skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with everything you say. It is the usual best practices with this type of pricing model.

Let's just compare these two services and the somewhat different take they have between the tiers of pricing.

http://www.chompstack.com/pricing/

-only differentiation is if you need 11 restaurant. The upsell is only $15.

http://letsfreckle.com/plans/

-Freckle obviously plays better with the "idiot package" by upselling 10 more accounts instead of 1 restaurant like chompstack

They both had different pricing strategies I see when sorting through the tiers:
-Chompstack just went up $15 each tier
-Freckle doubled each time instead of sticking with a fixed rate

Any feedback on those thoughts?
Business advice: Am I being paranoid or should I be cautious?
There are very few people I can turn to for advice on the following issue:

I'm currently a technical manager at a software company and have a position open for a developer. I interviewed a very strong candidate who currently works for company X that I would like to hire. Company X is not a competitor at all, so there are no non-compete issues.

A couple days after I interviewed the above candidate I receive a call from a high level executive at company X. Instead of bitching me out for poaching their talent, the exec says that I was highly recommended by a former employer and they would like to discuss a potential opportunity to join their company.

Obviously this leaves me in quite a quandary for a variety of reasons.

1. I would like to pursue this new opportunity, but the timing seems to perfect to be coincidental

2. I feel that my obligation is to pursue the interests of my current employer unless a concrete deal is made between me and company X. Obviously it could be quite bad for myself if I hire away a top talent one day, and then join company X the next.

3. What is the potential for this to be some kind of retaliatory attack for hiring away their talent? Could they be trying to put me in a pinch where I end up unemployed? This seems pretty paranoid to me, but much shadier things have occurred in business.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
yeah i added it back. strange.
Somewhat interesting in light of http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/07/iphone-...
Why would someone sit on something like this for 7 years? I can't think of any reasonable explanation. Facebook's lawyers also seem completely unprepared. How could Mark not have seen this coming? There's got to be an interesting story here.
>It will also be interesting to know if people here think Ceglia deserves those Facebook shares.

That's what interests me most about this. I'm assuming this will come to some settlement that won't destroy facebook, and will probably give this guy some money. I'm curious about the ethics involved. Is contract law so inviolate that most people here would advocate honoring it?
it's amazing how you never hear anybody who grew up poor talking about how money doesn't buy you happiness.
That is because Chrome and Firefox don't follow the system PROXY settings you will have to change those individually.

Mail.app works over the global systems SOCKS proxy as such it works without any issues what so ever.
Pandora is using Background Audio API, isn't it? If so, the app is able to stay alive as long as it still play music. Background Task API, on the other hand, has 10 minutes time limit.
It is a lawyer's job to put forth every argument that can make their client win. Even if the lawyer believes that the client didn't sign, they can't stand on the truth because the judge may not believe them. So they have to argue both sides of every disputed fact. So they say that they don't think our client signed. But even if he did, it is too late to bring this case so our client still wins. That way no matter which version of the facts the judge accepts, they can win.
The question of who has the burden of proof does not turn on whether Facebook says it has questions or whether it says flat out that it's a phony.
So if you think about money, you enjoy chocolate less and you eat it faster, or at least so the second study mentioned says.

An alternative theory: people, when confronted with money, realize that they will not be able to enjoy more chocolate, due to the cost, and therefor rate it as being less enjoyable as a defense mechanism, to avoid the fact that they want more. They also eat it faster because they're worried that the researchers will make them pay for it.

On a slightly more logical note ... all this shows is that thinking about money reduces enjoyment of things. Presumably, richer people are able to get things without thinking about the cost, and hence money.

It would be interesting to do the same study on the rich and privileged, and see both if their average enjoyment of chocolate is lower, and if it gets even lower when they're thinking about money. Until that's done, it seems a bit extreme to say that this proves anything (except, perhaps, that worrying about money reduces enjoyment of chocolate, but I don't know if any of the subjects considered themselves rich, and how their results differed, if at all, so I can't even conclude that).
Seriously? Your reply to "I'm trying to teach myself K-12 math" is "find out what mathematicians think about, instead"? My guess: you are trolling or have never read the Princeton Companion.
I also vaguely remember one of the popular 3d software packages having a bald eagle as one of the primitives.
You're tying up the concept of computation with the implementation of computation that we commonly see (the Von Neumann architecture). Yes, whatever code you write in whatever language will eventually compile down to something that changes bytes in memory. But the way that you express that computation is not required to have such a concept.
Living in ...
Not really, it can buy you comfort - but that is not really what this article seems to be aiming at.
Questionable assertions about overpricing (as petercooper discusses) aside, this article is interesting if only to demonstrate the vertical integration of Luxicotta. FTA:
"The eye doctor telling you that you need a new pair of glasses, the sales people helping you choose them and the people who design and make the glasses all work for the same company. "

That sounds like an enviable position for lots of companies. At the same time, it provides insight into current internet heavy hitters' strategies. For example, Google's fiber networks and internet tools (Chrome, JS libraries, etc) are probably all designed to improve the efficiency of their cash cow (search).
Engineering Weird Scale
Mind Performance Hacks Wiki
Many political organizations do this. The NRA will even call your house in the middle of dinner.

