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Joel wrote an article back in 2000 on why you should never rewrite, mentioning Netscape. While I'm far less sure than he is about it (see below), there are some awesome points in there.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

While rewriting I've often been surprised how much I've had to re-discover and re-think, and how many mistakes I'll make second time around. On the other hand, on one occasion a rewrite saved the day because it pulled together 5 different apps in different languages in a new up-do-date platform. A few months of work and the sum was infinitely better than the whole and saved the business much more than it cost.
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Yeah the Ferry is full of foreigners doing the Uruguay trip to renew their visa for another 3 months.

I learned recently though that the fine for overstaying your visa is almost the same as the Uruguay trip if you stay a few nights. The fine is (around 300 pesos or $80 US) no matter how long you stay so since I've already been to Uruguay once I'll probably just overstay it. At least is what I'm told, I'll find out if it's true soon :)
I agree - the FTC has effecticley banned this 'data pass' practice for tele-marketers since 2003, they should extend it to websites too.
Hey the second point you mention probably describes the Amazon mechanical turk well. But still I would work on it because its just easy to earn some money on it.(Well I havent actually got anything from it now, but just as an experiment I have done 5 tasks of different rewards to see what I can get from it).
I should start making up bullshit doomsday predictions to ensure the people of year 2500 have something "fascinating" to think about.
I'd be much happier if the UK government made it clear in law that you can't copyright facts. I know this isn't trivial but travel times, tv listings government gathers statistics are all facts (within a broad definition of fact) and should be placed in the public domain for the good of the public.
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This is a venture with high capital requirements and significant regulatory and competitive barriers. If it were the sort of thing that a couple of hackers could tackle effectively, we wouldn't be paying such a large fraction of all retail transactions to a handful of companies who succeeded at setting up payment networks in the 80s.

Don't take that as discouragement -- you should go at them, right now. Just pick partners that know the payments industry, can negotiate the regulatory issues, and can raise and spend the money you need to market a consumer product that won't be profitable until it has reached very large scale.
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public/private keys for RSA - 1024 bit numbers.
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They might be nice to customers, but they're only nice to customers.
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I have tried several times to use Mendeley but always without success. The interface design and usability suck.

Btw, why the Last.fm of research and not the Facebook/Linkedin/whatever of research?
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Fellow with airplane ticket can't give it away without working at it.
What are the similarities between chess and art?
How are chess and related? I find myself attracted to both. I recently read that Leonardo DaVinci- my favorite artist- who was also a scientist, and an inventor- might have been interested in chess, according to an old manuscript. From my experience in the world of rated chess tournaments, I am more interested in the creative part of chess rather than the results- the part in which I get to explore new sacrifices- some of which are so complicated, they are categorized as speculative. That is probably why Mikahil Tal was my favorite chess player- he was never afraid to experiment and create beautiful games in world championships in an era that encouraged a different school of thought- playing by the book, systematically, with the main goal of winning.
Plug into facebook. This will allow you to attract users because there's no registration barrier, and collect information about the user's tastes and interests. Then use that information to find like-minded individuals who would be a good match. Now you could connect that with your GPS idea. If you're within, say, five miles of a good match, a notification goes off on your cell phone saying you should meet this person. If both parties confirm, your service would provide a means of having them connect in real life. Either it could call them both and connect them, or it could propose a mutual location for them to meet.
Java Closures after all?
I built an aviation mapping engine that used fixed point math for lat/lon representation. It basically used an entire 32bit signed int and gave a guaranteed minimal resolution of 3 feet. It would quite often go to the ragged edge of what you can fit in a 32 bit quantity.

The fun bit was that you had to use 2 combined registers (ARM) to represent a 64bit quantity so you could do multiplication and keep all your precision.

Oh, for the luxury of a FPU...
To be honest, the feed URL is still up and running and working great -- however it's not bound to any of the two google accounts that are supposed to be bound with it. So: feed is working but I cannot change settings, setup a redirect, et cetera.
I think Carmack might be superhuman, though.
The 150 hours reply came after a request using that PIN number.
I had an idea to make a designer clothing retail store into a dating site a while back... I'll share my notes:

If you are trying to build on online e-commerce site that sells apparel and want to BE something different, then... build a free Online Dating site with a Catch:

Validated Profiles (aka. Real People) - Must have/buy an outfit from [Designer Clothes Retailer] and wear it on the photo to be able to use all of features of the site (look but don't touch model).

