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I think there is a more fundamental reason why startups who build open-source may be more successful than those who don't. In my (entirely anecdotal) experience, there is a definite correlation between proprietary source code and paternalistic business practices.

I think most companies that refuse to provide source code will also confine their users to their vision of the way the software should be used. Unless you have the good fortune to be the only entrant into an exciting new field, that sort of Victorian we-know-what's-good-for-you smugness is unlikely to be a hit for long.

The reason LearnBoost will win is not simply that it's a better product. It's one you can escape from. You can export your gradebook and lesson plans. You can manipulate them any way you like. By contrast, the proprietary Blackboard Vista, which my teachers use, is a never-ending source of aggravation and pain. And it's compounded by cost of exit. Blackboard is, to my knowledge, exclusively subscription-based, and exporting the data is difficult at best.
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I don't see why you doubt that anyone who earns $600k is clever enough to live cheaply : Banks prefer to hire smart people...

But there's also an element of management preferring their employees to live at/above their means to some extent, just so they have to keep putting in the hours... (This is really true : I employ sales people in a trading room, and it's easy to see that they react to financial pressure by making more money).
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You could, if the system is designed for it. Lots of little digital "coins" that are shuffled around between different accounts, with traceable history.
Most men employed as programmers lack that obsession too. HN has lots of people that have loved computers their whole lives, and tech entrepreneurs and companies like Google, Facebook, old-school MSFT are probably loaded with these obsessives, but there are tens of millions of professional programmers out there worldwide. Most of them chose programming as a job because it passed the cost/benefit test vs other fields.

That's why so many Indians (male and female) work as programmers - IT outsourcing jobs in India pay quadruple a normal wage and are more prestigious. In the US, programmers get good but not mind-boggling wage and have very little prestige outside of SV, Seattle, Boston and Austin.
jacquesm is completely correct - for example, at the company I currently work for we have very strict policies around this, and also how things are encrypted/etc. We don't want access to user data, files or say - encryption keys. Having access not only violates the trust of the user(s), it fundamentally exposes us to liability we do not want.

Anyone and everyone who has access to account data - no matter how trivial that data may seem to you needs to treat that data as extremely sensitive and with the utmost respect and those that mistreat it, or abuse that power should be grossly punished.
I'd be interested to know stats about the impact of Y Combinator on companies with a nice control setup. Revealed preference: people who get in, but choose not to go to Y Combinator, vs. those who do... or something like that.
I have a Next Color Turbo at home, it's an awesome machine.

And so it should be for what it cost back in the day. Windows PCs made computing affordable for Jo(e) Consumer, there's no getting away from that.
>> Why do you think Silicon Valley has never quite come around on this guy?

There are two separate aspects here, professional and personal.

Silicon Valley judges people based on their professional acumen and practices. And Gates did not please everybody in this department.

And the other aspect, yes, people in tech do admire his humanitarian efforts.

It's just that mixing two aspects of a personality and trying to come up with an overall score does not work.
I don't have much money to throw around these months, but I subscribed to Premium yesterday. In my opinion, the service ia probably worth £100 per month or more. It just seems like such an obscene luxury, being able to plug a small device into your hifi then listen to virtually anything you want at a high bit rate, for as long as you want. I was reading a radio stations Top 1000 tunes and decided to get a month's subscription because there was a Spotify playlist for it. I mean of all the things I might spend £10 on, that is easily worth it. Then there's the other types of listening it makes possible, like listening to dozens of different versions of the same jazz standard, or compilation box sets you'd never find (I recommend the John Lennon covers one, it's from a series of charity releases I think). Just add a few more features like more metadata for the tracks and it will be perfect.

That said, at the same time I think it is insane and surely unsustainable. If someone records a great record, why should the whole world get to listen to it completely free (well, there is advertising money but doesn't anoint to much from what I'm lead to believe), makes no sense. And on the other hand, if they don't release their record to Spotify, they are still facing economic competition from the service. Faced with a choice between Spotify's enormous database and some particular new single, I'll take the former and forego the latter.

Perhaps they will change it though, like force a certain number of purchases per month to maintain the service, or limit the number of plays a track can get before it becomese unavailable.
Why? To draw a parallel: Video games teach kids how to shoot up schools.
He is hiring the best people, he just wishes that more of the people he's willing to hire were women.
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A report distributed shows that Canonical — the commercial arm of Ubuntu — has contributed only about one percent of the code to the GNOME desktop for Linux. while Red Hat accounts for 17 percent of the code and Novell developers are responsible for about 11 percent.

