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Our initial plans involved mushrooms that grew due to the time dilation. They were nice because they could grow straight up so we had easy time calculating past positions. We only later realized the connection that you could make.
Microsoft No Longer on Kaspersky Top List, Adobe, Apple and Oracle Takeover
Easier , make a product that cannot be downloaded , instead of selling ebooks , make an paid online eduction service where the added value is that you can ask question directly to the teacher giving the class, have your lessons updated ,etc... I'm a musician , i used to try to sell music online, now i sell my production talents to other musicians. That cannot be downloaded. So instead of trying to sell "goods" , sell services.
That is because prior to the widespread availability of the Internet and of PCs, only a tiny minority of people were ever expected to think about copyrights. Nobody was being sued for copying pages from a book using their pen.

Supposedly, we expect people who have no legal background or training at all to understand a legal issue that is full of nuances and subtleties. Except that in reality, nobody expects people to be thinking about that, even the RIAA and MPAA, which is why restriction systems are being deployed all over the place. Everyone knows that the average American citizen never cared about copyrights and was only buying from "legitimate" sources because there was no alternative.
Even though I have not used it myself (yet - I should probably try it as well) - shouldn't the Emacs desktop mode just store all open tabs and restore them for you when activated:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sav...
Quick, Tie The Rafts Together - and Save Big-House Publishing
The Unix philosophy is somewhat of a myth. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/man12.pdf shows that that same first edition already had a -t option on ls. Surely, that should have been some | sort, but AFAICT, they did not bother to write that until some later time.
You're saying an author's own wishes do not matter in the manner his work is treated?
Discussion from a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603204
You think Samsung and Android are failing in the marketplace? boggle Samsung alone has double the smartphone market share that Apple has...
While I was being ascerbic, I was not being facetious.

We have a similar problem in the U.S.; in corporations, effectively no one ends up being personally responsible.

However, if an individual personally fails to implement a judicial ruling, that anonymization and "monefication" of penalty may dissolve.

I'm of very mixed opinion and feeling about several laws that may be involved -- both aspects of IP law and aspects of UK libel law.

But I also rather dislike unbridled corporate arrogance.
The thermal runaway is the "fun" part of the Tesla motor controller, right? It's got 3 MOSFETs, since there isn't a single one with enough power handling, and thus if one of them sucks a little more, it'll end up with more power, which will make it suck more, which will end up with more power...
Debt, Equity, and the Comparison for Investing
These are good UX lessons, so I'm glad to see the pointed out.

Actually, the biggest change I want MailChimp to make is to keep me signed in. I check that box every time, but they still want me to sign in again.

Also the login form wants me to login even if I already am. Seriously, if I just logged in, happen to revisit the home page, click the "log in" button in the top right, I am prompted to sign in again. It would be a far better experience to just take me into the admin panel like I requested.
except there is no free speech in UK. free speech only exists in USA. but at the same time you can say the equivalent of fck or sht on a public tv in France, so ... i dont mind free speech...
It strikes me as wishful thinking to be optimistic based on the fact that we (supposedly) have the resources to deviate from our current course. If we were already going in the right direction then it would be one thing, but this is like arguing that Romney is the favorite because people will feel bad for him being down in the polls. Doesn't work like that.
If companies such as Apple cannot produce products at prices that people want, then they should go out of business. That helps everyone by providing them with the products they demand - it doesn't hurt them.

Aggressive competition is a great thing. It incentivizes innovation to reduce cost and incentivizes competitors to differentiate themselves, which gives more options to consumers at lower prices.

The assertion that intense competition prevents companies from providing new products is unsubstantiated by anything in the article.
Check out how Lockitron is marketing their product - yours can deliver similar value, except to residents of apartment complexes. https://lockitron.com/preorder

I would first figure out the size of the market, then pick a price point (informed by the size of the market + the pain solved by your solution), then a marketing strategy (target either building management or individuals).

While most people on HN are telling you to market to the apartment complexes, I think you might want to market towards individuals, since they are the ones who feel the pain that you alleviate. You can target apartment complexes if you alleviate some pain that they have (maybe having your system is something they can include in marketing materials, which will get them more occupants/better occupancy).

The best thing about targeting individuals is that you may be able to get them to market for you (see dropbox), and that they will cross pollinate your solution to new apartment complexes when they move.
Yes, because an court order to make a statement is a lot like the Holocaust...
This seems a bit overkill, like trying to prevent yourself from wasting time on a site by blocking it in your hosts file. I worry it would make "mental context switches" too expensive, which might help to discourage you from wasting time on HN, but also get in the way of your work. I imagine that if I tried to separate my activities into separate accounts, I would get tired of switching users and end up with a de facto main account very quickly.

