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> Lower your expectations. The happiest authors are the ones that don't expect much.

This applies to life in general, as well.
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Trying to come up with something funny to write about an idea for a website featuring pictures of tree limbs (Tree Limb Pics), but I got nothing.
I recently received a DVD that was a reward for sponsoring a Kickstarter project back in the days. At first, I was worried that the DVD might be region-locked, considering I live in Europe and had it shipped overseas. And while that wasn't the case, what if it had been? What would people do?

It made me think that there should be a satisfaction rating available to users, after they receive their reward, digital or physical. It doesn't have to do anything at first; it's just there for the people behind Kickstarter to see if someone seriously fucked up. People like these guys or these guys: https://twitter.com/jb/status/214437340737843200.

They could divide the reviews into two categories. 1) Did you receive your product? 2) Did you not receive your product?

The first is more relevant, because it describes the end product rather than the logistical issues that aren't - usually - as important. They can be ignored at first.

It's going to bite the Kickstarter people in the ass, and I think we need some kind of middle-of-the-road solution between goodwill and project creator ratings.

Who knows, maybe we'll see companies who offer Kickstarter insurances in the future.
I'm a drop box paying customer and would rather have seen them implement 2 factor authentication. Simple cell phone text message confirmation when anyone tries to add or connect to the account would help.
To be fair, it looked (to me, anyway) to be out of genuine concern that the change to the title would reduce the interest of people on HN who could see the post and maybe help out Aaron.
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223269

Wired one is a much better reporting.
This is of course stretched beyond reality. I can assure you won't see porn advertising on Olympics, regardless of how much they willing to pay.
I think the thing that keeps people from adopting HTML as a content type for APIs is the fact that tools don't parse HTML into native data structures. All the tools build up a DOM structure, which makes sense since that's what HTML is generally used to represent.

If we could agree to use some subset of HTML that would map to native objects in most languages, then we could build tools around that standard.

Or we could approach from the other side and just try to bolt on some hypermedia features to JSON, as projects like HAL are attempting to do. This seems to have more traction at the moment.
There has been a dedicated effort to rebrand "global warming" as "climate change." A cynic might note that no set of observations is inconsistent with climate change.

(There is a less cynical take on the matter which goes something along the lines of "Climate is distinct from individual temperature measurements and is a highly localized phenomenon. If the phenomenon described as 'global warming' came to pass, some places are going to get 'hotter' and some might get 'colder', because the atmosphere is really freaking complicated. Additionally, climate has things which are interrelated but distinct from temperature, such that humans in a particular region might really care about e.g. precipitation patterns changing radically enough to disrupt their agriculture even though they do not experience local changes in observed temperatures. Also, lay people tend to think 'Brr, this is a particularly cold winter, guess global warming isn't happening' but that is perfectly consistent with warming elsewhere and even warming right there, because even with a warming trend there will still be cold days and the usual variation in temperature cycles, and because people suck at measuring everything.")
Taking it even a step further -- I'm jaded enough to believe they're actually going to piggyback off the promotion of this joke with a real product
I agree, the Surface keyboard cover looks like it might make it the best of both worlds...a tablet that I can actually use on the road with me to get some typing done, and then docked at home into my normal keyboard/mouse/monitor. As it is now, I hate typing so much on the iPad that I use it mostly like a larger phone. Just a little tactile feedback will go a long way.

BTW, I'm still awaiting my TouchFire to arrive, and I'm still hopeful that it improves touch typing on the iPad, especially since this review was a bit of a mixed-bag
Oh, this is way cool. Not so much because I care about a gaming platform per-se, but because it shows that people care about hackable / open hardware, and that crowdfunding is a viable way to fund development of such hardware.

Given the sentiments expressed in articles like "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing"[1] - and the debate over UEFI / Secure Boot - it's very encouraging to see this kind of thing happening.

The availability of things like Raspberry Pi[2] is also encouraging on the same front.

Here's to the continued development of general purpose computing hardware and open/hackable systems that anyone is free to use as they see fit!

[1]: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
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That is the brute-force approach Microsoft uses. Corporations love it. I find the problem is that the "matrix" of possibilities you have to keep in mind as a programmer keeps getting bigger and bigger. You end up with the Adobe Flash effect (least common denominator) within your own OS or program or whatever. I would call that a very high price indeed.
Outstanding. Utility fog here I come. Must have been a browser error. Beautiful work, all my luddite friends were suitably impressed.
Since you're probably wondering whence downvotes: You seem to be talking about going into a thread with a confusing headline and not understanding the topic. You're not meant to wade in with nothing more than the headline as a guide. Commenting on a story without reading it is a really annoying practice that leads to some very frustrating discussions.

