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Appears to have come back, at least on my phone.
You are kidding me right? Most of the Cyber Cafes use very powerful machine to support games like Crysis. That's why Cyber Cafes exists and popular.

But there are also cheap Cyber Cafes, which their system really sucks. People can not afford a computer go there, and they don't really care what a browser is.
This is discouraging.
MPEG-LA does charge royalties to companies that have patents in the pool.
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That's still a bit of a stretch. If I created a subreddit on reddit.com with nothing but links to justin.tv copyrighted content, who's liable then? I'm filtering content but I'm not hosting the content or even the links.
Phone numbers are less disposable than email addresses (generally speaking), and thus you are less likely to have fraudulent/shady transactions occur on your site if the user is phone verified.

This may not be super important if all you want to do is prevent lowly Forum spam (ReCaptcha may be all you need in this case). But phone verification can be particularly useful when the cost of fraudulent transaction is high (like user purchasing goods on your site with a stolen credit card, etc).

As an aside, I saw Amazon and Craigslist now use phone verification for more critical parts of workflow. Which inspired me to build Phoneify as a JS widget than anyone could use.
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Not only that, but these kinds of figures are always used in an attempt to attach a folklore of value to something, in the service of creating an expectation and therefore a "real" value once the IPO comes along or whatever. They're laying the foundation now, and it's FB executives' job to maximize value, after all. How could it possibly be worth any less than what they say? Wouldn't that expose them to impossible-to-prove-anyway fiduciary incompetence? It just has to be believable...enough.
Hi Spike,

>If you're spending a lot of time wrestling with deployment, automate it.

Yes I want to reduce time wrestling with deployment. I also want to make it easier for the freelancers that i hired to help me certain modules of the code to test their work on my staging (which is currently non-existent).

I just do not have sufficient knowledge about sys admin in general. I really want to reduce time spent on my non-core areas and focus on making my product "something people want"

>If Capistrano is important to your product and you're spending time with it, learn it yourself.

I had a very good experience hiring this Linux expert from UK who not only installed multiple SSL certs for me on AWS and explained why in great detail.

That is why I am also seeking someone not only to implement solutions but also to teach me the hows and whys of automating deployment.

I am sorry if my intention was not clear from the outset. English is not my native language.

Do you know someone who possibly fits the bill?

Thank you for taking time out to answer the question here. I really appreciate it.
That choice was forced on them by regulators. They didn't choose it.

The parent said that he didn't think it was best for our industry, but that it wouldn't be in Microsoft's best interest to do it.

Does Microsoft believe it's in the industry's best interest to recommend other browsers? I doubt it. My guess is that they still believe in their own vision of the future and want to keep their customers so they have a chance to build it.
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Ask HN: Did your March 4th Groupon go into your GMail Spam Folder?
Mine did, and several other people I spoke with also had their Groupon e-mail in their spam folder.

Obvious conspiracy theory is obvious.
No, the DMCA bans circumventing a measure that prevents copying. Sony needs to prove that their locks on the PS3 prevent copying. I'm not sure they do.
I thought you could modify a semi-auto and saw off the barrel as long as they were used at the shooting range (for instance...probably a state by state law as well

Nope, it's a federal law that prohibits you from possessing a short-barreled shotgun or a full-auto anything. This is since the National Firearms Act of 1934. Selling such a shotgun (after being goaded into it and entrapped by a ATF agent) was what precipitated the Ruby Ridge massacre.

In fact -- and you'd think this would fall foul of the 1st Amendment -- it's illegal to distribute a pamphlet that tells someone how to convert their rifle to full auto.
A co-worker recently launched the website for his upcoming book. I'm not the working-out type, but I can appreciate the scientific approach to weight-loss.
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I guess the question is whether him giving users root access to their machine is 'facilitating copyright infringement' or not. I guess if you read it by the letter of the law he may be guilty, but thankfully the letter of the law isn't always king. This was probably meant more like, "does not actively encourage copyright infringement and facilitate that need."
At this valuation, Facebook is worth almost 1/4 the value of Apple, a company which is now generating $75 billion a year in revenues. Facebook is reported to have generated between $1.2 billion and $2 billion for 2010. To compete with Apple's valuation, Facebook has to generate at least $18 billion a year.

