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I've practically never heard of people getting funded with hardware ideas outside of Kickstarter.

If you've got some links to incubators/hardware startup scenes, please share.

I honestly can't think of any hardware startups which have been funded off the top of my head; maybe Nest? MakerBot (weren't they privately funded by the founders)?
My first thought is that this is a great filter.

My second thought is how is this any better than the automated resume screens that companies use on candidates?
f1 teams are mainly composed of two or more partners. general structure is "real race guys" and "money guys" ie automotive brands you know. havind said this if you look at those brands you can pretty much see all the related products released. for example, renault has produced f1-inspired megane hatchback body called R27 or something like that. mclaren-mercedes slr 722 is an "everyday car" that is most-closer to an f1 car. latest mclaren is also another example.
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Your comment should be at the top of this thread.

Their concept is very very cool, and they look like they're having a blast while they're building it, too. Great job guys!
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A friend of mine spent a lot of energy to create this beautiful cricket iPhone app, but now we are wondering about possibilities to promote it. Since there are very few nations who follow cricket, it seems hard to find marketing channels. Any ideas/data points/similar experiences will be appreciated. Thanks!
1) Started with QBasic. Didn't have internet back then. Literally just read the help file for every single command listed and whatever wasn't explained about its usage I learned through trial and error. (To this day I don't know how I bricked my mothers computer with bload/bsave and somehow overwrote cmos.. according to the tech who fixed it).

2) I started when I was 8 or 9 years old.

3) I started doing freelance on and off when I was 21, and eventually started making more than my part time job. It took about 2 years though before I went full time. I tried to go full time twice but would have to go back to part time work due to both motivation and client issues.
Of course. I wonder if he'll (or is it bias to say he?) follow her own advice.

Rules of etiquette

Much has already been written on the subject of wikietiquette, and behaviors that are considered disruptive. As a propagandist, your only concern in this area should be not to get topic-banned. Remember that your objective is not to convince anyone of the rightness of your way. This is an impossible task and therefore a waste of time. Opposing editors will never be convinced by your arguments, and the best you can hope for is to get them neutralized by goading them into a gross violation of civility, about which you can then complain at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement. But even this is unlikely and risky, as the other players on the article talk page are probably just as savvy as you.
Editing styles of propagandists range from feigned extreme politeness (Jaakobou) to sarcasm and baiting (Supreme Deliciousness). This is largely a matter of personal preference, and really makes no difference to the end result.

There are, however, two principles that you should follow.

Don't budge

Compromise is for wimps. You have a message to deliver; don't let others force you into compromise.

Don't give up

If at first you don't prevail, you may decide to step out of the fray for a while. But always come back. Wikipedia editors come and go, but your cause is eternal. Follow Jaakobou's example: He was losing the battle for his biased lead at Gideon Levy, so he stepped out of the talk page before consensus could be reached. Without him (but with others more compromising), agreement was reached on the text of the article. Nine months later, Jaakobou returned and tried to reintroduce the same lead that had been rejected. When I said that there was a consensus on the wording of the article, Jaakobou protested that he was not part of that consensus and had never agreed with the wording of the lead as it stood. He was absolutely right - he ducked out at just the right moment, thus preserving his right to return and fight again. and again. and again...
Maybe... What is their sales trend though? I haven't bothered to look into myself, but based on what we see and hear, my assumption would be that BB sales are going down.

There are still lots of legacy BB shops, and those shops are still hiring new employees, replacing lost or outdated phones and so forth. BB may be selling 6 million units per quarter, but if they are losing marketshare rapidly (as they appear to be), those sales most likely aren't worth much. Additionally, if they are staffed up for 20 million units a month (eg: tons of office space, lots of personnel), then 6 million is not enough to sustain the company. We've already seen signs of this in the form of massive layoffs.

Also, this isn't a market where you can stagnate, so they won't be around indefinitely unless they have the R&D team to keep pace with new trends, plus create a couple of innovations.
So my family is from Bangladesh. My aunt and uncle moved to Toronto. My cousin wants to study business and get an MBA, but his parents want him to study electrical engineering. I didn't get it, until I realized its all about risk aversion. An engineering degree is a secure path to the middle class. A business degree isn't, and entrerpeneurship certainly isn't. The business degree might have a higher potential reward, but middle of the class engineers still get jobs.
"...some study showed that..."

Intriguing. Source, please?
As the article stated, the field of security is huge. According to NIST, there are over 40 sub-specialties.

The example that immediately springs to mind is a low-level CND position. Sure, the ability to program would make you a better CND analyst, but we have already agreed on that.

