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I wish that was the case for me. I get up around 5:30 every morning, and without something to rouse me I'd sleep far longer and miss out on some of the most productive time of my day.

The thought of having something to wake me me if I'm stirring between 5:15-5:45, for example, seems like a great concept, as I know at least half of the time my alarm clock goes off I'm in a dead sleep and it really is a lousy way to start the day...

Anyway, +1 $79 from my end. Here's hoping there are enough of us!
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In what way does poaching create artificial demand? If your employee is valuable enough that another company wants to recruit them, that's not artificial demand, it's real demand. If you won't or can't match a salary somebody else is willing to pay, you deserve to lose that employee.

If your employee can't do the tasks you require of him, you fire him. If you can't pay your employees what they are worth, they go elsewhere. That's the way the world works.
I've worked with numerous retailers who use something like this. Usually an eMail server just makes a ping when a payment notification comes in.

During peak seasons (read: December) at an ecommerce company of mine a few years ago, we did pretty much exactly this. We used a cash register sound, though. Played it into the office and warehouse so everybody knew how fast things needed to be going. Totally worked, the faster the register went, the harder everyone worked.
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I have a/b tested this approach and have come to the conclusion that it is a little larger. I usually increase my estimates between 3/4 to double.
I don't think this is true for most people. This has been discussed on HN a few times. While the techie crowd usually has distinct sites for different purposes, this isn't true for most people. Facebook is the only thing a large number of people get on the internet for. Portals work at engaging visitors, it's just a matter of monetizing the eyeballs. Facebook has the engagement locked down, now they just need to monetize the eyeballs.

FB may have Bing search integrated, but its not in any prominent location. I've been on facebook for years and have never seen it, not once. Perhaps its integrated with facebook's people search? The point is, if they put a plain-ol internet search box on each users homepage it will get plenty of use. With the plenthora of data they're generating, internet search can be trojan horsed by way of a history/activity search.
The article states the problem quite well, the people who want software solutions really don't understand what software is. I find that users' and managers' mental model of software is all too often 'magic box'.

From Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering:
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/buildyourcareer/fa035?utm...

RD1. One of the two most common causes of runaway projects is unstable requirements. (For the other, see ES1.)

ES1. One of the two most common causes of runaway projects is optimistic estimation. (For the other, see RD1.)

ES2. Most software estimates are performed at the beginning of the life cycle. This makes sense until we realize that this occurs before the requirements phase and thus before the problem is understood. Estimation therefore usually occurs at the wrong time.

ES3. Most software estimates are made, according to several researchers, by either upper management or marketing, not by the people who will build the software or by their managers. Therefore, the wrong people are doing estimation.

Glass has a book that goes into more depth on these points and has numerous citations (Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Robert L Glass) and covers a wonderful variety of other topics.
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I've been expecting someone to make this move sooner or later, and I got the impression that Posterous' Spaces was trying to do something like this (but I haven't used it much).

It reminds me of adding tags to blog posts and then having subdomains for different tags
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Anecdote: I pirated his Sandman series back when I couldn't afford them + was in a country where they were not available for sale in the first place. When things changed I bought the entire 11 volumes + several of his books in physical format. Sent from my phone.
.0005% difference in margin. People's brains interpret $19.99 as significantly cheaper than $20, but as a marketing iniative, whole digit pricing may intice people looking for honest, straight forward pricing.

But don't kid yourself, adding a penny per transaction is not going to benefit the bottom line in the way your thinking.
Just go for it. Don't worry so much about things like this. Give your project passion, that's all it needs.

In my mind, this is the same as asking if its okay to not use linen for my biz cards.. it doesn't matter.
Point is, freemium works.
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Old magazines are quite fascinating. I spent some time in the university library reading old videotex magazines, that strange precursor to the web. One told about a swear word appearing, the first ever, another of the first ecommerce, unauthorized.
Ask HN: Where is the best place to find a true internet marketer for a startup?
We are running a startup and currently looking for a true marketer that can help us expand and acquire more users. Where do you go to search for these serious marketers? What characteristics do they have? How do you distinguish between the good and the bad ones?

