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This goes beyond creative works, but to many other types of digital content.

I remember hearing John McAfee discussing trying to come up with a way to sell software, and say something like "here was this thing, that cost absolutely nothing to reproduce and transmit - and so I decided I could give it away for free, and charge for the updates."

Pretty much the Gillette Razor model for the 21st century.
Differential pricing is a retail strategy that predates the Internet. If you want to be one of the first people to read a new book by an author you like, you have to spend to get it in hardcover; if you don’t like the hardcover price, wait a year and then buy it in paperback. You can watch a new movie in the theaters, or wait to pick it up on DVD. Pay sticker price for whatever groceries you want, or make the effort to collect coupons and buy the things that are on sale. Etc., etc. It’s all artificial scarcity, in the sense that nothing prevented a publisher from putting out a book only in paperback from day one.

“Exclusive content” is the same idea: the only difference is that the discounted price is zero.
If I was google I'd be erring on the side of extreme caution. The first public accident that happens with one of these cars is going to get plastered over every media outlet in the world.

That they had the car in "super safe driving" mode for a media event seems entirely reasonable, even if the car probably could've navigated the narrow street with 95% confidence. The obvious path of attack is targeting the safety of an automated driver. Lose voter confidence and the whole thing comes crumbling down to be delayed another decade of legislation.

That's my guess, anyway.
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@bking: I am glad you asked this question. I do exactly what you say: After my regular 9-5 job, I work another 6 hours on my personal projects & I have been asking myself how to increase efficiency in those 6 hours (because my personal projects really matter to me the most). Recently, I have come up with a model whereby, I work 6 hours after work, every alternate day. So, I'd do my 6 hours on Monday, and then take a break on Tuesday after work - Id spend around 3 hours improving what I did on Monday (so, "no innovation" day). Those 3 hours actually help a lot - I try and read docs/SoF, watch some stupid tv, spend time with my gf and off to bed. I repeat this pattern every alternate days. To be honest, this model seems to work. Thats my 2 cents.
>>>In a February appearance at an investor conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, for example, he mentioned that he had worked at a paper mill in Alabama and an aluminum plant in Virginia

The most incredible people always have the least predictable life stories.
Or because he's British and uses the royal "we" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we :)
I agree 100%. My commute is over the same route, every day, some 260 days a year. The value of freeing me up to do something else for that hour each day can't be understated.
The system likely has a bubble of safety around it to allow for sudden changes close to the car. This makes the "car" far larger than it would actually be.
Bicycles and trains. The current infrastructure of roads and highways should not be sustained, nor will it be affordable to taxpayers indefinitely.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images/image277.g...

Here's the referenced paper:

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/Geocarb_III...

Usually claims of the HIGHEST!!! CO2!!! EVARRRRR!!1!! use qualifications like "historical", papering over the fact that "historical" means (at the outside) "the last 5,000 years". 5,000 years is a tiny fraction of the age of the earth.
I seem to recall that he talks about step size. The technique you're referring to is called triangulation, where you use sets of inputs/outputs to progressively generalize the implementation. It's good to know how to work at this small "step size" for those occasions that you're working on something complex or simply don't have much of an idea about how to implement something. If you're coding a familiar problem then you can increase the "step size" and not take all the baby steps i.e. for the example you mention you would probably just use a single input/output set and code the final implementation immediately. The key is understanding that you can start with a larger "step size" and then backtrack and increase the granularity of your steps if you find things are getting a bit hairy...
Kickstarter doesn't even take your money until a project is successfully funded. So, in effect, yes.
Yes, that's pretty much the entire premise of Kickstarter: that a project is only funded if the fundraising threshold is met.
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Wow, 56% of projects aren't funded - so 44% are. That's really high. I was thinking it'd be a lot, lot lower - maybe 5-10%.
Don't forget that Jobs picked Cook.
Somewhat revisionist it seems from the WSJ, I can't recall any point in the lead up to IPO that they published anything that alluded to problems on the near horizon.
There's a much more insidious way that Kickstarter hides failure: by calling a project "successful" merely because it has reached the funding goal and raised money. For anyone making a contribution, that's hardly a definition of success.

Do they even have a word for projects actually completed that fulfill their promises? (ie, the definition of successful project for the entire world outside of Kickstarter). Can this information be found on the site without reading the discussions for each project one by one?

