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What you are doing - Why it matters.
Here's mine.

(Keep'm short)

Making a system to enable people with decisions to make to enter criteria, be it specific or broad, and then automatically narrow their choices to only the optimal choices.

It matters because so much value a multiplicity of choice could bring is lost in our world to either fraudulent mirages of variety OR lost to our inability to keep our proverbial "apples" and "oranges" straight.

Not as short as I would have liked, but you get the idea.

Now post yours!!! Don't think to much, just do it.
Google has a source license for Flash - they just get the fixes from Adobe before they've passed QA in all of their products. Google doesn't actually develop their own fixes in these cases - they just ship them faster.
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From someone who also works with and helps entrepreneurs to acquire domains, I think you got a great score here Brett and your persistence has to be noted. I'm sure it didn't take 1 email

Only one question I'm curious what your "non-low-ball" initial offer was if you got it for such a reasonable price.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned using the resources at his college to get a job.

I'd expect he'd have much better luck showing up at his college's job fair and talking to a developer/recruiter in person who is looking to hire a college student than sending his resume somewhere online to compete with hundreds of other people. Research the companies beforehand so when you talk to the person you can talk intelligently. Have a friend/career services review your resume.
Obviously. That said, it is also a trust to specific site problem: I might trust Apple, but not trust Flowroute. Honestly, many people might trust a website that looks "corporate", and not one that looks "Web 2.0", or trust websites that use blue on white, but not ones that uses yellow on black. Having PayPal (or an alternative, such as Amazon Flexible Payments, which is epic in many ways, although lacking in international support) as a fallback option is great as anyone who doesn't trust your website has a fallback option.
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helped them develop local industries that are more labour intensive and thus provide better income distribution than most other nations

That's just not true, and our high unemployment rates (until recently) show it.

Australia has always been an importer of manufactured goods. Our car industry was supported by old fashioned import tariffs.

Prior to the mineral boom, Australia's wealth came from mostly agricultural exports (eg wheat and wool)
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Work-life balance can be really difficult with partners. Don't neglect your partner, you've got plenty of time for working the rest of your life… people are not like that.
We don't always agree jacques, but I'm totally with you on this.

Stamp duty is the most regressive, unfair tax around.

Paying $15,000 or more in tax to move houses? Madness. How on earth is that considered fair, or a good thing for economic development? Particularly when the states agreed to drop stamp duty in return for the GST incomes.

If you take it that demand for housing is pretty much unlimited (everyone wants their own dwelling, and everyone wants as much space as possible) then you must look at supply.

Sure, cities like Sydney are geographically constrained, but this doesn't explain the high cost of housing places where there are no geographic constraints, only planning constraints.

Historically, in Australia, the cost of the land was well below the cost of building a house on it. Now it easily exceeds 50% of the cost in some cases.

The block of dirt under my feet cost 1500 pounds in the mid 1960's. Converted to a modern value, that is about $30,000. That value is out by a factor of probably 15-20 times. Which means, in rough terms, the land is 20 times more valuable now than it was back then. While some of this is attributable to improvement in services, population increase, etc etc, there isn't anywhere where you can buy a house block for $30,000 which is the inflation-adjusted price of the land as it was originally when the subdivision was opened.

The high value of land can only have one factor - restriction in supply. Restriction of supply is caused by a combination of large land-holders drip-feeding blocks on to the market and in collusion with the state government putting major restrictions on the ability to release land for sale.
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One of my points, however, is that I have to take your word on that, and even if I know that you are using Stripe, I have to trust that your webserver wasn't compromised and is now running a few lines of "extra" JavaScript that also skim my credit card to a third party site.

(Honestly, and I realize this is a stupid bias on my part, I'd trust your site more if the labels on the text boxes lined up with text boxes. I think it is fair to say, however, that a lot of people have silly biases like that, as a lot of time you are just fighting with some gut feeling someone is getting about your site as they are about to convert, and not any appeal to rational argument.)

