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As mtgentry replied, Craigslist had a huge advantage in being first to market. But now as Craigslist is being supplanted by more niche focused sites, you better believe that good design will be an integral part of those new sites. Refer to http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-cr...
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So, you say, giving away secretly 1.1 trillion instead 16 is then not serious, important or relevant.
(Damn it, I wish I could edit old posts...)

Thanks everyone for the words of encouragement, but when I was going to school it would take me 4 hours to complete 15 simple homework math equations, even with the ritalin. 'Hard work' in the form of 4 years of that stuff would make me commit suicide.

Moreover, I just don't care to understand complex math. I do want to know how to design compilers and write embedded kernel drivers. If advanced math is required to be able to do these things, CS isn't for me.
It might sound like a joke but it's a serious point. Please watch the TED talk for more information http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
I guess it would depend on how "production" the app is, but I don't know if I would automatically call not handling that edge case incompetence.
I've started adopting a similar soft approach along these lines myself. My wife and I are Ubuntu Linux users at home, but our families know us as simply computer savvy. Often enough someone will call us with Windows-specific questions, which I'll try and answer to the best of my ability; however, when faced with what sounds like a research project I err on the side of stupidity.

"No, I don't know why your new smartphone won't sync with all three of your business accounts as well as your personal email."

So far, this kind of answer has been far better received than spending hours troubleshooting frustrating corner cases from trying to shoehorn off-the-shelf gadgets into situations they probably weren't meant for anyway. At worst, that makes me lazy, but I'm okay with that as long as I'm not known as the ill-tempered son-in-law who won't just help out his aunt and uncle without coping an attitude.
Maybe I am the only one on HN and I can't believe I am defending FB but I don't get this.

I understand and can appreciate what is being done. I just don't understand why anyone would want to use a service that they are not comfortable giving out data to.

FaceBook for better or worse is making money by knowing a lot of things about you. In return you have a place to hang out and share a lot of things.

Is that such a bad deal?

Personally by default I just assume that everything I post/share/say is going to be used.
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I have to disagree.

First, I actually do have this warning in the README.

Second, if the app breaks when it doesn't have enough permissions, that's really just the laziness of the app developer. Handle the error gracefully if you really need the permission, and prompt for it again, explaining what you need it for.
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It's not a payment gateway. It's distribution and hosting, an update mechanism, one time purchase payments, in-app payments, reconciliation of all the payments, ...
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I'm looking for other effective forms of online selling and advertising for direct-jewelry.com, which is the online retail arm of a 30 year old jewelry wholesaler. We have plenty of budget to pay for ads if they are effective.

We've found Adwords to, at best, break even for us, pointed towards our site or Amazon. Amazon works great on its own and is growing as we develop our strategy.

I'm looking into Affiliate, consignment on Ebay, and other new sales sites. Any recommendations?
It varies. Tijuana is one of the more dangerous cities in Mexico with a murder rate of 107/100k from 2006-2010, but that's way behind Cd. Juarez with 485 over the same period. By comparison the national average was 30.8 and Mexico City was 7.36.

I couldn't find stats for Ensenada but Tijuana makes up over half of the population of the state of Baja California, which in 2010 had a murder rate of 28. I'd bet Ensenada is well below that. Baltimore by contrast was 34.8 and Oakland 22.

(FWIW the violence in TJ has abated considerably in 2011 as the Sinaloa cartel has effectively won the turf war that was raging.)
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Ship a simple product that earns a (small) paycheck every month.
Android, unfortunately does not have this functionality. All permissions have to be requested up front, whether or not they are needed for all users.
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why not link to the original article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8917836/Faceb...
I don't think Craigslist is ugly. Not from the point of design, which is not about looks actually. From the point of cosmetic styling—maybe it is.
I wonder if this idea could be mimicked on land, for Midwesterners who want to move close to Silicon Valley, but can't tackle the housing prices. I know of several - no, many - entrepreneurs who would love to move to SV, but the money's too good back home and the risk is too high simply because of the difference in cost of living.

Maybe you Californians can give me your opinion. Would it be possible to set up an incubator's Headquarters outside of Silicon Valley, in some cheaper area, and still get the benefits of the SV culture, by commuting periodically (much like the boaters would do)?

I see on Zillow [1] that the average home cost in San Jose metro is $552K, while it's only $130K in Modesto (90 miles away).

