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Ok, well go do some accounting on the dutch government, figure what % of their tax take goes to pensions and medical stuff, deduct that from their tax take and you can get back to me with an apples-to-apples comparison. Since those aren't really taxes.

I didn't say anything about uncapping SS. And I know my history, thanks.
That applies just as well to this whole thread, doesn't it? I have half a mind to flag the article except the article is actually important.
What impact has Amazon Prime had on purchase frequency?
from where the hottest restaurants, lounges and nightlife are, it's a hell of a lot easier to get to the financial district than to CT.
I just want to say that I am incredibly touched by the volume, sincerity, and generosity of responses. This community is incredible - so proud to be a part of it.

Mattman, I can't offer much in terms of advice or connections that have already been posted, but I will pray for you and your situation.
You should maybe send me a bitcoin I been mining for 2 weeks and not gotten a single one: ( 1QKxu66yMKZmRovgX2fjwCAPf8UnbTf9DX
To paraphrase the Beastie Boys[1], "You gotta fight / for your right / to barrrTER!"

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk
Apple ingredient keeps muscles strong
He was even using NFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol)

Your dreams may still be here tomorrow, but you may not.
Wow! Extremely low cost of living and close to your family. The opportunities are boundless!

A perfect time to build an app, write a book, learn new skills. Cherish this time. Squeeze every opportunity out of it like it was a wet blanket filled with golden drops.

You don't have to be in San Francisco to get started. Do it from a barn! We're here if you need us.
I believe this is mentioned in Logicomix.
Why Didn't Apple Launch a Music Streaming Service?
I've been happy with Tarsnap for encrypted remote backup purposes. I've got 8 months of daily snapshots, around 6Gb per shot. So far it's cost me around $7.
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http://www.abtests.com/ is one
I got a lifetime free Optimizely account as part of an AppSumo deal. I can successfully say it's one of the simplest yet most powerful and effective web products I've ever used.

The ease with which you can make changes is astonishing and there's no limits if you know a little jQuery.
I looked up the author of the article. He is a professor , I wanted to see what his great book course was about, I could not access it and Khan academy offers me Instant access , this is something that the people in academics like him do not seem to understand why kids love khan academy.
BTW here is the course and I am definitely not interested in it
http://www.mpc.edu/academics/Humanities/GreatBooks/Pages/Gre...
At the time, Larry Ellison was on Apple's board, and Oracle was pushing the "Network Computer" concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
... when the universe ends, it might has well have never happened.

Unless you were there. Then it rocks.
They increased the number of people submitting their URL, there is no telling if that actually resulted in higher leads for them.

What I have found is a simple landing page, that tells the user exactly what you are providing, and is free of any confusion, works the best over the long term.

I've run hundreds of thousands of website visitors through Google Website Optimizer in multi-variate tests and what I've found is that over time there is little to no difference in conversion rate for minor landing page changes. The biggest jumps come from eliminating content in the design and clarifying the message.

Looking at the small amount of users they sent to this landing page, I would call the results inconclusive. You can ramble off statistics to me all day long, but you can't change the fact that humans don't behave when the predictable that coin flips and physics do. (its really chilling when you see how many drugs the FDA has approved over tiny margins of change/success.)
It also exists with slightly different boilerplate in Perl:

$_.close() for $socket, $window, $file;
You don't "rent" a service. You buy one. I'm gonna go buy a lapdance.
Part of the issue, a bit tangent to your point, is that when dealing with thick client software, once a version is released you can typically expect it to be in the field for quite some time. Many customers are upgrade-averse and simply won't upgrade a piece of software that is working suitably for them. Software developers have a bad habbit of fixing one bug and introducing another. With a web-based application you essentially control the release platform and can change things behind the scenes.
From the outside it sure seems like its the bureaucracy involved that is our issue. Environmental impact study after environmental impact study followed by detailed design reviews and constituent hearings. The actual engineering and building are still strengths of ours, its every little special interest we put between conception and execution that seems to be the issue.

At least what I can gather talking to people working in those fields. We used to sublet out of an architects office, and it was fascinating listening to them deal with all of the regulatory insanity.
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I'd send them an email & offer them a discounted rate for X months on whatever non-free tier is the best fit for their actual use. After that time they can either go back to their shenanigans, or keep paying your full price.
There's Whitehead, who co-authored "Principia Mathematica", and then there's Wittgenstein and Wiener, who offered a fairly thorough critique. Doubtful that they didn't understand it. I can't hunt down the exact quote right now, but AFAIK, when asked how many people have read and fully appreciated Principia, Russell's answer was "perhaps a dozen".
While I'm not currently practicing this, I'd recommend finding someone to be an "accountability buddy". One of the parts of my life where I grew the most in terms of self-confidence, concentration and productivity was a 6-month period where I had daily email checkins with what I termed my "accountability buddy".

