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SharePoint is a particularly messy mix of COM and .NET - certainly not a good example of either approach.
Many companies on the list are not startups, to name a few: skype, mysql, spil games, unity and rovio.
As if by chance Chris appears on Hacker News. I ordered some tea from him a few weeks ago and will definitely order again. Yes, I know Chris, but no, I wasn't asked to post this - it's great to see a buddy doing a great job.
I, and many others, have been anxiously awaiting a fix for this:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=36142

It keeps getting punted. If you care, I recommend starring the issue.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'm now wondering if they can sue you for just downloading from DDLs or USENET (without the uploading activity inherent to torrents,) couldn't they theoretically also sue users of youtube or other video sites for the playing of copyrighted material, which I imagine from a legal perspective is essentially the same as downloading it from a DDL?
Polldaddy came from Ireland? Cool, I didn't know that. Surely there are loads more to be added though, right?
Which strangely seemed to be one of the last things this guy did, mysql explain and profile are usually enough to see what is going on.
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In out three-dimensional space, volume grows with radius at r^3. If something physical grows exponentially (2^t), then the radius of its volume needs to increase over time at an accelerating rate, which means the growth of that radius will eventually surpass c.
So a little while ago we had a story which was essentially: "promote your startup / website by causing maximum outrage! Outrage is good! YAY PISSING PEOPLE OFF!"

Now we get a non-story which is essentially designed to piss off the people of HN. Looking forward to more of the same given it works.
Usenet service providers and search engines have taken most of the legal heat[1][2], presumably because they're easier targets than anonymous usenet users.

[1]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17/big_record_labels_fi...

[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/30/usenet_search_engine...
I think you're misunderstanding me. These people are normal working politicians but they were never elected to the post. Normally, they are appointed by the civil service (who obviously aren't elected either) of a country of the EU but sometimes they are appointed by a government.

The council is the executive branch of the EU, a bit like the President of America, except with a lot more power (the President of America doesn't have much power on domestic issues). For example, one of the things that the Council has the power to do is pass new laws, and they can often choose not to put it to a vote in the EU Parliament. The EU Parliament is elected, but not many people vote or really take an interest in it (good luck finding someone who can name one of their MEPs, or any MEP for that matter).

To say that these people have short-term interests or that they are beholden to the electorate or something is factually mistaken. There is no such accountability of democracy.
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I gave a look at their service, but ultimately left scared by their security breach: http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/03/22/how-we-got-owned-by-a-few-...

I don't know what it is, but they just don't inspire the same confidence as Heroku or Dotcloud.
This is why I like VARCHAR(MAX) in SQL Server if the row is < 8192 chars it's a VARCHAR if it's > 8192 it's TEXT. You only pay the penalty on rows that exceed that threshold. Best of all you can store 2GB of text in a VARCHAR(MAX)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176089.aspx
No, but there is some bureaucracy. Not so much taxes as much as being able to make sure not to pay things you don't have to. I have done internships in some companies where they did not realize they could recover a lot of taxes, etc... if they had filled the forms.

But I actually think the most significant issue is the culture, especially the whole higher education system, the so called "grandes ecoles", which could be somewhat compared to the Ivy league in the US. The incentive to go into big companies is huge, and there is also relatively poor consideration for IT jobs. I also think failure has more impact in your career than in the US/UK. Not so much failure itself as much as unusual careers.

I should note that I am highly biased against this system. I went through it like most students "who are good at math", and I hated it. The engineering education you receive compared to what you can expect in good engineering universities in the US is terrible.
Or, if you do, hand over the data in a nicely archivable form, and prevent the need for crawlers.
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Cool, didn't know there was so much stuff on distributed systems on there. (I have like 100h of Videos I want to watch Interduction to Algorithems, Multicore stuff, compiler courses and much more)
Yes I'm wondering about that too. Apparently eBay didn't even know that they didn't own the underlying part until they went to sell it :P Bet somebody go their knuckles rapped for that.
Haha! Complaining that no one elected Baroness Ashton is like saying that no one elected Georgy Zhukov - almost no one in the EU is elected.
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They're a young start up, you have to expect a bit of this along the way. They seem to know their stuff though and had a really classy response to the security breach. Wouldn't judge them on the one incident.
This isn't a feature pitch, it's an attempt to associate the Chrome brand with all that's positive about the internet.

