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I love the design touches. I love the way you present the timeline. 3 independent timers is a great ideas that way I can set more than one for various activities in my kitchen (and burn less food).

Things I would improve:

1) I can't believe I cannot add my own recipes on there. I thought I'd be able to add my recipes and send my friends an email with an image attachment akin to what you guys designed. Or a web app attached to it.
2) I'd go full screen (hide top bar when displaying recipe image).
3) I'd rotate the display of the recipe itself or offer the ability to rotate it.
3) The timers are difficult to use. I find myself scrolling up/down instead of sideways. Honestly there isn't a need for more than one screen to display all three timers.
4) the number display gets wonky past 99 minutes. I cook a lot using sous-vide and cooking times often exceed 3-4 hours. [screenshot](http://img.skitch.com/20100902-jc1b8tjam53ru1qeps5u18gy4u.jp...)
5) I like the audio used for when the timer is finished but if I'm making loud noises in the kitchen I might miss it because it is too short. Any chance you could make it loop every few seconds?
Health insurance costs me a little over 200 a month(pre income tax) to cover my family(full health, vision and dental).

The homeless people thing is much harder to quantify. What do you mean by homeless people everywhere? I was 30 before I ever ran across anyone actually sleeping on the street. There are however homeless shelters were anyone can walk in off the street for a place to stay temporarily.
That's awesome, I like the solutions where the Rubik's cube isn't modified. I've seen several solutions where a hole has to be drilled in the cube, etc...

Also, being able to turn the cube on all 4 sides is a major plus.
That's what Aardvark is for. Ask your cooking questions on there and chances are I'll be the one answering you ;-)
Things like this are why Android is so unappealing to me. I really detest the amount of influence Verizon and other companies have over the use of Android.
Coworking spaces are great. It's also good to remember that if you don't live near one - or can't get to one for whatever reason - you can always start your own space in your home.

A relative of mine in Omaha, Nebraska has "Coworking Wednesdays" in his house every week, and they always draw a good group of people.
Thanks for giving the example on your other comment - I really liked the live feedback function which is just like giving instant reward to the user for every step he/she takes in filling out the form
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You can do much the same thing in the US.

Most people (55%) in the US earn more than similarly situated people in Sweden [1]. (If you focus only on Swedish Americans, 55% goes up to 85%.) If you want to take paternity leave in the US, you can lower your spending/consumption to that of a comparable Swede and put the money you save in the bank. You can then withdraw it during your paternity leave.

The fact that most Americans choose not to do this suggests that paternity leave is not as blissful as the author suggests. The fact that the Swedish govt had to offer an "equality bonus" and use it or lose it incentives to get men to use more than 6% of the per-couple leave suggests that Swedes don't find it as blissful as the alternatives either.

[1] Income distributions overall: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

Swedes vs Swedish Americans: http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-economy-in-o...

[edit: replaced the word "standard of living" with "consumption". "Standard of living" is a poorly defined concept and arguing over definitions is pointless.]
You can't be vegan, all you can do is aspire.
what your'e saying is that there isn't yet a compelling reason for most people to try it.
Hate scribd? Try Libboo
Okay, it's not the same as Scribd but it really yanks my chain when I see authors being exploited.

I made Libboo - www.libboo.com - It's free, I dont make any money out of it, no advertising etc etc... it's just a fun and friendly way to share your stuff with the world.

But it has (at least) one key awesome bit. You can collaborate. Not like Google Wave or any of this pointless 'live writing' (where you see each other type = catastrophe when writing) - but as a team like you do in the real world.

When you publish, all your stuff is available for free. It's like a 'Myspace for Books'

Okay - sorry to make this sound like spam, but I recently read the 'hate scribd' thread and it really wound me up. Hard working souls like myself (I am also a writer) work our cotton little socks off for next to nothing and then these bstards who care not about the 'art' sometimes go that step too far.

Anyway - let me know what you think!

And... remember.... I do this for free... don't hate me too much if you don't like it!
I saw that same demo booth at Maker Faire - except that I never saw the demo. The two or three times I stopped by that booth they were waiting for someone to bring something or out of tshirts. It was a neat-looking contraption, though, but I'm not ready to fully appreciate it until I see it shooting the shirts.
you should probably spend less time here ;)
Especially when it comes to chocolate.
I'd be very surprised if nobody in Sweden complained about their tax levels - I was just commenting that in the cases where I have been in Sweden (talking to senior well educated people in good jobs) they emphasize the good things, like paternity leave, rather than complaining about tax levels.
The US is approaching this level (state + municipal + federal) with arguably less to show for it.

If you have high taxes, wouldn't you like to receive a benefit?
Since people have to be logged in to vote, there is a much easier solution:

Count votes from new users lower.

