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Anyone who knows anything about the Chinese mobile phone market would not be surprised about something like the Xiaomi phone being labeled "innovative." As much as Chinese companies have a reputation for making cheap knockoffs and cloning anything from baby food to Apple stores, there's a significant and competitive domestic Chinese market for cell phones which does reward innovation. Not necessarily YC-caliber innovation, but cell phones became prevalent and dominant in China faster than in the West, because of the large domestic market, low regulations, and international manufacturers eager to jumpstart the market. For example, Motorola was for a while the largest foreign business in China and was the market leader in mobile devices. Cheap operating costs and a rising affluent middle class = lots of cell phones sold.

You want an anecdote? I remember when I was in China in 2003. (Or 2004. Around that time.) Back here in the US, Motorola RAZRs were sorta popular. Here's an image for comparison of scale:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2498240940_80a83f70e9.jp...

In China, the popular phones were very different. They were much smaller, they had more varied ringtones, they were more colorful. And they were not all Motorola phones either, Chinese domestic manufacturers were all trying to make their phones as thin, sleek, and minimalist as possible. (Sound familiar?) Since then Motorola has lost a lot of market share to Chinese manufacturers who mostly are not delivering tasteless clones. Part of it is that expensive cell phones become a status symbol, and the people who can afford those phones take them seriously. I couldn't find any pictures by Googling combinations of "china," "cell phone," "2003," etc. So take my word on it or not, but that was the case. (Of course, the Xiaomi device looks like an iPhone. But then everything looks like an Apple product these days.)

What's the moral of the story? Don't be like Motorola, don't throw away your Chinese market share, and don't force Google to acquire you just for your overpriced IP.
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So you got burnout. Boo Hoo.

Part 2 should be in on page 2, not "some time later on", I won't be back, the story is not that interesting sorry!
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Arrington's influence as a writer does not rely entirely on him being at TC. If he started "ArringtonOnTech.com", HN and Reddit would still link to him.
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It's debatable. StatCounter measures usage (not users), and gathers data by websites including it, I believe. Generally StatCounter overstates Firefox and Chrome numbers, see the comparison on Wikipedia's browser share page,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

But it is still a good indicator of trends, most likely, even if it is biased.
Just because you can set something up yourself doesn't mean you should. You'll take on the burden of maintenance, support, and teaching people how to use the system. We could all be running git on our own servers instead of using GitHub, our own mailservers with Postfix and Horde instead of using Gmail, and using rsync instead of Dropbox. But for most of us it's worth it to pay for a managed service with an improved user experience. This is especially true in a startup where time is the most valuable resource you have.
I don't think it is. By the time they're finished riding the cable profit train into the ground, they'll find a market with all new players to compete against, in exactly the same way the music industry is playing out. There are more indies now than ever, and they're selling more records now than ever. The pie keeps getting bigger, but the old players are claiming a smaller and smaller percentage of the total pie. I believe the same will be true of video. There aren't a ton of indie movies and series being produced, but some are, and that number will increase over time.

In two years or three, when HBO, Showtime, and Starz finally decide that they want my money, I'll be hooked on shows from other providers. I won't go the extra mile to sign up for their puny little service that offers me a few series and a few movies, when Netflix and Hulu are offering me hundreds of shows and movies for less than 10 bucks a month.

I just bought a new point and shoot camera for about two hundred bucks. It can shoot 1080p video. The same revolution that happened in music is about to happen in movies and TV, and for the same reasons...it'll go faster, though, because of YouTube and the more advanced Internet culture.
Our subjective opinions on how "gross" this is won't get us anywhere. I don't find killing and eating animals to be gross—eating something that literally wasn't alive (I don't find cells reproducing in that way to meet my definition of "living") is repulsive to me.

I source all my meat possible from local farms that raise the animals in free-range methods, and slaughter them in ethical ways (IE, no shocking or killing them when they're in a panic, like a CAFO would). And that's as ethical and as kind as a meat eater can get, with no exceptions.

