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> Eh, I think that what value the newspaper houses will have going forward mostly has to do with their reputation, and how they can give legitimacy to a story or author, and how they keep the worst of the dregs out so that us consumers don't need to see them.

I'm not sure I follow you. How is reputation supposed to pay the bills? If the newspaper/site can't sell ads anymore, how do they make money?

> As for video news content, last time I was in the cafe with CNN that I frequent, the story (a missing white girl puff piece) was cut with shots of a video camera focusing on a computer monitor that was reloading twitter. I guess I'm not really a video news kind of guy, but I'm not really seeing how an enthusiast could do worse than that. Maybe I haven't spent enough time watching TV news to see the good stuff, but as far as I can tell, it's a wasteland.

Sure there's tons of crap, but that goes for everything. 90%+ of anything is crap, including books, etc, but what about the good part? How do they make money on reputation? That's what I still don't understand. If you are a consultant with a blog, that makes sense, it drives other business. But if your main business is content creation, how does it help if nobody can sell ads and very few can make a living with high subscription fees.
'Another time I was... And another time I did... And another and another and another. I’ve been fired so many times I can’t list them all.'

Or maybe, just maybe, try to not get fired so many times? I mean, sure, quit a few times, but being fired multiple times, maybe it shows a pattern?
I couldn't use voice but I did use both email and web (softbank).
great design (in addition to the content). How did you make it? I like the right contents column changing topic as I read.
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Ouch, that's a lot worse than somebody independently registering a trademark as an organization and then getting the name from Twitter.
It certainly was the reason for the outrage over the caps Bell tried to impose.

It's not that caps, or usage-based billing is inherently evil, it's just that the caps were very low, the per-usage rate beyond the caps were very high, and Bell was forcing the independent ISPs that use the network to share the same model, effectively disabling any competitive advantage they might have.

edit: I fear the phrasing of my first sentence may sound like I am arguing against your point, but in fact I am empathically agreeing and just kind of fail at text sometimes.
Maybe. But I don't think thats an unusual experience in a world that pretended there was job security within the confines of a corporation.
We've built a CMS using Django, and we'll be taking it from a custom hack to something that's widely usable, while fixing the gripes we've built up over the past year and a half.
An International Organisation to keep track of taxes owed on internet purchases?

Who is in charge of that?

What sort of conflict resolution would exist if one disagrees with the tax owed?

Just suggest a world emperor and be done with it.
Wordpress is an amazing blogging system and it's coming into its own right as a CMS, but it's not geared toward the newsroom. Armstrong (the name of the project) is being built for the newsroom. Because of that, it probably won't gain a ton of traction in the standard Drupal/Wordpress deployment area, but that's fine by us. We're out to make the best news CMS, but the best generic one.

That focus is what's sets us apart from many of the other open-source offerings out there, in my opinion.
While I'm not exactly sure how the implementation of this would look. My main concern with the concept is that it shares the same issue that a lot of location-based services have.

They create interesting new opportunities for interaction - but they aren't solving a specific ongoing need the person has.

For example, in the video you mentioned people aren't very interested in small talk - but is it a problem they are looking to solve?

It's important for people to be motivated to seek out your app and most importantly use it.
Varnish also came out of a newspaper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History
As much as I'd hate to lose thousands of dollars every month, if Amazon were to terminate their program in Ontario for the same reasons, I'd fully understand them. I imagine that the extra income generated by affiliates would pretty much be lost due to the sales tax, and Amazon is a business, not a charity organization.
Yes. We did and we are. :-) No need to reinvent the wheel here, so we're using what already has a proven track record in the newsroom.
A lot of people are surprised about a lot of things - most people don't know what's in their food, just off the top of my head - but that doesn't mean they have some right to have things they way they thought they were. There's just so far a sense of outrage will take you.
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Actually that should do the trick. Your company earns the commissions, and it's not based in Illinois. So you should be gold.
"Your contract is up and we don't need you any more" is really not quite the same thing as being "fired". At least in my book. I was fired once. I've been 'let go' due to restructuring a couple times.

Being 'let go' was due to the company not quite being able to adapt to the market successfully. Being 'fired' was down to me.
"Write. Write a book in the next three days. You can write a 30 page book about dieting ('100 ways to Lose 100 pounds') and put it on sale on Amazon in one day. Why not?"

...because you aren't a professional writer? It takes time to learn to write well.

Spend the 3 days learning whatever the latest skills are in your area of expertise, looking around, seeing whats going on, assessing opportunities etc. Don't try write some rubbish book.

