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That doesn't address my second point of recouping high development costs. Anyways, they would have to coordinate this with the platform providers which tend to keep things bolted down quite tightly when it comes to the provision of online services. Are there even any console games available for the Xbox 360 or PS3 that charge monthly fees?
I saw this too, and in chrome it's a pretty scary sign. It definitely makes me not want to put in my credit card info, which is that last thing a startup needs!

A really cool idea though, best of luck to you!
Just a couple questions before I sign my sister up. She's been talking about starting a garden.

Do you send out genetically modified seeds? Would she be able to use seeds from her crop on a new crop?
Yeah, this is something I definitely want. I don't have a yard, but seeds for a few things that I could grow in pots on the patio would be awesome!
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Love is really a great emotion and someone have to do love in life for once because its a great time of your life. If your love is not attributed with proper expressions then it will never render the cry of your soul. There are various ways; people can put forward their feelings to their loved ones.
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Cell phones are just a special case of mobile computing gadgets you carry around with you. The fact that you can only do traditional carrier calls on an iPhone and not on a Touch or iPad is just a very small detail compared to the whole experience.
Very nice concept and idea. The design is simple and efficient.

Small comments :

1. Living in Europe, the US "zip code" is bit restrictive. In other words, will you make a version for European users?

2. It would a nice idea to extend a bit to the "heritage" and open-pollinated varieties when choosing the vegetables/seeds.

3. When planting in a garden, you have to rotate the culture at a specific interval (depending of the species). Maybe a small info box where you can enter the location in your garden (like area A,B,C,D) and when the reminder is coming is informing the users where the vegetables where previously located.

4. There is also some interesting benefit to use companion planting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants).

5. Some people are gardening and planting following the "moon phases". I don't follow the approach but that could be an option in your reminder email.

Good luck for your work and startup.
I don't doubt what you (or the other person that responded to this thread) said. I did live in new york in the late 90's and early 00s and it did feel much safer than the movies let me believe. I was just noting that the police trying to cook the crime figures is due to political pressure, which is also pretty certain.
Why did they skip an edition around Christmas? Vacations?
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Note that there's some double-counting going on. Cities and states get a lot of money from the federal govt. That money is counted as both federal and state/local spending.
It works, yes, but there is truth in what that guy says. It's fiddly, and often not obvious.
A local clone is not Facebook. Just like Baidu is not Google. Please be accurate, especially on such sensitive topics.
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The main thing I took away from this article were the 10 recommendations in the grey box towards the end-right-hand-side of the article:

* Plant something and nurture it

* Count your blessings - at least five - at the end of each day

* Take time to talk - have an hour-long conversation with a loved one each week

* Phone a friend whom you have not spoken to for a while and arrange to meet up

* Give yourself a treat every day and take the time to really enjoy it

* Have a good laugh at least once a day

* Get physical - exercise for half an hour three times a week

* Smile at and/or say hello to a stranger at least once each day

* Cut your TV viewing by half

* Spread some kindness - do a good turn for someone every day
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I found the fossil dvcs referenced in a comment interesting.
http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki
Yeah, that's definitely where I'd like to head. It's a little more complicated because it's more like having 12 babies of 12 different species that were born at 12 different times, but yeah. On it. :)
you guys obviously need more than a hobby according to Meghan McCain: http://twitter.com/McCainBlogette/status/13756576141
What your data shows is that Reddit and HN do share some of the same popular stories which would lend credence to peoples complaints that it is turning into reddit.

Also your upvote statistic doesn't seem particularly meaningful.
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It's launch day, so there's room for changes in the pricing. I'm planning to just run tests to figure out what is an effective price point.

But I haven't made any conversions yet, and I should be able to make at least SOME at these price points, so I am planning to focus on that.
well a good text editor can still take advantage of autocompletion, inline error reporting etc ;)
It would be great to see a walk through tutorial in the same style as http://tryruby.org/ and http://try.redis-db.com/
It is actually pretty hard to single out China like that. many countries (including for example, Australia) have great firewalls. They can honestly point around and say half the world censors, why you picking on us?
But then what happens when I want to copy my presentation, some associated video clips, my notes, the directions to the venue and the meeting agenda onto my USB drive? Suddenly all of the information relating to my presentation is scattered across multiple locations, which just gives me exactly the opposite problem to the one created by the file/folder heirarchy (i.e. now my data is grouped by type (e.g. in my photo library) instead of by subject (e.g. in a folder).
I like it.. just wish it was available outside of the States!
That's a good idea, the link back to the site. I am planning to switch to HTML emails with the links actually in the email, but that would be a good intermediate step.

