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Totally tangentially to the post I just confirmed that it is called Dom Perignon and in doing so I learned that they have a massive technical debt with their website. Or maybe the requirements were in the line of, build us the slowest flash website imaginable and can you create a loading graphic that looks like a rendering issue?
Why does Hackernews censor small blog and not big ones?
Even if the content is just as good if not better in the smaller less traffic intensive blogs?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews they allow you to post more links while if you don't and are only an up and coming site you get banned?

Honnest question
So one or two employees that have been with the company for significantly longer than everyone else don't substantially dilute the pool.
The employees want the sale price of the company to be higher so their portion of the 5% pool will be higher. As far as incentives go, it's not much different from equity/options.
+1
Too bad this didn't made it to the front page.
accusations of commenters being paid MS shills, which happens all the time here on HN

hnsearch disagrees with you.
Or, you know, sell it to someone else. HTC or Samsung might buy. Nokia probably not so much :)
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Did I come down with a case of the stupids?

How are you 475X more likely to survive a plane crash than click a banner ad... But only 2X more likely to get a full house in poker than click a banner ad?

Shouldn't that mean that airplanes are falling out of the sky every hour, and passengers laughing it off?
You get better quality journalists and journalism if you don't demand final approval. Wanting final approval means that you want a puff piece, and who wants to write that?
Why does Hackernews censor small blogs and not big ones?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews they allow you to post more links to get more traffic while if you don't and are only an up and coming blog you get banned?

Honnest question
The frontpage says 5:30-10pm, so looks like an after work event
I think Dan's probably wrong on this. First, in the Novell deal MS ended up getting most of their money back, they basically just licensed the patents (part of the DoJ deal).

For Nortel there were at least 5 other consortium members -- MS, Sony, and EMC paid a total of $800M (not sure of the exact split). Apple paid $2.6B.

My point is that by doing a consortium approach they actually spent relatively little money on it, and they all cross-license. Google, OTOH, is paying the full $12.5B for Motorola.
"A whole lot of people who had never heard of airbnb have recently heard of it as a tool for burglars to get into your house."

Understandably, the AirBNB guys are trying to change that impression ASAP
I feel the same way; what we've seen of Win8 marks the first rethinking of desktop computing since the original WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers). (Not the first, actually, but the first to actually see the light of day from a vendor as big as MS). And the fact that it's HTML5-based doesn't hurt. :)
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My version of procrastination is not as simple as 'I'm lazy, I'll do it later'. I think the whole problem is in starting.
Starting is key, reason many of use will procrastinate is because we know that we will enter a mode where our muscles (mental or physical) will not be idle anymore. Moving from idle to movement is very hard for our minds sometimes, its deceiving. For example, You are sitting down on our couch watching TV and your girlfriend asks you to get something from the kitchen, you know is super simple but you wont do it immediately, because just standing up puts you a little wall of effort that is impeding you from doing it quickly, but you know that if you where standing up it would be much easier. In terms of work, in many cases people don't start things because their environment is not setup, you have to open these files, close these other ones and enter that different mindset where you are not idling anymore. For me, if you beat the "starting" process you are on your way to getting lots done. So in other words, automating your starting environment to avoid that change of hot water to cold can be your key to beating procrastination.
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Holy wait, what?

I guess this means I will be buying a Motorola phone next time. I wasn't very happy with my Droid 2, overall but I do trust Google.
App.net: now w/launch pages & customer support integration
Hackernews censors small blogs and not big ones?  Honnest question
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews they allow you to post more links to get more traffic while if you don't and are only an up and coming blog you get banned?

Honnest question
Headline is inaccurate - he moved to a place that cost $2k more a month. I wonder what the actual rent was - $2k/month in manhattan is pretty cheap.
Could be. After all, MBA is meant to train managers, not entrepreneurs. That's what has always surprised me about the common sentiment towards MBAs: why does everyone expect all MBAs to be amazing entrepreneurs out of the box? We don't have a similar expectation for anyone else. It might have something to do with the attitude (especially during the last boom) - but that's a story for a different time.
From their perspective, multiple TLDs are probably a historical accident — they'd probably prefer if everything was under .com.
What happens to 280 North?
Seriously asking, does no one care how many people their spouse slept with?
>"Welcome to 'Building Windows 8,' or as we call it, 'B8.'"

