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am I the only redditor that doesn't want this guy to buy the site?

CN may be bad, but this guy isn't exactly the epitome of professionalism

(edit: also not sure if the reddit guys will be up for both cheeseburger owners and cheeseburger wages: http://gawker.com/5488509/inside-the-low+paying-cheezburger-...)
Just watched that, can't believe I'd never seen it before. Awesome!
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Protocol? You have a straight face while you're saying this? Protocol? As in, Wall St. & Main St. acquisitions and takeovers protocol?

Seriously? You sure you don't want to delete that? It's on google, searchable, people might remember you said that. It's pretty funny. They might laugh.
All code is also in a unimplemented instruction set architecture, so having a familiarity with some assembler is recommended.
I'd be interested to hear about YC companies: their status, progress, problems, etc.
It's a tabloid site of Nick Denton's so it must be true. Heh.
I used it as an algorithm reference for memory allocation.
Judging from the quantity of ads on his websites, no.
One really excellent price hack if you're doing consultancy is to use price increases as a way to get rid of problem customers. Once you decide a customer is not worth your time & energy to maintain, every month or so, send them an email saying "Unfortunately, due to high demands on my time, I have to raise my rates by 20%. I'd be happy to refer you to my colleague <your biggest enemy> if this increase puts you over your allocated budget".

This is an essentially 0 risk way of doing price discovery and you will usually be surprised at how high you can go before people finally quit.
Conde Nast isn't all fairies and rainbows. And we are on HN, hangout of cheezeburger wannabes everywhere.
And assuming the startup in question has not acquired a few key patents. And assuming the startup made no unique-but-necessary technical decisions that can't be replicated without relying on information obtained under NDA.
You'll get to the point where you want the interview because you want to see what kind of weird situation you're getting yourself into. At this point in my career, I do most of the interviewing so I can size up if it's even possible to be successful in a new place.
maybe another quote will help you understand the point

“I'm sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one.” - Abraham Lincoln

The point isnt to have less, its to have as little as possible required to perform the function you want, anything extra is just extra mental energy required to be able to understand it.

Have you ever written something and then vastly reduced it because you realise you are conveying the same thing in different ways, or written software and realised you have made 2 ways to do the same thing? thats all it means.
Reading the headline, that was exactly my hope. The details make that appear unlikely, but it may be the result regardless.
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He's probably got it in his mind that CN would be willing to dump it for $3 million or some other low ball number.

Reddit was purchased for something like $15 million. I doubt they'd sell it for less than $30 million (if at all). This guy is just tilting at windmills.
Yes, I'm pretty sure I don't want to delete that. If you are serious about a takeover the first thing that would be smart is to not alienate the selling party by some dick move, such as blowing wide open your so-called quiet approach. That way the party you've approached no longer has the option to tell you quietly to go away. This is likely to piss them off, which is not going to work to your advantage, even if there is another episode to the whole thing.

Remember that it is the seller that has something the buyer apparently wants (he's the one approaching).

off-topic, but even if I were wrong, which I really don't think I am, I would still not delete that because I think that deleting stuff just because you 'might be wrong' is a stupid move, it makes everybody that replied in the thread look like an idiot.

I'd rather be wrong and learn than to be wrong and pretend I didn't say something. What's so bad about being wrong?

What's really funny here is that you, anonymous coward are suggesting that I do something dishonorable. Why don't you flesh out your profile a bit and we'll see if you stand by your words just as much as I do.
Didn't that finally get cracked, though?

If carriers really wanted to lock down devices, they would use techniques like the crypto cards ATMs have do. Instead, they do the equivalent of asking you really nicely not to root the device.

Motorola tries harder than most, though, I will agree.
the powerpoint portion came from Zenter, if I'm not mistaken
Good idea: http://twitter.com/paulg/status/22316438109
Connect it to your FriendFeed account. You can edit FriendFeed posts afterward, and aren't as length-limited. Just check a box to cc twitter when posting to FriendFeed.
> In a large enough population of data, collisions happen.

So you pick a hash function whose space is so large that the risk of collision is less than the risk of any other possible reason for accidental mis-identification (like all the file's bytes spontaneously switching to the collided file's bytes). You can have databases with trillions of objects with less than a one in a million chance of collision in a 256-bit space.

Realistically, there are a lot of things that are better to worry about than a one-in-a-million chance of losing a file. And if you really need so many objects that that's not enough, just increase the size of the hash space.
Giving your product a personality is more important than the medium and tools you choose to promote it.
The best defense is a good offense. Get software patents banned, or get a bunch of software patents and donate them to the ASF. When Oracle comes to sue Apache for their free httpd and ASF counters by suing Oracle for something their billion-dollar-per-user database uses, the situation will probably be resolved very quickly.
I don't think so. http://www.sos.ca.gov/prd/campaign_info/forms_instructions/c...

