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If it is planned it's a very cynical way of meeting a target by effectively lowering mid-campaign.

Having thousands donate at $800 and the refunding the difference down to $695 means that the "target" is met but the actual net amount is lowered by that amount that needs to be refunded.

It doesn't actually help them meet the lowered target either, it simply lowers the target while getting them no closer to the target by lowering their effective amount raised at the same time.

That's why I don't think it was planned. It feels to me less planned and more reacting to not meeting their target but reacting in a not so clever way.

The thing is, if they can't keep steady during the fund-raising part I don't trust them to deliver on the hard part of building the hardware.

Either way I also don't believe this is in any way really connected to lower component price deals, this is marketing but in my opinion it's not clever marketing.
In terms of funds pledged, it will probably be more successful than the most successful successful crowdfunded projects ever.
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Well, the big difference is is that the US didn't retain defacto control of the part of Europe that it drove the Nazis from in the way the USSR did.
I was going to build something similar actually. We'll see if I ever do. :)
Be the change you want to see.

I mean, I'm guilty of the same thing, too.

Really, I think the problem is that I (or you) click on these obvious political headlines. It's not like it's not obvious what they are from the headline, so they aren't hard to avoid. I'd compare this waste of time with being fat; the problem isn't the candy jar; the problem is that I /eat/ the candy in the candy jar.
Also we run

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We're a publisher. Do I practice Chakra Healing? No. But Our job is to publish an authors work and Alternative healing has a huge following in the USA. Penguin books publishes 100s of genres - including many of the same here. Publishing companies need to cater for a wide audience.
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Hurray for Bytemark! :)
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Just checked the page. Actually zero links.
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Iphone app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dog-finder-mobile/id39566824...

Android app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.ct.dogfinde...

With this apps you can get the list of the dogs around you,
send messages, or report a dog with picture, location etc....
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Well, the USSR is currently criminalising a whole class of people based on what they chose to do with their genitalia in private. That sounds pretty oppressive to me.
The main difference are the performance and a better support of commands (almost all of them are available right now).
Rediscala matches redis type answer to scala types.

Redis serves 1 req at a time, but you can write to Redis socket and read from Redis socket during that time.

Rediscala (the RedisClient) use 2 actors:
The first one handle I/O (I/O bounds). That actor also merge redis requests in a buffer, so there is less messages (but bigger) going to the TcpWorker (akka worker handling a tcp socket).
The second decode replies (CPU bounds)
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yeah, that bothered me as well.

"Are you sure you want to leave? Stay on this page to try Chakra Healing for 30 risk-free days and join the thousands who have already experienced this phenomenon for themselves."

gross.
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I use this on a daily basis on my iPad. The best part is that it loads articles within the same tab. That doesn't often work for many stuff (chrome experiments, for eg), but for most purposes, it saves me the hassle of shifting tabs and hunting for content.
Yes. And we all know how well EBS works for consistent database performance. That's why I said "... would rule out running databases in containers ..."
In germany most degrees are free, besides somtimes a 500,- € or so fee per semester. Excetions are MBAs and certain part-time studies.

I'll start a Master of Business Administration and Engineering in Octobre that costs a neat 104,- Euro per year.
Yes and no, IMHO. The list on the left are all tools to solve interaction problems. But, I think "UX" professionals tend to fall into the trap that this is a process needed for every problem. Sometimes, good UX is just UI/Visual design. And, that is just fine.
I'd love to see this setup in the web framework benchmark (maybe even with spray) to see just how fast it can be. I may give it a try if I find some free time.
Hey commenters:

1. Backing this project is using your dollars to "vote" for this device to exist. It's not as unimaginative as "buying a phone", it's about helping to establish a new mobile device os as a real alternative.

2. This type of fundraising rarely follows a linear growth curve, so there's nothing to infer about the ultimate success of the project by projecting that way.

I have not backed the project, and I'm not sure if I will, but I really appreciate that others are trying to make this happen.
Maybe I am an eternal optimist but in my opinion, it's impossible to keep all that crazy stuff under wraps for long - information wants to be free, and it will get out one way or another.

The USA is in a very bad situation thanks to the media's lock-step with the government, and all is controlled by big business. You'd think there is no way out. But at the same time, certain rights like the right to free speech do not go away.

