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I see your query has been here 5 hours and gotten no reply. I wouldn't be posting at all if you had something substantive. I suppose that makes this a Pity Post (sorry). FWIW, here are my thoughts on the topic as someone trying to figure out such questions myself (and I'm a tad older and greyer as well):

http://www.novemberwest.com/blog/2011/07/02/lifestyle-busine...

Best of luck.
Jiggy's comment[1] about why Coffee != Apps to be spot on. Your app is an unknown quantity, getting someone to spend anything on an unknown quantity is really really hard.

When you go to McDonald's (or anyone for that matter) do you get something different every time, or do you get your favorite thing? Same goes for Olive Garden or Cheesecake Factory, did you get the burger last time and the fresh fish catch this time?

Probably not.

To some degree, those fart apps are a known quantity; they make fart noises, so they have the advantage over your app of having their foot in the door for everyone interested.

It seems unfair, but there has to be a strategy there for riding that wave. Hollywood has always done it, did you enjoy Superman 7 or Harry Potter 14?

It doesn't matter, it was a known quantity and eleventeen million people went and saw it.

It seems like SJ is being forced to learn this lesson over-and-over again[2] and I've already shared my thoughts with you about that[3].

Your expectations of what you want SJ to do and exactly how you want it to do it may be too tight. You guys are clearly talented and I wonder if you need some step-back-and-get-a-better-perspective time.

Tom's comment[4] is a great example of what I mean. Does ShiftyJelly want to get into the gun or fart-app business? Probably not... does SJ want $50k? Probably yes.

It feels to me like there is some unexpected pivot in here for you guys to extract; one that you didn't see coming, but one that works out surprisingly well for you.

NOTE: Make the two app references at the end of the article links to the appstore.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285771

[2] http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store...

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837439

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3284450
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I prefer the Mac way. I'm stuck using Windows at work, and it's annoying to have to Alt-Tab through the last five Excel (or mail or whatever) documents to get back to the editor. I much prefer to be able to go the application I want, then find the document within it that I'm looking for.

Then again, I'm not doing web development, so I'm not trying to cycle between my editor and one particular browser window.

I don't think it's a power-user vs. beginner issue; it's more of a workflow style issue.
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I don't know if that's the reason, but I've flagged your post by accident (wanted to click "comments"). But then I unflagged it, so this doesn't count?

Anyway - maybe someone thinks it's too repetative to add each post to hackernews? I don't think so (because I think of getting pasive income myself and find your post interesting), but I can understand if somebody did think that way - after all people interested in your posts could go to your page to read next posts, if they wanted to.
To generate that kind of pulse in a small package, explosives are generally required (to propel the magnet through the coil). I've looked into building an EMP before.

Those who can get explosives on planes don't need to bother with EMPs.
It's in the RDFa Primer [1]; I mean specifically the @property, @about and @typeof attributes, which are used to augment existing HTML elements with RDF semantics.
It would be much better to try to convince people to enable a flash blocker. It'll make using flash explicit and improve security for a lot of people.

Aping Occupy is really stupid, though.
Actually it kind of was by Bezos' letter. The whole thing about "some companies are about ripping off customers with expensive stuff, we're about providing value". Well, it turns out the more expensive thing is a nicer experience so his little sucker punch was a bunch of nonsense. I think that is the biggest source of backlash.
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For me it's not the app's cost so much as the decision to invest time into it (set it up, form new habits, etc.) A cup of coffee requires no time investment -- the equivalent of the app for me would be researching whether I should drink coffee at all or what brand of coffee I should regularly buy.

I wish all reviews on the app store showed how long the reviewer used the app and how many times for this reason.
Here is a wonderful research paper that illustrates the misuse of statistics in neuroscience:

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1. I have a masters in EE, but more importantly I have common sense that tells me that millions of flights have been conducted in the cell phone era without an issue. Please stop the fear mongering on this.

2. I put it into WiFi only mode about 10 minutes after takeoff when I can't get a signal anymore and just turn it back on when we are a half hour within landing. It allows me at least a half hour of emails and texts to come in at each end of the flight. That's a lot of productivity saved.
A really great book.

