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>this is a doomed biz model because it's not based on any real technology

Neither is Dairy Queen, but everyone knows if they want delicious vanilla soft server where they need to go. Likewise, millions of discount seeking customers know that a place to go to find discounts is Groupon.

Groupon is doomed if they can't get revenue above their operating costs. It has nothing to do with the technology they are based on.
The Qt Project is live
Cheap, simple and IP68. I'm quite happy with nearly every feature of my HTC Magic, apart from the build quality.
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If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out.
I followed these people on Buzz. If you unfollow them on Reader you also unfollow them on Buzz, or at least that's the way it used to work. If that's changed please let me know how to unfollow people on Reader without affecting Buzz or Plus.
Easier, I'd say. I was hoping "I deleted eery third paragraph" was going to be his response to "why isn't data mining on here?".
Thanks, beautiful stuff. (The music more than the editing facilities, though those were nice too.)
DreamHost is still down after 8 hours, not announces why
All Dreamhost (http://dreamhost.com) and its servers (shared, vps accounts) are apparently down for at least 8 hours. Nothing is announced on their Status Blog (http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/) and Twitter account.

DreamHost is doing this job for more than 12 years and such a huge outage should not be acceptable.
bad leadership?
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I'm actually more interested to read this, for several reasons:

Much of the "Steve Jobs story" is quite public already - it's stuff that you just can't help knowing. Reed, Wozniak, kicked out of Apple, Next, Pixar, etc... I'm sure the bio will have some new details, but the basic plot is pretty well known.

Jeff Bezos, OTOH, is someone I know relatively little about. Also, given that my nascent LiberWriter business deals with Kindle formatting, decisions those guys are making have a very real impact on me.
target="_blank" is horrible. It was a stupid thing in the beginning, and remains to be awful to this day.

If I want to open something in a new tab or window, I will do so, no website should tinker with my tabs and windows, be it opening new ones or anything else: it's none of its business. Opening a new tab without MY approval is about as bad as spying on other tabs or attempting to interfere with them in any other way.

Middle click and the open in new tab/window context menu option in most browsers is there for a reason, have been there for years, and most people I know (techies and non-techies alike) know how to use it, and was one of the first things they learned to use when they met with a web browser.
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Foursquare, AirBnB, Weebly (I believe they're in nyc too?).
There's also another way of making money from advertising: flat rate.

While I'm opposed to the idea of ads on HN, if it were to be implemented I can't imagine PG looking at CPI/CPC methods. Rather, I suspect advertising space would be 'rented' on a monthly basis for a much higher fee to technology companies, etc.

But I'll reiterate: I'm against advertising on HN for multiple reasons (poor revenue model for a community like this; there are better alternatives; I don't like them), and I would not be surprised if PG was too (although I've not way of knowing).
That's pretty much what my son has at his school here in Scotland.
Mandatory video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16U394NZSTk
Or as some would tell you:

Bitcoins are backed by gold.
Comedy gold.
I guess there will be huge demand not only as a standalone installation but also as wordpress/buddypress plugin. If it is well integrated with buddypress system people can also pay a few dollars for it. A news.[mysite].com can be useful for many niche community sites. The news/qa/discussion format of HN is a good way to engage members in constructive discussions.
Destructive security hacking isn't typically celebrated here either. Lock picking isn't destructive. The objection isn't the legality of it, but that you were stealing from a company in a couple of these cases.
Who is they? are you worried about not being able to access reader anymore because access to G+ may be blocked? That is interesting. Do you have trouble with the new share box on google search because it is a G+ product? Where are you from?
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Must be able to take a beating without falling apart, waterproof is also a definite plus. Must be able to carry it in a pocket with keys, spare change etc. without worrying about the screen getting scratched. A battery that gives me minimum of 2-3 days of 'regular' use between charges. Cost less than 3000 SEK (~$400) without any sort of contract or subsidies. And a manufacturer that is reasonably good about updating the OS even after it's more than a year old.

