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I think we're missing your experience here. You seem to talk the talk, but have you built an app on the platform you're targeting before? How confident are you in your abilities to hit the deadline.

You seem fairly confident, so what's holding you back.

If you try to launch and don't quite make it, you'll end up with more sign-ups.
If you try to launch and the MVP isn't quite done, but close enough to get people using it, you'll get tons of feedback.
If you launch, you've got lots of exposure for an MVP.

If you don't do it, you only loose out the opportunity to talk to more people about the product and help to get it fine tuned.

The only reason I would say not to do it is if you think it is going to take 2 months, but then it ends up taking much longer, as you may kill off any goodwill. But again, how bad will it be.
Agreed. I wrote a bit more here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560102
(1) I didn't need to and I'm not sure that it was in fact an insult.

(2) Well, the first thing is that I don't know what "all copyable digital goods are like water" means. Perhaps in context you mean "all copyable digital goods should be offered for very cheap prices." I'm not sure I agree with that. Either way I'm not sure that it implies, by itself, that "the cost of producing unprotected digital goods in general can only be covered by selling some non-digital good or service in conjunction with it."

(3) No. In my second paragraph I am explicating the two ways that I see to understand your original statement: the narrow way ("people will not pay for bits period") which is wrong, and the broad way ("people can always be viewed as paying for something other than the bits, like the service to access the bits or the authenticity of getting the bits from some official retailer") which I think doesn't really rule out any particular payments for any particular practices. I have no idea what exactly you're trying to "rule out".

This is all complicated by the fact that as far as I can tell, these are apparently beliefs which you are trying to ascribe to me. That misunderstands the point of my analogy, which is that there is no "free rider" problem generated particular to digital goods sans artificial scarcity. A "free rider" problem occurs when nobody wants to pay to maintain a service. The point of the water analogy is twofold: first, it is to show the absurdity of worrying about free-riders when there is little to no maintenance cost. Second, it is to show how trying to punish those so-called "free riders" is just going to alienate people who might otherwise like you.

(4) That's why I didn't say that they sold digital goods. o_O.
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I also have a Das keyboard and it is really awesome. (Also, I think it's the best looking keyboard I have ever seen--very minimalist.) However, I think you have them backwards--the "silent" version has the brown switches and the normal version has the blue switches. I also have the ultimate silent version and it is not really silent--it's just quieter than the other version. You still get a satisfying noise when you use it.

I've been really satisfied with it, and would definitely recommend it to anybody looking for a nice mechanical keyboard.
Also, here is a clickable link for the new cheatsheet: http://www.ginzametrics.com/cheatsheet
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How you feel those emotions tells me that this is an awesome short movie.

Regardless of which feelings you felt they pulled it off. You felt compassion for a piece of hardware built for human sexual pleasure. You wouldn't have felt like that about a FleshLight if it spoke back to you. It needed the powerful emotions on display that we saw here.
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Linus has to his credit the fact that he's less of an a-hole than, say, Theo de Raadt.

Though I'm not so sure I want Nice Guys(tm) writing my software...
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You don't need to totally rewrite your app, but it's not backwards compatible either. The biggest change is that they've switched the default views to be written in Scala instead of Groovy. But if you'd still like to write the views in Groovy or are porting an app from 1.x, there are a couple of guys in the community who have written plugins to support writing your views in Groovy.
It's more of a love hate thing, it is pretty powerful but it becomes a problem with very long build processes in my experience on big teams. I actually like Maven personally and more so like stuff like SCons: http://www.scons.org/. It seems more common platform rather than so tuned to Java like Maven.

Just in my experience every software project I have been on with Java that used maven had an immense build process. I am not kidding one system I worked on the tests alone within it took about 45 minutes per day just to get started. Maybe it is too powerful, and yes part of that is the xml/enterprise feel of Java and guilty by association.
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While you're absolutely right, I don't think the OP realized that's what he was saying, or he would have written it. I was merely pointing this out.

There were successes though, even back then. It was a long shot, yes, but not a proven dead end.
So (part of) your argument is that tablets in general have less built-in utility, and iOS tablets have access to a huge range of apps and content to make them useful than other tablets don't have access to. While that's true right now, I don't see why this will be the case in the next couple of years.

First off, apps: I would expect an increasing number of apps to be released multi-platform, for iOS and and Android and possibly for Windows P.O.S., because hey, why not release it multi-platform? The web is an important special case of multi-platform development and Google is keen on establishing web apps as just apps, too.

