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Does anyone have a good example of using this tactic in a web startup? (if it applies at all)

Our product has a setup fee + monthly fee ... is there a way to employ price anchoring on my landing or pricing pages?
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> Listen to some good trance music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkITM2UIYoU

Gosh, I want to like trance music, I really do. I like all of the most similar kinds of electronic music, but trance was always too spacey for me. Like, the link you posted - that seems like legitimately pretty good trance. It's got some interesting elements in it. But I still can't put in more than a few minutes with it.

Any thoughts? I keep wondering if I'm missing something, because a couple of my friends who like good music like trance, but I was never able to get into it.

Whilst on the subject, I will recommend minimal techno to anyone who likes electronic and hasn't heard it. An English friend of mine got me into it a year ago and it's very good background music while doing something else. Here's the top result in Youtube, seems decent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ETFTvKCGE
I think it's quite an old article (5-10 years!). I remember reading it when I was an undergrad.

Not a criticism, just a bit of reflection.
"who I am and what I want"
So much of it is getting to know yourself and who you are.
Sorry, I couldn't finish the presentation because of that stupid animation.
Best is the comment on his shambolic PEX article that he quotes in footnote #15:

"Finally, someone has succinctly and clearly articulated this process. Buying pex tubing online has never been easier - thanks!"

shudder
You're missing the point, but not for the reason given below. The pipe is the natural monopoly, not the services provided over it. This is so obvious that it hardly bears repeating, but again: it makes no more economic sense for multiple companies to run fiber to each house than it does for multiple companies to run electric wires to each house.

Sure you can use Vonage for phone instead of AT&T (or whatever), but you can only do that because you have a pipe to the internet. VoIP services are means of getting phone over a different pipe, but you still need a pipe.

You also seem to miss the point of my comment: governments should have policies like mandatory local-loop unbundling (also called line-sharing) which produce competition where it makes sense (providing backbone) instead of where it makes little sense (providing the "last-mile" connection).

Finally, a duopoly is better than a monopoly, but not by much. It still gives the players far too much control of the market.
Thanks for the answer. I didn't realize it was only GR that caused the problem.

Do you know any good places I can get a fairly simple description of the long answer? (I.e. a good place to learn about why the interface between GR and QM is problematic)?
You forgot the big one: banking.
The other difference is that the jury is spending other people's money
really? I thought it was beautifully done...
> That said, how could anyone claim with a straight face that 'There are no limits imposed by Apple on web apps targeting iPhone OS devices.'

He very clearly says "web apps". iPhone OS fully supports HTML5 web applications that can be installed to SpringBoard (the application launcher) alongside every other app from the App Store. They can run offline, with full HTML5 local database support — they're treated as first-class citizens by the OS.
"On top of that, it’s actually not that hard to understand, and once you do, a whole new world will open up."

While I agree with the author I must point out that it will take some effort for average users to understand what goes on behind the scenes. Especially if they have been using CVS/SVN for long.

I came to git from SVN. It took me a good hour of working through the key diagrams/explanations using a pencil and paper to figure out the git model. And once I did git became a pleasure to work with.

I find that some of my fellow developers are averse to making this initial investment of time and brain cycles to understand the theory of git. Some of them feel that a version control system isn't worth spending time on. Some of this reluctance has to do with how one is introduced to source control. Many learn about version control from "senior developers". More often than not CVS/SVN is explained away as "tracking diffs". Naturally when faced with something like git they ignore it or balk at the idea.
I think the advice you're getting here is great, but I'd for sure add a big validation of therapy, and should it be right, medication.

Therapy is one of those things that, if you find the right therapist, sort of becomes like "why WOULDN'T I have a professional to help with this?" I saw someone in Chicago on and off for about three years post college to help with transitions.

I'm an extremely self-reliant person who doesn't ask for help, so it was a weird thing at first, but it became something I ended up really looking forward to. It was a place where, each week, I could dump anything and everything without any pretense, exchange, or fear of judgement. Your friends and family can and will always be willing to help, but frankly, it can put a lot of burden on those relationships to have it all on them, and I've found therapy to be extremely helpful.

I've also seen an extraordinarily high number of people successfully add medication to their regimen to really help. For some, anti-anxieties that can be used when needed make a world of difference. For others, SSIRs can really help with certain transitions. For still others, SSIRs and similar drugs are just something that become a permanent part of their life - my dad is like that and the whole family has been reaping the rewards of him "feeling like himself" again for ten years.

