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Good point.

Another thing that's changed since 2006 is that I think publisher thinking about commenters has evolved to where they no longer see them as adding business value. Gawker made great attempts to court and build a commenting community on its sites from 2006-2009 only to decide that the commenters weren't really creating much value and were more trouble than they were worth. Now commenting is almost an afterthought on their sites and they don't really care to make it more readable.

i.e. Facebook comments might be a great fit for Techcrunch. They're dangerless and require little to no moderation.
I don't personally know much about viral videos... perhaps this post might help?

http://techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behin...
try it and find out. I doubt anything ever even hits that programmatically.
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I've seen a few discussions of this around.

I agree with you, but there are some who believe that examples do not belong in manages (not sure what their rationale is).
This article is a load of valley sensationalism if I've ever read it.

This culture is not exclusive to the valley at all; you're not "coming home" to some exclusive club for a group of people who were shunned by the rest of the world. This culture and the types of people involved exist elsewhere in the world (in very large quantities, much of the time).

You can claim LucasArts as valley, sure, that's fine. However, don't claim IRC, don't claim Linux, and don't claim the Anarchists Cookbook of all things. You got to where you were because you had persistance and some level of dedication that enabled you to build something remotely interesting - this is not the doing of a given area in the world.

I love technology and startups as much as the next guy, but I really do think a more critical view of the valley and the surrounding tech scene is necessary. This kind of blind evangelizing for the valley also does nothing for other location's tech scenes.
If you really try, you can cut the entire budget into smaller parts

Sure. And just because it's a small fraction doesn't mean it shouldn't ever be addressed. But should a 0.5% line item take precedent over three items which combined total to 70%?

When you need drastic improvement fast, it's just a waste of time to dally on pet agendas that don't represent a significant chunk. Get to them later when you have the time and energy to spare.
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I think you guys are missing the point. The point is not that people are jobless, the point is that what they would get paid if they worked is just too low for a decent life.

At the correct price (even 1 cent per hr), everybody gets a job fast.

Given that, the real problem is for the jobless to learn something of more value to the economy or accept lower salaries, it is not technology. If there was no technology development, things will be more expensive and the poor would be even more poor.
It really is depressing realizing that the only changes we can viably make to those three great leeches is to allocate even more money to them.
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You're making a spurious correlation. If your assertion was correct, the French, British, Danish, Portuguese, and Spanish, et al.--the great colonial powers--should be stronger economies than the United States.

http://qed.princeton.edu/getfile.php?f=European_Colonialism_...

In conclusion, you've made a spurious correlation.
Arrington wrote that post (I remember when we got the docs) - no idea why it is being picked up as 'Wayne Ma' (I don't know that name).

somebody obviously screwed up the last data migration.

it also sucks that all the old comments have not been migrated - there is a lot of interesting insight in the old tc comments. I don't think there is a way to migrate to the new comments, since a fb login is now required (which imo is ridiculous)
If you want a counter example (because lord knows the singular of anecdote is data ;)), I was basically a straight A student in elementary school. I dropped out of my high school half way through my sophomore year, and though I've never looked at my final report card (by that point I'd decided I couldn't care less what my grades said) I'm pretty sure I failed at least two classes. The difference? I went to a really great elementary school and had teachers who were mostly concerned with learning to think, and not how much work I could churn out. In high school I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if there was a quota on how much a student's output needed to weigh.
Thanks, but I'm pretty much in the know (I work in this field) and a big reddit fan in spite of being twice the age of Gen Y. What I was looking for was numbers. I know reddit is now a more important source of links than Digg (even though I can't find the data right now) but I was wondering how it plays out with the rest, in particular vs. Twitter. Thanks again for any help :)
I'm curious as to what Google's history of active patent litigation has been. A lot has been said about them wanting to hold patents for defensive purposes and I wonder how that holds up against their legal history as I have no idea myself.
I agree with this. I stopped posting for that very reason. I wouldn't post here if it was a requirement.
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Isn't the primary reason the US is rich due to being located far from the battlefields in WW1&2, and after each of these wars an influx of immigration out of Europe into the newly stimulated American industrial economy? We've essentially been riding the demographic wave up the hill since, and yet few in govt/media seem to really take this into account when planning for long-term spending and economic projections. Something has to give eventually, the question is when this long-run day of reckoning will finally come- although to quote Keynes (IMO the only thing he's been proven right about thus far), in the long run, we're all dead.
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That has to come in parallel with a bunch of lower-skill job programs centered around prisons with the highest non-violent drug-related offense inmates about to be released. The current system makes the unemployment issue seem a bit less, but it also lets the corporations who contract out prisoners for work make a killing. It's a modern form of slavery. Though as others have noted, while this is an important issue, solving it wouldn't give us the greatest bang-for-buck so to speak. If we can solve it concurrently with other problems, all the better, but there are sadly bigger issues...
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I agree that we don't, and maybe never will have a reformed patent system due to the massive influence lobbyists have over our politicians. In fact, this is probably the core reason for almost every problem we have in public policy today.