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I think about 90/140 startups are still alive, read this on some thread at HN.

Dont know about exits though
Agreed, but this is kinda f'ed up: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/09/13/interoperable-...
I don't think it needs a debugger to be a success – among regular users.
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it contains practical knowledge that can be used for good or evil

How can said practical knowledge be used for good? In the real world, I mean, not hypothetical-land? Where do you suggest I should plant my homemade bomb in order to make the world a better place, really?

You don't have to have a "big evangelical moment" to see that this book's main contribution to the world has been a bunch of teenagers blowing up either mailboxes or their own hands.
What do you do when users seem to actually want software with little intrinsic value?

Keep iterating and maybe you will become Zynga!
Exactly, which he says is stupid. That's why Buffett and Gates have been pushing so hard to get other billionaires to pledge to donate as much as them. Larry Ellison is one of the more recent tech execs to take the pledge.
I've lived in Iran for more than 30 years, and I have enough technical knowledge on IT security to say this, the only way that really works right now for people of Iran to use Internet in a reasonable and practical manner is using VPN. Any other means is not working or is impractical for most users (most web based proxy services are either work for special websites or are actually spying on people or ...). And VPN is not cheap and not accessible for most Iranians (they don't have credit cards to buy the service, because of US sanctions). And whenever government feels a bit unsafe most VPN traffic is also blocked one way or the other for several days.
Wow, I sure got modded down for suggesting that maybe twenty-seven is too young to be master of the universe here, didn't I?
At the same time I think we need to remember the motto of Microsoft up until a couple years ago: "a computer in every home." Without Microsoft I'm not sure that would have been done so effectively or quickly and I'm positive that the tech world which we build in now is a direct result of that fact. The reason Microsoft changed their motto is because they actually succeeded, which is simply amazing.
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Area news reports are saying that David Betras who is chairman of the Mahoning County Democrat Party may ask Secretary of State to investigate the Mahoning County Board of Elections (BOE). Mr. Tom McCabe is a member of the County Republican Party and director of the BOE is under attack by the supporters of Ex. Congressman Jim Traficant for miscounting petition signatures. The Jim Traficant supporters just recently staged a protest march in front of Mr. McCabe’s county office.

The Democrat Party Chairman David Betras is known for his highly partisan attitude in local campaigning, so rumors are swirling regarding Mr. McCabe’s potential resignation. Jim Traficant has filed his petitions as an independent party candidate for the November race for 17th Congressional District.

Youngstown is well known for its lively political clashes and trash talking so, let the games began. The voters in this region of Ohio are fiercely Democrat and they all have a small spot in their hearts for ‘Jimbo’ Jim Traficant.

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I'm kinda miffed that people measure the good that the ultra-wealthy do for society only through the taxes they pay and neglect the great value they have provided people through the market place. As if the volume of taxation and government spending a man generates were the only ways to measure a man's worth.
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I'm curious how an interviewer would even know if the woman has kids. I'm a female dev and have never been asked about kids while interviewing, and if I had kids, I certainly wouldn't talk about them on an interview.

Making the assumption that all women will have kids and are mostly likely going to put raising them over their career is incredibly sexist - that goes beyond "not being an equal-opportunity douchebag".. that's like "doesn't understand women and probably has never had a meaningful relationship with one." The woman is best off not working with such an ass imo.
Finally, is it realistic to develop solely in an emulator without having a real device

No. Even if you're not using any hardware features, the emulator gives you no idea of what performance will be like on real devices. Get a Nexus One if you don't want to be tied to a contract.
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Seems like an awful lot of overhead -- in terms of cash and labor -- to only touch a small amount of people. Compare, for instance, to a nightclub event sponsored by a liquor in Miami that turns out 500+ people.
It's really about common sense and responsibility. If I were going to make some thermite or something, I'd do a bit of research to see what safety precautions to take. I'd keep a good distance between myself and the thermite, and I'd make sure that everyone else was also a good distance away. I'd make sure nothing of value was near the thermite, and I'd make sure I could ignite it without being too close.

When something is dangerous, you have to approach it with caution. Specific knowledge (like "grounding in pyrotechnics and demolitions") lets you know how many liberties you can get away with, but in general, you just have to be cautious. Sometimes cautious is "don't do it at all", but only rarely.

