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> [w]e try hard to ignore the hardship in front of us (emphasis added)

I was surprised that "even" an economist would assume without comment that all panhandlers are as badly off as they appear. After all, they have an incentive to look miserable.
Tobu's response to you pretty much sums up my opinion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297411

Your reply to him would help me see your side better, I think.
What part doesn't make sense? An example from WWII was when the Allies cracked the enigma code. Obviously the intelligence value goes down if the British brag about it to all the voters and the Germans stop using it.
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Probably grandfathered in. Before 2001, anyone could register a .edu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu#Eligibility
Nice, can't wait to start using you when we get into the area!
If it's not too much to ask, who is paying for all that free space ?
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They did a donor drive at work some months back. My genetic disorder disqualifies me, even though I'm fairly healthy and off all medication at this point. At the moment, I don't think it would be a good idea for me to donate marrow to anyone as I am still recovering my own health, but this means that even in the future when I may well be healthy enough to be willing and (physically) able, I will still be disqualified. Not sure how to feel about it.
We just launched today, technically you can we are soon releasing an update that will let you upload any size file. for now the limit is 5GBs. Do you have smaller files you can upload would love for you to test it and give us feedback.
Does that work better than a page listing "Available Locations" plus a "Request Your City" line?

Seems like you'd lose a lot of customers who visit the site, wonder if it's in their city, don't see any cities listed, and then close the page.
One of us what? Hes just some dude that manged to strike it big and is now a VC.

The most common linking factor I can see between the HN poster and PG is entrepreneurial- and tech-focus. Whats so "one of us" about that? Nothing. Or is it the "hacker" group, that weird banner created when pg massaged a term with a loose meaning and appealing connotation into the something divorced from its original meaning that people now want to identify as?

We're on this website playing in his playground, one built to serve the needs of YC with advertizing, finding talent, and indoctrination. That's it; everything else is ancillary.
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I've deleted my Facebook a number of times. I know this sounds petty, but the main reason I always signed back up was because my girlfriend at the time wanted to be in a relationship with a 'real person' not just a name on Facebook. This was two different, perfectly well adjusted women.

I think this speaks to Facebook as a status symbol not as a communication tool. Why do you upload pictures of your vacation? Because you want grandma to see them and enjoy seeing your lovely face or is it to impress all your friends with this awesome life you have. I think it is mostly the latter.
I'm confused -- do kids actually clamor specifically for the McDonald's toys? Aren't there better and cheaper toys out there?
Changing the product is not necessarily changing the vision. Read the article you referenced... IMVU changed the direction of their product drastically from IM to social networking while still adhering to the vision of avatar mediated communication.
No, this is not FUD. This is a proxy for a pattern of behavior (unprotected sex with the same sex, sharing of needles, etc). They ask you these questions as a primary filter for determining who is at risk of transferring a disease. We still don't know everything about how the disease is transferred, but we know which behavior patterns lead to it.

And regarding the 1978 date, we still don't even know how long HIV can lay dormant in humans.
It's because it's their mobile website. The text on the normal version of the story seems to zoom fine: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-li...
Ok, thanks for the feedback !
Err, apparently it wasn't quite open registration, but the restrictions were looser.

(I wanted to edit this in, but the noprocrast filter kicked in right after I posted the comment! Funny.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
This is specifically a count of the number of companies which have paid money to these universities to license technology developed by their professors, which doesn't really IMHO have anything to do with software startups anymore.
Let's flip that around: it makes it easier for "those above" in the hierarchy to deceive a whole pile of compartmentalized people into performing useless work, and thereby consuming lots and lots of government money.
>The screen isn't higher resolution, it's just physically larger

No, it actually is a higher resolution screen. 1280x720 vs 960x640 for the iPhone.
The sign up process was also a huge pain for me, but I mostly got through it. But the part that bugged me the most was how strongly they were trying to get me to donate money, too. I get that it takes $100 to process the application, but this feels like unpleasant upselling. If you're asking people to donate their bone marrow, which is a pretty big deal, don't try to make them pay for it, or make them feel bad if they chose not to.

Once you're signed up online, though, the registry is pretty painless. The cheek swabs were a lot more convenient than 23andme's massively annoying spit donation.
A person in need, or perhaps a research subject...
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I just signed up, created a room, named it, tagged it, uploaded a file to it and saved it. Now I have no idea how to find that room. Tried searching for it, nothing happens. This looked promising and then... it just falls flat.
His representation in the case provided by Public Citizen, a public interest organization that I would expect takes clients pro bono.
No, deleted and deactivated are two different things on Facebook[1]. You may disagree with the definition, but as it is currently used on Facebook he is being accurate.

