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Ask HN: Your prices are too high
What is a good answer to use at a sales meeting when the potential buyer starts complaining about price? What can I say that will stick but not make me look bad? We aren't yet at a point where we can say take it a leave it.

Literally at every sales meeting I get with a potential client for our saas product they complain about the price.

It makes me think our prices are too high but I really don't think they are. We are a very niche product, our costs are high and therefore the service is as well. Our competitor is more expensive yet offers a lot less.

I think the biggest issues is people don't see the costs with an saas product like with a physical piece of equipment. They think we programmed it and now we don't do anything. My clients have no problem dropping large amounts on hardware yet don't want to spend a dime on service that in the long run saves them a ton of money.

Another issue is our product makes things convenient. It saves money which is a hard thing to sell.
I remember the tire deflation bit from the Washington Post. I'm not sure why Nailey is still employed as a judge.
If ICANN loses this then Argentina is the least of our problems, the whole DNS system will be overhauled and severely broken until a solution is put in place.

Essentially this would break the internet as we know it.
Don't talk about your own costs, that's not their problem. If you offer more than your competitor but cost less, that sounds like a good argument. Other than that, point out how much value you can bring to their business, how they're going to save more than they're paying you. Once they realize that, they're not going to care how much money you're making off it, one way or another.
Thanks you very much. Your A* search article was quite helpful recently.
> Our competitor is more expensive yet offers a lot less.

Have you tried telling this to your potential customers? How did they react?
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> Don't talk about your own costs, that's not their problem.

Absolutely! They couldn't care less.
This says otherwise: http://hackaday.com/2014/08/19/open-source-gpu-released/

A few interesting comments there too.
> But then the Barbarians from Northern Europe came...

Sometimes I wonder how things would have been if that didn't happen.

So much technology that was lost, only to be re-discovered centuries later.
Are these things not googleable?
It's part of a concerted push to go legally after everything with a link to Palestine. There are lawyers going after every Arab owned house in Israel too, looking for every mean to expel them legally: a typo in the property act, a construction code problem, any detail is good. They are also going after the arabic banks that provide assistance to victims of Israeli retaliations. If someone in the family does anything against Israel, they destroy the family houses without any legal process, and some arabic States are providing welfare to those newly homeless families.
Wonderful. We should make all of Windoze like that.
Classic examples of federated systems: email, usenet, IRC, Jabber, DNS, BGP.
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- always try to solve nasty problems (e.g. https://www.hackerrank.com/)

- read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
All you really need to keep data forever is RAID (10 is nice, 1 is the minimum; for more resiliency, you can mirror the entire array a couple of times too) with a load of hot spares, perhaps with the copies stored at 4 or more sites (2+ continents). Radiation shield the lot to reduce bit flips, and if one occurs, you have a background read process that catches them and uses a simple quorum to determine the correct value; some form of ECC could also be built into either the file format or the filesystem itself. As more storage is needed and/or the distro they are using updates a major version, build a new system in parallel, replicate first, test, then remove the old one once it's all verified as good.

An interesting article about the National Archives at Kew: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/11/feature_geeks_guide_...
I assume s/he's going for humour rather than communicating any useful information, which is perfectly reasonable.

"And now an online community especially for women! They even got the domain. Please don’t let it be pink. Please don’t let it be pink."
...
"@Pinboard Spoiler: it's pink."

Made me giggle - so op success?
That seems to be GPLv3 rather than LGPLv3 (although it gets a mention).
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Or you could, perhaps, wait for the user to actually develop their own sanity checks. Just sayin'.

(OTOH, yes, you could theoretically build a transhuman baby into an exoskeleton; this would mean that the baby would learn to exist in the world as if the exoskeleton were a natural part of its body - but such baby would need the exoskeleton forever, as it would learn to control its body very differently than a baby without it)
Cool project. I think it would be really cool if you try to interpolate some EEG data (collected through MyndPlay, Emotiv or sth else).
The Hartl book is considered one of the best introductions, and covers all the major Rails features and conventions. It's free to read online, and there is also great support for it via Stack Overflow.

http://www.railstutorial.org/book
Indeed those few centuries after Roman Empire collapses is a great example of human race not (necessarily) advancing as time passes.
I remain unconvinced. Fundamentally, packets and physicalia are apples and oranges.

