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Hello HN!

I created BetaUsersNow.com with the goal of allowing startups get immediate access to a pool of Targeted users and immediate feedback during their beta phase. The goal is to come in handy especially for recently launched startup or app, which do not have a siginificant user-base yet but would like to have users from their target demographics interact with their site/app and give feedback. During our beta phase, we have been signing up users from all walks of life and have collected their detailed demographic information - including city, state, country, Gender,Birth Year, Yearly Household Income, marital Status, Web/Computer Expertise, Web Usage on a Typical Day, Areas of Interest and device ownership (iPhone, iPad) etc. This will allow a recently launched startup to directly go to a pool of its target demographics and test products out. In a nutshell, the site will provide you a pool of targeted users, that fall within your target demographics, who will signnup at your website, follow your instructions to use your website, app and give you actionable feedback.

I would like to invite founders and developers to try out the service and give me any feedback that would help it improve. Thanks!
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It shouldn't be too difficult to write a small bit of JavaScript to detect if your ad is being displayed, or if it has been hidden/removed from the DOM.
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This. I don't really have the conscience to block the only source of revenue a webpage might have. But it's the Flash ads that make my otherwise silent 2009 Macbook Pro 17" (w/ SSD drive) roar like a 747 taking off, and that's where I draw the line. So I use FlashBlock and I'm fine. I think Google Ads (and in fact most ad providers) can detect this and display non-Flash ads instead.
I've always surfed without an ad-blocker and have never had any sort of infection. I'm not doubting your anecdote, I'm just doubting how commonplace it is. To me it seems as rare as an airplane crash.

I know someone who got off a plane at the last stop before the flight where it crashed and killed most of those on-board. They still fly just as often. There's no such thing as a zero-risk life.
That's fine for now, but with Flash disappearing from mobile devices, and browser enhancements, we're going to see a move from using Flash to just using JavaScript for ADs.
Just want to add one to your list - Nikon P60. It has all sorts of awesome features like a great viewfinder and 8 second exposure time but you can get it for under $200. And uses AA batteries, so your camera will keep on working through the day.

But if you are looking to try a DSLR, go with a Pentax Kx. It is the only entry-level DSLR to use standard AA batteries, which is pretty much invaluable if you only use it once a week or when traveling or if you plan to keep your camera for more than three years.

The whole intimacy/gravitas issue is easily resolved - don't be the only person with an SLR at a family gatherings (if you are, back off 50' or so when shooting, the angle will be better anyway) and don't carry it around your neck the entire time.
The exploited ads issue is a difficult one to solve, but it is not as bad as it used to be. As a website owner, there are certain "remnant" networks that I know to avoid - even though they are now owned by significant brands.

Even the premium ad networks who directly represent websites are occasionally tricked by new clients who sign up as one entity, but their ads contain a payload which only selectively reveals itself once it's out in the wild.
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Check your units. 500W is 12kWh per _day_, or 4000kWh-ish per year. Do you mean 5MWh?

Total hose power usage most likely is off by a huge factor, too.
I don't understand why you would single out ads. For me the whole experience of a site is what counts. If a site gives me a bad experience, whether due to ads or something else, I don't visit it anymore. Most news aggregators put the site you'll be visiting next to the link, so if you keep an eye on that you can use your brain as "negative experience blocker".
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It has set back Europe mainly. Not the US. The US (and the Soviet Union) imported all available scientic knowledge from Germany after the war. Even before the war many European scientists (especially those with jewish background) moved to the US. After the war the US searched even for those who were Nazis. Remember Wernher von Braun? He played a central role at NASA. Before that he was a part of the German war machine.

Zuse tried to be sucessful after the war in Germany. In a different environment (for example the US) he might have been more influential. I don't know why he didn't move to the US.

I saw him once when he was old and his ideas were slightly strange.

I should also mention that the linked article paints a very rosy picture about Zuse. In the last years there was some discussion about how much he worked for the Nazi war machine and whether his biography is correct.
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There are two things wrong with this article.