And I didn't realize gmail had a limit. Thanks for the heads up. :)
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Lots of time sensitive information from multiple sources? Time for a feed!
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My bad. I thought there was no middle man since the link pointed to a "clean" URL. Thanks for the explanation.
I think it would be useful as, say, a chrome plugin. A hotkey to open up a new emacs tab right next to my webpage tabs would be nice.
A design thing that confused me a bit, 'plant more foo' was displayed very differently (lighter and italic) than 'plant foo'. I initially thought that there was nothing for those weeks.

I don't want to say "I'd buy this if you made this change" because I live on a farm, but I would be a LOT less price sensitive if the seeds were described in a manner that made them sound more special. (even if I didn't know the variety off-hand.) Kentucky Blue Pole Beans, not 'Beans' and Organic Red Velvet Okra, not 'Okra'.

I wasn't sure I understood how large of a garden each seed pack is supposed to service. When you say '3 10 foot beds' does that mean 30 linear feet, or 300 square feet?

I'd also make sure you get real-world feedback about the plans and the pricing. If I was you, I'd go talk to people at local garden centers, and I'd bring my iPad and I'd ask them for help. If you're young, claim you're a student and it's a school project. If you're older, claim you're writing an article about this service and want to know what they honestly think.

I was surprised that the seeds weren't all organic / heritage (or that if they were, that wasn't marked.) I could be wrong, but I'd expect the sort of person who goes through this trouble would likely prefer those varieties, and would be willing to pay accordingly. After all, somebody who is looking for the cheapest seeds isn't your dream customer anyway.

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All in all, I really like the idea. It's a bit like joining a CSA, except that it's located in your backyard, with the 'assortment of foods, for a fixed price.'
I think it means that Google isn't going to be showing your ads for that keyword. It is likely due to your ad being given a poor quality score for that keyword. There should be something that shows your quality score for each keyword and my guess is for those keywords for which you have an estimated traffic of zero, your score is quite low.
A lot of people from the US seem to forget that they're excluding the majority of customers by asking you to enter a zipcode that will only work in the US.

It's incredibly annoying if you're part of that majority.

With that said - good luck :-)
I'm all for idea C. I signed up for some seeds, but getting pots and soil and tools and whatnot seems like such a pain (and I'm half a block from a hardware store that has all these things). I'd definitely pay some sort of up front fee to get everything at once!
Thanks, that makes me feel better. :) I think you're right.
Exactly! And if I devise a complicated storage scheme of deeply nested tupperware boxes for my spices, then it will take me forever to find them. And if I pack my food into random cupboards when I get back from the supermarket, it will also take me forever to find things. At some point in the past I learnt that I should pay attention to where I put things in my flat. The same goes for my files.
A better way to compare might be to look at the top n stories over the past m days on the two sites, and see how much overlap there is. You can see the top recent stories on HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/best.

Or you could just take snapshots of the two frontpages every 12 hours or so for a couple days.
With a name like that, it really should have a cover that allows some nerdly variation on the Land O' Lakes boob trick.
Very interesting. But I'm not convinced this has anything to do with washing specifically. I suspect it might just be that performing an ordinary, rote activity interrupts the normal process of the decision making activity and the feeling of completion carries over back into the other activity. I wonder if tasks such as tying one's shoes, packing a box and sealing it, etc. would have a similar effect.

Ultimately the study doesn't provide enough data to fully support the hypothesis (that cleansing, washing away provides some mental, decision making benefit), though the fact that there's any effect at all warrants a lot of further study.
Nice that you "genuinely hate me" given that you don't even know me. Very easily to "hate" people online you've never met. Harder in person where we don't easily fit some stereotype you have in your mind.
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I could stare at this for hours
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I doubt that is true. What would the ratio number_of_people_capable_to_repair_TV_set/number_of_people watching_TV compare to number_of_people_programming_for_smartphones/number_of_people_using_smarphones? My guess is that the latter is much bigger.
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I can only speak for myself, but it seems common place within my "non-technical" sphere of friends and family to have the vague idea that a) the filter is a merely politicians beating their chests and b) it wont really go anywhere substantial.
Why think? Just put up the button and see if people click "order now". Worry about your attention when your customer actually demands them.