And they don't understand, no matter how many times they are told, that you have to know how an attack is executed in order to defend against it.
> Kickstarter is one of those SaaSS systems that RMS was arguing against.

I upvoted your post, but this statement misses the point.
How does it matter if Kickstarter is SaaS? The hardware that RMS software runs on isn't free either, neither are his tea bags. Maybe, it would be good if these things were free as well, but I think thats not what we are discussing here.

> idealism gives you a target but not a roadmap

I thought I had spelled out quite a detailed and realistic road map in my last post, no?

> As others here have said without Propietary software much of what we have in software just wouldn't exist

True. Maybe it will always stay this way, maybe it would change if more FOSS was funded by 'crowds'. Git-annex for example is quite innovative I would say. But again, that misses the point a bit. We would like to have the software we rely on to be free. Where the original innovation came from is less important in my opinion - as long as it sustainable. Let me know, if one day innovation dies out because FOSS is eating the launch of commercial software. I can't imagine this ever happening.

I am not advocating that we should not pay for commercial software any more. Just saying we should do our best to fund more FOSS, especially for core technologies like kernels, developer tools, file sharing, communication etc.
So for instance, you could pay Dropbox for their service but also donate to something like git-annex. In the long term git-annex might be cheaper and better so it would pay off.

In my opinion, crowdfunding with a pay-upfront mechanism (ala Kickstarter) is THE answer to one of THE major problems of the 21st century:
How can we compensate creators for information that is no more under their control once released?^

This applies to software, hardware designs, movies, music records and books.

^ Note that an alternative solution that has been proposed is DRM and even police state like laws. That alone makes it a very important problem for everyone.
It takes a while to develop the habit. The biggest part is forcing yourself to go to bed early. :-) I used to be a "Do things until they're done" in the evening person, but switched to a morning routine when I got into management. Part was that my days had too many interruptions (which was the job) and I was frequently waiting for that 1 person who owed me something in the evening. It was better to start fresh in the morning quiet.

This isn't for everyone or every task. For very monotonous work that only I can do (reviewing 200 resumes because I don't trust the automated screener) I will do it at night with a beer in hand. The beer doesn't work so well before breakfast.
A particularly cynical person might look at these things as a way to try and keep you in the office for as long as possible, something to numb the pain of long hours and broken management.

"Sure, we had to work until midnight, but there was pizza" rings a bit hollow when you are older, have kids or other forms of life outside work.
That's not my plan. I just wouldn't have been surprised by the choice.
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I really wish I could upvote your answer more. This is the side of the discussion that most people seem to be missing.

This does not take away anything from the author, his entrepreneurship and his overall success, mind you. However, the points made by ~kamaal and everyone else in this thread are extremely valid. They represent the part of India that is not so 'shining'.

I myself fall in the same category as the author. I chose to drop out of my Masters in Physics (with an elective in Astrophysics) and went to work as a Radio Show host for a commercial radio station. It was made possible only because of an invisible fallback option that my parents provided. Without it, I would probably be working away at a 9 to 5 job writing uninspired code for some company rather than sitting at home trying my hand at programming with Python.

Wait.

Oh, shit.
It's not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. —Goethe
My god! Someone finally discovered the "ENHANCE" filter!

Well, aside from the problem that information can't be created from thin air. You can fix certain lens errors, but you cannot extract details that aren't there on the original.

The most obvious consequence is that you can't use this technique to extract more megapixels than the sensor has.

Less obvious limitations might be the sensibility to noise; all these samples have been taken in bright light, but if your crappy lens produces a very noisy image in low light, this method won't fix it.

Furthermore, the numerical aperture (NA) of the lens defines the highest possible resolution. Even with this method you can't get a higher resolution than wavelength/NA.

Unfortunately, there's no way around the principle "Garbage in, garbage out." Lensmakers rejoice, your business wasn't made obsolete after all!

Nevertheless, I can see exciting applications for this method; one thing that comes to mind are improving the pictures taken by photographic scanners used for digitizing old books.
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I'm not sure, but your comment suggests you might be involved with the project?

Also, no drag & drop UI is substitute for design common sense and flexibility.
> I'm not sure what the solution to this and the main article's problem is, though, other than vigilance.

People with a mission to tell The Truth have a lot more patience and determination than a bunch of regular wikipedia editors.

Burn out happens a lot, and part of the reason is the constant bickering around every single edit to an article for years. Some edits are inconsequential, but poke the wikipedians making or defending those edits as biased and you're helping your biases stay. Goad and provoke those wikipedians and you get to disrupt ANI pages as well. (Luckily, most WP editors realise the hot button topics and tread carefully; leaving us with megabytes of meta discussion over -, --, --- etc.)