(Again, though: I am actually the kind of person who tends to just use their credit card willy nilly. I, personally, would have no serious problem signing up for your site as is. However, if you had PayPal as a payment option, I'd use it, and in the end it could actually save you money. If you had Amazon Flexible Payments as a payment option I'd definitely use it, and it would almost certainly save you money.)
On this order page, the "Confirm My Order" button just seems weird:

https://www.cloudcontacts.com/order

Does pressing the button confirm the order, or does pressing the button take you to a page where you confirm the order?
I don't think the onus is on Apple to suggest how Samsung could design a good alternative tablet.
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Before we even had the idea for "HALL" we tried medium.com, foundation.com etc... to explore the possibility. We were never really excited about these names. We started the conversation off by offering $5k. That didn't work out well. The owner essentially blocked us after emailing back w no thanks.

We even considered the idea of leasing a domain which is doable.
I'm way behind on Windows tech, but it's made a token attempt to support a crippled POSIX subsystem since Windows NT. This is supposed to be the modern equivalent:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324081
I'd expect it to be easier with a jet engine than propellers? Just use a steel cable net. Speaking of which, maybe if you use a close-mesh metallic net (maybe in addition to a coarse one for trapping), you'd break its uplink without any need for active electronic warfare?
Remember, entrepreneurs: this is how academics think. And this is the attitude that makes begging for money via grants a lot more appealing than entrepreneurship. It's "give me money to do this because I'm an expert in it" instead of "make something people want and they will give you money."
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What caused this mess?

Some historical deliberation on that question, in a broader context, by

Matthew Paul Thomas: http://web.archive.org/web/20051030040127/http://mpt.phrasew...

Havoc Pennington: http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html
I'm a frontend developer at a pretty cool company hiring frontend developers (full time or contract). We pay well if you can code well and produce work on time / be available. If you don't want to post your portfolio publicly, shoot me an email (in my profile) and I'll take a look & tell you more about the company I work for as well.

Out of curiosity, are you looking for freelance only or would you be open to moving to California as well?
They could put "WakeMate" in the headline, it's not the only product Jawbone offers.
No it was true...we've been working on a new plugin site for quite sometime now. This just forced our hand to make it priority.
I usually don't make this kind of comments but, after reading the linked article and its comments (on the linked page) I was wondering if everybody suddenly reached absolute stupidity.
Glad to see that we can still discuss rationally here at HN.

As rkon said, not worth reading. It is that stupid. Read only if you have some kind of fascination for human stupidity.
Interesting read—thanks for posting those links!
Someone already said in this discussion that PCI compliance is a legal term :) To some degree, it is a deal between you and your QSA (or you again if you are doing self-assessment). I heard about a few businesses that accept credit card numbers w/o bothering to do anything about security at all. You will need to decide for yourself the acceptable risk for your business in various "things gone bad" scenarios and how much you want to invest in protecting against scenarios that are bad for your business.

We've designed WePay solution to make it "out-of-the-box" as secure as possible for both our partners and WePay. We plan to offer more customization options in the future to improve usability while keeping it simple and secure to use. Doing security right is hard. We believe that WePay can help with it and make our partners life easier.
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The size of GDP mostly correlates to population (assuming stable living conditions).

"How well" and economy is going correlates well to exports.

Agriculture and mining do make up 57% of exports however, thus keeping the trade balance on keel.

Mining makes up 47% of the total - agriculture as a whole is smaller than Gold alone, and roughly the size of our crude petroleum exports (I never realize that!). See http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/trade/trade-at-a-glance-...
This looked excellent until I realized that the code isn't on Github. Sure, I can download it, but I'd rather be able to fork it.
got some better wording? Clicking that button takes you to a review page where you see the info then on that page you click to buy.
Go to the Google+ link on the top. The draft link is in one of the comments in the Google+ post.
> You should use: git clone git@bob.github.com:bob/bobsproject.git

The "git@" part is rendered unnecessary by putting "User git" in the SSH config for that host name.

There's also no rule saying that your SSH names have to be patterned like FQDNs. This is just personal taste, but to me, the ".com" is just extra junk to type. It could be reduced to "bob.github" or "bob-gh" or something similarly short.

While we're at it, the ".git" is optional too. We can reduce this down to something like:

git clone bob-gh:bob/bobsproject

But at the very least, leave the "git@" part off. ~/.ssh/config is already taking care of that part.
Don't waste your time on this, as the author said:

"Note: This is just a fun hack. You may want to consider using mature languages like Ruby or Perl to solve actual real life problems. Oh who am I kidding, I use whitespace and brainfuck every day."
I think what's tough is that FOSS design generally ends up as design by committee, with a tendency towards introducing more configurability (and thus more complexity) as a means of appeasing everyone when dissension arises.

