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The problem with the original poster's suggestion is that the original headline was written to be seen in context. Usually this means that it is accompanied bny full text that can be seen at a glance, sometimes it means that it is seen with a brief summary.

HN is splendid, but as a noob, I find myself grinding my teeth that I have to click on every single damn link to see what the story is actually about. I mean "Tim O'Reilly to software developers: get serious" what's that actually about? Anything worth my time? who knows.
I worked for a financial software startup from 05-07, and in my spare time there, wrote one of those programs that scans the whole market for stocks with low P/Es and consistent earnings.

I found that nearly everything was fairly valued. When a stock had a low P/E, it was nearly always for a reason, like it being a homebuilder or financial or having a shaky economic position. No way was I going to invest in those. When I did invest in one that looked like it didn't fit in those categories, they missed earnings the next quarter, reported a loss, and haven't gotten back to profitability yet. Again, the market was smarter than me.

The trick to making money in the stock market seems to be to invest when the big boys are constrained not to. They realize that they should be putting money in, but can't, for whatever reason. The best example is if they're a mutual fund and their clients are all pulling their money out. Doesn't matter how many bargains are out there, they still have to sell to honor redemptions.

As I tell one of my hedge-fund-employee friends, "You're only as smart as your dumbest creditor."
I'm not aware of any standards for Ethernet crypto before WEP, so I don't know what they would have borrowed. Something from DOCSIS maybe. Heck, the IEEE didn't even come up with MACsec until recently.
I suffer from delayed sleep phase syndrome, which means I usually get around 3-5 hours of sleep while I need at least 8 to function properly. And I often fail to get up at a desired time.

Too bad there is no quick remedy for this.
I can't speak on behalf of 'people,' but I can speak on behalf of myself. Universal health coverage would be very expensive, and if a large portion of it were paid with capital gain's taxes, you can bet that it would effect my decision making process of whether it was worth going through the effort to begin a startup. It would certainly effect my strategy and golas in starting one.
There will likely be a decrease in the number of VC-backed startups and the amount of hiring that they are doing: if this occurs it will reduce demand. In a year where the S&P has dropped 44% YTD customers may value positive cash flow in a prospective vendor over additional engineering-driven features: perceived odds of survival may offer significant differentiation it didn't even six months ago. This represents a potentially very different competitive equilibrium, at least in B2B markets, than a few months ago. Also events like the Entellium fraud may make many firms much more nervous about doing business with startups and lead to the need for independent substantiation of the fact that they are cash flow positive. These efforts will have to come at the expense of other efforts (e.g. engineering, marketing, ...)
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Hey, I want his deal!

Great job guys. I take back most of the bad things I said about you ;)
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After the dotcom crash, the number of jobs in Silicon Valley dropped about 25% from their peak. This affected most people's ability to negotiate better compensation because demand dried up. Depending upon the severity of this contraction many different disciplines and professions may experience the same thing. Sequoia folks understand that engineering is a key driver for innovation, the fact that they are telling portfolio CEO's to consider cutting engineering indicates their concern as to the severity and longevity of a contraction.
Knowing even the slightest basics about Einstein's random walk, I would be somewhat surprised if the percentage difference between any arbitrarily categorized sets of days weren't that large.
I don't think my point came across as intended, and was probably not the best example either. Just to be clear.. I ignore homeless people all the time and do not see it as a reflection on my character.

Most people that you meet with the ability to help you with your venture will do so - they will give you feedback, make intros, etc - often without the need for anything explicit in return. Its human nature, and what I would consider a norm for moral character. I think most people would say that given the resources, they would help anyone they could - everyone has a need for basic altruism.

However, when you introduce the need to capitalize on this same activity, it requires a change in behavior. My point was that, the same guy who would help you out for no reason as a norm, the minute he starts doing the same thing for money he does not have the luxury to help you in the same way any more. Now he has to make a business out of it and be efficient.

That is what I was trying to illustrate. This ability to be altruistic inherently declines when you have to take on the same role to make profit. The ability to treat someone well 1) 'who can do you no good' or 2) 'who can not fight back' changes when the bottom line is profit. It does change the nature of our character, and I think that is inherent to the nature of succeeding in a free market.
Reminds me of that cigar guy in the film Wall Street.
I love Don's technical posts on smugmug. All the gory details, no pulled punches, no equivocating about what hardware/software/services are or aren't working for them.

