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Ask HN: How minimum a Minimum Viable Product, Can be?
Some insights into your MVP, Please. Tell about time consumed, ignored features etc. What is important and what is not? Is design important for an MVP?
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Exactly, you're either small and use the free version or you're very big and $50/a/y is no big deal. There's nothing in-between. I know quite a few companies who would gladly pay something, even if the free version works for them.
I thought the book was about Steve Jobs.
I wasn't making a judgment about the causes for the lack of empathy but rather what its effects tend to be. Someone who doesn't see people as people is capable of things that others are not. Some of those things are good, other are scary.
If I remember correctly I was scheduled to purchase one until they crippled the flash (randomly delayed I think it was) and the memory card issue (delayed?). Together with the lack of long-term corporate support it would have no doubt had made it a cancelled purchase for me.

Shame really, it looked nice at the time.
I was actually impressed with the basic functionality of the Playbook, but it's ridiculous that it shipped months ago and still doesn't have email or calendar support without a tethered Blackberry. It's also hard to believe that they're pinning their hopes for a vibrant app market on emulating Android, instead of encouraging native apps. Can anyone at RIM not see what a disaster that's going to be?
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Netflix's biggest issue in my mind is it's content licensing costs. They have gone from under $200M to nearly $2B in just a year. These costs will become a greater proportion of their overall cost structure, especially as competitors vie for the same digital content. The real winners here are the Sony's and Warner's of the world.

Distribution eventually gets commoditized, content is king.
Sounds like someone is mad that his brilliant code didn't get the attention he thought it deserved. There, there. Sorry you're lonely. Maybe your code is just sht?
Sorry. I should have said "one" not "you", and "one's self" instead of "yourself". Most people seem to get angry/jealous when they see affluence instead of having a more pragmatic reaction.

My version of affluence is being in the top 1% that the 99% hates. I'm not quite there yet. :)
Could you provide a link to said study?
I think the Maps API is different than the Geocode in that the Maps API requires you to grab a key here:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

So to avoid it in that sense you'd have to force every one of your clients to go grab an API key and input it.
You're right - I missed the "feasibility of remote development with GUI" part.

Re: your other comments - sure, I totally see who the service will appeal to some customers. The market is certainly there.

What I'm concerned about is the market _size_: I still believe that any current/future iOS/Mac developers will buy a Mac eventually, and there may be not many people like who only need a Mac to fix an occasional bug in an open-source Mac app, which by itself requires a significant skill.
The proposal mentions that the NYC campus will largely serve graduate students and graduate school programming. Stanford already has a satellite campus in Monterrey, CA for marine biology and oceanography students where students split time between the main and satellite campuses. I expect that the NYC campus will follow the same model (i.e. spend a couple quarters at each campus to fulfill complete course load).
Sort of. You can test a hypothesis that this is being generated by some nonrandom process and determine with arbitrary confidence that that hypothesis is more likely to be true, which is effectively the same.

It's also possible that what we observe to be gravity is a 50/50 random process that has happened to always cause attraction when observed, but it would be so astronomically unlikely that it isn't worth considering.
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Forced scarcity as in tying Windows 7 to a license and OS X to a Mac device that you need to buy?

If "forced scarcity" as you call it is eliminated, the first copy of software, songs, movies, will cost a few billion dollars and the rest will be free. After all, it costs real money to feed the designers and coders.
I am apparently not allowed to edit something that has been downvoted but here is my edit:

Martin Luther King Jr stood up for his rights and was shot. As we all are, I am very saddened by his loss. However I think that this brings up a very important point. If you stand up for an unpopular belief, you can expect abuse.

Should you expect abuse? Should you be forced to endure unpleasantries because you expect the same rights as any one else? No, but you will receive it. And if you are really committed to your cause you will stand up for yourself anyway. Reading about the protests of the past. When people stood up against the war in Vietnam and participated in legal protests they were beaten by police. By police. I would like to let that sink in for a moment.

So forgive me for expressing my disappointment when an activist decides to back down from their cause. And not because she was beaten by police or because she was beaten by people with opposing viewpoints. Not because she was shot. But because she was receiving emails, comments on a blog, and prank phone calls.

