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Around the time of their funding, the hype around Any.DO in the Tel-Aviv startup scene was that they are working on cutting-edge technology to enable human interaction with mobile devices.

Probably something along the lines of Siri.

If that's really where they're going, or will it stop at a generic to-do app, only time will tell.
Sometimes, the solution to really deadly (or deadly serious) situations is to reduce the force with which you meet it rather than trying to overcome it with a higher level of force. In essence: Gentleness is an antidote to violence better than bigger, more powerful violence. This seems to be the opposite of what most people believe.
Next week: tvs that are square, have sharp corners, and the latest trend: really thick bezels!
At least he makes a profit unlike 90% of SV's startups.
"""The only thing that literary criticism ever inspired me to criticize was literary criticism. Perhaps it was simply taught badly, but I received an excellent primary education - if the better schools around can't teach this stuff then I question how many students learn any critical thinking skills from it."""

The same can be said for tons of fields. You think the teaching of computer science is really that better?
In addition, much web development suffers from the "bike shed problem"[1]: The designers, programmers, managers, and everyone else involved in creating the web site feels that they "know" what their users needs are. Nobody bothers to actually test the sites using real users.

The exception to this rule is sites that are the only way to purchase something. These sites have a monetary incentive to make their customers successful.

[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_shed)
This guy's sole function as a businessman is explicitly illegal.

You're comparing that with (usually) accidental infringement on complicated and virtually unknowable laws.
And the Prada phone. And Jil Sander's clothing. And those stoves with entirely flat surfaces rather than pop out heating elements. And anything made by Dieter Rams for Braun.

Perhaps Samsung is following modern design techniques, many of which pre-date Apple, despite being popularized in the computing world by Apple.
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In other words, they just want to claim a general trademark on "it looks good". Apple fanboys will disagree, but I think it is ridiculous and is part of what makes me dislike Apple with a passion.
Herman Cain Suspends Presidential Campaign
Which is kind of mindblowing given that the two have vastly different aspect ratios.

It was a lawyer, though, and not an employee of the company, but yeah. Bad.
This better make a good case for why I should stop using Do It Tomorrow (http://tomorrow.do/). To-do management needs to be a tool to get real tasks done, not to make managing those tasks take the spotlight. The site has me worried about the latter being the case.
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Two factor auth? You just go into your account settings, elect to turn it on, it'll have you install the Google Auth app on your phone and scan a QR code, which configures the app. Then, when you try to log into your account next, it'll ask for the code generated by the app.

The authenticator itself is just HMAC-OTP with the seed as the current time quantitized to 30-second intervals. Very straightforward.
"""- Free Hosting (free as in really for free, not cents """

Yes, because a few cents, or, god forbid!, a dollar a month are totally too much for having total control over your content.
Herman Cain Suspends His Presidential Campaign
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Doesn't work work HTTPS links. (eg: markdown text on github project pages).
If you put money and effort to your R&D, you will try to protect yourself as well.
I have met with the founder of AnyDO, and I personally heard their pitch.

I don't know if it is public yet, so I will refrain from repeating it here.

But I can say that a TODO app is only the beginning/stepping stone. They did not raise their money based on a TODO task list.
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Pretty much everyone I know in College only order online due to it's convenience. Domino's isn't the best pizza in the world but their website is built pretty well, and as a result most pizzas you find on the college campus I am thinking of are either from the school pub or from Domino's.
1 million for this!? Why the hell am I working for other people? VC's fund fucking to-do lists?
These arguments are paper-thin.

* Tablets are flat because LCDs are flat.

* Tablets are rectangular because LCDs are rectangular.

* Tablets have rounded corners and bezels because it's difficult to manufacture the unit if the screen extends right to the edges.

* Samsung has been touting "slimness" and "world's thinnest" on their phones for almost a decade.

* Samsung has also been doing "non-cluttered" for a long time, e.g. they partnered with Porsche Design back in 2002 for some designs.

* A black front panel and steel rim was common on phones before Apple entered the business. An example from 2006: [1]

The obsession with button counts is sort of understandable, because Apple did pioneer the single-button phone (and they did an amazing job with it).
But they're not going to stick with that same design forever. If Apple moves to a buttonless design as has been rumored, should Nokia sue them because the N9 got there first [2]? Of course not.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6233
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9
I'm willing to bet that Pizza Pizza isn't missing out on much money over their website. It is far more common for someone to place an order for pizza by dropping by the establishment or making a two minute phone call.

