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It's great that you donate a portion of your revenue to Charity:Water! Here's some feedback...though it's vague, you didn't specify any specific part of your site for me to address:

- The color of red in your logo at the top doesn't match the red in your footer. (Minor, maybe, but this was screaming at me.)

- The overall design could be balanced a bit better. The area at the top which summarizes your business is quite spacious, whereas the content underneath (Stroll, Explore, Create, and Story sections, etc) feel cramped. Consider a CSS grid layout to give your elements and position some "visual rhythm" (or a consistent visual feel that allows the eye to casually consume content without jarring distractions and interruptions within the layout). http://960.gs or http://blueprintcss.org is quite nice for this.

- RedCappi seems to be two products in one (with a tab on the right allowing the user to switch information between the two products. This is not very intuitive and I'd be willing to bet that the majority of your web builder traffic is a lot less than your email marketing traffic. Consider separating the two products more clearly and giving each their own space on your domain. This will improve SEM/SEO as well as help users to more quickly find the information they need.

- WAY too many pricing plans. By offering so many options, you are probably scaring your customers away from making a decision they (may or may not) have to live with. Everything starts out free for your customers anyway, so why not just let them grow their plan as their needs require it. You can mention limitations, but I wouldn't throw prices in their face unless they're looking. And when the only thing between plans that change is the number of contacts allowed, make the plan configurable with a slider. MUCH easier to understand for the user and they can play around with the slider to fit their plan (giving them the perception of more control, which they'll love). Heroku does this if you want an example. (http://www.heroku.com/pricing)

- I like the idea... I'm not doing too much email marketing so I'm not certain what are strong features, what is done well, etc etc. I was looking for screenshots or a tour but couldn't find anything of the sort.

Hope this gives you a good start. :)
Evidence that 1 in 16 "fair" couples will have all of one sex.
I'm assuming it will be more than "about 20 bucks" once people find out about this! On the plus side its free money from Google right?
Because I have Vim set up to not move at all when I press star, so there's no point in pulsing the line:

" Don't move on *
nnoremap * *<c-o>
Is making a backup of everything that costly? My experience is you'll screw something up trying to be selective. With storage being so cheap these days, it's hardly worth the risk.

I don't use mongo so it's not 100% relevant, but I found setting up a postgres slave and running my backups from that is a nice solution. There's no additional load on my master and I just dump the backups into S3.
I'm pretty sure nothing fishy went on behind the scenes. The client "automatically" fixes things through our API when it tries to log in because it will create an account if it doesn't exist.

I, too, have a hard time believing I confused "save" and "delete", but I'm reasonably sure that's what happened. I think I misused Python's shell history. I'll bet I hit the up arrow, which resurrected "family.delete()" instead of "family.save()".
> Suffice to say, there are quite a few markets and product categories that are traditionally completely "locked down" or "closed" or "integrated", or whatever you want to call them, that absolutely do not "tend to lose in the end".

Hm, that could very well be. Could you give an example or two?

For example a GPS device in the car may be proprietary as you said, but a car itself isn't. Not sure about particular patents and rules, but can't anyone with enough investment start making cars? Gaming also isn't restricted to game consoles either. Or maybe I'm just thinking about different categories.

Even stories that are in the public domain are probably better known to most people because there were more movies made about them and more references were made in culture.

Openness allows things to become ubiquitous, but yeah, it's probably a difference if you talk about phone operating systems or cooking recipes. But still.. What Linus says rings true to me.
I disagree with this. Making a script and testing it against a copy of the database is a good idea in 100% of cases. The only reason you don't do that is because you're lazy and stupid. (I've done this because I'm lazy and stupid.)

When you defeat a safety interlock system, expect to be injured.
> "Earning 3K extra a year is ridiculously easy. Far more so than worrying about family planning."

Take the time to look up other consequences of short birth spacing. Infant and maternal mortality, low birth weight, and a whole host of other complications become dramatically more prevalent as birth spacing drops below 2 years.

The academic results given here are just another part of the larger pattern: it's usually healthier to space births out 2+ years.
I think your first point is brilliant, but your second I disagree with.

$5/month is $60 a year, practically an impulse purchase for a lot of people. $10/month is $120/year. That psychologically adds an extra digit to both the monthly and years and that is also high enough to be outside impulse buy range.

Anecdotally, I love dropbox, but I don't even fully use the 2GB free account (mostly text files). I would pay $60/year immediately for even a 5GB or 10GB plan on the possibility I might need it swiftly or to give me the freedom of tossing on some more pictures of the kids. But I can't justify $120/year when I still have space left ont he free account.
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I've been using SpiderOak since Dropbox's misleading-advertising-about-encryption fiasco. SpiderOak is rock stable, supports full client-side encryption, offers cheaper plans, and I also got the 50% educational discount. But the sync functionality is slow as molasses.

