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I would assume the conversion is calculated at the value of the acquisition or IPO (which is really just a type of investment round). [edit: as it says, no discount so forget this part] Typically there's a conversion percentage kicker, so it might be 110% of the value (ie the early investor gets more for the risk)
So true, instead of North and South California, we need an East and West. The coast is liberal, the inland conservative.
I get it on Comcast in DC too.
It's interesting that they're still willing to give Oracle a place on the board. I have a suspicion that Oracle will decline though.
Fuck you money indeed, but I think it means more than just indulging.

Giving the YC companies $150k means they're likely on better terms for the first investment round. It moves the discussion from "we need money to survive and grow" to "we could use money to grow faster".

This will give many entrepreneurs a nice long runway to ensure their valuation looks good and that they're negotiating from a position of relative confidence.
This seems like a question for Reddit
This was the best answer I've ever seen in response to a question on HN. Good advice and well written.
It's a classic case of not invented here syndrome mixed with incompetence when it comes to open source software. They wanted it on their servers because they were their servers. No more, no less.
That's right, let's justify stealing from businessmen based on the fact that they grew up in a society that was already stealing from businessmen.

None of the things you mentioned need to (or should) be funded by loot.

In fact, utilities and hospitals didn't used to be in the U.S., and only partially are now. The US education system is a stagnant cesspool that still uses a model developed in the Middle Ages. And the government expropriates more wealth created from non-government funded scientific research, than it generates from funding scientific research.

Look, nobody has a duty to serve as a sacrificial animal to anybody else. You do not have the right to demand that businessmen sacrifice for you or for society.
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Anyone who writes a js library gets props in my book, even if I'll never use it :) It's a great way to learn about javascript.
That's legit; I was just wondering if that's actually the case.
I don't know, I didn't understand the point of the question in the first place.
Do you have a reference to back up the OSS prohibition? It sounds like an urban legend and I couldn't find anything searching, but I've seen weirder things before.
What more could they be doing?
AFAIK, most image sensor chips are built the same way; there's a layer of wires on top of the sensor. (Back-illuminated sensors are an exception.)
Exactly. The US (and most other western countries) are playing the game where you avoid the greying of the population by bringing in a constant supply of new immigrants from poorer countries. This is not, of course, sustainable over the long term.
Heroku was acquired for ~$250 million
The problems of the world summed up in a thread: the average IQ of hacker news is way above average and yet people feel the need to: comment on issues when they have no idea of the underlying numbers, use terms that they clearly haven't bothered to even look at on wikipedia or a dictionary, repeat fallacies that any undergraduate econ student knows is false, propose vast social engineering schemes with no regard as to their unintended effects.

I mean if we're the smart ones and we're pulling this bullshit what hope does the world have? engineers are supposed to know better. :(
Here is a life lesson. If someone offers you money, take it ASAP. If it is a deal this good, i.e., a zero interest loan that you can repay with equity, just take the money put it in your bank account and then you can figure out what to do with it. I mean it is not like you have to pay interest on it. You are not guaranteed that the money "will be there when you need it." Many things can happen. The economy can go south again, the investors may decide they need the money after all. A new hot investment class can emerge. A high profile startup may go down in flames and scare off all investors.

Regarding better deals, nothing in this deal prevents companies from taking other investments.
Sounds selfish.

You'd rather work for a couple of decades and get your millions later than giving your family the best possible healthcare and education now. (And the possibility to work less to spend time with them)

Or perhaps you are just single with no wish of a family
He should probably post his identity, though. If for no reason then to make others from making the same mistake.
We were actually trained to overcome this during our bar exam prep courses. The solution?

Just. Start. Writing.

I don't think this solution is just another played out cliché: after all, isn't it what we entrepreneurs tell other would-be entrepreneurs who have "been thinking about this really awesome idea?" Stop thinking/analyzing/planning and just pull a Nike and "just do it"?

Same thing, really.
the zuck is having trouble being a fanboy on here. i think thats where the real comedic value stems from for those of us in the valley who have met him, or at least heard him speak.
OK, some third world countries.
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I'm not talking about major positive events, I'm talking about wealth enabling you to create sustainable conditions.
Really? I think the ecosystem created around large government contracts is pretty significant, and that it would cease to exist without government spending, which naturally would decrease economic output in that a lot of people would be unemployed, a lot of businesses whose customers are the employees of these businesses would shut down, etc etc. It is most obvious in the case of military spending related to manufacturing, but just think about it for medicaid as well.