We hope you can share your experiences.
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Informative, thanks!
My knowledge of DONKEY.BAS comes from Andy Hertzfeld's story[1] on Folklore.org, which paints the game in a somewhat less nostalgic light.

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
It's actually 0.05% more for a $20 item, and if we estimate that $20 is the average price of all items it isn't very significant.
Which is precisely why the term "Super Wi-Fi" is in quotes in the title.

(Unless the title has since been changed)
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For some reason I read the headline as saying that an Apple exec got pissed and drunk after being fired then stumbled into a random JC Penney and demanded that all prices be slashed 40%.

The actual news is much more interesting.
surely op knows what he's talking about, he even wrote his own data structure. it must be the moores' law. i read on wikipedia it uses too much memory...
Interesting app! It seems like a lot to remember to put your phone under the covers and make sure it doesn't fall off in the middle of the night (at least for me). Additionally, I've always loved having the phone in the dock next to my bed, since it doubles as a clock for me in the middle of the night.

Do you know if the Sleepcycle app is able to differentiate between your movements and someone else's? It seems like this wouldn't be possible?

This is obviously a totally different price point, but it seems like bringing a hardware-based solution here does offer some real and very tangible benefits.
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Taking IP for your own personal use is different to taking IP for business use.

You see people on HN saying it's okay to download a tv show; you don't see anyone saying it's okay to burn that show to dvd and sell it many times.
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So essentially blog categories?

This feature is only useful for a very minor audience. Most people don't create a lot of content, and won't bother tagging their short tweet/status.

Power users who do write a lot should already have blogs like the one the author is using.
From the sample of people I follow, it really looks like the engagement is down from the early days: fewer posts, fewer comments and worst, fewer new accounts created.

I'm fully aware it is a completely non-scientific "study", but you would be hard-pressed to find anyone not working at Google saying "G+ is really thriving right now!"
This does not belong on hacker news. Read the guide lines.

In fact, this is antithetical to Startups, which can only exist in capitalism.

This is overtly political post to a full-hour video with no summary, but I guess it would be "we'll make communism work this time"
This is not cognitive dissonance, this is just guilty conscience that you're talking about.
If the creator wants to distribute it for free that's fine, but one cannot argue that when it comes to something like data it's okay to choose how much you want to pay because "you wouldn't buy it for more than that." You can't have your cake and eat it too.

I don't think this problem is worth the pain of DRM, but it is a problem nonetheless.
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I was going to complain that I could find no mention of TameJS (from which the await and defer keywords/features clearly originated). Then I noticed that the IcedCoffeeScript author is also the author of TameJS.
I think there's an important distinction between "not caring" and being detached from our own opinions. Say you're having an awful day and snap at me. If I were to "not care", I might just go about my business and that would be fine. But if I try to dig a little deeper, put myself in your shoes, and really understand what's going on, then I've not taken it personally, but I've made it very clear that I do care.
That's not how Google has defined "evil" in the past. Per Wikipedia:

> Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent."

"Exploiting the users" doesn't fit your definition of "evil", but it appears to have fit Google's.
If anything, the idle minds belong to those who are constantly tired out and distracted by their work. Freeing people from this onus would mean a lot of more thought-cycles spent on important problems.

Here's another good read: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

Also, one of the top 5 death bed regrets is working too much: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643239
Here's how I like to think of it. Consider the project as a tree of goals with subgoals. The root goal is the whole project; it can be broken down into components which are the subgoals; each of those has sub-components, all the way down to the individual lines of code.

The fundamental problem is that until you're actually well into the project, you can only see down a few levels; but the amount of effort that is going to be required is a function of the length of the fringe of the tree, which you can't see, at least not very clearly, until you get there.
If you want to really dig into it, and learn some approaches to getting better at it, I suggest you read Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, by Steve McConnell.
One year is a long time to have someone on a team that turns out to be a wrong hire. You normally figure out that someone isn't working out within the first 1-3 months. I've made a wrong hire before and it impacted the work of 5 other people. I and any other manager has an obligation to get rid of that one person if they are having a net negative effect on the work of others. To do otherwise would be a failure in my responsibilities to others on the team.

