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evoxedon Microsoft’s 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At Online Store Just Hours After Launch

IIRC the Arcade came about a year after the original X360. I had one of the originals, chrome disc drive and 10GB HD (maybe that was usable space). ... Okay, looked it up and you're right, except it was the 'Core' model. Arcade was two full years after launch.

Difference: Premium cost only $100 more than the Core ($400 vs $300) but came with basically over $200 worth of upgrades incl. HDD, wireless controller, headset, and memory card. You also needed the HDD to play Xbox Live.

evoxedon RubyMine 5.0 now available.

A fellow vim/dvorak user here. I started using ruby around three months ago and am only just starting to integrate that back into my regular vim workflow. RubyMine actually looks pretty useful if I'm ever tempted to step back outside my zen (vim) garden...

evoxedon Civilized Discourse Construction Kit

...and vBulleting, InvisionBoard, etc. (Not free, but that's what all the 'cool kids' had not-so-way-back...)

I'm very interested in trying this out. Besides the nostalgic kick of having dedicated forums come back the potential for moving forums forward is pretty great.

evoxedon Why You Should Work From A Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office

A few years ago when I was visiting Buffalo, NY, and Apple had just started making a 30" iMac, someone came in with one and a slew of peripherals and then promptly decided to set it all up on the milk/napkin/straw bar.

evoxedon IMAP client for coders

Sorry, I realized after posting that my phrasing was pretty bad. The current setup looks good for the sort of thing I do– I would pay for it (one time probably)– but if you then made it super easy to set up for multiple users, even if it was a simple shell script or some kind of interface, you could do some sort of tool-subscription (pay once or subscribe for updates). By webhosts I was thinking primarily of people like me who manage a couple servers and do everything server-side for our clients except plug in the fiber...

evoxedon IMAP client for coders

If you offered a license for web hosts to use this, I think I know a whole bunch of coders and designers who would gladly pay for a hackable IMAP client. Kickstarter isn't a bad idea, but you should also try polling people to find out if you could set up SaaS at the same time or some other scheme. There are many possibilities...

evoxedon Evasi0n iOS 6.x jailbreak

Am I the only one getting a stream of NetDB errors (with the occasional HTTP 500 or 502)? I guess I'll just have to wait until... whatever server it's trying to connect to is up and running. I haven't had a chance to install a single package yet.

Edit: Popping over to r/jailbreak confirms it, I guess it'll be a while before things calm down. I just hope I can get f.lux before I have to go to work.

evoxedon The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

If you enjoyed Meditations please keep a lookout for anything by Epictetus. Depending on the publisher titles may vary, but Discourses is common (iirc they were notes compiled from his many stories and teachings). You won't be disappointed.

evoxedon David Gelernter predicted Dropbox in 1996

I felt the same until I started using it. As boring as it sounds, just working and being easy enough for your grandparents to use is apparently enough to get people excited. The fact that it's been done (or tried) so many times before really just makes you appreciate it more.

Yeah, MS, Apple, etc. all should've had this figured out years ago and yet they didn't. So boo on them, but it's probably for the better because now we have Dropbox and you can use it on your Mac or in Windows, on your iPhone, Android, or whatever...

evoxedon How SublimeText Bodybags vim+Terminator

I'm curious, but what's your workflow re: Obj-C development? I only dabble, and for me the vim-xcode bindings are enough but mainly because I don't find myself on the command line much during an XCode session. The built-in shortcuts are all easy enough so that I don't have to use the mouse much either except to use interface builder.

Second, can you share a little on your #4? Aside from the aforementioned Obj-C dabbling, I use vim for almost everything. There are so many awesome plugins that do just about everything I could ask for and therefore I have yet to do any plugin writing myself. Having seen the usual complaints around VimL, what's the deal with external scripting support? I compiled with +python and +ruby since that's what I'm familiar with for plugins, scripts, etc. and a few plugins I have did require one or the other but are there any downsides? Most of t-pope's plugins appear to be straight VimL which makes me wonder.

Apologies for being an idiot, but I'd certainly appreciate some enlightenment.

evoxedon Limiting passwords to 12 characters is "secure enough"

> Forget the password to the encrypted text file? Throw your life away and start a new identity.

Singularity Amnesia?

evoxedon Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners

So, tin foil hoodies? Or maybe chain mail will come back in style?

I haven't encountered one of these yet, but I'd actually be willing to go through if I had some sort of metallic pre-wash all over my clothes.

evoxedon Overeducated and underemployed

On the one hand, there's a lot of unique things you could learn as an urban planner by spending all of your working days driving a cab. On the other, that's not really a field you want to get behind in (unless you want to teach, I guess).

evoxedon [dead]

MacConnection has them for $300 off since December if you go through the link on AppleInsider. That being said, I think it'd be better if flash sales and the like weren't posted to HN.

evoxedon Show HN: Behave.js – Coding Behaviors for textarea elements

Hey, this looks handy! I just wrote something kinda similar as part of an ad-hoc UI layer that just had to be done in HTML/JS. At first I was horrified, but by a couple hundred lines in I realized how nice it would feel to finally tame those meager input boxes into full on forces of good. ;)

evoxedon Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions

It wouldn't be long before every car used in this way became like a small limousine. The efficiency of driverless cars would easily outweigh the cost of such a redesign.

evoxedon Why Are Lego Sets Expensive?

