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We only invest for clients in the net worth range of $100k+.

Just go back and read the entire first sentence that you continue to quote: "Revenue is also cash - before expenses [they are collecting this amount]. I'm not suggesting that Groupon's 'operations activities' aren't responsible for pulling/keeping them in the red."

... clearly not a Merriam-Webster quote - rather my own; to describe a simple concept: Groupon makes money (see definitions: USD; cash) - potentially, these resources could be spent more efficiently.

In regards to Mark-to-Market Accounting, an simple example could be for when a journal entry is made in/debit to 'Accounts Receivable' - you're right, this has not effect on the cash balance.

So your point is valid, but contradictory. Because amounts under ‘Accounts Receivables’ are not considered revenues – assets (maybe, but still not exactly) - but certainly they cannot be called revenues. As receivables are earned, they are transferred to 'Cash,' under assets and now it’s both a revenue and cash.

Also, companies rarely sit on receivables. Instead, they factor them (or borrow against them) and "Voilà!"... cash!

The majority of business owners believe they can invest these amounts and make a higher return than they are being charged in interest.

That all being said, I think your point there isn't very strong.
Anecdotal: I remember seeing this from KLM a little while ago. They take customer service (not necessarily even support) to an extreme by committing random acts of kindness for passengers waiting in terminals: http://surprise.klm.com/
These exist:

http://rss.travelocity.com/
http://www.orbitz.com/App/ViewRSSHelpPage
Done better here: http://lexadecimal.com/
Technically brilliant and completely ridiculous, this really is in the spirit of old-school hacking.

My favourite bit was the author describing how the none of the lights have their brightness value set above 0xCC by the manufacturer, and while the lights accept brightness values up to 0xFF:

"I don't recommend it unless you really know what you are doing. It was probably set to this for a reason"
(as if any of this should be attempted unless you really know what you are doing!).

I must confess I had never thought of controlling my christmas lights via webbrowser either. Fun stuff :)
So in a gay or lesbian marriage, which partner should voluntarily subordinate themselves to the other?

Which I guess is my way of saying that any particular marriage happens between two individuals with their own strengths, weakenesses, and interests, not between two archtypes or statistical distributions. A successful marriage is only possible between two happy partners, and if a person will be unhappy without pursuing their other life goals along with their marriage, giving those life goals up for the sake of the marriage is still a losing strategy.

Personally, I think overgeneralization from the statistical majority is one of the signal problems of trying to talk about gender rules and guidelines -- though, admittedly, the opposite problem is nearly as common, which is refusing to acknowledge that there are such things as common tendencies and statistical majorities.
"I could easily live without the day-glo rampage of add-ons whenever I try to register a new domain, but I've gotten used to it."

That is the worst part from my perspective. I use namecheap and it is very simple and fast to manage my domains using the namecheap interface. Godaddy seems to bury your domain management under a bunch of add-on services. I really dread helping out anyone on godaddy because I have to wade through all kinds of crap before I get to the screens I want.

Another nice touch by namecheap is that it takes 1 click to setup your DNS for google email services. I feel like godaddy makes MX configuration difficult just so some people will give up and pay for email through them.
That only matters if you plan to still be CEO at that point.
You are voted down by the idiots who will wonder why they're broke one day (or not wonder cuz these smart alecs think they have it figured out). Like the post office their logic is flawed and one day when the RETIREMent they expected doesn't happen they'll whine and bitch.

Guess what. No retirement! Its a frigging ponzzi scheme! The fact that that isn't foremost on peoples mind as well as other corruptions is proof they're idiots!
I believe the larger adult businesses will in fact use it, if just for the branding, and to make a case for their legitimacy by having their site on an easily filtered TLD.
Not really, since nothing is guaranteed to be on .xxx. If there was a requirement that people be forced onto .xxx you'd be correct, but people are going to be doing deep inspection anyway if they actually care about blocking content.
I am genuinely curious how this is better than what is currently in place; could someone explain?
Not quite: businesses (or corp's) are effectively made of groups of people.
These particular groups seem to want to act more psychopathically / self-interested than an individual might -- think mobs or riots.
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Ask HN: What exactly are the implication of kernel.org hacking?
many people like me depend on kernel.org to download android kernel and linux-rt patches etc.

I can see that http://android.git.pub4.kernel.org/repo is not working and I am also unable to download various other patches from kernel.org.

