skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with asking "What is your BATNA" is that these things often evolve organically during discussions. It's good to have a baseline, but it's really dumb to go back to the BATNA for a thumbs up/thumbs down determined after the initial offer after discussions have gone on for some time.

The different parameters of the deal that get tweaked along the way are often not considered in the beginning, and what was considered unfair at the beginning may, by the end, be considered fair when all the parameters are in place. The negotiation process is a discovery process for both parties and you're not in the same mindset at the beginning than you are at the end. It may turn out that you're willing to sell at the end for less than you thought, simply because the outlook at the new company looks so great that you think it's a fair deal. This isn't you being a sucker, this is you responding to new information. You being a sucker is when you know you're not happy but you cave anyway.. you'll know the difference between this and an academic difference between your expectations and the final negotiated deal that really doesn't matter.
Agreed. Living in a country pretty much means you're not free. You might be more or less free in country A than B, but you're not going to be free, otherwise there wouldn't really be a country, there'd be pure anarchy. Where you could do anything you wanted, but everyone else is free to do anything they wanted to you.
Gandhi: "Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong"

I sure don't blame the Egyptian people if they aren't feeling very strong right about now.
Ironically, now this post ranks at number 1 for the query. World works in a strange way it seems.
I don't think that HN would be in the market for a beginners book. Anything in here that differentiates it from O'Reilly's Rhino book or Mozilla Developer Center?
Or maybe they were not suicide bombers. They were just terrorists trying to leave the cell phone at the target location and then send a SMS to it.
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> Second, having no realized stock or cash at close is absolutely insane

Yes, especially given the situation as described.

There is an enormous amount of really good stuff in this thread if I get around to it I'll summarize it in to an article, it's quite the goldmine.
That's like saying the wives of soldiers in Afghanistan shouldn't worry about their husbands because Terrorism is much worse. We're advanced creatures, I think we can handle worrying about multiple things at once.
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Ok, I'll bite. Say "extremely low considering <specific information about your revenue that can justify a higher valuation>" and "well beyond the length we'd be willing to do because we've already spent N years at this and have built value you'd be getting on day one."
A bunch of people in the UK were arrested today as well.

So, yes. Apparently.
Attack on sourceforge.net and global password reset
The offer is crap but the process may not be and some elements of the offer indicate the other party is serious, welcome to hardball. Throwing the offer 'in the garbage' will end the negotiations, the trick is to gain control of the dialogue and to push back as hard as you can without breaking off the deal to see what room there is.
Can they sue the Mobile Carrier for this?

Will the terrorists form an anti-spam team?

Will the TSA ban mobile phones in airports and flights?
This is interesting. Part of the problem is answering questions when there's not much content on the web. I think a lot of the job sites showed up because Walmart is hiring for that location in preparation for opening.

I'm just now testing this query, but when I did [fallston md walmart], there is a really comprehensive article at http://www.exploreharford.com/news/3074/work-start-fallston-... that shows up at #5. That article mentions that "The new road will lead into a 147,465-square-foot Walmart, which has been planned with a possible 57,628-square-foot expansion" Then I did the search [walmart supercenter size square feet]. The #1 and #2 results are both pretty good, e.g. the page at http://walmartstores.com/aboutus/7606.aspx says that an average store is 108K square feet, and supercenters average 185K square feet.

As a human, I can deduce that 147K square feet (with 57K square feet of potential expansion) implies that it will probably be a supercenter, but it's practically impossible for a search engine to figure out this sort of multi-step computation right now. My guess is that in a couple months when the store opens up, this information will be more findable on the web--for example, somewhere on Walmart's web site. But for now, this is a really hard search because there's just not much info on the web.

I appreciate you sharing this search. I think it's a pretty fair illustration of how peoples' expectations of Google have grown exponentially over the years. :)
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The difference there of course is that the Iraqis were not in open revolt at the time. Whether or not that was due to how much more insane of a dictator Hussein was I leave as an open question.
I'd speculate that Iran isn't financing them, because I've never heard an allegation, they're Sunni, and they don't have a record of blowing up Israelis or Americans.

