skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question is “is that enough?” So if Google’s P/E is a 19.51 Facebook will IPO with a P/E of around 100. Ok that seems like a lot, right? Not really when you consider that linkedin has been trading at a P/E of 1,429.39. Purely on the social media craze. They in essence have been Riding coattails of facebook because they have been the biggest social based company that investors could get their hands on. So my prediction is a 300% increase on facebooks stock price on the first day of trading. Regardless if I think that valuation is justified or not, which I don’t.
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This reminds me of the whole Curebit debacle from this weekend. Is outright copying of design/creative/game mechanics illegal? Maybe, maybe not. Is it wrong? Hell yes!

What makes me really sad is thinking about how many talented engineers and designers there are working at companies like Zynga, doing a kick-ass job of building clones for companies with no values.
You're definitely the right amount of upset about this.

Maybe, just maybe, the lack of all the things you mentioned is an indication that this is not intended for you at this point?

Are you trying to do an ironic troll thing on a thread about trolling? If so, you got me :)
Awesome--really like the subtle positioning differences. It definitely makes your platform much more appealing to designers/merchants. I also think its great too how you're focusing specifically on looks that can be easily obtained and not aspirational purchases ($5k handbags, etc.). Good luck!
Ask HN: How do you make interesting product marketing videos?
I want to make an interesting product introduction video on a bootstrap budget. I could obviously just screen capture and talk, but I'm hoping somebody has some interesting insights on inexpensive ways to produce something like this better. Do you have any tools you use? Are there any product introduction videos you've seen that you really liked? What do you think makes a good product video?
Amazon's P/E is 130. I know the hype over Facebook will make them more expensive than Amazon.
I didn't mean to say that (but I guess it looks like I did). Obviously there are other ways if singnalling receipt of a bad message (throwing exceptions for instance). METHOD_MISSING seems more natural to me at least.

What I meant to say is that in REST, the set of messages to which an object will respond is a function of the object's current state. With SOAP, a URL endpoint always takes the same set of messages (until the code is rewritten or something).
This is cool.

> The examples above all relate to engineering, but we have distilled these principles into five core values for how we run Facebook...

They are reconciling the business/management style well known in the hacker community with the traditional need for big businesses to have vision statements, guiding principles, etc. etc.

As Ries says,

> It is a 21st-century manifesto for a new way of doing business.

Cool.
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This is also happening to me as well. I had to "ps x | grep java" then killed the appropriate pid to close the program.
See a doctor, preferably a neurologist, soon?

I think I remember reading (probably in some Oliver Sacks book) that deja vu can have an organic basis.
I imagine screen-sharing may most often be for text and application windows.
Here's how my startup ended up using Stripe:
After being told by Paypal I couldnt use Paypal at all (due to my business model being a violation of their Acceptable Use Policy) and then more recently Braintree telling me I could only process low number transactions (less than $250), Im happy to say that http://www.sponsorist.com now processes payments with Stripe.
I have no personal history, but both Ross Perot, Sam Wiley and Charles Wiley quit jobs at IBM in the 60's because IBM was not interested in their side projects.

The guy at http://www.rohdesign.com had a boss who supported his side project.
Clean.

Small bug: when you click on a username it should go to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xxx, not http://news.ycombinator.com/users?id=xxx
Facebook spent $68 million on acquisitions last year
Zero conversions from 200k uniques? Are you sure your conversion tracking isn't broken?
> #4 - "Facebook user growth and engagement on mobile devices depend upon effective operation with mobile operating systems, networks, and standards that we do not control;"

Interesting. While the other points are gloomy-doomy and a bit vague, this one lends itself to a concrete solution, doesn't it?
join.me does not support Linux.
Or a Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mike Bloomberg..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
Facebook is horrible for any kind of direct sale, the ads I see are rarely trying to sell anything directly. More people are trying to build page followings, give something free with an up sale, are attempting to sell something that can be seen as making the customer money or selling services with big margins (wedding based services comes to mind).
"Note: If the relevant parameter name space has conventions about associating parameter names with those who create them, a parameter name could incorporate the organization's name or primary domain name"

"4. SHOULD identify a convention to allow local or implementation-specific extensions, and reserve delimeters for such uses as needed."

