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You can't generalize like that. I seriously can't eat vegetables. It's the texture and not the taste. I can eat them when they have been puréed and mixed into my food and I don't know about it. But if I try to eat something and I feel the "crunch" of vegetables, my throat will close up.

It's been noted that people with Aspergers sometimes have a problem with certain food textures. So this could be a manifestation of that.
This is rather more snarky than usual for the top comment on a Rate My Startup post. I would rather not see that become a trend, since they're some of the most enjoyable (and useful) posts this community has, and -- of all people -- we should understand that getting something out and ready to show takes both courage and hard work.
Works well on my MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz, Safari went from 0.0 %CPU used to 10.0 used, not bad. Flash tends use much more than that.
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Depends on the crew; depends on the quality of the 1st effort. The risk is: you end up with something that is bigger, costlier, slower and has different bugs. But on the plus side, its always easier to write code with a working, debugged version to refer to. Its in fact a whole different kind of effort.
(disclosure: I've read the book, enjoyed it, learned a bunch, but also thought it had some weaknesses... Also, the author of this review has a competing book, which should just be noted.)

Although I agree that there are weaknesses that flow from Lewis using the forms of fiction story telling (plot arc, conflict, protagonists, etc.) to tell a non-fiction story, I think a weakness of this review is that it ducks the main scandal: the lack of regulation.

[Note, this may be covered in the author's book, EConned, I don't know, I haven't read it, though I did just order it.]

Obviously, the people participating in the market who made money were "part of the problem" -- but the bigger problem was the lack of regulation for an area of the economy that is so significant the rest of us have to bail it out (privatized profit, socialized risk). This allowed, among other things:

1. rating agencies to lie -- they had an economic incentive to do so (fees from investment banks) and no one to stop them (so much of the market is legally bound to use/rely on them). It's incredible in the wake of this that S&P, Moody's, etc. still exist. They participated in the largest fraud in capitalism's history.

2. an opaque market in instruments that grew so large the
rest of us were on the hook for it. This is the largest
transfer of wealth in history and it's still not clear what the hell happened.

The BP oil spill looks transparent compared to what went on here.
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Until there are a large number of inexpensive VP8 hardware decoders in the market and deployed in devices, H.264 isn't going anywhere.

The large number of H.264 decoders in the wild is akin to the large Flash player install base. The key difference is that you can't simply download a hardware VP8 chip.
That's useful, and even more impressive if it doesn't appear to be automated.

My employer sell a traditional software product, and there is an arrangement for the support desk to get notification of all errors. We called back once when we saw some rather unusual looking urls, and turns out that the customer hired a consultant to do some basic penetration testing.

Needless to say, the client was happy with our rapid response.

Another real life example is when I made a 1-dollar verification so that my kid could have an AOL account. I got a call from VISA within 5 minutes, and I was pretty happy.
Not my 'server' room. Granted, its actually my laundry room, so the heat escapes to the rest of the house, even on hot days. You can see graphs here - http://www.digitemp.com

If you are one of the unlucky then you should be setting up temperature monitoring and alerting before you exceed the melting point of your Pb free solder...
Right now we do not have paid accounts, but are accepting user donations. I am counting donors as people that will signup for a paid account which is obviously a big under-estimation of what I believe our true percent of paid accounts will be.

Out of 11143 total accounts, I have 179 donors in PayPal, which is 1.6% 'paying' users.

We also receives checks in the mail from bike groups occasionally (random $100-200 checks in the mail are nice!) so I would guess that brings us to around 200-220 donors total, or just under 2%.
My candidate-mother-in-law (as she likes to call herself) says artificial vitamins are bad. Vitamins and minerals in the form of pills get fully absorbed by the body, even if they are not needed in such big quantities at the moment.

Examples:
If you bring more calcium in the body it can subside in kydneys in the form of sand-particles.

If you bring more vitamin D into the body, the body starts to pull out calcium from the bones and sends it to the kidneys and to the heart-muscle.

She's a pediatrician and а homoeopath and feeds us (my girlfriend and me) with blue-green-algae additives, because they contain all the stuff in it's natural form, so the organism can take whatever it needs out of it and excrete the rest.

Her supplier of choice is AquaSource (a multi-level-marketing company), but there are many other companies that offer similar stuff.

Sorry for my ("medical") english, had a gard time translating it from my native language.
I also threw out 10 billion, and so did you. With the magical hindsight-looking-glass any of us could invest in the right stocks 10 years ago and make a killing today. Big deal.
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Will do tonight.
Yes, but it might not be diagnosed.
My challenge stands. There is no indication that Facebook made a cent off of this bug, nor that any advertiser was aware of the fact that a small percentage of ad clicks contained a user id.

