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Do we build this feature?

In a startup, that's all about customer development. Steve Blank has a book and a lot to say on the topic. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976470705/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

If so, how should it flow?

UX is non-trivial you will have to spend a lot of time learning about it. I always recommend Don't Make Me Think as a starting point. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321344758/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

How important is...

There are questions that can be answered by understanding UX patterns and anti-patterns. There are also questions that require A/B testing. When in doubt, test.

However, UX can also suffer from premature optimization. Just like in writing code where you wouldn't use a big array when you need a map, don't ignore UX, but don't try to answer details until after it is working or you could find yourself bike shedding instead of shipping.
It's hardly fair to Berkshire Hathaway's income as part of Buffet's personal income. Unlike his own, its money is not his to spend however he likes.
I suspect you're right about the basic nature of iOS and Android, but only half-right about portable consoles at least historically. Portable consoles have also filled the 'nothing better to do' niche in the past (Tetris was hugely successful on Gameboy) and this is where I expect they'll face stiff competition from iOS and Android.

We'll just see less crap on portable consoles, and the players that put out quality titles won't be affected a great deal.
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If it provokes populist rage, maybe that's because it should.

I will no longer argue this with you as it is clear you are not interested in logic. I am not interested in clouding a debate with emotion so I'm done.
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really? I thought that there was something of a problem with some charities spending the bulk of their budget on marketing and CEO salaries.

as greenspun says:
"The federal government funds roads and airports that we all enjoy using. The feds pay for health care for the poor and the old. Our tax dollars pay for intrepid military personnel who go out and kill angry foreigners (in most cases) before they can arrive on U.S. soil and kill Americans here at home. For a non-profit organization of its size, the federal government is surprisingly efficient. Most federal employees work in big box-like office buildings, not in $300 million monuments to an architect's ego. George W. Bush gets paid only $400,000 per year, less than half of what a lot of university presidents earn."[1]

I personally have a somewhat less charitable view of effects of military action, at least the military action during my lifetime, but I do think that most of the personnel involved do believe that they are doing the right thing, and those other things, roads and healthcare and stuff; those are pretty great to have.

Now, I'm too lazy to dig up non-greenspun references, but it seems that many non-profits serve up rather nice salaries, for rather inefficient work[2]

[1]http://web.archive.org/web/20090217002255/http://philip.gree...

[2]http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/07/27/where-your-cha...
> "Citation needed"

I'm a big fan of the American Housing Survey (from the Census Bureau): http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/ahs/nationaldata.html

Data from 1970 - 2009, detailing living conditions for Americans as a whole. In recent years, many data tables have a column for Americans below the poverty line. Compare the data for living standards for the poor in 2009 to the overall population in 1973. By any reasonable measure of "living standards" I've been able to come up with, the data shows the poor in 2009 are doing well in comparison to the overall population in 1973.
If you have data showing that including payroll or state taxes change this picture, feel free to post it.

I gave the best data I have access to.
Indeed. search features/ drill down would be useful
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Markdown compiles to a subset of HTML, whereas LaTeX is able to express pretty much anything that can possibly be put in pages of PDF.

As such, Markdown is very clean and focused. You can figure out all features of Markdown in a few minutes. As you know, LaTeX can be excruciatingly complex but astonishingly powerful
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Very nice! To make it even better, draw an imaginary arc from upper left corner to lower right corner and filter out all the "noise" ("Worst" data) from the graph, then stretch the data within the arc to fill the filtered empty space. That way, the dots won't be cluttered and thus more user friendly. You can put a foot note about the avg & "worst" data point filtered.
Agreed. As an individual, I switched to Mint from Quicken precisely because Quicken was too much tool for the job.