From what I can tell you only have to report expenditures greater than $1000. Maybe
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Would this let us create real time holograms? I heard the thing holding us back was pixel resolution?
The article says, "New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS transforms are a major motivation for this work".

That's what makes it exciting. Hardware acceleration for rendering the front page of HN: not so exciting. Hardware acceleration for 3D APIs drawing stuff in a canvas tag: very exciting.
As long as it wasn't a fake account a la @fakecarolbartz or @fakeparamount I'd guess PG wouldn't have that much of a problem with it.
Write Haikus with it:

Start a company /
listen to your user base /
create destruction
I'm not sure why you'd respond to rhetorical flair with more straight-faced explanations, perhaps the same reason you think there's protocol to acquisitions and takeovers (edit: there's not, well, as much as love & war.)

Conde Nast just embarrassed themselves with a large portion of their customers, and not just the ones at reddit. Cheezeburger guy jumps in with a brilliant move, and you question protocol and additionally seem upset if he's not actually expecting them to sell to him.

And hardly an anonymous coward here, just following corporate protocol of our culture and keeping my job.

Edit: Yes, yes, I know that their real customers are advertisers, and of course that's why they did it. That thinking misses the point that if there are no readers then there are no advertisers. Or if there is lower reader trust and esteem then there is similarly low advertiser trust and esteem. Jus sayin for the nitpickers who miss the wider point otherwise, poor habit that.
whoops... meant to say I AM an ALUM who is back in Ithaca...
You're assuming that people always act rationally when spending money. Any salesperson will tell you that they don't.
http://www.docusign.com/ was also mentioned
I've seen companies sign up for a $3K/month product, then not use it for 6 months.

Large companies do silly things.
As of now I am just using my own. The user can create an account with username/password. When they login, it will associate the user with the session object. Session management is handled by ring, although the session data resides in memory only. I have a function which wraps around the routes which require the user to be logged in and checks the session to make sure the user is not nil.
Or to require that the value of the benefits start being paid down in a sustainable way immediately. Only if those who are benefitting from the delayed benefits are required to fund them will this problem really be solved. In the private lending market we call this a downpayment.
I wonder if heavily thumbed annotated editions cost more?
Probably talent acquisitions: people who already know the field, and who have demonstrated their ability to create a social network. I wouldn't describe it as cobbling, although I suppose they are cobbling a team together from lots of different groups.
How are you planning to do the statistics to come to the right answer?

I have one answer at http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/#slide94 but I'm interested in seeing how others tackle this problem.
Heads up: you probably don't know what you're talking about. But if you're curious, ask the user yourself if you happen to know him.
"Sandwiches fall upon a continuum of tastiness, from the tastiest, all the way down to egg salad sandwiches, which themselves vary in tastiness"
did the both of you coordinate this?
In a lot of places having a visitor wandering the halls looking for a bathroom wouldn't be appreciated
You would think less of Gandhi and Martin Luther King if they used Macs? I think it says more about the irrationality of your Apple hatred.
Cheezburger's Ben Huh: Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit
> You know what policemen and highway workers get paid?

Policemen get paid a lot of money where I live. (http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=1655). Personally I think an entry-level pay of $80k for someone with only a high-school diploma is pretty good. There are other areas in the Bay where pay is even higher, like Oakland.

I can't speak to highway workers.
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That Wired article mentioned that Cheezburger Network did 'over 200MM pageviews a month', so with $4MM in revenue for the year that's an RPM of well north of $1.50. Seriously, that's stellar given the quality of the inventory.

Given that, I'm sure they could make a lot of money with Reddit - buying it would be a sound investment.
Really? ICQ built character by character typing all the way back in the late 90s, and users back then stumbled across basically all of the same landmines Google Wave exposed.

The issue is that the problem Google's engineers perceived simply did not exist. The latency of waiting 30 seconds for a person to finish forming their thought into something coherent just isn't something worth overcoming.
It depends on the business. I worked at one company where we even kept roadmap information secret from the sales department, for fear that it would leak to customers and stall current sales to customers who might just wait for the newer product if they knew the details. I think the defining characteristic may have been that these were big-ticket items: if you buy one, you're not going to buy another for a few years. On the other hand, at another one of my employers, a company selling enterprise software, it was much more important to maintain an ongoing relationship and to establish trust. That required more openness about future plans, to customers who buy a product, buy maintenance contracts, and keep buying more products, once they decided that we were a company that they could do business with in the long term.
Being in a position to follow through and intending to follow through are frequently unrelated things. I agree that this is clearly intended as a publicity stunt. However the better positioned he is to carry through on the stunt if they come back to him, the more effective the stunt is.
> I'm not sure why you'd respond to rhetorical flair with more straight-faced explanations, perhaps the same reason you think there's protocol to acquisitions and takeovers.

