skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pricing is obviously a complicated issue, and I know there will never be a "right" or "wrong" way to price a product. I guess all I can say is that I don't agree that plan-based pricing is good for the consumer. One of my main objections is that I don't agree that plan-based pricing is easy/simple.

Take a look at Highrise: http://highrisehq.com/signup
37signals seems to have set the standard for plan-based pricing pages, so I think this is a good example to use. Right off the bat it's complicated because I to choose which plan I want before signing up. How in the hell do I know how many deals I need? Then I have to constantly monitor usage to make sure Idon't pass the invisible threshold. Uh oh, one of my employees added one contact and my price just doubled. That's the opposite of simplicity.

Now let's look at a more recent 37Signals pricing page: http://basecamp.com/pricing
This is still plan-based, but it's much closer to being a la carte based on the number of projects used. I can't speak for 37Signals, but it would seem as if they don't think that the plan page they popularized is actually the best approach.

Things can definitely get too complicated if the units you measure with a la carte become too granular (like charging per byte of storage or something crazy like that), but there's normally a nice middle ground. Basecamp made # of projects the metric to focus on. My company charges per user and makes everything else unlimited which generally makes the cost scale linearly with usage (roughly) but it's still very simple and predictable so no one has to spend time checking the invoice.

My company is called "Less Annoying CRM" so we naturally attract people who are sensitive to the annoying shenanigans that are common with other companies, and this is one of the biggest things my customers tell me they like about our service. The pricing has a huge impact on the customer experience which is largely ignored in this blog post. (Note: I realize there is selection bias with my anecdotal evidence, so you can say I don't have the complete picture, although I think after 2.5 years of talking to potential customers every day, I've got a decent idea)

In addition to all of that, it seems clear to me that the purpose of plan-based pricing is to get the majority of your customers to pay more than they should by only allowing them to buy more resources than they need. This is obviously true with cable subscriptions and cell phone plans, and I think it's equally true with SaaS apps. This is even more apparent when you read blog posts like this one and understand how much thought goes into designing a pricing structure that extracts every penny possible from each and every customer.

If you want to make more money, then ok, but I don't buy the claim that this is in the customer's best interest.
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And when they go to another computer (home/work/relatives/...) the only option is to carry that file.
The best part of We Use That is the opportunity to find out what some of my favorite companies use and Tarsnap is at the top of that list. The smartest people I know are all huge fans and so am I. Very cool for me!
I can't remember if I've heard Amy reference Steven Pressfield, but there are definitely strains of (the excellent and go-read-it-right-now) The War of Art to be found here.
DC Restaurant Week has no search. I hack one together, find dinner.
Humans.lol: A new web standard
I'm sure the kid isn't like that by accident. I don't believe the medical community is doing a good enough job when such children are becoming increasingly common. Hence my answer to that neuropsychologist would be something along the lines of "well, how do you have the complacency?"
"Dalton has no idea how to build what he wants"

How do you correlate that with the mostly-functional alpha which already has 90% of what I use twitter for?

I wasn't expecting anything functional for 5-6 months, and, as it exists, it's already mostly there.
Is the Disney division using significantly different tools from Pixar? The two were entirely separate companies until the merger and an upheaval in the workflow that significant is not usually so easy to manage.
Awesome dead comment:

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The Wattvision doesn't appear to be anything new.

I had a CurrentCost Envi unit (that read with non-intrusive clamps over the leads in the breaker box) that did much the same thing, and would output its data over serial. Tied in with Google Power Meter and so forth.

Then, my utility installed the new "Smart Meters", and a few months after that they offered me a countertop unit that talks to the meter using ZigBee and gives me real-time usage information (and historical graphs, etc). For free.

Using the data I get from this, along with a Nest smart "learning thermostat" I installed last year, has reduced my "height of summer" electric bills to around $140/month from almost $300/month a few years ago.

I've still got the CurrentCost Envi setup, along with "web bridge" unit (Ethernet interface) if anybody in Houston wants one. Trade me a 12-pack of Mt. Dew for it or something...
Or birch bark... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_manuscript
I think it is probably going to be pretty low volume. Just for fun I would like to see an IRC style realtime interface. Treat hashtags (assuming they have hashtags, I haven't looked past the join page) as channels, read and write as if it were a realtime chat.
Isn't the alpha "what he wants to build"?
Google lets go of 4000 workers
I'd consider paying a few bucks a month for an ad free non data mining facebook, but, that won't happen.
Read my comment again, where I said "I'm not saying a progressive income tax isn't necessary..."

