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Note I am not talking about the profits for individual stations.

I am talking about the profits for the wholesale suppliers, the major players in the oil industry which are the most profitable business in the history of humankind (yet still get huge tax breaks and even taxpayer funding for their research and development, recently renewed in Congress).
Holy crap! I wish I could give you multiple upvotes for this. I wonder if there's a way to make this the default? This reminds me that I really need to spend a couple of days delving into basic OSX functionality (features/keyboard shortcuts). There are probably a ton of other features like this that I'm oblivious to.
If you are worried about some of these settings before running them, you can backup your preference files

All that the 'defaults' command does is alter values stored in plist files, which are located in /Library/Preferences (and for the user in ~/Library/Preferences).

You can add something like this to the top of the script:

echo "Making a backup.."
tar -pzcf ~/preferences-`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"`.tgz ~/Library/Preferences /Library/Preferences

You may need to sudo to read some of the machine plist files
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anyone knows if the data is available in a format that could be used to make a WebGL viewer out of it? would be nice to be able to spin the globe around.
Demand. If they did lower the price somehow (say by executive fiat putting price controls on gasoline), there would be shortages. Nixon learned this the hard way. The price goes up, effectively rationing the gasoline to whoever will pay more for it.
Funnily enough, this looks like a German person with no actual knowledge of English trying to write down what someone speaking English is saying.
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Check the 10th link in that comment... It's exactly what this post draws!
I find it strangely unsettling that if I die, my Minecraft clan will never know what happened to me. I'll just vanish one day. They will spend some time trying to contact me but probably won't make a connection with anybody who can tell them what happened. And nobody who is sure to know about my death would know to contact them.
excellent idea--appreciate your initiative and efforts. if i can help, please LMK.

note: to get a custom linkedin url (as mentioned in the OP), it takes like 15 seconds, just to to settings (upper right hand corner drop-down when you click your name).
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The point about the market being 'large' is the very thing that fragmentation undermines. What matters is how many paying customers can receive a good user experience from your app, and what this costs to provide.

You also assume that Android will continue to outpace iOS in terms of growth - i.e. the trajectory will be like the PC rather than like the iPod.

It matters very much what you think about Android fragmentation. Dealing with it has been a costly mistake for some developers, and could be for you.
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Though neither mode is perfect in all situations, on balance I prefer focus-follows-mouse.

I do NOT care for copy-on-select, I like copy to be an explicit action. That way I can select, copy, select, paste to replace. With copy-on-select, you have to select, paste, select, delete which is less natural for me.
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It's not a non-sequiteur; it's a hook for the last-but-one paragraph, which provides a rather more concrete example of how such tools might be misused in future.
Of course, the point of laws and law enforcement is to cut crime, which this did.
Is there a business opportunity here? Find widows of deceased programmers and offer a lump sum for the rights to all digital works?
I can say only for myself, but I suspect it will work the same way for many many others out there.

For me price is something easily measurable, where everything you described - hard to measure.

For me model of discounts/groupons/etc work pretty well. If I see I can try something new without paying over what I would pay in other place - I would do it. And if it is really good - I would stick to them even with higher price.
Thanks a lot, that's helpful.

I do think is Steve Blank is more legit, but not because he did multiple companies - if you worked on several venture-backed companies throughout your life but they all went nowhere, you must suck as an entrepreneur. I just looked up Epiphany and this answers my question, he founded it, did $71.5M in revenue, and it IPO'd, so Blank definitely knows what he's talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany,_Inc.

IMVU on the other thand had good traction and Eric Ries was VP of Engineering there, but what's happened to it since? Just looking it up on crunchbase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/imvu - no big exit/big numbers or anything special like Epiphany?

And here's his LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eries - it just doesn't show any blockbuster results as an entrepreneur, just a lot of advising/marketing/blogging.
Inspired by all of you here at Hacker News, I decided to pick an idea and roll with it. I just wanted to get some experience in running a business. I really appreciate your support here at Hacker News!