Honestly, it sounds like you are a super high functioning dude, and that's great. All I'd remind you is that just because you're high functioning and still able to keep moving, doesn't mean you don't want to leverage the full slate of available resources.

Always happy to talk about my experiences with therapy/meds. Info in profile.
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Alison Blank (the author) should write a math book instead of making this presentation. I think that would be a great way to prove her point (which I agree with).
My mentor, who's a wildly successful and brilliant entrepreneur and about twice my age said this to me today: your 20s are like Puberty 2.0. We had a two hour conversation and he's seen the same thing in his nephews and his students and former students (he was a b-school prof for a while before retiring).

My biggest problem seems trying to find what excites and motivates me and not feeling apathetic about all this web shit. I'm workin' on it.
This happens to me sometimes, and my personal solution is:
1) Sit in a comfortable chair
2) Put on a nice pair of Bose headphones
3) Blast Kanye West. If that doesn't work, blast Glenn Gould. (Music and art are the cure for a bleak world.)
>"I have lost the ability to tell if and what I want anything from life."

Read Robert A. Johnson's http://www.amazon.com/Transformation-Understanding-Levels-Ma...

From the Amazon.com description:
"Using quintessential figures from classical literature--Don Quixote, Hamlet, and Faust--Robert Johnson shows us three clearly defined stages of consciousness development. He demonstrates how the true work of maturity is to grow through these levels to the self-realized state of completion and harmony.

In Johnson's view, we all reach the stages depicted by Don Quixote, Hamlet, and Faust at various times of our lives. The three represent levels of consciousness within us, each vying for dominance. Don Quixote portrays the innocent child, while Hamlet stands for our self-conscious need to act and feel in control though we have no real connection to our inner selves. Faust embodies the master of the true self, who has gained awareness by working through the stages."

Then read http://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection/...

The coolest thing about being at this point in life is that: the greatest texts human kind has produced actually make sense now. The bad part is that it can be a lonely place to be: to realize everything everyone else seems to care about obviously doesn't matter (on the grand scheme of things). Being the only person you know that sees this can be hard. But if you make it to self actualization it supposedly is very much worth the negative your feeling now.
Probably. But I cannot tell, because in opera mini this whole "essay" is just an empty white rectangle.
> Some people say this is what entering adulthood's like, but everyone around me seems to be perfectly fine.

Are you broadcasting not being fine to anyone but your closest friends? No? Then it means nothing that they aren't either.

Anyway, learn philosophy. You're asking philosophical questions. Most philosophy is bad and makes no sense. However, good philosophy is very useful. See Karl Popper. And you might try www.fallibleideas.com
point noted, I just thing like most things in life you have to find something that suits you. But I would recommend that if you don't have a pleasant experience the first time out switch doctors. I think sometimes people forget that not all care is the same, and your health is your responsibility. So find someone that fits you, instead of sticking with someone even though you are feeling that you are not getting anything out of it, or quitting altogether.
The promise is legally binding. IBM has no chance of winning an infringement suit over those two patents against an open source project as defined in their pledge here: http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf

It's highly likely that their inclusion of those two patents in the list of 150+ they say TurboHercules might be infringing is an oversight, and if they file suit and include those, the defendants will have no trouble getting a summary judgement throwing them out.

Not that this will help much--IBM has made no such promise about the other 150+ patents.
Robert Laughlin's The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind, Basic Books, 2008 is a interesting and provocative examination of the issue of intellectual property and how it interacts with free market ideas. The key question is "what can be owned?".
There's no disputing you guys have massively increased your stability in the last year, and while growing enormously as well which makes it much more the victory.

But it would be good if you could go into more detail on your blog about what parts of twitter are dependent on Gizzard and especially distancing it from your remaining problems rather than just exclusively talking about how it works.
Dude, I was sarcastically parroting, I even confessed to my own sins, lol (Edit: I just realized you're replying to some other comment that was deleted, oops)
For some reason, over the past year or so it's become almost standard in the humanities (but not in science/engineering). I'm in CS but occasionally go to interdisciplinary conferences, where every CS person will have a PowerPoint, while every humanist who has a digital presentation at all will have a Prezi (to a close approximation).
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In real life (i.e. not photos), Dan doesn't wear his glasses much, and looks way less business-y. He's also not pudgy like John Hodgeman.
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As for your concern that other people "seem fine"; how many people in your life know how badly you're hurting? I bet you're doing a good job of keeping up appearances. Well, so are a lot of other people. So, of your worries, you can eliminate the one where you're worried that you're alone or self-indulgent or otherwise unusual.

