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I try and remind myself there will always be competitors selling the same thing cheap enough to put you both out of business.

You have your users AND they are paying. How sustainable is a business where he absorbs all the costs and doesn't bring any revenue in? How much support can he continue provide to free users? Especially if they get into the large numbers.

You are treating it like a business, he is treating it like a project that he can drop at any time.

In my eyes, he is collecting your future customers for you. When he spends to the bottom of his pockets and folds, his customers will have to choose between your service or no service.

Hold on, keep focused on your lovely customers. Give them amazing service. Go above and beyond for them. Stir up a little press of your own (make your stake on first to market a little early)

Don't get caught up in looking over your shoulder.
For not being designers, the UI/UX is fantastic! Great work guys.
>It doesn't seem like bakers need to worry about Groupon, or Yelp. Is this just a poor example or am I missing something?

You're missing the leverage that software gives you. A bakery that keeps track of its Yelp reputation and works hard to maintain a 5-star rating will attract customers from all over the city. It might even start attracting out-of-towners who are in for a visit. This bakery's "market" is effectively unlimited because in any major city, there are going to be out-of-towners flowing in and out on a regular basis, and some of them will be looking for a bakery.

A bakery that doesn't do as well at maintaining a good reputation on Yelp will have its market limited to reach of its advertising and the word-of-mouth of its customers. Now, in a relatively tech-heavy town like San Francisco, that might be fine. If you provide good croissants, you'll get mentions on blogs and Twitter, which would magnify the word of mouth effect in a manner similar to Yelp. But if your customers aren't bloggers or heavy users of social networks? You could have the best bread in the world and not be rewarded commensurately, simply because not enough people know that you have the best bread in the world.
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Because it makes the story more interesting.

Also, Apple is one strange company. A friend who worked there as a contractor told me that there were two Perl teams there, working in different buildings. He organized a lunch so that the two teams could meet each other. After someone higher up found out, that was the end of his contract. Apparently there is so much secrecy that even teams working on bullshit HR apps (or the equivalent) can't even have lunch together.

Apple is a cult. Follow the rules or you go to hell.
> Smartphones and tablets are largely for entertainment

I don't know for tablets, I don't own one yet (Kindle e-ink doesn't count, does it?), but for smartphones I do not agree. They are tools. Powerful tools, like a Swiss army knife on crack.

They can be overused, and there is a full "phone politeness" to build, but it is not a reason to luditely dismiss them as useless toys.

Things my smartphone allow me to do:

- Get GPS turn-by-turn navigation from a link received in chat or direct search, including traffic info. (In China it is GPS is a near necessity)

- Find a nice mountain path when hiking around.

- Get an answer immediately when some wikipediable question arise in a discussion.

- Get translations from and to Chinese, English, French.

- Quickly prefill some new contact info and expand it on my computer later. Take a pic of the contact so I remember better how that is. (Helps with this Chinese names).

- Best: Build my own tailored Fuzzy Pinyin to English dictionary and push it to my phone, so I get a faster search. No dictionaries I know are that fast. Needed for catching up during meetings.

I won't say I never use it for games or news checking. It happens, mostly on the toilets, but it is not the main use.
"(E) None of the above" is an easy way to solve that problem and is commonly used on standardized tests.
I really wish it was two-way Highrise contacts integration with Google Apps.
The digital gold currencies had exactly one problem: they worked like cash, but without the necessary decentralization and untraceability. So, people started using them like cash, including for illicit purposes, but the services remained subject to centralized shutdown and seizure.
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You can penalize guessing by subtracting a small fraction of a point for each missed problem (but not for those left blank). Easy to do, and with overwhelming statistical probability those who guess on everything will end up with a score close to zero.
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There is such a thing as criminal negligence.
It's 30mg/100g. That's an order of magnitude lower than most fish, two orders of magnitude less than the best fish, and about what you'd get from a turkey sandwich.

Which is unsurprising, because mammals suck at making omega-3s, and plants are a bad source of healthful omega-3s.

Let's not get too excited.
Thanks for taking the time for the comment, bdg.

About the pitch/technology/complications: You are right - everyone here too has echoed that I should clarify how the tech works, why it isn't really trivial, and generally improve the marketing pitch too. I hear you. Expect a change coming up soon. Thanks for the feedback - it's invaluable.
He didn't quote the full paragraph, which was about alternate-day fasting, which is a form of calorie restriction.
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Yelp are not in the review business. People who read and write reviews are not their customers. Yelp are in the "Convincing businesses to pay Yelp to game reviews" business. Businesses are their customrs.

