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I can see buying at 70% off market, in this market... but you are going to have a difficult time turning around and selling for 30% more than what you paid, considering that 'market,' if trends continue, will be less 6 months from now than it is now.

If I had lots of credit and I was willing to risk it all, I would consider such a gambit, though my plan would be to buy, fix up, and hold (perhaps renting to cover costs) until the market started recovering.

For bonus points, if I knew anything about wrangling bureaucracy, I'd work on turning business real-estate into dual-use lofts. I'd really, really like to have a dual-use space here in silicon valley, but the nearest place they are plentiful is oakland, and I don't need dual-use space /that/ badly.

But then, I don't have lots of credit, and I personally suspect there might still be even more downside in the market than people seem to be predicting. Still, if I was going to do it, I'd do it here in silicon valley or elsewhere in the SF bay area. the fundamentals of this place are strong, and while I think it will get worse before it gets better, I'm certain it will get better.
Poker would be one option. I'm pretty good at poker!
Actually, what you're saying seems true according to PG's own "meta-trend" of founders of web startups becoming more powerful. Founders would be most powerful when they only need to raise money from friends and family - as it continues to become cheaper to start such a startup, why shouldn't the angel industry contract just as the VC industry is doing now?
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Is there some way to scrape that IM client status from iChat, skype, gchat, facebook, or whatever else? People could configure that in their contact information/profile. The master switch would be on this site though.
Love this, now you can finally host static sites on S3. Awesome.
If I copied a business partner's design in line art and put it in a patent application somewhat related to the business partner's business it would be OK? I think not.
"But what if another government or company in an area of the world where individual rights aren't respected gets there first?"

I wouldn't worry about this at all. Technological advances such this are not possible without individual rights. The reason for this is that the mind cannot think under force.
>Microsoft did in fact 'get' the iPod, and outdid it in a lot of ways.

Do you own one? I've never met anyone that did.
I see the Zune HD has a web browser...
How does that experience compare with browsing on the iPod touch? How does battery life compare watching youtube video?
I think Stephen Colbert said it best: reality has a liberal bias.
There must exist something in between sharing nothing with end-users (the situation we have now, where sites are literally either "secure" or "not" --- and, incidentally, a situation that DNSSEC actually makes worse) and sharing ServerKeyExchange and CertificateRequest messages.

My guess is that the answer will involve having something more meaningful than the name "Verisign" at the root of the certificate change. "Secure Banking Sites", which ideally would be managed by (wait for it) secure banking sites, sounds better.

We can get to that world without forklifting out OpenSSL.
It doesn't cost much to run a website, but it can still cost a lot to grow a business. Look at all the companies in the local space. Their limiting factor is how many sales reps they can hire; the company that raises $10 million beats the company that raises $1 million.

The same holds true for long-tail content generation. If you want to build a better Demand Media, you need to spend like they spend.

As transaction costs in general decline, it will make less and less sense to rely on friends and family, the way I don't rely on friends and family to make my shoes, even though shoes are (adjusted for inflation), much cheaper than they have been in the past.

Your "Two types of capital" division is arbitrary, both because you're turning a continuum into a binary decision, and because that's just one way to divide things. I could divide capital-raising businesses into those with limited scale and those with unlimited scale. There are more and more businesses with unlimited scale, and the optimal way to run such a business is to maximize risk, and to use someone else's capital to place bigger bets.
As someone who is about to have gone through the process twice of starting from scratch and launching (with a team of at most 3), I recommend that you use your time wisely.

The first time through, we had my design up for the first 1.5 years followed by a professional overhaul from a close friend when it started to gain some traction. The difference between the two designs was night-and-day.

This time through, I put up a quick landing page with some basic "coming soon" boilerplate at the beginning. Since I enjoy a minimalist and clean design, I can hack together a site rather quickly. Yes, it is functional. Yes, it appeals to me. No, it doesn't look professional. But most importantly, updating and maintaining it occupied a lot of my time that I could have spent working on the back-end.

The 2nd design was crafted by a designer. Unfortunately, because I had spent all of my time doing the design the first time, I now had no content to give to the designer to work with. I'm sure that he hated the fact that I kept changing my mind on the public pages every other week. To his credit, he created a very impressive set of internal pages for the web-app even though that wasn't his strong suit.

With some content finally available, I hacked the public pages to create the 3rd (and current) site to accommodate the new content.

With an imminent launch, I've finally done what I should have done first: place an ad in Smashing Magazine and hire a designer! In fact, I was able to find a gfx/web designer for the front 4 pages (home, features, tour, signup) and a usability designer in our scientific discipline to evaluate the internal pages. Best of all, I get to launch the company sooner!