Facebook doesn't make it clear about what types of data they do and don't keep beyond saying they disassociate you from the information, but retain some for 'technical' reasons. I can't really imagine what those would be.

[1]http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=125338004213029#What-is-th...?
The niche markets I identify are naturally map / data related for a narrow business segment. So yes, I am leveraging my abilities and resources in that field to serve and out-compete others in these spaces. The niche markets are direct sales, not ad based.
What do you want to do with incoming mail? Just outsource the mailboxes to check from your computer/phone, or are you looking for some kind of preprocessing service for connecting mail to your apps?
The technical qualities of a technology are not the sole determinant of its success or failure.
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IMO those numbers are not directly comparable. You buy a PC when your old PC is getting too old; only a portion of the PC market will be buying PCs in a given month.

On the other hand, the iPad is a new and rapidly growing market segment.

In other words, one is a new growing market, and one is an older stable market. The numbers will be more comparable once the tablet market is stabilized.
If the author loves HyperCard so much why doesn't he re-create it? Honestly, it would not take that long.

The answer is because he'd rather write some link bait trashing Apple and Steve Jobs.

And because he knows perfectly well that making HyperCard is not worth his time.

IMHO his calculator example makes it perfectly obvious why HyperCard not only was killed but deserved to die. Like all of Apple's languages of the time, HyperTalk is awful. Additionally HyperCard is not particularly flexible or elegant, nor does it produce particularly fantastic end results. It's crap.

And in a day like today where we have the web enabling people who have never even heard of a pointer (let alone had to deal with pointer math) to write full fledged, performant, distributed, multi-user applications, why does anyone in their right mind spend 5 minute bemoaning the loss of HyperCard? It's absurdity.
You can see it in the footer, sorry we just launched today and we are only 2 engineers trying our best to fix everything asap.
Tell me if you see it in the footer.
Btw it is free back up for life and its safe, so your files are there no worries, tell me if you would like anything else to improve your exp you can email me at michael@thirsty.com if you need any help with something.
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Kudos to McDonald's for circumventing a stupid law. The government needs to stop meddling in everyone's life.
I have use cases for virtualenv, but on my dev machine, to emulate a prod machine setup. But on a prod machine I will have to question hard every line in the install log, and virtualenv may not stay in.

For JS, I don't think it's only problem is with browser compatibility, it also has other flaws and need some patching before being usable, I've heard.
The last numbers I know of are from 2003 but in 2003 Happy Meals accounted for about 20% of McDonalds Sales (Link found through Quick Google Search: http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2004/09/03/the-steal...)

Apparently they distributed over 1.5 Billion toys in 2009 (Lftqgs: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1460556/mcdonalds_g...)

So I'd say yes
I may be a bit late, but I registered nonetheless.
One I can think of offhand is http://cloudmailin.com/
You are lauding HyperCard and calling JS/CSS/HTML a swamp? Seriously?

JS/CSS/HTML all have flaws -- some more vexing than others -- but they (and the browsers that put them to use) are infinitely superior to HyperCard.
See http://www.quora.com/How-did-Academia.edu-get-the-.edu-domai...
Can we really credit this entirely to the increased efficiency of iPads? There are lots of usages of RAM--now people carry around cell phones with more RAM than before. And data centers can make use of tons of RAM--the main constraint is its price.

Maybe this is actually a result of bad general macroeconomic conditions. Nobody wants to spend too much money, whether it's consumers or people setting up data centers. That's always been the case, but we're poorer than before now, and RAM is one of those things that you can cut down on, or stop increasing as quickly on.

This news is unfortunate.
I need to write a bot that posts this every time a new free online storage sites pop up on HN:

The only compelling aspect of the offering is the promise of free storage. I don't see a dollar sign anywhere on the site, so I don't understand how they intend to keep that promise for very long. I refuse to sign up for a product, much less take the time to integrate it into my workflow, without knowing that it will be around for longer than a few months.
Yeah, I talk to several family members, most of my high school friends (but I graduated in 1984), and a few friends exclusively through Facebook. There are a lot of people whose online existence consists entirely of FB, and I happen to know some of them.
Ok, seems like I missed the announcement last week. You should read the discussion there if you are reading this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267006
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Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" will become a book.
I don't disagree but I think the larger point here is Government is painfully ineffective at meddling. So much so that they end up making the problem they were trying to prevent worse.