It's not like a manager can just "bench" an employee that isn't working out for them.

What would make sense, especially in a market where there is a crunch for talent is a guarantee from the company that if it doesn't work out, that the applicant, would get 1-2 months salary after being cut to look for another place to work.

(Also, to the person who down voted me: This is HN, not Reddit. You don't down vote because you disagree with what was said. You down vote them because their detracting from the conversation, such as trolling.)
No it isn't. IANAL, but I believe class action lawsuits deal with civil, not criminal, offenses.

Don't be so fast to downvote the grandparent if you didn't understand the question.
A great many of us actually do get annoyed at that behavior, and do get annoyed at lobbying.

EDIT: Removed inflammatory remark.
Ask HN: My cofounder is pregnant, what should I do?
So, myself and my cofounder have been bootstrapping a project that we're both really excited about. We launched a prototype, got lots of great feed back, we are writing a bunch of code, did a bunch of planning, communications, fundraising and marketing. We're scheduled to receive a grant in a few months that should allow us to take things to the next level. We discussed having equal ownership but we haven't yet formed a company.

We're aiming on launching version 1 of our product in a few months. Here's the thing, that same month, she will be giving birth to her first child and will be taking a year-long maternity leave. Over the course of the last 6-months she has proven to be a top notch partner; thorough, bright, inspiring, motivated, complimentary in skills, and finally, she has become a good friend of mine.

I really don't know what to do. I want to work in an environment that puts family first, but I feel like I can't afford that right now. I don't think it's fair for me to build this business myself over the course of the next year or so while only owning half of the project. Plus, I don't know if I can do it myself? Finally, I don't think it's fair to expect her to do any work during her maternity leave.

Any thoughts? I would love some feedback from any female or parent HNers out there.
I've been using FastMail.fm for around 4 years now. It's absolutely worth the $40/yr. I manage a lot of email accounts, and FastMail lets me define rules to file emails from different accounts into different folders, and automatically set my from/reply-to address based on the folder I'm in. Their spam handling has been excellent and there are tons of other small features like one-time-passwords which are great.

That said, I do find GMail's interface "snappier" than FastMail's, and threaded conversations are definitely nice to have. I'm starting to see GMail's benefit in tagging messages instead of using a folder hierarchy, but for managing email from multiple accounts, FastMail is definitely easier.
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No it's a desire to both pay the artist and own the original. This is exactly why after I hear new music I love I buy the cd/mp3's and often if I really love it track down the vinyl version as well. It's more rooted in a collectors mentality of needing to own the real mc-coy.
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This guy is wrong, and this is an issue of correlation vs. causation. Just because software tends to be something new, and software estimates tend to be off, doesn't mean that things that are new cause estimates to be off.

If you give a software developer a very clear specifications of what they need to do, and don't change those specifications, it's very likely that they'll give an accurate estimate and get it done in time. Probably even faster, because most software developers pad their estimates somewhat.

Also, it is possible to "invent new things" that have very clear specifications that don't change much. It might not be very common, but it does happen. Especially for relatively simple things.

Two things actually cause inaccurate estimates:

1) a lack of clear specifications of what the project is going to be

2) a change in the specifications

In many cases, the expense of providing clear specifications is not justified. This is normally the case when companies develop their own products, where they would implement them regardless of how long it would take and bear the expenses themselves.

When software development services are provided for other parties, there is normally a "requirements gathering" phase where the developer tries to get a very comprehensive specification for the project. Normally, this specification and its estimates will be very accurate. However, after realizing their mistaken assumptions in the requirements gathering phase, the client tends to want something different from what they wanted before - it is these changes of requirements that cause initial project estimates to be off.

In the end, no estimate has to be off if we provide clear specifications - we just have to accept that requirements/specifications are very likely to change during the development of any product.
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That only makes sense if you pay the industry average for each position. The candidate has little else to expect. If the job has special considerations like benefits or flex time, they won't know that until you discuss the details.

