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Actually, if you restrict yourself to a hypothetical "need to build something Shuttle like using available technology" universe then you can get something safer fairly easily. Buran, for example, was considerably safer for a few reasons, but we could make something even safer.

First, ditch the SRBs, they are a severe safety hazard (they led to one Shuttle disaster, for example) because they are segmented, they can't be throttled, they can't be turned off, etc. That leaves you with a thrust problem though, due to the low thrust of LOX/LH2 engines. So, second, replace LOX/LH2 with LOX/Kerosene. Now you have plenty of thrust, now you don't have to deal with super-cryogenic fluids, now you don't have to eke out every possible mass ratio boost on the ET because both LOX and Kerosene are fairly dense. Now you can ditch the foam insulation, and ice formation is slightly less of a problem.

Third, take the engines off the orbiter and put them on the booster (ET). Now you've created a vehicle, like Energia, which you can launch non-Orbiter cargo with. Realistically you haven't made things more expensive by throwing away expensive high performance engines every trip because it takes so long to inspect, refurbish, and re-install the SSMEs on the orbiter anyway that it's a wash money-wise, and probably for the best time-wise. On the plus side now the orbiter doesn't have to support the thrust of giant engines so its frame can be made lighter. Also, it doesn't have to bring those engines back down to Earth, so it can be yet lighter again.

Fourth, snip the wings off the orbiter. Turns out the military didn't really need a several hundred mile cross-range landing flight capability on the orbiter because the super-hypothetical mission that was designed for never turned out to be even remotely practical. So, smaller wings mean less mass and, again, a lighter frame. Now you've reduced the orbiter mass by a crap-ton and gotten rid of the huge amount of super vulnerable leading-edges on the wings. Now you can use a less sophisticated thermal shielding system on the orbiter (since it's lighter, smaller, and barely has wings at all), you don't need the carbon-carbon composite wing leading-edge bits, you don't need the vulnerable ceramic tiles that need to be meticulously inspected after every flight.

Now you have a vehicle that is much simpler and safer and yet does essentially everything that the old Shuttle system actually did in practice.

Granted, if you were designing something from a clean sheet at this point you would never end up with anything even remotely resembling the Shuttle.
I'm not grumpy at the idea of playing games with friends and family--I just don't understand why meals must include other entertainment.

But, to each their own.
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"Crashing in a managed environment is never the developer's fault" !!!

WHAT? Are you serious? Please educate us as to how that is done.
I think the best thing you can provide is something you can't actually provide.

The feeling of being part of something. If I were a rockstar hacker I would want to feel this project was something that could blow up, otherwise it would simply be a stepping stone for better things.

Best thing you could do personally is have a chat with him.

Best of luck.
woah cant believe little rock is more than DOUBLE what we get in ohio, must be a bigger town than i knew!
Well, ABS is kinda expensive if you're buying it in spools from Makerbot: about $45/kg. That's around $5 per toy, if they're smallish, or around the cost of a toy you'd buy. It's not saving you money, anyway.
what a bunch of scumbags, bought a beautiful island and puts easement on it to keep it in native state, and now wants to develop it
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Michele and Aaron (myself) have a great idea to change the way people communicate online. Yes we know, people can create blogs, post on twitter, update their status on facebook or place comments on Hackers News but...

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We would like to get in touch with someone who is willing to be part of something big. We are not here to make tons of money, we are here to change the way people express themselves. We believe it's not fair that only celebrities, politicians and famous startup founders can have all the audience they want. We want to give everyone the chance to be heard.

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Zuckerberg is #14th, Brin #15th Page #16th... and this is based on what?
That occurred to me earlier. There's a lot of people like us (I think) who really just want to accumulate as much "80/20" information as possible and don't want multi-media.

Call it, "The wiki for getting to the fucking point".
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I think that, depending on the type of product/service they're offering, it could definitely be worth it. If it's a consumer product targeting less computer savvy folks, the shorter/easier the better. If it's something my parents would use, and they could go to "z dot com" instead of "z dash gardening dot com". On the other hand, if it's a site that targets HNers, then it's probably harder to justify.
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Theory: Starbucks has partnered with Angry Birds to educate the public about NFC payments. Angry Birds: Magic is a new NFC toy which is about to be released. It makes sense for both companies that this toy is pitched at the checkout counter where a small placard invites all coffee drinkers to try a Starbucks branded NFC keyfob/giftcard combo.

