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Anybody who is an autodidact in this day and age automatically have the upper hand even if they do little bit of it everyday. I think that little bit of 30 minutes learning something everyday eventually adds up into something huge.

For example, I am getting my first web service running though without a payment processor. Eventually, I'll figure out billing.

I learned how speculation works, how to short sell, and learn technical trading terms like resistances, supports, amongst other things through osmosis learning. I spent 6 dollars and learned how markets really work.

Through debate attrition and conceding every single time that I was wrong, I learned tremendously about economics.

I learned about the concept of open source, the hackerdom subculture, was an early adopter of Mozilla Firefox before I started programming.

Now, I am an early adopter and experimenter with cryptocurrency, something that come right out of a Neal Stephenson novel. I don't know if it succeed, but it's going to be a crazy ride.

I am experimenting with microtransaction business models via selling my own artworks. On top of it, do it copyfree.

Of course, I am 19, a typical youngster hacker-wannabe.
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His TED Talks

1. http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_t...

2. http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_educa...
To me all power buttons should have a delay hold on them (ie you have to hold it for 2 or 3 seconds), then placement doesn't really matter. I can't even count how many times I have turned off my laptop via the docking station while plugging a usb cable into it.
YC is in the investing business, right? They don't pick startups based on how nice you are, or how pretty you are, or how hard you've worked, or how much you deserve success in life. They pick those that will make money because it makes them money. When they pick wrong, they want you to come back and tell them so that they can pick better in the future and... make more money. It is a self-interested proposition. Not pernicious, but not especially respectable either.

Don't get me wrong, I don't know anybody at YC and they're probably nice folks. They seem good for the startup community. But YC is a business, not a charity.
Great article. The greatest thing you can do is give someone the desire and the means to find their own answers.

Of course, we are born with exactly that anyway, so maybe we just need to answer every question, help when it is asked, and avoid messing them up.
Perhaps we can find out.
Trust me. I'm all girl.
Isn't that why most passenger planes have 2 or more engines?
Creative flow is easily disruptible. A programmer having to use a different editor, or becoming conscious of a different keyboard than the one it replaced is disruptive.

He may want to use the right pencil, the one that feels right in his hand so he can muster the subconscious forces that drive his talent.

Programmers are no more assembly-line workers than architects.
Asking a woman if you can kiss her may feel hard, but looking back on my single teenage years, that's a whole lot easier than "going for a kiss".

On the other hand, if you can pull off just going for it and she digs it, that makes you look really good.
How odd...Firefox 3.6.12 on Ubuntu 10.04 here, and it works fine.
Yeah, I totally agree... but it is also good to see previous comments as well. On my Hacker Newsletter I always post a couple items that are a year or more old and they always get a high click through.

And the only way I remember this was because I tried it back then. :)
Interesting system. Might make a decent smartphone app.
Thwarting Waste with a File Format That Can't Be Printed
But in 2005 -- or when the Y acquisition was being debated -- it wasn't obvious that fb would be able to monetize their enormous quantity of pageviews.

In any case, the enormous email list groupon has is awesome... but I think LivingSocial will be able to replicate that. And once you're on both email lists, then what does groupon have over competitors?
I take my little brothers seriously (well, that's not precisely true- one of them is only 14, so you can't always take him too seriously- but if you have brothers you probably know what I mean) and I've defended them in the past.
I am shocked, considering it is $600 in Best Buy and doesn't look at all impressive. What am I missing?
Bottom line, you could build a network of sites which could bring in 3K / month for way less than $100K.
The PlayStation Phone in Action [VIDEOS] using gingerbread
Complex minimal surface mathematics and the Marangoni effect in motion
As I mention in the article, for Zencoder to work it has to upload your file. We encode from a single master which is usually well over a gig (uncompressed, fast render from our editor).

It takes a few hours to get that single file up to anywhere online. Rather than do that, I'd rather push the smaller files individually and pay nothing for it.

