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Actually, I don't think its far from our core mission at all. I'll give people credit that its not entirely obvious, but our core mission has always been "give people ownership over their data". Along the way, we got associated with a set of tools that help us do that, but at our core, that is the problem we wanted to solve all along. We have worked long and hard to trying to crack that nut. After working on the 'bits' side of the problem, we saw again and again that people don't know what it really means to own your data. Even people who claim to know have wildly different definitions, and many self defined advocates of the cause have radically different and sometimes even conflicting notions of what that means.

We started D* because wanted to make a the internet a place we didn't have to worry about all the bullshit that comes with doing stuff we feel comes naturally. While media ran with us being serious business™, we wanted to scratch and itch and make the world a better place. So in the interest of making progress, we are solving something we think is a total blocker to ANY network that is trying to focus on the contrary. If you look at Makr and just see a meme generator, then I guess you are missing the point and the power of what it could be, which is a simple way to let people create things together, which builds off of what came before, but lets them be unique and original at the same time. If that makes sense to you, great!

If it doesn't, your going to have to excuse us because our work here is not finished :)

(Also worth nothing, the features in Makr started INSIDE D, and we got (good) advice to let it blossom and spin it out into its own thing, as lots of people in the d community like D* the way it is. )
Congrats! I went to school in Philadelphia, I think Kortina paid for cheesesteaks at a hackathon once..
I agree and worse is that most a lot of them actually believe 'the people' actually have a say in this while they don't. Well, at least not with voting. That was not the point though; governments are not doing the stuff they do without reason; there is a reason. It's just not what you would expect and hope from something as massive as a government.
One second of silence, one of noise, one of silence, one of noise...
This doesn't usually work since their tracking API may use domain different than www.facebook.com. (like fbcdn.com or whatever)

Websites are on too many domains these days.
> As humans, we seem to think we're the most important thing getting around. Even your comment suggests killing off humans is much worse than killing of bacteria on Mars.

That's because (according to humans) we are the most important thing getting around. No other species has the mental capacity to even consider this point, though every species acts in its own self interest.

To put it another way, do you think beavers care about disenfranchised fish or animals downstream when they build a dam and reproduce? Should they? According to you beavers should seriously consider the ramifications of their behavior. Haughty beavers...

I'm not saying we should completely disregard other species or go around destroying life needlessly, but that killing off humans is much worse than killing off bacteria, from a human perspective. Your assertion to the contrary is lunacy.
I'm not sure I totally follow. Just because HTML5 was used as the "rendering surface" instead of say, a DirectX Window handle, its not a "game engine"?

It may not be a legitimate "rendering engine" but I'd say it sure as hell is a "type of game engine". What exactly makes it not a game engine? Is it because its lacking tools and/or level editors or something? From what I see, it is a proof of concept RPG built on top of an HTML5 RPG game engine.

Having said that though, this seems to have been released rather prematurely. Its extremely rough around the edges and clearly hasn't been tested in every platform and browser.
Based on the name and the vertical, I thought this was going to be another site from the team behind http://weddinginvitelove.com/, http://weddingplannerlove.com/, http://weddingphotolove.com/, etc... but there appears to be no connection. Interesting to see that this naming convention is becoming a pattern.
I'm genuinely interested in this whole process of creating a company and getting funds and stuff. Where could I find some resources on equity/angel investor/VC/seeding and all those buzz words I see here. I'd really like to understand this process better.

Oh and, nice blog post! I'm looking forward to read the next part!
Most people who sign up for a fixed monthly fee gym membership are bad at math rather than paying a smaller drop-in fee. It makes for good revenue for the gym though. And for those who workout a lot, it is a good deal.
What makes you think that Assange intended to or had reason to believe that his actions would injure the United States?
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I think the founders should make this page their front page: https://makr.io/latest

It's like a live discussion that's going on through pictures. Because of the fact that there is only one new image in focus at a time, there's an active flow that you know everybody else on the site is looking at synchronously.

When you submit a new image and caption combination, you know that 100+ or however many people currently on makr.io will see it immediately. That gives you pretty good odds that you'll get hearts or comments based on what you made. The instant rush you get when one of your creative babies hits it big is incredible.
hmmm, mine works fine:
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I amaze myself all the times with this. To me its just logic, but I'm sure its something more. I'll probably never figure it out, but that's not to my detriment.

I vaguely recall a story that my grandfather used to be very good at doing math in his head, and actually lost this skill when he tried to understand his own thought process well enough to explain it to others...
The service may have high fixed costs. If they have one person maintaining something that's used by very few customers the cost per customer would be very high.
There's a very big vision here. E-commerce growth provides a tremendous opportunity for this company to not only rethink the end point but the network itself. We have one at my office and it's incredibly convenient. I completely stopped using my home address for any deliveries.
Aaaaah, Steve Yegge. Quickly becoming the Malcolm Gladwell of Computer Programming.

