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I'm co-founder of MinoMonsters. We launched our game on iOS but spent a lot of time prototyping on the Android market. Our android prototype has 250k+ downloads and 2k+ reviews. Here's some steps you can take today to try to move the needle.

* Test your screenshots! Assume that 50% of the people in the market will never read your description. Right now, your screenshots communicate "Samurai game". Try a different direction, maybe one more Sudoku focused.[1] Test lots.

* Test your app icon. Test lots.

* You should have a purchase already. Review your monetization strategy. Most developers err on the side of under-monetizing their game, in the hopes that they won't "make players mad" or some other nonsense. Spoiler alert: you're wrong. Start your re-education here: http://www.edery.org/2012/08/your-first-f2p-game-where-you-w...

* Doing games is hard and a lot of what works in games is non-obvious. Be very skeptical of advice you get from anyone that hasn't done games.

* There is only one "tried and true" marketing channel - getting featured on the platform. Outside of that, you need to hustle hard to get your app featured in other places. You've reached out to "a few" sites and forums. Expand your reach to 10x as many sites and forums. Point to your past reviews as social proof for potential future reviews. No one site is going to bring in all the downloads - it's about building buzz and the snowball effect.

That's all I can think off the top of my head.

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[1] - No one can tell you what's going to work best. The only way to know is to test.
Instead of manually running Clang's static analyzer (Build->Analyze), I'd recommend setting your project up to always analyze after building.
Why Aaron Swartz’s Ideas Matter
A minor quible, since it seems to be confusing people elsewhere in the thread. It isn't illegal to change your MAC address at all per se. It's illegal to access a network without permission. All the MAC spoofing did was help prove mens rea, that Aaron knew that the people in charge of the network were trying to keep him off of it when he accessed it anyways.

By analogy, there's nothing illegal about entering a building through the window. But if you try the door of a random and find it locked and then enter through the window that's still trespass. But if you make a habit of always entering buildings through open windows when they're available so you never try the door you might be able to argue that you didn't know the building wasn't public. At least, you could try to argue it to a jury and depending on the circumstances I guess it might work.
Hey sorry, I meant to get that up too. So, during my testing I've found that the Polar H7 is really the best heart rate monitor, bar none.

You don't need any electrode gel with it, it keeps perfect track of your heart, and it doesn't disconnect like some of the other monitors.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Polar-Bluetooth-Smart-Heart-Sensor/dp/...
Malware Infects US Power Plants through USB Drives - Hacking News
By default, you have no right to be on or use private property without permission. MIT's network is private property. It might be "open" in the sense that MIT liberally gives out permission to use it, but that doesn't mean they give up the right to revoke your permission. This is the same as my lawn. Just because I let people cut through it doesn't mean I give up the right to single you out and keep you from walking on it.

The example you give is an edge case, but I think technically the "get off my lawn" revokes your right to cut across it as other people do. I don't think this is a pretty common sense definition.
Design Your App On Paper; Animate It With Your iPhone Camera
This isn't compatible with my iPod Touch from July-- I haven't updated to iOS 6 and I don't have intentions of updating.

Any chance it will be compatible later?
It's a great looking app - you definitely have a sense for design. However, like many others have already mentioned, Sudoku is overdone.

While you may still gain some traction here (14 5-star reviews is a good start!), you definitely have some talent to use on your next project.

If you go for another game, try to come up with an entirely new gameplay-type. Or at least pretend it's a new gameplay type by not using the gameplay type as part of the game's title. Halo isn't called Halo: First Person Shooter for a good reason.
Just got his response, that's the one.
I think they are testing homepages between that and http://dropify.com/cases
A Schemer's View of Monads [pdf]
They do offer smart phone apps that do "soft tokens".
It's not illegal to sit in a parked car without a buckled seat belt, it's only illegal to drive a car on a public street without a buckled seat belt.

