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Yep, exactly.

It all depends on what gives you the highest conversions. It's really as simple as that.
You wrote that in a hour? Congrats, it's a lot of material!
I'd write 1/2 of that in a hour - with editing after of course.
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I know it's a short, light-hearted video, but that's what I imagine the YC interview to be like for some reason. Probing questions, asked politely and framed in a way to see what your response is, not just ticking questions and answers off of your mental tick sheet.

I'm based in the UK and am a single-founder, but this sort of thing just makes YC look like an even more compelling experience - all for an under 2 minute, friendly video. Good job!
"Sticking with the same world, KFC managed to convince an entire nation that fried chicken is what Christmas is ‘really’ about :)"

I had no idea this was true, fascinating.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb2dafc6-0ba4-11e0-a313-00144feabd...
Comparative advantage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
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"Wubble-you."
Of course there's overvaluation, that's inevitable when people invest based solely on whether other people are investing rather than based on their own sound and experienced understanding of a particular company and it's prospects.

However, this isn't 1999 anymore. The amount of real value in internet business is huge today, and the industry is more mature. Web companies take in hundreds of billions of dollars a year in revenue and the longest lived have been profitable for a decade or more. Meanwhile, though valuations are occasionally high the craziness from the first dot-com bubble has been much tempered. Investors aren't dumping millions into niche companies with no revenues, no history, and no business plan, they might be making risky bets from time to time but the risk is much reduced from the wild west era. Overall these factors add up to bubble protection measures. It's simply much harder for a true speculative dot-com bubble to build up and to burst.

Instead we'll likely see dot-com companies meld into the same pattern as traditional companies, as sane investing takes hold and subject matter expertise becomes more common. Every industry, no matter how old, goes through periods of boom and bust, but generally the amplitude of these fluctuations is small enough for the economy to handle it.
I do know people who pronounce it "haitch."
Funnily enough, one of the people on HN screaming the loudest about this 30% was essentially trying to cut Apple out of any revenue at all.

What they were doing for their app was giving it away as a free download, then charging a one off subscription. Ta Da! No $ for Apple. Apple closes this loophole, and this guy starts screaming blue murder.

I've got very little sympathy for anyone like him who is just trying to rort the system and get something for nothing.

----

All the people screaming about Apple's 30% cut should just pack up, shut up, and go to Android where Google will take a 32% cut of their ad revenue. Vote with your feet peeps.
If everybody just made better stuff they would not need imports from germany anymore. The motivation of trade has always been imbalance. I fail to see how those imbalances would smooth out. (Leaving out the perfect world scenario that every country would have some unique, equally valued tradeable thing/service/whatever, a fair starting situation so to speak. This would be ideology)
Nah I don't care for downvotes - go look through my comment history if you think otherwise :D.

What I care for is the counterview or an explanation that might help me perfect my worldview :).
It's not so very hard to understand. Historically people used (and still use) 'differences' as a reason to enslave, murder and other wise subjugate tens of millions of other humans.

So there is a backlash against that. Thankfully. And along the way, in the push back, facts may get lost. Fact's that really, in the context of war, were not helpful.

And now humanity's leading edge seems to be becoming comfortable with that fact we are all different and actually kind of the same and are accommodating of wonderful multiplicity.

Whilst watching the shadow aspects of our egos, in case they come out to grandstand.
If the SPD are "far left", what are Die Grünen? Die Linke?

Don't confuse your personal perspective with that of the general population.
Interesting choice :) The letter 'W' is called a 'way' (English pronounciation) in Dutch.
Be careful what you wish for. Not only lasts the current German boom on the shoulders of Spain, Greece and so on but also on millions of workers whose salery has to be filled with federal money each month. Which means none other that the current earnings of companies are subsidized by taxes or better: social welfare.
> Higher productivity equals greater wealth

I agree with your argument -- IIUC you're invoking comparative advantage. But the two concepts above are fundamentally different. Wealth is a stock, while productivity is a flow multiplier (e.g. A(t) in Solow model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solow_residual). Saying "equals" is a bit adventurous, IMHO. Probably a bit pedantic, but then you do stress that that statement is on the basis of "mainstream economics".
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An HTTPS proxy can only work when the client explicitly configures it. A proxy that can't cache or modify traffic is more like a NAT router than a proxy.