Maybe I am a hypocrite because I have done nothing. I am. But I still look at something like this and say to myself "I wish someone would stand up for those rights." I mean really stand up for them. Not just run away because of a few bad eggs. I don't think we can expect change otherwise.
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I'm not sure why you'd assume that. CMU's campus in Silicon Valley is very different than the primary CMU campus, for example.
> ambition makes for much better stories

quite a lot of tragedies have ambition as the "fatal flaw" of the main character.

Having revenue or profit also starts to give a point of reference for your valuation if you are raising money, which may or may not be what you'd like.
That's a function of the user's choice to use a installation channel that requires a approval process, not the GPL itself. Anyone can download GPLd source code and compile it ( in theory ) on a Mac if they choose not to go through Apple's channels.
Processing credit cards in Canada can be a nightmare compared to options for US companies. The fees are much higher, account setup can be complicated, the APIs are brutal, and there are crazy limitations like Canadian companies not being able to process AmEx in US dollars.

The best option for Canadian based companies is to incorporate a child LLC in the US to use US based payment providers. Between Stripe, Braintree, and FeeFighters you'll be very happy.

You'll definitely want to check with tax experts before doing this.
i'm somewhat surprised stallman is even remotely supportive of android.. i thought he thought that anything non gpl was the devil.
>Uh... installing free software is forbidden by the GPL, not Apple. Since GPL forbids further restrictions on distributions, there's no way to legally install them in an Apple device.

Talk about cognitive dissonance. The whole issue at stake is that Apple's terms are too restrictive. That's the point they're making here. Of course it's legal for Apple to set whatever terms they desire. It's also shitty of them.
there's a Square clone in Canada already -- http://www.payfirma.com/solutions/mobile_solutions/iphone_mo...
> isn't there a point where--when you are proselytizing about the evil labors of the man who died 24 hours earlier--you're kind of just an asshole?

Not when all mainstream media is glorifying the man in question. It was the right thing to do, but probably not very effective. The global reaction to Jobs death has been a particularly spectacular demonstration of connivance between politicians, mass media and corporations.
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It's great that you're not the worst offender, but all people commit acts of sexism. All people. People who have been victims of sexism often do it less, but sometimes respond by paying sexism forward. People who put in effort to understand sexism tend to do it less. But we all do it, even the most dedicated of us.

Imagine I asked you to write a page of code to do some specific thing, but told you not to run it. Then I say: Go find as many bugs in your code as you can. You come back with none, saying you've never really noticed bugs in your software. There are two possibilities:

1) Your code is naturally bug free. You are just that special.

2) You stink at finding bugs.

In this case, you're saying you don't see any bugs in your gender programming. How certain are you that #1 is true?
Neither do the recipients of his harassment, I imagine. Let's not put the cart in front of the horse, here.
if they gave you concrete details, how will they sell books and speaking engagements. j/k sort of

Its subjective. Being an entrepreneur you need to figure out what the smallest unit of measurement is to validate an idea. So based on your expertise, you should sort of know what that is. Example: design ? well its based on your audience. If you are launching a tech oriented product.. you could probably get away with a not so nice design. If its something to do with money, you probably need to use a design that builds trust so you remove that as a factor from validating your idea.

From all the high profile pivots you read about here, I don't think anyone really has any idea, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. For business solutions its a little easier IMO, because you can talk to customers, solutions and problems. For consumer oriented products its much harder.
check this out, by hans huebner:

http://zslug.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/meeting-1-report-audio...

i had a few of the 3600 lisp machines, they wouldn't be hard to fit into a fpga at all (size wise, of course :). they had huge boards filled with chips, which were all... hand wirewrapped cmos chips (iirc) .
You are right on the numbers and logic for a specific scenario but you are overlooking the fact that there are hundreds of development teams who primarily work on non-Mac platforms and are getting on to iOS and most of these teams have one Mac that they use to test their iOS apps and they cannot afford to move all their teams to Macs (the cost of a desktop is 1/4th as compared to the Mac in India, for example). All such teams and small / mid sized companies would love this sort of a service and would be willing to pay for it. The pricing needs to be simplified IMO but the service is spot on, for certain market segments. And I believe these segments can make up a big market.
With Netflix, their value proposition is:

- Simplicity - it's very simple to select a movie on their website, and you can spare a walk to a DVD rental shop/supermarket. It's even easier to stream a movie.

- Price. $10/month is much cheaper than $15/DVD, if I watch several movies a month and don't plan to re-watch same movies very often

I don't see how that's applicable to the remove development - price argument doesn't work (it's actually cheaper to own an old Mac in the long run) and simplicity could work both ways - it's easier to start with remote development but having a local GUI development is probably easier.

