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The idiot proof app is email.

Email is the digital successor to the memorandum, which is turn the apex of a line of written communication mechanisms dating back thousands of years.

A Sumerian boss got his reports via tablet. Phahroh via papyrus. Roosevelt via telegram. Pershing via a rolled up message tied to a bird.

Instead of futzing around with some fragile app which may or may not be designed for what I'm doing, I can send an email to nearly anyone on earth that I need to deal with.
Sergey is nothing more than a hypocrite. Get back to me when Google:

1) Makes its search engine algorithm publicly available.
2) Stops distorting its search results to favor those with Google Plus content.
3) Stops allowing Android apps to be created.
4) Stops releasing proprietary technologies e.g. WebM, WebP.

Then you can talk about how Apple and Facebook are bad for the "open" internet.
It's 2012. We have servers/services on which we can post files/attachments, either encrypted or access-controlled, and email links to those documents.
This was a really great article, both using thermodynamics and inorganic chemistry. If you're interested in more theoretical applications of symmetry (or, in its proper mathematical formalism, group theory) to chemical systems, a good starting point is the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_symmetry. Basically, just by using symmetry considerations, you can determine properties about the spectra, etc of various molecules. If you really want to learn about all the nitty-gritty, involving lots of matrix algebra, quantum mechancs, and the whole shebang, you might be interested in the book "Chemical Applications of Group Theory", by F. Albert Cotton.
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No they don't. The world does not break down a conviently dramatic good-guy bad-guy narrative. It's much more boring.

What the DoJ wants is an easy, flexible statutory framework that will let them shortcut prosecutions in cases like this, where you have a clear bad-actor for whom non-CFAA cases would be complicated and expensive to pursue. Remember, the guy who evaded CFAA prosecution in this article isn't a hero. (Read the whole article for the [strictly white collar] criminality he's accused of, but fair warning: it's boring white collar stuff).

That doesn't make the DoJ right. It probably shouldn't be super easy for them to make complex cases simply by citation to computer terms of service. But it also doesn't automatically signal the intention of every single government entity to take over the "free Internet".

An extremely excellent study of the issues at play in defining "abuse" and "unauthorized access":

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=399740

Strongly recommend reading the whole thing. It covers a giant swath of almost any computer-based legal drama likely to hit HN.
Agreed on your first two. I don't understand either of the second. Native app markets are not necessarily a threat to the open internet... only ones that are locked-down "walled gardens." And WebM and WebP are openly licensed specs.
Why do you say software's an uphill battle? With so much attention on web technologies like YouTube and Facebook in Japan right now and with the economy so sluggish for so long, I would hope that Japan (and Korea) could find it in them to focus more on developing software in their own country.
the beauty of it is that if you don't like Google, it provides interfaces and APIs to extract your data in standard formats. You can export emails, contacts, calendar stuffs, docs, etc.

Facebook allows none of this. Once you're in, you're stuck there.
I disagree. The structure and/or implementation of email is not "causing people to use it sub-optimally".

If you want to manage projects and tasks, there are very good tools available for accomplishing that goal. But don't expect all your clients to start using your management tool because you think it would be "optimal". Email is convenient and easy for them, and they don't have to learn a new system to use it.

If you want to send files to other people, there are already specialized tools for that. Tools that have no size limits, that don't limit file extensions, etc. But don't expect all your clients to start using those tools unless they have a good reason to. Email is convenient and easy for them, and they don't have to learn a new system to send files with it.

There are endless other workflows for email, most of which have a specialized alternative, an "improved" version of the underlying technology. When an individual gets tired of the inadequacies of a certain facet of email, they will find it and start using the alternative. Until that point, they will use email because it is "good enough".

People actually are sub-optimal. I meant to start riding my bike to my new job, the money and health benefits would be optimal. But I'm not optimal, so I'm still taking the train. Until I find a compelling reason to start riding again, I'm going to keep taking the train because it's "good enough". That doesn't mean that the train system needs to be fixed.

