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Web type jobs are in SF. The Peninsula has web jobs and non-web jobs but still cutting edge. The East Bay much less so. I would NOT recommend commuting from Berkeley to Palo Alto. I've lived in all 3 places and much prefer the Palo Alto area. My son OTOH prefers SF.
That's the sort of analysis I'm questioning - it's also 95% likely that I'm not in the second-last 5%, and the same for the third-last 5% and for any 5% slice.

How can we usefully reason anything from a start like that?
I sell an SEO app ( http://semtab.com ) on both iOS and Android, and the Android version is outselling the iOS one by a wide margin. It caught me a bit off guard because everyone I know keeps repeating that iOS users buy more than Android ones, but that just hasn't been my experience so far. I even put the iOS version on sale at $0.99 in hopes to increase purchases, but it is _still_ not resulting in as many purchases as the Android version at the original $1.99 price.
I love the convenience of ebooks, but the ease of shenanigans in the distribution channel and the ability of a customer to lose an entire library's worth of books over business rules or technical issues distresses me.

When you read a paper book, you can be certain that the content in it is the same as when it was printed, and hasn't been edited or censored since you bought it. It can't be taken away from you by the publisher, except by physical force. You can resell it at will. Publishers and retailers who wants to try different pricing strategies can do so without facing the powerful control of Apple or Amazon.

I plan to keep on reading ebooks, but I'll buy the books I actually care about in physical form.
agree, I think there biggest failure is not attempting to move to another platform.

Theres plenty of ebook stores that do well on Android.. Kindle, Aldiko, & Nook all do well and I use all of them when there are deals, just like I use the Amazon and Google marketplace. When deals appear on apps/books I like, I buy. The content is more valuable than the actual reader.
I'm not sure what they'd be violating. Stores obviously have a right to decide what products they will sell, and to forge different deals with different vendors.

Should Wal-Mart be forced to carry my self-published book because they carry some Random House best sellers?
Ask HN: Is there a phone company that *doesn't* cooperate with law enforcement?
I recently let my Verizon account lapse and I'm getting by OK with Gmail calling and Google Voice, but I'm also a journalist, so I need to be able to take and make calls without looking around for WiFi.

I'm uncomfortable with my movements being tracked by law enforcement. Is there a cell phone company that doesn't cooperate with the government by default, or would at least tell me how they track me and when they've been subpoenaed for my records?
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yeah, well sorry, this has nothing to do with artists; something people not having enough to do with music industry have no idea about (no offense). the point is that the elite is still holding to the old rules and as long as there is money to fill their glasses and support with prosti.. and heat houses and pay attorneys, they will fight for every dime, "in the name of those poor artists".
and blog about it ;-)
There's a tradeoff between the physical size of your lens, the physical size of your sensor, and your maximum optical zoom. The way you put it, you make it sound like you can have it all in a compact, but that's just not the case. A bridge camera with a substantial zoom and large sensor size will be as about as big as a DSLR with a lens of similar capability. A compact point and shoot will either have a smaller sensor or a less capable optical zoom, and probably both. I have a fairly high end compact, albeit one from late 2009 (Canon S90), and it is nowhere near as capable as an entry-level DSLR in terms of focus speed, continuous shot rate, instant on etc.; and the S95 from late 2010 isn't much more capable (720 HD video, stereo mics and firmware update).
I always love reading things like this. It's always good to keep in mind that it doesn't take an earth-shattering idea to make a living.
God dammit. A bunch of important tools I use every day basically got a death sentence today. IS NOTHING SACRED??
I wonder how much of this applies to Facebook.
If you read carefully, they get (up to) %30 of the book price in margin from the publisher. Then they are asked to turn around and pay %30 of the book price to Apple. This means they make %0 net.

Subtract from the %0 net margin the costs of doing business and you are in a lot of trouble.

Sounds like they need to move to a premium app model and stop trying to make money from book sales.
so what he's saying is that even if I paid for the music I store in my amazon cloud drive, just because amazon probably doesn't store a separate copy of each song of my collection amazon should be paying him performance royalty? This dude a moron. Good thing he's going after Amazon and Google, that way his stupidity will cost him a lot in wasted lawsuits.
Badmouthing iOS platform and appstore policies wont help.

They knew the risk when the appstore was launched, the only exit strategy was acquisition by a established publisher or seller, which did not materialize.