EDIT: I love Kickstarter. I'm thrilled by it's success. Which is all the more reason I'm disappointed that they have a misleading use of the word "success".
No turn signals? How could they have not put those in yet?! Next you will tell me it won't tune the radio to my top songs on google music!
I believed that as well, but now I'm not so sure. The density of data gathered by the Velodyne on the self driving cars is far higher than the SICK lasers in that picture. Also, the scene may have changed in the interim.
Earplugs, man.

I got turned on to the joy of earplugs when doing construction work. The foam ones that you scrunch up with your fingers and expand in your ear, and throw away after.

It's a very different feeling. I feel like I'm underwater when I'm wearing them.

I worked at a wonderful agency with an open-plan office last time. I used earplugs the whole time and loooved it. You get all of the benefits of an open-plan office, minus the distractions of music or chatter, and for me at least, less of the ear-sweat I associate with all headphones.

Also, anecdotal evidence -- people seem somewhat more hesitant to interrupt someone wearing earplugs than someone who's listening to music. I might be wrong there.
Probably depends on the accuracy of positioning and real time 3d modeling of the environment. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't down to the centimeter level yet.
>I wrote this article and was very surprised someone posted it on Hacker News, where the audience is highly technical.

That someone would be me. I expected that HNers who are busy with software projects or with a startup would be interested to know that quiet systems are now available for about $700 without having to do a lot of detailed research (and I defy anyone to make use of Silent PC Review Dot Com without personally doing a great deal of detailed research) or assembly, but in retrospect, I see your point about its opening you up to criticism if posted here. I will be more careful in the future.
> We are setting HP on a path to extend our global leadership and deliver the greatest value to customers and shareholders," CEO Meg Whitman said.

Yeah, who needs workers who toiled over the company, screw them. Yippee for capitalism.
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So create a service that scrapes the "in progress" projects, then highlights them when they disappear.
>>>56% of Kickstarter projects fail to meet their funding goal.

Intuitively, this seems like an incredibly low failure rate, doesn't it? I'm amazed it isn't something closer to 80%, considering the fairly relaxed guidelines for getting listed.
I'm not sure how he got this figure, but a 56% failure rate doesn't seem too bad to me.
While those terms are interchangeable, I don't think they are equivalent. The OP doesn't have a monopoly over the Houston skyline, and anyone is welcome to set up a camera in the same spot and take an identical photo and use it for their website.

Is this the link to the book mentioned? http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
> The data from each situation would be ingested and analyzed so the car could learn what to do in the future. Those lessons could, hopefully, be applied to a broad range of driving conundrums.

This is huge. Maybe a handful of cars are learning there way around slowly, but if they have legitimate automatic learning systems, imagine two or three thousand cars all learning together.
Users who have the same password for HN and their bank are indeed bozos.
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Jobs also picked the G4 Cube. He made mistakes, and Cook may have been one. Certainly it could end up being an excellent move, but only time will tell.
Like a lot of people, exercising right after work is what helps me. Diet seems to help as well.

Timing of my caffeine is also critical. I usually try to have caffeine (2 shot Americano) in the morning and something towards the end of my work day around 3, maybe a single Americano or some sugar free energy drink. Then by the time I workout and get home I have a nice, sustainable stream of energy and can focus. I run into problems with caffeine if I have it too close to the time I really need to work. I get jittery and can't focus.

I also don't put too much pressure on myself. Some days I'll feel like working and get a lot accomplished. Other days I don't, or can't be productive later in the day, that's just life. No reason to beat myself up over it.
Come on... What is it about Kickstarter that bugs people so much?

Kickstarter handle the funding end of things. When a project is funded they did their bit. People contributing know they are getting promises that may not turn out. They're not buying stuff. They are getting enjoyment out of being a part of something. Celebrating when a project succeeds. Getting disappointed when it doesn't.

Maybe the hype will end and this'll all blow over. Maybe Kickstarter is here to stay. Either way, it's obviously not malicious.
> unless people magically start carpooling

Loads of bus routes will become viable when they can be serviced with a driver-less minivan. That's essentially formalised car pooling. That will make car-less suburb living much more practical.
Bicycles do not work in northern climes in winter. The average person cannot ride a bike in below zero weather with 40mph gusts. Trains are more expensive than roads. Neither of these solutions work for anywhere but the coasts and a few urban areas in between.

How exactly do you expect people to move furniture?
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Would you build a business that didn't have customers?

You don't say that the business is weaker because the customers are paying it money. That's called success.
I have worked on lots of personal projects (1), most of which are related to electronics. I do not do electronics for my job and I do not have a lot of free time. So, I've found three things to be effective at maximizing my happiness:

1. Have multiple projects on the go at once.

I've found that building multiple things at once enables me to best make use of my available time and resources (such as the equipment/components I have and spare money). One of the projects will usually have some portion that I can spend time on, or research, or buy something for. This is especially true of the researching part.

