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Upon thinking about this a little more, it seems that the possible ethical problem with torrenting now and buying DVD later makes me think of exclusive availability windows. When a big movie comes out in theatres, there's a delay before you can get it on DVD. For good or for bad, this is a time-tested way to squeeze extra money out of people who don't want to wait until they can get it on DVD.

It seems that HBO wants to squeeze the extra money out of impatient GoT fans by requiring that they buy the whole bundle if they want to watch anything without waiting a few months. There is extra value in getting it now, as other people have pointed out, because you can take part in discussions now while it's still part of the cultural zeitgeist.

Is it OK for HBO to require that you pay a premium for that extra value? My instinct says "yes", but I concede that it's a gray area. I also have a hard time calling fans "pirates" or "thieves" for torrenting ahead of making legitimate purchases.

thanks for not ranting

The world needs fewer rants. Thanks for not ranting back.
Try a port other than 80: I have my iPod tethered via Droid 3 on a Verizon 3G network, it blocks 80, but did not block 1800
I never even got to the class. I received an email saying the class was going to be late, and the next one I got was when the class was already a week underway.
Irrelevant, and use Google, and why??? (rhetorical)
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Valid point. We'll get a patch in asap.
This is such an awesome problem. Have you made any changes based on the FB friends data? Do you feel like the data has been more valuable than personal experience?
Except for the op?
Yeah, I was aware of them having terrible lifespan, one of the reasons why I purchased from Costco in the first place, but Aerobed always advertises their beds as being quality and staying that way for a long time so I was surprised that it only last about that long.
TC reporting that deal is in the works, not done.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/evernote-1-billion/
I have Evernote installed on all my machines and use it regularly. If they started charging for it I'd probably pay $5/month for it.

Assuming 20M active users and a sky-high 10% conversion rate [+] at $5/month gives $120M/year in revenue, which would kind of justify a $1B valuation. That is, until something better comes along for storing text notes across devices...

[+] I understand their users are pretty f(r)anatic.
My guess is because it falls under the topic of "brain hacking".

Plus, I hear your point about pragmatics, but I am also appreciative of the exercise of learning the language as part of expanding ones horizons. "Walk a mile in his shoes" kind of deal, which only gets lip service unless one has actually needed to switch mental, cultural and linguistic contexts.

I also honestly think that more Americans are not bilingual (or perhaps even interested in such a thing) because of the lack of opportunity to use that skill.
It's completely broken on my (Android) phone browser. Every time I try to scroll down, it kicks me back to the top of the page.
Putting images on a web page is easy, so we see images everywhere on the Web. If it were also easy, we would expect to see good file upload widgets everywhere. Good file upload widgets are not everywhere. From this, we can conclude that it is still an open problem.
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I have heard that some companies make different products with the same name so they can sell the cheaper one through extremely price-sensitive retailers like Wal-Mart.
Valuation bubble level: Fortune teller. This is getting out of hand.
Given that Patrick's tentative conclusion was that the new version makes a similar amount of money, but allows more people to get value from his software, leaving up the old design would seem a bit... hard-hearted.
Any plans to offer an API for this?
Billion is the new million.
I like the concept and hope the team keeps exploring more. I wonder whether we can get additional information about the image - time, location, people tagged in it etc
What about having to blow on the cartridge? :) Can that be emulated by blowing on the mic?
It's not a java virtual machine; a java virtual machine executes a specific instruction set. It's a VM that runs the dalvick bytecode, and a Java source to dalvick compiler.
I learned a fair bit of Spanish in high school, already knowing English and Russian. A lot of the language constructs were similar to Russian, so they just clicked easily in my mind.

Lost most of it by now, of course. I can call a guy an asshole, and I can buy him a beer, but the bit in the middle where I apologize - that, I can't do :P
> Headcounts are a common metric of importance in business

Unless you're claiming that everything import is growth....
Agreed. The article would be better if the examples were less distracting. It's like talking about layout and styling and using a political rant as your example text.
The typical enterprise pricing approach is to try to price according to their value, not to your costs. If you are willing to pay up for a bigger server, you are probably getting more value, and therefore should pay more.
Bubble it is. I like Evernote, i like the model however these valuations are crazy... the good news is that it's not another Instagram. Gambling other peoples money always turns out bad. "it's different this time" they said...
That's good to know.