Likewise, it's not illegal to change your MAC address, it's only illegal to change your MAC address in the course of bypassing a security mechanism.

Context matters.
Work from a café.

When I feel that I'm getting bored of coding all day I go to a local Café with my laptop and using my smartphones 3G connection shared on wifi to the laptop. Works great for looking up docs and googling a question if the Cafe dsn't have free Wifi. I'm working from a cafe 2 times a week about 3 hours each time.

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Go to the Gym, even if it's not your thing.

When I started going to the gym i definitely felt lost, the big guy where lifting way more than me and I wasn't very sure what exercises I should do. But just going to the gym, doing some basic exercises and looking at others in the gym thought me a lot and now I really like it. It does also have benefits such as feeling better afterwards and making you look more attractive, which is a huge boost for your self-estime.

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Help others.

Jump on IRC or the mailing-list for your niche and help others when you feel you want to do other things other than work. This not only gives you the pleasure of helping others with your skills, it's also a great place to find gigs.

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Contribute to an opensource project.

Find an open-source project that you are using and understands how it works, look up what reported issues the project have and try to solve them. If you can't find a solution for any of the issues start with the documentation, every project needs better documentation and it's not a very hard task to write if you understand how the code works. The benefits are same as helping others really.
It might open up some advertising channels, empower social engineering and law enforcement. I don't see how this is going to affect Google. Someone enlighten me on this
It would be nice if they would release some specs like battery life and resolution and weight and memory and capacity.
I'm not saying it doesn't work - just not sure it will remain as effective as it is today or as it was 5 years ago. I think the effectiveness will die down over the next few years.

Repetition is definitely how ads succeed (convert). That said, being both offline and online is good (as you say). However, if more and more of your time is spent online (or a given company's target user's time), doesn't it make sense to create more repetition online? Through different online mediums? Search, display, retargeting (talk about repetition)...
Show HN: My weekend project - schoolutils
Not sure what you mean. The tech is already here on tablets. Check out this recent video from Metaio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i...!

It uses 3d tracking and could easily be changed from an AC unit to an engine. I think the software is definitely ready.
Show HN: Pexogram
Android application which combines a principle of the popular Memory game with the artistic and social aspect of Instagram.
> In general yes. However in practice employers expect total dedication and focus, deliveries while _at the same time_ counting minutes.

Largely true.

> Employers are a lot like women. They have a hard time making up their mind about what they really want. Everything being the default answer.

This is silly. You're playing in to a narrative that's acceptable in some sub-cultures but that is basically ridiculous once you know enough people and try to debunk handed-down narratives.
The UI is absolutely incredible although it wasn't immediately clear to me that I can click on the "How it works" steps to move the slider. You might want to make it more obvious or add another method to move the slider, such as a big arrow to the right with text like "Next Step: Add Basic Info".

Again, fantastic job on the UI. It looks great.
You're going to all sorts of gyrations to avoid the obvious. The fundamental question is still: do you know that you are being singled out?

Favorite colors are non-specific enough that you might reasonably not know. But MAC addresses aren't like favorite colors. Every Ethernet device has a unique one. If you find your MAC address banned, I think you can reasonably conclude that you're being singled out.
They fired him and hired him as the CEO.
You're conflating a number of separate issues. Sure, people care about "hacking". That doesn't mean that the general public automatically attacks anyone accused of hacking. More to the point, is there some evidence that the general public considers MAC spoofing to be hacking? Most people don't know what MAC spoofing is, and don't care. Sure, if you can convince someone that MAC spoofing is hacking, then you might be able to convince them to care, but first you have to convince them that it's hacking.

> Any string of technobable sounds insidious to them; writers (quite reasonably) use this to their advantage to reduce the amount of research they need to do, but prosecutors also use it to their advantage.

