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Maybe you're not familiar with Android game economics. The but most of the top grossing games are "free" with in app payment (freemium virtual in game items). The success of freemium varies per game categories, in more incumbent game styles, there aren't many. But in newer innovative game types, like casual social games, in app payment is the main revenue source for over 70% of top grossing games. There's a clear tendency towards this model. But many (most) developers still don't understand it well (it's far from trivial to use right).

Their businesses model, as they make clear in their kickstarter page, is the same as others, take 30% rev share of the games (most of the critics seem to have not read that). Which is a multi-billionaire fast growing industry on Android. There's nothing obviously wrong with them selling hardware cheap to make up for it with games.

And their insistence on free games with in app payment only shows they understand this industry much better than most game developers. Which gives them a huge leg over slow incumbent giants like nintendo and MS. Who are still struggling to understand what the hell this freemium thing is for. (tip: if you see a game developer use terms like "DLC" or "DRM", it's a red flag that they're not catching up with our time)
Oh yes they will.
Except that there are civilisations which have died out due to overexploiting their environment, or the climate changing and killing off their agriculture.

That's two risks. You can add others now which haven't previously been possible, such as disturbing your ecosystems to the point where there's another mass extinction looming, or changing the climate to the point where you spark famine, wars, lack of water, etc.

That's where all of the rational discourse backed by evidence (aka. science) is pointing.
Very nicely done.

I am looking forward to do what @freehunter said - and modify the tutorial so that users can start learning how to do stuff faster.
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Another way to look at it is that it's the same hardware as the Nexus 7 minus the screen, battery, camera, etc.

Android has supported C (and Mono and Unity) for about 18 months, so those complaints are obsolete.
Sure we can. We just should understand what any adaptation means : killing 90% of the human race.

But when it comes to extinction, we can be pretty sure that's not going to happen.

Is 90% dead much better ? Probably not for the economy.
No, it's Adam but you're right that he should write something about himself within the company website. In the meantime, you can see him answering feedback in the comments of this discussion. Here's one of them http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226286
Honestly it's probably better they don't change the behavior of an existing MySQL character set. Who knows what software out there depends on it breaking on 4-byte characters, or whatnot.

Creating a new character set `utf8mb4` was the right thing to do, as annoying as it is. Just clearly label the `utf8` collation as 'deprecated' in the docs or something.
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You don't want to give unlimited access, but once someone authorizes an individual as a contact, the contact should be kept up to date automatically if a phone number or email address changes.

(Also, partner organizations might want to share directories easily; I can see giving a full access to your directory to a contracting/temp agency you use, rather than giving them accounts. I'm sure there are better examples.)
OLCG: "For example, you may want to split a div with a "span8" class into three. However, 8 is not cleanly divisible by three."

Kickstrap has implemented One Line CSS Grid for this case which could just as easily be handled by making the row fluid with three span4s. Or am I missing something?
That's complete crap. All it takes is a reasonable investment in technologies like wind and solar.

For example, I'm in Australia. Aluminium smelting here consumes about 1/3 of the electrical energy produced. Mostly that's done with hugely subsidised brown coal. If there were a serious effort to use solar power to smelt Aluminium instead, you'd see a big reduction in the CO2 produced, and it'd likely be cheaper than the current situation.

But there isn't the political will to get it done - primarily because of idiotic arguments like yours.
It's not what their achieving that matters, its how...
Diaspora delivered something, although not in the timeframe they claimed.
You can create your own flight contest and note exactly which cities you want to visit and we'll find you the best/cheapest itinerary. We're discussing now about opening up the results of this RTW contest for a smaller fee, would anyone else be interested in that?
False analogy, unless you think the current developer is the only person capable of writing code.
That isn't exactly the same what he is saying is that for many of us we can't justify the $10 dollar plan enough to purchase dropbox but would purchase the $5 dollar plan at 25gb or 50gb or half the ten dollar plans size.

This isn't to say it would be a good idea for dropbox to offer this whether they make more money now or with the cheaper plan is unclear to us just many people want a $5/month $50/year plan.
It doesn't depend on predictions. Climate change is happening; the models are just to try and figure out how much warmer it's going to get, and how soon.
Is there going to be a way to create more flexible contests like this as a Flightfox user? Right now it looks like I can only do the same sorts of things that I can do on other travel sites (one way, round trip, multi city)

I'd love to be able to put in something like me -> (any of these 10 destinations) or me + friend who lives elsewhere + friend who lives elsewhere -> (any of these 10 destinations)
I thought this was pretty well-written, but I didn't come away from it with the same lesson. It didn't seem like you needed any motivation to 'just do it', but that you confused what 'it' was. You thought what you were doing (bugging professors to get funding/advising) was 'it' (doing research). This seemed like the right thing to do since it's the norm (this hints somewhat of cargo culting), but you didn't realize that what you were trying to do, what others had done before you, was not truly a prerequisite to the next step. I'm not clever enough to come up with a slogan like "Just do it" nor am I certain of the pattern behind your realization (skip the prereqs? refocus your efforts? blaze your own trail?); that'll have to be an exercise for the reader.
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Exactly.

