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Can you mention the brand of the CFLs? I switched over just about every bulb in my house 4 years ago. For most I got the 100watt ones from Costco, I honestly don't remember the exact brand name it is electralux or something like that. I've replaced one of them. We have about 20 of those conical lights in recessed fixtures, I converted those to the ones from Home Depot. I've replaced 2 of those. The only really noticable thing I've noticed is that they take time to load which I actually sort of like in the early morning, they start a little bit more dim and after about 2 minutes reach maximum brightness. The cone ones have some sort of "yellow light" filter on them so it's not surgical room bright white. There are two lamps with kind of a crappy lampshade that seem maybe un-naturally white and bright but otherwise we've been really happy. I did two outdoor lights and they're working great too, this is in Colorado and they've operated in temperatures from negative 20 to about 100, still seem to work fine after 3 years.

I've heard the horror stories about spending $150 on lightbulbs only to have crappy light and having to replace a bunch of brokens but I haven't had that experience. Not sure if it's a brand issue or dirty power or something else.
My point isn't to "shut people up". If it was, that's what I would have written.

My point is to get people out of the mindset of "if I could someone ELSE to do all of the hard work, I'd be a gazillionaire."

My approach is to tell YOU how to seize the opportunity and get your idea rolling; I'm far too busy to do all of the work for you so you can retire rich, but I will gladly point you in a great direction and lay out your next steps. The reality is that you won't do it once you realize that YOU will actually have to do the grunt work.
Nobody is going to penalize you for being the Django guy who can also hack complex C++ and knows his way around OpenGL/DirectX. Far from it, you'll look like a guy with a truly broad skill-set who can handle damn near anything.

The guys who are having trouble are the guys who decided that the knowledge they needed for their 9-5 C job was "good enough" so they stopped learning. That's what kills careers.
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The ones with signatures that check out. That's the SEC part of DNSSEC. The root key(s) are published and you can verify authenticity all the way down.
Didn't know you were interested in SC at all, patrick. Would you like to play some time?

I'm a platinum zerg, and don't play super often, but really enjoy the game.

My email is on my HN profile if you are interested.
You seem to think this is AOL enforcing journalistic standards. Try reading the whole saga again. The blowtorch that ignited this wasn't CrunchFund itself (which AOL backed), but AOL CEO Tim Armstrong (NOT Arrington) disclaiming journalistic integrity:

“TechCrunch is a different property and they have different standards… we have a traditional understanding of journalism with the exception of TechCrunch.”

This is a disaster of AOL's making, not Arrington's.
Be sure you don't miss page 2 as page 1 at first glance seems like the article concludes with his stand-up routine video; the second page has videos of the device in action and goes into its New York manufacturing.
Regarding work-life balance, did you mean 35 hours week?
IANAL. Advice is worth what you paid for it...

There is hardly ever any valid reason to exercise your options before an IPO or similar equity event. There is a small tax benefit to exercise and hold them for at least 1 year, but there is HUGE risk in the value being wiped out or diluted.

There can be a small benefit in being an actual shareholder, as you are supposed to get minutes from the board meetings. But, you don't need to exercise all your options to do that, $1.00's worth would be enough.
I've been fiddling with Canvas for a while and yeah, it does get boring. But other people continue to use it so it must have some entertainment value. Just not for me, or for you.

What I think Canvas lacks compared to 4chan's imageboards is actual discussion. I'm a regular 4channer and have been for years. Canvas emphasizes images at the expense of text posts. What I like about 4chan is the often amusing, roaming, and dare I say occasionally insightful conversations that take place. If 4chan is like a comic book, Canvas is just a stream of funny pictures. Not my thing, but could be fun for others.
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So. Who will end up buying this new reddit with high traffic and lots of user affection?

How much? I'd say 50M$ would be adequate.
Good luck, it looks daunting.
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The "journalist conflict of interest" is something for individual journalists to disclose. The true central issue here is the promise (which may even have been made under contract) of editorial independence for TechCrunch. If the writers then fail to disclose conflicts of interest, that's an ethical position for then, not now.
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The solution is obvious. Only allow Google Plus members to click the Closed button, because a) Google knows exactly who a G+ user is, and b) G+ users, being known persons to Google, only do socially acceptable things.
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Arrington & Armstrong created CrunchFund as partners and the controversy is purely Arrington's doing.

This latest breathlessly pissed off post demonstrates Arrington can still post anything he likes to TechCrunch.

So why not write a clear and concise explanation on TC to begin with?

I'd submit that Arrington is ready to leave TC to focus on investing, and there's no better way to do that than with a massive page-view heavy controversy.
So instead of writing this message in an email to the powers at be at AOL, he writes a blog post about it, which is certain to escalate the situation?