I'd like to see more people talking about wanting reform of our political system and the influence money has on our politicians rather than have people wasting energy talking about the symptoms of the problem.

But alas, who will watch the watchmen?
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So, I found my twitter account password has been hacked. The password wasn't very strong because I don't really care much for twitter. It's the same password I've been using for all my accounts I don't have an investment in -- regardless, the same combination of letters and numbers on all these accounts has served me for about 8 years.
I don't think the account was 'brute forced' as they say, I think I know how they got it though and why they want it so badly.

How:
The last month or so, I've been using these 'Login to comment' with your xxx (google/FB/Twitter etc...) account on various sites that run an article and have a comments section at the bottom. I must admit, I'm starting to pay less attention to exactly what these sites are when I select to comment with my twitter account. I know it's just easy and after you do it once, other times just seem to be the click of a button.
As the twitter email I got confirmed, it seems to be a 3rd party app which had access to my info. The only apps I have allowed, were the ones needed to accept comment registration. Go figure.

Why:
I've heard about these companies selling twitter followers to politicians or to companies needing on line promotion. I've heard of investigations where up to 92% of a boastful politician's followers have been bought. Fcuk everything about that.

Well I'm off to change my password thanks to a handy detection from twitter. I've already confirmed the old one is no good by logging in to twitter independently. Maybe I can pin down who was responsible by seeing if I'm following anyone I wouldn't normally.

I hope this post was somewhat interesting. Thanks for listening.
If a business in the US plays music, even if it's just a cafe or a hair salon, even if it's just a public radio station, yes they have to pay a license fee.

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That's been important, but it's not the only factor. Yes, intactness of American industry after WWI&II was key. It certainly gave the US a big leg up in post-war industry and rebuilding. Imigration was a huge driver of the economy when it came primarily from Europe, and professionals were over-represented. Demographics can't be ignored, but neither can they tell the whole picture.

I'm not trying to insinuate that the US is rich only because it has invaded countries and overthrown governments when doing so suited its economic interests, only that that behaviour has played a large role in its success. As such, the commonly-held libertarian view that an end to military adventurism will be a boon for the US economy strikes me as naive. I still think it's the right thing to do, but I don't argue for it on economic grounds.
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They were stronger. Much stronger. They collapsed for varied reasons, but suffice to say if the British Empire was as big today as it was in its heyday, it would be a larger economy than the US.

Also, no need to say "in conclusion" when the sum total of your argument is a single sentence.
Domain name is a bit too edgy, it is quite easily misread as "transparent tit solutions". This certainly needs fixing, because this unintentional innuendo set a completely wrong tone for anyone clicking the link.

Site-wise - two things.

1. Where is your portfolio? You can explain how great you are all you want, but it's all just empty words if I cannot see what you have done in the past and if it lives up to my own standards.

2. Every page is a "wall of text", i.e. long lines, plenty of text = visually boring and requires an effort to stop clicking and start reading. You will loose quite a few visitors over this. And since you have no examples of your work, your site is your portfolio and looks fairly bleak.
Agree here; it's very painful to find people with an entrepreneur mindset in Spain. Even if you find someone who says he/she is an entrepreneur, usually they are very far removed from it compared to other countries; very little to no risk taking, always that hang to stability in income and living situation. Comfort over anything else.

On the other hand, this does open opportunities; Spain has one of the highest unemployment % of the world because of this; people want stable jobs and they want them provided on a silver platter, but there really is not too little work. If you open a company, on your own or with other people (foreigners included), there is tons of work for people who want to work. And then this unwillingness to take (even very small) risks, is a competitive advantage.
The US demographic wave hasn't stopped; that's why, from at least a European long-term investor perspective, the US is still a good bet compared to countries that have already peaked: Italy, Japan etc.

There are many paths to wealth. Germany is rich because of - in part - the almost total rebuilding of a ruined nation and the creation of a pretty effective post-war consensus in West Germany. In fact, I'd argue that an important part of the US's success were also an effective post-war consensus (different, but also hugely effective).
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Wait what, after recent articles talking about AppSumo spam, we're getting this in a HN thread now?
Actually, they can. Android browsers register to handle such requests. That's how users can switch between default browsers. Additionally, that's how the YouTube app can register to watch YouTube links. I click on a post on reddit, it links to a youtube video and it pops up and asks if I want to open it with the browser, (Dolphin, xScope) or YouTube.
They have these things called "paper bags." I bet that might be an alternative to plastic ones.

Another option (mentioned in the article) is to not ban plastic bags but have a small fee for using one. This encourages people to bring their own bags but has a solution for when they don't, or when they end up buying more than they expected.
I agree that Americans pay far more for health care than they should. I agree that Bush's medicare giveaway to industrial pharma was grossly irresponsible and that it has contributed a massive amount to the crater that currently is US fiscal policy. And I do not honestly know how people who consider themselves conservatives could support either that or the tax cuts, especially when the United States was on course to actually pay off its national debt.