"Alleged" employee? My name is Keith Adams, and here's an entry I posted to the Facebook engineering blog this week:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/facebook-engineering/the-li...
This is true. I completely agree that the presentation took it from 'good natured fun competition' to 'F* apple.'
That exact scenario happened to one of my former employers. We installed a server in a closet in this hallway. The hallway had no HVAC and the installation was in the winter (so the hallway was always very cold). I remember asking what we were going to do in the summer.

Eventually the summer came around and one morning the server was down. Fortunately there wasn't anything time-critical on the server, everything was backed up both on and off site and we got it up and running again a couple of hours.

It turned out that all we needed to do was cut a vent in the door and mount a box-fan to it.
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Title should have been "breaches his users' privacy" - I thought somehow he had breached his own privacy? Those pesky apostrophes.
Oddly, it use 100% of one of my i7 iMac core when running on Chrome (6.0.408.1). However, the animation play very smooth with only 1~2% CPU usage when running on Safari (4.0.5 6531.22.7).

So I assume you're using Chrome?

Edit: -webkit-animation in general seems to be very slow in Chrome.

Edit again: Oh right, -webkit-animation is hardware-accelerated in Safari. http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/#comment-25071
These should all say "biological life form". I've played Conway's Game of Life for years.
I agree. I think I probably should leave some feedback (aww, can't edit..) as well, but at the same time felt the amount of buzzwords thrown around by startups these days is getting alarming.

And these are buzzwords. Lean, Boostrapped, MVP - tell me nothing of the product.
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I got told me quite the opposite, from people with actual medical degrees. That multivitamin supplements aren't all that useful since the body tends to not absorb much of it and excretes it. It's better to get the vitamins from your food.

If vitamins get fully absorbed why is my piss bright green when I take a multivitamin?
Dish Network is listed as a partner and will be releasing a STB with this technology. If that goes well it won't take long for other providers to jump on board too.
"Reverse pool shark hustle"

I would call this pulling a W.
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I love the fast fixes and changes you're giving. As much as I like Google I just can't see them reacting this fast.
Benefits sell software, not features. Don't tell us what it does, tell us the concrete improvement in our lives we'll experience from using it. (Hint: the things you have listed under benefits are not actually benefits. Nothing that starts with "Systematically" is a benefit. To normal people, systematically says "sounds a whole lot like work.")

Your button does not look like a button to me (CrazyEgg will tell you if I'm nuts or not) and is off to the side. If your customers are like my customers, I'd suggest supplementing that with a button in the main content.
Go home. Use Sococo or something similar. Save money.
Not so smooth on Chrome/Ubuntu (on Mac hardware) either.

Cool experiment.
Snarky? Probably. Valuable? Definitely. pclark's feedback is excellent. And it probably should be first because OP's buzzwordia is a roadblock to everything else. I had trouble proceeding because my buzzword filter was up in full force, quite possbly giving false negatives.

OP needs to speak English, now.

You're right. It does take a lot of courage and hard work to have something to show. But it also takes thick skin. Better to get ripped here than by your prospects. If something's not right, they won't tell you. They'll just go away.
Exactly.

Plus you simply don't know if e.g. the oats in that tin of oatmeal you're working through were grown in soil that had adequate (for you) amounts of selenium.

Taking a "One A Day" vitamin just to make sure you hit all the bases is a minimal reasonable precaution.
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My experience has been that you should help everyone in your office, regardless of their motivation. Take the opportunity to speak your mind whenever possible, but don't resort to bickering.

At the end of the day, other people in your office will see them for what they really are and appreciate your candor.

If you're ABOVE said politician, it's as simple as either bringing them into your office for a few private chats and explaining that you know what they're doing and you see through it... then letting them go if they don't fix it.
Thank you, Gabriel.

The way you listen to your users and implement fixes and suggestions quickly is probably almost as important to your success as good search results right now, at least to me. Makes me want to use your site more.
I made a similar post recently asking for feedback on my app's conversion funnel (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354179). My preliminary results showed a 1.6% conversion rate, which from what I gather, is fairly normal. I think with some better A/B testing, I should be able to improve that number.
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So however outlandish this may come across, but your assesment everyone could learn to love tree bark, tar, asphalt, fecies, freshly sprayed skunk, hair, etc? Yes, there are people society likely considers "weird" that would eat this stuff, but surely not - everyone - could love this stuff if they'd just try it once, twice, 10 times?
A reference to urine based drug testing.
My guess is offering a more comprehensive free account will get you more signups, which could increase the amount that convert to paying, however personally I am extremely unlikely to throw down money without getting a good taste of what I am buying.

