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That's not going viral... going viral is 8 million visitors in one day. What you have is about the amount of traffic we get in ~10 minutes. You need to chill out.
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Thats a joke right? Imagine where Germany would be today if. Marshall had no plan for Germany after the WW2.
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> But when you talk about adding something psychoactive to the drinking water, it's just a horrible idea.

Should we remove trace amounts of lithium from water in areas where it's naturally occurring?
When I viewed the vids on the page, my first thought was...

* - wait, isn't that the guy from that 1-in-all credit card startup that got featured on HN about 6 months back? ...I thought he was an employee or owner of that biz. - *

I couldn't remember the startup's name, but I sure did recognize the guy's face. And associated the startup's brand with something that is being used on many other projects.

But then again, 99.95% of the people that view these vids might not be in the HN or startup space.
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It's a good way of understanding spatial streams. Each pixel is a highly-directional transmit antenna, and each of your rods and cones is a highly-directional receiver. The result is 1920x1080 streams that you can interpret all at once!

(Of course, given the extremely wide bandwidth of visible light and the high SNR between your TV and other light sources, you don't need that many spatial streams to beam the information representing HDTV across space. But humans.)
Of course, You are absolutely right. The author said he had no idea how to value his work and I was thinking... Hmm, he might try to use financial math formulas such as the NPV as help. If the game makes $9000 profit per year at a discount rate of 3% you could value it:

$8738 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 1)
$17221 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 2)
$25458 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 3)
$41217 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 5)
$76772 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 10)
$133897 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 20)
$284390 ... (makes profit for N years, where N = 100)

And no software is able to make profit for 100 years.

(disclaimer: my calculation might of course be wrong, I didn't put much thinking into it)
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This is kinda cool, and might help out the web crowd which is working with Chrome OS at the moment.(I'm writing this comment on a Chromebook right now)

Why anyone would use this rather than inkscape on either Linux or Windows, however, is beyond me.
Your FAQs promise Linux support, but your beta announcement page doesn't mention Linux at all. Is the expectation that Linux users should know to download the source and compile it themselves, or is the beta release not available for Linux yet?
Not all war is class war, only most. Unless you think the ruling elite of, say, Israel and Saudi Arabia are on friendly terms.
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Anyone dealing with antennas and noise should read the classic 1946 paper by Dicke: http://www.eng.yale.edu/rslab/internal/Papers/dickepaper.pdf

tl, dr: One puzzler is that antenna radiation is frequency dependent, while that of Johnson noise in the microwave regime is flat with frequency. Then, considering detailed balance, how does an antenna matched to a terminated coax cable establish thermal equilibrium with space? What happens is that the 1/f^2 of the antenna pattern is cancelled by the f^2 (in the long-wavelength regime) of the Rayleigh-Jeans blackbody radiation formula.
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We have not built packages for Linux yet, but we will definitely do so for the 1.0.

Getting the Windows and Mac packages shipped by Beta was a priority so we could get feedback on how they behave and have time to track down issues before the 1.0. The app is already very stable on Linux, there we just need to coordinate with the community to get packages built (and efforts in that direction are already well underway).
I realised as soon as I posted it that I should have headed over to Github! Would be great if you could head over and give me a hand. ;-)
Yeah, but the lowest spec German cars are not made in Germany; Mexican VWs. Can I even buy a German made car in the US, other than a Porsche? Last I had was a VW Corrado.

There are quality things made in the US, just not many domestic brand cars.
Until thunderbolt stop being a proprietary technology, I hope it will stay where it is right now: ready to disappear into irrelevance when OCuLink (finally) comes out.
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I don't think you're required to move anything, when you create an app and add the database you're given the db credentials and can access it from whatever you want and it scales/bills independently from the hosting platform.

There's also AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
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>I'm not sure what I did to luck into my company being on HN today (thanks, coldtea)

Heh, I first become aware of Sandwich with the Navdy posting yesterday, I wasn't even aware of the other videos.

My initial reaction from the Navdy thing was, hmm, this is a very likable talent they have there, they guy is impossible to hate (unlike say, Justin Long), and (script aside) very good and casual in explaining this thing.