First, it doesn't even mention that without an adblocker your being tracked all over the place by advertisers. (A practice that is btw clearly illegal in many countries, even if they haven't explicitly wrote it into the law yet.)

Second, but this is more subjective, I have a rather different experience with turning off adblockers. Almost every website becomes several times (!) slower, and is full moving distractions trying to get my attention. Sorry, I can't read that way offline, and I won't read that way online. Only when advertising stops disrupting my experience and is only passively present (like it is in old-fashioned dead tree publications) will I turn off the adblocker.

I the mean time, I only make exceptions for sites that a) understand I have no obligation to download their ads, and ask nicely, and b) are very careful about the ads they put on their site.
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I think he means that more money is spent on seed-stage deals than on Series A deals.

With seed deals being much smaller than Series A deals that definitely has implications (e.g. there probably will not be enough money around to get a Series A for all those Seed funded startups that get to that next stage)
"credibility"

The idea of for a country to appear credible by using a golden straightjacket.
It's usually used by countries coming out of hyperinflation phases.
And that policy has badly failed before in Argentina.
My guess is that the 'Wenzhou' model is everywhere to some degree, but I only really know about where I live (Fujian).

I think there's two factors - (1) is that there haven't been many great places to invest money, so rich people throw them into houses, stock bubbles and 'alternative' non-legal investments (like lending groups). (2) is a generalisation, but Chinese people tend to be quite speculative - I guess a few years ago the average Brit would be happy with a 4.5% return on a 2year bank bond, whereas many Chinese people are more willing to take much riskier investments with possibly much higher returns.

As for ignoring laws, the whole-country model (not just Wenzhou) is that many laws are ignored until the government decides to crack down on something. When they decide to crack down, you react quickly. So, for example this month in Fuzhou it's fire safety month, and everyone is suddenly getting their fire-safety certificates in order. Next month it might be traffic, or health... who knows :)
You ewould probably end up with a very complex virus. A virus like that would be very likely to mutate into something that doesn't do what you want it to do.
I really wish that articles like this would quit using a non-zero based y axis graph to illustrate a drop. It looks dramatic but masks the actual percentage drop.
I think a couple pieces are missing from this advice:

1) Don't open your mouth unless you have something to say.

2) Don't repeat yourself.

3) Don't talk down to people.

It's impossible to be interesting if you are boring people.
I don't use an Adblocker per se, but I do use NoScript, mainly for security and performance. That does block quite a few ads, but frankly, good riddance; you shouldn't need JS or, even worse, Flash to display an ad. The web is slow enough already.
I've read most of that book, and I do agree that having equanimity/unreactiveness is a worthy life goal.
When German cars age, they tend get replaced by new German cars. Germany has wealth because it sells expensive things in high quantity. Greece? Spain? Not so much.
So, where will the next bubble be?
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I meant that as one example of a country which has dollarized; that is, which uses a foreign country's money as its basis of it domestic currency.

Countries which tie their domestic currency directly to the US's include Panama, Ecuador, and El Salvador. Namibia ties its currency to South Africa's (or rather, to the Multilateral Monetary Area).

Other monetary unions exist. The CFA franc has been around for 60+ years and the East Caribbean dollar has been around for 45+ years.

Those seem like counter-arguments to the idea that monetary policy should be "set on a country by country basis."

Since countries do yield domestic currency in favor of a shared currency, it's apparent that there are advantages to doing so. Why do none of those apply to the EU?

I know that I like how I can use the same currency in Germany, France, Spain, and Ireland without having to change money each trip. While I don't like stopping in Denmark, which has their own domestic currency.
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If you can only stomach scientifically proven self-help advice, then you might like this:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3nn/scientific_selfhelp_the_state_of...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/

Now, upvote me :) (reverse reverse psychology)
There's easy way - test it on humans. The strain that kills the host is the deadly one.