EDIT: Wow, downvoted into the ground for trying to be nice and explain constructively what I disagreed with. I don't mean to complain, but I would like to suggest that readers consider what kind of discourse they'd like to see before blindly downvoting.
"Morally guilty" is hugely subjective. I'm sure it's very, very easy to find a lot of people who would argue that Grooveshark's behavior is more moral than that of Universal, and it's hard to argue against them without falling back on legal arguments.
no. i can't tell anymore.
Yes, and please use/support the fantastic http://actionbarsherlock.com/

There's also the ViewPagerIndicator library.

Jake Wharton really has done the Android world a massive favour.
Show HN: PHP scrypt extension
I've just finished my scrypt extension for PHP and could do with some feedback as I've not written C for a while.

Git; https://github.com/DomBlack/php-scrypt
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Carriers realize the value in WiFi - it's present everywhere, cheap to deploy at scale and already exists on most mobile devices. There's precedent for WiFi offload - particularly in dense urban areas - and the industry is moving to support that model even further with Hotspot 2.0 and Passpoint certification.

That said, WiFi's not a panacea. Technologically it's subject to interference, the protocols allow for NO control over the handset (at present), and its range is limited. Speaking from experience running several large muni WiFi networks, the protocol does not handle power asymmetry well - your phone's WiFi needs to be roughly as strong as the AP or performance is terrible. Compare this to licensed cellular technologies which can pull in a tiny weak handset signal from miles away.

From a business perspective, there's a breakpoint between licensed and unlicensed use - at the point that WiFi's shortcomings have less impact than the cost of deploying licensed spectrum, it gets used. There's plenty of talk about small cells in the industry and I think we'll see a hybrid deployment style emerge over the next few years, with WiFi handling the densest of deployments. Carriers want to offer plentiful data but they want to do it in a way they can control, for good reasons - people are paying them and expecting a service in exchange.

From a good-of-all-mankind perspective, what I'd like to see happen is a transition to all-IP on the handset, seamlessly decoupling every feature from the cellular network. Apple showed the potential here with iMessage, which works well if everyone's on an iPhone. SMS and voice themselves need to be carried over IP in a device-independent manner. When I can send an SMS from my Android phone to my iPhone over IP, and call a POTS number over IP, I'm truly carrier-independent and effectively paying them to be a WISP. That gives me (and the market) opportunities to build a service tailored to my needs.
>just putting all the stuff in a gigantic landfill is a perfectly viable option.

Wow. This has got to be satire.
Good point. I can see more clearly the need to protect large corporate sponsors from actual competitors (e.g. Burger King, Pepsi) where there is likely to be a diversion of profits, but in this case, I am fairly certain that there will be no diversion of profits.

I suppose it could also be argued that the usage is detrimental to the trade mark but that point is undermined by the approved association with fast food/sugary drinks.
"I'm pretty sure they switched their stance on "too much" termination."

Here's the most recent statement on that matter, I think: http://republicwireless.com/blog/unlimited

(Also, I think they made the wrong call, and they should have "stepped back from unlimited". It won't be unlimited, they shouldn't call it unlimited. But I'm not planning on abusing it either way.)

I'm sitting in their Wave G, patiently waiting. I refuse to pay for both a nice home connection and a cell data connection, so I still have a dumbphone. Buying a smart phone that primarily uses local Wifi (which I am in about 90% of the time) but can use cellular networks as a backup when there's no Wifi, and thus only charges for that "backup" contingency, is something I'm willing to pay for. I'll recover the cost of purchasing the phone in something like 6 months, even ignoring the fact it'll be a much better phone in the meantime.
Make Us Do Pushups (and wear a Banana Suit) For Your Vote
This has happened to a number of local businesses here in Kitsap County. We live near the Olympic mountains in Western Washington. The USOC has gone after multiple local businesses in the past - http://web.kitsapsun.com/news/2001/march/03202namegame.html
Similar, yes, but the key distinction is that neither Australia nor France are governed by an autocratic regime with a history of using such laws to exert political control.

