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sorry, I should've been more specific... I meant linux in the sense that they're open source. The only contender in my book for high end open source media creation tools is really Blender which can hang with the Max/Maya lot. Also Linux tends to be used almost purely for the processing side, ie render farms, for film, 3d, etc. The designers and content creators themselves are rarely on linux though.
Founders' emotional reactions to criticism aside, isn't one of the chief benefits of releasing quickly the market input? One can feel sad about that feedback or, after properly weighting it, parse it as the valuable guidance it is.

The markets provide cruel, ruthless feedback in the form of buy/pass behaviour. Getting that feedback as early as possible on one's MVP is insightful, albeit painful. Criticism can be more valuable than atomistically binary market activity by providing insight into why the market is behaving as it is (or will be).

Given the specific case, if the founders are working on a feature to fill the hole discussed, great - they have a bit of validation. If not, they have the opportunity to consider it. Either way, I don't see why there is a reason to get beaten up about it.

Negative feedback is as much a drag on innovation as market rejection. At worst, it should be a non-factor.
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Sounds like you guys are competing with filepicker.io[1] What kinds of features differentiate your service?

//Edit to somewhat address the downvotes: Sorry if this sounded brusque, I'm genuinely interested in what these sorts of services take into consideration wrt their customer base.

[1] http://www.filepicker.io/
That's why I like using #222 for text, it leaves #000 for the <strong> tag.
Absolutely. Too much contrast is bad for long-term readability, but too little contrast is bad for short-term readability!

Finding the right level of contrast is just as important as finding the right font size, the right width for your text column, the right typeface, etc...
I happily use a safety razor, but I won't pretend that it's any more convenient or necessarily gives a better shave. I always found that my disposable or cartridge razors worked quite well, and shaving cream is of course a hell of a lot easier than whipping up the soap.

The convenience of a modern razor, including the fact that it's much easier to learn, makes it worthwhile. Everybody on HN is always talking about how they simplify their lives by throwing away everything except their macbook and a few day's worth of clothes or whatever; I think for most people the simplicity and ease of a disposable razor and a can of shaving cream beats saving a few bucks a year.
I would also point out that when people did first start exploring our own world, it was fraught with peril. Many died as they settled new areas and explored.

So, obviously we see what happened as we explored our own world and some of the benefits it has reaped (opening up new resources, etc.). So why WOULDN'T we want to explore other worlds?
Human beings are accustomed to looking a physical phenomena. Designs that deviate from those rules are experienced as artificial, strange or uncomfortable. But you're right that you can't say never use black. It would be more correct to say never use black unless your goal is to make the viewer feel uncomfortable.
i've always thought dropbox should play more on its strengths as a technology layer. When I think of a successful dropbox I think of all my critical applications having a logo in their startup banner saying "powered by dropbox" proudly displaying the dropbox logo. But thats where it could end. Why do I need to have a dropbox account? Why do I care about a quota? Can't the application just take care of all of that behind the scenes? All of things that make dropbox great could be built within the context of that application (sharing with other users of that application, live syncing with collaborators of that application). You could optionally sign up for a dropbox account which would just allow binding an app's dropbox-powered datastore to your global id (with permission from the app).
The show dramatized and moralized specific subjects, such as burners, for the sake of creating a narrative. Further, it's details built on anecdote. Which is why it's such a great show, but it's not appropriate fodder for discussing politics and technology unless you're a clown like Falkvinge.
People often tend to forget that storage as offered by the likes of dropbox is not a product, its just a feature that makes a product better. With deep app platform integration that iOS, Windows have brought in, there will be less and less need for people to use an external store thus making these guys irrelevant...
I hope it's your kid or mine. That's a great, great dream.
All digital cameras are black and white cameras with a filter in front of them. They just differ in how they put filters in front of the sensor.

The digital cameras we use have this fixed filter (most have a Bayer pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter) where every pixel gets its own, individual filter.

That’s handy for snapping color images without multiple exposures, not so flexible, though. Thing is, those sensors without the filters can be sensitive in parts of the spectrum (infrared or ultraviolet) where the human eye is not sensitive. If you were to bake in a Bayer filter you would throw all that information away. So those spacecraft usually have several filters they can combine at will to capture different parts of the spectrum.

