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You know when you see something, and everyone who touches it makes a mountain of money, and everytime it happens, the $ values just go upwards, and it seems too good to be true?

It is.

That's called a bubble.

...and it'll burst as soon as there's a high profile kick starter ($million+) that fails and delivers nothing to the people who think they've pre-ordered something.

I like kick starter, and I appreciate what they're doing, but this isn't going to end well.

It's all very well to let people to setup their funding projects go, yeah, I can ship as many t-shirts as people signup for $20! Easy! ...but the reality is, shipping 50k t-shirts for $20 each isn't as easy as people expect.

This is really the problem: People are notoriously bad at making estimates for cost, time, size of projects.

Good luck to Pebble I say, I hope this works out for them. I hope we see this stuff all settle down and turn into a new awesome funding model and not into scammer hell~
I really thought there would have been more friction. Of course everybody was affected by the tight schedule and initially bad their reservations about one of us not pulling his weight in hours, but as time passed we were all going to him for advice, asking him to review our code.

However, the people in management/business made some sweeping remarks about our team "not working as hard as the other teams" in passing. Makes me think that the further away from the code and actual productivity you are, the more important hours and arbitrary productivity measures become.
Great story.

Check out a recent podcast from Stanford e corner. Jeff Church - The Wave of Social Entrepreneurship.

He talks about encouraging startups to look at social causes. His own Nika bottled water give their profits towards clean water.

Positive way to go about building your startup.
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What's the difference between VISI's enterprise cloud platform and something like Amazon's public cloud?
I also dropped out of Uni, in my case because I was hiding my real orientation behind copious amounts of alcohol, and went on to freelance and did quite well.

I'm still wish I finished though, I still get uncomfortable when I have to share that I didn't finish Uni, I still defend myself when the issue comes up and I still wonder what my life would have been like if I did finish.

I always told myself that I was smart enough to finish but just didn't want to. Recently a friend said to me that if I really was that smart, I would've finished it anyhow, which really hit home.

So my advice, if you're really that smart just finish it next to all your other stuff.
If you're not really that smart, just grind it out and become a stronger (and smarter) man through it.
It bores me to death and the time taken learning about pointless stuff could be used learning something useful in my eyes anyway. My only worry is if I go freelance I'll drop off the radar, my plan is freelance then go to some design studios show them my work and say please please please hire me!!
You're really over-complicating and over-thinking this.

Somebody has a cool idea, others are interested, others pitch in to help get the product made.

And no, the backer doesn't necessarily get the product, that depends on the "backing level" rewards. Generally, yes the backer gets the product at a reduced price (compared to retail estimations) and a bit more chance that the product will actually see the light of day. For "non-physical" stuff (e.g. video games), there also tends to be swag or other artifacts at higher backing levels, for physicals there can be exclusive series or customizations.

> How much money will Pebble be left with after this process?

Who cares? They can be left with essentially 0, they'll have a product ready to sell and a fab chain, they can go to more traditional retail.
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Lots of things in the tech field are very straight male centric. From brogrammers to the lack of women.

After all, if we have problems getting cis women to stay in technology, how do you think trans women will feel?
Let's not forget a number of PocketPC touch (stylus) devices were also phone-capable. That was YEARS before the iPhone. It had "apps" too, but we simply used to called that "programs" at that time. And there was no central market/appstore or anything. Most of these devices were very open.
Freelance without a portfolio of completed projects or strong skills sounds like a recipe for hard times.
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Might be a step in the right direction, but when can we just ditch all software patents?! (I know - bit of an unrelated comment)
I think drinking it and growing food might be more of a direct application.
Developing things in the open can be a drag for a product first getting off the ground. People pull in different directions, want different things, and fork the project (and the community) in doing so. I'm a strong believer in free (as in speech) software, but the practicalities of doing so too soon in a product's lifecycle can kill it.

