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I'd like to hear more about the updated future pricing structure besides the FAQ. New features are irrelevant if they become unaffordable =\
As an fyi...to get around the cold, put a fleece blanket on the bottom (underneath you) first. Totally changes things. In fact you might overheat if it's doubled up...
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Interesting anecdote, I guess, but what does it have to do with managing successful employees?
oops, dammit, editing FAIL - under normal circumstances I understand that 5+100 != 55. Should read "out of the hair of the 105 engineering staff".
It's not a long term market pricing strategy. It's a PR maneuver, and it's a damn smart one. There will be a ton of interest in this story, especially for the 'victims' of the strike - the actual customers. Uber is using this situation to gain awareness in the minds of their target market.
What's with all the sudden HN coverage of these silly internet fun bucks?
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Your argument is a total non sequitur to begin with.

If you were a large business buying computers in the mid 80's you bought them directly from manufacturer (Compaq, Apple, whoever).

If you were a small business you bought your computer(s) from a third party (computer store, Sears, wherever).

The Mac lost because most businesses bought for price and compatibility.
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It's not much of an article, but it's also not really a stats fail. They show an example of strong correlation, warn the reader that correlation doesn't equal causation, explain that they didn't control for several other variables that might be correlated with their result, and also mention that they didn't explore reverse causality. As the title says, they're highlighting a "striking relationship" and don't claim to be proving a fact.
Well, according to TechCrunch, they are averaging 3M check-in's per day. Even if the average check-in per user is 1, that's 3M DAUs (which is highly unlikely). My guess is between 1M-2M DAUs with average of 1-3 check-in's per user per day.
If it is laggy, has security problems and the people running it are spreading deliberate falsehoods in order to cover their asses...

... it ain't credible.

On the other hand, it sounds like they would have a great career path at the federal reserve...
Interesting, I'm in Australia and in IT and know many people in IT making salaries of 6 figures.

That being said I've heard similar things about US. Clearly everyone will experience something different. Also for Tech, US clearly has more (not that we have none) opportunities.
Security leaks happen. The lesson here is treat anything that you put on a machine you don't completely control as being at-risk, even if you pay for top notch security and the vendor guarantees it. The guarantee (and any compensation) isn't a lot of comfort if the information hits the wild. This includes everything from web servers on Amazon to your Gmail account.

In the case of Dropbox, I would suggest PGP or Truecrypt anything sensitive and keep the keys locally or in another location that is completely unrelated to the box.
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Hm, I'm tempted to go to meet other HNers in the area, but I'm not really interested in the topic you've chosen...
The interaction modes look very shiny but in the same way "Minority Report" looks shiny. As to the name, I'll wait until Aza chimes in one way or the other but prima facie it feels pretty weird.
Thanks. I really want to get this done with the command line and it looks like Phantom JS will do the trick.
How does duckduckgo.com compare with startpage.com?
And less than a week after losing Jim Williams (Linear Technology). Sad days in the analog world.
Hi, why not going to China? It is the place where you will have the most interesting experience IMHO. Better go to inner China (i.e. not Shanghai or Beijing), to see the real thing. I think a fair part of the planet's future is played in places like Chongqing or in China's countryside, it is worth having a look. Disc: if you are hygienist (can't bear dirty toilets), better drop my advice.
Corollary: if you are angry at something, it's because you don't understand it. Nobody gets angry at obvious things such as water being wet.

Another corollary: understanding brings peace.
I recall a section in Halliday and Resnick freshman Physics text where the authors advise to 'do exercises until you convince yourself that the solution method is correct'.
10 year registrations run out too ... with the added bonus of probably being tied to an email address that doesn't go anywhere.
Not surprising really. Apple got the iPad "right" from the get go and tweaked that success on the iPad2. The other tablets struggled right out of the gate and continue to do so.
I work for the state of Massachusetts. It's embarrassing. It's not degrading. I see it around me, the glazed looks, the countdown timers to retirement, the pathetic work for exorbitant pay... It's sickening. It saps the life out of you. It makes you jealous of their lavish wages, but destroys your soul all the same to see them, the living dead, diminished to joyless 8 hour days, the struggle to complete remedial tasks. I hesitate to imagine they live outside those hours as I have seen so little joy. Am I respected? Sure, most everyone is amazed at what I do (just being honest), but it's sad as hell.
"People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin"

