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I thought the conspiracy was a V.P. bid with Romney. I'm not sure if that's more or less made-up than the Rand Paul thing though.
I do appreciate what Copycopter has done by identifying the right business that can make it available as an open source product.

There is lot of news about SAAS businesses going under recently and this is definitely not a good trend.

One reason is they are under pressure to provide some kind of return to VCs even if it is by selling off the businesses. The merits of taking money or not is a different discussion altogether.

Why wouldn't these 'startups' try to tighten up the belt, build a profitable business by figuring out premium services and actually RUN these services profitably?
This particularly makes sense for SaaS offerings that are being discontinued. If your product is only available as a service then it is particularly painful when it disappears for those who depend on it. From a business standpoint, open-sourcing is a good way to maintain goodwill and shift the onus of administering the service to those who consume it without leaving them out to dry. All your consumers will have to make a decision on whether the cost of running their own service is worth it, which is a much healthier situation than a bunch of irate customers left with no recourse.
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Agreed. Always keep SRP in mind. In effect, this is IoC for views. Having a separate manager to manage views and their lifetimes is very useful. Need a popup dialog view? Manager handles it. Views have prerequisite views (like sign in, or loading)? Manager handles it.
A colleague of mine is developping a Cython (and OpenMP) based sift wrapper. It's available here: https://github.com/kif/imageAlignment

It's already used for alignment of X-ray images.
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If the value isn't there, then tightening the belt is just a cop-out. Even if the service could stagnate with a steady trickle of profit, it's not worth it to the founders who have their eyes on a bigger prize. The consumers who do derive considerable value are better served by an open-source implementation that can be iterated upon and developed further anyways.
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I don't know what Reddit sold for, but while Loopt's $40M was far down from its earlier $500M, it's still a hell of a lot more than the ~$300k valuation it would have had when YC invested in it.
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The NSA is relatively careful not to do blanket spying on US citizens, at least not directly, outside of specific legally approved programs (the NSLs, combatants, those engaged in communications with a foreign power, etc.). I agree the NSA and military/intelligence overreaches, but the people within NSA do make some effort to obey the law. The right place to change this is with the legislature (and judiciary) -- if there were stronger laws against domestic spying, the NSA would follow them.

It's also quite reasonable (and I'd say honorable) to not work for them, if you think either they're doing something immoral, or it would negatively affect you. I support a lot of the NSA's mission (cyber defense for the US and USG, specific international activity against enemies of the US), but certainly would like to see greater privacy protections in the US, and to protect private citizens (vs. governments) globally.
Man this guy's got a lot of nice toys. What are the gaps in pixels for? Circuity? Or does it have something to do with the amount of light that needs to be transmitted vs. horizontal/vertical resolution of the eye to represent a square pixel?
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Agreed! (to the universe:) Please make it stop.
Never saw so much jealousy/flaming targeting one person here on HN. I got to say I'm a little disappointed as member of this community.

I'm pretty sure Google didn't hired him just for his pretty eyes or the 'cool' factor. Specially when 99% of these comments don't know jack of what they are saying.
Looks like their database couldn't handle the traffic of a non-social network...

The webpage at http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2009/09/07/graphs-in-the-da... might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Googlecache:

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Anyone else increasingly disappointed at the lack of instant demos' on Github pages?
Marco has implied that he makes a "six figure income" from it (on the Planet Money podcast) but has never given more details than that that I'm aware of.

My reading of a lot of the commercial Android developer pieces is not that it's impossible to make money on Android, just that where you have limited resources it tends to be the case that they can more profitably be utilised on iOS work. The issue for someone like Marco where it's just him is is less can you make money in Android (with or without ads, that's kind of secondary), more is working on an Android version going to bring him more money than putting that same effort into keeping Instapaper close to the top of the iOS pile.

