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Am I understanding correctly that you consider reading about the occupy wall st. movement an "ordeal"?

If so, I think you tipped your hand and started on an (IMHO) uncivil note by calling it "ordeal".

Anyway, FWIW, I think it's about time Americans woke up to Wall St's rigging of the game in its own favour. When an ordinary homeowner is foreclosed, it's a teaching moment about "personal responsiblity", but banks should be bailed out because ...?

About the only good thing I can say about Wall St. is that entry to the top echelons doesn't seem to be hereditary.
Then I (and perhaps anyone with experience of the behavior of suicidal people) ought to be apologizing too. I'm glad Jason called for help, and think he did the right thing. I'd rather look a fool and check, than not check and regret it, and Jason looked like a fool so I don't have to.

(I also think it's sad that you think the loss of diveintopython.org, which is the one of the best Python references out there, is a non-story..)
He probably/hopefully/certainly also has friends and family that he interacts with on a day-to-day basis that, were he to actually-really-really disappear, would care about him and call the police. It is frankly kind of creepy/scary that a bunch of people he barely knows think it is their place to /call the police/ if he gets sick of the weird kind of attention you get from that kind of audience (and frankly reinforces the behavior of wanting to "go 410").
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thank god node.js was there to save me all that work.
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> Unwed parents are a disaster for both society and the kid(s). It's pretty much a guarantee of long-term poverty.

on what basis?

My partner and I had our 3 children out of wedlock. Who are you to say that unwed parents is a lock-in to food stamps and crime?

Next you'll be blaming unwed parents for the break down of the fabric of society.

You are way out of line.
Not to worry, I got plenty of free invites. I'll send them a few.
I work that way too, which leaves a lot of unfinished projects, because I do the hard/interesting stuff, and think "oh this is done, I just gotta do x, y and z which I'll wrap up later." Now I've started to set a check point before I start which must be crossed in order of my project to be finished.
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The article really jumps around industries and it largely ignores why free can be better than paid for certain segments of a market, or what type of economics drive a free model.

I don't think any airlines were seriously considering offering free flights based on ad revenues, nor are there any plans to offer a paid version of the Linux kernel source.

Free makes a lot of sense when the product you are delivering is eyeballs, the world is transitioning towards an abundance of natural resources, and towards a scarcity of attention. There are certainly exceptions to the trend but the macro trends are very clear, this is why even with insane oil prices Apple is a more valuable company than Exxon. Exxon provides resources, Apple provides a conduit for attention.

Even taking peak oil into account, there is only a certain price to which oil can go and after which we make a huge investment in another energy source. As we switched from whale oil to crude oil, we destroyed our whaling fleets and started building oil derricks.
Vic reports to the CEO, so Larry is the only "honcho" above Vic.
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Jason Scott, the guy whose twitter account that is and the guy who called the police, evidently knows Mark Pilgrim well enough to verify that he was talking to Mark because they were discussing a matter "only the two of them knew about".

That doesn't sound like "creepy Internet people Mark barely knows" to me.
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I offer a daily deal platform for anyone to start a hosted daily deal website, kind of like Shopify/BigCommerce for Groupon clones. Revenue is growing, and we are seeing some traction, but since most of our customers are first-time online business owners, they naturally have a harder time trying to make a profit. They have little clue about, say, SEO, email marketing, social media, etc. and are generally more easily disillusioned and dispirited (because of certain preconceived notions about how easy it is to make money online).

The problem with my business model is that I can't be profitable unless my customers are profitable (and rightfully so). A lot of times I feel that I can offer some help (e.g. by reminding them that selling something people want is more important than a perfect web design or that building an opt-in email list is usually more important than building Twitter followers), but we are a platform provider, not an advisor/consultant. A landlord can only do so much to ensure that his tenants are making money and thus able to pay rent every month.

