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From TFA:

>It's apparently the graphical design that's at issue, not the name.
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Some good points here. As I mentioned in the article, focusing on the benefits is 'virtually' holy writ. B2B selling and selling to specialists is a bit of an exception because for this market, features are important. For the trade buyer, being in the industry themselves, features can be important because they automatically make the link to the benefits due to their expert knowledge. However, trade buyers are generally price and speed conscious and so your copy would need to focus on how you can get them the goods quickly and cheaply - the correct benefits for this market.

High performance car experts (and experts in any field) are another interesting market. They too can make the link between features and benefits that bit more easily than the non-expert. However, doesn't having a car packed with high-end features satisfy their need to show-off their knowledge and spending potential to their friends (feelings of pride)? It is less features over benefits in this case but more features as being synonymous with benefits (and there's always that old cliche about the husband who is irritated because his wife won't accept his chosen car because it isn't available in pink!) Nhebb is right - it all does depend on the target market but tptacek is equally right - you have to focus on the correct benefits.

And as for a good copywriting course - the AWAI course is highly recommended by many top copywriters. You can check it out at http://www.awaionline.com/go.php?af=1380873
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957939
How did the organizations which have amassed unimaginable wealth through not being taxed manage to get preferential treatment in the immigration law and its implementing system? Tough question...

Btw, remember the religious worker visa being officially excluded from GC petition Premium Processing (15 days fast track) implemented for various employment based categories in the 2007 for the exact reason of being the category with the highest fraud found by the official investigation? One can imagine how bad the situation have been for the government to start officially "discriminate" against religion :)

http://www.murthy.com/news/n_prorev.html

Why it isn't surprising that self-righteous people who think that they are owners of highest and the only truth [ and thus entitled to not pay their fair share ] are also the most fraud perpetrating?
I've been on both sides of the fence: 1. as an entrepreneur involved in three start-ups all boot strapped that later attracked VCs and, 2. as an investor. I mostly agree that business plans are just words on paper as one of my fellow investor puts it but I would like to point out that a business plan tells potential investors the same thing a college degree does to potential employers. It says I did my homework, I did my SWOT analysis, I know my numbers, and I have thought about my competition and/or long term goals in terms of exit strategy. That's all! Every investor knows that five year financial are mostly guess work but at least by doing this you have shown you know the potential your idea has in terms of being bought or adopted.... It really is that simple.
This practice is extremely short sighted of Apple, Google and RIM.

What practice? Responding to a properly filed DMCA complaint by taking down the content?

You do realize that doing anything other than what they've done would be against the law, right? The law might suck, but it's not up to Google to decide not to abide by it just because they don't like it, they've got far too much on the line to mess around like that...
You would violate terms of agreement. But if it's a Chrome extension, what can they do?
A really excellent followup to the study that was linked to around here about 6 months ago that found out "willpower" is an exhaustible resource that needs to be managed throughout your day.

The book[1] this article is reviewing discusses learning to exercise your will power through little mini tasks throughout the day (sit up straight, don't curse, don't eat the whole cake, pickup your desk before going to lunch, etc.) as a means of strengthening that skill.

In their studies they found that employing little tasks like that actually made the willpower muscle (let's call it) stronger, leading to more control over your day.

As to "why do I care?" both studies show that people with more willpower generally end up happier with their lives.

This article does make an interesting point that people with ultimate willpower are not markedly happier than people with nominal amounts of it, so you don't necessarily need to train your willpower muscle to the point of entering the willpower olympics, just slightly stronger than you have now (assuming it is weakened) to enjoy a happier life.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...
Doesn't affect it. ADO.NET's SqlClient uses neither OLEDb nor ODBC. Uses direct TDS to the server.
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> There are copies of BCC bouncing around in the American defense industry

That is one heck of an achievement. Mind if I ask how that happened?
I went through the same thing except I quit my job almost 4 years ago. What I will say is that ups and downs are part of the startup. The success of most startups and businesses is determined how much the founders are willing to endure until they find that secret formula, but in most cases it wont come over night.

Many of my friends have startups that looked like they were done, but turned into great successes.

If I were you I'd do the following:

1. Look at your traffic sources where was your traffic coming from before?

2. Audit your product to understand if there are things you can do to bring previous visitors back, and bring their friends with them (social integration).

3. Look for other opportunities to monetize. If you're strapped for cash look for other ways to make money like consulting gigs.

