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To be fair, the terms are all the way at the bottom of the page.

I'd love to see it incorporate points over time too. You've got the post age right on the page, you should be able to factor that in.

Although, perhaps 'hot' stories are just the ones towards the top of the page anyway.

I don't know if it's related to the larger trend, but I do find myself frustrated when the speaker lineup is finalized late. No doubt, there's logistical reasons for this, but for me, the quality of the talks is often very hit and miss, even when I do know who is attending. The Hacker News brand alone isn't enough to draw me and I'm not much of a mingler, so I rely on the speaker lineup to see if I'll go.

Better question: Are people who genuinely ask this (as opposed to for the topic of a blog post) the kind of person you'd want to hire?

Is it my imagination, or has the number of sign-ups dropped dramatically since introducing the £6 fee?

I don't think the amount being asked for is unreasonable, considering the speakers, the beer and pizza, and I agree with why it was introduced, but is the new system still filing up the venue in the end? Before the sign-up fee, a week before a meetup, it wouldn't be uncommon to see most/all of the 4-500 slots already filled up.

Sanderson is hilarious though. A great addition! Something to look forward to, since sometimes some of the talks can get a little... less interesting.

... in Germany.

And the share/like buttons kind of break a simple design.

I expected to see some kind of reminder to put your life (or our society) into perspective, based on the vast cosmological timeframes).

Well, it's definitely cool, but what you're saying then is use with caution, because they're bound to find out ;)

Good press for them though and a nice little gem by you. Great work!

I don't see the API documented on http://gingersoftware.com. It seems to hardcode the API key it sends to http://services.gingersoftware.com/Ginger/correct/json/Ginge...

@subosito: I take it you work for these guys? What's the rate limit? Commercial or non profit usage terms?

Presumably the duplication of the pull quotes and lack of the video comes from copy & pasting from the original web page (for whatever reason).

If you're curious (and not that it matters for his story), the author, Michael G. Santos, initially received a 45 year sentence for 'a scheme to distribute cocaine':

http://www.quora.com/Michael-Santos-4 http://about.me/michael.santos

Would be interesting to see puppy vs kitten results.

'If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It': said by IT departments everywhere responsible for the prevalence of old browsers versions in enterprise businesses.

Google Drive is down for me on Apps too.

I wish this post were written in a less sarcastic tone and more directly. It's an important topic and deserves to be less off putting than it otherwise seems at first.

Also worth a read, this piece by Steve Pavlina on Overcoming News Addiction, all the way from 2006:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/overcoming-news-add...

On the other hand, it's entirely likely that the next company will have untrained phone support and better trained chat support.

Or that the same chat support might have solved his problem right away, had he spoken to a different rep.

Support is always a huge crap shot.

I just activated it on two accounts (including one account that didn't have an Apple device attached, so I had to use an SMS device) and it worked right away.

Just played it with a Nexus 7 (wifi via tab sync) and it worked just fine. The accelerometer was a little finicky though.

I wasn't prompted for a single password. I was already logged into a Google account though.

This event has traditionally booked up fast, although the new (modest) fee has helped slow down the rate at which that happens. I wouldn't wait too long.

Indeed. I was looking at this hoping to find a way to label pie charts or even have the inner circle of the doughnut chart display the part of the chart I'm hovering over.

A great start! Definitely room to grow.

If I had the choice between giving people my money who were already thinking about this for a while, and a campaign that started the day Reader shut down, I'd give it to the people who had the foresight to anticipate this was going to happen some day.

Love the gray actually. I'm much more likely to buy it now. Thanks for listening!

Doesn't this put the pressure on companies to file even more patents on things quickly, in case someone else beats them to it?

Kudos for having iOS/Android apps available already. It may be just a small touch, but as a new Digital Ocean subscriber, I was a little irked to find out they only had an Android app done via a third party and no iOS or mobile web view equivalent.

I was struggling to find a name for the primary background color here. It's probably not gray. Creme?

I just wish it wasn't black. I get what you're trying to do with the color scheme from the site, but the black just completely overwhelms it.

If you're going to go with something without text, have the shirt be the grayish color, with the orange stripe going across the entire chest.

Handful? Citation please?

Just hit the profile page URL and get the HTTP staus code. If https://twitter.com/ksdhbfslbflsdbs returns 404, it's not available.

Not quit the same (a username might be reserved internally), but either way, nobody else can use the name.