Fault tolerance is really the hardest part of the implementation. The documentation contains a detailed explanation of the features and how to use them. A future blog post will explain all algorithms in detail (it's simply too long to post in a comment). In the mean time, you can take a look at the code on GitHub if you feel like it.
I just wanted to ++puppet.

Once you have more than a few servers you will go crazy if you don't have a good configuration management setup. The real advantage of using a tool like puppet over something home grown is that you can hire someone to come in and manage puppet who will be able to understand how your automation works without having to have your system admin sit down and explain the 1000 little arcane perl scripts that make everything work.

We use client-server puppet, but require all the updates to be manually run, which makes rollouts a little bit more deterministic and avoids the "Hey we just changed puppet and everything broke" effect.
The Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984 allows it and US v. Monsanto upheld it. Since this is being prosecuted under RICO, it's lawful and Constitutional. Let's not forget that the US is only one of at least five countries involved in this case. No one has accused or has evidence that Larry Page has done anything illegal. But if there was evidence that page is violating RICO, then try can take his stuff until trial as well. As far as innocent until proven guilty, that actually isn't in the Constitution, it's based in English Common Law -- Dotcom's right aren't being violated as he is getting due process. Of course, te current situation of extradition requires a much lower standard of proof, the standard here is whether or not there is evidence that warrants a trial; effectively like a grand jury deliberation.
Does anyone on HN actually read about this case from credible sources or just parrot the biased reporting from Torrentfreak that Dotcom is a hero because he gave you free movies?

Dotcoms laywers agreed to delaying his extradition hearing until next year because it is not possible for it to take place next month due to all of the still outstanding issues related to his mansion raid possibly being illegal. It has nothing at all to do with the DOJ trying to screw him by delaying the trial.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/megaupload-founder-ki...
The RaspberryPi is NOT selling at a loss for $35. Neither is the AppleTV at $100 (or $80, which you can find new every other week on eBay). Nor are the Roku boxes that sell at $50-$100 for 720p-1080p playback and many, many others. Neither, for that matter, is the Huawei Android 3G phone at $80.

It can even be profitable at $100, if (and that's a huge if) they know what they are doing.
Not likely, as they've sold the movie rights.
You're not necessarily wrong, but they could customize Android to remove that limitation.
Love the idea. You'd really have me if I could at least see something about the itinerary. Dates, cities, at least. Why do you have a "view details" link that does nothing? I doubt that gives away enough to render your service unnecessary.
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This is the current formula for customer service (delivered electronically) these days. Drives me up the flippin' wall.

CSRs: your customer's problem is not resolved when you are satisfied.
I'm not really a rah-rah API guy from the perspective of governance, but they genuinely solve business problems, often in areas not directly anticipated by the API.

For example, suppose you're making a local website for Ogaki restaurants. Getting the addresses and phone numbers of all of them (a couple thousand) would be sort of difficult. Happily, their owners will be thrown in jail if they don't leave that information with the Ogaki food inspector, so if they have an API for food inspection results you can query it, toss the irrelevant data ("In compliance: No rat tails in soup", etc), and get your site bootstrapped in an afternoon.
They are insinuating that there will be more content/side-projects when they don't have to worry about the commercial side of their business.
Ask HN: What is the current state of SAAS in the iOS app store?
I have a required setup process (creating forms, etc) for my web-app that has an optional mobile component. Users who download the mobile component first have no way of knowing about this setup process because apple rejected the app initially for mentioning that they need to go to the website where there is an option of purchasing a premium subscription.

What is the best way to handle this currently? The mobile app is a small piece of the value of my saas app and the in app purchase options for tiered subscriptions are terrible.
Do you feel that way about demos?
You really want a source for the fact that his site was a piracy haven? Are you that naïve? The man has a history of criminality, including embezzlement plus the people that are defending him are the same people who complain about Hollywood and the RIAA. If he wasn't facilitating global piracy then Hollywood and the RiAA are irrelevant in any arguments about this case. If he's innocent, he'll have his day in court.
Hi there, in one respect you're right; we absolutely value human-power in flight search, which is why we're crowdsourced. But compared to traditional agents, we're much more aligned to your interests. Our experts don't take commissions, so they only suggest flights on their merits. If someone posts a better/cheaper flight, they simply win.