The program is simple - every day, first thing in the morning you send an email to your accountability buddy. Include a list of the two or three most important things to accomplish today, and a short report on how your list went yesterday. (What kind of absurd mental acrobatics you went through to justify avoiding something, successes, failures, whatever...the stories can be pretty pitifully funny at times.)

Since it's a mutual thing, you'll probably also respond to your buddy's report from the day before. But the important part is looking at your situation and behavior in a way that lets you explain it to someone else.

I started this when I had a relatively high-burn lifestyle ($1k+ monthly rent, etc...), maxed credit cards, 10k of student loans, essentially no work experience and had been laid off my first real job after only 6 months.

Making daily promises to my accountability buddy allowed me to get over the daily fear and embarrassment of my situation and just do the things I knew would move me forward. (In my case I started a freelance career that has cleared all my debt and have several ongoing clients with more work than I can really handle.)
One question I had - that I had hoped the article would touch - is what's stopping Apple from compiling a giant list of those that have downloaded illegal music and handing it over to the RIAA? Aside from the huge amount of ill will that an action like that would create.
Don't get me wrong, I have a great deal of respect for the FSF, for what it does, and for what it stands for. I am even willing to put aside some practicality (as I stated above) in order to use Free software. But when I have a job to do, and the candle is burning at both ends, I simply can't afford to fiddle with config files.

As an aside, I really admire RMS for sticking to his guns, especially after reading his biography. I don't appreciate the approach of "the Free way or the highway" (hah, no pun intended) because it's so uncompromising and shuns people like you and me from the "club". However, not a lot of people in this world can say they never compromised their ideology in the name of practicality, and I definitely admire that.
No, its a kind of data. It has more in common with a spreadsheet than a novel. And like a spreadsheet you can get yourself into lots of trouble if you don't format the data in a way that suits the tool you are using.
No, the whole point of the iCloud service is that the music is stored on Apple's servers. It sounds like it is then synced from their servers to your devices. So presumably, if they wanted to, they could remove or block your access to particular files on their server, and have your local copies of those files deleted on the next sync.

I'm not sure how likely that is to ever actually happen, though. That sounds a little sensationalistic to me.
What about trace element analysis?
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For several years I tried all those things. I couldn't get anyone interested in learning with me, there wasn't enough material at the right sort of level to get really fluent without years of rewardless work, and when I tried writing anything it tool literally months to write a few paragraphs to a standard that was regarded at the time as acceptable.

Maybe things have changed, but my ideas for generating large amounts of interesting entry-level material were ignored, so I finally gave up. When you work hard to produce material that no one reads, it becomes hard to care.

I have a lot more to say, but despite trying to be helpful, it will probably just come out as complaining, so rather than potentially damage the movement, I'm better leaving the enthusiasts to just get on with it without me.
sawyer, we've always let our product explain itself so not much to add (easier that way ;). if you've registered to join - I'll be sure to send over an invite.

our investors definitely invested in the team and were grateful for having them on board. super supportive and amazing.
> Looking at the small amount of users they sent to this landing page, I would call the results inconclusive

The statistic say otherwise. A 29% bump with a 1% margin of error is not inconclusive; it's virtually the very definition of a conclusive result.

> You can ramble off statistics to me all day long, but you can't change the fact that humans don't behave when the predictable that coin flips and physics do.

And you can rattle off personal anecdotes like this all day long, and the statistics are still more correct than you are and assert their margins of error and accuracy. The statistics are more correct than your intuition.
Normal people don't understand that because normal people don't care. I've never sold a book, most other people don't sell books either.

I mean, if it bothers you then don't buy ebooks (I don't, personally, because I like having the physical copies on my walls... I collect 'em in the same way that hunters used to collect animal heads, as trophies... I also don't shelve 'em until I've read 'em). But I really can't see what the big fuss is about re not being able to sell them, and one might almost think that all this anti-DRM stuff is about frustrated pirates rather than folks who want to do legit things.
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Because there's no reliable way to identify which files were pirated and which were legitimately obtained from non-iTunes sources. The files all look the same, for the most part.

I guess some do have tags that say who ripped them, which would certainly be a tip off. Even then, though, I'm not sure how easily you could automate it to differentiate between tags that indicate piracy and tags that do not.
They are middleware, They enable others to make something, build something.
But you don't have any fewer rights than you did before! Want to buy a physical book and lend it to your friend? Go buy it! Don't want to buy an ebook under the terms and conditions which apply to ebooks? Don't buy any damn ebooks!