How do you get "are you saying that even a flat tax is unacceptable?" out of that, given that I said exactly the opposite?

The issue is entirely with the word 'fair' and the rhetoric around 'fair share'. Progressive income taxes are not remotely fair by any sane definition of the word, whether they're necessary or not.
>How do you correlate that with the mostly-functional alpha which already has 90% of what I use twitter for?

I don't mean technically. I'm sure Dalton is quite qualified to build anything he commits to. I mean he doesn't know how to build it because he doesn't know what he's building. (Yet.)
Facebook as a utility
You don't need to store the framework you are sending to clients in the CPU cache - a good network card can read the data directly from disk, or main memory and send it off, bypassing the cpu.
Whose Smart meter did you get? Also, did you have any access via ZigBee (beyond your IHD?)
You must not be familiar with the bubble which exists in SV. It's one of the only things I despise about this place. Love the rest :).
Fuck success, and all the glorification of it. I've been a slave to it (and ambition, which is just success in another guise) for way too long.

Why do I say this? Because I'm not fully convinced it was always me choosing success. I was choosing success out of my own broken desire to be accepted socially, as if I had to redeem myself in people's eyes. This was a false reality I'd constructed based upon negative experiences in the past. The winning move was not to become the Ideal Male Seen On Magazines, but instead to grow into my identity. I have nothing to prove, and no one to impress, ideally.

I'm not saying success is bad. I just wonder sometimes if someone benefits from all the neurosis and anxiety that the trappings of success lays for people. Capitalism? VCs? Because it seems that many elements of culture are not created with our best interests in mind.

Think about it.
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Good point. "Parchment" can also be made of calfskin or goatskin.
I should have directed originally to: http://prometheusx.net/restaurant-week-dc/ for the write up, for those interested.
Every time I read a story about a kid with developmental disabilities and gut/gluten issues, I'm dying to know if they've ever tried MB12 and L5MTHF injections. God knows it changed my kid's (and my) life.
Can someone explain the point of this?
I think part of the disappointment people have in twitter stems from the days when TWITTER didn't know what twitter was going to become. It didn't become what they (and Dalton) hoped, so this is an attempt to reboot.

Except the rules didn't really change.
Correct, Max and Peter founded Confinity, Elon founded X.com. The two companies merged and those three are considered PayPal's three co-founders. The HN headline is inaccurate and in fact the linked article's headline is correct: "Gregory Anthony Kouri, early PayPal investor, dies at 51". So just a bad submission.
Sparky? Is that slang for an electrician? Is there any reason you can't do it yourself?
> People do this with politics quite frequently.

Really? Do you have an example?

"I didn't really think the war in Iraq would go very well, and I don't really support it; I just wanted to see what would happen."
I'm working on creating a "School of Crossfit" http://wodacademy.com to bring functional fitness and nutrition to those who don't have the time or the funds to pay for high quality personal training.
Not saying this applies to app.net (because I refuse to pay attention to the story), but I'd like to coin a phrase that I imagine may become popular soon: "'strap and dump". There, claim staken.
Review19 - http://review19.com - Collaborative decision making for teams
I was once tasked with building a web app for a real estate company. The ultimate stake holder (can't remember his title) told me as we were wrapping up a requirements gathering meeting:

I don't know what I want, but I'll know it when I see it.

I was still too green to know that I should have run for my life after that statement.
I was playing with your demo page and was curious, how do you handle gender classification? Follow-up would be what are you results in broad ethnicity recognition (based on what I've seen, I can tell you at least tried it). Any attempts into age?
There is absolutely no point being made in this post other than "this idea won't succeed". It doesn't why it will fail, just that it will fail.

