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Yes, you did a great job resolving this! I'm very impressed by your customer service. In addition to an almost immediate response via email, live help was also available (even late in the evening bay area time) and came to a creative solution. (it looks like the original spot was full, so it was rebooked at another location, and then transfered to my friend's account).

This is a great example of how a startup wins by being nimble and creative. Customer service is maybe something a huge company can outsource, but in a startup, definitely should be handled by the team directly, just like this.
Lots in the test prep online space already; Brightstorm, Knewton, Grockit,PrepMe, etc. Very lucrative still.

Education is ripe for innovation and has a huge market for the brave willing to weather lawsuits from entrenched historical players and slow-moving, bureaucratic administrations.
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Sorry guys, I am having trouble believing this...

typing in "bittorrent" will yield bittorrent.com and 4th result as utorrent. Nothing is filtered.
Nah, I don't think so, if only because it's still really really early in the mobile revolution. But this is really big for Android devices (that support the spec...) for three other reasons:

1) It gives them a huge library of premium titles. There are a lot of really good PSP titles which blow most iOS games out of the water.

2) It gives Android a premium, curated, and branded app store.

3) It should vastly cut down on device compatibility issues for developers. There's still going to be multiple devices (and resolutions), but at least you know a "PlayStation Certified" device will meet a certain minimum requirement.
I almost never use the LinkedIn iPhone app. The functionality is so limited that I'm almost always better off using the browser.
Accidently I've read this yesterday (was it on HN?).

He's right - but I need to buy food between now and 10 years.
I used to be a strategy consultant, so maybe I should go the BS route :)
They did http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2253110/how-to-manage-css...
the numbers show how skewed HN reader population is from the rest of the world..
Huge congrats to CardMunch!

It's always nice to see LinkedIn make an acquisition like this as they are quite rare for their company. It's too bad because LinkedIn could definitely use the infusion of some more entrepreneurial talent and it would give startups another good exit path. The last few times LinkedIn has raised money, they have cited future acquisitions as one of the main reasons, but CardMuch is the first one I've heard about in a long time.
You should actually be rooting for telco competition. Look at areas where Verizon FIOS and Comcast compete head-to-head. Not only is the broadband excellent quality, it's price competitive with almost any other European/East Asian nation.

There's no doubt in my mind that the U.S. can have excellent broadband at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, in most areas we only have the choice between pricy, midgrade cable internet and cheap, slow DSL.
I, a Junior now at a University in NY, have often have felt the same way as you. I've never liked school too much and probably won't really pursue anything related to my major, but I don't regret my decision to stick with it at all, due to one aspect: People.

Let's face it, college is fun. You'll probably have some amazing times and make some incredible and long-lasting friends along the way. Don't skip out on that because you know eventually you want to start/work for a startup. You will probably always be able to start a company, but can never really go back to school and enjoy it in the same way you can now.
You're forgetting, or maybe just never used a modem (some people ask what the hell a floppy is), but the max speed you could squeeze out of a 56k was like 3/4kbps for any single download. That's if you were lucky. You would never, ever have transfered so much as 10gb in a month.

Things sure have changed. I remember praying to the modem gods that the connection wouldn't simply drop when downloading something as small as 200kb. The good ol' days -- you made every moment on the net count.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10GB+/+3Kbps 10 months.

Edit: What I just linked to above was incorrect. I should have used kilobytes per second, not kilobits per second.
Fair point.

The context of my question:
- I want to build my own websites, 3 months to learn (not unheard of, right?)
- I need cash quite fast and if I can build my own website, why not somebody else's too...
I did not take it personally-as if it was an insult. Just I did not want to talk about my behavior or my abuse of the ask feature. I agree with your points about the Ask HN feature. A reasonable user of HN will learn to regulate the tendency to post trivialities(as you pointed I am the first to plead guilty on that :)- even though Google or other resources such as libraries, doctors, lawyers, can satisfy all types of questions). Many worthy posts are washed aside(in News or in Ask) because the site becomes more popular or because more people tend to submit posts massively.
- waiter! an omelette and a pair of kind words here please!

gloomy unhappy waiter comes and puts the omelette on the table.

- waiter! and where are the kind words?

- okay. don't eat this omelette.
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I think you misunderstand how little $500 is to many of your customers.

I know while I'm happy to make an additional $500, the amount of time I spend thinking about spending it to try something out which could save me a day or so is getting very small. We're talking minutes to maybe hours.