But the nutritional point I raise isn't a light issue. These are animal cells coaxed into growing in foreign conditions. Just like hydroponic tomatoes have no taste, and possibly poor nutrition too, the "flesh vats" of the future will have nutritional problems too.
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I think they're fine with sharing their platform with as many other services as want to be on there -- and that play by their rules. I think there are two clues to Apple's approach:

1. They're clearly evolving their offering towards purchasing -- notably, they just killed TV show rentals. Why stop offering rentals of TV shows, as unpopular as they may be? This was a major selling point of the ATV last year. It seems like they're laying the foundation for their fall announcement, but they had to do this a little early because the fall season starts soon. I presume that the announcement will be that they're leaving everything but purchases and movie rentals to the world of ATV apps. Movie rental I think they are still trying to evolve against the studio's feet-dragging. But TV shows are essential to an app store, so the new deal will be: You want to watch a TV show? Buy it or get the app. No confusing in-between option. Apple hates in-between options.

2. Their subscription policy. I think they definitely wanted to pick something that worked for the Apple TV as well. The brouhaha over those rules has subsided for now. But it's a lot harder to tell people to go buy or subscribe to something over the web when they're just sitting in front of an Apple TV. That's way more friction. You might as well tell them to call an 800 number. I think that's something that makes an Apple TV app store viable -- you almost have to have that rule, whereas it seemed kind of excessive on traditional iOS devices.

And yes, they want you to buy movies and music only from Apple, but on iOS they have no problem with people using Pandora or Netflix or HBO apps which they get no money for. Because they're services, just like Netflix and the sports channels you mention. But on AppleTV, there will probably be more takers for the 30% split and Apple may go with a subscription-only model (i.e. no one-time-purchase apps at all). This is presuming they only allow video-based apps (wot, no Angry Birds?!?) that you could just call "channels". That is, very similar to the existing ATV apps.

In fact, I think a secondary reason that Apple even created the new Netflix app, new YouTube app and sports apps is to work out and test the AppleTV's API and design. I presume they'll still be around in a new-look ATV in the same way that the YouTube app is still on every iOS device -- Apple doesn't like to lose control. They're just going to be the founding members of a club of thousands.
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The real question in my mind is "what is Netflix bringing to the table?" I mean, there's no reason Starz can't set up its own download channel right next to Netflix and Amazon on my Roku, is there? Why should they give Netflix a cut?
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Yeah, the optimal place for the system as a whole is when it "just works" for everybody. If you put limits and overages in the contract, the the customer may get penalized (or at least subconsciously feel the need to restrict his consumption of your service).
Great content; fair-to-poor presentation. The designers should re-read Tufte.
My gut tells me that he's trying to get fired. He was already sort of burnt out from the website, and honestly after the AOL deal went though I could never imagine him answering to Huffington (I mean can you picture that?). I also don't see the creative challenge for him to stay there, it's not like they'd let him build new sites and there isn't much room to do innovation on an existing site within the confines of AOL. Unless this is part of some AOL business plan I can't see him being there after next Friday...
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And another idea. What if I wanted to compare my stream to my friends, see if we shared any common threads at one point?
Awesome, great work! One minor thing: if you draw outside of the canvas you lose the drag event and have to click to draw again. Makes drawing in large areas frustrating.

I was also confused what the ordering was, and I still find the output a bit difficult to follow. I didn't know if I should find my picture and read up, or read down.
It doesn't depend on libc. It might be useful in penetration tests or other particular scenarios (port scanning being quite particular job in itself).
Never mind T-Mobile -- I'm an AT&T iPhone user and honestly I was excited about them adding the network infrastructure of T-Mobile. I'm now out of contract and fear being stuck with them for two years if this deal doesn't go through.
Ask yourself: "Is it possible that my customers might perceive my business as resembling AT&T?"

If so, change your behavior!
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I'd love to see this, but WebGL is such a mess right now, my PC can hardly handle even simple stuff in it. It's just not ready yet. The average user can't get the same performance from HTML/Canvas/WebGL as they can with Flash/Molehill.
I recommend checking out Amazon's instant videos that are not included with Prime. They have something on sale every day. It is usually a rental for $0.99 during the week and a few different rentals for $1.99 over the weekend. Just look at the top left corner on the instant video page for the deal of the day.
This is the first time I've seen it done but I haven't read a lot of assembly code or anything.

> but it never occurred to me that it would be useful for assembly language too. (And in fact I'm not sure that it is :)

Why not?
I don't have any numbers, but I strongly suspect music sales tend to drop off pretty quickly: a big splash (if you're lucky) that will quickly slow down to a trickle. So IF you make back all your investment in the first year (obviously not guaranteed), the rest may still be fairly small. If you don't make it back in the first year, you might never make it back.
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What would you count as "publishing" articles?

I find this an interesting point. In some sense, Hacker News publishes anything that can receive enough upvotes. But in another sense, YC interests are highly supported by the ecosystem.

