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These lockers are good, but what I think we should really improve is the quality/performance of our mailing/delivery systems. The lockers are just a patch to the existing lame systems.

If a company can deliver all days in a week (including weekends) and all time in a day (including evenings and nights), and the delivery men really called before they left a note, that company would win the game.
I am in love with what I'm being shown. Super-rich compound multi-user documents. It could be fantastic wallboard software. Or you could just call it a wedding planner and it would be a minor sensation.
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You cannot simply put a "human" layer on top of the filesystem and expect it to work correctly or efficiently.

The most obvious case is, if I create two filenames that are identical except for normalization, how can the "human" layer possibly handle this?

Heck, even with just one filename it's trivial to produce braindead results. Assuming keyboard input is decomposed (I honestly forget), if I have a filename using composed characters, and I want to type this name into my terminal, I can't. And that's completely crazy to me as someone who works on user-facing software.
>you still need to commit entirely to one ecosystem

I don't know why you said that. Skydrive API at least are available to most popular platforms it seems.
maybe i should find new direction in programming
It's YouTube's responsibility to implement a system that doesn't defraud people. The users getting ripped off have no direct relationship with the other users who are abusing the system, and no way to hold them accountable.
Well, I don't know about Mono on Android, but my business partner and I tried using Mono to port a simple .NET app to OSX and it was disastrous.

Layout was wrong, the application was ugly and non-native, and the final straw was the printing API that flat out crashed whenever we tried to use it. We ended up re-writing in Java, and achieving a relatively high level of quality in a short period of time. Java was easy to pick up after C#, and the tooling was much more mature than Mono.
We started and operated a grocery delivery service like this for some 15 years as a sideline to our normal delivery business.

It was an operational nightmare.

Picking one order for a customer at a grocery store quickly is hard enough. Two orders requires using two carts and care that you don't mix up the orders. Picking more than two orders at a time is almost impossible, which limits your productivity.

We routinely had customers who would order more than a cart worth of groceries at a time. Offices would order 20 cases of soda pop and several boxes of munchies. Picking, transporting, and delivering these orders often took well over an hours' worth of time each.

If the average customer is ordering once a week, the $2 they receive won't be enough to cover their costs, and they'll have to charge significantly more than shelf price for the groceries if they are to be profitable. But this will discourage customers who believe they are paying an annual fee in return for "free" delivery.
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first comment, on why i think Spotify is awesome

disclaimer: i have no official relationship with Spotify, except as an avid user of their service.

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dude, do you know why Spotify is so awesome?

Because they know what they are doing.

Don't believe me? Just read through the awesomeness that is described in this amazing post by Rasmus Andersson. This is a dude who GETS design. I mean, Design. For real design.

The "architect" is a lovely metaphor.

I may try to expand on the idea, if you do not mind, Rasmus.
Do we have a name yet for blog posts that are little more than a full page comment?

Blogment? Double-twit?
I think the concern with clearing all cookies is not simply to not see the personalized results but that the cookies are actually tracking the person's usage.

Google in recent times has gotten so creepy that I never stay logged in. Same with Facebook btw.
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>Will Google rank negative information about my favorite Congressional candidate lower in its search results

Google already has the content it needs to do that and does not have to tell you that it's using it.
I believe that's the crater rim, and the crater is 96 miles in diameter, with the landing site closer to the edge than the center.
Agreed. And if black is artificial, so is white, but we use black and white when designing color schemes for a couple of legitimate reasons.

White and black provide constant contrasts to which we can fix all other colors. Our brains see color by contrast, and we process color by contrast. If I have some white, some black, and some blue on a page, chances are that people will see a similar shade of blue on different monitors even if the correction is very different. The color temperature may be different on different monitors but our brain adjusts. White and black provide the tare points.

I'd note that the paintings he included in his page, I could spot black on two out of three......
This 'startup' is one of those things on HN that really leaves me scratching my head, sure that there must be much more that I'm missing. Is this really it?

And to Gruber's pitch, is it because he has a vested interest, financially? Is his "backing" that he pitches it for others to financially contribute?
Random Canadian company vs. a well-connected Silicon Valley founder would potentially be sufficient.

Or 2012 vs. 2009.
Have you taken a moment to read anything about it? It is abundantly clear.

join.app.net, in case you really haven't, which I'm hoping is the case.
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Great description of CBT.

For anyone who's not ready or can't afford to go to a CBT specialist, check out MoodGym - http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome.
Jesus. I hadn't realized it's $50 to sign up. May be awesome, but that's a high price to experiment with.
> If Caldwell actually cared about making "a real-time social service where users and developers come first, not advertisers" he'd build something on status.net, or at least something open source.