In that sense the color is not faked, it’s more a human-readable depiction of which light at which frequencies hit the sensor.
This is just following a growing trend of bad tech journalism. I'm no fan of Oracle, because of their past practices, but the least TechCrunch can do is ask them if what they are about to print is correct and get two sides to the debate. That's basic journalism.
It shouldn't - but it being NYC, and being a veteran reporter for the NYT, with your classic credentials just drives the point home even harder as there's no room to debate whether it was journalism or not....
>Grid is redefining what a spreadsheet can do on a tablet.

Yes, but it is, simultaneously, in its current incarnation, defining what spreadheet apps can't do.

Sexy sells for the genral public, but as other have pointed out, in the enterprise, sexy is much less important. More important is functionality. Maybe in it's next iteration, it will meet the demands of the office worker, currently, I don't see that, beyond helping coordinate parties or meetings.
> We don't have a good way to land humans on Mars.

yet. Always tack on "yet." ;)
When I was young, I was a very shy kid with a stutter. Needless to say, school wasn't always the most pleasant place. By the time I hit high school, I was straight up angry. I was so sick of being beat up and called 'fag' that I resolved to be different.

So, I became a punk and started going to as many punk shows as possible.

All of a sudden, I certainly was not one of the cool kids, but I was part of a group that was disgusted by the cool kids. Thing is, our group had its own handbook. My friends were hardcore straight edge punks - we eschewed drugs and alcohol. We took much of our fashion sense from goth and grunge (really big pants, big boots, and lots of black). And, our particular group believed that we needed to be taken seriously, so we avoided mohawks and really bizarre piercings. We even had our own rituals - by Friday, we were so sick of everything that we needed to find a punk show so we could get into a pit and take some aggression out.

At the time, I thought I was a free thinker who became friends with a group of other free thinkers. But, to become that non-conformist, I had to conform to certain norms. In my example, your statement is correct - the subculture itself was unique, but we had very strict rules, a strict uniform, and rituals.
Maybe I'm just not familiar with modern usage of the word 'spreadsheet' but when I hear it I instantly think of accounting worksheets, visicalc, excel and the like. If the very core of this app isn't the same as a classic spreadsheet app, why even throw that word around? It's bad marketing.
Futures are promises to deliver an asset at a certain price (on a certain date). Presumably Bane just offered futures at stupid prices.

Incidentally, being 'short' on a future means you are the one promising the delivery.
As a tourist, NYC was pretty awesome, far better than I expected.
Then again, it's awfully hard to generalize about a city that has the population of my country.
It is a link bait title even if it isn't the same memo, the document in this article (linked several times on the front page already today) shows that Samsung was looking at the marked leader and trying to figure out what they did right that Samsung wasn't doing.
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The difference is that Hacker News doesn't need to turn a profit. app.net has a number of running costs that need to be serviced and, to do that, people have to want to pay. There is a minimum threshold that is required to keep users with the service, otherwise it feels empty.

Examples are Google Wave vs Google+. The former felt empty and pointless, while the latter can be interesting because of the number of users, albeit they may not be people you know.
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That makes sense. I'm sure that plenty of people (including me) would still sign up independent of such concerns.

Re: artificial magnetospheres; Wouldn't there be side effects for humans to live within a powerful magnetic field? For starters blood is ferromagnetic... I'm guessing shielding with either something diamagnetic or something like mu-metal is an assumption, but either scenario would be difficult to implement if I'm picturing it right.

What do you think needs to exist to make it viable? Because there is this entire supply chain involved over here which people seem to assume will spring up for such a program. I think that for something so audacious it's a limiting reagent which needs to be taken into account and, hopefully, solved for.

I've read your comments and I hope you don't mind, but I have a silly question for you, do you think it's possible to make a launch system by pumping something cryogenic through a diamagnetic material and using a linear accelerator to accelerate a pellet(large or small) to escape velocity? Such a system would be extremely expensive to set up, but it would be very reusable and it should pay itself back...
Good as reason as any to switch to FreeBSD. ZFS works great.
Halo apparently released in 2001. My wife graduated in 2002, so she could have (and might have) played some Halo in High school. She's 28, so not that young.