I think you're off your rocker with this one.
I don't see anything other than a personal preference in how the words should be used. Innovation trumps invention: yeah, because you just defined the words to mean that. Why innovation should necessarily imply market success is beyond me. I guess if SpaceX ultimately fails, they haven't been innovative...
> " I'm arguing that if you want to be wealthy one day or are already, it's in your best interest to contribute more."

The rich already contribute more. Where's the line? 90% tax rate? 99.9999%?
Aren't they tiny? (As a landmass. Not the people themselves.)
Not if you buy a bike, which is also the fastest way to get around London. In my experience it's about twice as fast as cars (average speed is less than 10mph anywhere near the centre) and still faster than trains, unless you happen to work right by one of the major terminals and live by a train station.

It costs around 12p per mile to run a bicycle including capital cost, maintenance, additional food etc (though until you hit around 10k miles the costs may be hidden from you). I commute around 1k miles a month and so it costs me around £6 per day to commute by bike, and it is £16 for a slower equivalent train journey. Cars really aren't an alternative as they're too slow.
I'd say power centralised at the Federal Government because that's what power tends to do -- it tends to centralise.

Those who have more power tend to find ways to use that power to (always with the very best of intentions) to obtain more power. Whenever the Federal and State governments argue about who has a certain power it always winds up looking like a wolf and a chicken arguing about what's for dinner.
What driving culture are you referring to? The wealthy everywhere have a preference for sports cars. That alone doesn't constitute "driving culture", but a lot of what you're talking about is just compression. The US has much more wide open space than Germany does.
I don't think they do live streams. I'm on Mac, and usually use VLC to watch RealPlayer files, but I couldn't get to the RealPlay live media (.ram files).
It's a usage fee for public infrastructure. It's no more a tax than your sewer, water, and power bills.
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Do angel investors seriously give terms like "you can have this convertible note, but only if you don't already have a convertible note from Yuri"?

What rational reason would an angel investor have to avoid investing in a company that has taken this investment?
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From what I remember from posts on HN by Israeli citizens, but of ethnically non-Jewish background its not quite the clear picture you paint. Leaving aside Palestinian civilians who do not have recourse to the same civic laws and roads as Israeli citizens, Israeli Arabs do not have the same rights even legally (let alone inconsistent application of existing laws) as Jewish citizens. These discrepancies crop up in different spheres of life, from marriage to permit for visiting cities to owning property.
Segregation doesn't have to be official and in the written law for it to exist.

Segregation is a real fact in every day Israeli life, as I saw in a 2 year stint from '04 to '06. Since we're talking AlJazeera, here's a recent article on segregation and mixed Israeli-Palestinian couples: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/201112...
I think you bring up valid points, but you should work on delivery. Your post is very offensive to read, even from someone who has no stake in this library whatsoever - even though I think you're right.

You've also got a lot of typos.

So, try to be helpful and encouraging instead of damning and dismissive? I'd appreciate that, and be more open to what you're saying.
Any explanation as to why other investors were not included in this deal? I understand this is a huge deal but being able to select an guaranteed investor from a panel seems like it would be beneficial to both sides?
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your money and your ideas are worthless to people with good intentions

That's not true. His original idea, the one I discussed with him, was actually very good, specially for someone of his generation (college student.) I can easily see someone like Mark Bao or other Facebook gurus doing something with it.

jiganti, while not a programmer, is actually very in tune with the social web and his peers. I really don't doubt the merit of his ideas, just wish he would find a co-founder, and not an employee.

If you're reading this Zach, go back to campus and find the smart kids and go halves with them. Not freelancers.
Ouch. There is value in being able to handle extremely harsh criticism. There is also value in being able to say things nicely, with the knowledge that your words will be more easily heard by the person on the other end, and put to use rather than dismissed out of anger.
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Hogwash. What an unbroken stream of vague unsubstantiated hogwash.

"owned by a bunch of dictators from the Middle East". proof please.

