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They threatened to go after his family (make trouble WRT to immigration). A whole bunch of very strong and savvy people have folded when the authorities (or apparently those posing as such in this case) do that, e.g. Michael Milken of junk bond fame.

How strong would you be in insisting on your rights when that might ruin the live of a loved one?
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Well, I thought the same thing, and was sadly disappointed.

Not directly in the Fortune 500, I mean - my assumption was that the post would include some bogus jokey calculation that, once turned into $, suggested that they were worth some unimaginable amount...
It's resolved now. Thanks for posting the cached links guys.
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Agreed, especially as Xcode 4 does a pretty outstanding job of ruining my multi-monitor setup.

The problem with any set of panes is that they almost always lack features X, Y and Z that you miss from a window manager. That's what the window manager is for, and it frustrates me that applications feel the need to implement this again and again (each in their own way, to boot).

It is time for a modern GUI to provide support for chromeless panes as first-class windows, so that you can move any pane anywhere, attached to any number of other things from any application, with any size in any arrangement (tabbed, split-pane, whatever).
No it wasn’t. The iPad is the wrong tool for creating that stuff. But it is awesome for consumption.

Argh. This is sooooo frustrating. Why does everyone believe that it’s either the iPad or nothing? That just doesn’t make any sense at all. I don’t get it.
Both TechCrunch and VC can be pretty important to startups, and this story is about both.
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This speaks to nothing of how they got featured in the app store, but of a "vague email" they received from Apple. Don't get me wrong, its great for them and I think their app has a great design, but the title is misleading.

And the correct title should be: Forkly is featured in the App Store. It’s been a tasty first week!
Indeed, Incanter is a famous project and for a while was one of the best showcases for Clojure.

What it does is it implements some of the functionality of R in Clojure. What I am talking about is instead compiling R to Clojure (or Java runtime; there are portions of R projects implemented in C which may not map to Clojure efficiently). This way, the R community does not lose the extensive library of projects it has been producing for years.
A few weeks ago I had an article dead'ed after getting 10 upvotes. And now all my submissions are marked dead seemingly permanently. So what am I todo except stop contributing to HN
It was cheap by comparison. Now it appears to be orders of magnitude more expensive. I base this on the fact that their billing estimator is claiming that 1 cpu-hour on the old system equates to 100 instances-hours on the new system. Its not the $0.04/hour cost that worries me - that is a competitive number - its that their instances only appear to be able to do the work of a 80286.
I have some personal experience in this matter. My prior account(haploid) was silent-banned for, presumably, daring to question the orthodoxy that parenting is the best accomplishment one can achieve in life.

I don't know if this meets your criterion of "clearly [in]appropriate", but I would hope that expressing an unpopular opinion would not.
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Actually no. I'm saying that they seem to have learned what their costs are and have priced their service based on those costs and what ever economic model they use. Given their pricing it suggested that "transactions" (which is to say a query from the web and its response) are either a good scalar for their cost to deliver, or are one of their scarcer resources.

It is entirely possible that they discover they can't make a business out of selling 'engines' like this, it wouldn't be the first time they decided they were leaving too much money on the table.

They chose "c" - scale the price so that AppEngine is revenue positive for the company using these constants for the various moving parts.

Clearly some customers will find that it no longer makes sense for them to use AppEngine. It doesn't say anything about whether the market reach will be sufficient to sustain that business.
I feel your pain, but that said:

From what else I've read, it sounds like engineers who didn't also wear green eye-shades (or good enough ones, or who didn't possesses or use good enough crystal balls) set up this debacle. And it was people wearing green eye-shades (who we can sincerely hope are also engineers) who aligned it with reality. Causing way too many people way too much pain.

Object lesson: if you're going to sell a service for cash money to others, paying close attention to your costs from the very beginning is not optional.
eBay, used computers can be just as good as new.
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AOL = TechCrunch and AOL = CrunchFund (as it is AOL's capital seeding the fund)

So even if the fund had a different name, and Arrington doesn't work for AOL directly, there is still a conflict of interest. As Paul Carr said in his article, are TC journalists likely to write a really negative piece on a CrunchFund company knowing that Tim Armstrong ultimately runs both?