Not sure on the popularity thing. I'd say plurality support, off the cuff, based on recent history, but a big portion of that support is "anyone but Mubarak" moreso than "sharia law rules". All gut feelings on my part though.
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PLAYBOY: Specifically, what kind of breakthrough are you talking about?

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That would result in people up voting every story.
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If you tell me that sites who chronically scrape content elsewhere get a "pull-down weight" attached to the whole of their content, you've made my day.
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I'm finally doing it: bootstrapping my start up.
I'm a long time lurker on HN, but this is my first thread. I've always dreamed of starting some sort of startup since I was 11 years old. Of course life happens, and before I know it I'm a month away from my 30th birthday.

So finally deciding to go for it, I sat down and came up with a very engaging idea and roped my wife into co-founding with me and handling financial duties. We haven't incorporated yet, however I'm currently in the middle of a coding tear on 1.0 and I honestly couldn't be happier. Knowing that I'm potentially building my own destiny rather than defaulting to working for someone else the rest of my life is a big motivator.

Do I want to get rich? Well yeah, but even if I don't, being profitable will be just fine. In fact, I'm building my company in one of the worst areas for technology startups: DFW.

I have a day job that I'm very happy at, so this is just a nights/weekend thing until we can achieve critical mass. Despite my great job, I still feel the pull of the entrepreneur and am looking forward to launching a beta in a month or two.

It was either get a tattoo or start a business.
"Sorry for the anonymity but I didn't want our ignorance to be made any more obvious than it already is to the potential purchasers :)"

Why is that a problem? I often notice this kind of questions asked anonymously, and I am trying to figured out what is the problem.
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I kind of agree, but this reminds me of "if you give a mouse a cookie…" Who else does this? I'd like everyone to, but it's great that GitHub does. They do great work.
I've been reading a great book on this very subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-System-Error-Bringing-Internet/d...

My general impressions are that nobody likes working with the FBI because they don't share information, but the secret service and postal service fraud unit both work extensively with people overseas. Countries which are members of either the EU or NATO tend to cooperate extensively with cybercrime investigations however those outside of that group do not. Many cybercriminals reside in the eastern bloc (Eastern Europe, Russia, China) and are protected by entrenched political and organized crime interests (usually by both at the same time).
That's why sometimes I think sites that do manual culling like Quora are greatly valuable. Sure when they have sizeable information, peole will try to spam it too but that spam will soon get cleaned up. Just like wikipedia.
That's a good question, but yes, having the names and contact publicly available increases transparency. The DCMA notices are requesting the removal of something available to the public, so the public should know who, specifically, is making the request.

The short answer is, if one does not want to be known for sending DMCA take down notices, then the only option is to not send them. If one is intentionally or unintentionally depriving the public of access to a legitimate work, then the public should know.

Providing the names and contact details does open the door for possible abuse, but this is highly unlikely. On the other hand, providing names and contact details also enables the public to potentially help the copyright holders by reporting related abuses, but again, this is also highly unlikely.

In other words, it doesn't hurt and it does help. Transparency is a good thing.
Ok, thanks.

I've been researching them a bit further and it definitely seems they would command a majority of the votes at the moment so I really have no idea why people are so quick to write them off.

Agreed on the 'anyone but Mubarak', if this thing does not blow over Mubarak will be a very lucky man if he manages to even reside in Egypt, if he is forced out and does not flee abroad in time he's as good as dead.
>As far as margins go, they're being chased down by competition, which exactly there always needs to be new products, as above.

This implies that there are usually competitors willing to accept a lower margin for a largely similar product; in food, I'd compare Trader Joe's to Whole Foods in this role.

Really, this (producing a largely similar product at lower margin and lower price) is the tactic I'm attempting to use, as well. The margins most large companies have, once you account for their economies of scale advantages, must be staggering, (that, or the inefficiencies inherent to being a large company where the people who make the decisions have no contact with the people who own the company are staggering.) which means there's plenty of room for the generics to have a go at bringing prices down.
I'll second that. Especially in the .net ecosystem, it will be much easier for me to sell a PaaS provider to enterprise customers with a pricing model than without.
Usually, it's the one suing who gets the money.

The users didn't sue? Too bad for them.
I don't have any experience involving bankers in a M&A deal but it's important that you monitor the work your lawyer(s) are doing pretty closely. Even good lawyers will have a tendency to want to refine the contract past the point of diminishing returns or go off and do random tasks in order to pad their hourly fees.