Realistically you are just getting started, so if you have it in you just keep pushing/learning/iterating.
Why would you find it misleading to use our reference frame instead of the star's? There is no absolute "when" but a different time for each observer.
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That may be more logistical issues.
I wrote an entire blog post explaining why I’m quitting iOS…
21 million years is not the point.
And now that this app is pulled, Android users wouldn't be able to automatically measure the speed of rotation.
Google is by far the scarier big brother company. There is no escpaing Google and as far as I know Facebook has not to date sent teams of roving wireless sniffers in guise of map making.
Not a violation.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957957
Your anecdote isn't, by itself, even a single datapoint against Panda -- traffic might have been reduced because searchers have ended up at a site more useful to them!
The same way almost all sales of BCC happened: customer wants to play X bingo with users, customer Googles [X bingo cards], customer finds BCC web site, customer pays via credit card. The only reason I'm even consciously aware of this customer is that they really wanted a custom feature built and, because of who they were and what they were doing, I made it happen. (At the risk of stating the obvious, normally $29.95 does not entitle you to getting custom programming done on your behalf.)
ah. I stand corrected.
From my following of the situation the organizer spoke with the park police and they set up an area at the white house that is blocked off and if you go and sit in that area you will get arrested. If you look at photos of those arrested you will see a perimeter.

Where the park service has screwed the protesters is that they have decided to randomly keep some people they arrest in jail for a couple days, after promising to only issue a $100 fine and be on your way.
The NYT only found out about this now? O.o

Steve Pavlina (http://www.stevepavlina.com/) has some good stuff on training willpower (willpower is like D-Day, a huge violent bloody assault which was used to establish fortifications on the ground so that you didn't need to launch a huge violent bloody assault every time you wanted to get things done). Use willpower to build habits that will stay with you even when you have the mental energy of a marketroid.
Possibly. Precedent for what?
If they really did fork Android, they effectively have their own OS. I'd love to hear counterpoints though. Why is Google or Samsung poised to come out on top?
As you mention in your post "As far as the entertainment consumer segment (particularly those who are on desktops) goes, a tablet makes more sense for them than a laptop. " That is a huge segment of the population. So, if that segment goes missing or even partially goes for tablets, the total number of PC's shipped will go down in a big way. Atleast, PC sales can't grow from here.
Also, as the tablets become more and more powerful, one should be able to run more memory intensive applications.
I have seen a couple of people around me whose overall PC usage has gone down drastically after owning a Galaxy S2 or iPhone. Not is disagreement with your points but I must say that if we are not yet in the Post P.C era, we are fast moving towards one.
My story is almost exactly the same. The only difference is that my site was hit not by the original Panda update, but by the April 11 update ("Panda 2.0".)

There was definitely collateral damage. Unfortunately for owners of such sites, since Panda did penalize several huge sites that people hate very much, it's viewed as an overwhelming success.

Small site owners are burning the midnight oil, posting to the "official" Google Panda thread, and getting no feedback from Google.
This supernova has been hyped lately but is not something a casual observer will find to be particularly exciting. It is best seen with a telescope and will appear as a faint dot of light. The brightness will be magnitude 10 or 11, or about 100 times fainter than what the unaided eye can see in dark skies far from city lights. For more information, see

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/observingbl...

or

http://washedoutastronomy.com/content/another-urban-supernov...

or

http://www.dailycalifornian.org/how-to-spot-new-supernova-in...
Twitters allows 140 codepoints of a sequence in normalization form C.
With that said Linux has become the most popular Unix variant by a large margin

Nah, OSX is Unix remember.
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There's also a social status cost, which could be great or small, for example if your readers have an intense dislike for netspeak and poor English.
I'm not using full on unit tests for my current project. I just break the code into a few independently functioning layers, and make a single html file to test the code in each layer. I run the corresponding html file manually as I develop code in a given layer. It may be heresy to say this, but I've found that automated unit tests are more trouble than they're worth in a lot of cases.

The second thing I do is use my tool every day. I use the unstable branch on the unstable server whenever possible. Problems usually become obvious very quickly. I don't push to production until I've used the unstable server for 24 hours without incident. I find this combined with the testing practices described above to be the best compromise between reliability and getting-stuff-done-ability.
> High/Low surrogates

Surrogates are not codepoints.
Agreed re: living more on a budget and cash cushion. My income is good as a freelancer but my wife and I buy nothing on credit and our one big splurge is travel. Our idea is that is times ever get tough we can just give up travel for as long as needed.

I am definitely not "feeding the economy" by buying a lot of stuff (being a good little consumer) as I would have 10 or 20 years ago.

