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Integrate acceleration to get velocity, integrate velocity to get relative position, get GPS fixes when the signal is available, and diagram the results.
Sadly integrating "real data" even once results in wild inaccuracies. A small error in acceleration turns into an offset in velocity which turns into large position drift over time.
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These are the promotions: http://automagical.posterous.com/three-promotions-for-better... - I think it's important to note that these three banners offer a much better idea of what you're installing than just the icon by itself.

That may also be the case for Handcraft, as our banners show the code editor. Before last week we got some people signing up and asking "What is this?" as if they weren't aware it was a HTML prototyping tool. Now the questions are of a different nature. I wonder if that's because the banner is more upfront about what the app is.
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Isn't all my other non-free software just blobs that are loaded by my free software? Why isn't it my right as a user to choose the closed software? If hiding the blob from the user makes it okay, why not apply that thinking to drivers wrapped by the NDISwrapper?
> It's the same little voice that still drives me on to write just another line of code, to perfect just another little routine.

I've experience this feeling myself, and I don't think it's a phenomenon limited to programming. I've had similar 'demons' urging me to do just another edit-pass over my writing, or in some web project, to tweak a UI/UX component just a little bit more. If there is a demon here, then it's likely present within all human creative endeavors.
I second this sentiment. Crusader no regret was one of my favorite games growing up. I don't believe I ever finished it, it was a difficult game, then again back then many things were hahahaha.
Totally understand what you're saying and it's on my to-do list. I'm going to spend the next two months on getting the message across. Thanks for your input!
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It's not just that they have a high engineer/sales ratio, they're also hiring top engineers. Not all contractors do this so aggressively, and it can show in the quality of the products they deliver.
What truly appalls me is not using patches. Why do I have to download the entire firmware each time, Apple? Why? Why?!
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How does Ridllr work?

When you authorize Ridllr to access your Google Reader account, it downloads a list of other Google Reader accounts that you follow. For each of those accounts, Ridllr subscribes you directly to the public feed URL of that user's old shared feeds. All of these public feeds that you follow are amalgamated into one folder "People you follow", which appears in your reader subscriptions panel.

This allows you to see old shared content, but that's obviously insufficient -- we need to be able to allow you to continue to share new stuff with your friends. In order to do this, Ridllr creates a public tag called "Shared Items". Any item that you tag with this tag gets added to a public feed. Ridllr automatically subscribes everyone who follows you to this stream, and adds it to their "People you follow" folders. That way, your friends can still see what you've shared. Using your credentials, Ridllr thus ensures you are always subscribed to the shared items from all your friends who also use Ridllr.
"There's a lot of good stuff in Pd, and a lot I like about it. There's also a lot I don't like, and am scared of. My fear is that Pd will lead us down a road where our computers are no longer our computers, but are instead owned by a variety of factions and companies all looking for a piece of our wallet. To the extent that Pd facilitates that reality, it's bad for society. I don't mind companies selling, renting, or licensing things to me, but the loss of the power, reach, and flexibility of the computer is too great a price to pay."

-- Bruce Schneier, on Palladium (August 15 2002, https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0208.html#1)
I should add some of the lessons I learned:

1) When you don't know how to do something you don't know how much you should pay.. and surprisingly it takes less time to learn than you would think. I wrote off learning Rails thinking it was harder then it was.. Sure it has its nuances, but in 45 days I've gained a really good perspective on building an app. But to learn, really commit! Build an app then when you are done, build another, and then another.

2) You have to launch and as soon as possible. Nothing else is as important. Motivation will die, money will be lost, and you'll have no idea what people will want unless you do. Period.

3) People telling you something is a good idea is not the same as people willing to use it. You can't base spending money and time off people, especially your friends, thinking something is a good idea. You have to test the waters (see point 2).

4) Join the community. If you are a reader of Hacker News, but don't code join the community of coders. I can't tell you how much more fulfilling it is to show up at local Ruby events as a coder, feeling welcome as "one of them" as opposed to as an entrepreneur seen as just 'hawking an idea'. Really, it's a great community of people once you are on the same side of the equation.

5) Distill your idea down to its simplest form possible. Convoluted ideas are difficult to pull off, difficult to convey to potential users, and difficult to convey to investors. Focus focus focus.
I want to give at least one of these as a Christmas gift. Let's hope they get them selling soon.
Has Microsoft indicated that they don't want it possible to disable Secure Boot? Have they stated that, or is there evidence that they've pressured OEMs in that direction? If not, it's not a piracy fix. Anyone willing to install some hacky boot loader should be able to turn off a setting in the BIOS.