Srsly? Bait? +1 for honesty.
I really like the fact that they mentioned "performance" a bunch of times. Windows has needed some serious streamlining and performance tweaks for a while now.
We may yet host one. Also, YC NYC is effectively a hybrid of Work at a Startup and Startup School.
The bonus would, however, be taxed as income and not as capital gains. That's kind of a bummer.
Indeed, a very long-winded way to say "don't forget about us, we are working on something".
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"Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility" and "we learned some great lessons and renewed our sense of responsibility to the community"

Given that this was full of stuff worded like this, I sort of doubt that. You feel like you're being snowed from the first sentence onwards. I realize this is somewhat orthogonal to the technology that might be included. However, this is supposed to be from "inside the engineering team", and it's almost completely tone-deaf. Either they need to hire more intelligent PR people or, I don't know, let actual engineers talk about what they are building.
> A mess is definitely a technical debt.

Maybe.

> It's going to take time and money to clean it up. You can put it off more, but it's going to make everything cost more money and take more time than it should. Or you can clean it up now and save that time and money.

Nope. Lots of code is abandoned for external reasons. All effort spent on it was wasted, including "clean it up now".

A mortage or a credit card balance is debt - you must deal with it. Crappy code is different - it is often abandoned without any consequence.
Looking at MMI's balance sheet, they have $3B in cash. So Google is really paying $9.5B. And, IMO, they are getting so much more for that money than they would have received with a pure IP-only play like Nortel.

I suspect Dan is closer to right than wrong - particularly on the FTC angle.
What exactly are they rethinking? To me it looks like a desperate attempt to catch up with the tablet trend without leaving their massive existing customer base out in the cold.
Whats a good online college to pursue MBA
I was thinking of signing up for Western Governors University but after a second thought, Harvard Extension School's online program came to mind. While cost of attendance is a factor. I would like to know get some opinions and the factor my decision on that.

I can only take an online program because I am very mobile. This week I'm in Australia, a fortnight after I might be in Asia or Africa.

I'd also appreciate other college or program suggestions.
One reason why the courts decide so swiftly in Germany (in cases like this) is that the evidence that was presented by Apple was presented under oath. As you can imagine, lying under oath is no joke.

The evidence provided can be taken at face value by the courts but if they are asked to do that, lying or misleading is punished harshly.
Given that Samsung and HTC have already embraced openness as a policy having "googarola" on that same team will add even more momentum to it. Even more when you consider that arduino is the basis for android accessories. In the near-term it's almost irrelevant if android were a worse experience and android devices were less capable (I don't think that's the case, which is all the better) because ultimately it's about development momentum and the OODA loop. If the android platform can congeal a larger critical mass of talented hackers and developers and they can get into a tighter and stronger feedback-develop-release cycle on their software and their hardware then they will beat the pants off of any of their competition.
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I read that Hackernews censors small blogs and not big ones is this true?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to post unlimited amounts of links here without the worry of getting put in a blacklist filter? While if you aren't a super popular site you basically aren't allowed to post up even one link a month and if you do you get permanently blacklisted?

Honnest I'm curious
It is a bit weasel worded, but there is at least some evidence of falsified information that makes this far from a "when did you stop beating your wife?" situation.
I actually agree with c2k as major and minor releases do tend to give more information than the integer releases.

I read a post the other week about a corporate user that was giving grief that they had only just finished testing firefox 4 for corporate roll out and firefox 5 had been released.

To corporate users, this situation is a nightmare. There is no clear definition of a major update

I prefer the old release schedule of major.minor releases. I like the rapid development it now has but I just don't like this rapid release version numbering.

On a side note, since Firefox changed the way they were doing everything, I switched to Chrome and so did everyone in my office. None us swayed each others decisions, we all felt the same about Firefox. They have lost scope of what is important, releasing stable versions of software. Firefox 4 was dreadful, 5 was a little better. I feel like there is no effort in making the release stable, it's just "let's sort it in the next one". I feel like they are always going to be chasing their tales.

Before anyone comments, I know Chrome has the same release schedule but I feel they are doing it a lot slicker than Mozilla is right now. Firefox changed the world for me back in 2004 and now they have lost the edge.
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Can hordes of AT&T customers use individual arbitrations to block T-Mobile deal?
Oh year, I was looking in the text but didn't notice the header. So, just evening then.
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Note bene: since the effective tax rate on the wealthiest Americans is lower than that of almost everyone else because of how tax law treats investment income, Buffett's argument is for the time being indifferent between progressive and flat taxation.
The more I learn about Android and the way in which Google pursued mobile, the more I believe that Google never had a long term strategy, merely tactics aimed at being the first iPhone competitor - or rather they had a strategy to provide mobile services but the iPhone made their interface obsolete.