They may not think so, but buy accepting it, they are endorsing it.
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Not sure if the author is familiar with this, but I understand this to be the premiere reference to scheme macros:

http://hipster.home.xs4all.nl/lib/scheme/gauche/define-synta...
Doesn't this completely blow their "only a few employees have access to your data" stance out of the water? Doesn't mean that, for example, every one of their programmers has access to user data? If a presumably simple bug can give the whole world access to your data, then it can't be that difficult for any dropbox employee to access it (again, from the inside).
Any suggestions on a better topic? wanna come present something? :)

We just picked it because we have a couple of Djange and App Engine experts and so it seemed like a good idea.
There are plenty of things we understand fully (e.g. translation lookaside buffers) that are impossible to explain to a six-year-old.
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If you think that's bad, we're on Chrome 12 now... So they no longer officially support their own major release from a few months ago. I'm not sure what they're basing this on, but the major revision number doesn't seem likely.

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/07/release-early-release-often...
Singapore is pricier than other countries, but might be a god starting point, given that it is English-speaking, very modern and has a startup community (hackerspace.sg).

As for Indonesia, I think Jakarta is not that pleasant to walk around... but there might be other cities that are better.

I would also put in a suggestion to visit Taipei.
I feel like the concept of "own" is specific to the item. Land ownership is very different than owning money, for example. BitCoin ownership is fairly clear, it's part of the algorithm, and I feel like that should be respected. If you don't respect the rules of the commodity, then don't participate; to change the rules takes away the uniqueness of the commodity.
Very good only in comparison to earlier mobile/game devices. Given the choice I still prefer to browse the web on my laptop.
This is a good idea, and one whose implementation has already been begun, to some extent, in places like Wikibooks.

OTOH, if we're really looking to write good course texts, then let's remember what a text is all about. It is, of course, first and foremost, something to read to get a thorough introduction to a topic. But it is also a reference. From an instructor's point of view, it is often a source of homework exercises.

Also (here's a tough one) it generally functions as a partial course outline. That means that starting from the beginning and plowing through, should be a reasonable order of topics for a course. In addition, the better texts usually have a section listing dependencies among chapters and giving alternate course outlines that the text can be used with.

The trickiest issue, I think, is the question of authority. A textbook functions as an authority in a course, second only to the instructor. We're supposed to be able to rely on it. This is the same issue confronted, and basically sidestepped, by Wikipedia, which was successfully able to turn the focus from authoritativeness to the related issue of quality of information. Since Wikipedia clearly shines in the latter, we don't worry so much about the former.

Can we do this same sidestep for texts? I don't think so. Universities, in particular, have accrediting bodies, which will not look favorably on something with standards along the lines of Wikipedia, being presented as authoritative. Thus, your idea of the effort being peer-reviewed. A good idea, but how to implement it?

Lastly:

> Somehow, I don’t see many scientists relying on royalties for a non-trivial portion of their income.

Certainly not. I believe some do, but, if they can't compete with free, then I figure that's their problem. I wouldn't worry about it.
This is why so many people think patents are unfair - because they are so obvious. :)
So why did you submit it here? If you knew it's a terrible article with linkbait headline, then why the hell would you submit it?
It looks like we're arguing about different things.

Someone brought up that Uber cars are already hard to book (strike or no strike), and my point was that instead of raising prices to maximize profit, one would be much better served to expand the fleet instead.

In any case, even in the context of the strike, presumably Uber has longer-term plans than just tomorrow - raising their prices, while following the laws of supply/demand, is going to smack of gouging, and will naturally do far more damage in the long run than whatever extra profit they can derive.
Sadly in 2011 most of the objects I deal with aren't files.
"On the other hand, it sounds like they would have a great career path at the federal reserve..."

I don't mean to be too harsh, but I can't see any value in this part of your comment. It will only possibly lead to derailment of this discussion.
I don't think o' Kev needs to worry about Mt. Gox thinking he hacked their site. They know who executed the sale; it was them. I don't know why nobody mentions this, but it seems rather obvious that Mt. Gox just dumped all their own bitcoins and bought them back supercheap, apart from a relatively minor 500k worth that they can now "roll back" from his account.

