skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with ning was they took a stupid amount of investment IMHO. If they hadn't they'd be profitable.

'Ad revenue' > 'Cost of serving a few dumb HTTP requests' => profit.

That equation is simple, and holds pretty well. If you're spending more money serving HTTP requests than you can make from advertising, you're doing it wrong.
its my understanding there is housing going up everywhere.. EVERYWHERE. and over 50% of it empty. and almost all of it bought on credit with people who wont be able to pay it back unless the cost of the place doubles...
in which case they can sell it to others who will buy it on credit.

Average college graduate wage 1500 RMB/month (a little over 200$), average house cost 1,000,000RMB (about $150,000)
does anyone else see a problem there?

something HAS to give.
Hitting T and then typing into the address bar isn't fast enough? How could that even be sped up?
Oldest Martian Meteorite Not as Old as Thought
41 Creative Examples of Twitter Based Logos
So again the question arises - why would you develop for a platform where the rules can change arbitrarily in a way that invalidates your work and possibly cuts into your income stream?
of course they can hide behind that. Optimizing for growth over revenue isn't that unusual. Facebook is still very young.
I know, but he seemed to be playing by the rules.
Steve Jobs and iPhone Developer Agreement Section 3.3.1
Steve Jobs doesn't seem to actually understand what the new text in section 3.3.1 of the iPhone OS Developer agreement means. It doesn't forbid toolkits, it forbids languages.
Haven't tried it myself, but I assume he means opening up a link (via hint) in a new tab.
... and very pessimistic, if they've actually built a complex system or read The Mythical Man-Month, which saw its first edition in 1975.
except, you know, Twitter isn't panicking about revenue. They're doing really nicely last I heard (Profitable from search deals, and abouts to launch various other monetization programmes?)
I'm guessing you're doing self-parody. If not, see Godwin's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
You had something super clever to say, but instead you just fall back to essentially calling the target a troll. Sorry, but that tactic is one of the weakest, most trollest techniques going. I'm surprised that anyone still falls for it.

As far as "making inflammatory statements about other people's companies", given that ning is all other the tech news sites its hardly like it came out of left field. And really the "get enough eyeballs" tactic has been the recipe for countless massive failures, yet still people keep saying "FACEBOOK FACEBOOK FACEBOOK!"

Before people reference facebook, contemplate where Facebook would be if instead of being propped up by VCs desperate to flip it to the next guy, they had to get bank loans. They would have been dead in the water years ago. Instead now they're getting more and more desperate to raise revenue, and the results aren't good. Facebook is not a good example of anything.
worked great for meetup.com [going from freemium to paid only]
I have a slightly more pessimistic outlook on SpaceX, but I'll admit that I'm slightly biased.

My dad has worked on the Delta, Atlas, and Titan rockets close to 30 years. These rockets are expensive (an order of magnitude more than SpaceX), but they can do one thing that SpaceX can't: guarantee success. If you had to put up sensitive cargo (commercial or military) that costs on the order of $100 million (and sometimes much much more), would you entrust a fledgling company with its sparse mission success record or the more established company with proven success? And if you were to hop on a rocket, would you pick the one that had a severe failure within the past few years, or one that has been operating as engineered for the past 20-30 years?

Rocket launching doesn't go by the typical startup mantra. Mistakes are very real, very expensive, and have much more human impact.

SpaceX seems more to me like fast food: their efficiency is awe-inspiring, but I worry at what significant cost?
What about Conkeror?

Edit: As an emacs user, my ideal browser would be ezbl[1], but development seems to have stalled.

[1]: http://github.com/haxney/ezbl
I don't know, I had to attach files earlier, and it seemed pretty obvious to me. Just checked, and the actual text is "Drop files here".
Yeah, don't get me wrong... LinkedIn has a place and I too have found some good connections through it, but what I am talking about is the actual 'groups' feature. It just doesn't seem very functional and the only value added is having direct contacts (which while nice, also causes me to get some spam via it). I have joined some of them before, but that is pretty much the last thing I do as I don't see any value in it afterwards.
Dude, I totally implemented Reddit in a weekend in Dwarf Fortress...
s/Popov/Popek/
nope it was pomplamoose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaIs3u_h02Y&feature=playe...
Its called Magma. Its implemented in Squeak Smalltalk and runs fine on Pharo and is open source. So far I've enjoyed using it, but I haven't had to scale it yet. It does support replication with automatic fail-over though.