Stick a big honking buy button there, and make it easy as hell to buy your stuff. Hire a real voice person to explain it if your accent is an issue, toss a presi presentation up there, and go with it.
It's a pretty uninformative article, since it doesn't even tell you whether the military suicide rate is higher or lower than the rate in the general population. Being suspicious of the media, I did a little bit of digging, and it turns out there's a good reason why they don't tell you the rates in the general population. Because then it would be good news instead of bad news!

Statistics for U.S. suicides in 2001:
- Males: 17.6 suicides per 100,000 population.
- Females: 4.1
- Overall: 10.8
(The rate is much higher for males than females, since females have more unsuccessful attempts; men use guns more often, women use pills.)
Source: http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

And from the following reference, we can get the per-capita rate for various branches of the military:

http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/2010/04/latest-military-comba...

Quote: << Eleven active-duty airmen had committed suicide through March 19, which projects to an annual rate of 13.7 suicides per 100,000 airmen. The numbers were already trending upward: The 2008 and 2009 rates were 12.4 and 12.5, after averaging fewer than 10 from 1998 through 2007. By comparison, the Army and Marine Corps had rates last year of 23 and 24. The Navy has not released its 2009 rate, but Air Force Times calculated it at 14.5 using data released by the service. The civilian suicide rate was 10.9 in 2006, the last year for which data are available. ... >>

But we should really compare against the suicide rate for men, since soldiers are predominantly men. So we have:

- General population of men: 17.6 / 100,000
- Air Force: 13.7 / 100,000
- Army-Marines: 23-24 / 100,000
- Navy: 14.5 / 100,000

So, other than the Army/Marines, the military suicide rate is LOWER than that of the general male population, and for Army/Marines, the suicide rate is only 36% higher than the general population. This may be attributable to the fact that guys in the Army almost certainly kill themselves with guns, so we'd expect their success rate to be higher than that of the general population.
Given the HN community without seeing figures you would assume that there are a lot of students and early stage startups where people are getting by on very little mixed in with a lot doing tech jobs earning over $100k.
I guess 'in bed' counts as 'without a distinct office', right?
Excellent! I mean, Apache's a bit of an overly complex license implementation for what it does, but what it does is pretty good.

Thanks.
I don't think choosing what you're going to republish is censorship.
For what it's worth, there are several people in Google who will use your article to argue that we could improve our customer service/user support in different ways. I pinged one of them on Twitter and I'll pass this article around within Google.

Here's my personal opinion: I think the idea of paid inclusion had a deep influence on Google--we really didn't like the idea of paying to be in Google's index, because it meant that Google's incentives would be misaligned (not indexing pages would lead to revenue). I think that some people might have had the same worries about paid user/customer support (messing things up such that people had to call us would lead to revenue). That might sound crazy, but back in 2000 I saw quite a few companies that almost seemed to make deliberately bad software so that they could overcharge on support contracts. [Of course, there's the notion that Google tries to be scalable as well.] In my personal opinion, if anyone had the notion "we don't want to be paid for support, because that means our incentives are misaligned" in the early days, that notion is outdated and should be re-examined. Just my personal take.

I know the teams that support users and advertisers work really hard to scale and that it's a tricky problem.
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Unless you're a prostitute and you have a separate bed for entertaining clients, yes.
Maybe a CS student walking alone outside at 2am is not the best of ideas.
Looks interesting. I might need to dig in.

I like the license, too.
Now they know how I feel about text messaging rates. Captive consumption sucks.
I agree. I read the DistinctID idea and immediately had a pit in my stomach: "I hope the technical lead has a really good security background."

Many software projects are, as I like to refer to them, "generalist projects." A good developer can make significant progress and success with these kinds of projects. However, there are some projects that I feel very hesitant about when someone without domain experience is brought on the project. These kinds of projects include, as a brain dump: machine learning, OS/low level systems development, cryptography, distributed systems in challenging environments, and reliability engineering.

I'm not saying a non-expert can't succeed in these areas, just that it makes me antsy.
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Glad we see eye to eye. Equally glad you didn't take it personally, because I tend to come off has kind of brash at times. Especially if it's somehow related to upholding my view of the HN standard. ;)
the 56k stands for 56KBit/s. What you were seeing was 3.5 KByte/s which of course is still way off the theoretical 7 KByte/s you could achieve with 56KBit/s.