Personally, I'm more than happy for them to get the core done properly, and open-source later.
Question regarding Kickstarter: Can it really be used for commercial projects (or is Pebble not a commercial project?)? Because here http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines it says it is only for "creative projects". I guess it is ok since the term "creative project" is not defined other than that page saying "like making an album, a book, or a work of art." Although later it says "Starting a business, for example, does not qualify as a project." Just trying to understand what can be used on the platform and what can't. Can anyone clarify?
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I think this is the important point and one that seems to be lost on a lot of traders: Yes, what you are talking about is logical, but we as a society have the right to say: No, this is not beneficial to everybody.

The way many traders argue, they seem to have little shame saying that they want the system to give them a hand when they have made a bad decision.

> If unexpected news comes out today that a company is the target of an adverse event like a DOJ lawsuit many market participants will want to react as fast as possible to the news.

No, I think the first thing you want to do is kick yourself in the butt for investing in a company that went down like this. If you invest in an oil company and it has a huge spill, the stock will go down and you will lose money. Don't like that? Don't invest in oil companies with a lousy safety record. Or invest yourself in making sure that the company that you gave your precious liquidity doesn't mess it up.

I would further claim that there are very few truly "unexpected" news. Traders are just a little too much in love with not really caring about what they invest in. At least not as much as they are in love with the money they make or the image that they are the "market makers" who provide the liquidity that we all need.

A DOJ lawsuit happens for a reason. Oil spills happen for a reason. If you have made a bet, you are the one who has to provide reasons for your bet. I cannot believe there are that many people who argue they should be able to rip off as many people as possible once their bet has gone sour. That the one thing they really need is to be able to rip others off as fast as possible. And that all this is somehow reasonable and useful.

I understand nobody really likes being the loser, but that's how capitalism works - filtering out the bad apples by having them go down in flames. Well, that's what it's supposed to be like, anyways.

> Arms races are fair, but they waste resources.

Amen.
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This guy = Hacker all of fame.

todo: pay him a visit.
Yes this is a worry. How do I get the experience though?
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Freelance while at Uni? I did that and I was studying a Chemistry degree...
AFAIK you can't sell stocks or shares. So you can't use Kickstarter to raise investment money (in the traditional sense)
Ask HN: please review my project - Landslide on the web
Recently I used Landslide (https://github.com/adamzap/landslide) to create a presentation for a talk I gave. I thought it was really neat, but having to install it was an obvious barrier for a lot of users. So I decided to put it on the web. The result is LetSlide: http://letslide.com.

Please let me know what you think, which features of Landslide you would like to see made available and if and how you would use such a thing.

Thanks!
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dropbox really needs this too. although my information on that account is not nearly as sensitive as on gmail, i'm sure it will amount to a similar sensitivity in the future.
Since you're at Google, I hope you've been able to suggest this to gmail team. Even better if it's being worked on, especially the first item.
publishing the guts of a patent in a public way

Aren't all patents publically published for anyone to see? You can see them, you just can't use them. Patents ≠ Trade Secrets.
>This is really the problem: People are notoriously bad at making estimates for cost, time, size of projects.

Relevant:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starcommand/star-command...

(Also, I like your example of the 50K 20$ T-shirts. Demonstrates the problem perfectly if you just think about it for a second.)
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Yeeeah, that's a heck of a lot of water in a desert. I'm a bit worried about the cost, though.

They don't mention per-unit cost anywhere, but they're comparing its size to 300-500kW turbines. If memory serves, those are a few hundred thousand a piece? So maybe we can assume these will be ~$300k...?

Supposedly, minimum health and sanitation is 20 litres per person per day. Assuming these last the 30 years stated on Eole's website, and consistently output 1000 litres/day, and not counting any maintenance costs, $200/person/year.

Can the areas that need these things the most afford $200/person/year?
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If you need something FAA certified, it's going to cost you a whole lot more than a non-certified one. X-Plane flight sim is available with certification for flight instruction use. It costs more than the desktop version.

For a private pilot's licence you're not required to have any sim time, but it's a very good idea anyway. But if you just want to practice your upcoming flying lesson with an instructor in a real airplane, pretty much any modern flight simulator is good enough for basic training. Off the shelf gaming controllers are good enough. You don't need a certified sim for that.

