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I was referring to the physical aspects of the device more than anything else, though the home screen was also remarkably like iOS. All the icons looked a bit wrong, which caused the confusion that led me to more closely examine the physical device, looking for an Apple logo.

As to not being able to tell the difference between iOS and Android, I've never used Android, so I couldn't say. I have seen my friends using their Android devices, and all I can say about that is that their devices have looked rather blocky and cartoonish to me. The Samsung home screen did not have the Android blocky cartoonishness to it--it was much more iOS-like.

As to your claims about how my post "feels", please take your feelings and place them somewhere appropriate.
Why do we read? Reading.
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I think you need to get it established early on whether your other ideas are included in the deal. Ideally, you and your investors would be aligned fully, and you could bring them along for the ride... my 2 cents
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Selling my first business, a 6 year old automated website
You can search the news for them, but if you're looking to verify the anecdote: I don't have time to do anything more than pile them on, but you should know that SCADA evaluations of factories and utilities have been a mainstay of IT security for the past 6-8 years; there are hundreds of consultants who have found ridiculous exposures to insanely sensitive sites.
Isn't that technically illegal since it's considered selling?
I would go door-to-door soliciting contributions to a new encyclopedia, mailing the improvements out as a "National Geographic"-style magazine/journal.
I recently did a small group project in which we shared a .doc on dropbox between users on Windows and Ubuntu. We had the same issue, as well as disappearing page numbers and other spooky trivia. Multi-user document editing is hand-wavy art at best.
> Since HN is full of smart people, I feel like asking - do you guys realize you're smart?

When I go dancing in nightclubs, both men and women will come up to me when I stop to get a drink and they'll tell me they think I'm a really good dancer.

But when I go to a dance class and beside me is someone who works for a world-famous dance company, I can look in the mirror and see my skills are only the crudest parody of theirs. There are certainly thousands of people in the world who can dance better than I can - probably tens of thousands.

So it is with my programming achievements - one or two linux kernel patches for seldom-seen bugs in seldom-used subsystems? There are certainly thousands, probably tens of thousands of people who could have done the same thing easily - I was just the first to feel the itch I scratched.

TLDR: I don't know if your question is even intended for me.
True, that does complicate it a bit. I'm not an expert in this area by any stretch, but from what I've read, employees' rights are still pretty strongly curtailed. The courts have generally held that the government acting in its role as employer, rather than its police-power role, has roughly the same authority as a private employer would have with respect to its employees. The test for which role it's acting in at a given time is basically whether the search could reasonably be considered work-related. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_v._Quon was a recent case.
Can someone explain how this is different from any other Android thing? Is it not the same thing as my phone/tablet hooked up to the TV with a Bluetooth gamepad?
You'd enjoy watching James Burke's Connections.
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Viruses were widespread on platforms like the Commodore Amiga well before the wide-spread adoption of the internet.
When a code base uses a directory structure deeper than one level
I decided that it's finally time to sell my first profitable website. Mixed emotions! I'll write up a retrospective soon. I learned so much about business and niche marketing with this 6 year project.
Though as he says, not to lose weight.
Curious. Disappointing if they really are doing A/B testing! Those headlines all have significantly different connotations, so it would seriously lower my opinion of the NYTimes' journalism if they're choosing them based on linkbait potential, and not taking into account accuracy.
All things point to the app being a hit, users loved it. Nothing suggests a failure, in fact they say that in spite of the good feedback "we’ve decided to pursue our vision in a new way".

I posted this knowing that it looks snarky, but it is business as usual. I just can't help feeling annoyed every time a great service shuts down for no apparent reason, and guess this sentiment is very common. I'm relieved it's not one I trusted with any important data or depended upon.
http://kottke.org/10/12/james-burkes-connections-online
> phone/tablet

Please let us know where you're buying a gaming-quality $100 phone or tablet from!
Why do we raise Grain?

Alcohol
I would be a DJ.
It appears to be a British term[1], which makes sense for The Economist as it's based in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_article
We didn't write it.
I would argue many of the editors are as emotionally attached to the control they have over articles as well, if not the subject as well.

The issue is that without paying people, you aren't going to get a lot of people who aren't emotionally invested to bother contributing the Wikipedia.
It actually cost $0, as I already have one of each.

Are you saying that none of the OUYA backers has an Android phone or tablet?
That's not much of an argument. It's not very easy to mug someone from Nigeria. Eliminating a remote attack is a big deal.