For what it's worth the Motorola Defy+ is probably the closest to my dream phone available at the moment.
Apple Store App knows when you walk into an Apple Store
Edit: thanks for the comments. I fixed the story title. I still think it's pretty 'sweet' (but not quite as 'magic' as the source title seemed to hint), but this is indeed app-specific, rather than iOS.
"A National Security Letter (NSL) is a form of administrative subpoena used by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and reportedly by other U.S. Government Agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. They require no probable cause or judicial oversight. An NSL is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or organization to turn over various record and data pertaining to individuals."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter

Also: "Note: According to facebook’s privacy policy, messages on facebook can not be deleted anymore. If you click on ‘delete’ the messages will only be invisible to you. US law enforcement agencies can access this information at their own liking, without judicial review."

http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html#Mes...
> Mixed in have been some cooler rainy days that feel out of place for the season.

Better get used to it. Seattle has many cool, overcast days (although, surprisingly less precipitation than Chicago or NYC) and is definitely known for its dreary weather. If you had a few sunny days in the Summer it was a damned good Summer.

As a former Seattleite (I was born there and lived there for many years) I understand where you're coming from, apropos the weather: but in all seriousness, learn to love it (or at least how to deal with it) because it's definitely a primary feature of life there. The good news is most of the time the weather is fairly mild, including the Winters. There generally isn't a lot of snow. But it will get cool (even cold) and you will have to deal with the weather never actually being insanely nice for most of the year.
Good points, well made - I'll be over to SF in Jan!
No one makes Dairy Queen soft serve but Dairy Queen. Everyone makes 50% time based group coupons.
I'll second the opinion that Seattle has a difficult social scene: it is hard to meet new people and the local culture doesn't seem to have adopted much of a nightlife.

When I lived there most recently I was having a hard time finding places that actually stayed open past 10. Naturally there's a few bars in downtown Seattle and some clubs but on the whole it's a little disappointing if you're in your 20s and looking to have a fun night.
beat me to it :) E-Myth is totally worth it for freelancers to read, and probably startups too. (I'm the former, not the latter, so I don't know)
The point was that Dairy Queen isn't based off some spectacular technology.

> Everyone makes 50% time based group coupons.

Everyone? That's silly. Do you mean the coupon market is saturated? I would agree. But Groupon is at the very top. How does that doom them?
Opening new browser windows has been on the Top 10 list of design mistakes of 1999:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html

I hate it, if the back button breaks. I know many people who use the back button as one of the main elements of the browser. I have been present several times, when somebody got really angry because of a broken back button. So I would recommend the following rule as best practice:

Don't ever break the back button!

It takes much work and creativity to make visitors love websites. We should not ruin that hard work by a silly design decision like target="_blank".

Also, the target="_blank" is a relic from the time of framesets. This time is over.
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I couldn't tell from the website: does NewsBlur have social features -- can you share items with friends (or even just publicly would also be enough), can you follow others' shared items, and post comments on them?
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Unfortunately it's almost impossible to move to these hot cities from many countries. Visa is really a problem. So we need to work hard to get our own local startup hub. I'm from Armenia.
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Oh, I've been using those default labels/tags for a long time already to mark emails for follow up and so forth. If I'm looking to use those tags to organize my email instead of folders, is there a way for Thunderbird to display a tag hierarchy instead of or along side all my existing folders?
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As Rudyard Kipling once put it: "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." The contemptuous dominance that England enjoyed in their home Test series against India is now being reprised in reverse in their one-day tour against the same opponents.
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Anyone could please paste the follow up here? All social networks blocked at my company.
Agreed. Growing competition, encouraged by low barriers to entry, no network effects, no strategic competitive advantage... They're looking for a valuation higher than that of the Campbell Soup Company. Would Andy Warhold have turned a Groupon coupon into pop-art? I don't think so.

Groupon could pivot its way into a more tech-focused strategy (see http://goo.gl/qi8xa for an example) but I doubt their management has the wit to do so.

