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I just finished up a simple Hacker News extension for Google Chrome. It allows you to view the front-page stories as well as submit your current tab. Let me know what you think and I'd like to hear your ideas for future updates.

The source code can be found here: http://github.com/adamalbrecht/hacker-news-for-chrome
You got it backwards. You use your left hand for that and reserve the generally-more-dexterous right hand for everything else. That's why, for example, you shake hands with your right hand, and why in those parts of the world, doing pretty much anything with your left hand is still a grave offense.
Build more stuff, Marketing, Back office support. Poking around with what you could do with email would be constructive. They nailed down email to blogs going so how about the other way around. For example, I'm starting to get a lot of magazines sent to me by email and I want them somewhere else so how about picking them up from email and placed to a magazine folder on the desktop automatically. Click on the magazine folder object sends you to the article.
Yeah, Lua and Erlang in particular seem better suited to this role. Erlang's whole model is fundamentally event-driven, and Lua is remarkably similar to Javascript, only without the design errors made permanent, and with a better JIT compiler.

Javascript's already closely tied to the web, though, and it gets plenty of word-of-mouth since web developers already know it. That will probably beat any technical advantage.
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Switching the engine off (if you can do it fast enough) should slow you down faster though. If you stay in gear with no ignition, the engine drag will brake you a bit.
They lost me when I noticed they were mucking around with chart axes to make effects look more significant than they are (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065203), surely the oldest trick in the book. Besides that, the posts can only count as pseudo-scientific in the absence of the data being available for review. But such criticisms do kind of miss the point, which is that this has been very effective marketing.
Short of a weird issue with is first company. Check this out:

>And ValueClick in Westlake Village, Calif., which offers performance-based online advertising services, acquired Click Agents.com in Fremont, Calif., which offers those same services. As part of the deal, Click Agents shareholders will receive 5.3 million shares of ValueClick stock, valued at an estimated $20 million to $24 million.

>Click Agents, which has 31 employees and revenue estimated at $14 million, will initially operate as an autonomous unit of ValueClick. Gurbaksh Chahal, 26, chairman, chief executive and president at Click Agents, continues as president.

(Source: search nytimes for ClickAgents its November 8, 2000 (the url is obnoxious)).

(26 in 2000? Weird)

He likes to say $40 million since that was the value of the shares when the deal was announced. Sort of silly but that is true. However he asserts that he got some amount in between. He could of but not if he didn't own all of the shares (he could of but that would be weird since he was talking about sweat equity) or if he sold between 2001 and early 2003.

Interestingly, if he had just held those shares until May 25, 2007 he (or the shareholders collectively) would have had $173.2 million.

This didn't come up in the interview but this comes out about BlueLithium on nytimes:

>It is backed by venture capital firms including WaldenVC and 3i.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/yahoo-buys-blue...

Given that the VCs had a portion of this venture as well as the people from Belarus that got $15 million its seems likely that G could have gotten more money by selling ValueClick's stock after holding it then doing any work in that period of time.
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Excellent idea. Would love that feature for the tons of email magazines I subscribe to.
It's not about that, it's about figuring out who you are before you sign up.
I don't think it's quite that simple.

I read a piece once called something like "A woman's place is in the city" which talked about how suburban sprawl is very much a bi-product of the traditional nuclear family with man as breadwinner, woman as homemaker, and 2.5 kids to raise. It only really works well for that social set up. If mom is not primarily a homemaker (with maybe a part-time job) who can shuttle the kids around, suburban sprawl is very isolating for kids -- or anyone else who doesn't drive/can't afford their own car (the poor, the elderly who can't safely drive anymore, etc). American demographics have changed and most "family units" no longer fit the nuclear family model. So suburban sprawl serves a great many Americans quite poorly, regardless of their opinions of cars or lawns.

MZ: wannabe urban-planner who got sidetracked along the way.
I've heard it told the other way around. That Larry had worked on Teamware at Sun and he showed Linus how distributed SCM worked. Linus said "if you build that, I will use it" and Larry built it.
I have to completely disagree with IE 6 being the model for future browser upgrade timelines. That's a very limited data sample and the willingness to upgrade your browser is going to be significantly faster as time goes on.

IE6 continues to be a pain for sure, but the mindset behind this is changing as the web and it's users evolve.
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Thanks, that's helpful. J and K do some sort of cache-friendly dataflow analysis (not just lazy evaluation), yes?

