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It is a powerful speech to be sure, but it also contains some of the things I didn't like about the book and her philosophy. For instance - cultist thinking:

>Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Again and again she exhorts people to feel disgust and hatred for people with different opinions, and to shun them. This is the black&white and us&them thinking common in religious cults.

> To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

Those I've met who love money the most are those who have experienced deprivation. Money represents safety to them. It has very little to do with the creativity, intelligence or passion in creating. And in fact, since some of them (now I speak in the general sense, not people I know) believe their survival depends on it, they are willing to do all sorts of stuff to get hold of it.
Good thing it isn't really up to them.
Problem is I stopped using Delicious years ago. I need my bookmarks in my browser. If I have to go to a website to find something, that's going to be Google or DDG.

A great solution would be for Delicious/Yahoo to buy Xmarks and integrate the two technologies - your bookmarks are stored on Delicious as they currently are, but synched to every supported browser you use.
It sounds like you just need to setup an option pool (with 4 year vesting) and hand out equity to some senior level employees. Why do anything more complicated than that?
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I think that's a great idea. Another possibility is instead of charging users they should charge site operators to get preferred listings on that site.
how is the performance of Mono/ASP.net vs stacks like RoR, PHP, etc. on Linux ?
Is it me or are some words missing in the 2nd paragraph? It makes it hard to follow the article.
so, if you don't stick around for four years, you get squat?
or you get 25% of that a year?

the former sounds a bit too draconian. I mean, I don't expect anyone (save for myself) to stick around that long.

the latter would stick me with the same problem I have now... the thing is, every year that goes on, I'm investing what amounts to a pretty large chunk of cash into the company. If you earned 10% 5 years ago, that's fine, but c'mon, my ongoing contributions should mean something, too.

My point is that without dilution, as time goes on and I accumulate more (no longer working) people with percentage ownership in the company, my motivation to continue to invest decreases. If the company increases in value fast enough (and if my free-market value doesn't increase dramatically) that the percentage of the company I still own is worth the investment, we don't have a problem. But if I become more valuable or if the value of the company stagnates, my motivation for continuing to invest will decrease with my percentage ownership. I'll be thinking more about how to buy out those who are no longer with me rather than using those resources to move the company forward.

I could issue a new options pool (that dilutes existing shares) every year, but I don't really see the difference between that and what I proposed, other than it's options rather than equity.
She'd feel right at home on the privatized UK train network ...
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http://builtwith.com - made for fun not to make money but now its profitable by a team of 1 :)

I think the idea is to not start with the thought "I want to make a web app that makes money" but "I want to make a useful web app that solves a problem" - the money will eventually come if you crack that nut!
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http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ - by HNer paraschopra is arguably the best A/B split testing tool available. It was developed without any outside funding, by an extremely small team (1-3), and it is making decent amounts of money AFAIK.
Here are some rules of thumb, with SWAG percentages attached.

1) Fulltime hours worked (with no salary) count more than part time hours worked (done in your free time from a day job).

2) Having the initial idea counts for 5%.

3) A difficult to replicate beachhead (patent, nontrivial code, brilliant design) counts for 10-20%.

4) Being the person who actually incorporates and recruits others counts for 10%.

5) Money invested is ignored. It should either be even contributions for everyone (and thus nulled out), or invested in a convertible note with very modest terms (and thus counted separately).

6) Holding the CEO role counts for 10%.

7) Having a reputation that will meaningfully impact the company's probability of being funded counts for 2x-4x.

8) If, at the end, you and your cofounders have equal shares, you did it wrong.

9) Once the company has had the validation and de-risking of a financing round, everyone from thenceforth is an employee, not a founder.
My reading (which like I say, could be wrong) is that Google would like to shift it away from being a breach of license but as written, the SCSL terminates if the Java technology is ported to a different platform without the TCK protocol being satisfied. I think Oracle's answer to the question of what bits of Android violate Sun copyright will be 'all of it.'

