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I'm not sure if you're trying to be ironic or you really don't know that Exchange is just a (mostly) RFC compliant SMTP server and a (mostly) RFC compliant IMAP server rolled into one.
App Store case: 7 days to built, 7 days to 15K downloads. No marketing.
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When I first read this it came across to me as sarcastic, belittling, and unhelpful, which would be an unfortunate way to react to someone trying to honestly share his experience of grappling with fear and disappointment. However, I'll assume your comment wasn't meant that way.

Putting those links up was not meant as a form of marketing. They were meant to give context - to show what I meant when I say, "I get these things to a point where they're presentable but they don't make people fall in love."

Do you have any suggestions on what really would be marketing?
I'm not American, so I have no idea about whatever "mysticism" you are talking about.

All soldiers should be honoured for the fact that they volunteer for very dangerous activities, usually will little understanding of when and where those activities will be.

Your point regarding post-war sign ups is valid, but like I said, if you want to fight wars you can just join blackwater et al. If you want to serve your country you can join the nation's armed forces. There is an element in public service in the soldier that should be commended.
There was an earlier discussion on HN about why people should not use DropBox for backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411822

As far I can tell from DropBox's help pages, they claim that they are safe for backup [1], but they only save file changes for 30 days unless you pay extra [2]. Do you use the PackRat addon, or is 30 days worth of changes okay for you?

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/122/en

[2]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/113/en
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I don't have a problem with it being on Hacker News. It's not an inspiring speech by a Texan mayor, it's not about marijuana, and it's not an indictment of something racist from 20 years ago. The article consists of real answers by the real candidates to real questions: a good hacker might find it interesting.
Thanks, man! (assuming you are a man).

Nice scri.ch btw. You still working on it?

And as for revenue etc, I just built this for fun last week cause I was tired of how Posterous kept getting more bloated every time I used it. No thoughts about this as a business, really.
Big node fan, hadn't seen this either. Side note, not criticising parent comment specifically, just thinking out loud: I still don't get why people question relevancy of submissions on sites like HN. Surely if its getting upvoted enough to hit the front page, the community finds value in it, right?
That's complete and utter bullshit.
The reason that "email" will never die is that the limitations of the human mind compel user interface designers to employ the principle of least surprise and to extend existing metaphors slowly. In practice, many people are using "email" which runs on internal Exchange systems and is accessed using Outlook or web applications. When I send an email via Gmail on my "phone" (Which is as much a camera that can make calls as it is a telephone that can take pictures - the only reason we use one metaphor and not the other is path dependence) to someone else using Gmail, I am "sending them an email" without using the protocols that the original implementers of email had in mind.

It's the same reason that we can call a web site a "page" or a "document" despite the fact that a modern web site is actually several programs running insider your browser (flash, custom JS, HTML rendering) working together with programs running on a number of different servers. That's nothing like a paper document, but we use the metaphor because it's been extended a little bit at a time.
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I can confirm this. The Surface and WP8 also were announced hastily at the beginning of the summer in response to competitors and not because they were ready.

Amazon originally had Sept 5 for their announce, and Nokia scheduled over it because if they didn't announce before Apple it would be a lost cause. But they needed price. Price is what's going to make this year interesting. Coincidentally, Steve's letter about from a few years ago today said the same thing: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
I believe GMail already does the chat <-> email conversation quite seamlessly
You should make "1 more articles by sfard" a link to take you back to your user page. I missed the list on the right at first glance.
Yeah, I need to put up more info up on the landing page.

Here is my profile on Status Chart: https://www.statuschart.com/kennedysgarage

Two weeks ago I was not happy with my traditional résumé and decided to take a closer look it. I noticed that my career path did not fit on the typical one page one often has. I decided the solution would be to keep my résumé a traditional résumé and create something to enhance it.

I created Status Chart to list out all of my projects, hackathons, events, and so on. I fell that these items are what really make me who I am, not necessary the "jobs" I have had, although important.
Needs to have the image open in another window rather than behind the text.
Or, it could be indicative of a trend away from the myraid of Android devices as Android customers gravitate towards a smaller number of models.
I think it's mostly that Exchange systems don't use the traditional "email" protocol internally. Obviously that doesn't really matter.
In other parts of the world that's not a viable argument.

