skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how much of the oracle's academic initiative was a success. From the likes of what is being happening to Sun's Academic Initiative to promote university grad students to take the certification exams such as SCJP now called Oracle certified java programmer. Sun has offered its student members the certification exam for 40 $ which has been recently dropped by oracle making it 40% of the voucher fee which implies 40% of 150 around 90$. The 40% discount voucher is also for a limited period which will be done for good this December. I seriously doubt oracle's contribution towards opensource too.
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Wonder who's going to scoop the TechCrunch buy out price, since that's usually TechCrunch's job.
It's ironic that the one piece of information TechCrunch always tried to include in their stories is left out when it's about themselves.
This seems to be the general opinion of the specialists:
The amount of sleep a person needs is not universal. If you don't sleep what you need you'll be harming yourself, and abusing coffee will only worsen things.
I hope he got a Bebo-like valuation... and can then buy it back for cents on the dollar 2 years later.
I'm guessing for $80 million
congrats to Mike!. Will he move out from Seattle now?
I think you're missing the point. While it's _extremely_ unlikely that the next random number produced would be Pi, in an infinite scale it can (and theoretically would) happen because it is, in fact, possible to occur.
will be through an http to finger+ssh gateway initially, but ssh+finger directly in the browser is the longer term goal. cat to your .plan wont work, thimbl stores json in the .plan, however we will add support for cat > .project, but not in the first release.
Looks more like a Amazon affiliate than a real spin-off. But it seems like a nice site. Will have a look at it.
oops. indeed.
I totally agree, and there's no implication the law-breakers have any specific morality.
So we were right to suspect the move to Seattle was tax based...
http://corp.aol.com/2010/09/28/aol-to-acquire-techcrunch-net...
will Mike move out from Seattle now?
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So who's going to be the next TechCrunch now that they've been bought out? For that matter, seems like this leaves GigaOm as one of the largest independent blogs right now...
Virtual company/stock name for 10$ per year (prototype application)
Would you buy virtual stock name for 10$ as on my site? (http://share.intelligether.com/)

Virtual stock can than be given away to anyone (who has e-mail (for now only if also a user on the site, so all participants have to register first)).

Virtual stock is supposed to be used to create virtual companies which would produce something real (like a software product).

If later someone would want your product, you could for instance incorporate and then, who has more virtual stock, gets more real stock.
AOL Acquires TechCrunch and Arrington for 3 years
This is epic. For all the crap we give AOL, they really did a nice job with the Weblogs acquisition. A lot of those blogs are still around and the leaders in the field.

I wonder a) what's happening to the amazing conferences b) and where Mike's future will be like.
No doubt, Philly is on the upswing
$30 for a new release movie at home? Studios think you'll pay
BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak
That's it. Looks really usable, setup also was simple.

Shame that it's English only :(
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Hot air does not fix bugs. Hard work does.
Calacanis Shreds Arrington, Calls Him "Trainwreck," "Liability," "Sociopath"
checks TechStars founders wiki

Oh hey, you're right. My bad. Sorry about that. I guess I just kinda assumed.
The only problem is AOL has driven every acquisition into the ground:

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

But still, congrats to the TechCrunch bunch.
What do you mean by Google? Google Bookmarks, the Chrome sync? Google Notebook? :)
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Fellow Washingtonians, let's consider passing I-1098 especially in this light: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/426758_fair16.html
which part? in order to be followed by thimbl, all you need is ssh and xinetd/finger running. That's it. If you want to clone the thimbl http to finger&ssh gateway, the current implementation uses twisted / mammatus. If you want to run the UI, it's just static html/css/js that does jsonp calls to the gateway. more details will be posted in the next few days.
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Though I disagree with Arrington quite often, congratulations on the acquisition. He worked his ass off to build TechCrunch to where it is today.
We interrupt this disrupt to join AOL's "audience-relavent" department.
Oracle's strategy seems to be:

(1) Don't bother investing too much in R&D or figuring out the next big technology, just buy companies that are alread profitable (to name a few: Sun, BEA, Hyperion, Sieble, Innobase, PeopleSoft...).

(2) Immediately execute massive layoffs to increase profits even more. And suck every dollar possible out of the business for a couple years.

(3) After a while, the profits will start decreasing, but slowly enough (due to market inertia) that they have time to rinse and repeat. Go back to step 1.

Sometimes, Oracle will get lucky and be able to keep running a business good enough that the profits will somewhat be stable enough for years.
Check out his further clarying comments in the thread:

http://www.businessinsider.com/calacanis-arrington-techcrunc...
It's interesting that with AOL trying to assemble a collection of new media websites/blogs they probably would have been better off spinning off another company that doesn't have such a bad reputation in media.
Did anyone see this coming?
> As you can see on the left side of this example, the blue block recedes...On the right side of the example, you see the opposite effect, with the red block looking almost as if it is a tower extruding towards you from the blue block.