Of course, the sheer number of certs given out guarantees that some bad guys will be able to get one using fake id. But the point is to make malware rare and easier to investigate, not to eliminate it completely.
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There isn't much funding for protein folding and hasn't been for a long time. In general, there are ways to understand protein structure and impact in other ways and that's where the money is. Of course, nothing has the sort of funding that genomics has these days (in the life sciences)
Even if there is an internet, this is a good idea.
Traction mistakes
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http://zzapper.co.uk/vimtips.html
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/vim-101-hacks-ebook/
An impressive JavaScript demo in 1kb (view the source)
The test for obviousness is... less than robust. In a quest for legal certainty, "obviousness" is tested by applying the teaching-suggestion-motivation (TSM) test[1]. While this does help to prevent hindsight bias, the fact is that people often fail to state the obvious, so there may be no record of just how obvious something was. So blindingly obvious things can and do slip through, though the Supreme Court has tried to give the courts some leeway to strike down the worst of the lot with KSR v. Teleflex (2006).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obvious...
Supposedly, high heeled shoes are also related to horses.

Men's boots were heeled to make stirrups more effective. Heels then became a status symbol, as in "I wear heeled shoes because I own a horse, and therefore I am rich". then the fashion jumped over to women's clothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-heeled_footwear#Precursors...
Why do we fall? Batman.
Wow, that's either cool or the worst word choice ever.

"insure": Provide insurance coverage. Arrange for compensation in the event of damage to or loss of (property), or injury to or the death of (someone), in exchange for...: "the car is insured for loss or damage"

"ensure": Make certain that (something) shall occur or be the case.
I was just about to post that link. While my knowledge of different teaching techniques is limited, from what I can tell they are mostly opposed to more freeform education which is likely to deviate from the set education standards and curriculum. Not totally surprising for a conservative perspective.. but it's less likely to do with challenging religion than most hackernewsers would think. They probably see these alternative forms as hippy free-thinking ways that will produce individuals that want to live within a different system, mostly by deviating from traditional workforce paths and not respecting existing authority and hierarchy.
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The really clever thing about this demo is how it packs source code as a PNG. Because PNG is a lossless image compressor, it's fine to pack arbitrary data in it. It can then be unpacked with getImageData and then executed with eval.

If you want to see what the unpacked version looks like, it's here: http://www.p01.org/releases/MATRAKA/matraka.unpacked.html
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I should say the rest of the PDF contains much more interesting nuggets... from the obvious opposition to 'normalizing homosexuality' to the not-so-obvious opposition to the patriot act due to large government.
Usually when someone describes a new product as "the same as x through y while z", it means the new thing is solving a pain point. Like, "isn't Heroku just git hosted on AWS which runs a Rails server after a push?"

The process you're describing is definitely workable and some games take advantage of it, but the Ouya focuses solely on making the experience of playing and downloading games painless. Whether or not they'll succeed is a different argument, but the Kickstarter proves that there's demand for such a product.
Are you easily able to connect your mobile phone to your TV? And does anyone even make games for phones that would benefit from being on a TV? I think OUYA could change how the platform gaming landscape looks like, and it certainly won't hurt for more competition to enter that market, hopefully putting some pressure on the existing companies.
It's also one of the worst things about kickstarter. The risk is moved to us, the consumer, and if it falls through, kickstarter isn't doing anything about it. We've basically funded some employee salaries, etc. with nothing to show for it.

I do think kickstarter is great, though.
Ah, are they providing their own UI, then? I'm guessing Android is just the backend, from what you say, is that correct? I.e. you won't have access to the rest of the apps and the system itself except through their custom launcher?
It would reduce the problem, and I'm in favor of it. However, patent trolls would mutate and become outsourced "patent management" companies instead, litigating on behalf of the actual patent owners in exchange for a percentage. While some creators would be principled and refuse to try to profit this way, some would not be able to resist the lure.

It also still doesn't stop patents from being invented out of thin air without actually having to build something.

I don't think patents are salvageable. It's one thing to own the rights to a specific mystery novel, and another to own the concept of "the butler did it".
> I don't hire someone to brush my teeth for me at $65 / hour or $250 / hour etc.

But that's not how the numbers you're pointing to were generated. They put a $39/hour figure on the time people spent to do their own taxes. My point is that if you put a $39/hour figure on say brushing and showering, you get something like $15,000 per year spent on personal hygiene, about 1/2 of the individual income.
> Are you easily able to connect your mobile phone to your TV?

Yeah, the phone has an HDMI output. So does the tablet.

> And does anyone even make games for phones that would benefit from being on a TV?

