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From what I see, they're a closed-source web service (like Medium, but not free) that's designed like a simpler version of WordPress (themeable / somewhat-configurable).

However, they're missing the key social/community aspects that make Medium so addictive. Instead, they seem to be trying to compete based on design - which is something that Medium is already superb at. Plus, I don't think many people will be willing to pay 120USD/year when they can get something at least as good, from Medium, for free.

And being closed-source & non-self hosted will mean they can't even compete with WordPress, Ghost, & the rest of the CMS space. Which will mean they won't be so much of a "platform" (upon which you can build more advanced sites) as a "service".

As for their "built to last forever" claim, the FAQ says this:

> Forever is a long time, can you really host my content forever?

> As long as we have paying customers, we'll keep the servers running and the lights on. [...]

... I would _expect_ them to continue hosting content as long as they can. Storage is as cheap as ever, and there is no reason to take old content down. If they're not offering some guaranteed permanence - letting my content survive past the death of their company - then this isn't different from any other blogging service.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I really don't see the appeal.
Not even that.. You can buy netflix logins for $2 a piece
> As an older dad, raised by non-denominational parents, you have a categorical error if you think chopping down pine trees, standing in line on black friday, and getting drunk watching football on TV are biblical in nature.

I don't know how you jumped from "religious" to "biblical"; none of them are biblical, sure, but at least the pine tree one has religious history (through a number of different religions on the way.)
For those who haven't seen them, his talks are highly worth watching and will completely change your ideas about religion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-yinhpOgQ

http://vimeo.com/10968562
Apparently, they only just found this manuscript hidden in a box "in the fall of 2014", so it was probably not the new book that person was talking about. In fact, this was the original book before "To Kill a Mockingbird" was written.
>> First they'd need to move WPF, which is implemented in DirectX.

What version? There is DX9 support on Linux and IIRC a partial DX10/11 implementation bit-rotting somewhere.
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With the Onion, it's always the headlines than nail it, better than the body.

In a way, they've been doing parody tweets since 1988.
This is what I was saying in the other thread. The number of people employed "full-time" on paper doesn't say much about the health of the economy.
I have 5 profiles on netflix - only the 2 last ones were changed - not sure if they were renamed or if they were deleted and2 new ones were added - my own profile was left alone.
Agreed. They taught this in high school economics class--a public high school economics class. I think the article is playing into the political rhetoric. For a politician to use the Unemployment Rate as a benchmark is fine as a delta since all the U values seem to track each other if this chart is accurate: http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

3% of what? I would not characterize that as plummeting, but after looking at the graph you linked to, it very much looks like a "plummet".

It doesn't sound like they have a definitive answer of the cause. The data is done by survey, and missed surveys are "imputed". (ftp://ftp2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar14.pdf) So I strongly suspect (but cannot support) there's probably some kind of assumption of a gaussian somewhere, and of course human behavior can assume many different "forms". In other words, I think they should be providing an error rate with these numbers. The other aspect is they probably have faith in the Gaussian I suspect.
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And trapped between the commodity supplier fixing the price, and the state bringing up the costs, its a solid recipe for killing off a business. Which it has done in this case.

So the more interesting question from an economics perspective is whether or not capturing the marginal GDP of this business is a better or worse for the people. Sure the bookstore goes poof, and folks can't get cheap used books any more. The business will be replaced by something that can afford both the higher labor rate, like an upscale coffee shop or maybe a designer boutique.

But the number of bookstores goes down by one, and the volumes available are not available in the library. So the community has lost something too.

Nominally the markets are there to express what is a good application of capital by meeting demand. Should it go to running a bookstore or running a coffee roaster or a blog aggregator Etc. But the artificial floor of minimum wage creates artificial barriers to applying capital. You can see in this post that the floor of $10 allows the bookstore to exist, the floor of $15 does not. So here is a fiscal policy which is going limit choices.

And a really interesting effect is that everyone is going to raise prices to cover that expense, they have too, and so all of those folks who were complaining that they can't afford to eat at the 'upscale' bars and bistros in California its just going to get worse for them, and it won't be the Googlers or Twitterers or Pinsters causing that upswing, it will be the very government they elected to serve them doing it to them.

