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I think he has done this exactly right.

This department clearly doesn't value security (multiple levels of deep failure) and the only way to make it important is political pressure via the public and the media.

Only by revealing the breadth of the failure, and doing so publically, could any effective change occur.

It is obvious they could (and did) shut down or secure the kiosks quickly.

If he took a week to consult legal, decide best course of action, make up his mind on risking his neck, or WHATEVER, that is his right and fine by me.

Armchair criticism is easy. Kieth has taken a ballsy action as an individual and he gets my respect.
Looks good. I'm not much of a designer myself, so I can't comment on that, but I'd highly recommend throwing optimizely (or some other A/B testing tool like that, visual website optimizer would work, too) on there from the start.

That way, you can find what messaging works best as early as possible. A 3rd party javascript A/B tester is phenomenal for the types of tests where it'll work, as you can easily tweak and see results without changing any of the underlying website code.

Also, I like the "treasure map" phrasing, makes it sound romantic and interesting! Maybe you can work that a little more thematically into the design? Rather than simple white box, it could be on a scroll, or maybe the background could be a bed of gold coins. Something like that. (Again, not a designer, so take those suggestions with a grain of salt...)
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Hi, I think there is room for improvement. It is not clear to me exactly what the app does. At the beginning I thought it was an app to create real treasure hunts (like in a game). But now I think its a way to discover new places within an area? (Maybe I'm just stupid...but its the impression I got)
Check this post out, it gives some ideas on how to increase your landing page conversions: http://t.co/ZMaDaL17

Is there a social element on the app? Can you share your tours? Share your logs? I think that people would like to know that!

What is a "gem"? Who are the people that decide whether a place is a gem or not? Are they restaurants? Sights? Strip clubs?

I also think the 100% free for a limited time is confusing. Is it going to be 50% free later? I would revise the wording there...

I would also improve the design a bit, and change the background. It would be super cool to have something like a "pirate map" representation of NYC or some popular location in the background.

Hopefully this helps, I wish you good luck with your app!
I don't approve of abusing the exploit, and I did not abuse the exploit. I put that paragraph in because I thought it was interesting that some people were indeed using that argument as justification for using the promo multiple times.
It's great to see something like this that doesn't just rip off HN, (old) Digg or Reddit's design. A very fresh design. Given the scope of "science" though, I suspect some way of filtering it would become a priority.

Loving the "about" page too. Great to see all of the different tech being used. I hope other entries take a page out of this book (disclaimer: I'm a RR judge.)
I suppose this is available in Google Japanase, not English, right now because they are already on Monday right now.
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At my engineering school, I took a whole quarter long class on Joyce, the vast bulk of which was focused on Ulysses. We did a chapter a week as I recall, with the last week focused on the first page of Finnegan's wake. Well, the first couple paragraphs, really.

So there's some of us out there, even in the engineering schools.
Before bashing, please notice the subheading: "because real hackers pivot two hours before their demo". This was Abe's pivot right before the deadline at the PennApps Hackathon.
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Appears to be a troll, but I'll note that you can just right-click open image in new tab if you aren't interested in the commentary.
Great idea, thanks! Will see if we can set up a thumblog for them. Email me at martin@memoto.com if you want heads up when it's live.
Having read the article, I downloaded Ulysses, which I have bounced off before, and tried again. Nope, still not my idea of fun. Tolstoy is not my idea of fun either, but more fun than this. Of all my friends, the only one who has read Ulysses (and claims to adore it) cannot articulate its virtues. He also loves Umberto Ecco -- I suppose for similar reasons.

I just don't see the point. I love how when writer who knows a huge amount of obscure crap and wraps contorted references to it into an unreadable mess is considered some kind of genius of erudition if the obscure crap involves, say, dead languages, religion and literature, but if it were dungeons and dragons and Harry potter it would be considered at best pop culture pastiche and at worst pathetic.
Moar links. Seriously, you've got some awesome click targets and no links.

Logo / title -> Link to app store
Titles for copy -> Link to app store
Big awesome image of app on phone -> link to app store.

While you're at it sign up for the affliate program and get an extra 5% from Apple. Your copy highlights features not benefits.

Pick the best benefit of the app and highlight that.

For me I'd go with something like.

Impress them with a hidden gem.
Wanderous helps you find great places, right next door.

