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Such a weird fixation: bringing .Net to non-Windows platforms? I don't get it.
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The factors you've mentioned should have been already priced by Morgan in the opening price proposal (low share supply, low interest rates etc). They are reasons which justify why the shares traded so high, which in turn proves that it was foreseeable by Morgan to know that.
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Hey guys, awesome to see such a successful thread.

I'd like to set up some sort of group where we get ~10 people together and then each week set things we need to do, and then next week we make sure the other people completed their goals.

If you are in, post your email as a reply to this. I'm going to use a posterous group to accomplish this - though if there is something else that would work better let me know.
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It wasn't a scam, just take the fact that "[LinkedIn] became the first major American social media company to go public" and you should notice that it happened due to (1) managing an IPO is HARD (2) web social media is young.
Thanks for responding to the thread. This interests me. Any chance you could shoot me an email? Email is in profile.
I do not think it is a matter of LinkedIn lacking bargaining power. It is a well known company and it is the first social company to go IPO, so every bank will be eager to underwrite them so that they can say they are the experts of social. They could have had a dutch auction if they really wanted one.

I think the reason they did not go with a Dutch auction is they lack the confidence of Larry and Sergey. What if it fails? What if the bankers get pissed off and sabotage it by not working hard enough to sell the issue.

Having the price jump by 100% may be leaving money on the table but it is not a disaster. Having the IPO fail would be a disaster, and the management of LinkedIn would be personally blamed for it.
It's only erroneous if you define the axes as such.
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Also just wanted to say that you should improve the link text color used on the about page of your website.
I don't know PHP, but does the slice function work when $end > $start + $length?
"The Internet may have made this transition seem too easy. In Internet communities, it's fairly easy to build consensus. Membership is voluntary, and people who don't like the rules can leave (or they can be kicked out: there is no requirement for due process). Moreover, many resources are infinite on the Internet. People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs. They are befriending one another, sharing information, and accumulating status, points, and experiences."

housing and jobs are scarce because of shitty government, including shitty democracies (arguably mainly due to the monetary policies of the biggest shittiest democracies).

poverty is a solved problem. it persists because it is profitable for the people with guns and money printing presses for it to persist and no one will stand up to them. at least not without nukes.

the scarce resource argument is bullshit. humans are net wealth producers if you leave them alone. this is doubly true since we cracked the atom. the reason we have unsafe, waste producing nuclear reactors instead of thorium reactors is because governments wanted plants that could produce weapons grade material.
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They're both annoying. For use in pipelines that is, as they seem more geared towards typesetting. Which I've honestly never had a use for. Consider this input file:

$ cat > test.txt
one
two
three

five

Let's try to number every line:

$ nl test.txt
1 one
2 two
3 three

4 five

Ok, the leading spaces are annoying (why not use a single tab?), and are also produced with "cat -n". And why is not numbering blank lines the default?

How can you prefix every line, even non-blank ones, with the line number followed by a single tab? Turns out the answer is:

$ nl -w1 -n ln -ba -s"`printf '\t'`" test.txt

Horrible defaults. HORRIBLE.
Printing was welcome by the church, as it increased quality: less errors and a more uniform look. One of the first printed books was a latin bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible
Having worked in the industry for a long time I have no doubt that Invest Banking Firms are greedy fucking bastards.

However, in this situation it is more a case of damned if they did and damned if they didn't.

Before the IPO there was a fair amount of nervousness about a big launch of yet another dot com. It is easy to look at this with the benefit of hindsight and say - they should have known the share price would more than double but I doubt they purposely got it that wrong.
The story on MSFT's IPO was fraught with uncertainty and concern over who-gets-what in the pricing scheme:

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/13/inside-the-...
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This is the $n-th iteration of that same article I've read.
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blanking the pages of your book if the license was revoked

Courts in the US would not recognize attempts at such revocations or demands to do this as reasonable or sane. Promise.
I just woke up so I'm not sure if I'm conveying my point well. My suggestion is that these factors can combine to create a short term unsustainable pricing situation. If Morgan Stanley believes in their heart of hearts that the stock won't be able to support more than a $50 price by Aug 1, they should be loathe to price at $80 and see it fall. This won't just kill their ability to get future offerings subscribed, but also can weigh heavily on the trading of the stock long term which could easily get in the way of any secondary offerings.