I have traded a desire for and ownership of material things (house on the ocean and a beautiful sailboat) for a lot of freedom and control over how I spend my time. A good trade!
It should've been explained to them the consequences of not having their tooth problems taken care of. The boy's parents chose to wait and rack up a $280,000 hospital bill, but did no one explain to them that a simple $80 procedure can prevent serious complications? Paying $80 for that one procedure would have saved them their son, and it would've been cheaper than paying health insurance anyway since it's a one-time payment. Cut back on something, anything, just don't risk your or your son's life when the solution really wasn't too expensive.

Things like this would be better served by microloans anyway. Patient financing should be looked to as a way of controlling costs rather than forcing everyone to buy health insurance. If the boy's parents had been given the option of paying, say $10 a month over a year for the dental procedure, it would've been much easier on them than paying $80 up front. They could pay less if they make all their payments early.

Just give them an option, an option they can understand and afford.
There is a previous post mentioned (by Mark Suster http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/08/15/why-you-need-t...) but I felt like this one adds more color to the approach.
It's not an article abouth the subject of willpower (although it seems that way), but rather a book review of the book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.
Mahout is most mature in the recommendation area. In that arena, it has wider and wider adoption. AOL uses it. Even Amazon is rumored to be about to use it for some purposes. Apple has repurposed some Mahout code for Genius. Dozens of other companies use it for recommendation.

In the more traditional data-mining areas of clustering, latent variable discovery and supervised classification, Mahout does scale and does deployment very well. I am a Mahout committer, but I use R all the time, often times for prototyping or for small analyses. I would hate to have to deploy an R solution, however. Sampling is a fine solution for the first 80% of gain and if you are in a startup situation, that may well be enough for you. On the other hand, efficient deployment is usually pretty important as well.

As always, you mileage may vary.

I would recommend that you pop over to the Mahout mailing list for better feedback. I doubt that the Hacker News community knows as much about Mahout as the people who develop and use Mahout.
Asking for accessibility gets you nothing but grief.
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As far as food & overeating/unhealthy foods- I've learned you don't necessarily need self-control. You can stop caring instead. That's how I wound up after going hungry for months, and got used to it.

It's frighteningly effective. Right now, the last meal I remember was about 20 hours ago, and the last meal before that was another 20-24 ago. My stomach is aching, but it doesn't bother me.

Of course, this is not without problems. It basically means I have to consciously remember to feed myself enough to stay healthy. You could say I am now approaching the problem from the opposite direction.
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Well, I can't speak for the parent, but my Panasonic Viera TV had a little note in the on-screen menu about software licenses with a URL (and also the complete text of the GPL). I downloaded it and it included a Linux kernel. I have no idea which part runs Linux (the whole thing, or just the part that reads jpegs off of the SD cards) or if there is any good way to get a shell...
The boy's parents chose to wait and rack up a $280,000 hospital bill, but did no one explain to them that a simple $80 procedure can prevent serious complications?

I think it's partly rooted in the mental models we have about medical stuff and their costs. I can't tell you how often I hear someone tell me that eating better is "too expensive" an option for improving their health. In many cases, it's a matter of a few bucks a month a month compared to sometimes literally thousands of dollars a month in medical expenses. But food comes out of their pocket and a big medical crisis they think someone else will help cover. I think.

I don't get it myself. Just tossing that out there.
My Panasonic TV runs Linux and has the GPL available from an on screen menu.
First, they are a SOCIAL network, this data helps them figure out the engagement level with different brands that participate on the Facebook social platform.

Non-sequitur. What does their knowing the "engagement level" with a brand have to do with social networking? In what way would Facebook be less social if you eliminate the entire like-button feature (for the sake of argument)?
To advance the discussion a bit further, I think we need to ask ourselves whether the system exists to filter raw input into the best result, or to create something new that didn't exist before.

If the reason is simply a filter, then "maximizing" is related to the function of the filter, that is, we look at the flow from the submission to the placement on the page. If the reason is creation, then we have to look at the flow from a random participant in the system, whether submitter or reader.

