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I think you guys are all thinking about this the wrong way. Siegler's post is about finding the lines that define acceptable content not caring about his exact photo.

Knowing what a company like google defines as inappropriate is important for being able to make informed choices about what products you should use and who you should be giving all your personal data to for free.
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I ran some numbers to compare my current perks (NJ, less than 10 minutes drive, lunch at home) vs possible offer in NYC (about an hour of train and subway combined) and figured I'd need to ask 10k more to just to have same amount of money left after expenses for commute and lunching out. And I'm already making more that Ruby people from the OP list.
Yeah, the Apple OS source code (loaned to microsoft for the purposes of writing Word for Mac) that ended up in the windows code base was just .. uh... That was really from xerox. Honest! Oh no wait, it was just an accident, and had nothing at all to do with copying the Mac OS and it'll never happen again.
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Well yeah, but for most part, just make sure the user is deleting something that belongs to him. No point in introducing CanCan or ACL unless you got some more role action going on. Moderators, Admins etc.

Also, by delete. I mean version and hide. Not actually deleting it.
Nice wording, "You people are truly clueless?".

Well one thing is clear, whatever kind of opposite world you live in large corporations don't have any influence over government policy.

There is no one on that client list who deals with anything policy related at all! The interesting things about company emails is that they tend to not communicate to the outside world.

Yes "Policy Makers" only get intelligence from the CIA. Since out of the huge intelligence budget the only agency we have that deals with matters outside of the US is the CIA.

Think tanks and other non governmental institutions are for people other than "Policy Makers"

I hope I'm keeping up the theme of saying completely backwards stuff!

Or that you just....clueless.
And sometimes, it used to be, for their price hike you didn't necessarily even get the highest speed your mobo supported.
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So somebody, somewhere in the company figured out that they could save/make $X billon by charging a $2 "convenience fee" or getting their customers to switch over to ACH transactions thus saving 2% - 3% they're losing to credit card companies ... and since customers are frequently locked in by contracts ... or with hardware that won't work on other networks ... or don't even know what a routing number is ... they're captive.

Class action lawsuit ... lawyers get paid ... customers maybe get a coupon for something useless in a year or two, or maybe nothing at all ... and the world keeps spinning.

Maximize shareholder value! Beat those quarterly estimates! Make your customer relationship more difficult! Can you hear me now?
Government simply doesn't ruin everything it touches.

Nor did I claim it did. I just pointed out that it's silly to point out a nation with a government that is more intrusive than the US government and then suggest people who want less government should go live there.
"The fee will help allow us to continue to support these single bill payment options ... and is designed to address costs incurred by us for only those customers who choose to make single bill payments,"

Isn't running a for-profit company supposed to address costs associated with taking customers money? Convenience charge could simply be translated to a "because we can charge".
Generally their prices for memory is never reduced until a model is updated. So early on in a product's life the price is more competitive. I once heard it was because Apple buys a ton of it up front (and gets a better price on it as a result), then just keeps that price. I have no idea how true that is.
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I might add, that the numbers were indexed and the banking software was requesting a random TAN. This was called iTAN.
I am too lazy to look it up but is there an equivalent mark-up on Dell branded memory?
It seems to fluctuate. I don't track it closely, but I know that there have been times I've bought machines and the memory from Apple was close enough in price to OWC or Crucial that I just went ahead and bought it from them for the convenience. And there have been times that it was so out of whack I didn't even consider it. It's always more expensive, but not always this bad.
The same. Bought 8GB RAM for my MBP from them for $50. Feels good man.
Because people pay for it. Welcome to the free market.
If a client going to fire you, i'm sure there is a more way than having a conversation in his office. I think in face-to-face conversations there is a always a way to rescue your "relationship" with the client but you got a little chance over the phone or per brief.

ps: i guess you're not in a business with someone who can shoot you in your foot !!
$300 convenience fee.

I'm only half-joking. If you look at the comments, you'll find people who were referred to buy this product from Apple's customer service representatives. These people probably know diddly about RAM, and they're ultimately paying for the recommendation moreso than the product. Apple isn't everyone's favorite company, but their customer service is top-notch, and this is no exception.

