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Ask HN: does pay per use pricing method works?
I'm tired of seeing the same pricing systems on every startup it comes out: plans. I understand they are designed well and is common in the industry at this time but I think we can improve more. Some pricing plans are well distributed but some others, not. They just list a bunch of stupid features just to fill up the list and become something important to show.

I am developing a SaSS system and I want to implement a different approach for pricing. It starts with $10 for everyone, but you need to pay extra when you need to use or do other stuff.

Let's say you're 37signals Basecamp and, one feature is SMS alert. You either can pay the pro account extra 200 a year or instead you pay those SMS you need to send that x month for that x project you're working on. If it becomes a must feature, you pay a fee and you have it for default in your account. If not, you pay per use.

I've researched a lot for my project and I found people doesn't need all the features all the time. Most of the features I've been researching to put on the system are, more used occasionally than usually. I want to charge for the occasional use and, if it becomes a must, you can pay it too instead paying for something you will never use.

Has anyone tried this system and can share results? I don't know the side effects of this in real world projects. The only effect i tested with people told me that plans makes things attractive because "it has that and that just in case i need it to use" and that's all.
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> I don't find it very surprising that providers of security awareness programs don't agree with Schneier's arguments against their offering.

Erm... I wasn't talking about commercial providers of security awareness programmes. I'm talking about people who work in security who actually implement security awareness programmes as part of their security management processes, and the risk of a higher up being convinced that it's not worthwhile because schneier said so.

I've actually had a phone call this morning with one of my clients where this article was raised as justification for cutting the security budget next year by reducing spend on security awareness. This is for a major european defence manufacturer who's under pretty much constant attack by people looking to steal their IP.

In reference to your quote, that's not desperate, it's fact. A proper security awareness programme is created and maintained by the organisation itself on the basis of trying to find the best way to counter the threats the organisation faces. Some organisations will find that the need for this is relatively low and that the biggest threats they face are things like password sharing and internal things with disgruntled employees. Others may find that they're under constant attack from external threat actors and need to train people to help support their detection capability. In either situation it's definitely not a one hour CBT, it's more complex, it's more nuanced and it's ongoing.
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Its an awesome hack but i dont really see the benfit vs some ultrabook with a matte screen. Batterylife is worse sure, but most probably you wont be sitting somewhere without power for more than 4-5 hours anyway.
Thanks for the clarification on the numbers, I guess only time will tell on the distribution of exits and what the actual returns back to you would be on them look like (20x @ $80m ignores liq pref and dilution). How many are in your team now looking after all the portfolio companies?
There's an interesting 1hr podcast (with transcript) here: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/06/blakely_on_fash.htm...

The tldr is: In the fashion industry there is limited protection for innovative designs and as a result, copying is rampant. Despite the ease of copying, innovation is quite strong in the industry and there is a great deal of competition.

I would add that, (1) the clothing industry is similar now to the the time IP was being legislated so it was directly addressed rather than derived by similarity to other areas. Its a little more logical and true to the original goals of IP than areas that derive. (2) There is a big element of hivemind/zeitgeist/emergence in fashion because people invent their own outfit every time they dress. (3) The combination of innovative fashion & quality is what makes high fashion brands valuable. (4) the lack of IP protection actually fuels innovation as a design will remain somewhat exclusive for a season only.
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Autobahn android lib, added support to send custom headers
OpenELEC 3.0.0 Released
The Anki business model is to give it out for free for all platforms and then exploit the iOS users.

StickyStudy is cheaper and so far works fine with my < 200 element deck.
Only problem I had is that it sometimes crashes after searching for a word and then clearing the search-box.
It's an interesting hack. I do wonder whether or not it's a little over-engineered. When you look at the costs of all the kit versus maybe an older OLPC type computer off ebay I'm not sure how well it stacks up.

Then again, it's probably pretty good in sunlight and despite the refresh rate issues considering idle time in an editor it might be a very good use of the e-ink screen. And as I said, it is a nice hack. Certainly better than most raspberry pi posts I've seen.
An overview of mobile gaming in Asia, Part 2: China
Show HN: Healthyr - Rails app performance monitor
Well, in my book FTP is The Absolute Worst Protocol Ever Invented :-)
> For fuck's sake, way to exhibit absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the subtleties of patriarchy. Get educated.

Now I cannot stop wondering what kind of patriarchal horror is hiding in robotfindskitten.
That's part of my workflow, too. The nice part is, that you can use the URL of the PR, e.g. `hub checkout https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/pull/473`
I'm a bit annoyed that British Citizen is filed under U (for United Kingdom).
Come on. It's a great little service whether there is a map or not. Drop downs with autocomplete work well for choosing countries.

