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I bet the digg board are regretting the decision since the launch of v4.
Any estimates on the current valuation?
The www is going to get really interesting again really fast..... combine this with the asteroids bookmarklet from yesterday... good fun.
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It's a well written library, however it's not an engine or a framework. All it does is enable OpenGL, OpenAL and game pads in Java. The LWJGL team just calls it an "enabling" library.
Having played with a Torch... yes, that ad is simulated imagery. Yes, the actual Torch isn't quite as snappy as the ad. But, its almost as snappy as the ad. As in, if you really weren't paying attention, you wouldn't notice. This isn't like the N97 debacle.

Granted, Storm sucks. Everyone I know working at RIM admits it. But the Torch is definitely a solid device, with a solid touch interface.

I can't speak to the rest. I would like to think that companies showing simulated demos would be truthful in their simulations. In my heart, I really want RIM to be that type of company (their campus is right next to my school). And I think that by and large, they are.

That said, there's a long tradition of BlackBerry prototypes being leaked looong before any type of announcement. The Torch (and the clam shell) in some form of the other has been floating around for nearly a year before they were announced.
The iPad was released 3 months after it was announced. The Playbook, just announced, is not scheduled to ship until 2011 sometime. So it's clear that RIM is not at the same production level Apple was when they announced the iPad. This is likely why no one was allowed to play with it (it's not done yet).
I meant "middle ground" in a practical sense, rather than the linguistic one - REs are good for simple string hackery, but not sufficient for nested structures. Using an actual parser generator (the yacc clone in your language of choice) can really be overkill for simple things, though. LPEG is a bit more expressive than just REs, but still easy to casually drop in during quick scripting.
I think the real story here is that he is "burned out" at Digg but excited by his angel investing. Where might that lead?
I didn't mean to imply that Notch doesn't program directly in Java—just that, like a C programmer writing assembler will write assembler with C conventions (like almost always passing parameters on the stack, etc.), a programmer who knows [any other non-Blub language] writing Java will think of things in terms of higher-order functions, duck-types, etc., then just type it in in a way java understands (many small anonymous classes, wide hierarchies supporting simple interfaces, etc.)

Let me restate the problem another way: there are many more programmers who only know Java, than programmers who only know [other language X]. Single-language programmers usually aren't familiar with very much theory, and don't know any design-pattern-like abstractions, borrowed from intrinsic features of other languages, that they can put in place instead of just writing tedious, repetitive, dorky (er, I mean, "enterprise") code. 90% of Java's libraries are very, erm, "enterprise."
It's probably safe to say that Django has hands-down the best documentation I've ever had the pleasure of using in an open-source project. No matter what you need, be it a step-by-step tutorial for first-timers, detailed documentation of every piece of the framework, low-level API docs for basically every function in the damn framework, or guides to writing your own reusable "apps" in Django, it's all right there on the project's website.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss (one of the creators of Django) wrote a great series about documentation specifically at http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/.
What's also interesting to think of is all the other potential multi-billion dollar businesses that do not exist today because of early acquisitions? Delicious? We sold Auctomatic at a time when building on the ebay platform and ecommerce generally was seen as 'dirty' (this was 2007-2008), I often wonder what we could have made of it if we'd stuck with it.
Am I going to have to figure it out? Fine.

JFK: 19M

SFO: 4.3M

LAX: 13M + 4.5M (adding Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario for charity's sake)

San Diego: 3M

DFW: 6.5M

SEA: 3.4M

BOS: 4.6M

DC: 5.5M

Orlando: 2M

LAS: 2M

FTL: 5.5M (counting Miami)

That's 73.3 million people, so adding in the few we underestimated (eg you can drive to SFO from San Jose if you feel like it) then 1/4 is actually pretty good.
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(RS = record separator, it just defaults to newline. You can handle multi-line patterns in awk.)
I'm shocked that the Digg board turned down $80 Million. Unless it was an overly complicated deal, that sounds like a lot more then it was / is worth.

The real value in Digg was always the unpaid community that powered it. Programming, I.P. and tangible assets are worth a fraction of what Digg is worth. In essence, someone offered $80m for the opportunity to put their hands on the steering wheel of the once powerful group of people who contributed, dugg and evangelized everything Kevin and crew did.

As Digg has proven, communities are fickle and without proper management, motivation and reward, they fail. In retrospect, neither the Digg community nor the assets it has are worth that much money. However, with a carefully crafted goal, properly motivated community and importantly a plan that includes a way to monetize the community, community based services could very well be worth $80 Million or more.
Vesting: Absolutely, no questions about it. Everyone should vest -- this keeps someone from getting equity and immediately quitting (for example).

You'll want to talk to a lawyer about anti-dilution provisions but I suspect that you'll want to make sure that the minority shareholder has voting rights to prevent situations like the one you describe.

