mikerhoads

This was on the front page of HN a couple weeks ago and can answer better than me: http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719

I worked for him for the first 2.5 years of Mahalo. I got hired right after dropping out of college. During my time there I was promoted twice, got to spend 3 months paid to live over seas and went to a party at the playboy mansion.

Say what you will about him or his style but my experience was was a net positive and if you turn the clock back and I'd do it again.

Google Appengine has a lot of limitations and is still sees frequent downtime. GAE is simply not a viable solution for a site with Reddit's traffic at this time.

How about nowish?

>>You are suggesting that officially sanctioned NYC cab drivers should be allowed to not give rides to people based on race and destination

My argument is that a private company should be able to offer whatever service they want. If the city of New York wants to offer a complete service then they should add a taxi service as part of the MTA. Also, I don't think I mentioned race. Destination discrimination is mainly about minimizing risk and avoiding areas dense with blue dots on this map http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map

>>What is the point of a subjectively offered city service with no viable alternative?

This is not a city service. It's a private service in the city that well established companies have lobbied nyc government to increase the barrier of entry for. Subways and busses are city services, they are the ones that should have universal service routes.

>> If there was a law that made my industry so inefficient it harmed me and my customers so much and benefited my boss to an outrageous extent then I would show my disapproval by changing industries (either permanently or temporarily via a strike). That is how changes to the status quo are made in a market. Reducing demand so suppliers have to change their offer.

No, going on strike would decrease supply NOT demand. Also, do you really think cab drivers have an alternate industry to flock to?

Your last sentence confuses me. The way to change them is to first debate their merits and pitfalls. Your entire case seems to be "The law is the way that it is and thats final, anyone who doesn't like it just shouldn't be a cab driver". My argument is that "this system is inefficient and does more harm for the majority of consumers and cab drivers while benefitting the larger cab companies that can work their way towards a monopoly or oligopoly easily so we should act, as consumers, to reform it (or at the very least jeer it)".

If there is a similar law in your industry you'd just give up? Your argument of knowing the risk beforehand is irrelevant. I'm not a cab driver nor do I want to be, I'm just pointing out that this system is ill conceived and as most of us our entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs or just problem solvers in general I am surprised that this sort of scheme of creating an artificially high barrier of entry, price fixing and regulation has received such a positive response.

Of course they can make rules, but the rules they did make have simultaneously driven up cab fare and made the jobs much worse for the drivers/operators.

What I am saying is that these rules are not well thought out rules.

I'm questioning the existence of the law not the judgment of the taxi drivers. I'm also questioning why hackers would report people under this law in the transportation industry when an analogous law in their own industry would be rebelled against and circumvented almost immediately.

That is not an equal comparison. Your boss either owns the company you work for or was hired by the person/group that owns the company to tell you what to do. New York City does not own the taxi cab/service.

A better example would be your local government creating a system that requires you to pay $100,000+ for a medallion just for the right to create code in your city and then forcing you to accommodate any potential client's request for software.

God forbid a service provider be able to decide for themselves what services they actually want to sell.

Most of my domains are with Moniker, they are king as far as security goes. I'm also satisfied with Dream Host as a registrar, they have free privacy and it is super easy to transfer away from.

Hover.com is a new one that I've been hearing good things about and they are probably worth investigating.

I really don't understand the appeal of the Air. Macbook Pros are only slightly more expensive and will see a refresh soon. As a grown adult male, the extra 2 lbs of weight does not bother me.

Option 1 would result in a lot of reposts getting back to the front page and option 2 would be bothersome or redundant for users that frequent the new submissions page.

I don't know how the current algorithm works but there has to be some exchange rate between independent submissions over a relatively short period of time (multiple days) to upvotes over a shorter period of time (multiple hours). I assume this is already part of the process and that your specific example falls outside of what the algorithm considers to be significant.

EDIT: Clarification

Interesting. I dug down into one of the actual officers close to the last page. In 2008 he made a total of $156,703.56 and it breaks down like this - Base pay: $75,782.22, Overtime: $2,572.98, Other:$78,348.3

Does anyone have an idea what they mean by "other"?

http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/salary-details/?firstname=Gra...

I work for the NFL and we license our data directly here: https://www.nfl.info/NFLConsProd/Welcome/index.html

I don't really know the exact pricing structure but I don't imagine it is cheap.

This is a cool app. How much time have you put into it?

Would HN be better or worse if it were just a category on Digg?

The specialized domain/community allows users to get into much more detailed discussions about their topics and it helps filter out contributors with just a passing interest. This increases the reliability of the information shared and the quality of the discussions.

Disclaimer: I used to work for mahalo.

You mentioned these sites having no unique or original content but after a few quick searches on questions on the star wars answers sites it was pretty clear that all the ugc is original. True there is not much of it, but thats because the sites are only a few months old at the most.

You've proven that the category structure across the sites is similar and that new sites often don't have much content but Google already knows not to grant page rank power to new undeveloped sites. The backlinks from these domains will only carry weight if users engage it and significant content is built...and if that happens then your entire argument goes away.

If there are actual users building niche content, I don't really see the problem here. If you don't agree with that then you're making the case against all niche forums and communities just because you don't like the guy.

I'm sure I understand why the stop light/intersections need to be there at all. Why can't the orange road pass over the red road on one side and then pass under on the other side of the underpass?

Disclaimer: I worked for Mahalo last year.

You guys are over estimating the value of the domain names. They is a reason they were able to mass register these domains for just the base registration fee and not have to haggle with any private owners for a transfer. ____ answers is not a popular search query. I doubt any of domains are queries that generate more tha 500 searches a month. These domains have no value unless niche communities form around them and long tail content is generated as a result.

I'm at work right now so I can't get in and play around too much but I'm wondering why your front page makes zero effort to explain what the site actually does. Sure most HN users would see the record logo and see the word mix in the site name and put 2 and 2 together but you have to assume less of the average person. Just a sentence describing the product would do wonders.

If you extend alexa timeline to the max, you see a large spike at the end of 08 that drops dramatically in January of 09 and it's relatively flat from mid 09 to now.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com%2F%3F...