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The answer is obviously and indisputely, "Yes."

So it would be better to frame your question in a way which got the results in which you are actually interested.

Do you want to know which niches are being served by HN users? Ask. Do you want to know how to use SEO to turn your 10k net profit business into a 50k net profit business? Ask. Do you want to know if the majority of HN is starving wanna-bes? Ask.

This question in an exceptionally poor proxy for your real question.
My two startups, SmartFlix.com and HeavyInk.com, both clear this hurdle.
Unfortunately I can only upvote once. Way, way more complete than the post linked article.
Yes, although we're now almost five, so not so much of a startup any more - although we are entirely self-funded (not through a lack of investment offers, just that we don't want/need it). Profits each year were $60k, 100, 30 (heavy re-investment), 180, and this year's on track to be our first million dollar year.
This is awesome! I personally wouldn't be bothered doing the "hobby" or running after people myself but it would make for a cool blog. I'd love to read through each persons reply.
Definitely more than 50k/year net and growing at a nice pace. I'm a single founder, worked on my SaaS product nights and weekends, and been live almost a year and a half. Also, just quit my day job a couple of weeks ago so I can do what I love full time. My product: http://www.bidsketch.com
I'd like to edit my Q now, but I can't. :)
Good on him, but surely there's a better source than this? Lack of any real information aside, this article was painful to read. A twitter link to the picture would have conveyed just as much information without the stumbling, awkward prose.
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Ahem. There have been multiple exploits for heroku, some of which enabled access to code and data of other heroku customers (google for "heroku vulnerability").

From what I read about their virtualization (which may not be up-to-date) they seem to rely on the security of chroot(). If that is still the case then there is a big problem in their future.
I'd argue the same could be said for the functionality of Flash. Yes, watching video via Flash can start the fans flying, particularly on OS X before Apple allowed them access to the hardware. But, it's not like displaying highly encoded H.264 and allowing people to manipulate the resulting output is easy. The last comparison I saw showed only IE9 convincingly beating Flash in this task, and the big outliers were some of the browsers like Safari on Windows which was abysmal, whereas Flash was solidly good across platforms and browsers. And I'm guessing that performance in other areas is a clearer win for Flash.

I have ideological reasons for not liking Flash, but clearly my brand of ideology isn't as good at mass-mind control and reality-re-defining as the Apple-ideologues. I'll be glad to see it go, I just wish it was because people thought that core web technologies should be open with multiple interoperable implementations, rather than because of a concerted campaign of misinformation and misdirection about performance.
Concluding that "Linkedin is too faked" based on what would appear to be a really small sample seems a bit rash.

If I were to quickly generalize over "my neighborhood" in the Linkedin graph, I'd say that most people I am connected to are rather careful about whom they endorse and how.

These two conflicting observations aren't really surprising. I have evaluated a lot of resumes over the years from people across the globe and how people present themselves, their skills, and their work experience seems to vary a lot.
Looking at the reverse dns, the website is hosted on a someone's home server at the moment (Internode ADSL: Sydney, Australia)

I hope they're not using phpfog's AWS credentials to pay to distribute dumps of their own site.
It would surprise me if Lion shipped with X11.

It also would surprise me if X11 weren't in the Mac App store when Lion ships or shortly afterwards.

For me, open questions are a) will that be an Apple product? and b) free or a couple of bucks?
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My take on that comment was that it was not a subtle attack at all -- it was merely an observation that it's not a logical necessity for the leaders of a large country to be extroverts.
Perhaps he should try to change the company from inside !
I had a similar response to Blizzard over bnetd[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
Target the ad based on the site the user is visiting, not on trying to violate the user's privacy. On a site to do with cars, show car ads. On a site to do with Dell, show Dell ads.

It's not frickin' rocket surgery.

If no one has a site relevant to your ads, there's your hint that no one wants your service/product. If you believe that I'm wrong... start one. Make a site relevant to that interest, and then you can on-sell your product. Build/find the community that believes in the same stuff you do, and engage them.
>> Do you want to know if the majority of HN is starving wanna-bes? Ask.

I assumed this was the point of the question because it focuses on net profit but you're right, there's not much to add to the answer that could be helpful to others. Also, I answered as a single founder which is different than a team of people saying they just cleared 50k/year from a net profit per person perspective. But because of the way the question was phrased, I'm not sure if that matters here.
Well how about you ask it again in a reply and we all upvote it so that everyone sees it?
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>What I would really like to know is how Google has accomplished it, at scale, with AppEngine. How are they able to do their security separation so well that at this point I am not even aware of any security breaches.