FWIW, this is a relatively "vanilla" type of situation. (You'll setup a new company, each of you will sign over the IP to the new product and then have equity stakes in this new entity.) Have a lawyer review all the docs before you sign them and this will be pretty straightforward -- please do yourself a favor and don't cut corners just to save a buck. :)
I tested one server up to 1 million concurrent connections a couple of years ago, search for sysctl in this article to see the settings I used: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
This is not specific to ARM. There is to my knowledge no CPU architecture where an arithmetic right shift works differently.

Unsigned types allow the compiler to perform this optimisation. However, unsigned types can easily introduce unexpected behaviours elsewhere. One of the more common is a comparison in which an unsigned wraparound where a negative result was expected causes the wrong branch to be taken.

If a value is known to be positive, one can always safely use a right shift directly rather than the division operator.
The New Book Unveiled: The 4-Hour Body
I'm not a big fan of this business but I take issue with the "Teachable Moment" image seemingly created for this post. How does what TurnItIn is doing constitute an "IP Rights" violation?

Surely in the contract that the school signed they gave TurnItIn permission to use these data in this way, and asserted that the teacher, by uploading the document, is ensuring that he or she has the right to grant that permission. At the very least this pushes the IP issues onto the school, as far as TurnItIn knows they have every right to use this content in that way.

It seems probable that the admissions paperwork for the school probably granted the school the right to make limited use of the work the student turns in. I know when I had to complete a "Bachelor Thesis" the school retained the right to use that content, at least for publication and probably for sale if they chose to. Is that uncommon?

Also, I think the problem TurnItIn is trying to solve is less about copyright violation and more about plagiarism/intellectual dishonesty in an academic context. You could readily buy a paper or essay from someone to obtain the copyright permissions, but if you submit that as your own work to the professor you've violated academic ethics.
Just ask Wolfram Alpha:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+over+time+of+go...
Good job Aaron. Must feel great to finally launch!
That's a great sentiment. I'm not interested in getting super rich, I'd just like to do interesting work and have some freedom in my life. Hopefully that's not too much to ask.
They had $40million invested so i guess that's a little low to accept...

On the other hand this raises some questions for founders on getting funding and what to expect down the road...
This is an interesting concept. I can see some of the more conservative designers disagreeing with this approach, but I think that if used with intelligence, and not just as a solely aesthetic exercise, could definitely work.
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I don't see why you would be shocked. The digg board is made up of VCs playing with other people's money. Their compensation is based on hitting home runs.

It would have been roughly $3.5 million dollars for me (without the earnout).
"Rose wouldn't go into details, but said that he was getting "burned out"

Nail in the coffin statement there, uncommitted leadership during crisis mode is when all is lost.

I don't blame Rose from being burned out, bringing him back was more terrible decision making from board.
Curious how buyout provisions are usually priced - seem like several options to me but none seem optimal:

1. Based on some predefined amount
2. Based on some metric like revenue of the company, number of customers
3. FROR from an outside offer

Any other suggestions for methods?
You really shouldn't run XP if you have the option not to. The security structure in XP is outdated and, frankly, dangerous. Vista and 7 are vast improvements. Every time I see an exploit that targets XP I get a little giddy because I know I won't have to deal with ASLR and I have a much higher chance of getting an Administrator account.

Microsoft is absolutely right to encourage people to switch.
Well accountants & sys-admins maybe. Have you seen legal fees?
I was too but after seeing they had $40million invested, that puts things in another perspective...

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/digg
According to crunchbase digg has taken $40M in funding. A multiple of less then 2 on the investment doesn't seem to be the kind of deals to get VC's excited.

At the time there was really no reason to not try to hold out for an extra $40M or so.

Of course Kevin wanted to take it he's walking away with a significant amount of that $80M in his pocket.

Heh it makes the Reddit deal ($100k in and sold for $20M) look effing brilliant - and with the uptick in traffic its getting from digg v4 its making that look like the much smarter play.
Not at this time. For now it's just a tech demo that we made for fun. We are planning some more features and maybe a layer of "gamification"
No, health care in Sweden is not solely financed through regional income tax. Large parts of the social security system are financed through payroll taxes and corresponding mandatory contributions from self-employed people (the latter is called "egenavgift" -- feel free to Google it).

But looking again, he's in fact born before 1983, which means that he has to pay pension contributions as well, bumping the total contribution up to nearly 30%. In addition to income tax, that is.
The Disney Concert Hall in LA had similar problems.

