skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was making a general point about civil disobedience.

In this case, Anon believes (and I'm inclined to agree) that MasterCard made a business decision that not dealing with Wikileaks would be the better thing for them to do. However, a DDOS does two things: makes not serving Wikileaks an actual expense, and manages to bring their message to a wider audience. If anon had ran around just saying "MasterCard sucks," nobody'd care, but they've gotten tons of media coverage multiple times (like from this very article) covering their cause. Apparently they think that this is worth going to jail for.

I don't, and didn't participate. But that doesn't mean that I don't see their point.
Survey of 10,000 Yammer Users Reveals Benefits of Enterprise Social Networking
Well, to pick a high-profile AWS-user here: all of Dropbox runs on S3, and apparently a bit of EC2, last I saw. Not that I think they account for a truly significant amount of Amazon's traffic, but they're not small-time either.
I didnt have to make any settings change when I plugged in any non apple device into various PCs. By default it was simple and what I was used to when transferring music.
Just found NY strips for tonight via AnyLeaf! Thanks - and congratulations on your launch!
Please see my response to tptacek, it's not about censoring them, it's about dollars.

Your point about protesting the same law is a good one, it's the coverage that's really valuable. However, sit-ins are only one form of civil disobedience, and many of them are actually doing the thing that's illegal.
umm ...

The purchaser has made the deal seem very much like a standard-fair offer and has (without saying so) implied that they make an offer and that is it - they don't go back and forth on it. Truthfully I believe we would accept the current offer but it'd be a begrudging acceptance and I think it would leave a bad taste in the founders mouth.

...
that's nonsense
they are just strong-arming you.

Like cperciva - there is not way you don't guarantee the money.
Besides we're about to begin a golden period of irrational greed. Why sell now. Wait a year or two for Facebook and other IPOs.

You've done the hard part and are profitable. All you have to do is hang on till next bubble and make 10 times what you're being offered now - at least half of it in cash.

Seriously, stop being desperate
The largest chunk of export from Russia is oil and gas, not weapons.
http://superuser.com/questions/235937/does-email-address-obf...

This is linked in the top-rated comment there and actually shows methods along with amounts of spam received per method. I was surprised because I usually use entity replacement and haven't received any spam yet, so I thought it was safe!
Talk to these guys http://www.grellas.com/acquisitions.html
Notational Velocity has a horizontal layout option and OpenMeta support
> If I were one of eighty million people living in a country in the midst of a nascent political upheaval whose access to the rest of the world was being antagonistically removed, ...

And whose access to each other was being removed too.

When I read this morning of Egypt turning off the internet I went a little cold, because our own (US) government could just as easily do the same thing here.
My first thought was "A Git repository instead of a blog? That seems like an odd choice."

However, upon a moment's reflection: this is awesome. What if someone issued a take down notice on the takedown repository or something like that? People can fork it locally and be confident that they have the right data thanks to Git's natural hashing behavior!
Can you elaborate on your use of the word "algorithmic change?" I'm not sure you're using it in the sense that I'm used to and I'm interested in your assertion that simple aggregation adds value.

That said, I'd be careful of analogizing aggregators to wire services. The AP actually employs their own reporters.
The one that really illustrated the difference to me was when adioso launched a new version. The TechCrunch article was based off a quick phone call, was a couple of paragraphs and got confused about some of the facts/ didn't grasp a concept.

Another site (i forget which one now) spent a couple of hours with the guys and did a multiple page writeup really getting into the new version and where the founders had come from. Of course the quick writeup was probably seen by many more people than the quality in depth article.
I'm working on a basic Cocos2d tutorial, written for beginners:

http://www.coconutcollege.net

Check it out, and let me know if you run into any problems. It's not finished yet, but the first four courses will give you a good foundation. I should have the next two courses posted within a week or so.
I'm a bit disappointing that the referenced repositories appear to have been taken down anyway, though.
Tried it a little bit, and I'll experiment more as I get time. Importing the solution which contained the web site only loaded the other "actual" project in the solution, unfortunately. I can poke at it a bit more and see if I can get more into it.

One of the first things I noticed: apparently a couple of your regexes are off in C#, for VS2008 at least. Typed interfaces come up as "T" instead of the interface, and it would be immensely more useful to have the class browser have information about the parameters of functions. I've got a ton of overloads, and they're note even in any useful order, as far as I can tell.
He explained why-- he got the feeling that the professionals are trying to sell him a bill of goods, perhaps independently of an actual need, so he's coming here for a second opinion.
I personally feel like she asked a question that couldn't be suitably answered by most of quora's current community.

This has nothing to with it as a whole or on the track its going

what about?

