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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.

Not really true. If you want to buy or sell a million shares right now, you're probably going to see that effect-- it's called "slippage" and occurs when you trade any stock in large quantity, but the market self-corrects soon after. At a few hundred or thousand shares for a decently liquid stock, slippage is not a real concern and the only cost of trading is the bid-ask spread, which is usually a penny or two.
this is pretty good. check out hyperink (YC'10?) also. they're doing something similar (not completely the same though).
Can someone explain what I am seeing (or not seeing)?

It renders pyramids on Chrome, but just a black screen (with the words ZORRO PARK) on Firefox 4, IE 9, Safari and Opera.

The wiki on WebGL suggests this should work on Firefox 4.
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.

Wrong. Underpriced IPOs (almost all of them) have been welfare for well-connected friends-of-investment-wankers for quite some time. The idea that banks would have trouble allocating public offerings is laughable.

The claim that banks need to underprice IPOs for some systemic reason is laughable. It's a back-filling rationalization for spinning, which would otherwise rightly have bankers in federal PMITA prison.
Correct. If you enable Turbo in Opera Mobile or desktop, all traffic is sent through a proxy server which converts images into WebP format. The quality is better than when we used jpegs and the file sizes are much smaller.
(Disclaimer: I work for Opera)
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features some sites give more options for Americans. Incredible VEVO access
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A university project that tries to make searching for a lot of information easier.
PhpMyAdmin 3.4.1 and 3.3.10.1 are released
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take a look at https://www.location-engine.com/
Have things become so bad that companies must ingratiate themselves with 40-50% tributes to the banks?

I hate investment wankers with a passion and would love to see the people involved in IPO spinning get the Paris 1793 treatment. But the "40-50% tribute" claim is not correct. LinkedIn only offered about 7% of its stock, so it was only a 3-4% tribute.

Knowing how scummy banks are surrounding IPOs, this was a very intelligent strategy. Now the stock can trade to a fair level and then they can do a secondary offering at a real price.
Not for linux though
Great to see this one:
* Disable compression with OpenSSL. Improves memory perf.

Guess/hope it means the issue described here is fixed automatically for everyone now:
http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/04/05/openssl-m...
Have you ever written any non-trivial code for .NET?
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As a basis for a World View and model for conducting one's affairs this is pretty hard to beat. The Second Basic Law and σ in particular also gives plenty of material for more comtemplative moments.
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I took him to mean that compiler writers should provide these bit operations in the most efficient manner on the current platform, e.g. __builtin_ctzl instead of directly using assembly or using arithmetical solutions.
We are not losing something important. Right now my address bar says

http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=2570690&whence=item%3fid%3d2570434

90% of this information is irrelevant to me.

URLs aren't good against phishing also. Having to discern "facebook.com" from "faceboook.com" as a normal user is much too error-prone. Better mechanisms are needed here anyway.
I don't understand Hipmunk. I see a simple user interface. But that user interface doesn't help me search anymore than any other site. I live in Sydney, and I use this api-mashup here destmapper.com. It opened my eyes!
Sorry but I can't find it on Chrome OS X (v. 11.0.696.68).
Which channel are you using ?
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Wait - this from the company that spends its time fussing about behavioral targeting cookies?
It looks like the propaganada of calling the GPL "infectious" and "cancerous" has worked. It's sad that some programmers continue to call the GPL viral because it gives an overly negative connotation. I understand if you dislike the license, but attacking it is basically attacking open source licenses in general.
It is also possible that no matter how the opening price was, people were going to gobble it up anyways.

Like others pointed out, the price slowly grew from $25, $35 and finally $45. I had placed a limit buy order for $47, and it opened at $85.

If there are any finance folks here, I have a question - who set the $85 price? Was it the underwriters? It could not have been the market because the stock started trading at $85. Also, I could not get any stock data from any of the sites (NYSE, yahoo, google, ameritrade etc) untill past 10:15am EST or so. Is this delay normal for IPOs?
I fully agree, and I'd like to add that this kind of fusion is already happening all over the place, blurring the line between what we used to call "thin" and "thick" clients.

For instance, a browser running huge amounts of JavaScript (e.g. ExtJS and stuff) can't really be called "thin" client anymore. On the other hand, a slick native app that does little more than presenting nicely some weather data can't really be called a "thick" client. Also, a huge "native" Java application that depends on the web and has auto-upgrade mechanisms is in many aspects very similar to huge JavaScript applications that are cached by the Browser.

