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What is the thrust it generates, anyway? The article and the NASA homepage didn't state a value
Windows Phone does this well with trial mode, you download the full app but it has a trial switch that the dev can choose to limit features. If you then buy it, the switch reverts, you don't need to download again. Works well for games especially
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I find it quite funny that their FAQ says about showing the temperature in Celcius, but not "Is there an Android version coming?".

So... if you're an android developer, you know what product I want you to clone?
How a US Raised Youngster’s Startup is Trying to Solve Water Crisis in Hubli
> As a sidenote, I'm really struggling to compute how AppGratis has 45 members of staff - whichever way I look at it (developers, sales, accounts) I can't see them needing more than 10.

Care to share your back of the envelope calculations on this...?
Maybe the STEM-fixation isn't because those "newer" academic branches are just "in" but because they get stuff done the "older" ones didn't in hundrets of years.

I don't wanna know how much brain power is burned for no good in other academic fields...

(Yes there is also burnd much of in the STEM fields, but somehow they still get stuff done)
So, when is Yahoo! buying it? How much the deal?
> Sorry, but not being a woman, how would you know whether or not men are standing in the way?

That viewpoint is innately sexist. It essentially says only women can interpret women's experiences. If that were true (it's not) then by the same rationale only men can interpret men's experiences, which means women have no right to complain about men's motivations or behavior. So think before you post.

Women spend much of their time freely interpreting men's behavior, for example whether it's acceptable or not as though only a woman's perspective on men's behavior has validity, but when a man does the same thing, it's a sexist offense.

> Your premise rests on the idea that in order to get along with men, women must behave like men ...

Locate where I said or implied this. To get along with men, women must behave like people first and foremost (as do men). Your remarks continue the currently fashionable trend of reinterpreting everything as a gender issue. But in fact, much of human experience is not affected by gender -- certainly not technical or scientific activities, the present context. Good code, good mathematics, good scientific research, has no gender.

> ... in a system originally designed by and for men.

Living in the past will get you nowhere. Humans evolved in a world most recently shaped by and for prehuman simians. Did that hinder us? Not at all -- we reshaped the world to suit our needs. Now reshape yours.

> Starting your own business is a non-answer ...

Okay, I get it -- you really, really want to remain a victim. If you can't blame men for your problems, there are no other options. How do you think creative men and women deal with situations they find intolerable? Steve Wozniak repeatedly petitioned his managers at Hewlett-Packard to accept and produce his design for a personal computer, but failing at this, he left the company and started his own.

Marissa Mayer has a similar background -- Mayer joined Google in 1999 as employee number 20 and was the company's first female engineer. She eventually left Google and is now the CEO of Yahoo. Imagine how far she would have gotten by instead complaining about the very real sexism at Google and elsewhere.

Early in life, men learn that they have to build something positive, that to perpetually complain about how the world is arranged is a dead end. Many women learn this too, but it's voluntary.

> Starting your own business is a non-answer— you're again playing the "have you tried acting like a man" card.

Ah, so, based on the above quote, you believe than only men can start businesses. If I said that, you would have the right to call it a sexist and outrageous claim.

I wonder if you even know how you sound.
Does PageRank mean anything?

HN apparently has a PR of only 6, while for example my blog, which doesn't get a lot of traffic, has a PR of 5 (and even 5h on some pages).

PageRank used to be talked about a lot and now it seems it's not even mentioned; is it still relevant?
2 pop ups in 3 seconds. Monsanto is evil everyone gets it. Not to mention the recent political scandal... but I'm not reading the article. Pop-ups are equally evil.
It is helpful. Probably force them to have at least one real programmer and thus save them from google indexing their private data or some other epic fail like that.
I like it a lot. I suspect you'll need to come up with a self-install version to get into larger accounts like ours, but it's very nice.
There's two separate issues here, the way Apple handled the rejection, and the policy that led to the rejection.

While Apple handled it badly, Appgratis was breaking the rules and deserved like many other apps to be pulled. The real issue was the paid promotion which Apple is trying to stamp out.
This is the really important takeaway of this piece:

"AT&T just admitted that they'll offer better service if there's real competition, so how do we make sure there's real competition?"

AT&T and the others have been claiming for years that they are doing the best they can and raking in huge profits; this kind of abrupt turnaround just shows what a lie that was.
A simple palette application that is written in Tornado and Pillow
My experience with EA's customer support has actually been rather good. I pretty stupidly bought Battlefield 3 Premium, thinking it included a copy of the actual game (I already owned it on the 360 and was switching to the PC). When I realised it didn't and that I'd need to shell out another £30, I sent EA a grovelling email asking for a refund.

