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'He just increased his price'- Is not very nice if you want to get new customers.

Raising prices may actually increase sales. I think some of the problem is a lot of us are seeing this relationship between the tailor and his clients through the lens of software or service providers. For any right thinking business person there is no pride in going into hacker meetup and saying "I just had to upgrade from the 28 dollar a month plan to the 39 dollar a month plan at saas-of-the-month.com". Guys that buy 4000 dollar suits are operating in a different world. They pay 500 bucks for the custom fit, and the other 3500 bucks pays for being able to say they paid 4K for a suit AND you can't get one when it comes time to play "biggest dick on table" at the next board room meeting.
The jury was given specific grounds on which they could find the patent invalid. See instructions 29 through 33 and 48 through 52. Invalidating because of lack of patentable subject matter is not among these.
Troost is where east/west divide trips up Google
I don't know about Brazil, but all US residents have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, including children, and now black people and even women.
That only works in the region of the development curve where you can neglect the earth's ability to deal with waste resulting from organized activity. We're already running up against those limits. E.g. in 50 years, clean drinking water is going to be a big thing to fight over in the southwest.
I didn't know you could fit so much "passiveness" into one sentence.
That's true. I could easily write a full-length book on this topic. This article is actually meant for the people not using Rails and mostly reminding them that the invisible security stuff is important ;-)
Sure, Steam isn't an open marketplace, but I don't think that was ever really the point. You can just download a program outside of steam or use a competing store - Steam is more like a Retail Shop where there is a bar to get in to keep the quality up.
This doesn't really work for me: whenever I read articles on the internet, I tend to select text by double-clicking and dragging, which trigger the collapsation. Neat concept, though!
Seems to me that when you're dealing in money, you don't want to assume that the card factory shuffled the deck before shipping. I know that I would want to secure my investment, so why not shuffle it again before playing?
You mean "It was never an open marketplace", right?
It is surprising. My last two trips to NYC have involved probably about two dozen cab rides plus two town car rides back to JFK. Not one of the vehicles had any visible device capable of real time traffic data (mounted smartphone, gps, etc).

Maybe there is something in the laws governing cabs?
Stones are ineffective against guns. Hence, 2nd amendment.

Also, walls and moats. I don't see Chinese factory laborers rising up against rich Americans.
I agree, and I'm working on fixing this problem.
bespoke tailoring doesn't scale.

I think you under minded your own point, in fact the practicality and levelheadedness of your entire post under minded your own point.
What if you are drafted to serve as cannon fodder in a bat military?
Stripe's dashboard is pretty but you've set a pretty hazy bar on what qualifies.
Blended Learning in the Traditional Classroom
Teaching people commercially relevant skills which bill out at $150 an hour is a great thing for everyone involved. (And in that light this is possibly severely underpriced. I love the packaging options available, but I think there is probably also a packaging option for selling the same benefit to customers at 10X the prices on this page right now.)
At Blekko.com we've looked into this, more of an a/b test driven model rather than a definitive survey, but one challenge is this, you send two pages to an unbiased observer (which is code for someone who didn't do the search, they are just looking at the search query and the results page and deciding which is 'better') the results will favor ads, but the meta issue is that the ads are curated, not algorithmic.

Specifically some person said "If someone searches for 'x,y, z' put my Ad up there" which is still much more accurate than an algorithm trying to guess. We do a game on our search page where if you put /monte at the end of your query we'll throw up the Google results, the Bing results, and the Blekko results. Then you get to pick the one that you, the searcher, thought was the best answer. We've found that well curated categories do really well in this comparison. Ads are simply a market motivated curation of Google's results.
There's probably a way for me to not collapse on a double-click-and-drag. But you should consider switching over to single-click-and-drag! Saves loads of clicks over the course of a year!
How do you get bloggers to pay attention to your startup?
Last week public relations firm Lewis PR held a PR Startup Bootcamp in San Francisco. Over the course of several hours bloggers and journalists from TechCrunch, Pando Daily, Venture Beat, ReadWriteWeb, Time Magazine, CNET, Reuters, Forbes, San Jose Mercury News and UrbanDaddy shared their best advice for how to attract their attention. Robert Scoble also shared his advice. I bought a ticket to this conference, listened to all of the talks, and also spoke with many of the bloggers afterwards. These are my detailed notes from those talks and conversations, combined with advice from my experience as a professional relationship manager.
2 things:

1. It says something about the quality of what you're doing when the competition has to selectively enforce laws (or change them as the DC City Council tried) in order to compete effectively.

