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When I was reading James W. Pennebaker's "The Secret Life of Pronouns," I started consciously collecting as much personal data as I could for this exact reason. I'm 23 and I've got most of everything I've ever done on a computer since I was around 14 logged. I started thinking about the amazing insights that all of this data can reveal to me in the future. Every IM conversation, email, blog entry, text message, tweet everything I've liked on Facebook. I can only imagine in 20 years, having a psychiatrist ask me what my childhood was like and being able to show them a piechart of how many times I complained about something to someone.
Wow. Cool hack.

But if you're friends with an iOS developer, you can ask him or her to build an ad-hoc copy of iProxy for your iPhone and it won't cost you anything.

(Or get 100 of your closest iPhone-using friends to pitch in on an iOS developer account)

https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/wiki
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Or jailbreak your phone and re-enable tethering.
Love his swagger!
Yes I'm well aware of the constantly reiterated technicality that Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. They're a Chinese company. Period.

Sure, after being called on it, you are suddenly "well aware".

Anyway, it's not a technicality by any stretch of the word --it's where the company was founded and where its headquarters are. A different country. Not to mention that they also have factories in 6-7 other countries besides China.

(Plus, it's not like China and Taiwan are in best terms, anyway, such that a taiwanese company could suddenly, by some mysterious process, turn into a "de facto" chinese one. Taiwan and China are not like US and Kayman Islands).

If China believed differently, they wouldn't be allowed to do what they do in domestic China. China is nationalistic first, concerned with money second.

I don't see China being any more nationalistic than the US is. At least they aren't invading all other the place, nor do they play "world cop". As for China protecting it's national interests, more power to them.
I thought 4.0 was supposed to stop that? iOS 5.1 runs on every iOS device released in the last 3 years. When can we expect all Android devices released in the past 2-3 years running the latest OS?
There are very few successful futurists in the literal sense.

The long bets are not on the current startup ideas which will still mould the world 5 years from now. YC's view of investing in those with the wherewithal to effect change - not those who necessarily have the answers to hand - bleeds through the ambiguous edges of this essay.

pg's reticence to put his full belief behind a specific idea due to the evanescent nature of the current concept-du-jour is good guidance - tackle the extant problems and retain half an eye on the bigger picture.
I was surprised to see my Google contacts in the autocomplete. I thought I'd just used it for login. I guess even I can't be trusted to read the OAuth notices. (Google should really turn theirs up a notch, but still...)
The thing about replacing e-mail is that is isn't just a todo list, for many people it's just a receipt box - the thing I keep all my notifications that I bought stuff from amazon. For others, it's still the primary means of business communication.

My work e-mail is largely about communications, with a todo element to it and unfortunately some file storage too. My "home" e-mail is completely different. It's where I get my monthly statements for banks and investments and where my notifications go. When replacing e-mail you would need to service all these components of what e-mail is.

The thing that originally made e-mail so important was it's identity factor. That seems to have withered away as other services have replaced some components of what e-mail was for.

I would argue that e-mail needs to not be replaced, just reclaimed. My e-mail client (web or otherwise) should know that an e-mail in this case is actually just a twitter DM notification and be smart about how it presents that to me. It should know that something from Bank of America is probably something I want to keep, but something else from Bank of America is just marketing junk.

I haven't seen anything that is smart enough to do that on it's own. I don't want to have to deal with creating filters - it should just know. I would totally switch from gmail if this were out there.
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I would assume that up through the TCP/UDP header would be accessible to a pen/trap device. That's probably how they determined it was mostly TOR related traffic.
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That overview seemed to be more about what exact methodology future studies should use. The Nature article had more of an overview than that.
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The nations of the world aren't going to unite and solve the problem, but the people reading HN could try to figure out what more can be done. Think about these people that we've lost due to pancreatic cancer and maybe it'll motivate enough people, or the right people, that something significant can be done.

Randy Pausch

Steve Jobs

Stephen Buchheit

Patrick Swayze

Ralph Steinman

After Steve Jobs died I looked into where best to give money for research, but I haven't followed through yet. Seems like Stanford or Randy's site might provide the best leads:

http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/stephen-beck/randypaus...

http://cancer.stanford.edu/help/gift.html

Any other recommendations?
> for many people it's just a receipt box

There's a good startup idea right there! Sign up on receiptbox.com and give it my email username/password (or maybe some sort of oauth token). It periodically scans my email and looks for receipt emails from well known e-commerce sites. It knows how to parse them and pull out the relavent details (like TripIt does for travel stuff) and it builds a builds a nice searchable catalog of all my receipts.