As has been mentioned by another commenter[0] these parts invite the drawing of parallels to CSS vendor prefixes.

e.g. -moz-/-ms-/etc...

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3540150
"“Move fast and break things.” The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re probably not moving fast enough."

This explains the API timeline.
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Out of curiosity, do you think this is because Google users were searching for something like your products, and FB users weren't? Or do you think it was something else?
I've had pretty good conversion from Facebook traffic, you do need to spend more time optimizing Facebook ads to get high converting traffic though. You'd expect Google to convert better than FB because presumably the google keyword search were transactional as opposed to passive traffic, but not at that ratio.

Were you doing multi-channel tracking ? - it's much more important when you're going after passive traffic sources in general.
If only it supported a platform my clients actually use.
Somebody forgot to support unicode :)
No. A simple search of their site will yield that information to you. It's people who log into the site, either mobile or web.
I found this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
Facebook actually has a big advantage there, in that it has a huge amount of personal data and verified phone numbers for it's users. It can use that data to prevent fraud.
Great Product !
What about the API ? And Screen recording ?
I love to be in Germany! Mixed saunas, some nude beaches, no problem quickly changing clothes on the beach or in the summer on the pool, nude scenes in tv series, the French game Indigo Prohecies is called Fahrenheit here and has some sex scenes.

It's so relaxed!

On the other hand, unfortunately I have to get all my games from amazon.co.uk so I don't have to pay extra money to amazon Germany to check my age when buying video games :-(
On reading the article you would note in the second paragraph that two of the backers are Paypal cofounders. That would lead us to expect Stripe do have a big clue about the fraud issues.

It will only be later that we'll find out what happens behind the scenes. For example Paypal works wonderfully right up until they decide to hold your funds while they investigate. Stripe will probably end up doing something similar and also have similar collateral damage (false positives).

The Stripe FAQ includes a chargeback section which would cover the other likely scenario - people claiming not to have received the item/never made the transaction/it wasn't what they ordered etc.
ECC corrects single bit errors and detects multi-bit errors.

Why should you care? Well, if you are lucky, the machine crashes. If you are unlucky, it keeps running, and that bad data gets written to disk, or causes a cumulative error in some calculation, and you never know about it.

With the size of memories these days, chances of a corrupted memory are not exactly a rare occurrence.

I don't know enough about Riak, but a cluster is only going to help if key data structures are themselves checked for consistency across the cluster.
As a current Stripe customer we built our whole subscription billing system on their clever invoice_ready webhook, but this new way looks a lot more robust. Win!
For once I agree with Scoble: HTML5 is not a panacea
This is absolutely the most refreshing outlook there has ever been from a public company. It truly is amazing that Facebook still has the hacker mentally. I'm confident their stock will do extremely well in there years to come.
I assume you mean Windows?

http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/WindowsSupport

Builds track weekly and with Go 1 coming up, it's a moot issue anyhow.
Ive been having alright sleep, but ive had de ja vus often as a kid, im only 19, ive came to the conclusion that they do appear in dreams, its the source of de ja vus, im going to ride it out another day see what happens then ill see a doctor, but its kinda interersting
This, and the empirical experiences of many, many, many other online forums dating to Usenet days, are a direct refutation of Metcalfe's law: the value of a network does not scale with the number of nodes, all nodes do not contribute equally to the value of a network, and many nodes are in fact a net negative in terms of contribution to the network. Interactions between negative nodes can further degrade network value (e.g.: flamewars, retaliatory attacks, etc.).

There's a modification to Metcalfe's law which suggests that the value of additional nodes degrades with time (Odlyzko &Tilly, "A Refutation of Metcalfe's Law" http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.ps)

I'd argue that Odlyzko and Tilly are optimists.

And that any comments architecture which relies on Metcalfe's Law is fundamentally flawed.

You can either arbitrarily restrict who has access to your network (Usenet and ARPANET worked well when they were limited to defense, edu, and a handful of tech companies), or find a scalable and subversion-resistant moderation system which leverages your community to enact filtering. Scaling slowly means you've got a better chance of maintaining community cohesion ("September effect" & "Eternal September").