Apple is a thought leader, Android and others just copy their policies, so expecting the margins on other platform is not viable on longer term.

If I was CEO of iFlowReader I would retune the business models for current realities, tying up with self book publisher like lulu, xlibris, who can offer 50% margins on ebook sales.
Very interesting. Have you marketed them in the same way? Maybe the sheer size of the Android handset market is beginning to turn the tide.
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If you have a family, in the most kind way you can think of, learn to say no. While you are at home trying hard to work, everyone will think you have lots of free time.

Find a place where you can work quietly when you really need it. Preferably not at home, not at a coffee shop, not anywhere you could be interrupted.

Find a mentor/buddy. Someone who knows more than you do. When some server configuration bullshit gets in your way, when some framework bug stops you, when some Ruby version 1.8.7 patch 154 won't work with Delayed Job (a made up example) you'll need someone with the experience to help you.

Wake up at the same time everyday. Got to sleep at the same time every day. Eat breakfast. Exercise. Throw out your television, don't visit HackerNews or reddit except once a day.

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Do it part time before the money runs out so you won't need to scramble later.
Now that is an interesting data point.

I guess your target market is the tech savvy crowd who are often put off by the iOS closed platform.
Lucid was the disruptive competitor to Symbolics: rather than building expensive hardware to run Lisp fast, they built expensive software to make mainstream hardware (e.g. SPARCs) run Lisp fast. AFAIK they never had a product that ran on LispMs.
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A private file hosted in rented space that I'm accessing is not public performance and I don't understand how we can stretch the definition of words to get to that conclusion.

Dear Music industry, grow up. Or sue, lose in court and miss out on all the revenue you could be enjoying. It really is your choice.
It's troubling that they seem to be willing to apply one rule to the big, established players and another to everyone else. In the long run I don't think this nurtures a healthy market.
This is amazing. It's like they took InDesign's effects palette and put it in my browser.
Everyone's different about this, but only having 2 months would scare the hell out of me personally.

Given that you've already quit, you may want to reconsider getting more cash in the bank. Your living expenses are one thing, but depending on what you're doing you may need to pay for other skills (design, devel, etc), and cash is king.

What would be your plan after the money ends in 2 months? Go get another job? 2 months doesn't seem long enough to develop and test your ideas, nor to make something that would bring in a livable wage, let alone profit for growth.

If you've already got a product/service, and the 2 months is just to get sales in the door, that might be a different story, but cashflow can take a while to establish even then.

You can do some freelance work while working on the business, but they often interfere. Focus on doing one or the other for a while. Again, everyone's different, but if it was me, I'd focus on getting some billable freelance work in first, getting more cash piled up, then focusing on your idea.
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What costs can i expect? (Currently App Engine is ridiculously expensive for me).
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Nice idea.

A difficult one from implementation standpoint: When I change the distance, it just scales the girl's face as a 2D image -- no perspective. :-) I'm not being picky, just that this is sometimes a consideration for me when clicking...

Wish someone can point me to the mathematics behind this stuff. I figure ISO means gain of some amplifier inside so less photons would be needed to get to the same voltage at the expense of more noise. I can see how with the two auto modes, aperture size and shutter speeds relate to each other (basically you need to gather a similar number of photons, given the ISO setting). Yet do not know the mathematics behind why aperture size affects the depth of focus. Likewise, why focal length does the same. What's the mathematical definition of Fstop. And last but not the least, what role the sensor size play into all of this.
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TheLadders was present at the NYC@Boston startup event a few weeks ago, which supposedly had to turn away some companies interested in being there. I'm surprised the people running the event would let a company like this recruit.
Ask HN: What technologies should I use for my web application project?
Hi, I want to build a real estate web application for listing properties (for sale, for lease, etc).

Can you help me decide on what technologies I should use to build such an application? Let me point out that I am good with Java/J2EE + JQuery for front end but somehow I feel that is not the best solution for such an application.

Should I store "real estate property" details in usual database (like MySql) or document oriented one (like MongoDB or CouchDB)?

What should i use for middle tier..

NodeJS
PHP
JAVA/J2EE
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ColdFusion
Ruby on Rails

or something else ?

I am planning to use JQuery for the front end.

Thanks.
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"I think gold is more likely to see $500 an ounce in the next decade than $5000 an ounce."

