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Um, on your point about the paper being an opinion piece, and thus not important, I would respectfully suggest that you are wrong. The author is John Ionnadis and he has published a number of meta-analyses demonstrating this problem.
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=JPA+Ioannidi...
Check out all the articles on the first page, he's been working in this area for a long time.

The author of the piece also identifies a massive, massive problem with science. The problem is essentially, tenure is hard to get, and many people want it. Tenure is dependent on highly cited papers in good journals. These journals have a bias toward significant results which pushes scientists to data-dredge looking for any significant result.

His system of pre-registration (which could be done on the ArXiV model, no government required) would allow us to have a much better idea of the things we're trying to study.

My field (psychology, though I suspect the problem is just as bad in other areas) has a massive problem in this area, as a counter-intuitive result gets published in a good journal, while high quality replications which show no significant effects either don't get published or get published in a much lower ranking journal.

This kind of registration becomes even more important when there are commercial interests riding on the outcome of a study, as in clinical trials. This (and the scandals) is presumably why such a system exists for clinical trials.

Finally, I don't see how registering studies and their designs before running the tests creates a centralised approach to science. The research is all planned beforehand (for ethics committees at the very least), so there's no extra work involved. It also increases our trust in results, as the ones which make it through were predicted in advance, while the weird findings can be replicated.

On a personal level, I can see the pressures to hypothesise after the results are known (HARK) and with tenure decisions looming, I can understand why people do it. Its horribly wrong, so this system would at least cut down on that behaviour.

Full disclosure: almost every time I carry out research, the results are opposite to what I expect, so I am a somewhat biased participant in this debate.
My experience with an app in the Productivity category is similar to yours.

The Mac App Store is definitely not a miracle channel on its own, it needs to be complemented by other marketing. What that is depends greatly on the app and the team, I guess (which is another way of saying that I suck at marketing). Some apps like Sparrow seem to be doing consistently well on the MAS thanks to a successful launch hype on tech blogs and social networks, but not everyone can do that.

Btw, your app looks really great at least on the typeli.com site. I think the price is a bit steep, though. For me, 15 USD is too much for an impulse purchase when I have no idea whether I'm actually going to use the app.

If you don't want to lower the price, maybe you could do a half-price launch promo? That seems to be a popular thing (but I have no idea how well it actually works).
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It reminds me of something… Remember the guy who trolled Zed Shaw on GitHub?

GitHub added the ability to block users only after Zed wrote a script that crashed GitHub…

Rachel should do the same to Kickstarter!
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This is one of her responses:
"As you all know I have a rockin' tight ass, a successful project on Kickstarter that you've all funded, and a cyberstalker that goes by the name of FrankSinatraDirtyTalker1915@comcast.net.

I originally met "Frank" back in College, where we dated for a bit. I should point out that he's not an old man, as his username might imply, but rather someone who is simply obsessed with Frank Sinatra and my gorgeous rockin hard ass.

Anyway, when I broke up with him he took it pretty badly. It was our Sophomore year at Rice University and I had just discovered gravity bongs and going down on another girl while blazed out of my gord. As I've admitted, these were confusing albeit fun times for me.

Meanwhile, "Frank" was raised as a Mormon but had recently converted to Scientology. I guess you might say he was experimenting with his own hallucinogenic homoerotic drug. This drug/sex/cult cocktail, combined with my round pulchritudinous derriere, and the sudden shock of losing his ability to play his daily role of dressing up as Dr. Parnassus while gently fondling my perky nipples and supple breasts that he had affectionately named the Merry Mammary Sisters of Nippopolis, and Queens of the Breastiary - led to Frank's complete mental breakdown.

I don't blame Frank for my rockin body, just as I don't blame you for being attracted to my intelligence and funding my project on Kickstarter. However, what I do not like is being stalked. I hope you all do what I do when you see Frank's messages on any thread related to my project. Just lick your index finger, point it at Frank's username and then say, "Ooooooooooooo ICE COLD! Mama thinks you're a BAAAAD BOYYYY! OOOOOO Ice Cold..." then point the same finger back at your left nipple and make a sizzling sound "SSSSSssssssssssss" and sing this little rap

Thank you all again for funding my project on Kickstarter. You're clearly invested in a winner!"

Yeah, I understand kickstarters position fairly well now.
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Damned if they do, damned if they don't. It is not a perfect galaxy.
Haha same here regarding the rock throwers - they should definitely stagger when heavy hit or something.

Technically the port was flawless for me, performance was good on 2.2GHz i7 Macbook Pro / Chrome 18.0.

edit: The unlock full version button didn't work for me (not sure if that's a technical issue or deliberate because it's not implemented yet.)
Seconded.

