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Hi Makeea,

In the next version we'll be offering a whole suite of new ways for the sponsors to benefit from Twollars. Including an API which allows them to send the Twollars they buy from a charity to their users. I'll be releasing more details on the blog in the coming weeks.

Thank you,

Eiso
Not a critisism, but a question: why are you paying a return on investment funds from before they are drawn? I'm curious - was that based on a precedent?
The point behind having a business plan isn't to have a business plan, but to think through all of the necessary aspects of your business.

Whether you write all of that down in a long document or condense it into Powerpoint slides for a pitch is irrelevant. The point is that you have thought about the big picture, as it is clear that this team has.
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"No, it doesn't. In fact, that's a distinct advantage of mod_php. Everything is loaded and in memory when the request comes in."

Actually, thats not right, even with APC. A large set of operations run at the start of every request. For example, the class- and function-tables are filled and copied. Each extension (library) also has a per-request callback.

I don't know anything about NGINX either. But he's not wrong about the "epic shit ton of overhead".
Nine out of ten yuppies, or more, will make as much money in 2009 as they did in 2008. They can still afford their mortgages. Consumer confidence aside, tell me why they're going to suddenly stop shopping at Whole Foods, buying organic, drinking wine, and otherwise displaying upper middle-class tastes in food consumption.
And there are plenty of objective facts about the Iraq war that are known. Not all in the world is a matter of opinion, no matter how much some wingnuts (on both sides) wish it were.

We ignore this at our peril. But overall, you're right. Little is ever gained from political debate, and this probably isn't the place for it.
It's a political game. You can already make inferences about the average age, education and income of your players. Run various ads and do A/B tests, keep what works.

You traffic is not as bad as you think. If you sold political satire books, for example, at a $5 commission each and 1 sales a week, that's another $240 annually. If you target the ads geographically, you can catch both local and federal election seasons.

Try to infer something about the political affiliation of your players and you can hit them with even more targeted ads. Show leftists merchandise to the progressives, and rightwing merchandise to the conservatives.

P.S. I am in the online advertising, yield optimization and targeting industry. Please excuse me if I sound just a tad bit too creepy :-P
Smalltalk (at leas the flavor I used) stores code as a data structure rather than plain text. That same idea is at the core of the language workbench concept Fowler is championing. What the language workbench concept adds to that is that you can render and edit your "code" data structure in a multitude of languages. That includes graphical flow languages, for instance. One could take Smalltalk and take it to this step, too.

I agree that right now it all looks like slideware, but I do think the concept has merit.
Notice how the spec changed when they added the requirement for being able to resynchronize.
SF resident, haven't heard of the show or the host. Website at entertainingpeople.com looks like incomplete brochureware (several empty/under-construction pages).

Payback formula of 1% (or is it 1.5%) of revenues and 10% interest seems complicated... not-quite-equity and not-quite-debt... offers capped upside but possibility of 100% loss.
Double-blind testing, I like.
The suspend to ram mode worked since windows xp on thinkpads.
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Ask HN: Why no discussion for the 'weebly is hiring' post?
It's not FUD, and it's not wrong.

It took me hours of research to do a simple down/up in Windows -- something that took me 30 seconds of research in Linux.

And you yourself illustrate all the odd and very long things you have to do in Windows to do a simple down/up of the NIC, and to get it to work correctly.

While in Linux, I can just do "sudo ifdown eth0"

All in all, I prefer the 30 second way, versus the five hour way.

By your very use of evidence, you proved my point. Cool.

But didn't know about DevCon. Thanks.
I was addressing the poster's point about SONET. Of course no recovery solution will survive if the graph is really split into parts.

In case of the tunnels there normally isn't a single point you can slash and bring down the whole system. The failover requirements, recovery times etc are dictated by national road authority and fire safety regulations.
Very impressive software. Unfortunately it is windows only and closed source. If only there was an open system like this that could be generalized and extended.
The poster being you of course :)
Yuppies are being absolutely pounded. They can't spend on credit
or rely on an ever increasing stock market to fund their lifestyle. Please provide proof that 9/10 yuppies will be fine.
I don't buy it for a second. I've got my own analytics which suggest otherwise.