Unless you were a painter, you wouldn't listen to someone who told you to make and sell an oil painting.

Not a fan of this list.
I can absolutely get behind the sentiment, and I do believe stories like these should be put out there to serve as a reminder about the true nature of the services we all have come to rely on.

> I'm not arguing that Twitter is bound to any laws of decency, or due process. I am just debating that they should be.

This is where I think our opinions diverge. I don't believe it's reasonable or even possible to bind websites like this legally. But even if it was possible, I assert it's a very bad idea. The justice system in any country is extremely fallible and exploitable, and there are too many laws regarding the net already.

Instead, I think we should move back to a web that operates like a federation of services, as opposed to just giving the reins to a select few companies who make a living from selling advertising. Monolithic sites are great incubators for new ideas, such as Twitter and Facebook. But they're a terrible idea both technically and socially for safekeeping the world's data.
Likewise, back when CDNow.com was it's own company it was located right outside of Philadelphia. Living in Pittsburgh, having to pay sales tax when buying from CDNow was always a consideration when deciding to buy music from them or someone else.
He's probably counting not getting a consulting contract renewed as being fired to prove a point. But they aren't really the same thing. In fact I think a consultant that never leaves (i.e. is never done with what they came to do) isn't very good at their job.
The dispute should have been settled between the two users. Twitter had no place in this, unless they were forced to do something as a result of court action resulting from a private dispute, which they weren't.
this came in quite timely just when I was writing up an article on how Del.cio.us is no longer as relevant as it used to be. Its inability to enable users to share.comment/basically discuss about the article renders in inferior compared to others such as Facebook and Tumblr.
I want to upvote this a million times over. Hacker-type people, do what you can and add the link,
I've added Brendan Schwartz to the 'where-people-are' file on the Brown CS filesystem...
>> As for people somehow thinking they have the right to use Twitter's services like property - this is actively encouraged by Twitter themselves

> I know. But that's not reality, that's marketing.

When marketing is based on lies, that's called fraud.
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In all honesty, the pittance is just a token, an indication that everybody is on the same page. The real compensation is that there are lots of sub rosa benefits to the politician during their time in the statehouse or Congress or what have you, and as soon as he or she has had enough of public service, there's always going to be an extremely well-paid consultancy waiting. You have to look at the overall career path.
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There was a HN post about how AdSense affiliates in Philidelphia had to pay a large filing fee for being considered a business in the city.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624250
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I'd love to know the logic behind using the "ears" metaphor. Is the assumption that their users don't completely get why a web form is needed or useful? Seems like a stretch that made my brain stop trying to understand the metaphor.
If you feel like you're undervalued by 50%, it might be easiest to get a 10-15% bump at a new employer every few years until you're finally caught up. Getting one employer to go for the 50% increase overnight seems significantly harder to arrange.
I don't know how to say I don't agree with your first sentence, because I think that the reasonable thing to expect when dealing with issues like this is that unfortunate things are going to happen quite often.

Twitter has how many tens of millions of users? Twitter doesn't need to be an arrogant, corrupt gangster corporation to screw over people many times a day. With the number of complaints they get, I can only imagine the sort of pressure they feel to develop some sort of standardized process for dealing with these issues with an amount of perceived objectivity.

This seems very much like the iOS App Store situation: any system that is designed to make decisions at a sufficient rate (and at a sufficiently low cost) is going to perpetrate injustices. I am quick to flip the bozo bit on people who see dark conspiracies in these sorts of things.
Very good job.
My problem with delicio.us was always the amount of time I had to devote to managing everything. I had to manage the links, the tags, my page, the plugins, etc... It's a wonderful service, but I always froze in that moment of bookmarking: what do I tag this? Where am I going to put this that I remember?

To that end, I've been trying historio.us. I'm not so sure about it, but I like that I just click one button and I know that if I really have to find it some day, I can. They killer feature that would make it truly useful is some sort of auto-filtering for what you're inputting.
Actually, he's not advocating bargaining of any firmness. He's saying that one's personal brand (or dignity, or whatever) should have a minimum price that is not necessarily $0.01. In his case, he's decided that the amount he'd earn with advertising isn't worth the cheapening of his brand it would entail.

It's shocking to me how many people commenting here (plus Jacques) totally misunderstood Sebastian's post.
In the prototype example [1], could someone explain the point or at least the effect of setting Bar.prototype.constructor = Bar?