I disagree.

When making a business, your paying customer is the one you serve. If App.net goes for charging users and developers, they'll (logically) focus on those exact people.
Out of the billion people who use Google how many do you think know about this and will remember to do this every time?
Drawing useful lessons from Jaiku is confounded by the Google acquisition. (See also: Dodgeball.)
I prefer the App.net endorsement by Pinboard's founder:

https://twitter.com/baconmeteor/status/223947369467744259
They're already notifications, whose priority you can adjust in the settings dialog.
Isn't the whole thing information? It may be information many HN readers are familiar with already but for much of his non-developer audience it's probably their first exposure to app.net.
I doubt the Debian downloaders are the sort that will think that's Linux on the desktop. Debian is a great distro but their specific download target is, shall we say, somewhat more exclusive than others, such as Fedora or Ubuntu.
I think this is automatic and i was usually unblocked in a few (12ish hours)
I recently saw a lecture on a proposal for an upcoming space mission and the speaker mentioned the contractors at Lockheed working on the proposal several times. I remember because it kind of stood out to me that they're involved from the start.
I think the idea is that competition triggers the incumbent to do better. Like how Google+'s circles finally forced Facebook to better model inter-personal relationships (at the time, only "friend" or "not friend").

Nobody knows what will result here but Twitter has been worsening of late so it's worth a shot IMHO.
Your baseless pessimism is annoying at best.

He is by no means a private figure -- a move like that would certainly destroy his reputation.
I don't understand why a big company (or even a medium sized company) with no stake in the newsfeeds of Twitter or Facebook, or at least no interest in those being monopoly, doesn't fund this 100% just to reduce the power of Twitter and Facebook. $500k is not a huge amount of money if Twitter is disrupting your business (SMS carriers? Conventional blogging service? Print publication? Portal? Yahoo?)
In context, 'backing' means Gruber has committed to one of the join.app.net supporter tiers: paying money in for expected future services.
Random Canadian company vs. a well-connected Silicon Valley founder would potentially be sufficient.

You mean as a reason to choose the former, right?
> So, along comes btrfs that mimics the feature-set of ZFS but brings along many advantages (much thanks to it being developed much later).

Just like SystemTap mimics the feature set of DTrace and brings along many advantages due to its later development:
http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2007/08/02/dtrace-knockoffs/
Agreed with this. I do like being able to install without downloading more than 700MB in software. Saying download the DVD is very annoying, esp when you have a less than perfectly reliable internet connection.
So is that a reason not to try to compete?
This service is better-designed than Craigslist! You should sign up!

This service is more privacy-sensitive than Facebook! You should sign up!

This service is less dickish than Twitter! You should sign up!

Sure, it's possible to unseat an entrenched juggernaut. But you don't beat a MySpace unless you're, well, a Facebook. You can't best the incumbent on one factor alone. You have to build an experience that is so radically more compelling that people will actually give up their existing network on the old product just to use yours. And that kind of product is a genuine rarity.
So, if Amazon loses here, they still get to ship lots of products to people who might otherwise buy from a B&M store? Seems win/win for Amazon.
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I disagree with your disagreement. Caldwell just wants to make money (and the glory) Nothing wrong with that. I want to make money too first and foremost :)
The risk when using grays instead of black and white is that what looks perfectly readable on the writer's monitor may not look good at all on the reader's. The more you rely on midtones, including grayscale-based design choices, the more you are at the mercy of the end user's probably-completely-screwed-up monitor.

Many of us who use multiple monitors on our PCs are all too familiar with how hard it is to achieve consistency when dragging a window between displays. Every time I swap out a monitor on my main PC, it usually takes me about an hour of screwing around with the Nvidia control panel before I'm satisfied with the match between my new monitor and the existing one(s). I'd guess that most users with only a single monitor aren't even aware that they can change the brightness, contrast, and gamma of individual RGB components.

What that means is that spending hours tweaking your design for "just the right contrast" is guaranteed to be a waste of time. Web designers working in the real world need to make conservative choices, and that means higher contrast is almost always better than lower.
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Thanks, I still love the app, and I really don't use it outside of desktop (during development), but on a touch-enabled device I just instinctively want to start dragging my cards around. And the native app is nice as-is on a phone (draggable between screens).
There's kind of this race to be the first popular streaming video service.

I've been working on something myself this past summer for Android. The difficulty is that you have to create something that can stream video at a high quality despite a poor connection. People will tolerate compression artifacts in a live stream, but on replay the video should be full quality. I think I've come up to a solution for this, but I've had to dig through a bunch of compression research papers.