I'd be out there complaining if actual capabilities were being taken away from me, but they aren't. Ebooks are a new class of product, and they work under slightly different rules from physical books.
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Of course, the French Academy tries to crack down on this; I remember cases like trying to push out "email" in favor of the native "courrier électronique" (literally: "electronic mail").
Tenn. law bans posting images that "cause emotional distress"
If theres no advantage over paper flashcards then why use such an expensive device instead of $1 paper?

Statistics are pretty much the only advantage I can see for using an iPad here instead of physical notecards, unless you have so many notecards that it would be a pain to carry them around which seems like a very obscure use case to me.
Facebook to be probed in EU for facial recognition in photos
And that's illegal as well.
What about strength training, which is already proven to work in humans?
The js team at mozilla mentioned that they had a jagermonkey version running internally as part of a test for the embedding api updates they're working on.
Great point, the goal we talk about in this blog post is the number of people who click that button.

One nice feature of Optimizely is that we can test as many goals as we like-- you can add goals even after the experiment has started running and we retroactively measure the conversion rate!

After I read your comment I went in and added a goal to see whether there was a change in the number of people who ended up starting a free trial later down in the funnel after seeing each of these variations. Turns out there was a +2.5% increase for the "Give it a try" variation. :)
For 10%, he's looking for an employee, not a co-founder.

That's not necessarily bad. Will you be taking a salary?

Also, how much does he own?
The presence of "Apple" in the title caught my eye... then the realization set in. I'd love to argue that this is linkbait, even though there's no reasonable reason it should be. WWDC fever.
70% of the work isn't done, 70% of a prototype is done. 99% of the work is still ahead of them.
Trying to pursue many different directions at once?
We use eventbrite for to manage ticket sales for our seminars and it is a great product. While we do not get too many last minute ticket purchases, I can see this being extremely beneficial for a lot venues.

I wonder if there is slight overlap with square with this App
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Thanks for the kind words! It means a lot coming from a fellow HN'er. :) I do hope you'll help spread the word, and hopefully it can generate more views here on HN as well.

Best of luck to you with your project as well. We should connect and share stories!
i agree with neuromancer2600. it is hard to say without knowing your exact business and what stage you are in, but keep the list small and focus on only those things that will move the needle.
I am right in front of me a pretty robust consumer survey (n=52,000) which indicates 63% of Rolexes bought in the US are bought by people with household income less than $100,000. Median HH income for a Rolex purchaser is $50-75K.

Most popular watch brands among HH inc >$100k are Timex, Fossil and Casio but the brands most disproportionately bought by these people, of the 17 brands in the survey, are Tag Heuer (51% of Tags are bought by $100k+), Movado and Swatch. Rolex comes in at #4
Good suggestions, thank you!
Lending on the Kindle has worked pretty well for me. Can you clarify why it's lame?

Also, can you name a device that Amazon doesn't support, apart from the Nook? I frequently read my Kindle content on the Kindle itself, my two PCs and my Mac, and my Droidx. I could also do it on any tablet (if I owned one), or my wife's iPhone.

Not to mention, you can read any non-DRM content you want on the Kindle.

And it's not that more utility == more freedom. It's that easier-to-self-publish is going to lower the barrier for people to create niche content by bypassing the big publishing houses. It's also going to create lower priced books overall, as well as more and better free content.

I also personally think it's only a matter of time before the publishers realize what the music industry has mostly realized after a decade: DRM doesn't work. I think it will slowly phase itself out. Just a guess, though, YMMV.
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We've been using Optimizely more and more extensively (we have a slightly unusual use case for it), and it's been fantastic at successfully ratcheting up conversions. We use it in concert with mixpanel when we need to push people along a funnel.

The tool's insanely easy to implement, a joy to use, and I get to rely on them to tell me when something is statistically meaningful.
What area are you in?

Have you considered looking at the HackerNewsers world map [0] to see if there are other HN users in your area? Some of the frustration due to the "inactivity" in your area could be offset simply by having a meal/drink/chat with another HN type once in a while.

[0] http://hackernewsers.com/pages/map.html
The city should give up wasting time on banks and bankers and focus more on growing it's tech sector. Otherwise you're never going to find a Google, FB or Apple HQ in Manhattan

Why would they want one?

I know we think that the tech sector is the be-all and end-all of everything on HN, but it ain't. It's one sector among many. It's one of the most lucrative sectors, it's true... but then again so is finance, and finance is what NYC happens to already be good at.

The big danger to NYC's economy is that it's too concentrated on a couple of sectors -- but the solution is more of everything, not just more of one thing. On the other hand, the financial sector has already crashed, and it didn't turn New York into Detroit, so I guess that's not too dangerous after all.

