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You guys should have worked on a better design before getting press and officially launching. In the left sidebar there is just too much happening. After clicking on a source in the left, there is a new box on the bottom that pops up to further clutter and confuse.

I don't see why I would use this over something like Feedly?

When you get that redesign up, let us know.
I'm not blaming RPi except in the capacity of control over their distributors. I'm disappointed in the response, and disappointed in the demand rapidly outpacing the supply. I understand the engineers do what the engineers do, but other complaints about RPi hold as well: they're not good at communication, they're only really transparent on spotty occurrences, and it's been six months since they launched and they're still having a hard time producing the units being demanded. What I was hoping for from this new revision was a chip that wasn't sold out. The email notifying me of the delay said their CPU was sold out so new boards could not be made. Shame on RS for telling me I had a unit coming to me when that unit apparently hadn't actually been produced yet.

As for the other distributors, some people apparently got great service from RS as well. My frustration is with the entire operation, top to bottom. It's hard to call this a success, and there's no indication it's going to get better. I have to wonder how they're going to supply the educational market if this is how they handle the hacker market they need so badly.

I know this sounds like a hit-job on my part, but you have to realize this is incredibly frustrating, and the news I'm hearing from people who received them is that the users aren't really interested in units to begin with (see below, "I never turned mine on").
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I think that your #2 - traveling - is something that is highly valued as an activity that people want to do/do more of by insiders in the tech industry. It's interesting that even though you now have infinite ability to travel, it even wore off after only 6 months.

Was it because you visited all the places you wanted (bucket list), were you traveling alone or with a partner/companion and it became boring, or the fact that you don't really have a "homebase" when you're traveling.

The reason I'm curious because I see myself working as hard as I can to be able to achieve the freedom to travel whenever/wherever I wish - and hope that it lasts a lifetime and not just for a short 6 month period.
Some comments to take or leave as desired

1. It looks really good. But on second glance I just got confused. There is a lot of info, a graph I dont get and a list of seemingly unconnected events with no exposition.

2. It took a couple of plays to work it out - its really about the categories you have set up. Clicking the filter gives you a good sense of what the person has behind them
Now I get it, I like it.

3. So that leads me to: If I am a non-speaking, non-hackathoning (Whats a hackathon) uncharitable, non conference goer - my statuschart will look pretty thin.
Can I alter the categories to suit me? At worst just change the labels

4. I definitely want to expand the 'projects' section - I would want to do F/OSS, Salaried jobs, contract work, education etc.

5. pricing - I think it was on the PR piece you got - $5 a month and 30/year. That sounds good but why make people sign up before they can follow / read a page. If I wanted to give this to a propspective employer, I would be forcing them to sign in before seeing my CV - or have I missed something

6. Instead of category @all@, which is just a big long list of confusing, can I suggest top - where i can weight each event and then there is a simplish algorithm to float the events I weighted highest to top (perhaps weight / days since). That way there is a default page open that has my best stuff listed right at the top, and only then does someone have to filter out.

7. I am thinking of this as a CV - I would want to put a small paragraph onto some events to explain them, maybe in a popup.

Otherwise really good - there is a rash of github resumes and other 'show off my stuff' sites. Its going to be an interesting area - good luck iterating.

cheers

Edit: kicked off a bit strong, toned it down a littel
Something like that probably wouldn't last very long, since it could be easily gamed.

1. buy a cheap license to something that will get flagged by the auto-detecting algorithms

2. go through the red-tape of proving you have licensed the material, thereby flagging your account into a higher level of trust

3. post mad amounts of commercial content on your account and monetize the pants off of it, making insane amounts of cash before finally getting noticed and shut down

4. set up a new account, rinse and repeat (maybe even with the same licensed material you used the first time)
That's great news. All of us time-travelers who sport extra-high resolution artificial eyes will be able to see all the extra detail this higher density allows.

Now, seriously, there is absolutely no need to increase pixel density
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Wow, great link! Does anyone know if that is as effective with mobile browsers (e.g. iOS)? I'd expect mobile browsers to be far more alike than your typical desktop browser is...
I think the trend you describe could be put in terms of disintermediation of web properties. Facebook, for instance, tries to be a platform that does everything. But much like real life, products are beginning to specialize because niche products can just do a better job at meeting the needs of a segment. That's why I disagree with you that this is just a trend.
> 2. What could possibly go wrong?