Is it ever possible to donate anonymously?
http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/03/streaming-mp3aac-audio-agai...

My guess is Pandora has some fairly sophisticated server-side streaming that responds to ACK/FIN-type feedback from the iPhone client.
You know, this is a legitimate question that I don't think has been satisfactorily answered thus far: there have been the numerical analyses about 'successes' which was skewed towards 'success' because there were a lot of YC companies bought out (such as reddit), but are they profitable even for the company that bought them?
15 Movies the Critics Got Wrong
We are a web based company and our mix includes: zendesk, get satisfaction, github, campaign monitor, new relic.

Also - many small businesses pay for ours -http://www.pipejump.com (:
Wufoo springs to mind.
The next hot iPad app could be "Flipboard," a "social magazine"
UPDATE 2-At least 25 hurt in turbulence aboard United flight
Not saying that it's a tactic that works 100% of the time, but anecdotally speaking, I see it around on SaaS websites.

It's proven to work. A couple years back there was an article about how Carl's Jr introduced a new expensive burger. Sales of the second most expensive burger jumped up, yet the expensive burger didn't sell well. They removed the expensive burger from the line up, and the previous best seller's sales fell. Having a highly priced "top" plan/product is a tide that raises all boats, it seems.
I prefer creating customized frameworks from libraries. I tend to know more about my particular problem than any generic framework writer.

Also, I can focus only on the solutions and features I need. I often don't have to build for the super general case, which often results in a simpler framework that helps rather than hinders.
Scoble's exclusive first look at Flipboard [video interview]
The root layer reads acceleration from a real sensor (the inner ear) while each successive layer reads acceleration from a virtual sensor provided by the layer above it. That virtual sensor reports the parent layer's acceleration minus a vector taken when the layer was initialized, plus gravity.
Ok, to save everyone 5-minutes, it's a self-deprecating piece about a guy who makes a few grand selling a softcore pron app. Funny, but crass.
Apple has never guaranteed the App Store is safe. They've pushed the idea that the App Store is safer than alternatives though. The iPhone EULA covers this.
6 pages. The main argument: Without altruistic publishers and book store personell/owners, people won't buy smart books and stick to the mindless drivel of bestsellers. Because mere customers couldn't recommend those pinnacles of literary achievement, there's no other way to drive sales (book critics?) and the Amazon book recommendations just are a vicious circle towards the biggest sellers.

I've heard similar arguments before, which is why Germany still has fixed prices on books. Without declaring them damaged, any book that is in print will got at the listed price, no discounts possible. The reasoning behind this: By keeping the bestsellers more expensive, publishers can fund the literary masterminds.

All such thinking is astonishingly patronizing and reeks of a general "we know best" mentality. Books beyond bestsellers can go "viral", but apparently all those books will just be dumb, pulpy entertainment.
Some people get confused about this, so:

The spreadsheet is specifically not a job board; and I will excercise extreme prejudice against non-"getting things done" measurement for first steps, including "send me your resume", "send me an e-mail", and such. Seriously, coming up with something that is actionable for candidates is the best communication starter, and filter 99% of the crap out immediately.
Really? I would argue quite the opposite.

Obviously anecdotes mean little, but I can definitely think of examples from my own life of those who enjoy a sense of pride in _not_ having to spend money to increase their own happiness (or not spend as much as they perceive others find necessary).

My own parents, for example, have much happiness and not a huge amount of money. And I don't honestly think that having it would really make them that much happier.
CKEditor and TinyMCE have solved a very difficult problem in extremely elegant ways; their developers deserve more respect than wishing their projects death.
An interesting prospect is that random startups could become cell carriers by buying bandwidth from this company.

See also this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1233712
Can help you out. Based in Australia (though will be in US for all of August) but have done loads of work via email/IM for clients in the US. Can provide contacts as a reference.
How would I go about finding said problem? Sorry if this seems stupid. There is no real problem that piques my interest right now perhaps because I don't really know the field all too well. I just want to enjoy learning math and get better at solving problems.
That appears to fit the bill. From reading here...

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iPho...

