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I think it can be and sort of is both right now, yeah. And I'm loving it, but it also makes sense for people to have different expectations from a store than from a project they are backing.

When I give a store money, they owe me a product. When I back a project, they owe me their effort.

So it's a bit weird to me when the language being used is mostly store language rather than funding language. I don't think anybody has purchased a Pebble yet.
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"Nobody would have predicted that in January 2007."

To be fair, plenty of people did. Plenty of people didn't, of course: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2008/10/22/revisiting-the-dumbes...

The fact that so many people couldn't wrap their heads around the iPhone's success is rather shameful. Sure, there's a lot of solid reasons why there was plenty of friction and many hurdles, but at the end of the day money is supreme. Is it shocking that $1400 of guaranteed revenue per phone would ultimately be embraced by the carriers regardless of their reluctance about some aspects of the process?

Ultimately what happened was that so many people fooled themselves into the idea that they understood the market and the industry better than they actually did. More so, they didn't want to admit that this development coming out of left field represented a superior understanding their their own knowledge, which was too much for their egos.
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There is an infinite amount of work in science because the universe is big and we don’t really understand it and we probably never will.

There may be an infinite amount of work in science, but there is a finite (and very unevenly distributed) number of grants. Your conclusion rings true to me.
The last line in that article is a killer

In his pitch to potential new hires, he tells them to check Pebble’s Kickstarter page at the beginning of the phone interview to see a live tally of investments.

“After we stopped talking,” he said, “I told them to refresh.”

When I viewed kickstarter page it went from 28,369 to 28,493 backers in less than 30 minutes with atleast $20K added in those 30 minutes. This is incredible.

edit: I think it was probably more money - $50K in 30 min. Did not note the old $ number - just an estimate
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WindowsPhone have all the advantage you mentioned except the apps part. And they're also more affordable.
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CloudFlare also provides basic analytics, DNS, url rewrite rules, and a fairly decent UI.

The idea of rebuilding it for $250k is ludicrous.
Is that analogy necessarily parallel to networking? The radio station communicates with an entire city. The traffic jam only affects traffic within X miles of the bottle neck. I can imagine a car radio that automatically stitches to a local radio station that only broadcasts traffic jams that are relevant to cars in that area, eliminating the need for a larger centralized station.
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A16Z invested in PicPlz, which was a competitor to Instagram, after the initial investment in Instagram (which was then called Burbn and was doing something else). So, after Burbn pivoted to Instagram, A16Z had to choose between 2 competing products, and they chose PicPlz for further investments. Not an inspired choice, but they still took a good chunk of money from Instagram's $1B acquisition.
As someone who lives in Berlin I appreciate this reference, but is the point of this comment "speak up before all programming is done by smart thirdworlders"?

I'm not sure I get your point.
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"Oracle lawyers have found exactly nine lines of code that are the same as Sun's code".
Can't they publish the source code for those as well? I'm sure many of the original developers of early games that are now abandonware still have a backup of the source code lying around.
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You can do it based on time. Yes it there will still be some incentive to be faster, but the incentive will not be that great. And you can remove all incentive to be faster by simply increasing your buy price by a penny. This means that all the incentive for speed is less than one penny per stock.

This would result in much smaller incentive for speed and less money and energy spent on being faster, and more fair markets, etc.
This was fun! (I only did the first two paragraphs.)
No, they don't have to do this for anyone who's referer is Google. They could do it for just the Googlebot.
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If you're paying AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint per GB, and you're getting 250GB/month from Comcast on your home connection, yeah, you're going to want your iPhone to intelligently switch to the "cheapest" connection available at the time of data usage (if roaming between connections is possible).
Does software project got funded by Kickstarter? It seems most projects are hardware related (physical).
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I would really be surprised if this didn't affect the IPO. Why would people put money into a business with corporate governance this poor?
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I love that their brand's credibility enables projects to launch that wouldn't have been able to otherwise. But, once a project far exceeds its launch goal Kickstarter becomes a store that charges 5%.
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I was really hoping he'd detail what exactly he'd put together on the technical side: what was bought off the shelf, what did he create himself etc... Hopefully more details will show up online. It's a very impressive project
People need to stop thinking that (m)any companies do anything for float reasons.

First, as the other replier states, in the Kickstarter case, Amazon is not holding the funds so there is no float.

But let's pretend they do charge your card. And let's further pretend that they hold your funds for 365 days (in actuality they hold it for a few weeks or months). And let's further pretend that they get 1% on that money (money market rates are closer to 0.5%). That would be a rounding error of $1 million.
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That's not how you should think about it. A programmer's salary is say 50k. If this IDE makes you 5% more productive, then it is worth paying $200 per MONTH. If anything, this is vastly under-priced.
You get the thing you want, which you wouldn't get otherwise. It's also a way for people to put their money where their mouths are: instead of bullshitting and saying, "Yeah, I'd love X, I'd pay for X" on some forum, if you want X and someone has it on kickstarter, you can prove that you want it.