Any application that needs to share data with other instances will need some server and some client part. The only question is where to put which part of the application.

Is the client merely a displaying tool like VNC? Or does the client actually run application code, and the server is just some kind of database? Which parts of the data is processed server-side and which client side? Or, is the server part decentralized and the clients communicate via P2P?

Maybe the application is even a combination of all those strategies, using in each corner of the application the most appropriate strategy.

Given all those possibilities and the wide range of succesful strategies that can be observed in the wild, drawing a sharp line between "thin" or "thick" client is already impossible today.
Great! Have a beer or two on me. :)
Because of propaganda. Developers and managers at commercial software companies contribute to it. They call the GPL viral or infectious. The FSF needs to up its own propaganda game to counter this non-sense :/
I would say that the true, Jobsian iTunes can now be experienced on an iPad or iPhone, not on Mac or Windows.
I thought that news.ycombinator.com detects duplicates. It's the same URL, character to character.
Maybe the problem isn't the GPL, maybe it's the rest of society because we want to keep trying to make money off of something by being selfish.
Ah, you might need the dev channel, I'm on 13.0.767.1.
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and without the addressbar how will you navigate to news.ycombinator.com?

How will you know what site you're on?

How will you prevent me from doing some clever SEO to turn up in a google search for your bank before their own website so I can scam you?

How will you be able to return to that site you liked but don't have the address for since the URL was hidden?

How will you market and position your site if noone knows the URL?

How will you do offline marketing if users don't know how to get to the URL you provided?

I definitely think we're losing something important.
bandits aren't "evil". They simply have fallen into the trap evolution has laid for us all: rationalizing actions that benefit them.
Clickable: https://www.location-engine.com

You're supposed to put the link in the URL box - your ranking gets punished if you haven't actually lunk somewhere.

I'm tempted to call this spam. Can you tell us why it isn't? I haven't flagged it. Yet.

Added in edit:

OK, now it's obvious why you didn't post a link. Your posting history shows clearly that you are simply spamming HN. Four posts, all to the same thing, and no comments.

Say something interesting, or get flagged.
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I was hoping to see more discussion on the actual premise here. For example, should dropbox open source? Should squarespace open source? What did reddit get out of open sourcing (karma?)? Wordpress obviously benefited from of an amazing supporting complementary ecosystem at the same time they turned their own product into a commodity. Love to hear what you think.
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This is trash of the worst kind: fatuous nonsense wrapped in pseudoscience. Please tell me this is a parody and it's gone over my head.

Just in case, I will critique in the spirit of the original article:

The first immutable law of madeupistan is that this article makes no sense. If one quantifies by Q the amount of sense this article doesn't make, and divides it by L, which is how badly the sense it doesn't make is, one can plot the result on a graph, with axes and everything like in science.

As you can see by even a cursory examination of the diagram, anything can be positioned from "scotsman" to "no scotsman" on the Y axis, and "sense" to "no sense" on the X axis. This explains the fundamental nature of mankind.

The second immutable law of madeupistan is that your position on the scotsmanian axis is irreversibly determined at birth. You may be confused initially by the observation that even someone with a high degree of scotsmanity will sometimes act like a non-scotsman and vice-versa. Never fear, that is explained by the graph.

The fourth immutable law (and, by extension, the third) is that anything can be proven by decomposition into a punnett square.

The fifth immutable law is that once someone has been determined to be a scotsman, they will take actions without any basis in rationality whatsoever (I will heretoafter call these actions "Just So" actions). Note, though, that as per the second law, sometimes they will not.

The danger of these Just So actions is inexplicably large, and it behooves any non-scotsmen among us to immediately seek out and prevent Just So actions by dangerous scotsmen. If we do not do this, society will collapse.[1]

[1] Myself, 2011, Journal of Just So Information
I agree on your conclusion. After re-reading your original post and my answer It seems that I misunderstood some of your points.

After skimming through the guide again, I also found that certain security related aspects are not included. There is no discussion about sensible ressource limits and other topics.

I found the guides from the german BSI (a goverment agency for information security) much better. https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Publications/publications_node.ht...
you're taking it way too seriously.
I try not to care too much about what I do and do not consume, but even I avoid Red Bull.
I'm not discrediting it's future potential, but the number of things which you can buy with bitcoin right now is extremely limited
> notation in which implication means "only"

I'm afraid this is a misunderstanding. What I was trying to say is that if the right-hand side of an implication denotes a single solution, there can't be any other solution.

