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Reading this made me feel a wide range of emotions. But mainly, seriously, wtf...?

Who is funding those apps? This just doesn't propose any value to the user other than momentary coolness (like most other apps for teenagers). Once it fades away, it will be just one of 'cool' apps, like there are thousands of them already.

Or is that $1M with crap-loads of various clauses for releasing money and after all it's actually just a few grands and just some nice PR stuff because media loves $1M?

Are the investors just some rich people who are like 'startups! yeah! I watched Social Network! this will print the money yo!'? Or is there something I don't see?

If not, I just find it a bit insulting to founders who work their butts off with decent projects.
Ridiculous. 128GB SSD is far more useful than a 500GB spinning disk. We stream media from cloud storage now.
Suicide is not the answer, but drugs aren't, either.
Investors fund growth. This app has demonstrated growth.

Isn't $1M pretty much pocket change for big investment funds? What if this app becomes the next Snapchat?

Users give leverage. If the team is dedicated, and they can pivot their adoption into long-term growth, then it was a good investment.

Startup investing is counter-intuitive by nature. It's counter-intuitive for most people to think of $1M as a small amount of money, but to a fund it might be. And if it's a small amount of money, then there's no downside to invest in them. Whereas if they miss their chance to invest in the next big company, then those same investors will ultimately lose, because the entire model of VC depends on (a) investing in a big winner, (b) early.

EDIT: Well, that's what I get for not researching before speaking. 1MM in this case was a large amount of money for any angel investor. But the premise of investing early in a big winner is the central idea.
> 1 Million U$ in profit!

What is the point of raising a million if you make one? Did you mean revenue?
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If you are out in the country then you would not have any access at all without USF. No one is going to run thirty miles of wire just so your little farmhouse can get telecom services; wireless may fix part of this, but that also requires towers, maintenance, and a whole lot of other services that do not justify the revenue you would provide in compensation. Consider your 128k a gift from the rest of us, which it is, and say "thanks" every now and then...
Ah, right you are. Google was a non-party, but was named and served:
"Non-parties affected by Mareva injunctions are not normally before the Court, because applications of that kind are brought without notice. Google was named in this application, served with materials, and attended the hearing."

So the rest of the comment stands, but you are correct that they were not a defendant.
I count 6-7 taps to text somebody 'yo' from my iPhone, depending if they're above the fold in the messages app or not...Wonder how he got to 11
This app does not appear to respect the mute setting on my phone.
I'm currently working on integrating this in my app. I really like the combination of json-schema and json as a protocol. Where no custom UI is defined json-editor jumps in to save the day.
I give to street performers. I don't give to random people sitting on the sidewalk asking for money.

There is a courtyard right out front of my office building. It attracts all sorts of people, probably because it is "downtown" and right by a main exit from the underground train. Most of them just sit around smoking pot, being loud & making a mess. There are at least 5 trash cans positioned around this courtyard... yet these vagabonds just throw their crap on the ground. Not having a home is no excuse for not being a decent human being. I don't give money to them.

On some days people come to perform. Sometimes it is a band that is trying to sell their home made CDs. Sometimes it is just a guy playing bucket drums. I give to them on occasion. I'll give money to a guy playing bucket drums before I give to a guy sitting with an overturned hat and a sign.
I half-agree with you, because there are some companies that use "fit" to determine how much they can use you as a "resource" rather than a human being.

Where I disagree is whether one has put themselves in a situation where they are desperate for a position at a company where they have to lie to pass the fit interview stage. I'd rather be honest and lose than lie, win and ultimately impugn my integrity.

It is very refreshing when you already have a job and are looking for something new, then you can sit back and take a relaxed approach to finding a good company. Once one is found and you are interviewing with them (and interviewing them, as a previous commenter mentioned), then you can ask all the tough questions. If you don't like what you hear, vote with your feet and walk away.

Now, this isn't always the situation people are in, so YMMV but I throw it out there as a piece of advice for anyone interviewing companies.
Not caring about google includes not caring about whether they do or do not send traffic to my site. As you are no doubt aware because you have done so much work to research this there is no advertising on the blog. If people find it through google I'm perfectly ok with that. But I won't bend over backwards to make sure more people will find it, nor will I take action to ensure less people will find it.

The rest of your comment seems to presume you know me better than I know myself so I'll leave that without a reply, but I'm happy that we have established that your original comment was a load of nonsense.
Good idea for an app. Think about it.
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PR is a US Territory. Technically, you never left the country.

"In general, United States citizens and resident aliens who are bona fide residents of Puerto Rico during the entire tax year, which for most individuals is January 1 to December 31, are not required to file a U.S. federal income tax return if they have income only from sources within Puerto Rico." www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc901.html

There are caveats. One that I know for sure is that if you are self-employed, you still must file & pay FICA taxes to the US federal government.
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We just need a way to kill the localized monopolies. Everything else would "auto-correct" it's self.