I've seen that draft J interpreter before - It crashes immediately now, but I spent most of a Saturday morning with GDB picking it apart. That convinced me there's deep ideas there, not just a brainfuck-ish obfuscated thing.
I voted for http://www.webservius.com. I'm not sure if they participate on HN, but I thinks it's a useful service.
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Looks like they participated just long enough to get it reviewed once: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050706

That isn't exactly what I had in mind by "participate" but I'll go ahead and add it anyway.
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Obviously I have no data other than anecdotal evidence to support this claim, however, I would conjecture that the personality traits that lend themselves to acquiring wealth quickly at a young age, may also engender development of bullish personal decorum.
"Old" or "New" -Urbanism has never been about absolute property rights. City dwellers have, for generations, traded the conveniences of density over pure private property rights.

How would you feel about your next-door neighbor turning their home into a slaughterhouse or paper mill or adult bookstore?
I think people should also stress out less about unfinished projects. Lots of failures and to-be-continued's (successes a plus too, obviously) is a sign that someone has lots of projects. More power to you if you can get closure on the projects that stagnated, but the merit is debatable if this effort takes time away from pursuing more promising ones.
There are quite a few competitors in this affiliate-charity donating space. I launched mine: shopwisely.org almost two years ago. I don't really maintain it anymore so all luck to browsarity and hopefully they turn out more successful than my venture.
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Settle down. I got the mean incomes from the table on pages 29-34, which a CTRL-F would've shown you. I chose the mean incomes because we were discussing how far off you'd be if you guessed a random person's income. Mean incomes would be the most accurate in that case. Median incomes are a perfectly fine metric as well.

The "set of classes" means nothing. If you're trying to predict someone's behavior, distinguishing someone who makes $59,999 from someone who makes $60,000 makes no sense. If it helps, pretend I said "socioeconomic status" every time I said "class". They're interchangeable to me, though the latter indeed implies discrete groups.

With that said, if you think living on $55,530 is anything like living on $34,218, you're just wrong. How can multiplying one's income by 1.6 not have a massive effect on their life?

That's ignoring the decreasing marginal utility of a dollar as incomes rise. The poverty threshold for a family of four is $22,025. Black households have a "surplus" income of $12,193. White households have a surplus income of $33,505. The average white family will find itself in a situation where theft is attractive far less often than the average black family.

"Not substantial"? Consider my mind boggled.
I really don't see the reason for them to acuire Opera. They should calm their egos and just use Webkit like Google and Apple do instead of wasting innumerable resources on new layout and rendering engine for IE8/IE9.
There is a list of ideas here: http://yuilibrary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=2915&#...
Yes, another pretty concept video, now what?
I can't help being cynical. I mean, since when has MS actually delivered on their promises?
Putting into neutral isn't a necessity, any downshift in gears will increase the torque of the engine and thus decrease the maximum velocity. Even if you can't get it into neutral, getting it into 1st or 2nd will still get you slowed down to a more manageable speed.

The major failure of all automobile manufacturers is that they haven't implemented a fail safe mechanism in the event of engine failure at velocity. If they had it would literally be as simple as turning the engine off and the brakes deploying at a reasonable (IE not maximum) pressure.

The fact of the matter is that every vehicle except consumer automobiles fail safe from aeroplanes to tractor trailers (power failure leads to de-pressurizing of the air compressor and the brakes apply harder as the air level decreases). Toyota shouldn't be being hauled up, they all should be for risking civilian lives. IMO you accept certain risks when you pilot an aircraft, train, or transportation vehicle, however these are all typically far safer than the vehicles readily handed to consumers. That just is not right.
How do you market B2B products? I know enough to write good software but I have no clue how to hire sales people, etc.
So what's to stop someone from selling this on the app store? Wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of the buyout?
Exactly what I was wondering.

My guesses are

- people posting agitating messages online

- unlicensed posters on people's walls

- posters or banners hung out of people's windows

Whatever it is, I'm sure one would not want the police to enter the house and perform a removal.
Windows 3.1 was the last time I can remember. Or maybe when Office originally came out?
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The point, though, is that a network connection is required to get the initial files and data to use for offline work. If you don't have that capability to do the initial load, you still can't demo an offline web app.
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Which is about 1/10th of what your post is implying. You might want to read something deeper than a wikipedia summary.
Something that's different, at least from POE, EventMachine, Twisted is that it is attempting non-blocking purity. You can snub your nose at this but it turns out to be very important. It ends up abstracting away a problem in a way that EventMachine or Twisted will never be able to do simply because of the existence of massive amounts of blocking Ruby and Python libraries. The programmer simply doesn't have to know what non-blocking I/O is - they don't have to know that if they do "node script.js < hugefile" - that STDIN_FILENO cannot be selected on.

