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> If it's absurd it will be discarded by most people.

And yet the various flavors of creationism (all equally absurd by measures of science) have convinced half of the U.S. of their validity.
(This is offtopic, and probably best put in a AskHN thread, but) Why no love for BlackBerry?
Your last line is an interesting one. The point when more than 50% of my friends worked at Google was a really serious one for me: it became the point at which joining Google meant gaining the freedom to talk to my friends.

Not that this is a good thing. But it's very interesting, in terms of incentives.
And many thousands more to tear the house down.
That doesn't make any sense. The vast majority of highly skilled or highly sought-after professions saw modest but nice increases in wealth decade over decade. Only a very specific FEW saw multiple hundred-fold increases, making them the odd outliers away from the general trend.
>unfortunately no ... no hackerspace, no local coders to speak of really

Out of curiosity, what was it? If you're already making money, then disregard everything I said, move to the bay.
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Agreed. A QR link would be nice.

"color camera group" isn't working for me, sadly.
Hey Color dudes, if you're here - presumably those photos are being stored on a server, can I browse a timeline of photos taken in my area? Like if I'm in some place on a Saturday and want to see what it was like last Saturday, or what it's like on a Friday night?

Think of a bar conversation, or a restaurant or something "It's quiet now but check it out on a Friday night! It goes mental!".
I hate to break it to you, but people start companies to (shudder) make a profit... If you're not comfortable with someone making $1 million in revenue from your $100K salary, you probably shouldn't get a job anywhere.
Remember that's an average. Some people produce less and get paid less, some people produce more and get paid more. The two are not always correlated of course. In fact, at Google in particular, I'm sure it's crazily skewed: most people there are probably net money losers, and AdWords floats them all.

If you took a vote, I bet the majority of people at Google would be terrified to get paid according to the corporate earnings they account for.

Also note that the quoted earnings have of course deducted anything that got paid directly to the owners; the listed earnings are the money that is getting re-invested straight back into the company, not paid to the founders, so it's not quite valid to compare it directly to what you would earn if you owned the company.
Thanks Luchian!

If it's not too much trouble, can you provide the PSD files instead?
Just tried it. Works. Don't know if the photos I'm seeing are from the neighbors in my office building, though.
Maybe after they pivot.
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I've been working on this title for the past 4 months and now it is finally approved! Hopefully all this hacking will pay off!
Great tool, most tech folk that I come in contact with end up using it (not just IT, also my veterinarian, for example)
Or better yet ask them in person or over the phone. I was able to meet Dave Thomas (of Pragmatic Programmers) earlier this year and I just asked if he would be interested in sponsoring my weekly Hacker Newsletter. We talked for a minute and I gave him what I was thinking and he said they could definitely do that. I was pretty nervous asking, but it couldn't of been easier.
To seize noticeable amount of bitcoins, you have to work through individual bitcoins holders. Bear in mind that bitcoin transactions are not channeled through any central points under gov control, nor are they automatically personalized -- so the gov must first somehow find out where to look. The whole process will take months, and the borders are effectively transparent for coins all the time. If you know the seizures are underway, you may as well arrange for your coins to stay out of your access and U.S. jurisdiction for a while.

To seize noticeable amount of gold in gold-backed paper money system, you have to issue one order to all registered banks. It takes a day or two.

But that's besides the point. Nothing will circumvent the confiscation scheme in which the attacker has power to do anything they want to you, and you can't do anything to protect yourself. It's simply not the problem to be solved by monetary system.
A friend and I like to put it this way: after you learn information, you need to compress it. Find a way to make it take up as little brain space as possible. Then you're more likely to retain it, to understand it, to be able to use it.
Yeah but out of the $1.2 million of value that his labour is creating, he's only getting around 10% (based on average salaries at Google).

Are the reduced risk and added infrastructure really worth Google's 90% cut?
Because those are email addresses, email addresses I do not have.
Very cool and a bit creepy at the same time. I'm thinking about Hitchcock's Rear Window. I'm able to see what my office building neighbors are doing (I think...).
I don't get why the passion and a story matters really. What I feel bad about is that they make these cool projects that rarely ship as part of a real product that peopole buy.

What use is this database if its not going to make my search results better or make my computer be a little smarter...
Just played with it. I was intrigued by the sign-up process - it only asked for my first name and photo. Is it doing something magical to tie my'account' to my name and photo? Or is the user name a much 'looser' association and not something you have a strong hold over?
How I came to understand the App Store model
I had posted a question to HN earlier to try to wrap my head around how the app store model worked/was legal. I definitely did not phrase it in the best way, and sincerely appreciate all of the feedback I received. Anyways, this is how I have finally come to wrap my head around the App Store model.

