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When there is a perfectly good objective argument to be made (in this case, that undeletable reminders is a bad user experience), I do think an appeal to emotion is ineffective if not fallacious.

In this case, the particular emotional appeal seems either insincere or unreasonable. Are people who have bad or deceased fathers offended by the very notion of Father's Day and the marketing around it? I doubt it, but even if they are, I think it would be entirely unreasonable, and rare enough for Google to risk or ignore.

Remember, anyone can choose at any time to be offended by anything, whether or not other people would consider them reasonable. People can also feign being offended to attempt to bring attention and credibility to an otherwise legitimate argument. Anyone who publishes any text on the Internet is liable to have someone claim the text to be offensive. I don't think any reasonable person would see this reminder and think that Google was mockingly telling them to call their abusive or dead father.
Empathy is cool now, didn't you get the memo? It allows you to design better products. If you don't understand your users, your company is screwed.

I think discussion of the emotion of the situation is entirely appropriate.
"25 startup tee shirts for $25 each from 25 of our favorite startups."

I can't tell if you're selling a T-shirt for $25 or 25 T-shirts for $25.
I'm going to be the heretic here and say both camps are wrong.

The most reasonable approach is to have clean code with a little sprinkling of efficient code where it matters. So if you've built a nice cocoa app you don't need to hand code in assembler each little part of it. Just that main image processing loop. Even in that case, document it well.

Now let me go a little further and say that clean code and efficient code are not at all mutually exclusive. If you find a programmer is producing efficient (dare I say even fast), but un readable code it may be time for them to find new employment.

It's not really hard, keep your Knuth/Dijkstra/Rivest handy, and refer to them when needed.
Web hooks are only small subset of hook problem.

See:

http://blip.tv/file/3881880
https://github.com/Marak/hook.io
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The key word is "each", meaning $25 per tshirt.
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I found this interesting: "Hacker News" vs. "HN"[1]

As the site gains reputation/users you can see that many switch to the abbreviated version.

[1] http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=hacker+news%2C+HN
That's the difference between posting something in a space people view as public and a space people view as their own personal area. People have much more of a right to be offended about the later. You're offering your users a space to call their own, anything you put in there that offends any of them is an intrusion and leads the user to realize that the control of that space is entirely up to you and not them. When you've offered that space to them and they find out your offer is not what they thought it is, it is understandable they get annoyed.

The reason it's important to talk about the emotions is that the emotional calculations change when the space or message is a personal one as opposed to a public one. It's the difference between someone coming up to you on the bus and asking you if you've called your father and a poster on the side of the bus asking if you've called your father. When you put your message in someone's personal space, you don't get to just say "eh, it's probably only a small fraction" because you're specifically communicating with specific people.

It is important to understand the emotional components of software.
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Typically, LTS releases are used on a server, and 8.04 was the LTS release until last year's 10.04. When I went to install Django last year on a server that was still 8.04, the current version was 0.96. Definitely easier to just install from a tar.gz straight from the developers.
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My wife has tentatively agreed to cite this paper in all future accounting papers she writes... that may be the wine talking tho.
Maybe. Do you (or anyone else) have a preference?
> For one, Screen is everywhere. I can go from system to system and it'll be there.

And that would be why I still use screen, for the most part. Tmux is nice, but it isn't prevalent (yet.)
Interesting. Can you explain how one would predict voters based on past voting patterns? Or do you know about similar projects? It seems that Offensive Politics is more into mapping election results. It seems to me politics is not a field where you can easily predict the future by looking at the past :-)

I was thinking of setting up a poll website (for French elections) but all the online polls seem to exhibit major bias, with way more far right-wing votes than in reality, so I haven't done anything at the moment.
So what you're talking about is covered by both regulatory compliance (like PCI, or HIPAA), and third-party services (like ICSA and those "hacker proof" logos).

The first are an imperfect implementation of a gameable standard which some argue is better than not having anything at all (and others argue makes things worse).

The second are at best of limited usefulness (as the half-life of any type of "hacker proof certificate" is incredibly short), or at worst snake oil.

While far from a solved problem, the current best practice methodology of implementing an SDLC program, increasing developer awareness, and both internal testing of applications as well as independent third-party security review before letting an application go live really does solve 99% of these issues.

Dramatically increasing the overall security posture of the internet at large doesn't require a "cure for cancer"-type breakthrough. It just requires adopting a programatic approach to application development and deployment that is presently not the standard.

