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Thanks for the correction about runaway fusion reactions. Does this only prevent it from doing a "Ivy Mike" on us, or can they actually make it passively self-regulating to the point that it can't breach the containment?

I still think he is being disingenuous when he says that there is no danger of accident with fusion reactors. Proposed designs have huge irradiated masses and very large neutron fluxes. There is going to be a ton of active safety systems needed, any way you imagine it.
hmmm ... we've had incredibly high conversion rates on our landing page. Always looking to improve it though.
You're definitely right, I just updated it.
Alternatively, that might be the reason it converts well. It's the old game of casually hiding what exactly it is you're doing and encouraging nosy people to check it out or ask for an invite (Forrst did/does this quite well). If they showed exactly what you get once you sign up, people may be less likely to sign up if it's not what they expected. They're less likely to unsubscribe once "in" though ;-) I say "may" because this definitely doesn't work for all types of site or list but it could be the ticket here.
It's well known that domain/hosting companies often offer great discount for first year/payment, then charge for full price later. For example, Godaddy's $1.99 .info or Namecheap's free first year Privacy Guard or Gandi offers a free domain with their SSL cert.
What's not clear about this?

http://fab.com/about-fab/

I'm not a member, but from what I can tell you gain access to below retail cost of high design products. Sort of a Woot for the design savvy set.
I'm sure Apple will be first to join the fight against Open Source, what with all the money they invested creating their Unix systems from scratch.
Auto-renew won't automatically setup a renewed certificate on your server.
Any recommendations on where to buy a good ssl certificate?
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Very true! A lot of bloggers tell me it's a matter of telling a story, let it be about data or something else :)
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Also agree on the filtering. I'll work on improving that.
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I think most readers don't care as much about Google Books as Google does. People want one thing from their online book store - the ability to buy the book they are looking for. In a sense, a replication in digital of the physical bookstore.

Does Google Books do that better than Kindle, Nook, or iBooks?

If the answer is not a resounding yes, then it's kind of redundant isn't it?
There isn't one. By the literal meaning, it would be "dog", which used to be a common insult, if literature is any guide, but which has fallen out of use. "Bitch" implies malice and viciousness, shallow in thought but deeply ingrained. And, of course, it implies unwomanliness, and it doesn't make sense to accuse a man of unwomanliness.

The disturbing thing with insults is that even today, they're mostly used in gender-specific ways. Even the ones that don't seem gender-specific, such as "jerk", are rarely applied to women. That's sexism in itself -- when we want to insult a woman, instead of reaching for a word that communicates exactly what we feel, we fall back on the generic "bitch" because her gender seems to have something to do with her transgression. There are so many words to choose from that communicate exactly what's wrong with someone: jerk, liar, pig, dumbass, worm, bastard, loudmouth, traitor. It should feel just as right and satisfying to apply them to a woman as to a man. But in the heat of the moment, your aggression amplifies every negative feeling, including your sexism, and you watch to lash out at that bitch. Better control yourself, though. When you call someone a "bitch", it sounds like you think what they've done was inappropriate for a woman. I.e., maybe it would have been fine if she was a man. Now you've got everyone wondering how you feel about women instead of thinking about what she's done to earn your enmity.

So next time you want to lash out verbally at a woman, choose your words carefully. Is she an idiot? A jerk? A dick? (Hmmm, maybe there's a better word for that.) Let's let "bitch" go the way of "harpy" and "harridan". When you hear those words, you don't really trust them, because they give away the fact that the speaker is holding their target to a sexist standard of femininity. Somehow "bitch" survived as our only remaining insult for women (except "whore", "slut", and all the other words that mean "woman who makes me feel bad by having sex with men who aren't me".) Well, there's "cunt", but that's mostly a Briticism, and it's just as lazy and meaningless as "bitch".

There are so many ways to give your listener a vivid image of your target instead of have them wondering about your misogyny. You could call someone mealy-mouthed, two-faced, greedy, ruthless, petty, malicious, mercenary, or disloyal. (When a woman's sexual behavior disturbs you, try "dishonest": if that doesn't apply, then she probably isn't doing anything wrong.)

Not only will you seem much more composed, serious, and credible than if you resorted to "bitch", not only will you leave your listeners with a more vivid and convincing image of your target, it's also much more efficient, since you'll be using the same store of insults for both men and women. And as hackers we should always be using the most abstract solution.

(Of course, if you really want it to hurt, then sexism never hurts. Or rather, it always hurts. But when you're playing to an audience, malice undermines your credibility.)
I should also note that we constantly test and rotate about 10 different landing pages, optimizing towards the ones that convert best.
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> In a 'free society,' if a majority of people think you are an asshole, they are going to treat you like one.

