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Please oh please open source it. You failed to do it with Be, please learn from the past!
Maybe that's true if your last name is Obama, but both my sisters had accounts before they were 13 (hell my youngest sister still isn't 13...).
I think I might be ok with vastly expanded police powers if I was the one who decides how and when to use them.
Those of us trying to start companies have so much risk tied up in our income; it makes sense to me to be more conservative than the average person of the same age with assets that have been invested in public markets.
Interesting, you guys could be a competitor for us, but I can't quite tell yet. In lust implies a strong sex focus but the phrasing on the site indicates dating. I'm curious to see where you guys end up going with this.

http://www.heyfoxy.com
What about GMail?
The government can exist without taxation.
Government provide services (security, healthcare, city planning, etc.)
The problem is that Government is a monopolist.
I have no problem to pay for the services, given I really need them and I have right to choose from which vendor to buy these services.

Right now peoples only choice is to emigrate to another country.

The other ugly face of tax system is that many, otherwise productive hours and resources, wasted for such a non-productive activity as accounting.
The countdown clock is for the website refresh. The live event begins at 10AM PST.
Then they're missing a far better number: 132
Web apps have been "oncoming" for over a decade now. The buzz was the same in 2000, but instead of HTML5, it was DHTML or Java applets or ActiveX that was going to completely replace traditional shrink-wrapped software.

The web is a phenomenal success. It has created a massive new ecosystem and changed the social order of the world. It also catalyzed the collapse of the Windows empire, something that had been looking for a way to happen for a while. But that doesn't mean the web will replace Windows as the One True Platform.

Windows has some particular flaws that ultimately brought it down, the most significant being, in my opinion, its model of app distribution and installation. All of the new platforms adequately address this issue.

But the new native platforms also have a fundamental advantage over the web. They are designed from the ground up to support applications that can take full advantage of the latest hardware capabilities and present ideal user experiences. The web was not designed for applications at all and only by hiding the mountain of legacy cruft under layers of hacks has it even approached what native apps can do.

The web has its strengths -- it makes it super easy to publish gobs of content that is accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It's very good at universal, generic interaction. But it always has and always will lag behind in rich, client-specific functionality. As fast as new capabilities can be finagled into browsers, new features, uses, and form factors will come to devices. You may be able to imagine some future in which widely deployed browsers can do any given thing, but you have to account for change across the whole technology spectrum. It's not just about possibilities, it's about pace.

There is no need to force a dichotomy. We have native apps, we have the web, both have their place and neither are going away any time soon. If you're a developer, learn them both and choose the technologies that are right for each individual project.
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I wouldn't say they're exploiting a loophole in the human psyche, rather a very well known aspect of it.

It's also a brilliant business model for a recession and financial crisis. In most instances it's win-win-win:

- Groupon makes money

- people get huge discounts, and save money if it was something they were planing to buy anyway.

- businesses both make money (assuming they worked out the math of the deal correctly before accepting it) and gain huge exposure.

I suppose the only losers are wherever people would have spent that money had they not bought the groupon, but that's hard to quantify (bought the same thing at a higher price? bought something else? saved it?).

I can't think of many more innovative business models for a distressed economy.
I'll repeat my site comment here: A more efficient way is to use Spaced Repetition Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition.

You will spend more time in the items you don’t remenber. Anki and Mnemosyne are good open source softwares for language acquisition.

Anki: http://ankisrs.net/
Mnemosyne: http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/

There's a kind of art in creating your flashcards. It's important to follow the "20 rules in formulating knowledge":
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm
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"I think you are taking this out of proporion, Caius, and calling someone a "cunt" does not a good impression make. So, when your employers realize youre unclean language usage, please feel free to contact me at r.evans@devonshire-recruiting.co.uk and we'll find you a more suitable job."

We've all heard such language before. It's not shocking and not uncommon. If Caius wants to work in an up-tight organization maybe he should give you a call.
yep. i like betting on myself better than betting on most other people.

its sort of an "all your eggs in one basket" strategy, but if you're going to put all your eggs in any particular basket and you're good at what you do, you're as good a bet as any (and you can make sure your investment manager isn't slacking)
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How to Deal with Copyright Infringement with a DMCA Takedown
Maybe this will get Facebook to change the privacy settings again.
>they do have some amazing traders, so you can just mirror them (I'm kind of hesitant to do that, not sure why).

I'd be hesitant to do that because even a broken clock is right twice a day. I haven't looked at covestor in a while but, IIRC, you couldn't see what the other guy was invested in until you committed capital. If I can't see his investments or perform other due diligence, I have no idea what kind of risks he's taking to generate those returns. I'm much happier with my portfolio - which is designed to track the MSCI World Index and reduce risk - than I would be with some crazy trader gambling with my money. I beat the MSCI by 3 points last year which is an acceptable return and I sleep like a baby :)
As a user, I can use an "iPhone" HTML-based app on my Android.
Um, well thats fine and thats what I am using, the problem is that only a few are hardware accelerated (Opacity, translate3d) are the ones I know are hardware accelerated in iOS at least.