(I imagine getting the IP of the other side of any NAT router is point of this service.)
Might be more appropriate for a Haskell -> C compiler.
Scrolls sounds just like Spectromancer, from Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias (of MTG) and Alexey Stankevich (creator of Astral Tournament). You should check it out: http://www.spectromancer.com
I think that in their quarterly financial calls they've consistently reported the iTunes store as running "about break even". They don't sound unhappy about it, so presumably they're on the positive side of break even rather than on the negative side.

The following Dickens quote springs to mind: "Income, twenty shillings a week, expenditure, twenty shillings and sixpence; result, misery. Income, twenty shillings a week, expenditure, nineteen shillings and sixpence; result, happiness."

However if Apple cut back to say 25% then it might mean that they are subsidising people's use of the store. This would be bad for Apple because they would be losing money. Boo hoo. On the other hand, if they were losing money with one hand in order to (as you suggest) gain it with the other, then they would open themselves to questions of dumping, price fixing, abuse of monopoly etc.

Selling at below cost is a typical strategy to keep new entrants out of the market, and so would be evil. But apparently taking 30% is evil too, so it doesn't matter what they do, somebody is going to be unhappy with them.
To a rendering engine, this isn't any simpler or more complex than any other page. The reason we see this bug is probably that something in the page takes a code path that is taken very seldom, and thus has not been discovered before.

I'm not saying it's ok to have this bug, just that it doesn't really make sense to come up with a small testcase and say "How can you break something so simple?".

I reported a bug, by the way.
I have a German car - best car I ever owned :)

On the other hand China does export a lot to Europe, especially in Eastern Countries; since they are cheaper. I don't have any stats, but I see "made in China" stuff everywhere.
Laptop tracks gaze, taking eye-tracking out of lab
Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality.It tracks your gaze and figures out where you're looking on the screen. That means, among other things, that you can play a game where you burn up incoming asteroids with a laser that hits where you look.
Inflation adjusted wages in the US are pretty much unchanged for over a decade as well. Yet, the US has a massive current account deficit whilst Germany, a welfare state, has a current account surplus even with China, a low wage export oriented economy. So wages cannnot possibly be the reason for their success.

I don't deny at all that there are many short term effects and flucuations that have nothing to do with productivity. But we're talking about the different speeds of European economies and those different speeds correlate very well with different levels of productivity.

And look at the Greek stock market. The biggest non financial companies there are a Coke bottling company and the lottery. The biggest German listed company (I believe) is Siemens, which makes high tech industrial equipment like power plants or health care equipment. The Chinese want that. They need energy, they don't want to play in the Greek lottery and they can bottle their own Coke. That's the reason for the two speed economy.
Agreed. Most pages don't dynamically create framesets in window.onhashchange. Nevertheless, it clearly should work in Opera and they need to fix it.

I typically don't test in Opera but I was curious about this one so I fired it up. Seems like the initial page load doesn't work, but if you change the hash (or the settings, same thing), it actually will render properly after that.

At some point, if I feel like it, I will write an ugly workaround just for Opera based on this principle. So far 1.81% of visitors from HN are using Opera, FWIW.
I tried that, and as a trading card game it's pretty good.

Unfortunately, Sony has utterly crippled it:

* You can pay extra (beyond subscription) to get super-cards.

* You are not allowed to trade most cards.

* Especially not the bought cards.

* Because their chat censor all numbers, semi-dirty words, words that from a distance can look like a semi-dirty word, it is completely impossible to converse with your opponent.
This is just flame-bait.

The author essentially admits she bought a coupon for a photo-album website on GroupOn that was cheap, without checking what she was buying first. It then turned out (1) that she had a poor experience because the photo-album website wasn't what she was expecting, and (2) that she tried to use the coupon on the day she thought it was expiring, and the ToS weren't clear if the coupon could be used up to and including the date, or before that date.

You will never get back the 2 minutes of your life that you waste reading this article
Some feedback:

The video is a bit slow-paced, and the music is really annoying. Overall, it feels like a 1992 commercial.

How to improve it? More dynamic voice, get quicker to the point, change music (or no music at all)

The most important piece of information here is "scan your receipts with your iphone" (we'll imagine the rest), and this information only comes at the 31st second. It should be in the first 5 seconds.
I made https://zetabee.com/text (which many HN users currently use) to provide a similar nested-list interface with keyboard shortcuts, copy-paste across lists, and easy read-only sharing. Before that I made http://untodos.com with 'now', 'soon', and 'whenever' lists but ZetaBee Text is a superset of untodos features so I don't use untodos anymore myself.

