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The huge set of fabulous add-ons is the main reason why I don't even bother looking at Chrome. The addons make the browser, for me.

AIOS All In One Sidebar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027 Vast improvement over default sidebar.

Brief Rss Reader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4578 Uses Firefox Live Bookmarks feature.

Delicious https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615 Official addon from Delicious.

Download Helper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 Easily download youtube videos, other media.

FoxClocks https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117 What time is it, everywhere.

It's All Text https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 Edit any text field with your favorite text editor.

Tab Kit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447 Arrange and manipulate your tabs however you like, including vertically (nice for wide screen).

Text2Link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6003 Right-click and copy the text of a link (rather than the URL).

Toolbar Buttons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2377 Adds a shipload of extra buttons you can place on your toolbars.

Uppity https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/869 Easily navigate up the hierarchy of the currently loaded URL.

URL Link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/403 Select non-linked plain-text URL and open it as if it were linked.

User Agent Switcher https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 Control which user agent (browser) your browser reports itself as.

WebMynd https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6416 When Murdoch and Microsoft succeed in Balkanizing the web, you'll use something like this to aggregate search results from different places. Works great for searching HN.
In Seattle, NWEN does this with their bi-annual angel forum. Also notable is DEMO which is something like $10k-$20k to play..
Yeah, I loved that one. Does provide some perspective.

On the other hand, I kept thinking how thrilled he must be that his game is going to be a huge movie, since he really wanted to be a filmmaker all along.
Sorry, I can't tell you that.
Nice one-handed operation with radial menus & swipe to drill down.
Thanks Frazzydee for all the feedback. All taken into consideration. And thanks for catching the grammatical error.
I think that's the payment on day 365, not the year total.

Edit: It is. I just ran the code again, and the payment for day 365 is 1.28331e+15
I've seen the effects of this monopoly even before the Internet age, and this is a pretty accurate article. The data on the MLS is not rocket science, it could be trivially reimplemented in a lot better ways than it has been.

In defense of real estate agents, however, they aren't necessarily willing participants in this fiasco. For instance, a city's real estate board can charge agents fees (and really, really, really ridiculous fees) for access to the service. And there's no choice: it's the only way to be a realtor. Agents suck it up like just another cost of doing business, but the reality is that the real estate boards are acting extremely unethically.
ruthless != sadistic

The point of being ruthless is to step on people when that's the most useful thing for you, not to step on people because you like stepping on people. Bill G. is a classic example of a ruthless person that is more than willing to pay well and take care of their competent staff.
What's interesting is the discovery that the placebo effect can actually affect testosterone levels!
I could be the sound/vibration of the engine, the increased power/acceleration, the handling, the interior. I'm not sure all of these would classify as placebo in the traditional sense. But I'd agree it's mostly the pure placebo of knowing it's an expensive car.
What else could it be, some substance in the car?

Well, maybe, and that needs to be ruled out. Plasticizer vapors, such as those present in newer cars, have been said to mimic human hormones before.
Stop using the word "engineer". There isn't such a thing as a "software engineer", it's a made-up business/defense-dept. term. Software engineers don't seem to be recognized by professional engineering certification body nor should they be.

Just call them computer programmers or software developers but treat them with respect, don't treat them like code monkeys.
For the curious: you can coax it into loading, but you can't play it.

You will need a WebKit-based browser, as it uses CSS transitions, transforms, and animation properties. The game checks the iPhone-specific property "window.navigator.standalone" to see if the game is running full-screen (i.e. it is installed), but you can work around that in the Web Inspector JavaScript console or editing the source to get the game to load. Then you can click to start a new game, however you're left with no control as it uses iPhone-specific JavaScript for swipe controls.
I wonder if you'd get the same effect with powerful used cars that cost much less. I tend to think you would.
Sorry, but you absolutely need to change this. It's overt copyright infringement. You've provided zero attribution to the content creator, and don't own the rights to the work in the first place.

Ripping off someone's work - whether they're an independent designer or a multinational corporation - is not cool.

Anyway, I tried uploading a PDF to demo the service, but it didn't work; the file uploaded and it redirected me to /manage/[id].php, but the page never fully loaded. So, I'm really not sure what to say but I'm kinda bummed out by that.