Just to be clear, would you like that information at the dialog or would you like the app developer to be able to see it?
My biggest fear is I'll use it, and a few months later you're acquired by Facebook and then it's gone.
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That's not really relevant here because this is a rare site that actually needs facebook data like the friend graph. They're not using it as a lazy login mechanism.
I love stuff like that! I hope it isn't taken down by Atari's legal department. They're notoriously unfriendly towards hobbyists.
They already charge for some additional features. I currently pay 5$/month.
I've posted my full test scripts and results here:
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I've been using this handle since '93 out of inertia. My tests were done on an idle i7-620M, sequentially.

If your invocation takes about 0.015s, that means you're not looping enough for differences to appear. A 2% increase from 0.015s is 0.0153s, invisible due to significant digits cut off.
Is it different for real-world meetups though? I think Ridejoy did a great job with this http://ridejoy.com/signup?redirect_url=%2F
This is a good business model you guys are aiming for. I think people would definitely pay for custom branding and you're solving a current pain point! Would have used this in a couple of projects I've been involved in.
This is an excellent idea and it looks nicely executed, too. I only fear there may be a duplication of efforts in respect to the upcoming WebIntents framework. Do you guys have plans to integrate with it at some point?
I think that argues more for patentability of APIs, though.
Was the entire experience faster than it might have otherwise been? I can see an advantage from a "not having to wait in lines" standpoint. (unless I suppose the machines become heavily trafficked).
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Okay, either I'm missing something glaring about the article or you posted this comment on the wrong thing. Which is it?
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If this doesn't scream "Bubble!" I don't know what does. These valuations are getting nutty.
I think you're a good counter-example for what you claim. You knew the basics before -- how much was this "basics"? Couldn't it be at least four years of foreign language classes in school?

Second, you were 17. Third, you were fully immersed in the country of native speakers, probably spending all the time in language learning. Fourth, you say you were evaluated to be very talented for learning languages, do you know where you were at this curve (were you in the top 1% or so)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

Fifth, which exactly diploma did you get then? If you were accepted to the French university, I believe you passed B2 and not C1.

Please do be more precise, I'd really like to know the truth.
How can you have a website displaying a live-coding language, without a video displaying someone actually live-coding? :P

Seriously though, I'd love to see a video of someone doing live-coding. I've been looking for a good live-coding environment ever since I found fluxus[1], and subsequently found out that development of it had stopped.

[1] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
It doesn't cost me to believe that (if you are good and dedicate a lot of time to it) you can get to B1 or B2 in 4-5 months. C1 is a completely different story though.
I work for an international organization and people around here are naturally predisposed to learn new languages. It's amazing to see how much you can learn from native speakers, however C1 would require many more hours of interaction than 5 months can provide.
This thread is diverging from what the GP meant, which was just to describe how fun and good for you collecting data can be. After all, how can you get better at certain things if you're not willing to collect data on your performance?

But the problem is that you can spin just about any kind of data collection in just the same way. In the 1960s, this exact scenario would have been part of a futuristic horror story. Robots and computers monitoring your every move, with your permission and encouragement, in an effort for you to become "better." In fact, I seem to remember several old sci-fi shows with just this kind of plot.

It's interesting to note that such a scenario doesn't seem so horrific any more, and those warning about it are more and more seen as alarmists. I'm not sure where this is all heading, but the trajectory in public opinion is not very heartening. Modern marketing is turning its attention to popularizing your life "assisted" by machines which then take lots of observations about your behavior and report on them back to some third party.
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Yes I could do that... :-)
But try turning the console on without a cartridge, or change cartridges with the console still on...
Oh, I'm not using OpenSSL professionally - I'm pretty much just a curious amateur when it comes to computer security.

Good to know I've not got anything to worry about personally, though. You've explained it well.
Someone wake me up when we're talking about real money. Now the investors think that Evernote is only worth 3-10 times the valuation they bought in...or around $3,000,000,000.00 to $10,000,000,000.00
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yep, that's all they are - a notepad app. People are overblowing Evernote's significance when they say it's in charge of our memory... When they come up with nanontechnology that can backup our entire brain in a flash drive, come back to me with $1 billion valuation.
http://helgeklein.com/setacl-studio/ (seems to do that; haven't used it, though)
I wish more languages had the right-apply function. It looks similar to piping and sounds great.
Nothing glaring, but he's probably referencing the (#awkward) comment in the blog.
Hopefully now they can afford to extend their iOS client to includes handwriting input ala Notability (especially the Tablet PC-style input pane at the bottom).
Definitely faster than going to a crowded Apple Store, and not having to talk to a sales clerk is a clear bonus if you're an introverted misanthrope like me.
Why is it that NewsBlur premium subscribers have to find out about a private beta on HN?

