skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct quote from the post:

Selling your company only makes sense if you think they can do a better job than you can. Or when you think they’re overvaluing the prospects of your company. That’s either the talk of the meek or a con man (“let’s get these suckers to overpay for this company of questionable value…”).

Of course the trillion dollar number is ridiculous (just trying to make a point) but you can insert whatever number you want. DHH directly says you should only sell if you think the buyer can do better or if they overvalue your company.

As far as selling because you think the buyer can do better goes, does anyone actually do that? How many people are strong enough to build a company to the point where someone wants to buy it and then suddenly turn meek when the offer is on the table?

Selling your company doesn't make you a con man either. Even if someone overpays. If someone overpays, should you offer to give back the difference?

Like I said in my original comment, there is a lot of truth in what 37signals has to say, including this post, but sometimes they stretch it too far.
Interesting tidbit about the first ARM ever made (the acronym ARM stands for 'Acorn Risc Machine').

When Acorn first decided to create their own more powerful cpu than the 6502 and the 65C02 that were powering the BBC model B as well as the 'tube' co processor they simulated the whole thing on a BBC micro.

When they finally had their first silicon delivered the first batch of chips simply worked. Now, of course this CPU was orders of magnitude simpler than modern day CPUs but still, I thought it was pretty impressive.
Given Mozilla is well into metrics -

It's very possible that they've A/B tested various landing pages, and found that the persona stuff has been generating an uplift in conversions (downloads / installations / etc), which could be why it's gaining prominence. They also track usage of and satisfaction of features in-app via projects like 'Test Pilot'. So, they might be seeing a nice adoption curve.

A lot of assumptions there, but really it might boil down to how different most web users are in comparison to hacker news readers.
Public-key encryption (such as PGP) would work as well.
If you're going to pick a product based on how familiar with its implementation language you are, a whole lot more people can use Cassandra than Riak. :P

But really you shouldn't care what language your database is written in, it won't affect you at all unless it's written in something esoteric enough that there's no way for your app to interface with it. (Cassandra's native api is Thrift, which means you can use it from damn near anything.)
Be careful. Once the dog grows up and calms down it will spend large portions of time sleeping. The solution then is to get another puppy, and next thing you know you're addicted and running a kennel, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

For example, my Australian Kelpie is now about eight years old. She spends most of her day sleeping. She has to be let in or out once every few hours so she can look for kitties, and I take her for a 20 minute walk in the evenings before bed. She spends the rest of the day napping while I program, read, or play games.
I reread the post and will admit my comment doesn't directly engage the spirit of the post. His core thought is to build something for the long haul and put your love into it which is a good strategy (but not the only strategy). My comment was a bit tangential and stems from years of reading 37signals and getting a bit sick of the preachy, holier than thou attitude.
If a CA is compelled to issue a false certificate by court order, this destroys their credibility completely. If I ran a CA, I'd rather face the consequences, and let the court ask another listed CA, rather than destroy my entire business model.
I'm not convinced that the Chinese economic growth is sustainable. For the sake of all those Chinese without Urban Residency Permits I hope the growth continues, but I am not optimistic.

And yes, a sudden transition to democracy would be disastrous for China. However, a safe and slow transition could begin today.

Btw this is mostly a disagreement of relative morals, where we in the West have this concept that a government should be "good" where that word doesn't have the same meaning in China.
Every week when I'm on a plane.
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As long as the response from the web service is signed, this could be a good solution to what I've always seen as a small vulnerability in SSL.
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What he argues is that the 37signals paradigm is that of attacking a status quo for personal or aesthetic reasons, and not, at least not necessarily, because the attacker has a better idea.
It sounds derivative, but in fact crocodoc is great. While there are lots of document markup tools, I actually use and like crocodoc. Use it a few times to mark up a real document and you'll see.
This is not personas, it's simple theming.

An actually useful persona feature would allow cookie profiles/sessions that can be run in parallel (per window, for example) to log into several gmail accounts at once, segment my search identities, etc. I've found the extensions I've used lacking (maybe I've missed a good one).

But privacy and power usage don't seem to matter as long as everybody is distracted by "OOHHH SHINY!". It's the curse of marketing to the hump of the normal distribution.
What other stuff exactly are you hoping they are working on? I've been using Firefox since the beginning. I've never, at any point, felt like I was missing out on anything. And using it right now, there's nothing I need to do that I cannot.