Any string of technobabble sounds like technobabble to the average person. It makes no sense to them, by design. That doesn't mean they automatically consider it evil or hacking. Writers use this to their advantage because they know they can assign whatever meaning they want to the technobabble by using appropriate framing. Now a prosecutor might well stand up and spout a bunch of technobabble and then say "that's hacking". The defense needs to stand up and explain why that's stupid.

A prosecutor in a medical malpractice trial could also stand up and describe a heart bypass surgery using medical terms and then announce that the doctor is clearly responsible for the patient's death. It would be pure medical babble to the typical jury, and without accurate context, the jury could indeed be led to believe that the doctors actions were negligent or even malicious, despite them being standard procedure. The defense needs to step up and provide context for those terms that the jury doesn't understand. (The judge also needs to step up and not allow the prosecution to intentionally mislead.) The jury here isn't attacking the doctor, though. They're making a judgement based on the information they are provided.
No sign of a “Series A Crunch,” as VC investing drops only slightly in 2012
"The law should be the same for everybody and should NOT be applied selectively."

It depends on how the selection is done. If a prosecutor declines to prosecute because the law breaker is of a particular race, rich, politically powerful, etc. then that is an abuse of discretion.

However, we want prosecutors to be selective when it comes to saying that someone might have been justified even if the law as written doesn't explicitly acknowledge the justification (or acknowledges it but as a factor for the judge to consider). Speeding and running red lights because you are impatient and reckless is a different matter than speeding and running a red light because your passenger is bleeding profusely.

We also need to give prosecutors some discretion just to manage the case load. Unless we are willing to spend a lot more on both prosecutors and the court systems, we want them to be able to say "I will focus my time and attention on this murderer even if it means letting that shoplifter go with an extremely favorable plea bargain or even unpunished."
Evading a MAC filter should be equivalent to criminal trespass (usually a misdemeanor). There isn't any such notion in the law.

So the problem I have is with the structure and application of the CFAA, not so much with people having the right to keep out unwanted parties.

I did not put it clearly above, but I specifically meant unauthorized access where the CFAA would apply (in my world view, for circumvention to be a felony, the network operator needs to have some expectation the security mechanism will effectively prevent access).
Revolution Productions did this video for us. Highly recommended: http://www.revolution-productions.com/

We found it to be very cost-effective.
it said:

Relax. You don't have to sift through your social feed. You don't have to worry about reading the same stuff over and over. Tightrope balances out your daily media, providing value over a breadth of topics.

For a summary from the day before, go to 'Yesterday'. We ourselves check this on a daily basis. 'Trending' gives you media bursts within the last half hour. Careful - this can get addictive.

To give it an aesthetic edge, article colors are based on the dominant colors in the images. Images are selected and resized to fit smoothly into the app.
The unreported psychological impacts of Fukushima tallied
Security based on MAC blocking is not remotely like a deadbolt. A deadbolt denies anyone who doesn't have a key, whereas a block list allows anyone who doesn't look like someone on the list. Security based on a MAC whitelist (where only certain people are allowed) is closer, but that isn't what MIT was using.
parent is right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#cit... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#cit...
Have you considered adding an Amazon affiliate link to the website for purchasing a Bluetooth heart rate monitor?
Keep your New Year's Resolutions by starting small
I like the "back to basics" approach of these kinds of blog posts. My apps use Resque for fairly basic queuing behavior, and it's always nice to read something like this to refresh my imagination about what's possible in a good queue system, and think outside the box that is my code.

If IronMQ was easier to hot-swap as a Resque back-end (or job processor like Sidekiq, if I understand it correctly) then I'd be more strongly tempted to jump over for some of its smarter queueing features that I haven't gotten around to rolling in to my own Resque setup.
Thanks a lot... if I may ask what is the fair price for that kinda of video?
Clustrix, a distributed SQL DB, launches on AWS
We listened to the community and made our database available on AWS. We're currently working on making it available as standalone outside of AWS as well.
This comment is worth so much more than the article. Thank you.
Facebook's Graph Search Makes It Official: You Are Its Product
Ubuntu lets you do this to (it has for awhile). I've been using Cinnamon which seems less clunky than Unity.
You're going to all sorts of gyrations to avoid the obvious. The fundamental question is still: do you know that you're not allowed?