Things I'll be doing over the next few months:
1. Building an MVP
2. Marketing - should I start hitting small business and recruiting forums to gauge the interest and define my feature set? What else can I do?

Aside: Organize infrastructure to allow for an easier deployment. I'm currently running on Linode with Django and nginx and while I have it set up, I don't think it'll be easy to maintain. Should I shift to something like Heroku instead? My main concern is cost right now.
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No movement, lights or noise could also mean someone is in the house sleeping, in the backyard, in another part of the house if it is a larger one and you also have no idea how soon the inhabitant(s) will be back.
I think the point is that Kings book would probably pay for itself very quickly, so the risk of him dying before that might not be so bad.
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The In-App purchase to recharge the service is frightfully ingenious.
The whole point is that these places aren't making margins off of this, they're losing out.

You're not a better business when you purposefully place yourself next door to an existing store and use corporate weight to temporarily price your product lower than your competition can sustain before you jack it up. Noted by the "We have enough power to wait them out." comment from the Two Bros guy.

The better business here is the Joey Pepperoni's whose owner refused to drop his price below his profit margin, but his business is likely relying more on long-term customers than it should have to because two business owners are being stupid, and one is being predatory.

The point here is that Walmart opening next door to your current grocery store, and pricing everything at a loss for 12 months to run the incumbent out of business and then price hiking everything over what the incumbent used to charge, doesn't make them the better business. It means they're the worse business because they're bad for the economy, bad for the community and bad for future business. Why? Because no store could open and survive next to a walmart if they were allowed to predatory price.
Inspired by you I wanted to reexpierence it. Brought me to http://wiki.xkcd.com
which is upside down. Annoying! Nothing else.
Sexism exists in technology and especially the startup world. I've seen it over-and-over again in my experience.

My wife and I co-founded a successful web company together. We have pretty much the exact same background: Engineering grads from same program at the same school, same age within 10 days of each other, we both worked in SV as software engineers before launching our startup. We even both played competitive soccer.

However, over the years it is has been a common occurrence that with an introduction to a new tech/startup person, there's an assumption that I'm the technical person. I get spoken to in that way, and my wife is assumed to be non-(or less)-technical than I am. In one such a meeting, we were asked who is the CEO (from a veteran entrepreneur), she responded that she was, and the guy chuckled. We asked him why what was so funny about that? He mumbled and tripped over his words without explanation.

When we work together, thoughts of gender don't even come to mind. We're too damn busy trying to build something that someone gives a sh about.
Might want to add (2001) to the title.

The process has changed dramatically in the last 10 years (notably, the rise of email negotiating).

Also, here's the 2009 update to the article:
http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...
This question is impossible to answer. There is a difference between learning and mastering. Learning is quick ('hello world' will takeless than a minute), while mastering depends on which language you're using, how fast you learn and how much time you devote.

Maybe you're just beginning with programming and you want a timeframe how long it will take you to be able to code something decent? My advice is not to stress too much about the 'how long'. Just begin building stuff, start easy in the beginning. Tackle problems as you encounter them, and constantly wonder 'how did they do this?' when you're using an app/website/whatever. Curiosity is a great teacher.

As for myself, I started coding (HTML, CSS, PHP) 7 years ago. Within a few months I was able to write a half-decent web app, but if I look back on the stuff I made back then it makes me want to cry, it's that bad... I got a lot better since, but I wouldn't say I've mastered it yet. Good luck!
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I cannot find good data on it, but on what I read on Wikipedia, I doubt the correlation is that strong. Wikipedia states:

"In 2005,[8] and again in 2007,[9] Haberman noted the price of a slice was again rising, and, citing the Pizza Connection, worried that the subway fare might soon rise again. The fare did indeed rise to $2.25 in June 2009, and again in 2011 to $2.50.[10]"

So, the subway prize increase that "matched" a 2005 pizza slice price increase was in June 2009?

