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The article claims the BYD F3 costs half the price of the Corolla. Despite its recent recall problems, Toyota has a highly efficient inventory system, and I highly doubt that 50% of the cost of the Corolla is profit.

Is BYD's car really equivalent to a Corolla? What exactly are they copying then?
I didn't see your first version, but I like what you've done overall.

A few notes: The interface is clean, but I wish I could see the major parts without scrolling. This probably doesn't need to have a period: "Login with Google."

I think you're one more design revision from perfection.
Off topic: Why do Yahoo links expire? It's quite annoying.
The content of the article should be evaluated on its own merits, whatever your opinion of the source. Even the most partisan individual can make a good argument.
Unless the interviewer re-phrased everything the "Scammer" told him, this interview is certainly fake. Nigerians (in Nigeria) definitely don't talk like the supposed scammer.
FWIW, I'm Nigerian
I think one of the reasons Buzz has garnered so much back lash is because it really feels like this sudden intrusion. The other social sites bring at least as much noise, but you have to go and sign up for them. Once you are signed up for them, you have to grow your network over time, at a pace you can control. With Buzz, all you have to do is click "Okay" (which a lot of people do without even realizing), and suddenly you are hit with dozens of connections, and a lot of noise you had no idea you were asking for by clicking "okay". A lot of people who are annoyed now might have been fine with it if they had entered into it in a more organic fashion. I think it does promise to be a really convenient service. But the sheer suddenness and ubiquitousness of it almost guarantees a backlash.
I don't believe it's that simple.

You have Catholic numbers dropping like a rock in America in the wake of the scandals and etc. This whole new "Catholics Come Home!" ad campaign isn't cheap and isn't typical of them.

You have the European birth rate going negative. You have growth markets like Asia starting to level off. Where are you going to get growth from? The Church's stance on contraception and abortions is directly tied to make sure there are enough money-donating catholics around to keep the machine going.
I may need to make some edits to change the tone. I am not against regulation per se, though I am against particular regulations which have perverse negative unintended consequences, as I describe. There are advantages to being in a regulatory climate, and certainly I prefer a business world ruled by law over anarchy.

I think that medical insurance here in the USA is particularly bad. Nationalization is also bad, but relatively superior, I think, lowering costs for everyone and improving care in the final analysis. Medical care, and insurance in particular, could be orders of magnitude better, but only if customers actually care about medical insurance. It's not exactly a treasured consumer choice. If health insurance and medical care were rolled in together, and marketed as being about healthy lifestyle choice, then you could get people to take notice. Kaiser Permanente accomplishes some of these goals, but is rather monolithic, and doesn't go far enough.

I've thought about trying to fix health insurance too. Another dramatically huge problem with huge barriers to entry. But maybe there could be a Yelp of health insurance that I could get people to care about. It was one of the 'alternative ideas' I had for that particular YC interview. Telling the partners raised the predictable eyebrows!
No problem. It's something that's being worked on, just merging them becomes a pain. If your dependencies are truly static, in the sense that you're not modifying them or updating them often, it shouldn't be a big deal. Usually it's large images or other 'asset' type stuff that causes a bloated repo.
But bankrupt means you don't run the company/country anymore - they call in the receivers, and KPMG or whoever sell off the assets for scrap.
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It simply is not hacker news, though, unless people want to turn this into some sort of political debate site, which would be very, very easy. It's way easier to find articles about politics and economics than it is to find good articles about hacking and startups, and they're far 'stickier' in terms of drawing people into lengthly, pointless discussions that end up in flame wars. As this thread demonstrates quite well.
I think the fact that they are, in a sense, late to the party on this stuff means they don't want to just take a passive approach to building a community of Buzz users.

I mean, I for one didn't mind it doing contact stuff for me. Saved me some time trying to add a bunch of people.
I wish I was able to properly do that. A lot of times, it's really hard for me, as I started with BASIC when I was 7, and so I can't really remember a time when I didn't code. That whole experience is essentially lost for me. It's like saying, "Try remembering how hard it was to learn to read."

So I try to just be extra cognizant of the fact that most people just don't _get it_ like we do.
You've nailed it, Trevor. This is probably our first market -- with a few twists of our own! :-) We have to sell to a customer that can either profit by the savings, or is using batteries now but cursing the technology. Otherwise we will go bankrupt out of frustration as we wait for people to stop sitting on their hands...
Not since Suez, the last time the UK got to play at soldiers against the US wishes was the Falklands.