2. Probably a good move for Uber - basically adding a ton more data about pickups/dropoffs in the city across NYC's taxi fleet (which would be insanely useful if they ever launch a p2p service like Lyft has done) and, even more crucially, gets them to a more mass-market price point.
Accepting is still optional and you can choose to avoid certain neighborhoods.
This is a great fix. Greenlight was immediately filled with fake entries full of porn, copyrighted material, and games that simply don't exist. The $100 price point is high enough to turn away most fakes but low enough that it's not a barrier for real products.

Greenlight itself still has problems but Valve has already shown they are quick to respond to issues so I expect it to continue to improve.
If you are incompetent to judge others and you pull the trigger on a verdict anyway... clearly, the fool deserves what he is getting. He has aided and abetted theft on a grand scale.
Steam is never going to be an open marketplace because of its nature, so stop holding your breath.
Don't overlook the cost of energy to run the machines.
I see it now, thank you.
You're forgetting to figure in withholding, self-employment tax, etc... that $24K/year increase would be to his gross income, not his take-home income.

The article said he averages 2 suits a month, or $8K in gross revenue, so that extra $1K per suit would increase his gross by 25%, and his take-home by less. As a sole proprietor craftsman, there's no math that can get you a 50% increase in profit with a 25% increase in gross revenue alone.

Still, not a bad deal, assuming his customers are willing to pay it (I'm willing to bet they are).

EDIT: I shouldn't do numbers while eating dinner :). His take-home increase could be more than 25%, but it's unlikely to be anything close to all of the gross increase, particularly if he wants health insurance, which, if he has it at all, is probably coming out of that $50K.
Most taxis companies have extremely low spending budgets. The cars, insurance, government inspection and hiring is a huge expense.

Investing in traffic monitoring, training staff and keeping them safe from theft is a big investment.
adding a ton more data about pickups/dropoffs in the city across NYC's taxi fleet (which would be insanely useful if they ever launch a p2p service like Lyft has done)

New York City's TLC actually already offers this data for the entire yellow cab fleet. An interesting data set, for sure.
Absolutely, that wasn't my point. Since the FBI could do that, you are unlikely to get your server seized from an unrelated raid. Still, a crappy situation.
Great post Nathan.
What tools did you use to author the ebook and are you looking beyond pdf format?
Nathan - congrats buddy!

There are a few key takeaways anyone who has a product, or wants to create a product, should take note of.

* Email lists are very, very important. I was also able to market my freelancing book to 2,000+ freelancers on my Planscope list. Like Nathan with his weekly list, I had a huge head start.

* Additionally, the theory that you can't sell to the HN audience is bunk. When I wrote a post similar to Nathan's about how I netted $2k in presales, I made another $1k that day alone off HN traffic. And I'm absolutely certain that Nathan is making sales right now from HN. Something to keep in mind: HN doesn't like being sent to marketing sites. HN wants immediate and direct value. So instead of just showing off your latest product, put together a post about what technical or promotional hurdles you went through putting together your product - i.e., sell through education. Look at my submissions to see this in action for both my products.

* Increase customer LTV wherever possible. You could pay Nathan $29 for the book, which triggers as an OK price to pay for most of us. Now that you're interested, for $30 more you can get some videos and PSDs. These people came for one thing and left with another, the same underlying theory supermarkets use to upsell you at the checkout line.

* Nathan now has a mailing list of people who have already taken out their credit cards for him in the past. This is pure gold.
When you day lost, how exctly? Hacked trading? other?
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Google Calendar now has spam
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Didn’t know that this was even possible - but there is now spam in Google Calendars
That's like saying you're growing tired of twitter because all the tweets look the same. It's the content that's important.
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There is. NYC cab drivers are forbidden from using devices while driving. I forget the exact wording, but it's something that Uber will have to deal with- they mention in the article about only using the app when at a stand-still.

Pretty stupid, but it is what it is.
> Wow, ego issues?

You are way in over your head.

> You have taken this all very personally. I apologize for offering a different take on system design than what you apparently believe in very strongly?

No, you haven't offered anything other than "you should use Redis". You started with "if you are caching in sessions". I don't know where you get the idea the sessions are caches.

> The systems we've built have served over-billion-page-view months. That's not common or easy.

Good for you. But have you actually used local storage for storing user specific data? And have you compared using redis and memcached for session storage? I don't have a problem with difference in opinion - it's just that your opinions aren't valid.
It's hacker attitude. Build what seems like it will work, and launch.

The true flaw of hacker attitude is underestimation of the job by focusing on the part that looks straightforward, namely the part in code.

