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There's a difference between being prophetic and thinking something through. A prophet tells the future that isn't obvious. That's not what happened here. It isn't like this just happened. It had been built up for years.

As for it being "right", I didn't say it was. In fact, I said the Government should have just let the company fail. But Congress institutionalized "wrong" here. They've said "It's a great thing for people to own their own home so companies like AIG should make crazy loans and not worry because we'll clean up the mess if it goes wrong"

That's why fault is laid at congresses' feet here.
I'm sure what the HN-specific settings are, but you are also probably going to trip the throttling functionality of news.arc (which runs HN) with this script. If you make more than N requests in M seconds, it marks your IP as a bot/script and throttles your requests after that.
What if the friend you gave the card to has several email addresses? Or changes his address and tries to email you from the new one?
yep, thanks. And when I refereed to ambiguity, I was being very kind to the laws and industry that support these aspects of the DMCA. I think if our courts upheld the DMCA to throw a person in jail for hacking their own iPhone to get around Apple's App Store we would see a revolt (against the products and the laws). So they don't go after it as they want the threat to remain.
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Is this the reason it is referred to as a Geometric progression?
Dishonesty, from a PF firm‽
Consider this. 5 years ago the past two Presidential Administrations (Clinton and Bush) had done nothing but praise companies like AIG for increasing home ownership. The ex-CEO of AIG who everyone now hates was selected by the Secretary of the Treasury for God's Sakes.

I don't agree with what AIG did and I thought it was crazy for them to be praised at the time but I'm also not sure you can blame a company for doing exactly what the Government asked of them especially when they were being praised for it by that same government at the time. Because most financial people don't have the most well developed moral compass which is exactly why they look to government to set the tone.

Which is why In these circumstances I blame the government
This sounds much like Pandora; is the ruling application to them to?
Thank you so much for all your feedback. I have forwarded your comments to the programmer. I, too, have had some of the same concerns.

Please continue to check back from time to time and offer any feedback. it is much appreciated.

Susan
No doubt that's why all the world's best software comes from B.C.; we all know that gov't licensing is so wonderful. (By the way, they may CALL it certification, but if it is mandatory it's LICENSING no matter what the gov't calls it.)
That isn't bad. The only obvious flaws are running out of unique addresses or, if addresses are easily guessable, having spammers iterate over your free addresses inserting themselves as the "first sender."

A system where that person is added as the sender to the system BEFORE they send an email for the first time would solve this, however, this is equivalent to white-listing in current email solutions.
Perhaps they are, perhaps its closer to what they claim. Hard to say. But that part should not matter much. I expect the FCC to protect the consumer in this case. I expect limits on the stranglehold a company (Apple or ATT) can have on the consumer that purchases product or service from a device vendor or carrier.

Neutrality and independence enable competition. I want an FCC that embraces these concepts as it should be better for the entire economy, not just a few companies.
Thank you so much. i have that issue too and hope to have it resolved in the next few days. Thank you for your feedback. Susan
Bayesean filtering? If it's trained on a corpus of mail from the same person, it could be more effective than in the general case.
You COULD use the Twitter hammer for this nail
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There's nothing wrong with highlighting well-updated apps, the problem is more that it's really uneven. Developers have to manually update the review date within 12 hours of an update going live, which is an extra step that not everyone knows about it- if Apple just automated it, no worries.
There should be a way to cancel/delete an account. I am pretty disappointed with HN and no longer want to be part of it.
Well, of course. What else does anyone think happened to all of the ice-age mega-fauna? Human beings moved in and ate everything that was big and slow.
Your response is well said. I didn't add specific examples as to not put too much politics into the discussion.

I think if you look over the last decade or two of the FCC board, you will find people were chosen for their political connections and willingness to support industry status quo.

The new chairman seems a refreshing departure from this trend.
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"It's SOP for about all PR firms."

Not really. Generally a company hires a PR firm on retainer to make introductions between the entrepreneur and people the entrepreneur would benefit from knowing... Journalists, bloggers, business partners, etc. The PR firms then sell you an off-the-shelf media relations plan that includes services like writing and distributing press releases, doing media buys at discounted prices, booking trade show booths, etc. They also can help you develop and execute something bespoke if you're willing to pay for it.