The UK has a huge amount of investment in the US, if the US were to treat the UK like it did France after they refused to join the 'coalition of the willing' it would do a lot more harm to the UK economy than boycotting Perrier did to France's
It looks like this is missing one of the (IMO) most useful pieces of Processing, though: the "one click to run" IDE. Processing is pretty much the only environment around that you can download, open, type in a few lines of code, and have an OpenGL accelerated graphical program running without any sort of configuration or installation, and (again, IMO) this is one of the most compelling things about it, especially for beginners. That would be particularly nice for iPhone, especially since XCode sucks so hard, but I can't be too greedy - I realize that getting things to build for iPhone is a nasty process that essentially must go through XCode, so perhaps there's nothing that can be done.

Even just as a library Processing is quite useful, filling in all of those simple graphical things that intuitively feel like they "should" be in any language by default (line drawing, fills, etc., and especially all the annoying graphical setup and keeping frame rates steady), so I'll definitely be checking this out.
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arazorashinyknife, eh? We run in similar circles (friends with cathy erway?). Is your project food-related?
Google automatically setting up your followers for you is bound to draw a lot of ire. Anytime a company takes data which users thought of as private and make it public users quite rightfully feel violated.
However I don't think that Buzz is just creating more noise. As roc11 pointed out for him, and other users who get a large number of "check this out" emails, buzz really results in a decrease in noise. As to the complaint that Google should be concentrating on solving the data overwhelm problem; this is a really hard problem, Google would love to solve it (or even make the data only slightly less overwhelming), and they are certainly putting money into research that could lead to a solution, but you can't just solve hard problems because you want. They just take time.

"This post my [sic] seem like the ranting of a mad man." Don't kid yourself that's exactly what this.
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Yeah, from that definition of bankruptcy it's a poor choice of words, because sovereign countries can't go bankrupt in the sense that bankruptcy law means. They're colloquially bankrupt in the sense of "not able to pay their bills", but not legally in the sense of "in court-supervised receivership"--- because there is no world government, and therefore no bankruptcy court with jurisdiction.
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It's not security by obscurity, it's security by honesty. You can't blackmail someone with something everyone already knows about them.
Accommodation makes a big difference if you're near- or far-sighted.
You just want to world to recognize you as "having merit" and give you money? You want to be successful, but are unwilling to make any sort of effort?

Create something remarkable and people with money will find you.
How useful is game theory?
KB71033 doesn't sound like a valid KB number - it's way out of sequence with current KBs, which are approaching KB900000 or so.
It's somewhat the opposite here. In fields like Computer Science there's more money available to pay for your education - it's typical to leave grad school without any debt, I think - than in the Humanities, where as the author pointed out it's typical to leave with huge student loan debt (which is undischargeable by bankruptcy, btw). I guess you could say that there are some fields like CS that can act as professional degrees even though they aren't officially so.

And maybe it wasn't like this is Adam Smith's time, but today a large majority of working law school grads aren't working as lawyers.

I think you're right - high tuition bills do make people think long and hard about going back to school. It's just that 22 year olds aren't so easily deterred from disastrous choices.
We actually tell people this, and work through a few example exits to educate them on what it would mean for them financially. Then we tell them that we'll have a great time working with unbelievably excellent people on a supremely meaningful problem, that they get a better education in how startups work that anywhere else, and that they'll actually be paid pretty well for it. And then we tell them that big companies are impersonal, and routinely fire great contributors for stupid reasons, and that if we go out of business the founding team will personally work our utmost to find our employees good jobs.

It does convince people, most of the time. More importantly I think I sets the right tone for our relationship going forward. This is not a big company. Startups are a family.
You can alternatively hide the Buzz label so it won't distract you unless you're looking for it. Settings > Labels > Buzz > Hide
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I'm not convinced a clean slate would be more desirable. I appreciated the feature; particularly as I've been rather surprised by who among my contacts has taken to the service thus far. The unfollows have been far fewer in number than the manual follows would have been.

I'm also not sure what interest Google would have that would be counter to the user's best interest. What is Google's motivation other than getting as many people as possible to use the service as much as possible? If the auto-populated follow list posed a conversion problem, wouldn't that also be counter to Google's best interest?