Heartwarming moment with your child? Chrome. Sharing laughter with your friends? Chrome.

etc etc. This isn't a pitch.

What I am interested in knowing here is how real the story in the ad actually is. Does Sophie exist? Does Daniel? If so, how much of this is make-believe?

I'm ok with a nondescript fictional Parisian love scenario, but it seems a bit dishonest to start using specific faces and names unless there's real authenticity there. But, so long as there is authenticity, I think these are beautiful ads.
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I have it.. hasn't made web browsing any faster of course.. but its made working from outside of the house more pleasant. I put my main computer in the DMZ, added a dyndns.org address so I could connect externally, and now I can ssh in from whatever and serve out whatever. Makes it easier to do web dev also without having to launch an EC2 instance, or pay out the ass for other hosted services
MS is pretty tight with Facebook, so expect deep integration of Facebook into Skype, just like they did for WP7.
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Just the other day I joined Airbnb in the hopes of trying to find temporary accommodation in the bay area and the first thing that hit me was the fact that I knew no-one off the top of my head with past experience to whom I could direct questions and the like. Then I noticed that there was a simple "X, Y and 23 of your Facebook contacts like Airbnb" at the top of the page which immediately helped the situation. Seeing this sort of integration go even further is a very cool use of social networks. Kudos to the Airbnb team.
This information is so wrong and misleading that I would class it as dangerous. Here's some choice bits:

> A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to a device when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

> At present, most browser settings are not sophisticated enough to allow you to assume that the user has given their consent to allow your website to set a cookie. Also, not everyone who visits your site will do so using a browser. They may, for example, have used an application on their mobile device.

> One possible solution might be to place some text in the footer or header of the web page which is highlighted or which turns into a scrolling piece of text when you want to set a cookie on the user’s device. This could prompt the user to read further information (perhaps served via the privacy pages of the site) and make any appropriate choices that are available to them.

> An analytic cookie might not appear to be as intrusive as others that might track a user across multiple sites but you still need consent.

So, anyone in the EU running a website has a choice: Either tank your user engagement rates, confuse and alienate your customers, stop using Google Analytics (unless the user opts in - watch your bounce rate fall to 0%), or willfully disregard EU law. For me, this is an easy choice.
As things stand, no one else knows you upvoted it any way. Better just not to vote for anything, only downvote. It's possible that someone can change a negative comment to make it look bad that you downvoted it but it's a pretty edge case and HN only shows that a bunch of people downvoted something, not who.
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this doesn't exist on facebook: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
I can't say I approve of the "if the crazy fools won't give us what we want, we'll just take it some other way" attitude.

As the "some crazy reason" might be that the database contains data that is not publicly addressable for a reason and sanitising the data-set could be non-zero effort operation, letting you crawl the public pages and do some work at your side would be the sensible route from most points of view. Heck, even if there is definitely not anything not already displayed to the public in the DB, letting you go ahead and get the information the hard way is likely to be preferable to lifting a finger to send you a DB dump.

Sort of like a cat's attitude to playing fetch: You want it? You go get it. I've got more important things to do.
Interesting. Quite a few venture capital firms nearby (Cologne), but I don't see any actual startups until I zoom our far enough to see the startups in other countries. (and one in Karlsruhe).

Wonder what that means.
> We're plan to revamp our video listing pages pretty soon.

You should. It looks very "spammy" right now and quite confusing. Other than that, good job.
any yet the self-promotion of browsers has NOTHING to do with their quality!

ms did a great job of self promoting ie and it's a piece of shit.

firefox gained a huge market share because the actual experience of the code is brilliant, not because of any self promotion.

all self promotion does is add a layer of noise over figuring out what to use. that is the ONLY reason google advertises chrome - because all the marketing scum out there has made it necessary.
From the estimates I have seen, Skype generates $250mm in EBIT per year.

That would mean that Microsoft is paying 28x earnings. If we want to approximate EBIT as free cash flows (not the same, but this is back of the envelope) and assume a 10% discount rate, to break even Skype would need to be growing EBIT at 6.4% annually for the next 10 years or so.