I haven't made a "done" feature yet because I haven't found a good way to implement it for tasks at arbitrary depths. Check out the demo: https://zetabee.com/text/demo (save is disabled for demo).
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Right. Higher productivity _causes_ greater wealth is what I wanted to express.
You can transparently proxy arbitrary network traffic. See https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle for an example. FWIW, I'm only pointing out that HTTPS wins you exactly nothing compared to HTTP for this particular purpose. The concept of the "correct" IP address in the context of NAT and proxies is hazy at best anyway.
“Is there a tech bubble? Rounded off to the nearest yes, yes”

This is a great phrase, but I think it should be "the nearest boolean" unless he was trying to be clever.
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It's a computer too, so billing it as a computer replacement is fuzzy thinking at best. I note that I cannot recall anyone at Apple saying this.

According to Fortune, either Cook, Oppenheimer or Cue said this "Capitalizing on the "explosive" demand for the iPad, believing that tablets could end up being a bigger market than PCs. (If this is so, Sacconaghi calculates that the iPad could eventually be a $60 billion to $100 billion business for Apple.)"

That doesn't mean that PCs will go away, at $500 for the average (future!) price of a PC that still leaves room for 100 million PCs to be sold each year, which is still a lot of PCs. It also doesn't say at what point in the distant future this might occur.

On the other hand, if it is some breathless pundit speculating hard (as they are wont to do) who claims that the iPad is a future computer replacement, I take it with exactly the same seriousness as I do all their other breathless pronouncements about the 101 iPod/iPad/iPhone killers that are announced each week, which is to say I don't take it seriously at all.

None of the tech pundits can predict the future worth a damn. They've proved this time and time again. Gruber has a running joke with claim-chowder (a play on words for clam chowder), where he takes the stupid things people said in the past and calls them to task for it.
A good writeup can do this too. I think some like video because of the pacing — you just have time for the information so sink in.
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Thank you. There are plenty of legitimate things to criticise Apple for (they are far from perfect) without making stuff up.
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Maybe when the store is owned by one company, but is this true for a concession operating within a department store?
It's more accurate to say that the results of labor are delivered. That might be a product or service.

And these things can be exchanged for money, which can then be given to other people in exchange for their labor.

Yes, technically you are borrowing money, but it has no effect until its used to purchase the results of labor, which is what you actually want to borrow. Your mortgage is actually borrowing the results of all of the labor required to build it, including the labor to make the sheet rock.

If there's a disaster in Haiti and the US lends Haiti a billion dollars, that money will be used to buy things. Or pay people to do things, who will then go and buy things with the money.

Demand then rises for these things and more of them must be imported. Even if they come from a third country, that additional demand causes imports to increase there. Ultimately, that additional demand affects exports from the US.

And, if Haiti ever pays the money back, Haiti will be the one experiencing an increase in its exports.

The beauty is that we are not locked into buying just the products and services the lender offers. We can get anybody's.

To learn more about this, you could check out Austrian economics and the division of labor.
Jason, you might consider doing a non profit with a more narrow focused education project rather then a for profit catch all product. Im personally involved with 2 projects that are being directed at kids and teens and are using game mechanics to try to get them excited about learning.

There is a DESPARATE need within this market for passionate knowledgeable and skilled people who are willing to invest their time energy and certainly money to help build these projects and get the word out. Personally knowing that the work that im doing will help kids and teens and maybe even young adults get excited about learning is more exciting then the idea of having everybody use my product and then being able to sell it and make alot of money. Ok almost as exciting. :-).

So please consider it. Thank you.
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Put that way your point is more clear. You compare with languages from the last 40 years, I took some issue with "current".

Still I cannot see why this is a cultural issue that keeps developers away. Missing things like good string-libs, or ",;." syntax hassles, ok. But stability-features?

The point you address for C is , in a way, also valid for Erlang. It's your program which has to be stable, the language just offer you supervisors and independent processes. "Write it correctly" is the only way to achieve that goal, Erlang does not help you with that. Could be that messing up an OTP behaviour is as easy as dereferencing a null pointer... (disclaimer: I'm no Erlang developer)
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It has a broken back button. The history is erased when you tap any of the bottom menu items.
> And now some Feedback to this website. I think it's fair
to mention that Developers have to pay 30% of their
earnings and getting nearly nothing for it.