Considering there are many people that want a browser that has a low profile and gets out of the way, what would Firefox need to do to fulfill those people's needs other than to just leave well enough alone?
If the real bad guys are smart, they're just going to use SSL, with a single static private CA.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html
You guys are doing everything right. Keep it up.

(If I had more rails experience (working on it!) and lived in San Francisco (My dream!) I'd totally look this up.)
It is impossible to tell if a developer is "good" from a short video of them talking, unless they can prove that P != NP in 1 minute (and even that wouldn't do it for me).

All it tells anyone is if the person in the video seems like their kind of person.

Whether you are investing in the idea or not first impressions count.
Yeah that first point.. I should've changed it a long time ago.

Interesting point about the enumerations. I actually used to use ints and starting using strings when I saw some sample do it; I thought that having strings safeguarded better against accidentally equivalent values across enumerations. But now I think of it you can just one-time randomly generate some large unique int per value.

I had thought that industry professionals probably move away from the Flash display list. Your third point makes a lot of sense.

Thanks so much chipsy! :D
1. A lot of businesses comply with law enforcement requests without a court order.

2. If you are capable of doing this, you are also capable of attacking the automated verification methods that low-assurance/domain-validated CAs use. For example, if you can spoof DNS for a domain, you can send the CA MX records that direct all validation email to the domain to your own server. Or, if you're a government, you can work with the target's email provider and/or domain name registrar and/or anybody else willing to help; then they could get forged certificates without the cooperation or knowledge of the CA.
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I don't think Schmidt is a douche. I think he's just providing a balanced perspective. I suspect that Larry and Serge would run Google as a charity, if they could. Unfortunately, data centers are expensive as hell. Schmidt is just keeping the balance necessary to sustain Google.
What options does PayPal have for disputing a payment? It might be too late for this transaction, but I certainly would be paying close attention to my PayPal account when my other domain renewal dates rolled around, and dispute them immediately.
Catch 22's protagonist, Yossarian exclaims incredulously at one point:

It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean to disappear somebody?
The difference is, I wasn't even referring to the names, but rather the linked descriptions. For example:

"Embedly is a single source for embeddable of content on the web."

And rather than mockery it was an expression of regret, that it's 2010 and these are the best startup ideas you got.
I think the names do a good job mocking themselves without any additional help.

Impressive weaseling, though!
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I'm always looking for ways to improve my work. What questions can I ask to make it more useful?

Here's my upcoming guest list:
http://mixergy.com/upcoming

What do you think I should ask any of them to make the programs more useful?
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Hi ABrant - yes, indeed we are looking at extending our docs and tutorials in all sorts of ways. Thanks for asking. -- Paul (Paul@Echonest.com)
Though the patched up desert image looks a bit boring. I guess there's a reason they went over this so quickly.
Call me when this is 8" to 10".
Watch what happens when we find out which CA's did this. My money is on "they do not go out of business". Give it a few months.
Is this unusual for DNS failover? We are looking at doing the same thing for our DR system. Does anyone have any experience with DNS failover?
before you start sending them money, read this thread first:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1182322
Why does he have to sell his company to work on the new idea? Is there some reason he can't do both?
I'm not saying "stick our heads in the sand".

I'm saying that as someone who works as a programmer, what can I really do, other than be cognizant of the problem and, when the opportunity presents itself, first do no harm, and hopefully do a bit of good?
I remember this from a while ago. Here's a good video: http://dvice.com/archives/2010/03/zenpad-the-155.php
That's what return does in Vim's command-line window.
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I knew of an economist who has to flee to the United States because he was high on Nazi's wanted men list.
Why Persistent Search is Important
I'm 37, and I can't wait for this to happen. Most of my friends want to go to sleep at 9 or 10, and I'm regularly up until 1 AM. I'm hoping this shift is just as exciting as leaving adolescence, when I no longer needed 10 or 11 hours of sleep.
I don't want to live in Brooklyn, though.

This ignores that a larger area with similar population density would require much more robust transportation systems than currently exists in, oh, the world. Have a happy mental visualization:

Take every car in America on the road right now. Divide by, say, 100, assuming that most are driving ~ 1 hour, and the new density would make their trips within 6 minutes after such a change, and the transport system fits 10 people into the space of one car.

Now, cram them into New Hampshire. And imagine rush-hour traffic.
Egads. There is nothing wrong with selling. Imagine this scenario: You sell your first company, perhaps you've bootstrapped it and perhaps you sell it for 8 digits. Then you can create a second company (yes, people, it IS possible to create TWO companies unless your fist company was a fluke and you're unable to come up with a second company idea). Starting a second company with serious money in the bank gives one a level of freedom you cannot possibly imagine today. The 37Signals gurus always express their ideas relative to having only a single company in one's lifetime (because that's what they know). I've started and sold two companies to date and I couldn't be happier with the outcome (that's an understatement). I am having more fun than I ever had in my life and had I not sold, I would have never met my fiance -- she's the true passion in my life and startups don't hold a candle to her!

