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>>Calling his own users 'dumb fucks' for trusting him [...] insulting [...] unethical

That was written 16 hours ago and voted to +22??

Oh, please...

My remaining har is gray -- and I'd still add such a comment as an automatic joke about anyone trusting me.

It is an obvious self deprecating joke to say/write at that point, laugh about -- and forget in less than five seconds.

That said, I think Facebook as a non-open company is bad. An application with more information about people than Google should be distributed, for all our sakes. (No, I don't have any alternate ideas.)

But damning that kid for having a sense of humor is ridiculous.

And, worse, this might force me to stop joking... :-)
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You can download ie9 preview here: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
The shame is, I can't think of anyone who wouldn't want it to work. I don't know about you, but I like the fact that I can listen to recorded music and not have to go to a live performance.
Maybe he should take into account that in the real world most prices are xy.99, this might change stipulation 2.
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I like the idea of a ternary currency: redefine the dollar¹ to be worth 81 pennies², and then issue 1p, 3p, 9p, and 27p coins. (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary)

Of course no country other than Geekistan would actually do this, so I would settle for a 1/3/10/30 system.

¹Or pound or euro, of course.

²We couldn’t call them “cents” any more, could we?
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this is why I do squats almost every day. If I don't die in my car or get cancer, my fam hx says I'll live to be 95. I want to be able to go to the bathroom by myself when I'm that old.
Skeptics discount science by casting doubts on scientist expertise
The Crucial RealSSD C300 drive he cites has a theoretical max of 355MB/s. I happen to have have this drive. Writes comes close to 150MB/s at times, after a month and a half of use on OS X (which apparently lacks TRIM). Thats not too shabby.

Here's an Xbench result from about a month and a half ago (when I first got it) and one for today (as of 10:36am est): http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=459679&doc2=469412...
>making change out of your pocket is still solving the subset-sum problem in your head, which is of course NP-complete.

Generally speaking, that's true. Most currencies however are designed, so that the greedy algorithm always works and produces optimal solution. The coin systems given in the linked article do not have this property, so they are actually inferior to real systems.

edit: come to think of it, they in fact do, but it requires ridiculous amounts of pennies, so my argument still holds.
IIRC there is some Internet Explorer issue involving the "application/json" content type which makes it safer to just use "text/plain". Worth looking up...
It only hits HN when asked, and caches each request for 200 seconds. Additional requests return the cached version instead of re-scrapping HN. It mimics what is on HN. So requesting /page only returns the first page. If you want to go deeper, you need to pass in the next page ID, which is returned when you request /page.
For a second I was wondering what weird and glorious hack they came up with using a stain remover in the server room. But sadly, it's just about the Va_r_nish cache.
Maybe an intermediate solution would be a copy/clone option . . .
Interesting nudge - the background image for the "discount edition" button is a pile of maggots.

Aside from that, patio11 is right - there's nothing good about this idea. If you can't immediately identify half a dozen horrible mistakes in this scheme, your first priority should be to do some reading on pricing.
First let me complain about the rule that says I cannot reply to a direct descendant post. But I'm apparently allowed to reply to you here. Anyway, IANAL, but a google search turned up this, which looks relevant:

http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ECPA2701_2712.htm

Even if it's not, I maintain that if you've done something that seems like it might be illegal, they can usually find something to charge you with.
Weird, it feels like they are missing out on such a large market not supporting XP when all their competitors still do. Seems like for the purposes of better integrating a few features they have decided to ignore the many improvements they could provide to someone on XP currently using IE8.

It just becomes another reason for people to make the switch, and I doubt they will win them back when they finally do decide to upgrade to windows7.
The overhead of spawning threads (a performance experiment)
My way of formulating this truth has long been: “It’s doesn’t help being first, if you are very quickly second best.”

But I don’t equate “execution” with “product development”. You can develop the best product on the planet, but if you don’t execute well on everything else (recruitment, communication, cash management, customer insight, investor relations, route to market, etc etc etc) a business will still fail. You have to build the best product AND do everything else right. That’s execution.
I wish will make a new version of Master of Orion (the first part). The slider system was brilliant, as was having no `buildings' in your `cities'.

MoO II, while itself a fine game, left that legacy, and feels much closer to Civilization than to MoO.
I'm more concerned about other aspects of the U.S. economy. Such as inflation. That's what made pennies worth so little in the first place.

These numbers are also more interesting than pennies: http://usdebtclock.org/
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Except there is sales tax, so your $xx.99 purchases usually don't end up that way. For a $1.99 purchase in my city I end up paying $2.13 which would be helped nicely by the $.37 cent coin.