A small bomb in a dirt field with nobody around doesn't really do anything dangerous. A mega-bomb in your basement does. You don't have to know much about pyrotechnics to know this, you just have to have some common sense.

Watch Mythbusters, they do it right every time. Start with small scale, if it seems to work, try a bigger version. That applies to everything.
Yeah, funny that. You could infer one of a couple very bad interview tactics from what I wrote. I feel no need to correct whichever assumption you make.

You clearly have the presence of mind to laugh this off, but my thoughts trend more towards torches and pitchforks.
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You are talking about fideism, not religion. Lots of religious folks (I am not religious) value knowledge as much as non-religious people do. Faith has nothing to do with it (see Kierkegaard)

Making such sweeping generalizations -- painting the entire concept of religion with the actions of a relatively few fundamentalists -- isn't very charitable. And it invites pointless debate, as other commenters have pointed out.
A neat example from Joyce (early in Ulysses) of how to calculate the milk bill when a shilling is 12 pence (in case it's unclear, the bill is two shillings and two pence; the boys end up paying a florin (24 pence) and owing 2 pence):

-- Have you your bill? We had better pay her, Mulligan, hadn't we?

Stephen filled the three cups.

-- Bill, sir? she said, halting. Well, it's seven mornings a pint at twopence is seven twos is a shilling and twopence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.
Two weeks? You are making the common "predict the future" mistake of assuming people will not try to do anything, and will just sit around. In actuality if there was a global loss of power people will figure out many many things to help.
Now you should write a client for the API using RestSharp ;)
The editorial makes a good point. Absent some new catastrophe, the blood letting is over for US firms. Many even have the cash flow to look at acquisitions. Consumer spending, too, is on a slow rise. So most of the dividend-paying, consumer-staple firms are safe. And safety is all investors need to get back into the stock market.
We'll see a few solid exits per class in the years to come

It's patently impossible to know this.
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My company built and owns CityMax which is a website builder for small businesses. We have about 20,000 paying customers there and are profitable. This is more of a "can we change the world?" effort.

One of the key differences we believe is the table of contents on the side. Blogs are a modern representation of newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. One of our goals is to see if we can make a modern representation of books.

One nice thing that we have found is that many of our staff actually have multiple sites for different uses. We use one each for our two companies. I've got one between my wife and I. I have one to keep personal notes. It doesn't feel like we are using them just because we built it either.

In many ways I use it like a wiki but organizing a wiki has always been a weak point for me. I always end up with orphan pages with no links to them. Also, wikis are almost categorically ugly for some reason. On the other hand, blogs are often beautiful.

One of our design goals was to be "beautiful." Please check out our template designer. We think it might be one of the best in the industry (blog, website builder, or otherwise).

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Perhaps I'm just being dense today, but in what way is "Religion is bad, m'kay?" not a non-sequitur to the question that was actually asked?
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Unless I'm missing something, this needs an obvious hook of why it's easier, right up front. I see a number of attractive screenshots, but nothing to excite a user into "Wow! This is simple!". I mean, everyone says their software is simple. You're going to have to show, not tell, right on the front page.

Your audience is nontechnical users, and I think there may be a bigger hurdle there to get them to "click on the big green button". At least a better screenshot maybe? I can see it's supposed to show editing I think but it's not clear.
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For what it's worth I just came back from a week and a half in Japan and never knew these things existed (well, I knew there was some sort of smartcard system for the subway I wasn't using, but had no idea it extended further than that). Japan is still the most cash-heavy culture I've visited.

The US, on the other hand, is the most plastic-heavy culture I've visited. It's the only place where it's socially acceptable to pay for a $1.50 cup of coffee with a credit card.
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One thing that isn't often mention is this: the average time to liquidity for a venture backed startup is just north of 7 years [edit: make that 8.7 years].

The first "class" was 6/2005:
Reddit (made it pretty big)
Infogami (joined reddit, "made it big")
Kiko (sold for ~$250k, started Justin.tv - likely to make it big)
Loopt (well-funded, great traction, seems likely to make it pretty big)
ClickFacts
Firecrawl (one founder joined TextPayMe, another YC company that sold to Amazon)
Simmery (one founder joined Reddit and presumably made it sorta big)
Memamp

--> That's 50-75% seeming to have a pretty good shot at making it somewhat big.