Make sense? And the $600 of software is Sorenson Squeeze.
as some of the people already mention, numbers were "leaked". There are too many incentives to make up sources (page views, manipulate google share price, to solicit more bids...)

revenues numbers are meaningless if you don't see the books for yourself. For example, a company can give 10 dollars to all new users. If this company has 35 million users, and takes in 30% of each transaction, that's 105 million dollars in revenues it can report. We wouldn't know.
No - it doesn't replace all of it. Just the parts that I need. As I mention Squeeze is a fine tool but I don't need integration with Sorenson's hosting platform, and you can pretty much write whatever workflow you need in Ruby.

So I take it back - I do think this replaces Sorenson pretty handily :)
For a company with no unique technology or equipment to turn down an offer that ranks them as a mid-cap company is mind boggling to me.

Delta Air Lines has a market capitalization of 10B! And they have 725 freaking jets!

Dr. Pepper has a market cap of 8B! And they have the pepper song!

CarMax has a market cap of 7B! And they have fleets of cars!
Why not link to the original source http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/12/sources-groupon-r... instead of a content mill like Mashable.
Groupon Annual Revenues Actually $2 Billion
I'm getting nearly the same numbers for paid sign-ups; I'm glad I'm not the only one surprised by how effective it is!
Fine, now can you both get back to work :)
Breaking glass bottles over heads mostly happens in old westerns and that sort of thing. Is it possible glass bottles of the time were more fragile?

In other news, I love the image of a cordial lecture on good manners and being polite to women directed towards a guy in a headlock on the ground beneath me. Hopefully I'll have the guts to do it if needed.
Hmm, looked and couldn't find a "HEY YOU" link. So, here's my proposal which I will also e-mail to you:

Create an ice sculpture in honor of PHP. Bonus donation if you also include a penguin (real or fabricated)
I've been using this for a year and a bit now. Its stuck for me because it is light on rules I think. No other system has been as successful for me at harnessing structured procrastination.
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Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
Isn't it true that volume 4a is pretty much ready to go? I thought I saw "late 2010" somewhere on his website, though I can't find it now.
I used to think the same thing when FaceBook rejected a billion dollar offer from Google, I believe. Boy, was I ever wrong!
Appreciate the suggestions. Certainly helpful to get a point of view of what they may have meant as well.

Of course, any suggestions on where to look next are appreciated. My current contract goes through the end of the year, but January is a COLD month :-)

Thanks again!
I feel the same way. Except I don't hope I am wrong. Just the first part.
I like the opposition of lifelong hobbies to disposable media.

Next time someone asks if games are art, dismiss art as disposable media. But seeing art as a consumer product is sterile. It's healthier to consider it a lifelong hobby. In the end, conclude that the artist is the one who plays the game, not the author.

I wasted so much time playing the first Steambird, it's great, a masterpiece! I really hope the second one won't become my lifetime hobby.
people were and are still trapped with facebook. groupon users have absolutely no reason to be loyal to groupon.
$2 Billion/year for a niche advertising company sounds a bit implausible.

Anyone have any concrete verification of this?
Mobius strips? In my breakfast? It's more likely than you think!
I'm a computational molecular biologist, and I don't understand the cell or the brain. Nobody does. What's holding us back? The proteome, interactome, connectome, etc. etc.

You'll see biologically-inspired AI after we solve a MUCH simpler set of problems: cancer, aging, and viruses. I doubt you'll still be young when that happens. (Not that I don't hope for this to happen as soon as possible.)

I wouldn't concern myself AI anyway. With the rate at which our machines are becoming more parallel and gaining in throughput, I might expect to see an accurate model of a single neuron in a few decades.

Get over the Kurzweil fantasy and live each day as best as you can. If we don't get to live forever it isn't the end of the world. (And if you believe it is then maybe you should be working on this problem instead.)
Why was he still allowed to go to these events then? He should have been banned from attending after the first time.
I wish I could take every upvote I've ever given to someone else on Hacker News, and put them all on this post instead. But, I can only upvote it once. So it'll have to do for now.
What a shame. It could've be good for a laugh to set everyone at ease again!

