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Agreed. The vast majority of their pledges are for the $95/$99 console. Margins are going to be tight at this price, so even though the gross is pretty high, net is not. They're going to have to be careful with their money and not get distracted by the big numbers.
I think it's somewhere in between the two points you bring up. Kickstarter is used directly as a shop by many people. With the Ouya console busting all records, I am wondering when consumer advocates will begin taking notice, if one of these blockbuster projects disappoint the cust-, backers in any significant way. :)

And, to reiterate, I am just thinking of a reputation-based system, this more or less being an economy of goodwill. Kickstarter has so much clout and utility that the prospect of getting blackballed or receiving a poor public satisfaction index them could be a huge deterrent by itself without the need for any legal and consumer-advocate action to be taken.
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"If you make carbon a pollutant, then you have the power to regulate every industry, even eventually, people themselves (as carbon emitters). "

Shit is a pollutant. People themselves are emitters. And people are regulated as emitters of shit. Sanitation is rather important. Poor sanitation by UN troops in Haiti led to a massive cholera outbreak and thousands of deaths. (The UN troops were from Nepal, where cholera is endemic. Cholera hadn't appeared in Haiti for decades prior.)

If you disagree that shit is a pollutant, prove it: don't wipe your ass for a month.
Hence the joke "I'm going to sue you in England."

In America the burden is on the person being defamed to prove his case, including that the stated facts are unjust.

We have a lot of crazies here saying crazy things. It's wonderful.
I have always preferred the future of the past to the future of the present.
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Savings account underperforming and adjustable rate mortgage being LESS expensive.
I've donated to several kickstarters without a backer reward. They're usually film or music projects though, where the finished product is available to everyone for free.
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The <title> of this page (http://www.milliontall.com/about.html) is "MillionShort". A bit confusing. I'm guessing someone did some copy-pasting.
Related kickstarter blog post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229926
Again, I seem to be missing something. Isn't there a great deal of difference between "petitioning the government" and "paying the government"?

Here's an excerpt from briandear's comment about lobbying:

We all know who Hollywood gives the majority of their money to, and the people that receive it do their bidding. Hollywood isn't the problem any more than Google or Facebook's lobbies are the problem.

It look pretty clear to me that there is some sort of mechanism in United States whereby people/organizations pay money to steer the government. That's what I was inquiring about.
If I merely read "What We Should Have Said To PG" it's wasting time. If I write up what I think my own answers should be in that kind of interview, it's taking action.

If this answer gets 6 hours old without me replying with a link to such a writeup, feel free to mock me in replies.
I forgot to mention that it's an anagram of 'brain.' See how it goes for you _ I realize it's from far out of left field.
At least, the public outrage led to the exclusion of several extremely vague terms from the bill, like "information that might be harmful for children", so wikipedia blackout wasn't in vain, after all.

However, this showed us, once again, how incompetent our deputies are, when it comes to internet and technical stuff.
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I hope this guy won't have a problem with PayPal should his fundraiser work.
No, you're exactly wrong.

People who don't support health care for all need the outcome of their preferred policy position rubbed in their face as often as possible. And it's this: a man is begging over the internet for enough money to live his remaining years in what comfort he can, while hopefully destroying his family's future as little as possible. And what of the people who aren't drupal devs, or don't have an emotional connection with a community of people? They're just sol.
Turnover is a big challenge. Pinoys aren't always motivated purely by cash. I lived there from 2008-2010 and filipinos are very receptive and intelligent people.
I don't want to sound like "that guy", but isn't this why there really aren't very many startups/innovations coming out of EU?

That sense of entitlement and cushy job seems to prevent people from taking risks. They'd rather just coast.
"We can't predict tomorrow's temperatures with any reasonable accuracy, but somehow know the whole earth is going to turn into water world?"

I can predict temperatures in Connecticut next January with a pretty reasonable accuracy. Probably in the 30s for the most part. That's climate.
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I'd love to know which Tegra3 variant they're using - some of them (T33 specifically) have much higher clockspeeds and memory bandwidths:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6036/asus-transformer-pad-infi...

As it's a plug-in device, battery life isn't an issue.

