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I fail to "get" Quora. If I go to the site directly, they want me to register before I'm allowed to do anything. I can't find any reasonable way to search there or browse the questions and answers.

However, if I go to Google and search for something, and toss in a "site:quora.com" it will show me the Quora results, and Quora lets me see the questions and answers (although not the comments). Those pages even have a search on them so I can look for more.

None of those pages seem to have any monetization. So where do they plan to get their money? Seeing no apparent monetization makes me suspect that they plan to use their user information for monetization, and wonder if that is why they say you have to use your real name.

I know they've received a lot of buzz, including here, so assume they are probably on the up and up, but that's sure not the gut feeling a get when I compare what I see as a non-registered person with, say, what I saw at, say, stackoverflow.

Anyone else here not getting it or am I the only one?
This is correct. Made the edit. I hope I didn't confuse anyone with my original post.
Part of that the result of the Vietnam Conflict. The US military did not control the spin of the daily war news, and suffered mightily as a result.
I didn't expect them to hack it into the firmware overnight, but I thought maybe somebody would have re-signed OtherOS.self for > 3.15 firmwares on phat PS3's, created a homebrew bootloader or developed a basic proof of concept. All i've seen so far is people developing backup managers and PSN hacks.
That filter would be your eye balls.
There's an entire website outside of devoted to discussing Quora? Weird. Beyond the title, what does this article have to do with Robert Scoble? After reading it, I did a quick Cmd-F... his name doesn't seem to appear in the article at all.
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Spoke too soon. With UBB, they are capping it at 25 GB starting in March. :(
Money may be bad for a few of them at this stage but it will probably provide a leg up for just as many if not more.
Thats why they carry guns. They are even afraid of each other.

Amazing.
When I was self-employed in California, I used Kaiser Permanente. I paid around $200 a month as a single 32 year old. I used the coverage for a few checkups and whatnot, and thought it was good service and value. Buying my own plan through KP was about $150/m less than COBRA. The hitch with KP is that you have to use their hospitals. However if you are in California, that shouldn't be a problem.
You're a Dutch lawyer? Cool! What brought you to HN?
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I don't agree with you that everything is about funding once a company has been founded, but this is going to fundamentally change the way YC companies operate. Even if they don't take the money, they won't be quite as hungry or innovative with survival - just the knowledge that there is going to be a sum of money that can save them means that they will give in sooner.
You could change the speed limit dynamically to always maximize throughput.
Github's "cloud"
We can say that there are sixteen times as many people in Iraq as in West Virginia.
See http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/04/28/what-should-t...

and http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2010/01/11/what-is-a-con...
I'm on Quora and I like it there, although I visit with decreasing frequency. I think they are trying to emulate more of a Twitter/Facebook thing with their user base - a more "social" experience than stackoverflow, I guess - and I assume their monetization strategy is as undefined as it was for either of those two when they started.
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I do enjoy going trough the lists (http://news.ycombinator.com/lists) so I noticed their seems to be a dated link in "news news" that links to invalid (http://news.ycombinator.com/noobs).

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There is no state or province in North America with the kind of driving culture that exists in Germany.
Sure, it's just a stereotype, although I freely admit that I, for one, do kinda help perpetuate the old saw about how "a programmer is a biological machine for turning sugar and caffeine into code."

Or, to look at it another way.... "The four food groups for programmers are salt, sugar, fat and caffeine."

All joking aside, my diet has it's good days and it's bad days. But I do like my coffee, that's for sure.
Try acetylene. More fun/scary.
Except why is it any business of anyone else's whether one wants to spend one's money or save it and pass it to one's children?
Jacob, are you in Israel? Would you care to shed some perspective? For instance, are the races segregated? Are children taught to distrust other races? Are they taught all peoples are equal?
FourLokoStories.com had a nice ride in 2010. Hit 100,000 unique monthly visitors and was featured on CNN. http://j.mp/dWN1QS
Yeah, I take fish-oil, a b-complex, a regular multi-vitamin, ginko-biloba and a couple of other supplements, and eat moderately healthy and least part of the time. I try not not totally fall into the programmer stereotype when it comes to diet, but the bit about late nights fueled by caffeine and sugar, well... what can I say?
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Every time Al Jazeera is brought up, people claim that it is anti-semitic, racist, anti-US, etc.

But to that I say: so what? Do you think Americans are that stupid that they won't see antisemitism? Do you think we're little children who can't think for ourselves?

As the old adage goes, "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer". If Al Jazeera is indeed "the enemy", then all the more reason to make Al Jazeera widely available!

Plus: when Al Jazeera started, the staff was almost entirely made up of BBC MiddleEast service people. So while they worked for BBC, they were unbiased; but the moment they started working for AJ, they became biased and completely untrustworthy!!

