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For Indian SaaS startups, alternative to Paypal for recurring payments?
The new directive from RBI has made Paypal an unviable option for SaaS product companies from India. What are other SaaS companies using currently and how has been your experience?
A more interesting benchmark would be "time spent in each app". Sure, there are eight trillion apps for the iPad. But I bet most people spend 95% of their time in the browser (or an ebook reader), and the other 5% of their time in the email app.

Guess what, you can do that with a 386 laptop from 1995. Apple's success comes from convincing people, through marketing, that they want to do that on an iPad and not on something else.
Planning a number of games for iOS devices, and thought, hmm, what is this game missing? The owners manual and box are missing! So, decided to post an "Operations Manual" on Wordpress as a solution to this problem. If the game goes viral, a new domain name could be used. As for the box...
What point did he make other than the vitriol itself?
If you actually think about this for more than 5 seconds, you'd realise that they're releasing an OS that's both a successor to windows 7 and a tablet OS. It's like Apple merging iOS and OSX[1] and releasing it as OSX 10.8!

[1] yes, both have same core, but they have different set of functionalities. And they are gonna merge it somewhere down the road.
I'd love to hear any suggestions you guys may have for this extension.

One idea I was kicking around, is to not show the *NEW marker the very first time you visit a thread, since everything is new at that point. Any opinions?
Take this with a grain of salt.

CrunchBase does not by any means offer stable and comprehensive picture over the years. It has been maintained with different levels of commitment, especially for entering in old data (since Crunchbase did not exist in 2000).

CrunchBase is a great resource, but doing those kinds of statistics without appropriate research of how consistent is the coverage is at least sloppy if not willful negligence.
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Where did I claim that? The existing apps do work so there is no lack of apps to start with and Honeycomb has been out for only few weeks - it won't be long before more tablet optimized apps appear.
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I fear the world got lucky in that the Internet inherited its openness from academia, and the PC inherited its openness from the early hobbyist microcomputer scene. As in many other industries, openness - except when necessary for a bare minimum of interoperability - has never really been the norm in consumer electronics. As computing moves beyond the PC, I think that (sadly) we are going to have to get used to proprietary platforms and their attendant pricing shenanigans.
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Always execution. It CAN beat out the first movers. If you can make this work, please detail it more in the future.
The lawyer contacted me and asked if they could have the domain (and hinted that they would be willing to pay or trade tickets/merchandise). I just gave it to him. There was never any inkling of strong arming or a forceful shut down on their end.

Conan sent us a signed thank you later about a week after the domain transfer went through.
But if we use these figures, Apple has 14.8 / (14.8 + 2) ~ 88% market share, and a claim about "> 90%" is outright wrong.

But you can't just pick your own figures and then say "because Apple didn't look at the market the same way I am, they are lying".

The only way it's a lie is if you use the same distinctions they do (which we don't know) and the same figures they used (which we don't know) and then show that they said different figures than their analysis resulted in (aka a lie).

Otherwise, when you say "lie" and "wrong" what you really mean is "they used different criteria", and that's not lying.
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The argument isn't with faceless executives, or Apple at all---its with people like you and I, the developers at large.

If we are convinced that what is Apple is doing is wrong, we might be turned away from their ecosystem--thus denying them of profit---or better still we may stand in solidarity if the current complainers try to take more drastic measures such as shifting to another platform all together.
Thanks! It definitely seems to depend on the project. If there's no repository configured then you can't browse the source. I made the mistake of assuming everything would have a repository though. Some projects (e.g. 7zip) seem to rely on you going to a separate home page and finding the source there instead.
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Congrats Jake and Will! Great progress since last time i checked noteleaf! Must be YC gave some great feedback :))
So

1) Use IP instead of a domain or use a bunch of disposable domains registered outside of US jurisdiction and reach.

2) Don't use US based email.

3) Don't use US based ad systems.