Going with the fastest memory/CPU combination would likely be quite attractive to gaming developers dealing with HD resolution screens, assuming that it would fit in the budget.
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A very good point and something that needs to be built into the Kickstarter framework. Some way of keeping ideas 'easy' to fund, but still hold the initiators to a high standard for excellence/delivery.
I would be afraid of Google or any other big company acquiring it since it would result in locking down of the system to satisfy the lawyers. I remember when certain Little Big Planet levels were not allowed to be distributed because they contained copyrighted materials: http://www.1up.com/news/big-planet-levels-deleted-due

I want the freedom to load any content from anywhere I want.
> co-founders Alex and Chase will hustle for users

I'm beginning to think that "hustle" and "hustler" has jumped the shark.
i love the vooza video...much more understated. The collegehumor video is good too :)
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I've ordered one, even though I only do occasional casual gaming on my phone and don't even have a TV plugged in.

I'm wondering how they are able to put all this stuff in a box, with a nice controller, for their price point. It seems like it would be really hard to make money on this.
As an employee of FullContact, I very much appreciate that the $7500 is special-purpose fun money. I'd otherwise just squirrel it away and feel bad about spending money on a fun vacation. Everyone else in the office feels the same, and feels valued as a human being not just a ROI.
Using something like Mixpanel, you should be able to track anything that happens in your JavaScript code. However, it's not just a insert-a-script-and-sit-back solution; you have to be diligent about the actions you want to track and actually add code to track them as they happen.
I also imagine, as $7500 is higher than most people spend on vacation, that it can lead to broader life/world experiences by employees on vacation that hopefully can lead to great new ideas. It never hurts to have employees with wide world views and experiences.
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Excellent work on Leanpub guys, and a well written summary .. I think you can replace this succinct 5-point blurb in your "How Leanpub Works" section ;)
Isn't summer just about to end? Where's the product?
So we should rely on a glowing Apple logo to make our decisions instead?
> Why is it that when I suggest we emulate Canada's system

No. I left the country because of their health care system, and came to the US because of the health care my son would have access to.

In the first 2 weeks here, he had more care for autism then the entire length of time we were up in Canada (which included the more than year long struggle to get him diagnosed properly and get him help.

And he suffered for it. All because of Canada's, as well as Quebec's, health care policies.

I will not allow my son to suffer the way he suffered up there. That system, and the participants were, in short, abusive (and yes, I mean exactly that word).
Seriously, right? Integrate it into the Nexus Q and suddenly it (the Nexus Q) becomes a compelling product.
This is something that bothers me about Kickstarters that raise more than they wanted; they think that it means they'll have the funding to continue to ideate and act on it. Considering the string of blog posts about money disappearing from these projects after all of the payments and fees regarding the service, wages, health insurance and R&D itself are said and done, it's concerning.
Also in the US. Doctor visits for me come out of sick leave, a yearly-recycling collection of days that I'm allowed to take out for reasons of sickness. I have a separate set of days for vacation time.

As for funerals in particular, I haven't run in to this situation, so I don't know what I would be doing.
"The IR absorption of CO2 is less than that of water vapor, is it not?"

CO2 doesn't condense and fall as rain, so this is a red herring.

"CO2 is rising while the planet is getting colder."

The planet is not getting colder.
I thought this was going to be an article about "special" needing "trust", which seems like it might be interesting.
I'm a big fan of the English libel law; to my mind, if you write something about someone, you should bear responsibility for ensuring that what you write is true, and have the proof to back it up.

Placing the responsibility on the person you're writing about seems just plain unfair to me.

The only problem with the English libel laws is it takes so long to resolve a case. I don't understand why it takes so much time and expense, and would prefer this aspect to be fixed first - if at all possible.
What I don't understand is why isn't Google TV more like this and for that matter Apple TV as well?
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Businessweek's Mad Libs startup pitch template could help: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/mad-libs-sta...
When you are bidding on the Olympics, laws like this tend to get passed.
It's interesting to note that Kickstarter openly admits that 20000 people ordered the console. I was under the impression that all the money going into Kickstarter projects were officially donations due to legal concerns.
Agreed. In this case I didn't even bother with the link & went straight to the comments. Usually the first few comments point out some flaw of the product __in clear language__ and from that one can work out what the product being criticized is. Much faster than trying to figure out the product from the company's marketing speak.
"but on the other hand the single-celled organisms are probably fine, just because they have tens of thousands of generations to react to the change. Everything in the middle is fair game."

Maybe not the single-celled organisms that build shells out of acid-sensitive materials like calcium carbonate.
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I feel like this almost could beat the nexus Q in its own game, since the price point is much lower for a device of similar capabilities and the benefit is more obvious.
That would be nice, but I think STEPS is a research project that looks into how things can be done differently. It would be nice if this particular implementation would result in a shippable product. But I doubt if that is their primary goal.
This is pretty painful. Firstly, I'm sure such vote-buying is against the rules, or at least against the spirit of any such award. Secondly .. is this what it's come to guys? This? "Vote for us, not because you like us, but because we'll do pushups"?

