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But I still don't really want to pay any more for it than I already do.

I agree, but I also factor my time, patience, stress levels, and other things into the cost. (That said, I'm probably more bothered by this stuff than most, so my costs are not your costs.)

Where I disagree is that I think big production stuff can happen without ad dollars, but without data to support it, I'm just supposing.

And I also think that, on a per-dollar basis, we might even wind up paying less. Similarly suppositional, but I think we underestimate the amount of ad budgets baked into products we'd buy either way, the amount of worthless junk we pay for–either directly, or indirectly–but wouldn't, if our collective view of things was a bit more grounded and mature, and so on.

And, yeah, a trojan horse in the shape of shiny phones has certainly done wonders for that. All I can think is that perhaps desktop apps being more the domain of earlier adopters and business users, at least relative to phone sales, must be part of it.

That said, developers were doing it before iOS had an ad network, and before Android, so one could take the good-faith assumption that they were more concerned about developers making bad, annoying ads that would spoil it for everyone else (I vaguely remember Apple making some comments about that at the time), and I'm sure Google didn't want someone besides them controlling how things were presented and doing a bad job of it.

I assume that everyone is doing what they think is in their own best interest.

I'm just not sure consumers are, on balance, right in their assumptions.
It's not ready to be sold, but we never know. I have a Software to build web applications for iPad and Android as Software as a Service, Website in French, english comming soon. Maybe you like to do business dev.
I just want to use Netflix from Linux...
My definition of value is simple: something is valuable when it manages to raise people's utility functions (right now, that's about as rigorous as I can be). A trade that happens to be closed by a plain old investor is valuable. If it's another speculator, however, the value is zero. Only consequences ultimately matter.

But, if I got you right, the anonymity of it all mean we cannot separate the two… hmm… Then we've got to multiply the potential utility of the trade by the (quite low) probability of it being closed by a non-speculator. Still valuable, but much less. And I'm back wondering to what extent this is worth the (collective) effort. You did change my mind a little, though. I'll need to learn more.

> You still haven't disputed that by the way, the consumer wins don't they? How could they possibly have lost?

The consumer winning does count as creating value. However there are 2 parts in the retail store competition example: the part where they compete on quality, price, diversity… and the part where they pay fat fees to the advertiser. The first part benefits the consumer, the second just add inefficiency in the loop: if both stores could only agree to not use ads, everybody would win.

When Pareto Optimum and Nash Equilibrium are at odds, life sucks.
They ruled the same thing about wheat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

It seems obvious to me that the authors of the interstate commerce clause didn't intend it to grant the authority to regulate anything and everything just because an interstate market for it exists, but the courts are generally quite hesitant to invalidate Federal laws.

Practically speaking, most drug enforcement happens at the state level. This means that individual users and small sellers in states that legalized marijuana probably won't have many issues, but you won't see ABC Liquor and Cannabis opening its doors any time soon.
you're right, the broader point is "buy what is the best [for you]". i assumed the "for you" is implicit, given the obvious subjective nature of what it is we're talking about.

are you suggesting he's trying to imply that there is a canonical "the best" of everything?
I'll attest to the article's accuracy, but that's one data point. The highs from big wins are great, but the lows hit hard and often. Celebrating (even unreasonably so) small wins is particularly important to try to keep things in balance.

I have no idea how it averages out compared to non-founders and non-startup-employees, but it's a nasty roller-coaster to be sure.
Why quick thinking leads to bad decisions
Some of these comments confuse me. What do you expect an m&a email to read like? Having been through a bunch of acquisitions, that email is par for the course, especially for a (presumably) smaller acquisition. You have an internal product sponsor who asks for basic financial info, asks for a price, has clearly laid out next steps and the process, and wants to start immediately. All positive for a first step. Some of the best corp dev guys I know have the worst grammar and email manners and to focus on that as a weakness is ridiculous...as long as they can approve a wire transfer, who cares? Some people are Youtube and have Eric layering sweet sugary syrup on their Pancakes whilst they discuss the beautiful synergies of a monster deal, but most of the time, the startup CEO is hustling it across the finish line.
I bought some flatware... A spork made of titanium. Why? Because I saw an ad on a nerd gear website. I've had it for years, and eat everything I can with it. But I don't have a strange obsession with everything being the best. But I love my titanium spork.

To each their own I guess.
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This is the wrong way to look at it. Your expenses prior to launch (with exception to employees and all), would be minimal (unless you're just outsourcing a ton of work). Hosting and a domain name is like nothing.

