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looks really good, definitely going to try it out in the next couple of weeks

It's called addiction. They get people addicted to the power that gems confer them. People don't care that they need no skills. They just want that high that the gems give them.

online poker, starting with $50 and slowly building up

I tried it on http://paulgraham.com/startupideas and here's what it gave me:

"How to Get Startup Ideas

[1] [2] [3] You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. Live in the future, then build what's missing. [4] [5] [6] [7] Live in the future and build what seems interesting. [8] [9] [10] 10 [11] 11 [12] 12 [13] 13 [14] 14 [15] 15 [16] 16 [17] 17"

doesn't seem to work at all...

this sounds really awesome if they can manage to stay up under heavy load. It's such a huge pain to set up and maintain the tracking of events in application code. Having everything retroactively sounds positively great.

to be fair the blogpost he wrote dates back to 2 years ago. It's the reason I bought some bitcoins then, and boy am I happy I did.

I'd be curious to see meaningful engagement numbers of Reader and G+.

It's hard to pinpoint one thing. They're just much more usable and don't make you fight against it. It just gets out of your way. That's great UX design right there. Just measure the amount of key strokes, clicks, time and overall actions needed to do one thing in Chrome and the same in Firefox. You'll be amazed.

why I am getting downvoted? because I'm not agreeing with the flock? I provided constructive feedback

totally agree with you. FF is really good at making people WOW but I'd really like to see usage numbers.

How many devs actually use Firefox's dev tools? I see all of that praise "looks awesome, looks amazing, etc" But do people really use those amazing things? I just find the Chrome dev tools orders of magnitude more usable than Firefox's. It's mostly a large amount of what you could call details but it makes all the difference. It all flows better, reduces the amount of thinking you have to do as well as the number of clicks and keypresses. I think Mozilla should start by fixing all of these little problems before jumping into huge stuff like they seem to like to do with the cli, python library etc.

Not sure if you were serious or not, but assuming you were, this type of "promotion" just doesn't fly for high-end goods such as fine wine.

This is one of the most interesting "Why my startup failed" type post I've ever read. You brought up real insights and didn't fall into the "I'm just gonna generically rehash 4 Steps to Epiphany and Lean Startup to look smart" trap. Thank you for taking the time to write it up, really excellent read.

exactly. To all the people making new readers, this is what I want. I'll gladly pay for it.

Great app! Can you say what diff library you used if any?

> Everybody has the right to leave the US

that's not true, both in terms of citizenship and geographical position

Of course when you take the worst possible scenarios it doesn't look good.

Next time you can enter your summary in tldr.io so that anyone (not only people on HN) can benefit from it. For instance: http://tldr.io/tldrs/51238c89b3a7a6ca1000002b/google-blocks

tl;dr version:

Tesla's huge ambitions are to sell electric cars to the mass market. Becoming a new car manufacturer from the ground up is unbelievably hard. They are using the classic Silicon Valley approach: start with early adopters that just want a cool new toy, then cross the chasm to mainstream customers... http://tldr.io/tldrs/51115df9de23f156580000a8/teslas-ingenio...

tl;dr version:

The largest known prime number, 2^(57,885,161)-1, was discovered on January 25th 2013. It has 17,425,170 digits. The new prime number is a member of a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes... http://tldr.io/tldrs/51111f3dde23f15658000031/48th-known-mer...

i mean i'm sold on the concept, just weirded out that it's allowed by facebook.

does facebook really allow this?

as a long-time paying user of Instapaper who recently switched to Pocket, here are my reasons:

  - a desktop mac app is available
  - I really like the 2 View options (article view and text view) as I read a lot of technical articles that include code snippets and these are rendered terribly on Instapaper
  - the iOS apps are snappier and crash way less often
  - search is baked in the apps

the fact it was free didn't enter into consideration at all

hey longzheng, cofounder of tldr.io here, petercooper just pointed me to this thread. Please send me an email: stan at tldr io

tl;dr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50e6993885d8d1617b000a23/americas-real-...

There is now enough statistical proof that lead is the prominent cause of crime. Crime rates and lead concentrations are extremely well correlated everywhere: the more lead in the environment, the more crimes will occur. Furthermore, it is scientifically proven that lead has a very negative impact on the brain, killing gray matter and impairing neuronal communication. Unfortunately, this theory hasn't been taken seriously by the government yet because it doesn't serve any political agenda.

sorry I wasn't implying any malice, just wanted to say your explanation was misleading in my opinion

quite frankly this is deceitful, a lot of Americans already use the International System daily for their work, and I would bet that a very large number of Americans have some knowledge of it. Whereas the Euro was completely new, the International units have been here for years.

You should put up real pricing plans instead of asking people what they'd like to pay. They probably have no idea and won't bother answering.

try the other book I shared then, it will probably suit you better.

Steve Klabnik's is pretty good: http://designinghypermediaapis.com/

And there is this one http://www.amazon.com/Building-Hypermedia-APIs-HTML5-Node/dp... also which is longer but more detailed. You don't need to know anything about node to understand.