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Apple didn't invent the GUI or the mouse, which were all taken from Xerox who in turn took them from earlier people. They leaned heavily on open source for their comeback but did quite a lot to obstruct return contributions or fostering a proper open source eco-system. They also relied on funding from Microsoft for their return. They borrowed extremely heavily from old products for their re-invention [1]. Jobs delusionally claimed the iPhone technology was somehow "stolen", when there were tons of tablets and smart phones before the iPhone and people had bolts on their physical doors which were "slide to unlock". This instigated a wave of patent attacks, including Jobs getting his personal friend the CEO of Oracle to attack Android on facetious Java issues that resulted in them getting spanked in court. And now, as the private Samsung design images show, the claims about the similarity of the Samsung models are just laughable. But nevertheless they don't want to compete on merit against products that look vaguely similar (in a world of rectangles...) but have "SAMSUNG" in large lettering on the box and the back. They try to claim that customers would be confused by this entirely different branding and even got a number of temporary injunctions against competitors. In addition to this they run the App store like dictators, and small developers are cast to the wolves at a moments notice. They have horrible customer service in many places outside of the USA (and even there they've be sued numerous times in the USA for dodgy practices like selling phones with dodgy reception). They are not God, they are just a publicly traded company looking for profit.

Gatekeeper confirms that it's not special and just another public company with a legal duty to make profit for shareholders in spades. Imagine a desktop as locked down as an iPhone, with "dev boxes" that let you run your own apps for a few hundred more, it's positively stomach churning even at the most basic level, then you have to factor in that they will cave in to all sorts of special interests (and perhaps security services). As I understand it, those in the app store gold rush already have to pay for all sorts of development licence and software stuff as it doesn't come with the OS. But what if the TSA doesn't like your TOR app because it's exporting munitions to terrorists? We used to laugh at that law back in the 1990s because it was unenforceable, now it looks like we are headed for a future where the app would just silently disappear from people's desktops. But you paid extra for the dev kit version right? But as you had illegal apps which were detected on your desktop your commercial bread-and-butter ones are now suspended, under review, or taking longer to review for updates.

Steve Jobs' pathological lying about Apple's inventiveness always struck me as unsettling, but there is much worse coming in the future I fear.

[1]http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secr...
Or $3K last june. It's easy to make great investment decisions with hindsight.
> Who are you to make a claim as to if it will last or if it won't or how valuable bitcoins are.

A speculator, same as you. This is implied. Besides, what has who I am got to do with what I say?

> We have no evidence to the contrary, and in fact, bitcoin being a deflationary currency by definition means it will likely increase in value and, what's more, if you look at the trend it has been increasing in value. If you were to use a single shred of logic then your conclusion would be "it might or might not last", but that's hardly a useful post.

Bitcoin's a great idea, but people have been using it to make a quick buck. That's why (I think) it won't last.

> Well, since people are RIGHT NOW paying over 10 dollars for a bitcoin that indicates that yes, yes it is.

Would you buy houses because "they're a great investment" was "good advice" pre-2008? Speculators aren't using bitcoins to buy $10 worth of stuff, they're using buying bitcoins because they think they can earn more than $10 worth of dollars. So, bitcoin's success is based off of it's ability to earn dollars, not buy stuff: this is what makes it unstable.
biohacker Dave Asprey publishes had developed "The Bulletproof diet" around these principals (and a lot of others). He's selling stuff, but also gives a ton of advice for free. Google it if you are interested.
I don't know if 'bitcoins are being created every day' is the right way of looking at it? Bitcoins are more discovered as opposed to created. It would be like if every USD ever was buried and people were gradually digging them out of the ground and everyone knew exactly how many were buried? The amount of bitcoins in circulation is increasing but the total amount of bitcoins that will ever exist isn't increasing at all.
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"Fact is, meeting new people is hard."

Meeting a limited amount of new people is fine. I definitely like some of the people that I've met on HN but have never seen them either visually in real time or in person. And I have no desire to do so. I think that's a disadvantage.

Now you might say it would be cool if the person you met was a pretty girl (or guy) but would it really be? Or just another reason to waste time gawking at someone located in another time zone and waste time dreaming of something that would never happen.
The value of the currency doesn't really matter to those of us who use it - It could be 1 bitcoin to 1 USD, or 1 bitcoin to 10 USD - as long as the downwards volatility is kept to a minimum.

What's problematic is when you buy something worth $50 USD with 5 Bitcoins, and the Bitcoin to USD drops before the seller can get their USD from MtGOX (or whoever their Currency Exchange house is).