I mean, this was a pretty obvious work around for McDonalds. If the SF City Council was serious about this they should have seen it coming from a mile away.
I was going to post a comment mentioning how I heard it was installed on the iPhone but I was wrong it seems.

http://lifehacker.com/5863895/carrier-iq-how-the-widespread-...

"Update: Our original article stated that the software also came preinstalled on iPhones and dumphones, which has not been confirmed. That information came from this article at Geeks.com, and we actually believe that to be a typo. Considering it hasn't been mentioned in any other source, and that the iPhone isn't on Eckhart's list of affected devices, we're removing it until other sources say otherwise. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out."
Postmark is offering this as well. It's been in private beta for a number of months but is solid. It's been in production on our other app, Beanstalk, as well our customers apps including the issue tracker DoneDone (http://www.getdonedone.com).

Beta is closed now until we open the feature to the public, which is planned to be very soon.
We/Mailgun focus a lot on incoming mail parsing and routing. Honestly, we find it more interesting than just sending/delivery. Although, there is clearly more market demand for sending. We also allow you to create IMAP/POP3 mailboxes programmatically. We wrote a blog post about it recently[1] and you can also check out our docs for more information[2].

The other companies that I am aware of with incoming email capabilities are Sendgrid with their Parse API[3] and I believe Cloudmailin[4] focuses exclusively on handling incoming email.

Edit: Postmark[5] has incoming email in beta as well. Added links, too

[1] http://blog.mailgun.net/post/12482374892/handle-incoming-ema...

[2] http://documentation.mailgun.net/user_manual.html#receiving-...

[3] http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/

[4] http://cloudmailin.com/

[5] http://postmarkapp.com/
I'm going to disagree with you, somewhat.

I see increasing numbers of riders with high-visibility gear. I've always been a fan, so I'm happy to see it. However, I've noticed that, more often than not, very little of the jacket/pants are actually visible when the rider is on the move. The helmet and shoulders are the most visible in oncoming traffic, and all too often the shoulders will be some darker color, meant to contrast with the high-viz torso and arms!

High-viz gear will unquestionably help with traffic to your sides and behind you, but I think a high-viz helmet is significantly more valuable than a jacket, and a modulated (flashing) headlight is more valuable than either, from the front.

I'm of the opinion that learning solid skills and practicing them regularly will contribute far more to healthy and longevity than gear alone. By skills, I mean more than just stopping and turning, I also mean the ability to read traffic and maintain focused awareness of absolutely everything around you.

By the way, my favorite piece of gear is my one-piece Aerostich Roadcrafter. Some elements of the design are getting outdated, but I'm literally able to put it on or take it off in under ten seconds, and the one-piece design means I always wear full protection. I would choose a different two-piece for touring, but for everyday riding, the Roadcrafter is hard to beat.
I was in McDonald's a few weeks ago and heard a parent say "we've been to 3 locations looking for this toy!" Apparently some kids want them bad enough to force their parents to go to extremes to get them.
Right, D deficiency is actually quite common, particularly among certain ethnic/racial groups.

B12 deficiency is almost unheard of outside fairly uncommon genetic disorders or areas of extreme famine (or persons with extremely compromised diets like alcoholics, Bulimia nervosa, Anorexia nervosa, etc.) and until the last few decades people simply didn't live long enough to start to have B12 deficiencies caused by age.

The body requires so little B12, and the source of it is so readily available, and you don't even need to eat foods rich in it every day, that even in absolutely undeveloped countries, people are able to readily find sources of B12.

As omnivores we evolved in a way that we can't synthesize B12 internally so we must eat food sources that contain it.

Thanks to the miracles of modern food science even people who purposefully avoid the one source of B12 we evolved over millions of years to eat can find foods artificially enriched with it (take that all natural diet!)
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I am afraid that it's #6. Sad but true. Personally, I've never owned an Apple product, but sometimes I have a feeling that Mr. Jobs has more to do with my Android phone than anyone else (of course Google ripped off iPhone, but that's life).
The very first startup I was in (as an early employee) went IPO in the late 90s. My next startup (where I was a founder) crashed and burned in the tech bust that followed. The crash was beyond my control, however failure was incredibly hard to deal with for the reason you mentioned.

I did the obvious thing, got a real job, saved cash etc. Things have obviously changed dramatically since then in terms of ease of starting one's own project, so I've been plugging away at mine for a while.