Image if we all said forget you Time/Warner and Verizon you treat us bad we are going to Sonic.net? What a powerful tool that would be. It's called $$$
Thank you for sharing. I will probably use your advice. Sometimes. And other times, I think it's still better to offer food, blanket or a ticket instead of money, just as people expressed here. At least I won't wonder if I gave someone money for his next dose of drugs.
Indeed. Depending on your opinion of Apple, they either insist on getting it right, or they wait for other companies to work out the bugs for them. Either way, no iMac touchscreens.
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It's 1080p, I think I'll pass this year. No reason to get this when I have a late 2013 rMBP still kicking strong.
When I read about the falling asleep at work and waking up to a headache, I thought sleep apnea was a probable root of the problems. Lack of sleep does terrible things to a person.
So basically, it's down to UX insights for the youth audience, implemented well.
We will add this soon
You fucken heathen-nigger are too stupid to educate.

Can you fucken read? Once every minute they draw numbers in a lottery and post the results, once every minute.
http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm

God damn you are a stupid-fuck nigger.

First, the Beacon-generated numbers cannot be predicted before they are published. Second, the public, time-bound, and authenticated nature of the Beacon allows a user application to prove to anybody that it used truly random numbers not known before a certain point in time. Third, this proof can be presented offline and at any point in the future.

----

You are one stupid-fuck nigger!
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Oh God... I hope it's some sort of joke I didn't get?

HNers are talking that they can't like favourite artists on FB because they are afraid to be affiliated with gangs. Or that liking something might help to detect that the user is gay (I didn't make that up).

I mean, yeah privacy is serious. But if you think someone actually cares and tries to find some meaning in a teenage kid saying 'yo'...
You can't derive context from just a "yo." (to clarify: you can't derive context from this app alone, since all you can do is send "yo"s. There isn't enough information to formulate a why. Facebook/Twitter, of course, could make more use out of the "yo"s, but they already have that data.)
Sorry about that! If you've got questions about it, feel free to ask in this thread and we'll cover them.
Any vision that AT&T has for the Internet would ruin the Internet.
The "nearby hotelling areas" thing is okay when you do everything on a laptop, but as developers we tend to have all our state on a desktop machine driving 2 or 3 large monitors. We can't just pick it up and go into a "focus room", as they're called where I work.

My own opinion is that it should be the other way around. In the open space, library rules apply: brief whispered conversations only. For extended discussions, go into a "focus room".

That, I think, could work.
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Nokia paid millions to protect Symbian from code thieves
An understanding of the planet's various cultures and particularly their art. The history of human self-expression is bound up with religion, for various interesting reasons.
I've heard so much about Celery but still have no clue when it would be used. Could someone give some specific examples of when you have used it? I don't really even know what a distributed task is.
They're very space-efficient and don't create a mess of cords. "Underpowered" is relative to need, and a lot of people don't need all the power in a modern computer.
Exactly. Both the left and the right have stasists that think the future can be controlled to produce a steady-state ideal (some by being reactionary and seeking to duplicate an imagined past, others being technocratic and seeking to impose an imagined future), which frequently creates some very strange bedfellows. Meanwhile all their plans keep getting upended by generativity, engines of serendipity, black swans, virtuous and vicious circles, and accelerating returns.
From the App Store :

"Not just a means of simple but effective communication, Yo is a way of life. Since downloading Yo, all my relationships have improved and I've regrown most of my hair. My girlfriend no longer complains that I don't text her enough, I just Yo that b. Mom no longer asks why I don't call when I just sent that b a Yo."
Well, looking at the other stories on the site, I'm guessing this is coming from the same camp as RT, Zero Hedge, et. al.

As far as I'm aware, while many may disagree with the implied narrative slung across the historical data points reeled off, none of the data points themselves are out-and-out false (well, it may be hyperbolic to say the US put Saddam in power - there's only suggestive evidence that they helped him rise to become head of the Iraqi security forces, afaik) so it's refreshing to me to see something on the current Iraq crisis that is neither just jingoistic ra-ra, nor wildly inaccurate, nor a simplistic partisan opinion piece blaming opposite-flavoured domestic politicians, that still somewhat avoids the conspiracist deep-end.

