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Waking up angry is exactly what I want.. at least I'll wake up that way.
An enthusiastic +1 for you. Not only do you possess the open mind to see all these business decisions as rational as humanly possible (I envy that in a startup founder ;-)), you also turn that experience towards strengthening your business in multiple ways. Class act @NewMonarch.

@vocabgenii
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I recently tried to delete my Digg account and couldn’t find a way to delete my account. How can webapps these days not have the ability to delete an account? Unless Digg just wants to maintain its inflated numbers of how many users they have.
So are you like a competitor to shopify? It seemed like you'd disrupt their market with your free shopping stores.
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If '[doing a bunch of geeky stuff]' is a concept that is off-putting to you, then you really have no business using real editors like vim/emacs/vile.
Python has a compiler. Runs every time you run python code.

I think you have it wrong there T-Hawk.
I think the assumption that Android would be a 'easier and safer bet' is a bit shortsighted. Nokia would be just another Android device maker competing with dozens of companies offering basically the same exact product except it would have a Nokia logo and some Nokia skin installed. That might have worked 2 years ago but I think it's too late now. There are established players in the Android space. How can Nokia beat HTC or Motorola if they are essentially selling the same product? Things like Zune Pass, Xbox integration, and potentially tight integration with Windows client/server could be a big competitive advantage. These are things Nokia could not do on their own. Google isn't going to piss off Samsung/HTC/Motorola by playing favorites with Nokia either. Worst case is the partnership doesn't work out and 3 years from now Nokia is puking out Android handsets. Strategically I think it's better to take a big risk early and have a solid Plan B to fallback on. Nokia can afford to take the risk now.
yeah I gave up on digg, and moved over to reddit. And so have most of my friend.

It's like switching pubs after the last one has mistreated your mates.
the torrent file is at : http://code.google.com/p/khanacademy/downloads/list
Would the jobs and open source projects be in a better place if Android was chosen instead?
I think it's more his 100% time project now.

(Or more realistically, his 300% time project.)
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The following article may be of some interest:
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Thanks, screencast is almost complete. Thanks for reviewing the text too - I will try to change it asap..
Thanks - will change the text and make it more friendly...
A theory is a suggestion of some truth (in the logical sense). A fact is a theory that has been "proven".

How a theory can come to be (or needs to be) "proven" to become a fact is more of a philosophical question than anything else, and if the schism between religion and atheism is any indication, it's a contentious one that I generally prefer to stay away from arguing.
Which version? I'm running Beta 9 and it pulls up fine.

http://quickshot.bradmccarty.me/Screen%20shot%202011-02-11%2...
And perhaps more importantly, a CS education is applied to programming. Computer Science is a theoretical discipline heavily rooted in mathematics. Computer Science should not be confused with software engineering.
But they will be stuck with only the ability to create web apps, iphone apps, word processors, operating systems, video games, network servers, web browsers, text editors, robot control systems, embedded software... oh wait, that's not sounding so bad.
Thanks for taking the time to answer.

I take your point about the exit. The numbers are the ball park that the founders would be happy with to exit.

What would an appropriate level of ownership be for that kind of risk?
First of all, gravity is not a fact; it is a theory. To be more precise, it is a fact (only in casual terms) that "on the surface of Earth in free air, if I drop something it will fall to the ground." (Note this statement is still not always true.) However, WHY this occurs is a theory. So by "gravity" here I am referring to this why -- the "theory of gravity."

Theories are abstract and conceptual, and they are never known to be correct or incorrect. Rather, we build a corpus of evidence for or against them -- we never know their validity 100% for sure. For example, at any point in the future, we may find some piece of evidence which disproves gravity as we know it. Then, we will be forced to revise our theory of gravitation (e.g. when general relativity was discovered).

A fact is something that is 100% true. If I say that "Sacramento is the capital city of California," then this is a fact because we defined it that way.

It could be that the theory of gravitation is 100% true and hence a fact. However, we will never know this, so to us it will always be a theory. Sometimes, people feel so sure about a theory that they go ahead and call it a "fact" or a "law" -- but this just indicates that a lot of evidence supports it and hopefully no evidence (yet) invalidates it; it is still a theory. (So to be precise, my original "fact" about dropping something is really a theory with LOTS of evidence!)