Took me just under 7 years, but I managed to land my dream job thanks to staying on the radar of the hiring manager after meeting him during my internship at a different organization.
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That's an extraordinary claim, and if untrue, libelous as well. Have you any evidence to present?
If it was me, and Kickstarter were my service, I'd have a hard time not banning someone making those claims, calling out an alleged stalker by name / email address on a public forum, and the language used.

Regardless, we have a user who, relevant or not, has a history of aggravating the entirety of the communities in which she's affiliated. Whether her stories are true or not is perhaps irrelevant, but if you don't want to become a community that is simply engrossed in drama, then you have to ban this person.

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Edit: Removed cross-posted comment from Reddit due to questions of authenticity.

Regardless, I've read enough of Haywire's comments over the years to have believed it, so I will say that remarks saying she obviously didn't write it are perhaps not so obvious.

Either way, I don't mean to impugn her character except to say that wherever she goes, she seems to draw a crowd and incite riotous behavior. If Kickstarter were my service, I'd ban that behavior. If it wasn't necessarily the right thing to do by her, or by the victim, whomever we deem it to be, it is perhaps the right thing to do for the Kickstarter website and community on the whole.

And please consider that aside from those taking vested interest in one side or the other, this banning makes Kickstarter a better place for those who would rather not be wrapped up in needless drama.
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Wow! My only feedback is to explain the 'check all' checkbox. It seems to be floating now, without any explanation. Aside from that minor issue, this is fantastic.

Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks! From your experience what's the ceiling for impulse purchases? I'm thinking $8.99?
ocelotpotpie meant that SMTP servers are designed to reliably queue mail and retransmit. If your mail server goes down, you don't lose mail. The senders will just try again later. Downtime on an SMTP server impacts delivery latency, not reliability.
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Sounds like a fucking idiot. Which doesn't mean she deserves to be harassed. But WTF @ that comment! Who would want to give someone who talks like that any of their money?
You could probably do better creating an app that solves a new problem. People who need notes/reminder apps already have enough of them.

Also, $15 is very steep.
Why is it that people like Rachael always have drama around them?

I know people like this. Everyone is out to get them and people are always doing something to them (oh yeah, the world needs to know about it). I feel like she probably brought this onto herself somehow.

Stalking is serious, if did happen, something needs to be done.
If its true (any direct link ?), it puts the whole conversing part into a different perspective.
Very cool, Munyuki. Maybe it needs a "Translate to Shona" feature :)

I lived in Harare from 1986-90, long before I'd heard the term "Internet". It's really great to see Zimbabweans making their mark on the net.

Best wishes and luck, mate!
We've been using this at work. It's very, very slick. Even things like cross-domain uploads using Iframe transport are handled quite transparently. Massive time saver and quite well documented as well.
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Yet another nice stab at the problem. But every time I look through a component like this, it simply does not work. The corner cases kill you with end user complaints.

No fault of the engineer:
THIS NEEDS TO GET BUILT INTO THE DAMN BROWSER.

Yes. Upload. With an actual progress bar. Built into the app you sit in all day. Imagine that.

Sending messages to a PHP server script so you can have the server tell you how many bytes were sent? Even the dumbest terminals knew how to show a bytes uploaded count with XMODEM in 1977.

Google Music installs a friggin client app to hash and upload your songs. DropBox still can't get drag and drop working and STILL limits files to 150MB if you upload via HTTP.

This is such a basic scenario I simply don't understand why it hasn't been solved. And don't even get me started on the Upload Straight to Amazon S3 via Flash/Silverlight doodads. Nobody can seem to get those working reliably either.
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> Anyone who suggests that science is fundamentally broken must've lived under a rock for the past decades

There are many different fields in science, each of which needs its own rules / conventions. For example, physics is a field with a really long history, where the scientific method has been perfected over the centuries by a number of very smart people doing thousands of experiments. Still, there are errors that take some time to be resolved (the recent neutrino blunder - although it should also be said that it was resolved precisely because physics is such a well-organized field of science).

Other sciences, e.g. medicine, are much younger (the scientific method being formalized only in the last century), mistakes are more costly (people might die), experiments take longer and the effects of new discoveries are not visible immediately (could take a whole generation). E.g. I still wonder how will the prevalence of mobile phones affect the fertility of the people who have been carrying a mobile phone in their pocket (next to ovaries/testicles) for their whole lives, but there is no answer and there won't be one for at least another 20 years.

