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> The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state.

Then why doesn't North Korea have the highest standards of living?

In reality, the huge increases in standards of living in the past century has been due to incredible technological progress driven by free enterprise and "greed".
Your game is extremely promising, how do you want to implement multiplayer gaming technically? Does it have to run over your servers or is it in a peer to peer fashion or will users be able to have their own servers?

And very important, how do you think about open source, self hosting and customization?
Getting Marissa Mayer is the best thing that happened to Yahoo. Regardless of some of the mistakes that may have been made (thinking of one acquisition in particular), she surely is putting the company back on the map. Personally I still rarely use Yahoo; I only visit Yahoo finance once in a while, but I'm liking what I see.

Naturally the 1 TB storage is a trick. I can't imagine more than a handful of hardcore users filling up that space, but the feeling of not having to worry about deleting old files significantly contributes to a great user experience.
or the thermal gradients are perfect for running turbines

They're completely useless, actually: they're in insulating rock with no ability to conduct away heat. As soon you try to exploit a temperature gradient, you destroy it.
Thank you, that's great to hear! We've just launched and started to see promising results. Hope to make it more mainstream some day!
So, where's the article actually about Actavis?
Mostly because you can only upload 300MB per month in images: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

It'd take you 277 years to actually hit that TB with a free plan. To even use a tenth, it would take 27 years.

Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.
R.I.P. 500px.
> Is this a common thing?

The NYT appears to be (somewhat clumsily) describing the "Double Irish" strategy. It is incredibly common. A large number of big companies are structured this way (among them, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Adobe,...
Going to have to wait for an owner to challenge it, or repair shop which tries to obtain the necessary technical information to do so.

disclaimer, I work a major auto parts supplier, etc. It will be very very interesting to see if tries to circumvent this law, which I doubt he can. If anything shuts down his expansion it may be through this route. As in, they may force them to curtail selling until they can provide the independent support.
Virtually no one will use it, and handful that use any nontrivial portion of it will draw eyeballs to the site, delivering ad revenue.
what happened to people actually trying to solve REAL problems?

What did you work on today?

(EDIT) Less snarky way of putting it: It's not fair to judge others' motivations -- or to say that Tumblr's employees do "nothing" -- especially if (at the very least) you're not tackling big, "real" problems yourself.
All of the above?

Mitigating your failure modes is an important and legitimate part of engineering. If anything, designing your product as if it can't possibly fail in horrifying ways is the surest way to kill several hundred people at once.
What technology is enabling/causing when it comes to jobs is removing the place in society for uneducated/unintelligent people. So the solution would be to start ensuring proper education, aimed at primarily at science and engineering, for future generations. Unfortunately, even if that were broadly applied, the effects wouldn't be seen by and large until the better part of a generation had passed.
I don't see that limit anymore. Have they updated the page? Especially with 200MB limit per photo this seems really odd.
Now here's an interesting question, or maybe some interrelated questions. First, will Tesla be able to manufacture profitably in the sub-$50k range (competing with the Audi/BMW/MB low end), with a car that is range-comparable to the S? In other words, can they build a genuinely useful electric drivetrain for about the same price as an internal combustion drivetrain?

Next, as they start spinning up long-term reliability figures (real people driving real Teslas in real conditions for the 100k+ miles we expect today), will costs remain comparable?

Third, how long will it take Audi/BMW/Lexus/etc to develop fully electric cars of their own that are performance-comparable and compatible with whatever public charging systems start to develop?
"Eligible Pro members have the option to switch to a Free account until 8/20/2013"

I paid for Pro until 07/2014 I hope they don't switch me to Free a year early !
Whatsapp +1
Yes, it looks like someone's editing that page in real time now!
No, the tea party as a group lines up with Texas on immigration, guns, taxes, gays, science, religion, etc etc. Country Club Republicans stay in the enclaves.
The post says he won't make "yacht-and-helicopter money"... I think helicopters are cheaper than he thinks. On a billion-dollar acquisition, I can't imagine the near-cofounder having less than 1% (hopefully quite a bit more). This means at least $10M, which should be plenty for a helicopter. Maybe I'm reading his comment too literally.
Have you tried the dev.newsblur.com interface? I'm really not fond of the normal interface but I like the dev one.
When I log in, I see:

"Dear [name], as a Pro member continue to enjoy the benefits of unlimited space, an ad free experience and stats."

"Smile [username]. Flickr gives you one free terabyte of space. Share your photos in full resolution. See what's new
Pro members, your subscription remains the same."

It seems Pro is still here.
Totally meaningless if the 300mb per month limit still exists.