Plus, sometimes Kickstarted projects end up in all kinds of places; for example, I got a CustomSLR strap: http://www.customslr.com , which is exactly as good as I'd hoped, and the product / company was originally funded through Kickstarter.
that makes the IRR a crazy 1.33x10^3175% [1]

funny that they would only need to let their investment ride into equivalent investments for another 21 days before reaching a return of 209 Trillion dollars, which is in excess of the total value of all stocks, bonds and currency in the world.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%3D+%281+billion+-+500+...
I don't think browsers will drop HTTP support in your lifetime. They still do FTP for example.
You can't say yet whether it was a poor choice. Instagram was a very credible threat to Facebook. Its growth curve and primary use bear a strong resemblance to Facebook's.

People laughed at Google for buying YouTube for $1.65 billion. Now every single big company wishes they had done it instead.
Instagram wanted $2 billion
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Thanks for the summary. You're right that I got up to software patents, then instapaper'ed the article and tuned out.

I think I disagree with this part: The 2012 value chain: artist < iTunes < label. The artist makes marginally more. But iTunes does't add significant value: unlike the stores, which were paid to take inventory risk and predict demand, iTunes takes no risk and performs almost no service other than dealing with card processing fees.

Isn't there tremendous value in a system that makes it easy to browse music, make payments and download them to your music devices?
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Actually what you knew, except algorithm design, if else, loops and other metaprogramming essentials, is worth nil in the coding business. Anything you know specifically related to one language will quickly be outdated until you graduate or finish that book.

"So you know z framework? Oh but this is version x.y and we practically wrote it from the ground up! Which makes your sql incantations explode with glee and errors. Mostly errors..."

Knowledge can be gathered, can be learned. But you cannot "learn" learning.
I wasn't aware that the palm brought any touch features that weren't in the Newton.
The problem wih upfront selling is the risk to not be delivered. Some buyers are not really aware of the risk. The amount of money in play is quite low but the disapointment will be as big as the initial expectation.

If everything goes well then it's a win win, but amounts in play will start to attract crooks. It looks like too easy money. As long as kickstarter was under the radar, only well intended people where using it.

When the offered rewards are goods or services, then kickstarter is an upfront selling shop and these are high risk deals. The risk could be evaluted, but buyers have only videos and some text to evaluate it by themselves for now.
I can only agree. It was one of my most used apps. I added a load of postings, just to quickly filter through them.

now: everytime, i try to save a thing to pocket, using their new bookmarklet (or using the old read it later one), I get a promt, to login. and I am already logged in.

Thanks a lot for breaking one of the things that really added value to my phone.

So I`m on my way, have to go. Have to delete an account and an app.

Goodbye, you won't come to my "pocket"
There is no need for shortened links on HN.
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Doing that will get you removed from Google's index, or at least severely penalized.
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Sorry - I have to address this for posterity - I'd hate for this post to become the HN word on the Galaxy Nexus.

I have access to 2 Galaxy Nexuses - one is mine, and another is a work phone used as a sample MTP USB device. Both are the the most crazy, crash-happy computing devices I've ever had the misfortune of using. For a.while my GN was literally crashing once every 2 days. I'd pull the stupid thing out of my pocket after feeling it vibrate to discover that the case over the CPU was burning hot and OS was rebooting and showing that ugly startup animation. Online forum complaints suggest that i'm not the only obe seeibg this.

Then there's the flaky behavior. Once every week a system process on my GN will crash. This service has something to do with the radio modem because I'll turn my GN on and discover that it isn't on 3G and that ive been missing phone calls and texts for who-knows-how-long.

I cant believe that i returned an iphone 4S to buy this lemon.
What's not to get? There doesn't have to be anything more complex at play beyond a simple profit margin.

Backers trade money for something they want that they can't create themselves or get anywhere else, which means they are justified in paying a premium. Project owners get to realize their vision, bootstrap a production process, and potentially hold onto profit if they so desire.

There's a reason that this: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wvyad1np1rrallbo2_500.jp... is a meme, and kickstarter is precisely the sort of platform designed to translate those "shut up and take my money" dollars into profit on the one hand and realized products on the other.
The URL bar is Deep Magick to most people, requiring rituals most foul and loathsome to work with, such as the forbidden incantation of Copius Pastious. Less than one in ten simple villagers understand such vile sorcery, and most of those can only use it via the Scroll of Copius Pastious conveniently inserted into the Word Ribbon by the Mad Monks of Microsoftine.

Less sardonically, even techies seem to get their share-this-with-people neurotransmitters activated by seeing sharing widgets. Its a call to action. People respond to those. My subjective experience back when Delicious buttons didn't suck was that for two roughly equivalent pieces of geek-friendly reference material putting the Delicious button on was worth 10x Delicious saves.

(I hate all the other buttons and rarely use them. That might well be irrational -- I've heard on HN from folks at e.g. TechCrunch that they're worth measurable money to the business.)
Yes, eg. games. But Kickstarter isn't doing the funding, in case that wasn't clear.
I love what this says about Zuck. It takes real conviction to make decisions this big and this fast. Most people would feel the need to build a faux consensus of people around them for moral support.

Same thing that let him say no to his own $1 billion acquisition offer I suppose.
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Think of the people making the games you enjoy and how many of them must enjoy what they do because of the obvious quality in the product they are producing. Try to find that for yourself.