I especially like that there are links to primary sources and that the service is careful when it doesn't know:

"Sorry, we've no information available.
We're careful to only use accurate, first-hand information, but have been unable to confirm the visa requirements for Andorran citizens travelling to Angola."
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I love being hit by invisible assailants :)
FYI For "Taiwanese citizen to Germany" and to other states of the Schengen Area, no visa is required since 2011. http://www.taipei.diplo.de/Vertretung/taipei/en/01-Welcome-t...
The EU can, but currently doesn't. Because of dogma (the whole austerity debacle).
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Theoretical Limit Of Solar Cell Efficiency Probably Broken
Hey I can post links too! Her's a link right here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smear_campaign

But really I decided to do a bit of research into this and found that the source of this came from this site http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1680.

In case anyone doesn't know. It's a "satire" site.
Thanks for your quick insight. I would be interested in reading about cultural barriers to having a startup in Iran. From your launch, it looks like the technological barriers are being tackled successfully, and I think the capital barriers are yet to be tackled.
This is a great visualisation. Very moving.
ZTE Is Betting On China’s Nascent 4G Network
You can't copy someone's logo. Otherwise, copy whatever design you like.
Shawn Fanning may unleash the slumbering Napster
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If I was with Kickstarter, I'd simply tell you the official position and none of these threads would have happened.

I certainly wouldn't be engaged in this kind of back and forth when we'd have a company policy on it and probably someone whose job is to monitor and manage this kind of public discussion.
If you follow the format: I'm a <Dutch> citizen. That's actually correct, and what I used intuitively.
Can the Internet Replace Big Banks?
I've been using Apache behind Nginx for years, and not once has it gone wrong. HTTP reverse proxying is not something overly complicated that can go wrong often.

How it is best of both worlds? Nginx simply does not have all the features Apache have. Take a look at the .htaccess rules that Wordpress and WP-Supercache needs. It's much easier to to run Wordpress on Apache and put that behind Nginx than to figure out how to rewrite the rules to Nginx form (or worse, update the rules when they change). There's also a ton of Apache modules that have no Nginx equivalent, or no easy Nginx equivalent.

Why I use PHP? Because some apps don't have good Ruby or Python equivalents. After all these years I still haven't found anything better than Wordpress and phpMyAdmin. If it's my own code, sure, I'll write Ruby, but I'm talking about apps.

Putting Nginx before Apache allows it to protect Apache from slow clients because Nginx buffers requests and responses.
You're right. But still: The statement in the article was to improve a condom.

My statement is that condoms are perfectly fine, but the psychological aspect is what's "broken". And you won't fix that simply by designing a better condom. The condom itself is what makes it unpleasurable for some men. Or how would you explain that some men lose their erection if they simply try to put a condom on?
Honestly?

I don't think these are great examples. They are 'school' examples maybe, but some of these look amateurish

For example, the 4x (Fox) breaks the left-to-right convention, you can't identify it as such until you see it all. Some others haven't gotten the gist of the idea (forgot the word, sorry) and do things just because.
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You may want to take a look at http://www.eschrade.com/page/why-is-fastcgi-w-nginx-so-much-.... The answer might surprise you.

As for ThreadStackSize: it impacts virtual memory but not actual memory usage. Actual memory usage stays the same. You should never use the 'vm size' as a good measurement of memory usage. Unfortunately memory management on modern OSes is complicated and people don't understand the numbers, so they arbitrarily pick a column in 'ps' and conclude that X is bloating memory... :(
Hi Shane, thanks, dropped you an email.
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That's one approach. The other would be something like a spermicide but also agains STDs applied locally.
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"Tap fans" sounds close to "milk cows" to me.
Filipino Accelerator IdeaSpace Picks Country’s Top 20 Tech Startups
A design is non-protectable, which is why they generally keep things moving fast or cover it with logos which are protectable and gives them leverage to go after copies.
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Have to apply for a change of use. The location is bordered by houses anyway so it hopefully won't be a major issue.
Genetic algorithm for filter generation with a human fitness function.
Quote of the Week: "What can C# do that F# cannot?"
I had to drop the www http://visamapper.com/
Haha, I vaguely remember that one - will rewatch it at some point.
Ludei opens door for creating cross-platform 3D web-based games
Most vanilla browsers lets you add your own user style into cascade. In Firefox it is userContent.css and userChrome.css [1] (loaded at startup), in Google Chrome custom.css [2](this file is 'live'). IE [3] and Opera [4] have something like this as well.

[1] http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
[2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2393
[3] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Use-your-own-sty...
[4] http://www.opera.com/docs/usercss/#user-mode
No, you missed the other part I have shown, which cames naturally from the above: that there are things that are forced upon some humans, and thus not a part of their nature or natural tendencies.
That is exactly my plan. I'm planning on driving a motorhome into the workshop area and kind of decompressing out a house from that.
Having actually deployed and used SQL Server extensively, I know how it handles "multi-version read consistency": As I tell it to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173763.aspx

In addition to setting a database level default, you can even have it behave differently per connection. Snapshot isolation will never lock, period.