You say you have very basic free accounts: do those free accounts tease the users into becoming a paid account holder? Meaning, I signup and use your service and notice 'oh wow, they offer ___', only to click the button and be upsold? I think the tease/upsell could be extremely effective, if your service presents itself as excellent and comprehensive.

On the other hand, just because you increase revenue doesn't mean you are more profitable. How much extra time do you allot to supporting free accounts? Will they be more of a drag than it's worth?
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Awesome! Just as I'm working on my own toolchain, and the day before a long weekend! HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaackBoom!
I felt bad for my observation of your title, so felt I should leave some feedback as well, I apologize.

Your primary message: "PowerGrabber is an invitation manager.
It captures the addresses from your inbound and outbound emails, so you can invite the people you email
to join your LinkedIn™ network."

I don't know what an invitation manager is, captures sounds non-friendly. How about: PowerGrabber ensures the people you email are connected to you via LinkedIn. No more lost connections.

I'd also drop all the trademark symbols, whilst probably more legal it looks very corporate and almost scammy as it breaks the line flow.

I'd put the benefits above the "What is PowerGrabber" (you duplicate your appropriate primary marketing message, only with more detail)

In reality your benefits are that the people you email are your linkedin contacts. I'd spell this out by a short scenario about losing a contact that would be really valuable in the future. The benefits you list are complex and scary and marketing speak. "Systematically".

From the application point of view - the most useful data is who do I email the most that I'm not connected to? do you offer that? A video would help. The "how it works" image isn't clear as to how it works. Your best bet is to make a few screens in PowerPoint and record them as a video.

Your privacy policy is a pdf, i'd put that as html.

I'd also consider changing the logo as when I see that logo I think of the soviet union which is uhm, probably not appropriate :)

It's a neat idea and I'd use it if it worked with GMail and Mac. It solves a problem and is of clear value to the user, I'd make sure your marketing messages were similarly clear.

Just my $0.02
Well, I wouldn't say Microsoft has committed to it. All the commitment they've given is that it will work in IE if it's installed on your machine -- just like any other external plugin.

As for Apple, I'd be really surprised if they embrace it any time soon.
Have you tried to take the vitamin with food?

Me, I split my "One A Day" type vitamin/mineral pill into two and take one half with breakfast and lunch. I avoid dinner for minerals to give any excess the best chance of getting excreted during the day when I'm pushing a lot more water though my kidneys.

As for your problem ... are you sure that's not just some dye in the pill? I don't know of anything that would be "bright green" that you'd likely be taking.
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Not smooth at all when you scroll.

It plays nicely on iPhone 2G but scrolling and zooming make it hang for a while, I even made the animation stop somehow.

I'm not sure this is the way to go...
correct. the comparison to Spock is highly...logical.
What features would you keep in the management interface?
>stuff "of interest to hackers" that isn't really about startups or hacking

Maybe it is just me, but I am getting a bit tired of seeing all those posts that are only of interest to people in startups. After all, this is still "News for Hackers", not "News for Startups". I wouldn't follow it, if it was.

Now, I don't really care that much about what gets through (although posts as "this particular company has one vacancy for a programmer" are really pushing it...) but I want to make clear that it's not up to one person to decide what content is allowable here -- except if that person happens to be PG.
That's how it works in my office building. It also kicks off at 7PM on weekdays. It may not be completely off, but you can hear it blowing all day and at 7PM there's a loud THUMP in the vents and no sound after that.

Not a problem, our server room has independent cooling that takes the heat to a unit on the roof. It might have to work a little harder on long weekends but we keep track of our heat budget and this isn't a problem.
Google has billions of dollars riding on their search, I'd bet they would react pretty freaking fast if a game changing bug or user concern appeared :)
We used to co-locate our servers with another software/services company that had a good setup in their office. On a cold winter morning our oldest server restarted and wouldn't come back up so I went over to their office. The server room was probably 120 degrees and the server was stuck on a temp warning on boot. Turned out their AC in the attic froze up.
With all the suplimentation going on limiting it to 400 mcg (NOT mg) is going to be hard.

The key is to limit it to 1,000 mcg/1 mg; above that the symptoms of pernicious anemia (Vitamin B12 problems) can be masked until you've gotten irreversible nerve damage.
So we can all safely assume that since Adobe has pledged support for VP8, there will be an OSS Flash player released soon?
Huh. I have a new 13" Macbook Pro and my CPU is at 5%-8% in Safari.