It's cool that you've created something to share with us, and I really wish you luck in making it your own and getting it to work. Good luck, and feel free to share it later on!
This sure is long for running three, serially executed commands. What am I missing here? A Makefile, which is a dependency resolution DSL from before the term DSL was popular, for this is only like 6 lines, and is much terser and explicit.
I hope it lives up to the potential. Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame went down that path and has barely been heard from since. OTOH he never got anywhere close to a $200m budget.
What about redfin.com?
Cscotta,

Thanks for feedback. I have to create more error messages.

Also I frankly did not think it was necessary to give a shout out to Apple. Nevertheless, the background will be gone as soon as I do a simple design.

Thanks again for trying the app and for sharing.
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Fortunately I never said any of that!
“order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses, etc, and the second page tells them the price”

This would annoy me as a customer. If they aren’t going to tell me the price up-front, I’m probably not going to enter all my details.
Redfin is great, but it only solves part of this problem. In its current incarnation it still has to play by many MLS rules and does not open the data past users of its own site.
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As a real estate agent, I agree with the author's point, especially about the technology. I not only pay hundreds of dollars per year, but technologically they still can't even keep up with basic advancements such as making the mls work in firefox or safari. The problem, as far as I can tell, is not from individual agents trying to protect their racket, but from our regional and national associations and their somewhat opaque partnerships with private businesses.

For example, our national association doesn't even own Realtor.com; they made an apparently permanent agreement with a private company which charges us additional fees for "enhanced" listings.

The other problem is that the MLS's are all controlled regionally, and it's not so much about the technology as it is about the bureaucracy. While the author makes an excellent point, many are currently attempting it but it's not easy. Companies such as Redfin seem to be slowly getting there. As an agent, I'd be the first to support a free, nationwide MLS, but I don't know if it's something that can be solved by technology alone.
Looks nice, and a good idea. I'd consider using this if I had a need for it (and I may in the future).

I did notice that tabbing order goes review body->name->email->submit, which doesn't match their visual layout.
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I handle listing data ingestion and distribution at HotPads.com, so I deal with some of these problems all the time. There hasn't been a single complete game changer in this space yet, and with the way things are currently progessing I think the solution to the MLS problem will come as a combination of MLSes learning to play nice (we see quite a few distributing their data across multiple sites) and agents and brokers signing up with distribution services, listing their properties on more open sites, or handling their own distribution directly. We have listing feeds with examples of all of these cases.
The digg link doesn't have a hover effect, also consider using sprites with a background-position for those social media links on the homepage because then you won't get the wait while the hover image loads.

The write a review form should probably always be visible as that is the core feature of the product, also the solid colours are a little loud.
Thanks in advance for the feedback my dear HN crew.

Customer reviews are in a sense the framework for online word-of-mouth, and word-of-mouth marketing is ...Gold. Pluspanda.com is the MVP toward this end.

The marketing site and the product functionality is clearly still pretty raw, so ideal feedback would be on concept implementation execution, possible avenues, and feature must-haves etc.

Also any designers that can style the widget , please email me!!

Thanks!
On the add review widget, maybe the default rating should be 5, or at least not 1. Maybe use one of those star widgets instead of the combo box? I think business using this would prefer a higher default rating, rather than have their products get lots of 1s by mistake.

It's also not clear in the demo why users have to have to give a name and email to submit a review - do you need that extra friction?
It was barely playable on my 3GS. The controls were difficult and slow to respond.
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Yeah, the design is pretty wonky. It's a simple app: keep the design simple (as in, maybe just one color, instead of a graphic?).
I just uploaded a pptx created with PowerPoint 2010 beta and all I got was "This document type is not supported".

You will definitely need to support pptx if you don't already, and make sure you work with Office 2010, otherwise you're losing a huge chunk of potential users.
Actually,

This line of reasoning makes me think that setting up an online game as legitimate multi-level marketing scheme would make sense. If you had subreferee/dungeon masters/etc who were given a piece of a world to both police and market a subsection of a world, you could offer a much more personal guarantee of an enjoyable game.

But I don't know gaming that well - I'd bet this has tried before.
Will these have your branding on them? Because if they don't, then how will people confirm the credibility of the reviews? Kind of defeats the purpose of open honest reviews and not letting owners delete reviews if users don't know that.

With yelp, people know that these are reviews on a third-party site.

