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The motivation to ship early and often is to obtain feedback on the product. Of course, such feedback is extremely valuable, but it can also come at a cost. IMO, whether or not it is a good idea to ship early and often depends on the "cost" of obtaining feedback.

For example, say you are developing a web-app for a sizable customer base and it is easy to release intermediate releases and put it in front of a small fraction of your potential customer base and obtain instant feedback. In this scenario, your "cost" of obtaining feedback is negligible and I think it makes all kinds of sense to ship early and often.

However, consider another scenario (one that I am more familiar with). You are developing software for a medical device, perhaps in a surgical setting. Your chances to test this software with actual customers (e.g. surgeons operating on live patients) are extremely limited and costly to obtain. Not only that, but surgeons (and doctors in general) have a low tolerance for time wasting and may very well lose confidence in a product that is not thoroughly tested. The confidence of your early-adopter surgeons, often key opinion leaders (KOLs), in your target market is something you cannot afford to lose. In this scenario, cost of obtaining feedback is staggering and shipping early and often, to real-world customers, is almost impossible and wholly unadvisable. I still recommend you iterate and test often in this scenario, but it must happen internally.
Stephen Fry should speak for himself. People can have very good reasons to want to die. Reasons that are so good that, besides outweighing the value that their life has to them, still have enough oomph to carry one over the high doorstep of fear and pain that comes with taking one's own life.

Life is not infinitely valuable. Its goods can be outweighed by bads. People who really just want to go should be respected and we should help them get out of here.
One of my cats has actually done this a couple of times. He walks along the ledge around the bathtub and squeezes past the shower handle, forcing it away from the wall and turning on the water. It's a problem that seems to have solved itself, because it scares the shit out of him and he gets wet.
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Without reading this first, I wrote almost the exact same thing, just worded differently. Needless to say that I completely agree :)
This is an elegant way to crowdfund open-source software. Nice idea.
Am I bored with it?
It's a Parrot ArDrone quadrotor. The frame is made of foam which encloses the rotors and the motors automatically cut off if they sense the blades are obstructed.

Being hit by one is like being bumped with a bit of polystyrene.
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How much does it affect battery life ?

I would imagine 2% extra CPU plus frequent network connections would add up to a lot of extra battery drain.
If wages fall, particularly if we remove minimum wage, the required tax rate to support the system will go up, as will the break-even point.
With great power comes great responsibility. Power is entrusted, not entitled.

I really hope no one makes this coke-snorter his role model.
Thanks for the correction. Must be more careful next time.
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I voted yes, although it's a qualified yes. If we had a large and passionate user base AND positive cash flow I would attempt to go without selling.

If we had only so many users or we couldn't find a way to reasonably monetize our product, I'd completely feel comfortable leaving Page and Brin holding the bag.
It is a robot, just not a quadrupedal robot.
It's not concurrent either. It's about asynchronous. Tasks that don't finish before another one starts and runs.

Why would you want this? From the website:
* Improved program structure.
* More readable code.
* Increased programmer productivity.
You don't have to keep money in multiple countries, just be able to receive SWIFT and/or IBAN transfers.

Many banks in European countries don't charge anything for receiving any wires, including SWIFT, only sending them.

(the $15 fee is just for receiving any wire transfer, and is independent of the standard SWIFT fees)
Yes, of course.

Ever hear a movie described as "the kind of movie you get to make after winning an Oscar"?[1]

There are some movies - special movies - that are the kind of movies directors get to make only after they've made a successful movie.

Start-ups seem a lot like that.

[1] That was Todd McCarthy, writing for Variety, about the Coen brothers's movie A Serious Man.
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That sounds almost exactly like the LoU model.

One good thing there is that they explicitly limit how many items you can use, and you can earn the items in game. Still, anyone trying to rush the start of the game probably wants to use them. Sometimes I fantasize about blowing forty bucks on that. I think I've been skinner boxed.
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I would have liked a much more significant fine, but it's better than nothing.
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Stripe is YC too.
Seconded. It sounds like you could probably get a higher salary if that's what you're after. But it almost always comes at a cost. Free time. Dating. Kids. Time. Geography. Less interesting work.

Switching positions to more powerful/money takes time, but if you make that the center goal of your life, you will be able to achieve it in time. But you have to seriously stop and think if that is what you want out of life. (And maybe you do - that's okay).

Personally, I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I may be smart-ish, but I fiercely guard against making work sacrifices for: free time, S/O, kids, time, geography.

Therefore, my peers will probably excel beyond me.
From 1998 to 2000 I worked at a startup where the IT staff all obsessively played Age of Empires. There were two ways of playing - RM (random map, regular match) which most people played and DM (death match) which is what we usually played.