Mint works for tracking your spending, Quicken (and related products) are more sophisticated.
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Where did you find the used car data?
It worked fine in Safari Version 5.1 (7534.48.3)
I'm not overly put-out by the amount of money "wasted" on campaigns and elections. I understand that there are many different ideas on the nature and function of government and I believe debates on such subjects (and campaigns and elections, which are effectively the same thing) to be extremely important. Personally I think we should do much better and have higher quality campaigns and higher quality candidates, but I think it is fully justified that such enormously important processes require significant amounts of resources. Though also I could imagine, and might prefer, a scenario where the process was not nearly so expensive.
This topic has nothing to do with scaling in the technical sense.
Well, there's stability testing, where you want to submit your system to high(er) loads over an extended period of time. Personally I've only done it over 2 - 3 days, though, not 4 weeks, but for a critical system it might not be a bad idea.
And i'm talking percentage of income and percentage of income after deducting cost of living.
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The series is very loosely based on the life of author and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who also produces the show. Its title character, Temperance Brennan, is named after the protagonist of Reichs' crime novel series. Conversely, Dr. Brennan writes successful mystery novels based around a fictional (in the Bones universe) forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs. Bones is a joint production by Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions and 20th Century Fox Television.
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You mean "segue."
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Downloaded 20 search results pages from cars.com. I wish I had direct access to their DB.

Craigslist has a ton of car postings, but it's not structured in any way, will be very hard to parse.
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Markdown focuses on getting anything that isn't content out of the way. LaTeX defines it, rather explicitly.

I use both. I used to use LaTeX for everything, but I realized I didn't really need the power. Now I use Markdown, and have a custom style sheet for the html it creates (for printing, using the awesome Marked.app).
Corporate income taxes are taxes on the owners of corporations.

Well, no.
Pretty serious bug, I can't click any of the links because once I mouse off the circle the link is gone and I'm focused on a different car. (Firefox and Chrome on Linux)
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Buffet isn't this economically illiterate. The super rich must wish to hose the only sort of rich.
Amen to that. Why is it so hard for leftists to understand people voting for small government are voting in their own interest?
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It probably has more to do with bad governance than inherent strategical shortfalls of cities.
I don't have access to OSX, it works on my Safari under Win7.
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It's going to cost you no more than $79/day * 2 for two days of load testing if you sign up directly to http://blitz.io. That's peanuts compared to anything else on the market. And with EC2 lowering inbound bandwidth costs, this only gets better!
Could you please explain the Forth sample? For instance, which variable is the array?
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The UI is done completely done in-house by our team. The idea with the design was to keep content always in focus and a lot of our own and customer experience in what works for a support staff.

The design process included mocking up the entire application in HTML/CSS long before we actually coding the application. Lot of workflow improvements was done at this stage.

We have consciously attempted to keep navigation and content separate and hence have no vertical navigation to other parts of the application when you are actually working on a ticket.
In other times and industries, this would be called unionization.

In any case, one shouldn't need to demand respect, one should command it. The difference is that the former is impossible unless you equate fear with respect, the latter is a natural result of the transferability (or other relative metric) of your talent/skill/ability.
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Steinbeck: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
Yeah, it looks like I will have to make the circles clickable.
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Scrivener blows the pants off of monolithic WPs like Word for large structured writing (books or longer articles). I have a pretty detailed analysis on my blog as to why:

http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/25/scrivener/
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I didn't know the PATRIOT Act, all those porn scanners, Homeland Security, and decade-long wars were small government.

Refresh for me again under what leadership all those started?
All of the comments here attacking Warren Buffett's authenticity, suggesting that he should put his money where his mouth is and write the Treasury a big fat check, are missing the whole point.

Services provided by the government are public goods. It's blindingly obvious that a single person cannot pay for those public goods. Just Buffett's own contributions, no matter how much he donates, will not be enough to solve our budget issue. It's called shared sacrifice because it's meaningless unless everyone participates.

It's like the neighborhood park (i.e. medicare/social security): Everyone wants one, but nobody wants to pay for it. In steps the neighborhood's rich kid (Buffett), who suggests that all the rich kids pitch in to pay for the park. If that happened, everyone would be made better off, but one kid alone isn't enough.

This is a very canonical problem of public services provisioning and funding. It's completely naive to sit back and suggest Buffett tackle the issue himself, because we all know that's ridiculous.

Open your eyes. The problem is not Buffett's to solve. But he recognizes that there is a problem.