Surprised they didn't mention Cy Hersh's recent reporting on Libya, Syria and Turkey, though - maybe it doesn't meet their credibility threshold ;-)

I agree on the Pando piece, and I'd also suggest http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/06/13/what-if-us-government-h... as an additional datapoint in looking at this whole sorry mess.
I do that too. I like street performers and sometimes even wish there would be more (not poor, of course). They make the place much nicer. Sometimes the music is even great. I don't have problems with those, they earn their money.
I did on an older drive, but upgraded the drive in December, and lo and behold, it's not on. Rebooting now to see how this affects things. Thanks.
I just want someone to put together a "hypnotoad" sample.
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Sure, but in this case the lego part is kinda minor, it's a basic sculpture but the logic is lifted from and the layout imposed by the original keyboard's contacts.

You can't create a better, more flexible or completely different keyboard (e.g. recreate a symbolics keyboard, or a typematrix layout)
Reminds me of the people who get $100 bills from the bank, and like to whip them out like it's a lot of money. As soon as they spend it... it's now in $20's and $10's... seems pointless.

I do like the idea of carrying some cash around -- far too often I've been at a bar with friends and the venue refuses to split the tab, and somehow I always get stuck fronting for everyone.

But... as with most things... it's not convenient to get cash from an ATM all the time, and I always end up not having cash on me when I need it most.
You derive the context from the metadata. Unless you think metadata collection is harmless because it doesn't provide information?

Anyone worried about metadata collection should see the merit of this app, it is pure metadata-only communication.
People write jsframework.js or Flappy As A Service because jsframework.js is --- face it --- easy, and Truecrypt is hard.

A similar observation can be made about web-based encrypted chat systems versus encrypted block device drivers.
Their hashing algorithms?
We always ask them how they feel about Andrew Jackson, you know the guy on the twenty dollar bill? I am very sure he is more offensive than the football team.

I assume we are only after sports teams because its easy to guilt the owners. Please have Cleveland get rid of their mascot
This makes me think of http://decoupledcms.org/

I don't know who is behind that org, and whether all the technology they reference is completely valid, but the point is that a CMS that is made up of parts is far easier to deal with in the long run than a monolithic entity.

We're already seeing this decoupling happen a lot in practice with static site generators, but there is a long way to go (static sites are rather limited).
I don't want the FCC to have any authority over the Internet. I don't want the FCC giving $25,000 fines to web sites that publish dirty words or wardrobe malfunctions. If "fast lanes" ever really become a problem requiring government intervention (which to my knowledge they haven't yet), it should be in the form of direct Congressional action and very limited in scope.
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Might does not make right. And modern people did not sign off on those conquerings.
Like if it wasn't already cool! Awesome!
Pretty excited to finally see this going up :)...
Seems reasonable. One thing I've learned from HN though is that brilliant and good at crypto are two very different things.
I'd also add:
Be wary of context dependent actions (e.g. render_template, user.set_password, sign_url, base_url) as you aren't in the application/request context inside of a celery task.
1.4ghz core speed and no SSD? For me, and most people, this isn't closing any gap.

Edit: Core speed is actually 0.3ghz lower than I thought...
The F-35 reminds me of the space shuttle. It tries do to many different things, with many different requirements and ends up being much more expensive, much less reliable and not particularly good at any of the things it was designed to do.

I wonder what these projects have in common...
You can if there is a pre-arrangement, or at least the sender and the recipient. Its essentially a contextual "ping" that only the sender and receiver understand, usually from a different channel.

It being easier allows people to drive, spend less time texting when meeting up, etc. Silly use case? Sure. But look at the install base.

I can't believe I hated on Slingshot, but am actually giving this credit.
If you are waiting for someone (at a physical location, for a call, for an email, etc.) a well timed "yo" would be a good reminder.
Yeah the entire reward structure seem kind of nonsensical to me, basically a single person has to donate the entire cost behind an imaging, even if the result is a CC-licensed image; and then you have the upper-tier where someone can own the copyright over an image; ignoring the fact that if someone pays for that for some chip on the list and someone else pays for the CC-image of the same chip the image you own copyright to will be essentially the same as the one that is placed into the CC, even if he goes through the entire imaging process multiple times (which seems like a waste of time, but would technically skirt the licensing clash produced).

Would make a lot more sense, IMO, if it went with a more pooled approach where smaller donations got, as you mentioned, a poster, perhaps with tiers based on presentation (just a poster in a tube, framed poster for more money, etc), dropping things all the way down to say $1-5 to get just a high-res image suitable to use as a desktop background (I realize that anything released under the CC from this could be used this way anyway (and you can donate less than $75); but the point is making an option for people who would like to throw a few bucks his way because the project is cool, but aren't interested in dropping $75-400 on it, but would also like to feel like they are getting "something" out of it, even if just a digital image.
http://live.arstechnica.com/amazons-smartphone-unveil/
Can I ask whether you have a background in encryption or in disk software sufficient to make such a determination authoritatively? Because I know several people that do have that background and none of them have come to this conclusion. It would be interesting to know why your interpretation should be taken more seriously than theirs.

