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"My time is worth money. [...] assuming I work instead"

That is a big assumption. I think the assertion that time is ALWAYS money is incorrect. Often, it is just time. At 3AM, or after you stop working, your time is probably not worth $75/h.

In your example, you only loose money if you stop working early to account for the drive. So, for example, instead of working 8AM-5PM, you work 8:30AM-4:30PM, in order to still get home at 5PM.

With that sort of logic, you could just as easily say that if you work 2 Extra hours each day for a month, the car paid for itself and you still get to live in the country. However, like your example, this assumes your work amount is infinite.

So, while an argument could certainly be made for saving money in gas, spending less time driving, or more time with family, unless you decide to take the drive time out of your work hours, the opposite of how most people determine when they need to be at or leave work, you wouldn't be loosing money, only time.
This sounds cool. Does the local storage extend to collections? Can I query for locally stored objects? (i.e. created or updated within a given date range)
Your horrible spelling aside, I wouldn't mind seeing the patent system suffer an irreversible data corruption, along with a fire destroying all hard copies.

A forced reset, as it were.
I rather question the customer service aspect of all this.

I'm not sure I'd dig my electric company cutting off my electric service just because they felt they could be more profitable somewhere else and didn't "believe" in my service anymore. Service that I've paid for, come to rely on, and have integrated in to my business.

Selling this or partnering with another company to transition accounts over to them would have been better. Maybe they did that and didn't mention it in the article (or I missed it).

Yeah, I get it. You're entrepreneurs and want to "have passion" about what you do. But.. WTF - people are paying you for something that they obviously want, and you just shut the accounts down - with or without notice, I don't really care. How do I feel now about postmark? Will you still have passion for it in 15 months, or will you decide beanstalk is more profitable, and shutdown postmark? regardless of what is said now, making decision like this is emotional (read the language of the post) - emotions will change next year.

"Selling would have involved a lot of effort and time, and we just needed to focus on our products that were growing. " Don't you think the existing paying customer deserved that bit of respect for you to put the effort in to selling, and ensuring their continued success as well?

Puzzling a best - disconcerting to say the least.

EDIT: http://help.newsberry.com/kb/subscribers/transferring-subscr...

There's a help link to transition to campaign monitor. Fine that's there, but the language of the post still seemed to ignore the needs of the existing users, and focused their decision solely on the feelings of the people running the show. Let's hope they always feel positive about postmark, otherwise you'll be seeing 'transition from postmark to xxxxx' in their help pages in the next year or two.
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>"This phone is on the Chinese market with China Mobile on their CDMA network."

I would not be surprised if it is subsidized as China Mobile is state owned.

[Edit] Rockchip may have state sponsorship as well (of course it may not, determining ownership in China is not easy).
SoundCloud Goes HTML5, Makes Non-Flash Audio Player Its Default
The first time I visited Hawaii, I think I might have gotten away with not renting a car. However, the more I visit, the more I find myself driving places. Visiting relatives while I am there also requires a car.
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"Buses get rerouted all the time" living in Hamburg, Gemrany most of my life, I have had seen bus lines rerouted maybe 2-3 times in my life. Changing public transit access that often as in your city argubaly adds uncertainty to development projects. but i'd tackle this problem from another angle.

I think a lot more urban public transportation could be achieved by tackling your mentioned correlation: Property owners benefit by far the most from public transport infrastructure errected nearby their property (at least if underground or not noisy etc.).

Even if the owner's property taxes rise, the tax increase usually lacks behind the actual property value increase by some years up to a decade.

So if I want to solve it politically I'd:

1) get rid of that lacking-behind in property valuation. Then

2) maybe add the expectalbe increased property-tax income to my calculation when planning a new subway line

3) consider talking to owners. if a subway line is to be errected, I'd propose to owners that I'am willing to errect stations nearby their property if they participate in the costs.
In Nov 2005, Paul Graham wrote The Venture Capital Squeeze...He was right
Ever heard of the PC?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
You could also set up your security group such that incoming 22 is denied by default, and open it up to individual IPs on-demand using a script like this:

MYIP=`curl http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp`
ec2-authorize $SECGROUP -P tcp -p 22 -s $MYIP/32
I've been wondering this and haven't been sure who to ask. Would you say CodingBat would be a good way to learn Python from scratch? Like, instead of lessons, just go through their examples and learn from their solutions? Or is it purely a "test what you know" thing?
It does work with collections, and it tries to reuse the cache if you first get a model independently and then through its collection.