So to answer your question, a theory can be correct or incorrect. If it is correct, then it is also a fact. However, we will never know 100% whether it is correct, so to be precise we should continue to call it a theory.
My point is that you're probably going to die soon anyway, so even with the cancer risk the treatment may well be +EV. Similar to how people are more willing to undergo risky medical treatments when they're already dying.
I agree. If this guy is being asked to invest 100k for 6 percent of the company, he should be able to justify a 1.5 million valuation for the business.
I submit that your conclusion is errorful.
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Can you please name the employer so the rest of us can avoid them? Thanks!
I suppose I'm in the minority here, but at least the way I build applications, I build in the 'vanilla' way first and foremost.

Submissions go to another page, as do clicks and all that jazz. It's quicker for me to get the MVP up and running first, and then later add the JS niceties.

Obviously, there are use cases where this is flipped around -- mapping, for example, and I'm sure many others -- but at least for me, I don't understand why it's even a hardship to make it work for nonJS users, as that's what I always build first.

Workflow aside, you're probably right, at least for end users. Almost every device worth supporting out there is 'modern' enough that they support jQuery, Dojo, et al.

The real trick is of course the other important devices that aren't users. Search engines. Crawlers aren't necessarily capable of following your application flow without graceful degradation, and in this day and age, that likely matters as much or nearly as much as actual users.
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Am I missing something, or does this just redirect you to your video when it's time for the alarm to go off?

Some people may prefer it to an alarm sound, but it's hardly a new idea.
This is a solution in search of a problem

- Get an alarm clock that plays cds

- Burn/insert cd

- All set! Plus you aren't wasting power by leaving your computer on all night

PS: I recommend Massive Attack - Future Proof. The slow start is pretty much perfect.
I agree on the obvious difference in market size between giant planes and smaller ones and that it's an easier investment to make smaller planes rather than big ones.

The situation however is not as simple as declaring the end of bigger ones, there is always a problem with long-haul flights, given that we don't want to start making 3 stops to reach an intercontinental destination. While it's true that a plane can go from A to C without going through B it doesn't mean it's always financially convenient for an airline to do so. All of the long flights from SFO to Europe stop at a big hub and this only makes sense because not a lot of people every day need to fly between Europe and SFO compared to internal flights. Having many smaller half-empty planes is not as good as having few pretty full ones in that situation. Lufthansa is going to operate the new A380 on all major intercontinental flights around the world (I'm gonna use it to go back to Europe from SFO in June for example). It might be a niche but new routes are expensive, you can't open countless of them and you can't have low saturation on your planes.

Another issue is airports saturation. LHR is an incredibly busy airport, with currently no plans to open a 3rd runway (the last one cancelled last year), operating at 98% capacity[1]. The only way to move more passengers through it is to increase the size of each plane. It's true that in this situation you would reduce this problem a bit by avoiding to go through LHR and going directly to the final destination but it remains true that a lot of flights just go to LHR as a destination and that it's not convenient for BA to fly the amount of people that fly today (or in the foreseeable future) using more flights rather then less.

It's not by chance that no low-cost airline has any long-haul international flights. It's a smaller market but it's a real market. Evaluating the winner by amount of planes sold rather than on a profit/passenger basis is gonna miss the point.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport

Edit: typos
Not much, considering they're all in Hong Kong.
Probably your Internet provider blocks the access, here it works just fine.

If you will encounter the same error in a few hours contact your Internet provider and ask them if thepiratebay is on their blocked list.
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my laptops and various other machines are on 24/7 anyway. Why should I buy more hardware and burn...cds?

The idea of burning cds makes me think of my adolescence. Seems rather primitive, unnecessary and inconvenient.