Re: your decision to buy or not to buy a Mac - I just wanted to highlight that on the grand scheme of things - where you want to invest your time, which is your most valuable asset - decision to buy an old mac is an easy one to make.
I think in general, between my experience in the United States and this article about Canada, it's clear that banks are against technological innovation across the board because they are absolutely terrified of being disintermediated completely. And rightly so. The ends of retail banking and plastic cards as we know them are perhaps a few years off (see http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=48), and they will do anything they can to stall that day from arriving.
By definition, privilege is a lack of perspective--that includes [straight] [white] male privilege. That's why it's so hard for many guys (not just programmers) to understand.
At first I thought, Canada? Yeh Canada. Then I found out it's Sweden. Still cool.

Hope this doesn't start the joke of "the cpus run so hot they melt the permafrost.
Misleading title. Groupon say it is replacing the bottom 10% of its sales staff.
Mendeley I think definitely qualifies.

Lanyrd has the potential.
Tell me about it, Khan Academy helped a bit there but it's nice seeing this kind of stuff. Sometimes seeing it written out in text makes things click.

Thanks Allen Downey for the post.

Side note: I can't wait to see how the homework went. Machine Learning is pretty interesting so far.
Your first two points are classic victim-blaming. "You are going to get unwanted attention." Well, yes: there are assholes out there. But you seem to be implying that she is at fault for attracting the assholes, rather than saying there shouldn't be assholes in the first place. We should focus on rooting out the assholes rather than throwing up our hands and saying there's nothing we can do.

I admit there's a fine line here. People doing obviously dangerous and stupid things should not be surprised when horrible things happen to them. But starting a website or speaking at a tech conference are neither dangerous nor stupid. Why are we taking a grin and bear it attitude here?
Don't know about the video, but the slides can be downloaded here in PDF: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma...
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You are entirely wrong about "the iPad sells to iPhone users only". There are lots of customers who use iPads and have Android, Blackberry, and other phones too. People buy the iPad not because it's a bigger iPhone, but because it's the best tablet on the market.

However you do have a point about there not really being a tablet market. The iPad really is its own market right now. I've used other tablets like the Xoom and Galaxy S and they really don't compare. My friend that works at Microsoft likes to argue that MS has made tablets for years. I've yet to disabuse him of the notion that laptops with touchscreens aren't tablets.

But no, iPads being the most popular tablets has nothing to do with iPhones.
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Are you saying manufacturers should stop supplying updates and security fixes since most people dont bother to install the updates / fixes ?
How does dropbox handle the case were shared space is much bigger than the free space on my harddrive?
The lack of feature-updates is disappointing but they can get by forcing people to buy new phones for new features. It's the security side of this that could really blow up in their face. It's only a matter of time before these lingering security issues come home to roost. I wonder if Google has any plan to deal with the possibility of millions of Android phones and their associated user accounts being compromised? The risk is amplified by having all your eggs in the Google basket. What happens if your phone gets exploited and you just can't login to GMail tomorrow? (and you can't call Google for help) Unless you happen to be a high profile blogger or journalist you're going to have a hard time dealing with this type of thing.
That was a Very interesting brief history of gun control. I've always been hostile to gun control, because I believe in the gun's ability to act as an equalizer--I believe it was a prerequisite for a modern, large scale, egalitarian society (well more egalitarian society anyway). Any recommended reading on the history of gun control?

I'd also like to see a study on gun control support in other countries from the same time period.
Did you happen to see if he remembered that initial call first?

Sometimes those "cold call" type (almost want to use the word drones) just phase out the after they hear no.
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I don't think science should work on dogmatism at all... leave dogma to the church.

I have seen more than a share of people that call themselves scientists literally laugh at an argument and dismiss it without analysis or a counter-argument.

In fact, from a quick glance in history we see science prove itself wrong over and over again, which is natural, but it's very common to contemporary scientists think they are just right.

All I'm saying is that sometimes, not all times, scientists appear more like cult-followers than researchers.
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> quite a lot of tragedies have ambition as the "fatal flaw" of the main character.