Would the Wall Street Journal or the New Times start an investment fund and invest in the exact companies they are reporting on? IMHO they would not, as they realise their core business's need for independence.

If AOL want to follow through on their strategy "AOL is planning on being the largest high quality content producer for digital media." they need to realise that they are a media business and so need to follow the same rules basic rules for good journalism as every one else in their industry.

IMHO this is a very poor decision by Armstrong. For another glamorous dabble in the VC world where he will probably make about 10% ($2M) per annum, he could be betting the entire AOL business.

Not much upside and a whooooole lotta downside = bad trade.
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I'm very interested to hear the details of "free Prime". Depending on the implementation then this might suddenly become a thing I will buy because it makes financial sense, regardless of its technical merit.
Apps, optimized websites, content-sharing networks like Instagram, etc.

Basically, the flip side of the increased consumption is that it's a lot easier to get your work out to other people, which means people who previously couldn't or wouldn't are now becoming producers. For example, a lot more people are publishing books for e-readers because those platforms make it so easy — with Amazon, it's pretty much as simple as logging into your Amazon account and uploading a text file. Web series (e.g. "The Guild") are a viable medium because so many people have these easy-consumption devices.
I'm skeptical of the 30k profit/month title. I think it's just linkbait to promote their game. If you look at their app ranking history (registration needed):

http://www.appannie.com/copterkid/ranking/history/#start_dat...

they are nowhere to be found in the overall rankings, and even their rankings in the games category tops out at 700ish. Plus, they only sell the game for 99c. I've had apps that sell for 2.99 that are in the top 200 overall paid list on iphone, and I've never come close to 30K/month for a single app.

My most recent sales data (for an app that has gone as high as #97 on the iPhone top paid list) indicates that the #200 top paid app on iphone gets about 300 sales per day. If you factor in Apple's 30% thats about $210/day. So even if their app was in the top 200 (which they were never even close to), it would only generate $6300/mo in revenue at 99c.

It just doesn't add up. Unless the 30K/month is talking about a completely different app?
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I would think it would be to make sure to control the actual physical distances. You are more concerned that two buttons are 10mm apart then 10px apart. If they become too close physically, then the higher the chance to miss click or other difficulties.
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I definetely recommend viper mode. You'll have to install vimpulse also to make it really functional, but once you do that you should feel right at home. Just remember that ctrl-z toggles/untoggles it! So if you ever get into a non viper mode state, control+z should bring you back.

Personally I use it for all the modal editing goodness but I also rely on some emacs features as well such as ctrl-x ctrl-f for opening files, etc.
This is why HN is great. I've never seen this before! All that, and back when computers has less power than our mobile phones.
The lack of WebSocket support is a bit discouraging. We tried out nodester for a while as well but ended up rolling our own. no.de appears to be the new hotness on that front.
This is one of the funnier HN comments I have seen in a long time.

Gave me a solid 5 minute chuckle.
There's a big difference between investors and a support network.

Very few (any?!) investors are really going to help you with the grunt work of making the business successful.

Never assume that a good investor is a good operations person or a good marketer or a good visionary.

I love working solo. Less distractions. Less wasted time. The only person I have to argue with is myself.

That is not to say I don't have help; I just use strategic help for specific purposes.

I found a bad-ass marketing guy that helps me develop my marketing strategy. I use him when I need him. No equity or long-term commitment.

Same for infrastructure issues and sales strategies.

I have people that hold me accountable to keep me laser-focused.

To answer your specific question about professional investors helping your chances of success, it depends on your definition of success.

If you're trying to build a lifestyle business (highly recommend), then investors will explicitly block your success.

If you're trying to build a high-growth, 3-5 year exit business, then investors might be able to help.

I would still stay away from early-stage investment though. Use professional investment for the growth stage; this is the place where their experience will be directly relevant to your objective (fast, hard growth).
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Being able to tell the computer basic things about your program definitely makes the language MORE expressive, not less.

I don't disagree that letting people express themselves isn't always very useful...
Boomerang for Gmail is a really nice product - I recommend trying it if you haven't yet.

It give you a "Send Later" option in email, which helps if you want to write a reply but don't want it to go out yet - for instance, if you want to say "The blog post is live now," but the post won't be live for another three hours.

It's pretty cool. You wouldn't even realize how useful it is until you try it. Check it out.

