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"I don't think they get it."

Oh, I think they do get it. This will start happening soon with all the content providers. They saw how Apple monopolized the music business, and now they want to avoid the same fate with Netflix. This is basically a bunch of posturing in order to bend Netflix over a table during contract negotiations with the major networks and channels.

Having worked in Hollywood before, I would not be surprised whatsoever if the heads of all the networks got together one week in a boardroom, hashed out their Netflix bargaining strategy, and agreed on a tactical plan. Hell, the industry is so consolidated that the same two or three people basically run every network out there.

They might be annoying. They might not give a good goddamn what's best for the consumer. But they're not stupid. (Or at least not as stupid as the music industry execs were).

That said, I wish they'd invest more money, time, and effort into building or supporting Netflix competitors, rather than stifling the Netflix business model altogether. I could live with a world in which I had to pick between Netflix and a handful of others like it. But I would probably tear my hair out in a world with just a content-crippled Netflix and no viable substitutes.
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I think the companies you've never heard of are the most interesting of all, in some ways. It means that "being famous" isn't part and parcel of their success.

37signals, while being a good group of people, seem to have found success in a way that I'm not sure is as easy to repeat as some of those companies that just crank away doing their thing and making their money without needing a hugely followed blog, books, web frameworks and the like. This makes me a bit dubious of some of what they have to say.
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Scott -

I'm sorry you feel this was a 'leech' post. The fact is I don't have any RSS feeds and was actively seeking great feeds to subscribe to that meet the interests of readers of HN. HN followers I assume have similar interests given the content of the site, so I guess I figured it was a great place to 'leech' some links.

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Great job, thanks for sharing! I had blogged about revenues of some more companies here: http://paraschopra.com/blog/personal/compilation-revenue-fig...
Open source never dies. It may lie dormant until someone decides to resurrect it. It may die when the last copy of its source is erased. That's not likely to happen, as most of it is already scattered around dozens of source-control repos.
Entity Framework for .NET allows for 1 more form of ORM, which is Code First.

Using reflection, you write your entity Objects, and it generates a DB model for you. It sufficiently covers about 80% of common ORM use cases.
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Arianna is now saying that Arrington will not have writing privileges and that he no longer works for Techcrunch at all. http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-arrington-no-longer-work...
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dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2953862
The one thing I would recommend people do is not use Interface Designer. It bloats your code base and adds more complexity to the view hierarchy. It might be good to quickly mock-up a prototype, but not much else.
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I bought a Roku about two years ago; it's been a wonderful little device; have had very few problems, and most of those were down to the content providers and not the box itself.
I guess it's a good thing he's been wrong about the equalisation of the sexes - both men and women may not commute today.
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In the endless see of how tos, lectures, tutorials, podcasts and gurus slinging their own version of how to do it.

Is there a solid top 10 list of resources on how to go from 'I don't know shit about app dev' to 'I took my idea and made it a useful app'?

I really don't know where to get started.
Aperture is a workflow management tool that allows you to do a ton of photo editing too. A photojournalist, for instance, wouldn't need any more power. FCP X, as you say, represents a similar approach.

But, the problem isn't that it isn't the video equivalent of photoshop — that's After Effects or (maybe) Motion. The problem is that FCP X is missing basic "Apeture" functionality like any kind of real audio editing, or the ability to export to another program.
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Those of us who are running profitable bootstrapped companies tend to put less effort into getting our name in the tech or business press. It is more important that we get our name into the minds of our customers, as our cash flow does not come from Sand Hill Road.

So, this lack of coverage should come as no surprise.
That was a great read. Thanks for the link.
Valve and EA were software companies with experience delivering content over the internet before they started offering direct download services, though.
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Phobia means irrational fear. Preferring open gardens is IMO very rational. Shouldn't need to explain why on HN, right?
I like the story of Airbnb's "Obama O's." I just read about it today. Respect for the hustle. - http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html
I could see a mirror computer for showing things like weather, appointments, pill reminders and maybe some quick news clips or a news scroll.

And of course, there's an opportunity for interactive apps, such as the 'tooth brush watcher/timer' that ensures you're getting good coverage over each section of your teeth for a decent amount of time. And similarly for flossing.

(Though they'd need to do better work in fog-free mirrors than has been done thus far. Because every one I've owned has had its coating lose effectiveness in a few months.)

But what this really begs for, is a continuous computing environment: a whole-house computer that can take your session with you from the bathroom mirror to the bedroom mirror, to the surface-style kitchen table and so on, with speakers and microphones throughout the home so that you can interact with it even without a screen.

In that situation, the value of a bathroom mirror computer isn't judged in the context of "will I be in front of this mirror long enough for it to be useful", but instead in the context of "would I like my whole-house computer to be able to provide me services here too."

And I think that's a much more compelling case.
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Optimus requires driver support to perform the switching, which so far nVidia has refused to even think of adding for Linux. Since their drivers are closed, there's not much more that can be done. It's possible that support might eventually make it into nouveau, the open-source NV driver, but it's not there now.

(On top of that there are some bits of X that need to be rewritten to be able to fully take advantage of card switching conveniently, but last I heard people were working on it.)

