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The in-app purchases are perfect for this. You get to demo the brushes before you use them to figure out if you even need or like them. They're asking what amounts to what -- $10? for a beautiful app that looks and works worlds better than most in the same arena. I much prefer paying nothing up front and being able to try all of the features and figure out which ones I want to buy. I ended up getting them all simply to support the concept. You cite Notability but I don't want an app that does 20 things, with an ugly/more complex interface to boot. I have other apps that excel at those other things if I need them. I just want a drawing app, and I'm willing to pay a premium for one that offers the best experience for what I'm trying to accomplish with it.

I'm tired of paying for apps up-front only to find that they weren't what I was looking for or what was advertised. Good reviews don't necessarily mean that it is the right tool for the task, and forcing the user to then have to request a refund instead of just having a trial period or a free version they can simply delete is not user-friendly and results in all of the "DO NOT PAY FOR THIS APP!!!!1" and "I WANT A REFUND!" reviews from people who know none-the-wiser (although Apple doesn't make it very clear/easy to do so to begin with) and cause more people to turn away before giving it a shot. It also allows for the developer to be able to persuade initially unsatisfied users with later [demo] releases.
See, this is what I don't understand about HTML5. Wasn't executing untrusted code the purpose of operating systems ? Now we're having two layer of APIs like you said. Browser APIs and OS APIs. And we're seeing weird (or awesome) things like Emscripten, Native Client and Chrome OS.

Couldn't me do more with less here ?
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L2 sounds like a big boondoggle to me. It's like the ISS part two. A base on the lunar surface would be able to use lunar soil for radiation shielding. Put a linear accelerator out there to launch things into orbit, and you dramatically reduce the travel costs to get there and back. (Since you won't have to haul as much fuel for return up there.) In addition, O2 can be extracted from lunar soil, which would reduce the return fuel payload to almost nothing.
When reddit had started talking about this, people almost right away started posting links to news stories about the judge having already responded. I don't think reddit really had much to do with this given the order of events.
This is really cool. Nice going. I'm amazed to see how many people have been working on similar things. I took a shot at this a while ago (http://soundtype.com) but I was stuck using Java for MIDI. Really looking forward to the MIDI spec for the Web Audio API.

Being that this is HN many of you might have seen this already, but there's an exciting Google IO talk from Chris Wilson about Web Audio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFsCG7v9Y4c

And see the corresponding slide deck for code:
http://webaudio-io2012.appspot.com/#1
The fact that this works in the Netherlands may have more to do with Dutch culture and a good synergy with their shared values than with the specifics of their electoral system. Contrast it with Israel to see the other extreme of proportional parliamentary representation...
Implosion-type nuclear bombs (which are nearly all of them) use a mind-bogglingly precise sphere of fissile material. If you put a drop of thin oil on top and came back a few hours later, the oil would coat the sphere evenly.
Why use CA cotton instead of one of the types of cotton known for having extra long stable (ELS) fibers that are softer, more comfortable and resist wrinkling better?

Sea Island cotton is excellent. Egyptian, Pima and Swiss are also pretty good.

Is your CA cotton the ELS gossypium barbadense, the common gossypium hirsutum or something else?
Well it doesn't just support 3G. The Nexus 4 runs HSPA+ 42 (basically non-LTE 4G) which is available in Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and on Tmobile in the US. My Tmobile HSPA+ is actually faster than most home internet connections in my area.
Could you do a moonrace in today's America? Would it work? Would we win?
Thank you, that's exactly what I was going for here.
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With SpaceX and their heavy-lift plans in the back of my mind, watching the video made me cringe. When they constantly name-drop the manufacturer of various components it becomes all too obvious who the real audience is. And the message? 'Don't call your Senators, you're still on the gravy train.'

>Work is underway on the flight-qualified booster, getting ready for its big test next year at ATK in Utah. [Formerly Morton Thiokol, the company that Orrin Hatch axed the single-segment SRB design to protect. This design decision, and the famed management decision at MT to ignore engineer Roger Boisjoly's warnings on launch day, doomed the crew of STS-51-L.]

>The venerable RS-25 engine, built by Pratt-Whitney Rocketdyne… will power the SLS core stage.

>In order to fuel these engines, NASA called on the expertise at the Boeing Company to build the SLS core stage…

…and on and on.

In this arena cost inefficiency is a feature, not a bug.
Yes, circumstantial evidence relies on correlation. Furthermore, correlation and causation are not mutually exclusive.

but the fact that it's trite doesn't make it untrue.

Irony.
Hey nostromo, I'm one of the founders, William.

We love a lot of what American Apparel has done. We've certainly taken a lot of plays from their book.