And my next company will be something wayyy out there -- probably so far out that I can't get funding because it's too risky. The only reason I can do that is because I sold my first two companies very early on and I have just enough financial wiggle room to where I can, for now, take some risks. I see companies like 37Signals making safe, predictable product bets and leaning on their brand and existing customer base for income, and that's fine. But the world needs risk takers, too. And taking risk requires capital and if that means selling a couple of companies before they turn into empires, then count me in! If I were to do it all over, I wouldn't change a thing.
chyrp.net is the closest to tumblr in UI and functionality. I've tried this and other microblogging wordpress themes in the past and nothing self-hosted really emulates all the features of tumblr/posterous. I like how Tumblr takes care of he little things for the sake of usability and presentation. An example is how Tumblr caches and resizes all posted images to the size of your configured theme.
I had a hard time understanding this article, but it was really due to translation issues, and my own lack of understanding about grammar.

I had to read up on the English concept of active- versus passive-voice. For example:

The cat ate the mouse.

is active, because the cat is the subject of the sentence, and is doing the eating.

The mouse was eaten by the cat

is passive, because the mouse is the subject, but is "having something done to it", i.e., passive.

So in the case of "He was disappeared", the point is that you are implying that he did not make himself disappear, but that it was done to them.

However, in Chinese, the language is so flexible that there are many far more common ways to express the same concept. So when someone specifically uses the passive voice in this way, while it is grammatically correct (or at least, is a grammatical invention that follows existing rules), it is obvious to other Chinese-speakers that it's an unusual way to say something.

The examples given start making more sense when you forget about the fact that "suicided" isn't a real word. It's not supposed to be a real word, instead it is meany to be a translation into English that preserves the 'strangeness' of the phrase.

In the case of the Chinese, use of the passive voice in this way is kind of like a shibboleth in that someone who agrees with your politics will know what you really mean, but you still have plausible deniability for those that don't.
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They are mature and a known quantity -- no longer "new". But they are still outsiders, by the numbers and by reputation. Just like the Green Party.
I don't see anything overtly wrong in that thread. If anything I see HN readers behaving badly by taking advantage of someone whose English isn't that great. For the most part the things people were attacking him for are things that almost every manufacturer does in China (copying web sites for example).

I don't see anything that indicates he's dishonest (and even if I did I'm not sure it would detract given the price)
>It should be remembered that Viaweb had not only great developers (the functional stuff in Viaweb is cool!) but also a pretty big idea. Viaweb is really a bad example for "ideas don't matter".

Except the initial idea was "put art galleries on the web", called Artix. It morphed into Viaweb later. It's actually a very good example for "ideas don't matter".
I heard it from Molly Holzschlag during a presentation at Microsoft Mix last week. There were members of the IE team all over the place and I think someone would have called her on it if it wasn't true. Or maybe Microsoft leaked the fake story as a cover for an outdated browser :)
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997096
I did this morning when I was trying to read some funny FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU comics and drink some coffee.
I want Instapaper support in the HN app from Michael Grinich http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news/id339408916?mt=8
Android 1.6? Make it bigger and use current version of Android and I'll buy one.
Jim's point is that you only need so much money, so waiting for (as an example) $20m instead of taking $10m now does not make sense.

I think that his argument can be turned around: founders of a successful company should be getting a good salary. If they invest some of their take home pay, they should fairly quickly own their own home and have diversified investments. Even on the downside that their company greatly decreases in value in 5 or 10 years, they still have had good income, diversified savings, and have skills with high market value.

The happiest people in the work force tend to be those with the most control over their work and lives. Owning your company (even if it is a small consulting shop, or a single consultant) offers a great deal of control over one's own fate.

On the other hand, if someone simply wants to cash out and not work anymore, then selling is a good idea.
That's from the Unsourced section, as clearly described.

It's roughly the opposite of proof.
Yeah but can we even trust that?

I mean probably, but if we're really talking about the wikileaks team being detained for serious business, can we realy trust that no one went and logged onto their twitter account to tell people that these weren't the droids they were looking for?