Am I crazy or is something wrong here?
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My apologies if this is elementary to some (most?) of you... I for one appreciated verification of my understanding of this particular concept.
Wow, nice. Thanks! That suggests to me that simply blocking NYT cookies would probably also work.
The Japanese monarchy has gone through cycles of governance and non-governance, remember the shogunate? I have no reason to believe that it won't happen again 50, 100, or 200 years from now, without ever having broken the chain of succession.
Netscape Navigator was free to consumers, and was the fastest growing software product in history before Microsoft started bundling IE. We'd still be using the web anyway.

The free availability of IE bundled with Windows just stifled competition in the browser space, causing stagnation of the web until other companies with deep pockets financed alternatives. (Apple - Webkit and Safari, and Google - Firefox and Chrome)

If Microsoft had kept developing IE at the same rate as they did between IE3 and IE6, I doubt anyone would be putting them down.
OCR + LaTeX, have fun!

My scanned books can't tell VV and W apart...
So ... is this generated by a script?
If not, looks like good material for one.
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Revenue is not a good comparison, e.g. Ford has much higher revenue than Apple. Net retained earnings [profit] is what matters and that is unreported because Facebook is a private company.
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Apple made $16.64 billion profit in 2010, how much profit do you think, if any, Facebook made on their $1-2 billion?
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Next week, "Facebook Hits Record $1 trillion dollar Valuation (techcrunch.com)"

Yay! let's make up numbers!
Python and Javascript are excellent choices. Which to choose depends what you want to be more tech literate in? Front-end and consumer facing or back-end and developer facing.
The XBox is not being billed as a 'Post-PC era' device unlike the iDevices.
Beautiful and intuitive design. :) Do you plan to let people edit the content at all?
well, since the valuation of FB is clearly a random smoke and mirrors number...I'd say FB made between $300-400 billion on their $1-2 billion.
A big problem I have with these absolutely ridiculous numbers is the assertion then that Zuck is a multi-billionaire. Unless he's figure out how to turn investors dreams into a Scrooge McDuck vault full of money of course.
Looks like you're correct; thanks.
Ask HN: Freelance work for a "semi-skilled" designer/coder.
I'm interested in doing some freelance work for a few extra bucks, but I'm not really sure what my "skill" level is in terms of freelancing. I have 2-3 years experience with PHP (and CakePHP), CSS, Javascript, jQuery, and I'm pretty good with Photoshop. I'm also pretty good with C++ and Java, but I don't think that would be of much use for freelance-sized projects. For the most part, if I'm given some desired web project, I'll be able to put it together with a little Googling if I don't already know exactly what to do.

In terms of my level of design skill, it's tough to say... I don't have any live projects at the moment to show off, but I'd definitely say I'm an above average designer.

What are some of your recommendations?
Uh,

Actually, the need to upgrade anything and everything is a bit overdone. What, in particular, is your problem with XP?

The MS monopoly thrives on the need for a regular update, needed or not. Windows XP is a great OS IMHO - it's a shame MS found it convenient to ditch support for it.

OSes aren't new. We've been doing them a long time. MS may say there are things missing from XP but it satisfies a lot of needs - for example, it runs Firefox quite well.

Now browsers, in particular, are still in a state of flux. With browser, in particular, upgrading matters. That also might not continue forever but its true now.

The browser you use impact me because I care about what you see. The OS you use does NOT impact me because only you see it.

Uh, and Win7 doesn't run on a lot of hardware and MS probably isn't going offer Ubuntu anytime in the next supereon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(geology)#Terminology).
Agreed. Over the years Crossfit has embraced the teachings and methods of coaches the author praises, including Mark Ripptoe and the Westside Barbell guys.

> Hyperbolic headlines are intensely irritating.

Jason Fried said yesterday: "Something I didn't know when I started writing for Inc: The authors don't write the headlines. The editors write the headlines and subheads."

(from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271625)

Perhaps it's the same at Mens Journal.
The public perception seems to be that Mark has many billions just sitting in the bank. It reminds me of the Business Week cover of Kevin Rose, basically saying he had $60 million lying around: http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997002.htm
That's a very positive way to look at it. But bribery is not the only aspect of normal politics you can leave behind in your special economic zone; you can also abridge, for example, import tariffs, labor laws, accountability for political corruption, and environmental regulations.
What does "true decentralized internet" mean to you? Surely if you want to communicate with people around the world, you need to rely on someone to transport the data for you across the country and the oceans. If not government, then who? Why would you trust them more?
Maybe they just cut off access to Google.
This just confirms that for the layman trading stocks is nothing more than legal gambling.