I don't know how achievable that really is, but maybe they could test raising prices to get some of that growth.
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Ha,ha .. I wonder, how many people out there keep ycombinator IP handy..
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These are Google DNS..
It may sound alien to you because I should've used "I've done a Google search" rather than "I've queried Google". In other news, English is not my native language :)
Don't underestimate their $$$ influence on the US political machine. Perhaps Canadian, too.
I wonder how many people read the article and saw "The Expendables" and breathed a sigh of relief.

I just checked Wikipedia and realized that "The Expendables" was a pretty big hit (80 mil USD to make, 103 mil USD made domestically, 274 mil USD world-wide). Who knew...
The point you're missing here is that as there isn't a legal standard for this, robots.txt has arguably become a de-facto standard. It's widely understood that the things you mark as off-limits to crawlers in robots.txt should not be indexed or reproduced in automated fashion.
That guy must be busy.
Yeah what this really needs is a bot block filter service where bots that do not conform to expectations can be bulk banned. It is too much effort to do this manually but a larger service can work.
Much nicer and easier to use compared to other sites that do this. Bookmarked.
My first compiler (Ur-Scheme, which compiles the subset of Scheme it's written in, and runs faster when compiled with itself than when compiled with any other Scheme compiler I could find) took me only three weeks, including the time to debug all the crashes from emitting faulty assembly code. Ten days to implement the JS interpreter seems eminently reasonable, especially if you get to use things like lex and yacc, and it isn't your first interpreter ever.
I don't know about Google I/O, but WWDC has always had announcements of consumer products: iPhone 4, FaceTime, iMovie for iPhone, upgraded MacBooks, MobileMe,...
Yes, he israeli busy.
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I don't think it's necessarily 'going too far in any direction is wrong', so much as 'always remember you have these options'.

For some people, full blown corporate is everything they want and need. As long as they keep making that choice - as opposed to staying where they are out of routine - they can be happy. I'm doing the consultant thing, and always weighing this up versus the startup thing - happy with my choices to date, and those include regularly reaffirming that corporate isn't for me...right now.

One day, that all may change.
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I did those, too. You should check out thenewboston's programming tutorials on Youtube. They are awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston or http://www.thenewboston.com/
Actually we know for a fact such a limit exists. There are physical limits on how much energy can be extracted from a certain mass.
Nice, but you don't say who it's for.

What market segment are you targeting?
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Funny, I'm white but born and raised in South East Asia... When people in the country I was born in ask me where I'm from, and I tell them, they say "No, where are you really from?!"
What I mean by going too far is when you start believing that your way is the one true way for everyone. I like to call this effect "Born Again Entrepreneurs" - where a newly entrepreneurial escapee becomes literally evangelical about the benefits of running your own business vs working in a corporation.

Different people have different life choices, and climbing up the ladder in MegaCorp Inc is not intrinsically worse or better than running a consultancy or startup. It may be worse for me at this point, but for others it's exactly the right choice.
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It's in the "interest" of our genes, like many other things we do.
Then we agree. I've met plenty of entrepreneurs who know they can't work for MegaCorp, and therefore assume that nobody sensible could ever work for a big company.

You can guess how their recruitment strategies work out as the business grows.
Using VARCHAR(MAX) still seems to have a significant performance impact, however - http://richardlees.blogspot.com/2010/07/varcharmax-performan... - perhaps the fact it has to check whether the varchar exceeds 8192?
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So, what do you use SaaS for?
I didn't see it before the article, and I still don't see it. What is so revolutionary about adding Kinect to a video chat?

The last video shows that it can (somewhat) detect who is talking and react to that... But unless you're walking around your house and the video can pivot to follow you, I don't see any real use in that.
I also wonder why it places Spotify out in the forest, when their official information places them in Stockholm (Sweden's capital).
Right, we just eventually look back and say "boy, we shoulda listened to that guy."
True, I used the term loosely, perhaps I should have said "tech companies founded by Europeans"
Thanks, I've taken care of this bug.
http://www.amazon.com/Aftershocks-Stories-Japan-Earthquake-e...