What I want is some sort of container format for making animations, so I don't have to "hack" with background-position for a running animation as an example, sort of like GIF is a container for animations but obviously we'd need some sort of container that we can interact with... using javascript :P if that makes any sense.
Awesome! I'm looking forward to this. I've started to migrate my ruby code to 1.9.2. Good to see others doing the same, especially Heroku
The only horror stories I can remember are that Mimi's coffee in Portland (?) and the Japanese new year. I've heard other second- and third-hand reports with no names or specifics. The "merchant horror stories" don't pass the sniff test for me - it seems like the same one or two brought up over and over again. It just seems like a fake news trend.

Andrew Mason said at startup school that the merchant satisfaction numbers are something like 95%. I
I've started using computers a very long time ago. Almost all the computers were in English. Now when I have to use a software in my native language everything fails, specially the keyboards shortcuts. In Office, Ctrl-S make things become underlined! I've even did a macro to make Ctrl-S to save.
My favorite line from the post: "My sense is Groupon’s popularity and star power has peaked even though sales may continue to grow for awhile."

If it has peaked, why would it continue to grow? I think that other side of the peak is decline, not growth. The line sounds like someone who wants to make a statement, but wants a soft landing if they're wrong.

I think Groupon will continue not because people don't mind a daily email, but because the businesses that issue the coupons receive value from them. Which would be more customers to make up for the deep discount they gave.
I'm glad I refreshed first, I'm also curious if there's a common theme in why they decide to move on.
Doesn't SSL do compression? (Most good encryption systems do, because compression strips out the redundant data that codebreakers need.) If so, you should be able to do persistent connections over HTTPS, and get the whole stream compressed.
From their website:

"messiahStudio can be used as a complete stand-alone animation and rendering package, or as a powerful addition to Modo, Maya, 3DMAX, SoftImage XSI, LightWave, Cinema 4D or an in-house proprietary application; through extensive animation export capabilities (fbx, mdd, collada), Host Connection plugins and Host API."

When I read this the first time, I assumed that "animation" meant modeling as well, but only because I don't know very much about this whole process.

Thanks for pointing this out.
Right now peoples only choice is to emigrate to another country.

Even that choice doesn't work well.

The US government considers you an indentured servant. Even if you stop consuming the services they are providing with tax dollars, you are obligated to keep paying for them 10 years.
That goes likewise for his "pay off your mortgage" advice. If your note is 4.5% and here in the US mortgage interest is tax deductable making your nominal interest rate even lower.

So the calculation becomes... paying off that mortgage is like getting a guaranteed 4% return on your money. But there are many low-risk vehicles that can eclipse that.

It's possible that you'd want to take that guaranteed 4%, but it's not the type of thing that, IMO, is just a given.
I do and have all the things you listed

* 401k maxed out to IRS limit every year primarily for tax benefit and retirement saving. Don't qualify for Roth and IRA.

* Two non-retirement investment accounts. Our expenses are lot less than income so all savings go to one investment account.

* One investment account has managed and index mutual funds and ETFs. Another smallish one is a 'play' account primarily with individual stocks, typically use quantitative trading strategies and macroeconomic trends.

* A saving account with emergency funds (six months net pay)

* No debt other than a smallish mortgage.

* We drive 10 year old cars. May buy a new one in late 2011.
We've been using 1.9.2 for client projects since the release of Rails 3. It's been a great move with very few code compatibility issues. 1.9.2 provides a very solid boost in performance over 1.8.7, especially when rendering ERB templates, which makes a surprising impact on user experience for complex views. I've seen 3-4x decreases in ERB rendering times just switching between 1.8.7 and 1.9.2.

This isn't about scaling the web tier, which is fairly trivial, it's about being able to bring a request that took 500ms to answer down to 200ms. That can have a very real and appreciable impact on user experience.
My gut says it is the wrong way around. I suspect that a user would buy the program for $40 because I want to save money and then don't buy the tutorials resulting in not being able to do that much and giving the app negative reviews because it is 'hard'.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'd say it's the most subtle one on the whole page!
I literally cannot up-vote this enough. An "innovation lab" has to be based on failure tolerance and the process to achieve that has to be customer driven. (i.e. the lean startup methodology)
1] Build software, charge $1,160 too much for it.

2] Wait a while, put it on "sale" for $40, tell everyone they are SAVING THOUSANDS.

3] Profit.

If it were really worth $1,200, people would pay $1,200, and they'd charge $1,200.