Edit: Some basic docs: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665 The rest of the docs are just "read the code/comments" which actually works in Smalltalk. I've found "read the code" never works well in any other language due to poor code navigation in file-based PLs

Edit Edit: Sorry, didn't read your comment entirely. Its a pure OO database. These are pretty common in Smalltalk as it has good built-in serialization/marshaling routines, so most OO dbs are just a layer on top of the built-in stuff.
I would like to, unfortunately it isn't a public application, and also contains medical information. Maybe one day I'll setup a demo account on a stand-alone server with fake data... but that is a really low priority (in fact, I just now came up with that, so its at the bottom of the list :)
Shared awareness: a better way to manage comment trolls
Don't buy any inverse ETFs until you understand the "inverse ETF decay" problem well. Serious stuff.
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I love this movie. Really, I watch it for motivation, frequently. The only problem I have with it is Henry Edward Roberts character. Ed was not given the credit he deserved in the movie. He comes off as a buffoon in the movie.

In reality, he is more of an entrepreneur at the end of the startup cycle looking to move on to another business.
I've been getting regular emails from SVASE regarding this, but haven't looked into it.

I'm not sure why you title this as pitching Garage/Microsoft, as the page you linked to specifies that DFJ is also involved, and I'm sure there are other big names.

I was considering going, as I'm in the process of launching another new company, but haven't had the chance to look into it further.

That SVASE is charging these sorts of prices, while TC50 still manages to be free to presenters really shows just how much Arrington and his team are doing for the start-up community.

Sure, $750 isn't a huge amount of money, but when you're bootstrapping a start-up, it is.
When you are trying to be responsible with your costs, and just starting out, it is.

I suspect this $750 fee would mean that the presentations would lean more toward life sciences and clean tech, as I suspect many budding web entrepreneurs would find a better way to spend their money.

Assuming that some of the presenters are SVASE members already, it appears that SVASE is looking at around $20k in revenue from the presenters alone.

I assume the revenue from ticket sales would be near that mark as well, assuming 200 people attending at $100 a pop average.

If you've got a great product, a great team, a great market, I suspect you can go through personal connections and get introduced to investors without being out of pocket.
Plus, you may get more time and valuable advice in a one-on-one.

I personally have nothing against SVASE, and I assume they do good work.

In comparison to SVASE, the Vancouver Angel Tech Forum requires that a start-up be 'sponsored' by one of the Angels, and pay less than $50 to present. Basically, the presenters are covering the cost of the venue, A/V, coffee, etc.

If you're a group who's goal is really to foster innovation, and get access to great investment opportunities, I prefer the VanTech Angels methods vs SVASE.

But like I said, there is room for all sorts of these things.
An all-out war would help the party to secure its position. Remember that overpopulation is China's leading problem.
price to earnings for AAPL is around 30, which means that if you bought all of apple, and it continued to make just as much money, it would take 30 years to earn your investment back.

Equity is different from debit, yes, but when you talk about how much money you are making, it really only makes sense to talk about how much money you are making based on how much money was invested. If you have 1mil invested, and you are making 1 mil a year, that's pretty goddamn impressive. If you have 750 million invested, and you are making 1 million a year profit, well, gee, I could do better than that buying bonds.

Now, Both AAPL and facebook have the P/E ratios they have because people expect them to make more money in the future than they are making now. For instance, if I was to sell my company (and I've had a few offers) it looks like I'd get about a year worth of revenue. This is pretty typical when buying ISPs, because nobody expects exponential growth to go on for any period of time.

Just sayin; It is a reasonable and well-established idea to look at how much equity is invested when looking at a company's profit margins. It's also reasonable and well-established to look forward at how much profit the company is expected to make in the future, too, which is why facebook is valued as it is by some people.

(there is, however, a great degree of uncertainty in projecting what profits a company may make in the future, which is why there is a great deal more controversy over the value of twitter than over the value of AAPL. Personally, if there was a convenient way to buy a long-term 'put' on twitter, I'd do it. Just my opinion,)
IIRC, one of their talking points a few years back was that piracy funds terrorism. They're just trying to get to the root of the problem.
That's how it's pronounced in Britain.
If I'm remembering correctly, vimperator used to use a similar system. I think so that you could narrow the link choices by typing.
I'll take your url and raise it with: http://voices.allthingsd.com/20100317/the-case-for-the-fat-s...

OpsWare was very deliberately spending money to make sure they were the market leader.

Read the link I posted - it's a perfect example of why 37Signals is both wrong and right at the same time.

OpsWare was a typical Silicon Valley start-up (per the Steve Blank definition: Total available market > 500M, Company can grow > 100M/year etc - see slides 10-12 in http://steveblank.com/2010/04/15/why-accountants-dont-run-st...)

OpsWare quite deliberately took a high risk strategy in order to aim for high rewards.

37Signals is a small business. Profitable, comfortable, but no prospects of explosive growth.

