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Ask HN: What do you think of my kickstarter video?
I'm building an athletic apparel brand for men. I started working on the idea 8 months ago and am now launching the first product on kick-starter. I'm confident about the superiority of the product after getting validation from many potential customers, but I would love to get some feedback on the kickstarter video I made. Provided that I'm able to reach out to a large audience, do you think I can exceed my kickstarter goal with this video, or do you think i should make a new one at the cost of launching on kickstarter later? Thanks!

http://preview.yathletics.com
Just the simple fact that the Aerotrain was on a track and not in a tube makes all the difference in the world. And I don't get this "look someone proposed something similar before" thing (everything from vacuum tubes to maglev to this thing). These previous inventors failed to get their ideas realised. Now a visionary has his own tweak on things and should have a good shot. Rejoice!
That's awesome, considering the moniker.
Looks like Frank from Donnie Darko
I think thats a really good one. Its s.ymmetrical and has a cool minimalism.

Edit: ok actually they're all symmetrical ..
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: ServerCentral
Word definitions are determined by usage, sure.

Guess what, though? Usage is defined by what people think is correct, including how they argue about that usage and what it "should" be.

If you embrace descriptivism, you don't get to reject prescriptive arguments as "wrong" on the basis that ZOMG, there are no rules. It's like saying a policy arguments is "wrong" because a poll reveals that people exist who don't agree with that argument - you're not even talking in the right context.

Or, put another way, if enough people continue to spell "past" as "passed" ("I went passed the sign..."), then eventually one of the definitions of "passed" will include "alternate spelling of 'past'". But someone isn't wrong to say, "That should be 'past', not 'passed'.", even if some people are spelling it wrong.
Why not just use QR codez they are SO COOL.
> The Marines have "amphibious assault ships" that are sort of like aircraft carriers for helicopters.

There actually very much like medium-deck carriers, which are the biggest carriers anyone not the US Navy operates anywhere. The Marines seaborne aviation capacity carried on its various amphibious ships outclasses, IIRC, all the non-US naval aviation in the world combined.
> No exceptions

try { ... }
catch {}

Seems a bit radical, but hey, who am I to argue.
Why won't they let you use Gravatar?
Nice work people, I've read a number of your blog posts and one in particular stuck with me (the one about getting press). You've certainly got your own PR and marketing in general nailed, glad to hear you've now nailed your product.
The B-1 was an even bigger debacle than the B-2. Its development time and cost overruns were enormous, and involved a curious scandal where the Carter administration tried the kill the project, but the Pentagon illegally kept it alive off budget so that it was still around to be revived by the Reagan administration. When it finally did roll off the production line almost two decades after the RFP went out, its obsolete stealth, engine problems, and initial inability to deploy non-nuclear weapons kept it from being used in the Gulf War. So it was widely deployed in Afghanistan, 35 years after the design phase began and almost 20 years after production. After so long time had passed the stealth technology was no longer particularly effective and so the bombers were deployed after complete air dominance had been achieved, thus negating one of the chief supposed benefits of the plane over the B-52.

I am optimistic about UAVs as a relatively inexpensive replacement for a lot of aircraft, but I fear that once their successes start to endanger the justifications for testosterone toys, internal factions within the military as well as politicians in the pockets of defense contractors will hit back hard.
Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
Not at all, paranoia is simply a mistrust without justification. One can be cautionary and paranoid at the same time.

There are formalized medical definitions of paranoia being a mental condition, but many words have informal definitions that complement their formal definitions.
>The Leaf is a superb vehicle in every aspect, except for range and price.

It's the most affordable electric car out there.

>Given a little time the tech will come close to Tesla's.

What tech?

>They could license Tesla's battery technology

Why would they? My understanding is that there's nothing special about Tesla's battery technology. Leaf just has less batteries (in kg) in them, so the range is lower.
Sorry, maybe I missed it, but will you be doing the roasting or will the supplier?

Why not work with small roasters instead of direct?
Also note that the EFF isn't one of the available charities.
You don't have to follow guidelines if you are using a modern IDE. Guidelines should follow your code. VS 2012 + ReSharper.
https://identicons.github.com/jhorvat.png I like how mine looks like an H (my last initial)
how often are you sending out the email newsletter?
Investor confidence goes up for U.S., down for emerging markets
The involvement of Origin means this is really a loss leader. Buy a small library of EA games on Origin for $25, and suddenly you have a starter library. They sell you the razor at a low cost, donate to charity (good PR footnote), and then they can hopefully sell you more blades.