I find the economics of such things very interesting in the side effects as much as the intended effects.
It seems that business was go well since the author writes "2014 was the best year we've ever had." But as you point out in a tough market with massive competitors and fixed prices it's hard to absorb a 39% payroll increase. Wish I could look into the future and see what business would replace them in that space... I'm cynically imagining a Starbucks or some ultra-hoppy brew pub.
ask HN: seems to be down, sorry, off topic, I want to publish eBook/only, and have all revenues go to charity. not a lot of info on web, regarding this subject. One author who put a Link on the end of his eBook is all.
I was incredibly excited to see this news upon seeing the headline in the New York Times, and surprised, because Harper Lee has been a recluse for almost her entire life since writing To Kill a Mockingbird, and has repeatedly insisted that she had no desire to publish another book ("I wouldn't go through the pressure and publicity I went through with To Kill a Mockingbird for any amount of money. Second, I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again."[0])

After doing a bit of digging, however, I'm a bit concerned. Now, Lee is almost 90, and has suffered a stroke that seems to have had lasting effects. She filed a lawsuit in 2007 against the son-in-law of her former agent, claiming that he took advantage of her mental state during her recovery and duped her into assigning him the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird[1]. For much of her adult life, her sister handled press relations and shielded Lee from these pressures. Her sister passed away three months ago, and suddenly this new book comes to light[2].

I really hope these suspicions are wrong, and that there's nothing shady at play here. I'm excited to read the book, but I can't help but be skeptical of the timing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee#After_To_Kill_a_Moc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee#Lawsuit_to_regain_c...

[2] (I dislike linking to Gawker Media sites on principle, but Jezebel actually wrote a good post digging into the details of this - "Be Suspicious of the New Harper Lee Novel".)
It's actually Free Software, not just open source. MIT license.
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Perfectly put. I would also add that the SaaS market has shown enough volatility that if I can't run it on my own instance there are no guarantees that a service will exist a year from now.

When it comes to my personal todo list, I'm ok with that. When we're talking about a project management tool that becomes a part of your team's culture, concerns mount quickly.
Thanks - it was a password I stopped using a while ago and never used for anything important - only billable thing it was linked to was Netflix.
Viable, then.
> This is intrinsically misleading

Exactly. Reporting the same number over time sounds very serious and correct, unless the nature of the market itself is what changed. In which case the reporting may totally miss the real event worth reporting. That said, the conversation here is rich in part because at least people are aware that the underlying market may have changed.
> I wonder if Marx considered that labour could shift to serve new markets.

Really... you wondered if one of the great minds of history overlooked the simplest of things?
My post was specifically trying to address his questions about wifi deployment in a 700sqft apartment.

"run wires if that doesn't work": If you can't get decent wifi signal through an entire 700sqft apartment (where you'll probably have at most 1-2 walls between your router and computer at any point in time), you have bigger problems that a mesh network might not solve. At this point, you probably have too many neighboring wireless networks or bad walls, and mesh networks don't solve either of these.

"make sure to replace the default firmware": My primary recommendation is Apple hardware, which is fine on default firmware. I also mentioned ASUS because some people actively don't want Apple hardware, but I'd venture those people are also more likely to be happier to install their own firmware/OS than the average.
No, not really.

GP can reason about what he's doing. He knows that he's commenting on HN. He can come up with a plausible reason why (recreation, perhaps). In a more interesting scenario, say building a dam, GP would cut down logs with the express intention of building a dam to make a pond.

The beaver doesn't know what it's doing, literally. It can't tell you why, it doesn't have a greater plan of building a dam, etc.

You're really talking about motivation, and I'll agree that the motivation is roughly the same for GP and the beaver--some mix of chemicals in their respective brains influencing behavior.
Realistically most websites could use a combination of caching with a single database server behind them. If the schema isn't too horrible. You can scale up a lot, and depending on your use case and revenue model, that's a valid plan.

I'm pretty sure that Facebook is using a wide database (similar to Cassandra) with reverse indexes generated at the application layer. Yahoo, it depends on the developer group, but something like mongo in use wouldn't completely surprise me. Google has published a lot of white papers on how they use data (see Cassandra and Hadoop from some of those lessons).

MongoDB is itself a bit of a bridge... replication setup is far easier than with a typical RDBMS, and you can break data into documents for simpler queries. Mongo as a persistent caching layer is also an option depending on your load and needs with SQL as authority, mongo for public search/display.
I completely agree regarding the ease of setting up apple's routers.

I tried setting up a linksys router as a bridge, but it was a little bit tricky and required me to reset it once or twice before I got it setup.

A few days later I purchased an airport express for the airplay feature to connect it to my radio. I installed it at one location in my home and it was drop-dead simple to set it up as a bridge to the existing network.
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Segfault used to be at the top of the game back in the day: http://web.archive.org/web/20021207224656/http://www.segfaul...
Today I learned that in 2015 a 2MB text file is "huge."
I can't tell from the article whether the interest payments referred to includes intra-governmental debt (including on holdings of the federal reserve).