What's the ulterior motive that is served by auto-follow?
I just make mine up on the spot. Does no one else do this?
The recommendation system is not a trivial thing to create, I'm guessing Aardvark's rec system is at least part of it.
The problem is when this is used to give eg. Raytheon the details of payments made to a European company for eg a radar system in some 3rd country - which lets them put in an advantageous position to bid for the next bit of work.
Part of the cost is due to design engineering, not just manufacturing. Since they are just copying the design, they can save a quite a bit.
I have been using dragonfly for a while now and am really happy that it is open source. Its about as powerful as firebug but there are still some needed features that opening it up could bring.
There is an additional limitation I noticed with 3D movies. You are stuck with the focus of the camera used, you can't bring distant objects into focus because they are out of focus on the film.
No, it's completely meaningless unless your programs are only 10 lines long. You have no idea what part of it is slower.
Given that he is asking about recurly, chargify, etc. I'm assuming its because he wants to do reoccurring billing, for which PayPal/Google Checkout are less than awesome solutions for.
Have a project you don't want to do inside of Google? Just quit, make it anyway, then they'll re-hire you with a $5M per head bonus.

Way off base IMO. If it was true, there would be very few ex-googler companies failing. And there would be A LOT more acquisitions by Google.

I have used Vark. And I think this was a SOLID technology acquisition and well worth $50M.

If I was a Vark founder, I'd feel insulted by your post.
It's a great product with a great team. Furthermore, acquirers are known to believe that with their brand and marketing might, with tight integration in their existing solutions, they can make a product succeed.

This might be wrong more often than it's wrong, but if it does work the payoff could be enormous. Who knows in this case. But I suggest you think of it as an investment at $50 million pre-money. That's a little pricey, but might still be worth it.
This surely will sound like a troll, but the main thing that struck me here was the statement: "Just getting the code out of VisualWorks was a pain." How can anybody use a development environment that doesn't expose the source code in plain-text files?

Can somebody who likes VW expound on the advantages it provides?
It's not really a matter of cost of the robot, the limiting factor of more widespread adoption is actually just that there aren't enough people building automation systems (the robot and machine vision combination), a worker shortage.
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You can also break down collagen (the tough protein) by braising, or a couple of other simple slow-cooking methods. The meat will have different taste and texture from grilled steak, but in no way inferior. Braising can easily turn a $5/pound cut into something that tastes better than 95% of the dry-aged porterhouse steaks out there.
Recurly claims to be PCI compliant on there web page [ http://recurly.com/features/ ]. Its possible they are on the list under another name, I'd give there support people a shout. I'm not sure if recurly,spreedly,etc. are actually storing the data, it seems like they might be having the gateway (i.e. authorize.net) store the data, but that is pure speculation on my part.

I am interested in doing some re-occuring billing stuff my self so do post back with your experiences with which ever provider you go with. Best of luck :)
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Are you willing to implement a layaway program instead? If so, you can implement a transaction tool like PayPal to initiate recurring monthly payments. If the user cancels, you can refund the balance. When the product is paid in full, you send it to them and cancel future recurring payments.

Not the most customer friendly solution, but it is less liability and easier to implement for you.
Smalltalk has been using images since ever. The image contains your world - your code, development tools and all your complete environment, preserving its state between your sessions. When it's time to deliver the application to its users, you just take out whatever is not the application and its dependencies and give the image to your client.

That said, I too find it a bit disturbing not to be able to import/export changes to the base image as text-files and being unable to build a clean image from source-code only.
This is absolutely ridiculous, I wonder how long it takes before Apple to take over this behavior. Crackers will always be able to outsmart Microsoft. The only victims of this technology are paying customers, like me. Maybe it's time to cancel my Action Pack and Websitespark memberships and use software from a company who trusts its own customers and doesn't treat its customers as potential pirates.
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Furthermore, all the references to KB71033 found by Google are about this exact same phone-home news:

http://www.google.com/search?q=KB71033
How does it differ from Firebug with a few other FF addons? I'd be interested in knowing the pro's and con's.
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thanks for the advice.your profile looks interesting.you say physics and math were minors in your degree.i intend to be a computer scientist one day.do you recommend that i study physics and math?
Thanks Tim!

I do agree with you, voluntary recall would be fine. Recall as we have it now is largely linked to triggers that can kind of ambush you (in both good and bad ways) with little notice. A smell, a sound: all bring up memories...

If I could consciously make the decision to recall everything I did on some day 10 years ago, that would probably be quite useful!
For the PDP-7/11? Probably.
Italy is in a typical 2-generation pattern.

The first generation of women to get the chance at education, real careers etc = birth rate plummets.