We got to be pretty good as a team, but were never consistently as good as the masters of AOE DM, Team Sudden Death ( http://web.archive.org/web/20000816002743/http://www.laseref... ). In a 2-on-2 or 3-on-3 against them, they would almost always beat us.

One of the rumours that we heard at the time was that some of the children of one of the emirs in the UAE were crazy about Age of Empires, particularly DM mode. We heard a story that they had flown one or more SD members to the UAE for a week or so to teach them how to be master DM players. We heard that SD got very well paid for this tutorial.
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dclowd's point was that no sex was had to conceive Jesus, which is correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception#Virginal...
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This one homeless guy came up to me the other day, and he was asking me for money. I was about to give it to him, and then I thought, ‘He’s just gonna use it on drugs or alcohol.’ And then I thought, ‘That’s what I’m gonna use it on. Who am I to judge the guy, really?’ -Greg Giraldo

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/xo5zry/stand-up-gre...
Hmm, difficult question. In the US there are some groups doing very advanced work with implants to restore limb or prosthesis control, and there are some very impressive movies of monkey's controlling robotic arms. But invasive (i.e. with implants) work is not really my thing. And in these studies, often the monkey is the one doing the learning — it is not the device that adapts to the user.

For non-invase (i.e. EEG measured from outside the body) EEG I think that is still far off. The problem is that the signals are measured from a distance, and that it is very hard isolate signals from a precise region in the brain which is needed for accurate control.

I typically express the performance of these brain-computer interfaces in bits/minute. Keyboard gets roughly around 300 bits/min, brain-computer interfaces 2-20 bits/min. I would not know the bandwidth (and latency) requirements for reliable prosthesis control, but that would probably depend on intended use of the prosthesis. But then again, not all the actuators need to be controlled individually; maybe it is feasible with a smart controller and a forgiving application. And of course usability plays a major role; I cannot imagine controlling a prosthesis using the keyboard, although the information throughput might be sufficient :).
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This would change my work from a hobby to being a business. If someone pays for a ticket, the roles change a bit. The person who pays will expect something from you. I personally would not do that. If you like what I do, send me a beer afterwards. Or a gittip or a flattr. But don't pay me money.
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I'm assuming you've seen: https://www.bountysource.com
Sounds like Tribal Wars. Fun game, but after the first couple villages requires quite the increasing time commitment.
I completely agree with you, but you assume that this device has capabilities that it doesn't. I wish I could edit my previous post, as I feel like it would be helpful to address at the top, but this will have to do.

Whistle Tracks:

Type of Activity
Duration of Activity
Whether or not the user holding the iPhone w/ Whistle app is near their dog wearing the Whistle (I'm assuming that's how it tracks who the dog is with)

Whistle Does Not Track:

Speed of activity
Distance of activity
Calories burned
Type of Sleep
etc. etc.

(getting this from the website)

So unless you're simply tracking "My dog ran for 2 hours at 3pm" in a spreadsheet, I don't see how this helps you. All those nice little statistics people track using a Fitbit or other tools are not provided here.

So to re-iterate (and not harping on you bradleyland, just for the benefit of the majority): If you are a attentive and interested dog owner you probably already know the activity and duration of your pet. Intensity of said activity would be quite useful, no doubt. But that is not provided by Whistle. Location of said activity would be useful. But that is not provided by Whistle. Distance traveled during said activity would be useful. But that is not provided by Whistle.

If there was, say, a Whistle with GPS, accelerometer, heart beat monitor, etc. (possibly something that measures skin excretions?) it would be fairly useful. This is not that device.

edit: Downvote brigade is out today! I would appreciate it if you would let me know how I am wrong instead of simply voting me down. At the very least it prevents me from looking like an idiot and allows me to retract/modify my statements

edit edit: On further reflection, this could create some false data. A dog chasing it's tail for 2 hours in a kennel could be recorded as meaningful exercise ("running for 2 hours" according to the Whistle), leading you to make decisions off bad data ("I have no idea why she is so hyperactive, she get's plenty of excercise!"). Maybe. Just a thought.

edit edit edit: A nice analogy... Whistle is the Moves app for Dogs. Except it costs $100 more and requires extra hardware.
My real answer is: It depends. But the idea is interesting.
Nice song also.
Synergy does this. You buy votes with a donation and then you apply the votes to issues in the issue tracker. They recently fixed a bug that had been there for a long time but the devs thought wasn't important until a lot of people started voting for it with their dollars.