Consumer savings rate going up.
http://www.creditloan.com/blog/consumers-saving-instead-of-s...

bmw sales plunge
http://silverscorpio.com/bmw-reports-plunge-in-sales-as-econ...

wine sales plunge
http://wineindustryinsight.com/?p=2073

hotel occupancy off 11%
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CalculatedRisk/~3/-j6_abqDrqc...

housing delinquencies move into prime.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnaly...
I doubt they make more than 1/4 of what the younger stars make. Plus (so I've heard) they do some pretty gross stuff, hard on the body and psyche. I don't think it's a glamorous profession for anyone other than the top 1%. That may be true of most professions.
You're right in that there's a wealth of data I can use. In fact, my game already knows the political affiliation of the player (or rather: the affiliation he's playing, which is often similar).

But how do you go about finding affiliates for advertising? I wouldn't even know where to start. Do I find a publisher of political literature and straight up email them? Or are there proper channels to go about this?

The google ads it shows are terribly irrelevant, so there's indeed a lot of room for optimization here.
Show HN: Hacking is not Cracking
Inspired by our conversation here, I've set-up this site so you have somewhere to point those people that don't know the difference. Would love to hear your feedback. (I also registered hackersarenotcrackers.com as well, just in case!).

Thanks.
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About 10 years ago my company was supplying a critical component to a major game developer. We showed up at the office the last month of development to help with debugging.

It was a scene out of some psycho's nightmare. 18-21 hour days; 30 people at desks in a room, in virtual lockdown. They looked like the walking dead. The producer was this 5'4" guy wearing storm trooper boots, he'd walk around like Hitler laughing at how fucked up everyone looked, and saying things like "The beatings will continue until morale improves!" No one was laughing.

What was stupid about it is everyone was so burnt they couldn't think straight, kept making simple mistakes. Productivity was probably around 10-15% of peak, if that. It was one of the more depressing things I had ever seen.

All entertainment sectors do this -- they sucker ppl in with glamor and rip them off. It's built into the business model.
"other people should work unpaid for my benefit".

Bug fixing takes time, costs money. Linux + surroundings are unusual - the major projects are subsidised by our purchases from unrelated companies.
"In fact, that's a distinct advantage of mod_php. Everything is loaded and in memory when the request comes in. Throw APC on top of that and your code is also already compiled."

I would love it if someone cleared a very basic doubt of mine : If php is compiled, then what is the advantage of other programming languages? Wouldn't it be the same as anything else (except maybe considering the size of the language)? Is it just the optimization of the compiler then? And if so, would PHP compare the same to other loosely typed languages?
Inspired by our conversation here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487 , I've set-up this site so you have somewhere to point those people that don't know the difference. Would love to hear your feedback. (I also registered hackersarenotcrackers.com as well, just in case!).

Thanks.
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Job posts by YC companies get special treatment -- they appear under http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs, and they don't have any discussion attached.
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i'm a freelancer, working around 8-10 hrs a day with small pauses.

however i'm taking at least 30% of the year off, cannot be productive 11 months in a row.

lately i've found out that working sharply less hrs/day and taking less vacation produces more quality and longer lasting knowledge in my head.

but my biggest concern is the i/o rate: how much time one takes input (learning, reading, networking) and produces output (code, results, blog posts)
Well, to be fair, I really wouldn't expect anything else. Some of the more disgusting companies out there will do disgusting things, if we let them.
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Apart from my server machines, I'm primarily a Windows user because I've always felt that Windows (esp. XP) saves you lot of time in configuring stuff as compared to *nix (not considering mac). Of course it restricts you a lot but with tools like GnuWin32 etc. you can create quite a powerful dev box.

Once I decided to install Ubuntu 8.04 in one of my machines but X didn't work due to some conflict with the graphics card. After lot of forum browsing and hair pulling, I finally went to #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net to beg for some help. I explained them the problem I was having and casually told them "I'm using Windows right now". The reply was "You mean, struggling with Windows?". Yeah right!
> I especially don't want to see on HN

I think they were thinking the same thing, which is why they started their own website and called it a new name and it's hosted on different servers and has a new URL.

Also, the people running it are different. And you need separate accounts. Hmm, looks like they even changed the theme and some graphics!

Wow, it's almost like they run a separate site that isn't HN and has things that doesn't belong on HN!
I've had the signup page up for almost a week now and I have 3, so don't feel too bad about your 450.
That's called Tcl.
Is there a powershell cmdlet to replace netsh? I'm a *nix guy but actually think object pipelining is way better than scraping text.
Because sitting in one spot for 10+ hours a day reading page after page after page of naked computational logic does not appeal to those with feminine sensibilities.