They need this because Steam has a head start of years, with many people who have huge libraries they won't want to leave, and the availability of titles from almost every publisher but EA. And customers are likely as not to look at purchasing things on Origin as not just being DRM (which Steam also is), but having to deal with running and operating yet another client instead of having almost everything in one place.

This is to EA's strategic benefit whether or not they receive any money via Humble Bundle.
I've got my Leap doing what I bought it for: controlling iTunes when my hands are covered in hair dye. [1]

If I can get it to do more, awesome. But that's enough for now.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O6sR0PKofc
1) I doubt construction cost is a linear function of weight, as costs of material often are only a fraction of them. For example, one will need access ways for repairs, regardless of the weight of the structure.

2) I would expect that wind pressure on a tube is higher than on a rail with an occasional train on it. If so, the supports need to be designed to handle that higher load.

3) I think higher speed trains going through a bend in the track exert higher forces per kg of train than slower speed trains. Again, if so, the design will have to accommodate for that.

4) I don't see how that 0.5^3 makes sense. If both track and train are half the weight, my conclusion would be "total structure to lift is half the weight", not "total structure to lift is a quarter the weight".

I am not an engineer, so corrections welcome.
If you're wondering why you're being downvoted, google the phrase. It's a well known joke.
We will be importing the beans directly to the US & then working with small roasters in certain geographic locations to roast the beans before we ship it out.
There's a problem with Outlook at the moment.
Err, that's his point. You cheapen the product and then sell when profits are up before the reputation goes down.
Well that's pretty awesome to hear (that it's still being used that way) What's a ratio of connection requests you accept vs ignore?
Any insight as to why this is the case? This was the first thing I noticed.
A monumental fuckup of this magnitude makes me wish that this was some kind of smoke screen to cover the cost of some other kind of R&D of technology we can scarcely comprehend. $1,000,000,000,000 for a plane that doesn't work and has been outsourced to a dozen foreign contractors? I don't buy it.
Worst case scenario seems to be that you're advertising to potential employers that you're having trouble finding a job... That doesn't seem like a good thing to point out...
>the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them.

...

>the F-22's live,

F-22 is cheaper than F-35 (and btw looks better - weapons look is important for projecting power - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtahqXjFcxU :), yet F-22 program was closed because of cost while F-35 continues (and still seems to be in R&D stage, though the late stage of R&D). Something bad about F-22 vs. that being good in F-35? Or just government spending logic?

Interesting also that there is a ban on export of F-22 (even to good friends like UK/etc) while F-35 is supposed to be available for export.
A map of the languages of the USA (2011)
Yahoo Interview
A longer summary linked in the article: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/buying-battles-in-the-war...

The original paper: http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/USENIX...
OMG! Yet Another Release Candidate?

Ember team, release it already. Its going to be fine. if there any bugs left, you can follow it up with minor bug fix release. More Importantly, not having a stable release does hurt the adoption of framework. Just Saying
God says...

22:16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that
giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply
thine heart unto my knowledge.

22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they
shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

22:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee
this day, even to thee.

22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and
knowledge, 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the
words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them
that send unto thee? 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor:
neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: 22:23 For the LORD will
plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man
thou shalt not go: 22:25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to
thy soul.

22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are
sureties for debts.

-----

God says...

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If you are in the red, with zero money coming in, isn't anything better than nothing, at least as a gap till you find something better?

I'm not sure I would call it pride. Some won't apply to jobs if they feel it is below them because the general consensus among employers is that if a better job comes along that this person is more qualified for, they will quit that "lower" job.

source: my Econ professor
Personal Computing: Historic Beginnings (Alan Kay) [video]
The Julia team has made it a convention to end functions with a '!' that alter your input variables.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/ (4th point)
I imagine in a year or three he'll settle down and live like a king in Patagonia :)

Regarding the money exfiltration, from what I recall, there are several money laundering "consultants" active on SR, there was a relatively recent interview[1] with someone who goes by StExo there. As with any illegal market, there are parties of varying levels of sophistication, from the guy who sells $100/week of weed to large organised groups with tens of members, drop houses, front companies, etc.

The (comparatively simple) problem faced by SR is converting BTC to hard currency. The harder part that both large SR vendors and physical drug traffickers have to contend with is obscuring the source and getting it onto the books as legitimate income they can pay tax on and pay themselves wages/dividends/whatever with.

But that isn't a new problem, and organised crime has clearly been doing it at scale for a while, and I can quite imagine professionals in the financial and business sectors who specialise in getting away with it.

[1] http://weirderweb.com/tag/stexo/
I’m just sitting here masturbating.

