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You seem to be under the illusion that pricing has a direct relationship to cost. That's backwards.

Pricing is based on the perceived value to the customer, not the cost to the producer.

Dropbox and GitHub are offering very different services, and are therefore pricing their services differently, based on what they believe the market will bear.

If you're trying to price a new service, I recommend you think about the value you are offering your customers, and how they perceive it. That will tell you what you are able to charge.
Considering the interests of all involved, this seems to me like the most likely answer. There is no way that people at twitter rationally weighed their self interest and decided to start censoring things. There is zero upside, and a rather large downside for twitter. It's just not in their financial best interest. Israel isn't going to block them or take other action that would financially harm twitter for simply publishing text messages from people. And the publicity fallout from censorship is so obviously bad that there is no way that any rational owner of twitter would approve a move like this.

My money is on a haywire spamfiltering system... but we will see. If the people running twitter are not morons, we'll see an explanation shortly.
I think their pricing is based on the service's value to you rather than what their costs are.
Pipes is a wonderful thing, you can do a lot with it (like consume Google Analytics emails with it to be able to make public charts by scraping the analytics XML attachments and surfacing them as public JSON: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-17-n73.html ).

The only problem with pipes is that if you're building anything that you will depend on (rather than it being a "nice to have") then your service now wholly depends on Yahoo maintaining pipes.

The question I always fall back to is, "Do I want my service to be wholly dependent on a third party if I can avoid it?". As you can avoid it, I'd choose to write my own proxy in this instance.
If you're thinking of using the App Engine read this first:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/26/end-to-end-perform...
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I do not get the impression that Hacker News readers are anti-Microsoft. It's more that Microsoft is mostly irrelevant for a community interested in startups and web applications.
I'm always amazed at how popular Rhino is vs. how little active development effort it receives. I'm as guilty as anyone of course.
Melbourne's western suburbs are definitely regarded as less desirable than the eastern suburbs.

Historically (in the 1880s), the western suburbs were where the working class lived, and where heavy industry was located.

Today, the majority of the wealthy suburbs are still east of the city - Toorak, Camberwell, Kew, Hawthorn etc.
True, porn has also been the driving force behind accepting online credit card payments.
Um, the picture was taken from Earth orbit. You will NOT find the solar system in this image.
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Indeed, I don't see that much anti-Microsoft people these days. Microsoft is mostly out of the picture entirely.

Paul Graham wrote something similar about 3 years ago so it's not a new deduction: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
ok great thanks. I'll try and hack it to avoid using jQuery though, not a huge fan of using libs if only utilising a single feature/function
However, if the price is much higher than the cost, it means that you're very vulnerable to competition undercutting you, unless there are entry barriers.
I think the centralisation of computer power in huge data centres has great opportunities to cut ineffiencient and wasteful power consumption, therefore I applaud this.

Sadly, it looks like we will consume a lot of energy in the data centres as well as running a, say, Core Duo computer at home. Maybe true thin clients will take off some day so we can harbour the advantages of centralised computing power.
Sahara retains Indian team sponsorship rights 
The Sahara Group outbid telecom giants Bharti Airtel to retain the title sponsorship rights of the Indian men's cricket team till the end of 2013. This could fetch BCCI upto Rs 558 crore.

The Subrato Roy-headed industrial conglomerate will pay Rs 3.34 crore per international match to have their logo displayed on the Team India jersey.

"Sahara India Financial Corporation has been awarded the Indian team (Seniors) Title Sponsorship Rights,
Context chart break-down: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-op....

I don't think it's a stretch for him to say that Office and Windows are the cash cows---if that is what he meant.
+1 for copyright violation. I'm no giant fan of copyrights, but reading content in a format actually produced by the author is the least you can do instead of mangling it up.
Wow, it seems so obvious now that you guys pointed it out. Thanks for that reminder, I had forgotten that important fact.
Here in Brazil Rio has a richer southern zone and a poorer northern and western zones. São Paulo has a tiny rich western zone and a large and much poorer eastern zone. I think that both are exceptions.
You don't think Safari on iPad/iPhone can view porn images already? :p
Metafilter might be a good place. Good news commenting sites with a great user base aren't exactly a dime a dozen.
While you cover yourself you still make a slur to which the is little comeback.