We're all fucking crazy for doing it, you know.
4/5 of the 5 charges he is facing have potential life sentences, such as piracy, hostage taking, and various conspiracy charges.
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Ooh, look at me, I read the Economist. :)
But seriously, I laugh because everything in the onion article applies to me.
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Russia, Iraq, Iran and Venezuela are already using as much EUR as USD for their reserves.
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ridiculously gorgeous pricing page: http://heroku.com/pricing#blossom-2
Those numbers are all across the entire population, while this site is only aiming at the high segment. The question is whether sales of the BMW X5, St. Emilion Grand Cru 1986 and the Bride Suite of the Ritz have also dropped.
You might want to have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Loathing - this is another browser based game that's quite successful despite using frames and XKCD-like graphics. Plus they get by on donations as well as merchandise.

Also congrats on getting this far with your project, all I have to show for my spare time for the past few years is a reddit account full of sarcastic comments.
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The color scheme doens't exactly inspire trust in the kind of people who needs to be told this.

Also, I think this explanation is better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computing)#Controversy_...
Google is really dumb and we have beat them in the lab so bad, it's not even funny.

If you want to sign up for our ad delivery platform, click on my profile and find my email therein. But here is what you can do to get started: political advertising is typically seasonal, it's not an election season (in the U.S.) so you can weather the storm by signing up for an Amazon affiliate account and selling political books. Your classifier function would be very simple, it's basically a parity predicate; someone is either right wing or left wing. Assign a probability that someone is, say, left wing, to a few conditions and add them up then divide by their count (frequentist statistics, bayesian system is even more powerful.) Once you determine what someone is, display a few amazon book ads in rotation. After a month or so, remove the least performing 1/2 of the books and ad new ones.

This is the dumbest and most straightforward ad delivery platform. Feel free to talk to me in private for more sophisticated stuff :-)
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early on, i think it was pretty hard to figure out when we were going to be productive, and when we weren't. partially because some of the stuff you do (email, research, etc) doesn't feel particularly productive, even though it needs to get done. let's put it this way: we had no cable, gaming system, or anything of the like -- we most definitely were not wasting time, it was more like 8 hours a day of solid, uninterrupted coding, surrounded by 8 hours of email, meals, catching up on the news, etc.

the one benefit to being very committed early on: we did occasionally have weeks that were (usually by necessity) insanely productive, where we'd accomplish some absolutely unbelievable task, something that would have otherwise taken a month, usually because of a strict deadline. if you refuse to work more than 4 x 8, a la 37 signals, that's just not going to be possible.

believe it or not, though, i was actually trying to provide an example of a positive work-life balance :)
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Who gives a shit. Language evolves people, get over it.
Hamptons real estate high end enough for you?
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/04/hamptons_real_estate_ma...

Same thing going on in other (supposedly) rich peoples enclaves. and yes, High end champange's have been hit. As has the bride suite.

Now, the true high end market has not. But those people are not even watching your shitty cable tv show. They'll be calling quintesentially[1] and telling them to book a vacation.

I should also note that Bentley sales are down. But not across the board. Only the new-money models - continental gt/flying spur. So everything aspirational from your low end bmw 3-series,
all the way up to your nouveau riche Bentley's are being
slammed.

I don't have room to post my full analysis - I have
actually run serious numbers on this. But the
yuppie/aspirational class are really, seriously getting
smashed. I would not start a business based on their greed
and consumption right now.

Now would be a fantastic time to start a do-it-yourself channel
or travel/luxury on the cheap.

[1] http://www.quintessentially.com/
Why the focus on young?
Howdy jamesheroku,

I have a great time deploying my app to heroku, and I've recommended your service successfully a number of times to other devs.

I even didnt get so mad when the service was offline for a bit yesterday, so that means you guys are really doing a great job! :)

I must say I'm afraid to have to pay for my hosting too soon, but you probably took that into consideration. :)

Is there any reason why not to run heroku rake db:migrate automatically on every push? ... i keep forgetting that.

take care.
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That's a good point, I may put a 'more reading' section for those that are really interested in the differences.

Will see what I can do about the colour scheme, I was feeling somewhat obtuse when I created it ;)
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Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots
I just flagged two submissions that were blatant spam, both submitted by accounts created two seconds before the post.

Wouldn't a 2 point karma minimum to url submission and voting fix a lot of spam posts? For legitimate users it's pretty easy to get one upvote on a comment and as a nice bonus it would raise the chance that the user has a basic grasp of community values.