Easy (well it takes a lot of work, but it isn't difficult): they only allow languages that run on VMs, they then rewrite the VMs to remove/limit the file system access, network access and whatever else they don't want you to access, prevent access to unknown C code (since you can always fudge with the stack and other fun stuff at that point) and count the memory used and instructions run (so they can bill you and so denial of service gets too expensive).

This kind of thing is easy to do if you throw 100 good developers on it. My guess is that phpfrog didn't have that kind of manpower.
This article "Sony's way on Hackers, Innovaters and Makers" from Make magazine blog (which is down now, but I'll link to the cache) is a good run down of the various ways, before and up to the geohot lawsuit, sony has been attacking hackers and experimenters: http://bit.ly/dVmhC8
Sounds like its graphics, not cpu
Sure if I need a place for scalable php code, and they explained how they fixed they security issues I would be willing to go with them.

But I would properly become a fisherman before working with php...
The reason I asked is I asked a similar question a while ago, regarding "HN founders taking the leap from full-time to startup" and a lot of great responses about projects were posted, so I was hoping for a little inspiration for the most part and to see what new projects people are working on / succeeding with.
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Ask HN: Which VPS hosting do you use?
I don't have much experience with VPS hosting but all the companies seem similar enough. What companies have you had good experience with?

Note: I am looking at the cheapest solution at the moment but I would pay a bit more for quality.
Write to individual people directly (it worked for me in the past). They are incredibly helpful. Posting here will probably only get you the bystander effect.
Same here, it would appear Apple is a bit too aggressive with it's power management and it's confusing the living daylights out of the ATI driver when it's on automatic.

Switching manually works a treat sofar... http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/
It's not as if they offered him a concrete offer to create the next hot DRM component, just a generic offer for a generic software engineer role. If he would have gone down that path they would have had multiple interviews, mutual checking for possible team fits, etc... This is as generic as it gets, maybe one level above the generic LinkedIn message. Sure, it can result in a concrete offer down the road, but it's not as if a head hunter tried to get the hacker "by whatever fiscal means necessary".

This is like people "sticking it to the man" by yelling at the cable company representative - helps no one.
You're looking at the wrong end of the relationship: don't look at recommendations people have received, look at the ones they've written. That will really tell you something about them.

Can they recognise the skills and attributes that are important? Are they competent enough to recognise people who are better at them than they are? Or are they just flinging out recommendations in the hope that a few will bounce back? It's all there.
I'm a 17 year old developer, also from Queensland. The majority of us know what responsible disclosure is. Looks like someone missed the memo.
Wouldn't you still hit a wall due to the maximum field in the superconductor? I'd expect the wires needed to transport gigawatts of power to be pretty large and require exotic metals to build, so much that it may not make economic sense compared to a regular, slightly lossy wire.
I'm using both http://www.intovps.com/ and http://www.linode.com/ currently, and I'm super-happy with both!
IntoVPS is the cheapest VPS you can find, but their quality and uptime is outstanding. Linode... well... awesome.
Did you not RTFA? The article is about a PHP hosting company that is getting merc'd because of the security flaws inherent in PHP that lead to their design decision to use Amazon EC2.
Link to pdf (better quality, no notes): http://ki.se/content/1/c6/06/45/23/Sarasvathy.pdf

Thanks!
Mine is 2009 model and I have yet to face this issue. Although my Optical drive died this January and it throws out DVDs when inserted but that is the only problem I have faced so far.

EDIT: Was just stating that 2009 MBPs have no such issues IMHO.
I don't have much experience with VPS either, but I'm using Linode and finding their platform super easy to use.

When I asked around my friends, http://www.wizzvps.com/ was recommended if I didn't need the 'support' of Linode.
I'm using Linode, London data centre, very happy with them.
Also, (And I'm not sure if this is just me) - I have about 300 or so facebook friends, and about 400 Linked-In contacts, and, with maybe a half-dozen exceptions - there is no intersection between the two sets.

Among people I know, there's much more overlap, but probably because there's much more overlap IRL as well, so it's not clear who should go in the "personal" versus "work" buckets. If your circle of friends includes a half-dozen people from the office, and you know their spouses and kids and go out together regularly, which group are they in?
Duplicate content: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2343740
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Some useful math cheat sheets - take two ...
Agreed, especially when I can't find ex-co workers who I want to follow up.

Except my resume is better (apart from the few recommendations I have). LinkedIn format is a little stifled, but it is great for checking out other people as it is consistent.

I've been getting good contacts from recruiters, and finding jobs in the appropriate groups for my expertise. The groups generally seem best for grouping these job postings :-)
More likely the company would change him from inside.
I tried to submit this earlier, but submitted one of the links from inside the page, rather than the page itself - sorry.
This wasn't supposed to be the algebra cheat sheet - this was supposed to be the index.