That said, we think there are a lot of ways we can improve on the model:

1. Price - we think $25 for a tee shirt and $50 for a hoodie is too expensive; at scale we want to be lower on our basics. We won't be supporting retail stores, so this is very feasible. AA can't come down anymore in price, they've had a rough couple years as it is.

2. Quality - we're confident we can make consistently higher quality garments; more consistent in quality and fit, and better fabrics.

3. Style - on items outside their basics, we're not big fans of AA's fit or style. That is personal preference, of course.

4. Focus - we're only focused on men and will keep a very small line. Instead of millions of colors and styles, we're going to focus on delivering things every guy should and can wear. We want to be a safe bet so dudes can trust us.

LA and NY are really the only two places you can live if you want to be down the street from where your production happens. This is important if you are a micromanfacturer and want that kind of control for quality.
A friend of mine from high school started Collared Greens ( http://www.collaredgreens.com/ ) which already focuses on neckties made from organic fibers. They aren't my style, but if you wear neckties, bow ties or polo shirts, they have great colors and patterns.
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The spikes on the bottom are the support wires for the staging tower vaporizing a bit faster than the atmosphere.
The devil is in the details. I think a lot of devs realize they need a very polished app and substantial viral value - the trouble is that you can't just will either of those things into existence, or even buy them.

Executing a good app is really hard, and people who can do it consistently are very rare still. Getting a really cohesive, well-built app done is more than just hiring the most expensive ObjC coders and designers you know.
Interesting. I would take it a step further and say that everything related to your project should be forkable and branchable. Your source, your assets, your databases, etc. I would love to be able to go back to any moment in the projects history and get a full, working build.
>Now you might say, "but what if blacks and latinos just aren't suitable for our government, educational institutions, workforce, and popular culture?"

Except I wouldn't say that, because first, it doesn't make any damn sense, and second, it's the kind of ignorant tripe you'd expect to hear a white supremacist say.
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Great point, adding it soon. We hope you'll follow us at twitter.com/fromholden and facebook.com/fromholden for now.

(we have a really nasty contest launching next week that I think you'll like.)
"Keep in mind though, this will probably be the only year we do this..."

Why assert that it's a one-time thing if the conference has only been growing every year?
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Individual situations are important in this case. It is as much about fairness for the white guy/girl with poor parents who is being discriminated against by his or her government as it is about the African American who is being discriminated against by employers, schools etc.

This is obviously a tough issue, but edge cases are important. There is too much noise in the statistics.
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Ok. Thanks a lot for the explanation. Figured there was one.
Even though the unbiased analysis of the plans the different parties have reduces fact-free policies, it's far from a guarantee that after the elections, the winning parties will simply make a 180 degree turn and screw you over anyway.

Be careful what you wish for. There are only two ways for parties to avoid abandoning their campaign promises. One is for a single winning party to have complete control over government policy. The other is for minority parties to prevent the government from implementing any policy at all. In the U.S. we have politicians who promise to derail the government and leave it a smoking ruin rather than allow any part of the other party's platform to be implemented.
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I don't think there is a greater aversion to blacks or Indians than there is to Asians. Should Asians be advantaged? For college admissions, they are actually considered more privileged than whites because they score so highly on tests.

As others have pointed out, and as I agree with, affirmative action is for recompensing past wrongs against Blacks and Indians, who suffered slavery and Genocide, respectively.

But what about Hispanics? The affirmative action for them is entirely economic (they are poorer in general).
Also interesting: data clips

https://postgres.heroku.com/dataclips

I'll have to wait for them to become SafeHarbor compliant before using them, though (in progress!).
I love this photo. If I'm not mistaken, you can pick out the internal structure of the bomb. You can also see the plasma (?) running down the support structures ahead of the fireball.

Incredible photograph. Wish we could go back and re-shoot this same stuff in 5K stereo. Looking at this reminds me of the picture of the cosmic background radiation that one physicist called the "face of God" For some reason I intuitively feel that there's some deep mystery in this picture.

For any of you in the vicinity of New Mexico, I encourage you to go visit the Atomic Museum, which is now known as the "The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History"

http://www.nuclearmuseum.org/
I think it's fair to say that it was a necessary phenomenon to kick-start a perception-shift among all Americans that all kinds of people could be in all kinds of roles. We're probably at the inflection point now: a black president means Americans have now come to see as "normal" the possibility of a person of color in the highest office in the land. Thus it's probably the right time to begin moving toward class-based aid instead of race.
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Hi. I'm the author and I live in France. I used EST for 2 reasons.

1/ Most HN readers can relate to that easily.