That does not make me happy.
Yes we're planning to release an API that automatically organizes any feeds by topics
When would you say this bubble started?
We would love to be a webintents provider and it's on the feature list.

Part of this is also an effort to spur the webintents forward :D
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Sigh. You can't add new comments to old threads (presumably this prevents various kinds of attacks).
This is pretty close to what I'm doing for my PhD research-- it's an annoyingly hard problem! Travis will probably make smarter design choices than me, but my project has ended up being of limited use due to the non-obvious subset of Python we are able to accelerate. Advice for anyone else trying to add a JIT on top of an existing language: either craft a DSL with extremely well defined boundaries or support the whole language from the beginning.
Pimsleur is all about pronunciation, you should try it.
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Looks neat! However, you won't catch me putting my credit card details into that donations form. You might want to put a paypal button or something that makes me feel a bit more secure about the whole thing.
Ha-- nope, apps, subscription services, etc...

Re: traffic, more on it in the comment below, but more than 60% is driven by social.
>They have a digital streaming infrastructure in place to make the transition they just don't yet have the business case.

I think that's the biggest part that goes missing in these discussions. Yeah, it's annoying that the moment that they require you to go through a tv provider, but I can see why they wouldn't want to alienate a large revenue source right now.

That said, it's pretty significant that they're building up their streaming infrastructure in the first place. The day will come when cable providers aren't worth cozying up to anymore, and it might even be sooner than HBO thinks. However, if they have everything in place it's going to be a lot easier to push out an update allowing web only customers than it would be to build their streaming service from scratch.

It remains to be seen, of course, how they will make that transition. It's arguable, though, that they aren't nearly as unprepared as some people are making them out to be.
Good to know that we aren't the only ones who feel this way.

Would love to chat about what you'd use if for, if you have the time.
I am very much aware that people have sex in bathrooms (in restaurants, in bars, on planes). It is actually not a big deal, and one that most establishments treat as a mere nuisance: One restaurant in my area actually had a promotion that hinted that they were open to this.

Filter down to places where you send adults for drinks and the likelihood that anyone is going to treat it as a big deal falls even lower.

THAT is what is unbelievable, your laughable notion that we are sheltered notwithstanding.
Do you mean that Evernote should be valued at less than Instagram? I think the opposite is true.

Evernote has demonstrated that it can monetize its user base, and it has a strong lock-in effect (I store all my stuff there so it's not worth leaving to a competitor). I happily pay for Premium just like many others.

Instagram, on the other hand, has a fantastic free app, a giant user base...and no revenue.
Comprehension exercises using foreign music videos and magazines can be good too, for the less formal stuff.
I like how the call him a "far-right fanatic". I don't think I've ever heard this news organization use "far-left" to describe any story involving someone doing something negative.
One of the nice things about using map() is multiprocessing.Pool.map() can be a drop-in replacement.

OTOH, map() does otherwise have a little overhead compared to list comprehension.
It also prevents thread zombifying, which is important.
Code reflection seems like an awesome feature to play around with, and it seems really cool that you can modify the AST and have the changes saved back to the source text.

Until Cicra is ready, where else can I learn to use these features?
Considering flippin' Ducati just sold for around $1 billion...me too.
> We felt like windows were more analogous to system dialogs, but iframes are easier for message passing

Stop. Hire a designer.
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This is what I thought. I'm surprised Squadmail (link in opening post) has posted their product more than once on HN and has gotten nearly no comments or upvotes.
I guess I meant if they make their pricing more aggressive so users like myself also have to pay for it. Eg. you have to pay if you have more than 1 notebook or use it on more than 2 devices...
(Naive layperson here). Could the manual microsocpes-and-pipets work being done by lab biologists be mechanized, so that you're generating drug candidates in software, testing them in living cells, and using automatically-gathered observations to generate new candidates?
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You could make a pretty good case that Evernote is the single most important productivity app of the smartphone era. At the bare minimum, you'd have to grant that it has the potential to be.