Then why are you just posting about posting and not writing for the boinkology collection?

https://medium.com/boinkology-101/
Ask HN: 1% equity vested over 4 years, is it okay for first employee?
I am a fresher and have joined a startup recently. I joined it even before the founder came full time. We didn't talk about the equity then and now they are giving me 1% equity vested over 4 years with 25% cliff after 1 year. I have already declined to another "big company" who offered better salary than this startup(20% more of what I am getting now). I don't like the technology stack they are working on and more than anything I hate the city they are based in. Seeing all these factors, is it a good idea to continue working with them?
agreed it's not the same degree of risk - but I'd say that if a nation state was behind bitcoin, but purporting to be a lone engineer for some nefarious purpose, it's sure going to make leaking that classified fact a fairly serious crime.
Yes. Sorry for not providing the link!
If there's enough public will to make something great happen, and that something-great is within the realm of engineering feasibility, then it will happen.

I love HSR. But I also think we as a species are capable of much, much, much more than we're currently accomplishing. And much of the reason we're stuck using slow, uninspiring, and polluting technology from yester-year is a lack of public will.

So to the naysayers: if you want to harp on some bold proposal to do something great, pretend it's 1961 and someone told you about sending men to the moon and back. Pretend it was 1948 and someone proposed making trains that went 90 mph. Pretend it was 1850 and someone proposed linking Paddington and Farringdon using a massive tunnel buried deep underground. Real things change all the time. Technology can make problems go away. Bold proposals such as Musk's -- proposals that are the good-faith effort of someone who is ultra-competent and with a lot of social and financial capital -- are proposals that need to be celebrated and encouraged.

Doing new things well is orders of magnitude more difficult than doing that which has been done before. If you've never followed-through on a crazy and bold idea, please temper your critique of those who have.
Whatever the reason, the US is doing something right.

US fertility : 2.06
German fertility : 1.42 (this is WITH 10%-15% turkish immigrants having a birthrate of > 2.4)

So what is it ?
I am not offended. I wrote that the sentiment I described was belittling and people would resent it.
Well Ubuntu Edge is coming up and I believe Firefox's ZTE Open is already out in several countries, so maybe that statement is only true in USA.
But then it would be just an ordinary release, not a release candidate.
How Not to Launch a Site for Women, RE: Bustle
clickable - http://preview.yathletics.com
One mac and zero linux games. Am I counting that right?
Is there a Theory of Everything?
I'm pretty sure the government is delighted by Silk Road so that they can finally justify searching all physical mail in some very advanced way. HN, you're always asking for startup ideas, why not just get totally evil and invent technology to scan physical mail at scale and hook it into PRISM? You'd stand to make at least millions if you did it right. Oh, and part of doing it right is making sure there's some alternate not-so-evil use case you can demo, like idk, automatically adding grandma's birthday cards to your facebook feed and automatically depositing her checks into your checking account.
Microsoft won't support a 14 year old C Standard because it's "really a C++ compiler"? When, exactly, did it from being a "C compiler" too?

At what point should a C++ Programmer worry that Visual Studio is becoming "really a C# coding environment"? Over the last few years, we've seen C# get features first with C++ receiving the same features only if MS gets around to it.

I miss the days when Microsoft cared about development tools because they had a lot of competition.
I would add exercise daily, sleep well, eat a healthy diet, and get some sunlight to the list. You'll be happier.
Given that he is a libertarian and a freedom fighter and all that, he could be donating a lot of his coins.
> > My only gripe is its intended use as a systems programming language.

> It's not. It's a new Java, not a new C++.

Not according to the Go developers. "Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind." http://golang.org/ref/spec#Introduction
Not by itself, but maybe in combination with another technology:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-11/nasa-engine...

Whatever you were launching would have to move through normal air, not the minimal pressure you have in the Hyperloop tube. It is hard to pass an airlock at supersonic velocities...
Samsung's Android Flip Phone
If there was a public route, Google would potentially reconsider.

My point in response to grandparent was that no matter how much money you throw at BART and Muni, political, jurisdictional and infrastructural issues will block further development.
It's a widespread misconception, but it's never been ultralight. Screenshot from beta 1: http://cl.ly/PhA6
Are you lacking confidence in your ability to count to one? :)
The RCs have been very API stable, there has been only one single change. Everything else has been fixing bugs and such.
Thanks Simon. That means a lot.

Here's the link to that getting press post: https://ooomf.com/blog/post36194316012getting-press/
From what I cited: "A telescoping tube, similar to the boxy ones used to access airplanes at airports would be needed at the end stations to address the cumulative length change of the tube"

I guess that's because accordion-like flexible sections and carriages moving at 1000 km/h on a tiny air cushion don't go well together, or because such sections, being a lot leakier then welds, would let too much air in.
Company Fit Matters | allenc
> The involvement of Origin means this is really a loss leader.