Also, I'd like to add that since users are embedding these reviews on their own sites', visitors will not know if owners tamper with the reviews with additional javascript. Having reviews on a third party site has its advantages.
Thank you city41. I am simply using the Google Doc Viewer embed feature, hence I can only support the document they support. But I will try and find a work around. Thanks again.
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You have a few examples of the oversupply of solutions for the technically inclined? No offense, I'm sincerely interested...
Another way to think about it is that the game used almost all of the available RAM and drive space. That would be like a game today needing 3.5 GB of RAM and 0.90 TB of disk space. :)
This looks like a bias towards selecting hungry zombies.
We have a rather excellent coffee shop on the first floor of our building, and so coffee shops are the setting for almost all of my meetings with candidates and business associates.

I'm thinking back trying to remember a time I invited someone over and didn't buy. Nothing comes to mind, but I couldn't 100% promise you that I managed to buy every time.

I'm not doubting JGC learned something about that CEO from the fact that the guy didn't buy him coffee, but in America, sometimes not buying coffee just means forgetting to buy coffee.

I've always liked the waiter test for salespeople, though: tip a waiter $50 to handle the candidate poorly, and see whether the candidate remains respectful. I know I've never snapped at a server before.
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Hah, not that I'm saying that this guy's other views have anything to do with his ideas on climatology, but the paragraph after the one you linked is titled "Racial Biology." It doesn't end well: "...and the results formed the scientific basis for the Compulsory sterilization program in Sweden, as well as inspiring the Nazi eugenics in Germany."

Don't nobody jump down my throat or anything, the juxtaposition just made me laugh.
As someone who worked for an agency supplying a few hundred realtors across 6 different MLSes with web development, I can also testify to the utter technical incompetence of at least one of the major suppliers (who shall remain unnamed) of back-ends for hundreds of MLSes.

I noticed a bug in our CSV import one day and I discovered that they were quoting, but not escaping quotes in any way. Thereby making it possible for any realtor to inject whatever the data they wanted for anyone else's listings either before or after theirs (depending on how the data importers resolved conflicts).

This was a huge security hole affecting probably hundreds of thousands of listings nationwide, and you know what their developer support said to me? They actually sent me a suggested workaround tailored to the particular instance of corrupted data that I had encountered. When I explained to them the ramifications of this to their business they simply ignored me.

Damn I'm glad I got out of that game.
One of my personal favorites, largely because it wanders all over the place topically and is almost always amusing:

http://milkglassmao.tumblr.com/
There are a few problems that I see here, but two of the big ones:

1. As a visitor to a random website, I'm skeptical of reviews I see on that site. If your brand gets big enough that people see "Comments powered by PlusPanda" and think "Oh, ok...I can trust this", then maybe, but that seems like a pretty lofty goal to have to reach before your business model really clicks.

2. The bigger problem is self-selection bias. If I run a great business, of course I'd love more people talking me up on my site. If I run a crappy business, I'll have no reviews or reviews that I can filter, shape, and control. 3rd party review sites remove the power to have and control reviews from the business owner, and that's kind of the whole point.

EDIT: I just read this and I realized that I sound really negative. Let me point out that I only bothered to go through the site, think the issue out, and write a comment because I think what you're doing is genuinely interesting and has a lot of potential. I just wanted to point out some issues I'm sure you've thought through, and I'd like to know what your view is.
I wonder if this effect wears off, if you are driving a Porsche every day. Also, it would be interesting to see how much of it is due to speed (passing/cutting off others) and how much is due to the perception of wealth. Most important, are the changes relevant biologically, i.e. are these changes on the same scale as what you get in other testosterone-raising circumstances? </review>
The article says he slipped away "sometime between December 2008 and May 2009". That's at least six months ago. It's also disturbing that someone relatively popular and important can "slip away" in this relatively wide window. I know the quote was: "'When his behavior got more erratic, nobody felt close enough to him to help, and we thought we'd help by protecting his zone of privacy,' she said. 'Respecting that zone of privacy is what allowed him to slip away.'" It's still rather disturbing.
I'll try: hosting solutions, bug trackers, wikis, music sharing, "simple" web-based file sharing, "web operating systems", project management products (incl. to-do lists), anything built on Twitter, anything with "platform" in the name, automated testing tools, blogging systems.
There's really no right answer -- it depends on the situation. But your friend is correct that 50-50 split is rarely the right way to go.

Judging from how you worded your question, it sounds like you might be overvaluing your idea, and undervaluing your programmer. Disclaimer: I'm a programmer-founder myself, who regularly turns down deals just like what you're proposing, so there may be some personal bias in my answer :)

To test my theory, which of the following statements do you more agree with?