I see the opposite, with the red block receding and the blue block extruding. What does that say about me?
4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + ...
If you posses drugs, you're following illegal conduct, and you can be fined or imprisoned. Similarly, if we end up with a government OK'd list of crypto schemes, those of us who use strong crypto legitimately will be criminals. Also, in the UK, you can get charged for not handing over encryption keys.
Zero respect for the people behind the service, really? I have zero respect for your comment but I stop well short of saying I have zero respect for you.

Things are probably not that simple. They have investors. It may not be a case of "Hey, we can make a business that pays for three guys to eat." Perhaps their investors need to see a certain minimum return or else the investors would rather close up shop.

Maybe they have a better buysiness idea and it's better to close this one and put 100% of their energy into the new idea. Have you heard of justin.tv? IIRC, a large number of people on reddit were criticizing Justin and his partners for selling their previous startup on eBay. They got some money and started again with a blank piece of paper.

I am not saying that you're wrong about what to do given the information you have. I am saying that (1) It is difficult to be absolutely certain that they are making the worst possible business decision in this case given how little we know, and (2) Even if they are making the worst possible business decision, how does this extend to having zero respect for the complete human beings who laugh, love, play, and built something many people value?

p.s. The company is for sale. If you have an opinion of how it ought to be run, there's no better way to make your case than to buy it for a fire sale price and run it. In all honesty, I would be absolutely delighted if you were to make a go of it. That would be a very inspiring story.
May be Venture Beat? or GigaOM
That post is such a canned press release it's untrue. [insert name] CEO, commented: blah blah natural complement... Blah excited ... Blah great future together.
Some rumors on Twitter are saying AOL whipped out $25m.

Edit: http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-techcrunch-price-25-milli...
Features & feedback cycles - split test before product?
I currently live in Vancouver, BC. We have one of the highest ratios of cost of living to income. According to statistics canada, in 2008 the median total income by family was $68,670. That year the average house price in greater vancouver for a single detached unit was $921,000. I can tell you that things have hardly changed at all. We currently have one of the highest cost of living in the developed world.

edit:
We have now crossed the $1 million mark:
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Autos/20100406/vancouver_100406/
The acquisition? Yes.

From AOL? No.
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Interesting follow-up to the talk of companies being acquired yesterday at disrupt. Arrington was surprised that Conway et al seemed to not have a problem with companies who were content with being acquired at less than billion dollar valuations and dramatic "change the world" dreams.
I can't hear anything on Chrome...
Reliability, not cost, is the primary issue. The transport grid nationwide is in serious need of repair and upgrading.

The move toward owning one's power generation at a time when the state is issuing IOU's makes business sense.

Perhaps it's a hedge against concerns over what they perceive the utilities must do in the next 25 years to keep the lights on.
Weblogs Inc seems to be doing okay, not sure if this would be much different.
Someone should organize a viewing of this film in DC: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427461/ Maybe then they would get the point.
Assuming she has both the skill and the time to understand and patch the codebase herself. Otherwise she will be just as beholden to said developer as she is to Microsoft.

More in fact; at least MS has some incentive to add features its users want rather than those that are merely interesting to code...
I wonder if TC was owned 100% by Arrington. That would be a big check in the mail. Hope the rest of the writers there get some dough.
I'm absolutely certain I will be downvoted for this, but I'm really saddened about this deal. Well...

Congratulation to the TechCrunch team; my condolences to TechCrunch.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2565-acquisition-condolences
A new/ask intersection page.
AOL Insider Says TechCrunch Price Only $25 Million
Why is wealth equality a good thing?

I am a poor college student that got a scholarship that paid for most of my college education. My family is too poor to pay for such an education. I got no issue with incredibly rich people. What they're going to do? Buy that 100 inch TV?
But I thought Yahoo! were making content plays . . . .

Perhaps they only make moves for blue collar content?
Well, it's kind of a Catch-22.

This proof is dependent upon the lemma that time is infinite. On the other hand, the set of events we're looking for is the one where time ends. Therefore by assuming the lemma we have no need for the proof.

OTOH, if we're looking at another event that's not so confusing (one that's not the end of time), the proof holds water. It's a pretty sweet proof that I think is similarly used to prove that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
The other is to spell out clearly the policy of working on outside projects (to bring in some money) during the YC 3-month period. Leaving it ambiguous keeps out people who need a part-time gig to bring in some money but could spend the rest of their waking time working on a cool product.

I know people who work as consultants and make $10K-$25K in a month. To these people, the YC 'investment' is more of a deterrent. The main attraction would be to get wired into the network and tap into the experience YC and its alumni can offer. It would be good if you could clarify whether it makes sense for them to apply or not.