Frankly, I think the whole "let's fix email" debate is a complete non-starter, and the bevy of related blog posts popping up for the past two weeks is a whole lot of noise from people who haven't actually thought the complexities of "the problem" through, at all.
I think we see a little of what your talking about with Shapeoko ... awesome idea, execution, community... but the guy hit a scaling hurdle and put maybe a tad too much on himself, but now it is being handled by others, so the whole thing worked out. Other projects will have other experiences, and his situation is unique in most other ways, but it does coincide a little bit with what you're saying.
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I've been wondering how easily a situation could arise in which an underdog could try something like this on Kickstarter and give up, and end up having done nothing but provide free research into market demand that a bigger player with more resources can then take advantage of.
A simple and strait forward one would be PG's using LISP for his website generation software. It was an ideal language for manipulating structured text and let them run rings around the completion even if they had 5x the budget and tried to directly copy them. It was also the type of thing they kept quiet about, just listing the need to LISP programmers on there job pages and that's it.

Google's secret sauce included map reduce running on huge cheap server farms. They where not making financial decisions so if a machine took to long to respond they could skip it and still give you a fast response. They also built a highly redundant and salable infrastructure, but that they where willing to talk about.

Now, these where things that did not make the marketing copy, but where central to their ability to grow and adapt quickly and cheaply. It's also the type of incite that's shows up when you actually sit down and try to design a system and find out what the actual hard parts are and how to deal with them. AKA, what happens if we need to serve 10,000 requests a second now how about 100,000?
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>> “If we could be in some magical jurisdiction that everyone in the world trusted, that would be great,”

Take your servers, move to Iceland.

Uh, no! They have laws protecting personal data.
A billion dollar exit is not the only reason to start a company or work for a startup

That's actually what I got from the editorial. A billion dollars shouldn't be your motivation to bootstrap a startup or look to VCs to turn a hobby project into a fledgling company, because 99.5% of the time you'll be disappointed in your constant stream of failure. There are reasons people start companies. If your reason is to get bought out for a billion, you might want to rethink your goals.

A billion dollars can happen, and you might want to look forward to it, but in the mean time you'll need to figure out how to get your first 10 customers to fork over some money so you can pay your webhost or landlord in order to fight another month.
But in the case with Google, it was the idea that made them famous (i.e. the PageRank algorithm). The implementation is trivial -- it was taught in the Linear Algebra classes I TA'd for.
When I first scanned that article and saw Ice XI, I thought, oh no, is there an Ice IX?
Great idea. Consider making the notification reminders more flexible. So that the person can enter the weeks, days, hours, min themselves.
You are screwed then, because it's indexable by both Facebook and Microsoft(Bing), they can abuse your data the same way Google or <insert any other company> here. You get zero security, zero privacy compared to posting this on a public blog and Facebook gets monopoly over your data, which can open it up for even more abuses.
3) Are there redundancies in logic, that over complicate a simple idea.

4) Are they using "common" best practices while developing the code?

Depending on the framework, the answers to these questions are often the same.
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CATV & HSI are services that operate on the same coaxial connection. That doesn't mean they are the same thing. You do not need CATV to get HSI or HSI to get CATV. They are independent of each other and Comcast has provisioned their network as such.
There are stupid users. That is a fact.

Your mantra is useful to try and make an idiot-proof application (and God knows how essential it is to capture a big market share) but sometimes a technology is a bit complex to use and some users who do not accept these constraints are just not fit to use it.

For example, asymmetrical cryptography is not broken, it is hard to use and understand.
At ROFLCon a couple years back, the Three Wolf Moon meme was described as being started by a guy looking for law books on Amazon, and it said "people who bought xxxx (law books) also bought.... the three wolf moon shirt" ... so he had to buy it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Wolf_Moon
If the 7,000 people do valuable marketing, then pay them for it directly.

Why all this big fuss about "Cutting Off Amazon"?
I would definitely enter my credit card information into that page.
In a way it's a smart way to differentiate customers. Since the pirates also add value to the platform you don't want to lose them, but you also want to extract the money you can from those willing to pay. By demonizing pirates while allowing the pirate channel to exist they are able to do both.
Capturing credit card details? This should be done by the payment processor.
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The credit card stuff is handled by stripe which I thought was a favorite around here. It uses their js API which strips out all cc info before passing it on to the website.