Prediction: This campaign works better than Via. They struggle to give that stuff away at the store I...attend.
To be honest Google results start to have a lot of spam in them. Even the US results.
In the past, US results were rather clear, and localized ones for most other countries were .. well.. not very good.

Bing doesn't really do better, but that's the state of the engines right now anyway.

If you look for something specific, Google dumbs it out too. In the early days it didn't do that and you could search for good stuff. Now you get what everyone gets, whatever you're typing.
The article defines them: "patent trolls ("non-practicing entity" is the clinical term)".
You are offended because Google is being held to a different standard, and you are right. That's the whole point. Monopolies are held to a different standard. This exercise is about determining whether a) Google enjoys a monopoly and b) has abused it to the detriment of competition. The nature of this process is ugly, and everyone involved is self-interested. But I don't think it is a "witch hunt".

The question is not whether Google does good work, or that its search engine is popular on its own brand & merit. It does and it is. The question is whether Google is using its dominance in one area (telling people where things are) to gain dominance in other areas (telling people to use its products over others).

Even if Google's non-search products are objectively better, it can be a bad thing in the long run as the next generation of competitors are locked out by Google's dominance in search.

Defenses like "competition is one click away" are disingenuous, in my opinion. Clicks follow a power-law distribution. But I don't know what the right answer is. This might all be sour grapes. That's what the hearings and investigation are supposed to reveal.
With $19m more investment, and probably over 10,000 more customers (Assistly have never published any milestone figures, so I'm totally guessing) I doubt that puts Zendesk in any particular tight spot. Competition is fun though, when they're not selling.

As for anything else, let's see what unbias conclusions come up (ahem dreww).
You've probably already researched it, but if not, look into leasing it with an option to buy. You might give up a sliver of equity, but you could keep the cash free and used for things which your angel/seed round investors (and you, pre-realizing-the-domain-was-available plans) had intended.
Actually a monopoly starts by having the better and popular product. Then you have 95%+ of the market. Then you're a monopoly (depending on countries it can be anywhere from 90 to 99.99% I guess).

Monopoly does not mean bad product. It means having nearly ALL the market share.
I wouldn't be surprised either. I'd like to know how do spectator get access to the room? Can anyone show up to a hearing like this?

Placing someone would be hard, involving knowing where the cams are and how to position yourself and getting there first.
you've already admitted to doing freelancing while keeping the project going. You could of kept doing that. Theres companies that will pay for sponsorships if you have a 1000 dedicated teachers using your application. You said teachers pay for supplies, well you could make affiliate money. You could figure out how to get deeper discounts on bulk supplies teacher's are regularly buying and take a cut. You could ask for donations.

Once you have a 1000 people hooked on it, I have no doubts that you could think of a premium feature that opens new features to these users that they'd be willing to pay for. Again its about getting those users and showing them the benefits first.
That's a reasonable response and I'm very sympathetic to Elizabeth Warren's mission. I hold the greatest innovation the financial industry could come up with, over the long run, is a better educated consumer.

But is this a product that is aimed at low income customers? I struggle to see, from what's presented here, how that particular demographic will benefit from on online bank, iphone mobile banking app, or whatever else BankSimple has to offer.

Has BankSimple cast away deceptive or exploitative fees and the diabolical legalese of the small print? Have consumer advocates endorsed BankSimple as an example of a new more consumer-friendly bank? That would be great, if so, for that strikes me as a core part of Warren's crusade.
They seem to be fairly concerned with developing their collective while preserving the island's ecological state (say exactly that in the Kickstarter video.) Why else would they have put the easement on it at all?

http://rabbitisland.tumblr.com/post/2748890542/rabbit-island...
I wonder how much it cost them to buy the island, because if they're having trouble getting $14k together to build a lodge, it could not have been that much. I'd like to buy my own island!
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I don't mean to pick on you, but what is so exciting about having a cam on to see (or not see?) your friends doing random things?

I see the value in having the occasional video conference, especially when talking with family or friends that are not geographically close. But I still see it as an attention cost. I would be slightly annoyed if someone that I'm video-chatting with decided to treat it as "not a big deal".
MrMike I actually stupidly enough haven't even thought about that. Someone did mention it but I just thought it would be a solution not suited.

