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Totally agree. Big thing for me is that I feel there is value to a physical book, I appreciate that effort was spend to ship it to me and i have something to show for it. There is an expense associated with generating a book (regardless of the medium) however its so much easier to revise and re-release an electronic product...i just don't feel that as a consumer, anyone has done a good enough job of justifying why i should pay more for not getting a physical product to feel like I'm getting a good deal.

The issue could simply be that my brain is broken from years of legacy consumer behavior.
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Fliers do not diminish the point. RMS worked very hard to earn that $1M, and foundations are in the business of finding fliers worth giving bags of money to. Such "here's a million bucks, go do something interesting" people are rare.

Obvious point is 99.9999% of content creators cannot afford to create for free, and cannot attract gratuitous "free money" sufficient to cover basic food/shelter needs (dependents included). Observing that 0.0001% can serves to irritate, not facilitate, the discussion.
Green Dot to Acquire Loopt
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That is something that really sucks with digital good selling with Paypal as the payment gateway. They get my digital goods and then chargebacks or claims a refund. I don't want to get in with irritants, so I refund them but they get the download.
> This a nonsensical assertion supported by the flimsy justification that the marginal cost of a digital good is so low. Well the total costs of production remain quite high,especially considering the cost of marketing.

That could be true but doesn't seem to be. (Though it is possible that due to piracy some capital-intensive virtual/intellectual good are not being made at all.) Note the sort of post scriptum he added at the end:

> Year after year I'm told online file-sharing is decimating sales, everyone is losing money, we have to do something to stop it. I'm not going to try and convince you you're wrong, but I do have a question: [...] If online file-sharing is killing these industries, why would they keep producing more content?

> I've seen people get quite huffy in these parts for lifting a stupid graphic graphic from a website.

I think that's also a consequence of copyright enforcement: "I can't copy anything but when I made something people just copy it?!" sort of thinking. And many people are fine with their work being appropriated without compensation (with credit which is also strictly enforced in the illicit copying world), look at all that GPLv2-, or MIT-, or BSD-licensed software.
General musing out loud:

How about making a "premium" membership for venues? Venues pay a monthly fee ($37/month, whatever) and gain some special advantages. Perhaps they show higher in listings, or get bolded. Or maybe a weekly email of bands which are going to be in the area, as well as any statistics you have about them.

Alternatively, segment out the venues which are updating on a regular basis. Take a portion of that segment and start charging them in some capacity - a flat fee each time they update shows, etc Or make them purchase "credits" in bulk which are then spent on each update.

I think the monthly model is better, since people naturally like the "unlimited updates" that come with a monthly membership, whereas "credits" tend to promote hoarding and may reduce updates.

Another option is customized newsletters via email. I'm thinking a personalized email which shows upcoming live shows in my area. If one of those landed in my inbox weekly I'd probably read it and check out the bands. Once you build a steady open-rate you could start selling that resource to venues (either through advertising or statistics).
The hardware requirements you just described are flea market level, less expensive than the time spent thinking about how expensive they are.
We recently delivered a big integration project using the best of both worlds.

1) Spring Portlet MVC - cause we have to deal with Portlet (don't ask)

2) JAX-RS client-side - Portlet talks to GlassFish via JAX-RS

3) JAX-RS server-side - GlassFish RESTful (this is probably one of the key feature for using JavaEE 6, a simple, straightforward, productive way to create APIs that can return XML or JSON or ATOM or ALL of them easily via annotation). JAX-RS is very similar to Sinatra.

4) JAX-WS client-side - to communicate with 3rd-party systems

5) JAX-WS server-side - to provide services for 3rd-party systems

6) Spring-Data - to reduce writing boilerplate JPA 2.x code (the way Spring Data works is as simple as writing an interface method where the method has the same name to the NamedQuery and Spring will automagically inject bytecode)

7) Spring library to read properties file - no need to write the actual implementation of a class that reads a property file and deal with IO exception abd opening/closing files try-catch-finally. Provide an interface and annotate the interface, set up minimal config and you're done.