1. http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/#prototype
Sounds good. If the problem persists, please do file a bug!
I just read this article yesterday about news org CMSs: http://bit.ly/gcrZgN

Should be interesting to see what they come up with. Are there plans to do new/innovative things, such as automating inclusion of crime data, as the author in that article talks about?

Is there any further information about costs? $975,000 seems like a lot to develop a CMS, but perhaps that's not all going to pay for development...?

Edit: I see now that although the linked article from the OP says "will develop", the Armstrong site says the first release will be this June and that the 'base of Armstrong' has been powering the contributing organizations' websites since 2009.
Call to tweet your audio message, "Hello, I am winning".
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You're making a big assumption, that it's Amazon that's exploiting a loophole, rather than the the State being exploitative. You're assuming that the State has some inherent right to grab whatever money it can get its hands on. Can you explain why a retailer that's not in the state ought to be on the hook for these taxes?

In other words, rather than simply assuming that states have essentially unlimited authority to tax (subject to their courts and legislatures), is there a point where the authority to tax ends? At one extreme, I would submit that they can't tax me, sitting here in NJ. (However, I once had the State of Connecticut contact me, forcing me to prove to them that I didn't need to pay them income tax, so it appears to me that States do believe that their power is unlimited). On the other hand, few would argue that, say, a local shop ought to be exempt. Where do we draw the line?
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hope the will use the old domain again, del.icio.us was so much better than delicious.com
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Hi there, I have just released task management application. I am trying to come up with some new ways to do UI and user interactions. Looking forward to your feedback.
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Nope! Still the same. I'm using Google chrome.
Can you elaborate upon how that answers crasshopper's question? What you're saying seems like a non sequitur.
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When an Illinois resident buys something from Amazon from the comfort of their own home in Illinois, they are not importing something from another state.

Yes, legally they are. That is exactly what they're doing. We don't call it imports simply because we have a federal law that prohibits any non-federal regulation of interstate trade (i.e., imports) and there is no such law beyond the boundaries of the United States, but there's a reason we're called the United States. In an important sense, we're 50 different countries that have delegated most of their law to a federation.
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It is sort of alarming to see users here demanding more taxation at the state and federal level.

Amazon has been around for awhile. Why is this a problem now?
40k might be average for everyone, but for skilled and educated technical folk (which most of us on HN are), 55k is low (at least if you're living in the US).
The affiliate program must increase the number of sales that Amazon makes or it wouldn't still exist. Of those additional sales generated by IL affiliates, some portion of them would have been shipped to IL - probably a disproportionate amount due to most IL-local sites being owned/maintained by IL residents.

The local ecosystem that Amazon indirectly supports is difficult to quantify, but I think you're dismissing it too quickly. Everything from the affiliates' state income tax to the tax on the fuel used to deliver the boxes needs to be considered.

We don't tax grocery stores for putting the milk man out of business, computers for eliminating type writer repairmen, nor email for the imminent demise of the USPS. Why Amazon?
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I think owning the .com should be the new criteria for owning a trademark.
Again? The last time worked so well: http://www.populousproject.com
Sort of - the Lawrence Journal-World built a CMS and then split it into the newspaper-specific part (http://www.ellingtoncms.com/) and the more general part (Django). This Armstrong looks to be directly competing with Ellington.
Same here. Meanwhile you can run through this tutorial if you haven't done yet:

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/
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that fire was put out.

hope everything will be okay at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Another blow to the public's perception of nuclear energy. :(
Two thumbs up to this, as someone who just finished writing his dissertation yesterday, and hasn't completely figured out how to deal with the lack of stress. I realized that the old adage about writing is absolutely true for anything that you spend multiple years writing: it's never finished, but at some point it has to be done.
Jason, is that you?
It depends on how you read it I guess.

This debate I think is based on a perception bias and the failure of language to communicate something like that.

I see something. Jacques sees something else. Sebastian sees another paradigm entirely and you see some portion of sebastian's paradigm.
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Another talk I find highly inspirational is his 2005 Stanford university commencement address.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
>It might sound crazy, but if I have to engage in a game to show strength in order to make someone else treat me like an equal. Then perhaps I don't want to be his equal?

Frankly, that's a terrible strategy. We're mammals with mammal brains and mammal signaling, and if you're going to choose to live in denial of that then you're handicapping yourself. I'm not advocating being an asshole, which is how you'll probably read that, but signaling desperation is going to make you less desirable in just about every capacity - not just in the working world but also when dating and even with friends.
Had the same problem, also Chrome, but works fine now! Try clearing your Chrome cache
Doesn't every state have similar laws? Indiana does - yet I don't normally pay sales tax online, because most of the companies aren't based in Indiana, whereas online companies really do tend to be in California.
>Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously.

Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
Steve Jobs mixes garbage, the AppleTV/MobileMe, with things that look pretty but are garbage under the hood, iMac, with things that aren't garbage, iPhone.

The beauty is that Jobs has created an aura where everything looks like gold.
Indeed, you can assume the people frequenting this site know how (and when) to use Google. This site doesn't earn any money per user/click, so there is no need to be too user friendly.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.
It's not a bad idea. A variation of your idea has actually been implemented in here as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTT_DoCoMo#Earthquake_warning_s...
IMO, your introduction video is both too slow and too long. A 1 minute faster paced video would convey the message much better.

That said, the site impressed me by the professionnal design and its look and feel.

Quick question though, why did you go for 30 day free trial instead of freemium type model ? It seems a freemium model could get you more traction.
I much prefer manual tags over automagical tags, as tags I create seem to resonate with my memory far better.
Aesthetically, it looks very nice.

Advanced user interface brings a whole new experience to online task management.

This sentence is basically meaningless. Replace it with something that actually describes what's new and innovative.
>Secondly, negotiating an offer is the quickest and easiest part. It hardly consumes any time at all by comparison to the amount of time and effort invested just to get to the point where there is any offer at all.

I'll buy that; the recruiters I've worked with have certainly put in a lot of time getting me to the point of having an offer.

The point of serious mismatch is when you're working with more than one recruiter (at different agencies). Some years back, I was almost at the offer stage from company X through recruiter A; recruiter B pushed me to apply at company Y, too. Problem was, X and Y were founded/funded by the same people, and had an agreement (possibly illegal) not to compete on candidates. B somehow convinced me to go ahead anyway; I talked to Y, and X dropped me.
Google Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.
http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?small=yes&lang=e...

Google's response. Seriously cool.
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There is a free version available as well. Link is just on the right, below the prices table - https://www.getquantify.com/plans_and_prices
Thanks yannickmahe for taking the time.

There is actually a free link bellow the pay options. You get one project and two users in free plan so you can test it up.
Smart move. Clicky: http://remote-jobs.com/
Well written, clear syntax highlighted examples. Upboat.
I wonder who the "competitor" is that bought delicious.

The first one that comes to mind is Digg, since Kevin Rose said he would like to buy it and Yahoo contacted Digg if they would by it[1]. The second one that comes to my mind is StumbleUpon, especially two days after raising a Series B of $17 Million[2].

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-...

[2]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/stumbleupon-stumbles-onto-1...
Thanks Qz! Will think about alternative copy.
At the past few companies I've worked at, managers have definitely tried to get employees to recommend people, and have offered substantial referral bonuses. (Less than a recruiter would get, but still a nice chunk of money.)
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After paying up on a coffee shop yesterday, i was wondering how much paper is wasted on receipts all around the world.

I don't know if are there any solutions out there (i live in Portugal), but what i've thought of was that a service could be implemented that would setup a device at the venues that would generate a bar/qr code for the bill, which could be scanned by the customer using a mobile app.

the mobile app could even integrate with an on-line personal finance management app.

what do you think?
"Involved". Not "envolved". (Sorry - it's a nice app, seems like, but I figured this is probably the most specific help I can give you.)
I have multiple students, with tons of passion, from great schools wanting to work at my company - but i feel like it would be difficult without being able to sit next to the kid and really teach them / explain what we need!
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Thanks Vivtek! Some typos are already on my list, going to fix them asap.
I've noticed this too. Almost immediately after I signed up and created a hosting account with KnownHost, the hacking attempts started, even before I had logged in to Cpanel for the first time.

I got an automated email every time somebody failed to log in, so my iPhone was plinging every few seconds for 30 minutes before I added a filter in GMail to mark those mails as read. I've since installed fail2ban.
nice logo. however, with a short attention span, you might consider emphasizing what you do as the largest splash text, rather than the relatively empty "the best way to collaborate online". the way it is right now is that the line with the most information is in 10pt font and gray-on-gray.
This thread seems to have caught on earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270791
It would be advisable that if you are not directly affected, you should avoid hitting these links. The most important information appears to be static files, but it would be a horrible tragedy if affected visitors were unable to get the information they need because server capacity was exceeded. I carelessly clicked the link to the high-res map in a link above, only to find the server over capacity.