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Agreed. I knew HN people would be annoyed when I clicked through, but I also thought this was kind of a neat idea for a site.
Right, but millions in marketing hype is.
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Should the government give money to Tesla under any circumstances? I don't know. But if they're going to give them a loan, I hope Tesla pursues a business plan that keeps them operating long enough to pay it back. Tesla simply has a more effective go-to-market plan on high-end vehicles than they do with a mass-market product they're not equipped to deliver.
They made it extremely difficult to delete an account before.

That's an interesting point. How you ever tried to delete your search history at Google? One of the main differences between the two that I see is that everything Facebook knows about you, you have to explicitly tell it. Google quietly logs everything you search for and you don't even notice.
A direct Flash connection won't work if the other end doesn't want to cooperate by serving an appropriate crossdomain.xml file - the Flash security model is annoying like that :-(
This idea isn't new. I used something just like this (but more ghetto) whenever I worked on Firefox extensions. It was called the Extension Developer Extension:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/

It had other features, but the REPL was the most important to me. This looks much nicer though.
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I'm not a big fan of either of these companies, so I find myself agreeing with the criticisms from both sides. In today's environment, advertising can obviously be tremendously profitable, and advertising is what the businesses of both Facebook and Google boil down to. But the idea of pushing more and more largely useless crap on people doesn't really interest me, even if it's profitable. (But then, what most people do on Facebook all day doesn't really interest me, either.)
I am (was) a happy Clear customer. It saves me lots of time in the busy airports I visit. Frankly, I would have paid more for the service. I paid more for my United club room membership, which offered less value.

My personal theory is that they tried to price their service too low in an attempt to get mass adoption. Think Porsche trying to sell $20K cars. The busy business traveler who spends $50K-100K of dollars on travel per year is their target market, not the average traveler.

Ultimately, a business has to cover its costs. Clear's fixed costs are (were) substantial and their customer base was limited. At some price ($1000?) I believe it could have been made profitable. However, I don't have the balance sheet, so I may be way off.
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This type-centric redesign fails to account for information architecture. What's the most important thing on the page? Probably the tweet and the picture.

The left column with ragged right justified time and twitter client stamp draws far too much attention and is not important enough to warrant so much emphasis.

The tweet itself seems almost accidental -- the main focus is on the photo itself.

Also, remove the twitter logo because it's not needed? Really? wince
What cool human problem is it solving in particular? If it's a biggie then you should have no problem finding an excited programmer.
> Not entirely true -- the presumption now is that the company owns the IP for stuff done on behalf of the company.

Where is this presumption?

Copyright and patent law in the US specifically says that folks earn what they make outside of an explicit agreement otherwise. (And, that agreement can be for no pay - you can work for free.)

BTW - What company? He said that it was unregistered.
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It's probably the routine more than the liqueur that gets you primed for bed at those levels.
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this is going to fail, Amazon has too big of an advantage over them

http://www.amazon.com/gp/subscribe-and-save/details/index.ht...
The analogy I prefer is that Unicode-encoding is like network protocol layers. In a (very simplified) network, the goal is to present an interface of a pipeline for sending a continuous stream of bytes. To achieve this, you have a protocol like TCP, which consists of routines for transforming a series of packets running through a wire into a stream of bytes. To achieve a series of packets running through a wire, you have a protocol like Ethernet, which consists of routines for transforming electrical pulses into a series of data packets. You need both Ethernet and TCP to turn electrical pulses into a stream of continuous bytes.

Similarly, the goal of Unicode is to present an interface of a stream of abstract characters (the letter "A", the number 3, the nonbreaking space, etc.). To achieve this, you use Unicode, which consists of routines to convert a stream of arbitrarily-long numbers (packets) into abstract characters. To achieve a stream of arbitrarily-long numbers, you use an encoding such as UTF-8, which consists of routines to convert a series of bytes into a stream of arbitrarily-long numbers. Now, using an encoding and Unicode, you can convert a stream of bytes (i.e., an arbitrary file) into a series of abstract characters.
In soviet russia, software hacks you! http://skitch.com/isaacschlueter/pseu
Taking a break from something you're pursuing is extremely rewarding. I first noticed this when I injured myself and couldn't run for 2-3 weeks. When I starting running again I was a whole new person. The time off was a great opportunity for personal growth. I noticed this pattern again later in life when I quit my job as a programmer without any solid plans or much money in the bank. Now I'm back and feel better than ever. I sincerely encourage anyone who loves programming but feels burnt out to _choose_ to take a break. If taking a break seems difficult focus all your energy on making it happen.
"Google is to Today's startups what IBM was to 70's & 80's Startups and Microsoft was to 90's Startups, a Gigantic and Monopolistic enemy to fight against."