When I log into either my desktop or my laptop, it takes several minutes before SpiderOak will actually sync any files. This gets frustrating after a while, so I sometimes just whip out a USB stick to copy the files I'd been working on.

A few weeks ago I added my VPS to my SpiderOak account. It took almost an hour for initial sync to complete, despite the fact that there was nothing to sync.

Dropbox, on the other hand, only takes as much time as it takes to transfer the actual file(s) back and forth. It doesn't even seem to scan the Dropbox folder for changes, or if it does, it's very quick. I can't imagine how they're doing this, but if Dropbox can do this, why can't SpiderOak?
Easily fixed by serving up a Cache-Control header, as documented in the page you linked to.
The question is which target is worth the price of the launch? Cruise missiles are already often hitting targets not worth 1/10th of their price
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I only don't mind ads because I block most of them.

Whenever I view the net through a different browser or computer, I'm pretty shocked how much ads are actually there.

And no, I'm afraid they're not actually "sometimes useful", to me. Most of the time I'm on the net I'm not looking to buy something.

Though come to think of it, the few times I am, I don't mind clicking an ad or two. Except when I do, and it appeals to me, I usually run a query through a search engine to find the same page, so I can see what the other 9 top results are.

I mean, how can I know I'm getting a good deal by just clicking one ad, right?
Ask HN: Talent acquisition, how much are we worth?
A company is interested in doing a talent acquisition of our startup. I don't know how to value each of us, but I think the HN community could explain what typical deals look like regarding initial cash, stock options and earn-out periods. I don't want to undersell myself, nor do I want to look like a greedy fool.

I'm begin vague and using a throwaway account for obvious reasons.
The military and diplomatic communications of the preceding fifty years showed before the light of their minds. At the same time as they surveyed the satellite data, Mr. Slippery and Erythrina swept through these bureaucratic communications, looking carefully but with flickering speed at every requisition for toilet paper, every "declaration" of secret war, every travel voucher, everyone of the trillions of pieces of "'paper" that made it possible for the machinery of state to creak forward. And here the signs were much clearer; large sections were subtly changed, giving the same feeling the eye's blind spot gives, the feeling that nothing is really obscured but that some things are simply gone. Some of the distortions were immense. Under their microscopic yet global scrutiny, it was obvious that all of Venezuela, large parts of Alaska, and most of the economic base for the low satellite net were all controlled by some single interest that had little Connection with the proper owners. Who their enemy was still a mystery, but his works loomed larger and larger around them.

Vernor Vinge, True Names, 1981
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2nd test affirms faster than light particles
Maybe, maybe not. Microsoft DOES have a history of strong-arming OEMs into being Windows-only. If they get lazy it'll only be because they don't see Linux as a threat anymore.
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Really. I can't think of single time when knowing where a candidate is/was working influenced me or any other interviewer on my team. It simply doesn't matter.

OK, there were a few times when we said in a debrief "how did someone so clueless ever get hired at XXX" but that's hardly a positive influence :-)
I must disagree. While Jobs' contributions are not quite on the same level as what Edison, Einstein, Hopper, Ritchie or Turing did, Bill Gates did nothing at of that magnitude.

Had Microsoft never existed, 8-bit home computers would have used another version of BASIC. There were a couple floating around (you can play with them with an Atari or BBC emulator). Had Microsoft never existed, IBM would have adopted CP/M as its OS and PC clones would have been built around it (and would be more diverse because CP/M was much more portable than MS-DOS), but I doubt they'd be as common as they are today. We would probably have a much more diverse hardware environment (think Amiga, Archimedes, Transputer), which could have created a cross-platform standard for software, most likely based on POSIX and X. Apple would still have launched the Lisa, and the Mac and they'd be successful. The web would be born anyway and so would be free and open source software (but there would probably be much less incentive to use it).

It's a horrible thing to say, but had Bill Gates decided to be a banker or a lawyer, the world would be a much better place. He would still be rich (because he was born that way).

Paul Allen would still have made his name in tech, possibly with MITS. Ballmer would have graduated from Stanford.
Look at how Quora does it. It is the best way to do it.
The energy is not in generating the mirror, but in shaking it. That energy is directly used to create the photons.
How many people are being acquired?

What is the nature of their skills (what areas of expertise and what level of expertise)?

How long will you have to work for the acquiring company?
A good story, but you should really start reading it from the beginning:

http://brahmsyellowdots.blogspot.com/2008/10/it-begins.html
Gruber, in this case, isn't saying Apple invented the keyboard less smart phone. Its that Apple really got behind a new interface paradigm.

