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Please! We were on with our AWS account manager today and mentioned this to them again. He says they hear that quite a bit. Hopefully that means they're listening to the feedback and will be adding it.
Yes this is exactly what we want. I said this implying it was a good thing.
Thank you for the kind words, this idea was definitely born out of frustration with playing in the league for several years and having to keep score each week. Sometimes frustration can lead into something very positive for everyone :)

We hope to release both a pro version and a lite version so people can at least download it for free and test it out before they decide to join the league. Once they join the league they would just pay a small subscription fee to be able to use the scoring features, manage their team rosters, see ongoing match stats & history etc. We would really like to implement live scoring as well. When playoffs come around each team could keep tabs on the other teams they are in contention even if they are in different locations. This could add a very interesting dynamic into league play and possibly affect the strategies used in posting matches based on an opposing teams current score.

Just some ideas, and I would love to get some funding to be able to work on this more often. The Japan APA reps were very into it, but I haven't heard back from them or the APA national office since I demo'd it in Vegas several months ago. My colleague and I will attempt to launch it on our own early next year and perhaps they will take notice when the league operators start receiving lots of automated score sheets :)
Ask HN: Quora as a blogging platform. Good or bad?
It seems that Quora is slowly ramping up its blogging tools. What do you think of this move?

note: i think its labeled as "message to your followers".
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21 million coins, ever, is going to seriously limit the utility of your currency.

If the currency did succeed, the inability to increase circulation would result in a natural deflationary spiral over time. Also I guarantee that governments would not appreciate your utopian vision.
I wish I could go to the US Open, unfortunately I won't be able to get any time off this month. I would have loved to meet with him and discuss ideas, but perhaps email or Skype would suffice. Send me your contact info and perhaps we can arrange a conference - isaac@levid.com
There's a pretty hard limit to how many people can own 10%+ of a company. With the average exit around $12 million these days, a smaller share than that isn't going to amount to much after dilution, preferences, and taxes.
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> People abuse eating fast food, drinking too much, tobacco, all sorts of things.

This seems like the right way to think about this, and it leads me to believe that there should be caps on the profits made on payday loans.

For most of the borrowers, these loans are a bad habit. For other bad habits, we have sin taxes that discourage them without totally driving them into the black economy/violent underworld.

I think it's a reasonable policy goal to have fewer payday loan shops, so they're not a constant temptation for the poor. It can't be that crappy a business when most poor neighborhoods have more payday loan shops than grocery stores. If they weren't so profitable, there wouldn't be so many - capping interest and fees seems like a good way to reduce the numbers, while also keeping the borrowers from being ripped off quite as badly.
I don't see how it could be bad. I could see me using the site more than facebook or twitter in the future.
Yes. I enable it when needed.
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In the long run, this is going to be a huge mistake for Google. Access to the Market is the only lever Google has to enforce some level of conformity on Android devices. If they give up the market, it will lead to even more fragmentation and, eventually, to Google's services being excluded from Android phones unless Google is willing to match the kickbacks Microsoft and other companies are willing to pay.
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It would funny to get stats on how much usage newer features of today's windows get compared to the core features that were already in that win 1.0 release. I think we'd find that a large portion of PC users could do just fine today with win 1.0 and a $50 PC hardware architecture it requires.
Andrew Warner did a good interview with the guy on Mixergy.
http://mixergy.com/andrew-fashion/
I have also had personal dealings with Douglas Merrill, and I found him to be a thoroughly dishonorable person.
I use NoScript and enable JavaScript only on sites that it's needed or actually helpful. It's partly a security measure and partly to make sites load quicker on a slow connection by avoiding a bunch of analytics and other bits that do nothing useful for me. After an initial breaking in period of whitelisting common sites, I rarely even notice the difference.

Also, I like your method of making a "poll" by commenting with the answers, so you get karma for every "vote" cast. I'd accuse you of being a karma whore, but your join data and karma pretty clearly prove otherwise, so I'll just call it a clever hack and leave it at that.
Hey, don't get me wrong, it's great that you're making strides, and I still hope the project is a success.