Sorry - mea culpa - here's what I intended:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346092
>I tried posting a job recently and was hugely underwhelmed with both the quality and quantity of applicants.

Then you are properly like the companies that gets featured in from time to time saying "we can't hire engineers" who then turn out to offer 50k/year positions in nowhere, Arizona.

Or not, but if you get neither that many or that good applicants it might be time to see why. Salary might be a good place to start (it is easier to fix than location).
Actual link is http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/sonys-war-on-makers...
They did have i5 and i7, but Sandy Bridge versions is new as well as Thunderbolt
I never really message people who are offline, whether it's on MSN, AIM, Skype, or any other instant messenger. I may have something I want to tell them or show them, but if they're offline, nine times out of ten, I just don't bother.

So what I wanted to make at one point was an internet "answering machine" that will log in for you when you log off and collect/log messages that you can check remotely or have e-mailed to you.
This needs to be integrated with Foursquare or some other location-based service and then built into a pair of eyeglasses.
Some enterprising YC Alum could probably make bank starting a YC consulting agency...
I learnt Java first and it did me no harm. Now I love Ruby. I like Python too (they are similar in some ways) but I prefer rails over django so that's why I went with Ruby.
> Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page.

I'm not entirely sure this is true. A lot of the top inventors, industrialists, writers, and artists in any generation are introverts.

What less people realize is that the most accomplished statesmen and politicians are often introverts too.

Augustus Cesar led the height of the Roman Empire, Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, Abraham Lincoln crushed the Confederacy and led to modern strong-Federal America, etc, etc. All introverts.

Anecdotally, it seems like it's easier for an introvert to learn how deal well with people than it is for an extrovert to learn to enjoy the solitude and meditative periods necessary for serious hardcore expansion.

It's probably easier to become moderately popular and get external trappings of success as an extrovert. But if I was trying to massively change the course of history, I'd want the bulk of my top personnel in leadership positions to be introverts.
Last year I left a job I had for 5 1/2 years where I had to do speeches and presentations right, left and centre. You get used to it---even "skilled" at it. People praise you for your presentation skills; sometimes they even ask for advice.

Being chummy with people afterwards didn't get one iota easier, though.
Hmm am I the only one who doesn't want to have any random company get my info just because somebody signed up for it?
Seems like all the reports are on the _2011_ version, with isolated incidents on the 2010 version. 2009 is mentioned nowhere.
"Wow, heroku for PHP. I thought of this once, sadly I wouldn't be able to get 1.2 mil in funding :("

A classic case of the fallacy that having the idea is 90% of the work.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346066

The HN built-in duplication detector didn't recognise this as a duplicate because there is something stange at the end of the URL. Did you add that deliberately?
Well I'm currently full-time and I have had a hobby horse company slowly building up for the past year. It currently makes about £36k GBP in profit per annum, which means it's close to the point that with a tight belt I could jump.

The hardest thing for me isn't spotting or monetising the opportunity, but in balancing everything for a reasonable quality of life without burning myself out. That and discovering and handling the minefield that is running your own company and figuring our the finances, taxing, invoicing and asset management.

My company does community websites, forums and the like. I chose to start with areas I'm most interested in, but have avoided areas where there isn't an after-sales market. I aim making the lions-share of the revenue from affiliate schemes such as the eBay Partner Network, Amazon, and then Affiliate Window has a lot of companies running schemes specific to the communities I'm running.

I don't push the affiliates... I just aim to build the communities up to the point that enough conversation produces the links to used or new items that then produces revenue.

Once a community is successful, I look for another.

What I've discovered is that revenue earnings relate to purchase price of items, and that you can make significant money in high-value items sold through eBay. I would now recommend people look at cars, motor-homes, boats, etc sold through eBay, and then build affiliate based communities around those. Which means building communities who love and use those things, and affiliate earnings is a natural by-product of letting those people communicate.

There is a lot of money in affiliates with a low entry barrier so long as you can attract the people who will click on the links, and if you happen to have also attracted people who would post the links (you can auto-rewrite server-side to include the affiliate element) then you have a winner.

So that's what I do in my spare time (30 minutes per day), and it's wildly successful given the effort invested (I'm using off-the-shelf forum software).

I could even make this my job full-time, except I personally need more stimulus than just running a farm of community forums.

Also... beware the politics. If you can stick to a same-sex topic where people are unlikely to sleep with each other, you'll get a lot less politics.
Could you expand on the last sentence? Why is relying on chroot+file permissions inherently bad?
Could global warming be causing recent earthquakes?
Question: Does Android Browser (does it has a name or it's just 'browser'?) or Internet Explorer for Windows Phone7 do the same?
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It's still unusual for a company the size of Sony to reach out to someone like that.

