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To paraphrase Tufte, bullets do not a presentation make. If it is worth writing about then write about it, do not summarize it into little pieces that may or may not reveal the 'point' in question. Beyond that---an interesting idea, form aside...
What about the feature which lets you upload any mp3 you want and play it to the crowd? A lot of my files don't have the artist information, I don't know how they plan to pay to play the song.
The objections DanielBMarkham are raising are literally high-school physics issues. I'm not expecting a QM explanation of what's going on, at this stage the researchers may not even be totally clear, but we know the efficiency is going to be bounded by thermodynamics, and in particular "generating electricity from waste heat!" rates dangerously high on the Science Bullshit-O-Meter. It can be done, but the bounds on efficiency are pretty dismal.

I'm not asking for a physics PhD level of coverage, but if you're going to cover this sort of thing giving us at least a high-school level of coverage would be nice. Just segment it off so those who are somehow interested in this but lack even that low bar of knowledge don't get too confused.

... or... not. I honestly can't say with a straight face this would increase your reader count, or any other interesting metric like that.
How open are you guys to adding a framework/service not listed there? I'm thinking of Mono specifically.
I really like Fred Wilson's blog. But I'm wondering - he reckons there's a bubble in startups at the moment, should he be trying to exit USV investments [1]? I understand his complaints from a series-A investor perspective, but many of their portfolio companies are well established (Twitter, Meetup, Covestor etc.), why aren't they making a move for an exit?

[1] http://www.usv.com/investments/
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I need useful stuff on my home screen.

I've heard this said of WP several times, and I still don't know what it means exactly, or why I should want "useful stuff on my homescreen". My phone is in my pocket until I want it to do something (make a call, search the web, find some place in maps). The home screen has nearly zero value to me...it's mostly just where I go to find which app I want to use, and I don't want it cluttered. I use a second page for weather and twitter apps, but I can't think of anything else I'd want on the home page. I already get notifications for texts and voicemails, and I don't think I would want them to be more intrusive.
Nokia's CTO categorically said no in a video interview a couple months back.
Seems like it's a lot more fun if you can join rooms with friends or people whose tastes you know intersect yours
That's a problem Nokia never solved. Even their fairly mundane phones are more expensive (although better built) than most of their competition.
Verifying scripts work properly under SSL, verifying the experience between other 3rd party services (such as payments), etc.

Again, this could all be done on a dedicated test/staging server, but the cost of doing it locally is virtually free, so why not?
Same story, different sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677903

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2682618
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From the App Store Review Guidelines:

14.1 Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected

19.1 Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected

Also

"We have lots of kids downloading lots of apps, and parental controls don't work unless the parents set them up (many don't). So know that we're keeping an eye out for the kids."

"We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, "I'll know it when I see it". And we think that you will also know it when you cross it."

"If your app is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

I don't see why it is so difficult to understand these rules. If you want free speech, start a blog.
They live in a world where Mark was just an employee that stole their idea and started another company. If only he stayed on as their employee they would own facebook. They don't understand that you can't have it both ways. You can't have a badass employee that understands your business and gets a lot done, and at the same time expect that employee to happily do most of the work while you supervise and make the profits. If Mark was the kind of person who just wanted to code and get a paycheck he wouldn't have even been doing a side project. He would have got decent grades at harvard and then easily got a 100k+ coding job at a big company working 30 hours a week
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Maybe they are, to the best of my knowledge there's no definite answer that they aren't. I find it unintuitive but I do think that rationally there's a case to be made that they are, in fact, 'derived works'.
If you're doing apps then Android would be the logical next step .... I don't have any data for it but as a recent tablet buyer I'm preferring the Amazon app store. I've heard people complain about their terms though (they set + control the price).
I'm sorry, but this isn't exactly stuff that's going to go over most readers' heads. The efficiency of a new device like this is pretty much the most important information about it. At 0.4% efficiency, this is currently just going to make your devices heavier and marginally more efficient. If it were more efficient it might make things heavier and significantly more efficient.
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I think only a few religious/academic institutions have managed to have ambitious projects in the 100-year range.