2/ GMT doesn't account for daylight savings time.
Ok - when that's possible, it makes a lot of sense.
I don't think poor, white people are an edge case. As of 2007, 9.9% of the white, non-hispanic population lived in poverty (compared to 27.6% of black people and 26.6% of hispanics). The numbers are lower, but they are far from edge cases. The source of adversity in the human experience is not solely rooted in race.
Your guess is correct. It is very common for us to have a coalition of three or more parties. Although the current coalition is one of two parties.

This was the result of so-called strategic voters. Left-wing voters people feared that the VVD (the liberals) would become the largest party and voted for the PvdA (labour party) en masse.

Interestingly this resulted in even more right wing voters voting for the VVD, instead of a smaller party. Right now we are stuck with two titans&mdash;that also happen to have opposing views.

Fortunately both parties were able to form a coalition. Albeit with the necessary financial consequences. The labour party let the VVD cut mercilessly on government expenses, although it pretty much decided who should get hit the most; the higher incomes.
You've claimed that Harvard "absolutely dominates" MIT in law, but MIT doesn't have a law school.

If the other team doesn't even show up, the team that does gets the W.
This is pretty cool tech, but I think you need a bit of work with your video. When you start with examples, after the 1st one I'm thinking "I get it already, jesus" and already clicking through the video to find the product demo.

You torture me with 30 seconds of slow slide transitions and irrelevant videos (I know what a firefighter is, no need to show me), start talking about what you're making 30 seconds in, and finally show it to me 45 seconds in, with the end result 55 seconds in.

I know this sounds harsh, but you have got to tailor your value proposition to short attention spans. If I like it, I'll stay longer and watch more. If not, you don't want me anyway.

I'd flip most of the video around:
a) condense the first 30 seconds into 1 slide with pictures of first responders, soldiers, firemen etc
b) show them the end result and then how you toss the camera (or backwards). When this is done, you should be 10 seconds in.
c) then build upon my excitement and talk about what you want

This is all assuming I even click the video, so just having a one-sentence summary above the video also helps. (I get that there is text below, but your header is huge and so it falls below the fold and I didn't even think to scroll down until now).
I don't foresee this project playing out at all like the ISS did, at least not with the way it's being billed thus far. Sounds like this is a very NASA-centric project, so therefore wouldn't require cooperation from various countries around the world to make it happen. Also, my guess is that it would be physically smaller.
Unless Twitter has made the ludicrous mistake of not hashing passwords, a bulk compromise probably means one or more (hosting providers, some weird API middleware) third parties were compromised and leaked access tokens. A password changes invalidates all the old ones for an account.

Also, if you look it's mostly journalists, etc. complaining rather than normal people, so it seems more concentrated among those more likely to use third party services.
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Sorry, a small off-topic question: why did you again and again misspell 'discrimination'? You sound too educated to make the mistake -- and I'm not aware of any alternative spellings of the word. So, why did you spell it that way? I'm just genuinely curious.
Really cool, can't wait to try this out!
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Yeah the sanest option I've heard is throwing some construction robots up (obviously not easy but far from impossible) to dig us a nice hole to live in when people get there, set up a reactor, start finding water, etc.
HTML 5 games can show battery status, or warn when the battery is running low. HTML 5 apps can suggest that the user save their work as they are running low on power, to name a few.
This is certainly tricky, and obviously a judge is the one to make the final decision for the US, but I'll stick by my interpretation of the Civil Rights Act for now :-)

Obviously, there is always the problem of having a profession where the demand hasn't been met by the supply of skilled workers (like programming!) which takes time before it balances a bit more, and this is where the idea of racial quotas breaks down considerably.
Nice! All it needs is MIDI, which is already on the way in HTML5.
I wonder if the founders are aware of this other USA-based clothing manufacturer that shares a very similar name: http://www.holdenouterwear.com/
I'm curious as to why the article felt it necessary to highlight multiple times that the German scientists are "dead"…
The convenience of being on a giant rock versus a sitting duck in space can't be understated, either. It makes a lot of things a lot less complicated, especially supplying the base. The deceleration and coupling that ships to the ISS have to go through would be completely negated on the moon - all you have to do is land something relatively close (within a few hundred yards, maybe?) to the base and you're set. It's like threading a needle versus hitting the broad side of a barn.

Fuel costs would obviously be greater, but not all that much, and once there is a permanent mobile presence in near space, the fuel cost will really just be relegated to getting from the surface into orbit (which is most of the fuel cost anyway).

The reality (sad, unfortunate, or otherwise) is that getting into space is expensive, but it's ridiculously cheap compared to some of the other things the US wastes money on.
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I think you're wrong to criticize HN users for their negative reaction to this post and to associate their criticism with a decline in HN culture. The post will naturally be unattractive to many reasonable and pleasant people who would be good HN citizens.