Long story short, our launch is imminent because I get to focus on what I do best (HPC back-end) and the front-end gets done by an expert.
Not sure. I think there's a good payoff from sausage sizzles, it's the kind of thing kids soccer teams and charities do to raise funds. That's just toy stuff, but I'd consider coordinating a dozen of those a day before I put 25k on red @ vegas.

Everyone who I know of in the cooking or catering business works pretty hard, and aren't millionaires, so I wouldn't think you would get into it unless you were in it for the long haul.
I was in grade school, cut me some slack :)
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From a legal standpoint that makes sense, but from a technical standpoint I just tunnel whatever I want over $SECURE_PROTOCOL and at that point all they've done is specified data latency/speed tiers.

Unless they're specifically looking at discriminating based on protocol, I don't see why they just don't talk about realtime vs. streaming vs. download data priority tiers, which seems a lot simpler from an implementation standpoint, and a lot easier to stomach from a net neutrality standpoint. Maybe that's all they're talking about. But the way it's phrased it sounds very dependent on protocol, which I would say is very non-neutral, because it's only possible to implement if you have a whitelist of protocols, and it's pretty much impossible for the established players to fairly arbitrate which protocols are which. What is streaming video over http? https? What if I've got a VOIP app running over https? Web-based email? Pigeonholing a protocol into a data priority tier just doesn't make sense.

Unless you're deliberately trying to lock out innovative protocols.
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Finally an app I can get behind
I saw a demo of it at Maker's Faire. A young MSFT hacker was using the accelerometer and touch UI to drive a t shirt cannon that was controlled by Microsoft's robotics studio. He could rotate the phone, tilt it up or down, and aim the t shirt cannon. It was really cool.

On top of that, the UI that I could see was rather nice.
It definitely looks cool (though the landing page main picture is too Microsoft Excel-y - as in not enough appeal). It struck me interesting how the TechStar startup is leveraging YC startup tech like Olark and will probably leverage WePay for payment solution. Throw in notifo support for rent notice alerts (http://www.rentmonitor.com/feature_tour), and heck host it on Heroku :-p

Regardless, this is a very good batch.
svnsync would synchronize the whole repository to the target location. That is OK if you want to keep a copy elsewhere. One of the solutions that I provided allows you to dump each version in turn which svnsync does not do.

Having written that, svnsync would definitely be another option to consider.

Thank you for the reminder!
Yes, I mark the point where I switched to 1.4 in my posts (and the same about the 64-bit version). In one case (recently, with 1.4.1 64-bit) I had lost half my data in a crash, and restored from week-old backups only to discover that they were missing back then too. Turns out it was a silent corruption days ago...
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I've always been curious as to how this is actually accomplished. I have never had success in selling small websites.

Love to learn more about this. If you can elaborate on the process, please do..
yeah, I think there's a market here... and if, say, you really could set up a business of that type for twenty five grand, I bet I could get four or five guys together to put in 5K each, not as a 'get rich quick' ploy, but more as a 'see to it that I can get someone to make me something to eat at 3am, without losing too much money' thing. I mean, I'd want to have a positive expected return, but I wouldn't be expecting facebook valuations.

Of course, then, we'd still need to find someone able and willing to actually do the work, which is another matter entirely. by even thinking about this I'm ignoring my own rules "invest in what you are good at" - though I guess I 'know' something of the market, just 'cause I'm a customer of that sort of thing.
I haven't used it for a while either, but I'm pretty sure that "bury" kills stories off completely. From their FAQ (http://about.digg.com/how):

Bury. If you find stories with bad links, off-topic content,
or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s how we get the
spam out of the system and let the good stuff rise to the top.

Other than that, they're pretty sketchy on what exactly it does.
Yeah as a user since 2007, it went noticeably conservative in the last year or so (which is when many of us moved to Reddit). And it's not just conservative leaning but really pointed partisan stuff.

I hope they can figure out a way to solve this sort of thing going forward. And I'm curious if their choice of either digg/bury instead of upvote/downvote makes it easier to game. I believe it does, as these folks haven't been able to do the same with reddit. I'm not sure, but I believe a story is gone once it gets a certain number of "buries" whereas on reddit a story with a lot of downvotes can be easily resurrected by upvotes. (though I could be wrong about this?)
What would be the advantage of that? Also, you then never truly can ditch the old parser if you want to keep everything working. Your browser has to come with two parsers for all eternity.
And the world becomes even more like some 80's cyberpunk novel.
Thanks for the "threads" tip, it's really handy. About your points:

1. This is true (there was no warning that I saw when I was downloading it, although one was added later, or maybe I didn't notice it). However, I upgraded to the stable version when it came out to give MongoDB a second chance, because it sounds very good in theory, and I had the same (if not bigger) problems.