Besides, who can say that they actually could have floated the stock at $80? Just because some retail investors or momentum traders bought at $80-$100 on the first day doesn't mean they could have moved the whole volume of stock at that level, especially to some of their institutional clients. Just because you could potentially find one guy out there to buy one share of LNKD at $1000 doesn't mean it's a reasonable price for it or that you could find anyone to buy 100,000 shares at $1000 - but you could still get a print off of that one share transaction.

None of this is meant to say that I trust investment banking firms a lick, or I'm sure Morgan did the right thing here. I'm just trying to suggest that it's a much more complicated situation than the NYT and the Zynga sound bite might suggest.
A cool option for mobile browsers, would be that an online service, could convert JPEG files into WebP. Then the mobile browser could be downloading the WebP file instead - that way saving money.
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Love it. Just like the BBS' of yesteryear.
Prior to the IPO, everyone was saying $45 was absurdly high. Now it's absurdly low.
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Say you don't want to start a 'startup', in the traditional sense.

Is it worth it to move to SV if you aim to achieve success from smaller projects more along the lines of those listed here 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487'
autojump looks pretty cool. I assume your name and that of the github implementation isn't a coincidence?
Opening down or trading below what the stock priced at in the short term has a strong stigma attached to it and can make retail and institutional investors think there is something systemically wrong with the company regardless of the fundamentals.

I understand there's a stigma, but why does the stigma exist? Let's just assume that the investment bank's only goal is to accurately predict the demand for a new IPO, and to set the offer price accordingly; why is overpredicting demand stigmatized whereas underpredicting is not?
The problem is that Chrome sends an accept header of / for images, meaning that mod_negotiation for instance can't determine what to send. The only real way is either by hard coded UA sniffing on the server (uggh!) or by detecting webp in JS (ugggh!) as far as I can tell.
Can you convert any ePub to the Mobi format? No. Try to convert a DRM-enabaled ePub from an Amazon competitor like Google into a Mobi file, or try to convert a library eBook into a Mobi file. Amazon's Kindle platform is a prime example of an evil, locked in system.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20101206/tc_yblog_tec...
Bitwise operations pop up fairly often in advanced data structures (Hash Array Mapped Tries, Bloom Filters, etc). The big advantage in my view is being able to perform complex, data-intensive tasks in otherwise limited environments (e.g., mobile devices).
But then you mention "runway", which makes me wonder whether you're talking about me, or my company, or my other company, or my money earning side project, or my other money earning side project, or what.

In short, I don't know what you're asking for. Judging from the other replies, no one else does either.

I'm sure there's an interesting question here, but I don't know what it is.
Amazon's own lock-in aside, how can it be blamed for not being able to import others' DRMd books? That's what the (others') DRM is for.
I'm willing to believe hardware will be a big thing again soon: the transition of 3d printers and scanners from industry to hobbiest suggests there's room for even broader consumerization. Cory Doctorow's Makers is a compelling vision of that future.
Allowing a standard, open format to work on the Kindle would make sense for users; Amazon currently chooses to disallow it. Imagine having a DVD player that could only play Amazon-formatted movies and not standard DVDs.

Buy an eBook "from Google's eBookstore, you'll be able to read it on your desktop PC, your iPhone, the Nook, the Kobo eReader, the Sony Reader, or a garden-variety flip phone — just not your Kindle."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20101206/tc_yblog_tec...

