arram

I'd agree with this. I was having problems with Quickbooks last week, so I tried some of the major online accounting services, including Xero, Outright, and Quickbooks Online. Of these, InDinero was my favorite. Though I still think they're going to have a hard time overcoming the chief advantage of Quickbooks - that my accountant knows it.

I have an immediate use for this - thanks.

Hey Jacob,

SF-HH here. We're full up, but you're welcome to crash for a few days while you're looking for a place. My email's in the profile.

Why Chinese? They're in Japan.

news.ycombinator.com spends a lot of time in my hosts file.

No, it's a fiction by James Clavel based on Tokugawa Ieyasu's life.

http://www.amazon.com/Shogun-James-Clavell/dp/0440178002/ref...

Highly recommended.

Not yet. Check back in 6 months!

Spot on. Almost anyone who sees the site has already met me or been referred by one of my customers.

That said, clearly there's a lot of work to be done on the site.

Hey PJ - that's me, the service is called ZeroCater.com Yeah, it was pretty cool to be almost mentioned in Inc.

Feel free to get in touch with me: a@zerocater.com

Thanks!

Arram

Things I'd appreciate:

#Different colors for people in chat (just assign randomly from a few distinct colors, or let people choose)

#Bold the chat from my Facebook friends

#Let me tab complete names

#have it beep when someone uses my name and make that line visually distinct.

When my chat partner disconnects, I shouldn't have to exit the window to get the big GO button again - it should either show automatically, or just start looking for another partner immediately.

Very impressive Mark - congrats!

Congrats Dan!

Nice - the location features are something I definitely wanted while messing around on Chatroulette and Omegle.

Yes:

http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc

http://arclanguage.org/

Tried the same thing around 10 using wire I wrapped around a toilet paper roll. Fortunately it just tripped the breaker.

Yea, I was excited when I first saw that movie. The main character completely failed to understand what was going on: "Would I be the one transported, or the one in the tank?" He was both, but the selection bias of being able to ask that question would make him seem very lucky.

You're talking about his quantum tubules theory of consciousness. Honestly, I think it's coming from the same emotional agenda that made Geocentrism and later Vitalism so popular. It's just the latest philosophical secret sauce.

Besides, that's just trying to explain qualia. Pretty sure no one thinks memories are quantum phenomena.

Agreed that you couldn't actually get a perfect copy (e.g. exchanging accuracy in momentum information for accuracy in position information), but it really doesn't matter. You change on a more dramatic scale when you go from a cold room to a warm room, or when you scrape your elbow, etc. Details at that scale are pretty irrelevant to you.

The exact number is a little controversial, but there's pretty universal agreement that most of your cells wear out, die, and are replaced within your life time. I didn't elaborate, because though it's useful for illustration, my point doesn't really depend on it - even if we had the same cells throughout our lives, we could swap them out one by one and still be us.

I'll break out the beer pong table.

That's pretty dramatic. Can we see some graphs?

It turns out LN2 is cheap and easy to get, but a Dewar flask costs around $400. I haven't been able to find a place to rent one.

I use FogBugz at Justin.tv. It's well made.

The quality of service issue had nothing to do with Justin.tv. The problem with streaming big events is that the connection is always saturated. In this case, the auditorium tech who was supposed to give us an independent line accidentally hooked us into the same connection as the wifi router.

I got an acceptance email, but the confirmation link says the application was rejected.

Intelligence has a lot of dimensions. It's not unreasonable to say focus is one of them.

That sounds like a paraphrase of something George Polya said.

Last I heard about two weeks ago, they were still plugging away. I'd expect something soon.

"Vulgar profiteering"