2. I hadn't known about it, and, no matter how pubilc it is, the server could just refuse to store more data. Silently corrupting two documents for every document inserted is inexcusable, even if your database was forged in the pits of hell.

I think your point about the poster child thing is true. While I meant my post as a sort of "MongoDB didn't look too production-ready to me, but I hope it gets there eventually", people became really polarized and took it either as "this guy is right, MongoDB sucks" or "this guy is an idiot, silently corrupting data is perfectly acceptable if there's a notice on the website"...
My friend has an iPod and on more than one occasion people have come up to him and asked him if that was a skin for an iPod.

Personally, I consider that a failure. Even in the poop brown colour people still assume it is an iPod.
I started with the unstable version and then switched to the stable one, but the problems continued. If I remember correctly, the problems with 1.3 were not significantly more than 1.4.
I love the idea, and I would argue that the CIA/NSA/etc are very intelligent,.. but they aren't quite that intelligent.
I know that now :P Regardless, the problems continued with 1.4.
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What they fail to understand is that there was never a conspiracy to censor their content, it was the greater Digg community that did that because their articles are usually unprofessional, fact-challenged fantasies that nobody wants to read.

They should probably have asked a conservative. It's hard to tell whether these folks were submitting quality stories with a different slant, or were actively submitting crap. Obviously it's hard to trust the views of a site that says:

There are a few differences of opinion within DP, although for the most part, they are extremely similar in perspective. They hate Obama. They hate progressives. They hate the UN, diplomacy, and peace/disarmament efforts. They hate reforms of health care, Wall St., and immigration. They hate science, in fact many are creationists, and some even blog about it. They hate the secular nature of our nation. They hate environmental protection, requiring polluters to be responsible for their own cleanup, and especially hate climate efforts. They hate unions and any attempt to level the playing field to give all Americans economic opportunities. They hate the government, except the military-industrial complex. They hate abortion rights. They hate public schools and really hate higher education. They hate anyone in the media except far right personalities like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michelle Malkin. They hate anyone who doesn’t think Obama is a secret islamist and/or marxist who was born in Kenya.

And follows that up with the unironic:

They just love to hate.

Fortunately, this article makes it easier for voting sites to detect cabals and manipulators by seeing which accounts vote in tandem. That might lead to false positives, but that may not be so bad--if only a tiny minority cares very strongly about a single story, I don't have to care whether or not they're coordinating their votes. Either way, it's likely to be of less interest to the average reader.
I don't think so. That would be

p=(i-c)/c

or just

p=i/c-1

which would mean that purchasing power is directly proportional to cost of living.
The reason they didn't show up is that they are bankrupt - so it doesn't matter how much the court ups the fine, they aren't paying it anyway.

The lawyers aren't about to work for a client that isn't going to pay them
I'm sure they have the resources, capabilities, and plans for nearly all of that... but I think they are waiting for either less public targets or a a much higher target (like China) before pulling something so big that would draw so much attention from the tech community.
What kind of advertisement are they asking for? Looking at your site, it looks like they want a display ad, right?

500K pageviews per month is quite a bit! How many unique users do you have?

I sell advertising space for a well known media company and we only have about 200K pageviews a month. Our lowest CPM is $5 and our highest is $15 depending on the demand for the particular page, position and any other special tweaks like geotargeting.

What I'm trying to say here is $1 is way too low.

Good luck!
They can ensure that they don't let it happen again.

I have a feeling you mean:

They can TRY to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Now for some math.

Assume an average of 200 pages per book.

Assume 50kB per page, based on this rather interesting document that I just Googled:

http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/22009p.pdf

It multiplies out to 1200 TB to store an (admittedly fairly low quality) black-and-white scanned image of every book page in the world.

Newegg has external 2TB hard drives, at retail, for $110. So the cost of the modern Library of Alexandria, which would ship on 600 such drives, is down to less than $66k.

I am not the richest person in my town, let alone in my state or my country, yet I can now afford, with a relatively modest consumer loan, to own the libraries. All of them.

And if we assume that the so-called "Kryder's Law" continues to hold:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder

costs will continue to drop by 50% every two years, and the universal library will be down to $515 -- less than the cost of my iPad -- by 2024.