For giggle though remember the first Android Emulator?

http://www.triviaburst.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-mati...
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A guy who praised a leak of secret government documents, running for president and beating half the other contenders, just blows my mind.
It may seem more amazing to you, but I would argue that is only because you are not likely in a position to be amazed by the magnitude of the importance people like Edison and Turing had on this world.

This is forgivable, but please note that he was talking about contribution to society, not "wow factor".
Warum ist die Kreditkarte in Deutschland nicht weit verbreitet?
This is indeed odd. On my home network, I have a firewall at the edge, a firewall on each machine, and every service requires authentication (cryptographic where possible; username+password over SSL otherwise). It took me about a day to set up, and I'm not even a security person.

It's unacceptable that people whose jobs are to secure computer networks do a worse job than I do for the little computer under my TV.

(Yup, all of my machines at home have a public IP address. Convenient!)
I'm lazy and don't want to type out the github URL, but you're right I should place the redirection under my control and use HTTPS. Honestly though I cannot think of a single reason why anyone would want to hijack my script. I don't do anything very interesting that would make my machine a lucrative target for that sort of malicious activity. I'm a very small fish in a massive pond.

Also due to laziness I don't want to add a bunch of stuff to .gitignore, or add * and then add exceptions. I like having the symlinks.
Honestly, I'd like to know how often this actually happens.

Most employers with half a brain know that they will lose employees if a better offer comes along. Most of them also realize that at any given time, people are exploring their options. They also realize that the vast majority of them will stay put and won't leave without signalling in some way and it's really not a productive use of time scanning the web trying to figure out who might quit next.

I've worked for some pretty stupid people and even they wouldn't bother doing this.
Wolfram Alpha now lets you spy on the flights overhead
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I found fewer calories and intense daily cardio to work well. If you run everyday while eating less you're guaranteed to lose weight and as long as you keep running you can start to mostly eat what you want when you reach your desired goal.
Isn't that why actual money has all those fancy strips and bumps? Canada just introduced $100 polymer notes this week. It's even partially transparent. Good luck faking that with consumer-grade laser printers. (Color inkjets might work better on transparent sheets.)
Ahhhh freakonomics, meaninglessness-mass-market-pseudo-data-into-linkbait at its finest!

Their read is that "Smarter" kids = Math and Science test scores.

Is that how you measure "smart"?

- What about musically smart?

- What about non-linear thinking (classic entrepreneur trait)?

- What about decision making capabilities?

Freakonmics is link-bait data drivel that, due to its mass appeal, is dangerously influential.

It gets under my skin because you'll often see Freakonomics data repeated as "truth" in the media or in casual conversation.

Truth is not their product.
Having been an editor for years, believe me when I say that no one will think twice about editing Brin's page to include some negative details, especially if they're well-supported. The Foundation itself has almost no editorial oversight over content on WP. Even Jimbo was basically booted from the BDFL role after a few controversial actions, and now has rescinded most of his privileges.

If there's anything Wikipedians excel at, it's causing a big furious stink whenever there's some indication of content tampering on the part of the Foundation. This is much easier to do when the vast majority of donors don't have a Wikipedia article on them, than when there is a list of 50 or so companies contributing advertising dollars.

The present system works. The banners get annoying, but the content is free from the taint of bought influence.
2 people. I'm both a designer and a developer, I guess a unique combination where I can program an app and make it look very good and usable. The other is strictly a developer.

I don't know about the last question yet since I'm sure that would be part of the negotiation. What's typical?
The Science of Building Trust
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=flights+overhead
What did you use for the SD card solution?
> Presumption of validity is arguably out of place given today's patent system.

It comes from the statute though, so a court isn't really free to just ignore it. Changing this presumption would take congressional action.
Shouldn't a story should get more activity because people think that it is interesting/insightful/useful, not because it showed up at the right time?
Careful there. The copier might automatically notify the Secret Service, too. You never know with today's network-enabled copiers...
This is using a predefined standard for being "smart," higher reading and writing skills. First the basis should be established that proves that being smarter, based on this metric, is actually better for every person. I find value in being smarter, but this does not mean that others will.

A better metric would be the amount of value the person derives from what he or she is doing. But this is an impossible metric to gather and even if it were it can't be used to compare individuals.
Double and triple take on the title:

Throw my kids out an air lock? (Space them!)

Send my kids to the ISS? (Space them at least two years)

OK, I got this one a bit off :-(
Here's the problem with Gruber's argument. He's using something Malcolm Gladwell wrote to criticize a book that Walter Isaacson wrote. Isaacson didn't say Steve Jobs was a tweaker.

Granted that Gladwell's article reveals how little he understands the nature of invention. As punishment, he should be forced to read every patent for paper clips. Nearly all invention is a change to an existing thing because the inventor thinks some (could be very small) aspect of it should be better. That's a pretty good description of Steve Jobs.