[edit]: Saw the the submitter was the actual author of the blog, so changed the "he's" to "you're"
I wouldn't call it "ahead of their time". Being ahead of its time means that some critically necessary pieces that the product really needed didn't exist yet, but companies stubbornly went ahead and tried anyways (e.g., streaming video during dialup days).

A lot of these failures weren't hinged on the lack of some technology, it's just plain bad execution.

See: N-Gage. There was nothing preventing them from building a perfectly viable handheld game console that was also a phone. It was just horrifically engineered. Same story goes for the ROKR - it was not all technologically infeasible to create a phone tightly integrated with iTunes and music playing... but they just sucked at it.
Of course MtGox isn't much bigger than $500k per ten minutes. Given how many bitcoins there are and how much each is worth, that kind of volume would be like every cent in the United States changing hands every couple of hours.
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Nice write up.

Apparently the consensus is that Erlang is amazing for 'lower-level' infrastructure code but not so great for high-level business code. I wonder if Reia and Elxir might play a role in changing that...
I think it's a big leap to go from illegal wiretaps to hacking and stealing.
For webcaming, I've personally found ooVoo to have better quality than Skype.
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nicely done ;-)
You must not have been following the news: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2079431/citibank-ha...

It happens everywhere.
Michal, you're right, I don't need all these rights. I asked for so many to see if people complain. So far you were the only one. A couple people clicked "Accept" w/out reading the permissions, and then when I told 'em just how much data I could grab, they were shocked to find out. So yes, I completely agree, the next time I will go with "Basic permissions" and that's enough for most purposes. Thank you for letting me know, appreciated!
Front page? really? Do people even try to come up with article subjects lately?
Trust that the participants in the market will behave in accordance with established rules on penalty of punishment of human administered centralised authority is one thing, trust that mathematical truths governing how cryptography works is completely another. If the latter does not hold, the financial institutions which you claim to be employed by are in a lot more hot water than they would be if it does and bitcoin flourishes because of it.

It will take a long time for normal people to understand the implications of the cryptographic backing of bitcoins. Even quite a few people here don't "get it"
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Reminds me of (the now defunct) Startup Schwag (http://www.startupschwag.com/). I'm a sucker for stickers and tshirts with a cool company logo so it sounds awesome.

I would take a look at what Startup Schwag was doing - if I recall you got a 'goodie bag' each month that had a shirt and some stickers, buttons, pens, etc.
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I think a big part of the issue is that a person's Gmail is treated as something much more personal than a TV ad or anything else. I think this is the piece that people blasting complaints as "too sensitive" are missing.

To have a unremovable "personal" message there as part of the interface feels weird to start with, but it feels even more like a violation if it's offensive (as with this case).
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I suppose the majority of thesis' are completed for the creator's benefit, not the world's.
It's just the logical conclusion knowing these two facts:

1. MtGox sold 500K Bitcoins clearing all the buy offers highest first (as this is how sell orders clear).

2. MtGox is going to undo all transactions above the $1K/day transaction limit that was set for the account.
Good point, it would make much more sense to just run away with the Bitcoins rather than dumping them.
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hmm, are there no copyright issues involved with using another company's logo (I suppose I'm assuming a trademark was filed)?
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Node.js was released in mid-2009. Did it launch a surge in JavaScript popularity or just ride it?
Do yourself a favor and skip the video, or at least the first minute.
Ask HN: What is my market size?
I'm trying to put together a Pitch Deck, but stumbled upon one of the slides.

What would my market cap be?

We're a platform where we connect people who don't have enough time to complete their daily errands, and people who want to make a quick buck and complete tasks in their area.

From where I see it, anyone who has a full-time job, and doesn't have time to run errands fits in our market cap.

139.206 million people are employed. 47% working full time meaning:

65.43 Million Americans are Full time workers

Is this a reasonable market cap?
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If you guys do work on this, send me an email (email is in the profile).

Halting is not the right way to run an exchange, because it creates "air pockets" of liquidity given sufficiently sophisticated traders. This is what lead to the "flash crash" last year: high-frequency traders didn't want to be caught with illiquid positions in the event of a halt, so they sold as quickly as they could, making a halt more likely. It creates a situation quite similar to a bank run.

(Instead, you might want the people who organize the exchange to also do some market-making, and to stabilize prices in order to grow volume, leading to a more profitable business overall.)
Sure. I have odd circumstances, but I'll ping ya.
if by one year I raise an investment of a million dollars, and in
two years I can can make 10 million dollars

It sounds like you are already counting your winfall before even writing a single line of code. I think you have maybe been reading too much Techcrunch. In my experience startups are less like The Social Network and a lot more like Fight Club (same director btw).