Tautology is becoming a pattern on Subtle blog posts on HN.
Assuming the article is completely accurate, the doctor's phrasing and mannerisms (e.g., shaking his head, emphasizing not only that the child is in the bottom 1% but that 99% are better than him, "seemingly perplexed"), don't seem consistent with your explanation. His comments and tone don't strike me at all as being encouraging or reassuring, he just sounds completely dumbfounded by the parents' situation, almost as if he pities them for having such awful lives.
tweetdeck.
I've been arguing that the App.net idea won't succeed for the past few days mainly because I like arguing, especially when I'm right. The App.net company on the other hand, will probably be fine. They just got ~$800k with few strings attached. When they realize that the idea isn't great, they'll probably have enough money left over to change it into something that works.
PayPal's co-founders are typically considered to be Peter, Max and Elon. The linked article actually has a more accurate headline noting that Greg was an "early PayPal investor".
from http://www.webrtc.org/running-the-demos#TOC-Demos :
Justin Uberti (Chrome-webrtc team member) has sent in a App Engine based 1:1 video calling app. http://apprtc.appspot.com/ source code: http://code.google.com/p/webrtc-samples/source/browse/trunk/...

after source code reading (and chrome dev console output observing) you have to realize:
1. there is need of 'signaling server'
2. session encryption keys are exchanged through that server

yes, anyone could setup their small server and call through it an make sure tls / ssl cert of their server is intact etc. that will not be a case for avg Joe. not to mention tat browser itself will be an attack vector.
http://humanslol.org/humans.lol is 404.
I'm not sure if app.net will even begin to live up to the expectations of it's users and spectators, but maybe this is a discussion about how we would like to see services behave in the future. We can show people that respect for personal data, and an open API is greatly valued.

This is bigger than Dalton, it's about what we want the services we use to look like.
It's doubtful anyone loses sleep over such things.
"... He also provided no context and no relation to the article ..."

How do you know it's a 'he'? A quick scan & I can't tell.
it doesn't dogfood. http://humanslol.org/humans.lol gives a 404 and there's nothing in the head.
Savings for us had absolutely zero to do with habits, unless stuff like incandescent bulbs are a habit.
This would be slightly humorous if there were something particular witty at humanslol.org/humans.lol/

Seeing as there isn't, this is pretty awful for being on the frontpage.
He's trying to start a movement to figure it out. Big difference.
This is the healthy outlook I wish more people had...and that we didn't need to throw money at a false idol to have that conversation.

Hence, the money being an intentional distraction (red herring) from the real issues.
"While the Church may have opposed heliocentrism, Galileo defended heliocentrism, and understood correctly that it was not contrary to the Scriptures."

Biblical references Psalm 93:1, 96:10, and 1 Chronicles 16:30 include text stating that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." In the same manner, Psalm 104:5 says, "the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Further, Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place" etc. Certainly for the Biblical literalist there are places of direct disagreement.

"For people like Galileo and Kepler, faith and reason were the same thing."

I suppose one could have 'faith in reason' (that's a great oxymoron), and one could also perhaps 'reason in faith'. But at a deeper level, the two concepts are orthogonal and irreconcilable.

"By definition, it's impossible to have faith that is not based on reason, nor is it possible to hold reason without faith."

faith - Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
reason - The power of comprehending, inferring, or thinking especially in orderly rational ways.

Here is the "Galileo affair" Wikipedia link for those who wish to read up on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
Perl was my first language. After burning all sorts of fingers off using it (my workflow was edit/FTP/test in browser on a 14.4 modem), I was looking forward to the limited type checking C offered.

But, yes, it is wonderfully pragmatic. I've been a fan of loose languages ever sense, and managed to stay out of trouble even as a teenage hacker lacking taste. One exception: I ran a database off of a CSV-style file. With no locking mechanisms. Corruption ensued.
I had the same feeling the minute I completed my payment. I don't feel quite so negative but I feel very, very suspicious.
I am working on creating a service called "Visifoo" at http://www.visifoo.com and its a service which will help you find correct answer online.
Begone, marketing department! The developers are having a scrum.
This may not be particularly useful information and maybe it is just me but I have a serious case of word aversion to the name Plivo.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004835.h...

http://www.good.is/post/why-do-we-hate-the-word-moist/
I don't really feel negative, to be honest. Just noticing some things and wanting to point them out. From the comments so far, it seems I'm not alone in the things I've noticed.
Most of what I learned about C++ I got from books, blogs and some great C++ guys (mostly from the boost community). I have to admit I did not read the standard at all.

could you give an example of a case where you hit undefined behavior since I hardly seem to recall a case where that bit me in the past? (I'm mostly working on embedded systems (PPC & ARM))

The cases that come to my mind for C++ all involve initialization...
app.net taught me that in 6 months I need to start another twitter clone, except this time the price of entry is $1000. I mean, just imagine the signal to noise ratio there!
Our nature as actors subject to game theory.

Societies that don't believe they have enough will tend to seek out more, conquering the societies that do believe they have enough. Eventually the whole world ends up unhappy, because cultures that desire more end up committing genocide against cultures that do not have that same hunger.