Except "No, we are not censoring #flotilla," of course.
It should be noted that as far as I know, CORS only works with FF 3.5+, Safari 4+, Chrome (4+?), IE8+ and current versions of Mobile Safari. You'll still need a JSON(p) proxy for others, but if CORS is supported by the server, it's worth using just for the speed gain & bandwidth savings.
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Their Xbox division still runs with big deficits if I am not mistaken. I don't have any recent data on it, but a while ago, it wasn't profitable. Their market share is great, but I don't know how they convert it to profits.
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Just CPU, memory and networking (disks can be served from other machines).

I'd like to see ARM boards with disks attached. I have a recurring daydream of having a cheap ARM board I can plug into the back of a SATA drive to give it an ethernet port and a small amount of application logic.

When you get right down to it, the two places where disk is most important -- bulk data storage and database back-end storage -- need vanishingly small amounts of CPU power. Why buy a general-purpose rackmount box costing $1000 and 200W to put your disks into if you can get an ARM board costing $80 and 5W?
I appreciated tel's comment. It contributed something to the conversation that was constructive and informative for anyone who didn't know the usage difference. I tend to skim over that kind of comment quickly if it's something I already know, just like I would for any other content I was already familiar with.

Your angry comment, on the other hand really was distracting. If you have a problem helping out people, even non-native speakers, then don't do it yourself.
You aren't the only one.
I can guess that in a few years the 'free' effect will decrease (but not reverse since there are always new users showing up).
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I think it's just human.

"#flotilla not working on Twitter. Censorship or bug?" would be a better choice because it isn't a leading question.

Edit: Is a headline like "Did pressure from Apple cause a Foxconn employee to commit suicide?" neutral, or just avoiding a libel suit?
I, for one, welcome our new hermaphroditic USB drives.
It's incredibly hard to get that work experience without a degree. Why would a company hire someone without experience or CS degree for a programming job when they could hire someone with a CS degree for only a marginal amount of extra money ?
That's exactly what's so interesting about these kinds of questions. Let's say they were really censoring, and they said, "No, we are not censoring #flotilla," and stopped censoring. You can't tell the difference between that and a bug followed by a bug fix, so they have trouble putting the suspicion to rest.
That chart would make me sell/spin-off the Entertainment and Devices division and kill the online services division.
I just watched this the other day - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kobkqAicU Cray-1 Supercomputer 30th Anniversary. I would give up my career and turn it around if given a chance to work in HPC.
I doubt this will help browser upgrades. The people who don't upgrade browsers are "parents", older people who use the internet to check the news, chicks who only use the internet for facebook and most of all; enterprise users.

None of these are really in the "must get the latest in porn" category.
Maybe I should sue Land Info NZ, I fell off a cliff that wasn't marked on their map. Wait that was my fault.
Excel isn't going anywhere - it is the basis for so many business systems. Pretty much every other Office app (perhaps with the exception of Outlook) could be replaced without too many noticing, but Excel is the key business application for decision makers in most organizations.
Works for me intermittently; technical error.
So where does Google fit in on that scale?
I will go to University for Computing.
I am one of the apparently few people who love studying - not the act of studying,but the reason to study. Any interaction with people increases my ability to think and speak. This is a quote from somwhere: "The rate of cultural and economic progress depends on the rate at which ideas are having sex." Educational facilities (even if they limit your creativity)increase the rate at which ideas have sex and that's good.
After spending two years in an International Baccalaureate program I have found that I have completely changed my way of thinking and speaking. I changed. I am more grown up. There are many people - those who don't understand the reason to spend years in school - who can't even understand me anymore. I ceased to speak in terms of e.g. temperature, but in terms of heat radiation and entropy change. Common people can't understand me. That seems pointless, but it has made my brain more agile in analyzing things that are more complex and that would take too much work to resolve with 'common language'.

This is the power of education. I agree, you don't have to study CS, but for gods sake, if you want to be a programmer don't study a humanistic subject (except maybe philosophy). Study something that can push your brain to think and to create complex in-brain connections.

The reason I say don't study something like history is because I believe that in some decades simple facts won't matter much, only analyzing the facts will. I believe that in less than 50 years we will have computers connected to our brains that will be able to hold all the facts we learn and even perform simple analysis. But the complex tasks will be left to the brain, and so one must learn to increase its mental processing capacity and not to increase memory capacity
The other reason for studying CS are connections. Meeting people, potential partners, employers and all the rest. You don't get that if you don't study CS. University is the easy way to come to meet people and get a job. You'd have to have a much better portfolio to get a job if you don't have a technical degree.

