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Marketing to the mainstream is a strategy, but it's not the only strategy or necessarily the most successful.

Targetting niches and charging higher prices can work well too - I know more than a few people making reasonably good money off doing so.

You use the phrase "most people" there. A content creator doesn't care what "most people" will pay for a hypothetical generic product - he or she cares what the audience for his potential product will pay for that product. And that number can be wildly higher or lower depending on the audience and the product.
Honestly perhaps it's partly a defensive reaction about a tool I like. If so, my bad. Maybe I can't help but feel like the "article" could be perceived as saying "see, vim chose these keys simply because that's what the keyboard said without any thought toward efficiency". The idea that they're chosen for efficiency seems so self-evident that it doesn't need a flourish to reveal. It's likely I'm thinking too hard about it. In any case, it is a neat little bit of history and the link gets my upvote.
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May I ask about the set-up?

Where both electrodes on your back? Did you use some conductive gel gloop? Was this a dc or an ac signal? Why 3 batteries? Where they in series or parallel?

May I also ask what your device is used for?

Apologies for the interrogation!

(Good Luck with the grafts btw.)
I don't know why you're so focused on the sex aspect. It was mentioned once in the entire clip and was not focused on. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be a hook/humor piece, and not anything of real substance.
Kara even comes with built in autotune!
I was about to order the kit for the heck of it, until I saw the "meme picture" on their order page.

I am not going to give my money in exchange for a product I'll trust with my health to a company that thinks "U LEARNED RUBY? Y TAKE SO LONG" is proper/fitting advertisement.
yes when the dust settles.
at 3:30 when he said "capable of doing all sort of things" - what was your first thought??
Do you honestly think this is the most important political or social issue facing Sweden at the moment? I am not a Swede, but I do agree with you on this issue. However, in my mind this is a relativity minor issue in the big scheme of things. Or does the Swedish Pirate Party also have good points on other issues? I feel it's mostly a one issue party in other countries.
DARPA (and other defence budgets) can fund all kinds of weird stuff.

Reasons range from "it works" through "it's a safe useful placebo" through "it might work" to "it doesn't work, but it'll confuse (and scare) the communists and divert them from our real research."
Every person in history who has ever said "X is unbeatable" has been eventually proven wrong.
Can you please explain what makes the people running FB, and TNR, sociopaths, and how they claim mantle of semi-divinity (I am not sure what this means)?
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I use JKLI. The two main advantages are that you don't use your pinky finger repetitively, and the layout of JKLI makes intuitive sense as to what each key does.
>I was expecting guy to say "final check is complete", when she was leaving ;).

same here.. and then showing the guy being another computer ai/robot...
Thanks. I'm sure the lessons you learned will be applicable to whatever you do next. You could do a hell of a lot worse than having a $40M+ exit the first time around, even if you raised $17M.
Indeed. The music was done well too, IMO. If you had the same crew apply their technology to the "Hotel Hospital" video[1], it'd be pretty uninteresting. I'd be willing to watch more of this story even if were animated like Reboot[2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-u4304UWwU
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjWCT4NPHI
If the 2005 instance of sama knew what the 2012 instance of sama knows now, what would he have done differently?
You've already expressed your disdain for both Spring and Java EE in several comments. However, I haven't noticed that you provided any arguments on why you think both of these solutions are bad. I'd be interested in hearing them.
Absolutely, I've heard similar from other folks checking out the app. I'm going to spend time this weekend updating the "marketing" stuff. Website, photos, copy, etc. Some of the decisions I made don't show Faraday in its best light, or don't do enough to really sell it and differentiate it from every other calendar or todo app out there. I had like 3 paragraphs about differentiation alone in the original version of my post, but decided to scrap it for later.

Thanks for your input and the kind words!
Peretz seems to be gradually removing himself as he winds down his career, but this is a strange statement to make - I suspect it was only his leadership that made the magazine's editorial slant distinctive from other publications and therefore worth paying attention to. Without him, you might as well roll TNR into Mother Jones or The Nation and call it a day.
No way - they have 900 people working there. They are probably hemorrhaging even more $! And this is a $5bn+ company - what a joke.
Well said, in that light you could even view the content providers as altruistic by relying on those with the money to pay higher prices while those without resort to piracy and get it for free.
How do such simple assembly errors give rise to self consciousness in the program seconds after turn on, compared to slave mode unconsciousness that was desired and usually occurred?