It seems that this might encourage developers to leave bugs outstanding or introduce new ones as a way to generate revenue though, unless a similar scheme is used to fund 'new features' and not just bugs.
What makes your life worth more than other peoples?
OK, but I think they should have written it in Go.
This makes total sense! Manually syncing is a good idea.

We need to make sure we have reasonable defaults in place, though, and so far, we've had no issues from our beta testers.
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> No it doesn't, you can't request or pin a specific version. You just get whatever is in HEAD when you pull.

You get the dependency at a version control level, at a known-good version (because you pulled from the master branch) at the time you pulled, and after that it's up to you to update it.
I actually turned on my speakers to see if there was any midi in the background. Kind of a let down ;)
looking forward to answering any questions :)
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He’s not talking about suicide in general, but suicide resultant from a particular kind of depression.
Can't find the original thread, but you'll find [1] interesting.

1: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-January/002...
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This is just cruel. Just take your dog(s) for a run once or twice a day.
For me it is pretty dark even imagining being able to just ignore the needs of others.
We don't have the full interview here for context, so I don't think either of us should be absolute on this, but I would guess that he's specifically speaking within the bounds of suicide rooted in mental illness. In fact, I would place very good odds that Stephen Fry would highlight the issues inherent in assisted suicide but still support it on the whole.
Seriously? That's just wow.
Well, yes, actually I'm building http://issuehunter.co at TechPeaks[1].

What do you think about it? Are you using it?

[1] http://techpeaks.eu
That reminds me of the time my cousin lost his car keys. Luckily his parents had an extra set, so he got new copies made, and went on his merry way. A year later, I found the old set under the backseat of my car. Presumably they fell out of his pocket while he was riding with me, and got lodged up under the seat somehow.

Soooo... what to do with an extra set of keys to your buddy's car? Muwahahahaha... gaslight[1] him, of course! So me and a couple of other buddies would randomly drive to where he worked, and take his truck and do little things... change the direction it was facing, or move it about 3 spots over in the parking lot, or fiddle with the presets on his radio.

For like a month, he was spazzing out over this, while we all did our level best to keep a straight face when we were with him. He was convinced it was his brother messing with him for quite a while. Needless to say, he was a bit pissed when we finally broke down and told him and gave him his keys back. But man, what a laugh riot for a time...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Looks very nice, but there's no mention of what to me is the #1 requirement for a Reader replacement: the ability to export your data. Ideally, the ability to export your data in the same format that Reader does, given that all the apps pitching to replace Reader can import that.

This isn't specific to Yoleo; nobody seems to be implementing this, and it doesn't show up on the comparison summaries that pop up here on HN from time to time. There's no way all the current contenders are going to last; why isn't everyone jittery?
That one chapter is the most readable and concise description I've ever seen capturing all the problems of using TCP over high latency connections. My post title calls out "fast" mobile networks because the connection "speed" is always expressed in terms of bandwidth in all carrier marketing. Reading that page tells you why that's a mostly meaningless number without also knowing the RTT (connection latency) for that same network in typical conditions.
> In your hypothetical, the rapist would be prosecuted for rape and you would be prosecuted for assault.

Legal issues haven't been part of the discussion, we're talking morals/ethics. Would you judge me for doing that?

> Trying to define a moral scale of abuse based on the response of the abused

I'm not talking about basing it on the response, I'm talking about doing it based on the way it is carried out.

If an adult sets out to have consensual sex with another adult, and the other adult shows they don't want to do it (maybe at first contact, or maybe when they're both naked and just about to get started, maybe even after they just had sex already and one wants to go again) then that adult can chose to continue (rape) or stop (not rape).

I doubt (though fuck knows, could be wrong) that any adult has ever set out to rape ("rape" as in, with physical force, blackmail, etc. rather than "rape" as in statutory) a child and then discovered that the child enjoyed it afterwards. But there are definitely cases of adults starting consensual relationships with children - maybe if those relationships didn't go well they would then move onto rape, or maybe they would pull back like any normal person would in a comparable adult/adult situation.

It's all about intent of the abuser, not response of the abused.
really depends on sooo many factors...
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Amen. If you're taking care of your dogs already, you don't need this, unless you want another status symbol to go with your hypo-allergenic mini-poodle. (Or schnoodle.)
My company isn't really a startup (it turned ten years old one week ago). However I'd happily sell it for 5x its worth, because I could immediately retire :)
I'm really shocked that whistle.com was available or attainable.
Curious, why would you think so?
Killing a person is murder, a crime because someone who arguably did not want their life cut short is now dead. But if the killer and the "victim" are the same person, no crime has been committed because the underlying argument for why murder is a crime no longer holds. You can't be both the perpetrator and victim of a crime.

