasn't for my own count next to my username, I likely wouldn't know how many upvotes I had.
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Well, when you add offshore drilling, deep water, and a cultural determination to eliminate regulations as cases of "improper government interference in the marketplace" or whatever, it starts to look pretty inevitable to me.

Why should they do a proper job? Nothing had gone wrong the way they were doing it, it was fine, right?
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I remember having an extension on system 7 that did that... Probably had been around for a while. There was also one that made footprints go across your desktop during the course of the day and one that made Oscar the Grouch come out of your trash icon.
One of my bosses made a difficult coworker take a Dale Carnegie class. Afterward he said that it "changed his life." I thought it made him even creepier with the constant fake smile, eye contact and repetition of people's first name in conversation.
Yeah, I watched the video after posting that comment, and yeah, I agree the way he jumped out with a gun made him look like a crazy stickup man or something.

I don't agree with this dude getting prosecuted for releasing the video tape, either -- just saying, it's a dangerous job, and cops aren't perfect but sometimes they're right to be careful.
Correct. Stashboard is simply a lightweight frontend display for your API/service status. It has a GUI and REST API that allow you to update status information. Using the API, one could wire Stashboard into Nagios or any other alerting system.
I run Linux and just happen to only care about open source tools, so I have no need to pirate software. TV shows, Films, music, well.... ;)
The fact that the idea is 24 years old and has yet to properly establish itself kinda refutes the fact that it's all that matters, doesn't it?
29$ is an upgrade license only.
"So because you can't be bothered with using something that's free...."

You are making presumptions again here. I've tried Linux, I prefer OS X is all. As I've said already, OS X seems to be the best environment for Rails development. If I sell my startup for millions, Apple wins big through additional sales.

I'm going to bow gracefully out of this thread now, as I've said my piece. I'll leave you with a few words of wisdom from a guy a little bit richer and more successful than either of us:

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." - Bill Gates

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...
Not anymore. Early in college I pirated a ton of software and used almost none of it. Mid-college I started using linux and shortly after just stuck with free software.

I can afford to buy expensive software now but the truth is I don't really need much fancy software to get things done.
Using this same kind of (Language vs Language) comparison, what are some criteria where Haskell wins?
Based off Pixar's recent movies, and a quick retrospective look at their older movies, I suspect they are sticking to their current level of realism as a matter of style, and only making slight subtle tweaks and improvements. If you compare their old movies to the newer ones, primarily you notice textures and objects are sharper, clearer and more detailed, movements of characters are more natural, and faces are more lifelike.
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>To prevent A from transferring the already used coin to another user C, a public (but anonymous) list of all the previous transactions is collectively maintained by the network of Bitcoin nodes, and before each transaction the coin’s unusedness will be checked.

Sounds like that'll cost a lot of CPU/bandwidth... * continues reading * I'm curious how the whole thing is organized...

edit: technical paper link[1] is on the FAQ page.

[1]: http://www.bitcoin.org/sites/default/files/bitcoin.pdf

-----------

edit2: from the technical paper:

The steps to run the network are as follows:
1) New transactions are broadcast to all nodes.
2) Each node collects new transactions into a block.
3) Each node works on finding a difficult proof-of-work for its block.
4) When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all nodes.
5) Nodes accept the block only if all transactions in it are valid and not already spent.
6) Nodes express their acceptance of the block by working on creating the next block in the chain, using the hash of the accepted block as the previous hash.

So, existing data is always re-"proved", continuously, to out-pace any would-be attacker (the longest chain is "correct"). A "proof-of-work" involves repeated hashing of the previous hash + a nonce until X number of 0s prefix the resulting hash. The theory goes that as long as more people are working within the rules, they'll out-pace anyone trying to break the rules, by sheer combined-computing-might.

I'm curious though: what happens when transactions get large compared to cpus-which-can-prove-transactions? Wouldn't that cause the average rate of growth of the histories to decline, making it easier to attack individual lines?

I don't see how this can scale. But please correct me if I'm wrong... I like the idea of a distributed currency, and I'd love one to work.
Well Chrome is a somewhat different strategy. Sure, Chrome tried to raise the bar. But Google has a lot of other uses for that browser technology. It is used internally, it shows up in Android, the JavaScript engine is usable in a stand-alone environment, it will be used in ChromeOS, etc. Google didn't just release it, say, "We've made our point" and then stop.

Google's strategy with the Nexus One strategy is an occasional strategy. If you're not planning to go into a line of business, it is a lot of money to spend for uncertain reward. That said, I'm quite sure that Google would not be adverse to using it again if they found a good reason to do so.
"Pirate your own software"? I don't think that would count as piracy. If you own the copyright on it, or own the company that owns the copyright, or run the company that owns the copyright, then surely you can copy it as many times as you want. How could it be possible to view any copying of that as 'piracy'.
how's this different from livejournal?
I think they made the right decision. It would not surprise me if people stopped pitching money into the "jar" after a few months. There are actual continual expenses required to run a site, and I think a lot of people would fall into the "I contributed my share already, let someone else add more" mentality.
I believe they did ship a few dozen units out in Q1. I don't believe they lied in any of those quotes- at worst it looks like they'll miss their July 30 ship date by a week or so. That's not all that bad.
train.usaco.org is a great one, and the one that I'm currently taking the most seriously. Other than that, I have set this page: http://www.algorithmist.com/index.php/List_of_Problemsets to my homepage. I don't think you will ever run out of problems there. :)
I agree. When you're planning to invade Iraq, you need people who shoot well, and you need people who have been to Iraq before. They don't have to be the same people, though.