And ZFS on Linux would be huge. I just hope Sun is on the path.
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Yeah I second that; Sun has amazing engineering. I got to dig around in the kernel code for Solaris during my operating systems class and holy crap their scheduler is well designed.
You said bad things about us? :(
and so it starts.....

it must suck being laid off. You work a lot, maybe even underpaid, hoping to get something out of the stocks... then bam... you are dropped like hot potato.

used and thrown away, like a disposable razor, and almost for free. If you didn't work there for more than a year, then no stock options for you either.

hmmm... I wonder if in the future startups will be an attractive place to work for. The only people benefiting from start-ups are the founders, and VCs.
Also, restricted stock grants (like Microsoft adopted) look a lot better. Yes, it hurts to see your "potential grant" value decrease - a 50% drop is a 50% drop - but there is still absolute value (unless the stock becomes worthless).
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"... He is daring them, in the words of James Collins and Jerry Porras, authors of the business classic 'Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies,' to take on "big, hairy, audacious goals.' ..."

My big hairy audacious goal for Tim OReilly: Talk about Free Software instead of Open Source software & join in the converstation ~ http://www.linux.com/feature/118201
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TC has basically become part of the mainstream media then? That's a shame, I guess it's back to the Economist for me
I thought they were cutting back on the free food etc.? Remember Sergey's comment about the M&M's and bottled water?
Maybe 90% of resumes are crap, but I believe everyone has some potential, even if their resume is crap. I certainly hope that's not how one views their friends, coworkers, employees, children, neighbors, etc.
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What's the problem?
Well, the Great Depression had both the New Deal and the WWII to suffer through. Even if you support the former, you still have to admit that the later was a downer.

Hopefully, we won't have to worry about either of those for time being.
"Universal health coverage would be very expensive"

You're focusing on the trees. Who do you think pays the private health care premiums for your hypothetical startup? The insurance fairy?

That money comes out of your pocket, today -- not out of (speculative) future capital gains dollars. And since it's nearly always more expensive (per head) to insure smaller groups, you're very likely going to pay more by insuring your own small company, versus participating in a national program.

That said, I don't necessarily think that capital gains are the best place to find money for health care. But if it came down to a choice between raising capital gains taxes (which are quite low in this country) to fund universal coverage, and eliminating our already meager capital gains taxes to "promote" small business, I'd take the health care in a minute. And I'd still start a company, because my expected upside will massively exceed any loss due to taxes -- again, it's all about perspective.

At the end of the day, the "taxes discourage business" canard only works for the ultra-rich, who already have significant capital gains to protect. For the rest of us, it's a much better deal to get guaranteed health coverage.
It's not a meaningful comparison because it's not an either/or. You can use said shell commands inside Emacs pretty easily: M-| is shell-command-on-region, with output to another buffer, and univ. argument M-| replaces the region with the command's output. Same with vi, for that matter: :1,10!sort pipes the first ten lines of file through sort, for example. vi has ex mode, all the commands starting with ":". Ex is basically an embedded sed.)

2. None of the shell command stuff is tied to bash -- you can use any of them with sh, ksh, zsh, etc.
Yeah, the many-worlds interpretation really takes the fun out of things. (But what was Fraa Jad up to?)
A good way to learn this sort of stuff is:

for util in `ls $DIRNAME`; do whatis $util; done

where DIRNAME is /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin etc. depending on what Unix you're running.

Pick a couple that interest you and check out their man pages. Or, follow the SEE ALSO section in man pages.
If so, start your startup and benefit.

Also, if it rips off people, there is a potential competetive advantage to deliver a better work-place, right?
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Congrats, your host is one of the most important decisions you'll make. And slicehost is one of the better options, frankly I never heard of midphase
I watch in horror as 60 percent of my 401k drowns.
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Sad to see Sun die.

I remember the first heady days of Bill Joy and crew--they were neighbors of ours (back at Imagen, a laser printer startup) in Mountain View in 1980, and we traded printers for workstations.