If you only got 3 KBit/s over a 56K modem, your download-rate would have been 375 bytes/s - a third of a Kilobyte per second. That's a bit more than what you could have reached with a 2400 baud modem from the eighties.

You get to your 10 months result by dividing the 10 Gigs by 3Kbit/s, while you would probably have ment to divide by Kbyte/s

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10GB+%2F+3KBps

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Pacific Coast US excluding the above
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Non-scrolling headers/footers break the way Page Up and Page Down work, because the visible size is no longer the size of the scrollable area.

It also seems to break their "Parent" links -- it ends up with the top bar partially covering the comment's header. I've yet to encounter a web site where floating title bar is a good idea.
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Are you sure you're not referring to this?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=56+Kbps+in+KB%2Fs

With 8 bits per byte plus protocol overhead, a good rule of thumb is take the Kbps value and divide by 10 to get a realistic KB/s figure. It's been too long since the BBS/dialup days and I don't recall if some of the later modems implemented on-the-fly compression which would squeeze out even more bandwidth.
I used to work at a desk shoved into the corner of the guest bedroom. We recently moved the bed out and now it's a dedicated home office. I find it much easier to focus and be productive.
Thanks for the clarification on my points. I was conflating the two.
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Thanks Matt. I appreciate that scaling is hard, but I trust you guys to figure a way to do things that are priorities for you.
On Verizon's family plan, we pay 30 extra per month for unlimited texts for 5 people. 6$ per month for that seems like a fair price.
Don't know where you live but I never had a problem or saw anyone else have a problem late at night over my 4 years of uni.
A disproportionately low percentage of female founders in IT/tech startups might be due to a lower number of female CS/engineering graduates and workers.

However, in biology and medicine, I believe women are now the majority of new graduates. Yet, the majority of biotech and pharma startup founders are men (and I believe the stats are that an even higher percentage of biotech startups have male founders than cs/internet startups!). Biotech startups are more capital intensive, and have an entirely different funding and exit profile, but I think this is a useful data point. Qualified women are still not starting startups at the rate one would predict; maybe they are rational in choosing not to, maybe there are artificial barriers which can be removed (even something as simple as lack of awareness that of founding startups as a possibility), but it's definitely an issue.
I'll be interested to see how many people work within 100 metres of San Francisco.
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I think that if only a fraction of all the brain power put into building software was dedicated to making the world a better place for humans (all of them) (aka "take over the world") ... then the world would most certainly BE a better place.
Instead most of us creators/philosophers are stuck into "the box" while the world is run by marketeers and accountants.
As an aside, I don't really like the idea that "open source" should also have to be synonymous with "free software". Can the intended users access (and possibly modify at least locally) the source? Then it's open source. Why do we need "open source" to be identical to "free software"? Isn't that what "free software" means?
I had no idea what Corona was. I'd be nice to offer some sort of explanation.
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Related to this, it's amazing when your away from the computer and not really engaged in anything you can think back to a piece of code that was giving you trouble and come up with a fix you couldn't think of while working at a screen.
> As a life coach

Not Off-Topic but what's that like? I have a friend who has a stable job and really has gotten more and more into making a difference with his coaching clients.
A couple of IBM/Tivoli products (TDI and TAM ESSO) use it as the scripting language as well.
A major part of my work is out giving presentations. I'm currently having breakfast in a hotel in London, and later I'll be talking to 300 people in a theatre.
The original experiment found noise.

So what they are doing is building two identical experiments and comparing their noise.

If the noise from both experiments is the same that may be evidence that it's not actually random noise, but a signal of some kind.
Hopefully one day there will be a better alternative to college, but right now it's the easy way to just fall into a nice job without having to try very hard.

Unless you want to try very, very hard, college is the path of least resistance.

Also, because of that, you won't meet many ambitious people. Most peoples' ambitions don't lie very far beyond "be comfortable".

You will also literally never be surrounded by as many 18-22 year old girls in the entire rest of your life. That's opportunity you should think carefully about passing up.
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The OLED display, of all things, has me the most excited. Overall, I'm happy with what Sony is doing with the NGP. I preferred the classic PSP shape (not so much with the PSPgo), and all the added gadgets I can see being at best fun to have, and at worst just extra gimmicks that can be overlooked. Way to go, Sony. :D
They already added fancy graphing to EC2, EBS and RDS just recently. What used to be CloudWatch services became free and integrated into the dashboard of those other services. Elastic Beanstalk is also a layer above their base-level services. Seems like Amazon is willing to move up the chain and will continue to in the future.
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This has been the status quo in South Africa from 1997. In 2009 I lost a legal battle via the Advertising Complaints Commission.