On the bad side, universities are expensive. But there's hope to earn the money back with a great degree.
Anyone who knows anything about twitter is not going to blink an eye at "censorship or bug" - it's obviously the second.
I'm curious about the applications of these systems. Why is it that finance would be the third largest (known) group for supercomputer use? What kind of number crunching would they be doing?
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Sori nyt vaan mutta sun kannattais kiinnittää vähän huomiota mm. artikkeleihin.. :) "A protocol", "A margin", eikä "monopoli":sta tuu englantia ottamalla lopusta i pois.

( He's Finnish and his English contains mistakes that are typical for Finns, which is unfortunate, and could be avoided )
Choosing a postfix syntax stack oriented language can make things lot easier - at least for the interpreter developer, if not for anyone trying to program in your language.
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Look, MS is a powerful company for a lot of reasons. They have a lot of talented people and they have profitable divisions. But the fact is that the market buys stock in companies which they expect to expand into other markets. MS has tried hard to follow on markets it has experience with and so far has generally fallen behind. So when we're talking about MS' ability to enter into markets or to keep its stock prices high, they lose.

But that doesn't mean they're going to close their doors.

But at the same time it doesn't make Ballmer look very good to investors and the directors should be thinking about this since they are responsible to the investors (so is Ballmer).
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I set up exactly this thing yesterday with Yahoo Pipes. But they're having problems these days (apparently since December): lots of connection refused errors and others. Some bloggers "broke up" with the service and others were more blunt.
Just saying that I haven't noticed smog as a rule in other big cities. But I have never been to megacities, I am talking about London or Berlin when I say big cities.
These kind of articles are why I really love the BBC.
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There are two competing forces that hinder the lack of innovation in digital advertising. The notion that all content wants to be free and the notion that the only way to monetize content is with ad impressions and clicks. These are two major problems that continue to be fueled by the leading advertising agency in the digital space. As long as everyone continues to play along and support this 800 pound gorilla there won't be any innovation in this space any time soon.

We just launched a concept called AdShouts. We hope to change the flow of advertising dollars from the digital gatekeers into the hands of consumers. This notion that content should be free could change if users are able to profit on the web.

http://www.adshouts.com
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How does that relate to finance? I know that protein folding involves massive computation, as it was what our university cluster was being used for 40% of the time.
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I attended (but sadly, never graduated) the University of Central Florida in the US as a Computer Engineering major and the courses were as you described: Engineering + Math + Computer Science.
Disregarding glandular, hormonal, or similar problems, obesity is certainly not a disease: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTq2_3LfXM.
l;bra (long; but read anyway)

Articulately put and yummy intellectual fodder. Thank you for the submission brazzy.

Cancer and Obesity should always be "cancers" and "obesities" when we're talking about how we should treat the potential/actual sufferer as it varies from type to type. As pointed out by the article it would seem unhelpful to yell at a cancer patient but we should whine at our kids if they start smoking. Also, as obesity comes in many shapes and sizes maybe do do we know whether Sandy has an underlying genetic condition or whether she likes jam donuts too much.

As a commenter to the article said: a lot of the choices a consequentialist would make sound like utilitarian choices. I'm not big on utilitarianism so I guess I'd be leery of consequentialism.

I absolutely love the idea of breaking down a complex issue into its component parts. It is interesting how some people use outliers rather than type specimens to try to destroy coherent notions which is really unhelpful. For instance to use the example of disease; obesity fails some of the criteria for disease, thus we need to rethink what disease means for us!

Less iPad/Flash submissions and more of this sort of thing would be greatly appreciated :)
You do, of course, understand how over-engineered is the Empire State by today's standards.

I seriously doubt 30's margins are still being applied.
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Google has a lot of computers, but they are not tightly coupled enough to be considered super computers.
If you're logged out the search appears to work. It also works via the API. Seems to be a bug that only manifests itself while logged in
But read it well. It seems AppEngine comes out very bad, but it was tested for db transaction speed in a way that every insert locks the entire db (one big entity group). Any AppEngine developer could tell you not to use it like this. More info: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/keysa...