True, but the majority isn't guaranteed to be right according to your personal moral compass. Your statement would stay just as true if you replaced "asshole" with "gay" or "nigger", but you'd probably draw different conclusions from it, no?
He hits a nerve, though. The evangelism for companies has been rising at an insane rate. Why do people feel the need to defend their favorite company against the encroachment of other companies?

I could understand if their paycheck was on the line. If you write iPod apps and Android starts taking market share, that threatens you. (Assuming you can't also write Android apps, for whatever reason.) But most people just go crazy with no stake at all.
I'm talking about fab.com, the main page. Most people will not click on "about" link, they will just leave.
Congratulations, that's an incredible success and I think you've been very lucky. If you don't mind, I have a couple more questions:

* How good are the margins? How much of that is profit?

* How are you guys financed? VC or bootstrapped?

* How long have you been going at it? You launched 30 days ago, but I presume you've been working on it for quite a while before that.

* And lastly, how big is your core team?
I would go for thorium fission. As it seems, it's orders of magnitude easier to implement than deuterium fusion. Fusion is safer, I agree, and we should not abandon the research, but developing a thorium cycle for now instead of betting money on an uncertain approach to energy generation is, IMHO, smarter. As a civilization we need more energy (and, if climate changes faster, we'll need more) and we need on a predictable schedule.

Fusion has been about the same number of decades (two) away since I was a young boy. I don't think it deserves the faith we are depositing in it. Much like space colonization and jetpacks, it is a broken promise.

I'd also not forget other alternatives like molten-salt solar, hydro, wind and even photovoltaics that can offset some of the needs for power generation.
So.. they hate Android. But their explanation of why is to point to some blog post which by my view concludes that Android is bringing 'perfect competition' to the marketplace. Soo.. I presume they are against that, but what's funny is the blog post they point to even discusses how perfect competition benefits the consumer and how preventing it would be detrimental.

Sounds like the blog post they point to doesn't exactly give reasons to hate android like they think it does...
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Will definitely read when the site is back to normal, i like Joshua Porter's stuff. The article by the ex Wave developer on HN is a good read in the mean time.
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Thanks, I was not aware that the surface of the Sun is very bright.

If we're going to analyze the performance of our "reactor", then we need to include the fusing fuel, the "confinement", which prevents us from being very quickly destroyed by rather nasty fusion products, and the photosphere, which is very beneficial to us.

I continue to claim that if you ask laymen about the mass of their "personal portion" of this reactor, you will get answers that are about 8 orders of magnitude smaller than in reality. I actually tried this just now, with expected results ("some kind of a tiny pinhead thing"). There is no point to this exercise, other than to show that people have no intuitive vision of these scales; it doesn't make them stupid, the scales are just unintuitive and outside of their experience. I don't claim to have discovered anything about astrophysics.
Just because you can understand someone's line of thinking doesn't mean you think like that.

The poster was making a joke based on a period when women were not considered capable of playing sports (among other things). The fact that that is no longer true and thinking like that is anachronistic is why the joke is funny (or is a joke at all). I can laugh at a joke that puts someone or a group down and still not be a bigot.

I think people who don't adjust their definitions of words/idioms to reflect modern connotations should stop holding grudges (or whatever the appropriate term is) and move on. That's obviously too simple a solution to work since it causes words to be less offensive over time and thus some parts of what they represent may become acceptable. For example, the word rape might be a bad one to get desensitized to because it might also lead to desensitization to the act of rape.
Apparently there is 'no mobile version of this video'. Which might be nice to know, had it not been for the fact that I am on a regular old desktop with a cable connection.
Don't you perpetuate it too by responding? Wait, didn't I just perpetuate it further?
* Oh and for the sake of trivia. How much did you shell out on the domain, fab.com?
it's not really clear if it's design as in clothes or design as in couches etc.
Did you finish reading the article? Towards the end he admits that even he missed the boat. In my opinion all the snark was setting up for the fact that, even though he was so confident he had things figured out, he turned out to be completely wrong. The point is that no one can really predict how this will turn out.
Timely...

At work we use RapidSSL (a division of GeoTrust) for a handful of certs. Last night I received an email with a banner warning me, "Your certificate is ABOUT TO EXPIRE". The email goes on to list the expiration date as "Oct 12, 2011". Four months is certainly generous notice, but I've always taken this as a simple marketing attempt to maintain customer loyalty.