It boiled down to the wording. Uncapped means that they can shape your line to s*, and still sell it as a 4meg ADSL service.
Boo-yah! First aussie :)
"metres"? Seems like an odd measure from the distance from a city. Perhaps km or miles?

Also, I suppose Denver falls under "Other US"? Seems like several disparate geographic areas are getting lumped together. Additionally, I think that "Great Lakes" is a subset of "Midwest" (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Penn) and "New England" (East Penn, New York). I do understand wanting to separate out Chicago, though. Might I suggest "California, Northwest, Southwest, Central, Midwest, Southeast, Northeast"?
When a student I would regularly be out and about between midnight and dawn - it's when I did my best work. I never had any concerns. Still don't. It's a pity that you live somewhere that makes it an issue.

I wasn't a CS student, though.
You forgot "Texas."
Interesting - what college?
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Well, it says "100m"
They're clearly limiting this discussion to wired ISPs, where I think this is reasonable.

Wireless (cellular) users can look to satellite ISPs to see just how crazy things can be. On a lot of satellite systems, users are sold "unlimited" bandwidth, but then aggressive fair access policy, unpublished caps, etc. apply, so your unlimited 2Mbps x 256Kbps connection might actually only let you transfer 500 MB/month.

True hilarity happens on the L-band services like Inmarsat BGAN when either someone leaves Windows Update or other autoupdate turned on, or isn't aware of the per-MB charging. $3 to $25 per megabyte adds up quickly; I've personally seen a $160k/mo bill due to users downloading movies and music over a BGAN system (with the bill paid by a third party, obviously, and no mechanism in place to communicate costs to the users).
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Sorry, I misunderstood your algorithm description. I thought the word "pick" meant "return this item as your answer". I guess your intended meaning should have been clear from your code (Scala?).
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Good for Sony, but not so good for Android as it's becoming even more fragmented.
This isn't a very good poll because the groups are different things and sizes. Why don't you just do it by State/Province?

For example. I live in Toronto so I'm going to Select the Great Lakes, so are people in Waterloo, Buffalo, etc, etc all at the city level. On the other hand, you've lumped a bunch of countries together in Eastern Europe.

Also 100m is confusing because it refers to both metres and miles. I assume in your context you meant miles but lots of people with science backgrounds would assume metres.
I recently read "Holographic Universe"[1], which is all about this topic.

An interesting fact about holograms that the book points out is that, if you cut any piece from a hologram, the image contained within that piece will be the entire hologram's image, with more distortion or noise...not a part of the image as would be expected from cutting a regular image or photo.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp...
Semi-related: Whats a good fall-back for when webgl isn't directly supported in the browser?
here: http://donteatit.heroku.com/

But dead link. It's the link in the seen picture at full rez.
I take it that you mean Google has a grip too strong on internet economy: you can't stand against it too boldly or ditch its services altogether lest you risk losing revenue from AdWords... that right?
Looks great guys - I love the idea of getting value out of some of the great technology you've built along your journey.
From the FAQ:
"...only experienced educators - PhD's, high school teachers, special education instructors, and professors with real classroom experience - can list themselves on Tutorspree."

Really? This seems a little stringent. High school teachers are busy teaching high school; PhD's are busy conducting research or teaching their own classes. Of course, some of them are going to pick up tutoring on the side for some extra money, but you're screening out huge portions of the available pool of tutors.

Consider my position; I have a BS in Physics and currently tutor a few students--mostly in calculus and geometry. Of course, I don't have "classroom experience," but I've been tutoring students for a while. I know my stuff, and I know when my students don't. I know how to read their math, catch mistakes, and work through their errors with them. I know how to identify recurring mistakes students make and prescribe problems to remedy those errors. I'm not an educator, but I know the subjects I'm teaching. That's as good as any grad student working as a TA, and they're teaching at the university level.

Why the high requirements? I understand the need for quality, but I sense, more often than not, students are looking for someone who knows the material to correct and guide them. You don't need a PhD to do that.
Really? The closest category for Canada is "Other"?