The involvement of Origin is the reason why I am not picking up this bundle. Such a shame not all the games are available via Steam.
There are a number of people through the ages who have greatly advanced science by providing accurate observations. In fact, many scientists specialize in working out how to test the explanations of others.

It seems somewhat odd to say that Tycho Brahe was not doing science when he compiled unprecedentedly accurate astronomical tables that were the foundation for revolutions in the way we understand the universe, or to say that Arthur Eddington was not doing science when he measured the deflection of light during a solar eclipse.

The first (and many subsequent) Nobel prize in physics was given for a discovery, not an explanation.

Rutherford famously said "All science is either physics or stamp collecting", and I'm sure he meant to denigrate the stamp collecting aspect, but the fact is that it's absolutely key to science.
I remember reading about a service provider who put up such a dead man switch - a web page saying they hadn't been served an NSL, which they would presumably take down once served.

Here we go:
http://brokenhut.livejournal.com/285348.html
Not to mention the boredom factor. But I have known people to take a job just cos they need the money, and also been refused a job because they were over-qualified and the employer knew they would just leave once they got a better job. It's a two way thing.
>Not at all, paranoia is simply a mistrust without justification.

So does he or doesn't he have justification to be mistrustful? The quoted sentence claims the former.

>many words have informal definitions that complement their formal definitions.

Yea, I wouldn't have made the post without checking the informal definition first.
And the point I was trying to make is that the time delay between quality drop and reduced profits will be very short.
Honest question: wouldn't the workforce or unions revolt if new management did this? (especially if they guessed at the underlying plan)
Re. headroom in Model S: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/10879-Any-tall...
Boolean in C/C++ done wrong.
What's easier about deploying Go vs with the JVM? Deploying stuff I've written in Clojure has been pretty easy.
That's an interesting point. I didn't know the domestic Chinese turbine industry was so limited. Do you know why? Chinese industry certainly is capable of high tolerance machining, and they're literally the best at the world in complex assembly, so I'd have to guess they're behind on the design or materials side.

The Liaoning is a bit of a weird duck. It provides air cover and anti-submarine capabilities to naval formations, but it's not capable of projecting power into a region via strike missions the way US carrier groups do. It fits within the posture I described. But also it seems like it may just be a boondogle to satisfy some admirals that want to be one of the nations that has a "carrier".
So you've made $3,750 in three months?
There is money going toward the development of a replacement for the B-52, although the exact form it will take is still up in the air/under wraps. Suffice to say that the "Next Generation Bomber" project currently has funding.

Two observations along these lines, however:

* The B-52 originally was the US Air Force's all-purpose bomber when it rolled out in the 50s. It was a conventional heavy bomber, a strategic nuclear bomber, and a cruise missile platform all in one. Over time, however, the USAF's bombing roles have become split; the B-1 now takes on the role of a conventional bomber, while the B-2 is used for deep-penetration strikes and standoffs.

* One big hurdle in the development of a B-52 replacement is the limitations on the number of strategic bombers allowed under the New Start treaty. The US cannot easily develop new nuclear-capable bombers under this treaty, and thus must keep a chunk of the B-52 fleet around to maintain the nuclear capability.
I've certainly done that. When job-hunting, if I find a job posting I'd like to apply for, I'll check to see if there's anyone in my 2nd or 3rd-level network who's worked for that company.
The level of commitment from the Ember maintainers is very reassuring. Especially when trying to pick a client-side framework.

However, coming from RoR, there's a bit of a learning curve due to the lack of a prescribed file structure or server-side setup. So, I've been hacking some components together as a full-stack template for Ember and Node with some nice features like Hapi API, scaffolding & Brunch build tools. Shameless plug: http://github.com/cpursley/ember-wings
Washicons, Common care symbols webfont
Sounds like the smartest way to do it. Good luck! I hope you can carve out a decent niche for highly specialized varietals (something that an independent roaster might not feel like he can clear 60kg of). If you do it right, you and roasters can both benefit from the relationship (less margin for them, but less inventory risk... less margin for you, but less work to develop sales channels).
I think you will find that in many actual applications PHP is not faster than Node.

Further, once you apply a framework to paper over some language warts, performance is often terrible and can only be rescued by extremely liberal caching.

If this were not so, it would be hard to see the motivation for HipHop.
It is about creating an amazing experience around enjoying your Indian Monsooned Malabar Coffee everyday - learning something new about that region. We agree, cost is something that we are focused on bringing down - with scale & time - this is definitely possible.