A. "The idea is more valuable than the programmer - I could probably hire anyone smart enough at programming to implement the idea, and use my knowledge to guide them in the right direction."

B. "The programmer is more valuable than the idea - I'm relying on their knowledge to know what to build. The idea might even change over time once they start building stuff."

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Anyway, here are some things to consider when deciding how to split the founder shares:

How much time will each of you be spending on the project? It's very easy to underestimate programming tasks. If your programmer is spending 80 hours a week and you're doing relatively little (as the "idea guy"), there will be friction.

How much experience do each of you have in projects like this? Do either of you bring anything else to the table - connections, clients, seed money?

What are each of you prepared to give up to make this project happen? Consider time spent not doing other work. Will both of you be quitting your jobs for this? Cutting back hours?

Also, how well do you know this person?

Good luck!
Not really. I guess you could, in cases where you had the C source code, and were happy to compile everything into bytecode (including all that C codes dependencies with it). You wouldn't be running native code any more unlike JNI. JNA would be considered an alternative.
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I'm pleased to have been helpful and, of course, wish you extravagant luck. One of my pet peeves about web sites in general, related to your state: every damn commercial site everywhere should have a darn "about" link so interested potentials can begin to puzzle out who they potentially dealing with.
> The site is a tech blog aggregation site, similar in many ways to popurls.com and alltop.com, but focusing on tech blogs.

Why not just start with the tech blogs aggregated by popurls and alltop?
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I think #1 is one of those things that everyone thinks, but is generally untrue, much like "advertising has no effect on me". Carefully selected customer testimonials are a time-honored tradition, and an effective one. Oftentimes you see a major product with glowing reviews posted in its advertising. Of course on an intellectual level you know that any terrible product could probably pull that off, and that it really means nothing, but on an emotional level its still effective.

So at the very worst, this service will be just as good as the hand-selected testimonials the advertising agent puts in every magazine ad. That's still a net positive. Even more likely some of the reviews won't be fully glowing endorsements which in and of itself will lend credibility.
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I don't know what you've read about Yelp, but they certainly are not a model of credibility. Between rampant self-reviews (restaurateurs have been caught using dozens of fake accounts to give themselves glowing endorsements) and their protection racket sales tactic,s Yelp is no more credible than the customer testimonials in every PR article.

Any advantages that could possibly come from the reviews being on a third-party site are outweighed tenfold by the inconvenience of having to go there.
Maybe another way of looking at the problem: I think a bigger challenge would be supporting mobile devices.

Whatever your site does, you might need to also do it in a stripped down no-frills way that will render well on a tiny screen.

If you can manage that, IE6 support should be no problem. Worst case, push IE6 users to your mobile site. :)
Very good point. I would definitely go with no default rating. Any default at all taints results.
The summary "Now you can manage reviews on your website just like http://yelp.com but completely branded by you, all with just two lines of code." is confusing. It hints at why someone would want this, but it's not clear how it works (e.g. whether its a service or a library). Also, "two lines of code" may be easy, but it probably won't sound that way to many people. The rest of the front page explains the benefits of your service, but never clearly explains what it does and how it works.
I like it. The web is full of people who aren't really programmers who are using it to make money. That's how I got into programming a decade ago.

They'll learn to make a rating system if they really feel the need (making a reasonable one is not rocket science) but offer them a slick one that's easy to integrate on the webpage where they're selling their e-books or vinyls or whatever and I imagine they'd pay for the usage.
Things that I think might influence equity:

* You're full time from the beginning, she isn't

* You're contributing actual money to the project

* You're starting the project with committed customers

* Your reputation or background is key to acquiring customers (for instance, you're a doctor selling to hospitals)

* You bring funding connections (for instance, you've founded and sold a VC-backed company)

* The first revision of the product doesn't require advanced programming, so you can get actual customers without a tech cofounder

For some of these, you can grant equity conditionally; for instance, hold back N%, which reverts to the two of you 50/50 on contingency (for instance, specific list of customers don't buy, funding falls through).

Personally, if the word you're thinking of for this person is "partner", you should just do 50-50 with vesting.

I think the big problem with 50-50 isn't fairness so much as that it limits your options down the road. The big problem with 60-40 is that it can wind up being overtly unfair, which can kill your company.