Why?
That sounds like there is a good chance that this was a malicious action, "how can we get rid of Arrington without making everyone hate us?" I have a hard time believing that they set the whole fund up, went through all the motions, and only after Mike publicly announced it did they say, "Oh, maybe there's a conflict of interest here..."

It was probably concocted with the intent to remove Mike Arrington, replace him with AOL's own suit that can squeeze more money out of TC, and look like a white knight while doing so, improving the reputation of AOL's "journalism" properties (which are the only significant part of AOL left, really).

I understand this is a violation of Hanlon's Razor, the incompetence seems a bit far-fetched for me. I would expect at least someone in the company saw this coming.
>The reddit community is so unruly that monetizing the site effectively is a major challenge.

Where unruly means willing to vote with their feet?

The biggest problem is that what users are getting at reddit isn't worth all that much and can easily be found in other places online. The second problem is that due to what it is, reddit attracts a greater level of people who don't care for common monitization practices.
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Am I the only one who sides with Arrington? I feel that TechCrunch has taken editorial ethics seriously so far, and see no reason why this shouldn't continue.
I don't argue that early CFL's had big problems, but I'd seriously encourage you to try again.

First, they're quite cheap. Assuming you don't need dimmable CFL's, you can get them for less than $1/bulb. With my utility's incentive programs (Southern California Edison), I often see 60W replacements for ~$0.20/bulb.

Second, they've gotten quite a bit better. Less buzzing, less failure and an overall better quality of light.
Wait, are you saying that we need to encourage women to be less capable because the career market is zero sum, and men need careers more than women?

I'm very open to the idea that I misunderstood your statement, but if I have characterized it correctly, then the flaw in it is that careers are not zero sum, and having additional capable, productive people in a society creates more wealth for the society as a whole than would otherwise have existed. This creates more opportunities for men as well as women.
Yes, of course, these things are normal. But they are holding our society back. Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you seem to be seriously advocating that physical appearance is one of the primary traits that we as a society should be seeking to improve in women.

Even if we accept that the role of women is in the home and that the role of women is to find a suitable mate, (which I do not) I would say that is all the more reason that we need to ensure that women are highly educated and unconcerned with their looks. They're entrusted day in and day out with raising the next generation of great engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Why would we entrust that task to people primarily concerned with their own looks?

I really don't understand where you're coming from when you argue that looking pretty is essential to the "sacred passion" of home-making. If it is indeed a sacred passion, the primary responsibility is that of an educator and nurturer.
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I disagree (slightly).

Merchants have two complaints with daily deal sites (let's be honest, we are talking about Groupon for the majority):

-Groupon takes a huge cut, 50%

-Groupon customers are typically drive-by customers. Most merchants complain that they get few or no returning customers from a Groupon deal

Many merchants have been burned by Groupon and have publicly stated they won't be doing it again.
No kidding. I've been thinking about this sort of thing ever since I first learned that there was such a thing as computation theory, but I've never heard of any proper treatment of the various subjects.
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I suspect Condé Nast's advertising operations didn't mesh well with Reddit's audience. Within Condé Nast, they were likely just an irritating drain on resources.

If Reddit's going to monetize effectively (and that's a big 'if'), it needs to be operationally independent so it can get creative.
I'm not sure how I feel about the present-tense dictum. When I commit frequently most of my commit messages end up in present tense anyway, but sometimes they don't, and it all still reads pretty well. I think the emphasis should be on frequent commits which keep the narrative of a codebase coherent and chugging along.

Here's an example changelog: http://github.com/akkartik/wart/commits/unstable. Criticisms?
Instead of Reddit being a division on the Org. chart of C.N., Reddit Inc. shares are held by C.N. This means that Reddit can take on equity investors to finance operations and operate externally of any organizational influence Conde Nast had (which may not have been much anyways).
Would be really amazed if Reddit would sell so low, considering their fast-growing visitor numbers. http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/how-reddit-works.html
wait for ThisIsMyNextCrunch to launch in the next few months.
1.9.3dev? Impressed! I thought I was being progressive with 1.9.2.. :-)
I can't tell if you're serious or not. In case you are...what makes you think reddit is dying? All indications point to continued explosive growth. I've been on reddit for about 5 or 6 years and it's pretty clear the site goes through growing pains but consistently gets over them. Overall it is better and better every day, with more lively intelligent discussion than even in the beginning days.
They're currently experiencing explosive growth: http://soshable.com/reddit-traffic-has-exploded-in-12-months...

They have also, in my opinion, implemented mainstream and niche news so well (via subreddits) that they're not in immediate danger of being replaced by another aggregate news and/or niche site.
Thanks for the feedback Patrick.