It will take us 300 years to fill that space. Dumbos.
That Flickr page is a bizarre mishmash of old and new information.
Its interesting to see how they try to cover it up. Especially BMW has researched alternative fuels, mainly hydrogen, but stopped its test fleet in 2009 [0]. Only one super expensive image car, a BMW 7, remains [1]. Audi and VW also dabbled in alternative energies, but none of them really got into it. Hopefully, Tesla can breath some new live into this area. We live in the 21st century, I demand vehicles fueled by anything other than oil.

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/alternative-antriebe-bmw-... (german, Google Translate here: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=...)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7
Yeah, you're right, it might be easy to turn around a startup for example, but she's piloting the Titanic with a hull made of mesh. It's impressive.
Where is the upload rate limit mentioned?
I take it from your statement here that you pay 100% of your income, minus basic living expenses, to the government? I must commend whomever owns the computer you're using for their generosity in letting you borrow it to write this comment.

If by chance you do not, in fact, do this, then may I direct your attention to this page, where you may voluntarily contribute as much money as you want to the Treasury, for the purposes of reducing the public debt: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
That just disappeared, right now:
http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
I don't actually see the 300MB/month limit on that page. Was it possibly a vestigial FAQ list item that just got removed?
Check again, the mention of 300MB/month is gone. Looks like old copy cache.
While I have a lot of sympathy for the idea of improving the "quality" of science, I think the risk is that highly subjective standard could be used as a tool to suppress newcomers. Sometimes, "old-school", cruder experiments are perfectly fine, especially if the experimenters address the possibility of complicating factors - sometimes you just can't afford to buy toys that will get you from 95% confident to 99% confident, in the eyes of reviewers, and some subfields are incredibly closed and territorial (meaning collaboration with people who do have those toys is impossible).

Ideally, the solution would be, ok, just get your results out there and make the materials publically available so anyone who wants to take your solution to a higher standard can do that freely, but if you are prevented from communicating your result, then it never gets even that shot.
This isn't true. Those limits are all removed http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/
Did nobody notice that the Samsung Galaxy S4 that they are using for the post has both physical and software keys? Pretty weird
I guess the point of the article is that WP and friends already offer a significant enough amount of functionality straight out of the box or with a very minimal amount of custom code.
I would imagine that increasing the spacing between the cells actually fixed the problem, while the case and vent are just limiting the PR and financial liability.
Although, for existing Pro users, it looks like they can continue renewing their Pro accounts [1]:

* Starting on 5/20/2013, we will no longer be offering new Flickr Pro subscriptions. After that point, the following things will happen: *

* Recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew. *

[1] https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675
The pro badge is no more, and pro accounts exist only as grandfathered in plans. You can renew an existing pro account, but those who aren't currently can't subscribe to it.
What? No refund for those with a Pro account?

Why do tech companies not want to take my money these days?

The concept of 'free' on the Internet is changing. Users will now happily pay because they don't want another service dying because of no sustainable income.

Even if Yahoo can sustain themselves with their exabyte-era data-centers. I don't care. I just want a pro / premium option, and I want one soon.
That's what the infrastructure owner will do. It might be the old telcos, it might be the government, or even a new type of utility company. The infrastructure will be maintained. Though the new type of telco can operate with the old ones. They will simply buy them out.
There are some very good Japanese cartoons >_>

I can't vouch for what gets shown where you are mind, or where I am for that matter since I get all my media through the internet, but there are some very good cartoons available.
What did I work on? Well, to answer your question I've been working on solving major problems affecting our society, which include obesity, diabetes, unhealthy lifestyles, poor nutrition and high blood pressure. With that said, it wasn't a snarky comment - it was an analysis of the state of innovation and business in SV in general. I'm tackling big problems. And I wish more people would do the same. We have a lot of challenges to solve.
I'm unable to find any mention of this 300MB/month limit on that linked page?

I only see: "Upload photos of up to 200MB per photo"
Its big because

a) Yahoo

b) Mayer

Tumblr is a non issue in the size of the story other than the "high school dropout makes big". Yahoo and Mayer have been trending for awhile. There is probably not so little of "omg what in the hell are they thinking with that price" going on too.
This only applies to existing Pro accounts, not new ones [1].