You can potentially get them to agree to a fee cap for the deal, but unless there's other reasons for them to want to do a thorough job (like future business with your acquirer, etc.) it'll probably do more harm than good.

All that said, you'd be absolutely mad to not have good lawyers on a deal like this. All it takes is one booby trap in your contract for all your hard work to get flushed down the toilet.
Keep in mind that the Mahalo audience is very different to HN/tech community.

Is medium quality content, that's easy to find, bad for internet newbs?
I don't think checking every hash within one of the password is going to cost much, worst case your checking less than 1,000 passwords. However, I would much rather a system that checked 2 passwords one with and one without the caps lock on. AKA 1Password and 1pASSWORD.
It's interesting to note that one of the two notices in this repository is from Sony, and appears to be demanding the removal of PS3 jailbreaking tools.

The DMCA's prohibition on DRM circumvention is in a different section (17 USC 1201) from the section on copyright infringement (17 USC 512), in which the safe harbor/takedown notice stuff is defined. It's not clear to me that DRM circumvention thus qualifies as copyright infringement, or that any of the safe harbor stuff would apply to hosts of circumvention tools.

Certainly, Sony's notice doesn't identify any of their works that are being infringed, so the notice seems to be invalid according to the usual rules, specifically 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A)(ii).

Can anybody more familiar with the law explain what's going on with this? Why is the procedure from 17 USC 512 being applied to a (alleged) violation of 17 USC 1201? Or is this just another flaw in Sony's handling of this mess?
It's less clear than you think. It didn't work in Iran and it might not work here. The arrogance in social media will have to be reconciled with failed revolutions.
Do you really think basing a payment service on a domain controlled by Libya inspires trust?
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Neither Coca-Cola nor Phillip Morris invented their products or market segments — cola/caffeine and tobacco/nicotine have been used for thousands of years by huge portions of every population to gain access to them.

The products have always sold themselves, if anything it's the marketers and behavioral psychologists that are the parasites (on the commodity-selling industries).
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Great points!

#5 is a point here I haven't seen mentioned in the rest of the thread, so take notice! This might be very good advice, depending on your situation: this offer could provide excellent leverage to raise capital at a good valuation right now. Also, I don't think it would risk poisioning the well if you were to talk to VCs the way it might if you were shopping for other buyers.
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I felt the same way at times in my CS department.

Schedule and give talks about the CS topics you're teaching yourself. One approach we took was to present it as a SIG (special interest group) of our ACM chapter. Even if one person, only your friends, or only the ACM officers come, that is plenty.

I think the first few should be about why your workflow is more efficient that the typical CS student. Don't be so overt about that fact, of course. In my experience, people will start to tinker if you present it as a path to efficiency.

I think it's worth it to screencast all of your talks and put them on a website. (Résumé / Brand Bonus)

If you find one other like-minded hacker, you win. Things will change after that.

You should totally go above and beyond with all of it. This is a rare time.
Don't think of it as cynicism, it's just my interpretation of what appears to be a mixed message. You and Mahalo have caught a lot of flack for being a content farm, a scraper site, an ad-strewn wasteland, etc, and you've denied those claims, always seeming like your argument was 'Mahalo has good content and we're totally legit'.

Now the message I get is 'we're getting rid of the junk content and focussing on making good, solid pages that will make people stop searching and stick around'.

I suppose my interpretation could be off; I'm not referencing any particular quote of yours, so I may be remembering 'we don't have junk content' as 'we're not spamming our content, whether you think it's junk or not'.

To answer your question, the Mahalo page you linked looks great (and the amount of content is almost overwhelming at first glance). This definitely isn't the Mahalo I remember, and reading your comments here (and what others have said about your comments elsewhere), you don't sound like the Jason Calcanis I've heard so much about. Evil robot twin? Or genuine individual concerned with making good content people want? Only time will tell, but if you're not here to harvest all our organs I'm looking forward to seeing what you have planned.
I've been a programmer for 15+ years and I'm very very good in the capabilities you say you're looking for.

I am also very business-minded having run my own outsource programming service overseas for the better part of a decade until I moved back to the USA 20 months ago.