Their decisions regarding Android appear to have been made based on a corporate culture oriented toward trade secrets over patents, and their assumptions regarding IP appear to have been biased by that corporate culture - i.e. there's some viability to a clean room approach to copyright and trade secrets, there is not one for patents.

Google's "damn the torpedoes approach" got them into the marketplace quickly, but the mines are all still in the water and so is their fleet.
I've three gripes:

First, I suspect most mega-rich find investing in all conditions far more enjoyable than anything that money might be able to buy.

Second, even if they wanted to buy, it takes time to spend billions of dollars. In the mean time, that money will be put to work in some form of financial instrument. Even if it's only sitting in a bank, the bank will make a more lucrative investment with it.

Third, it's not like buying an expensive auto collection is wasted money. That money will be used to build the infrastructure of those companies. This has the same shocking benefits of "pure" investment, although it is probably mildly less efficient.
I think there might be some unspoken rule about constantly pushing your own blog articles; there's been a number of users where, say, their user name is "bobsmith" and ALL their links that they submit are to a site that just happens to be bob-smiths-gadget-and-seo-blog.com
Why does anyone bother listening to this pontificating, clueless idiot any more ? Because he helped crash a crappy hilariously-named CMS product into the ground over a decade ago ?

I mean, I wouldn't write a blog post about the American Tea Party, for example, because I know too little of the forces of modern US politics, culture and economics giving rise to the phenomenon and would come off as a clueless idiot if I tried to do so. What makes Greenspun such an expert on the UK ?
Hackernews policy of censoring smaller blog as opposed to bigger ones?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to post unlimited amounts of links here without the worry of getting put in a blacklist filter? While if you aren't a super popular site you basically aren't allowed to post up even one link a month and if you do you get permanently blacklisted?

Honnest question
Androids Are For Cheap Pessimists, iPhones Are For Worldly Optimists
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And google wasn't the first to invent search. The "First Mover" advantage is overrated in many cases.

Frankly, I'd be worried if there wasn't competition in your particular niche. Either you have stumbled on something truly revolutionary (unlikely) or the niche is just too small to support more than a one-man company. So, competition is good.
I am a cofounder of Matygo (one of the 5 companies) very excited to be a part of the first cohort!
You can list a directory containing 8 million files But not with ls..
"The supplier is also a competitor"

Wasn't there an article recently about how Samsung supplies a large chunk of the components in the iPhone? It's a different department but isn't it the same dilemma?
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Yup, I honestly expected an article about the build environment and stuff like build times. Can you compile Windows from scratch on a regular development machine in a decent time frame? I guess it depends on whether you're thinking of the Windows kernel or Windows the desktop environment.
PyPy's RPython language is a subset of Python that can be compiled. Unfortunately, RPython was designed to bootstrap PyPy and not general-purpose applications.

Python 3 added optional type annotations for function parameters and return types. Unfortunately, Python does not use these annotations for compile-time or run-time type checking. The annotations are just for documentation or tools that want to analyze the type attributes.
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Seconded, I'd much rather add applications as needed. Also, the growl notification is a good idea.

And my own small idea: what if I want an application to check for updates? Can I say "allow application to connect for this application session"? Then when the app quits, it won't be allowed to connect out again, unless it's whitelisted.
From TFA: "If you're using a recent version of Safari, Chrome, or Firefox here's how it works.."

Is there a reason they miss out Internet Explorer? Makes it sound like it's not supported or something. Is it?
It was actually the YC NYC announcement that triggered this question.

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience last year. I met some interesting people and made some useful contacts. I think it should become an annual tradition at Y Combinator like all the others.
They already have profit sharing though (it's where the million dollar cars come from).
Truly unfortunate combination of project abbreviation and font. I read it as B$.

Hopefully it doesn't stick.
Asking for features "before I buy" is lame, I know. These are merely suggestions.

1) Avoiding the verboseness of something like LittleSnitch is an admirable goal, but there's too much work for the user in your case. How difficult would it be to detect when applications perform network operations and then auto-populate the list so that the user can decide what to do about it? Some kind of categorization of traffic would be good too (ie, listing common protocol utilization [DNS,HTTP,SSH,etc]).

