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That experience would be enough to get me to give up all technology for 90 days. And in those 90 days, I could get a life.

http://news.yahoo.com/90-days-without-cell-phone-email-socia...

Here's a brief overview comparison of DynamoDB vs. BigTable:

http://vschart.com/compare/dynamo-db/vs/bigtable

The site is also able to compare many other different databases.

Here's a brief overview of DynamoDB vs. BigTable:

http://vschart.com/compare/dynamo-db/vs/bigtable

A better article on this story includes this quotation: "Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients." To prevent a jillion people from dying while awaiting treatment, maybe someone could bankroll a $100K "Bring a Product to Market in Less Than 25 Years" science competition.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/05/calif-teen-ta...

FTA: "Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients." To prevent a jillion people from dying while awaiting treatment, maybe someone could bankroll a "Bring a Product to Market in Less Than 25 Years" science competition.

Well, I guess this is the sort of thing you can expect from a CEO who ends each workday with: "Good night, Westley. Good work. I'll most likely fire you in the morning."

The code appears to be open source. You can checkout the code using git as described here:

http://code.google.com/p/openclass/source/checkout

At such a huge company, can one man really turn things around? Sure. When it's the right man. They just need a leader like Steve Jobs.

This should have a (1986) tacked onto the end of the headline. Hard to believe it made its way onto the front page of HN. I guess if you've never seen it, it's new to you. There must be more Internet newbies on HN than one would imagine.

Tried signing in to the "Sample Store" on the site using Gmail, but the attempt merely resulted in a blank popup window on Firefox 6. It's a shame because it looked quite promising until then.

The first one's free, kid.

> Can you imagine trusting your billion dollar company to... > some upstart pitching support for OpenOffice (okay maybe eventually)?

Perhaps Microsoft could hasten that day by increasing their prices for office licenses by, say, five-fold. OpenOffice is looking better and better every day.

> you can download e-mails in CSV

I tried doing that in your example demo, and got an error message of: ERR1.

I'm just trying to be helpful here. Your service has a lot of potential. I'm sure you guys will do great!

Large scale conventional farming is akin to mining. I guess it's always the little guy who gets enlightened first. There are a lot of small farms practicing sustainable agriculture. It feels like it's taking way too long to persuade conventional farmers to clean up their act (and to persuade consumers to make better food choices), but the number of acres involved in sustainable farming has grown quite a bit in the past decade. Human nature being what it is, I don't know if we'll ever get the majority of people to behave responsibly over the long-term. But, the current trends do look promising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_agriculture

Wanting to make a billion dollars leads to this sort of silliness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw

I ran into the same problem in Chrome. It seems like a font issue relating to the OrbitronMed font. I wonder if lots of computers have a messed up version of that font, or if something else is going on.

Would love to know what your idea was. Care to elaborate?

FYI... The provided code runs fine in Firefox and Chrome. However, in Safari 5.0.3, it displays: "Error while retrieving position. Error code: 2 Message:".

I'm guessing that "missing some kind of social proof" really means that Pluggio's "View Testimonial Source" links are broken. Your post (and web service) is definitely the sort of thing that HN needs. I'm sure you'll have great success with Pluggio.

And, speaking of "too good to be true", the sudden availability of the "rewardlevel.com" domain name a month ago was definitely too good to be true. It only became available for you to purchase because spammers got tired of spamming people with it. It's always a crying shame to see someone create a cool new web site on a blacklisted domain name.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/rewardlevel.com http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/rewardlevel.com/msgpage

It pays to check SiteAdvisor and MyWOT before you purchase a domain name. Better safe than sorry.

The YouTube of 2010 is very different from the YouTube that Google acquired in 2006. It's nice that Google and Microsoft share revenue with the little guy. However, the evolution of YouTube over the years at the expense of the little guy is quite similar to Microsoft's treatment of Indie X-Box developers. You don't have to do a lot of searching on YouTube to find videos where small time video producers bitterly complain about how the gradual evolution of YouTube over the years has caused the little guy to suffer the death of a thousand cuts when it comes to YouTube's video discovery mechanism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V025E_b5I4g

It's easy to view Microsoft as an evil corporation that is trying to keep the little guy down, but this story is remarkably similar to how Google has treated the little guy on YouTube. Google and Microsoft may have more in common than folks here would like to admit.

I'd never pay for it, either. Since you're one of the biggest stars on HN, it might annoy you that some editors are choosing the stars for this monthly publication. But, that's the "killer feature" of the "old media" approach. Curated content has some big benefits. It saves people from the hassle of wading through a lot of marginal posts. It also helps me when I wind up occasionally missing some gems. It just about kills me to disagree with you publicly, since I so often find myself up-voting your comments on this site.

Definitely the worst article to ever hit the #1 spot on HN. It looks like yesterday's WSJ editorial must have hit a raw nerve with a lot of HNers, and this makes them feel better. I'm okay with quality HN articles about politics. It's just a shame that the top spot on HN is being reduced to this sort of cheap partisan bickering. I hope HN does not become yet another MotherJones/MSNBC or WSJ/FoxNews.

When it comes to advice: Wise men don't need it, and fools won't heed it. And those who want it the most, like it the least. There's plenty of fish in the sea. Life's too short to waste it with people who can't/won't return your affections. Of course, if masochism is your thing, by all means go ahead and reopen that old wound, and bring on the pain.

You should take a look at the Yii framework.

http://www.yiiframework.com/

I've been a customer of theirs for most of the last ten years. They used to be quite good. However, my recent experiences with them have convinced me that I will need to find a new provider when my certificates expire. With Thawte, you'll pay a premium price and receive poor customer service.

Recent technologies have allowed us to do almost everything using a screen. Unfortunately, all that extra screen time often takes a heavy toll in ways people are loathe to admit.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10446874-71.html http://www.healthfinder.gov/News/newsstory.aspx?docid=636475

Only the first slide was visible when viewed in Firefox 3.6.3 and Chrome 4.1... It's Hard to believe that something so unviewable made it to the front page of HN.

Today must be April 1st. 25 dollars a month seems a wee bit overpriced. I wonder if YouTube could get away with charging that much for the millions of videos that they offer. In any case, at $25 per month, I would love to learn what percentage of free users convert to paying customers. With 1% being a typical conversion rate for Freemium, I'd be surprised if they even got one tenth of one percent to convert.