IMHO, this opposition to Al Jazeera comes from the fact that they (AJ) don't tow the 'company line'. There's a carefully crafted story around which news is reported in the US ("US = good; Middle-Easterners = uneducated religious bigots; Israelis = poor victims who can't do no wrong; etc." ) ; unfortunately for AJ, they refuse to follow this line and hence piss off powerful people here.

And before someone starts putting words in my mouth: I support Israeli people, and want them to live secure, peaceful, happy lives in Israel. In other words: I support the Israeli people, but not necessarily the actions of their government.
That makes sense. After re-thinking my previous comment, I suppose another potential downside might have to do with somehow missing out on the numerous copycat offers that I imagine will arise. At any rate, although I'm surprised that everyone has signed on so quickly it does seem like a really good deal for all involved.

Edit: phrasing.
Might there also be some far-out repayment date — say 10 years — and a small interest rate (even without a discount)? Then, if the company becomes a perpetually profitable independent growing concern the loan is still eventually repaid, though not with the kind of equity conversion and appreciation the investor is really hoping for.
Is this a "real" subdomain or a userpage? Oddly, the user "cloud" doesn't seem to have a cloud.github.com repository.
You may want to look into royalty/revenue based financing. I don't know if your revenue is where it needs to be for that (i.e. revenueloan.com's typical investment makes $1-5MM in revenue), but something to look in to.
Their description of JAXR sounds like they're talking about STaX instead. Wikipedia says it's an API for accessing registries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXR
In the absence of a mandate, all state guaranteed issue laws do is jack up the cost of insurance for everyone. You simply can't have one without the other.
Looks like they have a CDN or something hosted under this sub-domain: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/shoes/shoes/nks.pdf
As I mentioned below, I find it disingenuous that people often use the term 'anti-semitic' when they mean 'anti-Israel', as if any judgement on the actions of the state of Israel automatically implies hate of Jewish people.
I think Hacker News is a gem then as it is now. Simple idea, great topics, and a wonderful community. Just works very nicely.
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Hmm - it's still well worth it in my opinion. I last did YC 4 years ago (W07), and whilst I now have my own network, it could still be much bigger. But anyway, there are many other benefits. The focus of prototype and demo day really increases productivity. Close proximity to the YC partners does wonders for your product development, and of course the YC alumni network is much bigger than when I first did it.
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"Both seem terse enough and are meant for inclusion in at the bottom of your web page."

That isn't true for Google Analytics. It's designed to be placed at the bottom of the head section:
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTra...
You probably will not be able to pull off part 3. There are duties the company has towards its shareholders. Thus, it will often cause legal problems for the company to buy out one person's stock without offering to buy everyone's stock for the same price.

That's why when companies buy back stock they tend to use tender offers that are extended towards all shareholders.

This is not legal advice. The legal issues here are more complex than this post calls for.
Why $150k for YC companies is a huge deal
Who says they didn't?
To supply a little context:

Oracle was attempting to leverage their (claimed) ownership of the trademark on the name of the Hudson Continuous Integration system to take full control of the project (otherwise open source). Most notably, they tried to block a move of the central source repository to github.

The response was a proposal to change the name. This was put to a vote among the dev community, who voted in favor, 214 to 14.

The Oracle member of the interim project governing board was invited to continue past the name change, but has apparently declined.

Not a great day for anyone, I guess, but Oracle really doesn't come out of this looking good...
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> Censorship is preventing someone else from speaking.

One could argue the recording lobbies are preventing Google from "speaking", by means of legal intimidation. Legal censorship is still censorship.

Preventing someone else from speaking is a form of censorship, but censorship includes all means of suppressing communication.
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Ah yes, I can confirm that. It's totally hosed when you're logged out since it redirects to the logged-out search page, instead of the integrated one when you're logged in. It also breaks the parameter encoding when it redirects. Nice.
"folks like me need to be able to invest at reasonable valuations"

Welcome to capitalism: no one has a guaranteed business model. Music label, newspaper, angel investor: you can all be disrupted.
1. Fix healthcare costs: single-payer.

Really. That's it.

$600B in administrative savings alone, which doesn't take into account the cost reductions that the system will achieve by negotiating rates downward.
I've never had these issues with Windows 7. The initial complaints are due to the apps you want to use requiring Java and Flash, that's independent of the OS, and would be the case with any Operating System that could use Java and Flash. You could of course said no to the updates.

Furthermore, it's completely unnecessary to install Avast, you can install Microsoft Security Essentials, free, and it works great. Microsoft can't bundle it, since they would be charged with monopolistic practices.

Your OEM provider installed a Norton trial, that also has nothing to do with Windows. Windows 7 only creates 2 Program Files if you're using a 64bit operating system. The (x86) is the 32bit programs, whereas the Program Files are native 64bit, it makes it a bit clearer when uninstalling or organizing your system. Since you can technically have 32 and 64 bit versions of the same program installed.