They refunded me, no questions asked, within the day. I've had a similar issue with Steam in the past, and they flat out refused to refund me for a mistaken purchase.

I suspect that EA customer support, for many people, is perfectly decent. You only ever hear about the complaints because people who are satisfied don't make a big fuss of it.
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Or, in my case, 10Mb down and 55Mb up. It's like reverse Comcast.
In fact Plan9's sam and acme claimed the use of mouse was indeed faster based on studies. See http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/
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Definitely back of a cigaratte packet. But they're not writing the apps so it's just a front end, website and some discovery code - presumably the infrastructure is cloud managed...

Maybe if I'm a little more realistic: 5 developers, 5 sales people, 3 managers, 3 to configure / manage the infrastructure, 2 to manage admin and accounts. So 18 people ? Struggling to get to 45...

These free app apps sound a bit like a Bubble - aren't they the Groupon, Living Social, etc. of the day ?

EDIT: For translating the languages everyday are we really saying they would be full time members of AppGratis staff - wouldn't this be outsourced somewhere.
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Am I the only one who is completely underwhelmed by this one?

I mean, yeah, the concept is cool if you hear about it, very modern art. But in effect it's just a comic strip story that is very inconvenient to read. And the only thing that makes it special is exactly this inconvenience?

Thanks, but checking back every hour or writing a script in order to see what happens to two stick figures that were (at the time I first saw it) just sitting there and doing nothing is not worth my... time.
Hello. I recently finished my thesis for my MS CS degree. My thesis is about automatic summarization. It undergoes research, defense, and I think its result is good enough for me. It uses statistical approach and machine learning. My main issue about it is not the summarization part, but the text extraction part. I can't seem to extract article in a web page well enough. I'm using boilerpipe (https://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/) for it. It can do most tricks, but it's not that good for me. May I ask how you extract the main article in the page?

Here's a preview of mine (http://www.textteaser.com/ui/article?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.p...). Go to its home page to read more news. It caters Philippine news and will soon enters alpha stage. I'm planning to open up the API or open source it. HN, which is better? The API is ready, registration is the only thing that it lacks.

You can try the API here:
http://api.textteaser.com/api/?url=http://www.theverge.com/2...

Just replace the url parameter with the URL of what you want to summarize. Some URLs are not tested yet, and may produce errors. :)
Billion is just an example of something meaningful, and they'd get it back upon completion. If not, the amount should be used to complete the network for them and then the government would own the network or auction it off.

So the amount should be what it costs to build the network for the location.
The key difference is that there is no way for Microsoft to revoke an application from a users pc (pre app store I mean)
How about creating content in a whole pile of languages every day again and again?
This is just a sick joke, I hope?

These fools should be banned off into an Amish-like community.
When it's not 'too soon', give our most loved movie reviewers in Australia a go: http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/

Can't remember meeting anyone who didn't like or at least appreciate their reviews.
Citation needed. To me, all this semantic web stuff sounds exactly like meta tags in the old days - and the big difference between google vs lycos/yahoo/etc. was that it ignored meta tags completely.
> blogspam

Given his expertise, Schneier acts as an excellent curator/aggregator. Also, by cherry-picking relevant excerpts and framing them with an apt title, the added value is subtle yet significant enough. Here, the focus in his post is markedly different than in Khovanova's.

That's why I follow his RSS feed.
Lose developers?

To who exactly?

Exactly.
At least the Supreme Court is hearing the case. Hope they take the right decision here.

I can't understand how Monsanto can make these claims with a straight face. The guys didn't license the seeds from them.
If much, they could go after whoever sold the seeds to the grain elevator, but that's also quite a stretch.

Also, what happens if some other regular seed shipment is "contaminated" by Monsanto seeds in any way? Is a farmer/buyer supposed to have to pay them for not doing DNA analysis in all seeds? WTF?!
Why not? Aren't rocket-fueled thrusters much heavier due to the weight of the fuel alone?
I'm always underwhelmed by these things because I think they are solving the opposite problem to the one that needs to be solved. The basic premise is that it's possible to pick a collection of important things and put them on one screen. And it's interesting from their example how poor that selection is: there's a huge amount of space wasted on time, there's a specious graph of inbox depth and a useless graph of sent emails.

I believe that rather than gathering information together in one place we are far better served by ambient information (a small example: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from... and my as yet unwritten up ambient weather display). Then information that's useful becomes part of the environment.