Ultimately I don't think New York City is a particularly good place for an Apple/Google HQ. These companies have big open-space office parks, rather than monolithic skyscrapers, for a reason. Several reasons, probably, including ease of extension, the tastes of their employees, the need to get a lot of stuff in and out, et cetera.
I'm aching for someone to put a dub beat behind this, bongos, or some Greek Bouzouki.
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After grad school, my wife took a short-term minimum wage job in a thrift store. One of her coworkers, who had been there for years, was an older lady from India who (along with her husband) owned several houses and factories, after a life of thrift and savings and careful investment.

She sorted thrift store donations because she liked it.
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How does Optimizely compare with Visual Website Optimizer?
The comparison to Spotify is misguided because Spotify isn't selling you music -- you have no legal ownership of any music you listen to on Spotify. Spotifiy is selling you a subscription to listen to as much music as you want through their service. Whether or not there's music stored on local drives any more is irrelevant for Spotify because you don't own what's stored there anyway.

Personally, I'd much rather pay the monthly fee because I listen to much more music than I could ever buy in a conventional manner.
Just to be clear, this is presumably (judging by the filename) the private key associated with the SSL cert for https://www.certigna.fr/, rather than the CA private key (which would hopefully be in a HSM), correct?

Not that this make this look any better better, but I think some may be confused that this is a compromise of the CA itself, rather than evidence of poor key management/security practices.
Sure enough. I think it is incoherent to stand against a viewpoint of multicultural interpretations of historical events while condemning Facebook's tailoring of news because it hampers multicultural interpretations of current events.

I might have read too much and falsely concluded that the author is against Khan’s “historical perspective steeped in academia’s standard issue, postmodern, left-leaning narrative of cultural relativism, multiculturalism, and moral equivalence.” The OP might be neutral about that, and simply exposing the necessity of balancing Khan’s against a different narrative¹. If so, either his articulation was obfuscated by the choice of words or I need to practice my English a lot.

¹. Never mind the fact that this rarely occurs in real classrooms.
Probably - there's an excellent Planet Money story on doing the same thing with credit card agreements. I can only find two segments online. One where they talk to someone who writes them (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/21/134633336/why-are-...), and one where they get 4th graders to read them (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/03/18/134664249/the-frid...). That latter links to a simplified notice.

It takes a lot of effort, and they're only going to do it if required by law.
San Mateo and Burlingame aren't too bad, and San Carlos has a surprisingly good downtown.
I'm curious how far you're able to follow them down the funnel (e.g. conversions from that free trial to paying member? or effect on the cancel rate of those members?). I ask because I've been looking at Hubspot, and find their ability to connect the lead gen into the CRM a big selling point (I guess they call this "lead nurturing"). Are you focusing narrowly on the lead gen half of it?
I think the quote you refer to speaks for itself.

You can then choose to make it absurd by including Alpha Centaurions. And then sure it's vulnerable.

But then shouldn't you first find someone who would actually claim that and then perhaps even more importantly have people believe it to be true?

In my world facts are provincial and most things we can agree on. There could be someone who claimed like the third person but they would have very little to back that claim up.

That doesn't mean that they couldn't be right, just like claims of gods existence could be true. I am just not very likely to take them serious (but others might for whatever reason they have)

I would rather live in a world where some people believe in the third story than live in a world where everyone only believes in the first.
I believe it exists in Cω via "generalized member access" without recourse to map/foreach-type constructs.
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Pure linkbait.

The article paints pirates as whiny little children decrying cloud-based streaming services impact on their ability to pirate in much the same impotent way that the music industry 10 years ago decried Napster's impact on their ability to sell CDs for $18.99. All the while ignoring the most basic of details: iTunes is not a streaming service, and the files aren't DRM'ed!

The reality is that "pirate" is not a binary distinction. Painting this as some kind of partisan conflict doesn't serve anybody. What's going on here is that streaming companies like Spotify are finally offering a compelling service that precludes a lot of people's desire to pirate. They've finally figured out how to compete with free. You'd have to travel pretty far and wide to find a pirate who is wringing their hands over this the way the article portrays.
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The law that will make AT&T pay almost $1 billion to consumers
Ahh, right. Thanks for clarification.
Maybe he doesn't keep any of it and gives it all away.
I'd say it's a mix of arrogance and lack of education.

Arrogance because "woah, Facebook billions. I'm going social network direction" without any such idea to be better.

Lack of education can also mean lack of experience. Areas are: Business/Finance (Stocks, hiring, etc), creative skills, design skills and user experience skills. Math/Programming seems to be the fortitude of most of them but that alone won't execute well.