For example, job postings for YC companies are posted like articles but without comments attached, particularly negative articles about YC startups are often (though not always) flagged by an unknown team of editors, and YC stories on TechCrunch are almost always upvoted (and are allowed to have YC in the title, leading to a signaling effect).

None of this is to suggest that anyone necessarily has any bad intentions, but rather that stories on HN do seem to be highly curated by people who may have what might be considered traditional conflicts-of-interest.
I think that Starz also sees how well HBO is doing with HBO Go and is thinking that they could just go out on their own.
I suppose the difference ultimately lies in the fact that were Linode to say that a certain level of usage was 95th or 99th percentile, they could be believed. With AT&T, you have to assume that everything they say about bandwidth limits is wrong, and probably a lie.
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It can be as much bullshit as you would like it to be.

I won't work for a company that makes me write designer's HTML.

I'll do manual labor, I'll take out the trash, I'll do the dishes, I'll help move, I'll clean, I'll do the system administration and I'll even interface with users and play customer support if you want.

I will not write HTML and CSS. If you ask me to do this, I won't work for you. A quick discussion around the office has confirmed that other developers feel similarly to me.

And at the end of the day, you can find hundreds of thousands of great designers who will do this for cheap. You can not do the same for developers.

As well, as a developer who paints at night (artistic background) and writes Erlang & Rails at day - I find the notion of intellectual "division" slightly amiss and I would find it insulting if I was a designer. Its misleading to refer to the 'theory' of multiple intelligences as anything more than a half-cocked ramblings of a drunk on the same intellectual caliber as NLP. Our brain is tremendously complex, although some people exhibit obvious deviant skill distribution, for the most part, we are completely malleable in our capabilities, even well into our adulthood. The article above basically suggests "Designers are so dumb they can't comprehend the tools that they ply their craft with, paint for them!". This simply isn't true.
Netflix has more subscribers than the largest cable company and the content that Starz provides is available from multiple sources (other than the two or three shows that they make).
This made me laugh, because I'm working on a blogpost about how one can use Bayes to argue that humanity is about to go extinct. Seriously.
Cheap or great website designs? The planning process.
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It didn't sound like this was a negotiating tactic, they made a firm announcement without apparently talking to Netflix about it.

What they might be thinking is to start an online VoD service themselves, they could offer it as a bonus to cable subscribers as a way of enticing subscribers.
have you actually read what he writes? He understands technology and silicon valley. He gets it. Over the years he has been privy to more information than almost anyone in the valley. There is a reason Michael & Om have the microphones they hold.
Vegetarians are pretty diverse and really can't be considered as a single group. Some vegetarians eat fish, some sneak pepperoni pizza, some eat dairy, some will eat anything but steak, some extend the definition beyond food to clothing and furniture. The addition of test tube meat will just add one more variable to further diversify people under the "the vegetarians" label.

In a similar vein, would someone who identifies as Jewish or a Muslim eat test tube bacon? Well, some already eat real pork and don't get worked up about it. It just depends on how you interpret and practice your beliefs. And we've all got different beliefs that make us do different things.
Somewhat related, I found Arrington's talk at Startup School '08 to be pretty good for getting an idea of how he views the startup tech press.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbUnatPfSgg
Yes. Starz holds "all the cards"... and so does BitTorrent.
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I don't care about whether Wikileaks suffers leaks or not. I am a little sick of the 'ironic' spin. By this point, it's about ironic as Alanis Morrissette's 'Ironic'.
I am not a fan of the HTTPS/TLS CA system. You know I'm not.

Yeah, but to 99.99% of people out there, the existing CA system is an integral part of TLS. Every time you tell people to use TLS, you're (inadvertently) encouraging them to trust the certificate authority structure.
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What I read is he said "as many good programmers started programming young, it must then be true that starting young makes you a good programmer."
We (www.kapost.com) also pay for:

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Erp, uh yeah. .64 cents not 6.4 cents.
'Seriously'?That seems plausible to me. It's not like nukes, asteroids, biowarfare, supervolcanoes, etc. have simply gone away.
They probably saw what HBOGO was doing and got greedy. Only HBO has their own great content and IP in addition to movies. The smart companies like AMC are actually starting to make their own as well so they become a destination. I'd love to just subscribe to HBOGO for my $15 rather than cox so HBO has cable companies firmly in check.