Under the circumstances, a "false negative" like this is irrelevant to Yelp's business. In fact, false negatives are good for Yelp: They have an incentive to present mixed reviews to businesses who can then pay to filter the negatives out.
Optimization-by-proxy rears its ugly head once again.
That's why I think we have the odd reversed PR situation, where instead of companies trying to deny responsibility to their users, and critics arguing that they should be held responsible, we have the opposite. Companies running free services themselves do try to build a perception that they feel a sense of moral responsibility towards their users, cultivating a sort of "we're good stewards of our lovely users and their data, and wouldn't sell you out" perception. And their critics (like, say, Jason Scott or Richard Stallman) are the ones who emphasize the idea that free cloud services don't owe you anything (and therefore you shouldn't trust them to have your interests in mind).
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Is that such a bad thing, though?

I've seen Radiohead live a few times and I'm always very sad that I never saw them in The Bends/OK Computer era- they barely ever play songs that far back any more. It's a huge deal when they play Creep, too.

I'm not saying that every band should just play crowd-pleasers, of course, but it's nice to hear the stuff that made the band every now and then.
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Haha. Thanks for this feedback. I really have to work on my (non-existing?) marketing skill.
The political class bought votes with so much borrowed money that they finally could not repay, now they want us to blame the people who give them the money. Like the alcoholic who blames the bar tender for his car crashes.
Sure; but the flight environment is trivial in comparison with urban traffic. Even so, with concerted effort the progress was phenomenal.
Buying a copy is like handing out a medal for us, since we have yet to break even on this release :-)

Thanks for the kind words. Getting the commentary from all the different authors was like trying to juggle cats, but with more cats.
While I don't have any constructive comments to offer with regard to the product itself, I feel obliged to convey my encouragement and appreciation. You're doing great work. Keep getting better.
I see NFC as potentially good for profiles.

There's an app I use called "Settings Profile" which works wonderfully. I have a cell tower event that knows when I'm at work and switches to my work profile (lower volume ringing, different ring tone, etc). It doesn't use just one tower, it uses 3, so it's very specific to the region of my office.

It has a lot of other features. For example, when I plug into power, I turn on Wi-Fi, which causes my podcasts to start downloading (only happens on Wi-Fi).

The other thing I do: mute my ringer during scheduled meetings.

This app is in my top 5.
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Funny you mention that -- I coded a few effects (starfield, plasma, nothing amazing) to be used as the background for the menus around 2009. Unfortunately, the only production toolchain we could use (due to cost) didn't support authoring BD-J, so we dropped the idea. I know of at least one other group working on a Blu-ray BD-J demo...
You make my point perfectly.

The internet is a perfect example of technology that is constantly evolving inspite of it's roots.
Are we talking about nodejs.org? I am in China an can access it. And you can check for yourself here http://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=nodejs.org
Here's the sentence you based the headline on:

"Our results show that government policy decisions, often in deregulation but also in regulation, have undermined the ability of our economic system to function and made it highly susceptible to crises." (emphasis mine)

Seems you missed a key point. Also,

"...other acts of regulation and deregulation have been carried out under the influence of corporate interests."

So it seems regulation or deregulation isn't the real issue. The real issue is manipulation of laws based on corporate interest.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence but the image on that site closely resembles the the temporary facade of the Covent Garden (London) Apple Store while it was still under construction: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GTXylOUSEM0/TFNV8AbQfQI/AAAAAAAADM...
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Well, the question is, how far does that go? If I put up photos on a public web server intending them to be private, is that still legal?
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You know what we use for project management... our bug tracking system. It seems like some of the most influential people in our industry (Spolesky and dhh) have to write software and make books on "their" philosophy of getting shit done. How about changing the topic for once. You know like solving the power crisis or something.
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>In just a couple of years the DARPA challenge yielded cars that can drive themselves in complex urban environments.

I imagine with sufficient smart people working on it, flying airplanes in relatively uncluttered sky would yield results faster.

As I mentioned, many of the tasks of flying airplanes have been successfully automated. However, there are significant complexities that pilots must deal with that don't apply to cars, and most of those still require human intervention, especially in-flight emergencies. If your car engine quits, you pull over to the shoulder, turn on your hazard lights, and call AAA. If your aircraft engine quits, the response is much more complex. If the power steering on your car quits, you do pretty much the same thing as described above. If your flight controls malfunction in an airplane, the response is much more complex. If your car catches on fire, you do the same as above, plus get out. If your airplane catches on fire, you've got a much bigger problem. I could go on, but I think that gets the idea across.