Awesome idea btw.
Do they have a comparison of OpenCL performance on AMD 5970 HD with Nvidia GTX 480? The two graphic cards seem more commercial viable for me.
Yet looking back to what happened during Vietnam demonstrations, it seems to me that it is quite clear that the same would also happen in the west.
There is no Fry's in Mountain View. You probably mean the one in Sunnyvale. Which has a freaking original Varian Magnetron.
And since when being conditioned to buy apps has been associated with good or desired phone ownership?
I'd agree with that. I myself suspect it's nothing more than an attempt to placate the likes of Steve Fielding.
A reddit/HN-like voting system is inherently unstable, as some users just skim over top stories and upvote them, creating a positive feedback loop. If you have few submissions, this effect is weak. As the number of submissions, users and votes all grow linearly with respect to each other, the number of top stories and the number of stories an average user can read stay the same. This means the stream of new stories gets less and less readable, while top stories stay readable, which makes larger and larger percentage of users just skim over the top stories, and quality suffers. It would be interesting to create an accurate mathematical model of this behavior, maybe this would let us significantly improve stability.
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Presumably, to a first approximation, you could track the weather at your customers' location, and know what is going on with their plants. This would allow you to tailor your emails - and your product suggestions - over time.
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Tor and almost any website mentioning or hosting it is blocked, on top of that my experience with Tor is that it is no longer usable.

First users were forced to use a relay, then relay IP's started getting banned, and now I think that the government has found some method to prevent connections to the Tor network completely (I'm not sure how).

Slowly but surely the screws are being tightened, more and more of the western net is becoming unavailable. I guess already 30-35% of all sites linked to on HN are blocked.
Who do you outsource to? Any problems with them?
177 x 50 terminal window + ssh + GNU screen + side-by-side emacs (C-x 3, M-x ansi-term)

I use a MacBook Pro with a persistent screen session on my Linux desktop. I could use my Linux desktop, but I'm a bit of an OS X snob. When I context switch between projects, I simply change screen windows.

The benefits of this approach:
1. I remember exactly what I was doing the day before because my screen session is right where I left it.
2. I don't need a low-latency connection to do serious work.
3. Compilation offloaded to AC-powered server, improving battery life on my laptop.
I'd just like to echo others comments about C being a really good idea. I live in London, and have recently moved into an apartment with large windows that are just screaming out for planter boxers.

My partner and I are trying to figure out what to plant, etc, but all we really want to do is have someone deliver two planter boxes, the right amount of dirt and fertilizer, and some flowers and herbs that we can plant now, as well as in a few months time.

We would pay quite a bit for this privilege - even more so if the planter boxes showed up with the dirt already in them. Doing any sort of work like this in an apartment is an exercise in frustration - there's just not enough room, and dirt goes everywhere.

We can't find anything that sells what we want..
I think the article was meant to compare software libraries for GPGPU programming, not the performance of different hardware platforms.
That's quite promising as far as OpenCL is concerned. I've seen a lot of scientific packages that run on CUDA, but not many that use OpenCL, but I've been averse to the vendor lock in.

Despite the overheads at small dataset sizes, this seems to make OpenCL not just a viable alternative, but a preferable one for general applications.
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1. The artwork is very inviting.
2. My error that people will likely repeat: typing http://sproutbot.com into the seach bar -- twice. Buy that domain and redirect.
3. I'm interested, but disappointed that I can't try it from the UK. I'd make that the first feature to add - people love gardening over here.
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I'm interested as well and may contribute
I just bought a plane ticket on united.com with an Aussie credit card. Had to make up a billing address, since there was no "Other" category besides the 50 states and territories :-/
I just setup a VPN for a guy in china, and dropbox works fine then. Setup servers with different ip addresses?
But I haven't activated my campaign yet. Can google assign a quality score when you are just creating your campaign?
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. The only bit of law I've ever heard of that stands in the way of this sort of thing is the first-sale doctrine, which says that you can sell copyrighted works without permission from the copyright holder. First-sale doctrine has become pretty toothless with the advent of DRM and software that is 'licensed' rather than sold.

Companies have a broad ability to cripple their products in pretty much whatever way they see fit. Consumers have a discouragingly persistent willingness to put up with restrictions that are not in their best interest. People will whine about this, but then most of them will go out and buy the games anyway.
The site looks really cool, but it's telling me to plant a lot of stuff today... but we got 6 inches of snow today. Does it take elevation into account?
Because most of them will continue to buy the games anyway. Whether a consumer is pissed off is irrelevant to EA; they have to refuse to buy the product for it to matter, and most don't.
Dude, the ad hominem is really out of line.
It would be a very nice thing to do, especially for people who made a yearly subscription payment less than 6 months ago.