Remember these people don't think dying is bad - they usually believe in an afterlife.
Ah, if the word "number" was supposed to be "total value" that would definitely indicate a problem.
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"Better to go with the devil you know, than the devil you don't." The devil you know. Better for you. Meanwhile I get sabotaged from doing my job well. And my job impacts the bottom line more than yours.
Maybe it's just getting cheaper to build and maybe monetizing is getting easier too, so it's possible that companies are profitable much earlier and don't need a series a?
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Couple of years ago, I visited the computer museum in Berlin. I made a lot of pictures of the Zuse computers which were on display there. You can find those here on my Dutch site: http://thenextcorner.com/2008/01/zuse-computer-tentoonstelli...

Amazing that a fully mechanical machine was able to make calculations based on a programming language.
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It's a shame it didn't mention the _reason_ for Yoda Conditions: as a protection against accidentally using the assignment operator rather than a check for equality. Accidentally writing if (foo=4) { } will not raise an exception, whereas if (4=foo) {} does, thus alerting you of your typo rather than allowing a rather nasty bug to persist.
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Of course, any compiler written in the past decade should print a warning on if (foo = 4), so this reason doesn't apply much any more.
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I don't think it's fair to conflate the issue of illegal boat arrivals with immigration.

Most Australians are OK with immigration in principle and practice. It is, as already described, a nation of immigrants.

The thing they don't like is the people smuggling business bringing in those who claim refugee status, after destroying their documents saying who they are. I think the general attitude is - you can immigrate, just get in line and fill out the forms like everyone else.

You may see this as the same but I don't think the average person on the street does.
Sometimes I feel like sports commentary consists people cooking up stories to explain a random number generator.

Even the dumbest sports commentary outshines this article, which consists of 500 words attempting to explain a company's entirety based on a two week price fluctuation based on market whim (because there was no news regarding the company)
I saw an article in a British paper last week. It basically said the UK-Australia people flow is drastically declining.

They went on about a whole lot of made-up factors like people missing their families and the rest, but the simple fact of the matter is that the cost of living in Australia is out of control.

It used to be you could sell your crappy 2 bedroom semi in an outer London suburb and move to a nice big home in Australia, and have plenty of money left over to send the kids to a good school.

Nowadays that's not the case.

Same for the young Australian - you used to be able to go to London for a couple of years, save up your money and come back with a decent stash of savings. Also no longer the case.

Honestly I think Australia is choking on it's property prices which has fuelled massive debts. It's why your chicken sandwich costs $15, because the rents are out of control because of the price the owner paid for the shop.

W/regards to not having access to Australian healthcare, I already knew that because I met a NZ guy ages ago who explained the whole deal. Not sure what the situation is now but back when the conversation took place there was no reciprocal agreement and people from NZ had to pay full-freight to get access to healthcare.
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I used to find lots of yoda conditions in Java. People use it to test a string variable against a constant value and save some null checks.
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rar is often employed more as a packager than a compressor. For instance, if you have a 5 GB file to offer for download, you split it into 7 parts with rar and offer it as a self-extracting .exe, like they are doing here for instance http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575

As for the file being corrupt, I suspect something else may have been going on, such as bugs with torrent clients. I don't know why the original source file would have been corrupted, as it was supplied by the maker of the film.
Cool, but this looks like THEY are in charge of the servers. If this is true, no thank you. I'd like to set up and control my own servers and be responsible for my own object's privacy.

Facebook is invading people's privacy
Twine is [trying] to invade people's objects' privacy.

Nice try but no thanks! What happens if a hacker gets in and notices a filter like:

When [person] leaves home, decrease heating thermostat down to 65F degrees

If this action is triggered, the crooks will know which homes are vacant or occupied.
Well, good riddance.

Is it just me, or is money being thrown at a lot of crap these days? As long as it has a cutesy name and is based in the Valley, it gets bukkaked with millions of dollars by eager investors.

All this cash floating around also seems to lead to startups sucking up all the best talent. Do coding geniuses really need to be working on photo-sharing apps, as opposed to, say, rocket programming?

