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Yea, there's a ton of room for better software in manufacturing, but the hard part is getting them to adopt it. It has all the hard sales problems of serving restaurants, but without the ease of understanding their problems. This generally filters the people with experience in manufacturing who are already set in their ways.

With the rise of hardware startups though, we're seeing entrepreneurs get into the dirty parts of the system - maybe some will then go on to solve some of these problems that they personally run into.
And for those backers not at a reward level?

But you ignore the bigger problem. How are you, as a Backer, able to require a refund because a Project breached its terms with Kickstarter?
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Our republic was originally designed to work like this, but the federal government has taken so much power that differences in freedom and self-governance no longer vary that much between states.

At the same time, there's also a dynamic where desirable states (those with thriving economies, liveable cities, talent pools from top Universities) end up taxing more and more, simply because they can. For many companies and individuals, the benefits of operating and living in high-tax states still seem to outweigh the costs. Although in the last decade New York and California have been losing people (partly due to companies leaving, partly due to cost-of-living and real estate prices).
I post less too.

But: move on to where?
It's filled with outlandish statements...

"We have to acknowledge the obvious: Both entities are here to make money from the labor and success of entrepreneurs, essentially operating in a predatory role."
The claim that backers have "no legal recourse" is a misstatement, but it doesn't change the de facto outcome.

Ok, so Kickstarter says the creators are required to refund upon failure. This provides legal recourse. So what? You can't take money from someone who has none. What are the chances that the project creator is sitting on the $10 million, or even a fraction of it?

The problem for Kickstarter today is the same as it was on day one. Many of their customers believe that they are pre-ordering a product, not investing in a start-up. The Kickstarter ecosystem operates on confidence. I'm not sure anyone can accurately model that confidence economy, because Kickstarter is a very new idea.

I can say this though: failed projects will erode confidence that must be rebuilt in order to obtain new backers. The rate of erosion versus build-up of new confidence levels will define the success or failure of Kickstarter over the long term, and I don't think it would be overstating to say that confidence tends to erode far more quickly than it can be built.
Sad to see these types of posts making the 1st page on HN these days :(
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I love how they imply the possibility of rooting.

The new KF will undoubtedly ship with a locked bootloader that checks ROM signatures and clobbers any unauthorized ROMs on startup.
How did this become such a big deal? Raising money, especially for the first time, is a stressful experience full of uncertainty. When we did it, one investor (not Google Ventures actually) low balled us and a lot of our peers. We were first timers and it freaked us out.

PG would have no problem with writing "avoid Google Ventures". He didn't because that's not what he meant. It's simply about saying hey I heard that Google Ventures lowballs, if they do it to you don't freak out.
So, as long as the government of Honduras adheres to libertarian ideals about how to view this, it can't fail!
You know, that frontpage post about the declining quality of what's posted lately? I think i get it now.
I met him a couple of times at Boston Lisp meetings.

Awesome guy. Very low key. Consider me officially bummed.
I would be MUCH more interested to get some insight as to WHY a binary numbering system, which can't represent accurately a number so trivial as 0.1, have ever become ubiquitous for general-purpose floating-point applications. Or why it's no worse than any other system.

Any taker?

The original article in itself is pretty interesting, but of very limited appeal to the HN crowd. The visitors here being mostly technical types, anyone with a Comp. Sci. or Comp. Eng. degree has already gone through those computations many times over during their career.
atlast someone got it, thanks WayneDB
The fact that people equate a KickStarter backing to a product order is ridiculous.

When you back a project on KickStarter, you are taking a risk on a team, and you can't go in with the expectation that all will go according to plan. If you don;t have the appetite for risk, wait for the post-kickstarter retail launch.
also added to the g+ but...

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I'm sorry, I don't understand. Can you please post this comment on your blog and submit it?

But, seriously, I'm not one of those "HN is totally going downhill" people but I'm annoyed by most posts like this. I don't mean ones about fashion and not tech (the fact that this isn't strictly a "tech" site is a discussion for another day) but rather things that would have made perfectly servicable comments becoming their own submissions. I understand why people do it (more exposure for their message, more exposure for their blog) but I really think it dilutes the experience. It dilutes the discussion by forcing you to check multiple places for updates. It dilutes the front page by using multiple slots for the same discussion instead of having as many different discussions as possible. And it dilutes interest by repeatedly shoving the same topic in front of your face.

Before we have another one of these types of replies can we please just stop and think "does this need to be its own submission or is it really a comment in disguise?"
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One book that tries to quantify along several dimensions is "Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Here's my notes from a related talk he gave on the subject:

http://library.mises.org/media/The%20Costs%20of%20War/World%...