I'd be genuinely interested to hear if you could name any.
Sure. The problem is that we would most likely use the 'upload' feature to share songs and not their existing library. I imagine that feature is going to disappear really soon.
So Stickybits is in the dead pool I assume.

Thanks for the info.
One problem I have with JSON is that there is no canonical way to represent union types. For example, if you have the Haskell type

data C = A { field1 :: T1, field2 :: T2 } | B { field3 :: T3 }

How do you represent this in JSON? The contents of the 'A' or 'B' constructor are easy:

{ field1: value1, field2: value2 }

But how do you indicate which constructor it is? I can come up with a couple less than ideal ways. Which one do others use?
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Exactly. When nobody I know is on, I just use Pandora - with a crowded room, I can't skip a song I hate. And with friends, you get exposed to new music from trusted sources, and everyone ends up trying to play something that's equally palatable.

(Unless your friends are jerks and decide to play Tool's LAMC.)
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Oh, I misunderstood; I thought you meant anyone could change the keychain password once they logged into the box (which would be kind of dangerous)
Which is why it'd be nice if someone decided to implement an open source version of this we could run on private servers.
As great as it is in theory, even agreeing with thebooktocom that it'll likely not happen... It hurts a bit knowing we'll never settle another planet in my lifetime.
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If you don't include time, this graph is worthless. It's not just the exit amount, but how long it took you to get there. I think PG pointed out at Startup School that super-angels seem to be going for quick M&As, not IPOs, and that therefore, didn't care about the valuation as much.
If Apple allowed opt-in sideloading like Android they'd be less often in the center of these kinds of controversies.
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Species are an attempt to label a continuous phenomenon with discontinuous labels. Sometimes the cutoff point is the ability to produce fertile offspring, but that doesn't work all the time. It's always going to be very subjective.
I've found it will usually try to match against tracks in their database (sometimes to my chagrin)

I've never tried a completely untagged file before though... so report back when you find out?
The difficulty I have with this explanation is that the Earth is a big niche that we've come to dominate.

At every point the sapiens sapiens migratated to a new area already populated by a previous human group (a previous wave of migration from Africa) the sapiens sapiens would have to be dominant in that niche - even though we know the Earth is extremely varied.

A different explanation is that we were the only hominid group that survived a dramatic climate change (change out of Ice Age, or volcanic change etc) and our 'niche' was the ability to adapt to a radically changed environment in all parts of the planet that we inhabited.

I'm not an ecologist, though, so I might be missing something.

Also, "relatively small" may have been up to 10,000 years, for Neanderthal and sapiens in Europe. I know this is relatively small on evolutionary time, but its less than an order of magnitude from the amount of time that we've inhabited many places on earth, suggesting that it might have been possible for other human species to survive to modern times (ie if the land bridge between America and Asia hadn't formed until just a little bit later).
So how do you deal with situations where there is more prerequisite knowledge than a particular listener is willing to take the time to hear?
I think the word you are looking for is irreparably, not irrevocably.

And it looks like, more than the auto-white balance thing, he's getting washed-out skies from overexposure. This is a very common problem in photography- ever take a photo somewhere with a blue sky dotted with clouds but in the photo the sky comes out solid white or gray? Go back and look at some of your old photos, you will notice it.

There is no easy solution without sacrificing exposure of the lower half (what is usually the subject) however in this case the subject IS the sky, so select a camera that has manual exposure, set it a little lower and you'll be all right.
The trough is too long: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/576530/kickstarter/u_shape_full.png

See "Kickstarter: Shorter project durations lead to higher funding rates": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684511

They'd be better off investing in nuclear propulsion R&D on a 5-10 year scale (Project Rover, phase IV):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rover
The examples of work created with the Illustrator-based version here: http://scriptographer.org/gallery/ are hugely inspiring! I wasn't aware that Illustrator can be programmatically expanded in this manner.