That may be true now, but Domino's order page is pretty entertaining, and it's my favorite way to order. http://express.dominos.com/order/olo.jsp
I'm kind of losing track of the argument here, are you talking about defaulting to open vs. default-closed when it comes to privacy?
You say this

> Though the crew reported hunger, they were able to survive for two years without importing anything at all from the outside world.

but the wikipedia article you link to says this

> The agricultural system produced 83% of the total diet

and

> the medical team decided to boost oxygen with injections in January and August 1993.

and

> In November the hungry Biospherians began eating emergency food supplies that had not been grown inside the bubble.

Mission 2 was supposed to last ten months, not two years; but it didn't even manage that. Supposedly a closed system, it was un-sealed by two members of the first mission, the captain left and was replaced (and then the replacement was replaced).

But here are some nice pictures of Biosphere2 now:

(http://www.noahsheldon.com/biosphere.html)

There are more of this series, showing just how close suburbia has got to Biosphere2.
A 1% efficiency won't be a net-energy-gain for any sort of large-scale commercial production.

Three key questions:

1. What is the relative scarcity, if any, of the materials used to manufacture the "inks".

2. What is the durability/degradation under "field conditions" of the cell's active photovoltaic substrate?

3. Do the "inks" degrade in an environmentally friendly fashion?
Then again they seem to cover a lot of popular tourist destinations. http://gowalla.com/guides/berlin

I am only in Berlin for 3 years and I would not necessarily be able to come up with better recommendations for tourists.
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Android + Octocat
Are we so enamoured with pg that we must use such sycophantic titles?
Also relevant is the inverse issue: Monday morning quarterbacks have the benefit of hindsight, but they don't have information that was and is available on the field. Hastings was clearly trying to solve a real problem that Netflix is facing–he didn't create Qwickster just 'cause he liked the name. Perhaps its licensing issues, perhaps its something else. Hastings gambled that the benefit of separating streaming from DVDs would be greater than the cost of the customers it annoyed. He was wrong, but that doesn't make him stupid.
And what about the hard keys on my slide-out keyboard?
I suppose this could be useful in the future, but I don't see why they would launch with just Github support; at the moment, this doesn't do anything Github doesn't do itself.
Enterprise - 1. "A project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort."

2. "Initiative and resourcefulness."

He at least fits one of the requirements for the word enterprise.

As someone said previously in this thread, most of the people on this site have no idea what it means to actually "sell" something. Anytime you put your own money on the line to gain a profit you are taking a risk.

"Limited initiative"? Do you have any idea what it takes to go out in public and get rejected 90% of the time to make that one sale? His initiative is definitely not limited.

Do you know why Jason Fried's article http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-busi... in Inc was so on point? It was because selling is a skill and you really do have to practice to be good at it. I would say for most people its harder to learn how to sell than it is to learn how to become a programmer. Humans have more variables.

Why would the world be a better place without a guy selling candy on the subway? I can see where it could be a problem if the subway became overwhelmed with these guys but that's not the case. I ride the subway all of the time and you know what, I ignore these guys just like most New Yorkers do. Are the guys selling water bottles on the sidewalk during a hot day a nuisance as well?
What reason does any normal person on the street have to pay for music when even those campaigning against piracy aren't.

I think it's about time we abandoned this archaic distribution model with publishers and distributers getting the lions share of the revenue. I would much prefer to pay the content creators directly.

What would be really cool is if platforms like iTunes started allowing musicians to submit music directly to the service. Obviously there would need to be controls and filtering of some kind, but surely something could work.
The future of content management?
Another, generic looking, Todo app?? That you mostly can't even use because it is "Coming Soon".

(Why is this at the top of HN? There has to be a network of biased people upvoting this...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law

> Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 about 30% of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than 5% of the time. This distribution of first digits is the same as the widths of gridlines on the logarithmic scale.

> This counter-intuitive result has been found to apply to a wide variety of data sets, including electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, physical and mathematical constants, and processes described by power laws (which are very common in nature). It tends to be most accurate when values are distributed across multiple orders of magnitude.
This is NOT another TODO app. They use NLP and other algorithms to do cool things.
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> we could go a bit further and

No, sorry, I dont think you make any point worth further discussing.
I just looked at the website and they don't support my phone. Do you have any other suggestions for what I can use on a samsung replenish?
You've basically just said, "since I can steal music because it is easy, I am doing it." That is fine, but quit making excuses and just say that.
My TODO list was an OmniOutliner document because I need something that looks like a flexible list than a plain text (so I could edit edit without ever worrying about its structure), but has a free edit capability of text file (because I always outline my thought that way), they roughly looks like this:

Fix backup script
- rm then cp is lame, other ways?
- rsync -az --del?
- unison?
- Also deposit few more budget to Tarsnap

...and the list keep expanding once I think up of something. For something that I have no idea of what to do about it, it'd remain a single-level item. No other GTD/TODO list capable of doing this or presented this in a way I like (I don't need projects, category, etc., don't think for me, just give me a nestable list, dammit!)