We can't read Amazon eBooks on other devices, or in applications not authorized by Amazon, which locks users in. Evil.
Interestingly, there is an existing word "usonian", but I've seen it used mainly in connection with architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The word was intended to mean (America - (Canada + Mexico)).
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Thanks :) - glad they were useful! I've got a paypal thing on the cheat sheet download pages ... http://www.addedbytes.com/download/subversion-cheat-sheet-v1...
sudo dpkg-divert --local --divert /usr/bin/ack --rename --add /usr/bin/ack-grep

That way you still get the benefits of the packaging system and you don't have to alias or create a /usr/local/bin symlink.
What exactly does this do that isn't implemented with substr already? Have I misread the docs? Seems it handles positive and negative offsets.

Also, wouldn't startsWith and endsWith also be already implemented as strpos and strrpos?

Don't get me wrong, none of those functions are particularly elegant, but at least they are the "PHP way".
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One of the reasons LinkedIn's share price jumped so high from its IPO price of $45 was because of a very low float. There are too few LinkedIn shares trading on the public market. It is not that easy to get your hands on LinkedIn shares right now, even if you are willing to pay market price. This artificially raises the stock price.

I believe 7 million shares were floated out of ~94 million outstanding shares. If more shares are floated, the price per share should go down (not considering other factors) as there will be a larger supply of shares in the public market. The assessment that the investment banks that the IPO should be priced at $45 sounds more reasonable had all 94 million shares been floated (speaking hypothetically; this never actually happens).

For this reason, valuing LinkedIn by multiplying 94 million (total outstanding shares) by the current stock price on the NYSE (as most news articles have been doing) is probably not a very accurate measure.
> 9 isn't bad but they will probably screw it up.

We just had a request from a realty company to roll back all of their IE 9 updates because it breaks the image positioning for some slide show widget on a handful of different sites.
Nice. So is the money from the mobile app?
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Sorry, the invites come from the company, rather than the community. That said, you can suggest your site via a form on their contact page.
Am I the only one who feels that if I'd put in the blood, sweat and tears to build a company to the point where it could be IPO'd I'd be more likely to gouge my eye out with a rusty spoon that open it to the sharks, sociopaths, speculators and manipulators of wall st and the open market?
Strangely enough, I don't drink JD any more. I prefer Bulleit and Jura these days. And I do miss having a domain that memorable.
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Ask HN: Any good git parser/data analysis tools out there?
Looking for something that spits out user behavior based on commits, branches etc.
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That's just one business model. Crap sells as well, with a lower margin but a higher volume.
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The way he routinely ties the knot to the bag his kid's in, and then calmly takes off (around the 3 minute mark).. I guess one can get used to anything.
If compiled with resent clang on Linux x86_64 it fail to pass network tests, while v8-related tests works well. That's telling you something about quality of the code. ^_^
Why does cat need the ability to add line numbers anyway? It seems outside the scope of it's purpose. Next it'll need ability to translate Russian to English.

If I ever needed line numbering, I would output into a file and open it in a far more capable text editor/viewer that was designed for doing that well.
His boy is not really pleased by the idea...
> Ok, the leading spaces are annoying (why not use a single tab?)

That's because numbers look better when they are right justified.

The blank line thing is stupid though.
It's $1000. I've found that this is an issue with rent checks pretty regularly.
The same way that selling someone a house for $1 million and the next day it's worth $900K looks bad on the seller since they're promoting it as a good investment.
Why would I want to own a book? It's a piece of dead tree. It's not like I own the contents.
Your report just has "Carbs" - nothing to do with what sort they were. That could be flour, sugar, or potatoes, and they stay relatively constant, there's no decline (p18).