And content: While Apple owns a huge amount of the market, they don't own the actual content and I don't see why the content owners would restrict themselves to just one distributor. They'd reach a wider audience and they might even get a better deal if there's competition on the market.

The situation with the iPad might be similar to the iPod, but I don't think it's because of the content ecosystem. As you say, there are many other ways of obtaining MP3s, including many legal ones. I'm sure Google Music or Play or whatever they're calling it now will be just as convenient. It's a bit similar in that the iPods were always iconic. I don't want to play up the status symbol angle because I think it's exaggerated; the point is that to many people an iPod was almost synonymous with MP3 player, and at least it was the default option. The same seems to be true with the iPad.
VUPEN's offensive IT intrusion solutions and government grade exploits enable the Intelligence community and government agencies to achieve their lawful intercept missions using VUPEN's industry-recognized vulnerability research and intelligence.

I am trying to imagine a situation where _lawfuly_ government agencies need to break into someones IE. Any ideas?
I'm using the loud, non-labeled DAS keyboard Model S Ultimate, typing with Dvorak layout.
It cost's a small fortune, but it's so worth it. I love this keyboard.
http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-ultimate/

Mostly keep my vim key-binding mappings small, so I'm not confused when working with it with default settings. Mostly use <Ctrl>-c to get out of insert mode though, escape is so far.
>The factory does lose money on factory time and employee wages.

Fair enough, but I can just as easily say I refuse to pay for the design of it, however, I will pay for materials and manufacturing costs.
It really does help, thanks a ton. I'm all about constructive criticism, very useful after being so closely focused on specific aspects of the app for months.

1) Great points. I'm working on a updated version of the site that will include a better video (scrubbable) and screenshots, amongst other improvements.

2) Working on it, that has been the #1 recommendation so far.

3) Straight-up iCal syncing probably won't happen, for a lot of reasons I mentioned in another comment here. (Import doesn't make a lot of sense logistically, mainly.) But, I'm playing with some import/export possibilities. There will definitely be a way to get data out soon, if for no other purpose than freedom/portability, and some kind of syncing option will surely show up eventually.
It appears to use GWT for the HTML application, so it works on the Java source itself, NOT the JVM bytecode. It's probably possible to target Android only with the framework and then use another JVM language.
I find this whole thing a tempest in a teacup. The original claim that the scanners are flawed doesn't strike me as explosive a revelation as it's being made out to be. My guess is the machines could be modified to change the background color behind the scanned person's silhouette.

The quote from the TSA ("Any guidance provided is to caution reporters not to generalize...") is merely saying "don't jump to conclusions on the basis of some activist's blog post/video," which is quite a reasonable "cautionary" statement. Sure, they're covering their ass some, but if they're truly being sued by this guy, they probably can't even get into things with him in the media anyway.

Granted, I have no love for the TSA, but some of this anti-TSA rhetoric seems like groping of a different kind.
Maybe this is me being a Luddite, but...what the hell is the point of this?

So you had a "real" actress mimic the facial expressions of this scene...then mapped them onto an obviously fake render of the same person?

Why not just skip all of this and have live action actors perform this scene? What is gained by rendering the same thing in a computer other than appealing to some strange nerd fantasy?

I guess I'm also not a video game player, so maybe somebody can enlighten me here: are the graphics here really better than what we were seeing 5-6 years ago?

Yeah...I guess we can render it in real time (AWESOME FEAT!), but if you want to show off the computational ability of Cell, have it calculate pi or simulate a dust cloud or something. This, at least to me, looks identical to every other video game trailer I've seen for the last 5 years.

If you would have said this was a trailer for half life in 2005 (the dates here may be totally wrong, I have no idea when that game came out), I wouldn't have questioned it at all.

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As for the story here. This is shallow, boring, and lazy. It's like we're being slapped in the face with whatever the storyteller wants us to feel. The obnoxious "honey" or "baby" or whatever the operator says to the robot is just...uhgg, painfully awkward.

/or maybe I just need more coffee this morning
For those not familiar with the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator:_The_Sarah_Connor_Ch...

A great show, cancelled too soon.
Reddit: All about 64-bit programming in one place
There is a difference between security and non-security bugs. Null pointer dereferences and hangs are not security bugs. Security bugs you are supposed to report to MSRC. Non-security bugs typically has to wait until next version of IE to fix.
Congrats Sam! You have accomplished a lot.
I'll take a look at it but first glance seems to indicate it's Windows and SQL Server only.