No big PR firm would ever astroturf because their brand is worth more than the services they provide. And no real firm of any size would ever put it in their media relations plan for obvious reasons.

You can clearly hire black hat people to do this for you, but it's not like it's a legitimate PR service.
So here are a few things:

1) I clicked "Get started" and then created an account. It took me back to the home page and asked me to "Get started" again. I clicked "Get started" again and it again asked me to create an account although I am already logged in.

2) I have a 5yo early reader and I thought this would be good but I don't understand what the "Levels" are.

3) I expected that clicking the book's preview page would have the same effect as clicking the preview button.

4) There is a typo in the alligator book on page 6

5) "Hot Car" is a weird story line for a kid lol

6) The dollar symbol says "Acquire book" when I hover over it. That doesn't fit with what I expected. I thought it should say, "Buy book" since you are showing me a currency symbol.

7) I've been on the site for 3-4 minutes now and I don't see or know how the "customizable" aspect works.

8) I previewed 5-6 stories and none of them appealed to me as the parent of a precocious 5yo boy.

I hope this feedback helps and I wish you good luck!
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Government ain't actually known for its dynamism so this shouldn't be too much of a surprise.
Ask HN: CraigsList alternative idea?
Hi everyone. I was thinking about the idea of a CraigsList alternative?

I know it's all about execution, but is this market a bit overpopulated(in terms of solutions)?
After all, the only thing wrong with CraigsList is the design?(sorry, I might be wrong, CraigsList doesn't support my country-Bosnia and Herzegovina)

I'd really like to hear your opinion on this, I'm interested in creating something out of it! :)
I don’t disagree with the sentiment. But as someone who has made his money in IT since the age of 16 I find the whole process here kind of obnoxious.

This isn’t rocket science. O’Reilly is turning this into a means to bolster his profile and sell his conferences but in the end it’s just an issue of IT planning. Good businesses do this sort of thing every day and they don’t need to hold a conference to do it. Whether it’s Government or private business the process is the same.

* Talk to your customers (not pundits) and see what they want

* Look at your database and fill in the blanks to make sure you are collecting what they want

* Plan a delivery mechanism that best fits the needs of your customers

* Implement

It doesn’t take a bunch of conferences and pontificating to make this happen.
I am starting a new project and have decided to keep quiet about it until I am a little closer to release. This has challenged my idea of confidentiality a bit, and I will start revealing more information a bit earlier.

As a side not. I Created a quick sign up page at: http://141312.com/launcher. I find it interesting that most people who have signed up have marked that they would be willing to sign an NDA for an earlier beta.

I'm not sure if I will require an NDA, but I plan on using people's willingness to sign one as an input for that decision.
There are 3 just in this current YC cycle: Listia, Renthop, and another that isn't launched yet.
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We humans like to think we're special, but we're not, even in the realm of environmental damage.

It's part of why I love traveling through and around the state of Oregon: so much is named after beavers.
I am not sure about bussiness but you can find many "competition programmers" among outstanding young algorithmists (researchers), so possibly it help this direction.
Sure, trees are powerful no matter how you delimit them. Most Lisp hackers would be fine with using {}, [], or <> if they had to. What Lisp hackers like is programming in lists, not parens per se.

I don't see what you're trying to claim. Initially you seemed to be saying that you preferred conventional sytax to sexprs. I pointed out that this meant you had to give up macros. You reply that you could use other characters to delimit sexprs. Sure, but so what?
What an incredibly linkbait title.

So people that exploit browsers for a living don't use the browser they exploit. How surprising.
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Just going from posts in hn would give me the impression that usage of Firefox is quite common. What's giving you an impression to the contrary?

And what would having had used Greasemonkey already or not have to do with adoption of this script? If the script is useful, users would use the the script and whatever Firefox addons it required regardless.
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This is a bit of a weird submission, so I thought I should explain it.

I was looking for images for a presentation I'm giving next week and happened across this blog.

As some of you may or may not know, there used to be movie serials -- episodic adventures they added to the regular movie. So before you watched the main movie, you'd see something like episode 8 of Brain Snatchers From Another World (Although I think they were mostly westerns?)

Here are some pictures and notes from them. If I remember correctly, George Lucas had these in mind when he first created Star Wars.

All of this is before my time, but it looks like great fun -- really campy scripts, cheap sets, and lots of improv.
I disagree. It has a market. A small market, relatively speaking. But it's there.