That said, until you launch, hire employees, have a cofounder, raising money, etc... no one is going to know you really exist and the "looking" professional or whatever is non-existant, nor do most early adopters really care or think that way.

The reason most people advise (including really good attorneys) to put off incorporating until you actually need it is basically to save you money and avoid having to undo, amend, or fix anything.

Hope that help better answer the question.
Interesting that no one ever calls out the Apple shareholders and Google employees who might be having a part in flagging down stories critical of Google or Apple, Paul Thurrott's http://winsupersite.com is autokilled on HN due to excessive flagging for the crime of being a Microsoft watcher sie, but heaven forbid a couple of commenters don't hate MS and you feel the need to call them paid shills and blame the flamewars on them?! Lets drive out the last few posters who don't conform to the groupthink.

How about addressing whether local file search keywords are users' personal info or not instead of pulling an ad hominem?
Jeesh, it's like you're missing the trees for the forest here. Skipping technologies is the pattern but there's a reason for pattern.

Developing countries don't skip technologies out of a desire for hopscotch or something. They skip wired tech because copper wires are expensive, their expense doesn't go down over time in contrast with the increasing sophistication of chips. Conventional phone lines and electrical power are both wired tech. Thus both are harder in third world conditions.
This is a very interesting discussion. To me, it's rampant materialism to buy random items at Target/Walmart/etc. and replace them often. Now, I'm lazy enough to do that more often than not but I also plan and research a lot of things that I expect to last. I'm trading time now doing research for time later replacing the thing. Then when I go to use it for whatever task I know I won't have to worry about it, it won't take too much time away from the hobby or people I'm with.

The good thing about being slightly obsessive about your purchases now is that you can take advantage of other people's time. I follow Kevin Kelley's Cool Tools mailing list so when I need something I can look there first and let somebody else recommend something good. There's plenty of options for buying good things and not spending lots of time.
Some of our core platform features, backend additions, and applications started as hack week projects. Every project you see featured in the linked video will be used. There are many more that aren't featured in the video that are more specific to a few customers; those will often be fleshed out and rolled out to individual customers to smooth out our customers' workflows.
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Wow, this is pretty intense. I'm a designer, but even for me it's almost too dense. Would be really if there was a cheat sheet with the main takeaways.
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Well there's two problems with your question. One is that there is no other massive cloud service to compare with AWS. Every other large hosting solution is more classical with managed hardware and maybe virts being the most high-level offering for most of competitors. Nobody important uses MS or Google's cloud, and if they do, they don't like talking about it because they probably feel it gives them a competitive advantage and nobody notices when they go down anyway.
If I remember correctly, the saying goes, "If you're not embarrassed by it when you release it, then you've released it too late."

:)
Reminding me of that Motorolla Droid add with the guy living with his devices and bed in an open concrete square house. Thoroughly optimal design is neutral, soulless and impersonal, it is frightening.
The 10 Commandments for Remote Team Management
The Narcissism Of Minor Silicon Valley Differences
It seems more likely to have precious little to do with the "value" you may or may not "add" to society. The taxes on upscale hotels (business class travelers, Presumably spending $$$) exceed those on cheap ones, etc. Commuters in NYC (for example) pay special regional income and sales taxes, but they don't sleep in Hotels. More closer to your def of 'transient'. For the most part.

Also, perhaps as a counter example: Artists, students, and other creative types are now perhaps more likely to use AirBNB than a Hotel, as a base of working in NYC or SF etc. History evidences (globally) creatives tend to inflate real-estate values far in excess of any economic income they themselves capture from employment (in any major urban center). Viz: Soho, Soma, Shoreditch, Berlin, Brooklyn, Paris pre-war, etc.
>Seeing stocks drop like that was not the best news to wake up to

This has always confused me. Are you day trading or holding positions where short term moves massively impact you? Or do you believe the entire market will actually explode? As someone with investments I honestly pay little attention to short term moves as I am investing on far longer time horizons. Or maybe I am just missing how the market going up or down after random event X impacts my life in any meaningful way or portends really anything. I do see how both sides like to claim the market is validating whatever they are currently trying to "sell", I think these people massively over-simplify "the market" and its moves, for obvious reasons.
Yes, when I go to the movie theater, I am bombarded with ads (previews) before it starts.
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Foundation 22 - Pandora CTO Tom Conrad video interview (pets.com, toaster
This is actually pretty interesting.