And now you can Javascript in the browser itself!
> Not to nitpick,

I think a statistical nitpick is entirely appropriate given the article.
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I generally agree. The primary thing I find myself going back to Firebug for is debugging ajax calls, since I get the fully expandable request / response info inline along with console output. Chromium can show that an ajax call was made inline, but the link goes to the Network tab, and unfortunately doesn't auto-select the referenced call.
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I find I do this all the time. For instance, if I'm out of town for the day, I'd think nothing of spending $10 at Wendy's for lunch. But somehow spending $8 for an MP3 album I've wanted badly for months is an extravagance.

For me, part of the problem is family budgeting. As long as I only do it a few times a month, I won't have to justify $10 for lunch to my wife. Even though going with a $2 lunch and buying the $8 album would be spending the same amount of money, in practice I'd still be trying to justify the album purchase.

Clearly that sucks. But there's a pretty good reason for it. If we weren't budgeting, my wife and I would probably buy 20-30 albums a month, and that we cannot afford. So clamping limits on albums makes very good sense. But it definitely feels like it leads to non-optimal use of money overall -- we're keeping to a budget, but perhaps not spending the money as well as we could.
Thanks for reply. I think it would be to easy if anyone could flag post to be removed without checking by moderator. And most probably it is not the reason.
The short version of the error: If in your data you find that A has no statistically significant effect, but B does have a statistically significant effect, this does not automatically show that B has, with statistical significance, more effect than A. To do that you have to do a statistical test on the difference in the effects.

I believe (?) this is normally done correctly in medical studies with placebos, where the typical analysis is to show that a drug has a statistically significant effect compared to the placebo baseline; it's not sufficient to show that the drug has an effect compared to a no-drug baseline, and, separately, that a placebo doesn't.
In academic biology, statistics is routinely considered an afterthought. In the eyes of many labs/PIs, their results are already real. You just have to do those damn statistical tests so the editor will get off your back.

Most biologists don't understand statistics either. To the majority, the unpaired T-Test is the only test that is needed. Ever. Doesn't matter if you have one or two tails, paired or unpaired trials, normally distributed population or skewed. Most biologists don't take proper statistics classes and most just don't care. I doubt most biologists would even be able to name alternative statistical tests.
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There were many disputes about what and who is awesomer than the other one: Apple or Google, iOS or Android, and they always have positive and negative aspects, which are being successfully ruffed...
That's nuts. My sisters and brothers and I out-performed everybody at our rural school, throughout our primary/secondary education. We were being brought up on a farm. There was zero practice and experience at academic subjects - we did chores, milked cows(!), made hay.

There HAS to be some nature-component to our successes (1 VP/Intel, 2 Directors at other tech companies, 2 researchers, 1 entrepreneur :)
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Interesting. I have found Chrome dev tools to be much harder to use with all the icons colorless and looking the same I always have to hover to find out what are they doing. The watch window for script debugging is also done better in firebug.

However, Chrome's developer tools do work better - Firebug sometimes closes spontaneously.
I didn't drop boring things. I taught myself how to do them. Take history for example, in HS I found it excruciatingly boring. Later in college I challenged myself to take it again and ace it. All that stuff I thought was boring, I learned to see it as interesting. As an evolving system. Piecing bits of history together, seeing the evolution of tax systems, or military patterns, or whatever.

Eventually, I got to the point where I could afford to travel a bit. And here's where the awesome part comes in. When I went to Athens, I could visualize Hadrian walking through his arch down to the temple of Zeus. Or in Florence, walk the exact same streets as Michelangelo and see exactly where Savonarola was burned to death.

In Rhodes I could see the approach the armies of Salah ah-Din had to make to assault the fortress of the Knights of St. John. It wasn't just a wall, or a bunch of bricks, it was a living, breathing piece of history. And knowing the history of it, I felt connected to it.

And now that I know that history can be so enlightening, I seek it out where I don't know it. In Korea I learned about King Sejong the Great and why he's great, and suddenly I find I'm interested in linguistics and invented writing systems (great site btw http://www.omniglot.com/). And I find connections between things everywhere!

It's just history, but other things in life suddenly have a vibrancy and flavor I never saw, because I never knew how to see.
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I tried contacting you through your blog, however when I try and submit my message, it redirects it to a 404 page.
Your critique is correct, but doesn't apply to this situation so much. Insurance isn't going to want to cover accidents if no adult is involved and insurance isn't known for making exceptions in the customers' favor.
I would go even further to say that all consumer purchases are made to enable social interaction, even when transacted in solitude.