And remember Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

(Sturgeon was also an optimist).
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Apartheid doesn't seem to slow them down.
Starting with the unsigned editorials.
Moneris is a huge pain and hassle for a small tech business.
I was more thinking iOS and Android. Though I haven't investigated weather or not it could use the NDK.
You know. That letter made me dislike Facebook a little bit less. I'm still averse to having an account on it, but those reasons aren't AntiFacebook, they're anti-people that might abuse Facebook, but I don't see FB as such a bad thing anymore.

[edit: Addendum: That said, you have posted that same link 3 times... once is enough, there are other things to say here]
I think you're mostly there. Maybe just say "inside your browser". That conveys the wonderful ease of use that you've managed to implement.
This might be of some interest:

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I wonder whether it's something that only benefits from the economies of scale available to money. That is, can entrepreneurs benefit from copying? Is it democratic?
I don't see any reason why SOAP can't support dynamically changing sets of procedure calls. Furthermore, I think that is a bad idea since it will break backward compatibility. No amount of web-buzzwording will get around that problem.
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Gah, instructions fail. These are FULLTIME or INTERN.
> Using REST over a real network is not equivalent to object-oriented programming. Don't be asinine.

Okay. I'll let Alan Kay argue the exact same point then.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521

The whole video is worth watching but the relevant part starts at 43:00. This video was made three years before Fielding submitted his dissertation.

(note: this isn't an appeal to authority fallacy since he's making an actual argument.)
Facebook will never grow revenue to 10x (matching Google) by continuing to sell display advertising on its own site.

However, it knows so much about users and keeps them logged in, so it definitely has potential to serve highly targeted or viral campaigns everywhere else on the web and mobile apps, a much better version of adsense.

Secondly, it is involving itself deeply in to user's habits and eventually may make a big play in to e-commerce, getting a cut out of every transaction made by the user (while frictionlessly sharing the information, of course). Credits is just in its infancy.

Finally, its learning so much about user's habits on the web that it can do a better job than Google at search, and make a killing on search ads.

If all this happens, $100B is a bargain.
If you disagree with this statement I'd suggest you comment explaining why rather than just down-voting. Speaking as someone who bought over 35 million ads on Facebook last year, it's pretty evident that there's a mismatch between what Facebook are doing in practice and their view of what they're doing as portrayed by their SEC filing.
Horseshit.

The similarity between SimTower/YootTower (same developer/designer!) and TinyTower is that they both have towers; the differences is basically everything else. Zynga's game is basically identically TinyTower with no other elements or changes.
Ah, my mistake. I know that you can build ARM binaries with Go, you ought to be able to invoke those from the NDK.

/r/golang had a link to this a while back, re: Go on iOS: https://groups.google.com/group/golang-dev/browse_thread/thr...

Looks like the iOS port requires a bit of work on cgo support for arm/linux before a proper iOS app can be made. Without the cgo shim it seems the app can't run more than 10 seconds, though the benchmarks are quite good.
Per the S-1 filing, Facebook did $1 billion dollars in net revenue in 2011.

A valuation of $80-$100 billion dollars after the IPO would mean Facebook would be trading at 80 to 100x earnings.

Facebook is going to need to see some serious growth to continue to command a PE ratio like that long term. Serious Growth
this is AMAZING
> on one smart platform

I'm hoping that the undoubtedly huge share price of Facebook after its IPO convinces investors to invest in other similar platforms.

Facebook will make a mint (for its founders and early investors, at least) but it can only benefit from the "first mover" advantage for so long.

I don't have anything against Facebook per se, but I'd like to see much more competition in this market. The social graph needs to move outside Facebook's walled garden and into the public domain.
Why is this surprising at all?
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I'm not sure it's that black & white. I don't love the argument I'm about to make, so feel free to counter it:

The only tangible I can sense with content (code, media, etc) is how it's provided, and that means that service is the entirety of our business. Zynga isn't producing original content, but they are producing a valuable service. Do I think it's ethical? No way. But should it be illegal? Not unless you want to limit how we can use data.
Ah, thanks, I didn't know I could get it on iTunes, even though I avoid installing it... I know I'll need XCode, I just wanted to see what ObjC is like.
FWIW, I think I've got it fixed now. It was a third-party javascript issue and the way our code was interacting with it.
Two questions:

1. Right now my screen share app of choice is TeamViewer. You could own this space if screen control was added, very easy to setup and use.