"OBL releasing tapes to AJ". yes, it's called journalism. you remember what news organisations are meant to do, right?

"they always seemed to have a magic touch of finding these terrorism videos nobody else could get". well, they are based in the middle east, might give them an advantage. i remember RTE (the national radio and television broadcaster in ireland) being the first to receive IRA messages so that puts RTE "magically" in bed with the terrorists doesn't it?

"From the rumors I heard". good, unsupported rumor, i'd just go ahead and not listen to those rumors maybe.

"I also remember quotes" "ridiculous Islamist propaganda" "spying allegations" "close to insurgents" unlike for instance the way western media underreports and misreports events, and has worked far too closely with the military. but again, i'd like to see some citation or proof please.

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I know you don't have to believe their corporate profile page but (if I may be allowed to quote in full): http://english.aljazeera.net/aboutus/2006/11/200852518555544...

Drawing on the legacy of the groundbreaking Al Jazeera Arabic channel, Al Jazeera English (AJE) was launched on November 15, 2006 to more than 80 million households worldwide.

The 24-hour news and current affairs channel is the first international English-language news channel to broadcast across the globe from the Middle East.

Al Jazeera English’s global footprint continues to grow and now broadcasts to more than 220 million households on six continents in more than 100 countries.

Al Jazeera English is broadcast from four strategic broadcast centres: Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London, and Washington, DC. Unlike other international channels, Al Jazeera English’s broadcast shifts as the world turns providing the most comprehensive and contextual news coverage.

Al Jazeera English’s mission is to provide independent, impartial news for an international audience and to offer a voice to a diversity of perspectives from under-reported regions.

In addition, the channel aims to balance the information flow between the South and the North.

The channel of reference for the Middle East and Africa, AJE has unique access to some of the world’s most troubled and controversial locations. AJE’s determination and ability to accurately reflect the truth on the ground in regions torn by conflict and poverty has set our content apart.
Great point, this will expand the pie (of people starting startups).
I believe CMOS sensors can also do this. Infrared photography isn't too difficult, as long as you remove the infrared-removal filter in front of the sensor.
Thanks. I didn't intent to insult anyone but you're right my post implies that.
Umm how the hell am I suppose to type "ƒ" every time? I know I can "map" it to some other character, but that kinda defeats the purpose, no? Other than that it looks nifty, but since I'm already using jQuery in all of my projects I don't think I have much use for it.
I'd pay an extra 1% if they would just get all the slow folks out of the passing lanes!!!
I'm wondering about the 10% who didn't take the money and if there is adverse selection at play here.
I want a GPS, compass, infrared vision, gyroscopic (rotational sensors), accelerometers, optical zoom, be able to sense the frequency my cellphone is broadcasting on. I want to feel electrical and magnetic fields, be able to distinguish between every smell, have 360 degree radar/lidar, and optional echo location, temperature sensors, I want to be able to think http requests and sense the responses.

I want to be able to close my eyes, disconnect all of my 5-10 senses and plug them into a computer generated world where the rules are as I define them. So I could be lying in bed yet genuinely feel that I am running a marathon.
More here:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4346...
As long as we are on the topic of augmenting vision: how cool would it be to have an artificial tapetum lucidum?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum
That was a lot of fun. The second step is a lot more work than the first one.
Correlation does not equal causation.

From glancing at that chart, there also appear to be correlations with religion and distance from the equator (i.e. regions having more or less daily sunlight).
Good general overview of Milner and Usmanov:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4346...
That's great, but still requires doing your own setup on your own hostname: conceptually that is a single repository with one URL.
Northern California has the water.
Could you maybe leave a relevant link for the curious?
By pure coincidence I have it on in the background right now in Arlington. I have FiOS but I assume Comcast has a similarly wide array of news channels. I chalked it up to the area. I've certainly never had it anywhere else I've lived, up and down the East Coast.
pointless? I think we all know where facebook is!
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4346...

Also see
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2155637
Ok thank you, I will try to rephrase.
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I wonder if you're confusing reality with Rand novels. As far as I'm aware (since I'm not one of them), most wealthy people aren't trying to impress anybody. They're just enjoying their lives, relatively quietly. The incentive provided by wealth is not status, but enjoyment. A BMW is much more enjoyable to drive than a Buick. Go ahead and pry all the logos off my car, it'll still be more fun to drive.