[1] https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675
The page specifically listed the new account types (free, adfree, doublr) but also mentioned that the free account was limited to 300mb/month. Maybe they forgot to change a paragraph when they published it earlier.
Houston was just about split in the last election (Obama won Harris County by 585 votes). Austin went heavy for Obama (60.2% to 36.2% or just under 100k votes). Houston has quite a ways to go before being liberal. The hispanic vote makes Texas as a whole pretty interesting though.
I did this once. I sent them something like $50 just to see if there was anyone actually working in that office. They sent me a nice thank you letter.
In my experience, a certain percentage of users will always complain about user interface changes, no matter how good they are. I have always believed in a policy of waiting ~2 weeks to let the changes "soak in", and gauge whether the complaints are just a knee jerk reaction by a small percentage, or is indeed indicative of a larger problem. This is also one of many reasons you find larger companies doing a "roll out" of a new UI change. It's a good way of gauging user reaction while only affecting a small random sample of your user base.
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That limit seems to have been removed. In fact, you can upload 200mb for a single photo (with no mention of upload rate limits).
Well I'm a power user (8,000+ photos) and I love it. I guess it helps that my most recent photos are ones that I actually edited...on other days, I might do a photo dump of something dull, which would make for an ugly looking homepage.
Only 27 percent of college grads have a job related to their major
I think they updated the limits page, I don't see any mention of 300MB per month on there.
you can send security reports about yahoo to security@yahoo-inc.com. All of them are addressed, and you won't be threatened with legal action. If you're lucky you might get a T-shirt.

PS: I'm an ex-paranoid. things might have changed since I left, but I'm pretty sure they'll still listen to reports.
With Acme, any piece of text can be executed as a command with a (IIRC) middle mouse button click.

So in one pane on Acme, you can have the following written down:

ls ~/dev
uptime

and middle clicking uptime or highlighting and then middle clicking ls ~/dev would literally run those commands and return the output in a new Acme pane (you can even go a step further and have commands inside comments in your source code - as it's all just text to Acme).

What's more, the File / Save menus are just a text pane that you can edit, delete and add text to. So Acme follows some of the paradigms of working with the command line in terms of the application being controlled by text rather than hotkeys and widgets. But essentially it's still a mouse-driven application.

Also, I up-voted you just for the subtly of the XKCD reference (usually people just drop the URL with much thought of adding their own wit to the conversation). Nicely done :)
They're right, of course, but I'm not sure this is a great marketing move, because it dignifies the metric Tesla has chosen as their strongest. The fact that Tesla can even mount an argument that they're in a horse race with Audi, let alone outselling them, is a gigantic coup for a car company that's just a few years old.
Pro is now "Ad Free": http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

Well, sort of. There's no mention of bandwidth on the new limits page, other than it was previously unlimited under Pro. They apparently haven't completely updated their FAQ page...
Its not just the change in business direction. Look at Yahoo's stock chart for the past year: http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=YHOO
Everyone gets a free terabyte.
1TB free from Flickr
Troll! That's preposterous. He INVENTED those things; he didn't buy up batches of vague patents and file frivolous suit.

And his patents were detailed, precise, and often accompanied by a model.
Winer writes "Back then Google cared a little about what I thought."

Suggesting that today they don't. Why? Perhaps because trivialities like a button on the Google toolbar were made to occupy the time of someone whose hourly value would eventually be measured in four or more figures.

So while I get what you're saying – honest, public eye-rolling about the petulance of this writing may one day come at some cost to me – the situations aren't remotely the same. That said, I hold the greatest respect for people who can offer valid criticism, no matter how colorful, and I welcome it from anyone, regardless of my perceptions of their "contributions." I suspect that anyone who wouldn't share those values would be doing me a favor by not working with me anyway.

I suspect we share the same contempt for the tech "press," feckless and craven as they are, but the headline story for this post is about someone kind of wasting someone else's time and that's not an interesting perspective at all, except as a cautionary tale.
I don't understand this unless you have absolutely zero tolerance for negotiating a price. Why could I not simply print out a Carmax price of a used car in which I'm interested, then take it to any other used car dealer with a comparable car?

"Can you beat this price?"

"Yes." --> I just beat the Carmax price.

"No." --> I leave with my money (this one won't happen).
Well, lots of brand new yachts can be had for mere hundreds of thousands, too. I don't think Marco has actually priced them. :)
Dude -- I think Yahoo is cool again in my book. 1TB of pictures free combined with the blogging platform that is Tumblr is pretty potent.

Unlike many haters out on the HN forums these days I'm actually really excited to see what comes of this.
"For those of you who grew up on Forums, you know that it’s so, so much more. It is inevitable that the masses will eventually feel the same way too.

We’re just waiting for someone to step up and host the house party."

The above was the rationale for building this: [link redacted]
My sense is Marco is looking at the money in terms of: "how much yearly income can my money generate, and what kind of lifestyle would that be?" (kind of like thinking about a retirement account). In that sense $10M in savings is not enough to start buying yachts and helicopters assuming he doesn't want to blow all the money at once like a stereotypical lottery winner.

More importantly, he makes it clear he'll never have any money worries if he's careful. That implies a decent amount of money, and I think that's what most people on Hacker News really wish they had.
As a Flickr Pro user, this upsets me. 300MB is like what, 20-odd full-sized JPEGs? A month? With no way to lift that limit even if paying?