I played Doom in Highschool myself. Late(ish) highschool (class of '95 here)
It's a fairly hard problem. But on the scale of problems that have been tackled by humans in the past, say, 50 years, it's not that hard. Mostly it's just engineering.

Bootstrapping colonization is a slightly harder problem but there are some promising signs for that. First, research on reusable launch vehicles is coming along (at SpaceX for example), and if that works out it should lower launch costs by a factor of 10 to 100. Add to that the ability to use local resources on Mars and things start to get a lot easier. Within the earliest generation of manned missions to Mars we will likely have infrastructure for manufacturing rocket fuel (methane + oxygen) as well as producing building materials (concrete) and iron based materials (such as sintering iron rich regolith to manufacture rectenna arrays). That infrastructure will develop fairly rapidly and in a few years we'll start to see a real industrial and agricultural base develop on Mars. Of course the more mass we can throw at the problem early on the easier it will be to bootstrap.

One of the exciting things about Mars colonization is that it would likely serve as a proving ground for many technologies that could have applications on Earth. For example, solar power satellites are one of the best methods for providing power to a Mars base/colony. They're also one of the most promising technologies for Earth-based power generation, but the barrier to entry and the perceived financial risk has been too high.
What's interesting is a few weeks back Gabe said that Microsoft were doing bad things with Windows 8, I wonder if this is what got his goat? Steam (I assume) invested a lot in getting software companies on board but if Microsoft had their own app store all this work would be for nothing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18996377
Here's an article about a material that absorbs 99.9% of light
http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2393
Jacques Mattheij's blog posts on burnout are very helpful. I recommend reading them and re-reading them:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Are+you+suffering+from+burn-out

http://jacquesmattheij.com/dealing+with+burn+out

There are various useful discussions in the HN archives, including this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300244

mrcharles's comment rings in my head to this day: "The first thing I've learned is that I can't accurately judge my limits."
To be honest, I actually agree with your points, which is exactly what I've been thinking too. Unfortunately the tone of this post would definitely put some bad image to people outside the app.net circle.

This app.net might not be a nightly success, but what IF (yup, a big if) it succeeds in a long run? At that time people would remember dalton as the savior and YOU as the biggest jerk.

Anyway, fuckyoudalton can refer to anyone. I mean, are you referring to Andy Dalton?
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Add to CERN and JPL every ASIC (chip) design shop in the world. My team is all on Ubuntu 10.04 and I dread the upgrade to the next LTS because Unity and Gnome 3 are not engineering workstation desktops.
The other cross-publisher software managers/marketplaces for Windows apps that I know about are all game-oriented, would-be-Steam-alikes. Is there a comparable marketplace for applications?
Maybe you think you're making some sort of important point here. Or maybe you realize your comment is inane and you think it's witty. But your ego is showing.
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I am one of the lucky people to have been taught Functional Programming by Philip Wadler back in the 1990s. He's a brilliant, funny lecturer. This quirky talk is very similar in style to some of the lectures he gave me in 1st year.
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Wouldn't achieve the network effects. They'd probably embrace something like Android or desktop Linux.
There have been a lot of studies on this in the international space station and there is essentially a good enough answer for this which involves exercise and physiotherapy once the person is back on Earth.
Perfectly clear. Thank you. I think in a case like this having it explicitly stated that you'll protect our user-to-user privacy AND fully comply with applicable laws and LEO requests removes most of the doubt. And that makes it pretty obvious that if we are the 1% that uses this service for evil doing, we are not to expect much in the way of privacy. I think that actually makes things better for the other 99% that have no plans to do evil. I don't think your average Craigslist seller or online dater is going to be that concerned over it. A drug dealer might be... should be. And that makes things better for everyone. I can think of a few uses cases I could apply to this service. The rates seem reasonable to me (having done zero comparison shopping). Unfortunately, I don't do iOS... so I'm unable to be a customer at this time. But best of luck to you.
please note that i did not look at the book; so it might be actually worth it's money; but i am a bit biased and the first thing i think once a new pragmatic programmers book hits the market is:

somebody tries to make a quick buck. whatever is in this book, is basically just a quick write-up of what can be found in the internet for free anyway...
One thing to consider is that the Windows app store will be Metro (not sure what to call it now) only. So Steam might be a pretty attractive option for filling the niche of distributing traditional desktop applications.