If power is your concern, most BIOSes will let you disable the nVidia card and force everything through the Intel hardware. But the obvious downside to this is you never get to use your fancy graphics hardware.
It would take a Herculean effort to start such a project, and it would be virtually guaranteed that 1) few people would trust it since it's not a name-brand and 2) it would be several years before it had feature parity. The social and technical inertia combined make it not a good use of time.
You need a newer kernel with gpu switching support and in some cases might need to play around with kernel command line parameters or scripts to power down the unused GPU. Google for it.

In general though I avoid running Nvidia GPU under Linux.
I guess what I meant is something more serious than what most people have been exposed to. I didn't mean to imply that Zeilberger takes the same approach as other working mathematicians.

I agree though that his work tends to be more accessible. Another very accessible paper by one of the co-authors here, Herbert Wilf, is worth mentioning: http://www.math.clemson.edu/~calkin/Papers/calkin_wilf_recou...
There's certainly a lot of the Old Boys Club about auditing and regulation, anecdotally...

Too big to fail? The boundary cases will always be the challenge but I suspect we could get started by mandating a limit to percentages of GDP under management, overall, sectorally and regionally.

Fundamentally though, the issue is one of liability and should be insured no matter what the size of the business against the cleanup costs. I suspect that would regulate out of existence whole sectors as simply too expensive to insure, but is that really worse than a systemic liability to the taxpayer of several multiples of GDP, as at present?
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This is an unsubstantiated rumor.

I don't know if anyone here actually read the article, but it's just a couple paragraphs that say Intel will be releasing an Android or Windows phone in the near future and that they've "temporarily" put MeeGo on hold due to lack of interest.

Quoted immediately after this is an Intel statement asserting that "[Intel] remains committed to MeeGo..."
What's Interface Designer? Or do you mean Interface Builder?
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That's something I've been wrestling with lately. LiberWriter has started to turn a profit, and I'm wondering if I should copy Balsamiq's transparency / blog posts about early success. In some ways I'd like to, because publicity should help a bit in any case, but getting on HN really isn't going to get us any new customers.
It would be sad day because I really love my Nokia N950.
Right but in many cases the companies don't really want to share their revenue numbers. It's sort of saying to people who would like to compete here is how little it cost to build, how much people have been willing to pay, and how big of a win starting this business would be.

I don't really see myself talking about revenue numbers for my company. Not sure how I benefit from it besides the ego and status boost which isn't interesting to me.
How is this so fast? I thought to compare charts like these you have to slide every chart over every offset to get the best match?
This does not compute. The linked page says "Seagate Secure™ encryption hard drives keep your data safe even if your drives are lost, stolen, or misplaced." This and other documentation, including the FAQ at http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/mb605_fips_140_2_..., constantly refer to physical drives getting out of users' control.

That FAQ describes the levels of security defined by FIPS 140-2 as:

> Level 2 requires role-based authentication. (Individual user authentication is not required.) It also
requires the ability to detect physical tampering by using physical locks or tamper-evident seals.

> Level 3 adds physical tamper resistance to disassembly or modification ....

> Level 4 includes advanced tamper protection and is designed for products that operate in physically
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Why is this not Level 4? Theft or loss are situations in which the product is in the most physically unprotected environment possible. It's in your attackers' clean room or EE lab, having the TPM die exposed, the keys read out, and the controller glitched to decrypt all the data.

Why wouldn't/couldn't Seagate get Level 4 protection for this device?
ht: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2953819
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Is it a lack of coverage or just strategically staying under the radar?

I think the lopsided press coverage of VC-backed vs. bootstrapped makes sense when you think about the incentives: VCs are focused on liquidity events (acquisition, IPO), so their startups might aim to be in the tech press and divulge details about revenue, growth, etc in an effort to pump up their valuations.

If you run a profitable bootstrapped company and you are reaching your customers, why speak to the tech press and discuss your financials? It would attract competition and I can't think of any upside.
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Well. That doesn't work on an iPad.
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Fixing the iPad rotation lock switch was pretty big IMHO. It didn't target pro users or developers. They admitted to the broad mass of end-users that their decision was not satisfactory.
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But if they are so busy building a movie notification system, how will they have time to create a programming language for a new computing platform?
They detail their algorithm in the "Methods" section at the end of their whitepaper: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/whitepaper.pdf
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I tried it today morning (by doing an upgrade from 11.04) and the unity panel kept restarting every two seconds.

Don't try it without a backup yet.
Bootstrapped, solo founder, and older-person-founder startups are very rarely mentioned in the press. Strangely enough, some stats show these startups are also the most prevalent. Thanks Rob!
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I've seen this before in the digital photography realm. Didn't work.

Kodak thought the smart move was to ride drugstores etc. as long as they could, while profiting wildly. The stores needed film as a product lead, bringing customers into the stores multiple times to get at the film content and picking up additional purchases along the way just 'cuz they were in there. When Kodak started thinking about transitioning to digital photography, the stores threatened to sever their relationships with Kodak because the 3-visit "buy the film, drop off the film, pick up the prints" model was working so well. Kodak confused who was the customer, and focused on the stores instead of the camera users. When customers went digital en masse, Kodak was in the dust having focused on old distribution models too long.