8) Apache Derby to test the persistence layer for integration testing

9) Spring Web Test module - this provides HTTP Request/Response mock object so you don't have to construct your own

Other libraries:

10) FlyWay - database migration library that integrates nicely with Spring as well. Flyway is executed when you deploy your EAR/WAR to your App Server container.

11) GSON - Java to JSON object converter written by someone from Google. We send JSON from our Portlet MVC to the front-end that is of a mix between JSP (5-10%) and heavy JS usage.

12) Dozer - Object to Object mapping, very useful if you have to deal with 3rd-party systems that have a subset or superset of your internal/local domain model.

13) Maven - we can build for multiple environment (DEV, UAT, PROD, STAGE, etc), it's easy.

We are quite satisfied with the set-up and I have to say that if you come from Rails background, the only part of the stack that would make you a bit unhappy is the database ORM since ActiveRecord is probably nicer compare to the JPA 2.x/Hibernate/Spring-Data.

We're not using EJB yet but we may use it in the future if we have to use queue via JMS as well. To my knowledge the latest EJB (3.1) helps you a lot to deal with transactional multi-steps operations that include persistence operations and JMS operations on one execution path.

I'd say the code that we have to write is almost as short as Rails when it comes to the business logic part.

Deployment was straight forward: package it up as WAR (or EAR) and deploy it to GlassFish.

The part that we're lacking right now is the front-end. Even though we're not using JS _that_ heavy, we are moving toward that direction and eventually we have to clean it up and start using best-practices (Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and a few other things).
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The "might" there is the thing. I _might_ be interested in his home renovation, his personal preferences in regards to coffee, music and leasing cars or the fact that he's having a kid. I might, _if_ he were my brother-in-law.

From the the Instapaper guy, all I want to know is what he thinks about web/iOS development and running his own business. I get the impression lately that Marco is either out of material on development topics, or just not interested in discussing them.

EDIT:
That said, here's hoping Marco blasts out some awesome changes and makes Instapaper even better, love him or hate him he's an inspiration to one-man shops, and produces some great stuff.
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YC doesn't have any anti-dilution clauses in their terms?

Surprising given their small stakes. All I've seen are the surface features of the YC deals, so I'm not up to speed on the specific terms they get.
My favorite product, in concept, recently has been the wireless Time Capsule (however reviews don't look so great on the Apple site)

If this product could be used for my time machine backups (ideally with a wireless connected to my laptop), and then be sync'd to "the cloud"...i would pay for it in the blink of an eye.
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No. This is GWT :p
Really? I was completely undistracted by the fact that I was watching CG. Obviously I was not fooled into thinking that I was watching live action, but that's not what it means to cross the uncanny valley. The point is that you are able to focus on the emotions and expressions of the character you're watching rather than struggling against an urge to warn the others... to protect the children.
Interface looks nice and the innovation here is deep links into social networks.

Many of us have been selling digital files for a while. I originally came here to post how expensive 5% seemed, but after looking into it, it's not a bad deal at all.

Here's my setup:
http://www.bengarvey.com/2011/04/27/my-e-commerce-stack/

My eproduct ( http://kidsdungeonadventure.com ) sells for $5.99 and I pay a flat $5/month for most of the functionality provided by Sellify. 5% of $5.99 is $0.2995. My break even point between the services is 16.7 sales per month. The other great thing about sellify is that with no other fees, you can safely run it alongside with whatever setup you currently have.

Overall, I am definitely better off with the flat rate, but the appeal of a no-cost plan is pretty enticing to newcomers.

Still, it's way better than Amazon, scribd, or other services I looked into a year ago. Glad to see some more competition in this space.
More specifically, it most likely refers to this discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_frm/thre...

Linus was a kid in 1992, and got scolded by one of the greatest icons of the field. That could still sting 20 years later.
In case anyone is missing what has happened here, this is why people hate on private equity/VC.