Depending on my mood I will either (a) not work on the projects at all since there are plenty of other valuable things to do (such as cooking, interacting with people, exercising) or (b) pick from the available choices the one that I'm most in the mood for (e.g. tonight I'd like to finish that amplifier, or tonight I need to read up on X).

2. Don't worry about when they get completed.

This has made me achieve more not less. The more I worried I wasn't completing things the more I stressed myself out and set unrealistic deadlines and then missed them and got upset. Going slow has helped.

3. Pick work that fits in the available time.

I might have an entire evening free, or I might have 20 minutes. There's usually something from the multiple projects that will fit in that available time.

For example, when I worked on my high-altitude balloon project GAGA-1(2) it took me a 9 months of grabbing an hour here, an evening there. The result was fantastic and I don't feel bad about it having taken 9 months instead of a month of total cramming.

(1) http://jgc.org/labs.html
(2) http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html
Some friends who are using OkCupid say that their potential date's use of proper grammar is one of the best predictors of compatibility and that this signal is surprisingly hard to fake, especially in mail exchanges (vs. profiles which could be wordsmithed by a friend).

I'd never thought about the idea that a "better" designed for-sale site where users would be lead toward creating a proper listing would actually provide worse subjective predictors.
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Simply copying someone's idea isn't always enough to being successful with it. Google+, a social network clone, still can't compete with Facebook. All of the Instagram clones don't have anywhere near the amount of users that Instagram has. Execution of an idea is what counts.
His attitude toward the competition (Amazon and Samsung) strikes me as similar to Jobs' decidedly friendlier attitude toward Microsoft when he returned to Apple. I think this bodes well for Apple. The only way for Apple to stay where they are in the technology landscape is to continuously disrupt their most successful products - in other words, they need to have products so good in the pipeline that they take the present day competition in stride.
That part made me grin. Most non-technical people I've talked to have expressed surprise that Google is the company furthest along with this technology. They see the problem as one of vehicular design rather than large-scale data analysis. Automakers are pretty good at the former, but nobody has proved themselves to be better at the latter than Google.
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I would agree if there were a way to find these failed cases if you looked hard enough. Other than acquiring the link before the end date of the project there doesn't seem to be a way. This may be a good way to check what happened to project X, but not to answer the question:

"How have other projects in field foobar done, which ones have failed or succeeded, and what does each group have in common?"
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Take a good look at OpenID and oAuth - that way you can offer secure sign up / login without having to manage user passwords - well unless you offer that as an additional option.
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We're a startup looking at getting some of our first hires. We're currently debating whether to build our team on a distributed basis (maybe use a co-working space once a week), or to rent office space with the advantage of having the team we build working more closely.

What is your experience with this? Arguments for or against?
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If by "fails" you mean "fails to reach the funding goal", then yes.

If by "fails" you mean "is successfully funded but fails to deliver" then no.
> 56% of Kickstarter projects fail to meet their funding goal.

I would have expected the number to be much higher.
Things that work for me are:

- Clean up the house first, having a clean space and already putting in some work makes me more focused and productive.

- Go for a +20min run. It takes that amount of time for your body to get into the reset mode.

- Take a cold shower, it also helps.

- Eat well, i'd recommend tim ferriss's book "the 4-hour body", it keeps me feeling great which in turn helps me do great work.

- combine some multi-positives into your life. By that I mean, if you are commuting that takes a while, listen to audio books or other material. While you are cooking and have a home gym, combine the two and work out while you cook.

- I have experimented with "binaural beats", they are low sound frequencies that help your brain get into concentration mode, relaxation mode, or even deep sleep mode. I actually think they work.

- 30min naps after lunch help. I find that right after lunch I am basically useless so I use the time for fueling up.

- Get the right kind of sleep, the deep REM sleep. The best sleep requires two REM cycles a night (3.5hr - 4hr chunks). Take some magnesium before bed as well.

- do not drink wine or alcohol until it is wind down time at night, I find that this kills my focused energy.
The first public accident that happens with one of these cars is going to get plastered over every media outlet in the world.

There's already been an accident, the car hit another car from behind. But supposedly this was in manual mode.
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You might try shifting your reading to the early morning before work.
Many people succeeded at this by going to bed early, waking up early and doing their things (developing, learning, whatever) in the early morning. This way you do so when you're still fresh!
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> Their mobile presence is at the behest of Apple, Google and (arguably) Microsoft.

