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Talk about cultures.

We are a team of 4 people in 3 continents, none of whom have seen each other http://www.cucumbertown.com/humans and all through our dev process this never struck us. Guess we are the angels on earth.

There is a story behind the name Cucumbertown. http://www.cucumbertown.com/faq/#whatupwithname

I realized the name issue during my first dialogue at Sand Hill. The conversations went pretty well until there was a pause towards the end. A partner chalked in words together and politely asked me if I was open to changing the name. That’s when it struck. But then we have a reason for it…
Fabbing a chip that could encode data in a twisted vortex of light
Aren't these Chromebooks subsidized by Google to get into mainstream? I always felt there were big tie-ups. (See Asus Nexus tablet pricing)

Unlike Microsoft, here Google pays for every device. :)
Seriously, shut up and take my money?! 100GB of Google Drive storage for 2 years is included in the price. That storage alone would cost $120 ($5/month). So if you were already in the market for extra storage, you can get an ARM Chromebook for $130.
First, we've been in the design space for several years. COLOURlovers.com is our property and we've been building apps & services for creatives for a while. In the process of being designers, hackers and builders of web things... We've been customers of other design good marketplaces. So what we're doing is trying to address problems with those marketplaces & do something big and new.

But first, the genesis for the idea to do CreativeMarket.com actually came out of COLOURlovers. It's been a passionate thriving company, and the one we took through YC. In the process of trying to understand the busines of CL we'd explored a few ideas (Real Time Color Forecasting, Selling Design Software, etc.), but those were all bolt-on business models and they didn't feel like they really meshed with our users and mission. "To make design simple and accessible to everyone." Then we realized there was an opportunity to help our users sell the beautiful vector patterns and shapes they were designing with our tools. To be able to help COLOURlovers make a living and participating in our community was very compelling.

But as we built the marketplace into CL we realized two things. 1. That a marketplace inside of CL was going to be confusing. CL is already a beast of a community with lots of stuff going on. We didn't feel like putting the marketplace in CL would do the best job for it to tell it's story. 2. We realized that there were more kinds of content that we could help people sell.

So, with the bigger vision for CreativeMarket we wanted to address problems with the existing marketplaces and do something more, bigger and really game changing.

As far as existing problems...
Our royalty split better than almost all other marketplaces. +70% cut to sellers regardless of sales volume.
+No exclusivity clauses.
+Anybody can be a seller. (we let the market decide what is good)
+Our content license is super simple.
+Our pricing is 1/1 with a dollar. No hiding real prices behind credits.
+It's beautiful. :)

The biggest thing I think we're doing differently is we're not a media company trying to do a tech thing. Tech is in our DNA and we're bringing that to the way we build and iterate on CM, continually working to make it better for sellers & buyers.

What we launched to day is the foundation. It's the basic platform for a marketplace, what's being built on top of it right now behind closed doors is going to change the way people buy/sell content.
Give http://html5.grooveshark.com a try (or just http://grooveshark.com on your phone)!
Here are the analyst numbers in a bit more detail: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=GOOG+Analyst+Estimates

38 separate analysts, high estimate was $13, low estimate was $9.92. Average was $10.65, actual numbers were $9.03, so below even the most pessimistic analyst. That usually means the publicly available info just wasn't accurate, that something happened privately that only Google knew about.

Usually companies avoid this kind of thing by giving some mid-quarter update so that they can mitigate some of the damage.

Google actually provides no EPS guidance at all though, which also caused problems with a big miss in January 2012. Analysts like to have something to work off of.
Ilya Grigorik released em-proxy [1], three years ago, which carriers out a similar role [2].

[1] https://github.com/igrigorik/em-proxy

[2] http://www.igvita.com/2009/04/20/ruby-proxies-for-scale-and-...
Xcode and git: bridging the gap
I’m the creator of this app.