Or is there another cheap area a little closer? Pleasanton? Fremont? (any other suggestions?) Maybe the incubator could get a bunk room apartment in SV for overnights or when there's an early meeting or a late-evening event.

Would that make any sense? Or do they just need to bite the bullet and move to Santa Clara or Sunnyvale, and pay outrageous prices for housing?

And if it wouldn't make sense, what does that say about this floating incubator idea?

[1] http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-home-value/r_9/
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Ask HN: Pricing for small business app?
My wife developed an application that her original customer uses to run his business. There's now another potential customer who wants to buy the package to run his very similar business. The problem is that we don't know how to approach pricing since the original was built as a custom consulting job. The software runs on a server and on laptops connecting back to the server. We're trying to decide if the best model is a one-time fee, a monthly cost per-laptop, etc. Is a one-time fee plus monthly maintenance a "normal" way of selling small business software? There hasn't been a ton of required support for the original customer but there's always new features wanted, bugs that pop up, etc. so we don't want to end up getting money up front and just losing money supporting the thing. Any ideas or past experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There's no problems with the original customer of the software in regards to selling it, in case that's a concern.
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Really well put. The author's right, but I'm sensing he feels this is revolutionary. It's not. It's been coming for a long, long time, as display gets moved more to the 'branding' column and paid discovery, paid search and other technologies get more and more love from marketers.
This may be off-topic, but where do you draw inspiration for your apps? I am a fairly decent programmer, would love to write some Android apps, but I'm sort of at a loss when it comes to what kind of apps I would want to write. It seems to be something you just have to draw out of thin air or get via spontaneous inspiration. Usually I think about what kinds of problems I want to solve, but there's almost always an app for that already!
I'm not entirely sure that's a valid objection for something who's installation instructions include "clone this git repo, then open chrome in developer mode".

Perhaps before it becomes a point'n'click install there might need to be more explanation about what might break, but anyone capable of installing it in its current form _ought_ to be capable of working out it's various means of breakage...
Hmm...

http://www.privacyparrot.com/privacy-policy-for-facebook.com
Ask HN: Hacker-Travelers, please share your techniques and experience.
This recent submission[1] sparked a really inspiring bunch of "me too" comments from folks with experience travelling the world while doing their life/company's work. I'd like to know how you travelling hackers work and what tricks you've picked up.

For example: do you keep to a strict work/adventuring schedule, or just do whatever you feel like? what kind of equipment do you use? Do you really feel like you can work from anywhere, or do you have to find coffee shops/libraries?

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266772
"Error. require.paths is removed" is what i get even when i follow your instructions exact.
I had the same problem on Linux but im on Windows now. I dont think this is a Windows problem though? Something with the way i have things configured maybe?

PS. I used Win-Git for the git clone
But you are the target demographic for the phone distribution - someone who is actually interested in and developing with the tech is a better development placement for a freebie phone than someone who wants a freebie phone.
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One thing that strikes me as interesting is that Facebook repeatedly states that they do not sell personal information to third parties. Yet, I've never read or heard it stated plainly that this behavior is forbidden by applications running on the Facebook platform. In fact, at one point I remember that friends applications had access to my personal information, even if I did not authorize said application. I dont' know whether that is still the case, but the idea behind it is troubling.

I would also like to follow-up that people are dissimilar enough that de-anonymizing is not that difficult. I do not know why, yet, an advertiser would want to explicitly de-anonymize its data, but it is certainly possible.
Thanks for replying. Yes, i did visit the issues page on Github and it seemed others were experiencing a similar issue, and there was talk about changing the paths in some of the .js files, but i lost track of which file paths needed changing to what.

I've just doing a fresh install of the back of a git clone in a clean dir and get "Error. require.paths is removed" upon doing 'Node bin/cloud9.js'
Beating a dead horse here, but Craigslist was able to acquire a critical mass of users by being first to market. If you actually examine the overall user experience from a functional UX perspective, Craigslist isn't actually that bad.
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Saying their "entire business model is under fire" seems too extreme. From the article:

The EC is planning to ban such activity unless users themselves specifically agree to it.