Smartphones are like a country. The platform, the ‘land’ you live in. The App Store is like the government of a country. If you want to build a business within any country, you must pay taxes to ensure that the infrastructure is maintained; you must pay a % fee to ensure that the country (smartphone) can continue to provide services to its people (users). A country can place limits on what you can and can’t do within its borders to ensure the greater good of all within the country, to protect its people and infrastructure. You can also move to a different country if you think the tax burden is too high; you may freely decide to build your apps for another smartphone.

I’m sure it’s been described this way already many times, but maybe this will help someone else understand it if they were having trouble.
Aloud? Yes. Almost always in presentations especially.
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Well, just some women. I don't think it's a rational thing. As far as I know, they don't really think anyone is going to hurt them, it's just a gut reaction. It might be fair to say that they should get over such irrational fears. But it's just as fair to say we don't need to put anyone through that for something so gratuitous.
Aren't any cars… But there is a motorcycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTT_Turbine_Superbike
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What I was referring to was a company I have already sold.

It just happens to be what made me realize you could make a living writing software.

Unfortunately I am still under an NDA with the first exit so all I can really say is that it was mostly sharepoint plugins in the legal industry. What I work on now is completely at my discretion and I only do what I like, most of what I do these days is for fun and for the experience.

I have done some work lately for political campaigns and businesses(custom robo-calling apps, calendaring systems for a group of sleep clinics, a product and inventory management system for a manufacturing company etc) but thats just how I make money to pay the day by day bills, my projects are things I am passionate about and love to do, I guess I feel like moving to the bay area would help me get away from the stuff im doing now since I will know less people and I think it would force me to build something I truly WANT to work on instead of constantly accepting projects because there is good money in it and the people know me.
I wonder how important is a domain name for a mobile type app?
Agreed. I just went to color.com instead which does have a link to the app store directly.
41 million??? No part of me believed there was another bubble. About-face!

I'm considering building a clone on android and GPLing it. Who's in?
41 million??? No part of me believed there was another bubble. About-face!

I'm considering building a clone on android and GPLing it. Who's in? I don't think the tech here is that hard.
Why should I accept a bundle? Didn't they make IBM stop bundling? I don't need telephone service if I have a cell phone. Stop making me accept it as a part of doing business with a cable company.

The US prices at $150 a month include cable TV service with a lot of optional channels.
A few ideas that come to mind:

1) A distributed wikipedia/dbpedia. Instead of fighting with deletionists, one would just run its own node of the graph database, and keep/merge/sort changes that they see fit.

2) Recommendation engines that are seeded with the user data, at the edge. For instance, instead of me having to upload my song library to Apple or having a last.fm scrobbler running, I would able to have a "Genius" feature without ever having data leaving my computer. If I want to get my friends' recommendations, I could just add them as peers.

3) A medical expert-system that can analyze my medical records that I hold, instead of one central place. Instead of trusting something like Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault to keep the data safe, I can be the only one with access to it, and only talk to my doctor if this system triggers some sort of alarm.
I just tried out the iPhone app and I'm pretty disappointed.

Color seems like one of those ideas that would be pretty rad if 1 million people already used it. Because no one has the app yet, if you fire it up it's totally blank. You take a picture of yourself, post it, then the rest of the UI is whitespace. There's nothing to look at or do. It's possibly the worst first-run user experience I've ever seen.

I wonder if the Color engineers were always using the app together and always seeing each other's photos. If that's the case the UI was always full of stuff to look at, and they probably demoed it to journalists like this as well. Did they ever actually see the app as an empty slate like everyone will see it the first time they use it? My guess is: no.
Rehash of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314532 perhaps?
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Same happened here. It's totally blank until more people around you actually have & use the app. Which no one will do because... it's blank unless other people use it. Classic chicken or the egg problem. I guess $41 million doesn't buy you an answer.
sometimes its just not about the money.
$1m for product, $3m for marketing, $37m for curation of a constant stream of chatroullette-esque pornographic images?
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Gaiman does a reasonable job with this argument, but in my mind fails to address the most pernicious thought in the letter:

The question, for me, is even if we only save ONE child from rape or attempted rape, or even just lots of uncomfortable hugs from Creepy Uncle Dave, is that not worth leaving a couple naked bodies out of a comic?