These kinds of notions used to be Outliers® in his essays, but this may be The Tipping Point®, whereafter he skips the half-baking and just swallows his notions raw. One of the costs of fame. sigh
Yeah, Aisle411 is definitely doing some cool stuff with indoor location, and are the types of partners that make a lot of sense for us. Indoor location is made up of two key components: Real-time positioning (e.g. WiFiSLAM) and point-of-interest databases (e.g. Aisle411)
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We've watched this team expand their footprint and execute on a complex hardware product in a very short amount of time. Package logistics is a huge problem to solve, but if anyone can do it, they can. Congrats guys!
I agree. Maybe not the best choice of words, but it's useful information.

I'm actually impressed by her response. It wasn't to go out and complain about his comment, it was to analyze it and see if it was something useful she could use.

If not, discard. If useful, act on it.

She's not letting a crappy comment slow her down.
This fear of learning a new tool, language or API boggles my mind.

The insight alone from seeing a new corner of the programming world is worth biting the bullet and learning something new.
Not sure what traditional payment terminals charge, but presumably when you start doing large volume they bring the cost down. There is going to be a point where square's flat 2.75 between 0-10k/month and 21k/month-infinity is more expensive than a bank terminal (which I'm sure fall to >1.5% at high enough volume).
I'm starting to notice a trend with this latest YC class-- lots of unsexy products addressing really specific pain points.
I don't know why there are so many comments along the lines of "come on this is meme creation old and boring". But I do think this has value. What's created out of the whole activity(colloborative editing) may or may not be a big thing, but the participation works well and is missing in social networks. So +1. :-)
I have no insight into Square's management or financials, but if I were Jack Dorsey, I would find it reasonable to operate at a moderate loss for a fair amount of time, before launching my own exchange system that bypasses cards completely.

Indeed, that seems to be the way they're going, what with _Pay with Square_ allowing for contactless, mobile-based payments.

First they disrupt card processing for small merchants with low transaction rates that just murder traditional merchant account fees. Next, they get themselves involved on the consumer side of the transaction, abstracting away the physical card. What's next? Why not do away with the card entirely?

How about _Pay with Square_ prepaid accounts? Allow users to fund their accounts via store-bought gift cards, or Dwolla, or perhaps even go crazy and accept Bitcoin. If they do that, then Square could give that 2.5% transaction fee back to the consumer, and profit from the interest on the float.
Not a fair comparison. Children of really rich people are way more richer than the people living with only what is needed for "basic sustenance" (food/shelter/health).
Snip/edit: major mis-parsing of a key point.

Suffice to say, countries don't last when ever more people rely on relative fewer producers. Greece and Spain tried and went too far: they just ran out of other people's money. Much of Europe is heading the same direction. Every communist country grids to a halt, with socialists tending the same. There is a glorious time of high living on other people's efforts, but greed and weariness win out.
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Ruby is cool. REPLs are cool. Objective-C is slightly weird. Interface builder is kind of nice. XCode is weird, but has some fairly great features for Objective-C/Cocoa.

But Cocoa is the thing you have to learn no matter what. To be honest, all things considered I would rather put up with Objective-C than lose Interface Builder and the niceties of XCode.

And I say that even though I have used and love PyQt. Cocoa is so deeply married with Objective-C and XCode, I can't really see the point of using RubyMotion.
Self-publish or traditionally publish? Which is the entrepreneurial route?
May or may not be causal - but Angie's List painted a huge target on themselves for liberal/progressives when they refused to drop their ad spots on Rush Limbaugh's show after his harsh remarks about Sandra Fluke.

I see Angie's List as having done what App.net is attempting to do - a curated place that exists despite other venues/sites being free... just that recently they've been scaling heavily and have likely run into issues there.
Why do we provide police protection to unemployed people?

Since we provide police protection to unemployed people, should that also mean we provide them ponies? What are the limits of this argument you're attempting to make regarding "providing unemployed people things for free since they get police protection"?

as a society grows wealthier, it could grow more humane

You're assuming that it's humane to teach people to not be self-sufficient. I would argue that the cycle of dependency created by not incentivizing people to get up and go work for a living every day is inhumane. Often, it is done by politicians who benefit from the perpetuation of that cycle for reasons of maintaining their power base.
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The actual interesting phenomenon here is how this pablum makes it to the frontpage. It shows how philosophically and emotionally juvenile the readership here is. It exposes HN as a frat-like atmosphere full of blowhard meatheads obsessed with trite "Top N Ways to Succeed!"