Though, you'd have to be pretty smooth to pull that off.
Great demo. I couldn't figure out another way to reach you privately, so check your YouTube messages.
I find the suggestion in the headline less interesting than the wave shapes from July '09 to July '10. Any insights here?
It also runs on a Mac II vx, with System 7 and 32mb of RAM.
My Uncle used to serve on the Invincible, heard lots of incredible stories. Can't imagine they'd sell this to just anyone with a load of cash though?
Ask HN: How do you calculate/estimate a companies valuation?
The news today that Groupon turned down Gooogle has me thinking about determining valuation of a company from its annual revenues. I believe I've heard 3x annual revenues, which would make Googles offer fair.

Is valuation based on annual revenues? Profits? Does profit margin come into play? What about the caliber of the talent/staff?
There are also THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of totally unregulated birds flying at 500 ft AGL.

FAA should ground all the avians...then we'd be safe!
Impressive level of depth. Long read, bookmarked to finish later, but really good so far!
If Facebook and Groupon both IPO'd tomorrow, something tells me Groupon would have the higher market cap...

Sorry, you're wrong.

Google purportedly just offered Groupon $5 billion. That's my best estimate of Groupon's probable market cap.

SecondMarket just did an auction of stock in a company whose sole asset are some shares in Facebook. Based on this, my best estimate of Facebook's market cap is $50 billion. (See http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373614,00.asp for more on that auction.)
you have just became my favorite website :)
A model checker that somehow cleverly handles external input and statespace.

Lacking that, haskell's type system :D
Bagels tomorrow for breakfast.
There's a difference between flatlining and reaching the peak.
Unless fuel or other concerns limit their operating range and you want to deploy them someplace overseas. Kind of like why we used them for aircraft, which can also be launched from a field.
But how many other yachts have a golf course?
Sigh...you said "the NEXT closest thing" referring to it's inferiority.
And almost more than the GDP of the The Bahamas (7B)!
I'm thinking pirate radio...with its own CAP.
Hmm but he was flying over a huge area - from Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, apartment buildings on the waters-edge, etc.

I'm wondering if they used radio direction finder - but a) would they have that equipment to hand and b) how would they know what frequency to be looking on?
It looks like they're utilizing js templates and localization along with a lot of jQuery and JMVC.
The last time the U.S. had no deficit was 1845. The largest rampup of government spending and deficit spending was under FDR.

The most responsible presidents post-WWII seem to be Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Clinton. I've got LBJ pegged as the least responsible, with no one else coming even close. Carter didn't run much of a deficit, but caused a lot of problems with price controls.

I'm much less of an admirer of Reagan than most people. He did some important consolidation and his tax cuts seemed to fuel a lot of the money that then went into the tech boom in the 1990's, but I agree his domestic policies were so-so. The first Bush seems like he was a decent president. Clinton had a good run. G.W. Bush had a mix of good and bad policies. The book's still open on his foreign policy, and will be for 10-20 years. If Iraq and Afghanistan become allies of the USA the way West Germany, Taiwan, and Japan became following WWII, and South Korea became following the Korean War, then we might look much for favorably upon him later. (Remember, Truman was despised following his leaving office, about as much as Bush. Now he's generally regarded favorably)

Obama's presidency seems like a mess to me, but I think McCain's would've been a mess too.

I think it's fair to say that Republicans tend to make larger short term deficit expenditures for war, but create less permanent structural spending. Even that's not entirely true though, since Eisenhower went isolationist, and LBJ greatly ramped up America's military involvement following Kennedy's assassination.

This is before even getting in Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, etc. Jackson was a Democrat, but I think you'd consider him an ancestor of the modern Republican Party. Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican, then a Progressive, but I think it'd be fair to say he was an ancestor of the modern Democrats.