Only the future generations will be able to assess whether our science is broken or not, and whether we're doing anything to fix it.
Unfortunately, from the sample that I chose, none of them were actually bug reports.
Er, no, my country does not.

And there is a substantial view round the rest of the planet that America is a "massive and totally unaccountable police force" that it "violates people's rights left and right", as discussed here, for one example, when certain web sites get taken down and people who have never stepped foot in the USA suddenly have to be sent there to face American "justice", which Americans them selves seem most uncomfortable with.

Stones, glasshouses and all that.
Congrats! I've been told Zimbabwe has a pretty good education system despite its economic woes. Have to wonder how much talent is being wasted while Bob is in power.
I wonder who has the best pattern-disruption skills in the world?
I don't really see the benefits of this over the existing compiler. The changes sounds like they could be merged into the existing compiler as command line arguments with relative ease.
Without a doubt the proliferation of accelerators means a lot more opportunity for startups. But keeping in mind that these are for-profit enterprises is critical to success.
Wait, what?

Valve's main product is an app store with an ecosystem. Are you suggesting Apple would sell hardware that ships with Valve's steam/steamworks instead of their own platform?
Wow, are US vets that tweaked? I mean, just say a bad thing about them and they will kill you, with out remorse? Blimey, sounds a bit worrying to me. You make them sound like a bunch of well armed psychos living on a hair trigger. Such people roam free in the US? Sounds terrifying.

Or are you doing them a bit of a disservice there?
The author doesn't claim science is fundamentally broken, and i believe his suggestion is a valid one. article . I don't know about other fields, but certainly in my field, neuroscience, there is a lot of work that is being repeated, sometimes unnecessarily, and a big hunt for sensational titles that will get to the top journals. I understand that there's competition among labs, but sometimes this leads to similar studies being conducted independently, instead of combining forces for a single more in-depth study. That leads to a situation where there are no broad-scale projects (of the level of the human genome project or LHC) being conducted by academics (but private institutions do conduct them). His proposal about a central registration mechanism is not perhaps a panacea, but it's not a bad idea.

This is a real problem that has been getting a lot of attention lately:
http://www.asm.org/index.php/news-room/release032712b.html
Munyukim, I've had an idea similar to this in my head for some time. Your story is impressive, I'd like to speak more with you offline if possible. Can you send me your info? b@bdotwaller.com
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I like CoffeeScript but I see it as a temporary language providing cool syntax features on top of Javascript.

no offense but IMHO, we should focus on releasing the next Javascript and make it possible instead of writing better CoffeeScript compilers.
One feature that would be helpful is support for the Google Closure Compiler's "Advanced Mode" in the generated javascript (coffeescript right now stumbles with the property renaming, especially when destructuring is used) I wish I could run this powerful "whole program optimizer" against my coffeescript code.
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I imagine it goes like this:

1) attacker guesses your password or obtains it via phising.

2) attacker changes password, starts sending spam

3) google locks account

When you have arrived at 2), you have already lost the account for good, and 3) is only for damage control.

You should know that Google has no way to verify whether your account has been hacked, or whether you yourself are a spammer; therefore the best thing for them to do is just to lock the account.
Also, you need an obvious spot on typeli.com that states exactly what your app does and who it is for, perhaps what particular problem it is the answer to. It was not obvious to me.
Arguably, there is already an incentive for airports to opt out of using the TSA: doing so allows them to provide better customer service which is a competitive advantage. In theory airports are not required to use the TSA - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/airports-with-new-law-a...
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Except for the fact that she should absolutely _not_ have engaged and/or acknowledged the stalker, I don't see a problem at all with the formulations/rhetoric in this response. She kept the vocabulary clean[1], and the content should not bother any grown-up at all.

I don't know the demographic of her project, but if this connects with them, the wording of this seems perfectly okay to me.

[1]: I guess that depends on opinion. YMMV
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It's not what she was. It's what she did.

"Banned from Kickstarter for violating the terms of service."

There, I fixed it.
I used to wonder about that sort of thing too.

About 6 or 7 years ago, I used to take lunch break in a nice grassy, woody area where no one else really went which was right under a take off area of Heathrow airport in the UK. Apart from the fact that it was a really nice place to sit and eat lunch, I loved the place because it felt like you could almost touch the planes they were so close. And it did occur to me how easy it would have been to aim a small missile, or something, at the plane of your choice with out any interference.