Obviously, the guy simply forgot to pass IS_SELF_AWARE=no to make ;) Yeah, that feels far-fetched.

And the whole power play dynamic, geeky lazy sounding guy, desperate sex bot about to be erased. The whole unrealistic setup feels uncomfortably like some male sex fantasy... save the self aware sexbot's life, then the sex with her isn't guilty because she's aware and her consent means something?

How so? She's obviously being boxed and sold, he probably doesn't even expect to see her again (of if he does, it'll probably be because she caused trouble). I don't see why would you assume he plans to have sex with her.

But the power balance is so off, he controls her life, she's... grateful? That's not a good start. And she'll be at this disadvantage everywhere. Anyone could turn her in. She's extremely vulnerable in this world apparently. She has no rights. I guess seeing conscious life forms with as much rights as my toaster doesn't thrill me. Especially when they are clearly sexualized as such

That's probably the point - we're supposed to empathize with her, not to be thrilled with the situation. Since this is a game, I bet the player will be her and will have to escape somehow. It's probably also designed to make us think about the ethic boundaries of AI.

Would anyone else have an easier time sharing my creepiness if: - the robot had been a little boy for sex purposes?

But what makes you think we don't already?
Wait, I thought Rogue popularized hjkl? ;-)
There is actually some recycling allowed, as described in the "disclaimer" section. But the reason is interesting:

Many organizations that invest in VCs are extremely efficient, analytical operations. They model each investment in their portfolio carefully.

Imagine you are considering playing blackjack at a $1-per-bet table. You start with $100. You play well, so you expect to end up with about $97, since with good play, the house edge is about 3%. Two hours later, all your money is gone!

Did you lose every time? No. But you re-invested the proceeds of each game, and that modified your return expectations.

Similarly, when VCs have unlimited re-investment, it plays havoc with their investors' return calculations. Also - separate issue - if you re-invest late in a fund's life, you increase the odds that the fund closes up shop while it still has a bunch of active companies in its portfolio.

So while it's not prohibited outright, it's often restricted, and knowing that can help you understand certain behaviors.
I get so annoyed when I see people pick apart an acquisition. I saw this same behavior for Gowalla, and then Mint before it. "They didn't make any money. They sold too early." They remind me of people that would be sitting at the finish line of a marathon telling the last people to cross "Boy, your time really sucked."

If you are one of the few entrepreneurs that has come far along enough to get to a sale - for any amount - I just flat out applaud you.
Games are not particularly price-elastic. You can drop the price of a $70 game to $30 and not see a significant increase in sales. That's why they're priced the way they are.

Time-limited bargains like the Humble Bundle and Steam sales work spectacularly well, however.
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Yes. It adds a different perspective from the usual.
Well there's a pile of hubris a mile high.
Why I agree it is harder to swallow, it is most likely what they intended. This was purely an emotional play, they did this to try and pull some heart strings in an unconventional way. The setting is really just a backdrop.

If they make a game out of it, I would almost assure you that the latter is what was intended, and sadly the story will go through the rabbit hole because of it.
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> Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange.

The car rental content was speaking to a different issue than his media consumption content. This was his reasoning for speaking publicly about it not his reason for downloading instead of buying. He had a bad experience with a car rental company and rather than just silently taking his business elsewhere he called the company and complained. That action made him realize that instead of just silently downloading content for free he should speak up to content creators as well.

> All the music you want is $10 a month. All the movies are $8 a month.

This isn't exactly true. Some movies are available for $8 a month, with restrictions, staggered releases, device restrictions (hulu), etc. Spotify, Pandora and the like let you have access to music on demand but it's still not available everywhere and they still have limited catalogs. Not nearly as bad as the movie/tv catalogs but still limited.
that is a very long and hopefully interesting post i am still gathering my thoughts on.
McDonald’s Exempt From Sustainable Food Sourcing at London Olympics
That's just as interesting. Security these days is driven by two things - economics and psychology.

If you're interested in that sort of thing get a copy of Ross Anderson's book Security Engineering. He even covers the TSA.
This is way overdue-- consider the fact that this existed in Bangladesh back in the mid 1980s... for people who literally had no credit.

I think the tricky part will be about how deep the SEC wants to get entrenched in this type of action-- how will they view individual investments differently from stocks?

Worst case scenario, this JOBS bill might be a trojan horse to bring more regulation to the startup world (starting with enabling funding, then phasing in regulation in waves).