To quote from the link above:

What is start-up purgatory, you ask? Start-up purgatory occurs when you don’t go bankrupt, but you fail to build the No. 1 product in the space. You have enough money with your conservative burn rate to last for many years. You may even be cash-flow positive. However, you have zero chance of becoming a high-growth company. You have zero chance of being anything but a very small technology business (see Navisite). From the entrepreneur’s point of view, this can be worse than start-up hell since you are stuck with the small company.

37Signals seem to be quite fine with their business. However, they appear not to understand that many others are quite deliberate in choosing riskier strategies because the rewards can be higher.
You can actually build fat-client apps with just Pharo too. The only downside is it doesn't support OS native widgets or windows (its all inside one window).
First they came for Flash, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Flash developer.

...snip...

And when they came for Smalltalk, there was nobody left to stand up for me.
Thanks, this service seems to be more for one time projects then for recruiting though. Is there anyone trying to replace/supplant resumes (not just upload them, like LinkedIn)?
We've had real commercial access to orbit for over 20 years. The solution SpaceX is offering now however is to give companies (or god-forbid, individuals) a much cheaper ticket to space, albeit at a much lower probability of that cargo actually getting there.

Rocket launching will always be an expensive endeavor. It's the nature of the business. The interesting question now is whether the chance your cargo getting to space is proportional to cost, and is that something you're willing to risk as a customer.
Thanks! Did what I said make sense otherwise?
How about the Master's in Computer and Information Technology at UPenn?

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/grad/mcit/

Looks like it's designed for people like you. Not sure how this would be seen by employers - perhaps some others can answer this.

For anyone on the hiring side of a web company: would it be better for a non-CS undergrad to go through a masters program like the ones at Penn/Chicago, or would it be better if someone took a year off, taught themselves, and actually built some stuff?
You can do almost the same thing in chrome without any plugins. Just replace t with Ctrl-L and when you hit enter after the URL hold down ALT (to get a new tab). Same number of keystrokes, slightly more acrobatic.
I can see some of both sides. From the kernel developers' perspective, wakelocks solve a special-case problem: they only work on systems where frequent suspend/resume is possible (e.g. ARM/SoC style devices), have tight kernel/app integration, and accepting them means basically forking the power-management support within the kernel, with one system for Android-style devices, and another system for everyone else. They'd prefer a more unified power-management API, but solving that problem in a way that works for everyone is a lot harder. AFAICT, nobody on either side has put much effort into solving that general API problem. Not sure who to blame for that, but in theory, the maintainers of the current power-management API could've put forth a counter-proposal for how to accommodate Android's concerns in their framework; or Google could've put forth a revised proposal for how to merge wakelocks-like functionality with the existing power-management API.

Some of it might just be a mismatch between how the kernel process works and how Google usually does things. The convention is that when you submit an API-changing patch upstream, you're proposing: I think all users of Linux should have this new API, and you have to be prepared to defend the API design, modify it in response to criticism or concerns, etc. Ideally, you're supposed to get feedback from other potential users before you actually write the code, as opposed to designing everything unilaterally and presenting it as a done deal. From what I can tell, Google's approach was just a one-off: here's what we propose, and btw we already shipped it. Basically, skipped the step where they were supposed to first propose it and ask for feedback.

An approach that might've gotten more positive results would be, before sending off the patch, send a short design proposal with something like: "Hey, for our needs we're thinking of the following API, because [explain why existing APIs are insufficient], and [explain rationale and use cases for this one]. What do people think?"
You should (not) try the original Master of Orion. Also available as abandonware. It has some nice twists.

Sirian (http://www.warpcore.org/~sirian/moo1/index.html) has some very nice reports on MoO games he played.

Stay away from MoO 2.
It's ' in my (en-US) version of Firefox. And agreed.
As a defendant of facebook, surely you can't say all they are doing is serving dumb http requests?

Their army of world-class engineers would beg to differ no? And they must cost quite a penny to support?
LOL... You are so right...
Maybe it falls into the same category as the video game industry to you, but it doesn't sound like you're aware of Twitters recent monetization strategy: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/04/hello-world.html
On a vaguely related note, it's very peaceful with no planes flying over. You don't realise just how constant that hiss of people jetting about over your head is until it's gone.
It's interesting that after so many years they are actually going back to the old capsule design. I guess people are starting to realize that the Space Shuttle program may not have been actually worth it when you consider Saturn V's near 100% mission success and the fact that the Space Shuttle had two catastrophic failures.
I'm trying to brainstorm what a model that embraced p2p would look like in the context of the movie industry. For music, it means concert ticket prices have gone way up. To some extent, I think the same effect can be seen in movie ticket prices (though production budgets have skyrocketed for blockbuster movies over time and this also affects movie ticket prices). I paid $17 to go see Avatar in IMAX!