The fact that you don't see the security issue doesn't mean it's not present. There are known boot-time attacks that no OS or anti-malware can reliably fix. Thankfully none of these are widely exploited at present, but a security problem should not need to be exploited on a wide scale before a fix is put in place.

Disclaimer: MSFT employee
The world seems to be turning into a messed up place where we willfully trade off our privacy for sociability.

Should we just accept that it is ok for corporations to trade our info willy-nilly while all we want to do is be social on the web?

How long and how far will this go on? Until every other bit of our digital life is tracked, profiled and sold?

When did we stop being consumers and became products? Will there ever be a B2B transaction with our faces next to a barcode?

I think we need to get a grip before we start finding this all too normal.
I'm debating whether I should focus more on businesses. At my current job, we're in the middle of inventorying everything from IT to furniture. We're using spreadsheets of all things but I can't push my product since it would be a conflict of interest.
Not necessarily , I doubt that Windows 8 will require particually expensive or powerfull hardware to run especially since they are targetting tablets with it.

So it's likely that many users will not have the money for a 2nd PC and whilst virtual machines are nice in their own way there are allot of limitations with them so you may well want to run 2 full OSes directly on harware.
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Perhaps it's the responsibility of each website using slider.js to degrade gracefully on their own. That seems more appropriate to me. In which case, I don't mind if they don't bother to degrade while demoing their javascript product.
From my perspective, there usually isn't anything all that different about these "geniuses". They work their ASSES off, and maybe are a bit more talented in a specific area.

Their hard work improves their talent relentlessly, which is why they appear so gifted. I think.

Which, to me, is inspiring. It means they don't have anything I don't.
"While the original Chrome Web Store mirrored the design of Apple’s iTunes Store quite closely, the new Web Store follows its own path with banners of varying sizes representing apps in most places rather than icons. "

I love the dynamic grid layout they use for the store, and I assume it's the same one that G+ photo albums use. Are they using an open JS library (something like isotope), or is it all in-house code?
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Github sign in works for me (I signed up earlier, so not my first try).
Yeah, I can't even scroll the page on Chrome
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Me too. I added a 3rd snake that was black and controlled by the computer. Also made it so the levels wrapped so if you went off one edge you appeared on the other side. The unintended consequence was you could get into the scoreboard and eat your own score numbers!
The 43 folders system bears some resemblance to this idea. If you haven't already heard about it a hundred times, it's about having 31 "day of month" folders - the shorter time frame, plus 12 "month" folders - the longer time frame. The shuffling of tasks is pretty obvious: the tasks from upcoming month get reshuffled into their respective day folders. You could extend it with one or two more levels (year? decade?) and get something similar to what the author describes.
>(I have the source code to the final version of the Turbo Pascal compiler on my disk. It was used for Delphi 1.)

Is that still under copyright? And chance it could be released?
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By using Valve's online sites and products, users agree
that Valve may collect aggregate information, individual
information, and personally identifiable information, as
defined below. Valve may share aggregate information and
individual information with other parties. Valve shall not
share personally identifiable information with other
parties, except as described in the policy below.

It doesn't seem like it's much different than Steam. Check out the System Information option from the Help drop-down menu, I don't think it gathers that information by guessing. Steam was also forced onto users with the release of a much-anticipated product -- in Valve's case it was Half Life 2.
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Why my post about deleting my Facebook account removed from HN?
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Yes. The CCC uses certificates by cacert, a free and community-driven authority (http://www.cacert.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAcert.org). Sadly, most browsers don't trust CAcert by default, so you get an error unless you add their root certificate.
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I've often found myself thinking evite is way too spammy. Plus, a lot of times, it seems like overkill. This looks like a good alternative for just catching up with friends (which happens a lot more than me hosting parties).

Looking forward to checking it out.
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Why do they publicize that number, then? If anything, it seems like the misinformation is coming from Klout. It's the thing they tout on their front page, display prominently on the logged in page, etc.
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Having visited loved ones in the hospital, it's not hard to imagine Steve declaring a lot of nurses "bozos" and demanding better. There is a lot of variability in nurse quality.
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> It's not perfect but it's better than nothing from a marketing perspective.