However Google Chrome does not look like it hardware accelerates CSS animations so it's eating up 90% CPU on this.
haha, amazing. I literally checked two days ago and it wasn't available, it arrived yesterday and today its on kindle.
Just to back this point up with my upvote, I don't like the 'invitation manager' terminology. I basically read that first paragraph, didn't get why it was useful to me, then closed the page, no offense!

The first sentence already describes what PowerGRabber is. Below that, SHOW me why it's useful, whether it be a flowchart, a screenshot, or whatever :)

also I just scrolled down to your diagram at the bottom and still didn't get it :X
That's very interesting. What about a VP8 based Flash?
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It looks like only Apple has hooked up WebKit animation to an underlying Core Animation-equivalent layer in the OS which uses the GPU for most of the hard work.

Not sure if Google is really motivated to do this kind of system-specific work in Chrome beyond the basic port.
An amazing release! For me, the most significant feature is by far virtual memory - which means that not all the data has to reside in physical memory.

antirez has written a lot about Redis virtual memory, which is worth checking out if you are using Redis:

* http://antirez.com/post/redis-virtual-memory-story.html

* http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/VirtualMemorySpecificati...
Hagiography, maybe. But the notion that shorts kept the market going is just crazy. Short sellers get a bad rap, but if you think about it, shorts are the pins we need to pop the bubbles before they get too big.

The only problem with shorts, but this is equally true of the longs, is that investment activity is secret and information fails to be spread around; big risks creep into the markets without enough discussion taking place. If markets run on information, our markets are running on fumes. No wonder they sputter a lot.
heh, about that same time I was a sophomore in college and was just exposed to the Internet and the World Wide Web by way of a Mosaic browser running on some Sparc station. I predicted to several of my friends that it was pretty useless and wouldn't go anywhere. 15 years later this is how I make my living. I also made the same prediction about Facebook back in early 2005. However, I was right-on about smartphones back in 2005 and that Apple would be the one to create it. Exactly a year later they did. So I'm 1 for 2.
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Do you now of any highly accurate predictions, famous or not, of that time (or any other time for that mather)? Did anyone anticipate today's state of the Internet, Computers or Technology in general?
They sure as hell have a draconian present.
I started reading this too, and did some tangential reading along the way.

I'd hate to be in the same room as 2010 Lewis and 2007 Lewis:

"But the most striking thing about the growing derivatives markets is the stability that has come with them. More than eight years ago, after Long-Term Capital Management blew up and lost a few billion dollars, the Federal Reserve had to be wheeled in to save capitalism as we know it." http://bit.ly/cg9H6w

Also this fun one from Janet Tavakoli:

"I was in the Salomon Brothers' 1985 training class that Michael Lewis lampooned in his amusing book, Liar's Poker. Imagine my surprise to see him billed as a trader on 60 Minutes, since he was actually a junior salesman. Well-heeled male peacocks strutted the trading floor, and junior salesmen were girlie-men, mere eunuchs serving their pashas." http://huff.to/9pclUR
Adobe supports several video codecs in the player (including VP6). Because of the kind of reach H264 already has,I dont think Adobe will ever ditch H 264 for VP8(if that is what you mean by 'VP8 based Flash'). They already support VP6, and as you might have already heard, will support VP8 in the future.
Just like in Event Horizon (really)
I've been studying health and exercising with an Olympic trainer for years.

First, nearly all vitamins sold at CVS, Walgreens, Costco, Walmart, etc. are cheaply manufactured. Don't even bother. These are also the vitamins pharmaceutical companies study when they wish to discredit the healthfulness of vitamins in general.

Next, health requires diet, exercise, and supplementation for nutrients that can't easily be found in our modern food supply. Supplements alone won't do it.

That said, the best quality supplement companies I'm aware of are (in descending order for price and quality) Wellness Resources, the Life Extension Foundation, and Vitacost. Prepare yourself for sticker shock. The best protein supplements I know of (fermented or sprouted brown rice base, no animal or soy sources) are from SunWarrior and Boku Superfood.

The supplements I use are mostly plants, and include chlorella, spirulina, tumeric + black pepper, CoQ10, resveratrol, and LEF's Mix Tab vitamins (9 per day; a wide range of things are included.)

I also include flax oil, maca root, and pure chocolate directly in meals, along with an abundance of colorful fruits and vegetables, nuts, and occasional good quality meats.

Previous comments on supplements and diet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007392

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=829701

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726914

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585575

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516538
Overall I liked the article, but "draconian future"? Somebody at Google needs to spend some quality time with their dictionary.
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