And count early votes from users often voting on articles posted by a particular person lower.

It can be refined quite a bit...
Be warned: going universal is a bigger job than you expect it to be, regardless of how complicated you expect it to be. We did this recently with Folio+. It turned out to take us about four times as long as we were expecting to produce a port that we're still not thrilled with. The basic problem is trying to make your UI feel self-consistent and platform-consistent, as the two frequently end up playing against each other. It's probably easier to go from iPhone->iPad (we went the other way), but you can't just expect to flatten a few things out into UISplitViewControllers and have everything look great.

Doing it over again, I'd have focussed on our core product for iPad for longer rather than immediately trying to go universal. It makes every feature we add from here on out a much larger QA headache, and hasn't been worth it in terms of gaining access to the much larger market of iPhone users.

+ Shameless plug: http://ballisticpigeon.com/folio
I liked the base ideas of digg v4, but the current site's layout just isn't on par with either digg v3 or current reddit. I like the idea of subscribing to feeds and knowing my friend's votes on the topics we follow together - a kind of social google reader. They still have lots of work to do...

Also, the site was down for most of the past week... hard to get traffic when your site is down. I don't think this migration could have gone worse for them.
Yeah, Apple deserves credit for resisting that trend. 16:9 is good for movies and lousy for everything else.
I think Microsoft has a lot riding on this platform and as such they'll be pumping a lot of cash into the marketing and promotion of this release. From a software standpoint, I'm quite excited about the .NET experience I'll be able to harness in order to create apps -- Microsoft will be able to leverage existing .NET developers like me to quickly grow the Windows Phone app catalog.

As far as the interface is concerned, I like it. It's different and data-centric, unlike most of the alternatives.
My friend just had a kid. He works in a grocery store, and doesn't make much. They gave him 1 week of paternity leave, and he had 2 weeks of vacation saved up.

I'm doing as much as I can to help, but it's a shitty situation.

EDIT: His wife quit her job so she can be with the baby. Technically my friend's salary should cover everything they need, but if there are any complications, well, they'll be bankrupt in an instant. Thankfully they've got a good safety net (lots of good friends).
If you work for a typical company, health insurance isn't a huge deal, mostly because the company picks up most of the tab. Its part of the benefits package. You will still typically pay $100-400 a month out of pocket depending on if you have family and kids. That also may include dental and vision. Dental is common, vision is not.

If you are self employed or work at a small company, then insurance is a big deal. I'm going to pay $6K a year for crappy insurance and I'm still going to pay $7k out of pocket expensive this year because my son had to have surgery and our deductible is 7500. So I think the insurance situation sucks. And I got a notice yesterday that they are raising my rates again. For small business that want to cover the health insurance for their employees it is also a big expense and one that keeps rising. It amazes me that insurance companies can raise rates 15-40% a year and get away with it.

As far as saving up for college education, that is not as difficult because it is a matter of living within your means. Make it a priority and save. That said I have different views on fully paying for 4 years of college vs. having my kids pay part of their way. My parents put me through my first year of school and then I was on my own. I tended to work hard at school (to get it finished) than those I know who's parents were footing the bill.
My favourites so far: fights, calls, photographs, and fucks. Probably more to come...
You have clearly not been to Sweden.
Speaking as a father, sitting home with my child for a year and half would probably have driven the whole family crazy.
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An analysis essay requires you to analyze a certain topic. If the right topic is selected half the task will be complete. The rest depends on how the paper is written. If the method used to analyze the topic is followed through you will be able to submit an A grade essay paper.
Yes thats true, but I think it does highlight an issue with submitting 'dirty urls' (I realise this is a strong term)

Based on what has just happened, I could look for a submission that is doing ok and resubmit it with a different title when the Americas wakes up. Of course I'm not saying that is what happened its just a possibility.

Would make for a lot of duplicated stories.
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Canada is quite similar: In 2006, from $14k up to $88k the combined Federal+BC income taxes, payroll taxes, and sales tax credits worked out to a flat rate of 26% plus or minus $250. (Above $88k the rate goes up, but mostly due to a cap on the amount which can be "hidden" in retirement funds.)

Graduated tax rates plus low-income tax credits equals a flat tax.
I was attempting to answer this question:
"How do you create a vibrant community, but allow for private topics and discussion, but allow for public topics and discussion, and allow me to work for more than one company at a time with multiple private discussions, and have my WikiWords always end up pointing where they're supposed to?"
The part that sounds really bad to me is you (or your wife/child) getting some kind of long term disease and you losing any health coverage if you're forced (say by losing a job) to move from one insurance policy to another as it will then be classed as a pre-existing condition on the new policy.