I think it was Paul Graham that said that startups shouldn't sell to startups and, if they do, bad things happen. My question is how do companies like Shopify, Volusion, and other ecommerce platforms out there tackle this problem? How do they make sure that their customers do well -- apart from improving their platform, which they have already been doing all the time?
Not at all, though I did leave out that I am insuring myself, my wife our child. This doesn't include the deductible of $10,000 out of pocket per year.
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The moment I saw the rent was $850 per month I laughed out loud, because my brother makes minimum and lives in a $400 per month setup with apartment mates (who he found on Craigslist). And this is in Massachusetts in a city. I had to stop playing the game shortly after that since it too strongly ruined the suspension of disbelief.
I imagine you're a single white male under the age of 30 with no prior health issues.

I'm insuring a family (wife & child) as well as myself which drives up the cost. If I were to leave them uninsured then I would pay $0 out of pocket.
Exactly! Stickiness and the time spent on the site were problems that the owner talked to me about.

The bounce rate is about 73% and the time spent on the site is a little over 1 minute. Is that good, bad?

The site is structured much like a web-portal was back in the days. There's a TON of content on the front page which then leads further into the site.

The owner has been trying to keep visitors on the site by adding a forum, competitions, slideshows etc. There's no blog but he does have quite a following on the newsletter.

The ~750,000 unique visits (as it stated in Google Analytics), does that mean unique visitors or unique visits as in say 1 person visiting 750,000 times?

I'm not completely sure as to what numbers advertisers care about?

Thanks again for your replies!
This was a project Mark worked on his employer's time. Thats why it is different.
So they're allowing us to store our data in encrypted form, but they keep the encryption key, and will decrypt requests for the data?

How exactly will this protect my data?
I guess you and I have opposite experiences with Java vs .NET, but I am relatively inexperienced in the .NET arena and am willing to concede the point here.

I am not however, inexperienced with Scala or with programming languages in general. I was very serious about Scala. There is nothing ambiguous or hard-to-understand about Scala's syntax. If a couple of underscores or inferred parenthesis throw you off then I seriously doubt your ability to read source code effectively.

I mean, really. Interchangeability of "()" and "{}" bothers you? Making them interchangeable, along with currying, lets you invoke higher order functions in a way that is much more natural looking than what you can do in C#. The Scala code often looks identical to Ruby's blocks, which, as a second witness, most people also find to be a far more pleasant syntax than the equivalent Python code..

Can you really not, when you see "call(_,_)", parse it in your head as its more verbose C#-like equivalent, "(a,b) => call(a,b)"? If you can read the C# version, there is no reason you can't just as easily read the Scala one.

Is it so hard for you to see that "list filter pred sum" is equivalent to list.filter(pred).sum()? Scala is actually simplifying and unifying the language with this rule. Whereas most languages handle arithmetic operators specially, Scala can treat 1 + 2 + 3 literally as 1.+(2).+(3), which means that + is just a normal method!. In this sense, Scala is simpler and easier to grok than almost any other mainstream language!

And, Scala's IDE support, which is supposed to be fairly good at this point, has no bearing on the topic of conversation. Finally, There is nothing exciting to hope for in Ceylon or Kotlin compared to Scala. It looks like, in terms of language advocacy, we are direct enemies!
Dart applications will render on a full size Canvas using the browser 2D and 3D APIs. Beautiful UIs, via a top notch OO widget set library...

Whenever this is suggested in JS (e.g. Bespin), massive flamage ensues. The phrase "it's no better than Flash" tends to get thrown around.

..."image" which is another Smalltalk / Lisp concept rarely seen these days...

Because most programmers are deathly allergic to it. It may be irrational, but that doesn't matter. Images, we hates them. You can't even git 'em on GitHub.

The rest seems really optimistic.
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While I don't agree with this agreement, I don't see any particular problem keeping the negotiations and drafts secret. I mean, the final deal is obviously made public (otherwise there would be no way of enforcing that countries abide by it), but I don't think the negotiators needs to disclose every thought they brainstorm. It would create a lot of public and political pressure on the negotiators and instead of trying to reach something that every country can agree on, they'd be trying to appease domestic lobbyists.
> Now just to find some way to buy the book ...

