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> 1) Why do you feel it is bigger than the phone market?

I only use my phone for calls, messages (SMS/email), maps and occasionally for Web usage. That's 95% of my phone usage at least. I don't believe my experience is atypical. The phone is ultimately a communication device (and, these days, a camera).

IMHO it's reasonably likely we're heading for a point where the phone will be replaced by a (largely if not completely) nonvisual communication device. Maybe the whole glasses thing will happen (although I'm skeptical that any electronic display can match the latency required to interpose imagery over what you're looking at, which is a problem for augmented reality in general).

Look at it another way: how much do you use your phone versus a tablet (assuming you have one)? For me, it's a factor of 10-20x in favour of the tablet. I know other people vary on this. Some spend all day sending and reading messages. A few even spend all their time on Facebook (or even Twitter) on their phones.

Basically, I just believe tablets will be bigger because rather than being hybrid communication devices like phones they'll encroach on general computing.

I use a tablet for Web browsing, email, books, games, Netflix and photos. I have a Macbook Air. I use it a lot too but if I'm just reading/browsing/consuming, I'll use the iPad in preference to any other device. And that covers a lot of my technology use.

> 2) How much evidence is there for large-scale cannibalization?

There is some evidence [1] but the trend (if it is that) is, at best, emergent.

> 3) Strongly disagree that apps are more important on a tablet than a phone.

Native apps are vastly superior on the iPad to Web apps too. Low power is an issue for tablets too. People use them on sofas, on buses/trains/planes, etc. Battery life matters. The battery life of an iPad dwarfs that of pretty much any other laptop.

Compare native apps to the ghastly hybrid native/Web apps that some put out there (that are essentially a UIWebView with HTML/JS/CSS). They have all been in my experience terrible.

[1]: http://betanews.com/2011/01/12/it-s-official-ipad-sapped-win...
The iPad is unbeatable, unless you think otherwise and in that case an counter example would be convenient.
This is a weird bit of equivocation, and it's kind of clever and fun to think about. But they aren't really different statements plainly spoken.

To say that something is unable to be beaten is intrinsically a claim about the future.
I'm not sure I follow you.

A DVD would still be (inefficient) digital distribution. Why would I pay for that either (in the, "Why would I buy that?" sense, not the "Why wouldn't I steal that?" sense)?
No, no, no, no, no, no. First off, your analogy should be "if there was a digital way to replicate a bottle of grey goose without doing anything to the bottle at the liquor store", but that notwithstanding:

The things that "content creators" make are things from my culture. They are things taken out of society and ideas that everyone contributes to. (e.g. Disney exploiting the public domain, sampling, etc.)

The fact that "content creators" think they can have a monopoly on pieces of culture (effectively) forever is what's wrong, not these ludicrous analogies to stealing physical things.

Copyright was intended to promote the progress of science and useful arts. Making it impossible to remix, adapt, and contribute to the shared culture by locking everything up in infinitely-long copyright periods is doing the exact opposite of what was intended.
"However, while MIT's diode puts out more than twice as much energy in photons as it's fed in electrons, it doesn't violate the conservation of energy because it appears to draw in heat energy from its surroundings instead."

This actually sounds legit. Keep in mind, 69 picowatts is next to nothing, so it's anybody's guess whether this will scale.
I'm speculating because I've never used play. But I have seen threads hung inside hashmap methods, eating 100% cpu when using a HashMap (which is not thread-safe) concurrently.
He typoed, he forgot the s on the end:

http://indriks.com/ios
I believe that tDCS is used with the same head placements as the 10-20 system used for EEG.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-20_system_(EEG)
Sass vs. LESS vs. Stylus: Preprocessor Shootout
Then the question becomes, is there a reason those control characters correspond to those letters? I have a hard time imagining a world where BS is ^Q and VT is ^V and therefore the arrow keys are spread out all over the keyboard.
That's true. Now what do we do about it?