You can coerce people at the stores to register (discounts or good salespeople) to get it started ( just need a camera and a laptop, good lighting, and a backdrop with logo on it).

Have buy this outfit on every profile, and given the ability to rate people and clothes separately (hot or not style) then you overcome the (straight) guys looking at guys problem by showing them what outfits were top rated by girls... and so on.
This probably violates their merchant agreements with the other card vendors, though.

It does. There is a clause when you setup a merchant account that you cannot discriminate against one card over another (or, inversely, incent customers to use a particular card).
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I'm just amazed the Case actually managed to make something work, given the way things went with Revolution Health.
Off the top of my head, YC company BaseShield has a Windows app store. I'm not sure if they're open to app submissions, or handle purchases, though.
The question is raised, not begged.

But yes, my dad (Whom is 58) makes money online by putting up websites with Ebay/Clickbank/Adsense links. Makes about 125/month.

It takes time and money and about 4-6 months worth of patience /after/ you've learned how to do it correctly.

For start, google: Ban sites, and google: warrior forum
Is it just me, or are these insights superficial? If "social media" is a conversation, doesn't it already imply that listening is part of the process? Using social media for its intended purpose is different than retweeting Guy Kawasaki just because other people are doing it.

I don't want to disparage anyone's hard work in this space, but I wonder if the person most interested in "social media monitoring tools" might be the sort of person who hires a ghost blogger/tweeter because he/she is too busy to blog or tweet.
Oh, and pick up some SEO books. The biz is really all about long tail keywords, ranking, and the number of sites you have up.
i wondered the same thing. i've heard of last.fm, but i have no idea what it is other than something about music (.fm domains still confuse me).

whereas, who doesn't know about facebook or linkedin? i don't use those two, either, but i've logged into each once before and i grok the idea.

maybe the crowd who uses last.fm is the same open-data crowd who uplaod research papers?
Found an interesting app - http://listorious.com/.
The directory of awesome lists on Twitter.
I wish matz didn't remove macros in the first place.
Amazon AWS really should have a 'app store' of pre configured EC2s with wordpress, drupal, etc.

Online interface boots the EC2, makes sure it loaded, and links you to the admin interface, links to backedup s3 dumps, etc
The question begs to be asked on HN because such questions never come up on this site and being asked on this site is actually a privilege. :)
If the Google Phone really exists, it's a mistake
Apart from searching. Or anything else useful.
I don't have a lot of experience in selling software online, but as a consumer, these are the places that I'd be looking to find niche software.

1. Your own website (with Google AdWords campaign)

2. CNET Downloads (if you have a free trial version)

3. snapfiles.com (if you have a free trial version)

4. eBay store

5. Amazon store

Really, it seems that you'd want to push ALL traffic to your own domain where you can completely control prices, offers, wording, etc.

EDIT: I just checked out your site [http://www.watermelonexpress.com] and it seems like you've already done a lot of the leg work. The problem that I see is that this market (test prep software) is saturated. I think an aggressive AdWords campaign would be your best bet.
How hard would it be for browser makers to make the kinds of information this tool needs readily available (instead of the tool maker to write very low-level code, basically a giant hack) and how much work would this save for the makers of tools such as dynaTrace?
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"The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April,'

Note not make the data available - but start a consultation process to look at possible ways in which the issue might be addressed, in the fullness of time, once all the facts have been considered .....
If there's a way to make money online simply, it's probably being done by high school students and people in the Third World -- i.e., anyone whose time is nearly worthless.
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Android, as a platform, continues to fragment
This is a good idea, if it gets too busy at Voulez we can go across the street. Although I'm hesitant to change at the last minute since many people may not see it. Lets try Voulez first and use head there as a backup.
Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Abuses
A dark pool is an exchange which does not report most trades. The purpose is so that large institutional investors can buy large blocks of stocks without people attempting to cash in.

When you place orders on a dark pool, they are either filled or not filled. You are not told about the trades of others. If a simultaneous buy/sell order is placed, nothing happens.

But you are right that ICE doesn't appear to be a dark pool. I'm really not sure what the article is talking about.
I've asked the Swedish Competition Authority (konkurrensverket) by email why such agreements are legal. A merchant obviously has more to lose by not offering card payments, so they're in the weaker position.

The authority seemed to be uninterested, like they didn't want to do anything that impede the grow of card payments over cash. Cash being quite expensive since it is "robbable".