So, then I checked the company who made the video, and I was surprised seeing you're also the director, plus, you're in tons of other startup videos you've made. So, I found that cool and amusing, hence the post.
Presumably a lot have changed, but if anything we can pretty safely assume it has changed for the worse, not better.
I too have never done either, and also scored 12.
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This is awesome. I created an account just to make this comment. I did not even realize I played this as a kid until I started to play it here.
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Don't be ridiculous. An idea is original if there's no prior art. If there's no prior art, spying on other people doesn't magically cause prior art to spring into being.
10GbE cost is dominated by expensive switches, not by the cost of ethernet cards.

This aside, Thunderbolt is not switched, so comparison is meaningless. There are very few opportunities where you use either Thunderbolt or Ethernet for the same application. The topology is very different.
> Why did they feel this way?

Because the vast majority of people know - rightly - that they have never engaged in anything at all that would in any way affect any foreign governments. And usually not their own government either. They don't see any reason why anyone would want to subject them to surveillance.

Because of the shock and horror that people displayed when the extent of the Stasi surveillance was uncovered - at the time, even the most ardent regime critics tended to be surprised at the Stasi revelations.

It seemed impossibly paranoid for anyone to engage in the level of surveillance that the Stasi did.

Granted, technological progress have made Stasi level surveillance vastly easier, but I don't think most people are even now accepting just how much data is being captured and analysed.
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People (outside IT) are not interested in knowing more about tech. For them technology is nothing more than magic, and they have no problem with that, nor at work or at home.

Having an iPhone in your hand does not make you a "nerd".
It makes you stupid in my eyes, when I discover you use it only for messaging and calls.
Has there been a single report, story, or even rumor that the United States has ever used the NSA to assist american corporations in developing inventions?

Nothing in any of the snowden reports even hints at this - so I think your comment that "no patents have original ideas any more because of spying" is a little out there.
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Hi, I think trying to sell the game is a pretty good idea. Since you probably don't have much experience in selling software (services), just a small tip:

I read in your article that you offer a bit of support. If you manage get to make a deal with someone, do make sure that in your agreement you explicitly mention for how long you will offer support. Make it nice and short, like 3-6 months, perhaps just a few weeks.

If you are tired now, you will only become more tired if your support of the project goes on, and it will keep worrying you if there's always someone who contacts you about things of your project.

If the amount offered justifies it, perhaps find out if your university can get you in touch with a nice contract lawyer that can go over the transaction for you, but don't worry about it too much. There's not that much can go wrong, as long as the agreement is clear that everything is supplied 'as is' and the support is properly time-constrained and makes no promises beyond 'best effort', and especially if the other party is allowed to inspect the goods before receiving them, not much can go wrong.

If you are the worrying type, you could put the funds received in a savings account and not touch them for a year or so, so you'll always have funds to settle any disagreement.
What is Mailpile's story for DIME (formerly Dark Mail)?
Octarine or GTFO ;)
Nice story, funny and cute acting, but definitely lower quality in a lot of production areas, which is what 10x ensures you get.

Two things that struck me were the lighting (amateurish) and the DOF (or abundance of it).
Cool, that's understandable and I look forward to the 1.0 release.
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It's not always lazyness, several small connections can be considered worse than one bigger payload in some scenarii.
There's no universal truth about API design, every case is different.
They do have plans for it https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...

GP's comment is still far fetched. But US does indeed contemplate on starting economic espionage if they ever lose their tech lead.
Isn't the MLS like the law degree of the humanities? I.e. there's been a vast oversupply produced and I doubt the quality is even across the board.
Doing this with JSON is a neat idea. I recently learned that Excel workbooks do this using a sharedStrings.xml file in the .xlsx package.
Bloodmoney?

No-one died just yet from Navdy.

I love to see this kind of technology on HN and not just apps that play with pictures, videos or text.
Why does owning an iPhone make you stupid? That comment is stupid (Note: I do not own an iPhone and never have).
If its developed as a secret, you will never prove prior art.
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The DIME story is largely "wait and see", but we've reached out to Ladar and the stuff he talked about at DEFCON sounded very promising. We'd love to be one of the first apps to support it.
Jekyll has been absolutely fantastic for me. Also, hosting is free (or $7/mo if you'd like to keep the source private) via Github Pages. If you're not using GH pages, it still works just fine: simply build the site, and push the _site/ directory to your hosting provider.
I don't like the idea of not having my development certificates under control. They should be as secure as the production certs in my opinion.
I use PHPKi for that purpose, it's not pretty but easy to setup and it runs in my own environment.
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Core team designer here. Ask me design / UX questions & ideas :)
It's a pretty nice set of apis. I wrote an app that overlays the events feed onto google maps for geo eventin goodness.