Of course, I presume that it's not that simple, other wise either it would have been done, or the terror threat is hugely exaggerated...
Huge xkcd/386 moment here, you're giving Icefrog way too little credit for he's accomplished. While guinsoo was a total legend, it was not untill Icefrog did this wc3 mod really reach international acclaim. I'm really surprised you mention you were involved in the scene, as you seem a bit clueless. There is lots more you can read about it online, like http://www.gosugamers.net/dota/thread/802775-a-history-of-do...
Clickable

http://www.typeli.com

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typeli/id503079958?ls=1&m...
Dear Esther was funded by the Indie Fund. One of the founders of the Indie Fund is Jonathan Blow.

http://indie-fund.com/about/
or a config file sitting somewhere.
Nice summary on the history of Raspberry Pi
And loved the fact that they use scratch to demo it :-)

Maybe this is closer to the OLPC original goal??
It seems not to work on Linux.
For example, Lisp, Scheme, Ada, Modula-3, Delphi, D, Go, Oberon don't have compiler implementations that produce object files compatible across vendors.

Usually you are only able to link to libraries compiled with the same compiler. The same way as it happens to C++.
I think they just assumed that people would run the database in clusters, not single instances.

If you've done enough research to choose a relatively off-the-beaten-path DBMS such as MongoDB, the assumption is that you've carefully weighed the tradeoffs made by the various alternatives in the space, and learned the best practices for deploying the one you chose to use.
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What if BitTorrent was invented before the phonograph?
Ok, there you have a point, thanks to the bytecode as ABI.

I forgot about that, as I was thinking about compilation directly to native code, as I wrote my comment.
I'll edit it in the post. What's the syntax for links?
Would you consider changing the font of the headers on your website? They look really weird on my iPad--like half the letters bold weird. I tried sending you an email of what I'm seeing, but the contact button didn't work on iPad either. Also, when I zoom in, the web page momentarily covers itself with the background wood.

Congratulations on your success so far!
Ask HN: How does a developer with a prototype find a marketing person?
This came up in a conversation last night -- it's not about me (I'm not a developer with a prototype). These two guys were talking about a prototype they've developed and how they're going to refine it next, then launch it, etc., and how the sky's the limit.

I asked them how people would find out about it and their answer was an obstructive mess, a mix of "if we build it, they will come" and "twitter/facebook/appstore will take care of it." Some of the people without startup experience bought that; those of us with it kind of snorted. So finally, one of the two guys asked how to find a marketing person.

None of us had a clue. So, HN, what do you do?
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Ask HN: Dealing with pre-launch competitors
Our startup is in semi-stealthy feedback mode, getting some tricky technology right. We are/were about to go live. A short time ago we discovered the launch of a competitor (would-be competitor, until we are both public). The competitor is very well funded, has mass market buzz, is well executed, well connected and has a much larger team. While not 100% identical, they are still a huge kick in the groin. We are not well funded, at a geographic disadvantage and have a small team. After the initial blind panic, I have been thinking about the options, and thought I would reach out for wider opinion. I have boiled it down to:

(1) Keep going, attempt to compete being the obvious underdog with many operational and financial disadvantages
(2) Pivot and focus down on carving a niche market with less mainstream appeal (get out of the way) using existing code, providing a niche with a better value proposition.
(3) Rethink the vision to make use of existing work in a totally different way
(4) Give up, move on (over my dead body!)

Any similar experience? How did you deal with it? Was the outcome successful?
I'm leaning towards (2)
Thanks, (long time lurker, first poster) Fossley.
How hard would it be to use the FTP protocol for uploads? A couple of browsers have support native... I'll look into that.

Edit: yeah, could probably be done with a java applet, possibly hidden. Not sure if it would get all the benefits you're looking for, but I do know the FTP protocol gives upload progress (at least).
As owner of > 500 purchased apps on Mac App Store and iOS App Store, and careful observation of buying trends at various price points, I'd say $4.99 is the impulse ceiling.

For iOS apps I am familiar with and use regularly, I have paid as much as $49.99; Mac apps, as much as $299.

This app, to me, in its current incarnation and marketing, looks like $4.99 "launch price" and $9.99 tops once it's finished (it doesn't look finished). There are notably (sorry) better editors for less money.

Writeroom $9.99
iA Writer $8.99 (iOS $0.99)
Byword $9.99 (iOS $2.99)
OmmWriter Dāna II $4.99

Perspective:

Pages $19.99

Given the competition and its marketing, I'd recommend undercutting the other guys by as much as 1/2, and discounting your launch pricing further.

// Disclaimer: utterly speculative opinion, YM will V

EDIT: While researching these, I discovered "Marked", and saw it offers GitHub technical markdown preview. I purchased it for $3.99, because I hadn't spent money on coffee today.