This is pretty much all I want out of an alarm, not that I'd pay for this since I could hack up the js myself.
The very next sentence after what you quoted is "A hearing on that is scheduled next month." That's in the future. Shouldn't you wait until after the hearing to say the judge "failed"?
Am I mistaken in assuming this is based on your local servers timezone? I set a test alarm and it didn't go off.
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You'd be prerty confident in the other direction once you understand the problem better. The BWT is not compression as much as an extremely clever way of rearranging the haystack. There are many many different string alignment (not string search) algorithms that are useful with DNA, and where the BWT is used your algorithm is not going to be in the realm of useful. BWT based aligners run in time completely independent of the haystack length. When you have 2 billion needles of size 50-200, and the haystack is 3 billion long, it makes a ton of sense to pay the preprocessing cost of O(n lg n), since it only has to be done on the order of once a year.
Agreed..changed.
I'm in Japan and it worked for me.
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Idea is that you are not forced to share every event. You can mute some personal events. If you notice twitter of facebook timelines, most of the people want to share what they are doing now or in near future. This is where the idea came from.
For "DNA research" (or rather, searching for peptide sequence matches), there's HMMER at http://hmmer.janelia.org/ , which uses hidden markov models. Claims to be great at detecting distant homologs. And after an enormous engineering effort, it's as fast as BLAST (in practical use it's faster, because its servers are currently not known as widely).
Sure, can you suggest a better way ? will a internal support forum help. Google group was just a quick way as I did not have much time...thanks for review.
I'm actually rather sad about this--but I remember when Borders was the small bookstore back home....When they started, they were technically savvy. Also, I really liked how they really seemed to love books. I'd tell them that I planned to but "Godel, Escher, Bach" for a friend and they'd tell me "Wait a few weeks if you can because a new edition is coming out"....I love Amazon, but I will miss Borders if they die.
Doing it now. Thanks.
No, it's based on your local time, although it does seem to be a bit buggy.
I've tried it 3 times now. Assumed my time zone(EDT) and then what I assumed was a fair assumption of PDT. Nothing yet.

I'd be fired if I'd trusted this!
Yes. But make sure you start with Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9. They are vastly improved over Rails 2 & Ruby 1.8 IMHO.
What the hell is with all that anti-microsoft hatred. I'm really tired of reading articles about how MSFT took NOK over and are gonna screw them big time for free. It's like seventh or eighth article in hn top with that mood.

Alliance with Microsoft seems to be the only sensible choice for Nokia at the moment. True story.
You're right. My 3rd attempt at my timezone triggered my video...
truth nobody would ever pay for this, but you don't have to cause it's free. yay.
Very good idea..will introduce soon.
Wael Ghonim wasn't based in Egypt for his most recent position with Google.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-go...

"A year ago, he moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for Google. His mother, Iman, saw that he would be crestfallen by the poverty when he returned for vacations."

There are still plenty of Googlers who have family ties to China and who have occasion to travel there.
I've had this UI for days. It's definitely less of Google's typical 1990s retro style.
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I only just learned about it. And its appearance on the front page - albeit for so limited a time - suggests that others didn't know about it yet either.

I agree re its design: so bad it made me question its authenticity!
Ask HN: Why so much hate towards Microsoft-Nokia deal?
Ever since the deal between Microsoft and Nokia was announced, everyone everywhere has done nothing but slate them and already pronounced the death of Nokia for agreeing to work with Microsoft. The question is: why? is it really that obvious and I'm overlooking the failure in the not so distant future?!

Is it still fashionable to hate Microsoft without analyzing the big picture from the POV of Nokia? Is it because it seems like an illicit move by Elon to sign up with his ex-employer? Or is it a manifestation of iOS/Android fanboyism?
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Mine too! I can't fathom burning CDs.

Heck, when you've got 2 4U servers with 16 disks each and ~6 other machines under your desk for a total of ~60 disks, whats the harm of having a desktop machine running this?
as far as i can see nokia could differentiate themselves a hell of alot more and with far more confidence with android then with ms win mobile.

now nokia is dependent on microsoft to let them differentiate. and while android is open source there is less scope for google to "play favorites" then with win mobile, i.e. there is "no freedom fork" anything, microsoft is perfectly within their rights to go play favorites with Samsung/HTC/Motorola (just as they are now apparently doing with nokia).

but i have heard what you are saying a few times now so i would like to know why/how microsofts tightly controlled platform will deliver nokia greater power to differentiate themselves?

edit: found this http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1992208&cid=3... which does _partially_ cloud my puritanical open source views of the world.
I was wrong, it's just actually bugged, just really bad UI.

When you click the "Lightly wake me" button it disables the forms, but I didn't actually notice. So I guess the time it didn't work for me I had clicked the button an even number of times, thus un-setting the alarm.

Another nasty bit of UI - you can't use tab to move from hour to minute, minute to AM/PM, or AM/PM to the "Lightly wake me" button.

Overall: a very simple and already-thought of idea, fairly badly implemented. Sorry to be so blunt, whoever created this.
As a previous CrunchBase developer I can tell you that while it is usually pretty accurate there are times where it doesn't have a funding recorded. I usually go with what's written in the article because it is usually a quote directly from the source (in this case, $5M).
I requested a copy of my contract from HR (without even going to my boss) and they provided me information on how to access a copy of it on our internal website.

