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rshlo··on Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
Many comments here assume that going to law school == becoming a lawyer. This is not always true. Many go to law school since it a degree that you can use in many other business fields even without practicing law.
rshlo··on A US Visa in 937 Days
This is very strange. In Israel all citizens are required to issue a tourist visa before traveling to the US. The process is super quick. The embassy have a website that updates you on each step in the process and from applying until you get the actual visa it can take only 3 weeks. The only busy times are usually in summer months where many tourists want to issue visas, so waiting for the in person interview can be up to a month. But again, from the interview to getting the actual the visa is a matter of days.
rshlo··on Stop Blaming America’s Poor for Their Poverty
Is sorry for your story and hope you can get well soon.

In Israel we have a complete social coverage system and while not perfect at times, still provides much necessary help for those in need. Everytime I hear those stories about the US and medical system, I find it so hard to believe that a country with so much wealth and talent, still hadn't solved it.

rshlo··on AT&T raises most customers' fees by $1.23, adding $800M revenue
In Israel you can get unlimited minutes + text + 30GB data for $10 a month. If you want to include around 200-300 minutes to call out of the country you can get to $13 dollar. The premium packages cost $30 and include calls + data when abroad. All that on an LTE network.
rshlo··on Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
Hire for attitude, Train for skills - If you've good dedicated people that you can trust, I'm sure they can be trained for other positions. Good people are always hard to come by, and they will be even more loyal if they will see that the company doesn't ditch them.
rshlo··on How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list?
https://www.amazon.com/charts

Amazon charts are much more useful.

rshlo··on A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free Electricity
It's mentioned that the "Free" electricity is partly because of federal tax breaks. Will it still be viable option without the tax breaks?
rshlo··on Instacat – the kitten delivery service
$1B valuation in 3..2..1..
rshlo··on Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (2010)
It's quite simple: a young and single engineer will cost less and work more. An older and married (or with kids) engineer will cost more and work less.
rshlo··on Ask HN: Best examples of life style businesses?
Yes, software only, but thanks for the link.
rshlo··on Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them 50GB Of Free Storage
I wish they'll put some effort to make Linux client. Definitely a minus for me right now.
rshlo··on Microsoft Project Siena (Beta)
Looks nice. The problem with M$ is that over the years they've always offered simple tools for creating software, and then abandoning it somewhere along the way. Access is a great example.
rshlo··on Ask HN: B2B SaaS Pricing
Another option you may want to consider is to create 2 different brands. One for large customers and one for smaller ones. It could be 2 different websites but with the same backend system.

Usually large customers don't like to use the same tools as smaller ones, and smaller ones may feel your system is too "high end" if they'll see an option with a 10K pricing tag. You can create a smaller brand with only email support and charge less.

rshlo··on Ask HN: Looking for a decent pair of wireless headphones
Check out The WireCutter recommendation: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-bluetooth-headphones-u...
rshlo··on Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
I appreciate the hard work. Nevertheless, IMHO it would be better if open source projects will bring original ideas to the market, instead of copying an existing product.
rshlo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
Your request is 100% legitimate. People put a lot of time and effort into applying to jobs. Not answering for a month is just not acceptable. Even a reply that says "We're still reviewing your application" is good enough. I hear from friends this happens in companies which have the resources and people and that's just shows the real company culture, the one not mentioned in the careers pages.
rshlo··on Give HN: Interested in Free a Google Analytics crash course?
That's sounds great. Google had also just launched a short course to improve your Analytics skills: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/10/analytics-academy.html
rshlo··on Underscore Price Dynamics
Great example of this is Buffer app that makes $2MM from ~16K users and 1MM free users: http://blog.bufferapp.com/from-0-to-1000000-users-the-journe...
rshlo··on The Rise, Fall and Survival of Ashton-Tate's dBASE
It seems that a dos version is still being sold (http://dbaseclassic.com/) and the company claim for more than 7 million active users.
rshlo··on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
I think the main problem with it's leadership is that Microsoft lost it's innovative spirit. I think the main reason for that is that Ballmer is a business and marketing guy, and not a tech guy. All the giants today are led by tech people and that's effect the entire culture of all the company.
rshlo··on Ask HN: SaaS/Recurring Businesses - How did you figure out your prices?
Great post here by patio11 : http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
rshlo··on Yahoo’s Recently Acquired Task Tracking Service Astrid Will Go Dark On August 5
This is really a strange move. Yahoo have acquired a company with so many users, and now they just sending them away.
rshlo··on Latest Vision for Las Vegas - A Downtown Vibe
So great to see entrepreneurs like Hsieh help to build communities on a massive scale.
rshlo··on Ask HN: What do you use to host your blog?
WordPress, no other ecosystem with such support, themes and plugins.
rshlo··on David Karp Quit School to Get Serious About Tumblr
Again the media fall in love in the "drop out of school makes millions story". But that's not reality. only 0.0000000001% of school and college dropout will get such a huge deal. Other will just waste their life. What's sad is that somewhere a child is reading this and thinks he really got a chance to beat the odds. It's no different than pumping out lottery raffles.
rshlo··on Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30
I think he has some valuable lessons on spending less, investing more. But there are ton of good advice from non-anonymous bloggers, don't think you should take advice from someone who is not willing to identify himself.
rshlo··on The 11 Most Mystifying Things the Tsarnaev Brothers Did
The only mystifying thing they did is getting up in the morning and decide that they want to kill innocent people. They've done it in a country that gave them citizenship and great possible future. That's the only question we should ask here.
rshlo··on Ask HN: Those with intense focus, how do you do it?
Are you unable to focus at all times even when you do something you completely enjoy? Or are you unable to focus only on boring tasks? That's two different problems and solutions.
rshlo··on I hate the news
You're right. Reading the New York Times isn't about news to me, as it a tool to generate ideas. Their magazine articles or in-depth coverage of topics made me re-evaluate many times my standings on various topics.
rshlo··on Should error messages apologize?
An error message means that the user is doing something you haven't thought about. Focus your energy on what the user was trying to do and solve it. That way you will avoid the error message at all. Simple example: one of the most common error messages are misspelled mail/password in order to authenticate. Have you thought on other ways of authentication that might be more straight forward? that can eliminate the error messages altogether.
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