Are OUYA making games? I'm genuinely asking, I'm not sure why people get so indignant about my question.
Marc Andreessen “tried really hard not to invent anything new”
Anecdote: "You can do what with an email to factory-control+wethinkthispasswordissecure@example.com? What possessed you to implement that? You didn't make e.g. a web service because the corporate policy kept restricting you from operating potentially lethal machinery from outside the firewall? That wasn't a strong enough hint?"
I just hope I can get my product prototype to a meaningful place in time before a bunch of people collectively realize that most people selling shit on Kickstarter have no idea what they're doing and stop throwing money at these.

The race is on!
It's still a hugely popular language and easy to get started. I suggest using some sort of a framework such as CodeIgniter or Zend to make the code easier to maintain.
It should be honored in the exact same way as heterosexual relationships, on all levels. :)
No change. My startup's not primarily an internet-based venture. Its the marketing plan that requires a custom server app. Operations would be much different without the cloud.
The article focuses on blending communication & code. While it's great to build tools that blend them, we can't pretend that other channels and mechanisms won't be used. Hopefully github will see the importance of doing that rather than forcing everyone to live inside a github world. Back in 2004 I did a class project called Open Sources [1] at MIT that looked at blending public mailing lists with public CVS archives (no github at the time). Years later I see some of these ideas becoming more popular in coding tools -- my take is that visualization of group history and individual contribution will become critical as catalysts of open-based works. These top-down summaries provide a map & narration rather than autistic reverse chronological fine-grain lists, as well as giving a broader overview as to who an individual is and what they have achieved.

[1]: http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/OpenSources
I was toying with ideas for home automation systems before I discovered that the risk/reward curve for internet based businesses is pretty neat.

I do remember that home automation systems usually are the lowest priority while building a new house, so a good entry in the market would be to make it dead-easy to fit into an existing house. One solution I thought was viable were small bluetooth enabled switches any DIY guy can install either as a socket adaptor or to be installed in an existing light switch wiring.
This could then be hooked up by bluetooth or zigbee to check which devices are on and in the case of lights, turn them off remotely.

Advanced uses can be measuring and controlling power or simulating daytime routines when you are away on vacation as an anti-burglary measure.

Obviously I never built this, nor did I invest in acquiring the skillset to build this. However, I would have made the effort to get the skillset by now if the internet wouldn't have existed.
You, me and Penny-Arcade are all subjective.
It didn't, but it got pretty close (16 out of 22). Here's that one in better resolution: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Eye-chart...
If they take the $5mil and are unable to deliver, that might be the beginning of the end of crowdfunding.
> I think the bulk of the users understand the company has to make money somehow.

Understanding and caring are two completely different things.
I have never seen two brands of cars that I couldn't distinguish in a second or two, any double-takes notwithstanding. It would not take me a minute. Nor have I seen two models of cars that were slavish copies. When the day comes that all tablets look almost exactly like iPads, and our brains have adapted to telling the brands apart from whatever subtle differences they possess, you might have a point. In the meantime, Samsung is clearly trying to sell their tablets based on making them as indistinguishable from an iPad as they can get away with making them.

I don't see how anyone can support this business model. If they were an honest company, they would market their tablet on its own merits, not on how much they can cause brand confusion, or on how closely they can mimic another company's design.
I feel you're a bit off base, and are just being negative. Roger Bradbury may be trying to get his research funded but he's also trying to make a difference. You're just trying to out him as some kind of greedy scientist. He's right, we're loosing our reefs. He's also trying to research possible ways to keep a resemblance of what they once were around for future enjoyment. There is nothing wrong with that, and quite frankly it reads at worst like a kickstarter page for science.
Definitely agree that said risk is the big question mark about the whole platform.

Do you think that perhaps a few future scandals at Kickstarter would spur a "staged release" of funds to the project? (somewhat like how Greece receives its bailout funds in successive packages upon hitting milestones, rather than in one lump sum)
Probably because Google clearly has prior art.

The initial white papers about Google Filesystem were presented in 2003: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945450
We don't know that they didn't...
Yup, from the video it looks like a totally custom front-end. Sort of like an Xbox/Metro interface, no Android chrome whatsoever.
You don't even use this app?
> And does anyone even make games for phones that would benefit from being on a TV?

If it's an Android phone, then, yes, because Ouya is likewise an Android device and (unless they are tragically stupid, but I don't know for sure because they still have no developer information) is using the Android gamepad API so you could do the exact same thing with your phone.
Not disagreeing with you, but here are some ideas on how github could take things to the next level.

0. Get Junio Hamano from Google and several of the top git-core contributors, so they can start releasing open source patches to git that support github's long term roadmap.