By the way, I love stripe! I've used authorize.net for a decade and it is amazing how slick they'be made charging a credit card.
reading that bug report made me cry. The use of MNG in one session of web browsing would have saved more bandwidth than used by the extra space in the installer. wtf.
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As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, not all cities are created equal. I spent a decade or so in Atlanta (ages 18-28), and I agree that if I were to have kids there I'd almost certainly move out to the suburbs (probably Decatur, certainly not something like Roswell or Alpharetta). Now I live in Seattle, though, and here I'm likely to stay in the city. Everything here feels denser, and there are a number of nice neighborhoods within the city where you can buy a nice (albeit obscenely expensive) home. I hear the schools aren't bad either. I see a lot of families around town made up of people that seem a lot like me. I never saw that in Atlanta.
I think you are confusing the issue. I am not posting the Coca Cola recipe on FB expecting it to be private. But it's still a greater degree of privacy than having it indexed and merged with other info Google may have. Think of saying something about your neighbor to another neighbor vs posting it on a newspaper.

There's no monopoly since I can delete it and eventually FB will have to delete it too (now they hide it instantly). Not so on Google or when snippets are posted over and over again in blog after blog.
Thanks for your kind words. I don't consider myself one of these people. I love reading the content I find through HN and participating in the discussions from time to time. I really don't want to see it die due to the misplaced efforts to prevent the same.
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It is good information. It makes sense to go with Android app, if you are building B2C applications that needs to reach out to large numbers.

What will be interesting to see is the distribution in the B2B space with apps focusing on enterprise segment, SMBs.
That story did seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on the front page, but I've been noticing that in general there has been slower turnover on the front page. I wonder if there has been an algorithm tweak or if it is due to some change in community behavior.
Is only funding art intentional or haven't you seen anything in different categories that you wanted (and were willing to spend $X for)?

I've only funded a CD for my friends' band, but if I wasn't a student (aka, had disposable income), there are quite a few things in the consumer electronics space that I would have loved to pick up.
i dont know anything about court dates, but isn't this what google calendar is for?
I considered that, but in the end I wanted the simplest interface possible. I know that most of us techies want to fiddle with the options, but I think most people would prefer some easy presets. It's definitely something that I can a/b test though.
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For me it was surprising at first that Kickstarter even worked. It pulled out a better part of people that I really didn't hope that it exists on such a level. People are basically paying for stuff without the 100% guarantee that they'll get it, without previous reviews and opinions about those products, and while knowingly being the first batch of users which will collide head-first with all first bugs and issues.

And most importantly, people are doing this all with an open heart, actually being happy to encourage and assist innovation and creation of new products. I would say that kickstarter is one of the coolest and world-changing website (more than a website.. product, idea) of this decade.

Consumer electronics is just one of the areas KS is disrupting. Software and games are another one. But there are basically no limits! I wholeheartedly believe that once KS is popular enough if someone came with a project to send a video camera to the moon (on which you can buy video time to simply rotate it and look around) it would get funded right away.
Netflix used to have friends features in the US too, you could see what they'd watched, and take quizzes where you guessed what movies they liked. It was pretty fun.
I like where your head is at, but most people aren't able to set this configuration up on their own. For something to replace email it all has to "just work."
I would be doubtful that any set-top boxes built-in modem uses the same channels or network as the customer's HSI. I don't think the issue is that Comcast might do two-way digital communication, it's more an issue on how Comcast classifies & regulates it's services.

CDV is an interesting thing & is blurring the lines somewhat. However, I think the fact that they require internally separate proprietary hardware that accesses their private VOIP network w/ QoS to avoid interfering with the customer's HSI, makes it less shifty vs Streampix which explicitly uses the customer's HSI because it must if it's to work on a phone or Xbox.
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People are upset that the information is being sent to your servers.
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Why court dates and not doctor's appointments or "remember to buy milk" or whatever?
I can't believe this is getting so many upvotes. As an active angel I get emailed about 4 of these a day. Deletia, unfortunately.
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So?

I make you sign an NDA to hear my TOTALLY REVOLUTIONARY idea. You sign it. And then I tell you, we're going to do [incredibly obvious thing related to your current business].

If you then go and do it (like I said, it was obvious) I sue you for taking my idea.