Returning to the issue of social security, the statistic Fisher cites comes from Table IV.B6 of the trustees’ report, which is extremely conservative in its assumptions (assuming essentially zero productivity growth over the next 50 years) and thus - even at the worst - would require only a minor tax addition to permanently solve without reducing benefits.

I do not much like your suggestion that since the Republicans instituted tax cuts the surplus is gone and there's nothing we can do about it, but will add only that if Gore's proposal had been adopted (Republicans at the time were championing the terrible idea of dumping social security funds into the stock market while cutting top-end taxes), even the "infinite horizon" figure would be nowhere near where it currently is and it would likely be possible to reduce the payroll tax or increase benefits. And given all this, I don't know how to reconcile your claim that this is not a Republican problem with the fact you claim to be a rational fiscal conservative.
Your problem as a consumer is that someone's actively innovating 50% of the cellphone experience for free (hardware is not in Google's control)?

I am really confused how giving something for free went from being nice to "anticompetitive jerk".

Are you saying that you will reject a product because it is free?

edit : wrong punctuation used
p.s. To your earlier point, the '40 ACT details investment requirements for Money Market Funds [can't think of them now, but you are right, there are numerous statutory requirements related to the grade of security certain bodies may invest in]:

http://taft.law.uc.edu/CCL/InvCoRls/rule2a-7.html
depends, largely, on what you are worth at an established company.

If you have good experience, and you are going to work for a startup with milions in investment, expect a small fraction of a percent of the company (expect to be looked at funny when you ask for information that will allow you to figure out what percentage of the company you are getting rather than a number of shares, but that's what matters. I can have a billion shares, if I want, in a company that isn't worth anything at all.) But, expect around what you'd get as a valley engineer working for an established company; $100K+ per year base salary, depending on location and experience, of course.

Really, if you have good experience and job prospects, You probably don't want to be an employee of a startup without money. If you have good job prospects, insist on a reasonable salary /or/ become a founder. Being an employee rarely results in enough stock options to make a significantly below-market salary worth it.
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That's only because he succeeded. A lot of "visionaries" have become irrationally attached to failed ventures and drove themselves bankrupt.

It's not necessarily a good idea to get too attached to a business. The whole point of finance is calculated risk taking.
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Your link is to http: wwww.facebook.com

Count the number of "w"s you have.
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http://www.twitter.com - I get a page with the following text on it "www.weblogsinc.com"

and on Facebook.com I get 404 not found...?
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Well, just before the precipitous fall on the markets there were letters between various parties in Europe (European Commission President, European Central Bank President and the German Chancellor) which showed that they had some fundamental disagreements about what to do - vastly scale up or not - with the European sovereign bailout fund. That seems to have spooked the markets somewhat.
Actually, when your browser sends a DNS request to your ISP's DNS server, it seems to redirect you to a proprietary search page providing suggestions for an invalid request. The whole URL isn't involved, but the domain part is.
Yes, that's a very odd thing to do. More so when you have a better model -- HTTP response codes -- right in front of you!
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What makes this like Magic, specifically? That it's a CCG?

It's just one of those silly, harmless marketing things that can start someone off on the wrong foot. Magic is a CCG, sure, but it's a specific CCG, with a specific ruleset and idioms. Leaving the characteristic appearance aside, the game of Magic itself is both very accessible and of fascinating complexity, and for skilled players has at least several times the strategic depth of a more pedestrian game such as, say, chess.

Of course, it happens to also be a collectible card game.
Yeah, both twitter and facebook are down for me, oh well. Palo Alto, CA
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And this one.

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That is not an inherent part of democracy, at least not as it's practiced in any sane nation on the scale we're talking here. And we do put people through rigorous testing before they are allowed to vote on laws and budget issues — it's called an election. You might argue the test is flawed (I would agree), but it's not exactly open season. Opposition to direct democracy was one of the founding principles of the United States — at the time, it was generally accepted that the history of direct democracies had shown it to be an utter failure in actually making people free or happy. That's why we have a representative democracy.

Now, if we could vote on Congressional salaries, that might be interesting.
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I haven't used C++ since college so I don't understand why this would be an issue.
That's the title as I originally submitted it. The mods, in their infinite wisdom, changed it.

I think my title gave a better idea of what the article was about. The mods changed it to the article's own title. I do not believe my title was editorializing, I believe it was providing useful information.

<shrug> The mods know best. Well, they have the power, anyway.

Personally, I'm disappointed. I put some time into finding a title that I thought didn't editorialize, but did give better insight into what the article is about, helping people make a decision whether to click on it or not.

It's different when you've already got the article in front of you - no further clicks required.