I had a thread last week on HN where I was downranked severely for asking what mt. gox was, i.e. if it was a mountain, in what was a sort of snarky, derogatory tone (I'll admit it). I would like that thread upranked now thx.
When I was in Panama, in one of the places I went to, I had to sleep in a hammock, and it was hell! Really uncomfortable, my back hurt from being bent the whole night, and I kept waking up all the time because I couldn't find the right position. Also, I wasn't swaying, that might last for a few minutes only, but after you fall asleep, if you are not moving, you don't sway at all.

Even though it wasn't the best sleep, I could bear it. But the friend I was with couldn't take it, he wanted to leave at 5 in the morning the first night there, he was totally desperate.

From that experience I'd say there's no way hammocks make sleep easier.
The article does say "It's not like rocking like you would see some mothers rocking their babies, it's more gentle.", which seems to imply this type of rocking is different?
The Github price structure might not be the best for this use case. But Github is simply the best to manage your repo's, I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.

It might be a better idea for Github to allow projects to be archived.
I don't get the appeal of Flipboard at all. It's pretty, but the reason that good books are pleasant to read is that someone has carefully laid out all the content on each page. Splashing a bunch of random news items with truncated headings on a virtualized book doesn't get you there.

I suspect we'll look back on this early period of tablet software design with a laugh. All these clones of real-world objects (iBooks) will seem quaint and naive and conservative.
To show exactly that, decline in journalism over there... Perhaps I should've made the headline "The Economist Fails at Stats?" But then it would likely have been corrected. Not sure what the right way to handle this is. Regardless, I think it's interesting to people.
I tried to love it. I couldn't do it though.

The previews of files are great if you work with images. Not so great for source code though.
At this point I'm only surprised that the thread for this incident wasn't moderated away by YC (hidden from the front page, [dead], or deleted)
Indeed, you can explain it to 9-year-olds:

http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/01/tortoise.html
Why should we read the whole thing?

I read a few pages, and it's absolutely shit. This guy has a terrible attitude. Why would I read 20some pages about some guy bitching about cruise ships?

EDIT: I've actually been on a cruise, so I can tell this is all just a bunch of (highly subjective) crap.
I live on a boat (a sailboat rather than a houseboat, but it rocks in more or less the same way) and I can confirm that it is awesome. This article makes me want to get one of those sleep-quantifying bracelets and graph boat sleep vs. land sleep.
They made an apparently appalling security error; in the name of transparency they should be more specific about what code was the problem and how this bug worked so people have a better idea of really how bad they screwed up. Right now it could be something that could have blindsided anyone or something incredibly obvious that they should have seen or had some process to detect.
That's true today but may not be for long. Compared to things like the new Honeycomb task switcher and the resizable widgets iOS is starting to look stale. iOS 5 is in many ways just catching up to where Android was a year ago.
You realize that Aza Raskin is to Jef Raskin as George W Bush is to George HW Bush, right?
You would think that proper unit tests will catch these kind of mistakes.
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The real reason is that decommissioning old reactors is very expensive. Keeping them in service is much more profitable.

There would be much more lobbying from the nuclear industry if they really wanted to build new reactors.
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I've occasionally run into some bugs with the /hn tags on unscatter.com, over all I've found it a pretty useful addition since I've added it. /hn has already made it to the list of tags I use for my daily search on unscatter.com http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=riak+%2Fdate&t=mongod...
I do see a side of what you're saying. In those older days the web was a much simpler platform so figuring out what to do and what to click was easy. This was true in Windows too as MFC was the library of choice for UI meaning a lot of the software was easy to figure out also.

Today a lot more software and websites have broken the mold and come up with some really different(not siding better or worse because both exist out there) UX patterns. There aren't standards for web UI anymore that are practiced across the board.

I do disagree with your statement that the client should dictate how a site is presented, not the server. The browser should display the content in a standards compliant way. The days of buttons looking like windows buttons in IE and Mac buttons in Safari should be a thing of the past never to return.
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Yes, this is something I try to remind myself whenever I find myself getting angry. I find it helps tremendously; I quickly realize that it's something beyond my control or something that I don't completely understand and I find that calming. I think I've gotten better about just skipping over the part where you worry about things that are outside of your control (not that it doesn't still happen).
I second Taipei. You also won't have to worry about the government filtering your Internet access.
The best part was I'm willing to bet unscatter.com among the first entries. I believe I had all 3 tags available about an hour after the contest started.

