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Interesting data here on 599 projects. Which looked likely to hit goals, to go over, by how much, etc.

http://creativepark.net/1381

One interesting point was that most that failed did so by an order of magnitude. There weren't a lot of near misses.
And take the case of a photographer who, with current equipment, can easily create 100-200GB of content per shooting day. (I'm thinking specifically of a wedding or event photog using a Nikon D800, Canon 5D Mk III, or similar class of camera. Besides the raw image files, there are the catalogs, processed/developed/retouched images, resized images for common print and display formats, album layout pages, and whatever else may be needed to provide the service offered.)
>Yuck. The geek inside dies a little at reading this.

Is it possible to be as big and successful as Apple but also maintain some kind of startup pro-geek mentality? Was this mentality ever there in recent years? My understanding it was something of a Jobs-led dictatorship that worked because Jobs had good judgement and good taste. I suspect most meetings have global-supply management involved. Apple makes items on the scale of tens of millions. Input from the guys who make that happen past the finished prototype stage is going to be important.

I'm never sure what to think about these articles. They come out every so often for every big company. A few months ago it was how Google is getting too corporate. Or how Facebook is working its employees too hard. The inner gossip of how companies are run, especially by bitter ex-employees, isn't usually useful information.
Well, that's one way, certainly. http://cl.ly/402Y0p1028262I0Q2p12
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I think you were lucky that the patent was actually fought in court and close to a resolution. It's not always the case, so ignoring the troll may not be the best advice. Especially if the troll's lawyers are paid on a contingency basis. They have all the incentives to sue. It doesn't cost them anything, and any ruling in their favor reinforce their case.
Or you could view it that they are trying to extract an extra hour or two of eyeball time per person per day. Since you no longer have to drive the car, you could be using your android tablet on the commute to work....
I guess it works some places and not others.

Good luck at MIT getting through your PSETs in an hour a week- I don't care how smart you are.

Yet, I didn't go to MIT and I was definitely able to get by in some classes with good grades putting in significantly less effort that is generally said is needed in college.
"current Kickstarter policy of hiding failed fundraising efforts is detrimental to the capacity of future Kickstarters to run successful fundraisers."

Agree. No question there is something to be learned from projects that have failed by reverse engineering or seeing and analyzing patterns of what didn't work.

This is a problem also with the business press. Sure, you hear about spectacular failures (if it bleeds it leads as they say in the news business) but you don't hear about less than spectacular failures and therefore you can't learn from the mistakes of others.

The raw numbers of success and failures are helpful, but I'd additionally like to dig into the specifics.
I have a tip, on purchase of a new laptop gather together as many old stickers as you can, cover the case with them, then scribble and write, add a few coffee marks, a scratch and a scrape, you will have the world's least desirable target, it will look like shit, but it's your shit, and it's a little safer :)
If you're on OS X Lion, you should be using FileVault for whole disk encryption. Enabling FileVault automatically disables Firewire/Thunderbolt DMA access while the screen is locked. You can also tweak a setting to automatically erase the FileVault key before suspending the laptop, requiring it to be entered before booting back up:

pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1

I use

pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25

to always hibernate the laptop instead of suspending. The FileVault key is erased and the memory is dumped to disk encrypted.
So when is someone going to start a company offering small startups patent troll insurance? Obviously, Congress isn't going to fix anything. Other solutions need to be explored.
That's particularly bad because people often don't use skybridges even when they are there. Pedestrians generally don't want to climb two flights of stairs on each end just to cross a street; they will take the shortest path.

I agree, most Skybridges are terrible. But, it's a density and network effect question, when you can walk 6 blocks without going back to street level AND the shop you want to get to is also up/down there AND you take your elevator / escalator to that level then it works. The Crystal City underground suffers from making the underground path a lot longer so you can often get someplace faster at street level. However, I have both lived and worked in the area and used it all the time.

PS: Dupont Circle greatly benefits from being part of a much larger city, it is walk-able with a well connected subway system. However, it's a low density area and driving around there sucks. If live in that area or take the metro it's great, but you can't sustain that when building get taller and people still want to drive.
I'm really disappointed to see this as the top voted reply. Of course the reporter is wrong, of course his article can be ripped apart, of course this is a momentous achievement and the reporter is just too ignorant to know that, and we're all clever enough to see how amazing this is.