China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, and an increasing number of cities worldwide already have massive video surveillance networks allied to local law enforcement, traffic management, and other functions. Adding another stage of image processing would help to leverage and extract actionable data from those (the classic problem of CCTV is that nobody watches it) ... with probably very little additional outlay compared to existing investment.

I can't see anything stopping this commercial progression, in fact I see it as inevitable unless the citizenry can somehow curb their politicians. Good luck with that...
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> Does the speed of light change in air or water?

> Yes. Light is slowed down in transparent media such as air, water and glass.

[...]

> Special Relativity

> [...]

> The speed of light does not vary with time or place.

These two different ways of talking about speed of light caused megabytes of meta bickering on the Wikipedia page for speed of light, and a case for Arbitration, with topic bans and warnings. (Also the suggestion that you can measure the speed of light in SI units, because after 1983 the SI units use light to define them.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

The SoL page shows some of the problems of WP. Articles should have a simplistic lead (with caveats), a general introduction, and then higher level discussion of the oddities as currently understood. The WP page ignores all that, and leaps in at the deep end which means the article isn't much good for anyone.
Every software engineer at some time in their working life will experience lower back pain. Before, you waste time/money going to your favourite medical practitioner, who will most likely advise you with a chemical cocktail - please visit your local yoga practitioner and ask him for a one minute session on Salamba Bhujangasana. This will 'cure' your backpain completely and irrevocably.

If you havent yet crossed over, welcome to the world of yoga.

RIP BKS.
I wonder if anyone has data on Japan's typhoon history. How many have hit the country per year the past century (I've been unable to locate such data). In regards to this:

"Tokyo is becoming increasingly reliant on this unique-to-Japan solution as more typhoons hit the country each year"

as the US has seen no increase in hurricanes, and the last decade in particular has been remarkably lacking in hurricanes.
Cool project! How do you see people using this though? I can only imagine integrating this with a CI environment to automatically push production builds to the Play Store.
After reading the official guides (http://guides.rubyonrails.org) the next place to go is Railscasts (http://railscasts.com). Make sure you only watch the episodes for Rails version 3.2 and greater. Each episode is linked to a github project featuring complete Rails apps - read and modify those apps.
Perhaps you're not doing what you really love?

This essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html) might inspire you to do something with Philosophy [check the last section: "A Proposal"]
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> I don't know how you manage it, but I can tell you it is not reasonable to expect people to compile every compiler they want to use on every system they want to use it.

If you're dealing with bare metal projects (kernel programming or micro controllers), building binutils and gcc for cross compiling from source is pretty much required. There are scripts that help and some distros have cross compilers in their package managers.

But building GCC is not difficult and it pretty much works first time, every time.
The OP doesn't work no more because Apple blocked Flash. Otherwhise, it would probably still be supported :)
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I got the point exactly, and the paragraph under the example states:

> The obvious problem with this is that we’re given a reference to the product, and not the product itself.

Which isn't the most obvious problem with this example.

You might want to read: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/REST_Security_Cheat_Sheet
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Great products!
Berlin is great.

Barcelona seems to be starting to get into the startup scene.
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Seems pretty cool :)
Exactly, I cost my employer approximately double of that. And you're right about it not being industry competitive; I should have been more specific about regionality (i.e. I choose to not work in Amsterdam where I can 'easily' make double but which will cost me around 2,5hrs of travel a day while I can walk to work in 5 minutes now).
I would say yes, I've also advised the author of this mistake and he declined to modify it. This is the less that friendly reply I got:

> You missed the absence of Content-Length in some of my examples? If you're going to be on this internet, friend, you've got to step up your pedantry game.

https://github.com/teddziuba/teddziuba.github.com/commit/fd4...
Yeah, it's the same...

https://www.google.nl/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...
Don't you mean:

x^2+2x+1 = (x+1)^2;

If x=-1, then (x+1)^2 + 5 = 5
can't wait for real website testing (50k users/day)
17,603 TEU is the equivalent of 1/2 the Empire State Building in volume.
The best mips based wireless router dev board I've ever seen! and I've added an OLED screen on it, works like a charm ;-)
"I think we have an opportunity to come up with better models for creative people than exploitative contracts with publishers."

Agreed. Maybe I'm extrapolating, but I think there is the same need for creative people who build free softwares today.
Cool stuff!!
all of them are great but I just love the atom :)
We have that problem. We just straight out list why we're better for the money, using the table just above the pricing: http://granttree.co.uk/#pricing

There's a differentiation to be made between PRICE and VALUE.