(I actually have no idea what kinds of places wanderous will help me find, etc, I'm assuming it finds great restaurants or something)

Then go buy a hires stock photo of a great example of a place someone might discover on Wanderous along with two smiling people enjoying themselves, multiply the image by 20% black and put your text on top in white along with the image of the app.

The sign up should state that due to demand everyone will have to wait for an account and to reserve their spot they should put in their email, else they'll have to wait even longer to find great places.
Yes this rubs me the wrong way. I think it's analogous to a retail store (say, an Apple store) leaving their front door unlocked overnight. It's possible to go in and take merchandise. After all, it's not your fault they left their front door open. You could even argue that Apple's business practices are morally questionable, so they deserve to be taken advantage of . (I'm not trying to make any statement about Apple. It's for the analogy.)

You could argue that the situation is different with virtual goods, since they have an incredibly low marginal cost, but I think that the situations are morally analogous. The games aren't supposed to be free.
I think you're painting all of writers with a single brush. I just can't imagine that a good understanding of the basics (which can be taught out of school, but should always be taught in school) doesn't help most people in their art. And we know that not all people learn the same way.

I didn't go to journalism school. I don't even have a degree. (I dropped out of CompSci.) But I did work in news for five years (I pointed that out in another post. I know, it's starting to sound smarmy. Sorry.), and the vast majority of people did go to school for journalism.

I disagree with the general tone of your post. I regret not going to school for this. I think it would've made me an even more capable writer than I am now. That said, I do think that a slim majority of people I've met who did attend aren't great writers. As a TV news producer I spent a fair amount of time editing others' work and working with my reporters to help them better communicate what they mean. I often felt that some of the things we talked about were not only things probably covered in college, but some were definitely covered in grade school. I met an adult (well, a 22yo, which I consider an adult,) who had trouble with their/there/they're.

At least one person actually stopped seeking input from me after they found out I didn't attend school in the field.

And then I've met a few people, who also attended college, who could write circles around, well, any other people I've ever met. On in particular credits his school, and a couple of professors and friends he met there. He has no trouble being published when he takes the time to write something, but just prefers being on TV.

I think that some students better know how to take advantage of what schools provide, and that some schools, in their current form, aren't teaching. Both allude to problems that need to be addressed, but neither suggests to me that schools are completely worthless. Instead it says to me that some schools are really ineffective for the students they haveand that should be addressed, and we need to try to make sure all students know how to utilize the resources available to them.

That said, I think your second section is dead on. We do need to be better about encouraging people to tackle fields that interest them. School shouldn't be some thing that people feel labored by. I think that's why so many are ineffective, not proof they can't work.
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Thanks for the kind words Peter.
Ethiopia.

Yes, I've discovered the same. In Germany, $25/month gets you unlimited mobile minutes, text and web with no contract. And something like $25 gets you serious broadband internet. In the US, mobile costs 4 times as much, internet "only" twice.

And most Americans think that the US market is actually healthy. It's not in anything resembling telecomm, education, finance or healthcare.
I do.

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The link to the SlickDeals exclusive deals were removed as well for some reason.

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Thanks for posting this! I haven't seen the movie but I remember the Nintendo game being great http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo:_The_Dream_Master
Thank you for this dreadsword. Based on your feedback as well as others I definitely need to do a better job explaining the concept.

>When would I use it? What would I use it for? Why would I use it instead of any other alternative? Answer those in one or two sentences...

Whenever you feel like exploring in a new city, or your own city, you can use Wanderous to create a walking or driving route between one or more points of interest. Wanderous's POIs have been created based on by social and photo sharing hotspots so the destinations are novel yet enjoyable.
Google throws off ~$3 billion in profit (!) a quarter (!). I don't think this a lack of interest in protecting their trademarks in many different languages is the reason for it being in English.
I read the article in its entirety and afterwards read the comments here yet still downvoted the GP post. The reason is because it adds nothing to the discussion; it's just noise in an attempt to be meta-funny. That kind of comment would be appropriate for Reddit or Slashdot but generally not for HN unless the irony was particularly insightful. For example, one could use irony as a device to point out the flaw in a particular argument. Banal sarcasm yields no such insight. Had there been a "Seriously though..." part with something that contributed to the discussion, I would not have downvoted.