Erlang is different. Node presents a different programming model than Erlang - Node handles thousands of connections per process - and keeps itself close to the metal. Erlang is it's own operating system handling one connection per processes but allowing very many processes. Is Node's model better? Well at the moment it's incomparable since Erlang is very much a solid, production ready system and Node is not more than some dude's hack. But supposing that Node becomes stable and usable at some point, a major advantage of the Node model is that for the first 10,000-1,000,000 concurrent connections the programmer doesn't have to know anything about concurrency - a single process will just handle it. There is no forking or IPC - it's just synchronous events and callbacks. In Erlang you have to think about about IPC on the first connection. The Erlang-model might turn out to be the wrong level of process granularity. Maybe the right level of process granularity is how computers are already designed: 10,000-1,000,000 connections per process, use one per core.

I also wish for less hype around the Node project but I think you're short changing it by saying it's same thing as Twisted but in Javascript instead of Python. The main selling point is not that you can run the same code on browser and server. The main selling point is that you don't have to know what you're doing, at least for the first 10,000 concurrent connections.
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1. Socio-econonic classes are artificial constructs - so what? The point is that race is demonstrably unable to map the set of 'people' to the set of 'classes.'

2. If you are not able to accurately quote the figures from the pdf I linked to prior, then what is the likelyhood you even read it?

The ACTUAL median incomes can be found on pages 6-7:

Asian: $65,637

White, non-Hispanic: $55,530

Average: $50,000

Black: $34,218

The differences fall in the interval known as middle-class as I said before - so for the purposes of this discussion, they are not substantial.
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The only drugs that are "bad" are the ones the government isn't getting a cut from. Alcohol was illegal once. Look at it now. I guess my argument works best with marijuana. I mean you get angry drunks. When was the last time you found an angry stoner? (not gonna lie I kinda took that from Robin Williams, but he was right)

If you were able to control marijuana the same way you control the pricing and distribution of alcohol i think you'd eliminate a lot of problems. Petty dealers at least.
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That's true.

What bugs me is that people don't keep things in perspective. I see people all the time claim they want to go back to the way cars were (more mechanically simple, or whatever). What they seem to forget is that cars broke down a hell of a lot more often back then.

In fact, they broke down so often that it wasn't such a big deal. Now we expect them to work flawlessly and when something goes wrong it somehow seems worse.
You don't get to be a millionaire by throwing your money away on frivolous things like clothing for your upper body.
> I just found Hacker News yesterday, this site is amazing.

Say goodbye to your free time and productivity.
They also love "counter-intuitive" stories, so it's easier to sell a story about how a company that seemed to be doing really well is doing something bad instead of a bad thing happening to a mediocre company that nobody likes much anyway.
I'm pretty sure I can still hate the players.
Your idea seems pretty cool. I follow engadget.com as well and on a related note, they offer an "apple-free" version of the site which can be changed to exclude whatever you want through the url. So perhaps thats an idea?

Here's engadgets article on their apple-free version:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/30/do-you-hate-apple-news/
Yes, and I don't think anyone is hiding this. New Urbanism exists to turn areas which previously were only sparsely dense into much more populace areas. If you want your private property, you'll now have to move farther away from the current "big" cities to a smaller town or into an area where they still sell hundreds of acres of land for the price of a new york loft.
"So a lot of the security guards, helpers and people on the street have $100K salaries."

Wow. If they didn't have an appreciation for what sort of work that is, I hope they do now.
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Just like you can't demo an iPhone app without having an internet connection to download it first! However, the iPhone, Windows CE, and Chrome OS ship with a number of apps preinstalled. :)
i'm surprised by the level of hate exhibited in these comments...sure the guy has lots of pics with no shirt & maybe he comes across as narcissistic & arrogant, but he's also a high school drop-out & the son of poor immigrants who ended up coming to our country and creating an immense amount of wealth for himself plus jobs for others...
how many of us can say we've done even 10% of that? i know i can't (at least not yet)
Is it? I saw a couple of comments that rightfully pointed out some minor things the analysis ignored like git's reflog and denyNonFastforwards, but it seems reasonable to me beyond that. What other issues are there with the report?
I whole-heartedly disagree. Starting things is my litmus-test for deciding if I'm going to take them further.