That being said, if I were a dropbox subscriber and my ISP (or government... ::shudder::) blocked dropbox, I would know exactly where to place the blame. Thus, I wouldn't expect dropbox to give me a refund.
Hobbies are great. Crafts are even better. (i.e. things that you can get better at indefinitely like playing an instrument)
At even a 10% uptake this is going to toss maybe $100,000,000 to EA?

GameStop ALONE does $2 BILLION a year in used game sales and EA is a big piece of that.

With everybody from BestBuy to Amazon to Wallmart entering the fray of the secondary-games market I think yah, it's a good business move.
I applaud your effort in looking into this. However, I believe that when people say HN is turning into Reddit they don't mean that the same stories are being submitted, they just mean the same quality of stories.
Doesn't really roll off the tongue. How about dudugo :) Seems to be taken though.
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As a paying user in China (just paid for my 1-year plan), I'll just continue to use Dropbox over my VPN. Such insane censorship will fall. Freedom will prevail. But I wish the Chinese government gets sued to hell over WTO violations.
Wow, I haven't seen the Cingular Wireless logo in a while. Talk about getting acquired and floating into obscurity.
Noone is expecting them to give it away, stop putting up straw-men. This is the problem:

One person buying the game and playing it for a year:
EA revenue: X$
EA cost for development and infrastructure per game: Y$

One person buying the game, playing for half a year, someone else buying it used, playing for half a year:
EA revenue: X+10$
EA cost: Y$

If X > Y as we suspect, then this is a naked cash grab. Those tend to be very unpopular. If X < Y, then the move gets more understandable, but they really should think about changing their business model so they can charge for the online experience separately.
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Would definitely try this out from Canada!
I'm a big Android fan but I'm also a realist. The reason for shrinking iPhone sales is the public waiting for the next iteration of the phone. Nobody wants a handset that's obsolete in a month. Show me these numbers in June.
"""The fact is, the W3C is violating its own principles by allowing H.264 to infiltrate its way into the next HTML spec."""

I think this is a very valid point, w3c is suppose to promote open tools for the web of consumers and authors regardless their technology. A patented tool does not promote this.
It's relevant because it's a better comparison if you're a developer thinking about committing heavily to one platform or the other. A comparison of one cherry-picked device from one lineup versus many devices from another gives you no useful information for making that decision.

Or, more pertinently: if the headline had been "all models of iPhone plus all models of iPod Touch plus all models of iPad, combined, outsell (insert one and only one Android device)", wouldn't you have been jumping all over it for this very reason?
It's easy to double check on Google with DDG, if you search for:
!google hacker news

It'll take you to Google's results on Hacker News.
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

PG says that the comment quality is the most worrying part of the site ("Bad comments seem to be a harder problem than bad submissions. ")

Perhaps a better way of measuring the difference, would be to parse the comment threads and compare length (PG: length of a comment is directly proportional to the intelligence/civility of the poster) or frequency of memes.

I suspect this would show HN to consistently score higher, but not as dramatically as your analysis of posts.
This is one of the better concepts I've seen here on HN. Best of luck. I'd defn echo the other people on here saying that I'd do it if you also sent pots and dirt, since I don't have a yard.
You should definitely assign people to their own message boards according to their zip codes.

While it's nice to know when and what to grow seed, there are a lot more nuances to gardening for each specific region. Having a community of local gardeners is an invaluable resource for material and moral support. This is coming from my observations of a few cities' community gardens.

Not to mention having a social network will make your service a lot more human and resilient.
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Imagine if Doc Brown sent you back to the future to... 1975. You'd have to re-live the computer revolution again. You could become rich, but it'd be painful, living without email, then using MS-DOS 4 and eagerly waiting for Windows for Workgroups to come out =)
The iPhone has been out for years and encompasses a single device from a single manufacturer. Sales to date prove the success. Android is shiny and new, any handset manufacturer can slap it onto their collection of plastic and glass. I'd be more worried if Android as a phone OS wasn't outselling iPhone.
My understanding is that they log pretty much everything using Scribe and run analysis using Hadoop and Pig (based on a talk by Kevin Weil and NoSQL EU the other week) http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-e...