As far as I can tell, Loopt wasn't doing very well. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=loopt.com&cmpt=... They had an attempt to revive the company to compete with Groupon last year that many here thought was stupid and died an early death (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2696412)

Michael Moritz (Sequoia partner) is still on the board of Green Dot, now a publicly traded company worth north of a billion dollars. Almost the entire board (http://ir.greendot.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=235286&p=irol-gov...
) is Private Equity/VC guys, they do this kind of inside baseball all the time, it's no sweat off their back to do Moritz a favor.

He convinces Green Dot to acquire Loopt for a huge amount of cash (Green Dot was sitting on $225 million in cash). Sequoia makes a cool $15 million.

Related: the always-informative Planet Money did a special on Private Equity and you can see how Bain Capital got its money back on a company that went bankrupt: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/02/23/147257517/how-mitt...
TL;DR the company they bought acquired another company and raised significant debt- they used that debt to pay back Bain Capital.
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"It also helps that Sequoia is an investor in both Loopt and Green Dot, of course."

That makes more sense now. I was wondering how the talks got started.
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I'm sure they don't. I sell eproducts and haven't had this happen to me yet. Even if it did, I wouldn't care. There are enough honest people out there.
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That was sort of what I was getting at. The obfuscation of the source language may be correlated, but it's not the goal.
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You are right, Lately I've thinking of loopt as holding down sam, let's see whats under his sleeve now.
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> It seems to be unreasonably difficult at the moment to create a simple 2d game that is cross platform and mobile friendly without using Flash.

It really is. The only options you've really got (unless you want to use somebody else's engine in its entirety) are C++ or C# with Mono (OpenTK on OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android; OpenTK or DirectX on Windows).

If this targeted iOS, I would be all over it. (I know there's a port in progress--I look forward to it!) As it is, however, I don't find it terribly useful; if I want to write for Android (I really don't care about the platform) I'd use libgdx.
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Everyone goes through college feeling this way once they finish. Keep going with your university studies, get the highest degree you can or jump to a well-paying job in industry. You have alpha number of hours in the day, and bravo number of topics to study relating to computing. Where alpha is finite, and bravo is infinite(and growing!).

At a job you will focus (even if focusing on say web development, it's still generic focusing in that area); when you are on your off-time you can begin to branch out into further, specialized focus area's learning what you want, exploring what you want.

The possibilities are always endless and the topics, oh they are many: high-performance computing, gaming, graphics, sound, web, application, server, user-interface, user-design, IT Tech, networking, the list goes on and on. Congratulations on graduating; never forget life is what you make it!
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also there is reddit.com/r/tdcs for more info
Prohibition is a non-sequitur analogy. You're not going to get arrested for mere possession of general digital music/videos/books regardless of how acquired.

Yes, a potential customer is talking. He's justifying illegal activity: "if you won't consent to my terms, I'll just take your stuff anyway" - this is not a persuasive argument. I'll justify legal activity: "if you won't consent to my terms, I'll get comparable stuff elsewhere from someone who will" and proceed to get movies via Netflix and music via iTunes with acceptably, if imperfectly, cheap & convenient terms - this is a persuasive argument.
> Try doing the same thing with a consulting company. If I get their advice and dislike it, does that mean I don't have to pay them? Better yet, what if I really like what they have to say but I still think it's too expensive? "I'm only going to implement half of what you told us, so we'll only pay you 50% of your fee."

As a consultant, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the, "Hmm, yeah, you did great work. How about I pay you 75% of what we agreed to?" You typically only see it out of folks who have a very myopic view of the world--those that are sure everybody else is out to screw them. I hate getting those clients. It's a sour relationship from start to finish.
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I am a bit surprised by the negative comments in this thread. I have had the opportunity to work with Chris and he is incredibly humble and smart. Obviously he is taking a big risk with this venture but if nothing else the way he conducts himself makes me want to cheer for him and wish him best of luck in this new venture.
Except what actually happens (Hello, PATRIOT act!) is that all the evidence of harm is secret, and so the Supreme Court refuses to grant standing to any injured party, and so discovery never happens and the evidence can never be brought to light and the harm never proven in court. This story has been repeated over and over since 2002.
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"A $200 per month entertainment habit that is unequivocally fueled by file-sharing."