That's not to say it is a totally fair price, but that's why they can price it like they do.
Funny hearing someone complain about 12hrs battery life. I was getting about 7hrs on my Nexus S with Gingerbread, till I started disabling Wifi and GPS by default, and only using them when needed. That bumped it up to about 12hrs which I was very happy with.

Obviously not nearly as good as the several days worth that a regular phone provides, or the +20% more or so that iPhones can do, but serviceable at least.

UI lag is noticeably reduced in ICS, which was my only other major complaint besides battery life. Still much room for improvement vs iPhone, but it's no longer an actual irritant which I'm thankful for.
Right. I know I was only on there out of inertia. As hard as it might be to believe, at one time GoDaddy was the least evil registrar (note that "least evil" isn't the same as "good" :-). That changed, but it was still easier to keep registering new domains with them just to keep everything in one place. This SOPA crap, though... sorry, not going to forgive and forget on this one.

I don't think I'll make the boycott date 'cause I'm traveling at the moment and don't want to risk breaking anything while I'm away, but I will definitely be moving all of my domains when I return.
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I'm quite new to HN, so excuse me if this has already been answered. I Google'd but the first result is another Ask HN from several years ago. Why does the pagination use random generated url's such as:

x?fnid=sk3BuAfqt1

It is very frustrating. If I follow a linked story, read it and open a few tabs from the article, by the time I get back to HN the pagination link is often dead. I have to start over again to get back to my place in the news feed. Is this by design?
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I've upvoted this because this is the truth. Apple does it because people do pay for it, and they are taking advantage of consumers in a bad way.

Thank God they use the same standards compliant ram everyone else does.
While the wording isn't set in stone yet, SOPA targets foreign entities, meaning the site has to be owned by someone outside the US. It also creates private rights of action, meaning individuals and corporations bringing their own suits in court, not just government prosecutors.

So if SOPA passed today, every site on the web won't end up in court, but a big rightsholder with good crawling technology like Getty (the stock photo company with a litigation machine already in place) has a whole new way to prosecute-en-masse... this time with the ability to cut off payments and advertising for domains that would've simply ignored their threats in the past.
Same is true for their SSD drives for MBP (not MBA). More expensive and no where near the fast things you can get for the price.
They have 393 fonts as of today. Don't you think it's a bit excessive for sprucing up their own products? Also, considering a milder version of "don't be evil" angle - they are effectively on a route to nuke paid online typeface services or render them economically unfeasible to a vast majority of foundries. A policy not very much unlike Microsoft's when they were undercutting superior products and pushing them off the market.

With regards to the "just doesn't behave like this" - Google is not a charity. It might be a wealthy company, but even it needs a justification for spending hundreds of thousands if (not millions) on creating a font library. Do you seriously think "let's have fonts" is the justification enough for that? There has to be a bigger reason and a larger picture. The "culture" is a funny thing. It can be benign and ethical all the way through the organization with an exception of a single room where the lawful interception provisions are enforced.

> That's the only motivation.

Right.
Couldn't they just devote, say, half the above-the-fold screen space to a banner about SOPA for a couple days? Definitely gets people's attention, especially if coordinated across the internet, without pissing them off too much. It would link to a page that names names and gives action steps for users.

Is there a compelling reason they couldn't do this or that it wouldn't work?
Never understood that. It's easy enough to order from crucial.com, though.
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I share your general sentiment, but would add that their phone support is particularly as terrible as Dell's, though their Genius bar and probably their business-level services are top-notch.
That argument seems a little too convenient; we are after all talking about a field (and a language, Lisp) that's been around for over 50 years. I could certainly see pockets of inefficiency persisting after such a time, but I would hardly expect the exception to be the rule at this point.

Keep in mind that I'm only suggesting that a crossover point exists, I don't pretend to know where exactly it is. In order for me to be wrong, a single superior programmer would always have to be better than two slightly inferior programmers working with a slightly less expressive language. I strongly doubt that this is true. The simplest explanation for what we observe is that in fact a team of inferior programmers working in parallel can be more efficient than a single superior programmer working alone. Not always, but often enough to prevent more expressive but less comprehensible languages from becoming dominant. What constitutes "expressive" and "comprehensible" will evolve over time, as you suggest (maybe Lisp will someday become tomorrow's Java!), but the underlying scaling law will remain.
You're right in the sense that the pattern is to be excited about, and not only Dropbox itself.
The answer would be that some people will pay for it. They obviously don't care about selling a ton of memory chips, so their price is optimized for something else.