"in europe, during monarchy taxes were 3-5%, during democracy 25%. during monarchy debt was paid down during peace time, democracies increase debt during war and peace. during monarchy, price level fell century after century, and in democracy price level has risen. in monarchy interest rates fell, in democracy interest rates have risen. in monarchy money supply grew modestly (6x in century), in democracy it's grown enormously (1000x in century). govt gdp expenditures are much higher under democracy than monarchy. very little redistribution of wealth under monarchy. very little interference. very few new laws. most wars are limited to territory under dispute often bc of inheritance/marriage."
That point reminds me of Kathy Sierra's distinction between just-in-time learning and just-in-case learning: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0...
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How is standing on the sidewalk watching people in their homes with a FLIR gun any different than watching people normally?

The important part is what people expect to be private.
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oh well, didn't know about that. This isn't really too complicated, I just can't believe no one has looked at the json for the newsfeed before!
I'm not sure what else there is to talk about, unless you think contracts for merchant accounts should be compulsory.

Completely automatic is obviously silly because of the fraud risk, but a presumption in favour and/or formal restrictions on acceptable criteria for refusal aren't nearly as absurd as you're implying.

We're talking about a very closed industry and a service that, in practice, directly affects people's ability to trade.

We regulate service providers in other essential industries, and they can't deny provision to a customer just because they don't like them. It's part of the deal if you want to operate in those markets.

And there are all kinds of laws to prevent or restrict one-sided deals that inhibit people's ability to trade. There are laws about monopolies and anti-competitive behaviour. The handling of non-compete agreements in employment law would be another obvious example in a slightly different context.
Democracy's pretty cool, I agree, but the stagnation is problematic. It might be better than anything else that's been tried, but that doesn't mean as much when not much else has been tried for quite a while.
Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.
> You can use Akka from java

True, but I just got sick of Java being a 2nd class citizen on Akka.

> In fact java has libs that support all kinds of concurrent solutions and they are not that complex.

hmmm does java have a distributed concurrent solution that isn't complex? Aside from Akka, I am not aware of any.
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I saw discussion of this a while back but unfortunately can't find the original link. The essence of the argument boils down to the purpose of privacy settings on postings; the concept of an "everybody can see this except Bob" setting is completely stupid from a traditional security perspective, but it makes sense if you're planning a surprise party. You don't expect Bob is going to try to circumvent the security AT ALL because it's like punching through a wet paper bag. It's like subtly tapping your watch at a party. It's not an unbreakable code, it doesn't need to be, it isn't meant to be.
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Yeah I agree with this. US is not very friendly to immigrant entrepreneurs at all. Where can I read some more about getting Permanent Residency in Chile?
Right. I was saying that in the PC industry, it was the Windows monopoly that commoditized PC hardware. I wasn't saying that every monopoly necessarily leads to commoditization.
Isn't Twitters success mostly attributed to its mainstream user adoption? I'm not sure how app.net can survive on a niche developer community if that community is building on top of a platform that caters to itself.
I have some friends/colleagues like that, and they are a certainly a minority. All very deep thinkers and great to work with. I could see how learning all of the abstract material would help with that learning type, so I don't think we disagree. Everyone should use whatever approach works best for themselves. This is probably a better point than anything else.

I was focused on my own experience and the experience I've had with the majority. Generalization and such.
Let's say you're upset with someone, want to vent so say it anonymously and restrict said person from seeing it, so you can vent publicly, and not embarrass anyone (presuming people wont be able to figure out via the post itself who you are talking about).

Because of this, your efforts might be wasted.
> 1. It's a new product and a new team.

The same team made the inPulse watch: http://www.getinpulse.com/
I'm implying that there's no large and widespread software ecosystem I know of that creates via drop-and-drag applications of any significant complexity. The closest to that that I know of is LabView.
Step 1 in learning to code:

10 PRINT "COCKS"

20 GOTO 10

Step 2 in learning to code:

10 INPUT "How many cocks do you want",C

20 FOR I = 1 TO C

30 PRINT "8===========D"

40 NEXT I

I'm not recommending that your first steps into programming be in BASIC, or involve cocks. (On both accounts I would recommend the exact inverse.) But this is how a million programmers got started: useless programs that amused us. Never, ever, ever underestimate a useless program, especially for beginners. The author of this article seemed to want to focus on building a prototype for his Web startup. And that's fine, as a long-term goal. But if you're brand new to the world of programming it's probably a good idea to start with the basics, like printing or drawing stuff on the screen, doing some simple (or, later mor complicated) mathematics, or munging or transforming data in interesting ways. This helps keep the budding programmer focused on the patterns and "shape" of their language, which knowledge they can then later direct to a specific purpose like Web or smartphone apps.
Merchant account providers are not in the insurance business.