2. Monetization strategy? Are you looking to monetize this app?
I get inspiration from Adam Lisagor, his videos are online at http://sandwichvideo.com/. He uses people in his product videos, not just the product. They have a very personal feel, which definitely reaches me. Of course, he has more than a bootstrap budget, but if you want to try filming people, check out The Frugal Filmmaker's blog for tips on setting up lighting, etc. on the cheap http://filmflap.blogspot.com/. Good luck!
Actually, to give credit where it's due, I just downloaded the 2.0 release and it seems like things are much better. Still not at the point I'm describing, but at least the end classes aren't littered with @gray declarations.
Great product.. This disrupts all of the clunky screen sharing products I have used in my tech life. Dare I be bold and state this may be the Dropbox of screen sharing.
I find that difference really, really great. Building a business around paparazzo photographies is creepy as hell to me and makes me feel like a private detective for visiting a site like that. It's like reading an opposition file on a politician.

It'll probably also make celebrities more likely to help you out.
This is very well done. Where are you guys based?
You should replace "K" with ,000 it's not clear that you're talking about dollars and not # of signatures or something.
> I don't see any reason why SOAP can't support dynamically changing sets of procedure calls. Furthermore, I think that is a bad idea since it will break backward compatibility. No amount of web-buzzwording will get around that problem.

Of course enclosing a message in a SOAP envelope does not preclude RESTfulness. If the set of messages to which an object responds is a function of its current state then it's RESTful (or at least lead to a RESTful design).
I can't remember the source, but I'm sure I read somewhere that programming languages are either too large or too small...
Did you wonder why people from Syria and North Korea might actually want to visit that website?

I found the figure mentioned of 100 visitors from North Korea daily pretty amazing to be honest. I checked my own site stats and though there are visitors from 183 countries not one is from North Korea.

Pirate bay is not just movies. You can download plenty of books from it for free, university textbooks, philosophy, whatever.
I am not interested in what Alan Kay has to say. I asserted that you specified a bunch of design constraints. You did. You tried to counter by pointing out that it's just OO design. However, I'm not interested in arguing over what categories things fit into. The point is that the network imposes limitations and you often need a domain-specific design to get around them. For example, HTTP is awful for soft real-time applications.
Ask HN: What are some examples of good APIs?
With the recent talk on APIs and RESTful interfaces, I am curious to hear the community's experiences with APIs in the wild. What makes one API good as contrasted with another? What are the qualities one looks for in an API?
It requires Java. Enough said.
Basically the way I feel right now is that any employee associated with Zynga is just as much a slimy douchebag as is Pincus.
Any chance at offering this through SSL in the future? Or does the transmission already go through SSL?
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A Facebook mobile ad network would be huge. Mobile publishers are already suffering with low eCPMs, so they are hungry for new solutions. Showing brands/banners is one thing, but showing mobile app ads is another.

Since a lot of mobile apps have some type of Facebook integration (ie: a Facebook app id), Facebook has a good idea of who has what apps installed and they can serve up apps that are relevant to the user both on the interest graph and the data of what other mobile apps they have installed.

Wouldn't be surprised to see them move into mobile advertising hard in 2012/2013.

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That was agonizing to watch. He spends way too much time on tiny details and adjustments before even knowing if the basic layout is going to work.
"Cloud Player is an application that lets customers manage and play their own music. It's like any number of existing media management applications. We do not need a license to make Cloud Player available."

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In the following article[1], an intellectual property lawyer indicates that Amazon's move is on unclear legal ground.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/03/music-industry-wil...

Your assertion that all copying is illegal is also false, as found in SCOTUS's refusal to hear the Cablevision case in 2009.

In addition, in the UMG vs. MP3.com decision the problem was that MP3.com was doing the copying. The judge made a clear distinction between what MP3.com was doing and time and space shifting, which are closer to what cloud storage services are doing.
Consider that in 1996, there were far fewer people on the internet/web. It doesn't really make sense to compare absolute revenue numbers. Growth rates and revenue per user would probably be more interesting.
Except the C++ dragon rears its head. How do you build an intelligent Maybe or Either type in C++? Should they be value types containing unions? You can’t use “non-trivial” types in unions till C++11, and a lot of people haven’t yet upgraded. Referential types with dynamic allocation? How do you transfer ownership? Are “Left” and “Right” subtypes of “Either”? It’s ridiculous.
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