You're missing the point and the lesson:

This is how normals think.

I've written more here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018684

Don't just laugh at the ignorance, learn from it.
I don't think that's true, although I'll admit I don't know the numbers. How many people are active on the FreeBSD Core Team? How many commits per day do they see?
> Here's a simple business model for you

...which may or may not work for some genres of music.

Why do you imply that artists cannot sell content by themselves? Where is the connection between that particular business model and middlemen? Artists who make money off concerts might have a middleman as well.

Or the other way around, music that is sold does not need a middleman (unless you count iTunes).
A closer metaphor might be developers open sourcing their software and charging for consulting/hosting/customization services around it. Just like the special experience at a paid concert.
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.

Actually, no, this limitation has been well documented (but cleverly brushed aside). The car doesn't see and understand the road ahead, it follows an invisible line on the ground, and can stop if it detects danger. It doesn't read signs.

So yes, demos are impressive, but slightly misleading.
On this board "an MBA" is used generally and pejoratively.
I can't disagree more. First and foremost, if you have to keep quiet to survive then something is seriously wrong with your business model. Your product sucks and you either can't win over the competition or you're promoting only to the naive (whereby keeping quiet protects your shortcomings from being "found out"); either position sucks and I'd rather fold. Second, being open about your product affords so much more advantage over being stealth. Attracting an audience is not just good for building your customer base. Who knows, you might attract investment, press coverage, build your personal and commercial reputation, etc. Third, it's hard for a team to be excited about a product they cannot discuss. Keeping the team's excitement, motivation, and morale high is paramount to success.
If the turn signals are not on the CAN bus it could be annoying to implement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
Is Moving-Target Defense a Security Game Changer? Mmm ... probably not.
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> When I first turned this on, I set the directive in the configuration file to “Conneption: Keep Alive.” Apache began laughing hysterically at my typing skills, and promptly crashed

So a syntax error is now a "crash?". Web developers...
I work from home a few days a week.

As an introvert, both working and talking to people tires me mentally by the end of the day.
First thing I'm going to do w/ my Google Car is put a label that says: "PRESS IN CASE OF SKYNET!" under the kill switch.
This is a major piece in the overall puzzle that the article doesn't really explore. Google's greatest strategic advantage is networked systems - each additional driverless car is a mobile, sensor-packed learning system for all other driverless cars. I strongly doubt that the plan is for each car to 'learn' how to handle each new driving situation independently - as soon as one car learns a behavior, they all learn that behavior.

That level of networked learning system is probably not fully mature, but it's certainly not far from reality.
Yep, and time and time again has shown people pay for sooner. I really think people who assume "scarcity" is the only factor in economic models aren't seeing the whole picture. Exclusivity of group membership (I have a t-shirt, jacket, etc. with this awesome logo I can advertise my social status/beliefs), being "first" in a social group, and just plain impatience or apathy contribute greatly. If everyone was purely rational, I'm pretty sure we'll all use refillable water bottles, personal water filters, and buy food in bulk. Assuming the motivations behind every actor in the economy are purely rational is utterly naive.
Kickstarter's frontend is targeted at consumers. As a consumer, why would I want to see failed projects?

Seeing failed projects would probably make me significantly less likely to back other projects, not to mention how much more difficult it would make it to find them.

Not to say they couldn't add some advanced search option or something. But in terms of features, that's probably pretty low, and I understand them not having implemented it.
Reminds me of the recent tipping thread... Tipping is not required, but is strongly encouraged by social norms.

Maybe our society should develop something similar for art? Although the current crisis/capitalistic atmosphere is kinda counterproductive for such causes.
They can sell Mp3s but not for 99 cents a song... especially when Angry Birds costs $1.99. An entire album should be 99 cents or less. 25 cents sounds good to me.

EDIT: my point is don't complain that people aren't buying your product if you're charging them a price that's waaay above market value
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https://github.com/hackasaurus

(Specifically, I think you want https://github.com/hackasaurus/webxray)
About Angry Birds clones - surely they're called clones only because Angry Birds was a breakout hit? In the case of more modest successes, their copycats may be the first thing that many people browsing the App store see. Then they never see the original in the first place (especially if the copycat has gamed the placement or search results). Then they'll never know it was a clone of something that came earlier.