If everyone here made that style of comment would HN be a better place? For example, maybe half the comments here can be variations of "I don't even read Ars Technica", "That was the worst ever article, a new low for Ars demonstrating how it's going downhill fast from its complete failure", "Anybody who reads Ars is probably a Romney lover", "Ars is the worst site ever... I've been reading every article daily for years and it hasn't improved", and so on. In fact, replace Ars with HN and let people make all those comments about every article. This place might gradually devolve into YouTube comments as people learn through example what types of comments the community values.
I find this mode of thinking a little amusing. I'm not convinced we're approaching the singularity any time soon. What you're seeing is what you've seen in every scientific field: rapid, exponential growth trending into a plateau. It happened with mechanical engineering, medicine, aerospace, computer engineering, software, and is now happening with communications technologies.

People in the aerospace field in 1960 probably imagined a very different world than what we see today, one where the field didn't plateau in the late 1960's. Similarly, I don't think computer engineers in the 1980's foresaw the end of Moore's law in the 2000's. Grandiose ideas are nice, but I wouldn't be at all surprised that 50 years from now, we look back on the communications field and see that it never got much more advanced than Facebook.
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> I think that the answer to your question is mostly a cultural one

Right. I think I was a little opaque here, but my question was really why exactly did that cultural idiosyncrasy develop in America?
I notice that still a lot of editors use inline css for their image-styling (I assume, since the editor should correctly preview the way images are lined up). But this obviously creates problems when you decide to style such images a bit differently (adding some padding, whatever) without modifying tons of generated content. A centralized css declaration would make this much easier.

Wouldn't there be a possibility to put these styles in an external stylesheet? As the editor itself makes use of external css for it's own styling, adding a new stylesheet for the elements it creates would not be very difficult, right?

I'm sure this is conscious practice that is done with a purpose in mind. I'm only unaware of its explanation.

Also: I noticed that Redactor uses italic-tags (<i>) to style text as italic. Isn't this bad practice in terms of semantics?
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Before the mid-1990s VC in fact were responsible for a lot of 0,1 type innovation. Intel, Apple et al. Wall street was not set up to provide asset lite companies debt. Nor was it set up to take public equity deals of early stage, cash bleeding, negative gaap earning early-stage companies. So they filled a market gap, and enabled new deals/businesses to get done.

Since then, the increasing sophistication of general market participants has commoditized everything about VC, except for perhaps certain elements of information flow. In that regard, you are right, that a stage agnostic hedge fund and/or a $NBillion VC funde start to look alike.

But Remember Thiel was in FB as an <Angel> in 2004. Clarium itself was a macro fund, taking positions on open public markets. They are actually quite disctinct lines of work. Its not like clarium was doing later stage VC or PE deals either (from my recollection).

Lastly, someone needs to write the contracts in a free market economy. So Legal and Finance guys are socially valuable. The underlying issue, however, is are they abusing or overleverageing their (privleged) position in the economy to extract opportunistic rents. See, eg.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunism

That's an argument (perhaps for another day), because it is more an ethical/cultural/policy discussion and comes down to how people are educated/brought up, their values, etc. That kind of thing varies from decade to decade, from firm to firm, etc. Arguably, right now across all of what used to be the professions, we are losing the partner ethos, and replacing it with arguably a more a-moral, and mercenary one.
>>Maybe I'm just stupid...but its the impression I got

Absolutely not! It's my job to be clear and based on your comment and other, I'm obviously falling short.

>>What is a "gem"? Who are the people that decide whether a place is a gem or not?

The "little gem" thing is a figure of speech but I see now that it could be confusing in the context of pitching a brand new product.

Wanderous has defined 8,000+ Points of Interest algorithmically by analyzing social and photo sharing geotags to determine where the destinations worth visiting in our world. Users are encouraged to explore places they wouldn't go otherwise by creating walking or driving tours between one or more of these destinations.

Love the treasure map idea but it's a bit outside of my skill level/budget for right now.

Thanks for the comment!
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I think that your efforts are spent much better focusing on figuring out the marketing for your app within the app store itself. Sure, having an awesome looking web page is neat, but in terms of real traffic that it will bring (other than this one HN news spike) it isn't a good investment of your time. For example, a google search for "wanderousapp" or "wanderous app" does not bring up your domain, and neither does "wanderous". And you know what, that is okay for now. No one is really googling for your app name, and you can't really expect to get much web traffic on your landing page. Your itunes page for your app can be your web presence for now.