Obviously if you're a company with several programmers and you're happy with that model then so long as the cost of building an Android version is less than money it brings in, it makes sense because you can just bring in someone else to do it without detracting from your other work. If you're a one man band (or similarly small outfit) with no interest in taking on and managing more people it might not.
As a one man shop he possibly just can't afford to support Android. First porting your existing Obj-C code to Java is a lot of work and then supporting all the android screen resolutions out there would mean he couldn't provide updates to the existing iOS apps.
Looks great. The iPad screen really has jumped directly from doodoo to voodoo.

It would be cool to have the e-ink Kindle on that comparison there, too:

http://www.e-ink-info.com/ipad-slcd-vs-kindle-e-ink-close
Specifying the latest SHA as part of the merge would solve the trust problem. As other people have mentioned, allowing a final "review and fixup this patch" step before merging would also be useful for some workflows; this is what happens when you merge on the command line.

That leaves another major problem for us (the XS developers) which is that we actively encourage all development discussion and code review to be done on the mailing list where everyone involved sees it.

With GH pull requests this discussion gets fragmented into separate threads on the various pull requests.

Further, in my workflow, pulling in new changes to be committed into a pull request makes that pull request a new (version of) the original. See for example how Linux patches are discussed; you post an initial version, it gets discussed, you rework it, post a v2, and so on. At each point in time it is clear what exactly is being discussed.

Personally I have some other philosophical issues with GH that might be fun to discuss, get in touch by email if you're interested.
In terms of Instapaper's sharing functionality the bit I really like is it's ability to produce an Instapaper formatted stream of articles linked to by people you follow on Twitter.

Sharing out I'm not so bothered about but a nicer way to consume links shared with you is cool.
It's painful to see that some people have OpenPandoras, and use them to take reference images to show differences in LCD (and OLED) screen properties.

Me, I just want to hold it. Smell it. Feel it. I'm sure I will too, in another 2 months from now.

(Explanation: the OpenPandora (http://openpandora.org/) is a custom portable QWERTY Linux clamshell ultra-console. Or it was, three years ago when I ordered mine. Still waiting for delivery, it's a very small operation and they've had some hiccups along the way.)
Plus you can always fire up MS Paint and draw stick-boobies/penises and fapping comics for massive lulz among your other 12 year old friends. I don't get the idea that people think porn is hard to access or come by even with the most draconian of locks. Okay, so a kid isn't allowed to use his home computer or watch t.v. (The only way to be sure your kid doesn't watch digital porn at home.) He can find porn at the library/school/friend's house/open wifi as you mention. There is also "nudity" one can find in dictionaries-with-sketches, anatomy books, art books, etc. that kids will nevertheless treat as porn because of the forbidden nature of both.
Good idea. I've added a picture from a Kindle Keyboard (third gen).
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I use it for other things, too :-)
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What if you had written that as the response to the second question. "I understand you are curious, but that is all I will say about it," would have made it clearer and been far less pompous than "no really, trust me."
it always has been click and hold.
I completely agree in that projects/products which have come to the end of their life cycle should opt at the possibility of open sourcing. But it's not always as simple as that. Some times, the feat of open sourcing something might takes considerable time, both from refactoring, and convincing people who need to be convinced that they shouldn't let the product rot.

Also, I've not actually heard of Copycopter before, and I think it's a bit of a stretch to make the causative link between your announcement of shutting down, to also having AOL and Oink following suit. Correlation does not prove causation. (I've not actually heard of copycopter before).

Completely agree on the OS'ing aspect though. To make a point, when IndexTank got bought by LinkedIn, they Open Sourced it. I was then given the opportunity to look through the code, and it was then that I decided to migrate from IndexTank with immediate effect. Even though other parties were picking up the sources, I was able to make this decision will full disclosure. (And move to Solr).
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I'm a white middle class U.S. citizen. The only country's borders that I get nervous crossing are America's. I've gotten harassed quite a few times. I'm at the point where I wonder if I'm on a watch list.