The same is for a kid who takes and sends pictures of him/herself. Child pornography is a crime to prevent bad people from taking advantage of kids and documenting it for whatever sick reasons they have. But a kid can't be both the perpetrator and victim of that crime.

In normal situations when you run into such a logical fallacy you have to discard it. But this is the law we're talking about and there's no such need. So yes kids can get prosecuted even though no crime has taken place. It's a symptom of people doing their jobs exactly by the book with no thought whatsoever for if it's the actual, correct thing to do. It's too bad.
This question reminds me of the Simpsons, where Bill Gates and his thugs "bought out" Homer Simpson's computer company.

"Alright, 'BUY HIM OUT' boys!". A minute later only debris remains...
Fry said that in a very specific context, you shouldn't assume he meant it as an absolute statement.
Well done on getting this far with your product!

Does the plane allow for a ballistic parachute to be fitted? Such a light aircraft seems like the ideal candidate for this kind of device, and it would help ameliorate fears about safety in such a (relatively) budget machine.

Also, your site seems to be a little slow at the moment. If this makes it to the front page or HN (or http://reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney) it would be a shame for people to find it unresponsive or down - might be worth investing in a faster server, CDN etc...
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That's a bit of a tricky situation though:

* Part of how the original Mysql made money was by saying "ah, this is GPL'ed code, but if you'd like to include it in a proprietary work, we can sell you a license for that, since we own the copyright to the whole thing". He can't do that again.

* I'm not sure how often you can burn your bridges like that and have people happy about it.
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I'd like to know more about the security measures you guys take. I've been working on a personal project, and haven't found any good guides to securing bitcoin transactions and managing private keys properly (assuming you host the bitcoin client on some server somewhere).
It could be 5x of the valuation set at the last funding round, but I agree it's unclear what the OP meant.
This may be true. But there are also be factors that may cause people to increase their income. Perhaps the extra money lets them invest in education (everything from skills training to a university degree), relocate to somewhere with a better market for the skills they have, or start a business using the basic income as their bootstrapping fund.

It's hard to say how things will balance out. That's why I'm in favour of some sort of systematic test of the concept.
If your financial institution does not yet offer the service, or if you don't bank online... You will be required to register and provide your banking information in order for the money to be deposited into your bank account. The deposit usually takes 4 - 6 business days to process and a $4.00 fee will be deducted from the deposit amount.

Not really compatible.
The video is of the band OK Go.
"Typically people who live in mud huts with thatched roofs – and uses a system called M-Pesa, run by Vodafone , to transfer money to their cell phones."

People in mud huts have cell phones?
same here, I just heard some audio

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RSA Security and John Hopkins have been able to crack an RFID keyfob in 15 minutes [0] back in 2005. Rumor had it that later on it was something like 30 seconds to crack a Ford key. 40-bit RFID keyspace--combine that with 2013-era technology and this is absolutely no surprise.

http://www.jhu.edu/news/home05/jan05/rfid.html
This is the sort of thing we're working on at Vidpresso. If this impresses you, and you want to build stuff like this... we should be friends. Contact info is in my profile.
this.

I had a horrible experience with them charging me when I signed up for a free service... took forever for them to get back to me, couldn't get the service to work often (not a coverage problem, they set something wrong on my account).. overall, not a well run business.

Good premise.. they just really need to iron out some things first in my opinion.
Thanks for sharing. It's good to know that there is (probably) at least some discussion about this stuff. If anything, maybe you could give them a little nudge in the direction of releasing a detailed spec (and a reference implementation) of the new Hangout protocol? :-)
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For a second I thought you were being snarky about Go. Then the penny dropped.
Plenty of acquisitions follow that logic. If you have a large profitable business and a small competitor comes forward with a new business model that might someday be highly disruptive of yours then you try and quantify that risk and compare that potential future loss against the cost of acquiring that small competitor now.

Whether you kill the new product after acquisition or integrate it or keep working on it in house is just another business decision. If the old model is much more profitable per user than the new then it may make good sense to buy and shut down a few upstarts just to extend the lifetime of your highly profitable existing business.

I don't know anyone who considers this kind of thing as their primary exit strategy but in my experience it's common for founders to consider that "threaten a big corps market enough that they acquire you to shut it down" is at least a possibility.

I think it's fairly obvious that a lot of what get presented as an "acqui-hire" is actually mostly based on this evaluation of the market. But it's bad PR to admit you are attempting to create/protect a "monopoly".
Um, maybe this?

https://www.google.com/search?q=car+key+duplicator+alibaba

:-)
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