These guys need to go home and rethink their lives.

> And if we end up winning the award, co-founders Alex and Chase will hustle for users on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan wearing banana costumes

If that's helpful, they'd be doing it already. It sounds to me like a ridiculous idea. So why even suggest it? These guys are clowns.
I'm sorry to put an honest start-up down, but we do actually have a patent pending within the US on using a combination of mobile, geotagging and social media mining to steal your data (and everything else you own), which we filed to protect investors in our new start-up, Robbrrr (formerly burgle.me, formerly @MyHouse).

We too ran into a spot of legal trouble with our initial concept, but lawyers have assured us that if we pay them enough money, they can insert wording into our terms and conditions that means we can steal anything we want from anyone and be completely immune to consequences such as negative press, criminal prosecution, or not sleeping at night after finally accepting the ruthlessly exploitative and completely unethical nature of our business model.

We think we've built a great service and have complete confidence in our future revenue generation potential, but as luck would have it, we've just closed an acquisition deal with a totally above-board company called PatentULike, Inc anyway. They have given us written assurances that they are experts on collecting patents like the one we are about to receive and, despite not producing any tangible product or service so far, they have a sustainable business model that will allow them to exploit those patents fully in due course.

We feel this is the most socially acceptable exit under our current circumstances, leaving the fruits of our hard work in safe hands, providing a solid return for our early investors, and coincidentally also making us richer than Donald Trump's hairdresser.

But we'll have to ask these Vooza people to stop stealing data from mobiles, please.
Well using the art bucket to sell it is really really stretching the analogy to try and make the point, and the weakness does show.

An art product isn't going to sell or be sold as widely as a commodity or even a CDO.

And even under the auspices of art people won't let you sell toxic waste.

And Some of those toxic products made 0 money. You may have had some interest roll in from a tranche, but if it lost its value even before it reached market (some CDOs lost value between inception/assembly and final release on the market.)

The money that rolls in is irrelevant, since the net effect is wealth destruction.
Actually, that's not what this sounds like at all. He's protecting his assets for his children and preparing so he can receive public assistance; he's not about to starve or be kicked out of his home or taken off life support or have to file for bankruptcy. He isn't even raising money for immediately necessary expenses; he is raising money for foreseeable care expenses in the future.

Your hyperbole is rather baffling; I don't see the purpose behind it.
I've backed a few projects that I just wanted to exist, or happen. I put $250 toward a documentary project. Sure I'll get a copy as a "reward" but the copies obviously aren't worth $250 to me. I just wanted it to happen.
On the other hand, essays like Philip Greenspun's "The Book Behind the Book" make book publishing seem less prestigious, rather than more (at least in many instances): http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/story.html , but then he also points out that a lot of the problems come from publishing models more than the authors themselves.
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Petitioning the government is lobbying the government. That's what lobbying is, no more or no less.

I don't speak for the other commenter and wouldn't think to explain his comment. However, when people speak about the government being bought, they generally mean one of three things, correctly or not:

1. Lobbying. Someone spends a lot of money to hire people with connections who can catch the ear of government.

2. Campaign donations. You can donate money directly to someone's campaign, or even exercise your free speech rights yourself to endorse or criticize someone's campaign.

3. Simple bribery. This is when you find a Senator with a few hundred thousand dollars of cash in his freezer.
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My problem isn't the cost, its that I have a battery so I can be mobile--which means I can't recharge it just because the battery gets low.
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And that's exactly the problem. There's a massive mismatch in expectations. People treat it like a store, where it's more like a micro-scale venture capital investment, without the potential for a huge return.
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My company switched to unlimited time off recently. It's been a great success and people are definitely taking full advantage of it. What's important is that our company culture is a very "life balance is important" type of culture. This trickles down all the way from the CEO to regular employees. Even the management and VPs take big vacations.
I was using official Twitter clients on my iPad and Mac. I heard that Tweetbot was slightly handy and useful on iPhone but I believe Twitter for iPad is pretty neat. So should I get this on Mac?
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If the hacker community ever loses the ability to laugh at itself, I would be worried. Taking yourself too seriously is not good for one's health.
Ask around on their mailing list they are quite helpful.
I also asked a similar question from the viewpoint of the TECS book: http://www.mail-archive.com/fonc@vpri.org/msg01614.html
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I can't seem to find Vooza's jobs page? Anyone know if their hiring?
I would also be curious with a maximum of say 1 or 2 month timeframe. If I was actually curious in an "around the world" trip, I don't think I'd want to stay 11 weeks in Germany, ha.
Wait until you get sick... you'll understand where the gap in salaries goes.
Yeah, I missed the "Apple" video the first time around. Much funnier than the second vid.
Twitter is still the largest Rails site on the web as far as I know, so anyone who says that Twitter hates Rails is either being taken out of context or confused.
Looks like they're doing a 70/30 deal on the games, but if the device is not locked to the App store, the games can simply bypass them and save the 30%.