http://nyevent.in

Source: https://github.com/jasonmoo/eventin
I agree but it's not totally ridiculous, because prior art has to be published or at least known about. So if a technology was worked in a secret laboratory which was stolen, there was no prior art as all the thieves would say was "we've been working on this for years also, and released it before you".
I like the idea (in fact, I used to be pretty serious about solving problems on project Euler and other such sites) but I think it is misnamed. Erdos was all about proofs not computations. If you made the questions require proofs of general theorems, not "mere computations" then you would really have something different and cool, and appropriately named.
Unfortunately, Coq is about as good as it gets when it comes to writing proofs a computer can check, and that would be no fun for anyone.
I can't speak for Erdos of course, but I suspect that he would not want his name attached to such a product. He really was all about proofs.
As the link shows, its from 2009. Also as an example, its proven that the Canadian spied on Brazil for trade secrets. If Canadians do, for sure the principal do it also. And because the law in US forces you to obey secret courts with secret orders, you are never sure about the truth nor trust any claim from a US citizen/corporation.
My interpretation of GP's comment: Owning an iPhone doesn't make you stupid, owning it for just messaging and calling does.

I disagree, though. I have a number of friends with iPhones they use for little more than that, but they were free from their spouse or a family member. They either don't pay for a data plan or the data plan is part of a shared family plan so cost-wise it's a wash compared to dumbphones. They also happen to have a decent amount of storage (though not competitive with things like the iPod Classic until this latest generation of iPhone) so they can carry just the phone and have their music, calling and messaging in one device.
Um... Last time that happened it was pretty horrible...
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Also, for those who might not know, the image used in the article references something called a Warrant Canary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
> It makes you stupid in my eyes, when I discover you use it only for messaging and calls.

I understand what you're trying to say, but I think there are better ways to say it.
It is definitely US centric. It is also very Apple-centric. Many times I see a blurb "New app X that does Y" which sounds interesting only to click on it and because they use url shortener/redirect find out it is either a direct link to the ios store or that it is an ios app. It would be nice if they would indicate that something was only for one platform or at least directly link to the page so you could see that it was a link to apple or google or whatever before clicking on it.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/is-the-unite...

http://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/i-graduated-fr...

http://mrlibrarydude.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/i-graduated-fr...

So yes, very analogous to the oversupply of law school grads. The MLS comes across as the backup degree for liberal arts majors who don't want to go to law school, to be honest.
Bare minimum. That's less than my consulting rate in Alabama, and it's not exactly Silicon Valley out here.
Don't forget about Tetris, the Soviet original released in 1984.
Is it really that low? 1 times annual revenue? So BCC would be worth only a mid-five-figure number (not sure what your last reported numbers were)?
This is really cool. I think these news APIs are really under appreciated
Some people do care about the experience they provide, whether people are paying for it or not. Their pride in the game is important. They feel it reflects poorly on them if they're not providing good service. I can see how this would provide unwanted pressure when you're trying to study hard.
I've seen a lot of broken window fallacy recently. I've heard it a lot in the past few days, mostly with respect to Syria.
I have been taking bipolar meds for a dozen years. Compared to atypical antipsychotics, benzos or other mood stabilizers, lithium is a walk in the park. I think the x hours of TV or internet 'use' a day makes a more docile society than a little lithium would.

The article omits 7up (which contained lithium for a while) and lithia water which you can buy online right now: http://lithiamineralwater.com/store.htm
You should worry more about the attention you're going to attract from that name. I'll re-iterate the above comment that its really a bad choice.

Naming things is one of the hardest problems period.

The naming problem is felt by all, but programmers really feel it. Go ask any parent how long they deliberated on their childs name.