I have to admit though that I do find myself thinking like "Bob" sometimes because I want desperately to avoid another f-up. I've gotten around it by having a key team of advisers/mentors that have done startups successfully. I challenge their opinions sometimes, but generally listen to what they say.

Its also very easy to over-analyze something until you don't know what's up or down.
People aren't writing novels on their SmartPhones. The typed input from a normal volume of text messages, e-mails, and URLs is actually pretty minute when you think about it. Certainly it would be compressed before being uploaded to their servers. IIRC they cite 140 million active devices so if you figure 3kB per day, which is probably on the high side, that's only 400GB before compression. You can compress text down by about 90% these days. That works out to only 44GB of data uploaded per day.
Without reaching Facebook-caliber critical mass, what would such a service offer people to join? Just in case you wanted to tell them something? I mean, if you just want a small system for telling your friends things, use a mailing list.
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* the hardware, however, does not work like that.*

Could you explain that?
The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head yet again.
The reason for so many different levels of classification isn't "this is more sensitive than Top Secret, and this is more sensitive than that, and THIS is even MORE sensitive, etc etc."

It's about compartmentalization - a guy who works intel in Iraq doesn't need to know about North Korean intel collection techniques, so it's classified differently and compartmentalized.
You must charge. Otherwise, there is a risk important data will be lost if you go out of business.
My first two kids did. We stopped feeding them fast food and it stopped. The younger two clamor for carrot sticks ;)
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> What MongoDB really does well, though, is make every JOIN explicit.

And SQL doesn't?
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I find it difficult to believe that the iPad is the root cause of the surplus.

The timeline is all wrong:

>DRAM chipmakers including Elpida Memory and Hynix Semiconductor have lost $14 billion over the past three years

2011 minus 3 years puts it at 2008. Something important did happen in 2008, but it wasn't the iPad launch.

The fact that the story comes from appleinsider.com doesn't lend much credibility to the iPad angle either.
The biggest simple mistake I see with company blogs, especially at startups, is not linking the top/etc. of the blog back to the main corporate website. You should also deep-link into your website, product info, etc. It should be easy for me to read about what you're doing in the blog, then learn about your products, and contact you for sales (or sign up online).
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How will you sustain a "free storage" site without any income? Surely you must be charging someone for something.

If not, it leads me to believe you might do something with our data to make money. I don't want to jump to conclusions, so it might be a better idea if you just tell us how you plan to capitalize on the service before we upload our content!
no funding to the tune of $1.5m, so it won't matter.
For those of you who don't know, Derek Lowe is a professional chemist who writes about drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. Among other things, he writes about chemicals that are so toxic, smelly, explosive, or otherwise unpleasant that he refuses to deal with them. Those weblog posts are both informative and hilarious.

Here's a sample:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...
Thanks for the detailed writeup.

> Postmark is $1.50/thousand (or less) with no minimums. You can literally spend $1.50/month with us and get the same level/quality of service as someone spending thousands of dollars/month with us.

Again, this is exactly why I chose you guys over Sendgrid. Very simple pricing with no arbitrary feature segmentation by plan.
You can say you have clearances, but you aren't supposed to talk about what level.

When I was leaving the agency I worked for, I had to get what I wanted to write on my resume approved. They told me I had to remove my clearance level.
Have you seen the rising obesity statistics? If the government doesn't take it on as a public health issue, who will?

http://www.wikinvest.com/images/3/37/Obesity.jpg
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No one can save the world, and no organization can save the world. People die, bad things happen and the measurable impact of any random person is zero. That's the simple facts of our existence. However, you can elevate yourself to where you have the ability to have more impact than a random person and you can direct your actions in a way that everyone you encounter is better for it (note that I say they are better for it and not that they think they are better for it). Those two things are how you have an actual impact because others follow suit, not because your individual contribution was overtly grand
I tested this a while ago (using sql_no_cache in the query) and the `WHERE id > 0` query was faster. I can't seem to reproduce it though...
I went through the signup process a month or two ago, but got flat-rejected at the last step (after about half an hour of reading fine print).

The issue: I had temporary hair loss in high school, due to an autoimmune disease according to a dermatologist. I was never tested for it, and figured I could still get tested, but the signup process just stopped me.

I'm in the LA area and willing to drive somewhere to get tested for a match tonight if someone can shed more light on if/how I can do it.
Kids are a delicious target audience. The churn-rate is largely irrelevant because there's infinite supply of new little idiots.
How?
This sounds like a hilarious legal hack but the details were never revealed.
That's great and all.

Who pays your bills in the next 12 months?