Your comment is level-headed and insightful and it's a rehash of ancient understandings regarding the value and meaning of work and life. Passion, discipline, prudence temperance justice fortitude patience charity faith and hope.

These "link-bait" discussions were stale thousands of years ago. How very simple-minded the "smart" people here are, for all their delusions of high intellectualism.

Maybe if HNers took more humanities they wouldn't be so fascinated by these shallow articles.
Computation will always require some energy though, so the cost will approach some nonzero constant. Still infinite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
You could easily apply the wedding registry idea to baby registries. I think there's a lot of potential in trying to make this more local instead of only at the big box stores.
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We had all of: offer, acceptance, consideration, meeting of the minds, capacity, and legality. It sure felt like a contract to me.
“Share rides with friendly people to (...) Every week, Ridejoy helps thousands of friendly drivers and passengers share rides and save on gas.”

That’s very nice, but nowhere in the FAQ is explained how Ridejoy guarantees that only friendly people get a ride. Who’s to say I’m not picking up an axe murderer?

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/hairyarm.asp
Introducing Paymill (a german Stripe)
Can you guys give any insight into how you're combining the sensor data? I'm a newb on the topic, but I was trying to do something similar in a different domain and got stuck trying to make a kalman filter. I tried to get an EE friend to explain them to me, but I couldn't get it.
How a BIG may be financed can not be answered like this. You probably don't speak german, otherwise you may find this interview (and link to his doctoral thesis) interesting: http://www.forum-grundeinkommen.de/filme/andre-presse/doktor...

What it says is basically that for a BIG of 800 Euro (per month per person) in Germany there are only 20 billion Euro's missing (per year), that's nothing compared to e.g. what's currently spent for banks and other fancy things without blinking an eye (or in other words: our society is already working with such a high productivity that a BIG is already possible) The tax system (and social welfare system) needs to be changed completely, but the level of taxation will stay the same.
You are right: better target that 5% that are startups, startupish BigCorps, etc.
I think one of the most interesting points about the presentation is the BubbleWrap libraries. The greatest pain I've felt with iOS development are some of the terrible APIs. The amount of ceremony needed to Parse JSON from a web based API request or to access the camera is almost absurd.
I think a lot of engineers get to this point through different methods.

For me when I was new engineer (no CS background) I'd never spend too much time on a bug before I got frustrated and would head over to a more senior engineer's cube for advice. Usually during the walk over while I tried to properly form the exact question to ask I'd figure out the answer. Dan (my go to guy for this) got used to seeing me head his way then just say hi, he'd ask "Figured it out?" and I'd say "Yep" and head back to my desk.
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there was a planet money podcast not too long ago that went into how incredibly easy it is to create a foreign corporation with absolutely no documentation whatsoever, and that it is actually easier in certain parts of the united states. i'm not going to give you a link, if you want it, find it yourself you lazy piece of shit.
In particular for all free-market-lovers, 'fear of dying' makes the labour market (just as an example) pretty unfree ...
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Until you move.

There should be a bufferbox address field in your LinkedIn profile, it will auto update if you change jobs. Bufferbox then just checks against the current box address via LinkedIn and no hassles for the future.
who are working solely to avoid dying

Find the US city where you'll die if you don't have a job. This supposition is simply untrue.
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Indeed, the first startup I worked for was founded by a Ph.D who's wife was a working M.D.
The fact that I got a good deal for hosting in retrospect is irrelevant. Joyent offered lifetime service in exchange for a large payment up front. It wasn't just a one time deal they regretted. They made lifetime offers on numerous occasions. It was their business model at the time, no one forced them.

Here's a very easy solution for Joyent.

Refund my money. My payment was for lifetime service. Pay me back and we'll call it quits.
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I honestly have no strong views on wikileaks (I find Assanges absolute certainty about what they do troubling but I think the principal of disclosure is fine).

I live in the UK and have voted for left wing parties every election (local, national and Euopean) for over 20 years now. My political ideals are so far from Fox News it's not true.

In terms of questioning and release, who knows maybe they'd question someone as many often as twice before charging them with rape. If you think that's suspicious then you have an odd idea of what comprises a thorough criminal investigation.

Yes, I could be a rapist though there is a key difference between Assange and myself when it comes to the possibility which is that there are currently at least two ore women making suggestions that he might have than are saying the same about me.