Have you looked into a virtual desktop solution yet? I use virtual desktops for very similar reasons (tuck all the real time wasters away in one desktop, put music playing controls and such in another, and use every other one for a different task), and I find it does a very good job of keeping me focused on the task at hand without getting in my way when it's time to do something else. Each one of my desktops is just two keypresses away, but there's no indication that anything is even running in any other desktop but a tiny square in the bottom right corner of my screen.
>You seem to imply that there's a minimum latency between your personal machine and the "cloud" machines for the cloud term to apply.

not latency, abstraction. If i'm building a server out of parts and wiring it up in my closet, that's a server. If somebody else wires up a server in their closet and rents it out to me, that's a cloud. The cloud means not having to think about things like hard drives failing, and keeping hot spares of servers. So yes, that often means failover clusters but the real point of cloud is that it doesn't matter whether it's a cluster or not - the physical architecture is somebody else's problem.
Amnesty isn't going to work because people don't feel like they're going to be caught, let alone punished. They feel safe downloading content and will even if the threat of enforcement is raised; humans have a natural tendency to feel safe doing "dangerous" things if they do them often and are familiar, i.e. driving, smoking, habitually lying or cheating.

People pirate in part for convenience and in part so they can sample the goods without risk. I doubt most people pirate to save money, but in all cases, either having a DRM-free product with a strong money-back guarantee, or offering all content available as an unlimited use subscription based product (like Safari) would make it more appealing to whip out that credit card, rather than pirate.

Sometimes people are just too poor to buy the content, in which case I think there should be a "food stamps" program for books. Yes, I know libraries exist but they're either poorly stocked or inconvenient in the eyes of younger people, making piracy uber attractive.
Verizon staff arrested for stealing customer's nude pics
Agreed. Setting aside the impossibility of unbiased reporting, the current habit of "repeat what both sides say, but don't fact-check anything" is appalling. If one side is outright lying, and you are reporting what they say but not the factual truth behind it, you're doing a disservice to all involved.
Thanks for the kind reply. I said ICML, but NIPS would have been a better point of reference -- since it was originally conceived as a cross-disciplinary enterprise. The NIPS TOC looks like this:

http://nips.djvuzone.org/nipsxx-toc.html

which indicates it's possible to have a selection of papers both technically sharp and interdisciplinary. We should all be so lucky to attract such a set of papers.

I'm reminded of the 1958 editorial by Peter Elias in the IEEE Information Theory Transactions ("Two Famous Papers"): http://oikosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/elias1958ire...

I sincerely wish you, your conference, and your research enterprise the best.
> This is a first for HN actually, someone telling me they know me better than I know myself.

I don't know you better than you know yourself. You know you're lying for sure, I'm just assuming so based off of overwhelming evidence.
It's usually easier to sell to someone who's experiencing a pain than it is to an upstream provider. In other words, if it was a big enough issue that you built something to fix it, and your apartment complex hasn't fixed it themselves, you probably aren't going to suddenly convince them to buy in (since they don't see the pain, or don't care).

Sell pain killers to people in pain.
Or even better, the distributor of the system itself.
DragonFlyBSD 3.2 Release
I'm curious what licit, low volume, etc. products actually would make sense to sell in Bitcoin vs. something else.

The best thing I can come up with is online-delivered services from non-US (and ideally, non-developed financial system) countries, to other non-developed-financial-system countries. Like, a guy in Zimbabwe who wants to provide an online service to someone from PNG. Which is really a stretch to imagine.
It's not very well camouflaged, let's hope the martians won't find it anytime soon.

I wonder if there are strong winds and sandstorms over there, can the rover survive those? Also, shouldn't there be a cover or sth to avoid fine dust destroying its circuits?
> If I could copy someone's birdhouse, and they could still keep it, why should they even bother putting time into making the birdhouse in the first place if the whole point was to make money off of it? In that case, there's no incentive to create anything at all.

You've just glimpsed the future. The creation of content without monetization as the primary, or indeed any, motivation.

There are other motivations to create original content, and monetization can be achieved indirectly (e.g. musicians sharing their music for free to sell concert tickets or merchandise, authors writing books to sell public speaking engagements) so that those involved in the creation of original content can still earn a living doing so.
> If you are ... willing to accept a speed and memory hit (roughly factor of two) you could use ASAN in production

That's a pretty interesting idea, and seems to be a practical realization of something people have been trying to do for ages: produce a C variant with more safety. The most prominent project I know trying to do that is the C-like language Cyclone (http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/), but this seems like an alternate approach that lets you get "C but safer" without actually moving away from C.
Exactly. SkypeIn with local area code is (if you get it on sale) only $30 a year. That's what I use.