Being able to keep all my Windows desktop applications updated easily through Steam would be a lot better than having them all try and do it themselves.
You don't have to connect a call to your phone, you can just use Voicemail.
They both probably have the same incorrect source. I trust the OED.
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he might have a point. but I have a very hard time taking design advice from someone who put that distracting background on his page.
Probably not. It's probably aimed at the same target market as the Pi itself—teachers and children wanting to learn about basic computing.
Shown HN: A quick way to glance through news headlines from multiple sources
glancet (http://www.glancet.com) is a quick way to browse news headlines. It extends the Google News treemap from newsmap.jp by using HTML instead of Flash (yay tablets!) and incorporating signals from Facebook/Twitter to reconfigure the treemap. It was built on the excellent d3.js library by Mike Bostock.

As a news junkie, it was a fun side project and I would love feedback on design or utility and any feature requests you may have.
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Sorry, but incorrect usage resulting in diminished or no effect is not a true Scotsman fallacy component. Or do you claim that antibiotics are also homeopathy and spiritualism?

Similar, claims of does not work under all conditions are not the hallmark of a true Scotsman fallacy, otherwise tylenol should be considered homeopathy and spiritualism, since it doesn't work for certain types of pain, or certain levels of pain.

Incorrect accusations of fallacy indicate personal vendetta. What is your problem?
I shrugged this off at first, but that video blew my mind.

Awesome work guys. Definitely using this for an upcoming roadtrip. And more :)
This article suffers from a bit of confusion over the difference between art and design.

Art: don't use the color black (or build up to it.) Good tip from "childhood art teacher." Another way of putting it: don't use black unless you know what you're doing.

Design: black is the strongest color. (The three strongest colors in design are black, white, red.) However, don't use a black background with white text (or any other color text on a dark background; bad readability). If your design isn't working in black and white, it's not working.
considering the gmail results are hidden and require clicking on a link to show them, its not much different than opening up your friends email now is it?
Even better; a Steam application API: write code once and it's available on any Steam-able OS. Cloud storage and desktop power and a huge userbase would make this a tasty platform.
It's not given that xfce is necessarily a bad choice. That seems to have played into it, regarding to the comment.

Personally, I would say it is the most natural choice for Debian. Also, staying away from DEs regarded as developer-unfriendly like gnome3 or unity fits (remember the eclipse-bug?).

Furthermore, developers I know seem to not like medias like dvds, switching instead to the internet where possible, so they are quiet likely not to buy something fancy like a dvd-burner. Or maybe that's just me.
I was wonderng, has anyone been using Trello for developing client projects - not in house products, but web applications services. I would really like to know about your experiences with Trello vs more traditional style trackers like Redmine/Trac etc.

Edit: Just to be clear, I am not talking about a feature comparison. I understand Redmine has features like Wiki etc which are not in Trello. I am talking only about the Trello vs issue tracking feature in Redmine/Trac/Others .
His points were not one sided.

And? It says nothing relative to my indisputable point that the noisy ruckus of anecdotes simply pollute every Android discussion.

There are plenty of professional reviews that made the same points he made.

Assuming that were true, then why post it? What is the point? "Hey everyone, guy who used an iPhone here: Let me tell you how it is..."

Is accusing random people's anecdotes of being "fictitious" and "agenda driven" useful and constructive behavior in your opinion?

Considering that my post was a discouragement of unconstructive posts, yes, for the purposes of this discussion it is absolutely useful.
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I've been working on this site for the past few months. It's pretty interesting to let it sit in a big city, such as London with the Olympics going on, and see what sort of photos and tweets come in. Let me know what you guys think!
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And they are best dealt with by ignoring them, not fielding a bunch of one-liner putdown attempts.
Except for movie posters Clockwork Orange. Aliens. Star Wars. Love the black.
but why would anyone believe bruce made those trades to begin with? It was made extremely obvious (by the armed break-in and subsequent car chase) that the trades were fraudulent.