I wish I had some concrete advice for you. A psychologist may be able to help, but don't fall into the trap of focusing too much on how you feel. You have to also focus on who you are. At the very least, it sounds like you don't quite know yourself.

I am interested by the fact that you have a block about trying new things, when it's the one thing you should be doing to figure out where your talents should be applied. Perhaps you should talk that over with a psychologist.
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Ak HN: Are iframe-bars inherently evil?
In light of Digg's (Kevin Rose's) recent move (http://digg.com/d31Nfqb The Digg iFrame Toolbar is Dead), what's your opinion on iframe-bars?
There are (arguably) good use cases for a "no install needed" "no browser reboot needed" instant and temporary toolbar. At the same time getting users to install a "real" add-on is challenging.

The current browser technologies don't really support the iframe-bar well. So to keep it short: 1. Are they inherently evil?
2. Could a new "eframe" be defined with such semantics to make such use cases possible (I have some ideas but this question is getting too long).
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I am paraphrasing what a wise man has said,

the best way to get into a depression is to constantly think about "me,me and me" AND the best way to snap out of it is to start thinking about others, how can I help others.
am really not understanding why this is so popular, period.

I thought those were general rules for good writing, period.
I knew it was going to come down to (fucking) Ayn Rand, when the author started discussing the primacy of senses.

Anyway, I think the author makes a bit of a straw man argument when saying that Dawkins' "moral Zeitgeist" doesn't determine a rational, consistent basis for morality. I don't believe that Dawkins was trying to show that.

I believe that Dawkins was trying to show that both religious and irreligious folks derive their morals from the same place for the most part: the moral Zeitgeist. This is a counter to the argument that religion is necessary for morality, because morality for most people is drawn from the Zeitgeist either way.

I haven't read Dawkins, so I may be wrong in my assertions of what Dawkins intended, but it feels like the author covertly (or accidentally) tried to shift the focus away from countering the "religion is necessary for morals" argument, onto a different topic (that of defining rational morals).
am I missing something here, not period, question mark?
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Not fun at all. The kind of pain that brings a grown man to tears.
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Yes! I'm a graphic designer and had to do some editorial design before and dude… I hated everything about it! That's why I expected this process to be a major source of frustration.
Seems like a good compromise to me.
Steve Pavlina was a decent blog in the earlier years, but once he started in on this manifestation kick, it went way down hill. There isn't a lot practical information anymore.
SSHKeychain shouldn't be necessary on Snow Leopard, fwiw, unless you're using it for something other than ssh passphrase caching.
My question is who ran rm *? Terrifying.
Indeed. It's one thing to have backups and a backup system, but you need enough contingency planning forethought to test that your backups work on a regular basis - ideally by restoring to a secondary site in the case of catastrophic failure to your primary site (e.g. fire, earthquake).
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What? I admire loads of things that I have no idea about, in fact I admire them more than the admirable things that I do know about.
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Thanks. Good point. I tend to read something and only understand it a bit. Later on, when my mind wanders, I'll run through it again and really get it.

Problem is, I'm going to law school soon so I need to improve my ability to read quickly and understand pretty well. I was wondering if a book like this would help me in that way, but it seems like it would only be marginally useful. Oh well.
The whole point of SVN was to bring CVS up-to-date. People use it because, for whatever reason, they want a modern CVS. I'm not sure you can improve it without sacrificing the familiarity that's really SVN's primary asset.
The animation is awesome, it makes the logic connection much more clear and easier.

Prezi is really revolutionize traditional reading habits. It transforms chapter-by-chapter/slide-by-slide, liner reading, to a more hierarchical and intuitive way. It takes less effort to make sense, so you can focus more on digesting and re-thinking, not only comprehending.
A lot of people have posted good advice about motivation. Rather than duplicate that, let me give some alternate/additional thoughts:

1) Pay attention to your diet. Make sure you're getting enough water, and make sure you eat enough veggies and get enough protein and calories overall. Screwed up body chemistry can make you feel unmotivated and disconnected. Carry a water bottle (I've got a nice quart-sized stainless steel bottle) and make sure you drink several full bottles a day.