4) Profit.
I was also thinking of foreign medical schools; graduates of those schools make up a considerable portion of doctors and dentists in the US. But granting that it's more accurate to say "hundreds" rather than "thousands", the substantive point is that total centralization is not necessary to ensure quality of medical care.
A lot of the time I will go to hacker news and quickly scan article titles for something interesting. While I know the mods try to change titles to be more descriptive, some things are just ambiguous. Right now there is an article called "A Rare Disagreement" on the front page. Now that could be about anything, and I don't know if I really want to spend my time on it. Can we add a little box on the submit form for an excerpt/summary that would appear on hover? Or maybe a little down arrow that you could click to expand the summary? Limit it to 150-300 characters and it could be a great improvement to the front page.
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I'm not sure why anybody would, considering it's an extension to Java.

Reading chapter 1 of the book, you see...

} catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}

That inspires confidence. But reading on...

Based on the first chapter, it seems that the language is completely worthless. It doesn't add anything that you can't just as well build libraries for (and for which libraries _have_ been built). It's hard to see how this language could have ever been considered a good idea.
Your perspective is interesting. But I think it weakens your argument to claim you would short these stocks in theory, but actually won't. The market price is determined by people who are confident enough in their beliefs to act on them. And those people collectively seem to think market-cap-weighted bundle of AAPL, MSFT, GOOG and RIMM is a good bet. If you are not confident enough to act, then that significantly discounts the evidentiary value of your opinion.
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I think the Apple mind control conspiracy theory stuff is a bit outdated these days. You can 'convince' a small number of people to choose one product over another for superficial reasons through clever marketing but that's not a very good explanation when you're talking about tens of millions of people. If Apple had these secret mind control talents they would have 'convinced' people not to buy Android phones or Windows PCs. For now it just happens that they have a big head start and consumers simply don't know (or care) about the alternatives yet or just aren't sold on them.
>> we did not understand the economic disruptive force of either Intel or open source until it was too late.

I find your comment about open-source confusing

My sense is that (a) Sun was a hardware company and (b) they were obsessed with beating Microsoft (a software company)

One of their strategies to beat Microsoft was to commoditize software. It is possible that many Sun employees also developed an ideological affinity towards open-source, but imo their move to embrace open-source was a deliberate business strategy to commoditize software. Ultimately Sun failed, but it wasn't because they didn't understand open-source
This is what happens when you overfund a department. Especially when you target the money for a particular purpose.

All this manpower would be more useful for more important crimes, but that's not how the budget was designed.

And departments ALWAYS use all their money.

It's hard to argue "so defund them", because then you hear of cases that are being ignored.

I think the best thing to do is merge as many departments as possible, then fund them in total, and hope that someone local can direct the money where it's needed - on the fly - rather than some centralized planning budget doing it.
There are plenty of engineers without degrees that have worked on mission critical pieces of software in medicine (and automobiles, etc.). Is the MRI code really substantively different from the physician from a systems perspective?

Basically, a paper credential in a fast moving field demonstrates relatively little. And the whole decade long system of medical education (undergrad, grad, residency, fellowship) is far from efficient.
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I think that's probably true for some parts of the user base - particularly the more tech savvy - it's effectively true for me - I'll concede twitter and reeder as not much more than an extension of the browser or an ebook reader.

However I think you're underestimating how many non-tech savvy users find appliance-like apps much easier to understand than the web. Yesterday my wife borrowed my iPad to use with her mother to look at furniture on Craigslist.

She got me to buy a $2 craigslist app that I'd never dream of buying for myself which turned the iPad into a light-table of photos of stuff for sale linked to a map. Suddenly her mother could use Craigslist. At a certain point the screen blanked and she had a moment of panic of not knowing what to do - but then she realized there was only one button to press and everything was ok again.

That 386 laptop from 1995, or for that matter an iMac from 2011 requires a vastly more developed mental model in order to do anything. Even if most people can eventually learn this, it's work, whereas the ease of the app model on the iPad makes it relaxing and fun.