In times of great despair, great help arrives. This is why I think new channels of communication apart from TV and newspapers will arise. New channels that will not be owned by big business. HN readers will probably laugh at the notion - hey, maybe the ...internet? Yeah I know - but it seems like mass media still has a huge influence and, now, in 2013, still defines "public opinion". What's on TV is what's true.

We have all the tech to change that, and I think it will change. Even though it hasn't so far. Some new way of determining AND making the public opinion will arise. I look forward to it (and if I can help enable it, I will)
I've always wondered if that's possible: a font file where if you type the letter 'A' for example, one of five versions of the letter 'A' is chosen. And so on for other letters so that a bit of randomness is imparted to the "writing".
> Repeatability is great, but who doesn't have that already?

In my experience: Pretty much nobody does fully repeatable builds. Most people have a hodgepodge of "mostly similar" OS images that sometimes get updated in production, possibly in contradictory ways.

You'll find the odd exception, but outside of large-ish companies they are few and far between, largely because while it certainly can be done, the toolchains people work with are cumbersome enough that for small teams it gets terribly tempting to e.g. "apt-get install" something on a live box rather than update their images and deploy.

> That's the whole point of package management.

Only if you disable it in production and only ever use the package management tools to update OS images.
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Serious question. I've been looking at docker today and I can't seem to grasp why would I use docker for dev and deployment over something like ansible also both for dev (on VM) and deployment. I must be missing something. I now understand vagrant somewhat that it alleviates manual hurdle of VM starting and running, but not enough for me to use it.. yet I don't see where and how docker fits in. Would I be wrong if I thought of it more as a virtualenv(wrapper) but not only for python?
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Correction: Russia is not a totalitarian state. At least not yet. The regime is softer and closer to authoritarian. Very far from totalitarian Soviet Union.

Update. Authoritarian state does whatever it wants, but doesn't touch most people (those who don't interfere with the state). Totalitarian state does whatever it wants too, but also "cares" about all people, intervening with their movement, ideology, religion, education, job, property, family, freedom etc. Think Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
Don't you think that this will first, and foremost, increase years of one's healthy life when one could work?
I suppose it's time we have a public open hardware effort in order to break the telcos' unhealthy monopoly.
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> Even if they reached $32M it would be the equivalent of a pre-order for a few tens of thousands of phones. That's not enough to launch a viable handset business.

I don't think they are looking to launch a viable handset business.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...

"But we'll stick to the concept-car side of things leaving mainstream production to our partners in the industry who do it very well." - Mark Shuttleworth
Yes, now I can see my lovely hybrid cursive manuscript scrawl on the screen!

Would be fun to use that's for sure. :D
Maybe you were just a more distinguished candidate during graduate admissions? Also, if you're international, PhD admissions are a lot less biased against internationals compared to undergrad admissions (most top universities have 8-10% internationals for undergrads vs. ~50% for PhDs)
From what I know - and I do know a few people in the company - the other partner is still not fully paid. So it seems like the profits from the company are going largely there.

The company reached the the 15M in sales only 1 or 2 years ago - they were much smaller earlier. So there is no way $5M in cash.
Also, knowing how the company used to function, I think Mike Reining was really important to its growth, so it's really unfair to ignore his input.

If you look at the company story, at the time Mike had a really great career - working for Boston Consulting Group and later as the Head of New Ventures at eBay, where he worked on the Skype takeover (Google his Linkedin profile).
It was Vishen who was chased out of the US with the green card/visa requirements and Mike just was the only person who decided to team up with him, drop his position at eBay and set off to Malaysia to do something fresh.

It's safe to say it wouldn't happen without the German guy at all.
Very good idea, for dogs, and other pets indeed; as the ThePetfinder.

1. Needs to get significant traction to be of use. Why not start from one city cover it fully; go US and global, similar to FB/harvard->unis->world. Traction and promotion on facebook seems to be more important than other networks.

2. A classification by users or automatic through image processing, for pet photos may be valuable for found pets to be searched by attributes.
'Owner of Russian social network offers Edward Snowden a job' is pretty clunky, and if you titled the article 'Pavel Durov offers Edward Snowden a job', it would be meaningless for 99.99% of its American readers. The title as it is does a decent job conveying the contents.