For instance, if you write something like this:

x^2 = 4 -> x = 2

this means that all solutions to "x^2 = 4" must satisfy "x = 2", which means that there can't be more than one solution. Any other solution than "2" would be a counter-example to this implication.

And since there is another solution, namely "x = -2", the implication above is wrong. In other words, from "x^2 = 4" is does not necessarily follow that "x = 2".

However, I agree that writing "x1" instead of "x" (as you did) kind of solves this notational issue.

> Alternatively, since sqrt could be the multi valued function with no specific branch selected, this actually does give all the solutions. [...] Are you sure I was not, in fact, describing an equation in Z_2?

Of course, nitpicking never stops.

If sqrt() was meant to be a multi-values function, why did the formula denote "x1"? Also, was "^" ment to be "power" or "bitwise XOR"? Is "sqrt" a product of four variables? And so on.

That is the whole point about admitting "nitpicking": We agree in how the formula is to be interpreted, so there is no need to get deep into formalities, as long as the real issues behind the whole stuff are clear (which they pretty much are).

> Nitpicking at this level, especially if you do it often, might make you feel good about yourself, but doesn't actually get you anywhere.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be a mere ad hominem, not an actual argument. It is also a straw man, because I never claimed that this kind of nitpicking leads to somewhere. In my previous comment I was even implying quite the opposite.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
This should not be a checkbox, but it should be the default. And that's exactly what Wuala is doing.
the bandit on the upper half isn't necessarily unpleasant. we applaud when someone manages to make money from stupid people. value transferred from stupid people to intelligent people is an important aspect of wealth creation on a society wide level. after all, stupid people often destroy what wealth they manage to get.

but I agree with the conclusion of the article. It is an important measure of a society whether banditry, helplessness, and stupidity are venerated.
Hey! I came up with 4-th law independently. All I needed was 5 years of business experience as freelancer and striving entrepreneur.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=842922
Agreed. Owning media is over.
Phishers won't like this because there will exist things like Web Of Trust that help identify bad sites. I'm assuming Google will provide the same functionality.
Switching right now. Thank you.
I've done the startup thing (I was first programmer hire at Datacash in 1997; reverse takeover onto AIM in 2000, after which I left: acquired by Mastercard last year). And I've done the lifestyle thing -- self-employed full time for the past decade, doing very nicely but in a niche where it's almost impossible to scale up beyond sole trader.

If I'd stuck in the startup mode, I'd be dead.

See, startups are very demanding. And if you don't have great health, or a tendency towards stress-related illnesses, that's a very bad situation to be in. I've seen a friend die of it (hypertension plus 90 hour work weeks are a bad combination) and I was on course for it myself before I got out.

It doesn't matter if the startup is going to make you rich at the IPO if it kills you first. And it won't do the startup any good if one of the founder dies in harness, either.
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If you use http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.aspx you can put something very similar to this on your Windows desktop as wallpaper -- and it will update every 3 hours with the latest clouds, just as this does.
how many of your friends telephone numbers do you actually know?
Old browsers like lynx, w3m, ... didn't have url bar either. :-)
The RIAA is about to discover client-side encryption by default :)
At my last company, we had a great guy in his 50s writing code for us. I wouldn't worry about it.
the next next big thing will be computation being so ubiquitous and interconnected that no one except developers even thinks about where the juice for any given activity is coming from.
Well - I think it's part parody.

I mean - obviously the author hasn't done the sort of empirical work discovering the amount of stupid people in each kind of social class. It was at this point in the text that people like me laughed and people like you required a laugh-track.

It's interesting though. I meet dudes like you that respond to something that for some reason irks them with:

"It's not formulated to the highest standards of intellectual rigour - and so is worst kind of crap"

I have to wonder what really is provoking the hyperbole. Because it hardly seems warranted to me.

Just a suggestion - but maybe you might profit from stepping back from this a little. Plenty of contributions to a discourse can still possess insight without all the trappings of intellectual rigour.
Looks nice, even nicer. Though one must have Windows installed...
I'd love to see a javascript+json version of xquery. It would rock as a templating language.

Naming it might be tricky though.
The beauty of Red Bull's marketing is its focus.

One product, a few versions. Original, sugar free, small shots - that's about all I know of.