Edit:
- Is it open source? Shouldn't be hard to replicate, but I'm just wondering....
I suspect "Gonk" is a pun on "Gecko" and "Android" based on Star Wars' GNK power droid:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/GNK_power_droid
How I Got My First Real Job
Someone once said that the best things about good software are the things you don't notice but improve your life. Case in point here.
Haha, if it adjusted the clock time, that would be double or triple bad depending on how it was implemented. The alarm would be wrong unless it were shifted back when the time changed again, thus defeating the point of having altered it in the first place.
I'm sorry for you Mr. Curtis whoever you are... guess you'll never be able to learn how to play the violin.
Jordan Mechner's remake of Karateka released
In my self-hypnosis scripts for Summon the Warrior: http://SummontheWarrior.com I use sensory recall and a few other techniques that can induce hallucinations. Certainly, they can be triggered by a smell or sound.

Negative hallucinations are even more common (like not being able to see the car keys when they are right in front you). I see people show signs of negative hallucinations when they walk past litter on scenic paths.
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Android also sorts them chronologically, but that alone only helps if you have multiple alarms (and a sufficient number that sorting gives you the needed feedback).
It was 2007. Maybe he was typing it on a blackberry?
I have to say, as much as I didn't want to have to say it. Microsoft outdid themselves with windows 8. I just bought a new Asus laptop and I didn't notice when I ordered that it said windows 8 (which is really really not like me) and when I got it I almost installed seven right over it. Instead I gave it a fair shot and damn it if it turns out I like it. The interface changes flow real nice for me. The apps it comes with are good (the store is lacking bad but time should help that issue) and the one program I couldn't install was for mounting an .iso (which is a huge deal for me) and turns out you can right click (or double click) and it mounts it and proceeds into the root of the image, so that won it bonus points. Obviously I've had it less the twenty four hours, but it's already growing on me.

I really did think it was going to be a vista fiasco all over again, I can say I'm dropped by how well Microsoft managed to release an I-didn't-find-a-bug-within-minutes(hours even) new operating system. Which gets me even more because it's such a deviation from prior version of windows.
Excellent. I look forward to trying it in the near future.
If I don't include the public domain dictionary and I don't include tools for windows unzip, the size is 6Meg. I can drop that to maybe 3 meg by leaving-out the Bible and PCIDevicelist file.

I have a word list (spell check) of the dictionary that a few hundred thousand bytes.

God says...

relax charity qed do_you_get_a_cookie whazza_matter_for_you
thats_just_wrong voodoo you're_so_screwed
Using an Android kernel also allows Mozilla to leverage Google's Linux work and get hardware support "for free" from hardware vendors who won't bother writing drivers for non-Android Linux.
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You're both wrong. If I don't sleep for 48 hours (which has happened more than once), I haven't only elapsed one day. Her definition means that "tomorrow" can only ever refer to one instant in time which doesn't seem to fit the "common man" definition of "tomorrow".
Compare with http://supergenpass.com/
The code sits in one of my archive folders. I ran it for a few years, perhaps to 2004, and saw the market steadily becoming more efficient, lowering my results (like the OP did). It may well be that it no longer predicts skillfully or profitably. As I recall, to beat the market the costs had to be very low, like pennies per trade, with no bid/ask spread, which I understood to be possible for large trading firms.
> what can you do?

I have vowed never to watch anything live. Always recorded on DVR with fast forwarding through Ads. The day they disable fast forwarding Ads is the day I completely throw out my TV.
Why would you need "experts" and A/B tests to tell you obvious, common sense stuff like this?
I have used RedisToGo, and it was one of the worst products I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with.

I lost contact with the instance associated with my staging server one morning and filed a support ticket immediately. It was almost 4 days before someone responded, even after daily messages to their support team. After requesting my account information, I was simply sent a link to the "How to Connect to your Redis Instance" help page and the ticket was closed. I reopened the ticket and explained that the connection was not the problem, I was then told that there was no problem and the ticket was again closed. Other than in my initial ticket, I was never again asked to explain my issue, or offered any real support. I determined the service was no longer worth my time and booted up an EC2 instance.

Fast-forward about two months. I now receive an email from RedisToGo: "We are planning some scheduled down time that affects all users on server X because of system issues." The message then proceeded to describe the symptoms I had explained to them months before.

I sent their support team a very polite email requesting an apology for the way my issue was handled. A day later, I received a half-hearted apology and 1 month credit for some advanced feature they offered. I never cashed it in.