The upwards volatility isn't a problem in that buyer/seller scenario. If I want to buy something worth $50 USD, and I go purchase 5 bitcoins for $50USD, and then, those bitcoins are worth $55USD by the time the purchase clears, then I only paid $50USD and the Vendor received $55 USD. Everyone comes out a winner.
There isn't a great way to make it easy for the user. Assuming that the password is "something you know" you need to add either "something you have" or "something you are" to the mix. That will mean tokens/cell phones/computers/other physical objects or effective biometrics. There are some creative ways to deal with this, but no matter how you look at it; it still is an added inconvenience for the user.
Raising massive amounts of money does not necessarily mean that is going to be a good product. Contrarily, all this money seems kind of down the drain at this point.

The author is trying to make a point that the product is not living upto its 'supposed' reputation - the money, the investors, the creators etc. For products like these I think that the first few weeks are all the more crucial.
And I wish I had invested $10K instead of $1K in ARMH back when it was $5. It's easy to see missed financial opportunities in retrospect.
I beta tested the app and got addicted pretty quickly. It's fun and gorgeous -- really a cut above most mobile games when it comes to craft and attention to detail.
The exchange doesn't have much of an effect when most goods are priced relative to the exchange rate (many sites even automate this). The only thing the currency price represents is the relative change in market size where these coins are used.
Yes, that would be the legal lesson to learn from this. :)
So it is free to convert from USD to Bitcoin and vice versa ?

Because clearly I wouldn't want to hold anything in Bitcoin for a long period of time due to its instability.
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I know, I know, but I'm assuming that most gittip users are American; if an acquaintance asked you (I'm guessing you're American) "How much money do you earn?", wouldn't you feel uncomfortable?
>On that high of a level, business is business.

Now, I have about as much experience at that level as you likely do, which is to say, none, but one of the primary functions of a leader is choosing empoloyees. And it takes one to know one.

I'm sorry, but it's extrordenarily difficult to hire outside of what you know. Do you know how many people have approached me /this week/ as an expert? I mean, I laugh, but I really am the best those people could find. This wasn't due to lack of money; this was because they didn't have much knowledge of my field, and because I'm loud. (I mean, some of that has value; I do write better than most people. I am more outgoing and have more tolerance for bullshit than most people that are actually experts. But that is mostly bullshit.)

I mean, sure, get a trusted co-founder or what have you. but if you don't have those skills? you won't know if that co-founder is a real expert... or me.
32,000 plays and only $132. That seems really bad, if music does start to move more towards streaming than purchasing artists are screwed. It would take nearly 300,000 plays at this rate for someone living in an average city apartment to make rent.

The internet and technology in general have done some great things for music but making money is harder than ever.
Am I the only one to think Bitcoin is just a big Ponzi scheme benefiting the first users/creators who got all the first ones?
I liked the ad as well.

Reminded me a little of http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/ video.

"Of course, it tells me almost nothing about the product"

I think it piques your interest and gives you a broad overview. But while it's funny it takes to long and tries to hard to be slick and funny.

With the dollarshaveclub.com video you felt like you were being played but time passed much easier.
Thanks, I always wondered about this.
The threshold seems to be a bit higher though: Nicole060 has made 8 comments as of now.
(not parent poster here, but here's my advice):

Drink lots of water. When you feel like you _must_ eat right now (rarely happens after day two), drink a liter of water, and go for a short 5 minute walk.

Also, add a few drops of freshly squeezed lemon juice to your water. The availability of flavor is often enough to get you through the hard 5 minutes (and after day two, it is rarely more than 5 minutes).
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Played around with the site a little and was not too impressed. What are your guys opinion on this?
Your post specifically said SPEAR hunting. You do not hunt small game with a spear. Trapping is usually the most effective way of getting meat in the wild.

Off topic but some of the best traps are large modern mouse-traps. Just make sure to drill a hole and tie it to a tree with a strong rope so the animal doesn't pull it away. Set it, and you will almost certainly capture a small mammal within a day.
Chatroulette is still wildly popular, they have anywhere from 15k - 70k users online at any time. It's not what it once was and it's not a great business, but to say it's a "fad" is just plain wrong.