Nice thing about that is I've let the UPS guy in while I was in Rome, and didn't have to pay long distance.
Actually, I take some of this back. If the upstream provider can make significant profits by selling this as an add on, then you're in business.
Extending my comment, I am almost sure that passing a small negative argument (which is converted to a large positive number) causes malloc to return NULL on Linux.
> That's the second time you post an almost identical comment in a thread about people not buying apple products due to their behaviour and you're telling them they are not truthful.

Actually I was arguing that they aren't buying Apple products because of this particular incident, not their overall behaviour. That I buy, it's a small segment of the population but it does exist.

However I'm seriously skeptical that anyone would actually choose an Android tablet instead of an iPad because of this particular incident. It's a ridiculous prospect, and indicative of a consumer that has no real preferences about the device they buy, they're just running purely on spite.

GP basically just came right out and said that.

> If someone states something about themselves then your best bet is to believe they know better than you what made them decide.

I'm not allowed to apply critical thinking skills to statements others make about themselves? That's pretty ridiculous. And since when did I argue against that? I'm sure he does know his motivations better than I. That doesn't mean for a second that he's being honest with us or himself about those motivations.
That's nice and all, but the benefit to "social login buttons" (or any oauth like system) is that it reduces the number of supposedly unique passwords your users have to remember. So they can use good passwords.

The username/password pattern is bad, and social login buttons, however much you think they mar your precious login page with confusing options, goes a long way to improving matters.

On the other hand, when their control freak CEO flipped out about 2 extra buttons, I wonder what they did with accounts that were already using the system. I guess send them a random password next time.
It's more work, but you can convince the upstream provider that their customer's pain is actually causing them pain.

I would try to find a larger complex to use as a case study. Set everything up for free for them, and check their retention rate before and after the install. 1 month less of an empty apartment probably pays for your product, and if you're anything over that it's a no-brainer from the complex owner's perspective.
Wrong City, the CCC belongs to berlin :(
People should not be forced to say things. That's wrong. Regardless of jurisdiction.

Hmm, OK, I see what you're saying. That sounds like a reasonable point.
If you try to sell this to the distributor, either they'll clone it, buy it outright or ignore it.
Researchers find smishing vulnerability in all recent versions of Android
The New iPad mini - Photo gallery in the Dock+
Who are the Republicans?
What strikes me is how earth-like this picture is. Could be a dessert anywhere. It's hard to imagine that if I were next to the rover I wouldn't be able to breath!

Makes Mars seem approachable!
The "Developer Edition" is unlocked, and I agree on the second point. Unfortunately, you're at the whim of Google and the consumer market, which apparently demands large phones.
That's a good point about the importance of parameters.

I wonder whether Silver would be responsive if you emailed him asking about parameters.
I'm pretty sure they made a loss because of acquisitions they had made and not because of their competitive pricing.
Have you considered learning how to code? How hard is your idea to implement? I know people who were not coders at first but learned how to do it just so they could build prototypes and simple versions of the product. Check out codeacademy.com
And also this interview with YC partner Harjeet Taggar, he talks about learning how to code among other interesting stuff: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/30/y-combinator-harj-taggar-in...

You should also be careful with that "99%" statement. I don't wanna discourage you or anything, but you should definitely think about validating all your assumptions before investing money and time into building your startup. I strongly recommend reading The Lean Startup.

And IMHO you should definitely have a technical co-founder. Even if you managed to save money and you can hire some decent programmers (which would be quite expensive for a student), you'll have no idea of how long it takes for something to done.
Ericsson Networked Society documentary on The Future of Learning
Right, I can see things headed that way. I mean, people already create a lot of things just because they want to, and they want to see them shared.

The problem is that when the creation of something is expressly for the purpose of maintaining someone's livelihood, they should be the only person who decides how that content is handled. It isn't (or shouldn't) be up to everyone else to decide how their work is distributed just because everyone else thinks the world would be a better place if they just copied it all over the place.
Yeah, but they can still exert pressure on him.
Thanks! That is very helpful. I'm looking forward to trying on the stable gcc
The Android tablet market was pretty anemic before Amazon effectively created it by aggressively pushing the Fire, and then Google the Nexus tablets.

How would that market have been better for anyone in the long run if it were effectively non-existent?
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The FETs blew as soon as we turned on the case, oddly enough, and even if we had a single drive plugged in, that FET would blow by itself. This is even the case when we took the backplanes out and started testing them individually in free air in the server room, where ambient is more like 18C instead of 25.

Is the design solution to use a FET with a lower Rds at 5V Vds for smaller heat dissipation?