It was my local ISP the one who installed the WiFi with WEP and they don't provide the option to manage the router and disable it, even if I requested WAP2 explicitly.
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I put my name down around June/Julyish, it was delivered in early August. Surprisingly faster than I expected.
I write iOS apps for a living and found myself looking up the resolution of an iPhone yesterday - this is not something you know by heart. The raw pixel count is simply not relevant except for a small number of cases.
Don't banks track the new money they receive by serial number range?
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When Google Maps announced they were going to start charging it was exactly like getting AIDS.

...Maybe don't compare losing API access to being a Cancer patient. This isn't going to kill you, or financially bankrupt you, or destroy your family...
what does 920 refer to?
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Cool. Yeah, I was pretty surprised to find this domain. I literally thought of the name and saw the domain & twitter was all available in 5 minutes after deciding to put up a landing page.
Smaller websites and even bloggers caught on, those that remained, stopped linking to cool things. Screw you cool young startup! Not only am I providing free advertising for you, you’re harming my search results! However will the five hundred readers I have find me?

Ugh, how condescending. Guess what: most startups aren't doing anything very "cool" and my 500 readers, though small in number to you, are really important to me.
Someone [1] out there is also shaking down the smaller web sites by scaring them. We (blekko.com) get requests from website owners or their representative saying they've been told their ratings in Google are harmed by all the links to their site so please remove any links we have to their site (and then they give a URL which is a search for their site on our search engine). I assure them that Google does not use our results to adjust their ranking algorithms.

But the meta comment is that more folks than ever are putting content on the web with no idea about how the web works or is worked. That's kind of sad, not entirely unexpected, but sad.

[1] I always ask who told them this but so far no answers to that question.
> Am I the only one who, rather than being outraged, is thrilled at the potential hacking opportunities and other shenanigans this introduces? The fun that could be had...

This is (in part) why so many are outraged.
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What's wrong with listing the specs? Should they rather say that it's magical and changes everything? Again?
"Follow the money" has turned into "follow the chain".
After being on iPhones for years, I've just bought an S3 for my wife. She broke the iPhone's screen last week and needed a new phone fast and.. Apple's lawsuit both made me aware of Samsung and somehow put the thought in my head that the S3 must be a pretty good phone. I'd have never even thought of buying non-Apple before.

As it turns out, it's not a perfect phone but I've been pretty wowed so far while setting the phone up and might even skip the iPhone 5 and get an S3 for myself too. Oops, Apple..
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Thanks for the comment. We didn't get a How it Works page up for the launch but we're working on that now. We're also working on making the value prop more clear.
That sounds very cool. What kind of solar power product are you using? Where can I buy one online?
Some of those look pretty neat, but I have to constantly fight the urge to think "fly-by-night" whenever I see a name ending with "ly" or "me" or "zr" or replacing an i with a y.
A piece of content has to stand on its own (at least on a physical level; obviously works are embedded in their cultures), because reading is still a fundamentally linear activity (and watching a video more so). Displaying a composite piece of content derived from multiple sources is a rainbow people have been chasing since before the web (see xanadu), but it still looks as far away as ever.
> “Nothing else looks like this in a phone store,” he says of the 920. “It’s very, very, very organic. It’s almost super-organic,

Also wants to out-do Apple on reality-distortion :)

I am glad to see a company competing on visual/industrial design, where Sony and Dell have failed miserably.
In particular, the reverse doesn't work as easily, so a program where Europeans fly to California to buy a car and ship it back wouldn't be a great idea financially. It varies by country, but in many European countries you need to have resided abroad for at least one year in order for a car purchased abroad to count as a personal effect that you can bring back with you tax-free.
You're reading Engadget. What did you expect? They live for specs.

I very much doubt the actual consumer pitch is going to be like this.
Statins are probably one major reason.
Obviously some people feel that the government should help with privacy and security issues. It's a government "of the people", not "of gavinlynch".
What amazed me is that "Bejeweled" has become an entire genre, like "platformer".
The original isn't just cloned, it becomes a foundation for larger games.
I really like the suggestion of malandrew yesterday on HN:

This is one of the main reasons I think that all money spent on lawyers should go into an account that both sides get to draw upon equally to pay legal expenses. You simply cannot have a system capable of meting out justice if money can skew "justice" in your favor.