I agree that I'm darting around, but it's in the interest of truth. Here's the problem: if Aaron was running an automated MAC randomization system for the purpose of personal privacy, he would never have known that his MAC was blocked. The details of his case show that he was aware, but this OP describes a situation in which there is no awareness. If the law is primarily concerned with the knowledge aspect, this can be attended to on a case by case basis. However, much of the discussion has suggested that a MAC is an identifier, and any alteration of this identifier is criminal. This should not be the case.
The part about privacy settings is pretty handwavey. Does anyone know of a link that talks more in detail about how this affects privacy settings?
Fragmenting Online TV Lets Piracy Keep Its Biggest Advantage
I wonder how much it would cost to have them finish my thesis for me?
Thats cool. Its from 2007 though. There is a similar project being worked on by Metaio that uses 3d tracking and runs on most tablet devices:

http://youtu.be/iz4ykMn3UR4?t=26s
Detroit auto show: What will fuel tomorrow's cars and trucks?
Very cool! I've long thought that mobile devices could make biofeedback, and other medical data monitoring, available to the general public.

The phrase "mind control", however, may have negative connotations.
>" There is no way, the gut tells folks, that Apple can continue growing at the current rate. There’s no way! "

Apple's stock price was on a parabolic growth trend. Sure, this time could be different, but history says that such growth is unsustainable. Combine that with the "intangibles" (Jobs' death) and the recent price correction isn't shocking.

Why is every movement in Apple news? Because it's one of the planet's most recognizable brands and biggest companies. Those are things that make news.
I suspect when your near an overflow or underflow situation. If a+b > MAX_INT or MAX_FLOAT then it could end up lower than a
How Would You Do SEO For Anonymous?
I'm not saying to ignore it. I'm saying not to double-count it.

>Swartz' suicide is inductive evidence for the hypothesis "Steve Heymann caused Jonathan James' suicide",

That's actually a separate hypothesis.
Retraction: http://imgur.com/5yVvT

"Statement from The Atlantic

Regarding an advertisement from the Church of Scientology that appeared on TheAtlantic.com on January 14:

We screwed up. It shouldn't have taken a wave of constructive criticism — but it has — to alert us that we've made a mistake, possibly several mistakes. We now realize that as we explored new forms of digital advertising, we failed to update the policies that must govern the decisions we make along the way. It's safe to say that we are thinking a lot more about these policies after running this ad than we did beforehand. In the meantime, we have decided to withdraw the ad until we figure all of this out. We remain committed to and enthusiastic about innovation in digital advertising, but acknowledge—sheepishly—that we got ahead of ourselves. We are sorry, and we're working very hard to put things right."
'Paperless NHS' plan to put patients' medical details online
Plugins are not security holes! Sure they make it slightly more accessible to e.g. steal browser passwords, but you can always inject code into other processes to do such things.
SQL + Hadoop + low-latency = Yes, it is possible
"Firing the prosecutor expresses anger, but it doesn't seek structural change. Lynch mobs don't."

That was pretty much exactly what I said in a comment on that petition the day it was posted on HN. I received multiple downvotes right away, and things didn't balance out until several days later when the comment finally reached 1 point again.

So I agree that the low threshold makes it too easy for a short term "anger wave" to reach the petition threshold. But I also think that by making the threshold too high you lose the possibility of smaller interest groups getting attention.