I've heard similar evolutionary explanations for the hedonic treadmill and the evolution of happiness itself. There's a reason for desire: it spurs us on to do ever larger things, which makes us more likely to survive (or at least, not get killed by our neighbors who also want nice things) and pass on our genes.
Wow...that is something bit interesting and i would love to use this API in near future
Movement? Difference? Trying?
Almost every article you find from Googling "good and bad fats" show all saturated fats as bad, because of a increase in risk of cardiovascular problems in some studies. Completely ignoring the wealth of positive[1] effects[2] from saturated fats. They even lump in trans fats as if they have exactly the same risk factors.

[1] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/2...
[2] http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/

P.S. you know there's a whole anti-milk cabal that tracks down and castrates anyone who says milk is good for you? be careful out there.
Yeah, the whole "curing cancer" meme always sounded murky and a bit lame TBH. It's unlikely it's a binary thing or state that get's magically achieved by one person or a team, and much more likely the result of small, incremental advances.

Cancer itself is not even "one thing" phenomologically speaking (IAMNA oncologist) it's a broad class of diseases, that may or may not have a single 'solution'.

Solution, in this context, being a state where the population does not need to worry about cancer as a statistically significant cause of death. It could equally likely linger in a status that is managed but not 'cured' in the traditional sense of the word, aka HIV.
Probably referring to giving money to candidates who have no chance of winning. Your bad faith example is ridiculous.
give it a spin. :)
Movement, ha.
I still don't get App.net. There's no possible way anyone outside of this tiny dev community will actually pay of a service like Twitter, yet there's no way for it to become actually relevant if it's just another echo chamber for startup hipsters
"Ideologically Pure"? Link-bait much?

Apparently the author finds the notion of a fair-value exchange impossible to understand.

"First off, App.net's interests are not economically aligned with its users. It wants money from those users, and all things being equal, those users want to keep their money. So their goals are actually diametrically opposed."

I would bother with an introduction to the fundamentals of how economic exchange work.. but I honestly believe this was written with so much foaming froth on the lips of the author that he cannot possibly see sense enough to understand reason.

I hope he got the jacked up page view count he was hoping for.
You can't be serious. Have you ever used Visual Basic? If you have, you'd know that it's toolbox, properties editor, etc. is nothing like Xcode's...
So why did they link to a mediocre-to-downright-hostile LENR blog instead of one with up-to-date news?

http://www.newenergytimes.com/
Money?

Metafilter seems particularly relevant in light of Quora and App.net, and while the price tag has kept it obscure I've only heard good things about its community. So I'm curious what criticisms you have.
I am sad, there is no M-x tetris...

In seriousness, this is quite a cool attempt. For some reason, using an international keyboard with the application prevents me from ever getting the ' character to appear. I'm not sure why this is the case.
Plants exhibit a wide range of mechanical properties, engineers find
Stopped after the second video. Still don't know what is vooza.com about
It's funny because it's a pun.
It doesn't matter so long as the page showcases your talents and interests.

For example, my personal domain name is abstract - http://tangents.co - but I've been contacted by recruiters through it
I thought the same, but their meta tag doesn't point to /humans.lol

It points to http://humanslol.org/images/lolicon.jpg

But after the one at SeatGeek, I was disappointed.
I personally think that this post does not belong to the top of HN for the mere fact that it says nothing.

Writing a blogpost speculating about the motivations behind App.net, behind people backing it, the result, the lesson about the post speaking of the fear of money, about how app.net will turnout.

Just a bunch of negative speculation bundled together and called a blogpost then to go on to the comments and boast about how charitable you are [1]

At worst, APP.NET is an experiment and people found it worthy to spend $50 on this experiment. NO-ONE knows how this thing can/will turn out.

I am really looking forward to what the outcome of this project/experiment would be. i.e a real-time messaging API with no fear of the rug being pulled under you by the platform owner.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379277
hahaha, smart meters are bad because they have switching mode power supplies. Man am I fucked.
Thank you - it is nice to get feedback from someone in the community. I agree that Many Worlds is not literally persecuted, but it is viewed as something of an absurdity by the layman, and seems to be a bit taboo among the elders in the field. The preference of a public panel is often to throw up one's hands at the mystery of it all, which encourages people like Deepak Chopra to muse on the magic of consciousness' power to collapse the wave function.