I bet you can find similar correlations between many pairs of products. If you pick a simple model that states the price of an item is "x liters of oil and y hours of unskilled labour", products with the same y/x ratio will correlate highly in price. Pizza slices and subways fares might be such a pair, with four years of inflation correcting for the difference in absolute values.
Our experience supporting both iOS and Android versions of our app for 18 months (>1M daily users) is that Android users are much less satisfied. We are twice as likely to get a support request from an Android user and those requests tend to be more complex (and qualitatively more grumpy).

For example, take push notifications. C2DM only works on 2.2 devices with a logged-in Google account, so you need a fall back push mechanism. Even with C2DM you must struggle with various challenges surrounding power management and wifi sleep. In comparison, APNS just works.

Also, Android aggressively deprecates. With ICS there's a brand new Fragments API, which to be sure has a backward compatibility library, but now you are faced with the choice of rewriting your app to fit the new UI style (and potentially confusing existing users), limping along with the old Android styles, or supporting both and making your life miserable. Hey, and don't forget landscape mode and multiple aspect ratios!

I could go on, but I'm getting negative.
Of course they don't want to buy, they recognize the cost of reproduction is zero. It is hard fact that once someone sets all the trillions of bits in a movie, game, operating system, or anything else we do, just ONCE, you can clone it for nothing as many times as you want.

Until we get off the distribution per unit model of retail we will have this war against consumers.
Google Wallet is still a joke, i don't have a credit card and it is totally uncommon here in Germany. I have an Amazon account and a PayPal account, these are the two services i can pay with. Google Apps supports Direct Debit, what is the god damn problem? I would have spent probably 50 Euros for Android apps by now. You could believe Google want's to establish Ad revenue first before they make their payment system competitive.
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Oh, and OS X actually resizes windows at a fixed frame rate. You can change the rate with:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001
There's a free utility called "RightZoom" that fixes this -- it works perfectly for me (on 10.5 and 10.6 -- haven't upgraded to Lion yet).
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Tried it. It broke my virtualbox machines and I had to do some major registry hacking to get my vms working again! Also, there was no integration for google accounts, making it useless for using google currents, Gmail or the likes
I think there is a generational difference in the concept of privacy. And a misunderstanding that the general public "doesn't understand" the privacy controls on Facebook.

My 69 year old mother, when she was on Facebook, had her privacy controls to maximum. You couldn't find her on search. She didn't use her real name even! And she was sending me articles by email every other week when Facebook had some privacy breach. So whenever I hear someone say "most people don't understand privacy on Facebook" I call bullshit because my own mother is the counterexample. She's since deleted her account because of privacy concerns.

I think kids of today (teens and twenty-somethings) don't care as much. They don't mind telling the world they are at a bar tonight. They add people they don't know as friends. They have 800, 900 Facebook friends. There is no privacy when you have 900 Facebook friends and they know it.

All these arguments about stalkers, rapists, and white supremacists are straw men. As another commenter said, you don't NEED an app to find random people. Just use your eyes. A supremacist after Jews? Not hard to find if you know where to look. A rapist looking for women? Not hard to find if you know where to look. This has nothing to do with Facebook.
I think Charles is right to be concerned about the current state of privacy in social media, but I take issue with his statement that facebook is deliberately making it harder to make your content private. If you click on Privacy setting in facebook today the first thing you're greeted with is a big control asking you if you want your profile to be public /friends/custom. But first you have to care enough to click on it.

Building social network privacy controls is not an easy problem b/c people don't want to do the extra work that's involved in setting privacy on things that they post AND it's confusing. Most people just don't want to choose a circle for their 300 fb friends.

Facebook has gone through many iterations of privacy controls - https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=391922327130 goes into some of that history. Some of them even included google circle-like functionality for privacy. No one used them.

