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I think that the benefit from "hosing money into the banking system" is front end loaded. That is to say: we've been living above our means for a while now and we've done the (inter-)national equivalent of kiting checks for the last 5 years. Now that there are some calls on this money (via defaults in the mortgage field) we're seeing that all of that leveraged money isn't quite as useful, real, or protected as we thought.

"demand for our goods abroad" is barely a consolation prize. The effects from that are so long term and abstract that while they might help us climb back out, they certainly don't fix the immediate problem, which is businesses having to cut back because they don't have the cash to operate today. It's like saying you get to take a tax deduction because you had a big loss. Sure it might help but it's not nearly as nice as not having the loss in the first place. Same deal with oil.

Financial crisis + time becomes an economic one. Financial crisis means that employers are considering layoffs (it's even in the article). Risk of job loss is the biggest thing controlling my personal confidence level, and I certainly can't be alone in that regard. Discretionary spending drops (things are already hurting in tourist towns), and the layoffs continue.

I suspect the depth and breadth of this depend on the health of the remaining financial institutions. I feel unprepared to speculate on that, since I don't understand the complexity of what we're already in, but things sure aren't looking good right now. :/
I think it makes things more fun now that his startup, pressflip, is launched.
Irrational negativity. Read the first few sentences and quit. I'm really glad that this sort of article doesn't reach the front page that often.
This is flawed logic, which goes like:

"The biggest economic problem we know about is the Great Depression. Policymakers know how to deal with that; therefore we are fine."

Maybe the new global economy contains challenges which current policymakers don't know how to deal with. And if these challenges aren't met, we might end up with Great Depression effects, due to a different set of initial causes.

Or, maybe everything will settle down in a week or two.
really good list across a variety of professions.
You don't see the iphone as almost a competitor in this space?

Basic typing, myspace, facebook, emails, flickr, youtube... That's retty much what a netbook is used for isn't it?
No, they are ongoing. There is a lot of administrative overhead to dividends so you only want to do it 1 to 4 times a year. But, buybacks are best spread out over time so they don't cause the price to spike. MSFT decided on a 50 / 50 split with a massive dutch auction for 8.1% of the stock and then the other 20 billion as an ongoing buyback until 2011. Which they finished so they are now doing a 40 billion buyback until 2013. (This will probably also finish early.)

What's odd about buyback's is in theory they should have little effect on today's stock price, but because they concentrate value in decreasing number of shares they simulate exponential growth when the company is just milking a cash cow. Which should over time drive up the stock price and force a split.
how are they getting better at managing attention hooks? what techniques are they using that were missing before?
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usually, i find people through mutual professional experience.
"I'm also beginning to realize that by focusing on these tasks, which can be very time consuming, I'm missing out on other opportunities to grow our business."

Opportunity cost is such a stealthy killer. Like you, I've spent a lot my time doing things like car repair, painting, moving...even simple (but time-consuming) things like taking stuff to the dump. The immediate reasoning is always something like: "why in the world would I PAY someone three times as much to fix my brakes, as it would cost me to do myself?", and it usually made sense at the time. But then I realized that I was far less productive at the things that I wanted to do, because I was spending so much time on the cruft.

I've learned a lot by doing things myself, but this habit has also left me with a less free time to do the things I wanted to do, or to excel at the important things. So now I try to pay people to take the uninteresting things off my plate. Still...that's a hard thing to do when you're the type of person who is inclined to find nearly everything interesting, so it usually boils down to setting firm priorities.
It really depends on your goals. 30 minutes twice a week is probably fine to maintain fitness, but particularly if you want to lose weight taking the sessions up to an hour / hour and a half and increasing the number of sessions a week significantly speeds up the process. And I know I function much much better on at least 8 hours sleep a night.
I hear the federal government has got some good sedatives. They've been asleep at the wheel for some time now.