The price of a product is set with product cost + average transaction cost. If I pay with a card that has a transaction cost under average, I'm paying for the benefits given to owners of cards that have transaction costs above the average.

Hence, I have much to win from getting a card that has a very high transaction cost and gives me many fringes. Merchants see average transaction costs rise...
Unlikely since they introduced the "Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 " making databases copyrightable.

On the other hand they have done a lot to make data freely available on USB keys and cdroms in every pub car park and train seat.
Clever indeed. Does that mean I can offset my carbon emissions by buying some shares in a coal power station?
I can agree with this. My startup has two thirds of the triumvirate, and we end up having to spend money on front-end design stuff. They're top-notch and all, but I think I'd rather pay someone who's on the team and around all day.
I play guitar and Guitar Hero; I enjoy them both. It isn't the same thing of course, but on the harder difficulties it does involve some of the same fretting motions. I guess I don't understand why real guitarists are such snobs about games like this. No one would argue that they are equivalent....
Who am I kidding, it's being used incorrectly enough these days that it might as well be correct.
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Neat hack, but I far more enjoy glib's g_test_*() infrastructure. It also integrates well with `make' and can print out reports or store them for future comparisons.
Would driving a race car or something like that for 20 minutes a day give some of the same benefits as actually exercising?

I have this theory that anxiety and depression are most commonly caused by sensory deprivation, which is obviously counter-intuitive, but it seems to match with both the clinical data and also with anecdotal evidence about how people self-medicate.
Yes I agree if your 'immovable thing', for example the problem that would need a risky fix that nobody fully understands, can remain without much impact for the rest of the application's life.

Sometimes I find I can move towards fixing something difficult in multiple steps as I apply successive features etc. I find that even just documenting the problem in the affected parts of the code can be a good first step. If something changes once it often changes again and I'll move it forward a bit more next time. My theory is that the movement is the important thing, not the arrival at some particular point.
We're supposed to believe a doomsday prediction made by a society that couldn't even predict (or avoid) it's own demise?
I really think that when a language designer is contemplating removing features, they should be mindful of the inevitability of people greenspunning those features right back in. There's a lot of value in making a language simpler and more elegant, and if the language gives you great tools for building stuff in people might surprise you by designing better implementations than what you intended.

But still, it's inevitable that anything remotely lisp-like will get sucked into Lisp's black hole.
I stumbled across a database where I work where videos were being stored not in the filesystem, but as BLOBs in a DB. Thrilling.
In the UK there are two key factors:

- Consumers pick the cards.

- Retailers are (in general) barred from charging different prices for cash vs card payments.

Therefore it makes sense for any customer to pick a card with a high reward/cash back scheme (1% back on everything you buy is nice) as you are essentially taking a share of the profit your card issuer is making on each transaction, at the expense of the retailer and cash buyers.

The retailer has essentially no power to avoid this, as long as the card issuer's take remains below the point at which it would be unprofitable to service their pool of customers.
I implemented Tupper's Self-referential formula which depends on an extremely large number (although I suppose that's cheating a bit, the number is actually an encoding of a bitmap).
Nokia has invested too much into Symbian and Maemo and Qt to switch to Android, IMHO. They seem set on pushing Maemo as the system of choice and Qt as the framework of choice. They've put a lot of resources into Qt and seem intent on enticing developers to use it.
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Definitely possible, although it is work, like anything else. Depends on what your likes and dislikes are- if you are going to do it, you probably need to enjoy and believe in what you are representing/selling- whether it is a product or information. Then, it requires some research and testing. Then, lots of patience and smart work.
One word of advice: pick a smaller niche rather than one that has a lot of competition. It is easier to promote and market. Good luck!
One of the real problems is that often the card companies make it hard to dispute things.

I used to get billed $1 per month on my PayPal account for something called "YOURSAVINGSCLUB". This went on for like 6 or 7 months. I called their number to "cancel" whatever it was they were charging me for, and they said they required my credit card number to cancel my account. Given I already knew they were dishonest, I wasn't going to give them my number again, just in case they didn't actually have it and relied on a third party for the billing.

Anyway, I tried to resolve it instead through PayPal but to do so involved a Fax machine, and everytime I started the process I gave up because it wasn't worth the time for the one dollar.