Also, with crowdsourcing, you get access to expert skill and local knowledge all over the world. You're not limited to the skill and experience of one person. Frequent flyer programs are important in this respect because few agents have an in-depth knowledge of these programs. Airlines generally don't pay commissions on those flights, so it doesn't make sense for agents to become specialists in this area.

Our experts come from all walks: agents, travelers, frequent flyers, etc. So you get access to a wide array of experience.
He may in reality be guilty as hell (legally of course he is not yet...) but that doesn't mean the law can take shortcuts. What is up with the illegal search warrants?

That is the sort of stuff that people should be concerned about. If they were going about this in a reasonable fashion I'm sure the vast majority of us would not be concerned. Do it properly, and if he is found guilty then so be it, and if he is innocence then so be it. Just do it properly.
Why would new Zealand even bother? What's in it for them?
Couldn't pay me to use IE. Chrome's extensions leave much to be desired. Firefox hits the sweet spot and is plenty fast. Since it's on a par with Chrome, I see the use of the word 'saved' as journalist-speak for "I've nothing to say today but I'm looking for attention".
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The entrepreneurs are probably faced with a bit of 'zero-sum' syndrome, where if someone else is doing something successful or cool, then they may feel that there is less room in the market for their own idea/product.

I personally come here for tech related stuff (not an entrepreneur, don't particularly care to become one) but still find myself getting caught up in the latest funding BS news. Unfortunately, SV (and HN) seems to be getting watered down with a lot of money-chasers. Of course, I am sure someone, somewhere was saying the exact same thing 30 years ago, so whatever...
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Should be possible; not sure how hard it will be to compile fo r ARM
Can anyone describe the types of people who bid+pay 5 and 10 thousand dollars for these projects? I can't imagine devoting that much money to a playdate at PAHQ or to hang out for the day with the designer of the OUYA. It doesn't seem like real money at that point but I know these peoples' credit cards will be charged. I don't get it...
Hi Zwass, working on it right now. Just trying to keep the server up. But we'll get to it as soon as we can. For most contests it's important that only the contest holder can see the details, because they're often quite personal. But in this case we'll post the itinerary because it's quite interesting to see how the winner managed to construct a 6-continent itinerary for $1730. Will post back soon.
The advice to run your wifi router unencrypted is not right. Too much of a security risk, too much chance of abuse in a city. It may reduce the chance of successful prosecution of copyright infringement, but it seems like it opens you to being implicated for more serious crimes.
Side question: I posted this link earlier, and it went straight to [dead]. I figured, OK, maybe this is something of tedious topic by now and it was auto-killed. Yet here it is. Any ideas why?
That's what the -y is for.

> fabric appears to be little more than a multi-system aware task runner.

And C is little more than a portable assembler ;)
Big red flag that they don't understand the distinction made by the requester over there. I'd be seriously concerned if I had sensitive data in their systems.
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I don't believe in AMIs.
You can blame Joe Biden and Chris Dodd. 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. Follow the money and vote the opposite. Their contributions aren't secret. We the people have access to the contribution records, yet people continue to vote for the people getting the money.
> Unfortunately I can’t talk about it because it’s still in a closed beta

This makes me a sad panda every time I hear it.

A good way to spot a first time founder is to see if they're concerned about competition before they even launch the product.
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Sharing culture? Copyright monopoly? What the hell is this article?
Well one of the OUYA ones is Notch who's famous for liking to help projects he finds interesting thanks to his own success from minecraft, so for him 10 grand to help something he likes isn't as crazy as for some of us.

And I'd assume anyone doing it for PA are hardcore fans who've loved the site for years and have serious disposable income to hand.
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Yes, they said that. And if you continued reading, you'd see that the OP knew this was not the case. Eventually, they too understood, and apparently fixed it.
I think people most of us are curious to see the detailed results but I don't think more than a few people would be willing to shell out any $. Perhaps consider opening up the detailed results for this contest as a one-time-thing? I think that the interest+publicity you will receive (in addition to already being #1 on HN) would greatly out-weigh the few hundred bucks that you might get from a handful of people who'd seriously be willing to pay to see these results.

When a post is on top of HN, I don't think we're used to seeing the meat of the content stuck behind a quasi-paywall.