Looking forward to trying the canvas implementation tonight.
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I much prefer Seamonkey's "tab close button on right" feature.
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It's not just about the limitations present in this solution, it's about developing reusable skills. Incidentally teach a standard scripting language to somebody and they have a powerful tool they can reuse outside of this platform.
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So here's my take on the matter. This is a Damned if you do, damned if you don't problem.

a) Firefox must release frequently to keep up with competition. A firefox by any other version is just the same set of changes, just labeled 4.1 vs 5. I don't know why they changed their numbering system (to keep up with chrome i guess) but it makes absolutely zero difference.

b) Any corporation cares about stability vs progress. They want to test now, guarantee that it will work for say 10 years, and just stick with it.

And now of course

c) The web needs to progress. (ie6). IE6 is still being used. This has been beaten long and hard for years. The problem is not IE6, the problem is corporations. IE6 will die, it'll die soon (I hope) as I still have to support that heap of crap. HOWEVER tomorrow firefox 3.6 will be it. FF 3.6 will have some crap and work like shit 10 yrs from now and some corporation will want to use it and nothing else just like IE7 and IE8 and actually anything.

--

Anyone who embraces chrome is embracing a mindset, it will always be up-to-date and our it must support the latest version, we'll force a restart of chrome at some point to update that version. Our sites MUST WORK WITH LATEST CHROME.

Here we have examples of companies complaining, and I guarantee if Mozilla would state that 3.6 will be forever supported (7 yrs?) like IE6 was they would get the same shit MS got for IE6, sure not today, but in a few yrs "omg fucking ff 3.6 can't do shit like rounded corners right, it needs to die" followed by the FF3.6 eulogy website etc. The only way to win this is for companies to realize that the following will be true on the web:

a) security vulnerabilities in browsers will be discovered/patched, and quickly. You must upgrade frequently to keep up.

b) The web is moving forward, even if you dislike that. Due to this rendering engines must be updated constantly. Sorry. Adopt best practices and release frequently. Its an unfortunate cold hard truth and its costly but its the nature of dealing with the web.

c) Mozilla can't support an old browser forever. Pay them and they will. However they are not Microsoft, and even MS can't do this effectively, so if you want something for "free" (IE included here) be prepared for paying for having to move in the direction they take. Otherwise contribute cash to them to support what you want. I'm sure Mozilla will happily create a special FF3.5 branch back-porting fixes for years as long as you pay them to.
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Sadly the Space Core's ability to add (and maybe subtract) was removed at manufacturing. This would set him up for the fall as NASA's first non-human, albeit humanly insane administrator.
Untagged files are not processed properly by the uploader. You'll get a "General Upload Error". This also seems to happen when there are multibyte characters in the ID3 tags.
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I agree -- I wasn't suggesting that the efficiency would go over readers' heads. I was generalizing :)

I will add the efficiency of the technology to the story now.
It sounds like the problem here wouldn't be the immigration, but rather that moving between economic classes is difficult for those with no skills. If we could provide ways for any citizen or immigrant to gain useful skills that are in demand, then we would help mitigate the problems of unemployment as a whole and help reduce the spending burdens of social programs.
I was speaking from experience. I uploaded a song with no information at all. Of course, it ends up saying 'untitled' but played just fine.

Edit - They may have changed this since the first time I tried it. It seems other people are getting errors.
> a pretty cryptic and lazy link? Doesn’t seem HN worthy

If you know of a better intro that I can link to, please post it.

> This obviously doesn’t make perpetual motion machines a possibility

As if perpetual motion were the only thing forbidden by the laws of thermodynamics.

> this technology is potentially useful.

To those pushing it. To everyone else, it is a scam, plain and simple.

> It would be better to just make stuff that doesn’t produce any waste heat

Please, please open a physics textbook. I beg of you.
Not sure this is a technical question, but your homepage being quite scarce on details: where do the downloads come from? Is it a supersecret grooveshark leeching tool?

The look and feel is terrific btw, awesome use of Air
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See the other comment for the article/premise I referred to. I'm not a scientist, just a programmer trying to figure out if this'd work.