Library.
In my experience - admittedly, I haven't been keeping detailed notes - 99.9% of the elevator close buttons that I have pushed have done absolutely nothing: the doors just wait the default interval before closing.
The open buttons always stop the doors closing, but the close buttons: no response.
Perhaps it's country specific, or company specific.
But most people know this, and don't press them. The button is irrelevant and ignored. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about airport security: irrelevant but unfortunately cannot be ignored.
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Dang, I had gone the last two years but was rejected this time around. The rejection was a bit surprising as my startup is much further along. I guess YC figured I should have learned startups by now. :)

More seriously, does anyone know how the criteria worked this year? Did it hurt ones' chances to be a part of a VC backed startup, as ycom was trying to get more novice entrepreneurs who could benefit more? My cofounder did get in: were there limits on number of attendees from each company?
Firstly, let me point out that I am responding to jerrya, not Jason Scott (whom I have also interacted with on a few occasions, and is a friend-of-a-friend enough that when I heard about this mess I turned to someone else in the room and asked them about what was up).

"Mark is goddamn lucky and should be both embarrassed and grateful that he's enough of a character that a chunk of the internet cares about him"

I believe that statement belies a general mentality that I run into constantly: I myself have "disappeared" a few times, for less than 72 hours, because I decided to "take a weekend off" (attending a concert, for example), and I /did not appreciate/ that a ton of people on Twitter seemed to think that meant that I had "died", and insinuated calling the police to find me.

Regardless, to respond now to your comment regarding Jason: they apparently aren't close enough for Jason to a) call Mark directly, b) call someone in Mark's family, c) call any of Mark's friends, or d) have any clue what happened to Mark other than to "[call] his local PD for a welfare check", which to me indicates they aren't really close at all.

Seriously: having something "only the two of them knew about" isn't actually that rare: I've only talked with the man (Jason) a couple times, and yet I bet I could pass that test as well.
HTTP 411, I suggest.
If it's Facebook, maybe.
Radians made no sense to me - until I found out the relationship to PI and then it's a much more natural was of describing angle - especially if you use Tau.
Here's an example URL where your "Grab it!" button doesn't work. You really need to make sure the z-index makes it on top of everything else on the page!

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It would seem that they know each other:

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Yes, but ssi is different - it is basically forced savings with a twist, not taxes.

The twist is that the less you contribute, the higher your return.
He'd specifically rigged his servers to return 410 Gone, a status code an aside in one of his most famous works equates with the Impermanence of life.

It's not a huge stretch to follow that train of thought to the notion that his actions amounted to a somewhat obscure suicide note. And giving away your stuff/deleting accounts en masse/shutting your life down is a fairly classic behavior among suicidal individuals.
As much as I love _why, and Mark, it looks to be more of an exception than the rule. _Many_ hackers are comfortable with being 'public', each with their own quirks. Off the top of my head, DHH, Ryan Dahl, Zed Shaw, etc.
I think it's designed to stop someone driving a tank into the datacenter and making off with the hard drive.
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This doesn't make sense to me. Is there any example of a way Mark could have not been okay in a way that is helped by people on the internet tracking him down? Clearly his material was intentionally taken down.. short of "silenced by the gubbermint", I'm not sure how tracking him down could help. It seems more like voyeurism..
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Just have to say I love this quote:

But intellectual stimulation fades with time because as one of my teachers once told me "if it's still exciting in 10 years time it's because you don't know what you're doing".
410 Gone (but alive/annoyed) is the new 200 OK.
So... The Start Menu needs to die, therefore make it a whole frigging screen instead of a popup menu.

Very similar to the New Explorer thing: most people don't use 80% of explorer menu features, so put them in the ribbon where they take up even more space.

I don't get this line of reasoning.
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It's great that you're providing a stable home, however that's the exception for unwed parents. Typically, the father wanders off and provides no support. None of the mother's options at that point are as good as a stable marriage/long-term relationship with the kid's father.

That's how the statistics work out. We can argue about why that happens, but it's absurd to suggest that it doesn't.

Parents' choices, and having kids is almost always a choice, have consequences.
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That man knows how to flounce. Much respect.