Really? I think there's a good argument that insurance is exactly the business they are in.

The fundamental difficulty here is that money you think you have as a merchant can be taken away again retrospectively, and the merchant account provider is on the hook for it if the merchant disappears. The merchant account provider accepts that risk, but takes steps such as retaining partial funds that will normally be sufficient to mitigate it. Every now and then they'll take a big hit when there's a spectacular failure and whatever guarantees the merchant account provider thought they had turn out not to be worth enough to cover the loss. Most of the time, however, things will go fine and the merchant account provider will make a tidy margin.

How is this not an insurance model?

If you're starting a business and worried that your own product failures are going to bankrupt you, pay for insurance.

I'm not worried about my product failures, I'm worried about fraud due to a combination of their insufficient security and their rather generous waiting periods for customer complaints, or simply due to a mistake on their part.
I believe there was a court case that cleared up the ambiguity in the case of telephoto lenses, which I think could be mapped to this case quite nicely. But for the life of me I can't remember the name of it or find it on google.
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They cannot possibly have made that claim in good faith.

The most likely scenario for a project that cannot deliver is that they ran out of funds before that had fulfilled all of the orders. By that time there is no money left to refund.
You guys are probably right. If you check my submission history, I rarely submit stuff like this (this is probably my first of this type). Nonetheless, I'm tired of those kinds of posts and wanted to make a statement. Sorry for polluting.
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Can't you clean yourself?
Cult of Logic-less Templates
If you're shouting your password at your roommate loudly, and a neighbor overhears it, then how is that really snooping? Once the extremely loud signal leaves your property, I'm not sure you can be responsible for that data. It doesn't take any sort of high-end equipment to intercept this data, it's being thrown at us constantly.
It might be possible to prevent this. Craigslist somehow detects when you use a Twilio number.
Those pictures say goofball to me, not Serious Business.

Those bow ties seem like the hoodies of the 80s.
Many cases will be like that yes. And if, as they say, the databases are limited to wanted persons or convicted felons, then the priors won't be terribly out of whack. But it's going to be way easier, PR-wise, to broaden a face database than it ever would have been to broaden a DNA database. It did not take long in the UK, for example, for the National DNA database to creep from "only convicted criminals" to "anyone arrested, even if they were never charged".

And that's with people's DNA, which is pretty invasive to obtain. The government takes routinely takes pictures of people; there's no visceral moment of privacy invasion there. It would be easy for the database to expand to include a tremendous number of people, and then your false positive rate really is a problem. It stops even being a reliable way to narrow people down, because there just isn't that much variance in human faces, especially if you have to deal with low resolution and/or noisy data.
Don't be. People conform everywhere, all the time. HN isn't that special.
Great to have the control, and should help prompt the kids to start hacking for a bypass ;)
>> Both entities are here to make money from the labor and success of entrepreneurs, essentially operating in a predatory role.

What is this person doing writing for Venturebeat?
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Actually, its 'underscore_cli'.
Is it just me or does this author have an affiliation with TechStars? (For instance: see http://vimeo.com/5346690)
The reason for the mismatch is that it's not 70 million transactions a day. It's potentially 70 million times the average number of people that access each tweet, which is probably more like 100+, plus all the polling that twitter applications do even when there are no new tweets, as well as all the ancillary stuff that's required to run something like this (spam filtering, API servers, etc).
These two claims are not in contradiction.
That's an absurd report considering that NBA/NHL arenas hold about 18-20k people max while most MLS games are played in Football stadiums that can hold 65k+. The fact that MLS still barely wins in attendance per game is pretty sad.
Nothing, but there are probably many who see him and think "cargo cult"

Mimicking a famous person's eccentricity isn't exactly popular - the folks who idolize SJ will think you're an ass while the folks who hate him will think you're a cultist.
> he has a reason for doing it that Steve Jobs had first

My point was that the reason only works for steve jobs, mere mortals will be judged for that behaviour. You still "save time" but that's a post-rationalization from someone who dislikes the pressure of dressing themselves if I've ever heard one.

> And man, I just don't know about the rest of that. If you can't wear what you want to because you're doing a startup...