My viewpoint comes as someone who was very excited initially at the thought of a drop-in replacement for CPython whose goal was to be "faster than c". It's been a very long time and it seems like pypy still has a long way to go to achieve production-readiness, so it's hard to continue being excited about the project.
No, but my nickname is easily matched to my real name. I tried to stay anonymous for years, but decided at Some point to give up and retroactively allow people to match it all together. I have yet to experience a positive or negative side to that.
IE - 88.56%
Chrome - 4.98%
Firefox - 4.56%
Safari - 1.90%

Granted, this is a physician related site and deals highly in the pharma sector, so IE6 is still prevalent.
I thought polls like these were pretty common on HN!
Twitter doesn't scrub profile pic filenames. Let's find some good ones.
There is no market for PC software. Not counting the software that ships with the computer, the average person spends approximately nothing on software for their PC. At best they might buy a virus scanner and QuickTax. Platform fragmentation and the relatively difficulty of finding and installing software for the PC played a big part in destroying that market.
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Yes, it makes sense that whoever has the most money to pay lawyers to drag the case through appeals until the other side is bankrupt should also then be able to pin the bill for the whole thing on the peasant they have defeated. For too long have the disenfranchised had equal access to the court system.
21 million coins, ever, is going to seriously limit the utility of your currency.
Wrong, it will increase asymptotically to 21 million bitcoins but not ever reach 21 millions.

21 millions bitcoins that is divisible to the 8th place. Even if the 21 million limit starts to limit bitcoins' utility, it doesn't mean that people can't fork the network and the project to create their own currencies.

If the currency did succeed, the inability to increase circulation would result in a natural deflationary spiral over time.

Price deflation is a good thing. The computer industry are still thriving after enormous amount of price deflation. No amount of price deflation will incentivize people from not buying foods, or even video games and other recreational activities during period of which the purchasing power of money has gone up. They will delay consumption but only to a point. The time-preferences of human beings have a limit. They will not wait 24 years before eating 100,000,000 marshmallows as fast as they could.

so I guarantee that governments would not appreciate your utopian vision.

I don't take it for granted that bitcoin will succeed or will it be an easy road. There has been many such worries in the bitcoin community. Some bitcoiners may be idealistic or utopians but we're also realists.

Either the early bitcoiners become enormously wealthy or bitcoiners were all been fools. I don't know what is going to happen, but I hope that bitcoins will change the world for the better.
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You should start a charity.
For me, it was Windows 3.0 that was the game changer on the IBM platform. While Windows 1.0 was neat, it was the mac-like GUI on 3.0 that really got people going.

Still, I miss being a command line encyclopedia.
Sigh, you'd think a nation that overturned a patent on a genetically-modified mouse would reject something as obvious and non-novel as the 1-click patent.
> Windows 1.0 was the beginning of the Control Panel and the Clipboard

Wait, what?
If you are just out of school, salary doesn't matter that much as long as you are able to cover your living expenses. Far more important is opportunity for professional growth. I would say the projects that you work on and the people that you work with at your first job have more impact on your career than salary. Work on the right things with the right people, and the money will follow.
Yes. Because there's no way to tell who's responsible and who isn't at that level with a sufficiently small expenditure on getting that information to make it profitable. If it was, somebody would have done that and competed the current payday loan market out of business already.

You don't mean it's "somehow okay", you mean "it's somehow morally right". No, it isn't morally right. The world isn't fair. The world isn't kind. However, not having this form of credit available at all would be even more unpleasant for those who need it, so all things considered I'd rather these businesses exist than not.

I still remember earning under-18 minimum wage and being happy if my disposable income after rent and food was $15 a week. In those situations, credit of any kind is far better than no credit at all - if the person in question considers the terms unacceptably usurious they always have the option of not taking those terms. All regulation would achieve is to eliminate such businesses - effectively the government taking that choice away because somehow allowing people to choose is not "somehow okay".

It isn't fair. It isn't morally good. It isn't pleasant. But it is what it is. Welcome to reality - sometimes it really sucks.
Well great. Now I can't even trust live video not to be censored.