I was hoping for something that I could use on a Mac and let me plug into a variety of backend sources via some mapping utility/connector: MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL, etc.
no, I felt awkward that people still think it's acceptable to write stories like that. It has nothing to do with caring for her, I feel awkward watching that because I feel bad for society as a whole and women in specific, that we are still being subjected to this dehumanizing masculine sexist fantasy crap.

It's a similar feeling if it looked like some company was going to publish a Nazi sex camp rape simulator game.

It is the same awkward feeling I get about the Japanese rape and sex game simulators.

The whole thing feels like a thin veneer over someones sex fantasy being masqueraded as a social acceptable story.

I feel embarrassed that women out there have to see this crap and realize that still how some men view/want to see them, and that they have to live in a world where people think there's nothing wrong with that.
Study suggests breakthrough in organ transplants
Hey pg, why don't the guidelines have something about submissions behind paywalls / sign-in-walls?
> The neutrality of the federal government is a nonissue.

The White House, Capitol, and Supreme Court should not be placed in any state. Either statehood or retrocession would be best suited by carving those buildings, and the area immediately surrounding them, out of the ceded area and retaining them in a federal district.

> The founders certainly did not intend for 700,000 Americans to live without representation.

The founders created the District of Columbia in the first place; did they not intend anyone to live there?

> There was a decent plan a few years ago to give a voting member of the House and also granting an additional member to the next state in line based on census data (conveniently a heavily Republican district in Utah, I believe).

Statehood would still create 2 new Democratic senators out of 102, so giving the Republicans 1 extra Representative out of over 400 is hardly a "decent plan". You'd have to make up the 2 senators somehow. For instance, if you split the state of Washington in half at the Cascades, Eastern Washington would make a state much, much larger than DC in both area and population with 2 Republican senators.

If representation were the issue then retrocession would be an acceptable solution. The fact that people don't accept retrocession just shows that people really want more Democrats in the Senate.
"I know where you live."

What is that a threat to do?

How about, "Be careful."?
> One is that doing this is very rare but secondly there were many more who jumped in early who disappeared quickly either into limited roles or out of the NBA and no one remembered them. What he pointed out was that playing college ball was an important part of learning the game as well as growing up. Players who skipped college often had only their natural talent which while it might be significant limited them at the professional level.

As an NBA fan... that's not really true. If you look at the list of players who skipped college, it's filled with superstars like LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, etc. Even the less spectacular ones still all had productive careers with high paying contracts, like CJ Miles and Lou Williams. Abject failures are very few and far between. Gerald Green is the only one that immediately comes to mind.

The only reason players don't skip college now is because the NBA doesn't let them anymore. They set a minimum age limit.
For what function of "wins"? Who has most of the profit in the mobile space? Whose app developers are making more money?
Ask HN: Anyone has any ideas on why the weather is different this year? 
Every year in the mid-west it snows and temperatures drop a lot. I am from Missouri and temperatures usually drop to -10 alteast once and there usually are many days where it would be below zero. This year it has been a lot different atleast in the mid-west, its more than often sunny and it isn't that cold.<p>I don't see any articles on why this "anomaly", any one has any thoughts on this or any articles that explain why?
Sam, did you guys raise any additional money besides what's listed in Crunchbase? It says you guys were backed by Maverick capital as well?

Congrats on the sale!
The state of web browsing in Windows 8
I spend more than $7/month on Highrise (from 37signals) to pretty much do what this does. Highrise doesn't directly support a sales 'pipeline' metaphor so I use tags on customers for each stage ("WarmLead", "ColdLead", "FirstContact"...etc). It's definitely cumbersome to do the pipeline with tags but the contact management and email integration is pretty good.

As a freelancer, I really only use it when seeking out the next contract, which is every few weeks or months. So Highrise is overkill and just slightly too expensive to justify. (But switching to something else never really becomes my top priority.)

One last note: a sales pipeline is useful for many types of relationships... finding customers, hiring employees, getting investors, etc. They all have the same first few steps.
I was doing basically this before moving to Play 2. I just found there was a lot you had to decide for yourself. You had to pick a persistence layer, roll your own xsrf protection, do your own integration of a JS compiler/minifier, etc. I had something pretty good working, but got tired of having to write the code for every new technology integration myself. The thing I like about Play 2 is that I have an entire community helping me out with these things.
25+ Examples of Single Colored Backgrounds in Web Design
However, in case of choosing single colored background for website there are some factors that must be kept in mind. It must reflect the basic subject of the website as well as the company.
Strawmen were indeed cheap.

I'm not apologizing neither myself and even less the author.