Netflix, and even companies like STARZ, may have issue when internet TVs take over completely and all studios/channels can easily setup their own 'channel' to stream content rather than having to join services that have a foothold on consoles, devices and TVs currently. The middle man is getting worked out of many markets. Why wouldn't the movie companies that license to STARZ want to collect from all that content? STARZ may just have killed themselves off.
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Netflix without their ingenious DVD distribution mechanism is just a Starlight movie player on top of S3. Yes, that is a gross oversimplification, I don't see what's stopping somebody with deep pockets like Starz from coming along and building essentially the same thing. Why not cut out the middle-man?
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This really needs to end up in Macports. I have the macports installed MacFUSE for a different program, and I can't use Truecrypt with that "version" of MacFUSE for some reason.
This is really great, I've been playing for the past hour. If you guys made this into a scalable site with a few more features, you might have a hit on your hands.
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I like to use http://impossibility.org for naming apps. It ensures you can get an available domain that won't be too hard to type/say.
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I have a Huawei Sonic (successor to the Ideos), cost $180AU unlocked and I like it very much. My previous smartphone was an iPhone 3GS. http://projectgus.com/2011/08/huawei-sonic-review/ . Specs are not high end like the phone mentioned in the article, but its very usable.
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Thanks for the suggestion.

We plan on doing that after the competition. It's crazy that it works at all the way it is now.

What you see was built in about 8 hours, at a bar, using an iPhone for internet.
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I think its fair to say that if you're a designer and you can't code and your work doesn't look like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Rembrandt... , It's likely you're just a untalented designer who also can't code.
I'll feed the worms one day too.
Looks pretty good. One thing is when you go to add a video and click in the search box it would be nice if the placeholder text automatically cleared instead of having to clear it manually.
Tell HN: Greasemonkey script to move through HN comments chronologically
It has always bothered me that, once a thread becomes mature, it's hard to find the latest comments that were added.

So, I created a Greasemonkey script. See here https://gist.github.com/1187770

What this does is allow you to navigate through the comments chronologically, using the right and left arrow keys.

That is, when you visit an HN thread, you just press the right arrow and it takes you to the latest comment. Press it again and it takes you to the 2nd most recent comment, etc. Pressing the left arrow moves you backwards.

Hope you like it.
Gave it a try. Some feedback:

Signed up then landed on the main screen, but wasn't instantly sure what to do there. Then I clicked the +, searched, and added a couple of videos that immediately started playing, but they were obscured by the "Add Videos" window, and no "Close" or "Hide" link anywhere. Clicking off to the side hid the window.

At that point, it was me watching a queue of youtube videos alone. I could share the room, but there was no interaction possible with the other client I had in the room.

Also, the second client I had started the video from 0:00 vs where I was at. While it would probably be too complex to make it exactly sync'd, starting a newly joined user at approximately the same place in the currently playing song as the others would help.

There was no way to change the size of the video. Since there was no social interaction, I thought I'd just watch my queue full screen, but that wasn't possible.

Keep at it!
Are you talking in general, or for very early employees? My understanding is that a 1-year cliff is standard (with monthly vesting after that). That's what everyone (including employee #1) got at a startup I worked for. (Of course I'd never consider that company a good example to follow wrt to treating employees with respect.)

If it's customary at least for early employees to get better terms, that'd be (awesome) news to me.
We just got back from a family vacation in Vermont, and I think the day at this museum was the highlight of our visit. We live in Boston, so we are familiar with the Museum of Science there, but Montshire can teach the Boston folks a thing or two about good exhibit design. The museum includes a leaf-cutter ant colony under glass, a “science park” with various outdoor exhibits, and a network of trails that touch the banks of the Connecticut River.

Aside from the intrinsic quality of the museum, the southern Vermont economy could use some extra tourist dollars about now.
I was a co-founder of a startup (non-tech) that raised $60+ million over 10 years and in my experience, a dollar of sweat equity, particularly from a person without some extraordinary personal value-add, is rarely as valuable as a dollar of paid in capital, all things being equal.
One more - Clicking share should pre-highlight the share link so I have to do a little less work to get the url.
Sorry.. last one... "Finished" isn't really a mindset I'd recommend when developing anything (especially web apps). Definitely pat yourself on the back for hitting a milestone and releasing this version, but unless you won't be updating or improving the service, you're not finished. =)
George Lucas can't keep his mitts off 'Star Wars'
Related question: when we're talking "equity" here for early employees, are we talking stock or options? At my last startup, all employees (even #1) were given options, not stock outright.