Maybe it could be something to explore...
Another thing for entrepreneurs to keep in mind is that VC's deal with bigger chunks of money these days. Angels have take on a lot of the early stage risk, so if the process outlined in this article seems overly cautious or insular it's because there's just no need for a VC firm to take on high risk, that should have already been done by FFF and/or angels.
How can you fault a managed system? Addresses are a few abstractions below the developer.
So, Google does a bunch of good work and people choose to use their service. The US is bankrupt and the economy is screwed. And the congress is spending time persecuting a successful company. BTW, Google isn't the only one. See: Gibson guitars. It doesn't surprise me that people don't want to do business in the US anymore.
> Has BankSimple cast away deceptive or exploitative fees

According everything they yes, they charge any fees or having any penalties for things like overdrafting your account.
This is how Google should have launched Google+
It can be a big advantage. In a commodity market, which search has become, it's huge. And the other type of market is one with huge network effects. Beating Facebook will be hard regardless of your feature set.
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How many people don't know about their preexisting conditions? If their preexisting conditions are serious, why are they letting their coverage lapse?

If you look up the cost of individual medical coverage and the amount of money provided by unemployment insurance, you may find yourself with the answer to that question.
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introducing humans to any ecological environment no matter how careful is going to ruin it.

FYI: benefits of easement - http://www.michbar.org/journal/article.cfm?articleID=95&...

•a federal income tax deduction for the value of the easement

•the right to subtract the value of the easement from a decedent’s estate in calculating federal gift or estate taxes

•the right to exclude 40 percent of the remainder value of land subject to the easement in calculating federal estate taxes
One lesson I learned form my hunt for logo designers was to hire by hour. Maybe coincidental, but I tend to hire freelance designers from Europe at hourly rates of $30-$70. While I did encounter mix results, all the design work was still considered very high quality.

For 5 basic concepts, it ran me around 7 hours, after which adding another 5 hours for coloring, textures, shadow, typography comes out to be around $500-$700. For 3 "unique" logo and business card concepts, it seems too good to be true.

Sorry about your bad experience, better luck next time!
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That's not '"open source" code', that's 'open "source code"', and almost all the hits Google finds for "open source code" are duplicates of a single press release about Willows TWIN. The rest of the page (for me) is almost entirely about open-source intelligence, which has nothing at all to do with software or source code, but rather refers to reports that CIA and related agencies produce by reading public information like what's in the newspapers. That's what the Open Source Solutions 1994 conference was, for example.

You can save yourself the trouble of looking through the many more pages of hits. I've done it before.
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This is different from what I get from people I know, who comment on how great they look.
http://projectlocker.com/ provides free private git repositories. Sure, their GUI is nowhere close to Github's, but you get what you pay for.
And if monopoly means the most number of people choose to use your product because you've produced the best product at the lowest price, then what exactly is wrong with that?

In actuality, there are far more heinous monopolies created by way of gov't regulation than in any other way. Massive regulation is an advantage to bigger dominant companies because it creates large barriers to entry into a market. Some companies lobby for more regulations because it helps them to ensure that others cannot enter the market.

Otherwise, smaller more nimble companies would come along and undercut the dominant company. This is how capitalism is meant to work but in these days or massive government interference in the economy things don't work this way anymore.
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I'm glad that designers are starting to see the problems with page state that's not tied to URL state. Nearly all the sites I've seen using #! state have got this wrong.
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(Full disclosure, I'm competitively bias, but try to keeping balance) Is it really the case that it's the software that wins out, or the founding team behind it? While I certainly agree we do harp on about "another [insert existing software]", in this case look at the track record of the team behind the software - mostly all worked together before, mostly all sold before. Does the age old adage "It's not what you know, but who you know" come in to play here? It would be interesting to look at other similar success stories as this, where it's already a crowded market being penetrated, to see what the teams are behind each success.
That probably works because Atlassian hires so many people that they too are in a position to play a numbers game with recruiters.
Maybe that is just a legalistic way for them to filter for youth. Ha ha only serious.
Not intended to come across as aggressive, but have you started a business? How about one that competes with entrenched players in an existing space? Or one that appears on page seven or eight in Google for relevant search queries when your competitors are on page one?

There is a reason most YC companies are trying to disrupt markets rather than compete head-on-head with existing business models. Because while it isn't impossible to break into markets dominated by competitors, it is much harder and you are at a severe disadvantage. How do you reach consumers? How do you build brand awareness? How do you advertise profitably? And why should the NYT or RWW or anyone write about your business when there is already a bigger story out there?