I'd recommend focusing on making a really good first screenshot that is representative of what your app does while piquing interest, and figure out a way to get as many blogs/news sources to cover your app release as possible. After that, figure out what kind of searches within the iTune store your app can actually rank for and target those specific keyword combinations. Good luck!

P.S.: Since you're in San Francisco, do you have the Planet Granite Rock Climbing Gym as one of your points of interest?
Could it be worth including a few stories or "case studies"? For example, "John has just moved to Melbourne and he'd like to know what hidden gems exist on the way to his new job, so..." If you've already had beta testers, I'm sure a few have compelling stories about how the app has led them to hidden gems - if I can understand how the app has "changed their lives", I'd be compelled to give it a go.
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Interesting that he _almost_ starts out with George Carlins "seven dirty words" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Dirty_Words - but then continues with additional words that're unlikely to be indicative of anything particularly humorous or interesting.

This is _almost_ funny. But anybody who thinks you can make up jokes using SQL or regex probably isn't the sort of person you'd pay to see at a comedy club.

Unless, perhaps, they're a particularly talented computational linguist with a huge corpus of comedy material loaded up in a big real-time analysis cluster. Hmmmm, there's some ideas here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_humor - maybe this would be more amusing if the commit comments were passed into the "That's what she said" double entendre algorithm?
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Good call on an A/B testing framework. I'll definitely investigate that.

Thanks, I'm glad the treasure map phrasing resonated. I'd love to make the page match that theme a bit more closely, but I unfortunately didn't come up with the treasure map concept for describing my app until after submitting it to the app store. I don't want the feel of the landing page to stray too much from the app's.
I'd like to see if this can be extended to re-entering from orbit. This could make space travel more practical, as there'd be less weight dedicated to re-entry vehicles.

(The only thing that needs to come back from orbit is the astronaut. The whole idea of reusable spacecraft is completely impractical, as weight is by far the biggest expense.)
I'll bet he would have a different opinion if it was him standing on that little ledge before stepping off.
How are you going to get rid of the horizontal velocity component?
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Yes! You only need one reason to read Ulysses: You'll enjoy it, if you let yourself. Ulysses is hilarious, moving, and thought-provoking, all at the same time. But if you're afraid of it -- if you're afraid of missing a reference, of not appreciating the mise-en-scène of turn-of-the-century Ireland, of somehow not "understanding" the Homeric scaffolding or the rest of the book – then you won't enjoy it, and maybe literature isn't for you.

I know kids in their early teens who've loved Ulysses because they don't have these fears, don't see reading as something they can fail at. They can't fail at it because literature isn't reducible to being "understood," therefore not reducible to being "misunderstood." You wouldn't talk about music in terms of its understandability[1], at least not entirely, and you shouldn't approach literature that way either.

All that said, if you want another reason to read Ulysses, do it because it will force you to read and think about writing and language and people in a different way, and that different way is a tool you really ought to have in your toolbox. Which is to say, reading Ulysses can also be worthwhile in the same way that learning a functional programming language is.

1. And for anyone who hasn't really studied music, you'd be amazed by the number of references you're missing there, too. You just don't notice and don't care because those references aren't essential, which is true of Ulysses as well.
are you me, because I've been thinking the exact same thing. the centering thing had me laughing too. I had this shock about me. 5000 lines and no centered div auto margin. eek.
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> (At some point you would just orbit the Earth, right?)

No way. I think you really misunderstand how weightlessness works in space, and I can assure you it's much more interesting than you think. :-p

While gravity does decrease with distance, it doesn't decrease nearly as fast as you think. For instance, at the altitude of the International Space Station (280 miles, or roughly ten times the altitude of this jump), the force of gravity is still 90% as strong as on the surface of the Earth.

In fact the only reason people are "weightless" up there is because they're constantly falling towards the surface of the earth. (Think of if you're in an elevator whose cable snaps, you'll appear to be "weightless" inside the elevator).

Fortunately for the astronauts, the ISS is moving horizontally so fast, that the Earth is actually falling away from them (due to it being round) at the same rate that they're falling to the ground.

This is the same with, say, the space shuttle. The reason people seem to float in there is because the thing is falling like a rock. It just happens to be moving forward 17,000 mph, so the earth falls away with it.
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