Oops?
Quality is a "measure". So regardless you still have to have a basic understanding of what your considering "quality" and what isn't "quality" to you. Otherwise you just shooting in the dark.

Make sure to read my post thoroughly, even I know what the OP is asking is impossible without a basic understanding of what to measure by. I'm just giving them ideas of what to research themselves to help apply some ideas for their "quality" measure.

Also if you can't code a problem without requiring redundancies in your logic, then you might be looking at the problem wrong. This is not absolute, but there are better ways at problem solving in most cases.

edit: grammar
Agreed. Like it is said in Immutable laws of Marketing book:

If you can't be first with an idea, be the first in a category. If not create the category and be the first in it.
It wasn't really obfuscated. pblk.dm is obviously publikdemand.com's own url shorter.
You're right that providing a solution would be more helpful, but I have none to propose.

I didn't mean to be flippant. I was just noting the difficult position they're in.
That is true, but the OP never states what the framework is. So I'm stating ideas of what to look for. Also when I mention "common" best practices, those are the buzz words people like throw around when describing particular points. It's not hard for someone to pick up buzz words, and google their meaning.
I tried on my iPad, but don't hear anything.
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I must be ahead the curve, or refusing to "grow up". I was born in 1971 which may or may not qualify me for "Gen X" and living in a revitalized urban area is the best thing ever to me.

Of course I have also never learnt to drive despite now being 40. I can NOT thrive in a suburb. It also helps that I found a damn nice area to live.

But honestly I think this owes as much to deliberate urban planning efforts in the 80s/90s to "revitalize downtown" as it does to anything GenY wants. It is now easy and fun to live in the city again, instead of it being a desperate scary place; all the poor people now largely live way the fuck out in the burbs and have nightmare commutes to their shitty city jobs.
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What's the right answer? Because if it's anything other than "nothing" I'd like to hear an example.

The market they address is another way. For example if a competitor is focussed on "premium" customers, it can be hard for them to support bargin-hunters well (or vice versa), because by doing so they lose their existing primary market - and all their expertise is in supporting their current market.
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When it comes to your profession, Japanese culture places significantly more value on making tangible things as compared to the intangible. It is mentioned in passing in the article; the idea is called "monozukuri".

Imagine an old-fashioned craftsman who takes immense pride in working with his hands on something like blades, clockwork or fine jewelry. That sort of mentality is built into their culture.
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Definitely! Why can't I buy $100 worth of stock in a startup along with 1000's of other people?

Some SEC rules or something?

EDIT: Then imagine how motivated those 1000's of others would be to promote a startup they owned a stake in.
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Not sure if that's tongue in cheek or not...

But that was part of the recent JOBS act. You'll be able to do that soon for good or ill.
To clarify, though, the list of legitimate clauses is pretty small, mostly "for cause" means they're firing you because you did something illegal in the course of doing your job. A firing isn't "for cause" because the employee (e.g.) showed up for work late too many times.
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If you squander your lead, yes. If you hang on to it it's worth a lot.

Genuine question - what examples are there outline of large money making businesses online that got there by being the first mover. I can't think of any off the top of my head...
I have the feeling that a significant number of the payers are not aware of the fact that there is a decent chance of the hypothetical product never seeing the daylight. If not, it will almost certainly be delayed.

When one or two of highly publicized projects fold, I expect a good amount of Kickstarter complaints.
No they don't...[w]hat the DoJ wants is an easy, flexible statutory framework that will let them shortcut prosecutions in cases like this,

Tomato, tomahto. The problem is in who decides who is a bad actor.
Because I was talking to a lawyer friend when the idea hit me. And because lawyers have money and are accustomed to spending it.

But you are right. The same idea could be used for anything. I'd probably need to tweak the pricing for remember the milk though. ;)
Sorry if you guys were getting a message saying we were out of contests again. I think there's a bug in the component that creates the matches and I was on the road and couldn't fix it.

I quick reset fixed it, but suspect I missed a lock somewhere in that part of the code :(
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The cc info doesn't get sent to my (or herokus) servers. All I get is a stripe token that I send to stripe. They get the cc info.
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I second this. There are so many hurdles in the way companies treat the software development process that domestic innovation on large scale is highly unlikely. I hold out hope that it can change though.
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