They call it open, so I am guessing that they're not going to lock it down, but that can affect their revenue.
And now for the Android version...
FWIW, with RDF (RDFa, etc) and such, you could have machine readable and human readable API endpoints. Kind of like XSL but a decade or more newer, and possibly inclusive of it, depending on what you want to do.
You can take that week off and just save the 7500.
> I want the freedom to load any content from anywhere I want.

This is completely compatible with preventing the distribution of material which infringes copyright.
Tim Gowers and 12,325 others (including myself) have stood up to accuse them quite directly of wrongdoing, with precisely the aim you suggest.

http://www.thecostofknowledge.com/
That was US$150,000 for Kickstarter in an evening, right? I just looked it up and it seems to be a 5% share.

Frankly, I thought it was less than that. Big figures are really favorable for them then.
There is no "fabric machine" and you'd have to have my ssh keys to use the fabric scripts against my hardware.
If I'm not mistaken I believe the question the author is posing here is "Isn't it better to have a passive device that can, from 50 meters away, spectroscopically determine what substances you've been around than one that takes pictures of you naked?"

I don't know how to answer that. Is that better?

More to the point, it's not going to be an either-or choice. What'll happen is that these devices, if they are useful, will simply be added to the armada of devices already present. And, more importantly, just like all this other tech being developed for DHS, it'll end up with local law enforcement. In the history of the republic there's probably been about ten situations where something like this could have saved lives but now we'll end up with it everywhere.

When I say the TSA needs to be abolished its not simply because they are ineffective, expensive, intrusive into my personal affairs, and represent everything that's gone wrong with the security state. A bigger problem, it seems, is that they're creating huge markets for people to invent and commercialize things with really bad applications to my freedom.

A Star Trek tricorder would be awesome, but have we really thought about that? Do we really want everybody walking around with a device that could see through your clothes, tell what chemicals you've been around, diagnose your medical conditions, and so on?
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I agree with the article but would add that a lot of times sales people are hired under the "business development" umbrella simply to not call them "sales" people - most businesses don't want to be contacted by a sales person (except when you do know that you absolutely must acquire a certain widget).
At the same time, this isn't true for most startups: most startups by definition (given they do something new) don't sell existing must-have products but current nice-to-haves with a potential to become future must-haves if their transformative vision pans out.
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Ask HN: Tracking hours for 20+ person web agency
Ask HN: Tracking hours for 20+ person web agency

Few months ago I have stumble upon on software for running web agency business. It is some kind of tracking hours and project managament tools, but made especially for web agencies with 20 persons or more.

Because 'project managament' is really crowded on Google I cannot find them anymore. I didn't bookmarked and I didn't remember the name. I think the founder is some 20-something years old guy with Russian origins, could be Alexey or Sergey or similar name.

Help from all PM people that are tracking new software would be appreciated. Software is I think from 2012 and fairly new.

Their website is similar to Letsfreckle and I even think I am on good place, but Freckle is optimized as almost all other PM tools for 1-5 person agenices.

This software done by Russian/Ukraine guys was optimized for my kind of business, 20+ persons agency.

It has those features: - time tracking (with non billable hours) - invoicing - estimates I think also

It is SAAS application. I think it has blog where founder told it's build by web design studio to web design studios [or similar]

It's not: FreshBooks, Harvest, Paymo, Ronin, BillingApp, Fanurio, Ronin, etc.

HN is the last place I think I could get the right link. Thank you a lot!
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If you want, I'll do a clown suit over a banana suit, but I don't think that's as funny ;)
So he jumps out of the window of the embassy into an open car beside an Ecuadorian diplomat, which is then driven into the back of an Ecuadorian cargo plane which then takes off for Ecuador. Realistic? No, but I'm sure the idea fits in just fine with Julian Assange's inflated self-image.
I was thinking more along the lines of parallel connections.
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Wasn't there another case against Grooveshark saying the employees themselves were uploading songs on the site?