We shared the SUN (Stanford University Network--original acronym--licensed from Stanford) 68K CPU board design with them; they used it in workstations, we used it in the first typeset-quality laser printers, and for a while were sharing technology improvements. (Imagen was a TeX project spin-off.) Exciting times; Sun was the last successful major hardware start-up before the PC era.

Now get off my lawn, you pesky young kids! ;-)
Ask HN: Good C (not C++) code for reading/learning?
I'd like to polish up my C. Can you recommend some good open source projects which are good examples of coding style and organization in C?
You've got to be kidding. Please explain how these "models" informed the ethics of what remains basically a shell game. What you mean to say is the "models" provided cover...rationalization for wild speculation and accounting tricks with other people's money, sans almost any equity.

"Models" have nothing to do with regulation, or with the lack of ethics that has brought us to this point, other than the curious coincidence that these "models" supported and aligned so well with unbridled greed.
I don't know when their fiscal year ends, but having a drop right before review time means that when annual grant time comes around you're getting them at a lower price. Of course if the market is only going to go down-down-down then this is precious little consolation.

Google moved into our area a couple years ago. When that happened the buzz in the tech job market was full of "I could go apply at Google". I remember, even at that point, having the feeling that the stock grants would probably be small and the potential for a stock price slide was really high.

I would say with most tech companies if your employee number is less than 50 AND you have a high ranking position (manager plus) you might have a chance of having stock with a significant upside. Otherwise you're better off just getting the cash up front, in salary. Obviously Google was quite a bit larger and more successful, but post-IPO grants in technology are generally a joke.
Good entrepreneur does not necessarily means a good investor.
The source for Lua is pretty good (if a little dense at times), and you can read it in-browser: http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/

There's a suggested roadmap for reading it, too: http://www.reddit.com/comments/63hth/ask_reddit_which_oss_co...

It is written in ruthlessly standard ANSI C (for maximum portability).

It will probably also complement your C -- it's intended to be a handy drop-in scripting language to embed in C programs, though it's also a pretty cool language on its own merits. They had an unwavering focus on keeping it clean and very small for embedding, and they make some really interesting choices along the way. It's sort of like a minimalistic Python; it gets a lot of power out of using "tables" (rather like Python dictionaries or Perl hashes) as a primary data type.
Balls?

I don't understand. The simplest tenant is "buy low, sell high". Most stocks are low, way low now. No need to time the bottom. Buy and hold. Buy quality companies whose business/products you personally understand.

If you already have stock, it's a nobrainer perfect time to buy more of the same. Dollar cost averaging.

Bought a stock at $20, now it's at $15? buy another. Your cost is now $17.50. Stock has to go up half as far for you to be making return.
As an employee in a large, well funded RVC venture, I would say I feel considerably more secure about my position than I would be if I was in a MVC or possibly even in the financial sector.

Our pockets are certainly no deeper than our (established) competitors, but having strategic investment from household names is certainly reassuring.

I'm not an investor (beyond my options in this company) but I'd say that "here's our burn rate" is a lot safer and easier to understand than "we've been loaning people imaginary money and it will all be ok, please don't ask how". Even if the IPO market sucks right now it's entirely possible for well funded companies to go lean, and then profitable, and then grow from there. In fact, that used to be the way most businesses grew.
Apart from the other concerns over this plan, would that kind of restructuring of the labor force into independent operators be so bad? I think labor markets are the least efficient markets around, and I think we'd probably all be better off if they were more flexible.
Yes yes, buy and hold, blah blah. But you're missing the sell part. Monday was when I should've sold high, but I don't want to mistime the bottom, so I do the lazy investor's approach and leave my stocks alone until a bottom has been established and I start buying back in.
...Now that there's no "world police" around?
Let this be a lesson to everyone: the time you invest in finding a web host is critical. I went through 3 VPS and 2 Dedicated hosts before finally finding and going with Softlayer and boy oh boy was it worth the time and effort, not to mention the anger I caused other companies by calling them incompetent and issuing chargebacks ;)
How are you so sure it will all come back? So far every week many people say so and then are proven wrong.
How is stock trading different from gambling? You even have to be 18 to do it.
What's also amazing is wide spread accusations of price gouging when the oil industry has some of the lowest margins out there.

Sources:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/31/news/companies/exxon_profits...

http://www.pardontheinformation.com/2008/06/why-are-oil-comp...