I suggest rereading the SCSL, and consider why Harmony couldn't legally proceed without a TCK.
Second name.com. I'm in the process of transferring all my domains there. Their nice clean interface is so refreshing after years of GoDaddy, they have a non-stupid domain name, they don't waste money on 'sex sells' advertising (wtf do hot chicks have to do with domain names anyway), and they don't treat you like an idiot as you describe. Win.
This is why I like paying for stuff, with cash not "clicks" or "eyeballs". You can get an SLA.
A simplistic analysis heavy on hyperbole and low on facts. More to the point, not Hacker News.
Your query and responses seem earnest, but leading with your gender in the submission title and handle is suspicious. Is this an A/B test?
Giving someone a good, hard ass kicking has worked for me, it's gotten people to stay permanently off my back.

However! It has also initiated constantly-escalating near-wars with groups of people showing up at my home with weapons. (I was a teenager. I felt invincible. I grew up.)

Some people will back down if you fight back. Some people will just fight harder.

So, while violence IS a solution, you also have to know WHEN it is a solution, sometimes it is. Sometimes, you're playing a game with terribly high stakes and no jackpot. Sometimes, it's better to walk away.

I used to think I never lost a fight because I was spectacular. Actually, I was just spectacularly lucky. I could be dead right now.
While I know this is a rubyist thread, I want to chime in as a Javascript developer. You can almost do the same thing there - joy! Probably not the best way to do it, but it's 3AM and I'm writing off the top of my head. And it's a little bit messy. And it gets rid of that pesky emergency case.

Within the object constructor:

// assuming the desk object was inherited and accessible. There are several ways to do this.
var thisContext = this; // unless you want to do some weird stuff with calling a function that returns a function that calls a function
["flights", "local_transports", "hotels"].forEach(function(fn) {
thisContext[fn] = function() {
check_lunch_break && desk[fn](arguments);
};
});

Granted, this doesn't get your methods on the prototype, and will incur a cost every time you create one of these objects. If you properly inherited from the desk class, it will overwrite them. And the emergency function will work just fine, if defined on desk.
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I wonder how much place there is for such a slow-moving organisation in the incredibly fast-paced internet ...
Excellent post. I'm in the process of bringing some early developers into the fold and this list gives me a great way to encourage them to discover their coding preferences on their own.
OK, but why didn't Sun open source Java before Oracle took them over? And why were Oracle urging them to do so?
Its a feature that is about to be viral.

I got that form of email about a week ago from Imperial Conflict. An early 2000's browser game.

Here is the email: http://pastebin.com/ch8MXh6M

I also know of a forum that sent out that form of email recently.
"I think it's a fine strategy, but I'm personally wary of giving work to someone because if they fall through, I'm on the hook. "

That's my feeling too, though I'm (currently) in the camp of "too much work."

I'm reluctant to farm any work out that's going to ultimately have my name on it, but being over-busy means I'm turning away work, missing out on potential stable business, and staying coupled to too few large jobs.

What do other people here do? How do you arrange to subcontract?
Normally the vesting would be quarterly over 4 years with a 1 year "cliff". So 0% until 1 year (then 25%) then every quarter they'd get the next chunk.

The equity they get should be a reward for work they've done, not work they're going to do. So if they work their ass off for years they should get their equity and you shouldn't feel negatively about it.

Their piece should be quite small relative to yours. If you gave out 15% in an option pool only 7% of it might have been vested and exercised. That's not very much if it meant you got to have really great people work their ass off for you over years.

If you do it right you will not regret them owning a small piece of your company because they should have contributed to moving it forward in a big way.

You should be thinking "Bob quit and owns 1.25% but he did do X and that helped us grow so quickly and smoothly it was totally worth it."
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Thanks for posting this Niyaz. Yep, it is a specific niche tool developed by me (but have tiny part-time team now) and is making decent money, which I expect to grow.
Nitpickery indeed, but that won't work as expected. `fn` can be reused within the loop, depending on the runtime, so all methods will end up calling the same `desk[fn]`.
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I switched from .Net to Mono/linux for a web application and almost everything worked right away. Most of the differences I found where because of Linux: case sensitive file names and file encodings with non ascii characters.
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I use this too, although I'm not entirely happy with what a PITA it has been to transfer domains if I sell them or give them to other people.