Usually I take these emails as tickler reminders and delete the first couple. When I eventually decide it's time to renew, I pull up the site by typing the URL into the browser. Upon reading this article, I wondered whether following the link in the email would result in a different pricing structure. As it turns out, the answer is yes, though after playing around, it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the email link.

The first page of RapidSSL's order form handles both new orders and renewals with a pair of radio buttons. Another section of the form allows you to specify the validity period from one to five years. The prices appear alongside the choices, and are currently the same for both initial orders and renewals.

First I visited "www.rapidssl.com" and clicked the "buy/renew" link for a single domain cert. I got an order form with the following prices for 1-5 years:

49, 86, 122, 159, 196

Then I pasted the link from the email (which contains a fairly simple query string that does not appear to have a unique identifier in it) into a different browser. I clicked the "buy/renew" link for a single domain cert, I get the same form with the following prices:

79, 138, 198, 257, 316

It's interesting to me that the difference in price actually increases as the validity period increases:

30, 52, 76, 98, 120

Still more interesting, after resetting the browser and pulling up "www.rapidssl.com" directly, the prices are completely different:

29, 51, 72, 94, 116

I tried the email link one more time and got the 49-86-122 pricing again. Then I tried it one more time and got 19, 33, 48, 62, 76. So clearly RapidSSL is varying their prices on the fly, presumably to gain insight as to what people are willing to pay. I was ready to claim the link in the email yielded higher prices, but that seems not to be the case. So I guess after all that, this isn't particularly interesting. I'll definitely hit the site a few times when it comes time to purchase though.

Unfortunately the pricing structure for a wildcard certificate never seemed to vary.
Yeah, I'd be curious about what an unclear landing page does later on in the funnel - do users from these landing pages convert to purchase less overall?
Pen and paper I find is useful only for remembering things.

If I try to use it as a part of my thought process, I find it slows me down frustratingly so. By the time I finish sketching a 10-second doodle or making a note, I have already invalidated the idea and come up with another, better design/idea/process. Rinse, repeat.

I'm usually happier throwing everything around in my head, and then eventually distilling the results.
Hi, I'm Matt. I can only apologise for the site and your poor experience using it. The design/html/css is about 5 years old, and the core of the site is hand-coded from the ground up (WordPress didn't exist when I built it some 9 years ago).

The HTML/CSS hasn't been updated in that time, except to stop enforcing the XHTML Strict Mime type. I'm aware of how poorly the site reflects my skills and how out of date it is. But, at least it works accessibly - if a dodgy glyph on a browser that didn't exist when it was built is the only issue, I'll roll with that.
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This just reminded me how refreshing it is nowadays when you see a very well designed site that doesn't use rounded corners, shadows, or custom fonts, especially since they usually scroll more smoothly, etc.
The main page is just as clear to me. I clicked on About to confirm I didn't have an incorrect impression.

"Fab.com features daily design inspirations and sales at up to 70% off retail."

That pretty much sums it up. It also got me to give them my email address.
There's also the fact that the plasma has extremely low density, so there is very little fuel in the core at a time:

"Less than 1g of fusion fuel is present in the Vacuum Vessel at any one moment."

http://www.iter.org/mach/fuelcycle
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So you really think software will never replace pen and paper? Surprising to see this coming from a productivity app. What's clear is that despite countless task managers, the to-do list problem hasn't been solved yet. Still using pen and paper to-do lists is like still carrying a physical address book. There are massive efficiency and satisfaction gains to be had from digitizing to-do lists. Check out LazyMeter.com if you're interested in a solution that's faster than pen & paper, just as simple, and actually works.
Answers are as follows:

* Margins are really good, above 25%.

* We are backed by angels and VC's. I've also personally invested.

* We pivoted our business earlier this year. Before, we were a social network for gay people. In February we started anew as a design site. We built the site from March to May, then launched June 9th.

* Our team is: About 25 in development and UX, 20 on the business side - mostly in buying, production and merchandising.
Cython just has a syntax for annotating your code with types so it can work its magic and make it go fast, although you can add the annotations to a separate file and keep your code in pure Python.

I'm not sure if they're going to use Python 3's annotations to make this cleaner, that might be worth exploring...
Wait, they're doing it and not getting paid by someone to do it? I mean people (usually ridiculously hot women) stand out on the street holding up signs telling me how awesome red-bull is.

It's pretty easy to pick up a street promotions crew. The job generally tends to have Abercrombie-style hiring practices, pays a bit more than minimum wage, and is pretty flexible.