From an engineering standpoint, that's part of what makes FOSS great. From a design standpoint, that sounds like a gig from hell.
Same experience. Pre-flight briefing with instructor: "When I say 'I have the plane', do NOT fly the plane".

But then again, that's a VFR flight in decent weather. I'd imagine it's a bit easier to get stressed in the middle of the night in a storm over the Atlantic with electrical failures.
We do have paypal option - I think I see I need to add a link to it on the order page, right now the link is on the order options page.

As for Amazon, I spoke with them at length - their FPS service won't work for us they said.

Thanks so much for your feedback
Pick your poison, mate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia
Hopefully they'll have their Android app out by the time they re-release.
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Wow, you are right. I just realized that we are in a cold war.

I'd like to read an analysis that draws parallels from the opposing ideologies in the current situation to the opposing ideologies of the Cold War.

In lisp it would look like:

(compare-contrast
(conflict '(ideology US) '(ideology USSR))
(conflict '(ideology US) '(ideology Iran)))
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The correct course of action is to declutch so that the wheels get back in sync with the road.
Of course, you cannot do that on an automatic car.
Or at least wipe itself so software and encryption can be removed. You would think they would have a "Find my iDrone" function with remote wipe for such an expensive piece of equipment.
That's a great post.

I loved this: Imposter syndrome has a far better payoff than the Dunning Kruger effect.

(Edit: I submitted a link from the comments on that as a post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3332497)
Looking over the 7 comments so far on this, I suggest you trust your instincts that this isn't a tremendously well-conceived business. Find someone else whose Rails skills you find are roughly comparable to yours, and say you are too booked to commit to sling the code for them, but you would be happy to serve in a technical advisory / oversight capacity as a board member, and here's this other Rails coder who should be able to serve your needs almost as well. Typical board member time commitment is no more than 16 hours a month for a director who is conscientious, with no chair commitments on a board, but one who preps for the board meetings, is available for ad-hoc and committee meetings, etc. Typical compensation is entirely equity, around 2% at the pre-seed stage for each director. Read up on what board of directors do in a startup if you take this advice and use it, before you approach them; don't go overboard, an evening spent Googling around is sufficient at your stage with these guys, you just need to get a feel for the boundary between guidance / advice and operations.

This delivers several objectives:

* Puts out the message: your professional time is outbidding their bid in the market.
* Retain the relationship for a more manageable time commitment.
* Allows them to get strategic-level technical advice from you "for free" (for now), and implement in the trenches as they see fit.
* Gives them a starting point for another in the trenches implementer.

Expertise matters a lot. Execution matters more.

It can cost very little to offer general board-level guidance (making sure they are asking the right questions) using your expertise if like in your situation you are favorably disposed to the parties. It should cost very dear for you to use your expertise to execute.
Thanks kitt, I really try hard to write enough documentation that no one (including me) is confused by my code if there are interested in understanding it.
pud, we've talked domains before, through a mutual friend Jay W. Anyway, call Godaddy and ask them for an executive lock on all your domains. Also ask for an executive account rep.
Once you have both of those, Godaddy actually calls you and your rep will request a pin number of you. Your names will only move if you give them permission to move. Other registrars have this level of security too. Hit me up if you want a referral to a good rep over there.
Nice idea, especially if the service can offer some really nice analytics on users, but perhaps the MVP should try to sell itself from a security perspective, so that the reason to use it is because its easier and more secure than creating a simple user system with username and straight MD5 password storage.
> A stealth craft has to maintain radio silence to avoid detection.

Radio silence means you don't transmit. There's no reason you can't passively receive. I'd imagine transmitting a narrow beam transmission at a satellite would be hard to detect with anything but dumb luck, too.
As long as you are near the CBD. Otherwise all you have for culture is the pokies.
CNet, Brothersoft, Softonic, and a handful of other sites all pull this same scam. I don't know if they all still do, but they managed to alienate a lot of people.
Yes and no.

It is different to salary, because it is taxed differently, and when the superannuation rate increased (which happens occasionally) you never see a reduction in your take-home pay.

But it does reduce the amount they can afford to give you as your take-home pay.