Of course, if my little hobby ever takes off at some point I don't know what I'll do -- without a good way to monetize quickly, there's no way I can afford the bandwidth of streaming video.
Not that this completely contradicts your point, but often a non-black/white shadow is web design is awesome. Subtle moves like high-saturation shadows that match your color scheme, which Ian discusses, are something I employ often (for both inset and outset shadows).
:) Good catch. Meta-knowledge is power.
I think there are crucial differences between Twitter's "tweets + ads" model and the "tweets are ads" model I'm suggesting, but this probably isn't the place to discuss it.
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A system like that will never work.
I'm not a lawyer, but the way I've seen it play out is that the company will usually represent the person if they're co-defendants. Unless his interests and the company's diverge at some point, in which case he will want get his own counsel.

I have seen the company pay a former employee's separate legal costs, although I don't know how rare that is.
Pulseaudio can abstract over multiple devices, allowing you to mute individual applications, move streams between physical pieces of hardware, and so on. Audio mixing in kernel-space is brittle and the wrong place for the code anyway. Doing it in userspace is more secure, more flexible, and generally a good design.
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plenty of other comments. I'm sure this crowd can find them if they're interested.
I've got it in my own Android project for $0. The problem is the bandwidth if I ever want to scale it up...
The answer, for me, is simple: there are a good number of people I follow on Twitter that are endorsing app.net, which indicates that they likely intend to use it of it gets funded. The same can't be said for any other Twitter-like service (other than Twitter, of course).
It's $50 for a year of service. One crappy Starbucks coffee a month isn't bad to be treated like a customer instead of a set of eyeballs to sell.

(Yes, I'm a backer.)
I completely disagree. I think Amazon.come is absolutely amazing, and I do the vast majority of my shopping through it.
Bezos's intention was to offer everything under the sun when he started the company, hence the name Amazon, because of it's diversity in terms of number of species that exists there.

I compare my experience with Newegg, and although I've bought some stuff from Newegg, I will generally go with Amazon, even if it's a few dollars more expensive, because I trust Amazon so much more, and the entire experience is so much better. I'm basically their model customer, and they have me hook, line, and sinker, especially with Amazon Prime.
I'm tempted to contribute to App.net, because it seems like a great idea and I'd like to see it succeed. However, I'm starting to think that I just may have no use for social networks of any kind at all any more.

Twitter feels like work to read and "maintain" and we're always told we have to maintain it. Facebook feels like a cesspool. I've been focused on spending time each day on learning new skills (and relearning old ones) and I'm enjoying it far more than I ever enjoyed social networking, and I'm actually getting something out of it. When I want to read something, I either come to HN or I read a book (a good book is worth at least 10,000 tweets or 1,000 blog posts, so what is really the point of all those endless tweets?)

I sometimes try to imagine the people I truly respect (the authors and inventors and scientists) spending all kinds of time on Twitter and Facebook and I keep failing.
The bandwidth from Curiosity directly to Earth is about 8 kb/s

For what it's worth, just about 15 years ago that was the bandwidth that you could expect from consumer internet and BBS connections on earth.

And now we're doing it to Mars. Boggles the mind.
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The work/life balance problems are so common among us entrepreneurs. For me the solution was to start jogging regularly - it's almost like meditation and you can just run and not think about your next problem to be solved.

I also like your comment about being happy. Perhaps it may sound a bit hedonistic, but it really is the most important thing in live! Well done.
Yes, and we should also support IE6 forever!

If users are never annoyed or alienated, it will mean that progress has stopped.
That being said, I don't care to use new hardware, unless it's something essencial like a video card, chipsets, etc.

Why upgrade your computer then? You don't need the newest version of an OS if you don't want to do anything that the old version didn't do.
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There is a good alternative, it's just not legal.
Oh noes, now I only have a business that delivers groceries to people with lawns. What a tiny niche business:) Seriously though, those are really lame problems. If I could sign up for a service that uses a geofence to find out when I get home and then f-ing airlifts milk to the dead center of my front lawn, I would buy so much milk.
In my opinion, this app is a reinvention of that idea of the touch-enabled photo tabletop -- the one where you can slide around photos and sort of pile them into collections. We've seen that demo on TED and I'm pretty sure on Microsoft's old Surface tabletop.

They've taken that basic idea, and made a really cool semi-structured visualization, and added interesting widgets like the map.