I see your point, I doubt the distribution is completely uniform. But it's probably not as clustered as you'd think (different taxation levels helps).
While I agree with you that data is nice, this data in particular doesn't say a whole lot. It's like saying "1mm pay Google for the enterprise version of Google apps, and 100mm don't. They're leaving so much revenue on the table!" When discussing freemium, nobody talks about those who choose the free plan as 'pirates', even though they are doing the exact same thing that 'pirates' do.
Then I would either collect at signup or just after but before use. This will allow you to focus on attracting the right customers and not dealing with a ton of people that will never pay you.
Perhaps plus the option to pay even more, if you want to.
I'm both the youngest and highest paid employee in my office. I negotiated a large initial salary and asked for raises often. I think several of my coworkers are undervaluing themselves, but they won't be reaching pay parity without asking for it.

I lucked out and learned the importance of knowing your value at around 13 years old. A family friend asked if I wanted to make some cash clearing stones from a residential construction site. I took the job but when he asked how much I wanted to be paid I just shruged. He said "Always know how much you are worth. Never forget that." and promptly punched me in the chest.

Certainly burned advice into my mind.
web based start ups. Yes, sort of an online community based music discovery tool.
I recently went through financial difficulties that involved problems paying 5 different credit cards. Bank of America was by far the most helpful company, actually recommending that I enter into debt management to allow me to pay off my cards at a markedly lower APR without taking a huge hit to my credit.
Sounds a lot like Plato. Good guess?
How much does an H1B visa holder earn?
I agree with you. However, truly outstanding apps will always do well. I downloaded Angry Birds Lite to my itouch, played the first few levels and promptly bought it. I also did the same with Tower Madness. There was an article on a flash games company that could detect when the app was running on illegal web servers. It would display an advert inside the game saying where it came from which resulted in a spike of traffic and revenue for the original owners. I believe a few developers are now treating the pirates as salesmen to reach a larger buying audience. It's not ideal, just goes with the territory
Australian startups aren't so doomed after all
>Every job I've had in the last 10 years, I've delivered production code on day one.

We all did, but it's not enough. You probably took time away from other engineers to coach you and explain the system. If you took more time than it would have took them to accomplish what you did, you're not productive. And his point is that's what you did.
Pretty useful if you haven't heard of any angel investors in oz.
Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I didn't glean from the link why folks simply didn't opt for no pigment (which I assume results in some sort of unappealing gray or brown). Do you know why?
I think the main point of the poster was about the ordering of the address, subdomains and paths screw up ordering because they arent linear, its like american dates.

some.sub.domain.com/and/a/path
vs
.com/domain/sub/some/and/a/path
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Looks clean and simple. Well done. I'd add in the documentation comments about caching (on your side and the requester's side) and rate limiting.

For those wanting debugging tools for JSON APIs (a common request for the APIs I operate):

* JSONView, an addon for Firefox that prints nice-looking JSON from the URLs of the API. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10869/

* Tidy JSON, a command line tool. http://www.raboof.com/Projects/TidyJson/
It sounds like a plea to be smacked with a banhammer, more than anything else.

It seems to support automating things things that are almost certainly better off left un-automated - posting, voting, commenting.

It doesn't support anything that might be interesting to automate - say, asynchronous notification on replies to me, posting or commenting on my url, mention of my name, mention of keywords I care about, etc.

It asks for HN credentials.

Nit, but still a little lame - lifts the HN favicon.
Pinning to the taskbar is sneaky as I guess that'll always launch IE.. and people will be even less aware of the browser than they already are.
In California illegal weed is cheaper than legal weed. That's just an empirical fact. It doesn't matter if you think it shouldn't be this way, that's just how it is.
This looks really handy for getting hold of my raw data. One thing -- parentID for comments I fetched with http://api.ihackernews.com/threads/Robin_Message is blank -- is it meant to be or am I missing something? I'd expect it to be the id of the parent comment, and possibly for there to be an "On" field that takes me up to the top level.
Did you have a look at http://www.just-eat.co.uk/ ? It provides a slightly similar service for the UK, although it's focussed on takeaway.
Change your page tittle. Memphis Restaurant Menus - MarksMenus.

Why stay only at Memphis?
Why not the wikipedia of restaurants menus?

Cheers
S'okay, Google already knows it was you ;-)
Jeez, the 37signals worshipping around here is getting a bit out of hand.

In all seriousness, how about vendors start pricing products with tax included, rounding to the nearest quarter dollar? Say what you will about movie theatre concession pricing, at least you're not going to walk out of there needing a tub for your change as well as your popcorn.
He argues that tax cuts create permanent compounding growth in the economy. With even a small addition to the growth rates, the eventual tax returns eventually will pay for the loss of the taxes (even counting compounding interest on the debt accrued due to loss of the tax).