That argument makes no sense, especially in comparison to facebook. Google is a set of disconnected services that you can take or leave. You don't like google search or gmail or google maps or google news? Go ahead and use something else. For any service that doesn't require immediate personalization, you don't even need to sign up ever. Even if every single person you interact with uses google search or gmail, it doesn't matter because you have no obligation to use it. As a developer, if you hate google and don't want to use anything by the company all you have to think about is SEO, most of which is basically common sense and regular marketing on non-google sites. Why would you possibly even need to consider "fight[ing] against" google unless you were directly competing?

In contrast, Facebook explicitly wants to be THE monolithic dominating force on the internet. You can't even use it without signing up and joining the whole Facebook thing. If everyone you know is using it, you end up missing out; it's basically vendor lock-in for your entire social life. And as a developer, interacting with Facebook in any meaningful way means dealing with Facebook every step of the way.

Monolithic platforms like Facebook are truly awful. Facebook is defined by locking people into the platform while Google joins together disparate web services and competes on quality and brand recognition. Google has its problems, but Facebook's problems are right at the core of everything it does.
The economics prize is called the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Like you said, it's not a Nobel prize.
Fair enough, and I completely agree.

When I wrote it, I didn't mean to suggest that everyone who was burnt out should do what I did. I tried to present it not as a 'solution' but merely a series of events that happened to me.

I think, for example, if I picked up a whole new line of work, a similar epiphany would have happened. A year or so later, I would've started solving problems, then come to the conclusion that I liked programming.

I'm starkly aware that packing up and going travelling is an incredibly rare privilege.
"Nobody has the data we have." is somewhat hyperbole. Gmail has more info about me than Facebook will anytime soon. I am confident that Facebook will build a great business. However, this article read like something cooked up by PR firm wanting to paint Facebook vs Google as the next Apple vs. IBM. It's a half baked analogy at best.
One thing I'd never heard before:
at least 9 percent of facebook's staff used to work for google
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So by what mechanism EXACTLY do white coats transmit infection?
i have the opposite problem -- i can't wake up. i'm not horribly sleep deprived, although my schedule isn't very regular (and i don't think it ever will be).

has anyone else had and overcome this problem? i'm talking about a sleep-through-your-alarm-and-never-remember-it-going-off inability to wake up.

i once read that you could try "rehearsing" waking up (getting ready for bed, turning out the light, having your alarm clock 5 minutes later and springing out of bed, repeat ad infinitum). but i don't know if that'll help.
Not the best neighborhood in Chicago to try this in.

http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/filter/streets/medill-av...
That works if you can get your clients to agree to it, but most clients won't.

Hell, cost-plus is almost always better for the contractor than firm-fixed work -- it shifts the risk to the client! -- but a lot of organizations just flatly refuse to go there for that reason. They want you on a firm fixed price schedule or not at all, at least for any sort of non-trivial work.
i was excited until i found out they only deliver to 48 states and Hawaii aint one of them
Could you give examples of it ?
You could also write horrible python or ruby code.
Cappuccino also has nib2cib now which allows you use inetrface builder which is great if you are coming from a mac background. Also there is Script# for people .net. Personally I prefer cappuccino.
Nobody goes around upvoting every civil comment that feeds the conversation constructively: there are too many of those and they are various in quality. Nobody goes around downvoting every comment he disagrees with: there are also too many of those. Agreement/disagreement and civil/uncivil aren't the only scales involved and thinking about it in that way leads to simplistic judgments.

I upvote comments that I find valuable. That may mean I learned something from the comment, but it may also mean that I think others may learn something from it. If someone makes a point that I would have made otherwise: upvote. In some sense that means I 'agree' with the comment, but if someone simply relates facts, than the upvote means 'this is relevant information'. In a non-factual case it may mean 'this is an opinion/argument that people should take note of'.