Okay, so, at worst Facebook just has to make users specifically agree to this before they can continue using Facebook. I'm sure some people wouldn't agree, but it's not a big enough deal that Facebook would change their business model.
Really excited about the move to GitHub!
This could be like early Windows firewalls all over again; popping up windows every time you try to do something, until you just disable it.
Apple had "the biggest IPO since Ford" in December 1980, so they certainly weren't getting their arse kicked in the 70s. Things were pretty grim from 85-97 though.
Like EULAs, everyone just hits agree and move on. No one reads them. Apple did it right in iOS: ask for permission when you actually need it.
I guess this is minor, but why does it say 1997 in the title? I can't find the year anywhere in the story or in these comments.
> If I can't take vacations whenever I want or have the freedom to come and go as I please, I consider it slaving away. No job will allow you to do this.

My job does.
It's production if the people who are installing it have to worry about permissions.
Just e-mailed, thanks for the advice.
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The not caring is kind of crucial, beyond anything else. If you don't care, it's not interesting to you, and if it's not interesting to you it's probably not worth dedicating your time to. Life is short - do what you love.

THAT SAID I totally agree with what people have said, and the amount of "maths" you need beyond basic arithmetic in CS depends very much on your chosen field of interest, which, given that you don't care about complex maths, probably won't be too mathematically heavy.
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regardless of whether it is important or not, misrepresenting information does nobody any favours. It opens people who have a real objection to issues like this look ridiculous.
This is a great and much needed. It's unfortunate Facebook doesn't offer this as a general setting when you're prompted. Thanks for putting this together!
adding my ten-ish year history of supporting other people (I'm also pushing 30), I've learned this one fact: trying to help other people will frequently result in my taking ownership of ALL of their problems in their eyes.

which seems like a really jerk-like perspective to take, and it is a little bit.
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Thanks a lot for this, it's a really cool map. Note that this is just the US numbered routes, so it's pre-Interstate.

I'm quite fascinated by the interstate system; I think it's one of the more amazing things this country's managed to accomplish in the last century. I admit that I draw my sample set from just my experience -- I grew up in the SF Bay Area, go to school near Chicago, and spend summers in Seattle, so all my travel is huge E-W distances -- but I think even if you're right, you have a good argument for N-S rail systems and there's still enough E-W travel that air travel is still quite necessary.
As common as a lazy coding practice may be, there's no excuse for programmers not checking inputs, access, or the lack thereof.
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It's great to hear that Django is moving to GitHub. It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are written in Python, and perhaps because GitHub uses Ruby. That said, it seems like git is emerging as the winner, and IMHO GitHub is far superior to anything available outside of git, so I'm glad they're making the move.
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Nice article totally agree.
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I'm looking at the Facebook Insights for the app right now. The bucket where we asked for the most permissions (excluding email) performed significantly better than the other options. I don't know why that is the case, but it is.

As for asking for permissions later, since it doesn't seem to matter we ask for all the ones we need up front. We've found that gradually asking for permissions as needed annoys the user and breaks up the app flow.
We're not talking about Craigslist success, the OP asserted that an ugly site "doesn't get used."
You could try starting a business, create new product or site. With the limited time what I can suggest is try playing Options in stock market.

I have turned $600 into $21,000 in the last 2 months. With the European debt crisis looming it is perfect time to play options as well. You can get 1000% percent return in a day.

there is not much risk if you spend time understanding how it works. Also From my learning, you don't need 50 stocks to make money. Just focus on Google and apple options. They are most volatile and predictable.
When I saw the link title I thought the boat was going to be for expecting mothers from other countries to live on and then deliver their babies in US waters (making them US citizens). Needless to say, I was quite confused for the first couple paragraphs...
There appears to be a modification to this phone. - Steve Jobs' head is where the apple bite is. Maybe that caused it?
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Yep - That last error is the real problem i've had each time.
It's actually within the contiguous zone, which offers even more regulatory abilities by the coastal state. The ship could just sail outside of the contiguous zone, but would still be within the EEZ. In that case, the issue becomes more tricky.

Article 56 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea [UNCLOS] provides states with sovereign rights to exploit the resources contained within the EEG. If Blueseed wants to connect to undersea cables (or provide another mainland direct link), the ships become artificial islands because of the connection to the seabed. Because the provisions of Art. 60 of UNCLOS apply mutatis mantandis to artificial islands, it might not matter whether the start-up is an Art. 56 installation or a ship exercising its "high seas" freedoms. This protection extends to up to 200 nautical miles from the coast, so to be "truly" free, you'd have to go past the EEZ and likely operate an offshore airport for ferrying your employees.