For example, let's say a group is organizing and advertising a demonstration on a social network, and the odds are good that the protest will result in a police crackdown. Might this be excessively risky behavior? The Kremlin's answer would likely depend on the group, and whether the ruling party has a political interest to clamp down.
Hey, this looks awesome, but you might need to work on your copy / landing page a bit:

"What is Philippines’s relationship with Hong Kong? Cooperative or competitive? Similarities or differences? What is the main trade between the two?" x20 for each neighboring country is a bit excessive :) Also, there are a lot of interesting tidbits that get lost in the following 20+ pages that you probably could have as highlights on the top of the page.
A couple of years ago, I was solicited to write for a traditional publisher. I contributed a chapter to one book and got partway through writing another before I realized that everything related to traditional publishers was awful and jumped ship. I spent a good part of the next year struggling to get paid for my work according to the contract we had signed, and it still pops up and irritates me from time to time to this day. (For example, the time when they accidentally overstated my royalty income to the IRS by a factor of 4 was really entertaining.)

Later on, I self-published a collection of my blog posts. The experience was the complete opposite. It was fun, the finished product was much better (technical publishers, oddly, appear to have approximately no idea how to create good technical content), and people seem to appreciate it more. I made as much money, if not more, than I would have selling through a traditional publisher. Although volume is considerably lower, my share of the proceeds is vastly higher.

I plan to begin a second self-published book (another collection of more recent blog posts) soon. I will only consider working with a traditional publisher again if the only alternative is begging on the streets, and even then I'll have to take a long while to think about which to choose.
You're right except that by 'kinda sucks' you actually mean that it doesn't support base station hand off at all.
You can kind of simulate one ubiquitous wifi network by using the same SSID everywhere. Then, when a user moves out of range of one access point, they'll attempt to reconnect and pick up the new one that's in range.

Wifi and cellular radio are massively different technologies, and wifi does not fit the use case that we currently use cellular for from a technical point of view.
Thanks!

The average cab driver skips a couple of hails to pick up someone a few blocks away. So, in addition to the feedback mechanism (which is coming), the driver needs an assurance that the customer will be there when they show up. By asking you for a credit card when you register, we do this a little bit better. With some competitors, even when the customer registers with a credit card, the money first goes to the taxi company, not to the driver. The company deducts a processing fee (often over 10%, 5% in SF), and may hold the money for several days (3 days in SF for some companies, two weeks in other places!).

We fix this mess for the driver, and they are incentivized to provide better service because of this. These are interesting times in the ground transportation space, with all the activity from Uber, taxis, and ridesharing folks and there is much debate about regulation. Ultimately, I hope this results in a better, sustainable solution for everyone involved.
If I want a European-style vacation, I just take unpaid time off; hell, if I take enough of it, I might even drive my salary down to nearly European levels.
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I'm not familiar with the iKeyboard — you have to remove it to switch apps? Do multitasking gestures help with that at all?
> For me, one of the little bouts of genius that Apple implemented on iOS was that you could not download completely free apps unless you had a valid credit card loaded into their system (yeah, I know you can get around this by purchasing a 5$ gift card).

You don't need a gift card either.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/07/get-an-itunes-or-mac-app-stor...
I hear people say that, but I don't believe it's true. The roots of the financial crisis were elsewhere, and it would have been just as bad either way.
The first video satirizing the Apple-style "design process" promotional videos was great.

The second video making fun of buzz words (cloud, social, local), acronyms (RSS, API) and startups being oblivious to making money is a really tired and overdone joke.
> It has color pictures - that's all that separates it from a woodblock print encyclopedia.

Well, that and it fits on a desktop instead of in 100 monasteries connected by donkey carts.
PSA: "cancelation" has two ells in it.
My gut reaction is yes, people would notice. Many people have interests or hobbies in niche areas. It may not be the majority, but I believe a significant proportion of useful search results come from the long tail.
That's amazing since it's less than a year since the Google+ app launched.
how did it go for you? I finished at the disappointing 12th place...
Want to decrease cancellations? Add a "PAUSE PLAN" button.
Can someone please tell me what Vooza does???
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Not sure why you got down voted, its a valid observation At some point the science will catch up and we'll have a better understanding of what factors change the climate both anthropogenic and what ever the opposite of that word is. Since ice ages aren't really 'global warming' but they are valid 'climate change' the latter seems to be a better category name for the phenomena.

A cynic would note that the brand 'Global Warming' has been co-opted by a bunch of folks who would rather you were required to live your life to their rules, rather than the existing rules, and so use the threat of human extinction as a bludgeon to mould the less scientifically minded.
Most Android devices are now on 2.3, not 2.2. And Eclipse is getting pretty aggravating lately.
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We have this in Canada already by mandate, it's called "vacation pay".