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Fortune 500 tools suck. They are purchased by the bosses to be used by the employees. Even worse, they are often poorly developed in-house as opposed to buying the leading product on the market(wtf?). It shouldn't be a surprise then that 1/3 of these employees then use illegal sofware- not to be rebels, but because they actually want to do good work.
Why does the face remind me of Tron? I swear either I played a video game with that face or saw a movie...
It's interesting how much they want to include Openstack at the moment. On one hand side it is trivial to add the Openstack PPAs and install the new version yourself. On the other current upstream versions are quite far from being usable in a real environment and major redesigns are planned...

Why are they pushing for inclusion out of the box so hard?
Shutting down unsuccessful [enough] products is a great way to demote non-performing managers and move developers to more successful teams.
But there aren't very many people like Steve Jobs or corporate situations that allow such a person to exercise such control (no such result would come out of a committee) so this observation is of limited utility ... until you can arrange/figure out business models where you can do that sort of thing.

For a company like Google, throwing a lot of things at the wall and seeing what sticks is not the worst approach in the world, assuming they don't upset too many people in transitions (see discussions on the App Engine).
In case anyone is wondering about the shell script for Ubuntu install it checks for maverick or natty and then installs like so:

apt-add-repository ppa:developmentseed/mapbox
apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
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I might try to do a startup at some point where people email each other through tweets. I think it would open new possibilities for companies.
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I don't see how this post answers the "how" at all. From what I'm reading it just seems like pure luck that they got featured by apple. Am I missing something?
The theorem itself is fairly trivial, the article's goal is helping to build intuitions guided by the theorem. That's why it is so long.
Gizmodo really repaid Steve for his kind words with the stolen iPhone 4 saga.
Your site tells me absolutely nothing about the product without requiring me to sign up.

Consequently, I did not sign up.
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It is illegal for US players to do real money gambling. But the world is big and the there are other markets. As long as the US players are prevented from playing the US doesn't care that it happens elsewhere.
To have 'years of testing', first you have to start somewhere (days, then weeks, then months), no?
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Venuetastic is doing great stuff and their founders are the best! Work for them!
Also, one thing rabble didn't mention is that Betable handles all gambling aspects of the code and financials, so US developers can legally integrate with Betable, and we just make sure that their player is not permitted to gamble if the player reside in the US (in which case, they could be taken to a virtual goods equivalent or some other flow).
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Scoble: Oh, Bradley. Why Google+ is elitist.
My app "TextPics" was featured about a year back - same deal. Vague contact from Apple requesting artwork, which we also followed to the letter. The difference for me was that it took about two months before this happened, and as stated on Apples AppStore guidelines I had a (fairly) strong AppStore presence, consistent updates, a quality design following their vaunted HIG, and most of all a unique interesting app (this was the first ASCII art texting app, before the cursed Chinese clones arrived, stealing and reselling all my content).

Bottom line is basically to have a unique high quality app and you might get noticed by the AppStore team. There was no silly technique or magic bullet.

I'll say this though... That two weeks in the Top 10 were insane. Spend a week at #3 and you won't need any more of these VC posts. I guess that was my taste of what the Angry Birds guy enjoys every single day.
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We're all social online. Many of us use many different mediums to share our thoughts, opinions, and news with a following of people we call our friends. Why do we do this? Is there an incentive to the sharing of information? Currently, people are socially active because they feel as if it's a rewarding experience, metaphorically of course. We are all social online to connect with others. What if there were incentives to being social, and those incentives actually initiated real life experiences with our true friends in a real world?
Agreed... You need a video, a tour, or a how it works section. I'm not signing myself up for anything without a clue of what it does or how it works.
So far, I don't see anyone suggesting an IMAP-based solution. Good! Because that's what we interviewed at the last YC for. What's cool about that is then you can use any client, browser, email provider, whatever.

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And you would be wrong if it weren't for your parenthetical hedge. Using Betable, it's completely legal for any developer to offer real money gambling in their games to any players who are not in the US and a few other minor jurisdictions (in terms of market size).