We had a great experience at one of our contract jobs: we found a smart math student with no webdev experience, and he did most of the programming while I constantly consulted him on "platform issues" and jumped in to code any tricky parts he had problems with. He became a competent webdev in about two months - way faster than it took me to learn this stuff by myself - then I handed the project over to him and left. I wonder why other employers don't do this more: mix experienced programmers with smart newbies who come from hard-science backgrounds. Seems to be a winning combination.
I have no idea, personally knowing that reddit was always going to work would be enough, but that is a unrealistic expectation.
I guess if you view winning a Nobel Prize as a failure, then yes, you've refuted my example. I doubt more than a tiny fraction of people would consider that a failure, however.

Ideas can, in fact, have value, and that is a function of scarcity. A lot of entrepreneurs apparently misjudge this, thinking that, for example, their idea to create a social network for X (insert verb of choice) is somehow valuable in its own right. But in most cases X is so generic that it's not. The superconductor example I gave is an example where there really is a scarcity, and so there is value.
Rich Hickey about this thread from the ML -

Everyone, please refrain from language wars. Haskell is a tremendously
ambitious and inspiring language, for which I have the highest
respect. There is zero point in bashing it (or its users) in this
forum.
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> people tend to be the ones who belief in free software as an issue of morality; they tend to prefer copyleft licenses as a result.

I don't believe in restriction. That's my morality.

>I don't do this whole web thing in any serious manner, but yes, I'm aware of it.

That explains a lot.

>But if you came up with a great scheduler implementation or some such, you wouldn't want the Linux kernel to be able to use it?

They can use it, they just can't relicense it. Frankly if there was some kind of humanitarian issue, I'd be open to discussion, but getting a new scheduler into the Linux kernel is a political issue, not a licensing one. Ask Con Kolivas.

>You wouldn't want gitorious to be able to use some useful library you've written?

They can use it, they can't relicense it.

> over 60% of open-source/free software is licensed under some from of GPL or LGPL

and most of it is trash. Why do I care? the stuff I use.

Me. That I use, on a day-to-day basis in my work is BSD/MIT.

GPL only touches tools/platforms, not actual code.

>If you licensed with a normal BSD, MIT, or similar license, a GPL fork wouldn't make the original BSD version go away

Fully aware. I still don't care.

> how many GPL forks of BSD projects are there?

Need I demonstrate how many times GNUists have stolen and relicensed BSD code before calling it their own, thus continuing the spread of their disease?

>Then just release it as MIT or BSD licensed.

I'll do as I please, thank you. You're welcome to find the nearest cliff and test a new form of human powered flight though.

>Do something that doesn't restrict the ability of people

I'd ask the same of the FSF/GPL fanatics. I wouldn't have to do this if they didn't exist.

> I said that your licensing is hostile to '"free software" folks'

And?

>Your license allows incorporation into proprietary software but restricts incorporation into the projects of the free software folks.

Doesn't restrict incorporation, just requires that it not be relicensed. They can package it in there however they like, they just don't get to rubber-stamp their STD on it.
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Probably not that different, although I don't know it that well.
The local minimum point is correct I think. Finding the true maximum of a highly multidimensional quantity is fiendishly difficult. If A/B testing were sufficient then so many human and universal problems would vanish.

So I totally agree with the article: you can polish with A/B, but unless you're pretty happy with the neighborhood you're in it's not the only tool in your belt.
I didn't advise you to do anything. I'm just stating a simple fact.
Being even a week late is not my idea of a "conservative estimate" or a "firm date".

I realize we're not talking about a mission-critical product here. But when you choose to use language like that, live up to it.
That's why I'm still waiting for Oracle to be ported to Android devices. Can't store my todo list data in something like sqlite…
Using new lines makes no difference. Unfortunately, it seems that the problem of multiple people marking the same location on Google maps means that one pin gets picked up - and that particular pin happens to be inaccurate. Overall, not a big deal, I'm nitpicking by even mentioning it, but it could cause people to get slightly lost if they're unfamiliar with the location.
Sure.. but _why kinda up and disappeared, didn't he....
I agree. To me it sounds rather aggressive if people keep repeating my name while they already have my attention.
Can you show me how to convert the example I showed, using the yield-based notation? I did try but I couldn't get it to do much, not even what I thought it should. (I did add the unit for list.)

print List([1, 2, 3]) >>
(lambda a: List([4, 5, 6]) >>
lambda b: List([(a, b)])))

does work as I expect, but I was thinking about the yield syntax when I said it doesn't work. If you can provide it I will stand corrected.
Thanks for the additional info. What about StackOverflow then? That's also about content. (Questions and answers) Badges there seem to encourage contribution. What's special about HN, in your opinion?
I don't think I would've been as impressed or interested in the video without all the hype that crunchgear added.
"Google has also established a bug bounty program, offering $500 for run-of-the-mill flaws..."

So the article is wrong?
Exactly, good luck in keeping your deranged ex out.
Your interpretation of what the Register says is overly optimistic, and is easily refuted by the FAQ on Google's own page. The Reg, when it says "flaws", is (clumsily) implying security flaws as well.

Either way, just to keep this crystal clear: the $500 bounty is for security flaws.
I have this, but not because I "Lose Faith" its more of a race between me finishing a project, and me getting the idea for the next greatest thing and wanting to work on that. At the moment I have 3 projects I'm juggling. I work on each rotating between them each week. Its a terrible way to work.
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The only pirated software in my machine is Adobe Photoshop. Living as a poor web developer in a poor country, single Photoshop license is 6 months worth of salary to me. No way I could afford that now, but I will in the future. Either that, or I hope Pixelmator will be able to replace Photoshop for web development in a near future.
How about affiliate links? For example if a user links to a page on Amazon, you add your affiliate id into the link?