I would do the startup only if you never intend on going back to school.
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Would there not be issues in which restaurants don't want to reveal all the ingredients in their food? I can imagine some places would want to keep `secret` recipes from competitors.

Assume that is a non-issue, I think that a mobile app would also be a good source of revenue. If you have a food allergy you could find which dishes are `safe` without having to consult the waiter (who may not know). I could see people spending $5 for an app that did this.
Ask HN: Need advice on how to sell my firm
I run a 5 yr old technology company with various web sites in our portfolio. After the 5 years I've decided I am going to try to figure out different avenues, do I sell. The issue is I do not know how to do it. So I need some advice. Do I hire a biz dev, find a tech lawyer to guide me, go hustle myself out their in the M&A world?

Some details: I am a technical founder and have an agile team off shore that has helped build us to 1mil+ uniques a month and a bit north of $1mil ebitda on just one of the properties. Our costs are about 150k, so high margins but in truth I could cut $100k from costs keeping it to only servers. We are in an industry with some big players but have found a healthy niche.

If you've been thru this what are the steps you took. What advice could you give.
A bit off topic, but this video brings to mind my favorite U.S. equities flash crash video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhMyPAbaGw
I think the idea is to work with the companies involved, they get some money from selling the shirts and the startups get brand exposure.
You don't have a market cap. At least not one that matters. Don't use that term in your deck; it means something completely different than what you think it means. Namely, it is the total value of your business based on what people have paid for a portion of its equity.

A better title for the slide you describe would be simply "Market" or "Market Size".
But there's no incentive to implement these fixes. Unless the market can figure out the difference between good security and bad security, people will just assume all security stinks and there will be no improvement. This is what has been happening.
This is much more common in finance and legal firms, where much of the upside accrues to partners in the firm, and the junior people work long hours for much more modest compensation. But they're loaned money in order to get a jump start on the lifestyle that their more senior colleagues enjoy, putting them in hock to the firm. If they were to leave to join a startup, for example, they'd have to pay it back in a lump sum.
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Market Capitalization (market cap) is a term from finance which refers to the number of shares of your company outstanding multiplied by the average dollar value of each share - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization . I think what you are after is potential market size, not market cap.

Anyways, one issue with your calculation is that you assume that 100% of people have the ability to use your service - I assume they need a computer, Internet access + a credit card of some type to use your service, and 100% of US full time works do not have all three those things.
Feel free to submit the tees to my startup: http://rumplo.com :)
My co-founder is an ex-investment banker/private equity guy who has been involved in both a number of capital raises, public offerings and sales of businesses - feel free to email me if you would like to be connected with him to get an "insiders" viewpoint on your options.
Does this not hurt their future ability to invest in big name up-and-coming companies? If I'm the next facebook or twitter, these kind of shady practices would make me think twice about handing over a large share of my company to them. Can they only get away with it because their competitors engage in the same behaviour?
Here's something I read today in this month's Atlantic:

"Many of today’s super-rich started out in the middle and make most of their money through work, not inheritance. Ninety-five years ago, the richest 1 percent of Americans received only 20 percent of their income from paid work; in 2004, that income proportion had tripled, to 60 percent. "

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-14-b...
"Do I sell? Do I Raise"

What are you trying to do exactly? What's the goal? Why are you selling the business? It doesn't seem clear in your question.

Why would you raise capital if you're trying to sell?
Great news about their IPO in 86. But it was _registered_ in 91. Vote me down for stating a fact. Maybe I'll bash a multi billion dollar company we all hate because we like to "think different" and then I'll get voted up.
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IMHO: If you have space in your pitch deck for a slide about market cap, it's probably too long.

Try focusing on the product and your user exclusively. Your pitch deck's most important role is to explain to who ever is reading that there is a problem, how you think you can solve it and why you can do it and not somebody else.

Most people who read a lot of pitch decks would never read the part about market cap because usually the people making the decks overestimate it and don't usually have a clue about the actual MC.

The biggest problem in growth will probably be how you will get distribution, how you will join two separate markets or target audience and that's a really hard problem to solve.

The distribution and chicken'n'egg problem are a much bigger limiting factor than the market cap ever will be in your product, so don't worry about it.