I'm going to assume they're likely fine, but a post on Twitter hardly provides complete assurance of that. Unfortunately I'm not sure there's really a provable way to deal with this problem that wouldn't compromise too much information.
Thanks for taking the time to make clear what this is.
That was a great read.
But how should the transition even begin? By repealing all internet censorship laws?

Most people don't realize that every day the situation in China improves for the better. Even the stiffling hukou system that you allude to has been slowly weakened over the years.

In regards to your last sentence I'm not quite sure what you mean. I took it to mean that the social ideas of justice and law are different in China, of which I would tend to agree.

West = rule of law. China = rule by law.

Frankly I think Chinese society is just not ready for democracy. There is simply no civic society.
Service in Chicago sucks, so I'm often "offline" even though I have signal. I love the NYT app because I can preload the news and read later.
"The technology we are using in our products has been generally discussed in internet forums and there is nothing special or unique about it."

I hope I never suffer a brain cramp and say that about my company to a reporter.
Based on solely the graphics alone is their definiton of 'normals' consist solely of 12 year olds?

I am serious. I know plenty of otherwise intelligent, web challenged 'normals' who would be embarrased to be seen using this site. Least the ones over the age of fifteen;<).
Well, you've been warned.

I think there is plenty in that thread that is not above board, but of course you are entitled to your own opinion.
The use of the passive voice in this respect is not unique to China. For example, "dehoused" was a WWII Allied term to describe Germans whose homes were destroyed by Allied bombs.
Don't be fooled by these arguments. Issues of race (we should be completely blind to race in our moral evaluations of people) and "pride in culture" (which is disgusting and second-handed - people should make themselves, not passively copy their neighbors or ancestors for every step of their lives) are not important in this China vs. Google thing.

The essential issue is that of individual rights. I say that individual rights are universal (and you should, too!) This is because rights are necessary to sustain human lives; individual rights stem from man's nature, which is defined by biological and mental characteristics that are unique to humans (the conditional nature of man's existence and the conceptual nature of human thought.)

Chinese people are humans just like the rest of us, and for them to live fully, happily and most healthily, their individual rights must be respected. By removing themselves from China, Google is removing their moral sanction of a regime that violates individual rights. By doing so, Google's actions advance the cause of individual rights, so you should be proud of them!

(I should add that I'm not against people that choose on their own accord to take part in some cultural tradition, as long as they themselves actually enjoy it, and that the tradition doesn't necessarily violate the individual rights of another.)
Please let me know what you think of it. I may buy it as well. I just have a touch.
Guy Who Hacked Twitter And Leaked Their Docs Is Under Arrest
The most important thing I learned is that it's not his device. He's just re-branding a device that other people made. It's also clear he doesn't understand the technology he's selling. It also seems to be true that he was taking paid orders before he actually had a device.
Perhaps you could take up meditation to help clear your mind.

I wouldn't call this a 'mental illness', but non-stop mental chatter is a sign of disease -- in that your mind is not at ease.

You might find the symptoms to be relatively useful (non-stop idea factory!), but I think it is already causing you problems if you have to drown out the voices in your head with other voices just to fall asleep at night. Can this state be considered healthy functioning of the mind?

Then again, maybe it works for you. :)
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I think you are missing the point.
First, the article doesn't care what you want.

Second, it is using the current population density of Brooklyn, and that is with the current transportation infrastructure. If your foreseeable maximum travel distance was 100 miles, none of this would be necessary. It is very unlikely you or 99% of the people would need cars. Transportation would be optimized for mass transit/walking/biking. It would probably feel less crowded than current day brooklyn.
This is going to sound tin-foil-hattish of me, but...

Maybe they think they don't need a long-term strategy. They only need to hold out short-term, until western governments take care of the problem for them.

With all the nonsense going on over kiddie pr0n, copyright infringement, etc., we are hearing a lot of scare stuff that would require even the "free world" to implement the kind of controlled infrastructure that China would love.
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China doesn't shy away from these types of administrative nightmares, here is one from a few years ago that I stumbled on the other day, which must be an mess for them to enforce:

In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."

(http://boingboing.net/2007/08/22/china-to-tibetan-bud.html)
As a current resident of NYC looking to move away, I think this proposal would have a negative impact on the mental health and well-being of many US citizens.
<cheney>I bet if we injected him with sodium pentathol and water-boarded that boy we'd get the truth out of him</cheney>
Verizon calls on Congress to strip away the rulemaking authority of FCC
Right, that's the first reference I've seen of Oz being based on the pi-calculus! I'll have to have a closer look; Mozart/Oz has been on my list for a while now, but has slipped down the pile a bit.