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Good question. It appears that they're only spending $3.8 million a year. It'd be great to see them up their program expenses to shrink that surplus.

Someone here once posted this aggregation of subreddits as an alternative:

http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade+longtext+programming+...

It's not a perfect version of 2010 HN, but with some pruning and grafting I imagine it could be close.

Paywalls aren't ideal, but they often have the better content.

Easy way to hop over the WSJ paywall: search title on Google, open link in incognito NYTimes paywall: Open link in incognito. After 10 articles, close all incognito windows and try again.

Nice to see another option, but the early termination fee of, "$2376, less $99.00 for each full month of Service completed," is brutal.

Source: http://www.gopago.com/merchant-terms-conditions/

cool! How long did it take you to build this routing?

I like that Beyond Meat is trying to offer better vegan options. The product looks interesting, but after reading the ingredients, http://beyondmeat.com/products/ , I doubt I will try it. Titanium Dioxide (what color is it normally), Dipotassium Phosphate and tons of Phytoestrogens (Soy) don't sound so tasty.

True. Ironically this will also result in criticism about how Amazon isn't employing enough humans.

If you really need info from Wikipedia, you can cache an offline version before the blackout. I like: http://offline-wiki.googlecode.com/git/app.html

that's about one for every person that's ever lived.

I'm not sure that he had to get a brand new car every six months. He could have created a new lease on the same car every six month from a leasing company. That should have been enough to satisfy the law: http://dmv.ca.gov/fee_calc/feecalcfaq.htm#plates

Planning to buy the paperback. While checking out the paperback info, I noticed that the pdf is still free on lulu.

The difference may not be as dramatic as the original example, but a 10-25% performance increase isn't too shabby.

Really creative affiliate marketing.

This part of the article blew me away:

"The Air Force is also using the Condor to process ground-based radar images of space objects, again with extraordinary clarity. Barnell shows images of a space shuttle orbiting Earth at 5 miles a second. Without Condor processing, the shuttle image is a blurry black triangle. With Condor processing, it is sharp and distinct. It’s clear that its payload doors are open."

I really had no idea that you could process radar to this clarity with off the shelf 2006 technology.

Wow, that was fast. It's like buying concert tickets.

Minimizing risk should be supreme! It's not worth chasing a few tenths of a percent or spending too much time doing something fancy. Plus doing something fancy usually costs some admin fees. E.g. An extra .1 % on 100,000 is only $100 a year.

I'd toss nearly all of it into an FDIC insured savings account (ING Direct is 1.1%) with the rest in your corp checking account.

I love padmapper. Best of the craigslist mapping sites.

When transitioning to finding furniture on cl, I was really missing the mapping option. "Padmapper" for the other categories?

I imagine Groupon will account for a big chunk of this uptick. Looks like about 500 million of the recent discolosure will end up in 2011.

Employees should meet companies halfway and learn a bit of programming on their own. Of course learning early on is better, but attempting a pass through something like http://learnpythonthehardway.org should be mandatory for any unemployed person. Shows initiative. A company's apprenticeship program could take the company the rest of the way. A bonus: there are government programs that can help with the cost of this training.

I don't think the price is too bad. It comes out to $13 per seat per month for a team of 5. Drops to $10 per each additional.

I think this is more an issue of pricing psychology. The price should be marketed as $65 a month for a team of up to 5, $10 for each additional team member.

50K may have worked in 2000, but we have 10 years of inflation since then. I think 65K is more in line with the times.

Something similar was said when Google bought Youtube. That said, the price does seem steep.

Bravo Google! The google checkout button no longer leads to a checkout page, but rather "Unfortunately, this merchant no longer accepts payments through Google. We apologize for the inconvenience."

The way to check for that is view source. In Chrome: view-source:http://news.ycombinator.com/w2011form. No JS. Does YC or HN even use JS?

He's even using Google Checkout. I'm surprised Google puts up with this.

I live down the street from this datacenter and my home experienced this same power outage. Makes me wonder how they handle power failures. My guess is that they don't.

I can see the issue with animals with brains.

However, Oysters/mussels should be separated out of this list as they don't. After watching this Ted video, http://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_... , I think high level plants may be functioning at near the same level as low functioning animals.

Thanks! This is a bit easier than hacking the DOM. Could have saved a few seconds.

I live right down the street from the datacenter (~ 0.5 miles). The whole area's power was out for a bit, but know more than an hour. My site is having errors.

I guess in a weird way the administration, through Janet Napolitano, is uniting the country.