1. Come up with efficient custom diff functions for a variety of common file types, not just image diffs but also dbdiffs, mp4diffs, and the like. Github has already done some work in this area, and a little known fact is that git already has some support for custom diffs in .gitconfig:

https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes
http://man.github.com/git/git-difftool.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9154110/data-versioning-with-git-custom-diff-for-specific-files

2. Next, integrate git-annex for storing huge files in git into git core, maybe with a configurable option for where to place the files (perhaps on a github-customized API to S3).

http://git-annex.branchable.com

3. Now, with some thought and work, you could start supporting diff-based workflows in a wide variety of disciplines, including movie, image, and document editing.

4. You might also start expanding the range of github to start including db versioning capabilities. I am convinced that the successor to Postgres will include schema versioning as a first class capability. One way to do this is to allow every table to have a list of historical schemas s_i each associated with the instances v_j that were populated when that schema was in effect. Then all you need are functions that map from s_i to s_{i+1} to migrate historical data forward in time.
They don't. Salaries are typically dictated by the funding agency or the university. Research funding often goes toward purchasing equipment and materials, but the bulk of it goes toward paying graduate student stipends and postdoc and technician salaries.

Typically, the only way a researcher can get "rich" off of their research is if they write a book or go on a speaking tour.
Ah, I'm on a data-limited connection and haven't managed to watch the video. Sounds like that's why I can't understand what it does.
Read the source HTML on New York Times articles, and scan the New York Times front page online from time to time to see the variety of ways that headlines can appear on the same article from the New York Times. I sometimes see a headline first as link text that leads me to the article, and then see a different headline as the article itself displays in my browswer. If I like the article and then think about submitting it here on HN, I have to think about which submission headline will be give readers an idea of what the article is about and what aspect of a hacker's intellectual curiosity the article might gratify.

To sum up, there is not always a one-to-one correspondence between articles and headlines as the New York Times is hosted on the Web.
The thing is, I have a $200 phone that has Android but isn't very powerfull. I don't own a tablet, buying one would cost me $200.

For $100 they are offering me a console that I could also use as a TV media center.

I think you are narrowing your view to people that own multiple gadgets, in my country that isn't the norm and I know that a cheap console could have a huge impact here.
Very true. I do think in some circumstances it's valid for the consumer to take on the risk. There are a lot of fan projects out there where, from a profit perspective, it just doesn't make sense for a large backer to take a risk bringing it to market. However, if fan interest is high enough and potential customers are willing to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak, it's an interesting option.

I'd personally love to see Kickstarter take it a step further and offer incentives where the backers can become more like Angel investors, but I'm sure there are a lot of difficulties involved in that...
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I just checked out the service and I don't understand what's with the hate?

It's a Pinterest/Delicious/LastPass mashup, and while I would not trust them with my passwords (they really should rephrase that explanation, or give a real overview of their security measures), there are plenty of people who will (my parents still store their passwords in simple text files :-)).

If they add RSS-reader functionality, I can actually see myself using the site as a home page!

I believe it's got potential - they'll have to work hard on the marketing and keeping even or ahead of the competition, though...
It's probably already on your radar, but Nest is a company that could mainstream home automation, if you are still interested in the area.
I am working on a very specialized search engine for software libraries. You can find it here: http://www.versioneye.com.

I don't think that we need better search algorithms for search engines. I think we just need more filters in the internet. With filters I mean more specialized search engines who are not crawling everything.
If I am typing in "Spring" into the search field, I am not interested in "Spring", I am interested in the spring framework. But because most of the people on this planet are not software developers and Google don't know that I am a developer, the spring framework will not be the first result on google.

Of course we need general search engines like google. But I would love to use more specialized search engines who are just showing results to a special topic.

I would like to hear your thoughts about this.
I suppose I will grant that, with regard to an ideal curriculum. With actual present day curricula, however - the highschool algebra summer course I took many years back had us produce the derivation.
I signed for the private beta in 9/23/11.
Hmm, I see. I should watch the video, I have a feeling it'll clarify everything.
For almost all smartphones, almost all of the time, 3g data will be on. Your objection above was that location tracking would require MAC to person mapping and the cooperation of innumerable hotspot operators. This is not the case.
I like the slogan "the spam free search engine". But How do they make Money?
Linus merges leap second patches
Why the Internet is just great. (a love letter)
How did this made to front page?
> Unfortunately trueskyrim hasn't had a post in 6 months.

Why not seed it yourself for a few weeks and see what happens?

> The only reason /r/Games ever took off was because it was started by the mods of /r/gaming and got lots of attention on /r/gaming's front page.

It's not like you can't work with the mods of other sub-reddits. r/libertarian is on r/politic's sub-reddit page