However a world where everybody respects IP 100% all the time is either full of virtuous men such as you (if you are not a hypocrite) or an incredibly sad place due to all the repression.

Intellectual endeavors map to property poorly. Fashion industry has learned this lesson long ago.

And "entitlement" is as much a straw man as any other. No matter how correct and virtuous your outlook is. I don't event know what you are advocating, but whatever it is you are not very practical about it.

That is all.
I have not read this book, but I did hear him on NPR's "Science Friday" last week.

I think Tyson misses something huge. The USA actually had a large number of career engineers to do the Space Program with. From 1945 to 1960, a lot of WW2 vets went to college, and a lot of those college-goers went into engineering. Civil, mining and mechanical engineering were traditional "first-in-family-to-college" majors. They were a way for a farmer's son or a miner's son to become a professional without having to exhibit all the social graces.

From 1945 to 1960, the US military-industrial complex went from piston-driven props to jet turbines, from high subsonic aerodynamics to the X-15. A lot of engineering went into airplanes and rockets and missiles during that time.

The USA, indeed, the world, does not have a stock of engineers to do the design, nor does it have the scientists to make the spec the design meets.

I don't think the USA, or the world, can duplicate the 1960s "Space Race", much less surpass it.
She said on Twitter she is looking at Dropwizard: https://github.com/codahale/dropwizard

That's focused on RESTful services so presumably also a JS templating tool browser-side or similar.
Well for the iBooks example:

left image (429x569): http://images.apple.com/ipad/features/images/retina_gallery_...

right image under the loupe (1536x2048): http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/images/loupehr1.jpg
This is the second biggest announced and second to fifth unannounced amount YC sale to date, right?
They're not exactly the same thing, actually, ctrl-c doesn't allow you to expand abbreviations and doesn't trigger the InsertLeave autocommand, but to be honest, I don't think it's that big of a deal. I go between ctrl-c and ctrl-] without thinking.
Which is why buddy exits are such a problem: there's so much money in the greater pool that they can hand out life-changing cash on a whim to people who might not deserve it as much as others. Sure, life isn't fair, but I'd rather people didn't pretend otherwise.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 to have video creating and editing capabilities? (video)
I'm sorry, but this post boils down to: "I have a friend who's invented anti-gravity. He's reluctant to start an anti-gravity company right now. What is your advice?"

Your friend's reluctance might mean he's a lot less confident in his technology than you are. The two years of processing time it would take to come to fruition suggests to me he's right to have reservations.
CC photos are all free for non-commercial use, correct? What if you'd like to be compensated, but not at rates that justify the overhead of Getty Images? Many of the images I found were not CC licensed, nor did they have a Getty Images option. Those are the images I'm referring to.

e.g., go search Flickr for "drawdy falls". No results in Getty, no results in the Commons, but a handful of images from photographers that are retaining full copyright, but have't posted contact info. Maybe they don't want compensation and just failed to select CC when they posted. Who knows. Regardless, many of the images I found were in this middle ground. I'm not trying to sound entitled here, just pointing out that there's lots of images that sadly cannot be used.
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I had a chance to mess with PlayN a number of months ago. I was drawn to trying it after I had heard that the Chrome version of Angry Birds was built using it. From my experience with it, it seems to work about as well as any other multi platform game framework. For most games, it's good enough.
IPhoto for iOS gives Adobe a run for it's money.
I switched cold turkey to Dvorak and Vim at practically the same time (what can I say, I like pain :) I learned Vim mnemonically and have no problem using Vim on QWERTY. At the same time, I could have just as easily learned it "locationally" and been screwed. Only chiming in because I think it's interesting that the learning curves for location-vs-mnemonic seem approximately equal, but the long-term payoff of one is much greater. Neat asymmetry.
Open source cars are here: Lessons learnt from Local Motors'
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Having spent a lot of time looking at/comparing/building Web 1.0-style server-side frameworks, I've since switched to GWT and really like the client-side model. It'd be hard for me to go back to munging HTML/data back/forth from the stateless server.

Of course, GWT is not perfect. DevMode needs to be faster, and they need to integrate scala-gwt. :-)

I wrote a Backbone-like framework to deal with some of the boilerplate (http://www.tessell.org), especially if you're doing MVP. I don't quite have a solid DTO story down yet, but overall I like it.

If I had to use a server-side framework again, I really liked Click (http://click.apache.org), as it is component based, but has source code you can actually read (vs. both Tapestry and Wicket which are too big/magical IMHO).