Hey, do whatever you want. I was just pointing out the tradeoff. Also because I find it funny that the same people who would recognize a joke about a "shirt of +2 charisma" are the most least likely to be wearing them or even recognize they exist in the real world.
I'd rather see it cost karma to upvote/downvote. Higher cost for articles, lower cost for comments.
Yes, HK was british protectorate, sucessful in trade and established in law. Arguably, the rule of law and institutions was the underpinning its business success (and weath). While south and central america, had a bad experience with outside influences.
It does read a bit like some classic Arrington from the early TechCrunch. Clearly it fills some need or it wouldn't get the traffic or attention that it does. Its like reading 'Dear Abby' to feel better about your own life. After a while you come to realize that its not 'real' in the sense its sensationalism for sensationalists sake, ValleyWag2.

The only part that bothers me is that these kinds of people thrived during the dot com 'boom'. So their reappearance, like the swallows in Capistrano, seem to herald a change in the climate.
I like your out of the box thinking, but the specs are a bit thin to be honest.

Probably it will be something like RaspberryPI, while I would like 1.5 - 2 GHz and 2 - 4 GB RAM and text or vga grade graphics.
> Rule of law, fairness, and a lack of corruption leads to more economic growth than low taxes.

Yes, but the ease of paying for government cooperation and special privilege may be better for established large multinationals. Once the "tenants" become as big as or bigger than the holders of sovereignty, there is a sea-change in the relationship, if not an outright reversal.
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I totally disagree. I can't stand tutorials or classes that present useless stuff as exercises. It's so much easier to work on something that you can at least imagine would have some value. And it is much, much easier to work on something that you think is either cool or have always wanted to build, etc.

Also, 1/2 a downgrade for the lame, childish example.
OTOH, if you vented publicly about someone, it might be useful for me to know who NOT to repeat the rant to.
I fail to see how any of the things you mentioned are negative.
If you have been starting to write code and study code for a year, you are still learning to code. You have not learned to code, you are not even a journeyman yet.

I've been in the industry about 9 years, and coding since I was a child. My parents caught me staying up late with a flashlight under the covers as a teenager reading books on C instead of nudie mags. My first program with an event-driven UI ran on a NeXT Color Station. This is not to brag, it's to say I've been doing this basically since I could decide what to do, and I still have a lot to learn about coding, computer science and software engineering.

So you've made your third biggest mistake; you've vastly underestimated what you are in for. You have never "learned" to program, you are "learning." Every year will ask you to acquire new skills and use new models and learn new domains.
What's broken about CORS in IE8 and IE9?
Exactly, and there're also lognormal distribution and friends, which are quite hard to distinguish from normal with limited data at hand.

There's no magical "naturally" normal distribution at all. And whether smth is normal depends on how and what we measure: consider a plant's leaf, whose shape is elliptical, with axes independently normally distributed; the area is not distributed normally then. :)

We had quite wonderful discussions here at Russia last winter on whether the shape of some poll graphs clearly hints there was a fraud (it does not), and it turned out many people with technical education are lacking basic mathstat knowledge (but have strong "beliefs" regarding normal distribution).
Oh, sure, that wasn't intended as a dig on Django. My point was just the fact that you couldn't run it under Python3 was likely a factor in the slow adoption.
This is not related to underscore.js anyhow? People might find that name confusing.
Aaand you'd better hope the project formed some kind of entity with limited liability...
Your last sentence is intriguing. Do you believe that ads are the only means to keep services "free" or "cheaper"?

If you do, then that would explain why you have come to accept them as "necessary" for services to be "free" or "cheap". (i.e., you've made a causal link between ads and "free/cheap")

If you don't, then I have more questions for you to answer.
Having experienced the joy of Honduras' "cruft" firsthand, I can assure you that it serves no noble purpose.

Try importing a piece of equipment through customs. The process is truly Kafka-esque. It's like the government is actively working to prevent its citizens from acquiring the tools to, you know, lift themselves out of poverty.
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Essentially ...

"Is Apple’s iPad still the top dog when it comes to tablets? Absolutely, and I see no evidence to suggest otherwise. But the theme of “there is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market” is starting to look outdated based on the data we see today."

In addition to better Android tablet software, competitors are scheduling their product launches to attack the seasonal gaps in Apple's annual new product release cycle.

It looks to me that Android/Linux from Google & Amazon will gain share on Apple - and continue to crush Microsoft in tablet market share.

What lessons can GNU/Linux distributors learn from Android/Linux distributors to crush Microsoft elsewhere?
Taxpayers paying for a commercial service whether they use it or not sounds like one. Special privileges and fast-tracking is another.
Looks a really good app and I understood exactly what it does, just be first image and text.

What I would like though is a little tick box for it to not close apps that are already open. Also when creating a group, what space (think that's what they are called) it should open in.

My whole family uses my mac, so I tend to open all my apps in the second space and leave their apps open in the first. Be great if I could use your app to quickly open all my apps in space 2 and then when am finished close them all again.

Dave