That said, once I realized OmniFocus is basically OmniOutliner optimized for GTD, I switched to it and could say it's the best $79 I've spent in a long time. With OmniOutliner, my usage is almost the same except with a slightly optimized interface and ability to sync across devices and some geolocation goodness.
Which station does he play at?
Ha. That basically means they are selling nothing. You can get into the top 100 iPhone Games/Educational section with about 20 downloads in a day. But these are their peak figures. Their boast about being in the top 400 for 2/3 of the time is laughable. That basically means they sold 1 per day. As for the other countries, that's even less meaningful. You can shoot to the top of that category with 5 downloads.

Basically, this was one unprofitable app on the iPhone. Making 5 times more on WP isn't so impressive.
This is another long winded argument basically saying the same as above. "Since I can easily steal it without paying for it, I am doing it". Damn the artist or whomever thinks they should be paid for their creative output. How silly of them.
First of all, the whole point of the "-f" option is to disable confirmation, which really means "I know exactly what I'm doing". The easiest fix is to stop using that option all the damned time.

When you have strong permissions (e.g. running as "root"), you should never use patterns in destructive commands, period.

At best, you should perform a nondestructive pattern command such as a "find" and generate a precise list of target files that can be audited. For example, here is one way to produce a script of commands that deletes an exact list of matching files:

find * | awk '{print "rm \047"$0"\047"}' > delete.sh && chmod +x delete.sh
HN seems to have a different set of values. While there's less tolerance for jokes and culture references for the sake of culture references, HN tends to house a lot of intellectually frank discussion that a lot of other sites discourage.

A good example is this post from several weeks ago on the subject of denying blood donations from donors with a history of male-to-male sexual contact: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237895 It's very fact-centric, to the exclusion of any sort of pandering or apology. When I read this post several weeks ago, I immediately thought, "this would never fly on reddit; people would quickly downvote it for being 'insensitive' or similar."

This also reminded me of PG's essay "Persuade xor Discover." http://www.paulgraham.com/discover.html HN users seem to care less about "persuasion," which can lead to perceptions of "unfriendliness" because things aren't written to please people. However, it does lead to a lot of interesting discussion that couldn't take place on a site more concerned with being "nice."
Where does my blog traffic come from?
No, I don't think they should call out whistleblowers but they don't really say where they got the info on the secret spy rooms where all the devices were hidden in these countries. They don't say it was whistleblowers. They just say they know. Well let me tell you what I know:

My neighbor murdered his wife and had our other neighbor, a police officer, cover up the crime. We now know this. How do we know thus? We just do, I'm fucking credible, don't ask questions.

See what I mean? At least give us something to go on. Even a link to a previous article where they cover this source less information would do.
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Are you sure about that? I would order pizza online in a heartbeat if I didn't think that it was going to take twice as long, my order was going to get ignored, or they were going to deliver it to an address in the wrong city. If I had any confidence at all in the local pizza shop's website and the way the process orders from it, I'd never phone an order in again.
These are Apple's suggestions - except for the last one:

http://liquidpubs.com/blog/2010/11/08/apple-their-tablet-com...

Samsung was familiar with the different ways tablet can be made.
This is what Samsung tablets looked like before the iPad:

http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uplo...
My argument is that there is natural scarcity not of copies of a piece of information, but of the value that can be extracted from it. Scarcity is relevant to movie tickets because only so many people want to see a particular movie this Friday night. Let's say that in San Francisco there are 1000 such people. If only 5 movie theaters can show the movie, they might sell 200 tickets each. If 50 movie theaters can show the movie, they're not going to sell 200 tickets each. Collectively they will still sell at most 1000 tickets. They have to divide a scarce resource -- the value of the information to moviegoers on that particular night in SF. Once the information is adequately distributed, no matter how many copies you make, you won't increase that value.

So, instead of tracking the physical copies -- which I think we'd both agree are an irrelevant artifact of an antiquated distribution system -- I think we should talk about the value that is created for humanity when someone comes up with a new piece of information. When I make a movie, I've added a certain amount of value to the world. When I establish that a molecule can safely be used to treat a disease, I've added a certain amount of value to the world. It is hard to find units to measure this value (revenue potential in USD is a distorted one), but it is undoubtedly finite, and different for each movie or drug. None of this changes with your sci-fi replicator.

The question is, should I as the creator of the information be able to capture all that value? Some of that value? None of that value?