Can someone confirm if this is due to hacking incident ?
I would assume that's because using a .ly domain for pornography is a violation of the terms and conditions, and Libyan law.
Great post from my coworker Ryan on why what we're doing at Xobni is interesting.
You were voted out. Like me for other comments above. These are idiots who dont have substantive arguments. When they lose their jobs. Retirement. Etc. Serves em well.
Setting aside the fact that you're trolling...

The correct way to do something like this would be to use a whitelist TLD, e.g., .kids. Such would avoid questions of censorship, and of which content requires being legally shoved into the .xxx ghetto, and makes it real clear that if you put porn on a .kids domain you're going to get hammered.
Haha. You beat me to it!
Was it really "giving" or did they just get an arrangement to be able to use them "defensively" against other patent suits?
It's a javascript environment that doesn't suck. Heyoooo!
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Awesome. This obvious patent crap has to go. Unless real blood is shed the government will do nothing...
I love that Jobs story.
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My first rule is use a registrar to register domains. Never host your site or DNS at the registrar.
My second rule is do not host your DNS where you host your site.
It makes it easier to switch providers without downtime.
With these rules, I use GoDaddy to register domains and never had any problems. For DNS, DNS Made Easy is cheap and reliable.
> We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights. The work we do -- the value we create -- is for the rest of what we want: the stuff that makes life fun, meaningful, and purposeful.

This is a nice thought but it seems impossible to move forward until food and shelter are givens for everyone world wide - not just givens for those in the USA.
Well Git is simply great. It's fast, it's powerful, there's a very helpful community, it's integrated everywhere, there are well made and useful online repository (Yes Github, but others too), the list goes on and on. Yes, there are bazaar, mercurial and probably dozen of others, but there's also git.

I'm not sure I get your point. I think what you don't like is that they chose to jump on git without real reason instead of carefully comparing other alternatives. It might be true.. or it might not. All great programmers try various version control.. if the majority of them prefered Git for their personal projects, why not switch to it? And, for open source project, Github is really just too useful.
Interesting report, very interesting.

I'll be looking at it more closely tomorrow (it's gone midnight here) but I will certainly be passing this on to some friends and colleagues.

An interesting and useful service. I'll be saying more in my email reply tomorrow, but I wanted to give you a prompt positive and public response.

Thank you.
I really wanted to use these exact lights for a giant display in some friends' Burning Man camp this year but the G-35's are pretty much impossible to find at the moment. These lights are on my wish list for Christmas :-)
Sent, thanks.
Any techniques wrt using different profiles ? Do you have to monkey with plist files
Just quietly: voilà. A viola is an instrument.
I went from 999 to 992. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut, but it was worth it. But tbh, I have nothing against PHP; it was just a joke.
> Is there anyone not simultaneously suing and getting sued over patents?

Yes. Google is getting sued lots but they are not suing anybody. I suppose selling (or giving??) a patent to HTC who then sues using it is sort of indirectly suing though.
I think what they should do is just mutually agree to make a big bonfire, burn a couple billion in cash each, and then get back to business as usual.
Even though amazon.com is all on EC2 and capacity is demand driven, someone is still buying servers and has some capacity overhead, right? They've just shifted the spend from the amazon.com business unit to the AWS business unit (assuming that's how it's set up)?
Fancy adding something like "Founder of Project Gutenberg" to the title here? Just think it'd catch on better, and he's definitely a guy worth remembering :-)

Update: Eh, that'll do ;-)
Google is losing future revenue from Android. Amazon is forking it, basically eliminating Googles services, including the App store, and replacing the services with their own. I'm sure Google sees the writing on the wall. Android will further fragment, much worse than the fragmentation thus far.

Baidu is forking Android which means Google is basically out of the worlds biggest cell phone market. Not too mention that their reputation in China was so tarnished that we wouldn't assume Google to grab market share. Apple seems primed to compete in China with the iPhone against Baidus Android fork. But there seems to be no doubt that Googles out.

It's appears to be in Googles interest to create their own cell phone with closed source additions on top of Android, leaving the other major handset manufacturers without the code. But to also provide handset manufacturers with a version of Android that is second tier, but that provides revenue through the Google app store and services.
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Life is a journey. Pursuit of a dream and failing is almost like winning.

Sometimes, I think Jesus had the best life and the Father was loving. Being right and arguing is fun. Jesus was a rebel againsts the pharasees.

God says...
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All that after one downvote? It could've been an accident by someone intending to hit the tiny up arrow on their mobile device.
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Not sure if this applies to all Intel Macs, but once the EFI firmware password is set, only Apple can break it by calling support or going to an Apple Store.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2391

I've lost laptops before, and always called Apple to make a note of the serial number. What I'm not sure of is whether or not Apple would hold the laptop if it was flagged, or return it back.

