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This is one of those projects that probably made it really easy to keep working and get up in the morning to work on. Amazing product and very clean/stylish. Definitely one of the most exciting YC companies. The evolution pictures on their site really look great. Clearly one of the most exciting wearable projects out there.
funny they hid this news, not posting it on their SVN blog.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3391-launch-basecamp-breeze-t...
i very much agree, i played an old web-game back in college called OGame that came out before the "pay to win" model, but the basic premise was the same, the more you login the better you do. and what's best was you had to protect your stuff ( planets/fleets ) 24/7 from people from all different time zones.. it very much became an addiction...
Citation needed. Also, in the Middle Ages, weddings were seen as business arrangements between families. Such arrangements could be made revolving very young children. Matilda was betrothed to Henry V when she was an infant and the two married when she was 12, so clearly, society didn’t feel one had to be 18 to marry.
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For as long as they agreed to do so. They shouldn't have promised what they couldn't deliver. It's wrong when ISPs do it ("unlimited!") and it's just as wrong when small "fun" tech companies to it.
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Guild Wars 2 is a game that charges for basically cosmetic items. You cannot buy better weapons or better armor, but you can buy costumes that make your armor look cool, or you can buy little things like 2x XP potions (30 minute limit). There is a way to make a game in which in-game purchases don't distort the game mechanics but that people are still interested in.

I believe Team Fortress 2 does something similar, selling hats and such.
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So them saving users a Google Search for the alternatives was all it took to clear them? Damn, if only big G had known, they could have saved themselves a lot of flak.

(Actually, it wouldn't have mattered. Don't kid yourself.)
english wikipedia is very comprehensive and up-to-date with even today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Turkey
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"... I can’t really complain about the hours of entertainment I’ve gotten in exchange."

"Yet I still can’t help but cringe as I run into all the ways the game is intentionally crippled to get you to pay up, and the way its Pavlovian triggers to come back for more operate on fear."

So, sir, you like war games. You observe that this game makes you cringe, and is designed entirely to make you pay up through the experience of fear. Despite this you are willing to pay $4.99 "largely as a token of appreciation to the game’s makers".

Game companies that make games that don't intend to extort money out of you are laying people off left and right, and here you are "appreciating" developers that make you cringe. This makes me feel mad and sad.

If you are willing to pay $4.99 for a game that makes you cringe, might you be willing to pay $5.99 or even $39.99 for a game designed to make you experience joy?

The classic Master of Orion I&II are available for $5.99 from GoG. If you demand a modern experience, the latest XCOM is a bargain at $39.99 on Steam. The original XCOM is $4.99, also on Steam.
Works great on Linux, but that feature is totally absent on OS X.

I'm using this add-on in the meantime, but it has other issues: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-lion-full...
Relevant source article:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/12/12/amazon_s_zero...
The courts can and often do pierce the veil of sham LLCs like this. The LLCs main use (still bad), is that if LLC1 runs up a debt of a billion dollars, LLC2 might be protected from it.
I'm sure we'll come full circle on this.
There was a very clear break between the short lived, peaceful (if hostile) and completely legitimate march following the shooting - and then the full-on rioting that followed.

That said, looking at kweks' photos, it seems there could be a similar thing going on in Istanbul: In the daytime, the protest looks great, peaceful and calm, but at night, they are charging the police in a stolen excavator? The police is definitely wrong to fire CS canisters at head level, but if you're charging against the police in a stole excavator, you've lost the high ground.
It definitely does not play well with Vimperator (firefox), which is unsurprising.

Looking forward to trying this out though.
Well, to be fair, they have turned a profit far more often than not. They lost money in Q3 2013 (and in 2013 over all). But Q4 2013, and Q1 2014 have since been profitable for them. Also their expenditures seem to be paying off, as they had a 27.1% growth in revenue 2012 to 2013, and predict the same level in 2014.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/earnings/e...
This post, and the comments, indicate this number may have been roughly accurate for Britain/ Northwest Europe, but not for the Mediterranean: http://womenofhistory.blogspot.com/2007/08/medieval-marriage...