EDIT: This should have been posted under the comment about Dramamine.
Hilarious! But oh so true!!!
Benjamin Graham and David Dodd's Security Analysis is not exactly on getting rich in the sense of the two works presented in the above question, but it is certainly a book on returning to the basics in the markets, which is exactly what needs to happen now.
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how can you tell that they are "off"? what do you mean by "off" ?
Thanks for the link -- seems interesting but is a little light on data to help me find someone (portfolio's ...etc)
OTOH I was thinking about moving my app from MySQL to SQLite. Did anyone else has gone through the same situation?
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It is quite true - both bubbles represented market speculations that outstripped the underlying financial realities. And I believe the reverse can be said that the massive corrections after both bubbles burst are also results of investment confidence dropping below the underlying financial realities. We in the IT sector are very lucky these bubbles didn't align or the bubble bursts may have been much much more severe.
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The before and after picture doesn't seem so illustrative for me: in fact the after picture doesn't look as nice to me.
Ultimately Google is a for profit company and their business model is built around advertising. I feel Google has aways been quite reasonable in their advertisement placements and their leveraging of google maps advertising is fair enough - the service is free after all and very useful!
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How will it modify an African person? Asian?

Are there different algorithms for those?

I know someone will chime in that beauty is universal but I have my doubts.
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The price change only affects customers whose average daily storage exceeds 50TB.
How important is user experience when you are still finding your product market fit?
As a very young startup who is into our third complete revamp of our product, we are constantly facing a question - how much time should we spend on the UI?

The first couple of times we optimized the UI, it was all wasted, as it proved to be the wrong product from a high level point of view. Now on our third iteration, we find ourselves optimizing the UI too, because it is hard to get good feedback with a sucky UI.

Any thoughts?
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Well they've lost their moral high ground. PressFlip wasn't a particularly great idea, and no one really noticed it.

Who's going to take them seriously when they try and rail on anyone now? Every single comment is going to be, "What ever happened to pressflip? OH YES, I REMEMBER" and then a failmacro image inserted.

I can't see it going well.
Yeah. Although I disagree with the criticism people have given Pressflip. Ted was pretty honest about what he wanted to make: something that did one small thing very well. And, from my testing of it, it does its job very well, and people criticize it for doing one small thing.
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Right now you can't afford to spend money and be wrong. Yet at the same time you need to make sure that whatever spend goes a long way. Use your money well, ask clear questions, and get real clear good human actionable toward ROI answers- and then don't stop there. Take that data, those customers, those people that want X out of your product and use them as part of your marketing and PR materials. It makes for a good story on the how and why you need to be around.
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What's your budget? Would help to know.

I know a two people in the $50-80 per hr range that are pretty solid. I know another one that's more expensive.

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You need to provide more info: what is your O/S, what is your baseline (markup and stylesheet developed/tested first in FF/firebug/Safari vs. IE 6 or 7?), whether your sure this is not an IE 6/7 "feature".
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Ha, now that's innovation.
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Ask HN: What type of companies will thrive in this environment?
Just curious, but when Mark Cuban says that instability in the markets gives rise to opportunities, what specific businesses can thrive?
They can't be doing that badly if they're paying the AP syndication fee.
Well, the real difference between browsers that I care about is how well they run my app! However, I'm not sure I'm understand your point. How would those test suites help?
The slowdown is in the DOM. It's pretty simple, as far as I can tell: setting the size and position of (absolute) divs, and setting their text content.
I signed up, and have been using it faithfully for about six hours now. So far I'm pretty impressed. It remains to be seen whether I'll have the motivation to actually keep it going though.

As an example of good design, though, it's hard to beat.
I credit them with a lot of experience and access to a lot of good information. I don't know why you believe that they are panicking in a week that the DOW has dropped about 16%: this will weld the IPO window shut and limit the value of any acquisitions that occur. If their companies are cash flow positive then there is no reason to sell off assets, but if they need more funding to survive it may not be available. If they were to shut them down and return the funds to their limited partners that would be the end of Sequoia: their partners expect them to earn an above average return with the risk capital that they have invested. Some investment firms, Sequoia likely among them will find a way to earn a positive and above average return from their portfolio of investments. They can't do that if they liquidate all of their holdings.
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I wasn't quite sure how to interpret this part of that article, but I think Professor Eichengreen later explains that his traditional answer ("it can't happen again") is no longer true.

"We can be confident, I always answered, that there will not be another Great Depression because policymakers have read financial histories like mine. At least that was my line until recently. Now I have stopped taking reporters' calls."

While he could mean that he's now getting so many requests that he can't be bothered to return them any more, I wonder if instead he meant that he can no longer give the "it can't happen again" message. Lending credence to this interpretation I think, he goes on to point out the ways in which the problem could continue to worsen without drastic action.
> The decision is more important than the specifics, at least in the beginning.

Anything that you do is probably better than the best thing that you don't do.
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if you have excellent product-market fit, your early adopters will struggle through your terrible UI to get the incredible benefit they see from your product. If that's not happening, it's probably not the UI's fault.