For comparison, the single most important productivity app of the PC era was either Office in general, or just Word in particular. How much are those worth?
Great I'll be following the progress. One more thing I would really need is the ability to remove and order the upload options.
(Sorry for the late reply)

I use an app from DS3: http://ds3global.com/index.php/en/news-a-events/news/97-secu...,

It's extremely simple, it just generates OTPs, nothing more.
We can't say this for certain, but what we'd like to do it put it down in writing that if for any reason we can't provide the service anymore, we open-source it. Would this help?
"Anybody can express an opinion on a blog or any other outlet and there's no system of verification or double-checking, you just say whatever you want to and it gets magnified. It's just kind of a bizarre world in which one person's opinion counts as much as anybody else's."

Are any start-ups or companies working on this problem?
Across a couple of platforms, too.
The new social features will. I've been posting about the beta on Twitter, and because the beta is still buggy as sin, I wanted only less invested users (like on a random tread) and highly invested users (twitter followers) to be the catalyst for fixing bugs. I'm planning to email all premiums early next week.

But no worries, the betas been live for only a few days. Right now, you're only missing broken unread counts and broken Facebook connect. Be glad you're coming in a bit late.
I'm fine with calling instagram type stuff a bubble, but evernote actually makes money. they sell a product and people buy it. quite a few people actually. I don't have the exact numbers, but i'd like to before calling this absurd.

this article from 2010 - http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/28/video-evernote-ceo-phil-lib... -said they make an average of .25 a month per customer. if that's still true then they actually have a pretty decent amount of money coming in.

if anyone has more recent numbers i'd love to see them.
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We thought it would be fun to use Stripe for something. Nothing touches our site.

I guess I don't have much money to steal; I'll look into PayPal for those lucky ones who have assets to protect :D
Hey, intents are moving forward :) (Neat app, btw!)
Isn't Y Combinator already the Y Combinator for transgendered people? I can't see it affecting an interview or acceptance -- the bathrooms at YC don't even have gender assignment on the door.
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for now.. Taibbi wrote about a new law that exempts reporting for 5 years
I'm thinking about paying for the premium version just for the rare cases when I'm out of cell range and need offline access on my phone. Evernote is so indispensable to me that even though it doesn't happen very often, it's super-frustrating when it does.
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Good to know. Is that something you imagine the developer being able to specify or a user setting?
Envoy doesn't work if your data is larger than what you can safely store in memory (a few times over).

I would guess that subprocess is so ugly just because it needs to be so flexible. Personally, I don't find it so offensive, mostly because I have to take advantage of its "warts" on almost a daily basis.
I think we'll need to agree to disagree.

Some examples come to mind: Is it impossible to build the internals of a filesystem first, and add ACLs as a layer on top? What about the internals of a database? Should you start with users, schemas and permissions; or b*-trees, join logic, and the query parser?

You can't really add security from buffer overflows or SQL injection to an app after the fact. You can add well-reasoned access controls.
Something fundamentally missing from both versions - trust signals. Why does a user want to trust this software? You go to http://www.seomoz.org/, you see Zillow, Home Depot, Yelp and etc "love their software". Same with 37signals - WB and Kellogg's are using Basecamp? http://37signals.com/ Why isn't my company?

It is not explicity apparent that anyone loves this software, especially nobody they know or have heard of, so why should they use it? It doesn't have to be who uses it, but could also be "featured on" if you (Patio11) got coverage and co-linked to the service there as well, which I bet is more prominent. Of course, families don't care about Techcrunch - relevant news is needed.
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Whilst the iPhone one isn't free, the Android version is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki...
Considering its aimed at hackers, maybe put a "powered by stripe". That would probably reassure most people in your target market at the moment.

Though if you do end up adding a paypal button try not to use the word "donate", paypal seems to have a problem with non-charities doing this.
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Interestingly the attitude is changing.

It used to be very useful because any question about why some stupid thing had been done in a stupid way could be met with "it's classified"

But it means that whenever they lose some document because somebody left a USB key or a laptop in a bar - the press can scream about "lost CLASSIFIED documents" even if they were really only the list of parking places.
Testing Varnish, but, good overall benchmarking info
To provide some more WebIntents info: https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Sgyt1a73...

It's a post on G+ showing WebIntents & picking files via pick intent and cloudfilepicker.com (a Picasa image picker).
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Haha... this is great. I think I will use this in a presentation.
Hi Patrick! Good article, thanks.

I don't see the new web page as an improved design though, the lack of alignment between elements, weird open spaces and element sizing not being appropriate to the layout are all evidence the designer was amateurish.

If interested, commentary on the page as annotation is available here: http://imgur.com/HsG6E

(Fair disclosure: I don't sell such services and am not pimping, just commenting.)
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