Every employer MUST deduct ~3% of every full time worker's pay and then give it to them at some point during the next year. Usually when that worker goes on Vacation.
they ought to try and sue the mountain
You can definitely make some kind of self-igniting phone as long as you warn the buyer. In fact it sounds like a completely reasonable piece of modern art. And you can make a car without brakes but you can't take it on the road. Maybe that could be an analogy for a financial instrument that you couldn't sell as a stock.

There are few things that you can't sell with proper warning labels. And even these toxic packages of bad loans had some value. They didn't pay out anywhere near expectations but they paid out something.
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I agree, it's bizarre to have a commercial website with no contacts, legal information, and a disguised whois registration.
We already owe so many push ups!
Dedicated but Balanced
It's worth remembering that Kickstarter is ("merely") a way to codify and publicize promises.

Keeping promises is no easier than it's ever been.
On a related note, LOCOG, the UK equivalent of USOC, has been enforcing sponsorship rights very heavily. Just today the sale of chips to contractors working on the site was banned at the behest of McDonalds, unless, they were also sold with fish.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/10017011...

They have also been taking action against small businesses in a similar manner for using the logo without permission.
We use Hangouts with increasing regularity. Just today I participated in one with 5 folks -- 2 from Brazil (different PCs in same office, 1 from India, and 2 from the US (different offices). It worked as well as our network allowed, which is to say good enough and much better than just using the phone (which, with VOIP, isn't always much better).
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I liked that idea in newsola a couple years ago...
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As a counter-anedocte, my coworkers recently did a three person Hangout between Europe and Brazil and it worked fine, while Skype was having trouble keeping up.

I haven't used it, though.
Then again (and recognizing you make a good point), there have been plenty of times when I read the site, have no idea what is going on, check the comments for some enlightenment, and feel like I'm the only one who still has no idea what the article is supposed to be about.
5 upvotes came out of nowhere in 30 seconds so I'm not too worried.

But I'll point out two examples from just this week where article+headline completely failed. First is Aaron Winburn; I had no idea of why this was on HN until a commenter helpfully pointed out he was a Drupal developer. Second is "Trello is now half-million strong." The headline, nor the article, told me what the heck Trello was.

Maybe this is conscious decision on the part of the HN moderators to keep out newbs.
Apologies for the slightly over-assertive reply (and thanks for posting the link).
Very useful.

Another tip to add to this is to create snippets or keyboard shortcuts for this. So "textfield" expands into the HTML code for "text input" on tab key, "submit" expands to "form action submit", etc. If you work with notepad++ then Fingertext works great with this. Saved me a so much time and typing!
This is very confusing. The product description & apparent functionality completely contradict how the press describes it:

Product description:

> "allows you to ONLY OBTAIN search results from up to the top 1 million websites (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites."

Representative press clipping from the same page:

> "Making the Web wild again: New search engine ignores popular websites"
The cost of charging an iPhone 3G for AN ENTIRE YEAR is about 25 cents.

(Source: Electric Power Research Institute http://bit.ly/NV287P).

Granted, they charged it every other day but with even the heaviest Wi-Fi use, you couldn't more than quadruple it, which still leaves you at an inconsequential $2 a year.
I always find it a bit insulting when a company tries to offer me a discount to stay; like I wasn't good enough to qualify for a discount when I was a loyal customer.

Lots of people think that lots of business will treat them better if they are "loyal" and stay with a company for a long time. If you're a bog standard residental customer and it's a large company with thousands or millions of customers, this doesn't hold. Usually those customers get some of the worst deals.

Forget loyalty. This isn't a marriage or an army, this is business and economics.
Neal Stephenson? Is that you?
This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve at Leanpub.

1) We pay 90% royalty, not 10% (with a flat fee of $0.50 per purchase)

2) We think you should start selling your book before it's done, so that you can find out if you have a market for it, and so that you get feedback from your readers as you are writing.

3) Once someone buys your book on Leanpub, they get updates to the book for free. This is great for technical books, as you can keep your book up to date when technology changes.

4) You own your book. You are free to get a publishing deal with a "real" publisher once the book is done (if you can stomach the hit to your royalties). Imagine going to a publisher and being able to say: the book is done. I have sold 2000 copies on Leanpub, and have tons of great feedback. Here is the manuscript. Oh, and right now I make 90% on every sale. I bet that gets you a better royalty rate than approaching a publisher with just an idea. We all know how much those are worth :).

5) We think our workflow is the least painful way to write a book right now, and it's getting better every day. You write in Markdown in a text editor, save to a Dropbox folder, and hit the publish button on Leanpub.