What's more is that it's now on Hacker News - so it's bigger news than Sony probably ever intended it to be.
But it certainly sounds like as if you are an Apple fanboy. Apple do hate hacking on their products, restrictions of using itunes for anything Apple is something I just can't bear with, along with restrictions like using OS/X for developing iphone/ipod apps.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop and would love to use this to clone my setup. Is there a workaround or do I have to upgrade to 10 before trying? I've been putting off upgrading because I'm scared it will break something or the other as upgrades always do.
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Well, sometimes cache becomes stale.

Core dump and flush need no explanation :)
Perhaps more of interest to HN, 100Ghz processors using RSFQ logic.
I used to believe that too.

But a hyper targeted ad is not a useful link, it is a potentially useful link that is guaranteed to be extremely biased.

If you search for "cheap haircuts, boston" do you think the ads show the cheapest place to get haircuts (which is what you want)? Or the one that paid google the most (which is what they want)?
One considerable difference between Apple and Sony Hackers is, Apple makes money from App Developers while Sony doesn't.
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I was surprised they didn't request any generators from the army once theirs were knocked out. It would have saved a lot of hassle.
I went to look and I don't have a clue what's going on at that site, which means I don't want to sign up. I don't know what Google isn't interested in and what you "might as well" try.

"Might as well" doesn't make it sound like you're all that determined to make it worth my time, either.
Nice to hear it's still being developed. Personally, I've moved on to other, better solutions that are client-side. HeidiSQL (http://www.heidisql.com/) works well over SSH for Windows, or Sequel Pro for Mac (http://www.sequelpro.com). Being able to fastly import and export data, easier query manipulation, syntax highlighting and much better table manipulation. Oh, and MySQL Workbench is a very mature product and is great for modeling and syncing.
I've been dabbling in content-scraping, what bugs me is that with all the AJAX trickery that's going on, merely analyzing the XHTML source doesn't get you very far in many cases. Executing the page (JS, DOM and all) via browser-programming is an option but of course quite expensive. A headless browser is what's needed!
Intelligent display grouping - if the second one added has the same instructions or modifications, group them (but keep them separate in whatever storage area you're using) would be a happy medium, although obviously more work.
Would have been nice to link instead to the release notes for this version. I assumed that something amazing had happened since the last one, but it's nothing too mindblowing.

Link to release notes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files%2FphpMyAdmi...
I exchanged emails with Kirsty Nathoo, YCombinator's CFO, and she said that YC is willing to write a formal invitation on official YC letterhead. In my previous experience, that is usually enough to get a work visa in that amount of time, especially if you also have a round-trip ticket already booked (make sure the ticket is refundable.)
Yup I was testing this. I'll delete this post now.
>It's still unusual for a company the size of Sony to reach out to someone like that.

Uhh, almost all big companies reach out like that. In fact, bigger companies are more likely to need such talent reach out like that because of their brand than random small companies.
I really had a good laugh at your last comment (same-sex topics) - although I guess that was serious, right?
What about things like this?
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/26/apple-bans-android-ma...
Consultancy is a non-scalable business, exactly the opposite of the kind of mindset YC funds...
Yeah it was serious.

I did a music forum that was pretty successful, but a third of people slept with each other and then bore grudges for the experience (it must've been bad) and that spilled back on to the site.

You don't want to spend your time trying getting adults to behave like adults (though technically that was the problem itself).
You can host them from a private repo.
The author doesn't know the difference between introverts and extroverts, so this article falls completely flat. The difference is really simple:

* Introverts get tired when interacting with people and recharge their energy when they're alone

* Extroverts get tired by being alone and recharge their energy when they're with people

Extroversion and introversion doesn't say anyone about how shy or social people are. There are a lot of introverts with great social skills and a lot of extroverts with good inward skills.

That being said - it's obviously much more normal to be a shy introvert than it is to be a shy extrovert. It does happen though.

I'm an introvert and used to be a really shy guy with low social skills. In the last years however I gained a lot of confidence and social intelligence. Have I become more extroverted? Nope, I've just improved my social skills drastically.

The belief that how social people are is an unchangeable genetical trait is downright dangerous. Unfortunately a lot of people are misled into believing that it's unchangeable. It's just a skill like any other skill, it can definitely be learned!
What if you have a much stronger presence on a site like Quora or StackOverflow, is that considered as well?

It seems like all three (those two and HN) are communities where the type of people you like to fund would spend a lot of time.