Agreed - still a good story.
The android team needs to pick a leaf out of the Google Chromes book. Chrome makes updates seamless and I wish android was the same.
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As someone who has an autistic person in their life, you have to understand that they think differently, and that can often seem scary to us because we value empathy so much in a society. I just think we should cut him some slack in the light of the fact that he very likely can't see it another way. If he were a sociopath, which IS scary, trust me -- we wouldn't know it.
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HP, Dell, Lenovo and Sony would like to have a word with you - they have been selling PC's without custom UI's all this time.
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The above comment was addressing the lack of variables, not the lack of true inheritance (a single level of inheritance is not really inheritance at all, simply applying attributes en masse). What the comment does address is the lack of variables and the need/want to set a color (or anything else) once and then use that through an assortment of other definitions. This is something that is only currently possible through CSS preprocessors.
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It's only alarming if you believe that the human population is close to the carrying capacity of the Earth. Given that the densest population centers are also the richest, this seems unlikely. Environmental and associated problems are not the result of brute numbers.

All of these population graphs play the same trick on your eye by using a vertical scale set by the current population. This is an understandable choice, but as a side-effect it makes the current growth look "vertical", when in fact for an exponential the location of the "knee" in the curve is purely an artifact of the vertical scale. If you graph the world population in millions, the current situation looks terrifying; if you graph it in billions, it looks alarming; if you graph it in trillions, it looks like we've got nothing to worry about.
Now that is has been turned on, I got to agree with saurik (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132566). It doesn't really make sense. Why would I want my social network profile attached to and controlled by my school or work? I remember a family member going through a difficult transition when he was laid off from a job he was working at for decades and no longer had access to just his email/contacts. If people use Google+ like Google wants them to, there is going to be even more important stuff held in accounts that the user doesn't really control.

Hangouts for Docs can be useful, I suppose, and I am glad those with custom domains are invited to the party, but it seems like an awkward fit.
John Gruber is critical of this video and Microsoft on his site, saying they should stop talking and start shipping. But I actually think this video is cool. Sometimes you need a long-term idea and vision of where you're headed. This instills some hope for Microsoft for me.
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Just about everybody who has, or has had, a dog, has both thought and said that or something close to it. Over the years each dog I've had has thrown up at one time or another. For some it was a weekly thing and others hardly still. We had one dog, Shelly, who threw up just once, that we know of, in all the years we had her. Correctly on the new couch.
That is a good point. I retract my statement about the approval process. I had read you link, but my memory failed me.

The one about the EULA still stands.
"Worker-owned cooperatives do not share that design flaw. They also have little to no motivation to outsource."

You can start a worker-owned cooperative now. Why don't you? You could even make it a non-profit and save on some taxes.

What you want to do is make it impossible for corporations as we know them to exist, taking away freedoms. Corporations aren't slave-owners and employees aren't slaves. You have the freedom to work for one or start your own company.

I suppose a worker-owned cooperative would be fine, as long as the workers also took on losses (IE: if sales are down this month, you might only get a $500 paycheck as opposed to a $3000 one).

Then you would have to deal with the day-to-day stuff and you would end up having a president, treasurer, managers, etc, etc, etc, essentially creating what thousands of years of human history have already told you. Bitcoin, which was suppose to get around those pesky banks, essentially gave you the reason why banks are necessary: Most people don't want to or don't have the ability to secure their own money.

Most people aren't willing to take a risk. They won't start a company and take no paycheck for months or possible years while barely scraping by hoping their idea actually is successful.

Why should someone that takes absolutely no risk get anything close to the owners of a company?
Another day, another HN thread about misogyny and sexism in STEM

Actually, we're not talking about STEM in general, we're talking about computer programming in particular. As I was reading this thread, I was just thinking about how other parts of the STEM community aren't nearly so bad.

For instance, if you go hang out in your local university's maths (or physics) department, you'll find many of the same conditions. You'll find an overwhelmingly male group, ranging from slightly nerdy to very nerdy, with a sprinkling of a few women. But you won't find these sorts of problems occurring nearly so often.

Why? I think it's part of a culture of professionalism vs unprofessionalism, and it's largely age-driven. A university department is dominated (socially if not numerically) by people in their forties and fifties, giving the workplace a much older, quieter, more professional feel than you get in a tech company where just about everybody is in their twenties. It's just a matter of having plenty of adult supervision around, I think.

Linux user groups are even worse. They combine the worst features of a party (a lack of professionalism) with the worst features of a high tech workplace (a twenty-to-one sex ratio) so it's not surprising that bad things can happen there.
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