It's the kind of thing that won't affect everyone, but if it affects you then it's truly life-changing in the bad sense.

I'm not actually in the US so can anyone there comment on this scenario?
No, but I rather believe he honestly feels such a thing should be possible and wished to demonstrate that such a thing was acceptable to him. The folks that didn't find out it was set up, may live happier lives because of that demonstration.
On your site, it says "takes 2 minutes" below "Free Signup". It might just be me, but I stopped for a moment to wonder why the signup would take so long. I think that bit of text might have a different impact than you intended.
First time I've ever defended Castro even partly. :-)

>>This overthrowing of a government would be the equivalent of Castro's revolution

Arguably, Castro overthrew a dictator. Allende was, afaik, quite democratic(?).

Castro did break promises about general elections. He took over and got military/economic support from other dictators.

The main difference is that today Castro+family are still dictators of Cuba -- while Pinochet and his junta are gone since a long time, leaving a quite nice country.

And this is totally off topic for HN and the article, of course.
Some coworking spaces even have private offices. Wait, what's the point of a private office at a coworking space? Well, I love it...you can be social when you want (leave your door open, or hang out in the common areas), and take important calls when you need too. Best of Both worlds. I'm in Portland, OR at NedSpace
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Oh all your front end communication was with pusherapp? so thats how jquery was communicating with your server?
Would that really get around the voting rings though? I don't think so. I thought that they worked mainly by passing links around via twitter, IM, or email. Hiding the submitter wouldn't solve something like that.
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I agree that it's not for experienced cooks but I think an inexperienced cook wants what to do step by step where this sets things out in parallel.

If you start down one arrow with this you're going to find yourself getting to a point where you're expected to have done a bunch of other things. It's a good overview of the whole process but I'm not sure it helps the person going "what do I do next?"

Maybe there could be two views - the flow chart which is the overview as many people want to know where they're heading before they start out and how it all links up, and a step by step which guides people through it in the order they'd do things?

I'm not saying I don't like the idea, I just think it needs a bit of work.
As an early adopter of firefox, I need to say that the first time I tried Chrome, I felt the need to immediately make the switch. Main benefit : speed. I assume that many people are doing the same, and for the same reasons.

We all know that firefox has some problems regarding memory leaks, and memory usage when activating a bunch of addons. This is not the case with chrome (at least for me).
I think you might have misunderstood. I'm suggesting this be done just for submissions, not for comments.
Is that your actual site for this app because it's one big giant image and it's really painful to download for the first time even on my fast cable connection. It's 795 KB... That's way too big for a single page website. You might want to double check you at least compressed the image properly. Ditch the png and use a jpeg if you have to. I got it down to 188KB on my first try compressing it to a jpeg.

I like the idea and look forward to taking the app for a spin. What should I cook first?
You're right. They can't execute. They get 90% of the way there and fail.

I'm a Mac / Linux / Android guy. Not a Windows person at all. But I have a Windows media Centre TV and it's awesome.

* I browse upcoming movies on TV by scrolling through a list of movie posters.

* I have Sky pay TV, a DVR, Blu Ray, and Youtube in one interface

* Channels are identified by logos as well as number.

It's a brilliant consumer product. But do you know who sells it in the consumer space?

Nobody.

If you walk into Best Buy or Currys, you'll find boxes from everyone but MS. There's no hardware partners, no Sony no Panasonic no Hitachi WMC boxes. I had to buy a Dell box, a separate remote, and a separate dual tuner. The result is awesome, but there is no part of MS the company that seems to want to stand behind this awesome product.
I had heard of the Digg "mafia"/voting rings before, but these latest threads were really the first I had read about it. From my understanding these happen through other channels and not just from a username and thus this wouldn't really change anything regarding them.

Personally, I think usernames are needed because they give HN the personality that it has. There are some people you might disagree with constantly, but you still value their input. Without names, you might not understand where they are coming from. Maybe this is more regarding comments, but sometimes submissions too.
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Seriously: what's the point of Scribd? All they do - show your document along with ads all over the place and let people download the source PDF after registration. Why not to just put PDF on your site in the first place?
This is not true for all countries. In Sweden you get kicked out with no PhD if you haven't finished in eight years. And that is clock years. (You can get on or two extra years for childbirth and military service I seem to remember)
I just hope that capital gains taxes stay reasonable. I think they provide a large incentive for small companies to grow and NOT just be lifestyle businesses.
I don't think you can have a bubble in a commodity that cannot be traded. You can sell an app, but you can't trade it for more than you bought it for, because there is an infinite supply of copies of the app available for sale by the original vendor.