I guess WP could employ a small core of people to edit the articles, using a carefully crafted selection of sources; and to deal with propagandists. They'd be trained to use troll-defeating tactics and conflict resolution.
Or , you can be usefull to the real world and actually solve its problems. Some actually love that, you know and some even like boring predictable stuffs...
Yes, I've experienced this exact problem in the past.
Yes, per the post we're discussing: "Including EEGs in basic military first aid kits would also help with both medical diagnostics and clinical care for deployed soldiers"

However, unlike what the parent comment said, brain waves on the field are not going to be used in the short-term to diagnose PTSD. Potential uses of sensors in the helmet would be:

1. Control of other devices (and this better be wired, or the enemy could really screw with wireless).

2. Feedback/stats about the resource in question, e.g. he just got blown up, is his brain still working?, OR these guys just got hit with nerve gas.
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"full-screen" as in "fills your console instead of scrolling" not "makes your console fill your monitor".
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On top of the reasons others have given, forms allow you to create structured feedback with specific questions. What OS are you using? What is your account number? etc. etc.

You can hope that people will include all the relevant details in an e-mail, but I'll bet you most don't.
Ask HN: is PHPstorm worth the price, over Aptana?
Do you think PHPstorm (http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/) is worth the price (yes, it actually costs money) over a free IDE, say Aptana?
My (unsolicited) advice would be, go and find one of those jobs that you idealise from a few decades ago. They still exist, just where they always were, in academia. Of course, it's not all playing, but if you want your job to revolve around programming things that nobody has programmed before, that's the place to be.

Have a look at getting into a PhD programme in Computer Science, Computational Engineering or something even more abstract like Computation Number Theory.
Yes, you cheap!
Yes, barely
It's not any better. It's fighting back.
Age 35 now, starting programming as a kid by reading the manual that came with my Spectrum, getting books out of the library and typing in "listings" from magazines etc..

Had to check wikipedia for when the machine I had came out, but according to that I must have been 8 years old. Kind of scary, since I have a 6 year old myself now.

Learned a lot by reading the original Wiki, which was like the StackOverflow of its day, though more about concepts than specific problems and solutions:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
There's a startup on a an automated home cooking machine[1], read the section about "palate home".

http://gigaom.com/2013/09/26/designer-don-norman-on-his-stea...
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No, I'm suggesting that the point could have been made without quoting Nazi doctrine.

The concept that we should shoot those who hold ideas we don't agree with rather than engage in debate is exactly how we end up with horrible totalitarian regimes.
This could be usefull: http://blog.signifyd.com/2013/02/25/detecting-fraud-in-digit...

In short:
- Check geolocation (difference in paying and address declared on the card)
- Cards change a lot --> higher chance of fraud
- User travels a lot --> higher chance of fraud
...

a similar post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726552
I'm self taught. The first time I got in touch with a programming language was at age 10, when my math teacher showed us an algorithm for the greatest common devisor. I wrote it in qbasic at the time and was astonished by the power of this 286 machine to do my homework. I went on to adapt open source games like nibbles and gorilla. I was especially proud about figuring out the math to turn the bordered nibbles world into a donut. Subsequently I read anything about computers I could get my fingers on. The DOS manual was my evening lecture for several month :D my interest stayed confined to math & algorithms until I got a new physics teacher at age 14, who taught us about fractals & recursion with me starting to learn Delphi and windows apis. I wrote my first self replicating office viruses and trojans and learned about sockets to report back. Couldn't solve the problem of data errors over the internet and went on to other ideas. At age 15 I went for an exchange highschool year to the US. I got suspended for hacking into the principals account. no damage was done, so my visa got reinstated and I was able to leave the country. Back at home I joined a computer class and started learning about cryptography and security. For my final high school exam I implemented RSA. In university I finally learned proper software development and chose a browser rpg Ai as a personal side project to get really good at this "object oriented" stuff :D it ended up being completely autonomous with pathfinding and map building, monster fighting, selling and archiving items and would report gold levels daily, which I would then sell on Ebay. It had to break login Captcha and would use my own wget based API to interface with the browser game. Later I finished a master in Ai. This was 4 years ago, and the rate at which I am creating side projects now a days wouldn't fit in here. As a general rule: for the last 18 years I always had a sideproject to work on and this is how I got good. Feel free to ask specific questions if you want to know more ;)
That is a pretty useless^H^H^H^H^H^H^H subjective statement. The author is clearly trying to alternate between examples for pro Israeli and pro Palestinian bias.
After I graduated from university back in 2006 (studying Management Science), I decided that I liked computers more than I liked Banking or Management Consulting, so I worked for a friend of a friend doing web design, and began to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I read the Pragmatic Programmers books, and spent 6 months at home learning Ruby and Rails in my free time.