There's no specific local querying beyond listing window.localStorage.
In some european countries, Portugal is the one I know best, actually have a specific lane for buses, where cars cannot use (fined if they do). That should help avoiding congestions for buses, at a very low cost.
This kind of reminds me of Yahoo when they didn't want a more efficient ad system because they wouldn't be able to charge the media buyers as much.

I don't really care they are doing this. They will eventually be replaced because of this. I just want the Government to stop protecting them from getting replaced. It's not the Government's job to stop disruptions from happening.
I love driving... on open, uncongested highways at night. I can't stand driving to commute, straining my foot muscles in a maddeningly irregular pattern of pressing and releasing the brake as the cars ahead of me expand and contract at zero-to-five miles per hour.
I'm not sure it even makes sense to talk about a core of Ruby in the same sense. The semantic core of Ruby is very light, but while a small Lisp is recognizable Lisp, a "small Ruby" without the weight of the Ruby syntax and a whole slew of runtime libraries, is not really likely to be recognizable as Ruby.

What makes Ruby is all the sugar.

E.g. MRI 1.8.x has a parser alone that is about 6000 lines of Yacc with C actions and workarounds for Yacc limitations.

Your best bet for a semantic core of Ruby would probably seem closer to Smalltalk than to Ruby...
Speaking of speculation, you have ZERO backing for your conjectures about why posts from Winsupersite get buried or simply don't make the front page. Furthermore, insulting your fellow users by calling them "fanboys" is not in the best traditions of Hacker News.

Update: The problem here is that we have anonymous/opaque voting, moderation, and flagging. Without showing me a collection of stories that received massive upvotes but never made the front page, we have no evidence of moderation or flagging, just evidence that your interests are in the minority.

If we did have such evidence, all we could say is that moderators had decided that such articles do not belong here, or that users felt they did not belong here, but we can't distinguish between the cases. Without being able to establish that there are users who consistently flag such articles, you have no argument.

If we did have some way of identifying which users were flagging such articles, how would you propose to back up a claim that they are "fanboys?" Do you have a definition for this term other than "Disagree with you?"

Without a lot more evidence, I simply can't take your speculative aside as more than a broadly aimed piece of abuse directed at people who don't share your enthusiasms.
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A long time ago I used to have a general purpose server on a DSL line with port 22 open. I thought everything was fairly secure, patched up, etc... I never thought brute forcers would be able to guess one of my accounts (which was a friend's account actually). The kicker? The password was the username. I found out about the rootkit a few days after they got in. I tell ya, kids these days just don't know how to hide a backdoor.

A really good port knocker is your best defense against rogue attackers of an external service (because there is no defense against a 0-day). For an iptables-supported system I recommend Knockknock by Moxie Marlinspike (http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/knockknock/).
Exactly. People who think programming is boring these days have completely lost their grip on what is important.
This is big. I learned a few things and had my next startup idea while reading generated contents, I'm now motivated as never before. Thanks!
Excellent set of questions to ask, not just for founders, I think, but when you join any company. Too often new grads are just happy to get that offer letter and jump right in, without giving much thought to the culture of the company they are joining (I, for one, was one such clueless hire).

Also brought he mind the following, from Illusions:

The simplest questions are the most profound.

Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?

Think about these once in a while, and watch your answers change.
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There is lots of exciting stuff going on (DbC and PEX for C#, for example), but none of it is exactly in the mainstream. My personal peeve is not that there is too much abstraction, but the fact that people seem to gladly settle for mediocre solutions that require lots of work to do trivial things. I was in the situation where implementing SOAP server from scratch was an order of magnitude easier than figuring how to deploy the existing, standard Java technologies in that particular environment. That's just plain wrong.
Maybe this is my inner American Biker showing through here, but to me access to the roadway and the freedom to go where I want to, when I want to, without being dependent on the competency of others to get me there is a huge feeling of freedom. I can't stand not having my vehicle nearby.

When I was younger we lived about an hour away from the city. There was a gas station and a small grocery store near the out-of-the-way suburb where I lived. That was it. Getting my first car was a life-changing event for me that basically allowed me to become as independent as I am today, and 'going out for a drive' was just something I did as a young teen trying to keep himself entertained and trying to find new things to do. I ended up finding a Navy recruiter, but that's a different story.

I'm aware that the costs associated with this 'One Person - One Car' idea might not be scalable over the long term, and we should probably start offloading some of the costs associated with maintaining this paradigm onto the city driver while providing good alternatives. But I will always have a vehicle, no matter what it costs me.
I was going to say the Arduino. Things would have been really interesting if we'd gotten our hands on one of those back in 1984...
Cloud app functionality on Linux using +Dropbox
Philosophy - What's the use?
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Do you have a cluster of application servers?
What transaction isolation level do you use?
Will User A mind that his update is no longer a single transaction and that it may be commingled with txn's of Users B&C?
The National Defense Authroization Act basically keeps in existence and funds the US military every year. Not signing it would've been a poorly chosen battle.