"It saves money which is a hard thing to sell."
Really? Being brutal, it might be sales technique. If someone can come to me, show me they understand the business and show me that they can save us money, they're pushing on an open door. We had a local authority tax specialist contact us for that, saying "We'll save you this much every month, or you don't pay." Sold - maybe back it up with a guarantee? If we don't save you money, we'll refund it after 3/6/9 months or whatever.
This product is so exciting for anyone that wants one simple dashboard to get all the essential visitor insights that will help grow their business.
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It is possible that the speed of light is anisotropic, thus leads to a theory formulated by frank tangherlini
It is! That's the exact problem ActiveJob+GlobalID tries to solve.
True, I should have been more precise. The zipper just is a technique for using one-hole contexts to make a path as you drill through a recursive type.
Nice product!
Thank you, will check it as soon as possible.
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Reminds me of when someone built a scientific calculator in minecraft:

http://kotaku.com/5895191/someone-built-a-working-scientific...
Whats your problem?
What you're fundamentally asking is 'why do our potential buyers think our price is too high?" and the most effective way to find out and regain control of the negotiation is to simply ask them.

As them why they think the price is too high. Most likely they are basing their opinion on comparative product value or alternative solutions or they are simply playing hard ball. The only other possibility is that they simply don't place as much value in your product as what you do which means you need to work harder at selling the long term benefits as well as the immediate gains.
I studied Latin and drank the koolaid, but recently read a book about early France which seemed to dispute the commonly held view that the Romans introduced everything technology wise. Bridges, roads and communication were certainly high on the list of "had it beforehand". It even has evidence to suggest that they had a sophisticated pre-internet decentralized voice communications network that operated by shouting down relatively quiet valleys. A review at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/1037205...

Western-centric histories also frequently forget the hugely significant contributions of Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), Persia, India and China. Paper was pretty high up there on the list of civilizing factors, and it sure as hell wasn't Roman or northern European! Lenses came from Assyria. Lots of maths the Romans used came from Greece, and the Greeks were present in France before the Romans got there. Caesar himself wrote: The Celts do have writing: They use written Greek for both public and private transactions. But it is not lawful to commit either their rules or religion to writing. Thus, one could argue that the true innovation introduced by Romans may have been the liberation of the formerly slave-like commonfolk to glorious Roman pantheism and literary freedom!
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The main difference for the potential embedded user base is that LGPLv3 makes explicit (rather than implicit) that users must be able to run custom code (= modified qt) on the embedded devices; if your device is locked down (e.g.: no possibility to do firmware upgrades, or digital signature checks), you must buy a commercial license.

This is true for applications that use the new LGPLv3-only modules. For applications using LGPLv2.1 modules, you can still try to freeload by sticking to a literal reading of the license, though I would personally advise against it.
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Small companies rarely have the resources to let people work on interesting projects with no immediate obvious commercial viability. You'll never see the equivalent of Microsoft Research in a startup, say.
so most likely this is not all of them (I just found today about another one) but it is my attempt to collect a comprehensive list of them.

If you know of others either add them yourself or let me know and I'll add it.
Blocked is the wrong word. It implies that Apple had to take some action to stop Flash from working, which would otherwise be the natural way of things.
Once you're talking volume, things start scaling cubicly. It's not intuitive to most people that a cubic meter of water weights a ton. It's certainly not intuitive how to compare say, the Hoover Dam to a 7.5km long (but skinny) reservoir.

This massive reservoir could be about 50 by 50 by 50 meters. Or 10 meters deep, and 120 meters square. Which is in a lot of water, in a sense.

But compared to the Hoover Dam, which is 2,600,000 cu of concrete (and about about 300 million times the capacity of the Japanese reservoir, if you're including Lake Mead) it's not very big.

Note - I might have made a huge mistake somewhere here. It's hard to tell when you start cubing things, because intuition starts breaking down.
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> If the developer has agreed with Apple to not port the app to Android

Exclusives in the mobile industry are vanishingly rare. This wasn't always the case; Nvidia had a bunch of exclusive games (or at least exclusive on Android; they were mostly iOS ports) when they brought out the Tegra 2, and Samsung and Amazon have occasionally had time-limited exclusives on high-profile properties like Angry Birds, but it doesn't really make much sense for the developer, and seems to have largely stopped.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949183 is the men/women kne.
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> None of the big guys, who would surely be interested in offering devices/app-stores with full access to ios apps have bought you.