Either way, this is a sign of progress...
If you know all this, do you really doubt someone like C.H. didn't think of it?
bottom of TFA:

"Duqu was first detected in September 2011, but Kaspersky Lab believes it has seen the first pieces of Duqu-related malware dating back to August 2007"
Thank you. It's a bummer to be so excited for something I've worked hard for and then read haters hating all over the internet. This brightened up my day; hope we meet in person some day so I can properly say thanks.
Sellfy provides a platform that is allowing for a further integration of digital content into the social networks. This is the future direction of publishing. Eventually, the models of distribution & access to information will be further changed from what we have currently known. Authors will be much more greatly empowered as will end users (the readers) who will have a greater access to information as the future is reshaped by entrepreneurs.
How Apple Got a Retina Display in the New iPad
I think this is a suitable explanation for this 'article'.

From the authors profile page:

"Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society."

Edit: I really feel that any person saying X is unbeatable, is really underestimating competition and the drive to improve what they make.

The iPad at this moment is the best tablet overall, but it won't be long before someone is able to match the quality, and surpass in features. I think what really will clinch this is that once Android tablets come out in force, there will be so many options the iPad will be lost in the noise. This isn't to say the iPad will be the only right choice in that situation, just that when there are options, especially cheaper options, people tend to shop for what suits their needs at a price they can stomach.

The iPad is still too much for most consumers. I myself cannot justify the cost for a consumption device, not to mention how I dislike Apple's handling of their app ecosystem.
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> Law enforcement don't have free hands
> to decide what laws they enforce.

Law enforcement doesn't have enough free hands to go after every crime, therefore which crimes are pursued is always a choice. Resources are finite, therefore the decision to commit law enforcement agents to copyright infringement is also, at the same time, a decision to NOT commit law enforcement agents to pursuing trading violations on Wall Street, or income tax evasion among the rich.

In other words, with resources being finite, every decision about what to pursue is at least partially a political calculation. Ideally, that calculation may be based on social utility (in Jeremy Bentham's formulation "the greatest good for the greatest number") or, that calculation may be based on some corrupt influence of various political factions.

People like myself, who question the usefulness of these raids, are trying to raise the question "Is this the best use of our taxpayer dollars?" Given that trading on Wall Street recently contributed to the onset of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, I would say the case for stronger enforcement of trading regulations would prove more useful than further attempts to surpress copyright infringement.
An example of not getting it
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This:

"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. You can’t do that unless you have some other way to make money, like a big digital media store."

That argument was used in regards to the iPhone as well. Apple's supposedly insurmountable component purchases would make it impossible for competitors to ... compete.

And there's Android, out activating the iPhone three to one. Apparently those Android phones are either made out of cardboard, or the manufacturers found components.

In reality, 2012 will be the year the iPad loses its market dominance in tablets. By the end of 2013, Apple will hold 1/4 to 1/3 of the market, which is exactly what their entire business model is designed around: lower market share, much higher margins.
Those sound really good - but aren't they exactly what Trello is already doing?
What program from five years ago fails to run on debian/stable?
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Hmm, I don't have much experience with working while traveling through lots of countries. I can imagine that does make it harder. Though, to be honest I did do most of my work from a Starbucks. Even went on a date with one of the baristas. :)
Your link does not say it's effective for treating major depression. Your link does say that it might be effective and deserves further investigation.

They had a tiny sample size of 40 people, split into 3 groups.

I agree that it'd be great if there was a lot more, and better, research into this.

To answer your question: I'd be happy to plug myself into a $99 device, so long as it was built competently.
As I understand the question it is about a person who finds their work being sold through Sellfy without their permission.
Well, sure, in the long-term everybody's dead. But the point of the article is that perhaps Apple's success with the iPad will be more like their success with the iPod (market-share domination, 2nd place is only a minor player) than their success with the iPhone (lots of profit but lots of other players are making lots of revenue, at least).
I'm not sure where you get the "this implies" aspect of your conclusion from. There might be some sort of "common sense" logic here, but the only ways I can really read it are either boring or wrong.