I wanted to add a huge thank you to the HN community. On Sunday I posted this Ask HN requesting feedback on version 1.0 of my landing page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652652

The feeback I got was invaluable showing me the numerous ways that I was muddling my message and missing the mark. The improvements I made took my landing page looking like this:

http://cl.ly/image/2s0S0O3z0j1G

To what you see above.

Thanks again Hacker News!
In theory, it is cache oblivious, and the CO-DAM model informs our decisions about the implementation, but no, the implementation itself isn't actually cache oblivious. Shh, don't tell on us.

A "fractal tree" is defined by our marketing team as "whatever it is we actually implement." If you want to talk cache-oblivious data structures, we can talk about things like the COLA and cache-oblivious streaming B-trees which have rigorous definitions in the literature. At some point, if you want to achieve a certain level of detail, you have to pick one or the other in order to continue the conversation.
It's obvious now that Google intends to keep improving Chrome OS, the devices on which it runs, the services that come with it (100GB of free online storage!), and the cost & headaches of maintaining it -- while aggressively cutting prices.

I'm expecting a $199 Chromebook within a couple of years, and a $99 model within the next five years. This has the potential for upending the prevailing business model of traditional PC vendors.
> Instapaper, AFAIK, syncs as soon as you open the app.

That's true, but there's also a feature in Instapaper (et al.) that will allow you to set up a geofence, and when you leave the geofence, it will launch itself in the background and sync.

It's useful for users who like to read Instapaper on a subway where there's no cell reception- you can set it to sync when you leave your office or house, and it will have downloaded everything by the time you get underground. It's just an automatic convenience so you don't have to remember to sync it manually.

Even though I don't ride a subway I find it useful, sometimes I'll get to a restaurant for lunch and there will be poor cell reception, but I can still read stuff I've just added to Instapaper.

It's also kind of a hack to allow periodic background syncing, because iOS doesn't allow apps to launch periodically to update themselves, but it DOES allow apps to launch when a geofence boundary is crossed.

Here's a blog post about it:

http://blog.instapaper.com/post/24293729146
What is a Strategic Designer, anyway?
I don't trust this as I don't see "Stripe" in a very large font! (sort of only half joking)
This is definitely a missing feature/bug - we'll address it as soon as possible.
Are you guys affiliated with yummly because your site looks so close to yummly's first iteration?
http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/original/0008/4777/8...
I think the name is really cute, actually. Doesn't sound like a startup at all. Maybe sounds a little childish but I think you can own that.
I have a guilty pleasure for playing with words. I think it's clever and makes me smile. Sorry it doesn't for you.
Definitely not the first time RR Donnelley has dropped the ball.
The Ultimate Guide to Time Management (Part 1): Add Structure to Your Day
I believe that wine production has expanded worldwide, so the overall demand for cork much higher now, while the supply hasn't grown much at all.
It's fairly common. You see it with some of the table wines and it's something the California wineries would love to bring to the higher-end stuff, but they're still in the process of "educating" the public as to its advantages. Waiting for it to become acceptable, basically.
Successful startup HealthPost is hiring Ruby developers
Box.net, Amazon, iCloud and other 'cloud drive' style sharing services can actually be quite a large pain to share large amount of files with random people, even when your paying. For example, I ran into this pain trying to share 4GB of photos I took, mediafire split archives ended up being the least painless way to go about it. These digital locker services tend to be the cheapest way to host/share large amounts of files too when your paying as a normal person.
Flash is terrible.
I hope this gets released in the rest of the EU too. You couldn't even get the previous Chromebooks in Germany, let alone Romania.

A 250 euro Chromebook (VAT included) would be a nice buy. This means an ARM-based Chromebox should be around 150?

It's unclear from the announcement if Flash works or not since Youtube could be streaming H264.

Edit: Specs, including prices on https://sites.google.com/a/pressatgoogle.com/samsungchromebo...
Yeah, being webkit based it wasn't hard to get ipad support. Most of the work was spent getting the site to look good on retina displays.