As true as this probably is, it actually highlights the fact that there is money to be made by playing the precious metal markets. This article seems to be written from the perspective of the long-term investor, but plently of us have been trading gold for the last several years and making a killing. It helps the argument to clarify what timeline you're operating on, since a crash may be irrelevant if you can read the harbingers.
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If the feds don't have root-level read access I would be shocked.
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I've done something similar, though gave myself many more months. I also pre-paid a number of expected expenses to get them out of the way. I still ran through the cash quicker than I thought I would. Thankfully, I've been doing consulting projects and that extended my run time.

I also gave myself a one month window at the end of the time frame to find a job. So, in your case, I'd only give you one month to work on your startup before needing to go look for a job.
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I disagree. I thought this was the most polished, exciting and promising IO to date. It showed to me that the platform was improving and that they understood some of the problems with their platform.
To the best of my understanding, in the top model here iFlow gets 0%, in the bottom model, iFlow gets 30%. iFlow previously used the bottom model and got 50%. They could continue to use the bottom model at 30%, on iOS or other platforms, but clearly that's not enough for them to get by.

Their complaint here is the agency model of pricing itself.
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English is not my primary language so maybe I should have said "a few" months (about 5) instead of "a couple".
Apple is doing the job of the publishers (marketing). If anything the publishers should reduce the amount that they take.
Again, this is all ancient news. We've known for years now that the FBI has had eavesdropping ability not just on phones but on the Internet. We've had whistle blowers talk about installing large routers to duplicate and divert Internet traffic on huge top-tier ISP levels.

Time and time again, no one cares or at least cares enough to do anything.
You know you might not be serving the public interest if... "The stigma of working with the FBI might cause customers to ... file civil actions to further prevent the disclosure of information"
I worked at Nortel between 2000 and 2004. It was a great company. Their equipment for Frame Relay / ATM networks - called Passport - was really nice. It's amazing that we still can find their devices for X.25 networks (DPN) and a lot os companies still use it. They have been working for decades now. Eventually, all those beige phones of the Meridian PBX we could find in Hotels and Companies will disappear...
"Five of us spent nearly a year and a half of our lives and over a million dollars in cash and sweat equity developing the iFlowReader app"

if they were serious about the risking all their eggs in same basket, they could have used consultants/outside developers to port their app to other platforms with less than 10% of the said investment
They seem to employ a several dozen developers in NYC: http://www.cenedella.com/job-search/photos-of-us/

I wouldn't think a giant job and resume board needed this many people to run.
Seems to be now: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
You may want to consider a new icon for the iOS app (also, please make sure you have an @2x variant of it, too).

edit: i've had a couple minutes to try using it.

You may want to consider overhauling the application's user experience. It doesn't look or 'feel' like a proper iOS app, and I'm guessing that's why the Android version is outselling the iOS one.

* the icons really need @2x variants.

* The user workflow is brittle, especially given how few view controllers there are, here. I shouldn't be able to choose to look at the 'Web' or 'Social' tabs until I've selected a domain.

* The domain entry experience feels cumbersome. Why is it capitalizing my domain name?

* Why do I delete a domain from the 'Web' and 'Social' tabs, and why isn't there an alert prompt?

Add Domain:

* The navigation bar tint color shouldn't change.

* This should be a modal view controller.

* The text shadow behind the label looks weird.

* The label's text should be something more like: "Domain name:", especially since you already give an example in the text field with its placeholder.

* You should call -becomeFirstResponder on the text field when this view controller appears.

Anyway, I know you didn't ask for any of this, but hopefully it proves helpful in driving up your sales.

Good luck!
"iFlow wants 50% like they were getting before the agency model."

You may not have intended this, but that sentence reads as though iFlow is merely making less money than it wold like. The problem's worse than that. iFlow would be losing money with each book sold.

iFlow doesn't have the clout to negotiate contracts with individual major publishers: books are made available through a wholesaler. The wholesaler distributes the publisher's cut, takes its own, and gives iFlow itself a cut of _less than_ 30% of the sale price. Since Apple suddenly wants an entire 30% of the sale price, iFlow would literally be losing money with each transaction to make up Apple's "cut".