"Some residents of the neighboring condominiums suffered glare caused by sunlight that was reflected off these surfaces and concentrated in a manner similar to a parabolic mirror. The resulting heat made some rooms of nearby condominiums unbearably warm, caused the air-conditioning costs of these residents to skyrocket and created hot spots on adjacent sidewalks of as much as 60 °C (140 °F). After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall
Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: John Gruber, "Apple and the Open Web"
It doesn't exist to me either without knowing: (1) the Price, and (2) the projected Battery Life
Thanks Marc! Yeah, this has been a while coming now! I've just started writing a book that goes into greater (and more fundamental) detail on the process of simple language design.

Great fun!
Did you try /magicmissile or /pizza ?

First thing I tried was: <script>alert("!");</script> which was just not chatted. Didn't try much else :)
I wonder why this did not show up on the ask part of the site? It was submitted without a url.
Yes! Anybody who knows me in person is probably tired of hearing about how good pattern matching is by now. :) I definitely know what you mean about missing it in languages without it, that's why I've been working on tamale.

I can't speak for Scala, but the PM in Haskell and OCaml is a bit different since it's informed by the static typing. When patterns have variant types (i.e., x is either Foo, Bar, or Baz * int), it also checks for complete coverage. Same general concept, different flavor. Also very useful.

I mentioned Prolog in particular because its emphasis on unification and backtracking make it the most pattern-matching-centric programming language I've seen. Where other languages have pattern matching, it almost is pattern matching.

Also, there are well-known ways to compile pattern specifications into efficient decision trees, so while it's a very expressive abstraction, it's not necessarily an expensive one. If they're being constructed at runtime (as they are in my Lua library), you can generally get a big improvement by just indexing on the patterns' first fields and doing linear search thereafter.
Today we released support for node.js application deployment on our Rapp deployment engine.

This engine is installed on your Webby (a VPS server) and then you can publish multiple node.js (along with rails, rack, php, ...) applications using git.

We would like to get feedback from HN and we've recorded a 2 minute screencast that walks you through the process.

Let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Webbynode Dev Team
Ask HN: How do you build an online community?
I was going to write a lot of stuff, and I think that the longer my writing would have been the more responses I would have received.

I deleted it however because I realised that the question really contains all the information that is necessary and any content I would have added would have been a distraction.

If you have any experience, or even if you do not, of building an online community, how do you think one can be so built?
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I'm pretty sure it's so we can feel like we're protecting the children.
I'm guessing people might search for their "stealth" business ideas or companies might be searching for takeover targets.

Or say a VC posts a link to crunchbase search to their twitter, someone could look at the previous/next results and could find out what companies that VC might have been looking at.

People assume searches are anonymous and can often search for things without thinking about it. In one case I had a google search referrer in my blog which was "xyz takeover abc" which came from an IP address owned by xyz (who happened to be a YC company I mentioned on my blog) prior to their takeover by abc being announced.
It's really #1. #2 will barely get you to 10K and definitely not to 500K, while #3 is too brittle (although if you're feeling lazy, I noticed that Solaris has SSL and HTTP reverse proxies in the kernel).
I think the point isn't the valuation but the motivation of the board.

That's a really small exit for a VC backed company.

EDIT: Please don't delete comments that have replies, it kind of makes everything below it lose context.
I think it’s funny that productivity is often the only frame which is used to discuss Germany’s mandated vacation [1]. That’s not at all the intent of the law, its purpose is not increasing productivity. It exists because German lawmakers think that every employee deserves at least four weeks of paid vacation the same way US lawmakers think that every employee deserves at least $7.25 per hour [2].

I [3] am completely willing to accept possible adverse effects of mandated vacations on productivity as long as they are not too drastic [4]. I don’t view vacations as a means of improving productivity. (They might well be but the evidence I know of doesn’t do a good job of convincing me either way.)

[1] The law mandates 20 days if you work five days a week so it’s actually four weeks, not six.

[2] Funny enough, Germany doesn’t actually have a minimum wage.

[3] Just so you are not confused, I’m German.

[4] Germans are extremely wealthy so I’m not exactly concerned.
Just what I needed after a stressful programming project!
Tim Ferris: The 4-Hour Body
I have done several customer engagements in past teams from conferences to very private executive engagements where I've been the 'technical guy'. Since most questions flying at me are factual, it is easy to respond with factual responses.

But with any hard question which goes outside pure tech, I would deflect it some poor biz-dev/product manager who would have to weigh several things in his or her response - Microsoft's strategy, future plans (both disclosed and secret), competitors and their selling points, what this current customer expects to hear among a host of other things. It is a much harder job and I often came out looking like the 'technical guy who was a straight shooter, not like that other suit' though I had the much easier task.

This isn't some Microsoft thing alone. If you parse through any large scale engagement from any big company, you'd almost always see this pattern. Go to any conference and walk up to a large company's booth. If you ask technical questions, you'll often get the engineer to respond. If you ask some roadmap/competitive positioning/touchy question, you'll get directed to someone else. This is usually because the engineer involved doesn't know the answer/strategy/market positioning/whatever.