Ugh.
For the record, we have a very similar production environment and we bake on every deploy. We have some tricks to make it as fast as possible though. A deployment takes 2-3 minutes with code changes and more with requirements changes. We then place it in the ELB server pool and pull out old machines if everything behaves correctly. Looking into autoscaling now.
I agree, and find these practices deeply troubling. It is similar in Australia, where every now and then there is a story published about how extremely rich corporations or individuals pay a few million to accountants, and reduce their taxable income to almost zero dollars. Those accountants provide a massive ROI for these people.

Sure, it may be perfectly legal according to the law, but it seems grossly unfair. One of the premises of our tax system is that the well off shoulder a larger burden then those who earn less (for better or worse - I think for the better). But the people who don't earn as much cannot afford to spend millions of dollars on accountants to reduce their tax bills like this.

If everybody wants to work in a functioning society, where essential services are funded by the government, then there needs to be income. Everybody who can contribute, and should do their bit.
I haven't seen a very good reason to go with Heroku over AWS in any relevant scenario. It seems like you're paying more for less.
The default privacy permissions are a bit loose for my taste, but I'm not big into sharing photos except with my direct family.

Can anybody compare them with facebook's or picasa / google+'s default privacy settings ?

Edit: I've made a bunch of comments as replies to this one. My conclusion is that New Flickr's privacy-friendliness is just barely above Facebook's.

However, they haven't yet demonstrated _continuing_ willingness (as Facebook has) to default to lower-privacy options as they iterate.

If they notice that I've locked down most of my privacy / sharing settings and then take an educated guess at what I want the default to be when they launch a new feature with a privacy slider ("we've set this to 'only family' for you based off your choices for settings X, Y, and Z."), that would be sweet.
Seamless is one of my favorite companies. I literally order food through them every day and I have always been pleased with the speed and design of their website and apps. The more you think about it, the more this appears to be a an amazingly good business (a "tax" on takeout for making it easy!) with important first mover advantages. Whoever puts together a big sales force first will saturate the low hanging fruit, and then network effects kick in after that. So I can see how this merger makes sense. I just hope that the seamless engineers and designers don't leave now.
I, as a regular consumer, just got a 2TB hard drive for $90. That means the space was $45/GB compared to your $67/GB. When you buy enough hard drives to fill a data center I am sure you get better prices too! As other commenters have said, I doubt most people will use a fraction of this space.
What did you think two years ago when the old interface you lament was new?
A Conspiracy To Commit Journalism: The DoJ's Dangerous New Argument
This can and should vary depending on the product or service and the goals for the company and any particular campaign. If you're selling complex, personal consulting services, you might find your 10 responses from 1000 generic emails to ultimately lead to zero useful, qualified opportunities. But if you are testing a social, interactive service, you may find that having 10 active users on a given day much more useful than having just 1 person look at your static, deserted interface.

Perhaps, in my examples above, are you trying to land a customer, or are you, in fact, trying to scale something?
Humour me, but are you on the Flickr team? I'm seeing that page change before my very eyes, clearly as a "oh shit!" response when the discrepancies were noticed, and the cache excuse is as old as time.
Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet
Then why doesn't North Korea have the highest standards of living?

Because North Korea has made no attempt to pursue "The greatest good for the greatest number". Difference between "necessary" and "sufficient", and all that.
If you do, they give you a pro-rated refund.
To quote Case in Neuromancer: "That is just so much bullshit." It is trivial to show that individual people helping each other out is more efficient than paying a government worker to do the same thing.
Where I live I can clean my car for $ 8 if I drive to a place and do it all by myself. It will take me an hour to drive there, clean it and get back.

I can get it cleaned at the carwash for around $ 21, that will take me 40 minutes.

Or I can make an appointment and give my car to a guy who cleans it for me, the cost is $ 35 and it takes me 10 minutes.

They all make good money. Even the guy who charges $ 35.
But none of it is 'premium'.
There's a guy in Derbyshire, England. He charges £ 7200.
Now that's premium. But the market's too small for premium. At least where I live.
I don't see the 300MB limit listed anywhere on that page. Maybe they hadn't finished the site rollout?
Wealth is created in ecosystems. You recognize that.

VCs are part of the tech ecosystem. They have their own incentives, just like any entity a complex system.
PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance is a Packt book with excellent content, but it has multiple typos and grammar errors on every page. I'm sad to see such an outstanding book marred by bad editing.
Car dealers are genetically incapable of giving such a direct answer. You can either deal with their evasive swindling and haggle anyway, or just assume the answer is "no".
Why is this blog reposting, verbatim, a 2005 post that's still online in the original location: https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/productmanager.html
Neat, starred!
actually that wasn't a bot. the volume of security reports is too low to require an automated task. that mail was probably sent out by someone from the security team. It is a form letter, but that's for consistency across responses.
They'll pay a fine, the stock will lose $20-30 and everything will be business as usual.