The two questions which immediately come to mind:

1. How to bell the cat (how does one actually get this enacted)?

2. What could possibly go wrong?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475702
The BMW fan wiki suggests that's not a tax/tariff dodge as much as the fact that BMW doesn't pay the incentive payment to dealers for euro delivery cars:

http://www.bimmerfest.com/wiki/index.php/ED_Summary#Why_is_E...
I personally can't fathom how I could live with a business model that depends on the TOS of other companies. I mean, sure there are markets for these kinds of things, but the risk associated with it scare me shitless.
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Though it's currently hard to do 3D, we have similar features in the Khan Academy CS section:

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs

However, we don't restart the code from the beginning when you change something -- you'll notice that if you change the code in the linked page, the icosahedron jumps to a new angle, whereas with the KA environment, execution continues from the current state.
I think the challenge Apple has, even with the 5 around the corner is this. Not sure I'll explain it as well as I'd like but it goes something like this:

iPhone "1" is mind blowingly awesome. A fantastically complete device. Subsequent updates to the hardware and OS make meaningful but incremental improvements. So an original iPhone 1 is 80% of what a 5 will be.

Android early phones are fascinating but generally pretty average - especially compared to an iPhone. Yet/Therefore every new hw and OS update provides substantial improvements over what's come before.

Therefore two things happen. Android phones close the absolute gap to iPhone helping for competitive wins. Secondly, Android new/upgrade phones excite the heck out of existing Android owners because they (along with the OS) are a real improvement.

I see iPhone 5 sales driven by people who held off getting an iPhone for the last two months because of the news. I don't see that other afterburner of sales though - 4 and 4S users who see a real driver to upgrade.
All good ideas. I hadn't considered the email - I am using Systematic Revenue for emails and this could be a great way to take advantage of the system.
> Sellers such as children's clothing store Cookie's use software to change prices every 15 minutes

Why does Amazon not provide this service to sellers? It seems similar to bidding for keyword-based advertisement.
This may seem obvious, but don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
It's not just 48px, it's 61,440. But I do agree with both of your points. Not much to brag about there.
Do you have a description of your setup? It sounds interesting.
I believe it is hard to be successful if they able to compete on price. If they release this phone with same price as iPhone or Galaxy S, people will choose others.
Why on earth aren't they announcing pricing and availability?
The Lumia 920 will arrive in pentaband LTE and HSPA+ variants and both are expected to ship "in selected markets" later this year.

"Later this year"?

I hate it when companies do this. Hate hate HATE it.

"Here's something awesome! Want it? OK, come back a few months from now and we'll sell you one. What? No, we can't tell you exactly when. We can't even tell you yet what it will cost. It'll be a few months, and cost some amount of money, that's all you need to know."

Then the few months pass, all the hype dies away, and when the device launches for real, nobody buys one.

I'm sure there's a marketing rationale for doing things this way, but I can't see it. What good is all this press attention now, when you can't actually take orders for the thing the press is raving about? When your ability to do so is so far away that you can't even give a specific date?
No, it doesn't work.

The problem is not the fact that they scan and (correctly) ignore a vast bulk of material. It's a question of what false positives it hits, and how important those false positives are.

So far we've had two high profile false positives one of which is directly relevant to American civic life.

At some point if your errors are high profile enough, or damaging enough, it's irrelevant how few errors you're making, damage is being done.

This is a problem, and it needs to be dealt with.
Agreed. Not a lot to brag about, but I'd at least mention that it is retina.
Rubbish. I'm by pretty much any measure tech savvy, and I simply don't care about what the pixel count of my phone is. Is it enough? Then job done. I'll spend my time caring about stuff that makes a difference to me.
Then this video is for you, there's also one comparison shot with a 'leading smartphone': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_Z7_kJ3_g

The optical image stabilization is nothing short of revolutionary on this device. It enables both smooth video and low-light images. See the comparisons in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimDfEIEiu0
I'm a little confused. A purely OO programmer mostly in .Net land sees one cute JS trick example and declares Namespaces obsolete? I'm not sure which side of this is more funny/confusing: that there are plenty of other languages doing this already or that there are others just not using namespaces already/forever. Or that even ones that don't exactly use them still sometimes replicate some of their features just with long naming conventions...

It seems a very personal epiphany, not really news worthy tho. It's kind of like an Onion title "Area man discovers X" where X is common facet of knowledge to the rest.
I don't think most consumers know how much MPs are in the camera, nor have any idea what the number means in terms of picture quality. Hence this: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
I think the bump you're referring to is 1996. A World Bank sourced Life Expectancy chart[1] seems to indicate problems in both South Africa in general and the economic depression in Russia coincide roughly with that time period.