I'm not saying that these controls couldn't be improved, but the point here is that privacy controls take work from users. Until society as a whole is aware of these issues (and Girls Around Me does a great job of it :), people aren't going to invest the time to do it.

TL;DR - building privacy controls are hard. The industry as a whole needs to improve them, but society also needs to learn to care about their privacy so they actually use what's available to them.
>they recognize the cost of reproduction is zero.

That is being very generous to the pimply-faced downloaders. I am quite sure the costs upfront or otherwise have no bearing.
Fortunately, the law against predatory pricing doesn't need to judge which is superior.
In other words, "Screw privacy! If you're honest, you've got nothing to hide."
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To make it right we, human beings, should be closer to one another. He is right about too complicated digital assets structure. And probably even few evenings will be not enough to explain all of it. I believe this communication should happen always, not only during last days... in ideal world.

Now, we are not in ideal world and probably never will be. Children often hate what parents love, significant others do not want to hear what their other part up to. This complicates things even more :)

I do not think anything really changes with digital age, same old issues in new light - that's it. Love your parents, encourage your children, genuinely ask what bothers your spouse at work.
Surely there's a point where you'd want it to stop, though, because it's too invasive? The only way to make sure we know everything about the potential stalker is to coerce everyone into frequently providing detailed information, since (I'm just guessing here) people that are inclined to be the most dangerous stalkers are not going to be obsessively updating Facebook with all the activities that would flag them as a stalker.
I like the idea, but ...

As a web service?!

I'd love to see that as a free software daemon, or cronjob, which I can run on one of my website's servers.

However, storing very sensitive information at a central place - a place which aims to collect sensitive information from many other people? Well, that's an invitation to abuse! How could I ever trust my most sensitive data to such a system?
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The answer isn't adding a layer of complexity, your heirs don't want to deal with your Github account in all likelihood. The author's uncle probably cleaned out his garage before he invited everyone down. Doing the same digitally, should begin much earlier.

Donald Knuth probably can be credited for figuring out how to with this issue first.

Having done so is consistent with his place in the pantheon of programmers.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
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sexism here! why you think about widows and not widowers???

edit: bazinga!
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Well here's one of those videos that will truly change the way you think.
I'm going to be the ambassador for the embarrassed math illiterate among us and ask: what's the process for coming up with a function who's graph is a specific image?
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I didn't want to trust an online service for sharing credentials to these types of assets, so I created an open source program to split up secrets securely: http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-se...

It's probably over-engineered, but the alternatives seemed not secure enough to feel comfortable using.
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Leave a link to some site that you have instructed your family to update in case of your death.

ESR has a continuity page for the purpose of handing his projects over when he goes to California http://www.catb.org/~esr/continuity.html.
That's in the first-world problem hall of fame.
interesting logic, but honestly just doesnt seem very prudent [not saying that you are defending them]. doing something out of emotion, while old school isnt a reason on its own. and for the freemium model, it just doesnt make a ton of sense. if somebody is going in for cheap pizza, are they really going to pick up some indian food in the same order? if they want indian food, are they going to go to a place they consider a cheap pizza shop, or are they going to pick an "actual" indian restaurant?

the whole article just sorta reminded me of old school business practices that arent well thought out, are based on emotion and not metrics and dont seem to work out in the end except in rare cases of luck.
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It's not just the pixel art. It's the style of houses, grass, the color scheme, and the whole map. It's not that I think they deserve to be sued! But the similarity is so high, it is simply confusing to play this when you have played Zelda a lot in the past.
You make a lot of good points, but I feel that by lumping in people asking for more information with the "Citation Needed" people you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I, myself, have asked "Do you know anywhere I could read about this a little more" of people, maybe not sharing anecdotal experiences, but definitely anyone discussing a topic I'm interested.

As Wikipedia shows us, assuming good faith is crucial to a civil discussion. There's a fine line on the internet between good faith and passive-aggressive behaviour, and in doubt you should always try to assume that that person asking for more info really is curious.
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