I'm second guessing my decision to FileVault the entire disc on the MBA, because I think this prevents automated login. The honeypot account makes a ton of sense.
Since the MPAA got rid of the X rating, I'm glad we have this. Now the phrase "Triple X" won't become obsolete.
Agreed. This is actually one of those ideas I've had in the past, but came up with something so over complicated (turing complete :) ) it was never going to work for normal people.

I'm impressed with how simple this product seems to be, and hope they can contain any feature creep.
The sea parted for me when I caught Scott Chacon explaining git.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_OlomyKQQ

It really is better in so many ways and once you understand how it works, you may say, like me, "Ahh, YES!"

And, yeah, he warns you about rebase.
I set up a rule a while back to let me know when the temp dips below 60 degrees, and I've been shocked at how useful that is. Can't wait to continue using the service more.

It's one of those things where you don't really know how useful it is until you see / hear of some examples and start using it yourself.
Does it really matter? There are people on the Internet. People disagree with each other. Someone disagreed with you. Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun. Who knows? Who cares?

Because you got a downvote, you make a statement that HN is going to hell. Honestly, I do not know how much more of an overreaction you could have crafted here.
This is such a superficial comment, so obviously something anyone could say without even reading the article (which I know you did) that I'm compelled to ask you to defend it.

Is it really the case that TechCrunch is so obviously a good thing for startups that the only reason Fortune could be criticizing it is out of professional rivalry?

I found the article compelling and, within the confines of the format of a mainstream media "blog", not at all superficial.
Very much agree its a social thing. "The West" looks down on people that don't work does they feel bad and usless. All these people that will not have to work for money anymore have more time and they should be encouraged do good things. Take care of your parents, look after there children, study a new field, go out and talk to people about politics ....
I assume you already know this, i.e. the above was sarcasm, but: No, it can't. But since remote access to Git most commonly happens over SSH, ACLs can be implemented by additional tools which serve as the login shell and filter the git commands the client wants to run. The best such tool right now is gitolite, building on concepts established by gitosis. The GitHub-like open source web repo manager Gitorious also implements an ACL system that way.
That may be overstating things. The incomprehensible tangle is really just an annoyance. Look at it with "git log --no-merges" and it looks exactly like the tangle you'd get with CVS or subversion: lots of independent unsequenced changes by different developers.

Git by default shows this stuff, which in the kernel's use case is useful data. But in this case it's just useless chaff, and an annoyance. But hardly a serious problem.
1. HN vote arrows are close together.

2. Once you vote, you cannot unvote.

3. Many read HN on touch devices that make it easy to miss a target.

Result: expect at least a down vote or two by accident from people who wanted to up vote.
They spend a lot of time advocating public good solutions I consider unworkable due to free rider problems. I'm cynical enough to be pleasantly surprised when a libertarian demonstrates they aren't hoping to become a free rider.
Anyone have a brief description of the patents that are being thrown around here. It would be nice to see how "legit" they are.

It might make an interesting little website. PatentShootout.com
(take it and run with it)
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I thought only Oracle was suing Google Is someone else suing Google?
I made the executive decision to leave our comfy world of Versions because it seemed clear that Git was winning the Internet.

I ADORE git and can't imagine NOT using it now that I've switched, but the little sentence above packs a whole lotta lame in it.

Executive decision? Gross. There are good reasons for them, but not many. If you can't win your team over you probably don't have a good argument for the change... which brings me to the next problem I have with that sentence: winning the Internet? That's a great reason to look into something. Not a great reason to switch your team to it.

Also, no. It's not simpler. It's pretty much just as complicated as You think it is. It's actually kind of a big pain in the ass to start using git.. but boy is it worth it.
You've taken a quote from the article out of context and skewed its meaning.

That quote follows a graf in which it's asserted that TechCrunch directly reaches out to startups with news and harasses them for not providing TC with the scoops. For a variety of reasons I find this accusation --- the implication being that you can be punished for not playing quid-pro-quo with TC --- highly credible.

You cannot say the same thing about Reddit or Hacker News.

I would also note that Hacker News is rigged in favor of YC companies, in ways subtle and not. We don't mind, because whatever the sub- and super- rosa things being done to promote YC companies on HN, HN is up front about its bias; it's right there in the name.
... so the only thing TC truly helps with is the only thing early stage startups really --- if you put it to them --- actually care about: their runway. Got it. They're not at all in a position of abusable power.
> The critics say this time is different, this time there will be no new jobs, and we should urge people to find something other to do than working. The critics are wrong. Don't worry people. Employment is here to stay.