EDIT: It looks like you've posted the results publicly now, nice.
Somehow I still have a 10GB plan which is sufficient for what I need right now. I can't remember when I bought it and I don't expect it to turn into 50GB automatically this evening..
I just ask questions, you shouldn't assume any real volitional intent on my part.
Dotcom's people are the ones doing the delaying.
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No matter what you're being prosecuted for, it's always a good idea to STFU. Police can and do lie to extract information from you. They will make it seem like the case against you is ironclad and if you cooperate they will go easy on you. It's all bullshit, they do not have your interests at heart. Their only goal is to obtain a conviction and they see you as the enemy. You should not discuss ANYTHING with them until you talk to a lawyer.
Not significantly. The CO2 PPM count is going up, recession or not:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/global.html#global_...
Things are now more fluid and there is much more pressure on being efficient but I'm not convinced that we're moving in the direction of less rules, for example

> Fifty years ago, only 5% of the American workforce was licensed; today it is nearly 30%.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120701341410579079.html
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Misleading headline and final sentence. The whole point of the article is that it's not dereferencing NULL. It's just passing NULL as a hidden parameter to a function, which in turn ignores that parameter.

I also found it rather odd that the author spent so much time defining what a pointer is and what dereferencing is, when the article won't be of any interest whatsoever to someone who doesn't already know these things.

And lastly, when I saw the headline about dereferencing NULL, I expected it to be a discussion regarding the circumstances in which you can actually map address 0 to valid memory (and therefore dereference NULL without crashing), and the consequences thereof.
The original reason I abandoned chef and puppet is that I didn't like something getting between me and the shell.

Why would I make the same mistake twice? My only real dissatisfaction with Flask is that it cannot handle dispatching its work in parallel. Not a big deal though.

I like knowing exactly how things get done.
Is "View Details" supposed to redirect to the same page?
I think the JavaScript console is a pretty steep requirement for someone who is learning how to change the color of text.
Not once you’ve just done it.
Seems to me that the NULL pointer is never dereferenced...
Here are the winning flight details:

This is a 6-Continent RTW itinerary for $1,730. We personally verified that it's a valid itinerary, and at the time of checking, all flights could be booked.

JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta (New York, US to Georgetown, Guyana)
GEO 25-Oct-2012 JFK 25-Oct-2012 Delta (Georgetown, Guyana to New York, US)
JFK 14-Nov-2012 TXL 15-Nov-2012 Air Berlin (New York, US to Berlin, Germany)
SXF 29-Jan-2013 AGA 29-Jan-2013 EasyJet (Berlin, Germany to Agadir, Morocco)
AGA 05-Feb-2013 LGW 05-Feb-2013 EasyJet (Agadir, Morocco to London, UK)
LTN 26-Feb-2013 SAW 26-Feb-2013 EasyJet (London, UK to Istanbul, Turkey)
SAW 18-Mar-2013 IKA 19-Mar-2013 Pegasus (Istanbul, Turkey to Tehran, Iran)
IKA 29-Mar-2013 KUL 30-Mar-2013 AirAsia (Tehran, Iran to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
KUL 02-Apr-2013 PER 02-Apr-2013 AirAsia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Perth, Australia - YAY!)
PER 07-Apr-2013 KUL 07-Apr-2013 AirAsia (Perth, Australia to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
KUL 09-Apr-2013 BKK 09-Apr-2013 AirAsia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Bangkok, Thailand)
BKK 18-Apr-2013 KBP 18-Apr-2013 Aerosvit (Bangkok, Thailand to Kiev, Ukraine)
KBP 18-Apr-2013 JFK 18-Apr-2013 Aerosvit (Kiev, Ukraine to New York, US)

Any questions, please ask.
I downloaded the stable build and movement came on Lesson #3 (pretty short lessons too)

I agree the audience might be pretty niche, although there are a lot of Java devs out there, and probably a lot of Java devs who want to learn Scala to get access to functional programming without leaving the safety of the JVM and all those Java libraries.

I also find tiny games/programs you can modify are a great way to learn a language, so maybe they are onto something. I'm having fun tinkering
The FBI along with the Dutch, the British, the Germans and the Canadians. Let's not make this into an entirely US thing.
Good post but surprised by his understanding of cash-flow positive:
Being cash-flow positive is...when your costs not including salaries are lower than your revenues
You are of course absolutely right! There was a bug (now fixed) that was causing only one cpu to show up in the VMs. All instances started after now should have the proper number of cpus visible.

(Note, the number of cpus might be higher than the number of physical cpus if the host cpu supports hyperthreading.)
At the moment you can put in whatever you want - we have with this contest - you can write a custom destination like "Anywhere in Europe" or "Round the World". There's a text box where you can put any requirements you like, you can even ask for help to use your 100k United miles etc. We've left it completely open to see how people use it and then build on that.