Really impressed with ThriftDB. Wish I could remember the name of the API based crawler I saw recently. The 2 together could be a pretty good hosted search experience.
Is that the same technology that showed me pictures from another user's phone that were taken miles away from our location when we were using the app? If so, it needs some work. It's also unclear to me how sound can inform GPS coordinates in any meaningful way.
good, I'm glad. I hope when articles pop up about piracy, more people agree that it isn't just bits being transferred.
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If you want to avoid back problems with a mattress, sleep on your back and put pillows under your knees. That causes your spine to be straight, and voila, no more pressure points.

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You're upset he contemplated doing something shady? Jesus, since when has uncouth thoughts been grounds for conviction? If it was, I'd be guilty of a trillion crimes.
Jef presented the idea of a zoomable interface in his book "The Humane Interface" and a zoomable interface was a part of THE/Archy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
I guess the "attack" was done by the guy doing the mass sell off since he had acquired the coins by hacking into Mt Gox and stealing other people's coins. That is stealing, not manipulation. Had that not happened, and if it was just some speculator doing a mass sell off, they should have let him do it and not done the roll back. If you sell at 0.01 per btc, and the market goes back up, you lose money. Simple as that.
Ah yes, I was looking at some of Wikibooks - it doesn't seem too developed yet; hopefully that will change.

Hmm, I agree with your issue with the lack authority, and honestly, I don't really know what to say. Having something like this peer-reviewed by professionals (determining who is is a different matter, I guess) is perhaps too idealistic. At best, I can imagine students dedicating some of their time to such an endeavor - I don't know if many researchers, for example, who usually know their field quite well, would be willing to volunteer their skills.
This goes well with the government's position that violating your employer's acceptable use policy or a website's usage terms constitutes "hacking": http://volokh.com/2011/06/14/petition-for-rehearing-filed-in...
It's been going on for a while. Since midapril, there's been a minimum of two stories about bitcoin each and every day[1]. There was, for a while, suspicion that it was an attempt to boost interest in bitcoin, and get more people using it - astroturfing, more or less - but I'm increasingly convinced that it's just because stories about bitcoin tend to be upvoted, and it's often an interesting topic. Well, ignoring the fact that there's very little left to say about it, anyways.

[1] Based on a search for "bitcoin" on HNTrends, http://www.hntrends.dotcloud.com/
I can tell you from extensive experience that there is absolutely nothing like sleeping on a ship, especially in a small, coffin-like bunk in a room with no windows: the gentle rocking, the absolute darkness, and the white noise combine for incredibly deep and restful sleep. The shitty, thin mattress caused me long-term back and shoulder problems after sleeping on it for months on end, but with all of the other advantages I still slept well every night.
you make it sound like thousands in other people's money is trivial and doesn't deserve salting.
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"Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance."
This sounds a lot like "regression to the mean", that is, people performing better than their "mean" performance level for a time but longer term trending back to it.
So they said wrote a linkbait article to improve their site's view rate, and then, in the article said: "this and this are going up, but we can't relate any of it. Everything we've just told you is potentially crap and it's purely coincedence. We didn't check anything, but ... Eee!! numbers that indict driving and obesity!"

That's terrible, sensationalist journalism.

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It's a matter of best practices.

In particular how it's done in this code, where it's outside the definition of the plugin and binding events.

Plugins should be built in a way where it is explicitly invoked by the programmers using them, and the 'proper' way is to invoke them from within a $(document).ready() function that is specified by the user in the order that the user wants.

Lets pretend, for example, that this plugin is invoked from within another $(document).ready(), in which case the document.ready call from within the plugin is completely redundant and useless.
You can write a NodeJS script using the JSDom module to do this.
There are some leaked photos supposedly of the N9 available:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/06/20/nokia-n9-surfaces-ah...

If the rumors are to be believed, the N9 is the touch-only device, and the new device with hardware keyboard will be called the N950. A somewhat older article with video:

http://gigjets.com/05/upcoming-meego-based-nokia-n9-n950-vid...
You make it sound like taxi drivers are doing charity work. They hold hourly jobs just like 80% of San Francisco. Of course taxis matter, that's why they exist.
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A lot of those effects are positive:
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I just bought a capacitive screen multi touch android tablet for less than $200 from dealextreme for some prototype work I'm doing. There's no reason to assume that the iPad will continue to be comparatively cheaper a year or two out.

When everyone has the production ironed out, android tablets will drop, and apple will keep selling iPads for a premium price.

I love apple, but the tablet will never spread effectively if it costs $500 or more.