It's a pretty good deal though, you get a domain with email, apps, etc... built in, all for 10$.
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Export allows a reduction of a major barrier to the network effect will this allow clones and competitors like Dispora a real start with the ability to get a few million users quickly? Will it lead to some real innovators who were previously put off due to scaling up to Facebook?
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Interesting - regex could be an expansion pack :)
If I were doing this today, I would choose just x264. Deliver it via the video tag, with flash as the fallback for firefox.
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I think you're just easily impressed, Patrick. :)

My point stands: their products decrease productivity, not increase it. That it's successful is great but it's not "innovative" in the stronger sense we're talking about here.
While awesome for a lot of tasks, I've still found that a file system and OS tweaked for a particular task can have remarkable results. On a system with a few hundred thousand RRD files, I've found that ZFS with a 16k block size reduced my load by 75%. Obviously, the average RRD workload goes is vastly improved by SSD -- the move to SSD has me forgetting about IO forever in this case.

But, it's just a hack to begin with and SSD is the patch. I don't have the time/option to find and hack out a better storage mechanism for that particular task. RRD makes little sense in this day and age, but it's what I'm stuck with due to time constraints.
Sure, individuals are unique, but that doesn't mean that it's not possible to make generalizations about groups of people. It's called social science and statistics. There is tons of data about the causes of poverty, generational poverty traps, how people escape poverty, etc. Of course when people argue these topics nobody bothers referring to academic literature, mainly because it's boring but also because people form strong opinions based on whichever political ideologies they're subscribed to and don't want to hear any conflicting data.
It's so lame that they don't release videos.
Why do we even have all these stupid country specific domain extensions? Countries are not permanent entries; they come and go. What happens when a country ceases to exist, gets invaded, has a civil war...? What on earth is the benefit of having dozens and dozens of domain extensions, except to confuse people and force them to pay endless amounts for every possible misspelling of your domain? (Seriously, who the hell thought that a .cm domain extension was a good idea?!)
When the investment was made, lots of people had shares in the business. They had not done the paperwork on the shares etc and had not realised that just telling people they would be looked after to avoid paperwork would create big headaches.

Wow, I'm pretty shocked that someone who already owns and runs a business would not take care of something so basic when setting up a new business.
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Did you attend the conference? Care to elaborate?
>You should be thinking "Bob quit and owns 1.25% but he did do X and that helped us grow so quickly and smoothly it was totally worth it."

Now, admittedly, I'm somewhat irrational about my company. For the first four years, I think only an irrational person would have stuck around.

But it still seems like it would be very easy to get into a situation where I've spent away the company.

For example, say the company is worth $200K. (It's worth a little more than that, but in this industry, you are talking around a year revenue plus the value of your equipment, so valuations are really low compared to, say, social networks.) so I hire someone worth $130K and I pay them $30K, because I can afford that and they need to make rent. To make things fair, I need to give them half the company for a years work, right?

Yeah, after that first year, I'd feel fine about it. they put in a bunch of good work and improved the company. But, say they quit because I am an idiot and I overestimated the value of the product we built, so the company is now only worth, say $300K and still can't pay anyone reasonable salaries.

So, would I work another year? this time needing to grow the company twice as fast to feel the same effects? maybe. but the year after that? yeah I'm pretty sure I'd decide it's time to close up shop and start a new company or to get a real job.
Any suggestions for registrars of domains that aren't .com/.co.uk/.net/etc.?

I notice that a couple of those mentioned (Namecheap.com, Name.com and Gandi.net) offer this service, but is there a specialist registrar anywhere, or are these good enough?

(I'm looking to register a number of .nl domains and have no idea where to look in terms of quality registrars.)
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments.
No. Social networks are only useful when you can access a critical mass of your friends in one network. Thus, fragmentation of social networks reduces their utility for most people.

Uber geeks may want to try something else, but for most people facebook works and thats what counts.

The thing that would allow growth of some networks would be an open id style profile API so that I can interact with users from social network X from within social network Y. But why would any leading social network adopt such an API?
Doesn't news about, and information for start-ups figure largely on Hacker News? Isn't the latter's purpose to make money, preferably lots of it? I should have thought any discussion about money, albeit culled from a famous novel is indeed relevant here.

As one-sentence put-downs go, yours' is fine especially for use at noisy parties but I find them kind of annoying because they're high on emotion and mere opinion, as in 100% and low, as in 0%, on substantive reasons to believe the relevant assertion.
And what kind of backlash would that be ?

I imagine they're more pissed of from the US repeatedly dropping bombs on them than .... what 4chan DDoSing NIC.ly ?
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Very much a 'symptoms and not the causes' analysis. This doesn't really answer anything. It's like finding out a virus causes AIDS and not noticing it's spread through frequent promiscuous sexual contact.