A similar situation may happen as a contractor: there may be gigs that you'd rather not take, so you will ask for an ridiculous hourly rate (say $700/hour). If they pay for it, oh well.
Note though that it is just your name and not other associated information.
Google reader user. Agreed: If someone could restore the features google reader killed, I would start using their product immediately.

Specifically:

sharing, comments, bookmarklet for non-rss content.

Float (float.com) has an interesting idea of removing everything except content from facebook/twitter/etc, which I like, but they are still missing a usable webapp and the aforementioned features.
Having just bought a $2200 Macbook Pro, the mark-up is definitely hard to ignore (a Dell XPS laptop with equal or better specs comes out to $1400 - admittedly without the Mac OS). However, because they can command such a high mark-up, it's easier for them to charge more for upgrades, e.g. $200 to upgrade from 4GB to 8GB which would still be a 5x markup.

It's likely that Apple knows that people who care about the price, e.g. tech people, are probably not going to pay much above the market rate for it. However, the people who aren't as tech-knowledgeable, e.g. aren't familiar with the going price, are far less sensitive to the price and therefore, they can charge substantially more.
Facebook, Google, at al have to be ready to pull ads for, links to, and results containing blocked sites as well. They have to continue to monitor that over time as well.

I would imagine a two-phase approach: phase one would be the black-bar-type-doodle logo, phase two would be shutting things down. Whether phase two would happen would depend on how likely the bill is to pass, how well phase one went, and how much it would cost to police if it passed.
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"...merely providing the blueprint for how a cloud a file system should work."

That sounds like kind of a big deal to me, but hey call me an optimist.
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Exactly. If we say we're going to boycott a company and don't do it because they claim to have changed, that makes us look stupid.
This seems to conflict: "The web's great, but this everything-in-the-browser silliness means people are using crappier tools than they used to have."

... with your sentiment on the original post; that it was pointing out how Dropbox integration lets people get out of the browser and use the tools they might be more comfortable with...

Are you for, or against APIs to connect web and desktop and mobile?
He brushed against this, but we have more (nearly) free ways to instantly entertain ourselves than anyone else has had throughout history.

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I don't get this explanation at all. It isn't like credit card companies just barely started charging processing fees. And, on the other side, customers who utilize the less expensive payment methods aren't being given a credit for saving Verizon money.

Not only that, but the recurring credit card payments will incur similar processing fees for Verizon, but won't cost you $2.

Part of me sometimes wonders if there is some club where CEOs of large corporations are having a game to see which one can get away with the most ridiculous fee/price hike, with bonus points for using a patronizing explanation for it.
I also bought the same memory today. I have 4 GB of Crucial currently in my MacBook that I bought last year for $77: the same memory is $20-30 now. I've had no problems at all so I don't expect any issues with the 8 GB sticks.
16GB RAM Corsair from Newegg for $174.99 (until New Year's Day). Just sayin'.

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By using extreme examples, people show that obviously there is a line. Most people agree some photos should be banned, after this point is made.

Now we are just arguing about where the line is.
I think he has stated before, or it has been implied by others, that releasing the source for hacker news might do more harm than good. There is a significant problem with voting rings now from the sounds of it. Hacker News has become a force that can greatly affect business and startups. If the voting ring people had the source, they might be able to find an exploit more easily that allows them to game the system. Clearly that would hurt Hacker News as a whole.

Basically, there are more black hats than white hats who would take a look at the source. YC is too powerful now.
Was the box pre-ticked? If so this is disgusting behaviour, how many users are going to just click OK without paying attention? They must be getting seriously desperate, which at least is a good sign the backlash has seriously got their attention. This is one company I would happily see go down in flames.
I was talking with a former Apple server division employee (from Cupertino) and was laughing at the insane RAM upgrade pricing costs compared to Crucial and other vendors.