The option that gets the most traction is DC statehood, but understandably, the overwhelming force behind DC statehood is Democrats who want to automatically get another 2 Senators out of the deal. And the whole point of the District of Columbia was to keep the federal government neutral by not putting it in any state.

A more sensible alternative, which has less traction, is to reducing the District to merely encompass the core government buildings and ceding the rest to the state of Maryland, just as the parts of DC south of the Potomac were ceded to Virginia to form Arlington County. If this were done, Maryland would have to agree to it and the 23rd Amendment, which gives DC three electors in the Electoral College, would probably need to be repealed, or else the land surrounding the Capitol, White House, and Supreme Court buildings would have three electors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocessi...

It's an important issue for sure, but it's a tough nut to crack and the notion of statehood means any resolution to the problem will have a direct partisan effect.
This is a much more concise and to-the-point rewording of the original post. Well done.
I'd recommend the opposite. If you're apprehensive about hjkl, force yourself to use it anyway!

" disable arrow keys
nnoremap <Up> <nop>
nnoremap <Down> <nop>
nnoremap <Left> <nop>
nnoremap <Right> <nop>
If that were true, then surely the UK would have been shut down years ago.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but if we don't matter to content creators, I'm baffled as to why they spend so much time bitching about us.
I would imagine there's a lot of long term value created by folding sama and team into the YC ecosystem. I'd be willing to bet that Loopt isn't the last venture Sam's going to be involved in, and when the time comes to start something new YC will likely be part of the conversation.

This is why pg talks about looking at founders before their ideas.
Making a game with your grand kid !? Wow .. all the best on the effort! I would love to know how it turned out ..
Whenever I read a comment like yours I get this feeling that people like you are: A) Either Astroturfing on behalf of content publishers OR B) You are taking a moralistic stance that is completely unrealistic not unlike a grown man chastising another for watching Porn and/or going to a strip club, by preaching about sanctity of love/marriage.

And whenever I read comments like yours, I facepalm. Accusations of astroturfing? Preaching about 'love and marriage' at a strip club? Really? Was there a sale on straw men?

His argument and examples are flimsy, and his sense of entitlement is implicit to the argument because he pirates what he could afford but doesn't feel like paying for. I'm not alone in having pointed out the problems with his argument and the petulant nature of his tone which leads to these conclusions.

I'm only saying that considering the tone of the post, I would never expect to make much money off of this kind of 'potential consumer'. I'm fairly convinced he'll find another excuse to pirate or another demand to make even if I met all of his. He basically admits to pirating 'World of Goo', a DRM free indie game, because 'It is not worth 20 dollars'.

Let me reiterate this a different way - a game that took a team of two indie devs[1] just under a year worth of effort to create, which they released without DRM[2], is not worth the price of a decent dinner to this guy. Nevermind that it will provide several hours of entertainment, it's not worth the price of a few starbucks coffees. But the devs understood that, so they went and had a 'Pay What You Want' sale[3] wherein you could have paid them as little as $0.01. About 17k did. It seems if this guy was allowed to set his own price, he'd be in that demographic, meaning that entire market would have been catered to for a net profit of about $170 dollars.

There are better target demographics than people with his level of entitlement - I won't waste my time. What I learned from their sale is that a periodic sale at a price point around 10 - 25% of standard will result in a lot of sales to people that might not have purchased otherwise. That is who I would try and target.

Also, Valve increased revenue twelvefold with their free to play route because they implemented a system that got people who had already bought the game to continue spending money on it - and the serious fan base already built up around the game ensured that they had people that would. The initial run of people who were willing to pay for the game as it stood was mostly over. They are not really comparable cases, and to try and make such a case apply to all games is a generalization that does not apply.