From some spot-checking of Klout scores of people I know, I'm not sure it's better than just a raw follow count. The number is really bizarre. For example, one of my friends who never uses Twitter, has a dozen or so tweets and 2 followers, and generally isn't active elsewhere in social media either, inexplicably has a fairly high Klout score. I'm guessing some sort of issue with normalization or small data sets.
Privacy rights will be respected when people are actually willing to pay social online. Social networking sites (and almost every website in general) is designed to make money. This is especially true at large scales, like Facebook and Twitter. They aren't charities designed to enhance our lives, they're businesses. Users aren't willing to pay to use the sites, so they have to monazite differently. Part of that is collecting lots of information about you.

It's really pretty easy to not share private things. You aren't required to share anything private, and you can still get the full value out of being social online.
I post this here not for discussion of politics - which is almost always tedious on HN, but because there are a bunch of smart people, and I want to know their ideas for solving some of these problems.
You signed up for a twitter account and sent all of your "tweets" to their servers, with the expectation that they will make those tweets publicly available to everyone on the internet, from their servers. You're getting free microblogging hosting for information you intend to make public. What about this is private? And what exactly does Twitter owe you?
Bizarre comic tweeter @horse_ebooks has the same Klout score (67) as @biz. It was actually higher a little while ago.

Klout has also sent me their unsolicited Perk spam several times, even after I disabled it via their website. I complained to them on Twitter but got no response. In the end I blacklisted their domain.
I was thinking the same. What is is that klout does here, that is wrong? If the post is public on Facebook, what can you do about it?
"Logarithmic". That's the word I needed. I've been trying to visualize a calendar that captures everything from seconds to years (akin to the marvelous but abandoned "once around the sun" work some years back), and at last pondering was wondering how to scale a spiral-of-spirals-of... which would capture the cyclic nature of our model of time; problem was scaling. Some application of logarithmic scaling may work...
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All analogies break down if considered from enough angles, but I think you're being overly focused on disruptive tech startups.

999 business out of every thousand are very similar to other businesses that have run before. Services, consulting, manufacturing, restaurants, shops, and even many types of IT companies, have built up a huge base of knowledge about what to do and what not to do, which is in the heads of those who have run this type of business already.

Even web startups are very similar to each other. Sure, some elements are unique to your startup, just like every road/vehicle configuration is different, but there are a lot of principle that apply across the board, and that a new entrepreneur is often completely unaware of. If that wasn't true, then approaches like Eric Ries' Lean Startup wouldn't be useful.

Thinking that your business is unique and different, that the rules that crush so many other businesses don't apply to you - that is precisely the disease that having a more experienced mentor can cure. Chances are, your business won't die from some unique combination of factors that was totally unpredictable. It will do something monumentally stupid and avoidable like running in stealth mode for 5 years (if you have the cash), building something nobody wants, or failing to build customer acquisition processes.
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"Would love this for a paper calendar."

This one would be tricky - it looks like this needs continuous re-scaling. This would probably need a system of movable paper parts - labels, post-its or whatever. There's a serious danger you'd spend more energy tweaking those than thinking about the actual tasks :)
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I've learned English trying to understand documentation for Turbo Pascal 7 :) That, and playing games.

The first game I've made was written in Turbo Pascal in 13h. It was 2d arcade shooter, witch "asteroids" physics, tiled terrain, and diablo-like system of better weapons and enhancements to buy to your ship. And it was under 600 kb (including graphic), because I didn't knew how to use extended memory from Pascal. It was procedural code with few global variables that contained whole state of game. Code was just many procedures calling each other, and I divided it all into 2 files, because TP had limit on code size to 65536 bytes or sth like that. So I just cut and pasted a few procedures to the second file.

It was horrible code, but it worked, and was quite easy to modify despite the lack of architecture, because it was small. And because adding hacks when you have global variables is easy.

And most importantly - the game was quite fun to play. Unfortunately I've lost it in hard disk accident a few years ago.

Anyway - constraints are good for you, because you have some hard decisions made for you. And caring over implementation details more than about the result is bad. Now I program with all the cool technologies, use oo principles, design patterns etc, but it's less fun, and the result is most often unfinished project. I just can't keep motivation all the way from buidling foundations to making it a finished game.