It's a big world out there. In fact, the market out side of the US is huge. Even Zynga has more players outside of the US than inside of the US (60% Ex-US). The opportunity to go into the Ex-US market where one can make 300X more ARPU/month than in the US is massive.
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Oh god I'd love to see Jon Stewart in the Senate. Stewart for Senate 2012!
It's not fair, sorry. ;)
I met plenty of designers that can't code, and they are doing great working in pair with developers. :)
The problem is how does one get from 31 cpu-hours to 879 instance-hours.

You might be thinking that in the original measure they did something insane like measure only user time of a process, or only when its executing a request, not booting or whatever (or fuck, I don't know because honestly there is no reasonable explanation). That is to say, that the 31 cpu-hours is a misread, and if the fellow in the article ran his code on EC2, he really would need 879 EC2 instances that day.

But this is not my experience. An extreme example: my app that served 14 pages was rated as taking 0.02 cpuhours, or 720 cpu seconds. This is entirely reasonable, if not excessive (because looking at the app it only took about 200 seconds including warmups). Under the new system, it is claimed that these 14 pages will require 2.8 instance hours.

0.02 => 2.8
31 => 879

So when the author of the article is told his app is going to take 879 instances hours per day, there is something seriously fucked up and wrong. It doesn't mean that the guy is running a realtime raytracing server. It means that GAE is horribly, amazingly, inefficient.

The app in the article serves 1.5gb/day and takes 879 instance-hours. What server would you need to do that on EC2: 1mb/s? The hourly cost on GAE is $1.46. Can I do that on a $0.085 EC2 instance? Yeah, I think so.

EDIT: My figures were wrong as I was comparing a $16 (wrong) figure to a $0.8 EC2 figure. The actual figure is $1.46, not $16. So I looked at the bandwidth/cpu numbers to see if a $0.8 EC2 instance is what is required, and I don't believe that it is. I think a $0.085 instance would be enough. YMMV.
I got this on my first draw. I was looking at things growing rapidly from 2009 on. What are the odds? http://i.imgur.com/yYL1D.png
People are different. What takes you a month could take years to others. Don't assume that we have equal skills and talent. If you can learn how to write markup in a month... great! Good for you. :)

Other designers, are still doing great, without knowing how to code. ;)
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Google Docs has a competing product to almost every MS Office component. OneNote is a staple to the MS Office family. I'd really like to know why Google deprecated Notebook. It was a great product.
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Apple has had a large number of not amazing products too. Admitting defeat is a good way to make sure your company isn't overrun with them. I think this is a good move from Google.
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That's an interesting take.

I guess the way it looks to me is that the last dramatic production advancement for lay people was the advent of blogging. The two major advancements after that have been social networking and tablets, which both somewhat degrade production signal.

The observation that an optimized consumption experience gives producers a bigger audience is an interesting one. But I think what I'm objecting to is the further distinction between those classes. The PC and blogging revolutions were profound to me in that they closed the gap between the producers and consumers. Tablets, on the other hand, make the distinction more overt. Same with the Kindle.

You cannot have better and better consumption oriented devices in a vacuum. Someone has to produce what the masses are consuming.

While this is true, my point is about who has the means for production. I would rather see that power distributed than concentrated.
It might be just an inherent lag between optimized mass consumption, and new innovative production. Scaling the Web out to the mass market happened first, next-generation innovations like Google showed up later. It is discouraging the direction is moving toward walled gardens. But there's a plus side to getting the platform out there to millions, making it more valuable to build innovations on. I can live with it as long as it's not one company owning the whole market, or a hundred small incompatible ones.

Machines optimized for creating stuff keep getting better, and aren't going away. I don't think it's necessarily bad if those machines drop to a smaller market share. It's usually a much smaller percent of people who create the apps and content that aren't crap anyway, and most of the consumer audience goes to them. Getting optimized video production machines out to the masses via cellphones is cool, but it's not really improving the average video on YouTube.

For creative ideas at the OS and interaction levels though... yeah, the platform owners need or want to own most of it. I think they're OK with jailbreaking the platform to the extent it creates a testing ground for new ideas, that they can then adopt.
It's useful yes but the usefulness is derived from the data not people drawing lines on a screen! I don't think the drawing a line on a screen allows for much more data discovery .
Why not just add arbitrary attributes to HTML nodes (before the data- attributes were standardized)?

Is there some reason not to do that besides 'it would fail a validator test'?