Seems like you found my 2013 TODO list... I'm also hoping to do a RasPi case at some point, but as I haven't actually ordered one to play with yet...

evoxedon The Best of Kickstarter 2012

Warning, it's a long one! Refresh and you'll see it, but I'll try and fix up the formatting too. Seems I mussed my double returns and a few other things.

Whole thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028958

The list (month-by-month): http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=5028959

Stats overview: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028961

evoxedon The Best of Kickstarter 2012

2012: The Stats

  Total pledged
  $319,786,629
  +221% from 2011
  
  Total collected
  $274,391,721
  +238% from 2011
  
  Total backers
  2,241,475
  +134% from 2011
  
  Pageviews
  709 million
  +279% from 2011
  
  Unique visitors
  86 million
  +252% from 2011

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  Category      Launched        Successful      Pledged         Pledges
  Art           3,783           1,837           $10,477,939     155,782
  Comics        1,170           542             $9,242,233      177,070
  Dance         512             381             $1,773,304      23,807
  Design        1,882           759             $50,124,041     536,469
  Fashion       1,659           434             $6,317,799      83,067
  Film & Video  9,600           3,891           $57,951,876     647,361
  Food          1,828           688             $11,117,486     138,204
  Games         2,796           911             $83,144,565     1,378,143
  Music         9,086           5,067           $34,953,600     522,441
  Photography   1,197           427             $3,283,635      46,550
  Publishing    5,634           1,666           $15,311,251     262,738
  Technology    831             312             $29,003,932     270,912
  Theater       1,787           1,194           $7,084,968      95,225

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Thank you!

Thanks to everyone for making 2012 an unforgettable year. Here's to an amazing 2013!

Love, Team Kickstarter Perry, Yancey, Charles, Lance, Cassie, Fred, Andrew, Brett, Cindy, Daniella, Cedric, Samuel, Kendel, Mike, Justin, Meaghan, Tieg, Elisabeth, Jed, Jared, Cooper, Nicole, Aaron, Zack, Stephanie, Aurora, Callan, Jessica, Alex, Chris, Andrew, Dan, Brandon, Tomasz, Katherine, Bridget, Erik, Emily, Shannon, Niina, Bethany, Ian, Luke, Michal, Aaron, Eli, Chris, Leland, Michael, Ellen, Shayne & Jake (http://www.kickstarter.com/team?ref=yir2012)

P.S.: We're hiring! (http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs?ref=yir2012)

evoxedon The Best of Kickstarter 2012

January

10% of the films at Sundance are Kickstarter-funded

19 films selected; four win top prizes (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/Sundance2012?ref=yir2012)

FUBAR hits the New York Times Best Sellers List (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607639297/fubar-2-empir...)

The Kickstarter Popsicle Little Bee Pops celebrates backers with a new flavor (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730155451/little-bee-pop...)

Incident in New Baghdad nominated for an Oscar Second Kickstarter-funded film to be nominated (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941167757/incident-in-n...)

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February

Double Fine Adventure (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-a... ) kicks off a huge year for games

Games in 2012: 561,574 backers $83,144,565 pledged 2,796 projects

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March

Backers make Chattanooga the first US city with its own font Font integrated into bike lanes, billboards, and even the public library, then released online for free (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chatype/chatype-a-typefa...)

Stanford teaches Kickstarter for class credit (Our Kickstarter School is still free) (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/storyviz?ref=yir2012)

A Kickstarter-funded bus stop in Georgia Athens artist spices up the morning commute (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016187241/the-love-shac...)

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April

Google Maps integrates images from DIY mapping project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775485688/balloon-mappi...)

Dark Sky app predicts the weather (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperl...)

Air Quality Egg makes fighting pollution awesome (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg...)

Kickstarter turns three (http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstart...)

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May

Classical music goes open source Musopen and Open Goldberg Variations release recordings to the public domain (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-relea...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-...)

Cards Against Humanity tops the Amazon charts Friends make irreverent card game, sell 100,000+ copies, ruin family gatherings forever (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/cards-against-...)

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June

A Kickstarter-funded opera premieres at the Kennedy Center 188 backers help produce Paola Prestini’s Oceanic Verses (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/MexicoSings/oceanic-vers...)

MaKey MaKey inspires the world’s first banana piano One project, infinite possibilities (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-i...)

Open source geiger counters measure radiation levels in Japan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanbonner/safecast-x-ki...)

Musician writes songs for backers, including his grandma The cutest thing we saw all year (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2031742392/he-said-she-s...)

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July

Kentucky sixth-graders send a camera to space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifres/the-edge-and-bac...)

Design firm Final Frontier develops a civilian space suit (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier...)

Publisher's Weekly calls Kickstarter the #2 publisher of graphic novels (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/co...)

Kickstarter gets parodied The New Yorker, The Daily Show, Portlandia, McSweeney's, The Onion, Funny or Die, and others make us laugh (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/07/30/cart...) (http://www.kick-stopper.com/) (http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter) (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-k...) (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70f7ef3d34/bar-refaeli-s-se...)