The fact that you think there is not means that you're just a poser pretending to be in the know. A party like Conde Nast may not be popular with the reddit crowd but to pretend they're just a bunch of clowns that would be swayed by a jerk move like this is simply stupid. If you think that there is no protocol to buying a business of this size try to take over even a very small website by announcing publicly that you are 'in talks' before receiving your first answer. Then you can tell me how well it worked.

> Conde Nast just embarrassed themselves with a large portion of their customers, and not just the ones at reddit.

Not really, Conde Nast has different priorities than reddit. This is unfortunate for reddit but then they should have done better research on who they were selling to. They differ in opinion on a lot of things, I would call it a 'rocky marriage' at least and possibly there are by now grounds for divorce. But overall I think the reddit guys have been creative enough to work their way around the rough edges and Conde Nast has behaved like a rather reluctant parent. It reminds me very much of the winamp takeover by AOL.

> Cheezeburger guy jumps in with a brilliant move,

What's brilliant about it? Offering to buy them out? If figure that if you're serious about something like that you go about it the diplomatic way, not the cowboy way. Unless of course you don't really want a deal.

But, maybe pigs can fly, and maybe you are right. But I highly doubt it.

I get approached on average 3 times per year to 'sell my company', I can tell just by the way in which I'm approached if someone is serious or not. And even if they are serious, we usually just end up chatting for a bit and then we both go our ways. If such a party would announce their intent in the media before sounding me out they might as well forget about approaching, especially if they're not nearly as well known as either the acquisition target or the seller. Then it looks like they're trying to gain publicity over my back.

> and you question protocol and additionally seem upset if he's not actually expecting them to sell to him.

Yep. It wastes bandwidth and gives this guy airtime that he shouldn't have. Unless, of course he really is serious and just hasn't figured out how to handle a situation like this. But as it is it just looks like a rather stupid ploy to get their attention in a negative way. The redditors (the subject of the sale here) must be wondering right now if it would be possible to find an even worse buyer than CN.

> And hardly an anonymous coward here, just following corporate protocol of our culture and keeping my job.

That's what I said. So you don't stand by your words after all. Just imagine your boss would read your writings, you might want to delete them, right? And your job is in M&A?
Ask HN: Equity and Funding
Jack launches a startup, incorporates it and issues 1M shares, all of which go to him since he's the sole founder. He approaches VC firms for funding and a firm agrees to fund the startup in exchange for 30% or 300K shares. Does this money go to Jack (since he owns the shares)? Shouldn't it go to the company?

How does this work exactly?
I think you're simply talking about different complementary things.

One speaks about the fact that you can learn the basic keywords and flow (as in how the language is parsed) using simple mathematic problems.

While the other speaks about solving real-world problems require more diversity.
It would be interesting to see what changes they would make, that is if any, I'm sure they would though.
That was incredibly satisfying, thanks.
Simply allow people to one click into a demo site with full functionality.
There is a 'Via: Hacker News' at the bottom of the article.
It's not like a social network is a difficult thing to build. Google's got the audience, all they have to do is build something that's useful and addictive.
Nobody sells millions of copies (of their nonfiction book)
> It's not like a social network is a difficult thing to build.

All evidence from the past notwithstanding?
The dock is a waste of screen space full-stop. Almost any app can be launched more quickly with a Cmd+Space, 2-3 chars + Enter if you're already at the keyboard. I'd have it removed altogether if accessing minimized apps in other ways wasn't so sucky.
This says we need a display with pixels half the wavelength of light, .2 microns. http://www.phased-array.com/1996-Book-Chapter.html
> but there are people who only get their news from Reddit.

Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
Hence the "ask where the restroom is" part. Though the most relevant part of the point is that whether you're escorted or not, the person who needs the restroom is the one who asks to go.
I didn't sign up because you have to use a Twitter or Facebook account. I don't want to use either.
In some schools, you actually start with lambda calculus, just a bit more theoritical.
That's really true, but it can backfire spectacularly.

I once had a customer that was really in the 'nothing but headaches' category. They came with a new job and I really should have said 'no', but instead I figured I'd just quote a very high price and they'd go away.

They accepted :(
A rule that is obvious, but which most people on Twitter don't follow, is that it's best to share information that is simultaneously (a) interesting and (b) not already widely shared by others. Most people aim either for (a) or for (b), but not for both. csallen's suggestions elsewhere in this thread are useful, as with one exception they fulfill both (a) and (b).

This rule can be tipped upside down: it's best to follow people whose tweets mostly fulfill both these criteria. This rules out a very large number of people. It's amazing how many people fill their tweetstream with the news of the day from TechCrunch (or HN). It may be interesting, but it's already widely shared.