I'll bet $1,000 that, over the next year, the Campbell Soup Company will prove to be a better investment than Groupon.
Of course, its viable to use Lua on a blackfin - what I meant was, what is your product? It sounds very interesting and I'd be happy to know of other examples of pro-audio gear using Lua and scripting languages in general, paired with a C/C++ core .. having built a few myself. :)
I was an assistant to a university sysadmin when I was in school. I always wondered why we bothered locking the computers themselves from being opened when it would have been exceedingly difficult to walk out of there with anything...

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I use SLIMV, but for Common Lisp. It works quite well most the time, and with fewer keystrokes than SLIME.
Better yet -

Allow reddit-style promoted posts on relevant subjects. Make them behave like those locked "XYZ is hiring" posts - start on top and drop a couple of positions per hour. Except allow the comments too. Limit the number of spots to one or two per day and auction them off.

That should greatly help with launching projects on HN, which seems to be an emerging trend that is not likely to be going anywhere soon.
Not working in IE6.

Edit: It's a joke.
There's reflowable PDF but when there are things like illustrations and tables, it gets really ugly and really useless really fast.
Google case study: Porting MAME to Native Client
MC Hammer on "deep search" eninge (Web 2.0 Summit 2011)
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Non-technical and want to start an Internet business, huh?
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Coming back to Humanity
It could be worse. I grew up in Seattle, and never made any friends until years after I'd moved away and finally realized it was possible.
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Everyone forgets about -o-animate :(
My point is this: physical access to the device does not normally mean Game Over.

Most theft is going to be opportunist. For most thefts my data is going to be protected by the encryption. So in most cases, I don't have anything bigger to worry about.
Just remember quality of life with these things.

I know this will be an unpopular opinion round these parts, but SF is not somewhere I'd ever chose to live. The bad points vastly outweigh the good points for me.
One common option to valuate the company is to take its estimated 5 year revenue. In your case, assuming 20% YoY growth it works out to 141K (20K + 24K + 29K + 35K + 41K), 45% stake buyout -> 67K.

YMMV, etc.
Well, the assertion of the report in the main article is that, in essence, the economy revolves around debt, in one form or another. Remember, debt and investment are two sides of the same coin: you can't invest in something without someone else ultimately owing you money (i.e., being in your debt). And U.S. treasury bills are an investment/debt instrument that's hugely important to a lot of people and institutions, particularly the financial institutions that form the base for most of the economy.

Another way to look at it is that it's not just government debt that's important; there have to be some people who owe other people money or the economy doesn't function. The normal process of business institution-building is founded on the idea of loaning money (again, we usually call this "investment," but it's debt at its base). A good way to think about it is that if you are debt free, that's good for you, but if everyone were debt free, we'd still be living in an incredibly primitive economy.
but it would, at the same time, infect so many important and popular sites on the whole web, I can't even imagine my sites being targeted.

Maybe, or maybe it's exploited to target only your site by detecting referrers and only serving your site malicious javascript. Thomas is correct in arguing to host your own.
Why density? Does density really matter? Isn't the absolute number more interesting because whatever be the chance of meeting an important (to your success) person, you have a bigger pool to pick from.

Case of city A: Say, there are 50,000 residents of which 500 are of interest. There's an event hosted and 25% of those "interesting" people show up. You, who's attending this event, have a pool of 125 people out of which, say 5% can help you AND you'll bump into. So chances are you'll meet 6 people. Density: 0.01.

Case of city B: 5,000 residents, 100 interesting, 25 show up, chances are you'll meet only 1 person. Density: 0.02 (double).
I'm pretty sure these studies have been debunked in the past. I tend to agree with the debunking, because the arguments against summer vacation always stand up a strawman with the assumption that "good parents" send kids to camp, take the summers off, etc.

None of my circle of friends went to camp. We played outside, hung out with grandparents, etc. My parents weren't teachers, so they didn't have summers off.

Personally, I lived for summer vacation until I was like 14. If you took that away, it would have negatively affected me, and many others.
A more important factor compared with density is, in my view, whether startups are the main game in town. This determines what kind of talent you can attract.