I thought Microsoft had a large pie of Facebook. Maybe they can help each other in mobile.
He should add a spaced repetition system to his study plan. That way, you'll only need to study the material as needed as time goes by.

Wired have a good article on how spaced repetition work, the history of it, and so on: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
No company scores any points with me by starting out by greeting me as a "pseudo-criminal".
The Core i5-2390T has 2000 HD integrated graphics though whereas the mobile Core i5 part in the 2011 Mac mini (and I suspect the Core i5s in most new laptops) has 3000 HD graphics. Since the goal is for the system to be easy to cool, not having a dedicated graphics chip is essential, and maybe the OP has reason to believe that the 2000 HD graphics engine might not have quite enough oomph. His article says, "Intel chose not to include very good integrated graphics with most desktop versions of their Sandy Bridge chips".
I don't. I'm way too tired to do any work in the evening.

I've been most successful doing my side project work in the morning, before I leave for my "real job."

I recommend getting up 2.5 hours before you have to leave for work. Take that first half hour to shower, make coffee, and get set up to work on your side project.

Do not start web browsing. Just go to your to-do list and start working on one items.

Getting up early will only be difficult for maybe a week or two, then you'll get used to it.

If you're still interested in doing "work" in the evening, use that time to jot down some ideas in evernote and plan for the next morning. Don't force it.
I analyzed some projects in progress once (http://creativepark.net/1381) and that number is about right. There is some variability based on the financial scope of projects but not as much as I expected.

The main issue in my opinion is that Kickstarter tricks "ordinary" people into thinking they have a decent chance of getting funded. In reality of course only socially well-connected projects have a good chance.
You are in a privileged situation! You have advanced farther than 99% of others and have users!
As someone offering a product in the same competitive set, I have to be careful how I say this, but here goes.

The more I watch Kickstarter in action, the more I see them not as an innovator and entrepeneur aide, but as a middle man trying to profiteer on people that don't necessarily need their help.

The heavy hitters, celebrities, and true product engineers use Kickstarter not because they need to, but because it's hip...and that makes sense for both parties.

However, there are thousands of solopreneurs and dreamers trying to raise funding for really neat projects, but can't because Kickstarter isn't designed to help them. There are many that think they can post their project and watch the money roll in. It just doesn't work that way.

Additionally, Kickstarter never highlights projects that are near failure or underperforming. They only highlight those that make Kickstarter themselves look good. They do the same thing on their blog. Every time a project reaches a million dollars (or a new, similar milestone), the blog entry is more about the Kickstarter team than the project team.

I'm not saying all of this to bash Kickstarter, but I find it frustrating that so many people think Kickstarter is the only option. I find it more frustrating that people feel Kickstarter is out to help the little guy, which if you read the post, you'll see they aren't doing that at all.
Kickstarter certainly seems to have a higher success rate than rival Indiegogo, where 2/3 of projects don't meet their funding goals.
How is your crappy code affecting your customers? Is it delaying adding new features? is it affecting performance in a meaningful way? do you have scaling issues? is the code buggy?

Are your customers providing feedback on too many bugs? slowness? new features not being added fast enough?

How much is it going to cost to clean up the code? Can that time be spent on something that's going to add more value to the customer?

Also each code change you introduce adds risk/time for testing, developing, debuging, release. make sure your adding value.

If your in the code fixing something else clean it up a little bit. Otherwise it seems to me your wasting time on vanity.
Facebook's mobile problem was widely published before the IPO. Do a Google News search on "Facebook mobile" and you'll find stories from two weeks ago where Facebook admitted that they don't know how to monetise mobile on their S-1 filing.

http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/00011931251203451...

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry:

In 2009, 2010, and 2011, advertising accounted for 98%, 95%, and 85%, respectively, of our revenue.

...

increased user access to and engagement with Facebook through our mobile products, where we do not currently directly generate meaningful revenue, particularly to the extent that mobile engagement is substituted for engagement with Facebook on personal computers where we monetize usage by displaying ads and other commercial content;

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Growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where we do not currently display ads, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our revenue and financial results.
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FTA: For now, at least, the car only drives routes it's been trained to drive. My ride in Washington DC was along a route that Google engineers had driven with the car earlier. Google refused to allow the car to be driven anywhere beyond this well-studied environment, at least not with the media tagging along.

Reporter, did you even ask the Google engineers about that? For a media demo, it is not at all surprising that they would use an already driven route. The reporting here was a bit disappointing.
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