Apologies for the harsh tone, but it baffles me how members of Hacker News can think so naively. The attacks on Buffett are utterly unfair and unjustified. We should all have an open mind and try to understand the proposal.
A few potential competitors from a list I had built earlier this year (unrelated project):

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http://www.erply.com/

http://www.vendhq.com/

http://www.cashierlive.com/

http://www.merchantos.com/

http://www.camcommerce.com/

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For the value I get out of it, I certainly wouldn't complain... But if YC isn't worried about the cost of running this site, I definitely am not.
I would suggest an experiment. All intellectuals complaining about the dumbing down of the generation that follows their own should instead compare pairs of past generations and see if they still think that the later generation always has less substance, fewer great thinkers, etc. Because if you read what people write when comparing their own generation (or the one before) to the next you'd have to think the world has been in an intellectual death spiral basically from the start.

It may just take time for great ideas to turn out as such or be interpreted as such. It would be interesting to do an empirical study to see whether the age of ideas at a time when they were first called "great ideas" has changed over time. It would be difficult to do because the concept of "greatness" may itself have gone through fashion cycles.

But maybe he is right and our society suffers from a little bit of "big" idea fatigue after the ideological desasters of the past two centuries that cost many millions of lives.

His complaints about social media seems totally misplaced. Does he really think that the Facebook or twitter event stream is somehow competing with deeper thought in people who would otherwise be thinking more? I don't believe that at all.

Just because a lot of chatter is now public doesn't mean fewer ideas of substance are published or perceived nowadays. Publishing just isn't filtered and curated as hierarchically as it used to be. That may influence the perception of greatness quite a lot.
The top result being a study by Gelman? I skimmed it, I don't see how it supports your point. Care to elaborate?
I think Andrey left the team.

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The regulation of spectrum benefits consumers by specifying who can broadcast under what circumstances/conditions/amplitude. This prevents interference, which enables surprisingly reliable communication over such a noisy technology.
>The only thing more expensive has passed through the asshole of a small cat-like creature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
Hmmm, is that considered fast? On Comcast in SF I get about 20Mbps down and I never really thought of it being particularly speedy.

edit: Someone should create a website that both tests your speed, but then also shares that result with the world (anonymously). I'd love to pop up a list of ISPs in a specific city and see exactly how accurate their listed speeds are before buying.
Who pays income taxes? The rich mostly.

http://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html
Thats funny. What is it about marketers overdoing title case in setting they write anyways?

I actually added this line to a clients stylesheet once:

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...trying to demonstrate how ridiculous his headlines looked.

When he said he loved it, I decided never to work for him again.
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The author of the piece, Scott Cleland, is a sort of pundit-for-hire for the telecommunication industry, and more recently, Microsoft (who was among the consortium that won the Nortel patents). Cleland seems to have made a whole career out of generating faux-outrage at Google's behaviour, while in the pay of Google's competitors.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scott_Cleland
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Soooooo ... hate to point it out, but basically the Republicans gooned this up to?
Even back in the day it was hard to get a one letter one. That's why I had to settle for a two letter one: http://vm.com
True, but what solves the forced rider problem and why presume that it is more benign a problem than free riding? One man's public good is another man's public bad.
It depends on how it works out, but I could see a model in the near future where the infrastructure and selling the service are split up. There's already a bunch of MVNOs (Mobile virtual network operators), and that will only grow. There will be a point where network operators are really just doing that: operating the network, not selling you minutes. That would allow network operators to focus on their core competence (or what should be their core competence), operating a good, reliable network. All too often now, the telecom industry feels like bait and switch or an extortion scheme...

On an aside note, there's a group of students here in the Netherlands that want to do that: setup a MVNO as a coop or a non-profit, that will essentially give you SIP/data of your calls, instead of handling routing from A-Z. See http://limesco.org/wordpress/, though most of it is in Dutch.

And getting back to Apple: an iPhone MVNO could work well. On the other hand, Apple has rules about selling iPhones on networks that make Apple like a carrier already: iPhone data has to be 2x as fast as any other comparable plan, etc. Apple has the carriers in their grip...
I would check out Babson College in Boston. You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you're supposed to start a business your first year as an undergrad:

http://www3.babson.edu/ESHIP/default.cfm/
My favorite article on this topic, by Robert X. Cringely in 2007, on the Telecommunications Act of 1996: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...