Politics is already about the big players, and the giant special interest groups with the millions and millions of dollars to play with. There were already very few successful petitions that actually got responses, now there will be even fewer.
I voted, and you can probably guess my answer. Do you update the visualization before checking if the vote is a duplicate?
Tried to install this in Firefox and got confused by the Chrome site I was brought to... I guess this is Chrome only?
Is Paul Buchheit a "founder" of Gmail? Founder seems to imply starting a company, and Gmail was created inside of Google. Seems like "creator of Gmail" would be more correct.
Actually Mogreet offers it - for only $0.01 per send. https://developer.mogreet.com - they do MMS campaigns for the studios, media outlets, retailers etc and just opened their API last year. This is NOT SMS with a link but rather full blown MMS - audio, pictures, slideshows, video etc.
Local police (armed, in normal uniform) hired by school districts to stay on-site and patrol the halls, break up fights, arrest bad kids if necessary. They are pretty typical for inner-city middle and high schools where gang violence is common. I remember having them in both my middle school and high school.
I wanna see Xi'an's levels. I've been to Shanghai and Beijing and they are nowhere near as bad as Xi'an.
I clicked on the link really excited about learning how to control the minds of my friends and family so I could finally get them to do my bidding but was slightly disappointed to learn it only helped me control my own mind.

But seriously, I'm glad someone took the time to take something as beneficial as meditation and make its impact quantifiable. I'm excited to try it out.
Since this is free, I'm left to assume I'll be the product.
I use HelloSign every single day, this is huge for my productivity. Thanks for giving me an hour of my life back each day guys
If I remember my history correctly, assault rifles replaced "battle rifles," which were similarly designed but fired much heavier and more powerful cartridges (and were necessarily larger and heavier). The way I learned it, armies discovered that typical infantry engagements were at distances of hundreds of yards, rather than the mile-long distances guns like the M1 Garand could fire at, and that the weight of the ammunition and recoil of the guns were making soldiers less effective.
This is a fantastic idea burnington! How hard is it to get multiple HR monitors to report to the same device? If it's doable then this style of app would be ideal for elite sports coaches.
As annoying as Xcode can be sometimes, I can't stand AppCode. It doesn't feel like a native app, and it seems very fiddly and even less user friendly than Xcode.
This is something that's been a headache for me for quite some time. So excited about this. Joining the "fucking awesome" camp!
Aaronsw comment on: how did your life change after FU money?
The Power Of The Prosecutor
Perhaps I'm missing something. How is this different from WikiTravel?
typo in "elif f(a)*f(c) &lt; 0:"
In your first example: you are not necessarily "the person most familiar", and I don't think that's the assumption. You are, however, likely (to some degree) to know who should be contacted to resolve the real problem.

In your second: If you changed a value in a configuration file and it triggered an exception somewhere, many people would say you are at fault for not testing your change.

Most places I've worked there's a simple rule: whoever last touched the code that broke is responsible for getting it fixed. That isn't meant to be taken literally in that I must actually make the code change myself. It means that it can be assumed that if I'm touching some code, I'd better be familiar with the code I'm touching. If that means I delegate the fix to the original author, then great: It's still getting fixed. If I can delegate to someone who's better suited to make the code change, that's OK too. If not, I make the fix. In any case, If I'm changing a line of code, you can assume that I'll know what action to take if that change breaks something. If I don't, I shouldn't be allowed to make the change in the first place.
Dogfooding - How Atlassian uses their own tools
MMS APIs are here - only $0.01 per send.  No more SMS + link
This whole post is based on the assumption that "Splout SQL" is something "novel" and "necessary". To me these are not clear, though.

I have prototyped some Big Data systems in the past months where we use Sqoop for exporting Hadoop to proprietary SQL databases. So far, so good. I wonder what are the real advantages of using Splout SQL in such cases.
And a hat tip to you for sharing this poetry, which so perfectly expresses the feelings some of us have reading about Aaron's life, and seeing his smile in photos.
You might want to make the newsletter subscription link better visible on your landing page. Took me a few seconds to figure out the first paragraph was a clickable link.
Quite so! As a beast of just such a color, I love nibs. Huge timesaver, especially when configuring custom buttons with different image and label alignments.