For one thing there's a political dimension here and you have effectively thrown your weight into the right-leaning region of the political space: people on the liberal/left side are much less likely to appreciate the post.

The post is about a rich foreigner who goes travelling in a poor part of the world and cares deeply about the high quality (and therefore mostly expensive[1]) items he has brought with him. It completely fails to mention the people who live in those places. Why should we be interested in how a tourist's belongings are kept safe due to his high quality backpack, when the overwhelming majority of safety-of-belongings questions in that part of the world involve people who don't have access to his expensive first world backpack? Or even if we are interested in the rucksack quality from a technical point of view, surely we realize that it's insensitive to bluster about the quality of your possessions when travelling in poorer countries?

Finally, we learn that he cares so deeply about the quality of his items, that when he returns to his super-expensive first-world abode, he develops it into a faux philosophy of life, patting himself on the back for its minimalism and the effort expended in researching quality.

It really is consistent with the worst caricatures of rich first-world tourists in poorer parts of the world, and with the worst caricatures of materialism over humanism. And that view doesn't make me a bad HN citizen.

[1] Yes, quality correlates with cost here. We're talking silverware, not software.
One of the biggest problems I have is that I'll branch out to a new feature branch, modify (add/rename columns) in the db, then get sidetracked by something where I have to switch back to master, making everything explode because the db is still modified, while my application is calling the old values.

I'd love it if they found a way to link up your database to a repo, so that it could track/rollback changes easily as switching branches (I guess an sqlite db might work, but it's not perfect)
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Ask HN: How does HN's algorithm know if a post came from a YC company?
When YC companies post to HN, they go straight to page 1. Is this because of the account that posted, the URL of the post, or something else?
Kennedy: Let's go to the Moon. We go to the Moon.

Nixon: Apollo canceled. Shuttle born.

Reagan: Space Station Freedom. The Ride Report proposes a lunar base by 2010.

Bush Sr: Space Exploration Initiative, or $500 billion for a lunar base by 2010 or 2020. Rejected.

Clinton: Space Station Freedom morphs into ISS.

Bush Jr: Constellation program and humans on the Moon by 2020.

Obama: Constellation canceled, SLS born. Moon by 2020. Or maybe an asteroid by 2025. Or maybe Mars (with friends). Or maybe somewhere else entirely...

It seems much easier to get agreement on who does the studies and who builds the hardware than where to go and when.
Ok, well accelerate it very slowly. Don't have people onboard during transit, and instead park it in Earth-Sun L2 where most of the solar radiation would be blocked.

Problems solved?
It could help when you want to double check if there is a victim in an unreachable spot before you expend the effort and risk of getting in there.
> Instead we have a system that systematically disadvantages non black people.

Can't tell if I'm getting trolled here...
I love that you discarded all solutions that didn't meet your criteria.

It's the only way to make great things.
I mean in a quantum mechanical sense. (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information)

The ability of something to cause a random side-effect does not necessarily mean that something is information.
Because; 2014 and 2015 are happening in Montreal CA rather than a larger US venue. The reason why we can do this in 2013 is due to, as they say, "location, location, location". We have the projected attendance to back the expansion this year, but I sincerely doubt we will in other locations and venues.

I'd rather hedge now, then set the expectations it will "always be this big" - because honestly, I don't think PyCon should continue to expand, and that this should be a one time thing for the conference.

Long term; the PSF and PyCon itself will end up pushing more and more local / regional conferences and capping attendance at the 2500 attendee level intentionally.

tl;dr: Continued unbounded growth in attendance, number of tracks, etc will dilute the conference and take it in a direction most within the community and the foundation do not wish it to go in.
Not sure exactly what you mean by that.

Digg seems to have been a colossal fuckup, especially toward the end, but Kevin Rose was a pretty successful and well regarded angel investor separate from that. Entrepreneurs, even failed ones, who become VCs do seem to have a lot of advantages -- look at Marc Andressen, Ben Horowtiz, Chris Dixon, or Paul Graham...

I'm sure Google Ventures has the same people problem as anyone else in the valley -- it is hard to find and hire great people due to all the other opportunities -- but I don't think they have a lower quality of people than other funds. They may have some unique issues (I'd rather work for Google itself, which is amazing in a lot of ways, than Google Ventures, which is mid pack), but for a company affiliated semi-strategic, I don't think they are bad.
Michael from Divshot here. Thanks for the feedback! We know that exporting a .zip package with everything you need is something people want, it's coming soon.

The preview sidebar is something that's been bugging me for a while...so now it's gone. No reason to overcomplicate things, preview now just serves up the static HTML.

We've got some big things coming up, stay tuned!