In London you are competing with cash flow oriented industries that will set expectations for the compensation mix, so you are in practice left with somewhat marginal people and not the best. This crowding out effect, compounded by the relatively small exits produced in the UK and an inferior work ethic compared to the US, explains why both founders and employees are less good on average than in some other startup hubs.

For the UK startup scene to really succeed we basically need to destroy the banks and agencies.
Contrary to what he wrote here, Steve actually has ragged on Amazon in the past, in particular in "Have You Ever Legalized Marijuana?" -- the imagery of Amazon doing things by burning through people like little tea-lights really stuck in my mind.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Turns out shipping with the slovenian post office is cheaper, only costs $0.61 internationally. And I might be able to arrange some sort of bulk discount eventually.

The printing is kind of cool, since it's digital you can do bulk discounts on large quantities of unique things.
Great work Chris. It's cool to be able to watch it all back. It was a well produced event.
Don't forget that your passcode/password also forms part of the decryption key. It's not quite as bad as you make it out to be.
Notable exceptions: "What would MacGuyver do?" and "What would Batman do?" work well in the right circumstances.
Government Bonds are not like equity. You could own every single Treasury Bond and still not have any claim of ownership. Obviously governments still try to appease the bond markets but that is not due to obligation, it is self interest.
The low score / failing the level, presumably
When you create a postcard, you aren't featured. The featuring only happens when you buy a postcard, which I guess means you're willing to send it out publicly etc. so it can't be that bad or too personal.

Sometimes I pick and choose cool cards for the frontpage regardless of being paid for.
Greece is a smoking ruin and getting worse. The UK was outperforming Ireland until the new UK government started swinging a chainsaw around in an ideologically-based austerity drive, and now its growth has vanished.

Ireland is improving (hello from Cork) in relative terms because it genuinely had nowhere further south left to go. 20% of the population is on the dole, property prices are down 60% from 2007 and are still falling, mobility of potential jobseekers has been curtailed by the fact that they can't sell up and move because their mortgages are worth twice what the house is.

We also took the old government out back and swung an axe into its head in February. The party of government for 80% of the entire history of Ireland as an independent state is now polling in fourth position. Its erstwhile coalition partner is within the margin of error of zero.

You cannot but imperil private sector growth by removing massive amounts of cash from the economy all at once[1]. Public employees spend that money they're paid.

[1. Please note use of phrase 'all at once'.]
How so? China owns ~10% of US treasury bonds, which makes them the largest single holder of Treasury Bonds. This does not mean they bought anything other than a promise for repayment at a stated rate.
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Generally, what someone will do is make a public post with their list of interest based circles, then ask people to reply stating which they'd like to be in. I agree though, this does tend to be rather awkward.
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-- Hmm... old-school chauvinism, or am I just imagining?
I have some better ideas :)
Promotion of dogma has become the objective of science
…Or feminism. It really depends how you read it and in which context you choose to place it.
Startups the main game in town; yup, it's a good point, and in Paul's essay he says that Silicon Valley is probably the only place where doing a startup is considered normal. In London it's absolutely not! London has a low density, but still in absolute terms the 3rd largest (by SD subscriber metrics) startup cluster in the world. The fact that startups are not the only game in town is both a positive and a negative. In Silicon Valley there is somewhat of an echo-chamber, and there really isn't anything but tech. London on the other hand is a huge city, the most multicultural on the planet, and can lay claim to being the centre of a number of important industries, including finance, media, music, fashion, etc. If you are doing a startup in any of those sectors Silicon Valley is probably not the most appropriate place to be.
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No, but Germany's is, and they've had extended periods of surplus.
I guess everyone is different, I love silicon valley for many things, the quality of life being one of them (and the weather). Maybe it's just me but I'm from a cold, wet and windy country called Scotland :)
This is how common profiling tools (such as gprof) actually work.

"Profiling also involves watching your program as it runs, and keeping a histogram of where the program counter happens to be every now and then."

"The run-time figures that gprof gives you are based on a sampling process, so they are subject to statistical inaccuracy."

-- http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/as/gprof.html#SEC11