For commercial pilots flying passenger jets, there are big simulators that are different beasts.
The strategic and technical games that go on in the markets are engaging to watch, but they're basically ways of winning the most money (from the investor's/speculator's viewpoint). The more complex they get, and the higher the bid prices for talent which can win these games, the more the talent and energy is diverted from fields that could advance society more (say, basic research, or new product/tech development). So you get more smart kids going to biz school with an eye towards a place on Wall Street, instead of a broader distribution. That's my view on why financial jobs, and possibly large-scale investment, in general should be less profitable - though how to achieve that is a very open question (not sure how well capital gains taxes would work).
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I seem to remember it was on most Android phones, and sent quite a lot of data back to the carriers.
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I know a lot of the older generation will miss it. Especially those that don't use traditional computers, yet regularly check the value of their shares etc.
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I remember being very excited about these devices (and others like the Treo) before they were released, then invariably found myself profoundly disappointed (or at the very least underwhelmed) when I actually got my hands on one.

None of them really succeeded in delivering anything more than an iPaq or a Palm Pilot and a mobile phone awkwardly squashed together in an ugly package, and they all required you to use a stylus that all-too-frequently got lost or broken. In the case of the 770, it didn't even have a phone! (To be fair though, in its favour it was the first device I saw that had a really good mobile web browser app).

Until the iPhone, "smartphone" really meant putting "groupware" [1] functionality in a mobile phone, and just having an Outlook-a-like on a phone clearly wasn't appealing enough for the mass market: in fact it was just downright boring...

The biggest difference with the iPhone aside from the capacitive touch was that it delivered an excellent mobile web browser alongside a reasonably decent phone, and all that other stuff was just an afterthought.

In retrospect I'm amazed that nobody else realised that the web - the same technology that transformed the internet from a niche technology into a must-have in the mid-90's - was the killer app for a smartphone (As I alluded to above though, kudos to Ari Jaaksi's team for at least trying with the N770 etc., even though the rest of Nokia seemed to be utterly clueless).

[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
That's nothing.

A few years ago, I was working doing some of the engineering for a major alumina refinery upgrade in Australia. One of the major parts of an alumina refinery is what's called a calciner, which heats the produced alumina to drive off the chemically-bound water from the product. They're complex piece of plant with large ducts, blowers and cyclones all laid out with insulating material to protect against the high temperatures and erosive nature of the alumina.

We built our calciners in Thailand as entire modules - not merely the size of a bridge, but the size of a 6-story building, complete with all equipment, structure and wiring in place, and then shipped them to the refinery site in Australia. The largest of the modules was 1800+ tons.

Ah, found a picture: Here's one of our calciners about to be offloaded from the MV Sea Baron. The crawler crane at the very right of the picture gives a sense of scale.

http://www.outotec.com/pages/page.aspx?id=34948&epslangu...
He might need proprietary software to power his cockpit, and that might not be available for newer versions of Flight Simulator (w/ multi screen support).
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It's a particularly irritating damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation. Avoid using buttons on your site? Then, as another poster pointed out, you don't get nearly as many shares, and your page views go down. Use buttons on your site? They slow your page down and, yes, your page views go down.

My experience is that with tweaking and sane numbers of buttons, b) costs you less visitors than a), but it's still a pain in the posterior.
I think the simultaneous rise of successful social networks like Facebook played an incredibly large role in making people want to have the Internet with them all the time.
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there are more images at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/apr/17/space-shuttle-discovery-flight-pictures
Did anyone else originally hear about them because the lulzsec page used them?
Sorry to disagree here, but it's not quite that simple.

The buttons are here to stay because people want traffic and _buttons measurably increase traffic_.

I hope that they get faster and more friendly, but until they stop providing a traffic boost, bloggers will keep using them.
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I'm glad he wasn't attacking Facebook and Apple in the way it was portrayed.

I think a key issue here is that powerful incumbent corporations have always challenged the economic freedoms of smaller players and individuals operating in their space.

In the heyday that Brin refers to, those powerful corporations hadn't yet emerged. Now they have. The biggest challenge to starting a new eBay today is eBay. The biggest challenge to starting a new Google today is Google.

Going forward, what matters is the extent that a platform economically empowers its participants to create additional value. Ideological openness is just one dimension in that.