So, then I ask myself why this has been upvoted so much. And I think the answer is because it _looks good_. It's all shining and new-car-smell.
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The knowledge you acquire strictly from your course work can be duplicated else where at a much cheaper price. If you don't need someone looking over your shoulder you should have no trouble picking up this knowledge on your own, and for that matter more relevant knowledge.

However, the social knowledge you pick up and the relationships you develop at college (especially if you spend all 4 years at the same university) are what I most value from my college experience. There are other avenues to develop these social skills and build a network, but college offers a great opportunity to do so.
The article didn't mention numbers about the expected thrust of the engines, but it gave some ballpark figures to do estimates with.

The engine fires for three days to set up a mars transfer orbit. Contrast this with the trans-lunar injection with the S-IVB rocket that was used in the Apollo program, which fires for 350 seconds. Mars is a lot farther away than the moon, but this was the only figure I could find with a quick wikipedia search.
Indeed! Allow me to hijack this thread with one more example of a serious bug report that got the silent treatment from Google:

Galaxy Nexus with EMMC chip V3U00M of 08/2012 or 09/2012 (+others) needs fstrim'ing (or mounting with discard option). Android does not do fstrim in Galaxy Nexus, therefore phone becomes unusable after simply using most of the storage, and the user has to root their phone to fix it.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39154
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43081
How does the ability to short protect you? Genuinely curious, I don't know anything about markets beyond traditional buy and sell.
FWIW, I upvoted you back into the black, since I thought your intention was clear. Lots of people seem to make this mistake, that somehow the first amendment means that private companies aren't allowed to censor you.
> In other words, "have you tried being a man?"

I sometimes wonder why people are so desperate to craft a position that the other person has never taken. Want to constructively discuss issues? Limit yourself to thing the other person has actually said.

My statement is that men have chosen a more effective way to deal with erosive influences, and it's a behavior that women can and should adopt -- not by imitating men, but by adopting a more effective approach to negative influences. There's no gender dimension to it.

If I had said that gerbils have a more effective adaptation, would you have the right to ask, "So you want everyone to become a gerbil?"

> And people can't just rewire their brains because a man on the Internet says their problems are all in their head.

You need to stop inventing imaginary positions for other people. I never said or implied what you claim. My remarks address, not the original influences, but constructive ways to deal with them.

> In other words, "have you tried being a man?"

Have you tried being a person?
I love this app! I remember seeing it when it first came out, do you guys support other iPhones now?
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You should try diffbot. They use a vision based method to extract text from webpages. The tool looks pretty polished and seems to work rather well.
I mean paywalled in the sense of you pay up front for access to something without a good way to determine the quality of what you'll get. When I buy a book, I have extensive reviews, recommendations, and I can go to a store and flip through the pages to see if I will benefit from it. Schools tend to advertise very much towards what kind of quality education you'll get, and accreditation is in some ways a guarantee of that. I just really dislike that model of monetization.

My focus on monetization isn't that "any motive to make money instantly undermines the effort." It's that in this very specific case, with this specific target audience, it seems extremely suspect.

Sure there is room for both, and I don't dispute that. I was pointing out that if we're going to ask people to pay for this service, especially schools that will use tax money, that it should be made very clear what benefits it has over what is already available for free.
"Protecting a building that has a lifespan of less than 100 years against an event with a probability of occurring between .005 to .002 (the 200-year to 500-year event) is a hard sell."

It is not only protecting the building; it also protects those living in them.

Also, you should use 'expected damage done', not 'life expectancy of hardware' as your metric. Rebuilding your house may cost you a year of productivity. Rebuilding a hospital or factory will easily take more.
I hate wiping my ass, and I'm not a fan of the water things (bidet). I want my toilet to automatically fold up some tp and wipe my ass.
If the pop-ups infect your computer and write spurious code into all your saved work thereby taking ownership of them and then sue your sorry arse into the ground for theft.. then yes, pop-ups are equally evil.
Monsanto made the roundup-ready soybeans, which took millions to develop. If the farmer doesn't want to be sued, he could use non-roundup-ready soybeans.

Or, presumably, he can wait till the original patent expires, then he can use the roundup-ready soybeans freely.

I'm all for calling out unethical companies and IP trolls, but unless companies get to protect real IP that they develop themselves, what's the point in developing anything.
I've got an IOException while trying to summarize http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/04/running-software-team...
And a different one for http://googleblog.blogspot.com
I guess you should put more effort in your html parser. Try Apache Tika, perhaps.
I think my favorite example of "useful information now" is Google Now.

I love how when I search for a place on Google Maps, my phone or tablet assumes I want to go there soon and gives me a driving time estimate and an option to start navigation.