Actually, the really interesting discussion is about superannuation-as-forced-savings vs a sovereign-wealth-fund. They aren't really equivalent, but they have some similar outcomes (eg a large amount of capital available for investment). I've gone back on forth on if we should have a sovereign wealth fund - there are good arguments both ways.
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Australia is not the Saudia Arabia of high grade (Anthracite) coal. The United States has triple the amount of proven high grade coal reserves and is also a larger coal producer than Australia. Don't get me wrong, Australia has a lot of coal, but the USA, Russia and China all have much larger reserves of all but the lowest grade brown (lignite) coal.
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Now if only they could get rid of the terrible video poker parlors that are replacing all the pubs.
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"Review My Order"

possibly some helper text that says something to the effect of "confirm your order on the next page"?
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"Check Out" is an old standard users will be familiar with, and "Place Order" or "Submit" is usually acceptable for the actual click that submits the order.
Honest question. If SOPA were to pass, could a photographer get a site like the LA Times blocked or whatever for using their picture without permission?
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Start Engine startups filmed for reality TV show
Just a heads-up: the first batch of Los Angeles startups at Start Engine will appear in an upcoming reality TV show.

My co-founder and I were interviewed at Start Engine this afternoon. All of our interactions with co-chairs Howard Marks and Paul Kessler were caught on camera, including the 20 minute interview and the resulting feedback we received about our startup.

Afterwards, there was a second interview with another camera crew. The questions that we were asked reminded us a lot about the reality show that TechStars produced in September.

If anyone else has an upcoming interview with Howard Marks, be prepared to brush shoulders with cameramen and sign a release form. (Also, make sure to get your teeth whitened beforehand.)
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You can also specify which circles see the entire blob of contact info. I would prefer to send each bit to a different circle, but it's 1 step up from the permapublic name field.
It's not theft, it's copyright infringement.

Kidding, kidding. But it's amazing how quickly people rediscover the value of copyrights when they're copyrights that you personally wouldn't violate, right?

Anyhow, journalists have a two-tiered ethical system with regards to plagiarism. There's Journalists -- you cannot plagiarize from Journalists. To do so is instantaneous career suicide. There will be no appeal and you will never work in the industry again. Then there's Sources -- you cannot plagiarize from sources, either. If you reprint their stuff verbatim, that's just Good Journalism. (TM)

Photographers thought they were Journalists. They were always Sources. For a little while, they were Sources that uniquely possessed something Journalists would pay money for.
On thought on reading this: Should programs be puzzles?
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I think apologies would have worked 2 years ago. Wakemate just has a terrible, terrible reputation at this point with how they handle their customers and their preorders.

This isn't "trouble with customer support," it's "failed customer support."
Amazon uses "Proceed to Checkout" which is a good way to word it; gives the user a mental image of going up to a cashier.
This has been a feature in Picasa since 2008 - http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/picasa-refresh-brings-facia...
One thing to keep in mind when comparing cost of living: minimum wage.

In the US, minimum waqe is about US$7.50. In Australia, it's about US$15. Your McValue meal is $1-2 cheaper in the US, but the minimum/low wage worker (the bulk of the workforce) has to work for less time to get that meal in Aus.

Until the e-commerce boom of the last 5-10 years, this disparity wasn't much of a problem, as economies were much more localised.

I'm not saying it's the complete answer (thankfully, I'm not an economist), but it's one of the most overlooked factors in all these analyses: the buying power of the poor.
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Ask HN: What if every aspect of your work was completely measurable?
How would you feel if someone monitored various aspects of your work, such as

how many lines of code you write in a day,

business value of code you produce in a day (e.g. Pivotal Tracker points),

average “lifetime” of your code before it’s changed,

what percentage of your code is changed,

what percentage of code you write from scratch vs. changing others’ code,

when bugs are tracked,

what percentage of bugs are due to your code,

how many files you change,

what coding tasks you are good/bad at, AND

what languages you’re most/least proficient in.

What do you like about this? Would you use this to demonstrate that you are a strong coder and useful employee? Would it be helpful in keeping your work on track?

What don’t you like about it? Would you feel this was an unwarranted intrusion? If so, why? Would it make you angry enough to get another job or not work there?
If you like JavaScript. Java would be better. There is the Bean Shell. That doesn't replace BASH for what it does well. In fact, that's the point of BASH, not to replace traditional languages but to bind their output programs together.