Let me know when Adobe and Autodesk start selling their stuff for $40.
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> cultivating a community where next-level singles can connect intellectually, emotionally, and physically.

What differentiates a single person from a next-level single person? Or a date from a next-level date (I'm seeing a lot of 'next-level' throughout body copy). Barring a pre-selection/approval process for users, I'm assuming all people will be equally able to sign up and take part in the website, making the pool as "current level" as other dating sites.
WFM. (Firefox, 64-bit Linux nightly build.)
That’s 6 pm in London, 19:00 in Paris and Berlin, right?

Times zones make my brain hurt.
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Groupon is creating new value and opportunities. Small business now have an easy, trackable, pay-per-action source for customer acquisition. It's hardly exploitative of customers either because you can get a refund if you're dissatisfied (see the Groupon Promise).
Startup Madness: Groupon's Super Bowl commercial - least tasteful of all time
Before Super Bowl XLV, there was wide speculation about who would win the Super Bowl ads war between Groupon and LivingSocial. Most people were betting that Groupon would win Big-Time, and they did if you define winning, in this case, as making the biggest Bonehead marketing blunder of the year.
I never cared about this topic till I actively started looking for employment last year.

Constant recruiter spam from LinkedIn was/is the bane of my existence ... one real asshat actually got my email and phone number, where I just got hired (have no idea how he managed that), then emailed and called me on my work phone.

If they even had an ounce of sense I could stomach it, but being pinged for .NET/PHP jobs when I clearly list myself as a Rails guy is annoying ... to say the least.

Best part is when they go on to ask if I know anybody who might be interested ... without skipping a beat.
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> there are 1500+ websites with that phone number showing up.

Just to note, article is from 2008. Current figure is: About 316,000 results (0.13 seconds)

Also, he didn't even bother calling the number to see who owns it? Sloppy.
Check out the comment thread below the post for the recruiter in question responding to the post. Some choice tidbits:

>> I think you are taking this out of proporion, Caius, and calling someone a "cunt" does not a good impression make. So, when your employers realize youre unclean language usage, please feel free to contact me at r.evans@devonshire-recruiting.co.uk and we'll find you a more suitable job.
This argument is often advanced by people against automatic updates, but I would suggest that its such a small minority of situations and people that its not worth considering unless you operate in a very specific niche.
I don't think so. WebOS is a valuable asset and HP definitely want to keep it to themselves.

We'll see =).
I've been getting recruitment spam from what I assume is my workingwithrails.com listing even though I'm listed as not looking for work.
We owe the people that made Rails 3 possible a big thanks for this. With the encoding issues sorted out, 1.9.2 has changed from a pain in the neck platform to a completely sane and viable platform. Which is probably the biggest reason why Heroku can make this move.
This is an excellent site to get started with a language: http://www.livemocha.com
Right, they should use Internet instead, an open library to the world knowledge.
I have seen recruiters;

Phone all the sequential numbers in the office to try and find anyone with a similar skill set.

Contact all my referees and supervisors trying to hunt them.

Ask me if I know/knew "John" who worked with me on a previous project.

Send me on an interview just to test out a potential client, so they can get my feedback.

And they always ask "Where have you interviewed recently?".
I get the feeling that companies like Gartner are going to struggle for a while on reporting numbers. I would really like to see some numbers on devices (be they cellphones, tablets, or handhelds) broken down by OS version and average number of apps downloaded (free & payed). With the coming tablets, these numbers would be more useful for developers.
If there's no match, it's generally advisable to not do this simply BEACAUSE the usually crappy fund selection.

You can open your own tax-advantaged IRA.
Hmm. Perhaps you could read the actual responses by the people in the thread (including myself), instead of blindly responding to "the thread", whatever that is.
I don't think the anarchy of a Somalia is better.

Somalia isn't anarchy. It's several states, some of which are very bad (Islamic theocracies and kleptocracies). That said, it's unclear that Somalia's current set of several competing governments is worse than the single government they had before, or worse than Somalia's neighbors.

http://namcub.accela-labs.com/pdf/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf
Reading a book you've already read is definitely a good idea. Seeing the grammatical forms you might have heard, and even tried to use, written out (and well-edited!) was for me immensely helpful.

It also helps that you already know what happened: if you don't understand a passage, no big deal. Just skip over it. It beats checking the dictionary many times per page. There's some truth to the notion that you can figure out what words mean from context, but it's often not possible. However, if a word is used over and over, as many important to the text you're reading are, you might get enough context to work out what they mean. If you can't, then reach for a dictionary.
Touchpad leak: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/09/palm-touchpad-leaked-1-5-...
I just moved from Germany to the US and my US visa expires after one year. Having no idea in what country I will end up next, things like a 401k or any other country-specific investment form makes no sense to me.