It would be very interesting to see what the results would be with some more realistic testing.
Correct re. Column. I miss words sometimes, even when re-reading what I have written.
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I'm a member of the Chuck (tv show) community. We encountered similar issues in trending efforts. Some hash tags will simply not trend, and there's no apparent rhyme or reason. Twitter support never responded to any inquiries as to why some seemingly innocuous keywords (like #SaveChuck) would not trend, but others would.

I assume they have their reasons, and as a free service they have no obligation. It's still annoying for the user community.
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Yeah. I shouldn't comment while jetlagged and on my iPad. I still think it's a valid point though.
Any special kind? Wikipedia doesn't tell me much, and from the map it looks like it could just be a high-crime corner of Miami which has the misfortune of being a town of its own.
http://jsonpify.com/ is probably ideal for you....
The API is like http://jsonpify.com/api?url=XXX&format=xml&jsonp=myc...

but you can also do this with http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ and http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ . Both are excellent and used often for this exact purpose.
The Innovator's Dilemma explains why. The response "I don't get it -- I read through the entire review and I was hard pressed to find where ________ shined" is exactly what entrenched companies said a year or two before they were destroyed by the lower capability (but growing) competitors.

In The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen spends quite a bit of time on the disk drive case study, where over several generational transitions the entrenched bigger-faster-better companies when under because they could not match their lower capability (smaller, but more expensive in the case of hard drives) competitors. When the competitors broke out of their niches and into the mainline with size competitive products, they destroyed the entrenched companies with their cost advantages.

ARM owns the low power niche and now it is threatening to catch up with Intel - being "good enough" - in low value moderate performance market. The traditional response of an entrenched company is to retreat to "higher ground," in this case more complex, faster desktops and servers. The problem is, "higher ground" has limited height and the low areas of that high ground keep eroding. Intel is addressing the threat with lower power (and slower) chips - the Atom.

It will be very interesting to see if Intel can stave off their dilemma and become competitive with ARM on the low power, moderate performance, extremely low cost front... and that last part extremely low cost is both the key and Intel's Achilles heel.

References:

* http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Busin...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
Astrid Task is pretty neat! I was looking for an app like that.
Articles on these "rationalist" sites often tend towards a mix of smug superiority about one's ability to analyze other people's supposed biases, and lots of references to pet concepts. I posted this one because it does such an excellent job of analyzing the issue in clear, objective terms.
When I was a psych major, we dealt with questions like these all the time. I think the author raises excellent points, but presents a rather limited view of the social pressure that people can exert. "We should blame and stigmatize people for conditions where blame and stigma are the most useful methods for curing or preventing the condition, and we should allow patients to seek treatment whenever it is available and effective." There are many conditions that are susceptible to influence by social pressure, but very rarely are blame and stigma the best means of exerting that influence. In most cases, I'd say they are downright harmful.

Take alcoholism. The most effective treatment today for alcoholism is AA. (there are many thing about aa that kind of creep me out, but it is a fact that it has the highest success rate of any course of treatment that has been studied). AA works almost entirely through social influence. But a key component of its social influence is talking about alcoholism as a disease, as something separate from an individual which can be done away with. Talking about alcoholism as a moral failing simply does not help. If you are morally bankrupt, what are the odds of your morally bankrupt self digging your way out of that hole? If you have a disease, though, maybe you can find a cure.

Similarly, as a child, people yelling at me that I was a lazy bum just didn't help. My primary reaction was resentment, not shame. Though I had shame, too. Its just not so easy to motivate oneself when feeling like a shameful failure. When I started thing of laziness as a behavior that I happened to have, rather than something that was intrinsic to myself, (i.e., I am being lazy right now, what can I do about it, as opposed to I am lazy), I started being able to have more control over it. Not perfect control, of course, but much more than I had.
Ask HN: visualizing recurring and one-off revenue?
How do you graph your SaaS metrics/revenue from subscriptions and other payments?

Ideally, I'd like to visualize both length of relationship (i.e. individual and average length of subscription) and revenue from customers.

I've seen lots of examples with simple bar charts, but I'm looking for any creative solutions to this that you've seen or that you've come up with yourself.

edit: currently I only use simple line charts for revenue and a grouped bar chart for length of relationship. Any better ideas? Thanks!
No stupidity as such but in general lots of traits which would have been bred out in the past will persist because many undesirable traits can be managed. I was more thinking about brain function and learning capability, not a direct stupidity from DNA.