Of course the effects he's talking about are very small, nobody knows how to measure them (they are basically rounding errors in a "what if" projection), and any attempts to quantify them are open to argument. So basically anyone who doesn't like taxes will like the idea, and anyone who doubts the benefits of that will be entirely unconvinced.
Neither is SVG support, which is touted in this release.
It would be awesome to track every transaction in an economy, though. We'd finally be able to tell exactly what our taxes are used for, and who's paying the CEO's bonus. Not to mention the benefits when combating organized crime..! I can see how some people might think it's worth sacrificing anonymity :)
Is there anything else you can sell to restaurants (i.e., capitalize on your existing contacts)?
The 'platform preview' is not a real beta. It doesn't have any components of the new UI, just a frame that renders a page with the new IE.
I second this. It would be awesome if you could search by url.
Brilliant idea!

I can so see women buying these to compensate for their inability to even temporarily give up Cosmopolitans and Margaritas.
Very cool idea. I will definitely start using it on my iPhone.

Regarding security, you are proxying login credentials through your server. Is that correct? I'd suggest putting up information regarding your privacy policy, if you store any credentials information and the security of your server(s).
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frankly I don't see why we even need coins at all. Talk about your waste of resources minting all of those. It was fine when a can of coke was 25 cents or when you could get a new car for 2 grand. But in this day and age? It's just a waste.

should just switch to a digital currency already...disposable credit cards that can transfer funds between each other.
From the Erlang mailing list:

"This release is mainly a stabilization of the R14A release (which was a beta) but there are some new functionality also."
> "This idea fails even on its own, since it presumes that URLs have structure, even within a particular site."

Don't sites usually have regular URL structures. Or, at least, could be organized into regular structures? In Rails, we have routes that map to URLs, like

<website>/clothing/shirts/
<website>/electronics/cellphones/verison
<website>/<department>/<item_type>/<brand>

which looks like the idea the author was aiming towards. It doesn't seem that unreasonable.
I don't see a benefit to using this site over Google. So, there are a lot of restaurant review sites. But if I am actually looking for a specific restaurant on a specific site, it might have nothing. So it makes more sense for me to search in Google and let it pull up the site with the most or most relevant reviews. Sometimes it pulls up citysearch, sometimes yelp, sometimes b4-u-eat, etc.

For me to ever actually come to this site specifically (and risk missing out on good info from another site), I would need a strong reason to do so. An example would be, a blog where you guys go "undercover" and review restaurants. Or where you have a funny twist of some sort, or maybe take a strong POV.

Or maybe something like: I'm a vegetarian, so maybe every reviewer enters their dietary constraints or preferences, so I can search for people "like me" and see where they are eating and what they like.

Lastly, until I read the reviews her, I wasn't even clear that this was providing searchable menus, it looks like another review site. The primary point to use Google still applies. If the restaurant has a main website, I'd rather go there. If they host their menu with you, Google should fine it.
Perhaps because of increasing amounts of people wanting broadband, and it being viewed as a civil right, the prices have to be held in order to support the network expansion to the more rural areas?
The article says: "Clearly, that's not quite the same thing as the way debuggers are used today, but for Babbage he needed to debug prior to making the machine. He was using a form of static analysis to ensure that a machine would work."

Looking at the way he used it, it seems more akin to verification than debugging to me. Still, extremely fascinating! I've always wondered what would have happened if I time traveled back and gave Babbage a copy of Turing's Entscheidung paper. Or if he (together with the ravishing Lady Lovelace) traveled first to the 1950s, to get the basics of computer architecture, and then arrived at today. Would they be able to grasp it?

I bet there are many steampunk novels on this very topic, any suggestions for what I should read?
Some very interesting observations there. I don't expect that search would ever go away completely. Society has always had a need to locate new, unfamiliar information. That being said, what might such a stark change in the way a new generation uses technology mean for the current corporate technology giants? Could this be trouble for a company like Google that is nearly completely leveraged on their search functionality?
I often find demos to be misleading of what the final product will be like. Games are expensive, at least for me, and demoing the final product is the only way I will know for sure that I am not going to waste $60 if I decide to buy something.
It brings more to the table than the hand-waving that I see all over piracy discussions. And I don't see how you connect the parent's post with your freemium discussion - he made no such conclusions from his data.
Did anyone else notice that the performance of the Seagate Momentus XT is awful compared to all the solid state drives? It's only about 20% faster than a regular hard disk drive (the SSDs are about 1000% faster, according to Jeff's own chart). It's an awful, awful recommendation. If you want the performance of a solid state drive, buy a solid state drive.
>> Asians have a considerable and measurable white bias when it comes to aesthetics.