I could go on, but essentially there seems to have been an issue with the game. I don't know if I would outright blame the operating system.
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AFAIK, people on PC cannot play against people on PS3. Some people supposedly buy consoles so that they know they're not playing against cheaters.
And to be really pedantic — only in the service of further demonstrating that the original pedantry was silly, I promise! — when the real percentage is 90.6something, it is also true that "90%" (and "80%", and "22%", etc.) "have already accepted", but it is not yet true that "91%" have.
This is pretty much standard Computer Engineering curriculum. Most CE (and computer science) majors will have had a class that built a microprocessor (and of course all the digital electronics leading up to it).
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> For instance, are the races segregated?

No. I'm curious, is this a rhetorical question or are you genuinely ignorant of Israeli domestic policy?
There is a sort of cultural blindness to these problems. Once you know how to work your way through the mess, you can fix it without any thought. You can do it with your eyes closed, accepting the pain as just the way things are.
Ikea is the most notorius tax avoider in the world.

The great swedish furniture company is actually a dutch charity.
I would seek out 2-3 angels who can provide the $300k investment. It's going to be (near) impossible to get a $300k loan on $20k/month gross revenue. Definitely not something any reputable bank will put forth in these times.

You'll likely need to part with 10-20% equity in the business, but the value of the $300k to take you to the next level should make sense. Think of it as - can we get to $200k/m by 2012 if we have $300k/$600k/$1mm. If you can 10x your revenue in a year and give up 20%, you're in a good place.
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Just a typical rant on windows 7.

He could've just install the game on a new iPad, and throw the notebook out of the window.

But wait! It's not in the app-store?
The nice thing about old windows-games, they'll keep running on windows 8 too.
Haha, thanks for linking to Nobody Knows Shoes.

Yeah, it's a CDN. I uploaded that file on the downloads page[1] and that's what it resolves to.

1: https://github.com/shoes/shoes/downloads
Adios Ramen profitability !
I evaluated this notebook with Mathematica 8, so it unfortunately doesn't just work.
The flaw in your expectation is your assumption that communities decline due to bad actors. I think you're wrong. The decline comes from two other effects: regression to the mean, and decreasing overlap in shared interests and goals.

People who followed PG's essays from the early days were pretty plugged in to tech startup culture, and the early community was focused around that. They were people who had a startup, or were contemplating doing one. Generally, they were smart, ambitious and technically astute.

Over time, those traits regress to the mean, as people come upon the site based on more and more random hearsay, wade in and contribute. If they are marginally less smart or astute, they still aren't bad actors; but the group's average declines, and asymptotically approaches the population mean.

And this more diverse population isn't as homogeneous. That affects the kinds of stories and comments that get voted up. It's only natural that stories and comments which appeal to the lowest common denominator will attract the most votes; it's that in the past, the lowest common denominator had a higher value, owing to the homogeneity.
> when Al Jazeera started, the staff was almost entirely made up of BBC MiddleEast service people.

And many people believe that the BBC is biased when it comes to covering Israel.

For example: http://honestreporting.com/bbc-responds-to-flotilla-inquiry-...
All is a loss. Entrepreneurs are not help personally liable for the debt in this case.
From what I've seen it's not just other chains that locate stores near Starbucks. Even Starbucks locates stores next to Starbucks.
You can call yourself an entrepreneur when...
"it turns out that the type attribute is optional"

It is optional for HTML5, but not for 4.01:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/scripts.html#adef-type...
I think Burger King was the first to follow McDonalds - the others were just following Burger King
Trying not to belabor the point, but you didn't mention "good quality sea salt". I really think that does important things for the brain and nervous system.

Not really trying to butt in. I've just seen my quality of life go up so much and it's hard to resist sharing my enthusiasm.

EDIT: Oh, and I meant better to feed your brain better than to try "smart drugs". I consume caffeine like it's going out of style. So I didn't mean that.
All your arguments are correct, however they miss the issue.

For this person, the overall Windows 7 experience is flawed compared to the Apple OSX experience. You can say it's because of the games, or because Microsoft can't legally include something, but that doesn't change that, for this person, it's easier to use a Mac.
They hotlink to that cloud image, oh noes.
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If you want to compare apples to Apples, try installing Java and Flash and a CD-Rom Game on your iPad.
Interesting. I have cox cable in DC, we get Al Jazeera, and it has been most useful. When the gulf oil spill was happening and we wanted to find out what was going on, I turned to CNN only to get 20 minutes on Katy Perry's freakin wardrobe controversy. Al Jazeera to the rescue.
I don't think leaders think of their enemies as human. I don't think they could sleep at night if they did.
Actually, MEMRI is an American non-profit, which in principle doesn't accept financing from any government (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Inst...):

Apparently the mere inclusion of Israelis (I recognize 3 Israeli names out of the 7 listed in its staff page) is enough to label it "Israel's PR department".