2) Pay attention to your sleep schedule, as well as your sleep quality. Getting not-quite-enough sleep of not-quite-good-enough quality can leave you just a bit lethargic, or over time build up to major apathy.

3) Get a physical as well as a psych evaluation. Don't settle for one or the other. There are lots of little conditions that can drag you down and leave you with vague emotional weirdnesses. If the docs find something awry, get it treated, and don't be afraid to go back and ask for changes if the treatment doesn't work; sometimes certain meds just don't work right for certain people.

4) Keep exercising. Sounds like you do some rock climbing; don't give it up without replacing it with something else challenging.

OK, so with all that physical stuff in mind -- getting your body right so it's not a drag on your brain -- you might still have a problem. In large part, "this is what entering adulthood's like", but there are still some things you can do to smooth the transition:

A) Have a good, long, serious heart-to-heart with your significant other. Be totally honest with yourself and her. You might find some lingering resentment over something you had written off as insignificant, and that can affect your overall mood.

B) Remember that the decisions you make now aren't necessarily permanent. You can change jobs or careers; you can load up the moving truck and head elsewhere; you can start or end various extracurriculars (others have suggested gardening, martial arts, etc.) Don't be afraid to just try something and revisit it a year down the road (and set yourself up for it -- rent, don't buy, or as lionhearted suggested, travel somewhere cheap and spend a couple months there.)

C) Pay attention to the things that make you happy. Elsewhere on HN I saw a suggestion to make happyfile.txt on your computer and write down things that make you happy each day. My sister carries a paper notebook and does the same. Remember, anything that makes you happy goes in the Happy Book -- something a friend says, time spent writing or reading, minor or major accomplishments, religious pursuits, tasty meals, enjoyable HN posts. The mere act of writing the things down means you think more about them, and over time you may notice patterns and find you really want to make some specific change in your life.

For the record, I was 28 and had a pregnant wife when I finally realized the thing I wanted to do most was to be a stay-at-home dad. I didn't keep a "happy book", but I did pay attention to the amount of joy I derived from working with kids and thinking about family.
"mathematics education of elementary pupils in the United States is lousy largely because the mathematical education of elementary teachers (at all levels) is lousy"

This is something I've noticed in the time I spent working with teachers. It amazes me how many 4th-6th grade teachers don't understand fractions, but are trying to teach them to kids!
Yep, the article is completely missing the point. My favorite bit:

"Those who maintain that being moral consists in being altruistic have no alternative but to base that belief on some form of mysticism"

It's like they haven't heard of the iterated prisoner's dilemma or something.
K&R's C Programming Language is like the language: spare and elegant. It is not a beginner's book and does not coddle the reader. It is a book for programmers. And it reads as well today as it did 32 years ago.
Your mileage may vary I guess. I found it obnoxious, dense and far too in love with itself. When I hadn't found a point by the second page (with no obvious indication of how long it was going to ramble) I gave up.
I think you've given a good suggestion for upcoming blog posts.

Gizzard is used by two systems at Twitter. One of them is called FlockDB and we are working on open-sourcing it (indeed, FlockDB is why we open-sourced Gizzard). FlockDB stores Twitter's social graphs. I cannot tell you (yet) how many QPS we do do or how many edges there are in the various graphs, but suffice to say its a lot and we run lots of complicated queries like "who follows both @aplusk and @oprah but does not want any of @aplusk's retweets," etc.

Gizzard is NOT perfect. But we think you'll find it is resilient to a large class of failure scenarios (that have, in fact, occurred over the last year, so this is not just the theoretical fault tolerance of a project that's been deployed on a small web site with simple requirements). With your help, it could be even better.
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Posting to HN is like playing roulette. Post a comment in one thread that you think is true and funny, bingo, gain 26 karma. Do it again in another thread, bang, lose 4. I never know ahead of time which case it will be. The net trend is positive, at least.

On-topic: just went to Microsoft's site and read their Top 10 Reasons why Windows 7 is so cool, and, as I suspected previously, 90% of the gee-whiz features touted were already in Mac OS X. One could argue that Apple is historically treated by Microsoft as a sort of external, unwitting R&D arm. Except it's better than their internal R&D in one crucial area: Microsoft doesn't have to pay for it!