Also, the sky is not "relatively uncluttered." There are a lot of airplanes flying at any given moment, and most of them are concentrated onto airways. It gets even worse in the terminal area: lots and lots of planes coming and going to and from many different directions, all in a very small piece of sky.

>As for see-and-avoid, perhaps it works for obstacles on the ground, but other aircraft are moving so fast, is it really feasile to eyeball them before they are on you? Perhaps in pursuit, but at any significant angle they flash past at hundreds of miles an hour. Only radar etc has a chance of identifying/avoiding at those speeds.

I am alive today because, on countless occasions, I and my fellow aviators have looked outside, seen another aircraft, and maneuvered to avoid a potential collision. I think that you really don't have an accurate mental image of how this works, so I'll try to explain a little bit:

Consider two airliners cruising at 424 kts each, one heading due West, the other due North. The rate of closure is 600 kts. Depending on the atmospheric conditions, they will be visible to each other at about 10 nautical miles, which gives them an entire minute to spot each other and maneuver to avoid a collision. Even if it's two sueprsonic fighters flying right at each other at 600 kts each, they still have thirty seconds to spot each other. A much more realistic scenario would involve two aircraft in the terminal area, where they would be moving much more slowly, giving them much more time to see each other and respond.

I think the most dangerous situations are where two aircraft are on headings that are different by less than forty-five degrees: they are basically next to each other, closing from each other's sides where they are less likely to be spotted. The rate of closure is probably very low, but that's more than made up for by the awkward situation in regards to field of view from many cockpits.
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Basecamp could theoretically be less interesting than a Segway. But a Segway won't help me run a freelance biz with a guy 4,500 miles away.

Utility is far more valuable in many ways than entertainment.

Can't wait for the new updates
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Advertising on 4chan is a good idea that i never thought about, I have always posted to their boards...
I will ad that to my list. Thanks
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Disabilities don't count, I'm talking about people who can write better if they cared to try, not those who can't.
As a long time paypal user I must say that I rarely see such a good online based service.

I phoned them multiple times and was always answered by well informed people that promptly provided me all the information I needed. Having lived in multiple countries and run paypal based businesses in more than one country simultaneously, I presented them with quite a few tricky questions which they always solved very quickly. It is also worth to mention that they were kind.

One thing I hate more and more is donations. Specially begging for donations. There's always something fishy with donations deal with big money. I would not be surprised if paypal would start to tighten donations policies which apparently seems to be happening. Donation buttons are epidemic anyway.
someone [1] pulled this trick on Zuck's account [2]

1. http://twitter.com/#!/flyosity/status/144065873743839233

2. http://imgur.com/a/PrLrB
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Cell towers works relatively well, until they take one off-line for maintenance...
Is it just me or the copywriting is incredibly similar to Apple's when they introduced iPhone 4[1]: "This changes everything. Again"

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1edQuxclUs
This is probably closer to guessing someone's phone number than their password.
Ask HN: Know any upcoming incubator/accelerator deadlines?
I'm compiling an up to date list of upcoming incubator/accelerator deadlines from across the world, to be made available also here. Do you know any that are coming up in next months?

I know Angelpad deadline is Dec 11, http://bootcamp.jfdi.asia/ is Dec 16 and I/O Ventures applications for Jan are open as well. Techstars are in Jan, Mar, Jun. Any others, especially in coming months?
The main demo feature and intros featurette are 720p, but it's important to note they're 60p. 720@60p is the only 60 frame-per-second progressive format Blu-ray supports, so that's why we went with it (because demos at 30fps or lower don't have the same impact). At that size and framerate, 720@60 uses 88% of the bandwidth of 1080@30. I explain all this to illustrate that we didn't go with 720@60 for size reasons -- it was intentional, to match the full quality of the source material.

All the other special features (NVScene talks, production notes, etc.) are 1080@24 or 1080@30i.

We didn't consider a multi-disc release since we were already doing a Blu-ray+DVD combo pack. Trying to do a second disc of both would have increased the cost 50%, and we really wanted to keep it at the $20 mark, because who wants to spend more than that on a Blu-ray?
thanks for the feedback. Everything is still very much a learning process for us. Nathan, pointing to the side of the artist nodes is definitely cool, but the reason we had to steer away from that is that we're currently planning to add some new elements to the UI that do exactly that. (this would mean that the help and the UI elements would be doing the same thing in the future, which might get confusing).
I don't get the reason for this article's existence. Nothing is new or unusual here.

