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Scvngr was able to present itself as beng in the running for a certain type of unproven service that was sexy for a very limited time and Foursquare, with many years and multiple incarnations before that was and is able to corner that particular and still unproven market. Scvngr looks like it tried to leapfrog its way ahead with their pivot but I haven't heard any news from them in awhile.

The difference between the two companies, if I would sum it up for myself, is that Den and Naveen actually believe in what they are doing is for a limited amount of people to really enjoy and not a be-all for everyone scaling across every knook and cranny of the country. It really is a social service for certain type of people, mechanics and all. Scvngr, on the other hand is what? A copy cat app producer headed up some kid relying on Trevor, who while a good developer, is just another guy. No passion for what they're doing, no story, no originality, no insight, no humanity.

Foursquare for all its warts is trying to solve a problem for people and enhance their lives; Scvngr is just trying to make a buck an I don't think that's lost on anyone.
And my point was that there was more opinion than useful information or predictions on those op-ed pages.

Can you or Frum point out specific examples that might make one conclude that one op-ed page was more reliable than the other?

BTW, truth is not biased. 2 + 2 = 4 is not biased. Only people can be biased. Using throw away cliches like that doesn't get us anywhere.
He lives in Washington legally. Non-competes are generally enforceable even in California in the case of acquisitions like this. It's hard to argue that he wasn't given sufficient "consideration" which is usually the main issue for normal non-competes in employment contracts. IANAL though.
I tried searching and got a weird unrelated app. A direct link from the website would be really helpful...
They've pretty much lost the desktop search engine market. The mobile search is still petty nascent and lots of opportunities for innovation and a market leader.

So I'd get on the forefront of mobile making it the thing to focus on possibly partnering up with a hardware device developer. Fork Android OS and make customizations to it tailored for Yahoo services.

Invest in R&D for mobile search and bring something new and useful to the table that nobody else like Apple or Microsoft has to wow everyone and put them back on the map as an innovative company. ie. still lots of mobile browser inefficiencies that can be improved upon.

Lastly make everything lean and mean, and focus.
...and without asking permission. "Gee, I wonder how much faster this would be on 5000 machines instead of 2000?" clickicky-click ... "yep, quite a bit faster."
Yep, they certainly do.
Just wait - we'll find out that they went forward in time, saw the new Safari method, and went back and wrote a blog post about it.

There is nothing new under the sun. Just when you think you've nailed something, someone's already written a blog post about it.
The problem with your theory is that wages have not decreased even as unemployment has skyrocketed.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECIWAG
I can second this -- it's not an incubator or EIR at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Nothing to see here, move along.
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Oh get off the high horse and allow those of us who are enjoying this soap opera to indulge in some "abhorrently unimportant drama". You have no guilty pleasures?
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>he fails to observe London-like riots are the more likely outcome

You're suggesting that the London riots, where income distribution and control of wealth and political process is nearly as skewed as in the US, with all the attendant social ills, where civil rights are an even bigger joke than in America, is the result of social democracy run amok? Do you know what social democracy is?

I don't disagree that many people will not pursue productive work if they're free from want. In fact I suspect most won't. But I fail to see why that makes a difference.

I think the core problem is whether technology will make most people obsolete and, if that happens, what we should do with all the people. What do you do with people who really will not and can not ever contribute back to society what they take from it? We had less of a problem with letting them starve back when there really was work for everyone to do, but that might not be the case for much longer, if indeed it is now.
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Or a Gumstix, Beagle, Panda...

The thrust of this blog post appears to be that the software he has written works on even a very nerfed machine. It's about his software, not his hardware.
Hoarders are also speculators! They're betting bitcoin will go up in value.

By the way, "hoarder" is a loaded term. One man's "hoarder" is another man's "saver". Without people who save, there's no way people can borrow, and so on.
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since you so openly commented, let's followup. tell us about the (obviously private) API and any plans for availability.
speaking of arrington's contentious relationships and recent irony:

Bartz canned Tuesday. Arrington canned Wednesday.
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Wonder if they knew about GitHub Organizations?

https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations
For me it really clicked when I watched: http://blip.tv/scott-chacon/git-talk-4113729 (also by Scott Chacon).

Once you understand the internals -- I remember being amazed at what .git/objects/ really was -- nearly everything about the git ecosystem becomes measurably easier to understand.