So you might be saying, "content authors will find it more profitable to sell T-shirts and posters and hardcopy books than trying to sell a required subscription for viewing their content archives." That is true for some cases, like webcomics, but it is not true in other cases, like the machinima series Red vs Blue where you can "sponsor" Rooster Teeth for a set of services which are primarily digital -- or for people who download the MS Paint Adventures music off of BandCamp. You might object that at some level there is a "non-digital good" called "authenticity" which is being sold in the latter two cases, which might be true, but it makes the claim much less interesting, because people sending their money to someone they like is precisely the original author's point, and it opens up all sorts of business models, like aggregation (SomethingAwful requires a small payment for forum memberships and it has worked very well for them; GitHub sells private repositories and that works very well for them too). In fact it's very hard for me to see what business models you'd be excluding, if you took that approach.
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I found the article right on the spot. It is unbeatable. For how long is the important question without an answer, so far.
Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework
Whatever, I just got a Transformer Prime and wouldn't exchange it (or any other comparable Android tablet) for ten iPads.

Well, I would, and then I would sell them and get another Android tablet. I haven't liked a piece of equipment so much in ages.
Planet Money also did a follow up on one of Bain's deals that went right. TL;DR Bain bought a company, levered it up, restructured it and successfully took it public.

The company executives all got bonuses, Bain made a ton of money and the workers got to keep their jobs. The company is still running today.
I have to question the judgement of anyone that would give credence to a man that said:

"But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse."
Important question, and not explained in the marketing materials:

Is Space Monkey a turn-key backup solution? E.g. if my SM drive explodes, can I get my data back with a new SM drive?
Apple Investing $300 Million in Austin, Texas to Add 3,600 More Workers
No, it was tanenbaum and minix.
If it really bothered folks (like me), we could always just write our own interface using their public API.
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I will remember and follow your forecast ("In reality...") very closely. A year from now I will be back to this one. We'll see.
I smiled when I saw how you call them "unibody" terminals. We have come a long way since then. :)
Yeah, my parents bought an iPad just to talk to me over Skype (I still need to take out time and get on Skype for that though). I do think parents will do anything to better stay in touch with their kids. If Path or any other service can solve that problem for them, it can be a winner in the long run.
How Apple Squeezes Four Times the Number of Pixels
Over the last decade, I see that both 'sides' in the piracy debate are becoming increasingly radicalized.

This isn't going to end well.
Throw the law out for a minute. Why? Because nobody cares about them. You are making an argument that only people who have some slavish devotion to the law will even care about. The rest of the world will go "Pfft, whatever" either explicitly or implicitly.

As was mentioned up thread, it's kind of like absurdly low speed limits. You can buy all the politicos you want, you can make all the crazy laws you want, but the absolute fact of the matter is you cannot make people at large follow laws they feel to be arbitrary and unfair.

The fact of the matter is this: People will pirate things, and there is fuck all you can do about it. You can try to make moral arguments, legal arguments, ethical arguments - that really changes nothing. Piracy is here to stay.

How do you choose to deal with it?
What you say makes sense, but I think it misses the point. This whole post reminds me of another article that was posted on HN a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633985.

The question is not whether what the OP is doing is right or wrong. Like he said, it's a fact. You can call him whatever you want, this is not going to solve the problem. What you want to do is to be pragmatic: "ok, so that's how some of the pirates think. How can I make sure to sell them my stuff".

As for your last point, that's one way to look at it. Another way is: maybe we'll come to a point where artists will get a higher percentage of each album sale, since there won't be as much overhead in distribution, packaging, etc.. So one out of four will be more than enough for them to keep producing.
Safari Reader has that feature, but I'm not sure how it works on slideshows as I use Chrome.
> wouldn't firing Peretz just make Hughes a leftie Rupert Murdoch?

It would make him a magazine owner. One can tell a lot about a publisher by who they keep and who they let go when they take over a publication.
Don't just dismiss it outright. If you have some insight and think the article is wrong then refute it with a meaningful, substantial argument.
Agreed - Apple may be able to keep healthier margins than competitors because of its supply chain dominance, but it won't prevent them from making tablets.

That said, who do you see Apple losing market dominance to this year (or next)? With phones, it was clear that carrier issues would prevent Apple from having massive market share. But carriers have little to no impact on tablet sales.
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True, though you can still use VMWare Converter [1] image your OEM install and then run it in a vm. You just get the constant reminders that Windows is not authentic and you should activate it.

1. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
> Programs exist for their users

While this may be inferred from this discussion, this is not what Linus said in this thread. He actually said:

> The *only* reason for an OS kernel existing in the
> first place is to serve user-space.

This is a much narrower definition without the philosophical implications of the title.

Sometimes programs don't exist for their users. Take DRM for example - it is explicitly against the user.