[1] http://2dboy.com/about.php
[2] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/10/world-of-goo-devs...
[3] http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/world-of-goo-huge-success/
Personally I'm amazed that we still need to create tablets with mobile internet built in them. You won't ever catch me signing up and paying for 2 mobile data plans. Can't we hurry up and get to the point where we pay for one 'pipe' and have all our devices use it?
Looks nice. Do you think lead generation and management is the sole problem of Freelancers? Or are you planning to move into the rest of the freelancing lifecycle?
Well, I would say faster for the same price is better in this case, so the consumer is winning here... But you're right, that's plenty more than we need...
Agree about case lambda (and consequently that I could have chosen a better example).
It's not fallacious; it's not even an argument. It's just a shortcut. It seems hard to make any definitive claim about Apple's future so soon after the loss of Jobs's leadership and influence.
You might be right - perhaps I've just missed this. I won't claim to have read every single thing Peretz has written.

But are you sure the 'bad vibes' around Peretz are due solely to his racism? I figured he'd run TNR into the ground, and I knew he was disliked, but I figured it was solely because the audience for left-wing domestic policy + right-wing foreign policy has been steadily evaporating. I suspected most of his audience had picked a 'side' and jumped for The Nation or something like Commentary, depending on their preferences.

In any case, I have to admit I don't see TNR's reason for being post-Peretz. It'll be interesting to see what Hughes does with it.
That's a pretty bold assumption. Maybe you have already read the political landscape of 10 years in the future, but to say that China already 'owns' Taiwan, especially comparing it to Hong Kong, which is only superficially similar, takes some big cojones. Like, Unbelievably big. I wouldn't make such bold statements without backing them with real facts, because at face value they seem a bit ridiculous.
Sorry for the confusion. We are targeting Ohio 501c3 only. The website has been updated.

Thank you for pointing this out.
A better title might be "new LED cools its surroundings" or "new LED partially powered by lattice vibrations".

It's the cooling effect that's really interesting, not some terminology-abusing claim to >100% efficiency.
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This is why I stopped contracting around 5 years ago. It's too easy to end up with a project where you only get paid $5/hour.

This project sounds like a mess. Since it is a sub-$1000 project, I would just give them their money back and let them know that it's just not working out.

In my experience, it's better to get out of these situations as soon as possible before you waste any more time.

In the future, I would get a list if requirements up-front and give them a quote based on those requirements. If they start making any wacky changes, immediately let them know that you will be charging per-hour (on top of the base quote).
Mine's pavel@lishin.org, but I use catch-alls for most everything. Not so much because I'm scared of people finding it, or even being spammed, but because when I do get spammed - as I did last year - I know exactly at whom to point my finger.
Validation::Class - a Perl Data Modeling Framework
Bootstrap - Do you love it or hate it?
Google chrome shipping with android will be a big difference. Web Browsing is a good chunk of what users use their tablets for.
You present a valid point, but it's covered in the article by this statement:

>This is exactly what the internet did: it took control away from you and gave it to me. If you don't like it, then sit in your basement and create your content for your love of the craft instead of for profit. But if you want to sell it to me, you're doing it my way.

Like it or not, the internet has changed the world (including sales of digital stuff) forever. That is a fact that can not be changed or ignored.

If you are not in content creation (like Porsche), then the stuff you make and sell is not yet affected by the internet, so it doesn't really apply to you (yet).
Depends what your doing... I have JEE6 template project which basically set up with everything configured. This can be nearly as productive as django.
The sad truth about startup life and Silicon Valley is that many people become wealthy not because they created something meaningful with lots of customers or users or revenues, but because they get acquired and let die. This would be all fine if founders did not equate net worth with success and smarts. I admire Companies that get acquired and where the product continue to live on beyond the acquisition like PayPal, Siri, Youtube, Admob etc... That's the proof you created something really meaningful!
I especially enjoyed Mary Midgley's quote: "I wrote no books until I was a good 50, and I'm jolly glad because I didn't know what I thought before then

I wonder how many of these folks were "big thinkers" just without the proper stimulus? Or in other words, did most of them come up with various other ideas throughout their life -- perhaps in various fields -- and it finally just worked out where all the pieces were in place at the right time? Or did these people undergo a personality change in their middle years? I suspect the former. Midgley's and Kroc's stories especially sound like people who were "accumulating" and working out ideas for many, many years before it finally gelled, but it's just a guess.