There's a big increase in the amount of fat consumed, but I suspect a large part of the difference is going to be lifestyle, too. Around the turn of the century people walked a lot more and did a lot more manual labour.
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This is all very interesting and such, but using a simple, basic aerial tramway is not the same as flying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_tramway

+1 for the YouTube movie link [1], very illustrative. This is a documentary well worth viewing. I was surprised that the cocaleros remain a good sense of humor despite their dangerous (and subsistent) living style.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZEN-qA0e94
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Yep, I just got that from Amazon a few days ago. I'm a Python/Web programmer in my day job, but I'm looking to get more into the low level stuff. I recently got a Nerdkit too - lots of fun :)
Very nice! Just like the Packet radio of yesteryear.
Here is some data on this:
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Often the underwriters will have to buy the stock at the price they set (it costs the bank money in that case) also it means the company may have failed to raise the funds they had planned to with the offering.
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I think Fb/Winklevosses situation is an outlier, very unlikely to happen to you. I don't know the size of outsourcing market, but its probably pretty big and as far as I can tell there isn't overwhelming evidence that outsourcing means someone else will steal your idea and get rich off it.

Besides how much did they get from from the lawsuit anyway?

P.S. I freelance and I'm glad to sign a NDA before starting, not that I need one to stop me from stealing their ideas. First I don't really care. Ideas are great, but they need lot of work to make it happen. Two, my projects list (like almost any other programmer's) is full of stuff I'd try if I had 36 hours in a day and needed no sleep.
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I've discovered a lot of new apps from the post and comments. Give ncmpcpp, an excellent ncurses mpd client, a try and say goodbye to GUI music players.

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Also in line with tmux, checkout teamocil and tmuxinator on github.
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Not a scam. Inflammatory banks are evil stuff with little to no support.

In hindsight it's easy to say they should have known it would get to this price but in the weeks leading up to the IPO it would have been pretty difficult to justify pricing at 80. The current price is difficult to justify and may not hold beyond this initial frothy period.

Add to that the greater downside of underpricing and I just don't think the author is really making much sense.
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Thanks for the note, currently, only Chrome is supported, by only due to lack of time. Working on it.
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The first time I applied as a "non-technical" founder, needless to say that didn't work. YC seems to have a bias towards hackers (don't quote me on this, but I think they've only funded one non-technical founder project ever), and probably rightly so.

You could always try to learn php or Rails (I'd recommend latter since that's what I do for a living and fun these days) and apply to y comb. Like you mentioned you don't want to become a programmer, so are you motivated to spend weeks, maybe months hitting your head against the wall?

Or you could validate your idea and build your business in that time. Get something out asap, sell like hell and maybe if it works out and apply again (you'd probably be one of the few with a proven model and market).

If I had the option back then to outsource I would've gladly done so. That said I wouldn't trade learning Rails, then Ruby for (almost) nothing else.

This isn't a cut and dry question, can't get any more specific than this. Hope that helps a little better :)
The fact that the stock more than doubled on its first day of trading — something the investment bankers, with their fingers on the pulse of the market, absolutely must have known would happen...

No, this is an absurd claim. Investment bankers are not clairvoyant.
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See table 4 and 5. It doesn't give breakdowns of sugar vs HFCS or corn vs wheat, but it does separate sweeteners from potatoes from grains.

Regardless - total calories went up. Carbs stayed almost constant in absolute terms (a slight decrease) and decreased in relative terms. Fat increased in both absolute and relative terms. I guess carbs must be the culprit!
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The more things change the more they stay the same.

Remember AOL's use of keywords to go to specific pages for companies before the days of the web? A future without a URL bar gives Google that much more power, which is just how they want it.

In that future you'll type all your urls in the google search box, and they get to show you ads for similar sites or topics, assuming you are lucky enough to be near the top.

I wonder how long before Google introduces a 'keyword' product where you can register a specific keyword to go straight to your domain.
There are algorithms that use bits just like there are algorithms that use trees. You wouldn't expect your compiler to write your algorithms for you, would you.

Just recently, I've used the bitboards representation for cellular automata (which lets you compute 64 cells at the same time by doing about 100 non-branching integer instructions). I have difficulty seeing a compiler that can recognize that algorithmic optimization.