Pretty sure the official answer is that they wouldn't be interested in taking someone who could only work part-time. I'm sure there are edge cases here and there, and YC is all for creative ways to stay alive financially (AirBnB sold cereal to stay alive - http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/smallbusiness/1003/galle...), but the YC school of thought is that a startup should occupy 100% of your work-related effort.

Of course, plenty of us worked as consultants for $10K-$25K/month before YC (er, closer to $10K) in order to build up some savings to live on.
I don't get how this is even feasible? I mean maybe you can get some companies to implement the backdoors and fulfill the requirements of the law while simultaneously making themselves vulnerable to a whole new class of security holes.

But that won't solve the FBI's problem. There is no way you will ever get GPG or openssh to do this. And therefore no way you would possibly harm that Mob Boss who will be using GPG not PGP or some other commercial encryption scheme. The internet has already broken this for the FBI they need to adapt or live with it.
So weblogs inc went for $25M in 2005. I'm thinking somewhere in between your number and that. maybe $30-35M

fun game though ;-P
$100 million. I figure Mike has no reason to sell unless its a sweet offer - TC has good revenue, its growing, and he has a good team running it.
"There is no plea for community help"

From your slideshow: "THIMBL will succeed with a community. join us and help make a free, open social network"

"and a bunch of blogs with fees"

What "fees" for running free blogging software on my server?

"Interesting that you bother to post a comment"

It's called having an opinion. If you can't deal with skepticism after publishing PR material without having anything more substantive handy, rethink your strategy.
Why the no-fun 'FarmVille' is so popular
the timing leaves much to be desired. what is so HTML 5'y about this? why couldn't this have been done in previous HTML versions?
Why So Many People Can't Make Decisions
The article's primarily about people being very wrong about the figures, though, not primarily about whether the figures themselves are good or bad. Someone with accurate information could still think that the current distribution of wealth is perfectly fine, but we should at least have the facts right!
This assumes that something like their e-mail address is static: in the real world it isn't. Normal users often use e-mail addresses assigned to them from their ISP, school, or work, and think nothing of the fact that these are needlessly transient identifiers. In practice you simply cannot automate the problem "I forgot my username/password".

(EDIT: Oh, and I misunderstood your comment: no, you cannot have them initiate the request with their username, because they probably also forgot their username. I thought you were saying that they could initiate a request to look up their username before looking up their password, which has the "no stable identifier" problem I ended up going into.)
that was danger before - hopefully there won't be any accident/disaster from existing installed boxes - also John Doer (the VC) of this company is one of the most powerful lobbyist himself and they did a fantastic job by keeping this secret (until recently) and in the mean time they used all their high-profile contacts within various industries to install those energy boxes and get super-positive reviews , so by doing this they edged-out all other lobbyist ..
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Not sure what to think. I really like TechCrunch and hope it stays awesome.
same here. And then, the page crashed.
Weirdest thing how Assange gets mad because wikileaks secrets are leaked, that seems to have a nice symmetry to it.

The last couple of months have seen wikileaks go from solid and with a very high level of integrity to definitely damaged, it won't last at this rate.
Compare this to "What You Can't Say:" http://paulgraham.com/say.html .
Wow, is this Angels Go Nuclear week?

As incendiary as JC is (by nature), he makes an interesting case: killing the Tech Crunch conference was all about flipping TechCrunch to AOL without giving away a piece of the pie.

>>IF<< that's the case it would make it harder to feel any sympathy over the (very real) screwage inflicted by Fusion Garagae over the CrunchPad/JooJoo.
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AOL officially buys techCrunch
Andy Kessler: What's the Matter With Wall Street? (WSJ)
Subtitle: "There are too many traders, bankers and salesmen to support the new level of business. Thanks to Dodd-Frank, the shrinking of finance will continue."

Relevant for HN paragraph:

"Perhaps Wall Street firms should go back to the classic service model of yesteryear—provide access to capital and smart advice to growing wealth-creating global corporations. It sounds quaint, I know, more "Mad Men" than Masters of the Universe. But it's going to happen."

In an ideal world, for us Wall Street would figure out a replacement for the now essentially dead institution of the IPO.

They'd do it for themselves as implied in the article due to their existing high profit lines of business going poof for one reason or another.
Actually, I think he was referring to the Wii ...
Wonder what this'll do for his first-hand reporting on Silicon Valley. If you've moved out of a state for tax reasons, you generally have to be physically absent from the state the majority of the time--- you can't "move" but still live there 11 out of 12 months. (For California, you also have to stay moved for at least 4 years, or else your sub-4-year move might be deemed merely a temporary absence with intent to return.)
Best comment from TechCrunch:

"Shouldn't Techcrunch be acquiring AOL?"
Kind of weird that font.ubuntu.com doesn't just offer .ttf files or other easy downloads.
I believe that the distortion of perception in the actual distribution of wealth can be caused by the fact that the people we talk about (on tv, on the radio, on the internet, etc.) are often wealthy people (actors, singers, politicians, entrepreneurs, etc.).