If we thought of IP as a natural right, we'd say "all." Copyright would be perpetual and there'd be no fair use. In a post-scarcity world where everyone got food and housing and paint and movie cameras for free, we might say "none" and hope (correctly I think) that people would still create for the pleasure of creation.

Historically in the US we've said "some," nominally because we think it maximizes the rate of production of value for the commons, but in fact because of the natural vulnerability of our legislative system to capture by rent-seeking copyright aggregators. It is like a resonant frequency of democratic capitalism.
It is unfortunately almost impossible to know what is going on here - both in terms of readability, and what the site is supposed to do.
Actually, Apple has challenged a number of other tablets.

They're suing Motorola over the Xoom somewhere in Europe (from what I understand, this trial has fewer fireworks because the Xoom was already being sold, so a preliminary injuction is both less likely and less important).

Apple also tried to push criminal charges against a tablet vendor in Spain (over a technical, but unimportant infraction related to an import ban, IIRC). Fortunately, the charges were dismissed.

I suspect Apple is focusing their legal energy on Samsung because they think they are the strongest cases and because they view Samsung as the most threatening competitor, but there is plenty of evidence that they're planning to head down their list of competitors if they have legal success.
Layout is very busy.
just what in the hell is this, anyway?
The comments on this thread make me want to never come here again...
That had better not be a knock at Meerkat Manor.
> In that case why specifically say "driver's license"?

Because more people are confused by government ID thinking it means passport, military ID or something like that, than are confused by thinking Drivers License means only a drivers license and nothing else. They may also try to offer items that don't count, such as a photo-ID health card.
I'm sure you've gotten tons of interest and I'm not 100% sure what we'd do, but I'll fly you out to Beijing and put you up somewhere nice if you want to see if there's a fit. A many-hats-wearing-change-the-world type person can do just about anything they want, when they find the right mix of something that excites them and good people to work with.

My finance guy who raises money for projects is here Dec 13th to 23rd so it's particularly a good time, but I'm flexible. Could also meet in Taipei around New Year's if you like. You might want to check up on my crazy antics before you throw in with me though, in the last couple weeks I've gotten a lot of comments ranging from "a literary hero" for the open letter I wrote to S&S to complete maniac, jerk, dick, etc.

Anyways, who knows, maybe nothing's there. But we can definitely watch some Cowboy Bebop, check out the Forbidden City, and see if there's anything worth changing in the world. Email in profile if it's interesting to you.
i try do unusual thing. I want that people work at different work, it cool pack stuff and go to other country to do work like pizza man, tinman, shoe shiner, or office plankton
I've tried a bunch of "TODO" apps and promptly uninstalled them because they often require more work to update and maintain than some of the tasks on my list.

Any.DO is different, I haven't uninstalled it and I seem to be using it.
This seems to be the same WSJ article that was submitted several days ago under a similar title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298171
Here's a little literary criticism of pg's writing that I left as a comment on that blog post. Still awaiting moderation so I thought I'd share:

Anyway, you’ve probably noticed with close reading that Graham’s essays are almost entirely declarative. He tells, almost never shows.

With Paul Graham, everything is a statement, even the questions are really statements in disguise. He may talk about meandering, but really he doesn’t meander at all. His writing dictates, it doesn’t explore. And when he accuses thesis-driven essays of “blustering through” and “hand-waving”, it’s rather funny, isn’t it?

That’s exactly what Paul Graham does, all the time.

With all those statements, he doesn’t leave any room in his essays for the reader.

Added “bonus”: As a narrator, he never changes or grows, which makes it exceedingly boring for the reader unless they have a feeling of personal vindication over what he’s stating. (E.g., the reason you didn’t like school was because you are smart. As a hacker, you are god’s gift to the earth, etc.)

It’s like going to your boring grandfather’s house and being lectured to.

(Fun fact: so is listening to Paul Graham speak live. He reads an essay. I’m not kidding.)

Meanwhile changing and growing is the raison d’être of fiction, as you described yourself when you compared his essay to Sonny’s Blues.

Honestly, I’m not surprised that your students don’t like it [1]. Maybe one of the reasons they ask “Who is this guy?” is because that essay doesn’t even bother to establish sympathy or credibility. No “I was once a confused blah blah and learned the hard way blah blah.” No “Gee, isn’t it aggravating when adults tell you what to do with your life? Wellllll…”

He presumes that the reader will hang on every word for no other reason than that the writer is Paul Graham.

[1] it referring to the essay What You'll Wish You'd Known: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
mostly delancey-essex and bedford ave, though he'll shift every now and again somewhere else.
s/TODO/GTD/g will not change the above conclusion.