Easy to imagine how this could be abused. Imagine that I have a brother who's a lawyer. I bring a frivolous lawsuit against Google/Apple/Microsoft/etc. knowing that they'll dump a fair amount of money into the account. My brother bills me for legal services, taking roughly half the money from the account. I lose the lawsuit but my brother and I split the money.
I went thought this pain with Postgresql, trying to get it working on the Mac. I went with the Vagrant/VM route and now run a linux-based dev environment inside of OS X. It also has the benefit of not polluting my host OS. And has prepared me for actual Linux deployment. I can mount the VM web-directory from my host OS so I can continue using some of my favorite tools.
Why make it particularly SIP and not for example Jingle based? And there is no need to build anything. Just use regular XMPP servers infrastructure. Security can be achieved with ZRTP and OTR, though current implementation of secure XMPP/Jingle clients is still lacking.
I love everything Tesla is doing except the price of the vehicles, which will come down in time with better battery tech and higher production volumes. I've never gotten any value from a car dealer, and being able to do on-site support for vehicles might actually be more efficient on the service front, too (with Tesla locations in major markets like the Bay Area). They could just pay for a rental car (like anyone buying a $100k Model S doesn't have another car...) during the wait to send a team to Wyoming.

I wish Elon Musk would go into some kind of medicine/healthcare startup next, after fixing cars and space.
About a year ago the new GM (post bail out) had talked about a partnership via ebay. The basic premise being dealers can bid for your business. Not much has been spoken since and I have never seen GM market the this concept actively.

I found a bunch of links that talk about that:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/08/why-sell...

I have a hunch a large part of retail sales in the post amazon economy( or after best buy) will transition to this model. Large brands set up stores in malls where you can touch and feel your product. You can then go online and deal with the paper work/ordering.

it also surprises me the legality of forcing you to sell via dealerships has not been challenged.
>leech off the work of others

That's an unfair assessment. In same cases perhaps, but the core issues is that Twitter et al offer certain types of access and then revoke it. If this developer had reverse-engineered their API and they closed the loophole, leeching would be a more relevant term.
Where's the trick? Retailers have always changed their prices for items over time based on external factors, it's just happening faster now.
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I posted a simple redesign of his cheatsheet in the comments, which the author deleted. Bummer. Reposting here:

http://nielsolson.us/dropbox/catonmat/gnu-coreutils-cheat-sh...
http://nielsolson.us/dropbox/catonmat/gnu-coreutils-cheat-sh...

Edited the spreadsheet LibreOffice.
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Are you sure that's not due to being an OLED display? They generally have a slightly grainy look to them whether or not they are pentile.
You have two you've never used, while I have 20 week shipping delays for one unit ordered six months ago, and a heap of schematics and already-wired modules to plug into the GPIO sitting uselessly, and a head full of further designs yet.

Goodness. I need to go for a walk. This thread is threatening to get the best of me.
What have you heard negative about it? Seems pretty slick.
Well, Windows Phone has failed to gain traction in the marketplace and therefore lacks a proper app ecosystem.

Second, I think the WP8 UI very divisive. You either love it or you don't. Personally, I think it's a Pepsi. Sweet on first impression, but cumbersome to use every day. Too much scrolling (can't use muscle memory) and giant typography which distract from the content.
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As I always like to say in response to our design flaws, "Hey, at least we shipped!" And it's true, what you see is a solid foundation. We're going to be giving it the full makeover soon. The only way we know that it'll be worth it is if we tested our hypothesis that there really is a good market for a news reader in this style.
That's because the content doesn't necessarily require you to download a new app every play - the content is the same every play, and any software/license download is just a nuisance.

Google search results are different every time, and the freshness of a result is essential to its utility. If you always needed "today's version of The Movie" then piracy would be much easier to thwart.
Thank for the info.

Have you considered of using Freeswitch to replace Asterisk and maybe even your own media relay module?
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Thanks so much for the feedback!

- I was not trying to imply that someone has a higher social status. Just that I personally have gained so much from conferences, in the terms of knowledge. I have also gained equal amounts of knowledge from just watching videos online for the once I could not make it to.

- I do agree that there is a lot of items. I have just implemented the original filtering system first as that seemed to work. We are working on other way to showcase the items you have, because we know not all profiles will be the same.

- I love this idea, maybe we users could mark items as highlights.

- Right now we are only have those categories. Something that I am trying to take care of first and deciding a better way of doing this.

Thanks so much for your feedback. I really appreciate it!
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that shows very clearly a massive drop because of pregnancy related problems.