This was a bit earlier.
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I wonder if this kind of thing will set a precedent. If a security firm can "extort" google, what stops a lone hacker to put up a video of a chrome exploit on youtube and demand some arbitrary amount of money as compensation?

According to Wikipedia it is technically not extortion because the obtained information that is of value to google is not obtained "unlawfully" and doesn't seem to fall under the category "money, property or services". There seem to be some similarities though.
It is also a little more complicated than that. The corporations are themselves uncooperative. They have broken the system by extending it beyond its basic intent for increased profit. They further seek to use the spectre of piracy to give them greater profit levels. Such as the establishment of taxes on CDRs in some nations which is given to the supposed losers.
Oh yes, there are tons, but I thought the YC community is a good place to collect more startup info :)
You're arguing semantics, which is useless, and also very wrong.

People themselves have ethics because that's the only way of living in a society -- discerning between good and evil, making decisions that aren't hurtful to others -- these are standards we live by because they work best in improving our own quality of life.

Historically, we can see that people (especially leaders) are as ethical as the laws of their society force them to be, especially when it comes to decisions affecting their well-being (which quite often is their bottom line).

In society when people misbehave, they get marginalized, discriminated against, even abused. E.g. for rapists punishment doesn't stop immediately after jail-time was served, for some unlucky ones the real punishment only begins after getting out of jail.

Things like peer-pressure, the board of directors,
profits, strategy, market pressure and so on can
make good people do bad things.

People with strong character and clear ethical guidelines have always been able to get past the herd-mentality. You really can't excuse morally-wrong behavior just because that person is part of a herd, just as you can't excuse the herd itself.
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Maybe for the average Joe in the US, but it's still widely used around the world.
I think that with large screens becoming more available, it is not a bad idea to provide a way to create text layouts that go beyond the single column of text (making text lines longer hurts legibility).

We already have CSS3 text columns, but this proposal seems more general.
What's missing in these cases is context:

ie "Fail fast" vs "be persistent"

"Be persistent" applies to your overall goal - business success - whereas "fail fast" applies to methods you use to achieve that goal.
very cool, but I do actually appreciate the more homely old logo, and the new theme music is a bit um, techno-ey?
Thanks. I know, but the map is not just about the countries using Euro, it's about all countries within Europe's geographical boundaries.
Practical here means: Occurs in practice. And that they are optimally solvable in practice is not a tautology. It could be that you would need human insight (like you still need for most proving interesting mathematical theorems), or that people would only solve approximations. (People do solve approximations, too.)
Yes, I found this very annoying. I remember the previous OSX version was also missing this and I often got laughed at because I couldn't join a call. Apparently this was Steve Jobs fault or something along those lines.
Could you try it again? A stupid mistake prevents it to work in firefox.
Yes, it's a problem with the markers overlapping, I'm still looking for a solution to it.
What you said is correct and understandable, but in my experience people just say "I googled it".
Welcome to the 21st century, where ethnicity != nationality, and white countries are not exclusive to white people.

More "wtf" to me is when a guy says he's from China, or India, or Ireland when he's never been there, doesn't speak/read/write the language and culturally has nothing in common.
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> I wonder if this kind of thing will set a precedent.

Erm... it's a traditional business model of security firms on the internets...

> If a security firm can "extort" google, what stops a lone hacker to put up a video of a chrome exploit on youtube and demand some arbitrary amount of money as compensation?

They're not extorting anything. They're not menacing google or anything like that, they have not obtained this information illegally, they've done security research and are releasing their findings to their clients because that's how they make their money. That's it.
$7B is a lot of money, but might be more relevant is how much Facebook were thinking about paying for the company. Maybe it was not just an acquisition, but a strategic overbid.
Was about to say the same thing:

"node takes a leap from that that says"
"and use it to make a easy way"
"the rigth way of doing"
"what many people belive is the right direction"

All in the section "Why the sudden and exponential popularity?" (which is not even a very long section).

However, that aside, this looks good. The style is pacey and informed, the content looks useful and sufficiently technical without being a physics paper, I might even stump up some cash after reading the free pages.
You're right, Spotify's location was Stockholm, but the map automatically displayed it in Stockholm county. Thanks for noticing this, I'll correct the error.