In terms of being anti-rape. Sorry, guilty as charged. It's a controversial view that people shouldn't be forced into sex against their will but thats the kind of troll I am. I wish that the police investigated them all with this level of vigour but the fact that they don't has no real significance here other than another example of how high profile figures of all sorts tend to get more attention in these cases.
I refuse to hammer this nail with a hammer. I will use a screwdriver. I will go through great difficulties if need be, so that I can keep on using a screwdriver.
What's in the SDK? I looked around and there was not even a mention of ios versus android. Is it a set of armv7 ndk android libraries? Or something else? Can I use it on simulators running on OS X?
I think we're on substantially the same page regarding ethics. I'm all for avoiding lying, but I have come to appreciate that one can sell/market without lying. Given that the true state of reality is that one has 50% of a full pipeline, I would characterize that as "Investing in us is a limited opportunity. Other people are interested in it. If you want to invest in us, you should make that decision soon, because circumstances beyond our control may take away that option in the unspecified future." rather than "My gCal is half-empty so I should be able to slot you in whenever."
Agreed. While I can't see myself needing this service any time soon, clearly it's a problem big enough to build out physical infrastructure to solve.

If the buffer box company had closer relationships with amazon's distribution and that other company that wants to do any deliveries in an hour, there could be an interesting market in the future.
ok fair enough but that still doesn't explain why Makr is different than the 4chan moot canvas ....

How about you try with Makr as example with details instead of WoW
Sure, you can run OCaml and oc4mc. You'll also end up with two different binaries. oc4mc isn't as well tested, so I guess you'll hit more bugs. This still doesn't solve the horrible programming model [I've been cursing a multithreaded C program in the past few days. It's amazing how much stuff you have to remember and how much simply doesn't work in C when you've got threads]. Nor does it let your program scale past the limit of a single NUMA node. Whereas message passing a la Erlang lets you scale over NUMA and across machines and networks.
I guess all the hate stays here but judging by the explosion of programming memes, some hacker news people are having fun over there.
Kim Dotcom must be allowed to see FBI evidence
Except of course the ongoing grand jury in Virginia.
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Yuck, a debugger exposes so little of the world that it's only appropriate in highly targeted approaches.
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We've been using myregistry.com and have been perfectly happy with it. MyRegistry syncs directly with several popular registries, and lets you add anything not in one of those stores with a bookmarklet that intelligently grabs name/price/etc. from the page you're on.

It doesn't sound like this doesn't anything significantly different, other than having syncing with more stores (which is, admittedly, nice).
Sure, if I were publishing a public API I'd want to document the functions available, but the fact is, the vast majority of the code we write at my shop is not consumed outside our own codebase. Why duplicate the effort of writing documentation when everyone has access to the code? There is no benefit for us so we don't do it. We made that decision and it's the right one for us. Sure, you have a different situation and I'm sure using comments has helped and empowered your developers, but for us it makes no sense and is a waste of time.

I'd suggest you stop trying to tell the world that senior developers must conform to your narrow views (narrow, by the sheer size of the response against your point of view here). Calling people things like "lazy" and insinuating they inflate their own abilities simply because they don't do what you think they should do is a pretty trollish thing to do. You obviously missed the first point in the original link.
They need a "have bike messenger deliver my box to me" button. A box-buffer-biker if you will.

Again, seeing how kozmo.com was 10 years ahead of its time!
You make good points, I agree with the benefit of cards over cash as well. And who wants to lug around a checkbook when I can just put a small piece of plastic in my wallet? There is definite value in that. Maybe even 3% value. I think CC companies may get the "unpopular incumbent" label because most people are not even aware of how credit cards work, and their costs are often times hidden. I mean hidden in the sense that we don't realize the price increase of goods this convince is costing us. I bet if the apple store started selling mac pros at 3% under retail price for cash, more people would inconvenience themselves to pay in cash. But many people are not properly informed, and therefore do not act as rational players. Many jewelers seem to play in this realm of cutting prices for cash buyers. (I know, there may be other reasons for that, but it's an example of merchants incentiveizing buyers to use cash)
Storyboards are just XML. I wonder if it'd be possible to write an HTML/JS-based Storyboard builder and viewer? I wonder if it'd be possible to somehow get the iOS emulator software working "in the cloud", similar to how maybe browserling.com does their VNC-ish stuff? Wish these two things in place, I don't think it'd be too outlandish to be able to replace xcode with a more Linux SSH-based workflow for iOS dev, in the same vein as cloud9 IDE or something. I personally know that I'd love to get back to working from my Windows machine and just editing my code with Eclipse over SFTP, with my code on my linux vps. I have not turned on my $2000 Windows gaming rig in like a month since I started getting into iphone dev. :(
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Glad to hear you're loving the service Ryan! Thanks for all the support, we'll see you around the Hub soon!
Sell stuff.
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