To say that one group is somehow more well-intentioned/honest than the other seems wrong.
A Habitable Exoplanet - for real this time
For some simple brochure sites, it's 4-6 hrs more of testing & tweaking during the lifecycle of the project, which usually translates to $500ish extra. i.e. 10-25% of the project.

For involved sites, it just depends what is being done and whether you're trying to replicate the experience or if you're just creating a graceful degradation for IE6 users, which is often "good enough" for a lot of clients.
He's selling it at $10 while it's in a preview state. The full RRP will be $20.
I'm not so sure the answer is automatically no - I think a lot of workers will save a few vacation days as a buffer in case they need them for something unexpected.
Also, the figure is probably skewed by companies that won't let the leave count go negative - in those cases it probably won't balance out to zero unless the employee makes a specific effort to.
I was standing outside the Portland Convention Center this year at OSCON and noticed the wood bark around one of the trees was smoking profusely. Needless to say, the glass awnings had the death ray effect as well.
The cryptanalysis blues
So they just stop responding to emails?
Is this right?

Wow...
Multiple implementations:

a) Force specifications to written carefully, and exercise the edge cases. It's important the browser authors do this because otherwise web pages authors are forced to find these edge cases (as happened in the IE6 & early IE7 days, when MS had so little competition that they could afford to be careless)

b) Slow down change the core technologies. This sounds like a stupid "advantage", but I'd argue that it has enabled the core HTML/CSS/Javascript trinity to become so well established that any new platform is forced to support it. Ironically, that also means new platforms become viable simply by supporting the web platform.

c) Allow multiple paths for experimenting on new technologies.
The reason Subway doesn't invest much in its website is because its primarily a franchise sales tool. The consumer doesn't really factor in here much at the corporate level.

I did a bunch of bids for some other very large franchise company websites and they were almost universally reluctant to invest any amount of money in upgrading their website. To the corporate honchos they make their $$ selling franchises - they could care less about consumer utility. They aren't selling many sandwiches via the web so everything else on the website is just a grudging formality - menu, store locator, coupons etc

(That said, this site is a marvel of modern engineering. I especially like how line 2 dives right into a table tag. Screw <html> or <head>, give me MORE TABLES!!)
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Agreed @ Reddit. Maybe a winning formula.

1. Find a startup in a new area that is over funded (digg)
2. Copy it, on the cheap.
3. Get bought for a "cheap" price compared with what the
over funded startup would request.
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Telecommuting Success: A Practical Guide
Tadpoles. Right...
Meh, Java is just fine, and if you really like it, I'm happy for you. (I find it an interesting but somewhat cumbersome language. Still, if it's the right tool for the job ...)

Maybe this guy's amazing success will serve to change some minds here, tho.
I have been recently using "Market Samurai" and "Keyword Elite". Both have strengths. I am leaning towards market samurai because of its ability to filter on "seo competition", "seo value" and other data. this makes it easy for me to narrow a large list of keywords down to ones that are valuable but can still attain reasonable ranking for.
Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand
I'm getting a paywall.
New Digg Button Just Went Live
Low-E window glass is reportedly triggering problems.

Press reports include melted house siding resulting from reflections.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/24342726/detail.html
Balance issues: needs more ova.
The board probably wasn't making any money with a $80M offer. It is a top 100 site... why not go for it? They could have built a ton of other revenue models... and they still can. They just need to start believing in it themselves.
Am I supposed to search for an egg here?
"being part of Valve will put more pressure on sales than there currently is"

Valve seems like one of the companies least pressured by sales. They could push out HL2: Episode 3 tomorrow and it would sell a million copies, even if it were dreck (but they wouldn't, of course). They've always had a huge bankroll (even at the beginning), and have taken the time to refine each and every one of their products before release. It's no surprise, then, that every single thing they've release has been a huge success and considered among the best games ever written.

With that said, I don't necessarily believe Minecraft is "Valve material," but I would definitely be curious to see how it would turn out with Valve's energy, artistry, and pure talent behind it.
I up-voted you, but I don’t believe the author is making a claim any different than your own. The title may be hyperbole, but the point is that RIM shouldn’t announce a device if it isn’t done. As many others have noted in previous threads of this discussion, RIM seems desperate, and they (along with the customers they are clearly trying to keep from adopting iPads) have a good deal to lose if the final version doesn’t live up to the hype based on such limited details.
I'd consider picking this up, not buying it, as a going concern if someone wants to talk.
Which begs the question, if you search for a tree in an empty forest and nobody logs it, does it make a sound? (Lumberjack pun not intended)