I'd honestly be shocked if there were people dumb enough to do that for real.
I'm trying to convince my officemates that "Hacker News" isn't about computer hackers, but this link is the most useful on the homepage to me :-)
I can't recall the name off hand and my googlefu is failing me but there's a theory that says a system that supports multiple political parties eventually evolves (or devolves) into two parties.

I think there's a business correlary as well.

Markets aren't designed to support more than one or two players. There's not enough market share in a given space for it. Eventually you'll have first, second and everyone else. The people in first and second may change but there's always a disproportionate market share between number 2 and the rest of the pack.

You might want multiple COMPETITIVE players but you will rarely see it. Eventually the minor market folks will quit because it makes no sense financially to continue in the space.
Hah! We were previously operating a different business/product as fabulis. I got sick of telling everyone who to spell it, so I went out and negotiated to buy Fab.com, and got a great deal on it!
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So you develop the interpreter by interpreting it on itself before compiling it to itself by itself.

Uh...
Ironically if you need to support Lynx then you will need use simply SEO-friendly markup and likely will have more time for css3 bells and whistles in modern browsers.
Maybe. I see nothing to support that hypothesis here, but if it makes you feel better, then by all means.
"Our entire reason for existing is to empower more and more people to embrace great design. Great design is everywhere. It's that perfect pencil, your favorite messenger bag, the headphones you use at the gym, the chair you're sitting at while reading this, and the art on your walls. Great design exists in every country in every product category and at every price point. We eat, sleep, and breathe design."

Sounds like not clothes (which is tough for these types of sales anyways with sizing and inevitable returns issues), but everything else. If you've been to the MoMA store in NYC I expect there would be a lot of similarities, though not at a discount.
Piccadilly notepads are a cheap alternative to Moleskine. They're available for $3-$4, IIRC, at Borders bookstores.
I think it's great that people are starting to have a little more appreciation for design. The new logo is quite good, and I'm very glad they worked with a skilled designer rather than just throw the task at the 99design pool.
This stuff has been brewing for a long time. Note that it takes four months to get from nightly to release and code may be under development for months before it even lands in nightly.
I honestly thought this whole thing was a hoax or some type of bad joke, then I see my former engineering building behind some people carrying the stupidest signs imaginable. This reeks of the "buy American" bromide that GM fans expose.

I have to believe that most people at U of W don't have an unnatural affinity towards RIM, and that this is all just a really stupid stunt.
Maybe they're just doing A/B(/C/D) testing to see which price is optimal.
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I had the exact same thing happen to me. One of many reasons why I've not only stopped using GoDaddy for myself but also why I've decided to REFUSE to work with them for my clients. If my clients use GoDaddy, they can either get off GoDaddy or find another developer. Sometimes you have to force morality upon those without. :P
Do you mean AOT compilation? From an earlier post I gleaned that the Uladen Swallow project used the LLVM backend, which is variously described as a Jit, Ahead of Time compiler, incremental compiler and various other things. It's clear there is some confusion in language, but I got what you are talking about.

At any rate, if I am reading the earlier post, it was tried and not found to be effective. This surprises me greatly. LLVM is of the highest quality and very fast. I'd love to know why people considered it to have gone "wrong" when it came to Unladen Swallow Python.
Being able to read a book, instantly, without it consuming additional physical space in your home is a feature for some people.
Hi Jason, nice site and congrats on the numbers. I consider the design community to be tightly knit, and it seems you've tapped it well from your viral conversion numbers. How do you see this business scaling up and avoiding a ceiling in the near future once you saturate on that design community?
> I see no problem here.

Really, you don't see a problem with their "better ask forgiveness than permission" tactic?
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Hm, you are right. Moleskines are not very good do a fountain pen, but fine for pencil :-)
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if you register the domain with them, a standard ssl cert is included. Not sure if they issue certificates if the domain is somwhere else.
Auto-renew that charges you more than advertised, that you cannot opt out of without asking a human for assistance?
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and the brand of ink used in offsetting process at the printing house :-)
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Very informative presentation, I went through it just for the heck of it and it was very interesting visually. A note on Slide 21 - the text says 4 Maximum Types of Shapes but only 3 are displayed.
Actually, I suspect he realized why she was taking the picture, wanted to make a gesture indicating he respected her viewpoint, was distracted by - you know - giving a talk, thought "hey, a bottle of hot sauce! oh wait, throwing it might be misconstrued", and passed it over. Hilarity then ensued.
Can't say I'm a fan of this sterile world where realms of human experience and observation are ignored for the sake of an ideology.
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