The touchstone of a bubble is that even rational people, who know that (e.g.) there is no rational reason why a tulip bulb should be 1000x more expensive this year than last, nevertheless feel inclined to buy an expensive tulip bulb because tomorrow it will be even more irrationally expensive and they can sell it for a profit.

The app situation is a mere boom. Which, as you say, is a garden-variety occurrence. Fields boom and bust all the time.
Don't forget Swedish fertility rates are less than the replacement rate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Total_fe...

So the state arguably needs to encourage procreation in order to stave off the Japanese style demographic crisis:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/53050/milton-ezrati/j...
> The fact that most Americans choose not to do this suggests that paternity leave is not as blissful as the author suggests

There are a whole slew of reasons why people might choose not to do it. Same thing with vacations, which is a simpler subject: Americans, who earn more, could, in theory, give away some of those earnings to have longer vacations. In practice, very, very few do. Quite possibly due to some herd effects. No one wants to be the only one gone for that long, just like no one wants to always be the first one out the door.

In any case: "it's complicated", and my bet is that we'll see the same old rehashed discussions here.
Ask HN: Where are all the iPad apps?
I'm glad Twitter finally released, but where's Facebook? Where's Skype? I expected more really amazing music and dj apps by now. I figured we'd see more innovative examples of new gesture-based interaction design.

Are iPad apps much more expensive to build than iPhone ones? Is there much less impetus to build an app for a platform that already provides a good browsing experience?
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It's not quite as simple as glibly saying that Americans can just lower their standards of living and walk away from stable employment to take paternity leave.

Also, people don't just make choices out of the ether - people's range of choices are influenced by the policy environment. It holds in Sweden too - Swedes didn't make the choice to stay at home until they were given the choice, at which point they did.

At any rate, even if Americans are violently opposed to taking parental leave, surely a non-zero number of men would take it - what's the harm in guaranteeing that men have more chance to bond with their children?
Sure; US effective tax levels brings relative tax rates up much higher than you would expect. That coupled with things like free university education, cheap childcare, state pensions, etc means that I'm highly dubious that all the avg American would have to do is to not get paid for 18 months and they'd be in the same boat. Face it; 18 months leave is a huge perk (snarky comments about going crazy not withstanding).

Furthermore, why the he'll should only the rich get to spend time with their kids?
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I've used 50% as a conservative estimate for all my back-of-the-napkin calculations for years and it has served me well, especially in consulting projects. Sure I can lower that by showing expenses etc. but in the general sense, if I charge $100/hour, what I'm really doing is enabling myself to spend $50/hour in the future. The true benefit of this is that I don't have to feel worried about over/under charging my clients.
I think you're confusing income and standard of living.

The Swedish have a very high standard of living, from everything I've seen when I've visited it's comparable to the USA.

It's described by that famous pro-Swedish anti-American body the CIA as "enviable" in their world factbook and the UN Standard of living survey places them around 5th (the USA is around 10th - both vary year by year but not the order they come in).

Even were your suggestion true, it's as much about the legal protection you have in Sweden to go back to your job. Try 18 months out of work in the USA and I'm guessing that you might find getting back into the work place (particularly in IT where your skills are now rusty and dated) harder than you might think.
As a person who wants to pay as little tax as possible (until of course, they start spending the tax money in ways that I see fit, which don't include blowing things up), I have always been against the concept of a single national sales tax, or a flat tax. However, more and more I am realizing that the benefits of axing most of the IRS (wow, talk about administrative overhead) would actually effectively lower everyones tax burden by several percentage points. You can't dodge a sales tax aside from buying used (great incentive to curb our plastic consumer culture), but the good might outweigh my original objections. Let the states decide if they want to makeup the rest with property or sales tax, and the simplified tax system results in huge benefits.
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How are you a replacement for Scribd? I don't see the similarity.
We just did client->server communication through traditional ajax requests. PusherApp just helped us easily provide the server->client event triggers.
Thank you for noticing that, I changed the image to 140kb jpg.

I recommend feta cheese soup, if you want something with beef with in it then bratwurst pasta :)
He actually spoke there last year, you can watch it online here: http://alexisohanian.com/my-recent-talk-mit-startup-bootcamp
How will Zed merge your changes back to his fossil repo, and how will you merge his changes back to git?

I'm not sure I understand the motivation for putting the code on github unless changes can flow both ways.
Can you actually make a case that Android is affected by this any more than other devices? That hypothesis doesn't seem well supported by facts to me, though I'm not in the US so maybe it's more apparent.

e.g. it would seem that AT&T allowed 3G Skype on iPhone a few months before Verizon allowed it on all of their smartphones (including at least Android & Blackberry, plus later some featurephones) so on that issue at least it doesn't appear that Android stands out from the crowd.