The apps that have been successful on a grand scale are typically ones you want to immediately show off to your friends. You are not buying entertainment or utility, you are buying a conversation starter. That is where the value lies.
Anecdotes here and elsewhere (e.g. my own bright children) show they actually shy away from tasks they are not immediately good at! Because it contradicts what they've been told (Wow! you sure are smart!) they develop a 'sour grapes' attitude toward anything novel.
Nice app, I like the clean interface. The header takes up a lot of space though, at first glance I only see two-three rows of the table.

Others may be interested in http://www.weatherspark.com as well. Really slick weather app for a slightly more data-filled UI.
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It's true. Many anti-depressant drugs have no significant effect when compared to placebo.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...
I've concluded that the simplest, broadest, yet still useful definition of "art" is: something which is made/done for the purpose of being perceived.

In this particular instance, the item itself is not meant to be perceived. To your point, it is indistinguishable from an empty hard drive (or whatever the contents are); there may be a valid issue to discuss, but there is nothing to perceive. Someone asserts there is "$5M of pirated software" there; I assert it contains a single trillion-digit random number, and there is nothing there to perceive in differentiation, even in theory - human perception of one data storage device is indistinguishable from a duplicate device containing different data.

This "exhibit" is qualitatively different from even the "blank canvas" "art" rhetorical device. The "1m square, 2 shades of black" painting I recall from a museum at least was in and of itself meant to be looked at, even if it required 3 pages of explanation to justify its pathetic existence. John Cage's 4'33" was in fact meant to be heard, though the pianist played no notes. Resounding voids they may have been, yet they were still meant to be perceived.

In this instance, the physical artifact could be replaced by any storage device of sufficient capacity. The alleged content may be the same, but the audience cannot perceive it in any way.

It's not art. It's a point of discussion.

Now, if the "artist" had, say, covered a wall with a trillion dots colored corresponding to that alleged data content, we'd have something for humans to perceive for the purpose of perceiving it - to wit, art. The audience could examine, at least in practical theory, the totality of the image and conclude there is something of value there. And if the opposing wall were likewise marked, but instead depicting a single trillion-digit random number, the audience could decide if there were any life-affecting difference between them, or conclude that the creation & viewing was a complete waste of time.
The question is not if you are happy with your decisions. The question is about the ethics of spreading misinformation.

In this circumstance, you are simply wrong about the dangers of fluoridated water. Your claims suggest an ignorance about fundamental tenets of pharmacology, and the importance of dose. It is not everyday knowledge, and everyone is ignorant about many things; I don't mean it as an insult. It does mean, though, that you should be careful about giving others advice.
Very interesting article. Well done sir!
I left your comment unmolested, but I'd guess because of the aphorism? There's something fundamentally lazy about appealing to them... :P

I didn't bother to cite it before, but there's a pretty well known study in this area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Right. Try and avoid abstract meta thinking about your state of affairs. Try and think in terms of concrete, short term plans. Things you can do today, this week, this month. Do them. Do them with purpose. Don't just exist and observe.
the reason for the new elements isn't to benefit users reading the page, it is to benefit programs reading the page.

the google bot, and many other crawlers, parsers etc. already make use of them.
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Depending on how the upvotes came, there's some code to detect voting rings and externally-driven votes, and reduce their effect. So if for example it was 7 people who came from a link elsewhere (or who you know and asked to upvote it), that might explain it. No idea if that's the case here, just a possible mechanism other than being manually penalized.
It is a little bizarre - I find your posts incredibly useful for the mobile space - so why this would get downvoted (if that's the reason) is beyond me.
So very true. I went from physics into biology, and the shoddy application of statistics is surprising. This is a failure that could be easily addressed at the university level. More stats classes.
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Who...you? The government?

Come on now. Let's not get sanctimonious about what people do with their time. It's their problem.
This guy might find a way to make it into my office and shake my hand, but I'd never hire him.

Anyone who can write the sentence "I’m a salesman and a hustler to my core" with a straight face has the wrong kind of passion.