But more importantly, is there a standard current that most chassis are tested to? I would expect all SATA hot-swap bays would support all SATA drives on the market, since nobody ever gives power dissipation or consumption figures.
TL;DR: you probably won't notice unless you are looking for bugs in their products, and trying to write exploits.

You will certainly not notice any improvement in their "creative" apps.

But these do not really form a part of most people's "internet attack surface". The priorities are Reader and Flash. Perhaps AIR.

Adobe Reader X is a lot more secure than Reader 9 was. The bugs are still there - many Reader 9 bugs affect X. However, exploitation is much harder, and I haven't seen anyone get reliable code execution in X yet.

They are supposed to be working hard on Flash too, although I haven't looked at that recently. I remain unconvinced that Flash is actually fixable, but perhaps they could win with strong enough sandboxing and exploit mitigation...
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
I find it's best to ignore a post when any rash generalization is made; be it against people I side with or not.
I didn't when I got a cheap device that was faulty and fell apart more than once. I have since decided it is a false economy. 159 quid plastic tablet vs 259 quid aluminium one is what it comes down to for me. The extra 100 quid gives me as the consumer a much more pleasurable device that's much more durable and lasts longer. It pays for itself because I can actually use it before it breaks. That's just my experience so far.
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Hi everyone, thanks for all of the great feedback. Honestly, I feel lucky to have the tools, technology, and support to build games like Cheese Miners. Sorry that I haven't responded to all of your comments yet, I will get caught-up later this weekend. My school has a camping trip and I have been prepping for the trip most of day and walking out the door now and will have no internet access while camping (no phones allowed, and I agree!). Such is the life of a 14 year old at boarding school. When I get back I would love to continue this discussion. Your comments have been very inspiring and there are some really good suggestions I need to follow-up on. Thanks for the great discussion. HN rocks!
Took me a minute to Google, so, main:
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/about/
Wild guesses:

(1) I've heard the old Android browser on some phones can report it's user agent as safari or some generic looking webkit that might get folded into safari numbers.

(2) site bias? Purely as an illustrative example imagine if Apple.com was one of the sites in Net Apps network while Android.com was in the Statcounter network.

(3) actually accurate. The wikimedia numbers are 10% mobile safari and 4.5% android.
Everyone learns the cheap hardware lesson at least once.

"1% less downtime means 87 hours per year. Do you think Lenovo is 1% better than Acer?" <- what I say when I encounter a client that hasn't learned this lesson, and insists on low end gear.
Do you have anything to support your implication that MSNBC is as "ideologically biased" (my words, not yours) as Fox News, and thus as worthy of attack for their bias? Consider that, as one example, FNC's VP of News has handed down memos instructing producers to adopt a conservative stance in their stories [1].

[1]: http://mediamatters.org/research/2004/07/14/33-internal-fox-...
If you want to see real election fraud, then look no further than Chicago in 1960 [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...
And some of is can actually use the plastic ones. To each their own.
You should definitely take a look at Twitter Bootstrap:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

It helps you get a decent (actually way more than decent) looking UI in no time.
Surface Misconceptions
Agreed, the use of emoji or the occasional ";D" is a measure of how informal the communication is, and isn't something that'll help improve the professional tone interacting with a client. I personally don't think it has much place in business communication at all, but that's just my personal preference.

If you can't communicate successfully without emoji, then you have a large communication problem that is likely not being solved by their addition.

edit: for clarity.
I'd be interested to know what HN'ers think one should do if there is no obvious frontrunner.

For example, if there are candidates A,B and C but none of them represent voter X well enough.

Another question. Which has more effect? Voter X voting for candidate A,B or C OR voter X creating monetary value through process N and then using that to put forth a candidate (presumably in 4 to 12 years) that represents voter X well.
Why Google is so Incredibly Undervalued
I'm not seeing it myself. While I hew to the "leftist" side of the political line, I'm also somewhat pro-IP. Every time I have posted a legitimate, well-cited criticism of an anti-IP article, I have gotten upvoted to the top. Not mindless tropes like "IP incentivizes innovation," which are actually ideological statements masquerading as factual statements, but actually factual statements.

My experience with HN has been, at least up to this point, that ideological ranting will largely be met with ideological upvoting. That is to say if your arguments are based on ideology, you're going to get upvotes or downvotes based on your ideological compatibility with people on the site. However unlike reddit, if you base your comments on defensible assertions and evidence, you will get upvoted even if your comment goes against the grain of the prevailing ideology.
Groupon cancels daily deals, attempts to close books on SEC investigation
Apples' Updated Statement
Github also has a repository for their icons at https://github.com/github/gemoji/
They have the same licence.
You can safely ignore any comment that nirvana makes to any thread where Apple is mentioned.