2) A simple thumbs-up, thumbs-down on applications would be great. That way the user could toggle the app for when they, say, want to pull some updates from Steam. From the screenshot it looks like you can only add or remove apps.

The website looks great and $9.00 feels like a good price point. I'll second the idea that $19.00 was too much. I hope it sells well.
If it can be an order of magnitude cheaper, why not? Enterprise storage has commanded a high premium for a long time and of course enterprises are storing more data than ever, not all of which needs the same performance characteristics. I welcome the shakeup in this space. The old days where you fretted endlessly over which data to preserve on expense SANs are fading behind us.
first of all the nokia payment was not a one-off deal, as apple will continue paying royalties to nokia each fiscal year, for as long as they use the patents. clearly this reporter doesnt know what the facts are.
I get what they're doing here -- it's a response to the huge backlash in their new rapid-versioning process. But maybe they're being a bit overzealous.

I think the version numbering needs to stay in the About window, but it should be less emphasized. Today, their whole roadmap is about "Firefox 6! Firefox 7!" and so on. They wave each major version number around like some sort of banner when lately very few (if any) major features/improvements are observed between major versions.

I think they need to just swallow their pride and bogart the Chrome model: version number is in "about" if you need it -- other than that, it stays out of the way while the browser autoupdates itself.
Is this a good idea? Maybe. Is it such a good idea that it is worth yet another fight with the userbase? No way. Will the Firefox team members dig in, get defensive, and make the change anyways now? Almost surely.
Here's another way to look at it. Technical debt is real when you see it first when looking forward, before it's realized. Technical debt is bogus when you see it first when looking backwards, after it's 'realized.' Like real debt, it doesn't just 'appear' without a conscious decision to incur it.

For example, a system was built crappily, and you refer to it later on as incurred technical debt. bzzt wrong, if you didn't call it technical debt when the system was being built, it probably was just a mess and now you're calling it technical debt to hide the crappiness.
Let me switch sides for a moment and defend some of what happens here. In certain instances, Excel is a very good tool. In fact, if Excel's performance could be improved, it would become the best tool for some scenarios.

For example, you need to manage a stream of data. You have prices coming in and you need to publish another set of prices going out (perhaps you are trying to peg quotes in the market off another set of quotes...details don't matter). Use Excel's RTD to put incoming prices into some cells. Calculate the outgoing price by typing out a simple formula which references the original cells.

All other commonly used languages are more batch oriented, rather than stream oriented. In other languages, the code will implement some sort of call-back method to handle incoming data. This program will need some sort of "main" method. Perhaps the program will need to be compiled. Certainly the user will have to know how to run it.

A non-programmer will obviously pick the excel solution (and many programmers will as well).

The financial industry does lots of things ass backwards -- a few of them really do make sense :)
Given how insightful the previous site for Windows7 was, this is surely one to follow.
Awesome work. I wanted to let you know that the erase function is not working on Firefox 3.6.19 Mac. I share the image with a Safari browser and the image there is erased when I erase in FF window but the erasure doesn't show up in the FF window I erased in.
And do you think the PR guys asked them for a quote? No they did not. They wrote the quote and then asked the company if they would 'approve' it. (sort of quote by inference)

I was exposed early on to this when a PR person wrote up a quote, attributed it to me, and then ran it through the PR department where I worked who 'signed off' on the release although no one actually asked me if I had made that quote. When I protested they said "Oh it sounded like something you would say, should we seek a retraction?" It was a hell of an introduction to this 'known technique' in the PR world. I told them that in the future they had to clear any quote attributed to me, through me, which they were happy to do.

So my speculation is that the PR guys wrote these quotes, asked the partner's PR firm to approve, and they did, because none of the CEOs/GMs whatever have that flag set in their PR department that says "check with me before you approve something with a quote from me in it."
I'm assuming you're talking about examples like Google acquiring YouTube, where Sequoia was investor in both and was said by some people to have influenced the deal to see ROI from YouTube?

Do you have examples like this? This would definitely be interesting.

edit: note that I mention the Google/YouTube example from something I remember reading about a few years ago. I don't know what exactly happened…
That's hardly true. iTunes is/was based on SoundJam which Apple bought. Before iTunes was available on Windows Apple recommended a third-party package (the name of which escapes me) for using iPods on that platform. The iTunes Music Store had (nascent) competition, and it arrived after iTunes had been released for a while.