Al Jazeera, on the other hand, have received so far over $160m from the Emir of Qatar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Organization) - yet many commenters here seem to think that doesn't influence its coverage at all.
I'm not an expert, but I don't believe debt reduces your net worth. Irresponsible use of that debt does, but if I borrow $250k to buy a house, the value of that house offsets the debt. It's a wash in the end, is it not?
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no, actually I don't have an opinion whether swedish system is good or bad, as I haven't experienced it personally, only heard and read about it and know few people who had problems with it. in the end they seem to be doing fine.

but I think there needs to be more optimal solution than just equity compensation or just cash-salary compensation.
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Interesting... I've never really thought about "sea salt" as being something to seek out specifically. I do consume some, because I eat a lot of nuts (cashews, pecans, almonds, etc.) that are often salted with sea-salt. I have no idea whether or not that constitutes "good quality sea salt" though.

I'll have to do some research, thanks for the pointer.
The main point here is that the iPad is a strongly opinionated device. There are things you can do and things you can't. Windows machines are weakly opinionated devices. They don't venture to guess what you might want to do with them.

Most people don't want every option, they want the right option.
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Same here. And this is my second account, my first was banned. :/
Only a demo of what a rogue app with too many permissions could do, but useful to know about anyway...
It seems a bit confusing from the title vs the post:
214 in favor of Jenkins is what the original post says.

Also mentioned is "Jenkins is not Oracle's project, nor CloudBee's
project, nor my project, nor Kohsuke's project - it's the community's
project, and it's going to thrive."

<quote>

"The vote is closed, and the results are in. More than half of the total
votes were from ineligible voters, but the result would have been the same
either way. The final result of all eligible votes is as follows: 214 votes
to rename, and 14 for the status quo. You can see the individual votes at
https://groups.google.com/group/hudson-jenkins-vote.

So what does this mean now? Well, it means Jenkins lives. We've registered
jenkins-ci.org, though it's empty at the moment. In the coming days, we will
be renaming the existing Google Groups to jenkins-@googlegroups.com,
renaming the Twitter account from @hudsonci to @jenkinsci, and renaming our
organization at Github from hudson to jenkinsci. I wanted to make sure
everyone had notice ahead of time that this was happening, so that no one
gets surprised by changes to their incoming mail, etc. As said before, the
initial, interim governance board will consist of me, Kohsuke and, if he and
Oracle are willing, Winston. If Winston is unwilling or unable to continue
in that role with Jenkins, we will select a replacement interim member. The
interim board will work on the details of a more permanent governance
process going forward. Discussions on the infrastructure changes (including
things like the Maven groupId/artifactIds, etc) will be in public, on these
lists. We're working to get the JIRA and wiki contents migrated over to the
Jenkins site, and hope to work with Oracle to get that done in the next
couple days.

Putting aside logistics, I want to personally thank everyone for voting, and
especially thank everyone who voted for renaming for supporting the Jenkins
project and its future. Jenkins is not Oracle's project, nor CloudBee's
project, nor my project, nor Kohsuke's project - it's the community's
project, and it's going to thrive. " *</quote>

I fail to understand why would someone change names for an established 'brand'.
(there are deserving candidates that do need a name change - Go, Closure and few hu la la from Google)
I'm not an American and I watch International version of CNN and I don't have any bad word against them.. I also watch Al Jazeera and BBC.
Just an American here, but there is no racial segregation or systematized racism of any kind in Israel. 'Racism' and 'Apartheid' are just thrown around carelessly at Israel by some critics.
There are better ways to make what is a valid point. Only geeks can forgive legacy baggage, but inevitably whatever MS do OS-wise is a balancing act. There's nothing new here.
Are you planning to support Twitter or email ? Can I post links of short voice messages on my stream or send them to my friends through email?
>Many states have groups that want their state to be divided into two or more states; you just hear about California more in the news because they're bigger.

Perhaps we should split the cries for California to be separated into two groups - arguments for it from northern Californians and arguments for it from Southern Californians.

I'm kidding, of course, but I think that what you say vaguely supports shawnee_'s point.
The same thing that happens with any debt when the debtor goes bankrupt.
You are arguing against tickets in general, not against fines proportional to wealth.
You're arguing that education, infrastructure, and a non-corrupt court system is responsible for this country's success, which may well be true. However, only a tiny amount of spending is on those things. 85% of spending is on social security, the military, and medicaid. We could cut all of those things dramatically without a corresponding decrease in the country's economic output.
Who sits on public toilet seats?