Perhaps "fixing a problem" are strong words, we should say "making it easy". We were planning to give more effort to getting the customers putting in their email address (showing interest) and then us taking that "backing up" to the merchant(s) to tell them about us. But getting a different perspective, you are correct, we should spend time towards getting the merchants on board.

Do you see value in letting the customers get the deal they want without any charge and the freedom of paying for it only when they avail it? AND on the other hand letting the merchant be happy by not significantly cutting into their profit share and not waiting for their money from the deal site?

Or are the above points not significant enough to be considered different from 100 other deal sites that are out there.
Stopping learning is an issue, but employment reality is more complicated. In much of the country the guy who can hack both Django, C++ and OpenGL is unemployable, and the guy who turned his brain off after getting his MCSE can easily find a job.
For instance, this is a pretty typical snapshot of who's hiring in my part of the country:

http://cl.ly/2T01382O3v3L3a1x1n2r
I was just going to post the same comment! 1) Quietly and privately agree on his role, then 2) stage a public melodrama for traffic, and finally 3) bring the drama to a resolution favorable to both TC and AOL. That's worth at least 4 or 5 record-traffic articles if played right. (I'm usually not this cynical, but then again, this is TechCrunch.)
Yeah, I remember how painful it was before MacPorts, but MacPorts definitely sorted most of it. I prefer homebrew now but MacPorts doesn't deserve to be swept under the table.
Page views. This is TechCrunch we're talking about. Nobody actually wants to read it, so they have to resort to tactics like this in order to get anyone to look at their site.
I really can't speak for what's best in Ruby, having never programmed in it. And my Python programs almost never have classes - just functions operating on lists and dictionaries.

As I said, I can easily see that functions would make more sense in his example. This is even true in C++, it's just that the "functions" often are objects with operator() defined. Once local state gets involved, though, they have to become objects.

I have nothing against if statements, but I know when I'm writing algorithmic code, and when I'm writing machinery code. Type fields is machinery code, and I try to avoid it.
I was paying attention, and am paying attention.

What you are referring to, in plain terms, is that Apple Inc. had more money than Apple Corp, meaning that it can afford to do whatever it wishes to do. (don't misunderstand: I have no empathy for the record industry either).
I think by unruly he means that the majority of their users are either 12 years old or act like they're 12 years old. I know that they have an underground that only hangs out on sub-reddits but I would bet those users are in the minority.
Sure, you might say the screwed beauty ideals are a symptom. What I was saying is that they are not the cause. And of course the starvation is a problem that has to be dealt with. How is maybe another issue best left to the specialists.

I think you misread that last quote. What they say is that the anorexic persons are not actually striving for some ideal weight that would make them satisfied if they would reach it. So they say precisely that it is not some specific beauty ideal they strive for.

They only wrote it like that because that is what it might look like from the perspective of the anorexic person (if only I could use so much weight, I would be OK).

Anyway, I think we have settled this as far as amateur knowledge permits.
This was already being played out in public. It's a PR battle, and Arrington thrives in massive public fights, while AOL has always been the big clumsy giant that can't find its ass with both hands.

I think a better question is why wouldn't he want it to escalate?
> reddit attracts a greater level of people who don't care for common monitization practices.

That's a polite way of putting it. Every ad I've seen with a comments thread has people mostly slagging off the advertiser. Ads without comment threads frequently get nasty threads posted about them, which at least isn't as visible, but if I were in charge of buying ads it would make me wonder why I should continue paying to be attacked.
A nice validation of being in the UK, given the rather negative air over startups in the UK recently. As much as I want to be in the US one day, the labor here is certainly a lot cheaper and easier to obtain.

I wonder, though, where's the money in something like Lanyrd? Payment processing for events? Promotion of events to the userbase? I'm guessing the investment is primarily a way to start exploring these possibilities?
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Chrome was the previous name of Oxygene, a .net language derived from pascal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygene_(programming_language)

The browser kinda stole the thunder from their name.
This is kind of weird and forced. All social interactions start in a superficial way. Kids don't show up in their own cars ("hey, is that the new Brotus Fundero?"). They don't (usually) wear t-shirts from their last trade show or vacation. They aren't toting new laptops in unique courier bags and holding exotic drinks.

You're basically stuck complementing their dress, hat, or whatever. That's how social interaction works, regardless of gender. You can move on to TV shows, books, and political affiliation later, but you need an opener.
You have a too narrow view of Evolution. Of course technology and so enters the equation, enabling us to survive better. Nevertheless we are still subject to evolution.
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I am sure he has written and said many things to AOL at this point. He is grumpy, rich and thinks AOL crossed major boundary lines that were part of their original agreement. At this point, he knows that he can either:

a) Get AOL to bow down to his rants (Charlie Sheen anyone?) and "reimplement" those boundaries. Basically he wants to stick it to the man that gave him 30 million to prove hes bigger than the man.

b) buy TC back from AOL, probably for half as much as they paid.