Facebook, Apple, and Google all do empower their participants in different ways and with different tradeoffs, as do startups like Square and Kickstarter.
I don't think this is at all out there. As a matter of fact, I'm working on something similar, but for a different vertical (which is why I don't think it's out there). Are you familiar with any other equity or revenue-futures markets of this nature? CrowdCube in the UK is the only thing that I've been able to come up with. Slated out of LA is similar, but it's not a real market, just an introduction and tracking service, like AngelList.
Same here, it always thinks me or someone on my network has a virus and asks me to enter a re-captcha before "granting access" to the site. I have no clue why it thinks that!
Keep in mind this was right after the iPhone announcement. Although he lays it on a bit thick with the "Apple cult" nonsense, it's understandable given the extreme level of hype at the time. The analysis of the state of the industry was good, and really it's an amazing accomplishment that the iPhone was good enough that none of the powers that be could stop it.

The only part where he goes off the rails is this:

> Lastly, the iPhone is a defensive product. It is mainly designed to protect the iPod, which is coming under attack from mobile manufacturers adding music players to their handsets.

This is just a blatant misunderstanding of how Apple operates that anyone could have refuted in 2005, 2000, 1995 (maybe not quite as strongly here), 1990, or 1985. The potential of the iPhone as a smartphone was obviously a lot more than a simple music player even if its feature set seemed weak compared to Blackberry.
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"The Bing user is primarily high income females" the dropshipper guy says.

Really? Sounds odd. I can't find data to support that statement either.
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I use Keepass (or KeepassX, or KeepassDroid, and there's an iOS app too) and Dropbox.
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Odd as it may seem, this is not necessarily great for the VC's. Most VC funds only get to invest each dollar once; when it gets cashed out after an IPO or M&A event, the returns go back to the investors. I'm not sure if this money still counts as being under management for purposes of their 2% annual commission; if not, then it's almost certainly a bad deal.
Letitslide: http://letslide.com
Landslide: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

This looks like a good resource, cool!

My problem (and this is probably due to landslide) is that you can't easily navigate through the slides with a mouse or trackpad. You can scroll but it's very hard to accurately land on the slide you want. Prev/Next links would be nice!
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The common law principle of privity of contract (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privity_of_contract) means that contracts can only be enforced by the parties to that contract (although some jurisdictions have changed this with legislation). A defendant in a lawsuit against Twitter cannot assert an agreement between a third party and Twitter against Twitter.

Disclaimer: IANAL
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I really hope they decide to move away from a browser based solution. I have personally toyed with the idea of making a web based IDE for front-end development, and had came across so many issues in my "experiments" that I decided it wasn't worth it.

Lets talk about editors..

CodeMirror/Ace as an editor.

While both Code Mirror and Ace ( A spin off from Mozilla's Bespin editor ) Have done a very good job, as Marijn Haverbeke ( Code Mirror author ) puts it, of "In-browser code editing made bearable". Neither are smooth / fluid / responsive enough for every/all day coding. If you read

http://codemirror.net/doc/internals.html

You will get a good sense of why the browser is a very harsh environment for a code editor to adapt to.

Alternatively you can have a play with any one of the tools, that use Code Mirror and Ace.

Try to use them for an extended period of time and you will see what I mean.

http://jsbin.com ( Code Mirror )
http://c9.io ( Ace Editor )

I love the concept, and I'm going to be making a donation either way. I just hope that they move away from the idea of a browser based editor. Before investing a huge amount of time and energy into it, and end up with an inferior product, largely attributed to the platform it's running on.

As a front-end developer, I'm all for making as much as I can browser based / cross platform, and pushing the limits of the browser. But from personal experience the browser isn't the place to be writing the code to do it.
I haven't used it in years so I don't have a problem of not being able to get that information, but I will still miss it nostalgically - I'm 22, so not exactly the older generation, but still grew up with ceefax being the best source for TV listings, news/sport, weather, and indeed stock prices (which without really understanding why I cared about because my dad cared about them).
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What makes this sillier is that in a decentralised internet, TCP needs dropped packets to detect congestion and keep latency down.