Luckily I think PayPal finally figured it out and cut them off, as I haven't been charged in 6 months or so.
youtube - jeepdiving... sorry.
The background of the Priceline guy is in using game theory and psychological tricks to maximize the addictiveness of slot machines. That's the whole point of Priceline, to apply these tricks to online shopping to maximize the revenue. This is pretty obvious going in, and maybe the site is deceptive above and beyond that, but is this really a surprise? It seems like they've crossed the line here and this should be fixed, but you really shouldn't be shopping there in the first place.
I would have raised my hand 3 months ago.

I nearly quit for a dish washing job when our customer couldn't understand why it was taking us so long (~3 weeks!) to do two-way appointment sync between our application's booking system and Exchange. An actual quote: "but Outlook can do it!" Attempts to explain the API learning curve and the work needed to manage conflicts were met with blank looks.

I nearly had to get a dish washing job when they didn't pay, but that's another story...
Well, then, I'm going to start a blog series about "X in 1 LOC" and just mash everything into one line. If that doesn't work, I'll rename it to "X in 2 LOC" and put the code into a define, then use the define. Obviously I will be posting each and every port to HN.

You downvote me now, but you'll be upvoting me when I make infinite amounts of money on my 2 LOC implementations of.. everything :-D
But if you had 84 million inhabited planets, with 10 tweets a day, it would only take 10 years (correct me if my math is wrong).
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Insurance.

You're sold relief from disaster priced solely on the probability of your likelihood of enduring said disaster.

This basic concept is the foundation of every insurance business in the world, and it's highly profitable and stable.

Traditional Banking.

Here's some money that we borrowed from other people. As long as we charge you more to service that debt than we pay others for entrusting their money to us, we're golden.
speed dating is in large groups of people, it's safe, and there's not much pressure.

a lot of people (especially women) don't want a spontaneous meet-up alone with some random internet person they've never seen nor know anything about.

even on sites like okcupid where you can email/instant message someone for weeks while having a completely filled out profile with pictures and background information, many are still uncomfortable meeting up in person.

unless your site is going to be geared towards hookups and one-night stands. then it would probably work exactly for those same reasons; it's somewhat anonymous and quickly provides a way to meet someone extremely local.
Yes, on Mechanical Turk (http://mturk.com).
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Man is working so hard to learn and recreate the human body. However, many believe that the human body was created by chance and chaos.
I believe that hills were created by chaos and chance. Doesn't mean we're incapable of constructing ramps.
Something tells me these are going to be as bad as PHP's closures; you can't just tack on lambdas at the last minute, it has to be part of the language design initially (no?)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794205

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773137
Are you guys kidding? Compared to what alternative is Outlook an "irritating broken non-functional idiotic piece of rubbish?"

That alternative definitely isn't open source (like Evolution, which blows hard). It's definitely not a Web app somewhere (ala Google). Outlook isn't rubbish, by far, and y'all don't know what you're talking about. :)
I always assumed that this was because my brain is part of my body, and doing stuff that is good for my body would be the same stuff that is good for my brain.

For some reason we draw this weird metaphysical distinction between the brain and the other organs in the body that make results like this seem strange, when they clearly are not.

The idea that healthy people think better should not shock us. (Think better in terms of lower incidence psychological problems, although i always feel smarter after I exercise as well...)
Is this some kind of joke? Or they are for real? Funding floss by paying for not feeling guilty writing bad code? Strange idea...
I think it's great that we're learning and exploring the human body, and trying to mimic it in other areas. I'm really attempting to challenge the beliefs.

*edit - wording
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I disagree. There is a contract. What is written in it? That counts. (I am not saying bad customer service is smart business.)
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i speculate that with dating paradigms, women fear:

1) safety
2) stalking
3) hurting a guys feelings

men fear

1) rejection
2) stigma of "resorting" to a dating site
3) not having to face a girl he's not interested in

so, if you can solve these things you've got something.

i think an iphone/gphone app with faces you can flip through (here are some guys/girls in your area) would be neat. really simple interface. also, i'd let anyone browse, no signup, but if they want to date, they have to sign up and get verified. or something like that.

i agree about the other comment about verified identities. you might want to drop a postcard in the mail with a code and have them enter the code online to verify they're real. that would help remove the safety and stalking factor for women.
When you run that adwords campaign, split test. I have a suspicion you are going to make how a user can download an app from your site far more obvious.

The site looks attractive, though.
You're still missing the point. It has nothing to do with the value of X, except that it's small.