In any event if the White House believes that interest rates are set to rise, and given that 30 year bonds are currently yielding 2.63%, it seems like now would be a good time to increase the amount of long term debt issued (see http://ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2014/10/US-debt-issuance-ma...) and perhaps issue even longer term debt. Japan sells a 40 year bond, Canada, France, and the UK have each recently issued 50 year bonds.
Source: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2684102?sid=2110577666...
If there is no social security system, then how does the government (or anyone else) gets to this number?

Let's assume for a moment that the number in the article is correct, it's important to understand that Thailand's culture has a form of social security build in. In Thailand it's very normal for children to take not only care of their parents (financially) but also the rest of their family. So, maybe from a cultural point of view, Thailand doesn't need a social security system and might also be the reason why the number in the article is so low.
Sweet. I'll try this in my next campaign.
Funny thing is that internal to Microsoft, most devs don't use Visual Studio as an IDE. Maybe as an editor or a debugger, but there are a lot of build systems out within Microsoft and most of them don't plug into Visual Studio.

IMO, open sourcing Visual Studio itself is not all that interesting vs. open sourcing the .NET platform.
Despite all that, their next-door neighbor, Dog Eared Books, had their best year ever in 2014 and that's been true for the past five years. Maybe it's because Borderlands has a narrower focus?
User experience should definitely be more important than the technology stack. Also, the technology stack is a constraint on performance now, and now is what is important.
Nope, it isn't.

Or rather, it now has a 3 clause BSD licence with an additional "Comment on BSD, GPL and Copyright": http://www.shenlanguage.org/license.pdf which is significantly longer than the 3 clauses minus the all caps disclaimer of warranty boilerplate.

Which might be acceptable, it looks OK at first glance (compared to an unacceptable initial version presented yesterday), but it does add to the overhead in doing things with Shen. Fatally? I don't know, but the usual dismissal that "It's got a weird licence" still holds, even if it has
less weight now.
Absolutely, I left this out while cutting parts from my comment. Sales will be affected as individuals debate making a purchase at an increased price.
I assume by "it's cheaper", you mean that an Uber competitor would charge their customers $X, pay out $Y (> $X) to their drivers, and subsidize $Y - $X by pouring in cash from their other products.

This sort of cross-subsidy has a poor track record when used against well-capitalized opponents. (In many situations, it's also illegal: see "dumping".) Unless you can complete wipe out the competition and force them out of business, you're pouring money down the drain, and building nothing of value with it. Bing Cashback resulted in most people doing their searching on Google, identifying what they wanted to buy, and then buying it on Bing so that Microsoft would pay them.

You get very odd arbitrage situations that basically result in funneling money straight from the corporation that's being idiotic to a savvy consumer. If a company did what you suggest, I would immediately sign up with them, along with my fiancee. We would then use the app every time we took a trip together or picked each other up. Since one of us is the driver and one is the passenger and the driver earns more than the passenger pays, we'd be making money at this company's expense every time we drove somewhere. Now imagine every carpool, group of friends, or just random strangers who setup a business to exploit this arbitrage opportunity doing that.
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Is it time to move beyond zeroes and ones?(2003)
Lexing IS regular expressipn matching (except for some esoteric features like Haskell's nrsted comments).

Difference is in the handling.

As a matter of fact, Visual Studio uses semantic analysis - classes show differently than other identifiers.
you can write loops or recursive functions to make your code smaller.
> Fucking wah. What do you want, another cryptocurrency?

Comments like this violate the HN guidelines. Please don't.
I wonder if this will make it into the books on the Paleo diet.

More seriously, a lot of the conversation around drugs assumed that drugs (from which alcohol is inconsistently excluded) are an unnatural and uncontrollable modern disease. This is also the perspective that predominates in political discussion. The understanding that the low level of drug use "accepted" by modern society is as much a cultural construct as higher levels in the past would go a long way into making our drug policy more sane.
Ask HN: How to negotiate valuation of a startup at seed stage?
Hello, I understand that it might seem like a "case-by-case" type of question but I hope someone can offer a generalized advice as well.

The situation: startup has an offer from early stage investor but the offer has lower valuation than startup is willing to accept.
If startup takes this investment at proposed valuation and then raises the rest of the money necessary for the seed stage, it spend well over 25% equity recommended to set for seed stage [by Paul Graham].