As for the point of entry issues, I'm afraid I don't know anything about that. They'd likely be rendered moot by the need for an airport, though.
I mostly dabble with python. I learned a little reading this, and it raised some questions for me. Is there a reason --distribute is not the default behavior of virtualenv? Is there a plan to incorporate the stuff virtualenvwrapper does into virtualenv (virtualenvwrapper is a pretty cumbersome name, if for no other reason)?
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Yep, but that's exactly what you need to stay sane when faced with people who a) don't want to adopt a solution that I know to work, but b) are incapable or unwilling to make the effort to make their own "preferred" solution work.

I've come to the same place as Marco: I just "admit" I can't help them. Yes, it's a white lie, but not one that keeps me awake at night.
>I think the dumbest thing is having to turn off a Kindle. Is that even possible? Pushing the power button just goes to screensaver which uses exactly as much power as when you're actually using it.

You can turn a kindle off by holding the power switch for a few seconds. I do this every time I fly, for both takeoff and landing (I leave the wireless off for the entire flight). Given how low-power a kindle is, I find it highly unlikely that it could cause interference (unless you leave the wireless on, which could definitely cause interference), but I've seen enough surprising results from Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Safety of Flight Tests (SOFT) to know that you just can't make assumptions about stuff like that.
I think that's the shittiest argument I've ever seen.

You didn't even open the link before just leaving a negative comment about it.

It takes a lot of work to write web apps, and when people say negative things about them, it hurts.
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I don't think the OP is comparing programming to Latin today, but to Latin during the Renaissance.

Yes Latin isn't spoken, and nothing is created in it today, but that wasn't true hundreds of years ago.

Programming is like Latin 400 years ago.
He won't just do slides and expect to get funding or accepted in the incubator program. He WILL have his MVP up and running like I mentioned earlier.

And, NO, his name is not Steve Jobs. I wish... :)
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It depends if you are arguing with someone like your parents who want to use Facebook, send email and manage their photos or with someone else who spends all day using an operating system.
this isnt an issue with imperative programming, it's an issue with BASIC and the stupid way that computer scientists use math symbols
Change their business model to what?
I agree in this case. If it's a git repo, not a problem. But, it's not the first time I've seen this issue raised, and the common response is "heck yeah, I want to do that!" It's not inconceivable to imagine that someone packages this into a mass-usable extension eventually. One Google search led me here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mlnhcepfaddcopbegg...

People, in general, don't understand what the permissions they're granting (and ergo, revoking) do, and what why they are needed (or what fails to work when they are revoked).

It's a broken solution to a broken problem - permissions aren't granular enough, but permissions that are too granular get the TL;DR treatment from users. Developers have abused the permissions structure (usually under the "just in case" rather than "active abuse" justification), and users don't understand it, and the middle ground is that it's a giant mess that can't be unraveled without breaking a lot of things in the process.

I'd love to see some process by which an app could pass a string that says "This is why we need this permission, here's what happens if we don't have it", and then let the user select or deselect it, having been fully informed of the consequences. Additionally, exposing that UI to the user will encourage developers to write robust code that deals with that permission not being present.
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Will this build run on the Nexus S 4G as well?
I think this would be my choice too
I would like to ask more details, but when I click your profile, I can't see your email.

If you can email me, that would be great.

Thanks.
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What did you read/study? Do you have a finance background? I've heard of people getting pretty burnt in options trading as well. :)
I'm running the modified version of this on my Nexus S 4G, the modification is based off of Koush's CM9 build which is shown in the video. Overall, it's pretty amazing. I had to update my kernel manually to bring back BLN support (keeping the soft-buttons turned on when I get a notification with the screen off) but other than that everything worked right out of the box.

I am seeing large numbers of small bugs everywhere though but I'm not quite sure if they're due to the build I'm running or they exist in AOSP's code.

For example: When playing music on Google Music, if the screen is turned off the volume buttons control the systems ringer volume not the media volume.

Another on in the same vein: If you are playing music on Google Music and are in the Google Music application, the volume buttons work as expected, if you are on the home screen or any other application, the volume buttons control the ringer volume.
You guys are both "that guy" right now. Pretty weird to see it coming from you.
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