This sounds very naive. I've gone for beer with various people in the gaming industry. From ubisoft QA team leader to indie game programmer to Blizzard Project Manager. All of them were tired of their jobs. For all of them it was "just a job" and sometimes even less. It's these people that I end up going to beer with in normal social contexts. Maybe because the ones who really like their job don't go out. OTOH I know the colleagues in my company who spend too much time on their job and I really wouldn't want to go out with them.
Is there a difference in this case? I doubt they could have afforded to produce 4 million dollars worth of the watches without a good, semi-guaranteed estimation of consumer interest.
For my part, I'm completely done with Agile and the Agile community, there is very little of value there any more

I don't think it's quite that bad myself, but I think it depends which bits of "the community" you find yourself in. There are still smart folk who do actually pay attention to the manifesto and don't wander around applying an "agile" label to everything around them and carrying on as before ;-)
I think you just confirmed my complaint that smartphones get a crippled site.

I don't think UA sniffing tells you what connection I am on, right?
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Are you kidding me? The iOS App Store makes 10x Google Play or whatever it is called these days.

Galaxy Nexus...that crap was obsolete the day it came out...isn't there a Galaxy Nexus S 3 Super S v2 out by now?
If I understand the blog correctly, their corpus consists of all the articles they have processed so far. Maybe they have some additional source, e.g. a more general collection of web pages.
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Your phone should never know your password; you log into Gmail from your phone using an application-specific password. If your phone is infected with malware and you don't trust it anymore, you deauthorize it and your account is safe.

2 factor authentication is an amazingly simple solution to a large number of complex problems.
> It’s just a (mostly) positional grammar, with few exceptions—A+比+B+adjective

I tried saying "比+B+<pause>+A+adjective" to some native speakers the other day, then asked if it was grammatical: they said it was. So I would more go along with Chao's comment on Mandarin: "The basic idea is that you throw some words one after the other and the other person gets the right idea. That basic idea can get you very far.".
I worked on something similar for clustering BBC news articles. The (Ruby) code I used is here: https://github.com/bbcrd/similarity

I didn't account for names entities or n-grams in the feature vector though. That's a very interesting idea.

@mattdeboard - what algorithm did you use to count the occurrence and size of clusters?
I think that sometimes companies mention trivial things like their choice of revision control software in their job listings as a kind of semi-deliberate way of saying "This job is intended for inexperienced developers. If you're thinking it's cute that we mentioned our VCS, you're too experienced (and expensive) for us."
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This. A thousand times this.

We spend too much time at it to call it "just a job". Sure, I've been there ... close to burning out, hating going to work, wanting nothing to do with co-workers. But this is my life, and it's the only one I got. Life is to short to have a job that is "just a job".

Many probably can't just walk out of their "just a job" right now - they have obligations to their boss, they have to feed their family, etc. But the goal should be to work to change it, and make their jobs more than "just a job".
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Ultimately, if the government is your enemy, you need to take a lot more precautions than "don't use Gmail".
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Well, to be honest, they already had a product ready to send into production. This is probably why the product has been so successful.
It's not gone. I just saw it on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855262
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The reason to have a dedicated "software design phase" is to encourage invention of "nobody can do it but us" - secret sauces which can make you (or your company) super rich (i.e., algorithms in Oracle Database, Google's algorithms, etc.). These things cannot be invented as "ongoing and continual process".

That doesn't match my experience - and I'm not sure I understand the logic. Why would these algorithms be impossible to development during an incremental process?

From my perspective having a continual software design process, rather than a phased approach, gives me more opportunities for innovative design - not less. We end up doing more software design work that way, since we have the opportunity to add "secret sauce" all of the time - rather than just in some one-off section.

I find I get more innovation out of teams that develop incrementally. That is, to quite a large extent, why we develop that way.
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The backers get the product or prototype.
The company gets some money.
KickStarter gets paid a commission.

So this its not an equity swap, it is a shop front. The benefit for startups is up front cash and a pool of early adopters?

What alternatives are available?
do it through Google News:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=au&tbm=nws...

try running the search manually yourself.

I had a feature in on of my chrome extension that would do this automatically but it was too flaky to release - but I did find that referrals from the news site worked most of the time.
I meant here on hackernews. Your site looks fine!
They do take them: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/open%20softwa...
HFT didn't cause the flash crash, but neither did that mutual fund manager.

The primary cause was a delay in when incoming orders were time-stamped by the NYSE. Instead of stamping the orders when they arrived at the queue just before entering the market, the NYSE servers time-stamped them when they _left_ the queue and were placed in the book.

Since the queue was delayed by extreme volume (NYSE has always lagged on technology), stale prices were posted to the NYSE feed. However, it was impossible to tell that they were stale from the timestamps.

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Since the NYSE was quoting higher prices than every other market, arbitrageurs massively sold at the NYSE and bought on other exchanges.

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One reason for the downvotes may be that you basically just called him names, rather than making a reasoned point.
The SEC paper doesn't even use the word "liquidity" properly, and the authors appear to be biased.

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