I mean this is hand-waving as well. You havent actually provided any substantive counter-argument other than bring up the Luddites.

I think the basic argument that at some point, possibly already past, the productive activity required for basic human survival will be virtually entirely automated and require 0 human labor input. How do we allocate productive output in a society that requires no labor input? The notion of the "job" as described in the article may very well be obsolete.
Do we seriously need a blog post on "why" she was fired? I think this is blindingly obvious... Yahoo is now a shell of the company it used to be.
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This is a cool service - maybe I need to RTFM or the comments, but is there an API by which we can add / modify / delete tasks? Is there a way that third parties can use / embed this in their own apps?
I dont think you have to express the relativity in importance - it does not come across as classy.
There is already a github mirror:

https://github.com/php/php-src
There are debugging, profiling and coverage tools though they're maybe not as well-developed as you'd like.

If you have any node questions, you should drop by the #node.js channel on freenode! It's a good place to get help and chat about asynchronous IO with (generally) friendly people.
My point is rather simple:
Everybody is jumping in the git/github bandwagen but the huge majority doesn't appear to be able to state practical advantage of git besides github popularity.
That is my point.

Not saying that there are no advantages, but heck, changing to something else because "it should be good, everyone else is doing it" is plain stupid... and very silly.
And those are attributes we wouldn't want to welcome to the hackers' community.
Out of curiosity If the results were good why did you stop using them ?

I'm currently running my first extended ad campaign on Reddit, I've used it in bursts before, but now I'm gathering data to see if it's still effective over a longer time period.

My current platforms for advertising are: Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, PlentyOfFish, Reddit and Bing. They all have advantages and disadvantages.
There is no extra window to manage. (I’m using Safari which already has a similar download window and it’s absolutely awesome for me. I hate managing windows.) The new UI also gives a better and clearer indication about running downloads, though attaching the download window to the main window is not really necessary for that change. (You previously had to have the respective window open and also visible.)
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Having done support for my own startup, and now that I'm working at a startup where support is make for break for us, I totally agree with the pov of this post. But, ironically, I don't see any clear indication that GitHub sticks to this culture.

Every ticket or question I've sent in to GitHub support has been met with hostility. I submitted my third such ticket just this last week, a follow-up to an issue I had a day or two ago, and got a rather gruff response from Tekkub about how he had "already addressed this in the last ticket." His response might've made more sense if I had received the response prior to sending out the 2nd response, but my intent was simply to update with more info.

In general, I'm a fanatic zealot about GitHub. I think you guys have put together one hell of a product. It's like developer crack. Seriously, you guys even got Torvalds hooked now it seems. However, I've never gotten anything but attitude from the GitHub support line.
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You can flatten the demand easily with EC2 by having the cost vary dynamically based on overall load. So (using his example) during the end of November Amazon themselves would want more servers and so the cost could go up slightly. A drug company doing discovery might decide then not to run their computations and to wait until the price drops back down. Likewise with someone cracking passwords, or mining bitcoins.
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King Abdullah's is not a donation or an endowment. It's a drop in the bucket; the royal family giving to the people less than a fraction of one percent of what they looted from the country, and its wealth.
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I believe the current problem is that Mozilla has removed status bar so there's no way to know if a file is downloading without a separate window being constantly open. The way to open up download window is not very accessible either, especially on Windows where menu bar is hidden. (OK, you can still access it from the access button on the top left, but still...)

I'm not sure how Mozilla will handle the file saving dialog, but with the current UI, there are two window popups in order to download something: the file saving dialog and the download window itself (which user may choose to open or close it, but require to do so every single time he downloads something). That means before they hide the status bar, you have three UI pieces just for managing a download, with two being intrusive.

The new approach will reduce that intrusiveness interaction to minimum, will have an indicator on active window as long as something is active in the download list and will put everything in a single place rather than all over the UI.
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Converting money to an asset isn't a great boon to the economy, and assets are vulnerable to depreciation.

The North American drumbeat urging the sacrifice of security for "the economy" is interesting... reminds me of communism's drive to sacrifice for "the collective".
Right now it just covers a single 'if this then that' statement, but expanding from there is definitely a direction we could take. However, we'd like to be really cautious about getting to close to traditional programming as things could quickly become unaccessible to the wider audience. We talk a lot about pushing complexity out to the channels themselves. For instance if "its going to rain tomorrow AND tomorrow is a weekday" might be easier to understand if its encapsulated in a single, complex trigger.
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