At the end of the day, not only do we have a divided system of power by design, Congress is the first among coequal powers in that design. Laying all the blame at the feet of the president for Congress enacting bad law makes no senss. I think some people love our system in theory but don't like it in practice.
Fun stuff. What's the strategy for shared models?

If I make changes based on a model that I've read from my local cache ... while someone else edits the same model on the server ... how does that reconcile when I try later on to make a change?
This is great news. Finally a UK-based payments solution. The difficulty/cost of getting a Merchant Account and taking payments is what has put me off beginning any of my weekend projects in earnest. Wishing you the best of luck with this.
If I was Marketing professor...
It does look like these are pretty non standard. Moneybookers seem to integrate with a lot of them judging from this http://moneybookers.com/merchant/en/moneybookers_gateway_man... - Poland seems to win for having the most different standards!

The only place I can find that seems to integrate these is Inpay, who I had not heard of before http://www.inpay.com/ who seem to have pretty good coverage.
If we stop building free parking (or rather requiring it, as most city and town codes require) and stop subsidizing roads and car travel, this issue would naturally sort itself out. Most people are car dependent because our government policies have made it so. If people had to pay the actual cost of parking, the upkeep of roads, gas, etc. it would be less palatable to drive a car everywhere.

Of course our country is overrun by cars, including our cities. The government has enacted policies that encourage car driving above other transportation means. This in turn has encouraged suburbanization, which, as you point out, generally requires a car-centric lifestyle.

There is nothing wrong with suburbanization, but we wouldn't have nearly the extent of suburbs that we have now if all transportation options were on equal footing. And it shouldn't be the governments job to make car travel so cheap that people buy large, cheap houses in the middle of nowhere.

This also ignores all the other costs of car-centric living such as increased risks for obesity, heart disease, depression, etc. If you live in a walkable area, you naturally walk a lot more and get daily exercise. The idea that you would need to go to a gym to get exercise in your daily life is one of the reasons that Americans are becoming so unhealthy.
We hardly use computers for the ability to "compute," anymore.

Well, back then most people didn't use computers at all. These days, many use them as appliances, so maybe the fraction that actually use them to "compute" is about the same.

Personally, as a researcher I do most definitely use them for their ability to compute.
Is there a reason you can't tell us which one?
I see. It would be really nice to have a community which develops hellepoll.

After all, having a maintained alternative to node.js written in C++ would be very nice.

I'm not saying node.js isn't OK or that those who use it are doing something wrong. It's good to have many tools for different scenarios and different preferences.

Would you like to start such a community for hellepoll? I'd be the first one to join you.

Thank you for your reply and for publishing hellepoll.
I would probably choose Rails, it gives reasonably more chances to reach the finish line successfully and with less problems, and the "speed downside" is not an issue (see all big websites like Hulu/Basecamp etc). There are also mature solutions to common problems via gems (Devise, CanCan, Omniauth, CarrierWave, ActiveScaffold, Ancestry etc) that get you to the finish line even faster. And programming synchronously is a lot easyer .

There is little reason to use Node unless you do realtime stuff or you foresee concurency issues, and even so, there are alternatives like EventMachine. (The Node ecosystem is maturing, there are packages like Everyauth and such, nevertheless I would choose Rails)
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For a small firm, cutting excess baggage and focusing on star products may be better for profits and moral. On the other hand, if the culture is that of a tenacious startup, showing a fighting attitude may be a great way to lead.
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Git-loc: Graph your lines of code in Git
Bruce Lee: "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water."
http://www.docracy.com/ is like github for legal documents.

There are some founders' agreements and LLC operating agreement that might be what you are looking for.
Plus, I learned something new about SVGs today: They can contain mouseover text and animations!
Wait, programming is supposed to be exciting? I consider it a necessary evil and a means to an end, but "exciting" never enters the picture.