I also find it very useful when my web searches and linked accounts are taken in context: searching for a flight brings up the flight details on the day of the flight, and Google Now automatically pulls up my daily upcoming events so I don't forget.
Yeah. I tried it. It's good! The problem is it's not free. Although it's cheap, I still don't have that money/revenue to pay for it. The free tier is not that much. If I have the money, I'll definitely change it to Diffbot. :)
Great, please post about it or contact me when you do
You run dashing yourself.
Most large companies produce lots of things of varying quality. It gets even murkier when those things are from acquired companies or from subcontractors (or sub-^n-contractors).
Cool project! This can be integrated to many services including image counter-theft measurements
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Well maybe you would think again.

Where on Android you can fix something by reading XDA, installing CM or other custom build, change the application (thanks, Intents!), or just patch the source code, on WP8 if something doesn't work or just doesn't present (like VPN, call log grouping or even call duration info!) all you can do is just buy another drink.
I really like this.

Here's an example of one of PG's essays run through the algorithm: [http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html]

The most important thing to understand about paths out of the initial idea is the meta-fact that these are hard to see. Empirically, the way to have good startup ideas is to become the sort of person who has them. If you know a lot about programming and you start learning about some other field, you'll probably see problems that software could solve. Some of the most valuable new ideas take root first among people in their teens and early twenties. So if you're a young founder (under 23 say), are there things you and your friends would like to do that current technology won't let you. But there may still be money to be made from something like journalism. Similarly, since the most successful startups generally ride some wave bigger than themselves, it could be a good trick to look for waves and ask how one could benefit from them.

If you ran examples of PG's essays through this, people would see the immediate benefit.
This does seem to be a pretty decent area to provide intellectual property-based incentives for. The fundamental innovation here is intellectual -- it's the engineering of a new genetic code.

All of us are familiar with something similar -- engineering of new computer code.

It is often granted that computer code provides unique benefits worth protecting. I can certainly see why genetic engineering deserves similar protections.

That said, this is a fairly complicated piece of case law and I could definitely see how it could fall through the cracks in naively written legislation.
I like your UI. If you change anything, keep this page flow and don't put much else on the page. Check out medium.com for readable font inspiration.

Awesome work!
Are we really going to enter an era of "seed piracy"? And not because farmers everywhere would intentionally steal Monsanto's seeds, but because the laws would change in such a way that almost everyone else' seeds would be considered "pirated" versions of Monsanto's seeds.

Maybe we'll even get some kind of seed DMCA in the future. If Monsanto accuses someone of pirating, the government would just seize those crops. No trial necessary.
Without this, your product is doomed to fail
If you are after something similar to run on a TV without having to buy an TV + Apple TV + iOS Device - the guys over at Librato [1] have a post about how they turned a $50 Android mini PC into their office dashboard

1. http://blog.librato.com/posts/2013/03/how-50-can-turn-your-t...

2. http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/
ah, it won't work directly for webpages (html). the url is expected to be that of a RSS/Atom feed. for the html web pages, copy pasting the text to the textarea works.

Will try to add url content type detection in the next cut and summarizing non-feed url's next up
Sure there are other options but I'd rather not have accounts all over the place, and I like Linode.

Linode's problem with $10 accounts is not with customers like you who are paying them decent money otherwise - it's with customers who would sign up for $10, break things and expect $50 a month worth of support on an ongoing basis.

Most customers looking for a cheap VPS (to learn on, to experiment etc) are not going to be profitable unless you provide virtually no support, so by slicing off that part of the market they can offer a uniform level of service without compromising their profitability.
About Windows Phone 8 there are "suggestions" at http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-sugg...
Thanks! We support the iPhone 3GS and newer.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but public utilities are often seen as the bad guys. Cries of "socialism" often deter anyone from championing a public good, even if it actually goes further toward creating a robust competitive economy.
The situation is very special in capital intensive industries like this. When you have to invest and thus borrow huge sums of money to create a business everyone involved is keenly aware that competition can put the entire investment at risk. Many times in the past firms and whole industries have gone bankrupt (e.g. cars, airplanes, steel).

This is why capital intensive industries typically are dominated by a small number, often just one, of big firms. This has been well studied in a branch of economics called Industrial Organization.

A standard reference is Sutton's "Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration" (2007)
http://www.amazon.com/Sunk-Costs-Market-Structure-Concentrat...
I agree 100%. The first step is to actually GET specs/requirements in the first place, which I have found to be sadly lacking in many cases.
Yes. There's a multi-billion-$ startup to be created that can deliver 'relevance' like that.
> git is only used by expert users

1 235 026 expert users, my eye