As such I have already given up on establishing a state-sanctioned retirement fund any time soon. Instead, I live frugally and save more than 50% of my post-tax income. Some of that is invested in funds because I can easily keep those wherever I will move to in the future.

Right now I am investing some of that in managed funds but I am not very happy with this and will probably move to index funds soon. I don't have enough confidence that my actively managed funds will beat the average market.
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There's some commentary about it on the lightwave forums
(http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?27757-Messiah-...)
but I'm still not sure why you'd use Messiah over LW3D, Blender, or one of the more mainstream packages.

For a hobbyist, this might be a good value, but if you're looking at it for semi-pro use, it might be a better investment of time to build portable skills in a more widely adopted platform.

edit: comparison here: http://www.thepixelart.com/10-best-real-time-animation-tools...
I just consolidated everything into an IRA, Roth IRA and a separate account this year (I put them together at the same custodian). It's made my life so much easier and I actually understand my portfolio now (before it was just a bunch of assets). The only thing that's left to do is dig a few stock certificates out of the safety deposit box and have them converted to electronic shares so that everything really is in one place.
According to the Gartner data, 184k Android devices were sold daily in 2010 overall, but it isn't unthinkable that sales have risen to 300k a day. When Dan Rubin first tweeted about that number back in December, it sounded kind of fishy, but it may well be true now.

In any case, the mobile market is moving to *nix kernels. Android and WebOS have Linux kernels. IOS and Blackberry 7 have Unix kernels. (LinMo, Moblin, Maemo and MeeGo also have Linux kernels but are either dead or dying.) The odd ones out are Windows Phone and Symbian, both facing an uncertain future.
cool, i haven't heard of heyfoxy, but i love the image on the front page. i'll check it out. there is a focus on sexuality, but it is not a hookup site anymore than reddit or tumblr are hookup sites. i don't see us as competitors, i see us as friends!
What I'm about to say might be controversial. It goes against the grain of the 'Look at me I'm so frugal' meme/arms race here on HN.

The financial crash of 08/09 left such a bad taste in my mouth (as in I lost many tens of thousands of dollars) that I have completely lost faith in the stock market and anything associated with it such as ETFs, mutual funds, 401k, etc.

Getting a 'real' job and putting money into my retirement accounts lost me tens of thousands of dollars in savings (so think about how much lost time that is) and the job that paid for it all. Yes, it absolutely sucked. I was furious, with myself, with others, with my parents (who advised me), etc. It was a terrible time. I drank.

I was forced into doing a startup in Dec. of 08. It's been profitable since the first month. You would be surprised at how well you can focus when you lose your job and half of the money in your bank accounts in the course of one business quarter.

I now keep large cash savings, put a small amount into my retirement funds, invest the majority of my 'extra' money back into my startup.

I bought myself an expensive Porsche, an expensive condo, and started spending WAY more on luxury goods / eating out because losing $XX,000 after being 'responsible' makes you realize how TOTALLY unpredictable this life is, especially when it comes to financial matters.

After working about 3x as hard on a day-to-day basis and changing my spending habits to purchasing much more expensive things, I now have way more money than I ever did (in cash and cash equivalents as well as equity in a business). Go figure.

This post isn't advice, it's just an honest recollection of the financial transformation I went through in the past 2.5 years.
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Well there's also a significant danger of security leakage if the girls talk about what their family is doing, I guess.
Roth IRA, maxed every year. I'm buying individual stocks with that account.
"There’s also a lot of variety: you don’t see too many cleantech, pharmaceuticals, or publishing companies coming out of Y Combinator."

I think it's unfortunate they're playing the gender card while the real reason for their success as an accelerator only merits an "also" in the interview.
When those laws exist within a single social and legal system, it's usually not too hard to decide which is the "higher" law. It gets tricky when the laws of one society come in to conflict with those of another. Within the US, tax evasion is likely considered more important than confidentiality. In Switzerland, the relative importance of those laws may be rather different.
i called it but couldn't figure out what the business actually was.
Publishing technology in the 20th century brought content to the masses.

Publishing technology in the 21st century is bringing content creation to the masses.
Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox
Debian 6.0 is the latest and the greatest, and it's commendable how fast it is offered on a public cloud, ready to "boogie"
I just did it, thanks for the idea. It's going to take time before I get used to it, though.
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So we should abolish all forms of governmental power and go for anarchy / literal mob rule, because that's worked so well in the past?

Every form of government has downsides, has abuses / abusers. Making a statement like you did implies you think they're fundamentally wrong and should be replaced by... what?
I think you're confusing Dan Morril and Andy Rubin. If you consider a graph of Android's growth, I have no problem at all believing that activations in December were 50% higher than they were in January.
Burning through four developers in six months, with the latest starting at the beginning of January and leaving at the end of February would seem to indicate a significant problem internally.