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Lady-Gaga-so-popular
http://www.quora.com/Justin-Bieber/Why-is-Justin-Bieber-so-p...

And also why is this on the front page of Hacker News?
Agreed. In everything I have read about him it seems perfectly clear that he's happy to game search engine ranking algorithms to place highly in their results. Moreover, driving volume to his site(s) in this way is his main concern.

But unfortunately for the people coming to his sites there really isn't all that much content to see. Perhaps this has changed recently - if so, I'd love to see an example (just one!) of a page on Mahalo which gives better information than Wikipedia (for example)...
also, just a quick thought.

You talk about your ignorance. That's true. If you could PLEASE PLEASE read any book on reality like Robert Greene or Art of War or even 50 Cent's book.

Distinguish between being a pimp, being a whore, and being a trick.

Right now their offer is them whoring you out.

Also, the more the company offering to buy you out is pretending to be good and selling you on how much you'll enjoy working there, the higher the chance they are screwing you over.

PLEASE think about what I wrote about the next big boom being around the corner. It would be madness to

a) agree to such a lop-sided deal.

b) do it at this point of time.
Walk out.

Offer them your consulting services at x$/hr, where X > 50.

Next time, don't let a co-founder "bring on" people without you involved.
Yes, for a Unix sysadmin I'm sure exporting your content via Tumblr's API, RSS feed or for that matter a Wordpress utility is a breeze but I'm not sure the same is true for your average tumblr user. Having said all that I think you're ignoring what I said for the sake of an argument.
I recently read and liked the first three Inspector O novels. For me, the novels added a human dimension that the pictures and travelogs miss--what it is like to live under what I would think of as repression?

Review of the most recent one: http://www.slate.com/id/2262159/
It seems to me more about letting people know why they have taken down the content rather than challenging the law like the take down lists on things like the pirate bay.
Wow! Thank you for doing this. I'm really looking forward to hearing if they have something to say. Please keep us updated with the info that you're allowed to disclose.
He just stepped in:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154332
Dude, you're a co-founder, but you're acting like an undervalued, underpaid employee. Walk away.
Companies do reserve the right to provide poor customer service. That may not be in their best interest though.
jdp23 cites Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Why is that declaration wrong, and your declaration right?

Humans are social animals, and communication is so much a part of us that many of us get sad, or depressed, or destructive if we can't communicate with others.

As a human, do you have the right to breath or eat? Do you have the right to defend yourself? Do humans have any rights at all? Why not?

And if we do have rights, then why not the right to communicate, and by that communication the right to self determination and to oversight of government? Are none of these rights?

In the United States, do we not have the rights in the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
That's fine. This offer is still crap. Throw it in the garbage.
I don't have much to add to the conversation, I just wanted to say that was an excellent, thought-provoking article.
"Are we doomed to have heterogeneous data storage?"

If I rewrite this, the answer will become clear: "Won't there ever be a one-size-fits-all solution?"

We have technology for the 90% of cases. These are the 10%.
drop me a line. i'm well versed in this process, the current environment, etc.
Traffic Flow Optimization
I can click back just fine on Chrome...

Wikipedia annoys me like this with the mobile web client. If I click through a Google result to wikipedia, it redirects me to m.wikipedia.com and I have to hit back twice to get to Google.
This is why we can't have nice things, HN.
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The process can only fail to terminate if the exterior environment doesn't kill it, and no amount of work in a correctly secured environment will let the process escape that.

Security is hard, really hard even, but Hollywood OS is fictional. Barriers are penetrable today because they have holes, not because Godel's theorem guarantees that all security can be penetrated. That's not what it is about.
As a launcher-only effort, I can definitely see the value in the key bindings. My hesitations remain:

1. It seems that you must manually configure twitch when a new application is added (although I'm not certain if it defaults to something for new apps...); whereas Quicksilver automatically indexes your applications.
2. You add key bindings, but lose the additional functionality that Quicksilver offers in its plugin system (sending mail, opening a web page, etc.).
3. Quicksilver is free.

All of these things considered, you have one major advantage - Quicksilver is not in the app store (and I don't see it getting there). You'll want to check out Launcher though, as it will be your primary competition and it has a lower price point.

Good luck!
You bypassed their provided means for customer service and sent a presumptuous email. Sorry, that entitles you to nothing, even if you are a paying customer (unless direct developer support was part of anything you purchased). Don't crash the party expecting to be welcomed with open arms, or even gently escorted out. Karp could have used more tact, but as far as etiquette goes, he was totally in-line with responding to your message how he did.
You're saying that "g0atbutt" is bathroom humor? You know that goats butt things, right?
No problem, but don't get your hopes up! We'll see if anything comes back.