A bitcoin bank is the application. The bit that's written in code is just a part of it. The actual spec is: under all circumstances, this will either work as a bitcoin bank, or fail safe, or in the worst possible case fail with data loss. That spec requires you to examine the behaviors of the system as a system - you may be sure your opponents see it as such.
I have no idea how difficult it would be on Blackberry, but I've made > 1k on over a dozen different apps on iOS. That's really not that hard. Of those, only a few have made 10k though.
I didn't enjoy it for its poignancy; I was simply delighted by the phrase "Life as a Service".
Don't think a jury can validate or invalidate a patent. Their job was to see if there was infringement.
Using an example from the article:

> Others start out at level 1, if they're something new (for example, Flexbox

"CSS Flexbox level 1" is a fair bit less confusing than "CSS1 Flexbox model". It would get even worse if a module moved to level 2.1!
They are probably running into two opposing trends:

1) The areas that most resemble thier other markets and have a big unmet need for convenient cabs are in upper Manhattan / and the outer boros (minus Williamsburg and Brooklyn Heights) and are served - when served at all - by black cars.

2) The people most likely to have heard of their app and have it on their phone are mostly in core Manhattan and the aforementioned parts of Brooklyn, and are pretty well served by the yellow cabs.
And yet if I were in the market for a [paid] flow charting package I would immediately look at the ads first, as in my opinion those ones would be the highest quality packages. I might also trust the first few organic links, but why bother when there are so many professional competitors vying for my business with the ads?

The ads are just another form of search.
It's generally the case and expectation that really hard problems need to be solved by inventing new theories and new ways of doing math, and they're worth encouraging people to solve because of the discoveries along the way, not because of the truth or falsehood of the conjecture itself, which is mostly a curiosity.
I'm also not convinced that ads are actually ever useful. I'd love to see an example of one that you think is useful for the search.

I can't believe you're being honest here. Counting just the last couple days, terms I've seen useful ads are: "trek stores near <where I live>", "glue for wood", "coach usa" and "shuttle lga". Also for the vast majority of terms in my search history, which happen to be arcane technical questions, I don't see any ads at all.
I think this should be implemented by Apple and Google with a curated list of charities you can select your donation to go to.
It looks like it's selecting from only 6 predefined celebrities (none of which are Stallman), so among those, Arnold matched best.
We are planning to use pgpool2, but only for connection pooling. In our case the subset of postgres databases to execute a distributed query is dependent on the input parameters, current sharding configuration and cached routes. Cached routes are used to handle adding new shards without repartitioning--I will cover this in the second part.

I guess we could use pgpool2 parallel queries, but this would likely require some adjustments in how they are implemented.
Reminds me of the $99 yearly fee to submit apps to the App Store. Except Apple isn't one for charity.
I like having the tiered pricing, but I would probably minimize the 50 user license package.

You should absolutely test this assumption, but I might try:

$49 -> book

$249 -> book + Photoshop originals + X hours of premium tutorial videos + Obj-C PDF + sample project

You'll get +$10 for the baseline purchase, and I think a lot of people who are willing to drop $50 might be very persuaded to almost 5x their price for the value you're putting in the fully loaded package. You're solving a real pain, and people who do this for a living drop money on pain killers.
Ask HN: Is TechCrunch Disrupt worth its $3,000 admission fee?
"The collateral damage for Google is going to be devastating,” said Kansas City school board member Joseph Jackson.

... and they wonder why KC MO isn't attractive for high-tech businesses.
I, for one, wear suits simply because I enjoy them. I like how they look. More and more, as I get older, oddly. In my 20s you would have had to force me into one.

It's definitely true that there is status signaling involved, whether it's conscious or not, although I would hesitate to say that it's the suit's only purpose (and in my case, that's a side effect, not the purpose). You could make that argument about any clothing if you go that far.

But...I've definitely noticed being treated subtly better when I dress for occasions. Go to a nice restaurant dressed for an occasion, and you'll tend be treated like it's an occasion (obviously your milage may vary - act like a jerk and you'll be treated like one, no matter what you're wearing).
>"it's important to get the requirements right" for instance

Well, we've all been there. If you don't get them right, it will really hurt. A lot.

Also, moving things in a wireframe or diagram around is basically free whereas moving things around in a "finished" product can be fairly time consuming.