This kind of argument comes up all the time in mostly unsupportable "save the children" heart string--tugging arguments (and others), and it is a dangerous and nasty kind of argument that should always be addressed.

"If we only save ONE child, shouldn't we do X?" is equivalent to "let's just assume that even the tiniest positive outcome has more value than any possible negative ones." This isn't really an argument at all; it's a premise concerning the relative values of various outcomes, masquerading as an argument. Moreover, it's stated in a way intended to shame anyone who disagrees with it.

"Even if we only save ONE child", "even if we only stop ONE terrorist", and their ilk smack of dishonesty and intellectual laziness. Sound public policies require careful consideration; arguments such as these are mental roadblocks, nothing more.
Exactly, been searching for a while now. Can anyone who finds it, post a link to a QRcode?
The problem with Dualism, is that we have no way of determining the communication mechanism by which the non-physical part of the mind affects the physical part of the brain, so it is unlikely that one exists at all. If no communication gateway exists between a particular mind and a particular body, then it is almost impossible to say that Dualism can be correct.
It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?
Compared to others in this space.

Pros:

* Does not require publisher to embed code

* Allows pre-tipping

Cons:

* Requires active decision by user to tip (the fatal flaw of all such schemes)

It's unclear to me if the 'tipstream' has to be public or not. That was a big part of the Kachingle model.
Odd question, but is tout incorporated? Wondering about your transition from weekend project->taking money. Presumably you need bank accounts/merchant accounts/gateway accounts and so forth. Seems like the step of incorporation alone could eat a big chunk of time.

And there is no about/company page anywhere on Tout. Which seems a bit suspect [FWIW].
I'm sure Google (and Apple) is a great place to work but after finally cutting the cord and working only for myself last year I can't imagine working for anybody else unless it's absolutely necessary.
Have you ever flown over Michigan? It's already a nature preserve. You don't really need one in the middle of Detroit.

Nature in Michigan is astonishingly boring anyhow. I am not kidding. We have very few native plants, very few native animals, very few native birds and frogs and so on. My wife majored in zoology at MSU and one of the assignments was to memorize all the names and sounds of frogs in Michigan, and the professor commented on how easy that was relative to most states. You can't even blame EVIL MAN, most of the state is basically untouched. A few of the larger mammals were driven extinct or chased away but most of the lack of biodiversity was here when we got here.

Michigan isn't the valley or the east coast. Dropping a nature preserve in the middle of Detroit isn't giving Michigan wildlife its last bastion against the advance of EVIL MAN, it's increasing the land left to Nature in Michigan by fractions of a percent.
It's difficult to find because it isn't fully indexed in the App Store yet. I'm sure it will be easier when the download count increases.
Yes, it's mind boggling, but Sequoia has a problem: they have way too much money under management. So when they find one idea they like, they invest like crazy to push it to the extreme. Add senior VPs to the executive staff because it will help go from a $100M company to a $1B company. That costs a lot of money.

Likelihood of success? Low, but that's ok as long as it works once every 10 years.
Parts of it are downright broken: the swipe-to-delete makes the "delete" button appear in a very awkward position.

I'll level with a lot of their choices for being "different", but they've gone too far in some instances. It feels very un-iOS. Maybe because it's cross-platform?
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Absolutely, but that is what makes the speculating fun. You have to ask, what possible story could you spin around what they have that justifies $41M pre-revenue. Even assuming a healthy multiple of 20, and investor exit of $250M you're talking about projected earning of $12.5M with a gross margin of say 60% that's like $21M/yr in revenue. And I'm assuming an ABC round (which is to say the would expect to not do another round prior to some liquidity 'event').

But they clearly have a good story and their investors are happy. So silly or not, its the path they've chosen. It reminded me of this blog posting I ran across:

http://www.gamesbrief.com/2011/02/50-questions-why-too-much-...
I'm guessing when the user takes a picture of yourself near a logo/brand, it automatically offer deals/ads based on the fancy proximity guessing thing. The company seems to be trying to build up eyeballs at this stage.

The high price tag mean they have several patents + trusting investors + solid plan, etc. It's similar to Facebook (Zuckerberg has patents of his own I believe).
Share swaps are a killer idea man. This is going on a bit of an extended tangent - but the vision hints at being a sort of micro-stock exchange for startup entrepreneurs. Neat concept.
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Given the $350,000 price tag, I sure hope it's somewhat important.
> The point when more than 50% of my friends worked at Google was a really serious one for me: it became the point at which joining Google meant gaining the freedom to talk to my friends.