I wonder about the tradeoffs involved here. Tentative hypothesis: in Northern climates, the labor of daughters was more valuable, so fathers kept them around for longer before marrying them off. I'd enjoy an expert monograph on this topic.
For me, it would be a great help if I just got array of message objects. One function call for new features and and thats it.
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I think you’re missing my point: there are millions of teens experimenting on the Internet, stripping and masturbating in front of webcams. The number of people involved with what you describe is orders of magnitude smaller.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume is probably more what you want.
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As an aside, this is why I love HN: the parent said something completely inflammatory (considering the prevalent opinion of society) and instead of immediately attacking and trying to paint him as evil, the default is to ask for sources. On just about any other sites on the internet the parent would have been completely roasted.

I'm not one for requiring a fully cited research paper for random internet debates, and I think the "citation needed" meme is extremely tired and only serves to stifle discussion. But in this case it was totally appropriate and the only way to continue on a discussion like this productively.
I played a web game for a while that was free to play but had a subscription model that gave you features that made management of a large number of assets (villages) easier to do than in the free version.

I played for free for a long time until I ended up with so many resources to manage that I couldn't do it well anymore. I had to pony up the $6/mn to get the advanced features.

The problem with these small transactions is people don't see how much it's costing them. If they priced the game at $20 no one would buy it, but they'll be willing to spend $100 if it's spread out of 100 $1 purchases.
It's not about being "upper class"

> douchebags who don't know their place because they have gotten their hands on a lot of money but none of the cool reflective sense and taste that (presumably) The Atlantic and its intellectual readers possess.

Yes, thats how rich and poor intellectual Atlantic readers feel about rich dbags, be they dbags nouveau riche or paleo riche.
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IIRC, I think there are some weird FCC rules about external synchronization of radio transmitters. Using the clock would be ok, but synchronizing using out-of-band signals is a problem for some reason. (This is hazy, but I remember working around issues synchronizing UHF (915MHz) RFID readers).
Even though the article does not go into a large amount of detail about it, the actual paper [0] does a fairly good job addressing the issue of interference with the signal. I'm still skeptical about the potential for something like this, but it would be a very cool solution to ubiquitous control systems if they can iron out the kinks.

[0] http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/wisee_paper.pdf
This is my main issue. Finding something which works across multiple devices.

One thing which I've found rather irritating with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 is you find a great RSS app like Feed Monster, but then its not available on the WP8 platform. I'm constantly finding good apps for the desktop which are not available on the mobile platform and its incredibly frustrating. Add then you have some great apps like Feedly which are not available yet on WP8 (and probably won't be).

I'm pretty sure I'll be moving back to Android at the end of the summer.
The impression I get is that their own system (Normandy) is running concurrently, and they'll switch seamlessly once Google Reader shuts down.
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I didn't know this data was available! I wish we had the same breadth available through the MBTA.
I'd be interested in using this data to:

- plan travel directions based on past congestion patterns

- pair this with any data found for NY's bus system or taxi system to map out hubs vs destination stations

- examine stations' frequency of repair and see if
congestion at a station correlates with the frequency of repair; try to predict dates of repair

very cool!
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The companies that remind me most of Amazon are General Electric and Honda.

Amazon started with a single complex offering (centralized eCommerce) and from that they famously abstracted and platformized everything about their business: they decentralized their marketplace, they dogfooded their web services to the point that they were able to actually sell their web services, they relentlessly keep decoupling their core.

Honda, and General Electric, too started out with pretty simple value propositions. Honda started by selling piston rings to Toyota, and from there started manufacturing car part after car part until they had enough to create the cars themselves. (And it turned out that when you can manufacture a car yourself from start to finish, you can manufacture a lot of other stuff with the same goods, from drills to radios).

On the other end of the spectrum, General Electric expanded by maintaining otherwise orthogonal SBUs and becoming one of the first companies in the 20th century to really take advantage of cross-branding, figuring out that if a customer liked their lightbulb they'd be okay with using the same company to buy a handheld radio.

(Incidentally, both GE and Honda also profited tremendously from WWII. I hope no tech company happens to profit tremendously from a WWIII, mainly because I hope there is no WWIII.)
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Indeed. Lisp is a hack that got totally out of hand. M-expressions were kept around for years as conceptual technical debt before the YAGNI moment.
Determinants are sometimes useful for symbolic inversion of matrices, but are not used for numerical inversion of non-trivial matrices (for reasons of both performance and stability).