How many other companies make billions with essentially just one product?
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I'm 56 and I've had trouble finding a job. Part of it is because of my age - employers aren't allowed to say that so they say there are "too many jobs" on my résumé - and part of it is that I haven't kept up to date. I stuck with C, refusing to learn C++ which I find revolting and C# which comes from a revolting company.
I agree that it's trash but for another reason. It's exactly along the lines of theories like "everyone behaves selfishly", or "evil men rule the world". There is some truth in such theories, but only in a glass-half-empty kind of way. They tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies in that they produce the exact kinds of behavior that they predict. Why not, instead of railing against stupidity, work on educating people to overcome their (perceived) stupidity?
No Linux support for Nvidia Optimus is the only reason that I haven't bought one of the new T420s, and am still using my old Macbook.
I'm not going to disagree with you that there are bad things that go on with IPO allocations. But I think you misunderstand - I'm not saying investment banks are required to underprice IPO's to get them fully subscribed, but clearly they need to avoid over pricing the shares if they expect to keep selling them. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the process if you believe that Morgan could consistently over price new offerings and subsequently see them fail/go under water and yet still be able to keep selling these over priced issuances to their clients and institutions.
Yes. Because the alternative -- which we are currently seeing unfold -- is a wave of sovereign default, starting with the PIIGS and ultimately taking out the USD as the world's reserve currency.

...I should add that Northern Rock did not have to be nationalized, nor should taxpayers be obliged to pay any kind of compensation bill. Bankruptcies can and must happen to clean out the dead wood.
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We've just moved into our new office. New staff and there's no real 'office' culture built yet.

What kind of cool examples do you guys have in your offices? that makes it an awesome place to work.

Most team members are Sales reps.. I remember reading somewhere a startup having a bell that they would ring everytime a sales rep closes a sale.

stuff like that? Would love to hear your suggestions :)
Be careful! I would not want to get hit with that racket.
"It wouldn't be Red Bull if it didn't start harmless and end up as a catastrophe,"

Heh. Here's a photo of the Threesixty bar:

http://v2.lscache7.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panorami...
Most of them, I'd say I have 30-40 memorized easily.
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Einstein was so brilliant that his very name became a popular cliche. And yet, the more modern science digs into his theories, the more we see that, if anything, his brilliance is still underrated.
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If I sold a house to someone for 200,000 and they told me it was a good deal, I'd be very irate to find that they'd turned around and sold it for 400,000 the next day.
"It's very similar to the argument against using vim plugins for fear that you won't know how to use vi on servers or other peoples' machines."

Using vim plugins on your development machine should only add value to your standard commands. You still use standard vim commands to move around and manipulate text. And noone expects you to modify whole application on server, so you don't need those extra plugins for project manipulation, code completion (you still can type, right?) or highlighting
> 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

I think it's a bit absurd that these prices aren't somehow determined by...say... a market rather than what a few guys at a bank "believe". Isn't that sort of the whole point?
Nice work! Using the official APIs as much as possible is usually a good move because most shorteners not only use 301/Location header redirects, but often use pages with messages like "this page has been marked as spam, do you want to proceed?" and "this page returns a 404, want to go to our ad supported search engine to find a similar page instead?".

Of course the above is not universally true, and as someone who has implemented a similar library, I learned that most URL shorteners have various quirks. E.g., Is.gd does not tell you via their API[0] what the real url[1] of a blocked site is, and TinyURL (which has many[2] different[3] non-redirect[4] pages[5]) doesn't offer an API at all.

0: http://is.gd/forward.php?format=simple&shorturl=mBAh
1: http://is.gd/mBAh
2: http://tinyurl.com/cs
3: http://tinyurl.com/w
4: http://tinyurl.com/dick
5: http://tinyurl.com/bvkke
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I think the remark in the article was more about how Red Bull helps finance a lot of these extreme sports and the athletes that compete within. Without Red Bull a lot of these things would not see any sponsorship.
> and without the addressbar how will you navigate to news.ycombinator.com?

Using the same icon I used to get here today.

> How will you know what site you're on?

By the page title or by looking at the site, same as I do today

> How will you prevent me from doing some clever SEO to turn up in a google search for your bank before their own website so I can scam you?

The same as today, Chrome pops up a malicious site warning.

> How will you be able to return to that site you liked but don't have the address for since the URL was hidden?

Search. Same as today considering a fair number of users type URLs into Google as it is (facebook.com is one of the very top Google searches)

> How will you market and position your site if noone knows the URL?

Market by the URL, no one is suggesting you won't be able to use the URL to arrive at a site. It's just killing the always shown URL bar.
Except to record companies.
Why not just follow redirects instead? All proper URL-shortening services would work no matter of API. And just add support for those that does it via IFRAME. much more convenient.
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