I would sign up for this tomorrow if someone on here goes and builds it. :)
In my experience, Sand Hill Road does not want "frighteningly ambitious" startup ideas if substantial capital expenditure is involved. (In fairness, they are willing to hear those pitches – I guess that's something.)

> Now Steve is gone there's a vacuum we can all feel.

Pixar got funded only because Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs!) paid for it of pocket to the tune of $50 million total. It's Pixar that made him a billionaire (not Apple, as most people assume). How often does Steve Jobs invest in companies? Virtually never. But he knew (correctly) that Pixar was on to something.

I'm dealing with the Pixar bootstrap-problem at my own company, Fohr. Fohr is the live-action version of Pixar (photography, not animation, is what gets computerized), and requires $32 million in capital to do the process today on a feature film (well over half of that is for hardware - $2 million alone for electricity!).

Fohr is only constrained by capital – the R&D has already been done (it took nearly 13 years to develop the tech) – so you'd think Fohr would be ripe for funding. And you'd be dead wrong. There are no Steve Jobs left to pay for it.

The startup world today seems to only want tech innovation on the cheap, and that includes Paul Graham and all the rest.
Not at all surprised that aapl has taken a dip in after hours trading. Wouldn't be surprised to see it fall monday either. The last time PG publicly endorsed amzn we saw it briefly spike before returning to ~183. Almost reminds me of what 50cent did with hnhi.

Not sure whether it's a clearly causal thing or that PG simply has his finger on the tip of investor consciousness.
They did recently change the name from "free ebook" to "Free Google ebook."

Google’s hubris is really kind of amazing.
> I would sign up for this tomorrow if someone on here goes and builds it. :)

But would you pay for it? If so, there is a way to generate almost infinite revenue with this service, which is to charge a small fee for each receipt stored. Naturally, when receiptbox.com charges this fee, it issues a receipt, which it emails to you...
Paul, thanks so much for sharing this. It's very touching and really underscores how easy it is to loose sight of the big picture in life. Very appropriate especially for those caught up in all the craziness that comes with a startup.
What the hell are you talking about? Aside from admob integration on games that developers add themselves, what ads are you seeing on the platform outside of websites?
I think the term re-written is a bit over-the-top. I've gone through to chapter 10 of the tutorial, and the focus is largely on rails/ruby.

Blueprint did not factor a great deal in the original version and, honestly, Bootstrap is probably more relevant at this point.
Beautiful. Thank you, Paul. You just reminded us that no matter how many ones and zeros we look at, we must never lose sight of what's really important, so...very startup related.

My sincere condolences on losing Stephen. I can't imagine what it's like to lose a sibling so young.

I lost my mother on September 15, 2011, and I'm still devastated. I haven't missed a day of work, but I'm not nearly back to normal. My head says one thing, but my heart says another.

One of the things that brought me great comfort that terrible week was blogging about her and posting that link here at Hacker News.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022366

The responses I got from this wonderful community helped me more than I ever would have imagined. I hope you receive similar comfort from us today.
If Microsoft : Google :: Google : Facebook, I'm not sure that the frightening startup idea here is to replace Google. Don't get me wrong, I've also started to see some cracks in the G edifice; and Facebook has definitely begun to set their agenda, but doesn't that mean search in general is already waning and that the next big thing will be whatever replaces Facebook?

Great essay though, lots to think about. I really like the anecdote about bolting an iMac to the wall as well. I still have a TV, but it's only purpose is to act as a large dumb monitor for my laptop, and I've been seeing a lot of this type of thing happening even among my non-hacker friends and family. I'd like to see an 'app-store' translation for drama as well, but it seems like tv / movies are not as amateur friendly to create as games. One person can develop a fun indie game, but it's nigh on impossible to create drama with a similarly small budget.

What aspiring drama writers / directors need are tools equivalent to game level editors to create their scenes without actors, cameras or studios. Packaged believable human CG characters may not be possible, but cartoon, animal, alien, etc. characters might be able to bridge the gap the way they do in video games and still tell a compelling story.
This goes along well with Tim’s new fondness for Darpa.

http://storify.com/demilit/make-darpa-and-children-a-match-m...
You don't need to charge me. You're getting information about everything I'm buying online (which increasingly means...everything I'm buying period).

Predict what I want to buy next and take a cut of the purchase.
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He was Julius Caesar's nephew and successor, who ultimately did all of the things that Caesar wanted to do but never had a chance to to see done (the month of August is even named after him). In the lines that Paul mentioned his legacy, I think he means that someone similar to Steve Jobs (his would-be successor in our pop culture) could continue a similar path as Jobs. It's now clear that being a visionary in that position is possible, and he showed us all what just one person can do there.
As someone who just turned 40, I resent the use of the term "middle-aged" here :)
At least I know what that is. Ever try to dig up the tech specs of a discontinued 90s-era laptop from just its model number?