A generation (or two) later, there are women in politics and at the top of companies, introduce generous maternity leave, childcare etc. as in Scandinavia = birth rate rises again.
I have not had any problems implementing/using PayPal recurring payments. What specific "less than awesome" functionality are you referring to and how are the other products better? Not challenging you, just looking for a more rounded picture.
The thesis is wrong, as certain types of work are automated, people will be forced into other kinds of work. My guess is that majority of people today will become online content producers (bloggers and youtubers) - if the price of everything drops significantly because of robots, you can probably live off of your meager adsense earnings. (Of course, at some point blogging and youtubing could be done by computers, but then you have AI and the singularity and nothing matters anymore).
I would definately follow-up with at least a thanks for the intro, and give a quick introduction of yourself, maybe your team, but keep it short.

Do a bit of research on what the partner specializes in, and make sure that fits with what you are building. Give a bit of insight into what you are doing, so that the partner can associate you with a project/product, and be sure to let him know that you don't think you're ready for a meeting yet.

Basically, you want to build a bit of rapport. Keep in mind, that a pitch is as much for you to learn and get a feel for the VC, as it is for them to get to meet you.

So, yes to #2.
To me, possibly the single best thing about Twitter is that it is missable and ignorable. If ignore my RSS reader for a while and come back, I'm overwhelmed by the number of unread posts and feel the need to catch up.

At Twitter (and Facebook for that matter) on the other hand, I can just pick up at the top of the stream. No bold number is telling me "you haven't read this!" I can simply ignore the tweets I missed, and pick up at the present.

Google adding this bold unread buzz number is already making me feel like I can get behind. And this right next to my inbox unread email count - something that I actually do need to keep in check.

I don't need social media adding unread anxiety.
I started looking into the laws after I realized the trouble in the USA market. I don't remember the specifics -- it's none-too-fresh in my mind, but I do remember abandoning this particular startup idea soon after...
I played a 3-d game that had the same game mechanics as Dragon's Lair (the protagonist was a time-traveling cowboy).

While each scene was pre-rendered (it was pre-recorded live action), the effect was impressive, especially considering this was probably about 15 years ago.

edit: Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game)
First, I do not have the statistics, though now I have supporting statistics. Such a claim cannot be accurately quantified, so not only can I not ever have such statistics, I only claimed that it could be discovered empirically - essentially, by looking at what is, instead of requiring hard fact.

Fastest growth implies nothing without a scale to start with. If there's one 100+ year old on Facebook, and in a single day two more get added, they've got a projected growth rate of over 70,000% per year. Skewed and unmaintainable statistics are effectively worthless.

Look further down the page, especially at the pie chart showing FB use by age group. 45+ amounts to 8% of users (55+ only 3%). The 18-25 group, which I'm in, amounts to 43% single-handedly.

The 45+ group is growing faster than others because they're years behind everyone else, and typically fewer join at all than the earlier adopters. QED.
Damn it, I kept clicking on the title thinking "Why isn't it taking me to this website called Understanding the Linux Kernel," I'm so used to seeing Ask HN :D
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(Author)'s basically describing WAT. So while the number might be off, the patch itself exists.

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/genuinewindows/archive/2010...

Edit: pronoun fail.
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Seeing as you can't buy a mac without OS X (and that you can't buy OS X for a non-mac), I imagine it's much less of an issue. Doesn't quite seem worth the effort to engineer a DRM system just to block people skimping on the occasional $29 upgrade.
It might work: I am not sure if there are any laws in existence now. It seems like it would be a hard sell since it strikes directly at organizations whose lifeblood is litigation: patent trolls.
This seems to be subtly jabbing Aardvark's acquisition, specially since Hunch (cdixon's startup) is still out in the open.
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Sure sounds like a lot of (non-passive) work.
Why would you expect Apple to follow suit?
They don't even have activation codes. They already treat their paying customers the way you're asking to be treated.
Interesting idea though for a small country like Tuvavlu - just sell the country to the highest bidder. If say an online gambling company wants to be sure of favorable treatment it could just buy the government wholesale instead of having to buy it one politician at a time.

It's only what say Lichtenstein, the channel islands, Bermuda have de-facto done.
Illegal by whose standards?

How the information was obtained outside of Germany may be a crime, but not in Germany.

As a citizen of Germany you are required to provide to the German government information that determines taxes owed. Any attempt to evade this obligation is a crime in Germany.

In this case Germany has a right to the information.
You thought that was an awesome answer? IMHO the top Google result for the search "Borges where to start" gives a better one.

Like many social networking features, I don't get this one. I sorta-know what my friends know - I am more interested in stuff my friends don't know.
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But is the number of people annoyed by the automatic adding greater than the number of people who would ignore the service if they had to bother going through all their contacts to add people manually?