Anyways, it's complicated. I'm not in love with either of the parties. I was originally happy with Obama winning, but I hope he's defeated next run by a government that focuses on consolidation, investing, cutting/paying off bad debts, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, along with no moral/social controls or social engineering.

I'm not sure how likely that is to happen, but one can hope.
To combat piracy, your drones would protect the ship of whoever bids highest for your services. Could save tens of millions in ransom fees.
I'm not sure how to feel about this guy after reading about "grab.com". Not sure how I missed that back in 2000 but apparently Andrew started a company with a "billion dollar prize" from an online lottery. Turns out no one one the billion dollar prize but someone won a million dollars from their random drawing. http://www.allbusiness.com/health-care/health-care-professio...

So naturally I had to look at the odds, and if you pull up grab.com from archive.org you see:

"Billion Dollar Sweepstakes: GRAND PRIZE PAYABLE IN 20 ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS OF US $5,000,000 EACH, FOLLOWED BY 10 ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS OF US $10,000,000 EACH, FOLLOWED BY 9 ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS OF US $20,000,000 EACH, FOLLOWED BY A BALLOON PAYMENT OF US $620,000,000 IN THE 40TH YEAR, WITHOUT INTEREST. ODDS 1:2,404,808,340. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
WINNER MAY TAKE IMMEDIATE PAYOUT OF US $170,000,000 INSTEAD OF ANNUITY."

So 62% of the payment came 40 years later, otherwise a payout of $170 million. Lame. Yet, I guess enough people were foolish enough to sign up for it...
The most informative comment on the original article was this:

"Maybe, but I bet they are talking about units shipped or sold into chain, not sold retail. As assistant manager of an electronics outlet store, I see 30+ iPads leave the store every day, sometimes more, and we are often sending people away to wait for the next shipment. This is a city of only 300,000 and we are not the only seller. We've had the Galaxy Pad in stock for only a short time now, a couple of weeks, but have sold....ZERO. NONE. People complain mostly about it's form: thick, kind of heavy for it's size, too small (or too big - that was my own thought, as it seems 'almost' pocketable). It's not a bug, it's a feature?"

Posted By JW, Sackville, NS.: December 3, 2010 8:18 AM
brains of ass
Google can implement their self-serving ad platform technology (AdWords) to automate the 2,500+ person sales force that works at Groupon. Groupons profit margins would skyrocket.
> I feel like if I leave, the company will become toxic to engineers and it will be one of those companies that good talent will try to avoid.

That's the company's problem, not yours.
I get near daily emails from the local newspaper website (San Diego Union Tribune) and from a local weekly paper the Reader... both send out different "Daily deals", not the mention Channel 10's local website daily deals too..

I have never signed up for groupon because I just don't believe i can handle the deluge of daily deals from so many places.
All of the above. There is no set or easy formula. You have to use about 80% data and 20% skill and intuition.
This is the best thing I've seen in months. I can imagine utilizing this in many projects: Generating creatures in a shooter, generating maps, aleatoric music composition... Incredible.
Not at all - much appreciated and good to know!
What's with the language "agreed to acquire" over simply "acquired"?
This is an amazing rewrite from the Flash version - well worth the time they put into this one. They have some really dedicated staff members and some great talent on the team.
That's pretty cool stuff man. I like people who go out of their way to do as much diverse stuff as they can.
Dumb question. Why would someone pay more than an iPad to buy this?
This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!
Especially considering that Mashable provides one of the worst ad experiences ever for the iPhone.
Who has said they are anywhere near $2B in annual revenue? The estimates I've heard are around $500m. That's revenue, they pay out 50% on the top, so $250m net. Not a bad amount, but they have a ton of staff (3,000+) to pay before any profits are considered.
It varies for me. Sometimes it's just an idea and I want to share it. Maybe I'll never do it, maybe I want to get feedback on it. Some pretty cool stuff came out of just "What-If" like Mongrel2 and Librelist.