Once you understand how your project looks in the eyes of git, it becomes a breeze to manage.
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Among the core changes is a switch from true resources-based pricing to instance-based pricing, which means that applications written to be as efficient as possible to consume minimal resources are now relatively meaningless

The author is completely clueless here.

The GAE change is that "true resources-based pricing" switched from an overabundant, almost irrelevant resource (CPU time) to the actual resource in short supply - RAM.

For web servers, it doesn't matter how much CPU time you use, it only matters how much RAM you occupy. Linode, Rackspace, and most other VPS providers* charge this way. Most server CPUs are sitting around blocked on I/O - especially ones running single-threaded synchronous web servers (I'm looking at you, Rails).

The new GAE pricing is still based on true resources - the ones that matter, not the ones that are irrelevant.

* AWS is fairly unique with a hybrid billing approach.
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Quite an amusing story.
Minecraft sure can introduce you to the importance of planning & strategy.

I recall early in my minecraft career learning painful lessons (don't dig down!) as I was exploring a large cave, fell in lava & lost my hard-earned diamond-tools, respawned & had no idea where I just was.

If it weren't for the peer pressure of being at a lan surrounded by other players, I probably would have cried too ;)
I don't know about you but I don't post my guilty pleasures on Hacker News
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Is TechCrunch still going to give priority scoops to YCombinator startups? Is YC's stock going to rise or plummet because of this? Will Arrington still have Aol investing in his new fund? Will Arrington be eager to invest in YC companies?
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Hacker News is my biggest guilty pleasure. I know what I should be doing ... but I like to feel involved in a community, so I post here. Picking up little bits of information is a bonus.
Did you read past the introduction? It's being upvoted because it's provocative, it's by Rushkoff, and there is a certain unease about the future that this piece speaks to in a hopeful tone.

It's not a protest against technological change at all. It's someone trying to alert others to possibilities that technological change might have for the human condition, if some lateral movement could be accomplished.

Technological progress, creative destruction and the business cycle are all fine and well, but the transition states (Great Depression, WWI & II, Third World Debt Crisis--take you pick) are not particularly kind to all concerned. There's no rational reason to expect the future to be any kinder, breezy appeals to conventional wisdom notwithstanding.
While I'm sympathetic to the plight of teachers (my mother was a physics teacher, FWIW), I still can't shake the fact that education spending per student is higher in the US than in most of the rest of the world : http://mercatus.org/publication/k-12-spending-student-oecd

Something doesn't add up.
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Really cool service. I signed up for Instapaper yesterday for the sole reason that they send read-it-later stuff to Kindle. So I created an ifttt to send my Pinboard bookmarks tagged "instapaper" to Instapaper. So I can now get only articles that I choose on my Kindle :) Sw33t

The only thing I'm worried about is giving away so many passwords to one service. How are these stored?
Python, Java and Go are all "open" languages and don't limit you to Appengine, and Google allows you to download your data without restriction. The only lock-in is the APIs, and even there the datastore API is the only one that isn't built on a very standard interface. Given the datastore is distributed and therefore can't expose an exact replica of the MySQL API, how could Google lock you in LESS? Oh, and lets not forget that you can run your code UNCHANGED on Appscale or Typhoon AE on any IAAS or VPS you like.

This article is right - Google needed to make Appengine pay for itself. And when you factor in how much it costs to provide a scalable service from redundant servers, Appengine is still good value. For example, most of the grumblers are muttering about migrating to AWS, but when they realise that they need at least two instances in diverse locations; or make that two instances in each location if their service might become too popular for one server to handle; and ELB to route requests to the servers; and how tricky it is to keep their data consistent on all those servers; and what a hassle a serious backup regime is; and how much time it takes to manage the whole thing... I'm picking they'll suddenly go rather quiet.

Or maybe they're happy to run their site on a single AWS instance. In which case, they should do just that - Appengine is not the right tool for them anyway.

I run several profitable apps on Appengine, and until now paid cents a month to Google. I've always known that isn't sustainable for them, and that they'd have to get serious about pricing someday. I for one am happy to pay a couple of orders of magnitude more for the certainty that my platform will persist.
As someone at a large corp who just had a 3 day battle to get a new VM with 2 gig of ram and a shared CPU I suddenly feel like crying.

I guess I have no real use for something of this magnitude, but I would still like to get my hands on a seriously large cluster just for the sake of expanding my experience.