The apps matter a lot.
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I did, from two different registrars, so I'm curious.
My point is that Redis doesn't automatically size maxmemory itself. Novice users can trivially make Redis perform awfully if their working set exceeds available RAM.

(I don't consider this a flaw in Redis, BTW - it's just that a lot of implementors really don't understand operating systems and VM overcommit.)
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Right - I said in my original comment that the situation would change over the year, but for now an average user would be silly to buy a Xoom and only have blown up phone apps and hope that stuff they like gets developed in future, when they can buy an iPad 2 and have great dedicated apps today.
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Why do I need a plugin to watch this movie?
Nope, you're right... the guy was an idiot, despite his best attempts at thinking he wasn't.
Great article. I never thought about the colors. I always chose black and wondered about the other colors. Suddenly it all makes sense.
Yes, because ICANN sent out a reminder that it had to be done.
We had applied there to try it out as an alpha (beta?) tester but haven't heard back from them. I hope they launch soon.
After we've had these?

A) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270790
B) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2274917
C) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2278932

Wait, what? You quoted (A)'s introduction verbatim and paraphrased (B)'s introduction on the next line?

Wha???
> Few people are buying those things.

That's not really true. While Apple has a huge lead, they've already begun to lose marketshare (95% down to 75% last quarter). With more and more competition coming soon, I don't think that Apple will be able to hold on. One only has to look at the success of Android phones -- which literally didn't exist at all when the original iPhone was released -- to see that such a lead is not insurmountable.

> Have you used one of the 'iPad killers'?

Have you? The Motorola Xoom gets very good reviews -- most praising the software as much as the hardware.
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> But there are other things any competitor could copy, easily, but seemingly don’t even understand that they should, because such things aren’t technical. Take that chair. The on-stage demos of the iPad aren’t conducted at a table or a lectern. They’re conducted sitting in an armchair. That conveys something about the feel of the iPad before its screen is even turned on. Comfortable, emotional, simple, elegant. How it feels is the entirety of the iPad’s appeal.

This is an illustration why product companies, however large, should still be led by a product-oriented CEO. Companies led by MBAs or finance people are not doing too well on innovation front. Microsoft is a prominent example of this observation. Sony during Nobuyuki Idei's tenure was another example.
Funny, and it also demonstrates the risks of CSS injection far more effective than a dull article.
You can use the VSZ of the process (from ps(1)) as a rough approximation of memory utilization. This is what the process maximally could address (without mapping or allocating any additional memory) at the moment of measurement, and may include pages that are in fact not in memory at the time (because they might be references to pages that are on files or swap).

RSS tells you what is currently "resident" (i.e. in RAM) but doesn't include pages that are in files or swap.

Personally, I'm much more interested in flows (paging and I/O activity) than stocks (how many pages a process has allocated). If I'm comparing two competing platforms with the same durability guarantees on identical hardware using identical data access patterns, the one with the lower paging/swapping activity wins. It's not always the one with the smaller memory utilization!
Seriously? Did I miss the part where iOS obtained 95% mobile OS market share?
PS: There is a pretty nice little MVC framework built on Sinatra called Padrino. http://www.padrinorb.com/
I wouldn't try browsing with a 386 laptop. I highly doubt you could still buy one in '95. Funny as historical comparisons are, some accuracy would be appreciated.
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Indeed, there was always a big contrast between the telecom world (closed) and the PC world (open). As these are merging now, I hope the openness won't be sacrificed. I really hope we can prevent that from happening. It's one of the things that makes the internet a really great place for innovation.
If you use a basic process-per-connection model (select/fork/accept), 10 forks per second is not that much. The "classic Unix" Ruby HTTP servers like Unicorn do just that. (Apache 1.3 and at least one 2.x worker module also work this way, but Apache uses some tricks like preforking and recycling workers to make this fast - I'm not sure the Ruby servers do, too.)
I have definitely noticed a decline in activity on Facebook over the last 6 months. Whether this means people are going to leave or not is another question.