I recently had a very difficult time describing a project that I'm working on with a coworker because of its name. After much discussion we realized we were both on the same page; but the name really threw them off. I am continuing work on the project, but also considering a new name. (though I can take a while to change the projects name as it shouldn't offend anybody)

For reference: Go do some cursory searches around 'misogyny in tech'

Lastly; here is another project with a similar name. You can see the result when this hit front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121268
There are few who can make this happen. If you're not minecraft or a subscription/in-app-purchase game, you're out of luck.
No benchmarking or comparisons with gzip.
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have you taken lithium?

i have, for years, and i currently take "antipsychotic medication", which is actually a yet another term that, thanks to marketing, has lost all meaning. the comments about lithium making you "docile", and "soulless robots" are spot on. and there are "antipsychotics" that act as mood stabilizers that are a lot less soul-sucking than lithium is.

respectfully, it is you who are misinformed.
Safety issues asside, no one seems to be pointing out that this product is unprotectable: nothing they are doing has any barriers to entry, so what is to prevent a car manufacturer or anybody else from doing the same? Here's someone doing the same without any hardware: http://www.hudwayapp.com/
Also, that video is too smug.
Gwern's writings on nootropics are particularly fascinating. They read like the works of a mad scientist (in a good way). Erudite, meticulous, and also a tiny bit reckless. Gwern treats himself like a human guinea pig, then documents and analyzes the results more carefully than I've seen in some research papers. The whole process, furthermore, reads like a dialogue between Gwern and the reader. To be more precise, it reads like a dialogue between Gwern and Gwern's imagined idea of a highly intelligent reader -- a reader whose place you find yourself wanting to fill.

Gwern's archive is eccentric, to say the least. But it's one of the best places on the web to lose oneself for an afternoon.
>The USA? Don't they just print money?

It isn't a mere house of cards; we bully developing countries for their resources, too.

>The kids at school that work out their own homework go on to do well.

This is true, to some extent, but it isn't a guarantee.

>The kids that copy from others don't really succeed too brilliantly. Those that copy are a step behind.

Are you implying some kind of meritocracy exists? Because I would disagree. Some of the kids that cheat seem to do quite well, much to our collective detriment.

In terms of innovation, I don't see American goods as anywhere near as polished as their German counterparts.

I agree. IMO some of that is a deliberate compromise between durability and cost, and some of it is probably just industrialized sloth and rent seeking. We do still have lots of innovation here, but IMO we've lost that edge, and are doing nothing that would help us regain it, or even remain competitive.

> I would take the lowest spec. German car over any American car in current production without hesitation. The same applies to white goods and even cakes!

You might be interested to know that I have two German (and two American) cars in my drive right now. I'm happier with the 1982 model though than I am with the 1999; but even with their problems they are superior to their American "equivalents". German cakes? You've gone a step too far!
Germany started WW1 because it could not let Russia mobilize. You leave your precious flank open, and suddenly you start speaking Soviet, as mentioned.
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Over the past 14 years I've taken Lamictal, Lithium, Depakote, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Geodon, etc. I still take the first 3. I also got a masters, a PhD, recorded 3 albums with my band, played on plenty of others and worked on plenty of creative outputs (including programming).

I agree that when I first got on those meds at 21 after a psychotic break I was totally torn up. Now at 35 I couldn't imagine my life any other way. Have I become less creative? I honestly don't know and it's kind of frightening to think that perhaps I have. How would I ever know?

If you haven't seen what your life you be like permanently institutionalized (I've been hospitalized for mania 6 times) perhaps strong drugs aren't for you. If you have seen the other option (life inside a hospital), it makes a lot of sense.

If you think Li makes you a zombie, try intramuscular haldol or seroquel or even ativan. Those will knock you out, the first one literally. :)
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It was smart of them to release bad news at the same time as the apple announcement. Not many have talked about the Tinder Issue and Snapchat’s settlement, as a result.
You could also open source it, if the sale fails.
People seem interested and people might run with it.
I can't see that happening.

For one Thunderbolt sharing the DisplayPort connector is critical for many laptop makers who simply don't have the space to fit any other ports. And secondly Apple has a strong presence in the content creation markets which will be hard to overcome.

But the biggest issue of all is that there really isn't any benefit for the mass consumer in any of these technologies. USB is more than capable for storage and many other needs.
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As far sucking US d*ck is concerned, most countries do that. The US goes to war of some or other kind on the countries that don't.
Many meaningful things aren't worth any monitary value. Its better to focus on money (the life blood of any company) so you can hopefully create meaning.
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These are good links, thanks for sharing them!
"sucking US d*ck big time." has several other options available:

"In cahoots with",
"defers to",
"is complicit with",
"is subservient to",
"is unquestioning towards"

See, you just need to sprinkle a little bit of vocabulary to taste. I'll admit, it doesn't have the same panache as your "dick", but it is less derogatory.
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Still, for simple high-bandwidth networking needs it should suffice.