What they should be reporting on is: if this is dietary in some way, what has changed the diets of bees? Why are they catching this disease now, and not 20 years ago? What has been changing regarding the environment of bees?
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Ask HN:following topic "Inspirational money making apps"How much hosting cost?
Hello all
I wanted to post a question on the topic long time ago , but It was to much general but now with this great topic
About money making web apps , can you add more info on how much is the monthly cost of the hosting
And maybe breaking the assumption i have that good web app cost big hosting money.
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Choose something you feel needs to be created/invented, and do it in the language you want to learn. This is a time tested methodology, why follow line for line a movie rental service for BlockMuster when you can have fun and learn more doing your own project.

Get creative, get inventive and just jump in.
> it only exists when the government wants it to

every law is applied like that
The main message of this post to me was that if you're above 60 you can live off gov't welfare if you know where to go, and this is enough to keep you off the streets (not sleep in a box). I wonder what this story would have been like if he were 45 years old.
I don't think it's suspicious, it's just very sad (to me, I mean). The OP says they are an economics major - they probably would never think to post a question on economics entitles "MIT female economist seeks OECD data".

sigh

Anyway as to the question, the best way of learning to code is (a) by doing and (b) by exposing yourself to those who do it well. If you have your own project to work on already that's great, otherwise find an open source project and cut your teeth onto that. Most languages have standard libraries or modules, take a look under the hood and try to understand how they work. Since you specifically ask for websites, try hanging out on stackoverflow.com and try and answer some questions before looking at the answers.

Contrary to others, I probably wouldn't recommend C - please let's not start a language war, but for someone who may or may not decide to focus on programming it's probably better to focus on a higher level language like perl, python or ruby in the beginning.

Also, I don't know if/how MIT supports co-ops/internships, but try and get a short (3-4 month) programming placement, there's nothing like having to do it "for real".
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>If you're going to refer me to the existing literature, please at least make a specific reference.

This should be a good starting point.

http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html

>Somalia's been trying it out for years. The results don't look promising

http://c4ss.org/content/1201

>If you invaded the US, I think Syrians would be quite passive about it indeed.

The point is that, yes people tend to only care about their group but there are different levels of group. For example, when the Russians had their "communist" revolution practically the whole world cared because they were terrified it would happen in their country as well (and in some cases like Spain, it did).

>People have always formed groups and not cared about people outside of their group.

As just shown, while this may be technically true group size changes depending on the level of threat up to and including "group human".

>That's how humans work.

Now you're moving toward a more interesting argument. We see how humans behave but how much of that is because of our nature and how much is because of the environment we grow up in? There's tons of interesting research about this question (one starting point: http://www.charleswarner.us/articles/competit.htm).

>You're assuming I'm dismissing anarchism without considering the arguments for it or anything. Actually, I'm dismissing it after a lot of consideration, partially about anarchism and partially about idealistic, theoretical political philosophies in general.

I'm assuming you dismiss it after working it out in your own head without consulting the existing body of knowledge on the subject, and it sounds like you just confirmed that my assumption was completely correct.

AFAIU, this site isn't about circle-jerking, it's about intelligent conversation. In that spirit, if I see someone making uneducated off hand "me too" comments like "anarchism can't work, it's human nature!" I'm going to challenge it, even if I'm not convinced myself. Circle-jerking isn't learning, it's not a way forward.
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I can see why stating one’s goal is a good starting point : it helps getting the right mindset to then actually work to achieve this goal. But in everything I've done, talking about something not achieved yet brings unneeded attention and stress, that one doesn’t need in his process of accomplishing something.

I'm not saying to hide while working on stuff, but I'm not sure making a lot of noise about it is helping the actual progress of the project.
Hm I have a question: What would it take to register the domain myself, without going through goDaddy and others?

Can't one set up a DNS-Server and start propagating records, while perhaps informing the authority that you are using a (previously available) domain now?
Nico Nico Douga is a sort of youtube where users can write comments on the videos (like subtitles). The first version of was supposedly written by a couple of guys.

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

I have no idea why no one has made an English clone yet. Apart from messy copyright problems and hosting costs (which all youtube clones have anyway), it's practically a guaranteed success.