SQL Server is actually quite capable, and has the fantastic tooling that cheaper alternatives like PostgreSQL lack.
I do somewhat agree, but how would Javascript be made to create system looking controls (i.e. Unity date controls on Ubuntu, Windows like on Windows 7, etc.), without adding some extensions for DOM?

I personally dislike that CSS is turning into a miniature programming language, but I assume this is the way forward until something way better comes along and simply replaces HTML, CSS, JS. I mean its better to say width - 10 pixel than to make JS for each silly snipet like that.
Are women under represented in the logo design industry? I only see two recognizably female names.
Wes, there needs to be a great book about Pandas as it's an amazing tool, and you've written it. But Data Analysis is a HUGE subject and passively implying that it can only be tackled with Pandas is misleading. My post was intended to be a snark at O'Reilly's general failing quality - I'm sorry if I put your nose out of joint.
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Android and Chrome OS will remain independent for a long time
> the EU urged Cyprus to collectively punish all deposit holders regardless of balance.

No it didn't - the EU always wanted Cyprus to leave deposits under 100,000 EUR alone but impose a higher tax on large deposits. The leadership of Cyprus was the one who came up with the tax on lower deposits because they wanted to decrease the burden on high deposits.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21825981 (last paragraphs)
I wouldn't disagree, but have any specific examples?
Reddit's explainer series: what do children understand better than you?
The correct demonym for the U.S. in English is "American".

In Spanish it's 'estadounidense' which is cool, but there's no equivalent in English. Anybody who actually cares about the ambiguity of the U.S. demonym probably has too much time on their hands.
This was some time ago on HN http://axrproject.org/
Holy shit, that's a lot of Ioc Frameworks
Firm firewall: Reddit, Craigslist head anti-CISPA online protest
America is a big country, and Americans drive everywhere, and so 100 miles isn't that far.

But this is exactly why gas guzzling cars are idiotic.
[0] appears to be the original press release, as linked to from the comments of the OP. If you like annoying pop-ups, I’d suggest going to cleantechnica.com, though :)

[0] http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/nanowire-solar-cell...
Awesome. I haven't touched my propeller in months because the spin toolchain was finicky, just got a test program loaded in minutes.

Awesome.
Students think research abstracts have greater quality when written by men
Do get the 'Python for Data Analysis' book as it's a good and well written - but it's about Pandas (which you can then use for Data Analysis).
Beautiful Builds - A work in progress
Nasty Gal initially started out by selling vintage clothes which happen to have huge margins. One piece she purchased for $8 sold for $1000.

what about the other 100 she purchased at $150 and still are not sold? I made the numbers up but you cannot use an extreme case and assume the same applies to all.
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The Russians have already got there first. Did you see the jump in Dollar value since the Cyprus Crisis began?
The pro of plans from the business side is also that people pay for what they may not use. If you now have a plan that charges $40 for 400 uses and change that so that people pay $.10 for every single use, the revenue will simply be a lot lower - because these people may use 200 or 300, and if they were planning to really use around 400 they'd probably get a plan that offers them more to ensure they don't run out too early. So ultimately you'll need to charge quite a bit more per use if they only pay what they really use.
Your second paragraph is nonsense. Any JS expert should be able to understand every point made in that book, by the very definition of expert.

Your third paragraph is completely sensible however. The Good Parts is horrible if you're a beginner programmer, and I'd definitely recommend against it. But if you have a CS degree or years of programming experience, it should not cause you trouble - it's a great, terse intro to JS that'll get you up and running in no time.

The worst book to learn from is JavaScript: The Definitive Guide [1]. It's unnecessarily lengthy (1000+ pages!) and attempting to learn from that has dissuaded more colleagues from JS than I care to remember.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805531.do
The "toxic heavy metals" are probably mostly lead from paint peeling away from the hulls.
Having been involved in computers since the 70's, the internet before WWW, and the web since, I come to the conclusion that the Web succeeded because it was barely good enough to work for amateurs, but no better. As hypertext it sucks. As a application platform it sucks too. But for allowing free exchange of information, it's been pretty damn good for such a crufty piece of tech.
Unitrends Named an Innovator in Info-Tech Research Group's Windows/Linux Backup
IBM's DB2 has an inbuilt tool that can suggest (and create) indexes for you.
SQL Server 2008 and upwards are incredibly solid, we use it extensive at my current work place doing telecoms stuff and have very few issues.