There's a lot to mention regarding motivation, especially in terms of user experience for both buyers and sellers. One thing that's not as subjective is our split with sellers. Envato advertises a 70/30 split on themeforest, but you have to be exclusive as well as sell over $75k of goods (http://themeforest.net/make_money/payment_rates). If you're selling non-exclusively, authors only get 33%. We give authors 70%, end of story.
Why does that blog post not have a single link to the product?
I'd like it if they weren't telling two stories. We have almost opposing operating systems being shipped by these guys.

We have Chrome OS on one hand which focuses on the web being the be all and end all of computing. Then we have Android on the other hand which focuses on client side processing.

Which one do they actually believe in?
Does chromeOS have printer drivers?

Because I doubt it would work with my Epson for example.

Unless it can use linux drivers.
To clarify. There is no buy in. In no point of the game do you actually use your credit card, cash, sheep's wool or any form of a tradable commodity to buy-in.
That's a really interesting point. I think Twitter search is one area where the product is grossly lacking. And you're right, targeting ads in the search area would definitely capture intent.
their autonomous car project is folly
It seems like CreativeMarket is focusing a lot on the creators of their content, much like how Etsy showcases their craftsmen with special blogs and features.

I've also been using Envato's resources for the past few years but I use it much more like I would Ebay or Amazon, searching for the right items to purchase and compare and not really noticing the people behind the work.
Well, they're essentially buying the employees from the company, which is different than normal hiring.
If this in fact is how it plays out in court, it would says alot about how USA laws are made (and form whom). Not a pretty picture for the great democracy. Public servants => providing carte-blanche to abuse the public interest.
You know very well you won't be able to make the same claim in a couple months so I think this argument easily falls flat.
Udacity Introduces Four New Classes
Surely the "jammers" could just broadcast their jamming signal over a large range of frequencies?
Leads to a 404 page at the moment. Please don't post links on HN unless they're ready.
Here's the actual product landing page:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/landing.html
It is unusual in that usually applications meant to be consumed locally by the owner of the device are not considered "public-facing". It is something usually done with servers or daemons, not web browsers and text editors.
Sometimes I sense a lot of derision from some folks towards "analysts" on these posts. A good analyst has a lot of public data and history to go along with their own sleuthing and detecting (talking to larger customers, suppliers, partners etc) where they should arrive at good estimates. Lord knows they get paid pretty well to be good at it. So if this was the cause of the big shortfall and all the analysts missed it then it is a poor job they're doing. I just don't think we should deride analysts and or let them off the hook based on the idea that there isn't a discipline here that can be followed.
I would say public TV and radio is the closest thing to this. ("This" being a mostly balanced media organization)

It's impossible to completely eliminate bias though - even absent opinion pieces or editorializing, there's going to be some small level in the stories you choose to cover.

*ed

Wow, downvotes? Anyone care to rebut instead of click and run?
Rejection Bolsters Creativity
I agree. Opening your comment with "I don't know if you're joking, but" is insulting to the OP. It might fly on other forums, but it has no place here. It's condescending.

Not to mention that "2 or 3 years" ago was when Apple introduced the world to the iPad, of which the rest of the industry is still struggling to match the impact. Before that introduction, did you assume that Apple hadn't been innovating for "2 or 3 years" since the iPhone?
It's possible that both this report and the "double digit millions" report are true. $2M divided among 20 engineers isn't enough to convince each engineer to stick around at Apple for a few years vs. look for another job immediately. Usually in this case, there are separate retention bonuses for each employee that the acquiring company wants to ensure they keep. Sometimes these retention bonuses are included in the reported price of an acquisition to make everyone feel better, but the investors don't see any of that. So it's possible that from the investors' perspectives, it's a trivial $2M deal, but from Apple and the acquired employees' perspective, it's significantly bigger.

