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We had a 30-day free trial for our app as well. We had basically zero conversions from trial to paid. Once we changed it to a 30-day money back guarantee, we started getting subscribers. Only about 20…

Hiring someone as an employee has a large administrative cost, as does firing. Whereas contracting a project has very little overhead. Additionally, firing someone is hard from an emotional perspectiv…

The irony of this all is that github isn't using attr_accessible at all in their application, but rather their own custom solution: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3664999 …

I don't use the watch or follow feature of github, as it seemed kind of pointless to me. The main strength of github is collaboration, not discovery. If it were up to me, I'd remove the more SNS like …

It's fine to show off what you play around with in your spare time, but the very best and most productive workers actually won't have an extensive up-to-date Github repo. This is because they're been…

Your API is pretty strange. Some initial things that pop out on me: json=true to specify the content type. Ideally, this should be from the accept header, but at the very least it should be possible t…

Thanks for the praise Jason! We've started this service in Japan, but have always had the international market in mind. If you're an organizer who holds regular events, we'd love to help you out. See …

PayPal has a micropayments option of 5% + $0.05, which would work out to be cheaper in this case (the video was $5). https://micropayments.paypal-labs.com/ …

You are trading the rights of innovators for that of content holders. SoundCloud is my favorite audio startup - one that is helping independent artists. But under this legislation, companies like them…

This is very similar to the idea Charles Stross presents in his 2005 novel Accelerando which in turn used the idea of a Matrioshka Brain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain ).…

Eric Ries claims to have had "shocking" results when having recruiters remove all demographics from resumes. His suggestion for YC: I suggest the following experiment: for your next batch of admissio…

The future is already here: http://www.onlyinjapan.org/2010/10/20/fuamen-the-new-japanes... …

I don't see cost as being a counterargument for a SaaS. I paid about $20 for my certificate, took an hour or so to jump through the signing hoops, serving assets through cloudfront which charges me pe…

What is it that I can buy? I can guess, but you're giving me no clues.

This offer applies to all HTC Androids (not all Android devices).

Steve made that mistake. If I'm using Google+, I could accidentally select the wrong circle to share to.

This oversharing problem highlights the fundamental problem with private sharing Google+ was supposed to address: users make mistakes.

If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Silicon Valley has a larger concentration of startups per capita,…

But there is another thing, maybe Japanese see programming as Engineering. A respected craft, but you don't reuse much of electrical engineering output between projects, neither expect youe engineers…

So if you start a project and send email to a bunch of folks and ask them to just jump in and contribute, which group do you think will get going more quickly? This article is predicated on the prem…

This service isn't even launched yet. Submitting it to HN a bit premature.

Cooperation and equality don't necessarily go hand in hand. For instance, with your example of pack animals, often such group has a hierarchy, with an alpha at the top. Even though such animals may co…