If you look at it from that angle, you've got something that really sounds pretty interesting and something that, hey, if I have a few bucks sure I'll play with it.
those damn instacart addicts :)
Right, refrigeration is one of the big practical problems with UAV grocery delivery...

In the foreseeable future, I think you'd have better luck delivering groceries by catapult than by UAV.
"usable"? No. Those specs are simply wrong.

But even then, you're showing incredible hubris by saying "screw those guys, let them pirate XP". Debian's strength is that it tries to be universal - platforms and languages.
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I actually think lockers are more convenient because I don't even have to think about the day and time. I just pick up my package when it's convenient.

I also imagine customized delivery times would increase costs and make logistics more difficult. The only place I know offhand that has customized delivery times is Tokyo, so I wonder how they manage. Probably more affordable in a high density area with couriers.
About time. Gnome has been suffering from 'feature' creep for years. As of late it has gone from merely unpleasant, to barely usable.
"You will notice there is one dot way out on the boundaries of the distribution in each chart. It turns out this dot represents the same accelerator each time, Y-Combinator. Indeed, Christiansen himself points out that Y-Combinator is an outlier."
I can't help but worry that services like Instacart, TaskRabbit and Exec may perpetuate the problem of "underemployment" in the United States.

Let's face it, you can't pay delivery people as good as, say, Costco does it's hourly employees and only charge $4 or $10 for delivery. It's even worse if these services are just 1099ing these people without any benefits, gas money, etc. (I have no idea if this is the case).

Maybe these services use student workers. Maybe I'm way off. But I do know that I'm as pro-capitalism as anyone but felt a little dirty after paying someone on TaskRabbit $15 to walk around SF for 2 hours and get me some restaurant information.
Dropbox has a Linux version. It's not a web app. I've used it in Unity/Gnome/Nautilus. It feels exactly right. It also works perfectly on OS X, Windows, Android and iOS.
A better Twitter? I've never heard those kind of sentences being thrown around before. Shut up and take my money... In all seriousness though, you can build something better than Twitter but it's the Google problem all over again: the market is cornered and unless you've got big pockets like Facebook or Apple, you've got no chance of going toe-to-toe with the big guys like Twitter.
What harm was done by the flash crash, really?
> Feminism is widely understood.

It is widely understood because people talk about it. Maybe it is over discussed; I obviously don't have a complete understanding of it because I thought that it was a movement for equality and you seem to disagree.
I really like the focus on geography as a way of organizing content.
Keep in mind that, with one exception, ZFS is pretty much rock-solid from day one.

When we used it in production about 5 years ago it was not so rock-solid. We had to bring in Sun-Support and went through some nasty downtimes for lengthy resilvering.
>Additionally, if you take a look at Kickstarter’s official stats, it would appear that of 35,138 unsuccessful projects, only 2,026 of them ever reached 41% or more of their funding goal. In other words, only 5.7% of Kickstarter projects that don’t succeed ever manage to reach 40% of goal.

Oh no. This is not how we Bayes. I don't have the mental energy to translate these natural language statements into statements of probability and actually apply Bayes' theorem, but I'm pretty sure if I did, the result would be a lot less inspiring of confidence than "only a 5.7% chance of failure!"
Debian supports a huge number of architectures, not just the 386 that comes in most desktop computers. Not all modern computing devices have the power of Intel Core 2 processors.

The other thing is, if people want a sweet enduser experience, they're not going to install the default Debian install anyways. They'll use an enduser-focused distro like Ubuntu.
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You can build C# OSX apps with native UI if you use Mono with Monobjc:

http://www.monobjc.net/

MonoTouch for iOS works similarly, and bridges into native Objective C UI libraries (and you continue to use Interface Builder). Last time I tried it, it had the downsides of long startup time (2-3 seconds) and big runtime. However, if you're writing a big app, let's say 5MB, then going from 5MB to 7MB is probably ok.

I think MonoTouch for Android also uses native UI, but I have not tried it yet.
Strict and cryptic? They released a system that will basically crowdsource most of it.

http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/
They can just look a Bungie and see being bought out is a mixed blessing.
Steam already has great community options built in to connect their massive user base (2.9 million currently online) , and sales prices that absolutely cannot be beaten. Not to mention a much better reputation then other online software vendors.
Except dropbox's technology layer isn't infrastructure. They do sync, but that's pseudoinfrastructure compared to what s3 really provides them.
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Installing lockers is something that I would get into if I wasn't already involved with a company doing something very similar but not for package deliveries. Once you build out the infrastructure, you have an asset with good ROI and a moat against potential competitors. I know someone doing exactly this right now and is basically trying to expand as quickly as possible.
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