The media make people feel "close" to people who a incredibly more wealthy than they are, making them feel poorer than they actually are.
this was a really great story! I really love airbnb.

Does anyone know how they are currently acquiring new customers? It seems like a lot of it is Word of Mouth and Press. Are they doing anything else?
TechCrunch Sold to AOL
I have heard that Arrington is the majority owner (by a large scale). I think the CEO and a third person own a small share. I will look for the source I am remembering...
Yes, that and I've heard hint from T-Mobile about an app store in the work. The best would be a unified app store where the carriers only do the billing instead of each carrier having their own store.
The source code inanimate. The GNU manifesto says that users shouldn't have arbitrary restrictions imposed on them; this has individual and collective implications.
This is my main use case. I would gladly pay for one.
According to Scoble (http://scobleizer.com/2010/09/28/techcrunch-disrupted-by-aol...), Arrington owns a "...majority share, with Heather (Harde) owning a healthy share, and Keith (Teare) owning a far smaller share."
Really? Please back up your claims with some data. Also, your theories about fractional reserve banking should hold equally true in other countries where the FDIC does not operate. And I'm a little skeptical of your complaints about moral hazard, given the frequent closures of banks by the FDIC, and the resulting haircut for those banks' investors.
Are you sure about the guns? Britain doesn't seem too bad in terms of crime to me, despite not having a lot of guns around here.
So is this better for the environment, or just cheaper? The article doesn't seem to mention it.
This is a much better implementation of HTML5 sequencing:
http://jonbro.tk/blog/2010/09/19/html_5_chip_tracker.html

And I'm currently working on something even better than that one. This all requires the Audio API in beta version of FF4, though. Otherwise you can't properly control the mix or timing.
you've a had a partner ... take food out of your kid's mouth?

Jason has 3 teslas. Maybe he should tone down the poverty stricken rhetoric. He is less very rich because of Arrington (allegedly) - not poor.
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am I the only one who thinks that IF its really the case, its kinda ... unfair. cmn, MA is good writer and he 100% deserves his money but he made it writing about SV! I think CA certainly deserve its 10,3% back, hey?
I agree. The major difference between Weblogs Inc/TC and many of the other acquisitions is that they serve audience-relevant content (to use Armstrong's words). It makes sense that AOL would focus more on high-quality content than on vehicles for content delivery in light of the Weblogs Inc success.
Works fine on Firefox.

Needs a way to save/load/share the setups?
When wealth inequity is huge, it causes social instability and eventually, revolution.

It's generally not poor people who revolt, it's the middle class. Especially if there has been an event which created a newly disenfranchised middle class. If the middle class is doing ok, there's little to worry about. If they feel they are getting shafted... that's when potential trouble starts brewing.

Actual levels of wealth and disenfranchisement have little to do with social stability as it relates to wealth. It's all relative perception.
it's kinda funny....Techcrunch makes it a point that they don't accept press releases...and they announce their acquisition with a press release.
This bums me out. A TC that can't call AOL a pile of dung isn't TC to me. I really enjoyed TC, and have a lot of respect for Michael Arrington. I don't blame him at all for cashing in. But this will decrease the quality of TC.
This assumes that the user remembers his username (very unlikely: their favorite username was likely taken on this site; my mother actually had a binder where she had written down every username she had been forced to use on every website she had ever gotten an account with) and that he has a static e-mail address (end users don't: they use temporary e-mail addresses assigned to them by their ISP/school/work) or at least remembers the answers they left to those challenge questions (which people often just type random gibberish at because they consider the answers private/personal).

When you get users e-mailing you, incredibly angry, insisting that you help them because they are spending $X at your website and they can't even log in, you realize you can't pretend that these fully automated solutions work for normal people.

Hell, if you want to know real pain: normal users don't even have a single Gmail account, so my #1 support issue is actually users who log into my site with the wrong single-sign-on account and then get angry that none of their stuff is there anymore.
AFAIK, Patch http://www.patch.com/ has been growing by leaps and bounds — but they may have more autonomy than some (all) of the advertising/services acquisitions. (I guess most of which eventually folded into AOL?)
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You should try putting it through its paces before coming to that conclusion; I've heard different things from other people, and I currently use it for my media storage.
What is the best color background for showing photos or videos? Flickr is white, for example, but some other sites use black. Is there an optimal choice?
Anyone have any thoughts on the impact of leaks on accelerating/killing deals?
So, hypothetically speaking, the more someone has the more OK it is to steal from them?
Well, that makes sense. <i>Time</i>'s circulation has been dropping for years anyway.
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So how do the signals get to the avionics? Let's say that there is an antenna outside the avionics room. It needs to pick up signals. All of these devices emit signals, and some of the signals will go outside the airplane to said antenna.