It has been a long time since I studied functional analysis, and I was never a physicist of any sort, but my limited understanding is that there are two common generalizations for the infinite case, both of which handle the cases of most interest to physics but are not available for general operators, and which mostly agree up to a constant factor, or are at least capable of producing compatible results in some sense. I'm not sure I'd say they "nicely generalize", though I'd admit to being hasty in saying that they don't generalize.

And yes, I agree that they're widely used in physics (which is why I think they should be taught to math/physics majors).
For Bezos, It's always day one.

When I first heard that, it just blew my mind. I think that's the philosophy that keeps Amazon moving upwards. At so many points in Amazon's history you can imagine the story ending, but 5 years later it turns out to have been just the beginning, just the introduction.

Successfully starting a bookstore wasn't the end, it was day1 for a music store. The music store wasn't the end, it was day1 for a retail store. Retail was day1 for digital downloads. Downloads were day1 for Kindle. Prime, AWS, India, Android, Same day delivery, groceries...

When you tell yourself the story of your business, you probably start with the idea, go through the struggle, and end with your current success. Bezos puts all of that in the first paragraph, and then tries to imagine the rest of the book.

"It's always day one."
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I am calling "turtles" on this.
One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons."

Moon patiently told the student the following story -- "One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector..."
Free*

There's a $2 fee if you come close to your bandwidth cap (where they automatically 'helpfully' add value so you don't run out) and a $.99 fee if you don't use enough data (at least 5 MB a month). They'll probably have new and exciting secret fees when they roll this out.

I very much dislike the redefinition of the words 'free' and 'unlimited' among telecom providers, and we as a community should not support this. They're asking me for a credit card number to signup, ipso facto, it isn't free.
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Here's another self-hosted option I came across in my search for a Reader replacement http://projet.idleman.fr/leed/ The site's in French but Google translate works well and it seems the developer has done good work on this project.

Thanks for the comprehensive list I now have more options to consider for a home hosted replacement.
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Or you could simply say: People who invest money are rarely committed to long-term strategies. And Amazons definition of long-term is very unique.
Here is a video that shows police aiming to head. There are people who lost one eye because of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47GDOHJm1cM
How does this jive with laws around transmitting money?
Very true, my numbers were just an illustrative example given the context set up by the comment I replied to.
Maybe willing to invest small percentage of one's pension in companies that try this kind of innovations. For example investing in disruptive healthcare companies, with an understanding that it help you when you grow old. Maybe even tie this with some sort of voting power to us, and less to fund managers.

And of course encourage changes towards long term investment, maybe using the tax code.
Really neat. I don't know a damn thing about airplanes, but good luck. I think it's quite possible that our dream of "flying cars" will end up being (partially) fulfilled by small computer-controlled airplanes.
> It just requires more work to find them now.

The amount of work it requires is trivial.

Cormac McCarthy was interviewed by Oprah, for god's sake.

Jonathan Franzen appeared on the cover of TIME magazine.

If someone wants to read any great novel, all they need to do is spend the fractional amount of time searching their memory for a lauded novelist and a corresponding work.

If someone wants more particularly to read a great novel by an author they aren't yet familiar with, all they need to do is five minutes of triage on the internet.

If you've got the notion floating around in your head that reading a great novel is a great thing, then locating one serves no difficulty, because you're very probably aware of the well-publicized awards - Pulitzer, National Book Award, Booker, etc.

Further, that person's very likely familiar at least partially with the canon that's been repeatedly shoved down every high-school to college educated Westerner's throat for the last fifty years.

There are lists upon lists upon lists of great novels out there both contemporary, classic, genre-based, contrarian and obscure. Just pick your flavor.

The organizational and review systems out there are better than ever.

Is there more out there? Absolutely. But it sure as hell doesn't qualify as noise. And it sure doesn't qualify as a valid excuse for not spending time with a great book.
I've been hoping that there was a text editor that integrated a learning aid like this at the beginning, which consciously tried to eliminate the need for "10 great keyboard shortcuts of xxx editor you didn't know about" posts on the internet
> If Democracy was working properly, and the legislators were implementing the will of the people, something else would be happening.

This time, this ain't coming from Noam Chomnsky.
Started noticing that at HP in Corvallis in the 90s, must have spread northward back then.
Its more about what was communicated/interpreted than the actual words.