Maybe someone from Twitter will post here...
What makes solving this problem worth three million?
NY Mayor Warns of Possible 21,000+ Teacher Layoffs
This. People don't understand how revolutionary some of the products were in that era, especially the cheap, light, and high-fidelity headphones that made the Walkman possible.
http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-interview-steven-job...

That interview with Steve Jobs has some interesting insights.

PLAYBOY: Like computers, the automobile industry was an American industry that we almost lost to the Japanese. There is a lot of talk about American semiconductor companies' losing ground to Japanese. How will you keep the edge?

JOBS: Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. Out of that understanding, they will reinvent it in a more refined second-generation version. That strategy works only when what they're working with isn't changing very much—the stereo industry and the automobile industry are two examples. When the target is moving quickly, they find it very difficult, because that reinvention cycle takes a few years.
As long as the definition of what a personal computer is keeps changing at the rate that it is, they will have a very hard time.
I agree with the first comment here. You should never be afraid of consulting your lawyer or bankers/financial consultants. It sounds like they want to keep you in the dark if it really is as you describe. Also, if you are already profitable, then your need is probably more growth and market-oriented rather than selling, and you'd be better finding a partner who wants to help you guys grow rather than take away from you what you've built and giving you paper for it in return. In other words, helping you to build the value of your OWN equity/paper than theirs, which essentially you'd be doing if you sold and received more paper than cash. You built this business presumably because you wanted to work for yourselves and not the "man", so consult with lawyers and trusted others on how to get investment to grow and hang on to what's yours, and if they're that surprised you haven't had more offers, there are likely other partners that "feel" right. You don't have to put out for the first date that comes along.
Previously Mahalo was thousands of long tail pages like "How do I make pepperoni pizza at home?". Now it's going to be thousands of long tail videos like "How do I make pepperoni pizza at home?"

That doesn't seem very different to me. Maybe I'm missing something?
Only if it works out!
I'm running Safari 4, just for your information
Every emacs and vi user here just went down your checklist and said to themselves "I can do that" (okay, I'll cede the "initial theme" point)

Seriously folks, just learn one of those two, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to text editors.
Here is a quite lengthy Mahalo GTA4 walkthrough that includes a bunch of videos as well:

http://www.mahalo.com/grand-theft-auto-4-walkthrough/

Here is the GTA4 Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV
I realize this is still in alpha and I expect bugs (though it looks incredibly polished), but is anyone else having problems changing the font/font size in the Linux 64bit version? I have changed it in the config file and restarted the program, but it seems to have no effect. I'm just wondering if this doesn't yet work or if I'm doing it wrong.

I'd love to use this, but I need to be able to see it first. :/
The grandparent post wasn't asking what would happen if you woke up at 3 AM and shot a policeman mistakenly. He was asking whether it would be legal to rig a booby trap to do it! Those are extremely different situations, to say the least! You're arguing with a straw man.
Design is a method of action (Charles Eames interview, 1972)
Do you still have that link?
Note that there appear to have always been "high-content" pages at Mahalo; the complaint was, in addition to the small % of high-content pages, there were also vast numbers of long-tail pages with virtually no content.
ditto on Chrome 9 on OS X.
How do they get the deals from the stores? I thought stores like ruses don't want aggregators. I imagine screen scraping would be almost impossible.
Is there a "lead" programmer there? If you don't want to quit then one option would be to convince the founder(s) that you are best placed to ensure the quality and maintainability of the codebase. This is probably worth a pay raise, but do be prepared to bring specific examples of what is going wrong and how your ideas will make the company more profitable.
Yep, in fact I wrote the change we're talking about in this thread. :)
Why would you vest an offer worth 3x revenue over 4 years unless your business was about to collapse? That's an atrocious offer as stated. You should get 3x earnings today (or some multiple depending on prospects and margins) and earn out more over 3-4 years.

Edit: Sorry I must be tired. This is a revenue multiple not income. Revenue multiples are not particularly helpful in valuing a company with a mature business model. Gross profit would be far more useful.
There's also a follow-up post: http://webkit.org/blog/1456/layout-tests-practice/
Doesn't it just make you want to fork the repos?
I agree that the Anonymous leadership is politically savvy (so they're probably not LOICing from their home computers), but I can't escape the feeling that they view their followers as clueless cannon fodder to be exploited and then discarded.
Criticism merely reinforces the uncomfortable truths that the programming elite have silenced for so long! Anyone who asks for reproducibility in science is part of the conspiracy too!
No, he said that they were being courted by attorneys and bankers who want the business. I understand why you wouldn't want to just take the first person who calls you. But he also asked if they should involve their attorney, which implies to me that they have one (they'd have to, right?). It just blows my mind that they're considering accepting an offer for possibly tens of millions and they haven't asked their attorney about it? That's insane.
> A computer discovered by the Sacramento County Sherrif's Department, which was thought to belong to Philip Porembski, was found to contain more than 160,000 Facebook login credentials, as well as automated scripts to access Facebook and send messages.