I'd be inclined to think you're painting targets around bullet holes there. There are procedures/products that are designed to make people look more caucasian, but you can't just ignore everything else and call it a bias. To give an example, the practice of wearing yukatas to matsuris is distinctly non-caucasian and far more common than, say, eyelid surgery.
What about the equally-valuable employees who are very happy with their jobs and don't choose to interview? Won't they become a little less happy, once they know they're making less than the guy who was a little unhappy and chose to interview?

It's always been the case that those who negotiate effectively tend to end up with better compensation than those who don't. I wouldn't expect re-negotiation to turn out any different.

I'd guess that those who are unhappy that their co-workers successfully re-negotiate their compensation would tend to be just as unhappy when a new employee negotiates a compensation package better than theirs. I doubt there's much you can do to make those people happy, short of helping them to be better negotiators themselves.

I've had experience with a company who responded to this sort of employee dismay by putting salary caps on new hires. The end result was, predictably, that the really talented people we found walked away when the company refused to negotiate, and pressure to increase head count forced the company to hire a lot of less-than-ideal candidates.

Regarding the use of offer letters to negotiate - it seems like a risky tactic. The appeasement is certainly not sustainable, and when they start refusing to counter-offer, those employees better be ready to make good on their threat of leaving.
If the controversy were a byline then the writer would have a "taste for" pushing their point though and merely be riding the controversy to get there.

IMO writers often care about controversy because they make money based on engagement and get better responses if people are passionate about the subject. I don't think this harms their legitimacy as a writer it just provides a poor motive. Trolls on the other hand want to maximise engagement as it gives them a sort of sadistic pleasure, they do it for free.
While the facts stated may be true, I would love to see a source that did not have a vested interest in inducing you to change jobs.
I still play MOO2. Interested: what are the "best bits"? I adore the tactical combat - can you defeat 3 inbound battleships with 3 scouts and a missile base? Ok it took 10 tries but what a blast when you succeed!

Buildings on the planet were cumbersome - how to improve?

Btw a group of us have designed a MOO-like collectible card game, in beta test, pretty cool if I say so myself. 400 unique cards so far (Stellar Converter! Ion Pulse Cannon!), dozens of deck styles/ways to win.
Google founders couldn't spell Googol?
Perhaps. But you should look at what the companies are really spending their money on. That argument only works if the share of (rural) investment in infrastructure is sufficiently high.
Biggest mistake - too cheap by half. Best pricing change any online folks can make: double your price, see what happens.
It's strange. As a 3D modeller who loves the game, I would adore making the artwork for free for everyone to enjoy. GSB should involve the community more.
Think startups are risky business? How about this...
Which is your favorite terminal emulator?
Have a look at the comments on that site. Very US centric. People are proposing all sorts of theories, while ignoring the data point from outside the US. And the article itself points those things out.
Because Moore's Law does not apply to broadband.

"Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Of course no country other than Geekistan would actually do this

You do know about pre-decimal Pound Sterling, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling#Pre-decimal

I particularly like the insanity of the Guinea denomination (1 Pound + 1 Shilling = 21 Shillings). My girlfriend's mother apparently was still nominally paid in Guineas as a legal secretary in the early 70s. Reminds me of volume controls that go to 11.
It does take time. You say you have spent the last 5 months full time. How much of that has been in development vs marketing? How are you reaching out to restaurants to populate the site? You have the chicken and egg problem, people don't use it because there is not enough content, there is not enough content because people don't use it.

I'd focus on a few major markets and work hard to get as many menus up as possible. People are always looking for free advertisements and having their menu online is one form. I'd push that as much as possible. Since this is your full time effort, you may need to spend money on marketing to get the ball rolling. Perhaps enter the menu's yourself (or hire a VA to do it) and then drop the restaurant a note saying that their menu is now online and they can make changes at this website for free.

Other ideas, perhaps white label it to newspapers and/or city websites? In San Diego, there is a dining guide section at signonsandiego.com and this would fit into what they are doing. They also have someone who is doing reviews weekly, which could now include populating the full menu.
It's true, he didn't. But I've seen others draw the same conclusion from similar data before, so just pointing out that fallacy ahead of time.
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On my Kubuntu machine with 4GB, I rarely use more than 1.5GB of RAM, and that's counting the disk cache which will grow to fill all available space. Unless I run a VM, the system literally has no use for half my RAM, except for dual-channel access.