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No, Martha Stewart went to jail for obstruction of justice because she lied to the investigators about someone giving her a stock tip. She likely would have been fine if she had just told the truth (or had just refused to talk).

I think people were speculating this on HN with this article: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...

For a lot of stuff, the idea of pre-negotiating price between patient and provider sounds great. I'm not sure how emergency care can work well though without some third party to help set fair pricing.

You get taken to a hospital out of your control, and they're allowed to decide what services to provide and as well as the price they're going to charge you. After the fact your only leverage to negotiate the bill down is declaring bankruptcy.

No, just comments about wasting 1K on alcohol in a single night.

My sense is Marco is looking at the money in terms of: "how much yearly income can my money generate, and what kind of lifestyle would that be?" (kind of like thinking about a retirement account). In that sense $10M in savings is not enough to start buying yachts and helicopters assuming he doesn't want to blow all the money at once like a stereotypical lottery winner.

More importantly, he makes it clear he'll never have any money worries if he's careful. That implies a decent amount of money, and I think that's what most people on Hacker News really wish they had.

Good for them, but I wish I hadn't wasted time clicking on their self-promotion.

But the point is they're becoming less of a commodity. They're moving up the value food chain to both manufacture and sell their servers under their own brand. Presumably their margins are better now then before.

The funny thing is he would have been much richer if he got fired much sooner. That would have given him an excuse to sell his stake before it tanked. Being the CEO meant he couldn't dump his stock.

At the end of the day, Rails is just as complex as any other stack if you try to understand it completely.

The difference is that Rails makes it easy to get started without understanding everything. In my experience over the last 6 months, I was able to make useful stuff before I fully understood everything. I've continued to learn as I needed and it's been fine.

Personally, my preference for aspect ratio varies by screen size and how I'll likely divide it up.

On a small laptop screen like a Chromebook, I agree with the author that a wide aspect ratio can be annoying because a maximized window often feels to short.

On a large monitor (ie 27+ inches) though, I think wide aspect ratio is good because a common use case is multiple side by side windows, and it's also a good fit for full screen video.

From the article, it sounds like this gaming the system is more common for niche areas like advice and less so with the main fiction list.

Besides niches being easier to manipulate, the economics are different. An advice author is often trying to use a book as a self-promotional tool (eg Tim Ferris and Tony Hsieh) so they can afford to spend more money, but a literary writer is actually trying to make money from selling books. That's not to say there's not value in paying to get to the top of fiction for better visibility or that it also doesn't happen.

This doesn't really mean anything if the temp is much warmer now.

The cost of New Relic on Heroku looks really high because each dyno is billed like a full server, which makes it many times more expensive than if you were to manage your own large EC2 servers and just have multiple rails workers.

New Relic could be much more appealing if they had a pricing model that was based on usage instead of number of machines.

One thing to note about the buildings in the article, is that they're all in fancy areas for shopping and tourists but not really places that long time residents want to live.

I would be more interested in knowing the stats for luxury housing across the whole city.

The thing about product reviews in mainstream publications like the NYTimes, is that their goal isn't just to tell you how good the product is. Most of the readers aren't actually on the market for a Tesla, they just want to be entertained and feel like they learned something new. To reach these casual readers, the reviews really need to be narrative stories. "Range anxiety" makes for a very good narrative because it adds a layer of suspense (ie "will he make it?"), so it makes sense that the reviewer would have a motive for faking the review even if his goal isn't to hurt Tesla.

That being said I have no idea if the allegations are true and am eagerly awaiting Tesla's full blog post with evidence.

Is this list accurate? I don't see Bloomberg (the person). According to Wikipedia, he's worth 25B, so I would expect to see him.

Jobs' "thermonuclear war" comment left open the possibility that Apple and Google might be acting in a more hot headed fashion than the average company.

It seems like cheating/fraud to me. Dropbox provides a service that usually costs money. They're also offering to provide service for recruiting new users instead of charging money.

If you fake users, you're getting the service without fulfilling your side of the bargain (paying money or recruiting users). That seems like fraud to me.

That being said, I'm sure Dropbox expected some of this behavior and is still happy with the legitimate signups and overall press they're getting.