Or are Americans to be blamed for not knowing the owner of a social service hardly anyone here uses?
Still, the availability of scholarship money doesn't scale up with the demand for it. They're designed to reward the extraordinarily gifted (or whatever minority status their endowment specifies), not fund education in general.
That stereotype exists because, right before US elites started formalizing their own cultural scenario (before F.S. Fitzgerald, to give a rough idea), French culture was one of their main models, if not THE model. On the other side, French elites invested a lot in the American Revolution and were quite disappointed with the outcomes (a society characterized by freedom but also rough and greedy, which eventually chose The Anglo Way in most matters and stole their thunder as Beacon of Civilization). Ever since, both sides were locked in a constant and intense debate in a way that very few other countries experienced. It's funng because both French and US mainstream cultures agree on very fundamental matters (the need for a secular State, the power of technological progress, the importance of cinema and popular culture, down to comicbooks) but express them in completely opposite ways in practice.
Higher education in Germany is socialized. Socialism is EVIL, it will kill Grandma while she sleeps. Do I really need a sarcasm tag here?

We will all still pay for it, just with higher taxes for everyone all the time, not just students while they are in school. That kind of reform will never happen in the US, because we are afraid of it. We are afraid of the dreaded socialism, even though our primary education is free and socialized, also incredible uneven because it is funded by local property taxes.

Votes to reform health care resulted in death threats to law makers and bricks thrown in their windows. http://www.pressherald.com/news/nationworld/vote-unleashes-t...
That is entirely irrelevant - it's an implementation detail of AWS.

The volume could just as well be bind-mounted from the same local host.
I really like this idea. Thanks for building it!

Can I make a suggestion? It might help find some dogs.

A lot of breeds have a society for that breed, for example Jack Russell Terriers have the JRTCA.

These societies have lost and found forums. When someone finds a breed they often go and look for information about them [1]

This worked for me around 1998, I made a post there and my Jack Russell was returned to me by a family almost an our drive from where I lived. How he got there, I don't know but I was very happy to get him back!

Maybe add a reminder to the apps workflow with a link to the forum for that breed.

If you automate the process you could charge for it. I paid $39.99 to a dog finding service back then that I suspect did little.

1. http://www.therealjackrussell.com/misc/lostdog.php
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Their writing and marketing is very effective. But they are close to my definition of evil with selling points like these:

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It’s supposed to help depression, control pain, increase
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I've been able to cure the cancer I had, help to solve
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You put yourself at risk for developing diseases such as
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you can learn how to access deep restfulness.

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Obama wanted to brand Snowden as a traitor, ignoring the detail, subtlety and nuances involved in the case. Black and while, Snowden is a traitor. Yes?

Now, Russia gives Snowden temporary asylum, so in retaliation, Bush.... sorry, Obama cancels meeting with Putin. Black and white, yes? Let us, wipe out the detail and nuance. That is the rules, right?

So if Snowden is to be branded a traitor, Obama can be branded a petulant, entitled, pampered, sulky, embarrassed, teen-aged child who is used to getting his own way, and will throw toys out of the pram when mommy says "no".

Point being, this business of dirty tricks PR bites both sides. If Obama and co want us to see Snowden as a black and white traitor, we are perfectly entitled to state that the Putin meeting is canceled because of the Snowden asylum, and ignore and of the other details.

Or US politics could grow up. The US gov could admit over reach. It could thank Snowden and hail a new era of openness. It could redefine its role with people, all people not just precious Americans, (we are all equal, right?) and stop defaulting to treating them all like potential criminals, communists, terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles.......
Yep thank! very interesting suggestions
Show HN: Rethinking Firefox Panorama
I'm currently applying for a UX position at Mozilla. I created this concept over the weekend to show my process.

The goal of the concept is to remove as much organizational overhead as possible, make tabs easier to browse and easier to access.

What do you think? Do you currently use panorama? If not, why not? Would you prefer this solution?
Nice idea, just added CircuitHub
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> and wish we were more like Russia

We are not saying we think the states should be more like Russia, well I aren't at least, we're pointing out the hypocrisy of the Powers That Be state-side.

They publicly chant "our way is better, what you are doing it wrong" but when their way doesn't work or otherwise becomes inconvenient they are perfectly happy to quietly use the techniques and policies they deride when others use them.

Russia doing many more bad things than the US is not justification for the US doing one thing we consider wrong.

I can't say I see anyone who is in the right in all this:

* I can see the national security argument having some validity so Snowden is culpable for releasing state secrets. He was trusted with information, he abused that trust (for reasons he and many others consider morally correct, but that morality issue does not mean it wasn't an abuse of trust).