(If you have an app that is clearly better and is at the top of the marketing pile, then there's no problem of course. Let others clone you all they want - you'll still stay ahead.)
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I agree. I was very lucky the case was so close to a resolution and that my research (and that of my wife, who has experience in the legal field) led us to believe their case was weak.

Also, as I stated in the post, I do not broadly advise ignoring legal claims:

"...if you are contacted about a patent violation, I highly recommend hiring a lawyer to look things over. The last thing you want is to ignore a legitimate infringement claim or legal issue".
I'm not sure if it's unique to my area, but I've found the same issue with computers on CL.

I work with quite a few non-profits and they're always looking for newer computers to replace their aging or outright broken P3 era machines running XP or even 98.

I have a few RSS feeds for about a 35 mile radius and 95% of the listing are some crap machine with a Celeron-D or Sempron. "Top of the line! Bought at Walmart 4 years ago for $800, selling for $500 FIRM. Has blue screen on startup, but it should be a simple fix."

Every 5-6 months or so something worthwhile like a P4 w/ HT or a C2D with a dead HD will show up for $30-50.
From wiki:

"Cook [was born in 1960 and] grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, near Mobile. His father was a shipyard worker, while his mother was a homemaker. Cook graduated from high school at Robertsdale High School, earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1988."

His family might have been blue-collar, but you seem to be right in that after graduation in 1982 he would have been 22, and presumably taken a regular white-collar job and later entered business school. Pretty standard trajectory.
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Agencies, in effect, earn a percentage of the spend. But this amount is determined up front. Clients go to market saying "We have $x for client y and we want to know which shops will give us the most bang for the buck."

Shops that over-promise then fail to maintain reasonable profit margins don't survive. At the same time, there's pressure on clients to work with established players, since a campaign gone bad is even harder to defend when it turns out the the marketing budget was blown on inexpedienced and / or desperate people who were willing to seriously undercut competitors just to land the account.
It is sad that public heroes like Armstrong don't support companies like SpaceX but try to underplay it or criticize it.

http://www.space.com/14936-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-60-minutes-i...

Won't it be amazing that NASA will be able to focus on "real exploration" rather than transport. NASA does not have to shrink. In fact the money that is saved on transport could end up creating more jobs for Americans... More fruitful jobs.

Hmmm but 2033 mars rendezvous... hmmm maybe tourist camp on moon was better :-(
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I would say it is forcing the market to decide.

When I have to be a patron, I can't just lean back and honor good products by buying them. I have to look up names, sample their past work, invest money in projects that might suck.

I'd do everything that investors are paid for right now. Except I would feel I'm wasting my life away because I'm doing all this over €10, not €10m.
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Precisely. Great songs that touch people are exceedingly scarce. Recordings of great songs are not. Same goes for great books, great movies, great product design.
I'm always a bit shocked at how incestuous this community can be. Many articles that pop up are simply responses to other articles, rarely containing enough content to justify being anything other than a comment. In this case, I saw the content of this article condensed into a single, well written, concise comments on the article about that guy making $8k off of some Mac OS X app. Worse, that was an article I found a bit obnoxious in and of itself (it felt hard to justify that as anything other than boasting when I'm fairly certain everyone understands a well promoted sale can do some good.)

Closing off that rant and moving on to an actual comment, I don't know that I agree with the 'advice' here. If you have to hide the fact that your idea is making money out of fear of copy-cats stealing up your business, then it was certainly not a sustainable model to begin with. It's a good way to make a quick buck and, in that context, this is likely good advice, I just wouldn't count on some project that depended on it to last any meaningful amount of time.
This reminds me of the game Darwinia by Introversion.

This happened years ago. After hearing about it and trying the demo, I downloaded what I thought was the full copy over a P2P network.

The downloaded game behaved like the full copy and contained the first 2 levels as far as I remember. After that came a sequence spoken by the scientist that went a bit like "Let's be honest. You and I know that this isn't a legal copy and I don't blame you." and went on about how supporting the developers was important. After that no further levels could be played.