I have no information about Color so I'm not saying that necessarily happened, just that it's a way of reconciling all the conflicting stories. The submitted story on its own doesn't quite add up either ($2M for 20 employees is too low).
> Sadly, PHP 5.4 stills fails badly with APC in several cases, so I do not consider it ready for production yet

You're using outdated APC code. Update to the latest, it resolves issues with the 5.4 line. We use it in production, zero issues.
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Apple resumes User Tracking with iOS 6 (and how to disable it)
Yeah, I can't work out if PC World even have it listed? It doesn't seem to have a model number, it's just Samsung Chromebook, which doesn't really help!
Android has people downloading "apps", true, but the apps Google pushes still have the "cloud" has their data backend.

It's not like Android's star applications are ones that get you to keep all your data local to your phone. In fact, Chrome OS being centered around the browser (I assume), note the push of the "Google Chrome Web Store" which has browser "apps" installable.

I don't think their strategy is divided.
In relation to this subject I recently interviewed for a CIO position in which they asked for permission to ask my references about my ability to reach into the tech talent pool and pull out candidates. They where surprised at how many of them came back with replies like I would quite my job tomorrow to work with him again, by very strong technical individuals. I think the ability to hire is a underrated skill by executives, while I see it as potentially a make or break for someone who's duty will be to assemble a team.
We're double-checking, but it looks like all of the EBS volumes were 100GB. It would be interesting to see the impact of using 1 TB volumes.
Why can't they believe in both, and be working towards some kind of merge?
It says preorders don't start until noon PT, so another 50 minutes from now. Maybe they are not even listing it until then.
The philosophical ramifications!
I just think this is a wonderfully creative use of Conway's algorithm.
Current Chromebooks require a signed kernel on a separate partition. No grub, no BIOS. Not falling into that trap again, don't see why the new crop would be any better.
> this doesn't really violate 'full disclosure policies'

Well he kinda marked it down like he was.. talking about compiling an exe and all to crash any Vista/7 in 30 secs.
I was really looking forward to buying the app, but for $20, there's no way... It's ridiculous and a bummer that they have to limit their user base through raising the price and lowering demand because of Twitter's restrictions.
Sorry, HN traffic crashed us. Back up now.
Rubbish. Two concepts to consider: office and the fact that the surface device works entirely offline.

I've got a chromebook in the office as a test machine and its a fancy brick without a network connection.
There's 2 models listed in the UK at £229 and £299. Not sure why, the only spec diff I can see on PC World is one says LCD the other says HD LCD. Yet the resolution is listed as being the same.
Pending Larry has already arrived on Twitter - twitter.com/PendingLarry
Didn't realize it was a 2-year limit. I wonder if Google Drive space is what ink is to the color printer business.
I know that Mozilla struggles with this -- that it's a whole different PR ball game, when tech writers have access to the nightly FTP server.
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> Why both Obama and Romney are wrong on small tech business

Obama and Romney are wrong on pretty much everything, but one of them will still get elected. So what's the point of rubbing it in?

Politics is the art of ameliorating numerous constituencies. In other words, discrete bribery. No "right answer" can come from that.

For the right answers, you need a leader, not a politician. We haven't had one of those in a very long time. They're not terribly electable.
>Because of the way the new Mega is set up you can't search for content.

Could you search on the old MegaUpload? For MegaVideo at least, I seem to remember that third party sites were all but required to find what you want.
Did you just miss the words "Current state" or..?
Dust does not resolve the paradox. Dust occludes by absorbing the light, which means that the dust would eventually heat up enough to glow itself. Dust can't reduce the amount of radiation and energy in the universe, just shift it in time or wavelength or direction.
You might be interested in this, then.

http://www.reddit.com/r/frisson
Here you go:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/landing.html
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/samsung-chromeb...
I love the idea of this. I'm tempted to get one to replace my eee pc 701.

I am gently curious how Google avoids the trouble that MS ran into when they tied IE into the OS and pre-installed it on the desktop. How is it okay for Google to ship product that uses all their services? Especially when Google trawls for ad relevant data to make money?