I just loaded the site and I can see 52,000 people online.
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It took us a little over a year. Our team is three people:

Michael Tseng - Designer (Me)
Steve Finkelstein - Backend Developer
Adam Bellmore - Front End Developer

We've also had quite a few freelancers help out though to illustrate all of the locations and other assets was time consuming.
Yes, the point is that, he now realizes how difficult it is to earn a living and keep a good name and how it will feel if some one steals something. Probably his father will bring him back home.
To be correct, the question of whether a currency is inflationary or deflationary, is a function of both the increase in the supply of the currency, as well as growth in the economy. If the economy is growing faster than the currency, than the currency is deflationary.
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Why should we cut a publicly traded legal entity notorious for lying about their inventions and being extremely litigious any slack? Have you seen how ridiculous their lawsuits over the Samsung stuff are? It's quite obvious they are prepared to resort to any filthy tricks to stop competitors. They also have a long history of screwing people who develop software for their "ecosystem", most recently in the myriad app store horror stories. Why should anyone believe a single word Apple says?
It's quite cheap depending on the service. I use bitfloor, which charges some very small commission ($0.01 on a $40 deposit)
How many of those followers aren't fans, but:

1. bots

2. People who want to set up a business deal (everyone from major label agents to real estate agents)

3. Random people that follow others in the hopes of gaining more followers
No problem. I think any field that has a community of people devoted to it full time gets pretty intense after awhile. If you're still curious, check out some hangouts for type designers, like http://typophile.com/
That's the spirit! To hell with us!

Did it ever occur to you that:

1. No Chinese would ever think such self-hating thoughts.

and

2. Such thoughts did not originate from your own reasoning, but were learned through various channels?

It's not like it matters, as Martian colonization is less likely than human extermination via a robot takeover, but still...
Step back and examine your life, and you'll find tons of stuff once you think about it. For example, poking through your history I discovered that you've been through an acquisition: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329721. It probably wouldn't make you a boatload of cash to retire on, but there are probably some folks out there who are interested in learning about Surviving The Acquisition, or What To Do When You're Being Acquired.

If you don't feel like you have anything yet - go learn something, and document the process. Others who are learning usually appreciate that, and there's always something you can teach someone.
The main point is that it is decentralized and (ostensibly, with enough care) anonymous. This makes it ideal for illegal transactions (drugs, gambling, weapons, contract killing, child pornography). These being incredibly inelastic goods, price fluctuations will do little to hamper continued growth of the Bitcoin.
I've always wondered, what happens to the actual programmer[s] responsible for a bug like this? Assuming they find the exact issue, and then go back through the version control logs to the exact commit, how responsible, if at all, is the individual programmer? Or the QA team, for that matter.

Incidents like this make me think that I'd have a panic attack with every commit, if I worked in the financial industry.
And likewise if I had just picked the numbers 2,5,6,7,11,20 in last week's lottery I would have been an overnight multi-millionaire.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I think the story they told themselves was basically: Look at this graph! http://i.imgur.com/97fL8.png ChatRoulette was a rocketship to the stars, growing as fast as any social site could hope to... then it got filled with dicks, and people stopped using it. We just have to eliminate the dicks and it will be the best thing ever!

But that's not really what happened. ChatRoulette was (and still is) popular as a legitimate social site, but it was such a rocketship mainly because it was so shocking. I was living in a college dorm during the time ChatRoulette was going viral, and I remember guys shouting in the hallway, "You have to see all these dicks!" The idea that ChatRoulette was suddenly besieged by dicks, causing it to lose popularity, is just fantasy.
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We would like everyone to join! It would be interesting to see what do people think of a topic or event in a specific country or even city.
have you ever heard of mytown or booyah?
Their results are basically within 15-20%. The major achievement is just having acceptable performance. After that there tends to be so many other factors that you can tweak that only two metrics make sense: FPS and image quality without any non-automatic tweaks, and then the maximum that can be obtained by extensive optimization.

For most people, they just want the game to run such that the difference is not big enough to warrant switching OSes for gaming. For me, I just want it to be close enough that I can't be bothered to reboot.

I've been getting some great performance through wine for some games for quite a while now. Under the same settings I've occasionally had slightly better or slightly worse performance depending on the game, patch-level and settings. For me the bar is whether it is playable and looks decent at all.
Bitcoins are used quite a bit for buying/selling goods. I think the latest round of currency increases is mostly a function of people wanting to purchase goods, and needing to "bid up the price" in order to make their purchase. As vendors receive bitcoins, they usually immediately sell them to get back local currency.

In the last 6 months, I've never held onto a bitcoin for more than about 30 minutes. Strictly use them for their utility as a currency.
I think the anonymity and decentralized design are more important than the small transaction fees. As a sibling comment points out, there are still fees for converting to and from national currencies, which are much less volatile.
Given how ridiculously easy it is on most hardware to install a second ubuntu partition on a windows box these days, I am not sure that is really too much of an issue.

Also, the least hassle I have had with migrating people to linux has been with people who really have no idea about computers, possibly as they have no expectations of how things should be and don't fiddle with things as much.