I think you saw a red band on the chart, which I am looking at as I type this, and thought that red band referred to "pregnancy, childbirth and other obstetric complications," when it is actually the red band that corresponds to "heart disease, hypertension, and other circulatory system disease." The legend for which disease category is which is helpfully arranged in the same vertical order in which mortality from diseases is cumulatively shown on the chart--that's why I'm sure the broad red band that has declined the most is heart disease rather than complications of pregnancy. (My reality check is that I know the approximate base rate of both causes of death during the time period shown on the chart, which corresponds to my lifetime.)
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Have you used WP beyond seeing screenshots? That homescreen is that way because they want to show the flexibility of tiles in Windows Phone 8.

Coloring Metro to be ugly based on that is almost like seeing a MySpace page and calling HTML/CSS ugly looking.

If you take the mini tile out of the equation, here's a video showcasing WP 7.5 (WP8 can be made to look like this).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locNEna0of4&feature=plcp

What's ugly about that? People's tastes differ, of course, but a lot of people use it and seem to like it for the most part.

If you're really interested in the design philosophy instead of seeing a screenshot and knocking it down in a knee jerk comment(Well, this is HN with its biases, who am I kidding), here's some analysis of Metro's alternative approach.

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/493

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/526

>Also, this is DOA in the US if they are AT&T exclusive.

>Regardless, I'm wondering if the average consumer feels the same way as well. WP7 is not selling well, and WP8 (and the new Lumias) don't really differentiate themselves that much from the previous iteration in terms of what a consumer will see in the first few minutes of using the phone.

Even the Lumia 900 with the deprecated WP7 had decent sales and was second on AT&T after the iPhone and then beat the One X till the S3 came into the picture and WP8 was announced.

http://www.wpcentral.com/sites/wpcentral.com/files/postimage...

Edit:

Here's Woz calling it a no contest.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/28/2983312/steve-wozniak-wind...

And here's Scott Adams thoughts after trying WP:

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/windows_phone_challenge_result...

USER INTERFACE

Samsung/Windows: GREAT

iPhone: GOOD

HTC EVO 3D/Android: POOR

>The Windows phone has the best user interface experience, although the onscreen keyboard is problematic just as it is with the other phones I used. The Windows interface is intuitive, simple, and has a liveliness that I find appealing. Voice call quality was good, and battery life seemed good too. I declare it the winner compared to my iPhone 3GS with AT&T and my HTC EVO 3D with Android on the Sprint network.
Facebook is looking quite tempting lately but it's hard to get over that 777 million shares that will potentially hit the market on November 14.
I don't think the designer said that. The author asked him some specific questions about Apple, but almost all of the Apple-oriented content of the article was from the author, not the designer.
Google must have read my mind. I was just looking for this feature earlier in the week. It surprised me that I couldn't add a comment to a spreadsheet like I could in a Google Doc.
LOL. :)
You know, I'm the type of person that operates as you would like most people to (i.e. NoScript, Adblock, RequestPolicy, BetterPrivacy, etc.), and by reading your comments you've made me realize how I've been kind of a jerk for installing these things on friends' machines. They get annoyed and call me asking what I did to their machines (and how to "fix" it).

Obviously, I should've explained the use of and showed them how to use these add-ons, but such things are difficult to do in a casual/ social context. Many of the concepts are foreign, and there is a whole set of jargon that requires explanation in the first place. These are non-technical, yet educated, people in their 30s for whom most of this seems academic. So, I've just installed, and hoped they'd figure it out. I wish it were easy, but it's not; now, I'm certain I will no longer do this because I don't want them to "get used to it" for any reason other than that is what they choose to do.
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Except you weren't squatting because you were originally invited in (to use the API).
This happened with Doom, too. For a long time, every FPS that came out was called a "Doom clone"; there was no such thing as "FPS" as a genre.

It's fun to think of games that create genres and those that don't: the "Tetris" genre never really caught on like the "Doom" genre or the "Bejeweled" genre. Yes, yes, there's Dr. Mario and a host of other clones, but I get the feeling that FPS and Match 3 are gonna be around a long, long time.
The issue isn't layout control, although that could definitely be better, the issue is that even with all their fancy auto-resizing everything sometimes depending on the device/OS version you HAVE to hard code a pixel perfect layout or it just won't render correctly.

This means that even if you use Android's layout tools and create automatically resizing and fitting layouts it may not work correctly, and render incorrectly for example when you move from landscape to portrait, or move from one screen to the next. Highly annoying.

We've also had bugs that we could not reproduce on any of our test devices (all 27 of them that we have now ...) but that a customer had out in the field. We then attempt to locate the same device with the same OS version to test on.