I wonder how they got login credentials from 160k users in the first place.
Microsoft Warns of MHTML Bug in Windows
But that doesn't change the overall situation.

First you bought butter whose "realness" and "wholeness" wasn't in question and didn't cost extra. Then you bought margarine that "better" and cheaper. Only then you realize that you were being sold a unhealthy (trans-fat-filled) fake. So you people went and bought yet another product, "whole", "real" butter!

As far as margins go, they're being chased down by competition, which exactly there always needs to be new products, as above.
Do you think that every single person in the streets in Egypt is politically motivated? If not, does that lessen their message?
No, they are not interchangeable, and no, they do not mean the same thing.

Some nice illustrations I found: http://i.min.us/ie52d2.jpg http://i.min.us/icklUo.jpg

To any firearms enthusiast, hearing clip and magazine being confused is like hearing nails on a chalk board. Imagine someone at your work insisting that Java and Javascript are the same language.
Clearly by observing the search results, we have changed them.
Whistleblowing site Openleaks going online
That's how the DMCA process works. The last thing we want our users to think is we're deleting repos for no reason, that's why we're publishing the takedowns from here on out.

We receive the notice, lock the repo, and inform its owner why it's been locked. At that point, they can either remove the infringing code or make a counter claim and we'll unlock it provided the original party doesn't file a court order.

More info: http://help.github.com/dmca/
Based on these statements, and the very low offer, I have to conclude your business is about to collapse. You have no leverage if you have no options. If 3x over 4 years sounds good, you are already conceding that the company is doomed. Selling a doomed company for before it's bankrupt is wise. You have no other acquisition prospects and you business is about to start shrinking - I suppose you should take what you can get.

Edit: Sorry I must be tired. This is a revenue multiple not income. Revenue multiples are not particularly helpful in valuing a company with a mature business model. Gross profit would be far more useful.

At 20% margin this is 15x gross profit which is reasonable, particularly if you have no other exits.

I'd take the offer after cleaning up the vesting (at least 50% should be immediate) and consulting a good lawyer who might find some fallback options.
... and obviously it's trivial to filter out false cognates when analyzing search term volume.

... and obviously it's statistically meaningful to compare year over year trends without accounting for changes in global search volume.

... and obviously you can trust an index even if it doesn't know the difference between a web browser and a language implementation.
You're referring to "stripper clips" that were invented before guns had removable springed magazines. Those are a type of clip (and lead to the term), however the slang term clip doesn't refer to pistol magazines - it's merely slang for a magazine. It's a common misconception and what I was responding to.

In fact, the internal pistol magazine of a C96 pistol is still a magazine, but it loaded by a stripper clip, and some guns like the Japanese Type 3 are fed directly from stripper type clips - but those aren't "speedloaders" as the article suggests.(To juxtapose the concepts completely...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripper_clip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C96_pistol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_3_Heavy_Machine_Gun
when I bought my minidisc they were about $100, a comparable Creative flash based Mp3 player was 32Mb.

You could have a handful of disks with 80mins of HQ music on each whereas the MP3 players of the time were either very expensive (like the first harddisk iPod) or had so little space you had to chose a few songs for each trip.
Think of it this way:

You start a company with him, and have an outside investor give you $1 million. That's a large angel/small VC round. Say it's worth 30% of the company. Would you split that remaining 70% at 68/2 with the guy if he hadn't put any money in?

More importantly, it sounds as if he already considers you an employee (as opposed to a founder). If you want to be a co-founder, this wont end well.
Waiting for a great idea is a waste of time
So far you've gotten some great advice in the other comments: Don't agree to sleazy terms, get a lawyer involved, etc.

But in addition to all that, here is another point I didn't see mentioned so far. After working for yourself for 5 years, (or perhaps more) do you really want to take a corporate job?

Speaking for myself, after working for myself for a lengthy period of time, I'm quite sure I don't want to have a "9-5" ever again. I've turned down a number of job offers over the years, and I have no regrets.

If the deal is all cash, paid in full at closing, then it doesn't matter (too much) if you get fired on day 2. You can go right back out there and start another company.
I see you lost a half a million visitors in traffic after the de-ranking… Ouch!

IMO.You are kind of hiding the original source and do make it hard to find. Yes you show the source and your call to action is "Read More" but your site does not give the appearance of a news aggregator.