And besides, there is no real switching. I run osx, windows7 and linux mint, mostly, (often on the same computer, although I have found triple boot on hackintoshes to be a bit temperamental). Using a new OS doesn't mean you no longer use the old one. It doesn't restrict you really at all, it just gives you more perspective and a wider range of expertise. I highly recommend it. Linux mint is not a bad place to start as it is compatible with ubuntu (and therefore debian, to a large extent), but currently has a bit more polish. - http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Giving feedback is always better in person I find, mainly because giving feedback in person (not to be mistaken with criticism) allows you to have a fluid conversation, your boss will also appreciate it more, you show you really care and you have the balls to go up to him. People get promoted that way. It's just more "relaxed" and your boss will take it more serious.
The author makes a good point about support being a big hassle, but I think misses the lesson from it. When you're selling something for $7.50, customers demand a lot of support if something goes wrong.

But who says they are entitled to that support? You should craft a carefully worded answer to support emails around "support being through the existing web site and documentation". And quote a nice high hourly rate if they want custom services.

Zero support should be the model for software priced under $100.

Looking at ThemeForest, most authors respond to all comments in the forums for their template, but politely say they cannot assist with customization or make even small changes to their theme for people.
I like the concept of airtime, but it's one of those things I'm unlikely to use b/c I'd feel obligated to get dressed nicely and create a nice looking set for my video chat companions to observe me in.

Services like turntable.fm are a lot lower friction, but of course lack the getting to know someone component.

Oddly, Airtime combines the prejudice of a visual first impression with the idea that two people can spark an interesting discussion. I think the magic of text chat is that you can actually have a worthwhile conversation and not care at all what the person looks like.
Installed Bookmarklet. Tried it. Could not find way to delete the thing I put in Scrapbook as just a test. Didn't go further.
So, I backed Turf on Kickstarter when it came out, and it really does look a cut above its competitors. It reminds me of Nimblebit's style but with plenty more wit and whimsy. There are some rough edges but for a 1.0 it's great.

However, I wonder about its longevity. I remember back when Gowalla was the big new thing and I had friends literally walking halfway across London just to collect all the cool badges. After a few months they got bored and stopped playing, probably because they realised that walking across cities for badges just wasn't worth the payoff.

Turf is a little different because you get rewards by going to the same places. In fact, the more you frequent the same place, the more you can build it up and defend it and get neat stuff. But in my case - and in the case of many people I know - I don't actually travel to that many different locations, usually going to the same few shops and cafes. I check into these on Foursquare and I'm Mayor of the same few places, and I have been for a couple of years. It may sound boring, but I suspect that most people are boring.

So I would probably just end up owning the same places I'm Mayor of on Foursquare, building them up a few levels, increasing their defences, successfully fending off the occasional attackers, unless they were so bothered to keep on checking in more than me, which would require some dedication. If they did that, I don't know if I'd be bothered to check in enough to defend my bases myself.

So maybe Turf is just not for me, it's for people who enjoy exploring new places. I imagine they'll play it a hell of a lot, because it really does look cool. But will they keep on playing it? Maybe. I'm not sure it has the depth.

On a side note, I think that a lot of these check-in style 'true' location-based apps run into the same problem, in that most people really don't go to that many different places, and that having to manually check in every time requires a certain type of obsessive personality; and that automatic check-in freaks people out.

(I also remember hearing about some next-gen persistent transmedia game that you'd play as an FPS on a PC or a console, and then if you were injured in the game, then you could literally walk to a pharmacy to get healed. It sounds cool but it's idiotic. Most people get impatient waiting a few seconds for their TV to turn on, and we think they'll walk to the pharmacy? I don't think so.)
If there is no added value, by definition, there would not be an advantage for the buyer.

The only added values I can think of would be the traditional reason why people used to buy CDs with freely available software:

- the seller delivers the stuff cheaper than if the buyer downloaded it themselves (highly unlikely nowadays, but maybe there are corners of the world where this still applies)

- the seller acts as a curator, sifting the gold from the junk, so that the buyer need not do that.

The 'curator' role might still be worth something. For example, a site could have a link 'do you like the template/icons/font we use? Buy it here'. That would be forbidden by this license (but selling all three in a package, or even two fonts with this license in one package, would be fine, at least in a literal interpretation of the license)
Correct - in fact (unless you were a speculator) you wouldn't want to hold onto anything in bitcoin for more than the time required to clear a transaction.
Ya we have, the original mytown is more in line with what we created, though everyone could own their own copy of each place. In Turf there is only one of each location so you have to fight for ownership.

Mytown 2 is not really like Turf. They went more of a cityville route.
It's also increasing at a controlled rate. To make your analogy more complete, it'd be like all the diggers are aware of each other and whether they've found a USD or not. If too many are being found at once, everyone switches to using their hands. If still too many are found, everyone uses their tongues. If too few are being found, shovels are allowed. If still too few are being found, backhoes are allowed.