Apple has unique model number codes for all their products, but they try very hard to hide it in the logistics department. It's not listed anywhere on their online store, for instance, and in Apple Support documents they always use a consistent date system, e.g. "late 2011 Macbook Pro."

Also, you could have shortened that to: 15" MacBook Pro with the best CPU, 256GB SSD, and antiglare screen. 66 characters vs. 118. ;)
If only people spent as much time working on a decent platform like Andengine (which works on most devices with little effort) instead of porting ios code and ending up with apps that only work on devices they were tested on (or complained from).

It makes sense they have to deal with problems all the time since they clearly don't have a thorough understanding of the Android platform itself and what it takes to actually support the range of devices. Buying $1,000+ of test hardware will also not fix your problem if the problem is not doing things properly. You certainly won't get it by patching ios-based code every time a customer complains.
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Because the traditional arguments, going back 30 years now, have strictly been in favor of Apple's design and product purity, not that they could get the most cash out of their customers with the highest prices.

Actually this thread is about the inverse: how Apple gets the most cash out of their customers providing some of the BEST prices for the device category.

To quote the article:

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Let’s go back to pretending you’re one of Apple’s competitors. How can you possibly beat the iPad? Well, not on price. Even before the new iPad, rivals were having a hard time matching Apple’s prices while still making a profit. Now that the cheapest iPad cost $399, they face an even tougher road. Because Apple has used its plentiful cash to corner the market on key tablet components—like touch-screen displays—many competitors will find that the only way to make a tablet with comparable features but a lower price is to sell it at a loss.

= =

Big profit margin != highest prices.

It's because of the streamlined design and product purity that they get to do so. Fewer models instead of confusion multitude of options means huge savings in economy of scale.

Insisting on quality vs quantity, translates to people wanting to buy their stuff despite them being on the high end of the market. Not to mention that given they cater the high end of the market, they do offer the best prices, or near. Can you find a cheaper touch tablet or phone? Yes. Can you find a cheaper tablet or phone that you feel it belongs in the same league? Hardly.

Except if you explain the iPad's success and Apple's 12 year rise with "sheep" and "fanboys" [], no company built something like the iPad, that a large number of people wanted to buy, UNTIL the iPad. And even after, judging from the mediocre sales of competitors.

[] which doesn't even explain how they went from 1-2 million customers and a company close to extinction to 80 million fanboys, much less how 1/4 of the US population can be an "Apple fanboy", or how a "fad" builds up and lasts for 12 years, which is an eternity in tech terms
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An Open Letter to Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror
Jeff,

First I want to say that I think you did an amazing job in creating and developing SO into what it is today. It's a great asset and I think everyone benefits which I know was one of your goals.

However, I'm glad you're leaving. You've become so dogmatic, so preachy, and so full of immutable opinions and religious stances on how the "community" should behave, down to the most micro of behaviors, all while saying that the community owns the process and makes the decisions, while at the same time expressing intolerance for those who do not see things your way. You talk at people, not to people. Ironically some of these attributes are what made SO so successful. You've also become arrogant. I've heard you on numerous podcasts where you spend the first 5 minutes telling the interviewers what you will not talk about. Who are you? You should be happy you're getting attention. And on your blog, which you built over so much time with so much effort and with which cultivated your huge audience, you've become absent. The guy who is all about the community hasn't participated in a discussion in your blog comments in quite some time. You just can't have it both ways. Additionally, you lived so deep in the weeds of SO user behaviors and in the intricate meta details of how the site works that you lost sight of the bigger picture. You became so meta that the metas had metas that had metas. The first incarnation of the podcast jumped the shark and was killed because of this yet the second incarnation focused on this almost exclusively. The vast majority of SO users have no interest in this level of meta; I'm not even sure who the podcast audience was.

A company CTO isn't just a technologist; it's a business person. Someone who makes decisions - business decisions - based not just on their own techie insular opinions but on many factors. You're not a business person and that's not a criticism. You're a developer, an evangelist, a vision guy. Stackoverflow is a business, not a pulpit for spreading your views on how people should behave online.

I'm thankful for what you've created; I benefit from it often. But its become tiresome to hear you preach, and SO, at this point in it's development, shouldn't have the voice of a preacher.

Regards,
Not really. IIRC, they pay all of the "Payment Processor" money beyond their costs back to the carriers (though I'm not sure what happens with WiFi-only devices). I suspect, but can't prove that they're acting out of ecosystem concerns like uniformity and conversion rates. Even now, the enforcement is pretty lax. I've been looking at some random apps and it surprised me how many asked for off-market donations and the like. Perhaps donations that don't unlock features fall under the same exception that permits third-party payment for physical goods and digital goods [i.e. music or ebooks] (what I've thought of as the Amazon exception).
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The last graph of #6 is great.