"unequivocally," huh?
> It’s not hard to see how tDCS could pose some ethical considerations, though.

Only if you're primed by your culture to blanch at transhumanism.

> What if some students can afford tDCS kits, but others can’t?

What if some students can afford college, computers, calculators, tutoring, study guides, etc. but others can't? This is one of the silliest purported ethical issues I've ever seen, but it consistently gets contemplating nods from those pretending to be wise, so long as we're talking about a new, scary technology, and not a mundane, accepted reality.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598728
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browsers via plugin

Avoiding a browser plugin is precisely the reason anyone would ever go with something like this.

As for writing plain old Javascript or CoffeeScript, I'd be all for it in principle, but the game libraries are still a bunch of fairly weak offerings, at least when it comes to general-purpose game middleware. I'm not sure if PlayN is much better feature-wise, but if you're planning to target Android anyways (and hence get your hands dirty with a bunch of Java code), I can definitely see value doing it through PlayN to get a browser version "for free". Doubly so if you've already got a lot of experience and tooling set up for doing games in Java (probably for Android).

Also, PlayN is not exactly unused/untested: Angry Birds for Chrome uses it (http://chrome.angrybirds.com/), and it seems very solid. It's a huge testament to the quality of GWT's compiler that they pretty much cut and pasted JBox2d into PlayN (IIRC they only had to alter a couple of threading-related classes when they brought it in) and it performed on par with the Javascript ports, despite the fact that the port was written exclusively with desktop Java in mind.
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I actually panicked when 'it' was being disassembled. And the smile and 'Thanks' at the end? Unsettling…yet excited and curious about the unknown. I wonder if AI self awareness would actually happen in my life time.
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I was expecting guy to say "final check is complete", when she was leaving ;).
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As an EE, I was pretty sure I could disprove this, with a quick look at conductivities of bone vs muscle. My theory being that most of the electric current would travel through the scalp, and not pass through the skull to the brain.

I found this link, however, which is pretty interesting, that shows conductivities of various tissue types, if anybody is interested. It looks like the skull is not much of an electrical barrier.

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I'd watch that movie. The CG wasn't perfect but it was far from zombie-like. The primary problems were subtle stiffness here and there and a feeling that the words were being lip-synced at certain moments.
So it also explains why so many VC's do not want businesses to bootstrap.
If you're thinking of the "gertboard" that was announced, that's a breakout board that is connected to the Rpi over a SPI line. So it's not turning GPIO lines off the processor into usable connections, it's just an I/O extender. You could be using that exact same board with an Arduino today and bit-bang your SPI commands.
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Yes that is exactly my point - there must be a means for content/IP creators to be paid. The OPs point that content creation is cheap or free is absolutely not true, and is unrelated to the cost of distribution.
I can imagine there are plenty of those types out there, but I was trying to make an analogy of people claiming to pirate because they only like 2 songs off of a 14 track CD. (as in only using 50% of your consulting work, so I'll only pay you 50% of your total)
"My point is simply that someone like mark twain is able to bend otherwise poor grammar to fit a number of ends."

Mark Twain was a master of the English language. We shouldn't confuse his characters' "poor grammar" with his. Huck Finn talks like a redneck because Huck Finn is a redneck. That's not Mark Twain's voice; that's his character's voice.

By contrast, read an essay by Mark Twain. The language and style are markedly different from those of his novels. Sure, there are some allowances for colloquialisms. But those are stylistic choices, not failings to grasp the mechanics of grammar or syntax.

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