Man, I just find that tremendously depressing.

But now I feel like a jerk for raining on your parade so I'll butt out. Enjoy the tech and the food and the awesomeness, and I hope some day you'll be able to tell the rest of us what you've learned.
I think that comprehending the non-physical part is just as hard as comprehending the communication gateway. In other words, if you can comprehend one, you can probably comprehend the other.
No disagreement there: http://github.com/~pjhyett

(That's legacy from the earliest days of github and I can't promise it'll be around forever, but it still makes me smile being able to do it)
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Wait, is this still considered unique and outside-the-box? I must be living on the edge.
I'm really curious to know why did Kickstarter get traction when there were other similar sites doing the same thing before them? If memory serves me right there was at least one other company one with the exact model, but that one fizzled out.

...

I found the name of the company. It was called Fundable. Here's where the founder of the company states how he laid the groundwork down for Kickstarter to succeed. To say he's bitter is putting it mildly...

"I cannot tell you how painful it is to watch 5 assholes take your idea and run with it and not even give you credit. I hate all 5 of them for that. If I see them, I may punch each one of them in the face."

Here's the link: http://groups.google.com/group/barcampla/msg/8c636525d0415fb...
You could always create an auto-tipping plugin for browsers, removing the only downside listed.
From a browser's perspective, I look forward to use it to find "interesting" things - maybe even something that's breaking. Ideally something I would otherwise not have known about. This might be contingent of the demographic of the people who actually bother to snap the photos, though.

Although it might be hard on the battery, getting a push notification whenever I approached a hub of activity would also be very intriguing. (As long as it isn't the shirtless greeter at Abercrombie & Fitch.)

I've lived in the same country all my life, and I still discover new, interesting things in it.

(On another note, people who snap photos in restaurants should be punched in the face.)
I am sure it's not a technical oversight. As with most DRM, it's about audience segmentation more than anything. The "DRM" defeater was never going to pay, and keeping him away from the product provides no upside.

Apple sells a lot of MP3s without DRM. People are looking for convenience and integration. The convenience/integration sell for the NYT is mobile.
I agree with this point. You are using a more flexible stubbing framework and THAT is what the point of this post should be about. The rest is just semantics.

My questions with TDD always come with the refactoring.
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Brilliant. Well-put. No matter how busy I get, when I get a nice succinct 3-5 sentence email with a specific question, I'm always happy to take a few minutes to answer.

It doesn't even matter who it's from or what they're asking. Form is everything.
http://twittermentionmonitor.com is a side project that I started to do this for tweets - whenever someone @mentions you in a tweet, the site forwards it to you as a direct message.

Ignore the payment part and just click the "sign in with twitter" at the top - it's free right now because payment doesn't work yet ;)
I can totally see people using this like Craiglist's missed connections...
Simple two-factor authentication service using the Google Authenticator
A new service I started to allow anyone with a web site to implement strong two-factor authentication on their own site by adding a few lines of code, and allowing their users to use the Google Authenticator to add extra security when they login to your site.
Agreed, seen a few too many these days
Europe does. But I realize the way that I put it was not constructive.

There is no debate. In Europe, they have a problem of communication between classes. In America, we have a problem of communication between communities. One society is not better than the other. That is same tired old "debate" that we should avoid here.
The WBC are a family of lawyers. They are very careful not to step over the legal line, while inciting others to do so. They then sue any and all transgressors, and use the money to continue their campaign of finding more people to sue.

Once you're onto them, they become incredibly easy to ignore, or counter-troll if that's your game. Doing everything you can to piss them off, while still remaining within the bounds of the law, tends to send them scurrying to their next funeral.
When asking a friend for help, I always go by the adage business before pleasure.

Write a small paragraph describing what you want. Start with a one sentence summary. End with pleasantries. If you do it in the reverse order, it seems much more like you are trying to exchange pleasantries for a favor, and feels like there is less genuine interest in the person's life.

I think that's because a lot of people front-load the request for a favor with a lot of pleasantries, and you just build that gut reaction of fear because you don't know how big the favor will be until it's asked.

The thing I hate to hear most of all? "Can I ask you a big favor?" Just ask me the favor. When I hear those words, I brace myself. It's doubly annoying when the favor is small.
Right on, a ton of these new social apps have this same problem. I remember Path 1.0 was a similar experience.
Are we in a Bubble?
Great design on the site. I love the theme and layout, props for that. I can't comment on the app though because I only have access to an Android atm.