So, there is at least some truth to it.
Blogger is mistaken. Scrip dividend doesn't solve the excess cash problem.
This is a non-problem. There is an option on each filter to "Mark as read".
What makes you so sure we're not witnessing it right now? During the recession, millions of people lost their jobs. If you look at the numbers, those companies are doing all right again, so why haven't those people all been hired back?
I find that difficult to believe unless you are determined to disregard them. Especially when searching for a product to purchase, the best companies will advertise and often show a deal not obviously available in the search results.
Guns run out of bullets. I don't think you are seriously thinking of what a mob of say 50k people with absolutely nothing to lose is capable of doing. The Chinese factory workers aren't rising up because the govt still has more than enough power to quell things and more than enough people benefit from the current system to "keep it in play". I was responding to a proposed future in which a very small number of people had everything and everyone was entirely subservient to them for even their most basic needs. What reason would exist for not rising up against the elites? It's not like that hasn't actually happened numerous times in recorded history. Especially if the situation was worse than it had ever been. How is any government overthrown ever if all it takes is superior weapons to hold control? I wasn't suggesting they would literally use stones, only that there are weapons that don't require the means of manufacturing to produce. I don't think people understand that there isn't anything inherently pre-determined or inherently stable in the current status quo and people, when faced with no real shot at anything in life, tend to react poorly (and violently). Money is only useful in a stable political system where rule of law exists. The richest man in Somalia probably doesn't sleep terribly well.
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I just wanted to point out that this guys site is all messed up on my iPhone. CSS problems basically. But I'm sure he's really good as CSS...

And what's with all the troll comments on his page? Looked like reddit got there first. I laughed.
GameDevelopers.com In theory, I'd like to do something productive with it, but in practice I wouldn't mind a big check to fund my current startup instead.
I have about 2.5 million emails in my work account and it still works really well, as a counter example. (I work at Google, on Gmail backend).

If you've debugged it yourself and can't get to a good resolution (which it looks like you have), please post in our help forums. There are a few people that are dedicated to reading the forum and helping users, and when they hit dead ends for various reasons they'll escalate to the backend team directly and we investigate and fix the account if there is a bug.

Gmail tends to work very well for heavy users, but as with all complex software there are edge cases. Sometimes people fall into those edges and if you escalate through the help forums we'll see a rise in specific types of user escalations and fix whatever bug is causing it.

Hope that helps,
-Andrew
Very much like one, just intended to be used more liberally with other related content as well.
The market is open, the store is closed (or walled).
Yes, I know, saw his LinkedIn profile too. Not that either of those could be faked but lets not go there. I was agreeing with the comment that this denial was a very weak statement from the FBI. There were specific facts in the accusation which the FBI chose not to directly contradict, which I found somewhat odd on their part. That doesn't help the FBI convince me that they weren't caught with their floppy out if you know what I mean.
Unwinding Malloc Wrappers
TFS Architecture
In TFS, files are divided into variable-size chunks. Each chunk is identified by an immutable
and globally unique 64 bit chunk handle assigned by the master at the time of chunk creation.
Chunk servers store the chunks on the local disks and read/write chunk data specified by a
chunk handle and byte range. For the data reliability, each chunk is replicated on multiple
chunk servers. By default, we maintain three replicas in the system, though users can
designate different replication levels for different files.
Apple charges $99 per developer per year, but Valve seems to be charging $99 per title. This approach might cut down on "spray and pray" noise in the App Store, and the extra cost wouldn't materially affect most legitimate developers.
You can, you just need to set up a filter to do the forwarding rather than using the global forwarding option.
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Are you sure about that? If I search for "plumber philadelphia", I'm looking at organic and paid sections of the results page. The results in the paid sections tend to be pretty solid. They are local plumbers taking the time out and spending their ad budget online. To me that's a plus, along with a solid website.
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It is indeed awesome. Tons of fun just dragging the window resize handle around, and watching the presentation update fairly intelligently in real time...!

I wish more sites would at least think a little about this sort of thing. I like to keep my browser in a small window if I can, just to let me use other apps along side it on my desktop machine. Unfortunately all too many sites just look awful unless you give keep the browser window large...
Here's Fred Wilson's post about passing on AirBnB: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html
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Oh, cool. Consider my commentary in this thread as critique, not flames - it was really striking when it was just your personal brand, and if I didn't think the look and the content were both often interesting, I wouldn't have gone into as much detail!
wheres that data located? I tried to dig around for it a while ago, but no avail.
Here's a question on Quora, which I found very helpful and it keeps on getting updated.

http://www.quora.com/What-startup-homepages-are-most-simple-...
> ... because you could convert your "drive time" to "internet/reading time".

Sadly some of us humans are now genetically dead ends. I'm one of those people who gets car sick unless I'm looking out the window, best in the front seat and with cool air blowing. Consequently I can't really read or Internet. (If I look at a paper map for about 60 seconds I'll be on the verge of puking.) So even if I wasn't driving I can't really use the time for anything else (can't sleep either).
Good point. I wonder if by plugging this into it's routing/dispatch engine in real time, Uber can actually generate more revenue? I have to imagine that aggregating this demand will help increase the capacity utilization of the cab fleet (if cabs were maxed out on the number of trips they could take in total, the cab drivers would have no demand for a tool like this, and if the article's numbers are to be believed, between Uber and Hallo, 20% of NYC cabbies are signed up and the service hasnt even started yet!)