I should note that the concern isn't without merit. If you read Howard Rheingold's "The Virtual Community" which is one of the earliest discourses on Internet and online community, the concept of "virtual suicide" isn't new.

http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html

In this case, someone created a tool to eradicate their online identity, then did the same in real life.

I've had this issue twice in my 16 years of running Murmurs.com. In one case, the person was in chat on a Sunday and threatened suicide before deleting all her posts. We had to track down her university police department and they found her on the lawn outside her dorm overdosing on sleeping pills.

The other was more sad. The guy disappeared and posts were removed. Only later did we find that he had left his suicide note on Flickr. He was Norwegian and we had to do a lot of digging to find more info. In the end his mom emailed me a very poorly translated English message, and it was heartbreaking.

The moral is: I don't think there was any over reaction. This pattern has precedent and not a good one. I've never felt that in my 16 years of doing online community work I've ever over-reacted when I saw this behavior transpire.

In one case we saved someone's life, and in the other we didn't.
Agreed, this is more of an item to check off on a list than an actual, meaningful feature. It's the kind of thing that some exec who doesn't understand the details will take comfort in, even though at the end of the day the benefit is minimal.

The only way to do this safely is to do the encryption yourself prior to uploading to S3 and manage the keys yourself.
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Haha, HN never appreciates irony
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They're already trying to appease domestic lobbyists; making the process public would risk them having to satisfy the public, and since no part of this has any correlation with the public interest...
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It is Mark Pilgrim's right to disappear, but to disappear in a puff of greasy black smoke and 4̶0̶4̶s̶ 410s is just attention whoring and begging people to look for him and call the police.

Come on. If I could, I would downvote you to hell. Seriously? You think nobody has a right to delete stuff they put there? They do not have the choice to lose interest in one thing and considering that maintaining it is a liability "take care of it" the old fashioned way? How can you be annoyed that a guy is annoyed that people sent a police car in front of his house. That is just the most ridiculous thing I heard since this morning.
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> I can understand how, as a fanboy of something that was criticized

Can you define "fanboy" for me, please? I don't know what it means.

> Actually, you opened this comment by personally attacking Ted

I wasn't attacking Ted. Actually, my heart really does go out to him. I mean, he's a human being, right? Could you imagine living with such a crippling psychological disorder? Just think of it. The pain, the emptiness. The worst part is that he's almost certainly too proud to ask for help. It's tragic.

> I think the most likely reason that you would contradict in such an obvious way something you just wrote is that you don't have a great deal of working memory.

Sorry, I lost you like a third of the way through that sentence.
As an impartial bike commuter who has his ride home interrupted by both Dreamforce and Oracle World (both shut down Howard st between 3rd and 4th - I hate them both equally), I can say that the quality of the Oracle World tents and displays are _far_ nicer than Dreamforce's.

So there's that.
B-b-but they have my keys stored in that datacenter !
Sadly there are only a handful of folks who get to be astronauts in each generation -- so your odds are much better for YC since they pick a new batch every year.
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This is an 'enterprise-friendly' feature - the appearance of thorough security ("all our data is stored with AES-256 encryption") with only a nominal increase in actual security.

Just think: there will be AWS accounts using this while their master AWS console account continues to have a single-dictionary-word password and no MFA. Truly the Cloud is the silver bullet to save us all from shoddy CIOs!
Hm...

Bunch of people with limited social skills or sanity, in a virtual desert, having flame-wars with strawmen?

Sounds like burning man.
Funny - Apple recently announced a major free initiative - iCloud and other new free initiatives are popping up in other industries - look at what Stanford and MIT are doing in making some parts of education free.

The one thing that connects all the examples offered (except possibly Amazon) is that the firms listed are old, entrenched players in industries facing real challenges to their basic business models. The companies listed are digging in their heels (and hooks), billing customers rather than driving real innovation.
Salesforce is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $16B, with $2B in annual revenue.

The gap between the reality of their place and power in the market they enjoy, and the commentary here is ... surprising.
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