In any acquisition, the CEO and senior staff simultaneously negotiate their compensation packages with the acquiring company.

This always leads to major conflicts of interest, which is why the board gets to approve the acquisition, and why in larger transactions there's often some outside help brought in to negotiate.

If the board doesn't like the proportion of the proceeds going to the employees, they can always block the acquisition. They have that power precisely for situations like this. Since Gowalla's board approved the Facebook acquisition, they're presumably fine with it.

As for the minor investors who've been kept in the dark - I'm sure they agreed to drag-along provisions in their investor rights agreements, which meant they didn't have to be consulted. You have the rights you agree to.
I have tried bars. Not many are open because of the name of the game. The few bars that agreed and what worked for me is when I did a promotion and have been there physically (I sold all the decks I took there).
Modern glass cockpits are just thin interfaces on avionics you need anyway. I would be surprised if a cockpit-less 777 was significantly lighter than one including it.

As for the weight of the pilots themselves - judging by the cost of excess luggage, I'd say it's negligible for all but the smallest aircrafts.
"Another word for a mistake is 'negligence'"

No it isn't.
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I came across http://www.muscula.com/ over the weekend, and they seem to be farther along with this kind of a product in terms of features (not to discourage you, just to give you a heads up as to what else is out there). Specifically, they've implemented a stack trace and also provide the browser/OS data in addition to the file/line/error.

They also provide a quick overview of their architecture if anyone is curious @ http://www.muscula.com/architecture
From your top link:

Africaans is a dialect of Dutch - European language.

Albanian - European.

Arabic - the first non Indo-European language in this list and what do you know, no leading "m-sound". More like the opposite of that.

Aymara, Azeri and Basque are also all non Indo-European and what do you, also no leading "m-sound".

The list continues with a whole pile of Slavic and other European language, holy crap "mother" in Bosnian and Bulgarian sounds really similar - what a shock!

I'm just scanning through the list now, Hawaiian seems to be the firs non Indo-European language to have the "ma" sound. I bet if you look you'll find the "ma" sound in whole pile of other Hawaiian words too! Are they all about sucking?

Hungarian is in Europe but is a Finno-Uguric language and again no "m-sound".

Indonesian no "ma" sound. And I'm tired of proving my point.

This "the sound of the world for mother is similar to suckling" seems like utter bullshit to me.

Leading with the m-sound just happens to be common in the Indo-European language family.

And I don't even know what the heck your second link is!?
I suppose the main advantage would be information aggregation with each error next to the number of occurrences (I don't want to see a hundred times the same error), the same business model as airbrake or getexceptional. I mean, almost any developer could implement an exception logger, but I don't really want to spend that time on a non-core feature for my business.
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I am surprised, I thought 37s was against rewrites.
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Nope - on a VPS. The point is, it's not expensive, even if you have to pay for a dedicated IP.
Your anecdote about adoption of chip+PIN+stored_value in the EU is interesting, and we still don't really have chip+PIN (ISO 7816) in the US. However, you might be surprised that in the US we do have contactless POS devices (NFC-ISO 18092, ISO 14443) at McDonalds, Jack in the Box, most transit terminals, Regal theaters, 7-elevens, among other locations.

The idea of having one chip that resides in your phone is appealing compared to carrying several cards with embedded ICs. And, since the US has skipped the whole chip+PIN phase, this will be the technology that brings IC-based payments to the US.

Imagine landing at an airport, virtually checking-in, and having your hotel room key sent to your phone which can then be used to open your hotel room without ever going to a front desk. That is something a simple card can't do.
The problem is, a single review is more or less worthless. Unless you give a variety of reviews (1 through to 5 stars), you are a pretty useless signal. There's no way they can see if you are a discerning critic who only gives 5 stars if it's the best meal you've had in years, or a Homer Simpson type who'd give 5 stars to Burger King the time they accidentally upsized your fries. Or that the restaurant in question requested people review it if they loved the experience.

The disadvantage to this approach is that only the pretentious wankers who review every meal they have get any real pull. Funky places that cater to people with strange tases will lose out, because OMG the garlic was almost RARE!
+1 for Trello, I am a big fan
They're in the pickaxe business so what else would they talk about except mining? If you're looking for a different kind of luminary look elsewhere.
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Unfortunately, the PayPal of today is a far cry from Peter Thiel's original vision. It was supposed to be an extra-governmental currency more akin to something like bitcoin, until Ebay got ahold of it. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974670103
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