Introversion seems to have leaked this version on P2P networks themselves. I bought the full copy a short while later.

It's strange that I have yet to find any online sources or Youtube videos about this on the web. I guess no one wants to admit having pirated Darwinia.
Right and that was his opinion. Obviously in any decision (investment or otherwise) there are going to be people on both sides of the issue.

The problem is knowing whether to believe them or not.

(Like Wanamaker said about advertising, something like "I know 50% of my ads work but I don't know which 50%")
I'm guessing no insurance company wants to get the middle of monitoring everything a software company does to make sure it isn't deliberately trying to get away with infringing on a bunch of patents to cut corners because they know their butt is covered by their insurance. Essentially, it would be too easy for dishonest people to take advantage of it, and too difficult for insurance companies to gather relevant metrics and set a reasonable price.
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Because it's a large upfront expense from which they can't see the longer term benefits to productivity and output.
It's all built on Ruby on Rails, and it's running on Heroku - expect a more detailed post later on the Moki blog :)
They may be a disaster for the car companies, but they'd be a huge success for the only car company to have one, if only one car company had one. Thus is how competition can drive adopting new technologies even when they make their industry less profitable.
It seemed like science-fiction to short-sighted ignorants a few years ago, maybe.
Why don't musicians just decline to license their music if they get tiny share? Can't they create some sort of union that would give them bigger negotiating power? Or just sell the music on the internet? I wonder why market mechanics don't work here.
Just as a note -- a site offline page indicates a back end origin server issue in the vast majority of instances. That wouldn't be short coming of CloudFlare though if the back end web server is having issues.
Changing the way iPhone apps are built.
Thanks! I ask because I hope my product fits the balsamiq mold and one of our strategies has been to be open and share stuff, so this post made me feel uncertain about that strategy!
I saw another post with book recommendations, I disagreed with them but instead of writing a snide remark I decided to write my own list. Hope it helps some of you out.
Yahoo Axis Logo...Gosh, looks so familiar, where have I seen this before?
Author mentions he runs his own VPN on linode.

Does anyone know of a simple step-by-step guide for doing this? I tried once in the past but got stuck (I forget where) and gave up instead used a third party service like StrongVPN which i'm not too happy with.

I would think it's a common enough use-case that maybe there's a repo I could clone or something to make it super-simple.
Meh. If I can print a spatula or buy one for $1 at Wal-Mart, I could care less. Printing will work for some stuff, but consider a) materials used to print still aren't any more plentiful just because you can shape them and b) expensive, hetereogenous, multipart things can't be printed, e.g. a complete car (engine, chairs, windshield, seatbelts, etc.) 3D printing looks like it makes cheap items cheaper. So, what, we put a few businesses out and free up some of China's workforce?
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> morally wrong, if not outright encoded in law

I'd say exactly the oposite. It's illegal (= prohibited by law), but might not be morally wrong - I don't feel bad for downloading movies/music when any of the following are met:

(i) the content is not readily available (e.g. movies right after release, movies and music in non-G6 countries)
(ii) the content is of shitty quality or atmosphere (e.g. low bitrate, CDs, cinemas)
(iii) I would not pay for content (i.e. even if it were readily available in supreme quality, I would rather not have it than buy it) (e.g. albums that I'm not sure are good).
Of course it was his opinion.. what else could it be?

The point is that this columnist is not being revisionist.
The reporter is right, and we're wrong. The question the article is answering is "Are Google's self-driving cars ready?" The article explains in general-interest terms why they're not.

You or I might be tempted to buy that exact car today as a beta, knowing that we'd have to tweak a lot of things, but (a) I don't want to drive in a world where your beta car with your rooted ROMs is driving around (and you definitely don't want to drive on the same streets as my inexperly-rooted ROMS, trust me); (b) the grandparent comment is underestimating the work involved in micro-mapping all of the possible routes, let alone the vast array of possible interactions between other vehicles, humans, animals, new road hazards, weather, etc. all mixed together.

I'm sure it's going to be a few years. Maybe more than a few. But that's okay with me. The stakes are pretty high for two-ton hunks of metal moving at 60 mph. This is something we all definitely want them to get as close to correct as humanly possible before it's available to consumers.