I personally work for a company whose P/E is > 200, while this is nice for me at the moment, I realize that the value in this situation has nothing to do with performance.

Facebook will probably be slaughtered once they go public have to adhere to reporting standards.
We already have $1 coins. There was a recent push to get people to accept them. Didn't seem to work.

At this point, we should move to contactless cash cards that can be used like some credit cards but without transaction fees. Reducing the need to carry cash will also save money, and time. Wait, I've got a penny here somewhere.
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Civil Procedure FTW! Or the loss. I'm not surprised the judge allowed this, it is necessary to prove Sony was correct in filing in CA because the state has jurisdiction over GeoHot. I would be surprised if they granted personal jurisdiction over a kid in NJ.
Great page though I noticed a number of errors after glancing through. How do you expect to ensure the accuracy of the data?
My rudimentary djangy alternative
https://gist.github.com/850359

With the help of @jpadilla_ I made a script that will get a fresh copy of Ubuntu Server 10.0 ready for a django app.

This is something we put together in a few hours and thought its was good enough to share, so we can get feedback and turn it into something really useful.

In the near future I plan to turn this into a fabfile that can be run from your development machine and will launch an EC2 instance and get the app deployed.

We would love to hear what you have to say.
If I understand it correctly, though, couldn't Zuck have just sold some of his shares to an investor and gotten some money? Yes, not several billion, but he's rolling in a couple hundred mill right now, I'm sure.

I remember reading how several investors bought into Twitter by buying $100 million from one of the founders...
Crack it and run homebrew, obviously.
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There's a real problem with the sex distribution numbers. Not saying it's a YC problem, but it is a problem. There're too many talented women out there to lose them to other industries. When we can pull them over here, watch out!
That's exactly what I was thinking the article was about, from just reading the headline.
South is one of the greatest true-to-life adventure stories ever written. I heard a few years back some famous underwater explorer was contemplating diving to the wreck of the Endurance. Hurley left behind a number of glass plate negatives, which still may be salvageable, supposedly.
Full disclosure: I have a horse in this race (Appleseed).

I used to think that the problem was that Facebook wasn't worth what it was valued at. Now, I'm starting to rethink that, but not in a positive direction. I think maybe Facebook may be cursed by it's valuation.

Right now, Facebook is like a developer-oriented gravy train. They can work on cool features, do redesigns on a whim, play with heavy scale, and there's enough investment to keep it going in every which direction they want.

But profits aren't there, not on this level. And remember that, for as indispensable as Facebook is, most people can survive without it, and the achilles heel of social networks is that the trickle of users leaving can quickly become a flood. Myspace found this out, and they were twice as profitable, per user, as Facebook is (although they did have many problems that Facebook hasn't, terrible engineers being one of them).

What I'm wondering is, will the valuation force Facebook to make the kind of hard decisions they're putting off right now. Are ads lucrative enough to appease the investors? If not, where do they go? Do they start heavy data mining? Do they push the boundaries of privacy even further?

I'm starting to consider the fact that these astronomical valuations may end up contributing to Facebook's eventual demise by setting expectations that they cannot meet without fundamentally alienating their users.

We'll see.
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Other data points that might be interesting if you could track them down:

1. How long it took companies to exit.

2. Financing raised (also against age of the company, so average individual rounds raised and average time between rounds).

3. Running expenses (perhaps broken down: legal, hardware, people, marketing/ads, etc.)

4. Revenue.

5. Userbase growth.

Asking a lot, but would be great information to have. :)
Oooh. 5.5 billion /pinky raised to mouth/. Add a zero or two and cut the years in half and you may have something. That kind of money in this kind of economy is rather inconsequential.

Anonymous electro cash. That's the win. I am not a fan of a cashless future if we lose our anonymity in the process.
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Even with no apps at all, for me it'd trump Apple with this one feature: I can program my own tablet without begging anyone's permission.
It is a very serious problem, but one that is difficult to solve. Especially when science and tech are male dominated fields. I think it begins with empowering the younger generation of women (think school aged K-6) and getting them interested in math, science and tech.
Look through Odesk and Elance to see what people are putting out there for jobs. It's a decent place to start. Keep in mind it's like any crazy market, there is everything from the ridiculously low paying to high end.