(Note: I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just wondering what the difference is.)
Normally earnings are released when the markets are closed, so this doesn't seem so unusual.
Someone in PR is going to be fired over this.
Came here to write the same comment, but replace Canada with Sweden.
Real-world CDN performance for Google DNS and OpenDNS users
I am working on integrating location based casual groups in my current app Finderous (http://www.findero.us). Features that I am implementing:
1. Multilevel groups. i.e. groups at city/county/state/country levels.
2. Open/Closed groups. Anybody can join an open groups. And if you have a passphrase, you can join a closed groups.
3. Multiple threads in each groups.

Pretty exciting the way it is shaping up.
Twitter caps devs at a 100,000 token cap for new apps.

At $20 a pop, the devs clear $14, and that means Tweetbot for Mac's lifetime revenue cap is a measly 1.4 million dollars.

On a site lite hackernews, you presumably know something about the very high price of software engineering skills. Are you seriously asserting, with a straight face, that an app representing as much engineering time investment and polish as Tweetbot does is a scheme to price-gouge users, when the most revenue the devs will ever see from it is $1.4 million, lifetime, which needs to cover not just initial development costs but also ongoing maintenance and development?

If anything it's a labour of love on their part.
Wait. Does this mean I no longer need to create multiple authentication services?
That reminds me of something that has nothing to do with C or obfuscation. There was a coding puzzle (read: hiring tool) posted here exactly a year ago. You were supposed to take a simple cellular automata, figure out what the code was doing, and add something interesting. I created a vertical shooter where the enemies (and your bullets) were subject to conway's game of life: http://jere.in/snow/

By the way, it turned out to be for shelby.tv
From what I can tell they're a bit narrower than merely "extreme lefty" though - they actually seem to be biased towards a particular kind of niche feminism. Not even towards feminism as a whole (and yes, there are conflicts between that and the broader left wing), but to a very specific, narrow ideology within it.
Aren't these Chromebooks subsidized by Google to get into mainstream faster? I always felt there were big tie-ups. (See Asus Nexus tablet pricing)

And How much is a google user+account worth? An android or a chromebook device is worth atleast $$$+ for Google on long-run. And users are Locked'in with google's services! :)

It must be certain for every subsidized device that ships, Google must be sharing revenues.
The importance of asking "So What?"
Overnight success takes years
my guess is the fact that MS had dominating market share with Windows, while Chromebooks are but a small fraction of the overall PC market.
This looks incredibly useful! However, its existence raises an important question.

Doesn't the necessity of this product inherently suggest underlying flaws in the 0Auth 2.0 framework (not protocol)? In my mind (and Eran Hammer apparently agrees), one major shortcoming of OAuth 2.0 is that the specification all but ensures that a universal, drop-in library for an arbitrary implementation of OAuth 2.0 cannot exist.

We saw this problem with OpenID - we even had a service designed around 'solving' the problem of integrating multiple OpenID providers. If the framework itself is so complicated that it needs extra abstraction layers to simplify it for basic, general use, to me, that suggests design flaws.

EDIT: On re-reading Hammer's post[1], I've realized that it's even worse than I'd thought: the OAuth 2.0, Draft 30 specification even admits plainly that it is 'likely to produce a wide range of non-interoperable implementations.'

If that is considered an acceptable candidate for the goal of OAuth 2.0, then I would question the goal itself.

[1] http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell...

[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-30#section-1....
That's a pretty bold move. How?
This meme of 'anyone who is not a programmer is an idiot' has to stop. This is incredibly frustrating and severely undermines the level of discourse.
Is there a torrent? The direct download seems to be slow.
We don't know whether we will be able to make that claim or not. It's unclear how many vendors will port their software to the ARM version of Windows at this point. Even if they do, I suspect it will be more like 6-8 months, since a lot of people will be waiting to see how big the market is before supporting it.

And in case you are wondering, all my paychecks at the moment rely on Windows, and I have 0 involvement with anything related to the ARM version, nor do I hear about it. Anecdotal at one company, but I don't think it's unusual. Mobile support on the other hand, seems to be a big deal.