Examples:

• My usual way to pick a next book to read is to start reading 5. Whichever one pulls me in the most wins.

• When sorting though startup ideas many of them were for things I'd prototyped / researched in the past, including the one that became Directed Edge.

Unfinished projects leave positive pressure for me to go back and do things at some point in my life. Starting in on something is the best way to learn its dimensions. There's this pleasant queue of things that I'd like to finish up in life at some point before kicking the bucket, and I suspect it will only continue to get longer.

I'm not saying, "don't be a finisher" – but the important thing seems to finishing many projects, not all of them.
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I didn't realize the Mixergy guy is the same guy who called himself "G" on the reality show, Secret Millionaire.

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Based on your response, you do not even understand the terms I've been using.

'Set of classes,' means everything per this discussion - as the discussion has been premised on the statement you made (that skin color is an indicator of class).

So when you say things like...:

"If you're trying to predict someone's behavior, distinguishing someone who makes $59,999 from someone who makes $60,000 makes no sense."

..You suggest that you either do not understand my argument, or, you do not understand what has been meant by the word "class" in this discussion.

So I'll say it again; Classes are defined by an interval on the set of natural numbers. This isn't a discussion about guessing incomes with any greater precision than those provided to us by said classes.

The data provided to us by the census bureau document is the average. Note that the "households" in the census include BOTH family and non-family households.

So, when you say things like...:

"The poverty threshold for a family of four is $22,025. Black households have a "surplus" income of $12,193. White households have a surplus income of $33,505."

...You hint that you didn't quite understand that the average provided was calculated including single-households as well as non-single households with kids. So your whole reply is a bit of a straw-man...

...But it isn't even really a good one. We are talking about race as a predictor so let us control for income and work backwards. Imagine two families, one black, the other white, both living with an income of $34,218, both with four children. Is it then your contention that the Black family is still more likely to produce a thief?

If so, I do consider your mind boggled.
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If you edit your application now it gets transformed into a late application, so I would not recommend it. I suppose I should add some kind of warning in case people try that.

Edit: Don't worry if you submitted your application a little after the deadline. We don't switch over precisely at 10pm. Unless it actually said "Late" at the top of the application page, it wasn't treated as late.
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I think you've missed the point, It's not meant to be a netmeeting, or connect pro :-) In fact, it's not supposed to be a tool that you pre-prepare necessarily. As the article says, it's a tool that you can use impromptu: in an "oh ok, look at this.. click" kind of way.
oops! I innocently edited my app after the deadline (I added a posterous video). I spoke with you over email and made the deadline - please dont count this mistake against me!
Is there any way to know if our applications were successfully submitted / received?
You did read the article, didn't you? ;-)
Yep, that's coming very soon!
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I think his story highlights the importance of picking your markets, or being in the right place at the right time.
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But, the question wasn't "would you want your mom to use it." It was "would you use it?" I definitely understand the desire to keep things simple on a system you have to support but don't get to use.
We're working on a text tool right now.

As for integration with webcams and such - being able to use Eye with your current tools is fundamental to the idea. We didn't want to reinvent the wheel and provide everything in 1 box.

You should be able to pick it up half way through a telephone conversation for e.g. and explain something with it.

If you need a webcam while you talk, you need a video conference, and there are plenty of tools already out there for that :-)
But why would you assume that?
I am not qualified to write much and what I can write would delve more details about our super nascent business than I'd want to. That's probably lesson number one: when you get sales right, you don't talk a whole lot about it with people:) I am very open in general, but when it comes to sales, I think it is a lot of very domain specific knowledge(getting over customer objections) that make or break your sales.

On hiring, we are only now beginning to hire direct sales people. First, I find people from my industry. Then, this is how I quickly filter them: what was your quota, did you meet them? I let the numbers talk. I have no idea how this will work. We'll know more over next few months. My cofounder-on-trial comes from a sales background where he did 60K in sales over a year as an intern.

One major suggestion I would give you is to take a sales class at the best uni around you. I took it around the time I was negotiating my first reseller contract. My professor really helped me in negotiating the deal all the way to close. But most importantly, I learned really different ways sales can be structured that we tech folks would never imagine.

Good luck!
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