You know a lot more than you think you do. Whatever skill level you have, there are people who are worse who are winning the same sort of projects you would be bidding on. The absolute worst are those who never even start on the project (and possibly run with a down payment,) so you can't be worse than those people if you at least give it an honest effort. ;)

Outside of that. It sounds like this is mostly going to be a side thing for you. I would try not to deal directly with the "end clients" if possible. That's the true "business end" of web development and just because you have skills doesn't mean that you are going to be good at that side of things without putting in your dues. What I would do is look for other developers to help out. Look at developers / designers sites and see if they post jobs. Look at job aggregators. Another awesome source is Twitter, developers post there all the time looking for help.

Main thing. Have excellent communication. Let your clients know what's going on, even if it's bad. Bad news is far better than no news at all. They just need to know how to plan things.

Good luck!
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I feel your comment, and I identify 1 million percent.

If you look around, you'll find plenty of average Joes who luck themselves into millions. Plenty of mediocre projects that you know you can better. Myspace, Plenty of Fish, Experts Exchange, etc. They're not all destined for failure, but they've all been mediocre products that were still able to generate tons of revenue.
I founded a startup that failed and then worked for Google for 2 years (and counting...). I'd say they were about equal in terms of personal growth and development, but taught me very different things. Failing at a startup taught me a lot about myself, what I really value and want to do, what my tolerance for ambiguity and stress and risk is, and so on. Working for Google taught me a lot about the world, what other people value and want to do, user expectations and how they'll never be satisfied, plus a whole bunch of technical skills. Hopefully, combining them together means the next startup will succeed. :-)

It doesn't have to be an either/or. There's plenty of time to both fail at a startup and work a couple years at Google.
Corn subsidies in the US since more than a decade are mostly for fuel; the net effect is to make corn use for food more expensive, not less.
Oh, god I remember doing that for the TRS-80 (was it assembly? that's what I remember.) You'd spend hours typing in codes from a magazine, and I think my Dad and I had about a 5% success rate actually getting the program to run at the end.
Even better, take up a daily activity as a matter of routine that gets you fit as a side effect.

I locked up my care for a summer and biked to the coffee shop and grocery store every day.Before long I was taking 5 mile bike rides on the spur of the moment. I lost about 35 pounds that summer. Unfortunately, I live somewhere that has a winter which makes biking impossible. I should have switched to cross country skiing or something I guess... if only they groomed ski paths on the side of the street.
@andywood,

Can you take a moment tomorrow and add an edit to your post giving a summary of whether you felt the comments answered your questions?

I ask simply because my first read of your post focused on "How do I get there?" and not "what was your path?" As such, I was surprised to be reading life stories of fellow HN'ers. Since we all absorb info differently, I'm curious to know if the stories helped and what you gleaned from them.

All the best in your endeavor. -- A fellow large-scale enthusiast.
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Including the rather sad postscript that most of the men that survived this adventure died in the trenches in WWI
I got d/dx(2sin(3pi)+0) el oh el, I suppose I got lucky also.
I think a little more instruction to the user would be helpful. I kept picking which picture I would rather be in a fight against until I came here and read the comments.
Get rid of the dollar bill and those coins will take off real quick. After 18 months no one would miss having to jam a few dollar bills into a machine to buy a Coke.
I'm not sure what's stupider, people's attachment to one dollar bills or the idea that we need to get them to accept coins before pulling the paper ones.

I've been spending a lot of time in London recently, and it's shocking how much better things work with coins up to £2 and paper only for £5 and above. First of all, change suddenly is useful again, second of all, if you have paper money it's actually worth something. It used to be this way in the US too, I mean you actually used to buy things with a nickel or dime. Doing away with paper ones should not be such a big deal, it should be thought of as maintaining the status quo in light of inflation, but I guess it's a boiling frog situation.
My comment was far too flippant and unfair.
It's not like I've been doing something better. I gotta learn to keep stupid statements like that in check.
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I've quickly skimmed through it, but when reading it thought about he's gonna handle alloca() (and later I've read dynamic arrays).

So the solution is to dynamically allocate them, and at the end of stack routine free them. That's all good, but what if you longjmp() and have alloca() function still allocated. That would leak... Unless unwinding is done, and RAII kind of type for alloca is made. (Or maybe wrap alloca in C++ RAII, or maybe that's what the compiler would be doing).
Sure, your benefit is still proportional to your effort, but if you look at the odometer and think that you've ran 10 miles just because 10 miles of belt passed underneath you, then you really need to run outside once in a while.
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