For spam bots OTOH it's impossible to submit links before they get one upvote and it's impossible to upvote themselves before they get one upvote. I think that it effectively locks them out.
Corp finance and traders are rival tribes within a bank. The finance people think the traders are vulgar and the traders think the finance people are effete. Lumping them all together as bankers is like lumping developers, sysadmins, qa together as "computer people".
I saw an interesting method used by spambots on the Doom9 forum: they would take old threads and repost them (with a link to their ad in their signature or such).

Some variant of this method might work to circumvent such a policy; find a similar thread, pick a comment from it, and post it, perhaps? It might only work 20% of the time, but that's good enough to get some spam accounts with URLs approved.

Of course this would all take effort, and might be enough to lock out a lot of would-be spammers, or at least convince them to go somewhere else.
Are there really only 3 people working on Heroku? Really, Really Impressive...
This ongoing campaign of the hacker community is well-intentioned, but I don't think we'll ever get the term "cracker" to stick. Luckily, the term hacker has gradually come to be an umbrella term for a wide set of skills, capable of both good for evil, describing everything from building web apps to cracking DRM to security auditing, as well as the actually nefarious stuff.

(Of course, this ignores the reality that the majority of ne'er-do-wells have very little technical skill, but plenty of existing terms already fit the bill: fraudsters, vandals, thieves, etc.)
I don't know about that - while I was a huge tomboy growing up and wouldn't consider myself to have "feminine sensibilities", most of the female programmers and computer techs I know are very girly.
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I can't help but laugh at people who don't realize this war is long since lost.
I see your point. KoL is a complete different genre of game, but it's similar in that it looks like it was designed more than a decade ago, just like my game. For niche webgames that offer a little more depth, graphics seem to be far less important. Still, I'd like to invest some time in making it look more professional, if only to be able to show it to people without making excuses.
Ask HN: Version Control System w/ Centralized Diffs
I'm looking for an (open source) version control system where the diff info for changes is kept in a centralized location (filesystem or database).

To be clearer: Is there a VCS that will keep the file/folder structure in-tact without adding anything (such as .svn folders) to the directories being watched? It can store the changes either in a database or in a folder somewhere on the system, just not in the actual folder tree itself.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
:) If only IBM could work out what they were/are doing with notes/domino... Some aspects of it were well ahead of it's time. (Shame about the interface from 4 - 7)

I think that ship has well and truly sailed though.. (Notes 8.5 even has a pretty nice interface - on a beefy enough box anyway)
Good idea; though I'd argue 2 is too low, if these aren't "bots" but real humans, it wouldn't be hard for them to adapt by commenting and then upvoting each other.

10+ would be nicer, anyone truly interested in HN would understand why! :)
That would encourage them to try to generate spam comments in the slim hope that they'd get upvoted.... which would lead to a much worse spam situation.

For instance, they'd employ Markov Chains to re-hash comments in a post, or from older posts, or from the text of the article.

One thing I've learned: spammers don't give up. If you give them an easy way to submit that's even easier for you to clean up, that's better than starting an all-out war that'll just increase the spam content and make it more difficult to filter out.
You're still claiming that it took you hours of research to do in windows without acknowledging that you're using an ancient version and that it is a one line command in current versions.

I could counter that in the scope of all possible operating systems there's no reason disabling a network adapter should be a simple thing and that you're picking on it because you considered it an easy thing in Linux' favour.

I could counter how much better it is to type "tracert" on windows than "traceroute" on linux, or that windows PPTP setup wizard blows Linux out of the water, or that there are uncountable things I've spent hours reaearching on bob platforms because they aren't as simple as I want them to be.

Or I could say "yoruban wax potato parachute"; I suspect any of the preceeding would result in further argument about how I'm proving your point.

I set out to counter your claim that x is too difficult in windows, but this further back and forth - it's not going anywhere, is it?
I agree with some of the recent sentiments on HN about this. It seems the media and the general public are beginning to become aware of the new "meta-geek" usage of the word "hacker" and it's subterranean counterpart.

I'm now lost in the "problem" (to paraphrase a recent post - "programmers don't _love to code_ they _love to solve problems_) of how to eat an egg without braking the shell?

I think this should be a contest - best answer gets upvotes?

I think the primary assumptions of the problem must be thrashed out first.

1. The Egg is to be an average sized chicken egg - none of them quails jive!
2. Eat: as in to consume the whole,
3. Egg: as in the Yolk and the White (albumen for the l334)
4. Without "Breaking the Shell": I think this needs to be defined as it would seem that careful incisions that could be reversed so as to leave the overall shape of the shell intact should be allowed.
5. ABSOLUTELY NO PUNS!
Why did it BSOD?
iirc you can configure where git stores it .git directory
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