* But what he released was details of the states doing something that they promised they were not doing, something that they deride oppressive states for. Whether Snowden's actions are right or wrong does not alter the fact the powers that be over there are both liars and hypocrites. They have abused the trust of their people.

* Russia is only taking part in this little game to wind up people it (or perhaps more specifically, Putin) feels the desire to wind up. They don't care one way or the other for Snowden specifically nor that the US is explicitly spying on its own people.
But are you sure it's a good alternative?

It runs a slow and ugly UI, comes with built-in Amazon ads and privacy concerns, and will drain battery rapidly when using as a desktop, so you won't be able to make a call when your car breaks down on the way home.

If this is the future, count me out.
just clicking around and hit a link to aquafide who:
"develops and distributed innovative and sustainable water treatment solutions for municipal and industrial customers"
but seem to have a website that is "First Car"? very very odd.

other than that - neat idea
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This is an important article for HN readers, if this somewhat recent article from the East Bay Express is anything to go by: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-bacon-wrapped-econ...

The gist is that 20-something year olds come to the Bay area (or wherever else), go from graduating college to suddenly having high-paying jobs, and then they blow their money on short-term edification without thinking long-term. And so I think this type of personal planning for a future is important, too. Maybe down the road, we've accumulated a nest egg, or have enough money in the bank to bootstrap!

(Does the EBX article generalize? Yes, very much so, but my hunch is that the article raises insightful points that are definitely worth more than the generalizing or ranting that detractors might point out, for the record.)
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It's probably a typo in the email or url field. I really need to put better validation messages. Sorry about that.
If someone open-source, encrypted backups at that price, I would buy it in an instant. What I want is, basically, rdiff-backup on EncFS, but I haven't found a way to hack the two to work together.
publisher:
Noun
A person or company that prepares and issues books, journals, music, or other works for sale.

You are not only preparing [publishing] it. You are creating it, marketing it, and billing for it.

Are you seriously going to try to bullshit us here? You are trying to shift blame regarding the efficacy of these products onto the authors (like Burt Goldman, "the 85-year-old man who jumps across universes" as your sales page puts it), which is obviously one of the very reasons you license authors to be the face of each of these products (the other reason is because people would rather trust personalities instead of companies).

If you really cared about "reaching a billion people with enlightened ideas" you would not be selling this BS...
Wonder when will GoSQL appear from Google?
Killer. Bookmarked. Thanks!
That's what I'm saying. After I sell my company for over a billion dollars I'm starting a VR theme park :)
This map and many others include digital/creative agencies. They may be startups in the sense of new companies, but if we accept that definition why not include every new lawyer, restaurant, or retailer? Agencies are contractors and they don't own the value they build in a product. I hate to be bitchy and don't begrudge agencies but I think they're fundamentally different to tech startups.
Not only useful in mobile. I changed the url in the HNTab[1] to this.

http://snappy-app.com/s/show.php?pass=8fb13fb41739e677265bbc...

[1]: https://github.com/swerage/hntab
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This looks like a soft launch just for HN. The homepage http://www.metisme.com/ still asks people to signup for an early invite.

Nice idea. It has been a pain trying to search for an old attachment within gmail.
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Right now it's photo centric just to make sure we get that experience down. Eventually I could see it move to other areas though. My wife's a photographer and I saw a need for this kind of service that was focused on photographers. There's lots of other photo backup, but the only ones that do raw files are more syncs than anything. She needed a place to persist images she was done with in a cheap way.
PayPal refunds fees when you issue a refund, so you lose nothing.
There really is no reason for Apple to allow reviews from beta versions of their OS. It doesn't bring the developers any useful insight, it's a time-waster at best and a commercial nightmare at worst. I too am left wondering why this is possible in the first place… especially since I assume Apple is fully aware of the "grey" iOS beta market.
http://phdtree.org/, a Wiki project to document the academic family tree of PhDs worldwide
maybe he wanted to say that malevolent people have always enough skills to stole your password, even if you have a master password like firefox.
I use http://ihackernews.com/ on my mobile. The only issue is that sometimes comments are not displayed because the app reach the api requests limit.
Any similar issue with your app ?
That's what I was asking in my first question: Do you get access to a raw device node of the host OS?
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