Last time I was in Germany for 3 months before flying back to the U.S. Questions I was asked in an unfriendly, brusque manner:

Why were you gone so long?
Don't you work?
What do you do for a living?
Why would your employer let you be gone so long?
Why did you pay so much for that?

I wish foreigners would stop visiting the U.S. Maybe then we would change our policies.
How is "more beautiful" not better? Instapaper's also one of the main reasons I'm considering an upgrade.
He has the skill to assemble and lead/manage a group of quality engineers & designers. He connects people. People who want to program it, who want to invest in it and users who want to use it. His ideas might not be that great (or better put, fitting) these days but that doesn't make him less useful. He's also a thought leader and someone people look up to. He's a great asset to any company really.

I wish him all the best at Google.
This was interesting because, as an American who has traveled abroad, I was not aware that we make even our closest allies, the British, pay a fee online before entering America. I would love to hear from foreigners on their border experiences.
Domestic spying might allow the agency to co-opt its own supervision.
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Also, I've not actually heard of Copycopter before, and I think it's a bit of a stretch to make the causative link between your announcement of shutting down, to also having AOL and Oink following suit. Correlation does not prove causation. (I've not actually heard of copycopter before).

I think they were trying to joke about the shutdown. I don't think thoughtbot would have been under any illusion that the events were related.
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It might be better than that but it's not as good as the native mail app which doesn't have those issues, is the incumbent application for this sort of thing and is free and installed on all iPhones from the off.

But that's not really my point. My point is that petitioning Apple likely isn't a productive route for them to follow, they need to look at how they address this problem without relying on a third party who are unlikely to accommodate them.

Gmail has mechanisms for allowing access without you having to share you credentials with another organisation so it can be done. I get that it's not their core competence but if this is a market they want to be in, they might need to start expanding their skills base.
A surprising number of lay people have never heard of TED. I am planning a TEDx event and you'd be surprised how many people give me blank stares when I mention TED. It breaks my heart.
How can quadruple the resolution not be better for reading text? People who have compare it to looking at glossy print.
Would there be a way to demonstrate off-axis viewing capability with the different screen technologies using the microscope?
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I don't get it. (1) Why can't HostelWorld do this? (2) Why do they need to? HostelWorld as it was in 2009 was great when I spent a month backpacking in Europe. This app sounds like it'll creep out some people (= attractive women). I got along just fine, you know, actually 'talking' to the people in the various hostels and making plans together. Pub crawls were also a great way to meet people and quickly form friendships. In fact the very idea of using a machine to socialize when you're off adventuring seems very weird to me. My iPhone was used solely to place last minute bookings and to do research (carrying around books is a pain in the ass).
Add Google Earth? it would be awesome!
I've been relatively happy with the IPS panel in the iPad 1 not straining my eyes. My main gripe is that the brightness of the backlight doesn't go low enough -- in a dark room (i.e. in bed with no lights and someone else sleeping nearby), it would be nice to be able to use the iPad with very minimal backlight. E-Ink would require a book light (which is kind of lame). This seems to be one of the places where OLED would be superior.

It's frustrating that IPS LCD, OLED, and E-Ink all have such distinct advantages, so the idea of having a single device with the best screen in all contexts isn't really possible. I assume OLED will eventually be that.
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"Error establishing a database connection". Better find an alternative quick :).
I just unpacked mine. Looks gorgeous.

Although, I can still perceive the individual pixels if I look close enough. This is what I expected, because I often hold the iPad at about the same distance as an iPhone, and the iPad has still lower res (326 vs 264 ppi). It's not yet this "device that hides its technology in plain sight beyond any human capability and therefore appears magical". But it's very, very beautiful anyway.