Other times I get infected with an idea and have to crank out a prototype to see if it'd work. When I'm done, I still try to throw it up there and see what people think. Usually the process of writing about it actually helps me work out if it's worth it or not as well.
Does anybody know what this is written in/on, specifically? JavaScript/HTML seems a bit vague to me.
Great work! Linux users now officially love you :-)
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Over a 4.0 GPA? Man, are grades that badly inflated now that they have to add extra points to the GPA to make people seem better? No knock on you at all, but just curious what the scale is.
There are a lot of founders that could care less about fu money. The fact they made it to "this" point validates their effort. It also emboldens them to keep going...

Sometimes it is a suicide pact with themselves, and in rare other times it results in a huge breakthrough.

Welcome to entrepreneurship ;)
was not that Yahoo?
As far as I can tell, it's written with PHP serverside, Javascript (jQuery JMVC) and HTML/CSS. The actual music player is a hidden flash widget, but the song selection, playback, and entire interface is in HTML/CSS not Adobe flash as previously. (And the adobe flash version had horrible performance on linux).
"Cash" to return to investors, not to take from new investors. Taking new investors (especially at such a crazy valuation) just raises the expectations even further and makes Groupon have to take ever bigger risks.

I mean, seriously, a $6 billion valuation (if real) is $20 in _profit_ from every man, woman, and child in the United States. Not revenue, not EBITDA, but true profit returned to investors in 2010 dollars. That is a through-the-moon valuation.
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The first flexible (or partly flexible) , collapsible device similar to an iPad or the Samsung device is going to blow them all away I'm surprised nothing has come out yet and no doubt there are prototypes ready to go.
Well, ALL commercial aircraft have 2 or more engines.
I doubt the $2B number too, but putting that aside, is there any verification that Google has bid $6B for Groupon or done anything with them in the past week? Isn't all of this stuff just 'sources'?
I agree about registering as a DBA, but not with the advice on the C-Corp. Unless you plan on taking VC money, the C-Corp is the worst business form you can choose, from a money/taxes point of view. The LLC provides all the same advantages of the C-Corp but avoids the nasty double-taxation nonsense. Furthermore, in California, the LLC tax rates are significantly lower than similar corporate rates.

Don't use LegalZoom. Using LegalZoom to incorporate your company is like using "See Spot Run" as the foundation for writing the next great American novel. There are lawyers out there who make lucrative careers fixing LegalZoom problems.

As for Delaware: don't register in Delaware unless you live in Delaware or enjoy out-of-state litigation. You're not a megacorp, you don't need the "protections" that the Delaware chancery courts provide. Delaware is friendly to management; not to business. A shareholder in Delaware's chancery courts has as much chance as a snowball in the fiery pits of Hell.

Registering as a Delaware corporation also means that you don't qualify as a domestic corporation in your state of residence. This means you lose out on any tax breaks, tax credits, or other incentives that your state offers to new/small businesses. Right now, most states offer these incentives.
Most universities have a physics sequence that does not require physics. A major reason this sequence exists, at least at the university that employs me, is pre-med students. Also, physics is not "covered heavily" on the MCAT.
No, referring to its not actually being in the Ivy League.
The natural style is sweet for things like that. I did the Hype.la signup process with natural style and it meant I didn't have to touch the database the whole time. If they quit half-way through then no DB junk left over.

Where this kind of coroutine stuff sucks though is in anything that's "RESTy". In other parts of Hype.la I had simple Xhr callbacks that just grabbed lists of data, so the coroutines were just annoyingly in the way and half the time they were just a big loop with an if-statement for the URLs.

That's where the evented came in. In that way I just map actions to callbacks and done.

Then I ran into a few simple things that didn't work in evented and were still stateless, like the search interface, and so I use the stateless handler for that. Nice and snappy with no extra junk.

Another advantage of all this is that, if you have a part of your app that needs to be resistant to restarts, then you can craft it evented or stateless. In other parts, restarts aren't a big deal so you can do natural. And since everything is just a bunch of little processes, it scales out nice and doesn't have as much of the "gotta-copy-the-world-for-users" that Seaside upgrades do.
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