You should be hiring someone to do a job, not guess a magic number like a game show contestant.
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For me the problem isn't that I have trouble waking up with the help of an alarm. I too tend to wake up right before the alarm goes off. The problem is that I wake up groggy and that's the problem I guess this alarm is trying to solve. It wakes you up while you're in light sleep by monitoring your motion, so that you get up feeling refreshed. I think there are enough people out there who face the same problem and can support the OP's business.
Can anybody please point me to some real life usage of their software. What is it compiled into, for example if I want to create an iPhone app? Can I create games with it?
I am pretty sure what I am talking about is cognitive dissonance theory as developed by Leon Festinger.

Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by a conflict of two cognitions. In this case 1) "I like this book" and 2) "I did not pay for that book even though I should have".

Now there are a few ways to resolve with that dissonance. A way to do that is to change one of your cognitions, you could 1) tell yourself that the book wasn't good at all and therefore not worth paying for, or 2) pay for the book because you liked it - either way you eliminated the controversy.
Evil

Occurs when individuals or groups embrace codes of conduct or standards of behavior for their own personal well being and social approval, yet violate those very same codes or standards to undermine the personal well being and social approval of others.

There's degrees of evil, but no shades. Evil was being done to people in this case.
I dunno, it was neither for me (see my previous comment). Its just a different medium. Kinda like how people pirate mp3s or movies but still buy the vinyls / go to the movie theatre. Its just a different experience IMHO and you get a different value from each.
You've just made the problem one of specification. How do you make clear specifications for something you are in the process of inventing? It's not possible. You'll try to invent it in your head. Early on in implementation what's in your head won't match reality, and it diverges ever more.
When I'm working on a branch and I want to pull changes from master into my branch so that I'm working on the latest code base I do

> git rebase master

What this does is that it temporarily reverts all my changes on this branch, applies all the changes from master on my branch and then reapplies my changes on this branch.
I find it hilarious that you are trying to act as if this is anything but a negotiation ploy on your part. If it's so vital that you know you're in the same ballpark, why don't you give the salary range up front?

When someone insists on a number "up front" with me, they get a high range. If they insist on a specific number, the get one in the stratosphere. They've forced me to price in all the risks. Without the interview I have no idea what your organization is really like on the inside (I'm interviewing you as well). By insisting on a number before the interview starts you send a very strong "bargain shopper" message. So I'm pricing in the likelihood of:

-crappy benefits
-unpaid overtime
-future trouble with raises
-my peers will only be people who fell for your tactics

Ask yourself if you want employees that think ahead, and evaluate a situation like I do. You won't get them with your current mindset.
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Most people don't create a lot of content, and won't bother tagging their short tweet/status

This is a good point, but couldn't that also be said for the existing way Circles work? I think some form of the reverse would be better for power users without affecting the casual users.
Very cool story. You'll have to share it when you inevitably start getting hounded by tech blogs for interviews ;)

Based on all the great information you shared, I would suggest adding a section like the following to your homepage:

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I'd actually be more impressed if you start making money and validate your idea without writing a line of code.

go do it :)
Don't let this be a detriment to the actual business. Your best employees would probably enjoy spending more time on real work and less time 'bikeshedding' [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bikeshedding
Mobile devices have their own UX expectations, and a browser has to fit into that model. You don't get a titlebar plus minimize/maximize/kill buttons because that's not the metaphor that the device uses. If everything on your desktop has a titlebar + buttons, your browser had better have those as well, or else it's a distraction.

Don't break the metaphor. Use local system libraries. Don't make maximizing the window a surprise.

If you want a nonframed experience on a desktop, it can't be the default. You can make it as easy to access as one keyclick to enter kiosk mode. Better provide a clean way of exiting, though, and best is to tell the user how to exit when they enter. (Take a YouTube video fullscreen, FF reminds you to 'Press ESC to exit'.)
We pay above industry average.

It's not a game, it's a filter to ensure we're on the same page and to keep the process of candidate evaluation a waste of time.
This is a great story. It illustrates everything perfectly:

Why, as employee, you're probably getting played and that you should ask for more money.

Why, as employer, it's advantageous to be magnanimous and not lowball the employee.

And it illustrates the power imbalance.
I've never heard of the four-square strategy. Link please? (And the google namespace is hard to sift through)