I did an interview with Danish madman and super-entrepreneur Morten Lund once. One of the things he told me is that a recession is the best time to start a business: the table is cleared and the posers don't want to work hard to make it. More room for the truly dedicated.
Around 1990 my girlfriend and I visited Deutches Museum in Munich. At one point we both stood bent over a display intensely studying something when we were approached by an elderly gentleman. "I guess you are into computers?" "Yes we both are?" "Then I have a hot tip for you, around that corner they are working on restoring one of the old Z-machines to make it work again. Konrad Zuse himself is helping out." We vent there and saw three people concentrated around several very big blueprints. One of them was and old man with snow-white hair, holding a big yellowed sheet filled with a big mesh of electrical diagramming. Still going strong at the age of 80. A special gem to take away from that visit.
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I don't use an ad blocker because the ads don't bother me very much, and because I'd like the sites I enjoy to stay open.

If one doesn't want to see it as a moral choice, on a practical level, if the sites which bring you content you enjoy do not receive revenue, they will either close, offer degraded service, or start charging.
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Maybe spraying the aerosol over a populated Japanese city for a week was the test on a human population?
>If someone has a sound technical solution for this problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux works pretty well. I'm not trying to be pedantic, of course - Linux is immune to Windows exploits, of course, and cross platform exploits, such as for Flash, generally don't work unless specifically targeted against Linux, which in practice doesn't happen on a scattershot distribution method like an ad network.
Sleek? Where are the round corners? Did Jobs teach you nothing?
Re 8: How about a explicit creative commons license? :)
nice way to stop procrasting and getting to work. I've tried and got results through START Method- 1. Select it 2.Time box it 3.Act on it 4.Review it 5.Treat yourself
The law of demand is only relevant if you are discussing the balance sheets of exporting businesses, which for some reason you seem insistent on doing.

I'm discussing the balance sheets of consumers. Maybe I'm just crazy, but I care more about consumers than I do about Mercedes-Benz Inc.
So basically the article is describing it as some sort of anarcho-capitalist paradise, whereas in reality it's some sort of anarcho-capitalist dystopia.
They could still negotiate a price
I use them when doing an assignment and equality check in the same if statement. I find that putting the equality check first helps readability and makes the intent clearer.

eg.

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else
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If you mean he can turn around and sue copyright trolls again, he cannot do that. His former clients will claim there is a conflict, since now he has access to their data under attorney client relationship.
But don't you actually have to click the ad to help the site?
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This bubble prediction babble is a good example of the saying "a broken clock is right twice a day"

Bubble pundits have to accept the fact that they will not be able to predict the bursting of a bubble. Assuming there is one.

Even the title says "I think"
Glad you found out that just because a small minority is abusing the system, its not a good idea to destroy the income stream of all sites. I would love to block people that block the ads on my sites. I respect my users by placing only relevant and non-intrusive ads. If a user doesn't respect me by blocking all my ads, they can find their information or entertainment somewhere else, for all I care.
> Lastly, from a technical perspective, sensors and lenses
> on cheaper cameras are pretty good these days, and
> generally when you shooting you don't want full manual.

True, but focus speed and low-light performance are still very lacking compared to SLRs. And I'd say these two are quite important for family stuff: just try to take photo of playing kids with camera which is slow to focus or has substantial shutter lag. Not all family dinners are brightly lit either.
Plus, if the software update or whatnot you wanted to download was on the CDN node in your basement, you might be able to download at LAN speeds!
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You miss the opportunity cost. There was still a lot of time an energy spent in the US on ways to destroy enemies. You can't measure what would have been if these resources had been put on other tasks.
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Opt-out here:

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Or disallow cookies from ad networks, so they can't track.
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You're not. I never used and never would use an ad blocker.

If I open a web site with annoying ads, I simply hit the back button or close the browser tab.
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What I have learned from share market is that when people predicts the future, that prediction is always accounted for in the present. Therefore things don't go up or down when that time arrives.

Unless of course when the prediction itself changes. And that's when things start to move again -- not in the future, but at present.
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