Never, ever, use RedisToGo if you need a reliable Redis instance.
This is such a great idea! If I were Meetup, I would be scared.
Matt I think both you and SkyMarshal have altered this discussion thoug . I too began reading this article thinking it would be about sustainability. I have changed my buying habits to only try and buy the best. Not because I obsess about design so much as I've come to realize that I'm buying a Timex watch for $50 every 12 months because they have these horrible crappy bands that are really difficult to replace. So instead I buy a good watch for $150 or more where the band will last longer and be easier to switch out. I do that because I'm struck by the landfill of each Timex decision * 100 we continually face. Dustin however never touched upon this in his post so doesn't really deserve to have this raised as a point in his defense against the initial criticism.
I agree to an extent. His product was clear much better than the existing alternatives - but he also made a brilliant move by choosing the NYT as his exclusive distribution outlet.

It's more than just marketing. It's largely about distribution.
Awesome suggestions and very simple to implement; look for it soon. I have many relatives who are celiacs (i.e. can't eat wheat) who have had this same problem!
https://github.com/jcoglan/vault
What if I'm probably not going to be an engineer? Like I'm more interested in the logistics and theory of things.
I constantly check this website for nice little touches that usually go unnoticed: http://littlebigdetails.com/
For reference, we have no idea what you meant by "One plus two times...". There is no meaning to us until you add commas or add some intonation or canter so that we can determine pauses to do sort of local evaluation. I can pretty easily read that to mean:

One + (2 * 3) - (4+(3 * 2)) ("One; plus two times three; minus four plus 3 * 2")

Or (One + (2 * 3) - (4+3) * 2) ("One; plus two times three, minus four plus three; [1] times two).

But in reality, even the times two is still quite vague, even being generous with taking pauses as groupings. That's why people say things like "... all times two." or more importantly why we rarely do math purely vocally and why we have "The quantity [...] plus the quantity [...]" etc.

edit: HN, it's 2012. Frigging implement Markdown and get it over with.
Thanks Jason for the notes. I too highlight important bits and pieces that I read and type them up later. Having a cliff notes document on each book is useful if I ever need to go back and find some specific detail (I know this seems redundant in that I could just read the kindle version and use the highlight feature but there's something about books in paper form that I can't drop).

Does anyone know of a good website that has similar cliff notes on books? Maybe one where you can read notes by others and contribute your own. Thanks
this looks very browser focused. I like this option mainly due to the ability to force the use of a symbol, uppercase, lowercase, and numbers so you don't have to worry about password requirements.
What if I don't want to be an engineer? Does that change anything? But thanks for the advice.
Thanks, I built Jetstrap :)

To answer the parent, Adobe technically does have a competitor in this space, though it's not focused on bootstrap and it's kind of complicated: http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/

As someone with a product in this space, I'm confident each of the current offerings listed above will diverge sufficiently in the future, specifically in their target audience. It's still so early though.
That has a discount. Can I get a no-ads Win8 for a premium? Nope. I can with the kindle.
For HNCGN people stumbling on this thread, I've posted an official announcement of the next and 11th Hacker News Meetup Cologne http://stopmebeforeiblogagain.com/hacker-news-cologne-meetup...
Okay, in specific terms, for only myself, then:

When I saw this headline, it elicited a minor "groan" from me, since it reminded me of some less-desirable elements within the greater community. It, on some level, reminds me that sometimes I wish I was doing something else.

This plugs into what I said before.
You know what, this is interesting. I would love to be proven wrong.

I searched for that paper but couldn't find it, nor any description of the experiment it proposes. I wrote an email to professor Deutsch asking him to send me a pdf copy. I will get back to you if/when he responds.

I still kind of suspect that the paper will make some assumptions that will effectively mean "if <magic> then we could test the MWI in the following way: ...".
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For context: Universal Music Group was the driving force behind the MegaUpload raid, they really don't like Kimble.
For a washed up has-been startup founder looking for catharsis or another 15 minutes of fame? Sure.
Ask HN:  When (if ever) is it ok to yell at someone?
Is there ever an appropriate time to yell at someone?

Should employers keep their cool at ALL times?

Is that part of the job description?
I found it quite a stretch to call manufacturing exactly identical iPhones "truly one of our civilization’s greatest accomplishments". An impressive feat, to be sure, but pretty far down there on my "greatest accomplishments of civilization" list, after democracy, basic medicine, space exploration, etc.

The general point is a good one though! It's true that simplicity is often invoked as an excuse for laziness, and authentic simplicity can be very difficult to achieve. I think that developers/designers sometimes confuse simplicity of their process with simplicity of the end result. The latter is really all that matters.
You seem to have the premise that materialism is incontrovertibly bad?
It seems you still want to micro-manage your remote team, which at the same time isn't that remote as you want to meet them once a week.

Come back when you have some sensible suggestions for a truly remote team.