I don't suppose anyone knows of a cost effective way of doing so? I have spun up my own Hadoop clusters before but with only 4 machines its not exactly exciting.
There's exchange risk as with any currency. If you exchange US dollars for Mexican pesos, there's a risk that the pesos will lose value relative to the dollar. Of course, the risk of keeping bitcoins is much higher than that of Mexican pesos.

By the way, you seem misinformed about the way people are mining bitcoins. Nowadays it's done mostly by professionals running rigs with tons of GPUs, not by individuals who put an extra graphic card on their gaming PCs.
I paraphrase the FBI's cordial letter of November 1964 to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Arrington, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do [it]. … You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Why would anyone want to be Yahoo's CEO?
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fr0sty was definitely not tactful, but his commands are correct. Merge always brings the branch you specify onto the commit you are currently on. The branch command either lists branches (when no other arguments, only certain options, are specified) or creates branches. Checkout is the command used to move around between commits in your repository.

Branching and merging is covered pretty well by Pro Git[1]

[1] http://progit.org/book/ch3-2.html
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Um, the 10M severance package.
You are glossing over the other point that reducing the transaction cost increases market participation and velocity in those goods which are advertised in classifieds. Craigslist is easier and cheaper than traditional classified so there are individuals at the margin who will advertiser in craigslist but would not have advertised in the newspaper due to difficulty or cost. Those marginal advertisers buy and sell goods/services which increase economic activity.
Why is there a plea bargain if he admitted to the crimes? Or maybe not all of them?
I keep seeing people talk about all the good of hg over git, but I haven't seen anything that really sets it apart.

If you were doing a sales pitch, what would you show that hg has over git? What are some specific plugins that ease your development or release process? What are some real-world advantages of the hg patch-queue over how git handles pulls?

I'm honestly curious. I just haven't seen anything to sell me on why hg is so much better than git (or even the other way around).
I think that looking at overall spending per-student as a metric for the quality of education is about the same as using lines-of-code as a metric for the quality of a developer.

Sure it's important, but it gives only a very small piece of the overall picture.
The sourcing on this article is vague ("Fortune has learned that AOL executives have decided to terminate Arrington. It is unclear how this will officially occur"). As we have learned in the past week, even when AOL sources are on more solid footing the story seems to be quite slippery.

I feel bad for other TechCrunch employees who must be feeling very uncertain about their careers right now, in an already uncertain industry.
That was a risk in the early 80s. It's pretty much an undisputed reality today.
The 40 hour work week exists because Henry Ford found through studies that productivity increased when employees worked no more than 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week. That was assembly line work in the early 20th century, and since then, I'm not aware of any other studies done about worker productivity and the amount of time worked.
I'm sorry you feel my replies were hostile, but I don't really understand why. Here's the timeline of your two emails:

September 02, 2011 @ 09:49 PM you opened the initial bug report

September 03, 2011 @ 08:06 PM you opened the second

September 03, 2011 @ 08:45 PM I responded to the first (we work from the oldest to newest). This was my reply:

> Thanks for the report. This is a known issue, we have a ticket open to get it fixed.

I continued to work through our inbox, 20 minutes later at September 03, 2011 @ 09:04 PM I hit your second ticket. That was for the same issue, with a little extra info. I replied with:

> As I noted in the other thread, this is a known issue, we have a ticket open.

I honestly don't see how these replies were hostile in any way. I thanked you for the report, I told you we had a ticket open to fix it, and then I acknowledged the second one so you'd know that we received it.

I'm open to any suggestions on how you'd have handled this differently.
This only provides repo level access control. They want ACL's to control down to the branch level.
Next time you have to use git: Remember, there are also patch-queues for git.
I had to spend several years in Middle School with Mavis Beacon and it didn't do anything for my typing abilities. When I was done with my computer classes I still couldn't hit 35 WPM.

Then I picked up computers as a hobby. With all the random typing I did as part of the hobby I quickly found myself in the 70-100 WPM range.

You don't really need a typing tutor program with its learning modules and fluff. You just need to spend time typing. I recommend printing out a color-coded image[1] of a keyboard that shows which fingers to use for which keys and just spending a little time on http://typeracer.com every day trying to stay on home row and follow the color guide.

[1] http://www.tranexp.com/win/05_Finger-placement.jpg
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What does it matter if they boosted by 10% or 2500%? If they boosted by 2500%, could it be that the previous price was really low?