I was worrying about being red-flagged just like you. But a lawyer told me that I should not be worried about this at all, and should just politely tell them something like, "I am missing copy of so-and-so contract from my file, can I get a copy." It proved to be even easier in my case.
Color me jealous. I dig the changes. The dropdowns are handy.
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There's not much detail about the order, but it seems reasonable to me. Don't interpret code strictly as the bits, but possibly as media. I think that's a reasonable interpretation, unless you're the kind of person who makes corrections like "it's not a movie, it's a DVD containing a movie".

"Defendant gave the code to person X. He should get it back." Here, "the code" could reasonably be a USB stick, a printout, or whatnot. If the request didn't make clear it was distributed over the internet, why would the order?
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How about rolling it back to about 2008 before they started copying Bing's look and feel.

I finally turned off javascript for all google domains except gmail, cannot stand it anymore.

ps. if you want to do the same, try YesScript plugin, much lighter than NoScript
I think amazon cloud computing is more promising. I hate web sites that require to register before you know exactly for what you subscribe.

If opani will, at some point, give more details about what they can offer versus the competition, I may consider to register.
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I approve, the nav-bar is in need of renovation.
I started seeing it yesterday, and I love it. Unfortunately, it's only on my work computer. My home laptop has yet to get the update. I'd like to see this style rolled out across all their apps.
Then again, the Ubermedia crunch-entry says they have 3.5M in funding. Less than TweetDeck!
I remember the fiasco with Yahoo, where DOJ declared the Google/Yahoo deal anti-competitive. Unfortunately the problem was that they forgot that Yahoo was already not a real competitor anymore. Anyway, thanks to the deal's failure, the takeover by Carl Icann was allowed to proceed. And exactly that kind of coup happened during the takeover.
I don't know whether this has changed, but years ago when I worked there, the music analyst jobs required that you already know some music theory. (The training is to learn their system.) It's a good day job for musicians.
His being Russian has no bearing on the issue. nginx and the pivot improvement to quicksort don't imply that Russian mathematicians no longer need to prove their claims. Not being an academic doesn't exempt you from having to do rigorous analysis either.

As for the online algorithm issue, see my reply below.
Boycott Novell/Techrights also has claimed that Microsoft has infiltrated and taken over: HP, NPR, the BBC, the Department of Education, the White House, VMWare, TED, Facebook, the French government, NBC, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Samsung, Canonical, the United Nations, and a whole bunch of other companies, governments, newspapers, and magazines.
You would be better served to form an advisory board with people you actually meet, whether it's a set of peer entrepreneurs or other folks whose opinion you respect.This "mental model" approach doesn't force you to actually write down and walk through the issues that you are wrestling with.
Sorry, but this is absolute nonsense, something all too common with these friend-of-a-friend type stories. Unless he was interviewing with several different groups and getting rejected a bunch of times, there's no way he would have that many interviews.
I don't think it's by any means a total rip off. I'd rather have 3-6% of a great company than 30% of a crappy one. If you really believe in these guys it might be a good deal. No harm it pushing for more though.
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I think when he said "play favourites" he was more referring to how one marque gets made the favourite for each major android release. Motorola for 2.0, HTC for 2.2, Samsung for 2.3, Motorola for 3.0 tablets etc... all the other manufacturers are effectively let out in the cold until the big launch is over.

We have no idea exactly what the Nokia/Microsoft deal entails, but as a worst possibility they will get updates at the same time as other makers. I don't think Microsoft is going to delay updates for HTC/Samsung et al in favour of Nokia, but there will be something in the deal for Nokia.
AHEM

I am intimately familiar with that case. :-)
Apple is not able to hire the caliber of candidates that Facebook and Google attract.
YCombinator has a very narrow niche for the kind of companies they fund. They reject many companies, not because they aren't good companies, but because they don't fit the YCombinator style. This isn't a bad thing for YC. Everybody needs to specialize. And it means there are plenty of good startups out there that aren't getting funded by PG/Yuri Milner.
Correction: "and I am guessing that McDonald's would NOT make you sign an employment agreement for these issues"
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Microsoft's "strategic partners" have done _so well_ in the past.
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FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2209338
The state secret privilege just begs to be abused by bureaucrats trying to CYA. In fact the very first time it was used, it was quite likely abused! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds for more.