"The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen."
Really good stuff, would love to see this used on other sites as well such as one that is local to Sweden.
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One thing is that for some reason I'm expecting the good deals to be in the top right hand corner, most bang-for-the-buck charts work that way, while your graph shows it in the top left corner, it's slightly confusing that way.
I can't believe it either. Some even believe in the economists' equivalent of a cosmological constant: PPP, which when employed miraculously turns Louisiana into a richer place than Switzerland.
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Technically the Roman Empire didn't end until the Byzantine Empire fell in 1453 -- and you can bet they lasted so long because they didn't have "think tanks" like the Cato Institute giving theoretical policy advice on why Egypt fell to Rome.
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Cost. I would also say that most of the 'cable' is laid inside conduit, but conduit with limited space and owned by a particular carrier who has no incentive or regulation dictating that he share that conduit.
Politics is rearing its ugly head again on HN. Flagged.
That's actually a very good point, thanks. It looks like I will have to reverse both axes.
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There's a 2005 Bentley Continental GT for $29,800. Seems like a good buy. I think someone forgot a zero?

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Your app made it easy enough to find an exception like this.
this is accepted practice. All games come with an indication of minimum system recommendations ("nvidia 9800 or greater").

Customers already accept that they cannot play certain games (Crysis?) if their system is not upto mark. Windows 7 has the notion of a graphics "score" as well to figure out whether to turn on Aero.

The only reason why this is not done is forced obsoletion - the customer behavior has existed for a decade or more.
Weak analysis -- you can't talk about the cities pace of growth vs GDP output without talking about the sectors responsible for growth in GDP. For instance, if manufacturing or agriculture were big drivers in GDP growth but the cities had no available/affordable land do develop for these purposes, then it would be expected that they would not keep pace.

Either way, the "drag" in this article is just on the average growth %, not an actual cost per-se.
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Actually the 'most bang-for-the-buck' on his graph is the lower left corner not the upper left.

I agree that it is kinda strange at first but once I realized it, it wasn't that bad.
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The ignorance and bias reeks throughout the article so bad you can smell it.

He even has his fingers in politics; he served as "Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for telecom trade matters", and served as a "Senior Policy Advisor for Legislative Affairs", under George H.W. Bush.

Just... wow. Fuck this guy.
You're bang on when you say diagnosing these things can be a bitch. Especially so with schizo-affective disorder where symptoms that are akin to schizophrenia and symptoms that are akin to bipolar are both present. I misdiagnosing twice has happened before landing on schizo-affective.

I had a relative who had this happen. Their symptoms seemed so much like schizophrenia, with bizarre delusions and voices. On the other hand, bouts of depression and bouts of hypomania were common. Before the mood component was fully realised, he was slapped with a Paranoid Schizophrenia diagnosis - which can particularly life shattering. A year or so later, a diagnosis of Bipolar was slapped on him, which is a bit of improvement because I believe the prognosis for Bipolar is markedly better than Schizophrenia.

Eventually, it was realised Schizo-affective Disorder fit the bill. After a bit of research, it turns out that such a diagnosis fit particularly well. The particular type of delusions commonly experienced by those with Schizo-affective disorder were present in him, amongst other things.

You can probably tell from what I've said above that it is indeed a bitch. It's almost life destroying and he was reduced to a lab rat in the process (finding the right medication is really a case of an educated guess and experimentation). I really am all for this sort of research because the more we advance with it, the less people will have to go through what my relative went through (and relatively speaking, he got off lightly).
Notice that Warren Buffett is asking for tax increases on those who make more than $1M and $10M respectively. I'm fine with this. He seems to "get", unlike so many Democrats, that $250k/year is not rich.

Where I get nervous is all the Democrats who seem to think that there is no difference between $250k and $1M/year and up. I get kind of ill seeing obscenely wealthy Democrats in Congress, almost all making MUCH more $250k, trying to lump my household in with the rich. I'm willing to pay more, but not if these wealthy Democrats won't create a distinction between $250k/year, $1M/year, and $10+M/year.
I'm on sonic.net and get 20mbps down, 2 mbps up. You need bonded Fusion service to get those sorts of speeds though.

dslreports.com has speedtest results, down to zip code, though they don't include things like what service product and/or whether the service has some bandwidth cap.
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This guy seems to claim that cities can grow without end and that's a good thing:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/geoffrey_west_the_surprisi...
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