What if they weren't charging any money before, and then started charging? It would be an ∞% raise. Is it bad that they offered their service for free for a while?

PS: feel free to point out what's wrong with my questions.
Perhaps the real metric should be spending per administrator.
Because smoking, overeating, and generally living an 'unhealthy' lifestyle is always the cause of terminal illness. Oh and by the way, he gets to define what is healthy and unhealthy. He would even go beyond that and say that people who smoke and overeat should, at the very least, experience pain and agony financially, and probably in a physical sense as well. What an asshole.
I'm sorry. I completely understand karma grubbing is frowned upon and I couldn't care less, especially about this post, but I really don't understand how people are downvoting this post. Feel free to downvote this one... I'm just genuinely curious what part of my post above this one is at all controversial.

Am I supposed to like women? Am I supposed to objectify women at every turn, especially in an industry where they're already highly objectified and slighted?
> It's as simple to commit projects to github as it is to sf, bitbucket, google code, etc. Wait... you need to set up ssh credentials on github... sorry, it's more difficult to commit a project to github than it is to most of the alternatives.

You can just as easily use it over HTTPS and use your github login (which is how a lot of SVN repos are setup).

SF, BitBucket, Google Code, et. all are no easier or harder than GitHub for getting access. You have to register for all of them and setup your credentials for the repo on all of them.

:)
If RAM is the one GAE charging for, then they are massively overcharging the apps. Spawning a new process off a parent process takes very little memory. Most of the memory of the child processes are shared with the parent process. That's how Python/Ruby/Perl/whatnot web apps work. They spawn a new process to handle each request because it's really cheap on CPU and RAM to do so.

The first GAE instance process on a server would take up fair amount of RAM. The next one takes very little. Yet Google charges for the second one fully.
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Who cares? Does anyone think that TC OR Arrington will become any less influential or important? If anything this is GREAT for Arrington. Lots of press about his new venture, lots of press about his legacy TC, and now he can act in an independent journalistic capacity (even with respect to his investment company) for his own purposes.

I just don't get why there are two stories every day about this on HN. (Nothing like TC drama to bring out the silent downvotes)
Each instance on GAE runs on a different physical server.
I'd rather have Google say "in order for GAE to stay alive, we've had to raise pricing on our current metrics to X", I can understand that, I can justify that, I can compare it and decide how to deal with it/optimize for it, but instead we got, "based on user popular feedback we're radically changing the way we measure usage, then charging some significant multiplier to whatever everybody is already paying so that it no longer makes sense to operate on our platform and you can't even really compare it in such a way as to make sense of the change, then we'll systematically not address anybody who asks us about this in forums or via other communications but we're going to do all this in the most frustratingly passive aggressive way possible" [1][2] Can anybody really believe that popular feedback to Google was "we're not being gouged nearly enough, Google, charge us 2000% more!"

[1]http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-app-engine-new...

"Over the last three years, we’ve collected great feedback from our customers and now believe that the biggest thing we can do to help our customers is to graduate App Engine from preview status. "

"Adding business features will help App Engine meet a broader set of needs and the new, more transparent pricing model will help customers better align their App Engine investment with their business goals."

[2]http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/05/year-ahead-for-g...

"App Engine graduating from Preview later this year!
Based on this feedback we’ve decided to make some fairly large changes:"

"In order to become an official Google product we must restructure our pricing model to obtain sustainable revenue. Based on customer feedback this means focusing on usage-based pricing and placing per-user, per-app pricing on hold until further notice."
I don't actually, just from memory from my time in MA a few years ago, suburban districts would be in the 7-10k per pupil range while urban would be more like 10-14k.
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Thanks, obviously I'm missing some concept somewhere.
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@fleaflicker - You would be in a unique position to know!

"Touchdown Called Back: Fleaflicker Founder Buys Back Fantasy Sports Site From AOL"

"Over three years ago, we reported that AOL had acquired the New Jersey-based fantasy sports site Fleaflicker. It seemed like a touchdown for 26-year-old founder Ori Schwartz. Now it's looking more like a touchdown that was just called back."

"AOL has alerted members of the service today that Schwartz has bought back Fleaflicker. As of July 22, AOL will no longer be in control of the site which has dwindled under the control of our parent company. "While we love Fleaflicker (and our users love Fleaflicker), we wanted to find a home for the product where it can receive more love and attention," is the subtle middle finger in their FAQ."

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