I wonder how it works on non-static objects, like people? Seeing the drain removed from the sink made me think of removing faces from people. Advance it enough, and you could probably get a visual Autotune for people to make them generically attractive by removing wrinkles and whatnot. Quite useful for politics, news, etc.
I'd agree if it wasnt for the lack of usb and tcp/ip stacks.
I can see how VCs and lawyers can make money from equity consistently by spreading their bets around but the reality for startup workers is very few people in the whole valley strike it big in a good year. An event like the creation of youtube or faceebok happens exceedingly rarely. It's a lottery, a ticket isn't worth very much.
> If you care and are responsible, you're not going to charge such usurious rates. Period.

So you'd prefer that economically viable rates are only offered by people who are irresponsible and/or uncaring.

I fail to see how that would be an improvement.
If you like it so much, I suggest you install it on your home computer.
If it's possible to distinguish, beforehand, the people who will pay, a lender could offer them a lower interest rate and still make higher profits.

But if you're a priori indistinguishable from people who have a default rate, yes, you will pay more. You can't be given a retroactive discount any moreso than the defaulters can be retroactively denied their loan. Them's the breaks. Knowledge is imperfect; time does not run in reverse.
I'm thinking this won't work as well on a background that's not plain. I want to see the same thing except with a checker board pattern in the background.
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It was like this: "You pick what we're doing tonight. I don't care."

"Cool, let's go to this Chinese place/this club downtown/this movie you haven't seen."

"Ehhh, well, not that, not tonight, okay?"

"Okay. How about Indian food/this coffeeshop/this movie you've seen a million times?"

"Yeah, sounds great!"

Multiply that by enough repetitions that I felt it would be obnoxious of me to keep suggesting the given activity. Sometimes I'd push because I really felt like doing something, but it still wouldn't happen. So eventually I'd give up and stop suggesting the things that she was never willing to do, because I'm not perverse or passive-aggressive. I didn't want to be a dick and keep suggesting something again and again after she'd turned it down twenty times in a row. That's how I knew she didn't really like something. But she was convinced it was just a huge coincidence that every time I'd suggested, say, Chinese food in the last twelve months she wasn't in the mood for it.
Disclaimer: I'm a current iphone developer so I'm obviously slightly biased.

(a) quicker/easier:
I've programmed in .NET, and I would say Microsoft's development tools make programming very easy. If you have previous experience in Java or C#, Windows Phone 7 programming should be easier to pick up.

(b) more useful in the future:
debatable but I don't see iOS going away anytime soon. No harm in learning both.

(c) greater chance for earning income:
iPhone, no question. Windows Phone is definitely an unknown quantity at this point. If you want to make money right now, iPhone offers by far the largest market.

Regarding Android, while it's true that it is growing in marketshare compared to iPhone the app store is a bit of a mess. Rampant piracy, poor payment options, and lack of discoverability means that the App Store is still a much more attractive market than Android Market, at least for now.

Of course this could all change in the coming years, it's tough to predict the future. But if I were going to learn mobile programming, I would learn iPhone first, Android second, Windows third.
Basic mathematical reasoning actually pushes in the opposite direction: that one should generally prefer to maximize long-run return (or minimize long-run interest payments), so the lengths are only relevant insofar as they change the risk. That does change things, but doesn't make them completely incomparable, and APR is as good a standard measure as any.

If you look at most "normal" debt markets, debts of quite different terms compare on reasonably similar APR scales: a 1-month piece of corporate paper and a 30-year government bond all fall within a few percentage points APR spread. It's not like nobody's ever thought of the idea of an APR curve before!
I would be fine with that if they would give me more time to compensate. Or people would learn that strategy and just give rough drafts and then give the real final some time later.
If ever the quote "A picture's worth a thousand words" resonates, the original press release vs. the video of Windows 1 in action it is.
I do see what you mean about the lack of choice, although I'd rather have all browsers implement one language consistently and and well, rather than a number of languages flakily and non-universally.

The compiling-to-JS idea has a lot of potential I reckon. I've done a couple of GWT projects and the results work very well, much better than if I'd written the JS myself, and not noticeably slow. And debugging the app in Eclipse is so much nicer than using a JS debugger.
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You can make real polls with a built-in voting system once you get to some karma threshold (I don't know what). Or you could make a general "Ask HN" type post and have people leave responses.