He acknowledged that they were pretty high, but said that this is because Apple is overly careful about vendor selection and testing of the RAM itself. This ensures that it'll work best when installed in Apple hardware and won't cause unexpected and subtle errors down the road (as cheap RAM can sometimes do).

I still think Apple RAM is massively overpriced, but this makes sense to me. Also, if you upgrade from 4GB to 8GB when ordering a new build-to-order system the cost drops to $200 (from the $400 quoted here).
It's been a topic for years on and off.

See: https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+Unknown+or+expir...

and

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2992474

I didn't bother reading. You can extract the answer from there or maybe PG will answer here.
Not sure what you're trying to say here. The posted link was for 2x4GB, youres is for 2x8GB.
It's not entirely clear from the post.

My interpretation was that the insurance company was making progress individually, but once all the surgeons started communicating freely, they realized that it would be in their best interest (more profit) if they colluded.
I think it's pretty obvious: Twice as much RAM from a different seller costs less than half as much money.
"Battery Life" is extremely situational. I'm getting a typical 16 hour day on mine with 10-20% reported capacity left over. That's with light use (maybe an hour of screen-on time) in an environment with 1-2 "bars" (haven't checked RSSI nor investigated how it scales to the signal icon) of Verizon coverage.
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I have Verizon set up in bill-pay through my bank. When I send them a payment using this method, is this considered a "one time" payment? The article is not very clear on that. I don't have an automatic recurring payment setup, I send the payment manually every month via my bank account.
I think this sentiment is reason enough to always leverage source-code control for something like this. They've been working on the problem for an ultra-long time in computer terms, so adapting one's use cases to the capabilities of existing foundational components is probably the quickest way to long-term happiness in the revisable storage world.
the problem is that the users aren't disinterested - they're uninterested. blacking out google and facebook would go a long way towards changing that.
Thanks. I looked at the HN page you linked, but it doesn't seem to have any 'official' clarification about it. I already tried doing Google searches but nothing that comes up really explains why this pagination design has been chosen or why it hasn't been fixed (if it is not by design).

Edit: I'll admit I haven't read everything in Google.
I would imagine that a storage company would have something like that if they planned public/social features, such as an imgur for pix you're already storing with them.
Thanks for writing my catharsis for me. Fucking exactly.

I can't wait until we're past this moronic "maximize short-term pennies along with long-term loathing!" mindset.

One of the first things taught about negotiating is, unless you're about to leave the planet never to return, don't make one-sided deals. Eventually they catch up with you, if only because no one wants to work with you anymore. It's such a valuable lesson. When will corporate America realize there's more money in the long game?
So, despite all the surprised comments from earlier posts, of the type "Surely no HN guy would ever use with GD", etc, almost 1/2 of those responding to this HN poll use/used GD.

Sure, it's not 100% representative, given that people that have/had GD accounts are more likely to even opt to read the poll than people without those, but still, a large number of HN readers use GD.
"...attempted takeover of the democratic process by industry"

That pretty much sums up SOPA and PIPA too.
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Not quite. A convenience charge is a naked, unbridled contempt charge.

They do because they can, and nobody will stand up for you. Nationalize. Banish the execs to Monster Island. Start over.
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I work as a hostmaster for a company - nope. Because it can take over that much time for the transfer to complete, it isn't allowed. You'll want to renew it at GoDaddy then transfer, which will renew it for yet another year.
If they were charging for ACH payments I could understand the outrage. But passing through some of the credit card fees they pay hardly seems to be a capital offense. The only reason you don't see lots of companies passing through the cost is that their agreement with VISA et al forbids passing through the cost (which is why this is characterized as a convenience fee and is not exactly equal to the credit card fees they pay).

Simply put, there are more important things to complain about than this.
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This seems like the kind of problem the open market should solve. Unfortunately, competing with Verizon isn't about the $2 convenience fee, it's about the nationwide 4g network.

Every company has a right to make a profit, however they will have to provide value for it. This is a value reducing proposition. If reddit thinks Godaddy is evil, I'm excited to see what happens with this.
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