From what I can see, the largest gap is lack of support for other languages.

To the OP: Seems obvious that you should know off the top of your head which western countries have the highest population of people learning Chinese as a second language. Why not order that list descending and then build sites in those native languages, one by one?

To answer your question, the obvious answer to me seems to be Network, Network, Network.

I've read some of the stuff you've posted here before and I remember (i think) about you having some University deals. Those are great. And I'm sure you'd agree that signing those deals is entirely about relationships and not about egalitarian ethos of the best way to educate. So make those relationships.

And another big thing, naturally, is corporate training. Chinese is now the most valuable second-language for American executives. And I'm sure it ranks high for European executives.

But a larger point is that I think to really get a toehold there would require a more comprehensive approach to learning the language. My guess is that an educator designing a corporate training program isn't going to want to design a program for 6-figure executives a'la carte.

So I would find a way to get my product in bed with complimentary products. And this, too, is about networking and relationships.

I think you're right that traditional marketing is not really going to work for you. As a casual observer, this market seems rather inelastic. And as far as I know, it's not as if you're just trying to snag share from a weaker product. You have to instead compete with the beliefs of people who are making decisions about how to teach Chinese. You have to compete with their beliefs about what works best.

I know this isn't the advice if you were going for. But really all you can do is be the best damn front man for your company that you've ever seen or even imagined. That is a skill you can sharpen, and it's a role that is every bit as valuable to a software company as the programmers themselves.

And one last thought in my grab-bag of a post... Have you thought about social integration somehow? Maybe like head-to-head competition between 2 friends, giving them symbols to draw and a countdown and a score? Random, but I thought of it when i was watching the video. And that video is the best thing on your site, by the way. Watching it is what convinced me that your product and concept isn't complete crap. Without that video I'd have up-voted the parent to this post and called it a day.
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I found this interesting article:-
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612419
It looked like just what I wanted, but after following it I can only get it to work locally. The author is a member here, but there are not contact details. Also commenting on the article seems to be closed. Could we open up discussion on this technique again?

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It also ignores a lot of the friction in the process - lobbying dollars and campaign contributions in the process. Not to mention the heavily unionized public sector that opposes most forms of productivity improvements given that their dues depends on the number of jobs versus the productivity of government. I guess it's good to be idealistic, or maybe I'm just too cynical about government especially when most of the decisions to date by this administration seem to have resulted in it getting bigger with greater power.
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This story serves to show the gullibility of the media. The thing that really amazes me is how the kid was able to get so much media attention, when he made something ridiculously simple and not worth much. Simply by virtue of being a kid?

This may not seem like much coverage, just a single article in a newspaper, but all the major news sources in Bangladesh are covering this. Saw it on Bangladeshi news first, on tv, several channels. My parents were telling me how a kid managed to make something "better than Google, faster". They thought I was silly for being so skeptical because it was in the news. I still can't get my head around how ridiculous this is. I just hope this doesn't reflect poor on Bangladesh, where I'm from.
Your role is to figure out who wants to buy your product, and how your product can be more like what they want to buy. Hint: If you're not rich yet, you haven't answered this question correctly.

What's your story? Are you selling Chinese characters, or are you selling worldliness and adventure? Or time-saving? Or maybe profitability due to Chinese-reading employees? Hint: you started this as college students learning characters and thinking about ninjas. College students are poor. Business people who want the fastest way to learn something that makes them rich, are rich.

You need to be watching LOTS of other people use the product, and thinking every minute of every day about why your Skritter is actually a totally essential part of their lives. Hint: this means you're almost never in the office. So it's your job to find out what that is, and fix it.

Finally: Can I use it on an airplane? Language products that I can't use intensively on a flight to the country in question are a waste of time.
Some suggestions:

* reduce the height of the character grid by 2 rows - it is too much to fit the whole table on a 1280x1024 which means you have to scroll to see all the characters

* change the list of somewhat arbitrary shortcut links on the upper right to an autocomplete field for Unicode block names (http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Blocks.txt)
Thank you so much for the feedback. The levels correspond with what teachers basically refer to as "guided reading". A beginning reader would start on a level A and then just move up through the levels at their own pace.