About a year later (summer 2007), I got a job working for a ticket search engine called Tickex, doing Rails. I was paid £9 per hour, and worked at a BBQ table and chair. It was a really enjoyable time. we were Seedcamp finalists and nearly got funding from Sequoia, but sadly the funding ran out and the business moved back to California and then shut down. Since then, I've worked at a few other startups, at a web agency called New Bamboo, at AOL, and now I work in a small business. I also had offers to interview at Square and Facebook, but a temporary lack of nationality/family circumstances meant that I couldn't move to California.

The decision to deviate from the path offered by my degree has been one of the best in my life. Before I had learnt to program, I had ideas but no ability to program, so they remained as ideas. Having learnt to program, I have the ability to have ideas and do something about them.
Heh! This is especially true for SIGGRAPH! Just take some ten year old physics / engineering paper, implement the algorithm on a GPU, done!

To be fair, SIGGRAPH has a strong focus on applied work, and the contributions are often extremely amazing, despite the fact that the underlying method has been developed by someone else and published before.
We tend to use a combination of measures.

18 is the legal minimum age to buy cigs (recently raised from 16) and shops should be checking ID. Ideally they check if they think the purchaser is under 21.

We combine that with other stuff - advertising bans, placement restrictions inside shops, quantities sold, eye-watering tax levels, etc.

Some of these are counter productive. The high tax rate means many cigs are smuggled into the country. And this is a route for counterfeit product. Legal cigs are harmful enough, but some of the counterfeit product is worse, contaminated with a variety of weird stuff.

Banning smoking in public buildings (something I'm in favour of) means a few people smoke in their cars, but with their children in the car too. That's pretty bad. Many children are admitted to hospital because their parents smoke, and so increasing the tobacco smoke that children are exposed to feels like a bad idea.

I'm generally tolerant of government regulation, but we have too much in the UK.
Thank you.

I think about quitting every single day, but this fear lets me grind through the day. Being unemployed is just no option if you're not alone/have family.
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Is there anything that forbids those utilities from using system-provided headers and time_t? I think they'll build fine on any POSIX.1-compliant system then.

Unless they're doing something really weird with time_t values, I don't think there's any reason they should know whenever it's long long or int64_t or whatever under the hood.
Furthermore, the South African industry requiring degree'd software engineers almost all still follow a strictly waterfall process, being mostly the defence industry following DO-178 processes

Interesting, I know one programmer who worked in the SA defence industry, and was later retrenched, but that's just anecdotal. Do you have a source for this assertion?

Other firms not in defence also mostly have fixed features / cost contracts they are developing for, which fits the waterfall model of development.

I have to disagree with this, but since the "waterfall"-versus-agile debate has been done to death before, I won't rehash it here.

University coursework always lags industry best practices, so this isn't really surprising.

This is an honours degree from a brick-and-mortar university, so the curriculum lag argument is a bit weak. I understand that an undergraduate degree being taught to hundreds of students may take some time to be updated, but at post-graduate level, I would expect a bit less dogmatism. Come to think of it, during my undergraduate studies, about 10 years ago we learned about agile methodologies and iterative development.
That's not the question I asked myself. Born in a society with limited career options, it was, Would I rather do boring shit I hate? or Would I do boring shit I love and can closely relate to. The answer was obvious to me. It was either that or a Government job with lot's of job security and dangers of certain intellectual death by corruption and general numbness. It was always a choice between lesser of two evils.
> Do you think carpenters are all happy just making what people will buy from them?

An anecdote to highlight your point.

I'm a web developer, but I've built furniture four our new house last year. It was fun, I've learned some new things and, most importantly, it's still there once the electricity goes out. It provides, in my opinion, a lot more value than nth iteration of some corporate website re-design. I thought in a parallel universe I could become a carpenter and live a great life. Then I've imagined the parallel universe in which a frustrated carpenter dealing daily with stupid client demands, building the same table over and over again, physically tired and risking dismemberment on a daily basis, comes home. He wants to make him a website to reach to more clients, so he picks up HTML and CSS and Wordpress, builds it and it's fun, it works, you can interact with this creation from anywhere in the world! He goes to sleep thinking "I should've become a programmer instead...".
Absolutely true -- But I think the parent's point is that it can also mean pizza and beer at 3:00 on Fridays, and ping-pong in the break room whenever you need a break.

Lots of companies do try to create fun, relaxed atmospheres... I wonder how they can let people know (and why shouldn't they?) without getting lumped in with the type of company you mention?
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