...it sounds like a background audio app could do arbitrary other things while remaining unsuspended, and receiving audio callbacks, as long as it also keeps playing audio. (I'm sure Apple would frown on such behavior, and ultimately thwart it, but it seems like the framework gives enough discretion to the app to do other things.)
Don't you?
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/10/money-cant-buy-happiness...
Robert Scoble just posted a video of the app in action and an interview with the Co-Founder & CEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7umqKbQ3PA
I'm not commending Ballmer or Microsoft for anything. I'm just saying that there are a lot of people calling Ballmer a failure for maintaining an even keel. The company is not losing money, they are profitable, and they are far from going out of business. They aren't growing at a breakneck pace either, but that is not failure. They have plenty of cash on hand to continue experimenting.
Get the book "Thinking Mathematically" (http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Mathematically-J-Mason/dp/020... non affiliate link) which exposes the process of how mathematicians think, using simple problems. You can then adapt the process to your preferred level of problems. Also learn proof technique (Velleman's How to Prove it" is a good book for this) and doesn't make any assumptions of mathematical knowledge.
NASA's WISE Telescope Completes First Survey of the Entire Sky
http://whatcrackin.com is a weekend project so I could keep tabs on who was where during SXSW this last year.

node.js + google maps + faye comet library
> the benchmark seems to have been deprecated, rightly

Well, not actually deprecated as such - but neither thread-ring nor chameneos-redux are included in the which-programming-languages-are-fastest summary.

Mostly because there turned out to be naive parallel approaches for other benchmarks, for example spectral-norm http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/performance.php?test=...
Boolean Hair Logic
I was at Harvard at the time. Everyone used/ knew the print face book and the internet was exploding so it doesn't sound at all odd for two people to have the idea of doing an "online face book".
A few years ago, I signed a contract with an awful web startup. At the time, I was laughing on the inside because I thought it was funny how much they (two brothers) wanted to pretend they were a legitimate company. One brother was the "CEO," and the other brother was "Vice President." So like a CEO, a VP, and then no employees..

Looking at the Ceglia/Zuckerberg contract, I got chills, and began digging into my old documents, looking for that contract. The last thing I want is to find out I signed 50% of earnings away.

I discovered that I did sign 50% of my earnings away! Fortunately, the agreement was between their company and my now deceased startup. I'm glad my startup failed..
I grew up poor. Money scares me. Whenever I buy something, even essentials like groceries, it makes me flushed and dizzy and kinda sick to my stomach. But now that I have the means to buy non-essentials, I feel compelled to optimize. Sometimes this is fun, most of the time it is not. When something gets destroyed, my first thought is how much it cost. When I see something that is incredibly expensive but poorly made, it's personally offensive -- like someone, somewhere thinks I'm a sucker.

It was easier, in a way, being poor (and, later, homeless). Everything was off limits, so I didn't need to waste any thought on it.

There is one silver lining, though. We can do things for our kids that my parents could not do for me, like pay for martial arts lessons, musical instruments, movies and new clothes. Nothing gives me greater pleasure.
> For a laugh, his facebook page - http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jthompsons

That's his LinkedIn page, not his Facebook page
Dude, im adding you on ym!. Dunno if i would do you good, since im a noob in programming.
I'd like to see this adapted to express many facial hair styles.
Unlike many people, I'm far less interested in why this guy is filing suit so late in the game (which will almost certainly become a critical point of contention in Facebook's arguments), than I am interested in the legitimacy of the contract itself. If it turns out that Zuckerberg signed this contract in good faith, then I'm going to start to see him as either a real sleazebag, or a complete idiot. Anyone can read and understand the terms of that contract, so either he didn't read it (idiot), or he purposefully ignored it when Facebook hit it big (sleazebag). Either way, not good for Zuckerberg.

Facebook's army of attorneys may ultimately win the day on technical grounds, but if this contract is legitimate, I'd hate to see the plaintiff lose out on a lucky investment because he was an unsophisticated investor.
Ask HN: If you were teaching web apps, what would you have your students build?
Whats a good series of short challenges for learning web applications?

For those of us taking on advice to build a portfolio, whats a good showcase of applications to have built?
Why would someone sit on something like this for 7 years?

This is obvious.

Why would you sue over a company that might not even turn a profit or could go bankrupt the next day while the founders are poached by Google, leaving you with an empty shell of a company?

The answer: you only sue when a company starts making money. And for Facebook, that has happened only very recently.
There's linguistics and then there's philosophy of language. Don't confuse the two.
The above comment describes everything I work with on a day to day basis at my job. Every solution contains multiple layers of abstraction from the aspx to the code behind, to a controller to multiple services to multiple daos and with all of them implementing something to allow for testing.

Except very little is tested (its getting better) and everything is so tightly coupled it dosnt make a difference anyway.
And the first 10 minutes, where a tired student with a hangover signs a piece of paper without reading it too well.
Can i take a rain check on this?
I don't agree with that. If the lawyer knows for certain that Zuck did not sign they should just say he did not sign. That will not prevent them from making arguments in the alternative, such as "even if he signed, the contract is invalid on other grounds." While these kind of arguments may seem a little disingenuous to the ordinary person, they are accepted and made in the courthouses all the time.