You can head to: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...

and do your own math, but it's pretty premature for most of the classes.
"Not really relevant to anything I said."

By ignoring the fact that this was built for a practical purpose, and only mentioning ways that it could be abused implied that the author had bad intentions when writing it, I was clarifying that for everyone else, he should be thanked for ihackernews at the least.

I didnt say there was no downsides to people using it, but people can figure that out for themselves, there are also significant advantages over 1. not writing code yourself, and 2. caching and sharing the load from this domain, we already know that this site has stability issues and bots can quite easily affect the load, even if all people do with this api is create new ui's for hacker news then it would be worth it, I am pretty surprised that is the only useful thing you can see it being used for, there is obviously a lot of use cases.
Your argument is silly all the way through. He's got an IQ of 160, which means he actually is considerably smarter than most of the rest of us.

He was born into money, but so are hundreds of thousands of people in our country. Most accomplish little of value. Much more common in his situation would be a career in investment banking, sucking money out of the middle class's retirements.

It's ludicrous to say that he's destroyed lives. He's perhaps run competitors out of business, but I'd be willing to bet that most of the actual people involved didn't end up in a gutter as a result. Netscape is the most often cited victim of his allegedly brutal business acumen, and Marc Andreesen seems to be doing alright for himself.

It's totally impossible to say what was to the detriment (or benefit) of the industry. To do so, you'd have to compare this universe to another which was identical to this other than Bill Gates having not existed. All we can say for sure is that Bill was consequential enough that the alternate universe would look much different, certainly better in some ways, just as surely worse in others, but on the balance who knows? You could just as well predict what the weather will be 100 years from now as you could what the world would have been like without Bill Gates.

I don't think pointing out his philanthropic endeavors amounts to worship. And I suspect things would not be better for Hackers at all, but again, I cannot see into alternate universes. He's simply become a scapegoat for all of the frustrations of people who are more comfortable with computers than they are with the businesses that drive a society that can create such a thing.
This is pretty awesome... assuming you have the budget for it, and it's a good idea for members of your community to feel exclusive.

EDIT: I'd be interested in reading examples of technology community building, particularly for niche services. These seems like a much harder challenge.
They do, when the versions of Windows that shipped with those versions of IE lapse out of their support period. That doesn't stop people from running them. They're our computers, nobody, including Microsoft, gets to decide what we run on them. They can only strongly encourage us to upgrade.
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Nice job, as soon as I clicked the "start now button" orbs exceeded my expectations thanks to the wysiwyg type editor.

Couple thoughts:
1. Where can customers submit feedback, get support, make feature requests, etc.? That's priority #1
2. Any thoughts on how can you get the word out, I'd stop building new features and focus on the viral component.
Doesn't some of that stuff fall along the lines of stalking? If the term "authorized" can be defined properly in this context, isn't there a branch of cybercrime that deals with "unauthorized" access to or use of information? Is it possible for the victims to use DMCA here? Finally, in that his victims were minors, are there extra protections afforded them, especially with the violation of the intent for users of the service to block? How about trespass? Some of what this guy did is akin to forceful entry into your house in order to press his agenda, whatever it is.

I am not a lawyer, but I can imagine at least asking for someone to look within these categories. I would personally feel very violated if I had some stranger even commenting about an email that was not directed towards them ... and even more violated if that stranger manipulated the system to get beyond whatever walls I threw up.
IE once was on Unix. Let the circle complete.

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I'd say Bill Gates is a true and successful capitalist.
Why 20 years?

Do it now.

We'll rename the coins (issue all new ones) "decies".

Sort of like a reverse stock split. Let's renormalize all our cash. Due to inflation it's necessary to do this every 100 years or so.
Hmm... we do full testing and many of our staff, including myself, use it with Chrome regularly (and also Safari). I think this may be a bug only appearing in the Dev version of chrome which we aren't targetting.

We are trying to differentiate ourselves with the table of contents on the right. It's hard to tell when you start (because there aren't many pages) but the tree-like Table of Contents (with drag and drop) is great for larger sites.

Our staff site, for example, has over 100 pages but is nicely organized. The software can support 1000 page sites. Probably more but we haven't tested performance over 1000.

Sunny
There have been many rumors (patent applications) that Apple intend to have their iMac line act as a tablet. With a large capacitive screen and iOS (In addition to OSX), which effectively would act as Microsoft surface, just with mature software.

My bet is that we will see an Apple surface before a Microsoft one.