When the 22-year-old hits it big with some idea we all say something like "Look at that awesome kid! He was born for greatness" but when a 44-year-old does the same thing, we can no longer use the "he's so special it's no wonder he succeeded" rationale. Something else is at work.
Fair point, but I assume the specific property mike was talking about was closer to self-awareness than to the ability to feel pain.
That's pretty awesome. So... how does one convert those records into something you can feed into a client?
Why CS people should go to college - lessons from basketball
Another overly wordy rationalization of an easily satisfied (and risk free) sense of entitlement.

The author's points can be boiled down to a few sentences:

Roman Polanski and Chris Brown are assholes, so I'm entitled to their content.

Big media companies lie to me which is an offense to my vast intellect so I'm entitled to their content as well.

Basically all content producers are on notice that if they deign to displease his majesty the author all their content becomes free. "I can't believe Bon Iver wore a tweed jacket at the Grammys. Your content is mine now bitch!"
While not the original reason I bought it I put an alarming number of conference papers on it to read. It isn't the best, but definitely surpassed the good enough test for me.
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In Which I "Strongly Caution" The TSA To Snort My Taint
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I believe it will co-exist with the iPad as well since it targets two different markets. I simply think another vendor with a slightly better device in that price range could beat amazon at their own game. Slightly better speakers and not using the poorly designed amazon app store would get me to pony up another $200.
> Look at it another way: how much do you use your phone versus a tablet (assuming you have one)?

> If I'm just reading/browsing/consuming, I'll use the iPad in preference to any other device.

To each their own. I don't own a tablet, but used my roommates iPad for a few weeks to see what all the fuss was about. I constantly longed for my laptop, which was far more comfortable to use, faster (in terms of web navigation), larger screen space, etc.

Sure I use a phone less than a laptop, but I absolutely need both.
The only conference I go to with any regularity is defcon. I understand why they don't want nametags, but this article makes me realize that there is much more to it than legal issues. The idea of nametags is prima facie dumb. If everyone had their real name and every alias they ever used listed on their badge, it wouldn't have added anything for me because thats not who they are. When I was looking for the registration desk, I saw a guy in a nerdy tee-shirt in the casino and asked him, I realized that that shirt told me everything I needed to know about him: he was there for defcon. Eventually we found the convention center and chatted through the registration line. Every time I leave defcon, I have a moment on the plane where I think back and realize just how much fun it is to be surrounded by people awesomely enthusiastic about the subject matter of the conference (even the vendors I met were). That's what makes that conference unique and special to me, its why I care to go back (I know there are others with the same attitude, but my line of work doesn't bring me to those).

That's the kind of spirit that makes a conference worthwhile. I hadn't heard of Wisdom 2.0 before this article, but between the article and some poking around on the web, its seems like a lot of people there are using it as an opportunity to sell themselves. Why would someone even go if that their goal? Do they really think they can pitch the pants off of Eric Schiermeyer in such a way nobody else there will, nor can be done over email? If selling something is your goal and you're not there as a vendor or on stage, your presence is probably doing the rest of the conference a disservice. Its a shame that OP had to buck the nametag trend to have the type of experience everyone there should have.
need a code so that we can try.
Good point. One question:

> I'm not sure why FF was used for up.

Did you mean "used for right"?
Give the beta code hackernews a shot.

(Creative, I know.)
Ask HN: Should I launch two months after development began?
This is a relatively broad post - but hopefully I can get a bit of advice.

I recently started tossing the idea for a start-up in the back of my head. Then the front. Then I threw a landing page up and received quite a bit of good response (enough that I'm willing to go forward with it full-time).