Maybe that's because now I have job and less time (and energy) for hobby, or the fact that I'm doing more ambitious projects now. But I think it's also because now I overengineer. Maybe it's time to try small and ugly coding once again?
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Are you an EA employee who created an account just to make this comment?
So Richard Stallman would be OK to use a PC with a closed source BIOS as long as there is no way to update it?
The future is obviously personalized (and very likely gamified) and that means services will "know" you and will act for you. Personalization comes at a price...and that price is our privacy. It's all about incremental change.

Two relevant points to the bigger picture (IMHO)

- "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
Sun Tzu

- Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy
Based on your comments and looking around the site, I was excited about checking Mog out. Requiring facebook is a deal breaker for me. Why restrict the way users can join?
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The site is using a non-standard CA.

Wormly has a nice series of tests for these things, see here for an example:
https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/h/presale.events.ccc.de/i/21...
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I was going with guard-of-terra's idea that all Chinese-made machines would be required to come with a key that could then be used in whatever cyberattack (or even spy-your-citizens-ware) the Chinese government wants to employ.

In this case, the Chinese won't even need to do the cyberattack themselves. Just leaking one of the signing keys to a willing third party would be bad enough.

Since a system that doesn't allow the removal of a compromised key is useless, there would be a way to remove Microsoft's key from all successfully compromised machines, rendering them useless.
My favorite video game is "emacs". If you align all the characters correctly, you can make the computer do some pretty incredible things.

The RMS level is a bitch though.

Edit: I'm not joking about Emacs - sitting down to write some code/create something is what I do for fun.
Petzold gave a great keynote at CodeStock 2011 on analog computing, but it seems no one recorded it.

Here's a link to an interview of him that briefly covers some of the topics in his keynote. http://technologyandfriends.com/archive/2011/06/13/tf160.asp...
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I didn't say I didn't see a security issue (minor though it may be). I said that security is not the reason for this "fix" - the effort required for secure boot is completely out of balance with the potential exposure this plugs.

And if Microsoft is indeed pressuring vendors not to include an option to turn secure boot off, this is an ominous turn of events that would indeed force buyers to chooses carefully.

But as I said, I believe that those people who ask their tech buddies which computer to buy will be steered towards computers that give the option, or have no secure boot at all. This will ultimately force the vendors to discontinue models that lock down secure boot.
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What is a hangout? Webcam? In real life?

That is kind of critical information for you projekt to tell..
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Why are you planning on not taking a salary?

I have managed to save enough money in hte last three years so I can do this and live off my savings.

If you have developed this while working for someone
else, are you clear on the IP side?

Clearly not, we both self consulting and are free to do whatever we want in our time. Point i was trying to make was that we did not put 100% of our time in to the product yet, but willing to do so soon, once we are clearing previous obligations.

If you can beta launch before the end of the year,
why are you looking at a 3 year window?

Without going into further details, this type of service require ongoing development, updates by its nature, as well as there are many aspects which we were not able to cover in the short time we have been working on this, and wish to have in our platfrom as soon as possible.

3. What are the general backgrounds of the founder?

You mean us? We are professional software engineers or some might call us, hackers, we have deep understanding and wide range of knowledge in our field and many years of experience (at least 12 years for each of us)
Probably BumpTop by Anand Agarawala @ UofT. It was great research (got a CHI paper), got lots of public attention (over a million people saw the YouTube video), and was the basis for a successful company.

That said, please don't try to aim for a brilliant M.Sc. thesis ... many grad students have fallen into that trap. You need to just do stuff. Keep reading papers, making prototypes and submit papers to conferences and workshops. Best suggestion I can give ... find an existing research topic (worked on by great PhD students and faculty), and contribute a well-defined but small part. You will get authorship in a good publication, and learn how to do research. Do this in the first 6-months to 1-year. This will actually help you when you write your own thesis (which can certainly be independent.)

P.S. I assume you are in Canada, eh?
I respectfully disagree.

K&R is a book that influenced me a lot, but its most important lesson is not laid down very explicitly. IMHO, this lesson is its notion of programming style: terse, small, efficient. It permeates the whole book and C/Unix design but the book is not explicitly about it.

Unfortunately it is a lost lesson. Today, programming became just the act of gluing bloated frameworks, libraries and doing severs configuration. The small, simple and powerful K&R approach is totally lost in a world dominated by bloatware (e.g: Java/.Net/Boost).