I think the music industry can get by w/ higher and higher concert prices because each concert/venue is a separate,unique product and people don't mind paying for a band they really like. In the movie industry, although there is a small subset of moviegoers who will go see the same movie 6 times in the theater, the product is completely consistent through each viewing so after a certain point of price hikes, I think less and less people will attend movies in the theater.
In my opinion, Vimperator's hints are better. Vimperator only uses numbers for hints because letters are used to narrow down the results. If you are on a page with a lot of hints, just start typing a few letters contained in the link. All of the hints that don't match will disappear, greatly reducing the clutter on the screen and often only a single digit is needed.
You can't get a trademark if you spell it correctly - pamplemousse isn't distinctive wrt soap.
Actually there is a project to build a Webkit based emacs style browser a la Conkeror. It's called minno. http://minno.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi They are just waiting for the Sqeme QT bindings to be more usable.
That is a huge risk for an incubator firm to expect from entrepreneurs, particularly when the firm is set up in such a way that they assume next to no risk. The Bootup intake timing really should have been adjusted to allow for confirmation of funding to come through.
Depends if you're being paid for your attendance or to perform a job. If you're paid for attendance (and if you test most bosses' expectations, that's where they sit) then any distraction is a no-no (and, not coincidentally, your long term desire to work there may also be a no-no).

If you're being paid to perform duties or hit milestones, then that's more important than whether you are focussed only on your work when you're at work. A needed break or relevant distraction like HN shouldn't be a problem.

I use the Alt-Tab rule when making this decision myself. If one of my team mates walked past, would I Alt-Tab away from this screen or would I be fine to let them see what I was doing?
I thought this was pretty silly. Perhaps I've oversaturated with blog posts on 3.3.1.
Great movie.
Almost all Fortune 500 companies show Zeus botnet activity
It seems to be automatically disabled for any Google domains like Gmail or Google search.
> I guess this is just my way of saying that _every single_ entrepreneur should be prepared for their funding to disappear until they have the check cashed and sitting in their bank account. You have to have a Plan-B that leads to success, whether it be consulting, credit-cards, friends-and-family, or living on zero dollars.

The above suggests that you "finish" fundraising. You don't. You can't stop fundraising when the check hits the bank because you're already behind schedule for raising the next round.
You know, I had thought of that too, but I also thought the plane running out of fuel was the responsibility of the airline. I fly almost every other week, sometimes in quite terrible conditions that have warranted holding patterns and I have never heard that excuse to divert.
But isn't Linux already on mobile and embedded platforms? What makes the Android so special in this regard?
When I hit 't', the new tab opens not with the default New Tab page where focus is on the address bar, but with my home page (iGoogle), where the focus is on Google's search field.

This means I can't just hit 't' and type a URL. A small nit-pick I know. I've just looked at the source, and it seems a problem with Google's API call (chrome.tabs.create). It is supposed to default to the New Tab page unless a URL is provided (and vimium does not provide a URL). On my install the home page is opened instead, so this is not Vimium's fault (and I'm very happy with it thus far).
Actually, I don't think I said this exactly. I think I said "We are hiring." We have way more than 2 reqs for android and non-android related kernel work. I think I might have said that I can see hiring a few people just to do kernel pushes.
Ok, I'll bite and humor the author.

The reason Microsoft can't do this is because Windows penetration is absurdly high- something in the mid 90%s of all desktop computers. Any action like this would be followed by immediate litigation from competitors crying monopoly.

The reason Apple can get away with this is because contrary to what you would believe from reading the HN front page, apple's penetration in the cell phone market is minute and not a monopoly.

edit: for the person that said apple smartphone market share is 88%, its 14% worldwide, I don't know where you got your figures though you claim wikipedia:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/smartphone-iphone-sales-200...

Having a stranglehold of 95% on an entire industry (desktop pcs) is very different than owning 14% of a subset of an industry (mobile phones in general)
No reason to suspect that.

He cleared something up for me, he mentioned that he new, before he had accepted, that the financing could fall through. If everyone new that, then that changed things in my eyes.
Doesn't this accidentally back up the 'third party frameworks lack quality' argument? iTunes for Windows is generally considered to be a lousy piece of software. Same with Safari for Windows, another piece released under the same approach.
Sorry, MOO was ok, but it didn't have the depth of civilization. It was a simplified version of the Empire building strategy. So many things wrong with it, I would suggest you do not waste your time.
Also, Windows doesn't have an App Store. How would Gates ban anything from the Windows platform?
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> What about Conkeror?

Never heard of it.
Doesn't work with international keyboards...