I'm only midway through the book, but frankly I don't see so far where the criticism is coming from.
Some people are looking for meaning in everything. Perhaps they do that enough they start seeing patterns.

Not saying that the study is bogus, it might well be true (e.g. the older child becomes a role model for the younger and thus tries harder or something similar), and while I like this age we live now many seemingly random things can be explained, I think it's good to stay skeptical and take such results with a grain of salt. Some people might draw conclusions that are not beneficial (for themselves and society as a whole).

Just saying, now back to work.
Well-known indeed (at least, I followed it with keen interest when it came out), but I think it's good that this resurfaces as I really don't think it got enough attention the first time around.

Personally I think the most worrying bits of data are first the time stamp, and second the printer serial number.

I say serial number is second because in a criminal investigation phorensics can also get a "fingerprint" of the printer by tracking imperfections in the way it's printed.

But the timestamp of when something was printed is definitely new information that otherwise would not be there and in certain circumstances would not want to be leaked.
Anyone who subscribes to the FT can attest to just how great their ipad site is. I honestly can't think of a native app that does what they do better, the entire interface is lovely.
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Invalidating patents with prior art isn't as easy as you might think. There are two ways to do this: you can invalidate on novelty grounds (that is, the invention was anticipated by a single piece of prior art) or non-obviousness grounds (a combination of prior art essentially undermines the idea that the patentee took an 'inventive step'). Only the claims in the patent are considered when assessing novelty and non-obviousness. In the case of novelty, a single piece of prior art must embody everything claimed in the patent, whereas non-obviousness loosens this restriction. Non-obviousness claims are typically far more difficult to prevail upon, which is why companies won't do it more often.

For what it's worth, the relatively recent KSR v. Teleflex case gives us the current opinion of the Supreme Court in non-obviousness battles. In that case, they slid the scale back to favor the Graham[1] test for non-obviousness, rather than the controversial teaching-suggesting-motivation test, which tries to determine whether something in the prior art suggests the desirability of combining the claimed subject matter, and thus its obviousness. Now, the Graham test (which was a 1966 decision) allows for empirical evidence of non-obviousness, to wit: commercial success, long-felt but unsolved needs, and failure of others to invent the patented subject matter.

All of these are issues that need to be litigated in federal court, an exceptionally expensive endeavor that no corporation will take without a very strong incentive.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_et_al._v._John_Deere_Co.....
IMHO a computer that is usable within the hour by a one year old goes far beyond "wow factor" and well into contribution realm.
But the timestamp of when something was printed is definitely new information that otherwise would not be there and in certain circumstances would not want to be leaked.

In particular, not only leaked to police, but in the case of printers where the dot pattern's been decoded, to anyone who might care when your document was printed.
Guess we better sit down and wait to starve to death. Thanks for showing us the light, buddy.
Doing something works. Just not within the confines of a political system, which is fundamentally based on violence and can't produce real freedom in the long run.

In the same way one wouldn't have infiltrated the Soviets to reform communism, or the KKK to reform slavery, one instead subverts, undermines and networks around it. Like the flourishing black markets in the Soviet-era, or the underground railroad, the Counter-Economy can grow, and eventually overcome and abolish the violence of the State, through non-violent means.

Want untracked printers? Consider the risk vs. reward of hacking one and profiting from distributing it on a black/gray market. It will be more more effective and more ethical than voting or any nonsense like that.
I like safety, be it encryption, locking my doors, etc. Good luck finding a legal justification around that.
I've just spent two years bringing up my daughter (and iPhone apps on the side at night), whilst my wife works.

Highly recommended, if you can swing it, at least once.

Now, how to get back in the work-force...
> I think it's good that this resurfaces as I really don't think it got enough attention the first time around.

No argument there. I just thought I'd share a lot of what's already known so that we don't have to rediscover it.
No love for Knol? I guess Sergey would like to forget that that venture ever existed.
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The desire for recognition is a major driver of philanthropy. Let's not attack the reason for Wikipedia getting half a million dollars.
Works for me. MBP bought last March when the first Sandy Bridge models were released.
nnoremap <leader>ev <C-w>s<C-w>j<C-w>L:e $MYVIMRC<cr>

:vsplit $MYVIMRC and so on would work the same way, but more obviously, and without depending on the placement of split windows.
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being able to crack full disk encryption is vital for the prosecution of child porn and pharmaceutical spam barons, amongst others

Put in those terms, it seems that the trade-off between our right to privacy versus the needs of law enforcement is so ridiculously unbalanced that the law enforcement people ought to just slink away with their tails between their legs.
Yes. Yes it has.

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/jimmy_wales

Note: Though I would normally not post these kinds of links, it's somewhat relevant to the topic at hand.