Unfortunately I have learned that most companies in the USA these days are not willing to allow me to use the language in which I have developed and practiced my expertise for the past 15 years, regardless of how much faster I can produce for them in this language.

Instead most companies seen to hold out for programmers who know today's "popular" languages. So they lose out on my extensive background and experience, and I lose out on an opportunity to bring one of these companies the kind of service and performance they complain about not being able to find.
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Actually, that is exactly what YouTube does. (Though it's not an automatic takedown--it's up to the rights holder what happens.)

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoX-YihV_ew
Are you actually trying to make some moral equivalence between people who participated in a DDoS of a credit card processor because they disagreed with that company's policies and the people risking their lives protesting in Egypt? Seriously?
What would the tattoo have been? :)
The page is unavailable it seems here is the blog post content:

"We recently experienced a directed attack on SourceForge infrastructure (http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-net-attack/) and so we are resetting all passwords in the sf.net database — just in case.

Our investigation uncovered evidence of password sniffing attempts. We have no evidence to suggest that the sniffing attempt was completed successfully. But, what we definitely don’t want is to find out in 2 months that passwords were compromised and we didn’t take action.
So, we’ve invalidated all sourceforge.net account passwords, and to access the site again, everyone will need to go through the email recovery process and choose a shiny new password:

https://sourceforge.net/account/registration/recover.php

We have received a lot of support and sympathy from our community, and I know our ops team is immensely grateful for all of it. Thanks again for your patience with us as we work to respond to this attack. We’ll be working through the weekend to get things back to normal as quickly as possible."
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If it wasn't for TWiT I'd have never of heard of Mahalo.
"has (without saying so) implied that they make an offer and that is it - they don't go back and forth on it."

This sounds like a negotiating trick. The truth is, they are not offering to buy your company as a favor to you. They are offering to buy your company because they want it. They are also not going to offer you the maximum price that they are willing to pay right at the beginning. If you just said "no" and walked away, I would bet that they wouldn't just let you walk away. They would start to negotiate. Everyone is willing to negotiate for something that they want.
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To be exact, this particular price is likely slightly subsidized by AT&T because they expect to make money on your airtime use. For a better comparison, you'd have to find an unlocked, unbranded phone which doesn't come with a carrier SIM.
I've been in the process of picking up my guitar and learning a little, and it seems pretty legit. There's detailed explanations and some good videos, but it does seem to suffer a little from a 'wall of text' in a few places, and could stand to benefit from some good diagrams or visual aids in parts (the 'Frets' and 'Strings' part could benefit from diagrams for example, possibly one showing both).

It's not the best resource I've seen for learning chords (Garageband's lessons take that title), but as far as websites trying to help you learn, it's better than most I've seen.
Providing the names and contact details does open the door for possible abuse, but this is highly unlikely.

As soon as /b/ got a hold of them...
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Here is the description of the attack:
(http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-net-attack/)

"Yesterday our vigilant operations guys detected a targeted attack against some of our developer infrastructure. The attack resulted in an exploit of several SourceForge.net servers, and we have proactively shut down a handful of developer centric services to safeguard data and protect the majority of our services.
Our immediate priorities are to prevent further exposure and ensure data integrity. We’ve had all hands on deck working on identifying the exploit vector or vectors, eliminating them, and are now focusing on verifying data integrity and restoring the impacted services.

The problem was initially discovered on the servers that host CVS but our analysis indicates that several other machines were involved, and while we believe we’ve determined the extent of the attack, we are verifying all of our other services and data.
As a short term response, we’ve taken down the following services to prevent any possible escalation:

* CVS Hosting
* ViewVC (web based code browsing)
* New Release upload capability
* Interactive Shell services

Once the immediate response to this attack is over, we will be providing a much more detailed account of what’s happened, and what specific actions we are taking to prevent further exploits."
The image in the article gives the clue: http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/porembski.jpg

Probably an initial small-scale phishing attack from fake accounts, then as others fall victim, use their credentials to spam all their friends. Rinse and repeat.
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Very nice, I had heard of the site but never tried it out. Do you guys manually aggregate everything?
DFW == Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)

A startup in an airport? --Way Cool! ;)