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August

T-Rex wins Olympic gold Boxer Claressa Shields, subject of the doc T-Rex, triumphs in London (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zcdc/t-rex/posts/286163)

87 projects go to Burning Man Art cars, bathroom beacons, laser lights, oh my! (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=burning+man)

Kickstarter-funded journalists cover the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/journalism?ref=yir2012)

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September

Amanda Palmer debuts in the Billboard Top Ten Thanks 24,883 backers with a block party (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palm...)

The world's first pizza museum Philadelphians pay tribute to the glory that is pizza (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023690459/pizza-brain-t...)

Kindergarten class launches experiments into space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-...)

XOXO Fest explores the creative universe Kickstarter-funded festival unites artists, creators, and technologists (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival...)

Projects transform public spaces The Lowline, Kulturpark, and Logan Parklet create new urban environments (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-und...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?re...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the...)

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October

The first hackerspace opens in Baghdad (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-...)

Kickstarter opens to UK creators Picade first to launch, Chime Pavilion first to succeed (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arca...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chi...)

Photography exhibition travels across Afghanistan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52943134/streets-of-afgh...)

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November

OpenROV sends underwater robots around the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open...)

Atlanta's first squirrel census Turns out, there are even more squirrels than we thought (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamiewashere/inman-park-...)

Windowfarms grow in the American Museum of Natural History (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-gro...)

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December

63 Kickstarter-funded films (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/filmsintheaters?ref=yir2012) open in theaters

The first marriage proposal via Kickstarter project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door...)

The Griz Coat (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2...) makes bear hugs even better (Aaron's dancing skills not included)

evoxedon The Best of Kickstarter 2012

  TEXT-ONLY VERSION FOR MOBILE BROWSERS &C;

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From groundbreaking projects to inspiring stories, 2012 was a year of many memorable moments on Kickstarter.

To celebrate the year that was, our team put together this look back at some of our favorite projects and moments. We hope you enjoy!

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Let's begin with some numbers

In 2012 2,241,475 people

pledged a total of $319,786,629

and successfully funded 18,109 projects

Backers pledged $606.76 per minute to projects in 2012

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Of the 2.2 million people who backed a project in 2012

570,672 people backed two or more projects

50,047 people backed ten or more projects

452 people backed 100 or more projects

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People in 177 countries backed a project in 2012

That's 90% of the countries in the world

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Of Kickstarter's 13 creative categories

Music had the most funded projects with 5,067

Games had the most money pledged at $83 million

Art, Film, Music, Publishing, and Theater each had more than 1,000 funded projects

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17 projects raised $1 million+ in 2012

evoxedon The Best of Kickstarter 2012

  I'll post a text only version in a sec.

evoxedon A New Look for Vagrant

Looks great! One nitpick, the homepage button beneath Get Started could be a little bit wider, or the type on both buttons could be tracked down a tad.

evoxedon Rethinking Passwords

I've never used the simple lock– I have a long passphrase that I prefer. It still won't let me change keyboards, despite setting the OS language being set to Japanese. It's up-to-date software wise, but was purchased in the US so...

evoxedon The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Arduino

For those of us who already spend an inordinate amount of time digging through bins of old and often dead electronics for components... I'm just glad that Arduinos and other similar devices have made my hobbies more acceptable (and helpful!).

evoxedon Can Subscription Model Save Small-Town Movie Theaters?

Exactly! I didn't even mention that Monday/Wednesday (can't remember which) is matinee price all night. It's really great for meeting up with friends or multiple families going to see big releases (like the Hobbit) together. And of course lastly there's the "screening studio", which is just one of the three screens that sometimes shows local/regional productions or hosts forums.

And yet another update: I'm thee right now, waiting for the Hobbit. Apparently they do 3d now, with all new projectors. They're doing even better than I thought...

evoxedon Can Subscription Model Save Small-Town Movie Theaters?

There's a theater one town over, population about half of that (edit: 1/3- it was 960 as of 2011). They've been doing pretty well, better than ten years ago even! Their prices are the same as every other theater (the next one being 45 minutes away), but now they have a gallery and cafe upstairs. Before any previews start, they play a slideshow of ads for local businesses. A subscription sounds nice, but I think the only way it could really work is if people actually want to be there, in which case all those other improvements become twice as helpful.

evoxedon Rethinking Passwords

I'm looking forward to the day that I can use more than just English letters and a couple special characters. It was pretty disappointing to me that I couldn't open the kana keyboard while setting the lock password on my iDevice. Unlike stuff on the web, their system is closed and serves just that one purpose. Am I missing something horribly obvious here?

evoxedon Ask HN: Do any open Furby-like projects exist?

Well, I remember trying to get my cousins to cut open their stuffed animals so that I could stuff my Lego Mindstorms creations inside. I'll be checking back in this thread, definitely something I'm interested in as well.

evoxedon Computers: It's time to start over.

Maybe they were dictating, or inputting handwriting. They're close in sound and spelling.

Edit: Should've opened the darn thing first. It's a transcript, so probably just the speech conversion.