To do that, they'd need developer cooperation. Developers are notoriously unwilling to deal with any app stores but the Apple and Google ones; look at the state of the Amazon and particularly the Samsung ones.
Yeah pretty cool, apart maybe from the soundtrack
Yeah, I just got an email from Hotjar asking people to essentially shill for them.

http://puu.sh/b0ezV/1c9f5a5632.png
Oops, you're right.. Damn, all these licences are so confusing :)
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Is Sublime still alive?
The last activity of the developer of the Sublime text editor is from last december. Nothing has happens since then to complete the work on sublime 3.

Today we can see some other sublime inspired edtiors like Brackets or Atom come on stage.

So is Sublime still actively developed or is it dead?
I supposed private property is the foundation of american society, culture and laws. This is why i'm surprised it's so easy for state officials to violate it and so hard to defend your rights.
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It took python (which also doesn't have a deep-pocketed company backing it) about 15-20 years before it saw widespread adoption.
It way more directly influences by the bunker rates. Maybe various for a lot of the cargo it makes most sense to have the container vessel sail quicker. However, that's not taken into account while deciding between shipping lines. Further, a shipping line has loads of cargo. Some high value and time critical, some not at all.

Look at historical bunker prices to get an idea. I couldn't find a good link, but the USD/barrel is a nice indication: http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/crude-oil/al...
It is mostly them playing hard ball (very common in that industry). In the end price is never the deciding factor but it is just frustrating to have to defend my self on price all the time.
which one did I get wrong? they were injured in Jerusalem, and they are trying to reach Iran through a connection with Hamas.
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See? No one can answer me as to where I went wrong. Just down votes. I am seriously confused. I could say the same exact comment on another thread and get voted up. Please, TELL ME, what I said wrong. Don't just down vote.
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Yeah, the same logic could be used to argue for using Java or PHP frameworks.

Plus, SASS/Compass/HAML integration isn't strictly part of a framework, it's the build pipeline.
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This is clearly a memory, not a hard drive. Kind of expect better from HN...
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Totally agree, still funny how long foreign keys have been absent from vanilla Rails ;) But I guess their lack just didn't cause enough pain for someone to add them (at least it didn't for me)
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It's persistent storage; your data will still be there if you power down Minecraft and start it up again later ;)
Probably nothing. {taking aside performance issues when you run into the thousands of parallel connections}

I personally prefer the old-school async approach, because there you are forced to explicitly manage your connections' state, and the application/process-wide data access is inherently race-condition free. I'd use this as far as possible.

If you let your OS schedule threads, obviously you have to be careful that shared data is correctly locked/only atomically changed, but you get parallelism (especially for CPU heavy tasks) for free. If you are used to do these chores (I'm not), perfect! And your connections state (or the state of required computations) can be arbitrarily complex (ugly?) and still quite elegantly hidden in your threads's stack.

So, I don't see that one approach is better than the other. For me the extremes are probably clear in favor of one or the other, with a large grey area in between.
I am only using wolfram for their api and source of data, i've don't used too much of their programming langage.

But only the data source is enough for me to give them money and support them ...

And their financials tools looks very interesting.
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I have seen this team create Hotjar from years of knowledge brought in from being at the customer side, and wanting an "insights tool" that really works. They have done an amazing job, simply because they did it with insight and love. Great work.
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Assuming Moore's Law is slowing down, and there's no rabbit about to be pulled out of a hat by Intel or others, it's going to close the gap significantly between what is possible on an $x billion and an $x million budget. This makes it a great time for initiatives such as this to take place.

In 2001, an unexpected delay of 18 months could mean that you release to competition running at 2ghz instead of 1ghz. These days, Intel's 32nm, 22nm chips (and 14nm, from what is known about Broadwell) are more or less identical from a consumer's perspective.

As an aside, Patterson's book (coauthored with Hennessey), Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, is one of the best I've ever read. Right up there with SICP.
Comments are from accounts created minutes ago because they are a response to Hotjar mail request. Source doesn't matter as long as the stuff is good, and Hotjar looks very promising IMO, can't wait to test it
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