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Actually, it anticipates your complete movement based on your initial movements. Recent neuro scientific research suggests that we consciously justify subconcious decisions (as opposed to consciously reacting to subconscious stimuli). Imagine a system that knew what you were about to say based on your context, body language and subtle facial expressions.

This is scary because the more you know about human perception, the more you realize that this kind of anticipatory system can be applied to all kinds of human decision making.

This is the beginning.

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The US, I'll update the page accordingly.

Care to share some of your experiences with MoPub?

Clickable: http://www.majorapps.com/stats.html

Your statement 'there are some really dumb people out there' could also be phrased as 'there are some really smart people out there who have better things to do than surf the Web all day' and just want to get to the information they are looking for without having to decipher an interface.

It'll be interesting the reaction of developers here, some will win, others will lose.

This could be the moment of truth for Apple.

Any time I read an article that references the 41 shades of blue experiment in a negative context, it turns me right off the rest of the article.

Use OSX - at least here on Chrome text is automagically underlined when there is a spelling error.

Like it or not, grammar and spelling has a huge influence on people's perception of you. Online we don't have the visual and auditory cues we use to make judgements. So I have mixed thoughts - pointing out someones flaws in public is never a good thing.. if you really feel the need to correct someone, do it in private so they don't feel embarrassed.

Note that beta testing is not user testing. I would read up on the background to usability testing. Briefly, there are two types of usability tests - formative and summative - summative research is more when you are developing the product and want to iterate rapidly based on feedback from users. Summative testing is when you want to create a baseline of data for comparison with future releases.

Your beta testers should be using the product over a longer period of time than a usability test, which is typically a one-off session.

I think we'd need more info on the success of your current monetization strategies. E.g., for advertising, what is your current CPM? How about a rating system for views? A mobile app? Can you derive any info from the artwork such as histograms, feature detection etc?

Kinvey looks great, although I wonder if they'll do a Parse and change their pricing model as soon as they go out of beta?

The problem is the user has to re-enter their password with each server call, which will probably reduce the completion rate.

So you would have to download all content from the cloud onto your device? Apps, movies, books, music etc? Not feasible this would take far too long and would severely limit the space available on the device.

That sounds a little counter-intuitive. Do you have a reference?

"HN doesn't implement weighted voting for comments?

Er considering your karma is far less it's not quite going to make up for it. I'm assuming you've been rather successful in the important things in life ;) ?

In a similar vein, I've heard of people claiming to charge per spam email received, is there any precedent of someone successfully claiming there?

Create a recurring revenue model - i.e. send my trail mix once a week.

I moved to SF 4 months ago and absolutely love it. I've lived in major cities in Europe and New York, and SF blows all of these cities out of the water.

SF is a city of micro-cultures, sure there are some areas that are extremely sketchy (e.g. Tenderloin, Western Addition, Hunters Point), but most areas are pretty safe with open green spaces, good restaurants, interesting bars and an incredible tech scene. Whats not to like? How are you defining quality of life?

Depends on the site.. what backend are you using?

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Ok. So a famous author decides to make a sword fighting video game. Awesome. But.... I feel from the video that what they are really trying to create is a sword fighting simulator. Big difference, playability is incredibly important, we're all familiar with 'arcade modes' where realism is suspended to create an engaging, fun game. So I'm wondering how successful this 'game' will actually be.

Define profitable, it's extremely easy to build something that generates revenue.

The difficult part is to build something that provides enough revenue to support 1+ employees, office space, etc

"You may ask, why am I doing this? The answer is: no f'ing idea :)"

Love it.

I wouldn't limit the goal of science to developing predictive models, to completely understand a behaviour we must also be able to describe, explain and control the behaviour.

See my comment below - is there such a thing as a scientific 'idea'?