The article stated that the magnetism of light is 100 million times more powerful than previously thought. But, that it must be focused to 10 million watts per cm^2. The premise is that the light induces magnetism that can be drawn as power. Supposedly it requires special materials.

But, if you drew the sun's rays to focus on this material to provide heat couldn't it produce a similar use?
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Just a note on your headline, "Sprint.Im is the simplest way to create tasks and manage projects"

I look at a lot of these project or task management tools. I'm fascinated by them and actually maintain a large running list. Too many try to use the approach of "simple" or "easy" project management. (See http://www.teamworkpm.net/ and http://www.easyprojects.net/ and http://projectbubble.com/ [title tag] and http://tasskr.com/ - the list goes on.) While simple and easy may be one facet companies or individuals are looking for, I think it's overused and the wrong approach. Realistically, claiming you are the best at anything is fairly haughty, but people are good at attributing it to marketing text.

You would probably be better off attacking it from another angle. "Effective project management for small teams." (Is it meant for teams or individuals? I presume teams, but it's not very clear.) That being said, the best approach is to run tests to find the most effective headline.
Typos (or encoding problem) at https://sprint.im/user/privacy:
"Sprint.imâ€™s" and "Sprint.imâ€˜s" (on Ubuntu + Chrome 14).
Even if so, there's a decent fair-use argument. The cases are mixed, but there have been some lawsuits over book summaries that came out in favor of the defendant, even though in a sense a summary of a book "derives" from the book. No idea what a court would hold, but fingerprints seem like they'd be on even stronger footing, since to the extent they're a summary, it isn't even much of a human-interpretable one, intended instead for indexing purposes, so it replaces the original work even less than a book summary does.
"RIM is highly profitable with lots of cash, which should provide it with a healthy financial cushion to figure out how to ride out the storm."

I don't think this is a storm. This is more like armageddon for RIM.

They have a clunky product that people don't _want_. People want iPhones and Android devices. People ask for them by name.
Holy balls you guys are awesome for releasing this.
Is Foursquare making ANY money? What a game.
Thanks I hadn't noticed that.
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What did you find annoying about it? I clicked to log in, not knowing if a friend was already a member, but I guess someone was, because a few seconds later I was in. It was very simple and quick, it didn't annoy me at all.
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I just discovered it, ... and now I can't stop trolling in the coding soundtracks room! IRC+music+game-mechanics - no wonder they hit that usercount!
It's really unfortunate. Even working with small clients (for example, one guy testing the entrepreneurial waters), I'm just not going to tell them "Hey - I'm going to use upskirt." It makes me look unprofessional. And yes, people do ask what I'm using.
We kill each other based on skin color, village, accent, or religion. I don't find genociding a different species all that surprising. In fact, I expect it.
Construction of cathedrals often takes a long time - look at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, started in 1883 and still being worked on (although it has been consecrated):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
Isn't this just the usual Nokia Europe-like pricing in North America effect? How competitive are the prices in Europe?
I understand your point "Effective project management for small teams." sounds much better.

yes, it is meant for teams. yes, planning to test with different headlines.

thanks
How ironic. They hate the West and all it stands for, but want to use the iPhone to spread their message.
Where do we go and ask questions for setting up a mirror for us (VLC/VideoLAN)? Is there an IRC channel?
* Please, please open a physics textbook. I beg of you.*

Even better, I'll go ask a physicist.

Ooh, I'm a physicist!

Hey hugh3, does this violate the second law of thermodynamics?

Uhh, nope, not at all! You can always extract some useful work when transferring heat from a hot bath to a cold bath.

Gee, thanks hugh3!
I'm extremely excited for Nokia + Windows Phone. Recently upgraded from an iPhone 3GS to a 4 and it just didn't feel like an upgrade. I'll admit that I haven't had the chance to try out a Windows Phone 7 device personally, but I've watched A LOT of videos. The interface smoothness and holistic integration of various services and information makes a hell of a lot more sense than silo'd individual apps.

The only downside about Windows Phone now is the lack of tethering. I find it a very important feature, so I'm really hoping that gets included in Mango or soon after.