Here's hoping that Apple will someday produce a 3x display with 396ppi :-D
Pixar also learned from the cartoonists that there's a 'folk' physics which is just as important. For example, when a ball bounces, people expect it to deform a lot more than it actually does, so by portraying it that way it's more believable.
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It's exactly the opposite for me.
When I go there I just told that the database is unavailable ;)

F5 and eventually it worked for me
Yea, I mean even back in my pre-internet youth there was always someone who had somehow gotten a hold of a porno mag or VHS tape from somewhere. The only thing blocking porn on the internet will do is make kids more resourceful in finding ways to work around those blocks...which I guess might be a good thing.

So installing porn filters and locks on your home computer is probably a good thing, not because it will prevent your kids from watching porn, but it will make them to learn more about computers and computer networks :)
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Now that is advice that doesn't scale.
Isn't that called Xenophobia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia
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I would go work there just to try to find out what this vaunted decryption breakthrough is. Do we all have to stop relying on ssh to secure communications, or something?
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I am also puzzled by this, but I live in the UK so I'm not familiar with US law or employment practices.

I can see why government would legislate to protect minimum or baseline employment rights, but why remove the possibility of earning overtime from a particular group of people? Is this law just about ensuring equivalent practices across all states, or was it simply bought by employers to reduce their costs?
The microscope only shows a sharp picture at a specific distance; as soon as you tilt something, most of the picture becomes so blurred that you can't see much anymore. And there's not enough space between the lens and the focus point to really tilt the device much, anyway. Sorry!
Bruce Schneier at this year's RSA conference:

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May I ask is that "six figure income" is per month?
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This is not only good for your customers, but also puts some positive pressure on your competitors. Now they have to compete with an open source tool, so whatever they do, they'll have to provide a service which is at least as good as that. In other words, they'll have to compete more on quality and less on price, which is usually a good thing.
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If you're shutting down due to insolvency, this may not be an option.
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hehe :)

At work we do 500 million + in Mysql, billion(s?) if you count all the tables. But to be fair, you do loose a lot of flexibility and "features" when the tables become this big.
How does legally excluding the possibility of overtime protect people earning minimum/low wages. I'm not familiar with SA or US employment law, but how does this work?
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If it's purely text, it's subjective and perhaps more people will prefer e-ink. I don't mind either myself.

If it's articles with diagrams and colors or magazine layouts, with gloss and shine, nothing beats iPhone 4(s) and iPad 3's retina display.
I think he's not just talking about the dollar value of exits, but the value of the founders.

The founders of Loopt, the Reddits, and Justin.tv have done a lot for the YC program (and for startups in general) going forward; arguably these 3 moderate successes financially for YC but having very involved alumni might be worth more than a huge financial success which didn't stay involved with YC.
Compared to flying somewhere where you need an actually approved visa, like China, ESTA is both conveniant and cheap. Given that until not long ago we Brits needed a visa to go to America, it's a hell of a step up.
Is it only the camera rotation or is Apple switching from BGR to RGB?
Sounds rather pointless to me, but if that is the case, how about moving to two questions: "Have you read all the rules?" "Are you breaking any of them?"

Much quicker.
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>I'm sure they just include the voip servers on that list. That traffic is often provisioned totally separately (outside of your commit, possibly to a separate mac)

But I don't use Comcast's VoIP service. And if they whitelist SIP traffic, well, people will just tunnel piracy over RTP.
Don't worry, it doesn't exactly ring any bells for us Englishmen either.
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It's already happening in some way, lots of people I know refuse to travel to US because of so many horror border stories.

In Europe everything is so much simpler.
If you are inside UE all you need to show is your ID card and your are set.

Why doesn't US do the same thing with european countries at least ?

Same thing for working VISA, we are the good-old-europe for god sake :P not a quarantine zone
It's just the camera rotation.

But it's kind of funny, anyway, since the home button is at the bottom of the screen, so the sub-pixels are arranged top-to-bottom when you hold the iPad with the home button where it should be.
Hawaii isn't too badly populated for being 28 million years old.

Life quickly develops on any new land that appears on Earth. But without Oxygen I'm skeptical that we could accomplish similar on Mars in the near future.