I think the best argument you can make for the possibility that Zuck did not sign this contract is that he did not sign it, but does not want to be brought to the witness stand for some reason, so he has told his lawyer not to make the validity of his signature an issue of contention but to try to attack the contract on other grounds.
From my reading it looks like Ceglia was supposed to pay the hosting fees. I wonder how much the hosting fees are and what his bill would look like going back 6 years to now.
Sounds like an exaggeration.
Hey pal, the real site is going to up on 6th of August... I am sure you will love the site when once it will be up.... :) thanks for your suggestion though..
It's worth it if you're willing to spend the extra money to not see too many other people wearing the same glasses.
Hi Peter. Which week are you coming - we'll be around till the end of the month. I'll also DM you with some intros to various Ruby startups (I've been doing something similar).
If this is legit it's quite damning for Zuckerberg's equity position.
I think this would be a good distinction that we don't have in our current black and white ("private" or "public") perception of the privacy. It is one thing to be knowingly recorded (even if without consent) and quite another to be secretly recorded. The law doesn't seem to care but there are definitely situations where this distinction is important.
I wrote this out before I even had a chance to see that I could reply directly to the group. Here it is anyway:

"I don't see your points in my work with the community at all. In fact, I would actually say that the community is slowly, but surely, moving towards Rails 3 with great steadfast. There are always going to be legacy apps and legacy support for plugins (if the developer(s) choose to have it). I'm not sure which plugins you've been looking at, but a lot of the major ones have been upgraded, or at least have a separate "rails3" branch on GitHub. Some even have pre-release gems.

In regards to -nix distros supporting the latest and greatest, I would have to say that, as a system administrator, its your duty to keep your software up to date, not necessarily the distro providers. As you said, most of the releases at this point are pre-releases, and are expected to be buggy until they are deemed stable.

Have you actually tried compiling Ruby 1.9.2 from source? From what I have experienced, being a release candidate, its extremely stable and very fast. It compiles on both Mac OS X 10.6 and CentOS for me, so I'm sure any problems you're facing are simply disto-centric. If you're such a community activist, and want to be pro-active in said community, maybe you should at the very least report the bugs you're experiencing, or attempt to patch them.

I have to also say that I have never, -ever- heard the phrase "1.8 is good enough." If anything, all I have heard for years are people complaining about the following: "1.8 is sooo slow. PHP all the way! When is 1.9 going to be ready for production? Where did DHH go with Rails 3? Is he on holiday or something!?!1" These people don't even look at the github commits and see the flurry of activity surrounding these projects. No, they would much rather complain on a forum or a social network.

It is sad to see this kind of attitude coming from fellow Ruby users. Until you have attempted to solve some of the problems you're facing, you're just part of the problem, not the solution."
The original idea was, "Let's look for a substance with infinite resistance at low enough temperatures."

They got lucky and found the exact opposite of what they were trying to get.
It might be just a tiny bit unreasonable to expect companies not to do positive advertising/PR for their products.
No problem, just get in touch with me so I can put you in the queue. This is a very casual offer, as helping others is essentially helping myself be a better page creator. email is in the bio!
Only enough to set this up as the sequel.
The quick look zoom key commands in the article are goofy.

They work of course, but it's much easier to use command +/- just like photoshop.
Yes, absolutely. I'm doing stuff in Rails and I'm really trying to get better at TDD. I'd definitely be into this.

I'm on Skype as "erikdungan" (email in my profile). I'll add you now.
and I'd like to think weebly since it really is a pretty darn good value add.
But the freemium approach ( you can omit the powered-by links if you know anything whatsoever about HTML, and it's like $30 bucks for a year of hosting) is the only reason why I would like to think rather than am sure about it.
I don't agree with that. If the lawyer knows for certain that Zuck did not sign they should just say he did not sign. That will not prevent them from making arguments in the alternative, such as "even if he signed, the contract is invalid on other grounds." While these kind of arguments may seem a little disingenuous to the ordinary person, they are accepted and made in the courthouses all the time.

I'm having trouble seeing what your point of disagreement is.

From what we both said, if the lawyer believes or knows that the client did not sign, the lawyer should make that argument. But the lawyer will also make arguments in the alternative, arguing that even if the client did sign, they should still win the case.

That looks like agreement, not disagreement.
I've worn various Oakley sunglasses for years paying $100-$200 each. I usually keep them 3-5 years before they get too beat up to keep wearing. I've tried switching, but I haven't found any optics that I liked as much. I guess it could be a mental thing...dunno.

One thing the article didn't touch on was comfort. I hated wearing sunglasses until I bought Oakley Zeros years and years ago. They were so light you could forget they were on.

The next time I need glasses I'll go out and try to find some cheaper ones that fit my criteria instead of being lazy and just picking up another pair of Oakleys :)