What's more, "status" is only a proxy for wealth and power. Status is only as useful as the additional influence it brings. Consider it from an evolutionary biology perspective: higher status means higher capability to support mates and offspring. If you take away the additional wealth that brings higher status, then the higher status is lost as well, as it doesn't actually signal a higher capability to provide.
A few weeks ago revorad asked me if I could take my existing HN Daily code and create an Ask HN version of it. There isn't enough volume of ask posts to produce a sensible daily version, so I decided to create Ask Hacker News Weekly.

Similar to HN Daily, this is a list of the 10 highest-scoring posts which have appeared on http://news.ycombinator.com/ask at some point in the week prior to the summary being posted. (In some cases, this may result in high-scoring old posts being included instead of more recent but lower-scoring posts.)
This comment is totally unrelated and is itself a strawman. Yes, it is easier to use GitHub: I will not argue that fact. However, using GitHub will cause people to be pulling from GitHub, and GitHub may go down. This is a tradeoff, and is one people use a lot: you use a shared platform and give up control of the URL to get easier outsourced hosting. But to argue that git's decentralization solves that problem is disingenuous: it means that people could theoretically still pull your repository, but only after finding out what that fallback URL is and manually resetting their origin, which 90% of git users don't even know how to do. Meanwhile, many people are willing to spend the five minutes it takes to learn how to run their own server and want to avoid this tradeoff by hosting their own stuff on their own hostnames so they can publish stable URLs, but /can't/, because they like GitHub's social features, none of which (due to the aforementioned distributed features, humorously) actually require GitHub to be the canonical repository URL: if you want to use GitHub, you are going to have people cloning and pulling your GitHub mirror (or even worse: adding your GitHub mirror as a submodule) and when it goes down they are going to get errors, and you will have no control over it. That sucks.
IIRC, there are a handful of companies in the program now that were already funded prior to being admitted. For a company like that, a 150k convertible note might not make much sense.
As Sportsguy says, it's all about reps. I'm increasingly impressed but only because I've seen the money put into coaching and seen those guys since they moved to PA. He's learned well, but if your startup grows organically you get to practice (and sweat) all the way up.

And let's be honest, I know some of those guys and am amazed at how they've grown and what they've accomplished. But we're the same generation and we can do so much more. Don't forget, money is for poor people.
This may be irrelevant to original comment but does querySelector work in all modern browsers? My understanding was that it doesn't and so there is need for CSS selector engines like jQuery's sizzle.
Somewhat unrelated questions: Anyone know when Moonlight will support Netflix (if ever)?
I notice that your comment has been downvoted, so lest you think so, it is not me. I followed your links, and what I found is this: A media corporation refuses to disclose a report on an internal investigation on how it conducts its affairs. Yes, it bothers me that a public service body is stonewalling about an internal report. But when I transfer the setup to US say, it is not what I would call, unheard of.

I am certainly willing to concede, that it is not transparent, but isnt calling them to possess a "well-known" anti-Israel bias exaggerated ?
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Also, I am thinking of suing for on some legal grounds.

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That's the beauty of a DVCS (Git in this case) _not_ Github.
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I think you have a pretty simplistic view of rich people - on average, they're much more complex than just wanting to show off to the masses. I fall into the same trap with a lot of things, but it's important to realize that a lot of them are extremely smart, and there are a lot of motivations there.

But with your original point on luxury goods, luxury goods are usually subjectively, if not objectively better than less expensive alternatives, even when noone knows which one costs more. Your govt. ID, if it's only a pure status symbol and carries no weight, might be valued by some, but truly rich people wouldn't care. They don't need validation from "people they consider inferior". You're describing a small subset there. In general, they just want the best of everything, and the marginal utility of the money they're giving up is meaningless in comparison.
I'm a Git n00b, so thanks for pointing that out! No wonder git has killed off SVN
> Erin has a functioning female reproductive system.

Sorry, when you say that, do you mean they wouldn't insure her in case she got pregnant, or am I misreading something? That's shocking, and a stupid drain on being able to start a company.
I was just going to mention BMW - when I drive one, I'm definitely not thinking about other people, just the machine and the road.
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