Your way (as I interpreted it) was to leave "yes" and "no" comments to be voted up, which would get you a karma boost for each vote. I don't think I've seen that before. I'd normally assume that was someone trying to cheat the system, both for making polls and gaining karma. But after checking your profile, seeing that you've been here a few years and obviously haven't been worried about karma, I just take it as a clever workaround without any bad intent.
Maybe it would be less unfair if the taxpayer bore the risk? Typically when private industry can't provide a service that is deemed good for society in a cost-effective manner, the government steps in to fill that gap. Why not in this case?
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A very quick check on CrunchBase of the (155) acquisitions (with known prices) since Jan 09 shows: average price $215M median price $80M. I think the average option pool is larger than 10% as well.

In most cases there's plenty of money to go around when a company is successful. At least enough that the first dozen employees should make far more than they could have at a regular job.
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There's a lot of good advice here. If you can find a good marketer, it might make sense to use them in the short term while you study up on the reference materials here. There's no reason why you can't attempt to come up with some copy at the same time as the marketing agency and see how you do.
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That's great article you have written and I personally really liked it. I will even take some ideas from it. I think you shouldn't pay to much attention to people who take everything as personal insult and fail to see behind their personal world.
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It would be a killer iPhone app.
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Salary is only important up to a point, especially for your first job. What matters more is down to you - do you feel you can grow in the prospective environment? Are the technologies used something you want to get into? Is the commute ok? Will you have to move? What are the people you're likely to be working with like? What's the atmosphere like at the place? (Don't worry, you'll get better at judging that in interviews as time goes on)

The most important thing is whether or not the job is likely to make you happy. I know a lot of people who make large amounts of money in jobs they hate - they then become dependent on the income and are trapped in a job or worse, a career they hate.

Likewise as a young 'un you might think a 3 hour commute will be something you could handle, but you can't keep it up forever.

The single most important thing to consider at your stage in your career is whether this is a stepping stone into another job or whether you want to be in for the long haul. A stepping stone is worth taking a lower salary if you're likely to command a better one in a better job later. In the long haul you're probably more concerned about raises in pay.
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If you aren't an expert in an area, then get someone else (friend / temp / contractor) who is an expert to provide input for you.
Leap Frog is already one step ahead of him with that one: http://www.leapfrog.com/gaming/didj/

You can plug it in to the computer and personalize the learning content, i.e. enter your kid's spelling words for that week, or a specific set of math problems, etc. Doing good in the games unlocks points they can redeem to earn custom game backgrounds, characters, and so on. There are a handful of games for the system, Spongebob, LEGO, Star Wars, maybe even a Harry Potter.

It's kind of a neat system (but a bit buggy). I don't think it works particularly well for teaching, but for doing drills on the stuff that just has to be memorized, like basic math facts and spelling, I think it serves its purpose.

What made my 3rd grader love math (it's her favorite subject) was understanding the hows and whys behind it and seeing some practical application of it. The more complicated it is, the more she likes it, and so she memorized the basic facts in order to get to the good bits. I'm not entirely convinced, though, that this is typical 8yr old behavior.
I've been out of school for five years, and it's amazing the degree to which my first full-time salary didn't matter at all in retrospect. In fact, it still doesn't, but now I have the perspective to know that.

Absolutely go for what will make you grow the most.
If you're used to writing Microsoft compatible software, WP7 will be easier, iPhone's the same for OSX, Android's probably a bit easier if you're happier in Linux land but I wouldn't know.

WP7 right now has a small market but isn't flooded with products. You have an opportunity with Windows Phone 7 to gain first mover advantage with your product that you won't necessarily have with Android or iPhone.

With iPhone, charging for your product, unless it meets a particular niche is unlikely to be viable in the long term. If you can make money from in-product purchases and can promote your product in a crowded market, iPhone is probably the way to go right now.

Android is gaining popularity and the question with Android isn't just phones but what else would you run the app on? (e.g. TVs)

Incidentally you have the same question with iPhone (iPad, iPod Touch and a possible future AppleTV store).

I would recommend that you look at the app you want to make. If you pick something fairly simple that exists in a niche without too much competition you can test the water for each. You might need to rewrite code, but you would be able to reuse algorithms and patterns in a large amount of cases.