Among the responses was an invitation to launch in a little under 2 months at a relatively large conference.

The product (mobile application) is not large by any means, and I think I could finish up a solid MVP in time for the launch. My question is should I commit to a launch with an MVP and a looming deadline before having started developing the product?
Base on the responses others have given and your reaction to them, I'd say there is a bit of defensiveness in there. I don't know your friend personally so take what I say with a grain of salt but smarts (aka the genius) does not make a brilliant entrepreneur. Someone else said he's more of a employee #1 than a founder and I tend to agree base on how you've describe him even if he is the kind of person who refuses to be employee #1 of which there is nothing wrong with that. You can learn A LOT being an early stage employee rather than always having the narrow mindset of having make the leap immediately and doing it yourself.

In regards to why I think he isn't suited as an entrepreneur (at this time; important to note this distinction for now) is because he has reservations and requires someone like you to push him to make the leap. Entrepreneurs are driven to make things happen, not be convinced. That behavior will only make things more difficult if he doesn't have the conviction to try himself now, regardless of what anyone says (good or bad). And there are folks out there that no amount of convincing would they ever change. Not saying your friend is like that but as others have said, it's coming out as a red flag.

In response to another response you made, social proof is not like a letter of recommendation. It's not his professors that will grant him social proof. Social proof is validation from people that matter to the VC's in their social circle.
We've just added the beta code hackernews to let all of you fine ladies and gentlemen in.

Give it a shot -- we're looking forward to your feedback.
> "Each file is encrypted with a user’s private key using industry standard encryption primitives including AES-128 and RSA-4096 encryption.

> Your data is still accessible even if you are outside of your home and your home ISP experiences an outage."

In light of the RSA reference it seems like they encrypt every thing with a user pubkey and a company pubkey. Without the company pubkey there would be no way to access your data when you were not at home.
I'm using the silent ([EDIT: I had this in reverse..] cherry mx brown; non silent is cherry mx blue) DAS keyboard[1]. The "professional" model has the letters on the keys, if you don't want a blank one. They seem to come in both US (wide enter) and UK (tall enter) versions. I personally chose the UK one as that's what I'm used to.

Here[2] is a photo of my keyboard. The coloured keys are sold as WASD/escape keys but I used them for playing Skyrim - the green one on the right is especially handy for gaming as i don't have my fingers on the home row when playing games rather than typing. The blurred circuit board is a development version of the Midifighter 3D[3] as the photo was taken before they were announced.

[1] http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-ultimate-silent/

[2] https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100355674716107842386/alb...

[3] http://www.djtechtools.com/2012/02/27/introducing-the-midi-f...
I didn't advocate using arrow keys, but rather using ijkl. Your suggestion is not mutually exclusive with my own, you can do both. :)

Though I guess the mappings I provided would have to be noremap instead of map.
(obviously personal opinion)

On capability (relative scaling)

Phone: 1
PC: 10
tablet: 5

Portability:
Phone: 10
PC: 1
Tablet: 3 (doesn't fit in my pocket.. main advantage is can use it standing up)

Price-wise, equally-spec'd laptops are pretty on par with tablets cost-wise.
It's dealt with as I noted: others will arise who will agree to most consumers' terms. Netflix & iTunes make video & music so easy to get at such low cost, with walls just high enough that jumping 'em costs more than complying, that most consumers will in fact consent to payment & limitations. Why pirate? there's more to view/hear for a couple hundred bucks a year than I can possibly get thru.

Methinks the real point of the issue is that there is a subculture which is he11-bent on illegal/immoral behavior, and which will go to great lengths to both indulge and justify it. Make albums & movies $0.25 each, available on demand, and they'll still look for a way to watch/listen without paying. No? do you seriously think the author would be satisfied if someone just gave him a shoebox containing all commercial music & movies outright, no strings attached? or would you expect him to nonetheless find something to pursue, contrary to rules, to exercise his intellect & creativity & efforts on?