They avoid having to pay credit card processing fees, which on a cheap app probably eat most of the 30%. They don't have to write their own payment handling code. They don't have to write and host their own download servers. They don't need to worry about things like re-authenticating downloads for users upgrading to a new device. They get their apps listed on the Market and thus have their app be discoverable in the place where most Android users will look for apps. They get access to the other Market infrastructure like in-app purchases and the licensing server.

You think that's not providing any value? Then it seems pretty reasonable to suggest that you switch to the alternative that you think provides better value. After all, Android does allow for alternative app stores and for side loading of apps.

> I mean I'm thanking Google that they are hosting the Android Market but taking 30% for just hosting something isn't fair anyway.

That's a strange definition of "fair" you have there.
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"I demand a walled garden, and I will gladly pay 30% to ensure all apps are reviewed, approved, and subject to the whims of the closed-shop store providing them."

This is obviously a serious issue - as the OP notes, the double-edged sword of openness. Still, the speedy response of Google makes me feel warmer than the (not-so-common now) decidely un-speedy application process Apple put many developers through.

Edit: As jevans points out in response, and others have noted in this discussion, Google's 5 minute response time might be better characterised as '1 week of sitting on their hands when the developers complained, and 1 rapid response when it went public in a loud way'.

I'm feeling less warm now, and looking fondly at the non-smartphone Nokia I own which is so clearly targeted at the 11-year-old-girl's-first-phone market that it came inside a pink cardboard handbag. But has no malware.
- MacBook
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- homegrown Dashboard
- Ringio
- Rackspace cloud
- Aptana
- XCode

Those are some of the tools we use at blue shoe mobile. We've tried a few pm/ticket tracking tools but haven't yet found a free one we like
DNS has grown into an enormously complex system
Facebook thrives in much of the western world because it's key feature is over-simplicity. Computer illiterate people feel well at home using facebook.

In a country with a high number of early adopters, they're likely more interested in useful apps over simple apps.
Yes I don't doubt that, but for example, I am not one of those people and I don't think I'm alone. Just give me written instructions, please.

I guess that's probably the same reason why I was always incredibly bored during lectures at university and preferred learning from books instead.
Everyone learns in different ways, there are lots of people who are "viewers", who learn by watching others do something and there are also those who learn by reading about a topic. Both are perfectly acceptable forms of learning, and the drop in bandwidth and hosting costs is enabling those who teach/learn in that way to come to the fore.

I for one wouldn't know anything about Rails without Ryan Bates' Railscasts series or Patrick Lenz's Simply Rails book. Quality videos watching Ryan work through the code, and show notes with the code written is great for some things, and a book is great for others.

As for Jason, sorry to hear about being forced into such a hard decision - I like the direction Mahalo is taking and wish you all the success.
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It would be fairer to make a comparison with a purely online gaming distribution model like Steam.

Apple and Google don't have as many realworld costs once their infrastructure is working and is in place.
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But it has always been the Germans who kept asking for higher interest rates and a harder currency. The monetary union, as you surely know, does not include the UK, Denmark or Sweden. That's because these countries opted out. No one forced the Greek into the MU. They cheated their way into it by falsifying their accounts.
Just a cynical observation. From the article:

"But also it goes with realising that a lot of human activity is really pretty pointless, and when you realise that and internalise it then you become cynical and also a bit sad - because you yourself are caught up in this machine and you have to play along if you want to get on. Teenagers are really good at spotting this kind of phony nonsense."

I think that what Teenagers object to is other people's phony nonsense. Or perhaps phony nonsense that is imposed upon them by external forces.

They seem more than happy enough to generate boatloads of their own phony nonsense.
Ask HN: When your non developer friend wants to work in your startup..
You are a struggling startup.

You are busy. you may lose bucks each wasted hours.

Your friend don't knows coding.

Your friend wants paying job. Even if you can't pay him, he is ready to work for free for learning.

He asks you same code often than search google, he doesn't know what he wants to do with coding. he just _needs_ a job.

He wants you to give him work because he thinks you are smart.

i wonder whether you hackers have faced such situation. i want to know how you would handled such scenario ?
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Would be nice to find some middle ground here for sure. Seems to me that this is only starting to become a serious issue. This also seems to be a much easier route than finding 0 day Flaws on a PC, and while most folks would think twice about installing software from the back alleys of the internet, they may not feel that way about android.(yet)
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