Same here.

Starz thinks the smart move is to ride cable as long as they can, while profiting wildly. Due to pressures from cable companies, they have to back away from their internet model; viewers coming "in" to watch Starz content on cable will hang around and pay for other content as well. When margins on cable become too tight, they'll find the hard way that Netflix et al have moved on to other content owners and there's no more room in the game. Viewers will move en masse to internet distribution sources, find there is more than enough non-Starz content to keep them occupied for a long time, and will lose interest in those "old" movies. With the "internet-linked set-top box" market heating up, only those who buy in to that model will get the distribution; Starz is walking out right at the short-lived prime entry window.
The counterparties that pose problems are the people who issued the CDO or insured it - think AIG, BankAm or Lehman.

The possibility of borrowers defaulting is already incorporated into the CDO.
Yep, sorry. Interface Builder. Shows how much I use it haha.
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I would say don't do it. I'm in a similar position (profitable company with an interesting back-story) and it seems like a bad idea to start giving out your personal financial details to the world.
Definitely agree - it seems like the music business in the early days (Elvis / Sun Studios) where lots of smaller players are trying for the big hit and the market is still fairly fragmented.

Also, the success ratio sounds similar to the early days of the music business - a lot of people plugging away, only a few will make it.

It'll be interesting to see how it turns out!
This stat really stood out to me.

I think it's simply because a lot of start-ups don't realize that what they are making isn't that unique.

They can leverage many components that already exist in the market.
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That's true, I suppose. But in a perfect world, I don't think universities should just be signing off that you understand a subject. They should be promoting the growth of their students. In my opinion, one shouldn't leave university the same person they were when they entered (plus a diploma).
Idea: mount a Kinect on a robotic arm, then hooked up the servos to the Kinect's human movement detection so that the Kinect can follow you moving through a large space.

Hmm, what could I do with that?
Exactly. "But I'm too big to fail!" Well, then let's make you smaller.
Ok, that is way too addicting to visit during work hours.

I drew a standard bell-curve peaking in 2007 and then trailing off to zero into 2011 and everything was either Myspace searches or Washington Mutual credit searches.

Pretty nifty.
Clicky is a great company with a great product, I've been using the paid version for some time now, and I can only say that they fit my company's needs better than other real-time analytics start-ups. Really happy that bootstrapped start-ups are as competitive and innovative as those which use VC financing.
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That's the problem I have. I used to primarily use Ubuntu, but as an aerospace engineering student I often need use Solidworks or other CAD applications. Linux/Mac? Out of luck. Maybe that'll change one day (Dassault have released their free 2D CAD application DraftSight on linux, and they develop Solidworks), but we're probably at least 5 years off a decent linux/mac CAD application for designers.
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1. Just do it and ignore your fear. Fear is what holds us back.

2. It takes less than a day to come up with a project. For example, I built a facebook tab CMS in about 5 hours, and it's a pretty cool little demo. Is it a big deal? No. It's not even enough to compete with the plethora of $5/month offerings already on the market. But does it demonstrate some basic skills? Absolutely. Take a saturday and write something simple. Make it work well (FINISH IT), and you'll be surprised at how much credibility it gets you. In fact, make your own facebook tab CMS. It doesn't have to be clever - it just has to be real.
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About eight days ago, I asked for advice about starting an on-line college that offers small classes and teaches using the tutorial method. (1)
After talking with friends and family, and thinking about pewpewlasergun's advice, I've decided to do is create a service that offers a full range of courses on technology.

Some example courses:
* Introduction to Mac OSX
* Introduction to Linux
* Programming (Python/Ruby/Clojure/etc.)
* Web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Rails/SEO/etc.)
* Bookkeeping (Quickbooks/Peachtree/etc.)
* Computer Science (I think it's sad that so few universities teach algorithms and data structures anymore.)
* Introduction to social networks
* And more.

I'm considering using Skype an the virtual classroom because it's cross-platform, and free.

All thoughts, ideas, and suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923324
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Hah. I did an exponential curve and sure enough there was "dropbox" at 0.9220 correlation.
I always say Wozniak should lead Apple after Jobs leaves.

Just kidding. I don't think he would be very interested in Cook's position. However, I'd love to see him back guiding the electronic design of Apple products and, being a founder, the guardian of the company's soul. Current Macs have PC hearts. That's not the genius we saw with the Apple II or the IWM.

Seriously, if Apple can be boiled down to an idea, it's the marriage of art and clever engineering. Jobs brought the art and Wozniak, the engineering.
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An interesting idea, but I think the other way made more sense. I'm going to go to sleep when I'm tired. Waking up should be done according to the rhythm.
> It bloats your code base and adds more complexity to the view hierarchy.

Care to be more specific?
Would you care to qualify that. In my experience it has been the exact opposite -- setting up your UI in Interface Builder has always reduced the amount of code necessary and has allowed quite complex view hierarchies to appear pretty much flat in code. And I'm taking about iOS UIs, for which a bunch of the code saving goodies of AppKit Interface Builder are not available -- things like Cocoa bindings and the new auto layout machinery in Lion.