I put it this way --- bluntly, aggressively --- because there's a drive-by element to your comment; "critical flaw", "fundamentally broken", but absolutely no details whatsoever.
I haven't tried that model, but in my experience and from what I've heard, noise cancelling headphones don't work that well on voices. They mostly cancel low frequencies, below the vocal range.

In-ear monitors, that seal the ear canal like earplugs, work much better.
I'm confused as to how your edit makes it better. The statement that heterosexual women need a partner is still plain wrong. Nothing to do with heteronormativity.

Women, of any sexuality, are capable of going without a partner. Men, of any sexuality, may find themselves dependent on a partner. Needing to have your own personal identity without becoming consumed by someone else's is not a gender-specific issue.
You're being facetious because you're not that dense that you can't see a difference between a web application and a fiber connection, even if you don't support telecom reclassification.

>My point is just that the content vs means comparison is a very gray area in the age of the internet.

Yes, there are gray areas everywhere, but sometimes it's not that complicated. This one isn't complicated. In the set of complicated and ambiguous issues, this one is very well defined.
I want a computer in my kitchen breakfast nook. This is a space where I entertain guests - a rat's nest of cables and a large desk are completely inappropriate for that venue. This is a location where I'm willing to pay a premium for aesthetics.

My man-cave basement machine is a proper desktop gaming rig.
Yes, its pretty logical to kill the drive instead of giving you read only mode.
no wonder why they had to pull IPO.
It is, but vehicles including tanks and other armored things use horribly insecure serial protocols for communication. Which is no joke :\
Or their node.js implementation of DNSSEC!
The higher tiers have hard guarantees on response times and level of support you'll get.

In my experience customers do a great job of self-segregating. If you offer "enterprise" as a tier, enterprises will generally pick it, even if the listed benefits are the same as another package. In exchange, they will expect enterprise services -- billing, guaranteed response, etc. No free lunch/get what you pay for.

The only corner case is when an important person at an enterprise customer has a personal account too, or when someone is really being a scrappy startup and trying to run something huge on a personal account due to not having the resources. Usually a good salesperson can handle both of those situations.
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Refreshed the design this morning, might be easier on your eyes :)
This refers to the practice of dipping freshly butchered chickens in chlorine to kill salmonella bacteria. In Europe they vaccinate the chickens instead.
This is a funny thing about FOSS licenses, and I guess a commonly known thing about the advertising clause as it relates to FOSS licensing. The wording in the GPL that causes this situation I believe is: "No additional restrictions may be placed on the redistribution of either the original work or a derivative work."

The intent of the advertising clause is to assert and maintain control over the software in the hands of the creator/owner; this is fundamentally incompatible with FOSS ideology, where anyone can fork and edit, and the leadership of the project is "de-facto" as in the eyes of a community rather than "de-jure". That being said, it is annoying.
I'm just using USF as an example of the unforeseen consequences, because that was the example in the article.

I'm not opposed to some regulation in this area, but I worry about driving investment out of wireline. Goldman is already saying Verizon should ditch its wireline business. Also, I think some level of traffic shaping (e.g. throttling Bittorrent and prioritizing HTTP) is necessary just from a network engineering point of view. I don't want my Netflix packets waiting behind some BT packets containing pirated movies.
It doesn't matter. A licensing pall cast over the project severely hamstrings the future maintainers of the project; big companies, for instance, will be reluctant to get involved while there's a cloud over it.
Cool, I really dig this!
yeah, get others ideas , do something similar and profit
I can't think of anything less useful and more annoying. If I'm watching a game, I don't need to be told when there's a goal. If I'm not, I don't want to be bothered by random 'yo's all the time - especially if I'm not told who scored.
With regards to the relationship, I've been in a similar place. I'd say it takes about five years to truly get over such a profound loss. It's really true that ending a deeply-felt romantic relationship is not much different from grieving a death. I've heard good things about the book, "How to Survive the Loss of a Love" ($7 on Amazon). Also, Zoloft worked wonders for me at a similar time in my life.

Also, get off /r/programming. It's the most emotionally unhealthy thing I can think of for a software developer. It's nothing but a self-aggrandizing, alpha-geek shitfest.
I had the same experience and hold the same view.

As software developers, We've been taught that a good solution to a problem is a "generic" one, a "one fits all" solution.

for example, in this case, a solution that would fit "all" people interested in "any" topic.

The thing is, for all non-tech problems, the best solution is usually the specific one, the custom made one.

Most of the time when you try a generic solution, competitors specializing in a specific solution would beat you.

Jeff Atwood wrote about a similar idea and called it rule of the 3 [1]. I vaguely remember that he also wrote that they used this rule when starting StackOverflow.

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/
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is that so ?