I hate to stray into politics but my scary ideas revolve around public policy and the various actions people undertake in the public sphere that affect it. More specifically: Is it possible, by providing better tools for publishing and accessing information, to substantially improve public policy debates? Can we reduce the very large rewards for dishonesty and the use of disinformation?

This is the crux of the problem with our current political system, I think. It's not campaign finance, it's not religion, it's not disagreements about economics, foreign policy, security vs liberty (a lovely false dichotomy) or what have you. It is simply the fact that lies win and truth loses. Or, if that statement is not necessarily true, it is true in the current practice.

So, if you buy my premise, how can technology help? Isn't it a problem of human nature? You can't force people to be honest. You also can't force people to learn how to recognize dishonesty in spheres where they have not much competence. You can't impose good sense or decency.

But human nature is varied, and so maybe the seeming ascendancy of its more unfortunate aspects is situational. Maybe by improving the context and presentation of information they can be mitigated. Maybe technology can be used to recognize and reward honesty and to point out and discourage dishonesty. It hurts to think about, doesn't it? It does for me, because it is so hard, and that's what I took from pg essay. Granted, I may not be talking about problems to solve which would make you the next Google.

As an aside, I think that the utility of greater transparency of public actions (governmental or corporate) is already well-understood by many and much work is already being done in this direction so I am leaving out. But that doesn't mean there isn't room for new solutions there, as well.
"GMail is slow because Google can't afford to spend a lot on it. But people will pay for this. I'd have no problem paying $50 a month."

Ok. Number of Paul Grahams in the world times $600/year = ?

Most people on the web are ridiculously stingy. "I would pay for this" is a terrible way to think for an entrepreneur. Believing that what we think represents the masses is a rookie mistake.
Not sure there is confusion at work. Legal non-citizen immigrants cannot vote in national elections.

And usually not in local ones, either, according to the US Customs & Immigration Service: "There are very few jurisdictions where a non-U.S. citizen may vote in a local election."

-- Wife of a green card holder
Interesting point. Sometimes I find myself wanting to keep the app, but drop the intent. Usually that is to shorten a list, but not always. I'd love to see low-level intent-blocking (as well as low-level, fine-grained permissions blocking, but that's a whole other story).
I wonder if it bothered pg that two consecutive paragraphs in the Tactics section started with "Empirically,".

I wouldn't let that slide, because it triggers pattern matching not relevant to the subject at hand.
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So if I wanted to do PixActing like I wanted to breathe, my five year plan would be a) get VC funded for anything, b) achieve a modestly successful exit, and then c) recruit one similarly situated person and just shake the money tree. Without making disparaging comments about identifiable businesses, it is not a controversial observation that proven entrepreneurs with existing networks have vastly superior access to capital compared to first-time entrepreneurs with no network, independent of idea quality, target market, or execution ability.

$40 million is not a number that is unachievable in 2012. The password is just a bit different than for $200k, $700k, or $5 million.
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That may be it. However, it's not completely clear.

>Steve Jobs has shown us what's possible. That helps would-be successors both directly, as Roger Bannister did, by showing how much better you can do than people did before, and indirectly, as Augustus did, by lodging the idea in users' minds that a single person could unroll the future for them.

We've got Banister, who lead, and Augustus who followed (I mean in succession - he was still a leader), and ... well, it's a little confused but I guess you're right.
"Can't exchange email address for free content" Really? People are complaining about this? Also 1/3 of sites being in Flash is hilarious and true. Overall, I think the premise is flawed. People at SXSW aren't going to be trying to exchange their email address for free content when they hear a new band. They will probably fire up their Soundcloud/Twitter/Facebook app and follow them or like them.
If their country's law enforcement and legal bodies are being so drastically corrupted by a foreign country, that would seem like one of the most important legal issues around.
Is the #kony2012 campaign a scam, or just misleading?
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I'd be extremely curious to see this story of a suddenly sentient android being tested re-written by a gender studies academic. But not just once, I'd like to see it re-written from various historic gender perspectives.

Because I can't really judge the dynamic without something to compare it against.
I question your original assertion that these two guys deserve success because they are great brands and can attract PR.

Their job was to grow Loopt and make money. They failed to do that. So either they're not as brilliant as you say or that stuff isn't as important as you make it out to be. Result matter. Whether you're a great brand shouldn't.
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Would you consider open-sourcing the code and let the community work on it?