It's not what I would have picked (I come from a Linux and Oracle background), but I've been very impressed.
The sense of scale is noticable even in this article. The author is parking a fire engine on his driveway. Here in Europe a driveway is one or two car lengths of gravel or paving blocks.

In the US, everyone's driveway is more like something approaching a major civil engineering undertaking, being the size of a tennis court, consuming several cubic metres of concrete, steel reinforcing, etc.
There are actually several reserve fleets - I've seen the fleet at James River VA (from dry land).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Reserve_Fleet
Waiting for the follow-up article: whether the pumps really work, how well they work, whether it came with a firehouse (and if not, how much those cost+shipping), and fun things you can do with a big jet of water.

Actually, I'd think you'd need a bit of training to operate a firehose (assuming the sellers showed you how to operate all the buttons and levers). But once you have all the safety aspects down, you can go out to a lake, set up an intake hose and make a cool water display. Waiting for the pics.
"a few hundred dollars is a very, very big number in Cyprus"

Cyprus is not
a) eastern anything (including european)
b) outside the european union
c) a third world country

A few hundred dollars is not far off a few hundred Euros, the currency of Cyprus.
Criminal complaint that results in arrest.

Lying in a job search, while usually unethical, is not always illegal. Most of the lies people tell to make themselves look more impressive or to conceal blemishes are not in violation of law.

Job fraud is pretty tightly defined. If you cannot perform the job (or have no intent to do so) and know it beforehand, you're committing job fraud. It's illegal (it's fraud) and you can go to jail for it. The same is true if you feign qualifications to get a job you cannot legally perform (e.g. quack doctors). Also highly illegal.

However, if your deception makes you a more attractive candidate for a job you can perform, then it's not job fraud. It might be unethical, but it's not jailable.

In fact, job search lies are only cause for termination if the employer can establish (sometimes requiring cavity searches of personnel decisions) that the person would not have been hired were the truth known. If the company only hires 3.5+ GPAs as a matter of HR policy and he turned a 2.8 into 3.7, that's "for cause" (even if he was a great employee) because there is an internally published and consistent policy and he didn't fit. However, if the person concealed a 5-month gap in employment history, that might have been a factor but the onus is on employer to establish that it constitutes "cause".

However, with this particular case (concealed felony conviction) the employer will have almost no controversy on that one when it comes to firing for cause. I don't think anyone doubts that. If he gets found out and fired, he can't expect severance.

Audits of everything he touched, with a view towards uncovering a repeat of his earlier deceptions.

Yeah, he's got to be whiter than white, ethically speaking, from here on out, except when there is strategic necessity. Avoiding long-term unemployment constitutes "strategic necessity". Once you're in check, the way he is, you really have to limit your lies and make them count. Picking your battles becomes key.
The BBC wrote [1] on the 18th:

> "Reports have suggested that eurozone leaders, particularly in Germany, insisted on the levy because of the large amount of Russian capital kept in Cypriot banks, amid fears of money-laundering. However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he and the International Monetary Fund had been in favour of "respecting the deposit guarantee for accounts up to 100,000" euros."

So to me it sounds more like the Cypriot government initially tried to put more of a burden on small deposits but now agreed to do it the way the EU always wanted.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21825981
Let me quote the part of your post I'm disagreeing with:

I guess it all comes down to whether you walk around thinking that women cause sexual harassment lawsuits or men cause sexual harassment lawsuits. I think it's the men doing the harassing, but whoo-boy are there a lot of apologists out there who believe that women are making this stuff up.

I took a model very similar to yours, in which women never make stuff up. The only factor I added was a (in my opinion quite reasonable) assumption that you can't harass the people in the company you've never met.

I.e., I showed one can disagree with you even while believing that women never ever make stuff up.

If you want to call all beliefs based on mathematical models rather than some frequentist statistical estimate "faith", fine. I don't agree that mathematical models are useless, I think they can give us excellent guesses about the world and we should use them until we have something better (particularly when a variety of different models give similar conclusions). But I suppose we just have radically different views on epistemiology.

But in that case, why are you claiming that kudzu_bob's claim is "probably incorrect"? How could you possibly know this? Absent some frequentist study proving this is the case, why would you believe that "it's men doing the harassing"?
You're "annoyed" with a useful service that you didn't even know existed until five minutes ago?
By stopping trying to make a document technology bend into an application stack and use native applications instead?

The more web projects I work on, the more I like desktop technologies.
Linux community adopts UEFI technology
Sounds like you need strong AI. :) But really, isn't that like wishing the compiler would find out if you need a priority queue or a stack? Or rewriting your n² sort automatically to n log n?
One of my canadian friends likes to raise her hand at big meetings when someone asks if there are any americans there.
Can't recommend this course enough. Martin Odersky is a great lecturer and very passionate about functional programming. Learning Scala was a useful bonus too.