How blessed I am to have lived to see this day, a day in which the ultimate dream of history's librarians is not only within reach, but could become commonplace within my lifetime. In twenty years, owning a digital copy of every book in the world could be... kind of boring. [1]

(Of course, we will likely spend the rest of my life and more wrangling over the legal right to copy the last 15% or so of these libraries from one set of drives to another. But you can't have everything. ;)

---

[1] Alhough at some point we'll have to come up with some really fast data buses, or copying that petabyte of data is going to take some serious time. Then there's the indexing and retrieval problems...
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In retrospect, I have these observations:

* The corruption of data might be excused in the development branch.

* The silent corruption of the data when the server goes past its limit for a 32-bit DB cannot be excused, since the server could die, at the very least.

* The corruption of data due to the process being killed because the connection dropped wasn't MongoDB's fault.

* Requiring 9 GB of RAM for 5 indexes doesn't sit very well with me...

* Silently corrupting data for me to find out days later is not something a stable, unstable or toy database should do...
I started a project to find me relevant resources while I'm in college. So far it has worked well among friends, even for it being a prototype. My project is a match engine, not a board, and you could say both have their weaknesses and advantages. Whatever HN does, I think the OP is along the right track.

Here it is: http://pickupon.com/

(Also, if anyone does see this, let me know if it is "Ask HN" quality.)
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I see a lot of great business owners thanking patrons for visiting or tweeting about them on Twitter. Here is an example from a local business (Bocktown Beer & Grill) in Pittsburgh.

@bocktown tweeted: "Thanks for the visits & tweets tonight from @jdprose @BrooklineBetty @tomtutty @enophiledude #craftbeer posse"

Would you engage more with local businesses or talk about a business on social networks (if business owners actually would realize a value in what people say about them) and rewarded you for what you are saying about their business?
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I know this isn't the typical hacker-preferred content (possibly), but after reading this article, and having watched Hopkins and currently Boston Med, this article made me think of doctors (surgeons, nurses, interns, etc..) as being a different kind of hacker. Wrong makes notes of the fact (paraphrasing) that you can do the same show again, with the same staff, same location, but undoubtedly the outcome would be very different. Something struck a chord with me in the hacker-realm...
Interesting... I just started a biphasic sleep schedule (4.5 hours of sleep from 1:00 to 5:30, and then 1.5 hours of sleep from 19:00 to 20:30) but now I'm wondering if the cost will outweigh the benefits.
A trimmed-down mobile app usually means that the desktop app is unnecessarily bloated - the "get to the right information quickly" goal is just as appropriate on the desktop as on a mobile.
2 things help me:

1. RescueTime (http://rescuetime.com)
Pushing your productivity index up to top 5% can be addictive, but it can also be exhausting. I found I have to pause RT for 30 or 60 mins every now and then and let myself "breathe". Even with breaks, the productivity index is a pretty good proxy for discipline.

2. Instapaper (http://instapaper.com)
But not standalone. I use it to push selected articles to my Kindle. Since I generally only use my Kindle during down time (late night reading, leisure time) it helps postpone the distraction without worrying that I'm missing good content.

Best of both worlds.
Reminds a little of the graffiti bot in Demolition Man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrYkwG6Tuo
woot! this is going to cut down my page load latency by at least another 40ms.
I may be completely off-base, but after reading the article and poking around a bit I got the impression that most in the DP group are youngish (under 21) and just wanting to be part of a secret society that does something 'useful.'

Most of the conspiracy theory nuts I know (I know a couple) are just kids who something big to happen, and so they make up a conspiracy so that they can be part of it.
This is MILES better than when I attempted to create a virtualized Oracle RAC 10g cluster. Never before have I cursed a company's name so much.

This looks downright pleasant to configure.
The tablet PC I am using now was only $850 when it was new. HP TX2 from Best Buy.
If you were patenting a TV and in your patent's example diagram, the TV showed Mad Men playing on it, would that be OK? I don't know if it would or not, but it sounds like they're trying to patent the TV, not Mad Men.
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The solidly financial reason for Apple to do this would be to fight refunds.

No idea if there are app-return-rate numbers, but doing refunds isn't a cheap process.
I don't think you understand how intimidation tactics work.
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Yes, UTC it is. I should have mentioned it in the post (editing now)
I wasn't saying an assassination of Assange is likely, just responding to the statement "we have actual laws that the government has to follow". The US state legally permits itself to kill anyone.
These types of maps are often created with ArcGIS. It usually ships with county, state, and word data.

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Can see all the Google shills came out to downvote me, but nobody bothered to refute my comment on the grounds. No surprises there.
Since you've brought up handlers, I now know that you actually do not understand how informants work.
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