As part of the agency model, all books must be sold at the same retail price, so iFlow can't simply bump up the price of its books to compensate, either.
I think it could be a combination of competition on iOS and a very plain UI. iOS users can be UI snobs and to be frank your app looks unfinished.
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Honestly at this point, most people should expect this sort of behavior from any type of telecom company. Yeah, it sucks but it's the name of the game. Take into consideration that the gov owns the air space/spectrum these companies use, and you'll understand why they're so compliant with releasing information. The only way this will change is if there's a privatization of air space which at this point is seemingly impossible.
I think using PHP/mySQL will suffice for you. It is not giving you any technical advantage but it might be cheaper than going for anything else
This why the recent iPhone location data "scare" doesn't make sense to me. The wireless carriers must have MUCH more extensive location data on a much larger user base. I understand the growing concern over privacy issues as more companies begin aggregating user data etc, and I'm glad that people are (hopefully) becoming more aware of this issue, but shouldn't we react a bit more proportionately to corporate violations of user privacy?
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Maybe I'll help out BMI. The hard of hearing use hearing aids! They're illegally rebroadcasting a public performance! SUE! SUE! SUE!
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Read it as "loving it"
My fav part of this is when the Airbnb founder says he didn't start the company for money. I think we've all heard the story by now about how desperate they were to make money.
But it is surprising to see they admit it.
One thing we should also remember that because of the finite size of either silver halide particles in films or pixels in image sensors, it would not make sense to use very high F values - it would just not serve the purpose since once CoC is comparable with the size of the minimal light-sensitive particle/element, further increase in F will just reduce the amount of light without any increase in sharpness (e.g., a line which has the same width as the light-sensitive element would be recorded in the same way as a line which is only half as wide). For cameras with lenses that have very short focal length (such as, e.g., mobile phone cameras) pretty much everything is in focus (beyond a few dozen cm) even at low F (if you can control it, that is) - just because CoC diameter is so small it is comparable with pixel's dimensions of the image sensor. They are, in effect, "permanent focus" cameras.
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iFlow never sold books directly through their app, because the iOS terms never allowed in-app sales. If iFlow was selling books before, they were doing it through a website, unless their app was incorrectly approved.

iFlow doesn't need any clout when negotiating a cut, everybody gets the same deal:

>All sales agents get a 30% commission on the sale of a book. No one gets a different deal. Prior to the agency model, publishers typically offered retailers a 50% discount.

Apple only gets a cut if they handle the processing, i.e. sold on iOS. Books are not a subscription, they can be sold on a website outside of iOS without restriction.

Am I wrong on any of this? I got downvoted but I'm not sure why.
We use HTML / CSS / and JavaScript exclusively for our front ends. We no longer use any intermediary or server bound languages such as PHP or JSP. We have found this to be faster to develop and more portable across back ends. If you decide to go the Java route for your back end I would use JAX-RS and EJB 3. With EJB 3 you can use a tradition DB and not have to worry about all the mapping that generally has to take place with the tradition relational model. Netbeans has pretty good tooling around JAX-RS and EJB 3 in which you can generate your REST service and entity classes from you database structure or generate your database structure and REST services from you entity model. Either way, you can have a working REST service layer up in a matter of hours with Netbeans tooling, it is quite nice.

As for the front end, if you are going to be building a large scale web application I would suggest adding Backbone and a few other libraries to your JavaScript library or going with Dojo. Either way you are going to need something to keep your app organized if it is going to be anything more than a few hundred lines of code.
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Same here hotdox. It killed my machine. I had to reboot.
The source of this, http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/551409, is the longest piece of bullshit I have ever read. Oh brother.
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This helped: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Depth_of_fiel...

Still do not know how sensor size affects things. Will read more, and hopefully will be able to construct a single mathematical model that couples all of these together.
I don't know that privatization is a panacea for the government corruption we see here. And you are right that privatization of airspace is impossible (read: undesirable). How about taking steps to curb government corruption?
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A novel way to solve this problem is to stop signing new talent to the big labels.

Some of the music I listen to is signed to smaller labels who have much more liberal views when it comes to distribution and piracy. They host their own online stores that sell DRM-free albums usually at 50% of the cost of what you pay to big labels on iTunes, in stores, etc.

The vast majority of musicians and producers (i.e. not the Lady Gaga's or The Beatles or Michael Jackson) make their money by touring and performing. Selling their music on CD and in digital formats is considered a marketing method and token income at best.

My hope is that Big Music become more and more irrelevant (and less influential) as artists realise that they can do better without them.