There are ways around these problems, but they all involve tradeoffs that work against small startups and that take time and money to overcome. Blogging heavily to try to overcome SEO problems will take at least 12 months in the best case to see any results and gets less effective every year, while requiring quite a bit of work up-front that does not drive revenue. Viral loops can take time to function effectively in the real world. And meanwhile you have to be building something that will drive revenue eventually in addition to addressing user concerns, iterating and improving your product.

Your best bet is often just to produce something really good and aim for word-of-mouth. But even in this case, your speed of growth will be much slower than initial entrants ceteris paribus, and you'll often need to compete by giving more stuff away for free. If Google didn't have VC funding they wouldn't have been able to spurn the sponsored placements that their competitors used and would have ended up with an internal marketing department. Would their product have seemed so much different/better then? So ask yourself -- can you give away your product for free for four or five years while you find a better way to make money (AdSense)? And do you really have an advantage in this search compared to your profitable competitors who are also looking to innovate and improve their products, and who also have non-trivial budgets to back their development efforts?
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That's pretty much how all the big mobile OS's handle multitasking save WebOS. Even if they keep processes running there isn't any real UI navigation that separates the running from the paused from the dead.

I really loved the WebOS cards UI. It's a shame it's dead, hopefully Android will move in that direction since they hired the head of WebOS's UI design team.
Yes, that is correct. No one, as far as I can tell, ever used the generic term "open source" (for software, not intelligence) prior to the folks in the OSI. There were a few cases you can find on Usenet of people saying "open source code", but that's not the same thing; "open" there modifies "code", rather than modifying "source".

You can read the history at http://www.opensource.org/history. I wasn't at the meeting, but I was part of the community for years before that, and I was part of the email exchange that followed that led up to the formation of the OSI. Although I'm no fan of ESR, I can attest that the OSI folks' claim to have invented the term is legitimate and correct.
How is Zuckerburg richer than Brin & Page?

By holding onto an unusually large percentage of his company, for starters.

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Zuckerberg-retain-26-of-eq...
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You realize that Facebook was hardly first into this market, right?

Same with Google.
I actually worked at one of those little mom and pop computer repair stores that sprung up everywhere in the early 90's. My computer was made of the detritus of Pack-Bell systems that came in not worthy of repair. Their dismal quality worked in my favor. An endless stream of zombie boxes to frankenstein into free stuff for me.
Assuming you can even get coverage, which is all but impossible for individual plans.
I think the reality is that recruiting firms suffer from the same market dynamics as SEO consultancies and, I suppose, startups in general. The good ones are so valuable and so lucrative that they can be selective about their clients and have virtually no need to do outbound marketing.

Which means that any recruiter you can reasonably expect engage on a tactical basis is going to be drawn from the adverse selection pool.
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I do this now. It works. It just sucks. Rather than have everything in one consolidated location, I have to recall where I put things. It seems like a small thing, and in the grand scheme of things it is, but it's really annoying. And if I'm already going to manage my own server for private repos, then why bother with a paid GitHub account?
Exactly.

In the 90's I remember using Lycos, Altavista, HotBot, AskJeeves and others which have faded from my memory. Then along came this new 'google' search engine & I never went back to the others.

I still have a note scribbled on an old address book (the dead tree kind) saying "www.google.com - it's a new search engine".

It was certainly not 'the first'. Just the first really good one.
Yes, you can deposit checks by taking pictures. (I'm not the throwaway account above, but I do have a USAA account through my father-in-law, who's retired Navy. And yes, you need a US military connection to get an account there.)

Personally, I deposit checks via my scanner, but that's just because I don't have a smartphone. But I don't vastly care, because I deposit a check about... once every three months?

(The flip side of USAA is that they have no branches, if you ever need to talk to a human in person. Phone support, yes, in spades; branches, no.)
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So with haptics you should be able to:

(1) type at pretty much full dictation speed if you have to (some people can already do this)

(2) Feel if you've made a mistake.

(3) Feel if you hit 2 soft keys rather then one if your hands drifted.

I don't see what's so unbelievable then; even today the physical keyboard has been removed from the most successful new devices. That's without haptics. Long term I suspect the keypress paradigm itself will fall to gestures which you don't even need a screen or keyboard, a camera can track your finger movements.