Do an in-person usability test, where you can explain to the person exactly how to use the product (violating all the normal rules of usability testing). If they still don't like the product - either they are not a target customer or you don't have any customers out there. Do the test again - if the same thing keeps happening, you know it's the latter.
I'd take Jersey over Philly, if only because the parts of Jersey that i'd live in are closer to NYC then Philly is. But that's got more to do with my personal biases then any business decision.
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In other words, Pressflip/Persai is failing so they want to have at least one successful website.

aka Building a startup is a lot harder than making fun of others startups.
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I think it's crucial for a startup to have at least one person dedicated exclusively to marketing-unless you're exceptional, only having developers won't cut it.

Despite the fact that we're "Web 2.0"/new economy, you still face the same marketing challenges, and you absolutely must worry about market segmentation, sensitivity analysis, market channels, usability testing, etc etc.

It seems that only in the startup space we're so divorced from the realities of marketing a product or service because our vision is clouded by mirages of exponential viral growth.

If someone at Kraft or Chevrolet or Microsoft asked "Should we do market research?" they would be laughed at- of COURSE you should do market research, and yet many startups stuck in the false if-you-build-it-they-will-come mentality seem to think they could get by without even the most basic market analysis.
I was a little surprised the article didn't mention any of their competition. One strategy I've always admired is deliberately pricing products slightly above competitors.
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The writing wouldn't bother me if he had a point to make. The fact that he's usually about as insightful as a pancake is what bothers me. And I can at least eat the pancake after failing at get something intellectual out of it. It's not that he's offensive. It's that he's offensive and (wrong|obvious).
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Was going to type that site too, as I have used it many times!

Also, searching stumbleupon ... search graphic designer ... have come across some great folks!
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Some folks here agree with you

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=305942
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You'll notice that they didn't claim to have created some objective measure of beauty, they just mined information given to them by several hundred different people. There's obviously going to be some sort of sociological bias there. I've seen more "mathematical" measurements of the ideal face based on the golden ratio, but they did seem to tend towards a western ideal of beauty.

This sort of stuff is pretty mediagenic (every time someone does this, it gets press), but ultimately pretty useless. I have to assume it's just a bunch of guys with a facial detection algorithm and a bunch of time on their hands. It would be more interesting if they could map the parameter space of reasonable-looking human faces, to enable the easy creation of a random, realistic face.
We'll be still applying for the next round. If we put in the hard yards now, we will be in a great position when the economy picks up again.
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what's even sadder is that the uncov kids can't handle criticism.

when i clicked through this morning, there was a user-submitted, reasonably well-written rant against the uncov guys, along with some back-and-forth in the comments. it's gone now.
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I have to admit, I am usually turned off by "rich-guy buys everything opulence".
Remember the Perkins "sailboat" story from a week or two ago? I love sailboats and Perkins' new mega-toy didn't turn me on at all.
But this library does seem more like my kind of opulence ;). tres magnific!!
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It was kinda the same deal with me. We became friends when we coded an Earthbound fansite together. One day, he decided that CpE was too hard for him and got a degree in graphical design. We're working on a major project involving the same fansite!

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Thanks for publishing!!!

oh yeah, go postgres!!! ;)
Am I the only one who thought of a programming rather than an actual library?
That is a bad idea I think — SQLite locks the database while inserting data, obviously this is bad for a big application. I don't think it was designed for web apps with possibly hundreds of queries a second.
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Nobody noticed it, but it did what it wanted to do well. I honestly doubt Dziuba thought he had a smash hit with PressFlip. He just wanted something that did what it did well. (If he thought otherwise, then I agree with you wholeheartedly.)

And Uncov commenters always sucked. I just ignored them after a little while.
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Yeah. I can't see Facebook going down without a massive fight.
well, just as an example, ebay is struggling. they deserve to be toppled, and someone doing things right can topple them.

especially in this market, where people are probably looking to hock their stuff.
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I hate Firefox fanboys, and I'm an outspoken Uncov fan.

But this article was terrible. It sounded like a comedian ranting about airline food. It's been done before and better; give it a rest.
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It all looks good, but it's not stellar work. I think there's something to be said for design that pops out and sticks in your mind.
You are right. But "hundreds of queries a second" are fine if there're mostly _read_ queries.

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Sigh. If we ignore uncov, will it go away again?
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