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TinyMCE in Joomla = atrocious.

WordPress also has a surprisingly bad text editor, considering how long they've been around.
SQLite is always recommended in threads like this (of which, I will point out, there have been several here and at reddit...you might like to search for them). I haven't looked at it since very early releases, but I'm guessing quality has gotten better over time, since it is more stable than ever and faster than ever, and still astoundingly lightweight.
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That's because very few companies put such a public effort into making their products as good as possible. For most companies, asking something like that would be pretension.
He didn't just sit back and watch. He built the OS that later on Apple relied on to rebuild the empire. And I don't care what your biases are, that's an incredibly badass comeback to make.
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Their most recent $6MM was a Series B. Their Series A was around that as well.
"That’s why I’ve proposed eliminating all capital gains taxes on investments in small businesses and start-ups. And today, I’m proposing an additional temporary business tax incentive through next year to encourage new investments."
What? That is hocus pocus. And based on what? Zero analysis of what were the measures taken. And many other things unaccounted like shadow finances, global trade block, insurance chaos, etc.

Their anecdotal analysis is bad. They didn't check recent crisis in other countries, for example. The Asian crisis and the Japanese stagflation are certainly more similar to the current situation than US 1929, 1973 or even 2002.

It all depends on the next steps. Bailouts failed, inter-bank credit is still dead. There wasn't yet deleveraging.

I can do many [better] things with my cash than put in stupidly risky stocks at the moment.
A tested disaster recovery plan (including tested off-site backups) is much more important, in many situations, than your choice of host.

Choosing a good host is like running on raid disk. It's a great idea, and it dramatically reduces downtime, but if you keep important data it's not nearly as important as a good, tested, offsite backup.

This does depend on your business model. Ask yourself: what is worse, being down for a few days? or losing all your data? Now, you did say that your site was news focused, so it's quite likely that losing the archives would be a fairly survivable event, if expensive (as you'd need to rewrite the code) but if you are entrusted with customer data, well, a failure without backups usually means death (or starting over with no customers and a bad reputation.) My experience has been that if you lose a customer's data, even if you warned them ahead of time that you were not keeping backups, the customer will leave, and more importantly will tell other people to avoid your service.
Verizon has backtracked on the issue. It was just a "proposal" for discussion. Sure...

Here's the latest directly from the horse's mouth:

"As Verizon Wireless continues to review the competitive marketplace, we constantly work to provide additional value to our customers, employees and other stakeholders.

We are currently assessing how to best address the changing messaging marketplace, and are communicating with messaging aggregators, our valued content partners, our technology business partners and, importantly, our friends in the non-profit and public policy arenas.

To that end, we recently notified text messaging aggregators - those for-profit companies that provide services to content providers to aggregate and bill for their text messaging programs - that we are exploring ways to offset significantly increased costs for delivering billions upon billions of text messages each month.

Specific information in one proposal, which would impose a small per-message fee on for-profit content aggregators for commercial messages, has been mistakenly characterized as a final decision to implement. We don’t envision this type of change to in any way affect non-profit organizations or political and advocacy organizations.

We have not increased the per-message cost to aggregators since our messaging service began in 2003, and we have never envisioned a cost to consumers or content companies, but rather on content aggregators themselves. That draft was intended to stimulate internal business discussions and in no way should have been been released to the public and represented as a final document.

At Verizon Wireless, we strive to provide our messaging customers with maximum value, and work to implement business decisions that encourage the use of messaging between individuals and organizations in both the marketplace of ideas and the commercial marketplace, and we will continue to strongly encourage the use of our services by charitable organizations as they perform their good works."
Indeed!

And even good investors can miss the mark bad in volatile times. Like Buffett with Goldman Sachs if they don't pick up and if more and more of the bailout money goes to recapitalization, covering a bit on swaps (directly or indirectly), and bailing out real companies (like GE, GM, and Ford.)
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Another constraint on institutional investors is short-term profitability: they need to report annually, to compete for customers; whereas an individual is free to invest for the long-term.
Haha at least it was entertaining. And while most of the write-up probably seems like common sense to HNers, this should be required reading for college students applying for jobs.

College recruiting - please God never again.