I have been on Facebook for about 4 (maybe longer) years and the activity seemed to peak between 2009 - 2010.

However, over the last 6 months, I have noticed that there is a definite decline in activity on everyone's pages. People comment much less if at all, likes have declined, people that were getting loads of feedback are now getting much less. (this is based on 2500 friends pages, most randoms as I used to DJ / radio part time which resulted in lots of random requests)

Perhaps the novelty has worn off and people are simply using it to stay in touch instead of entertain. To me it seems that earlier users are using it much less while older users and users from other countries are boosting its userbase and activity.
It's true: They all wear black shirts in front of a white background ;-)

I like the multi-functional cover of the iPad2.
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I agree "time spent in each app" is a better benchmark. In the event that Apple held an event in April 2010 announcing, among other things, iAds it was announced that the average user spends 30 minutes a day in apps. Again, this is the average user. I spend far more time than that, and I would also say that I probably spend, at least, 90% of my time in non-Apple apps.

Apps matter. More than any other consideration, including brand.
It's been a while since I researched it, but my impression was that the growth rate had been decelerating since the seventies. Not that it isn't still a growth rate, just a lower one.

About energy, I expect that higher prices make many more sources of energy available to the market than is available now, and I don't expect the demand to drop without a very fundamental change....we've still got lots of room for energy prices to go up in our market.
I agree. The data is not consistent but it's probably the most well-maintained and accessible data (with its api) to my knowledge.

That is the reason I look at investments from 2005 since most investments prior to that were not entered.
75%? Where does that come from?
reminds me of a Mark Cuban interview I saw recently
It comes down to a basic philosophical difference: centralized or decentralized?

Every single other product we use -- including things like cars/motorbikes, with a direct impact on your health -- we read reviews, ratings, and reports before purchasing. We allow people to set their own risk dial, whether that be a motorbike or a Volvo.

Indeed, the whole point of sites like Metacritic or Amazon's review section is that any particular review could be in error, but the sum total provides signal. Not perfect, but provably better than selecting a few people at random and keeping the product from the market unless they all agree.

And this extends to medical procedures too. Of course I will research hospitals before having that kidney transplant. Cedars Sinai has a good reputation; I don't need 13 years of medicine to know that it's good, anymore than I need to know how to direct a film to appreciate a movie. Because there are many other sources of reputation checks other than government: search engines, your friends, books, newspapers, etc. Good word of mouth about a device or doctor usually reflects technical merit, and when it does not, it is unlikely that a single bureaucrat will uncover that which has fooled the world. Bureaucrats go with public opinion, they do not buck it.

Moreover, every other area of life, we accept that products will suit some and not others. There is no accounting for taste, as the saying goes.

Medicines and treatments show just as much interpersonal variation as nutrients; indeed, many of them are simply refined nutrients. Yet we expect a centralized system to account for something inherently individualized. Little known fact: many arthritics wept when Vioxx was taken off the market, because it worked for them.

Why not let these people have their choice? Cancer patients cannot opt out of the FDA to take experimental drugs (the FDA actually sued to keep it this way!). And sometimes the crazies are actually right and the government is way wrong, like low fat vs. low carb.

The bottom line is that centralization of assessment in a fast-moving, technical area is going to be provably worse than peer review. Make the FDA opt-in rather than mandqtory and let the decentralized network of doctors be the ultimate judge. That's how Europe does it.
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The real value of hg-git for me is that it made the git vs mercurial choice moot, since I can switch back and forth whenever I like. I started with Mercurial, and then switched to git after deciding that I liked it better. If I ever change my mind again, I can easily switch back. So I can stop arguing with myself and others over which one is better and start committing code.
Because you don't have a mac. Same happens to me when I try watching videos that are on Windows specific players.
Internode in Australia also do it, however they don't offer it to the caller until you've been on hold for 8 minutes. An option at the start of the call would be much better.
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It would help but most private companies don't report annual revenues.