If there are people who really find this stuff exciting, then the whole "flavor of the month" thing, be it programming languages, databases, operating systems or whatever starts making sense. They actually enjoy the churn!
Symfony2 has a big learning curve at first coming from 1.4 You'll see that everything is a ton less "automatic" which requires for somethings like a simple extra field on a form a ton of extra work. However after you get use to it, you'll love it. It took us a while to get use to it, but once you understand its approach it is very powerful and quick.
Yep. + painting those lanes on the pavement is also cheaper than to rip the streets open and build entirely new rail tracks.
How to revise research papers after receiving harsh reviews
It is very well possible to have a melody without silence. For instance using glissandi you can move from one note to another without an intervening break.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando
It's not the AT&T angle that I was commenting on, but the $99. (Although I'm not sure about the date, either.) Anything reported as coming from "a portion of AT&T’s 2012 roadmap from a trusted source" is pretty much speculation, because even if the information is legitimate, it could easily change up until the moment it's made public.
Profitable or no, profit is really irrelevant in this situation. If my company is making $100K/year and I only spend $25K on myself and I'm the sole employee, then technically my company is "profitable," but it's essentially invisible in the market.

This is what drives me nuts about the "I bootstrapped my company to profitability and success!" blog posts, because in most instances, the owner is making $50K/year and can't afford to hire anyone else.

I'd be interested in seeing what their top line numbers looked like, as that'd give an indicator of their overall market penetration, and true success.

This is why companies that do $750MM in revenue per year, but report an annual loss are still hugely successful, because $750MM is a ton of money!
I assume sunchild called it "harder" to spot talent simply because the increased accessibility of tech means there's now more crap to wade through.
I just want to say that while I love the idea of car sharing services, the reality is that they're only slightly less expensive than owning, and compared to renting from the big local car rental services, they're much more expensive. At least in the DC area.

I went car-less for about 6 months as an experiment. Initially, I tried to compute value from the local car sharing services, but it didn't compute. Plus, the nearby cars seemed to be heavily used, limiting availability. So, I never signed up with them. Instead, I discovered that with a little foresight and planning, I could get economy rentals from the big rental companies via priceline for like $12-15 a day. Of course, I had to pay for the gas, but insurance was covered by my credit card. It worked out well for times when I had to commute outside the urban area.

Inside the urban area of DC, I found that driving was extremely painful with traffic and parking, but oftentimes it was still less hassle than trying to get around the DC metro system. The DC metro system doesn't work. The train system has frequent delays, huge time gaps between trains, over-packed cars, limited times of operation, and trips are expensive. Furthermore, the bus system seems to have bizarre, unoptimized routes.

Anyway, I really want car-sharing to work, but it seems like it can only work in some geographical areas, under certain conditions, and with some local support. But, I'm always looking forward to new ideas in transportation; it's one of the worst parts of living in DC.
Leave it to a "poor translation" to teach me a new word: invigilation. Wish we had a law preventing ISPs from monitoring their customers here in the US.
(how many different times are we going to create a new Web framework, guys?)

As many as it takes.

How many times are we going to build a new house or bridge? How many times are we going to write a new love poem?

It's not as if we are anywhere near already having made the best web framework that can be. Not even close (include Rails, Seaside, Lift, whatever...).

Where is the WCFs, the WPFs, the Silverlights, the things that would get us fired up?

WCF, WPF and Silverlight are things "that would get you fired up"? Seriously, man?

And as much as this is going to probably just throw fat on the fire, all the excitement around JavaScript as a language reminds me of the excitement about Ruby as a language. Does nobody remember that Sun did this once already, with Phobos? Or that Netscape did this with LiveScript? JavaScript on the server end is not new, folks. It’s just new to the people who’d never seen it before.

LiveScript was useless and never got any wide adoption, and it's nothing like Node.js besides both making use of js server side. At the time, javascript was a joke, fragmented, language and was not used on the front end that much, except for small pieces of dynamic functionality. There were also no AJAX and no JSON. so having JS on the server had nowhere near the convinience and code re-use value that having JS on the server does now.
I grew up in an exurb and know the feeling of freedom that finally having a car can give you. There wasn't much in my town and without a car, I couldn't even see most of my friends from school.

The greatest freedom of all is the ability to use your own legs to take you to where you want to go. Your idea of freedom changes when you live in a walkable area and realize that you don't have to rely on anything other than yourself to get you to most things in life.
They probably use an atomic force microscope (google "atomic force microscope nanomanipulation").
No strategy at all. For what we're using it conflicts are impossible, so the last write always wins.
Hallelujah!

Once Stephen Paternot orchestrates this coup d'état of Hollywood, its new motto will be: "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life."

My apologies that this comment is very un-HN like.
Photography Tips for Amateur Photographers 
Let’s get one thing straight; when you buy a camera worth thousands of dollars, it doesn’t automatically make you a professional. I’ve seen people with click and shoot cameras create better pieces of art than those with 20 grand cameras. It’s about training yourself and tuning in your “photographers eye”.
The reason people commute is generally because living in a city is very expensive, and living outside the city means a nice house and maybe even a back yard.