It seems that such negotiation may easily end up in a pointless Valuation-A VS Valuation-B discussion. Which incentives can startup offer to seed investor in such circumstances?

Basically: Lets set the cap at $Y so that..
99% of the files I open are less than 2MB, but every once in a while I have a large file to open. I think this is typical.

VisualStudio handles them instantly, but even Sublime Text seems to take a bit of time "processing" it.
But given that it was in San Francisco, is that remotely viable? Can you rent a cardboard box in the gutter for $28k/year in SF?
I read that as more “even our best year was borderline” – further down the page they mention that the general manager was making $28,000/year and the profit in 2013 was roughly $3,000. It's possible for both “best year we've ever had” and ”still not enough to make it work” to be true at the same time.
Probably even just letting amazon or someone host the images would fix the problem.
They probably make small methodology changes all the time.
I have seen a couple of Clojure based GPU compilers, although they seemed to be sort of proof-of-concepts, and I'm not sure how general purpose they were. It would be nice to possibly get out of the mode of it being a whole other computer and compiler, but maybe that distinction is for the best for the time being.
They were nice enough to provide some numbers, so I tried to figure out what's going on with Borderlands.

First thing, they say that a move from $10.74 to $15.00/hr will cost them $28,000 (from +$3k to -$25k), which implies they're paying over 6,000 hours worth of hourly labor.

Another option to make up that $28k would be to increase sales by 20%, which means their current annual gross margin is somewhere around $150k.

"[R]ent, payroll, and credit card processing represent 68% of all [their] expenses" and since they're basically breakeven let's say that merchandise costs are 30% with 2% miscellaneous costs (utility bills, etc).

So their gross margin is probably something around 65% as CC fees should never be more than 5% and merch is around 30%.

With $150k of gross margin at 65%, it looks like this store, employing 3 FTEs worth of part-time labor, is grossing about $225,000 per year.

If the average book in that store costs $15 (they say they're limited on what they can charge based on the sticker price, so this may even be low) they're staffing 3 people in the store at all times, all year round, to sell 42 books per day.

I think I found why you're having to pay yourselves out of the cafe money, sirs.
How did the US publishing industry found itself in a situation that the book price is fixed and printed on the book?
Can anyone provide further information/confirmation on this? It seems sketchy for a lot of reasons. The FBI doesn't go after individual torrenters, so I'm not sure why they'd be logging IPs. I'm not sure how anyone would know it if they were. The alternate address given, thepiratebay.ac, doesn't work at this time.

Seems like this could be a bunch of FUD/trolling. Any thoughts?
One of the difficulties for a human playing Nethack is remembering all the potions and amulets and wands and scrolls and rings and monsters and their effects and many, many, many combinations. In a way a bot should have an easier time since it has basically unlimited memory.
> folks can't get cheap used books any more

Perhaps you meant locally? Bookfinder, amazon, alibris, et al still provide excellent service.
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Why would the io.js team bother merging their changes "upstream" to Node? io.js has momentum and mindshare.
Realistically this tool will be very rough around the edges because its new. All new apps are never polished, and this might not even still be around in 6-12 months. There will be feature requests, bugs to work around, other deficiencies (and some efficiencies as well). $9 per user is a lot to ask for something that is unproven when there are competitors that have a track record for less. Im just being honest this are all things that go in when I consider buying software for my team. And reiterating that this would be only one of many tools I have to buy to keep the wheel on the bus.
Interesting way to put it. However, I doubt it. As long as the printers don't run out of ink, this will continue...
The article seems to admit as much, in that 0.6 isn't a cut-and-dry figure.

What strikes me though is that a number like this should be reason for panic. Economies try to shoot for unemployment numbers (realistically calculated ones) around 5%. (varies, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment )

As unemployment drops below 5%, it becomes harder to find workers in many fields, and the problem gets worse the lower you go. Down around 2-3% and you're facing an acute labor shortage, which leads to inflation and reduces investment in your country because there's no workers to fill new openings.

But in short, I agree with you, the numbers rest on simply faulty logic, because if they were calculated by other means, Thailand's economy should be in crisis. But it isn't.
I'd bet all those books are available less expensively on amazon. The only value being lost is the value of the curation by the owners.

It's also a function of demand elasticity whether cost increases are passed to consumers, eaten by businesses, or some combination. We'll see how much pricing power local businesses have.

And it's a real stretch to argue that a small business owner earning under $30k/year, with limited growth prospects, is an efficient deployment of capital. This was clearly a labor of love.