Take for instance: "I'm not going to let some bitch tell me what to do" vs. "Hey bitches, whats up?"

the first statement could communicate that the speaker has issues with females telling him what to do. The second statement is playful and affectionate.

However, because the word bitch is so generic and well used, the first speaker could easily only have issues with unpleasant people, not females. Its not clear.

That's why it is better to talk about a person's pattern of behavior, rather than labeling an isolated incident as sexism.
For Emacs users, there's Gnus [1] and Newsticker [2]. Gnus doesn't support Atom feeds natively [3], so you have to call an external script to convert them to RSS before they're processed by Gnus. Newsticker supports RSS and Atom [4].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/RSS...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/newstick...

[3] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusRss

[4] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NewsTicker
I guess one difference between 37signals and many others who launch products is that they have a huge audience on which to promote the product out of the gate. It'd be crazy to tell someone with a small audience to quit on a product in 4 months but if you had 100,000 people hit a homepage and only 10 people buy.. maybe that's a clearer signal.
I agree that this is the ideal of how to shut down a product, but I don't believe you're being fair with Google. They provided everything you could ask for in their announcement of Google Reader's retirement[1]:

1. Sympathy with users who still use Reader.

2. A simple way to save all data to transition to another product.

3. A three month sunset, which they are not obligated to give.

You're right in that this announcement is missing one little line about alternatives to Reader. But there's two reasons why I don't think that matters - first, the explosion of alternatives mainly happened after that announcement, when alternatives like NewsBlur really came into mainstream knowledge. Secondly, Google doesn't really need to suggest alternatives when there's a sunset. Sure they could, but you could also just google it (no humor intended). You have three months to find it on your own, I think I can forgive them for not suggesting alternatives that in my opinion weren't even as mature as Reader yet (with the possible exception of Feedly).

[1]: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-googl...
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Can't I build a marketplace with stripe connect? How is this different?
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Used it for some small group communication when planning a bike race. It was a great alternative to 20-deep CC lists and Reply-All, and I think would have worked for our cycling club's internal mailing list if there had not been a cap of 50 members. It was nice to have a simple interface for managing list members (compared to, say, our web host-provided ezmlm lists), but its closing won't hinder our future event-related communication.
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This is cool, but the money has to be charged via credit card first right? It would be nice to transfer money from the bank account linked to stripe to another account, and as a user of Stripe's connect API, it would be nice to enable this in our apps for our users.

Even cooler would be full blown ACH. We are working with ACH providers now and what a stark contrast to the beauty of stripe. All require some form of monthly fee, paper set-up forms with 1-2 week delays (vetting periods) and API's from the 90's
I can't imagine that Breeze was all that resource intensive to maintain, but I don't really know what goes into such a service.

As far as I understand it, they send the e-mail directly from their own servers. Maintaining a system to do this reliably is quite labor intensive as you need to try and get (and stay!) whitelisted with the larger providers and constantly put out 'abuse' fires. Dealing with e-mail is a labor intensive pain in the ass at the best of times..
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This model is Unethical Freemium which has been around for a while now, Clash of Clans is not unique or doing anything new.

IMHO, you should not support games that use this model. It's often called "Pay to Win".

I will only play games that use the Guild Wars 2 or Path of Exile model; all paid items are cosmetic/fun/convenience only and don't really assist in one player being more powerful than another player.

Pay to Win model games are never going to be fun long term because the game will be won/dominated by the people willing to sink the most money into it, rather than the player who invests the most time/thought/skill/etc.
Amazon needs to start focusing more on the international market. Mark Meeker's 2013 internet trends showed that while 8 out of the top 10 internet properites are owned by american companies, 81% of the internet traffic going to these sights is international (Slide 6 of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends: http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trends). Even though Amazon had been around since the 1990's, Alibab's gross merchandise volume surpassed in the 2011-2012 time frame(Slide 69 of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends: http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trends). The emerging markets such as China and India, as well as the Next 11 countries (Research paper by Jim O'Niel: http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/archive/archive-pdf...) is where Amazon needs to be focusing their efforts if they want to stay competitive in the next decade.
J.C. Penney. Nuff said.
New: you've always thought of your dog as an extension of yourself, now it can be an extension of your quantified self!

I'm sure this has a market, but taking your dog for a walk and getting regular check-ups at the vet seems to work relatively well for most situations.