Personally, I find twitter most useful as a highly tailored source of links. That makes it sound similar to news sites such as HN, but the experience is different because you choose which people to follow. For instance, I get a lot out of following @NicholasGruen, who ran the Australian Government's Gov2.0 taskforce, @rjlipton, a leading theoretical computer scientist whose blog was the main clearinghouse in the scrutiny of the recent claimed proof the P is not equal to NP, @gnat of O'Reilly Media for an eclectic collection of tech-related links that for the most part fall outside the purview of the standard sources (TechCrunch etc), etc. Of course, those particular sources are just ones I find interesting, and they may not interest you. The point is that if you choose people whose tweet streams match your informational needs, Twitter can be very valuable.
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It depends -- did she ask for a raise? If she asks for a raise, then it really doesn't matter what the reason is, you just ask yourself do you want to give this person a raise.

If she didn't ask for a raise, then a 3rd option might be to give a "moving expense" bonus of some sort right now, and then reevaluate a raise at a later date, or whenever the next review/raise schedule is.
Lateef Johnson: ‘How I did it. From nothing to prototype in three weeks.’
From the US, currently living in Mexico. So I voted for USA and other.
After more research: wow, this is actually getting kind of close. The iPhone 4 has pixel size of 78 μm, and if this can do 8x smaller that's around 10 μm. Just two orders of magnitude to go!
>>> The fact that you think there is not means that you're just a poser pretending to be in the know.

Ah, yes, name calling, that will do it.

>>> but to pretend they're just a bunch of clowns that would be swayed by a jerk move like this is simply stupid

What, who, me? I'm pretending they would?

>>> by announcing publicly that you are 'in talks' before receiving your first answer

Wha...huh...business news...oh nevermind.

>>> Then you can tell me how well it worked.

Hurray! Some rhetorical flair! Now we're talking.

>>> Conde Nast has behaved like a rather reluctant parent. It reminds me very much of the winamp takeover by AOL.

Interest contrast between your expectations and sympathy for behavior of big business versus a little guy with a popgun (in the populist mind, that is). I'm sure you don't really feel the way implied or rather left out here, which is my point.

>>> What's brilliant about it?

A. publicity (do I really need to say that?)

B. maybe he'll luck out and they'll actually sell (I doubt it but who knows)

C. signaling. intentionality to purchase large web assets (perhaps something new for him, I'm not sure, I haven't followed the Cheezeburger business in the past couple years)

Takeovers and acquisitions is a signaling game.

>>> It wastes bandwidth

Populist uprising doesn't necessarily rule out participation of business leaders. In fact, it often needs their help. Didn't waste my bandwidth, quite enjoyable really, too bad it wasted yours.

(Edit, wait a sec, waste bandwidth? You're on a roll with lot of value judgments dude so this one slipped by me, quite off really. Popular though, gotta say that for ya, but then again the Tea Party is pretty popular too so doesn't mean that much.)

>>> The redditors (the subject of the sale here) must be wondering right now if it would be possible to find an even worse buyer than CN

The must huh?

>>> That's what I said. So you don't stand by your words after all. Just imagine your boss would read your writings, you might want to delete them, right?

There's no point arguing with this one, you'd like to think your experience and assumptions fit my situation, but sorry, nope. The rest, fine, but you should be ashamed of yourself for this part.

Edit: I'm tempted to go back and count all the explicit and implied value judgments, logical fallacies, positions clearly based on your economic conditions or ideals. And it would be quite fun to ride through a deconstruction of your own condition compared with that of your ideals and opinions...but why oh why,
Since then, I've taken to asking people what kind of dress code they expect on an interview.

Skulk around in the parking lot the day before and see what they wear. Then, dress one notch -- and only one -- above that standard.
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Umm... welcome to HN? :)
Anything not "proven invisible"? So... any text on any image background? Any colored text on any background? (white text on white background...)
Is there any context for this video?
For some reason I'm still surprised when I meet a web developer who doesn't really know about XSS and SQLi.

Part of the problem is people who code for a living. If you get to work, write code for 8 hours, then leave and never think about programming outside that time you don't give yourself the opportunity to learn very much. Unless you work with amazing people and/or read a lot and participate in communities while at work.
I think one of Google's main problems in respect to building apps, is they stick to their overly simple design principles, which don't lend themselves to complex services like social networks. If you log into Orkut as an early adopter, it's not that impressive at all. Similar experience with Wave.
IMHO that'd make you a pretty crappy manager. Didn't Conde Nast pay something like 15 million for Reddit? And you'd make a decision that would, as you said, likely kill the site off over a little authority dispute? What a way to throw your money away.