Inside I am sure he is thinkin this is awesome cuz either way dude walks away with 8 bajillion dollars, synonymous popularity in tech world and every chance in the world to start another uber blog/mediacompany/empire.

Plus, he can pull a Steve Jobs even if he does quit, and resurrect the company at any time he wants to after AOL buries it and Ariana becomes Co-Editor..
This is so much fun. It seems that we now have a fight between two divas -- Arrington and Huffington. It is one of those fights where you do not care who wins, you just hope for lots of bloodshed. It's like a Raiders Broncos game!

So Mike Arrington makes a stand for editorial independence. Now for those of you new to this whole discussion, we should note that Mike editorial independence Arrington started this whole brouhaha by the obvious and blatant conflicts of interest he got himself in. Namely he was investing in companies he covers and now is starting a fund that would seem to be dedicated to investing in companies he covers.

After the ny times called him out on the conflict, it was obvious that TechCrunch's claim of it being an independent news source would be utterly laughable. And that probably prompted Ariana to make her move.

And now Arrington is making a bold stand by resigning in the name of "editorial independence". Probably he did not have a choice but to resign, not because of editorial independence from Ariana Huffington, but because of editorial independence from his own conflicts of interest. But by making this stand he very cleverly tried to divert the attention from his own fuckups and poison the waters for whoever Ariana tries to appoint to lead TechCrunch.

Now I would like to say I am not on Ariana's side. I wanted to point out the blatant hypocracy of Arringrton, but Ariana's career is so full of double dealing and questionable behavior that I doubt TechCrunch would be better with her. Like I said, it is the Raiders playing the Broncos, and I am not choosing sides just enjoying the violence.
To have an open discussion?
To influence people?
To have some fun?
To be brutally honest?
I like it..haha...Ambushed!Just 1 million?Nice amount...
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Hi Polyfractal.

One of the cofounders of this site and this is exactly our thought process of today's Groups sites. For these 2 reasons if the merchants don't offer deals because they get burned from the huge cut, they won't have a reason to come back with other deals. Consumers won't have a reason to come back with out a deal (Unless they like the place that much).
Is there a reason you are ignoring transmission and generation losses?

By your standard natural gas is also 100% thermodynamically efficient - all of it ends up as heat. Some of it outdoors, sure, but that is true for electric heat as well. Those thin electric lines outside your house get pretty hot.
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My first thought when they said you were on the board was "Well at least we'll have an honest witness to the train wreck that's likely to ensue."

I really hope they actually listen to you. Would you consider taking the CEO job there? Best possible outcome.
Who didn't see this coming 11 months ago? Many founders seem to regret the sale of their baby...Arrington is no different. Acquisitions are tough when talented people are involved and it's no longer their ship to run.
I don't read TC regularly, but do they disclose when an article is written by someone who has a financial stake in the company being written about?
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Interesting, but I wonder if passing the load through any physical device is necessary? I would think that a few loops of wire wrapped around the power cable would be good enough for detecting on/off.

It works for these things, anyway: http://www.fluke.com/images/products/Industrial/Electrical_T...

Also, your high-voltage connections look a little scary to me. Are those big bolts sticking out of the current sensor live!?
Ethical track record aside, players and coaches don't get to officiate games; active investors don't get a free pass to be journalists in the same space. He KNEW he'd have to leave TechCrunch for the fund. The rest is just posturing.
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>They're currently experiencing explosive growth

so was Digg, and Fark before it, and Slashdot before that.

Am I wrong? History shows that these sites are basically popular for a certain amount of time, and then they lose huge market share when they inevitably do something to sour the community-at-large (like trying to monetize).
First off, I should say one thing. I am not a fan of Arrington. In fact, I really dislike him and think he's an over-arrogant POS.

However, I do enjoy his site and prefer its raw ethical nature. They promised editorial independence and this should remain true. I have to side with Arrington. That being said, I don't believe pushing this issue publicly like this is going to help one bit. I'd bet that AOL sees this post and considers it insubordination leaving them with no choices but let him go (if that's even possible?)

One thing I hate about the "big guys" in news is that it is the news "they" want you to hear, and I hate that. If Arrington leaves TechCrunch, and the ethics behind TechCrunch leave with him, I will no longer visit the site.
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In terms of traffic and user base, they're killing it. In terms of revenue (and most importantly, profit), I'm sure they've been a massive let down for Conde Nast.

Now they spun them out so other people can finance it without it being their sole burden.