//edit: Events in Korea, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Congo caused dips as well. I guess the next question (and an interesting one) would be if there was a human condition of some sort that unified these different situations.

[1] http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
Apple's real strength/genius was marketing.
The focus on the yellow phone is an unfortunate decision. The bright yellow creates extreme contrast with the black frame and background, and the white icons are barely visible.
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First rule of out-designing Apple is you do not talk about out-designing Apple.
I think you've made a mistake, the infographic opens in US only view.

Switch to the 'global' view, that shows very clearly a massive drop because of pregnancy related problems.

It's by far the largest contributor, about 95% as far as I can tell by looking at a graphic.
I applaud their intentions but their latest effort just looks like any other smartphone only plasticier.
Yes, I see the problem -- I assumed that other browsers were using a monospace font for the HN monospace-markup sections. This isn't always the case. Even my rendering in Google Chrome on Linux isn't perfect.
Nice and simple is back in the business, however, this service could leverage more useful activity if you'd allow it to extend the twitter, i.e, something like tweet-longer type of service. Too often people have more than 140 character to say and something less than a paragraph or a blog post.
My point was that Exchange is not compliant enough to be usable from a non-Outlook email client. At my current job I run a windows VM just to run Outlook in it; at my previous^2 job I had a second physical machine for the same thing (though I eventually put mysql on it).
Sorry for partying.
The hot-swap capability isn't something specific to Eclipse, its built into the JVM. Its also pretty limited, you can only change method bodies, you can't add methods, classes, class variables, and often things like annotation changes aren't picked up. Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc all use this. There is JRebel which is a custom implementation that allows much more robust code injection, but its not free.

Hotswap is great for tweaking values/logic after you've nailed down your method flow but it can have negative effects as well which aren't immediately apparent. I've seen a few hunks of code end up overly complicated as the developer hit a point where they really needed to break the code into more methods but didn't since you can't Hotswap in new methods and they didn't want to wait for the app to restart.

I don't really know how you would do this with Objective-C as its compiling to machine instructions. It would be very tricky as you don't have the luxury of a VM that explicitly supports it running your code.
Yea, but I bet the ratio of original ideas vs screaming at a large market and picking up the scrapes is lower on the success-o-meter.
The first video is just nonsense, but if that second one is accurate it shows just how game-changing this stuff could be. I would buy a phone for the image stabilization alone.
They've announced a product, but no pricing or availability. People will immediately stop buying the current generation, but don't have the next generation to purchase - and there is no idea when they will be able to. Nokia just put the brakes on sales, and haven't indicated when they'll let up on them.
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I agree this happens way more often than it should, but in this particular case, I think they were just trying to disrupt the Apple event and the buzz gathering around it. If they were confident in their devices they wouldn't need to do this, and they wouldn't need to use misleading marketing terms like PureView (when it's not PureView) and HD+ either.
As far as we're concerned, missing a good startup is by definition an error in our process. We may never get our error rate down to zero, but we can try. And it's reasonable to assume we have a lot of room to, considering how early we are.

Having funded 465 startups over 7 years may not sound early, and I suppose it isn't in a relative sense, but it is in an absolute one. Society in general and we in particular are still learning how to predict which startups will succeed.
Fair point. Maybe it's because I'm not an avid mobile gamer, but what apps demand specs like this? I guess even in a technical discussion, I would expect to see some benchmarking like "2,000mAh battery provides 2.5h more hours of battery life, etc"
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The final number of units sold.
Getting a car dealership franchise in the US is like winning the lottery. There are so many barriers to entry that the dealer is pretty much guaranteed to earn $500K to $1M per year if he/she has halfway decent management skills.

Further, the credit crunch a few years ago would have wiped out enough of the US Auto industry to put a lot more dealers out of business. The rebate bill that was passed was a massive handout to US auto dealers. All those people making $500K to $1m per year owning dealerships are essentially on welfare.

If more of the industry has been allowed to restructure after the credit crunch, Tesla would not have to worry as much about a legal battle. The public would rightly view Tesla as offering an innovative approach that will benefit consumers.

The worst part of it is that the reason the automotive OEMs tried to sell directly a few years ago was to put an end to predatory practices (dishonesty, etc.) by auto dealers. There is no reason car dealerships should quote a price and engage in haggling, etc. Many customers (particularly the elderly and the poor) are the direct victims of these practices, and they are supported by the Federal laws that prop up auto dealers.
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