Tying votes with agreement leads to groupthink

Untying votes from agreement leads to no votes at all. When you upvote a comment, you by definition 'agree' that it was a proper comment. Without agreement on the 'rightness' of comments, there is no reason to upvote any comment at all.

I don't understand this fear of 'groupthink'. It is perfectly clear what comments will get you a lot of karma. The fact that we don't make those comments isn't because they aren't upvoted: it's because we aren't interested in karma.
it's because they offer free shipping, it would eat up too much $$$ to ship there.

granted the easy option would have been for them to simply add a shipping surcharge
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I would guess it's about the time that you start to interact with your users less frequently than you interact with some other category of people - investors, managers, co-workers, QA staff, subcontractors, whatever. The human brain pays vastly more attention to the people around you than the people who support you, and if the two sets are sufficiently distinct, very strange and unhelpful attitudes arise.
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I don't know if it's so much intuition as it is luck (or, heh, being unlucky). I seem to have an uncanny knack for spotchecking one thing, and while I'm doing that, uncovering a bunch of other problems because something in the things I've chosen to spot check has an association with something that looks wrong. Like, I'll spot check a database update, and I'll display all columns even though I am only looking at one or two. It just so happens that in the rows I chose to check, another field is obviously not being validated right.

I've also experienced some weird premonitions, like I'll suggest a change be made, based on some trend I may be seeing but can't articulate, and then a few days later the very thing I suggest should be changed needs to be changed, usually under time pressure.

I wish I could bottle and sell this, but I'm sure it's closer to being unlucky than having a superpower (like Rob McKenna from HHGTTG), and no one would want it.
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The entire front page is geared toward pushing me to sign up, but without giving me any idea of the products I can get through the service. What's the reasoning behind this? Why make me sign up for your service before I even know what it is?
Any way to save changes to the browser?
Too many coincidences for one news headline
I've had the same problem. To solve it, I bought a 24-hour timer switch like this one: http://www.cnaweb.com/productimages/215030.jpg, and plugged it in near my bed. To that I hooked up a cheap garden water pump. Next, I cut out the back of a cardboard box and taped it over the timer with lots and lots of duct tape. The box has a lid so that I can adjust everything as needed.

Now, when I need to wake up at a certain time, I set the timer accordingly, lock the cardboard box lid shut with a padlock, and place the key somewhere outside.

In the morning, the water wakes me up and I can't go back to sleep without turning it off. To do that I need to get up and go outside to get the key, and by the time I've returned, I'm awake enough to make a rational decision to stay awake.
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Facebook explicitly wants to be THE monolithic dominating force on the internet. You can't even use it without signing up and joining the whole Facebook thing.

It is the new AOL.

I'm still waiting for the "Internet" of social networking sites to come along and make Facebook, MySpace, etc. things of the proprietary past.
Deleting your search history at Google is like three clicks (Web History | Remove Items | Clear entire Web History ) -- however, I've never done this, since I like being able to browse my search history. Now, of course, Google could be keeping the data around even though you've elected to delete it, or may be attempting to anonymize it to use it for a different purpose, but that's another issue.
I'm trying something new at the moment, to deal with that. It's actually working pretty well so far.

The key realisation is that there are several aspects of me that can be brought up. Daniel-the-heavy-sleeper doesn't give a damn about alarm clocks, work, commitments, etc, and will stay in bed at every opportunity. Daniel-the-hacker, on the other hand, has no problems doing difficult stuff that requires a log of willpower. So the question is, how do I get Daniel-the-hacker to wake up, rather than the other guy.

My latest solution: set up a TED talk as an alarm clock. Since those talks are almost all very interesting, it immediately brings out the higher Daniel in me, who likes to pay attention to the interesting points being made. This Daniel has no problem making a decision to stay awake long enough to have a caffeinated drink (a Red Bull at the moment, but I might switch back to coffee, depending), which pretty much guarantees I'll wake up fully.

And of course there is the secondary but important advantage of watching one new mind-expanding TED talk every day...
Deliberately misleading the public about the health of the company's CEO (if this is the case) is not ok, but the process of using selective and isolated disinformation to track down leaks is quite brilliant in my mind.