If you're driven by a love for programming, or designing products, or the joy of developing a business, it will show.

This blogger sounds like he's just driven by the desire to make money and retire young, and is looking to get in to a startup because he's got visions of stock options dancing in his head.
I would not have thought that 7 points was enough to hold a post on the front page - take a look at what else is there. If your post had continued to gain points then there is every chance it might have "stuck" for a while longer.

"Front Page Service" is not a right - it is a result. The result of an algorithm that measures several factors that represent the level of interest from the HN community.
I don't believe the controversy over that is whether the statistics were done properly, but over: 1) replicability, in particular whether significance is still found when doing large-scale meta-analyses; and 2) whether blindness of the studies is compromised by "unblinding" effects where a drug's side-effects can tip off the doctor or patient about whether they got a placebo or not. But it's been a while since I waded into that flamewar of a debate...
Everyone who spends at least part of their day interacting with programmable devices would have their lives improved if they learned to code.

Now... how many people in the industrialized world don't spend at least part of their day interacting with programmable devices?
"this year's going to decide my future"

No matter what anybody tells you, this isn't true at all. You can decide your future whenever you damn well want to. In fact you should always be adjusting your future as you need to. Don't listen to those that make you feel like this is it.

I've changed my future 3 or 4 times as I wanted to as an adult and never regretted it.
Any idea why your iStockPhoto income dropped just for this period? It seems like a fluke / outlier, not a long-term trend.
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More to do with marketing? I've told my boys all their lives "If they have to put it on a TV ad, its probably crap. Good stuff we all know about through our friends."

Got to ask - you don't budget Wendy's? (Hardees is a better choice anyway:)
If right next to the $4.00 coffee there was a large selection of free but low quality caffeinated beverages, I'm pretty sure some folks would spend a lot more time before deciding to buy. And the chemical addiction thing probably short circuits some faculties of reason.
You may be simplifying too much to be understood. In medical terms, if your drug is significantly more effective than doing nothing, but a placebo is not significantly more effective than doing nothing, your drug need not be significantly more effective than the placebo. (Yes, medicine typically avoids this particular error.)

(E.g. if doing nothing cures 10%, the placebo cures 11% and the drug cures 12%, only the difference drug/nothing may be significant.)
Of course, the potential (but improbable) implications of up-voting this story should not be lost on anyone.
How is this remotely legal?
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so i figured i'd jump on the iPad and iOS development train and start developing some apps i had in mind. i registered for the "iOS developer program" on the apple website and after realized that their SDK runs only on MAC which i don't have! anyway around this or do i have to bite the bullet and buy a mac!?
Congratulations on achieving your target.

Is there any chance of you getting apps into the Amazon store or are they only allowing U.S. developers? I know techie bloggers aren't loving the Kindle Fire, but I know a ton of normal people buying them. That's a lot of Android tablets, none of which will ever see the main Android store.
This is HN. You can't down-vote a post. If you check the submissions list from this user you will see lots of posts - many with respectable scores indicating a good measure of interest.

I think this member of our community is upset at not getting continuous front page feature.
An old friend and business owner spends hours/days researching the best wireless plan for his employees, saving maybe $100. While his books go undone, training never happens, the store is a mess.

So maybe not $2. But consider the most valuable asset anyone has: their time. So easy to squander, an hour is much more valuable than $100.
Agreed, it might not be standards compliant HTML in which case it's not the browser's fault.
Just the usual offenders, esp. MS Word and Adobe apps. They love to generate false "windows" like that goddamn "smart copy" doo-dad and palettes, etc. Witch allows you to work around all of it, if you're patient.
That's like saying no one notices blood on a slaughterhouse floor so a puddle of blood at a school wouldn't be noticed.
I'm sure there's room left that the 140byt.es folks will find, but off the bat:

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"Indium is also a rare earth element, making it scarce and expensive."
Honestly? It would likely be too much fun.

There is still, to this day, a large number of people who think education needs to be repetitive rote drill in order to be... real, or legitimate, or even 'useful' by some warped definition of that concept.

It's tied into the notion of hazing, or "If I had to waste my years in school tied to a desk memorizing stuff I don't use, so should you! Builds character!"

And, finally, the idea that if the next generation does it, too, maybe your time doing it wasn't simply wasted.
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