Sometimes it has to do with themes that a manufacturer has installed not working correctly... this gets annoying fast when you've got the same phone on multiple carriers and they each customise it their own way.
I think the case for local food is much stronger than the case for organic food.
Reminds me of RDF's http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Diff
I saw a presentation from an evolutionary biologist who may the point that we die because there is no evolutionary pressure not to die. Once we've birthed and raised out young, we are no longer relevant from an evolutionary perspective. He tested this with fruit flies by separating the young by gender for increasingly longer periods of time effectively delaying breeding so only the longer lived specimens could live to breed. By doing that over many generations, I believe he tripled the life expectancy of his test group.
>That said, people are forgetting that this is basically the FIRST TIME that any smartphone has sold more than the iPhone in the US.

Well, didn't smartphones exist before the iPhone ? Also i don't think the iPhone would have become the "top selling smartphone" just out of the gate in 2007. It would have taken them quite a while to get to the top spot.

It can't possibly be the "FIRST TIME". Also since 2008, in the US, iPhones have cost $200 on contract which was par for the course for pre-iPhone smartphones (Blackberry etc.) including the higher end Android phones which came later. To say "as much as" is just as wrong as ""FIRST TIME".
I really liked the OLED. The higher resolution will be nice, but the Lumia 900 rarely feels cramped, and the contrast is amazing. Blacks are solid black, but you can still read email in broad daylight.
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but the pain involved isn't worth it to me

Do you mind if I ask why not? It seems like something that should make a whole load more money, and if it puts people off, changing the code to say is_subscription_valid() {return TRUE;} and switching back should be trivial.

Implementing in the first place shouldn't be too painful if you can steal some code from Appointment Reminder.

I know I'm underestimating the total amount of work here, but is it really going to take more than a couple of days? Unless there's crazy invoice integration work required, in which case I understand - that's a painful world!

Edit: although I appreciate that consulting rates way outstrip revenues from SaaS a lot of the time. Still, it's nice to have some income whilst you're on holiday ;)
The Tesla dealership near me (Seattle) turned into a service center. There's also a Tesla store in a mall nearby where I imagine you can set up the test drives and such.
Do any of the other YC partners know the answer to this?
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"My understanding is that it costs @$3000 USD in order to have the "privilege" of taking European Delivery of a Porsche."

As of February 2012, the Porsche European Delivery Program is available at no additional charge (italic emphasis is mine):

"Porsche Cars North America today announced several enhancements to its European Delivery Program. The revised experience provides customers the opportunity to purchase their new Porsche vehicle from any participating authorized Porsche dealer in the U.S. and take delivery of their new car at their choice of one of the automaker's two German factories. The program is now offered at no additional charge to customers and includes access to discounted airfare and hotel accommodations." [1]

[1] http://press.porsche.com/news/release.php?id=695
There are no "Android home screens". An Android home screen can look however way you want. People trying to prove that Android copies Apple like to arrange the icons on Android to look like iOS simply because Android allows you to do this but it doesn't have to look that way.
Of course! I took a quick look through meetup and found the following: http://www.meetup.com/ProvEntrepreneurs/

If you look on the left hand side of the page you'll see both sponsors and companies who give perks to those who attend the providence entrepreneurs meetup group. I would also call these people to see if they would be interested in your deal. Given that you are an entrepreneur in providence and they reached out to the organizer of a meetup group focused on entrepreneurs in providence, I'm sure you can make a super strong case.

Good luck!
My point was that the deal was structured in a way that practically ensured the share price would fall. To think otherwise, for facebook management or investors is to believe in hubris. I think it's telling and kind of odd that in Cuban's own defense of the deal, he's a sucker for having bought at the IPO price.

As an aside, high beta (volatility) stocks generally don't perform as well, long term, as do consistent growers with stable price action.
I nearly stopped reading after the second sentence, and I definitely stopped after your first "argument".

I don't want to be stalked, period. Not turning cookies off should not mean I immediately relinquish my rights, just like I don't relinquish my right to privacy by stepping into the street.

Yes, cookies server a very valuable purpose in website development, and guest what: for those purposes the so-called cookie law (which btw covers all forms of tracking, calling it the "cookie law" is sheer propaganda in itself) doesn't affect any website in any fucking way.

This underhanded tactic of spreading deliberate misinformation in order to justify the massive violation of privacy caused by commercialized stalking disgusts me.

It's like the mafia bitching about how it's so unfair and stupid that politicians have made racketeering illegal.