Good luck!
Exactly. This is our version of "Obama O's" (AirBNB); we really did get the idea form wearing startup tee shirts to save money on laundry.
Just shot you an email.
And coming in at number 25:
08/05/1986	STARGATE.COM

Stargate must have been the first movie ever to get it's own .com domain? I guess it reflects the crowd they were aiming for.
What would I put in the Market Size slide then? Would it be what I listed above?
Thanks for the link. We'd check it out.

For now, we're just looking to do a limited-time offer from 25 startups (already have 5+ great startups committed) as a scrappy way to keep on bootstrapping our startup.
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Hah, I think that's a neat way to visually normalize against the traffic increase trend.
Er...we've barely had to wear the same startup tee twice!
Don't these contracts typically require termination with cause in order to interrupt vesting?

Not that that's a perfect solution, but it should at least make these more blatant acts a bit easier to pursue in court.
Lol, just did the prerequisite research and found out the movie wasn't released till 1994. Apparently this refers to another technology manufacturer.

And here i was hoping for something to break the monotony of technology companies in the top 100.
OSX clipboard integration? Can you elaborate?
tmux is pretty amazing, I use it almost exclusively over screen or byobu.

The only thing that beats it is iTerm2 on OS X in terms of ease of splitting, tabs, and ability to scroll each pane using mouse scroll wheel, etc.
Exactly. I need something that'll let me move from linux, to AIX, to z/OS, to even RHEL on Z. Screen lets me do that. Tmux doesn't come close.
Not actually trying to raise capital. Just trying to figure out after 5 years if it's time to move to another venture. We are in NYC so not the valley so the culture is a bit different.
I know a lot more than I was taught, because I went and read up on it myself. I didn't do it all in school - mostly later and as an adult. However, I think I largely got a love of learning outside the classroom - very few teachers actually sparked any interest in learning, regardless of the subject.
Good point. Just saying that unless you're a founder or a majority shareholder, you have little power in terms of blocking the deal from going through.
Thanks kitcar...
Yeah; I almost stopped reading the article because the introductory paragraphs (which you are citing) were rubbish.

Now is a great time to be rich in the US.
Looks like he might have done just that: http://blockexplorer.com/tx/84f96975ea88d317676771a482c71f39...

Impossible to know without confirmation from MtGox though.
This sounded like a potentially useful feature for web developers, to improve perceived loading speed without having to use JS (which may be desirable in some situations). But reading Google's notes on the subject is like a splash of cold water: http://code.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender.html

TL;DR: Only one page may be prerendered at a time per-instance of Chrome (not per-tab).

It would be nice to know if this just limits simultaneous prerendering, or if only one link may be prerendered and it must be clicked on or "evicted" before any more prerendering will occur.
And domains were free at that time too.
There are incentives, they are just not at an equilibrium with the costs.

Prior to compliance legislation (like PCI, GLBA, HIPAA, SarBox, etc.) there wasn't much downside to having insecure systems; or more accurately, the downside only hit you after something bad had happened, so for most organizations it didn't make sense to worry about it until that point.

In today's business climate, the costs have increased somewhat: Potentially losing the ability to process card transactions, having to do breach notifications and pay for credit reports, being fined by the SEC, being made fun of on messageboards, etc.

They're still mostly only applicable after something bad happens though. It's like trying to convince people to back up their hard drives. There's a percentage of them who fundamentally accept that it's a good idea, and are proactive about it. There's probably a larger percentage who only consider it after they've had a drive failure and lost a bunch of data. I don't think there's anything you could say to them to make them understand that though.

But the "good" news (and I use that term loosely) is that the costs of "non-compliance" are going up, and I don't just mean from a regulatory perspective. Sony will spend a lot of money dealing with the implications of the PSN hacks. Citibank will as well.

Executives of other companies who weren't directly part of a breach will sit around in conference rooms and ask "So, what happened to them couldn't happen to us, right?" and some CSO will try to stifle a laugh and say "Oh no, we'd be screwed if the same thing happened to us."
A good start can be made by following the work of Ross Anderson and having a read of his book.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
For some of us, it will look more like a martingale :-).
It should be the maximum number of people that you can convincingly argue are potential customers. It sounds like you need to do more research.

If you say 65 million people in the US, you should be prepared to answer a question like: "Out of those 65 million people, how many have a spouse that doesn't work full time who fills this role?"
I like that line in the complaint: "biologically only".

Wow. Such anger.
Any excuse not to finish programming it and procrastinate further! Got to have clean code!

Whatever excuse works I guess...
Very nice writeup. Curious to see if anyone will take this idea any further.