Secrecy is a part of Apple's marketing mix, and a competitive advantage over much larger companies.
Lemon/penny batteries could power the entire world, too. Here's the math:

One lemon/penny battery generates 0.0001 W. Thus, one kilowatt requires 10 megalemons. 10 megalemons produces 365 * 24 = 8760 kilowatt hours per year, or 876 KWH per megalemon per year.

The US consumes roughly 4 trillion KWH per year, which would require about 4.5 petalemon to power. Worldwide production last year was on the order of 6.5 gigalemons (13 megatonnes according to Wiki, 200g for the average lemon), so we have a bit to go, but this proves that a significant fraction of the US's electrical needs can be provided by lemon batteries currently. Minor implementation details such as maintenance of the lemon batteries, storage of them, operating lifetime, cost, and trivialities such as "Where do we find 4.5 petapennies?" can be hammered out at a later date.

(P.S. Less sarcastically, if you want to generate the world's electricity needs without being primarily reliant on fossil fuels, you have two options. The first is nuclear power. The second is dividing the world into permanent camps: those that have sufficient access to electricity to enjoy a standard of living comparable to America in the early 1900s, and those who do not. Group #2 will have to vastly outnumber Group #1.)
I took a class with one of the Willow Garage guys, Kurt Konolige, last fall, and near the end of the quarter he took us on a tour of their offices. The PR2's arm is a pretty impressive piece of hardware. Their navigation was a little buggy when I saw it, and from the milestone video it looks like it's still not quite there. Glad to see they finally hit the self-charging milestone though.

I don't think the article mentioned this (may have missed it) but WG will be building several (10?) PR2's and loaning them out for free to research labs. Their business model is basically "encourage and support open source robotics now so that we can bring forward the point at which we can all start making money off it".
That's not the same. MozRepl let's you execute JavaScript from, say, a terminal through a socket connection.
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What are your suggestions folks ??
I think that any reporter writing about this sort of a story should be required to read up on the Birthday Paradox first.

...of course, if wild coincidences is more your thing, RadioLab just did a show last week on them and why they aren't as unexpected as you might think.
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Ah, what I meant was one that starts quiet and gets gradually louder, as opposed to one that SUDDENLY GOES OFF AT FULL VOLUME. I do like the sleep.fm idea though.
Probably not if you have a static IP.
I'm sorry, but you just can't solve a problem half-way these days.

You can't get milk or eggs from Alice.com right now.
So, you go to the store ANYWAY because you still need the milk and eggs. You need toilet paper too, maybe some garbage bags. BUT, you don't buy them because they are IN THE MAIL.

"Dad, we need toilet paper!!!"
"Quiet down kids, it's in the mail, should be here this afternoon, just hold it.."

You have to be kidding me.

The selling point must be that it's cumbersome to carry toilet paper out of the supermarket??

It's like those infomercials where you see people that can't figure out how to use a blanket because it doesn't have sleeves.

Alice.com is just a "blanket with sleeves" to me until they can deliver EVERYTHING.

(Side note: I read that the blanket with sleeves sold pretty well, so maybe Alice.com DOES have a chance.... maybe)
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The idea is that it reminds you that you may be running low on an item before you actually are 'stranded.'
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The taxpayer upside is that there are more electric cars on the road. More efficient and environmentally-friendly technology helps everyone.
When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.

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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Yeah I've seen this - but the EU's dispute with Google is that they keep history for 2 years regardless, so that implies that clearing your history is merely cosmetic.
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I'd expect few libraries to still be very pleasant to work with after a couple of years. For starters, one might not even want to use the programming language they were written in anymore.
I miss read this article as "How To Commit Suicide", more than once.
Still, there is the 90% rule that code can not overcome, either: 90% of everything is crap (except crap, 100% of crap is crap).
Except this isn't really anything like Subscribe & Save.

As the article states, Alice sells products directly from the manufacturers and "makes no retail margin" on the products they sell. The site is completely ad supported.

Alice only notifies you when you might be running out of a product, and I assume will adjust it's notifications according to your ordering habits. Amazon requires you to receive a shipment "every one, two, three or six months", but allows you to cancel at anytime.
There are apps like that. I've worked on a facebook/iPhone app exactly like that. Problem is that they don't get popular. It's the social game apps and similar trivial things that do well on facebook & social networks. You got to realize what people use facebook for. And there is a bit of a chicken and egg review db problem there. You got to get 20 of your friends to start using the "Food" app hardcore.