I think many folks look at the system's purpose as if it were to find the best material on the web. Personally I don't understand this. There are dozens of stories online about any one topic, and aside from wasting my time chatting, only a very few topics everyday provide something I can use. What's to say the CNET story is better or worse than the TechCrunch story? A vote? When I look at the front page, I want something that provides a change in my habits. Something unexpected that provides real value. I don't want some groupthink result that tells me what favorite media outlets or what fanboy material is most prevalent today. Yes, I understand that as long as we have voting we will have some form of popularity contest, but shouldn't there be a high degree of creative chaos involved as well? Or just a popularity vote among rehashed stories of the day? Does the system exist for the average reader's value, or to perpetuate a form of groupthink among participants? (I've probably overstated my case. Apologies)

As a hacker, I'm interested in becoming a better hacker. I want to participate in things that help me be a better person. What everybody thinks is cool is okay too, but it's not a primary consideration.
If you think about business plans as frameworks for evaluating the viability of a business, there are new formal tools, like Business Model Generation that serve exactly the same purpose (evaluating the current viability of the business in a structured way) but more aligned with web reality (fast time to market, pivots, extreme competition).
Mozilla's Gervase Markham posted a more detailed (and, frankly, more damning) blog entry about the DigiNotar fiasco:

http://blog.gerv.net/2011/09/diginotar-compromise/
Why is this Ruby-specific? I see other language tags in other people's interests.
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Interesting approach. A lot of people would say "that doesn't fix anything because you replaced one problem with another!" but I would say it does help; it gives you another perspective on the same problem.

Eventually you'll find the middle ground that works for you, but I applaud you providing at least another unconventional alternative to tackling food-control.
Because this religion is actively engaged in market labor, they wouldn't qualify even as a religious worker.
"# Google (for the search engine) – Google Instant crashes Jaws, and the current “solution” is to have a link to turn Instant off. Except it only works for a single pageview at a time, ARRRRGH)."

How is this Google and not Jaws fault?
"Easier said than done, I know, but the thing I find helps most people is to understand that you can't refrain from doing something you like. You can, however, change the person you are into the kind of person who doesn't even like that stuff. Sugar Smacks still taste the same as they did under Carter, but I don't know anybody who still eats them. Do the same for soda."
I've found www.city-data.com to be quite useful over the years. If it's actually "pure crap", what's the corresponding "crap-free" site?
Does everyone realize google tops Facebook by millions for cross site tracking? I mean ad scripts, stats scripts, +1 scripts, etc. etc. etc.

Good luck on blocking google, I cannot even turn off javascript for their domain because now their search requires it to function.
We need to support Wall Street unless they are doing something indefensible
Just a heads-up: signing in with GitHub automatically puts you in both the Remote and In-Person lists if you just cancel out of the form that pops up after you authenticate.
Heroku's Cedar stack can host just about anything.

There was a discussion of running Django on it not too long ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2612943
Most people would consider it Google's fault if their main page crashed Internet Explorer, even though it would technically be IE's fault. The internet is full of compromises.

Also in this case, even if Google Instant wasn't crashing Jaws, Google Instant plays havoc with screen readers (yes, I have experience of this), and as the article says, Google haven't provided a global off option, which would be really useful.

All most screen-readers want is a really basic HTML interface, preferably no AJAX at all. Even if it is slow and needs to re-load a lot, that is still preferable to no access.
Yup. That's intentional for now. We assume that you signed up for a reason. You just didn't tell us exactly why. So we make a broad assumption. ;)
Take a look at the Cedar stack... it will happily read and install a requirements.txt file.

http://www.askthepony.com/blog/2011/07/getting-django-on-her...
Technical feasibility is a necessary but not sufficient condition. It is primarily useful to know when something is not technically feasible.
That's not right. Surrogates are code points. That's the whole idea! It means you can express characters beyond the BMP with legacy encodings that were designed back when the entire code space could be coded in 16 bits. Newer encodings like UTF-8 don't have to rely on surrogates to do this because they have that capability at the bytewise encoding level.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Aunicode.org+surro...
Totally. Nola already had the domain so we went with that. I still see the app as an experiment. Once we get things more nailed down, I'm thinking about opening it up beyond Ruby.

Besides, frankly, we "Rubyists" tend to be polyglots. That is to say: there's nothing stopping Java developers from signing up. :D
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I have this little rule: if you look at some nontrivial piece of code you wrote months ago and feel like it's good, then something is wrong. It means that you learned nothing in these months and can't see how your previous approach could be improved.
Small business frequently uses credit for working capital.

If you need 10k to front the cash for 5 more staff at your restaurant, why not? The business will grow.

In general savings through austerity is better, but many companies would not grow past sole proprietorships without credit.
What does this site do? Is it a directory of developers who are willing to pair, or something more/else? Can I find out without signing up?
If you use Chrome(-ium), there's an extension for that. I believe there is an equivalent FF extension out there as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...
A full time person dedicated to the certificate business I was trying to say.
There definitely seems to be two things going on:

- Every year it gets easier to start a new business.

- Every year big companies provide less job security.

Combine this, and there is a move to free agency.

This is great for people who can find a way to get paid for differentiated skills. It is awful for commodity skills.