Their are many older students (grades 2-4) which some of the books are geared for such as "Hot Car". The site is for children just beginning to read (your son may be too advanced), English language learners, and struggling older students.

I would love to know what subjects appeal to your 5 year old son! I'm always looking for new ideas.
We're special in that we can decide what effects we want to have.
Thanks man. Things are looking up considerably now. I was quite hesitant to comment on what had become a rather emotional issue for me. At any rate, I really appreciated your thoughtful response.
I say this as an SUV driving republican voting nature lover:

A lot of people's first reaction to hearing this is something along the lines of "haha, see, hippies, see how stupid you are!??!".

Just because humans at one point blindly destroyed everything they came in contact with does not mean that they should continue to, or should dismiss doing so as acceptable.
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A discussion site with a page for every wikipedia article. The discussion would be focused on general consideration of the subject, not the content of the article. You could discuss anything from your favorite band to Bernoulli's principle.
My business partner had this problem too and sold it. Once he stopped designing the site and explaining its features to me, he did SEO/SEM, paid Indians to bring up tiny sites doing tiny functions, did bug testing for me, and did all the marketing. Now he's bootstrapping with the other sites in order to bring in more cash for the marketing of our co-produced website.
...by which I mean, "please fix the link."
From the video: "I once asked Ivan Sutherland, 'How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, and the first object oriented software system in one year.' And he said, 'I didn't know it was hard.' "
A version of social discussion site optimized for continuous discussion around a topic. One of my biggest complaints about HN is that it is very reactionary and every discussion ends in 24-48 hours. One of the reasons we have less "Hacker News" is that we've exhausted superficial discussions of a lot of topics and don't have a way to go more in-depth.

I have some ideas about how to implement this but I don't want to spam the comments with a long essay.
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Actually this is the best way to raise money from VCs: when you don't need it.

If your company is successful, growing, getting lots of press and doesn't need cash... raise cash!

Really. You'll get excellent terms and two years later down the road you'll be glad you did, because the unexpected always happens, and cash always helps you get out of trouble.
A couple times, but in those cases we already knew the people.
So basically Facebook got the same benefit as if they had acquired the company(the talent) for less money and the investors got screwed.
A microfinance or charity site (ala Kiva.com) that lets you skype with the recipient of the charity at the moment of giving.

Translation and synchronicity would be major obstacles to this.
Yes, this is common. Many of the people we fund don't need the money. And e.g. the founders of Friendfeed and Twitter didn't need the money either.
It might be interesting, and you guys might like it, but this isn't news.

Seriously. anybody really interested in environmental issues should have known years ago that all creatures that live on this planet change it -- sometimes to drastic effect. Some of the practices the article didn't go into are even more devastating, such as the use of fire-hunting, or early attempts at mining and smelting (which polluted vast areas of wetlands)

The real question is: what would we like our environment to be like today? I think people get this romantic, mushy-headed feeling that somehow it's only modern humans that have had a noticeable impact on things, and that "if it were only like it were five thousand years ago" or some such that it would idyllic. By having a slanted preconception like this, it actually hurts conversations about where we want to go by adding a lot of finger-pointing and posturing where none need exist.

(Sorry -- must have a bit of grumpiness to get out of my system today)
I worked as a one-man software consultant, and you have no idea how much I wanted a second version of me to do all of this stuff. There are a lot of unavoidable little tasks that don't necessarily require writing code but do require care and attention.

Rest assured that, even if you don't end up spending 60+ hours per week doing all of this stuff, your partners are not just humoring you when they claim to be grateful that you're doing all of this.

The worst thing about many of these tasks is that they tend to be asynchronous. A lot of them need to be done during business hours, a lot of them involve phone tag or email tag, and even if a given task takes only ten minutes it can be enough to break your flow for an hour. So even if you only do 20 hours of work per week, you are saving some coder from losing more than 20 hours of productive work per week.
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Close. But I bet the price for that is higher and it uses more energy. I would like the device to have a screen exactly like ebook readers.

They also say CrunchPad uses browser as a platform, which makes it a bit inconvenient to read pdf-s and do some other things. Not talking about writing device-specific applications.
Well, that thickens the plot considerably.
this is simultaneously awful and hilarious.
This is clearly a conflict of interest. The founder should have disclosed the terms of employment offer to the investors (if not general public)