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True statement. But only if the analysis was that easy... Yes, if that can continue but the 200m valuation is much more complicated than applying a 3x multiple on 73m earnings.

You have to model out and do a churn and fatigue analysis to get to your top-line volume potential over time (meaning, games like this for example, my friends who used to play 3 hours a day now play 30 minutes a week or just stopped playing... this is in a span of 3 weeks of playing!). What goes up can go down. Of course Robryan makes a great point about potential synergies but I would imagine synergies can't be that great. Who plays these games that haven't played angry bird or other zynga games? Only a subset of the population would be incremental new users.

What is the average churn rate per week/month?
What is the avg user's playing time per month and trend (trend should go down over time) and one or both of the variables drop by 25-50% more than offsetting any new users added. Then that 2-3 year payback period to break even now turns into 4-5-6 years. So then would this game be still popular at all for that many years? Maybe. I don't know.

What I was pointing out was if somehow some new drawing game like my absurd example becomes more popular over the next 2-4 years then it's got a lot more binary risk embedded in that 200m valuation that most investors are not thinking about or priced in.

Now, I don't know how many people are paying members v. ad members. That may help / not help their case.

Hope that clears up any lack of clarity that I provided in my previous post!
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And then there was one more April fool's day link
In the small-town instance, while everyone knew your business, you also generally knew both who every was, and what their business was.

The illusion of social networking is that you're performing in front of a window such that you can see who's viewing you. You're not. You're performing in front of a two-way mirror -- others can see in, but you cannot see out. You can only view their own two-way mirrors.

The telling bit for me is that the companies who are most interested in sucking down personal information, Facebook, but even moreso Google, put extreme controls over outward flows of their data.
There is selective pressure beyond simply "Does this individual get to reproduce?" For example, if unhealthy people are less able to care for their kin, that can put their genes at a disadvantage.
Bullshit. The article offers a couple of anecdotes to support the argument. There are thousands of talented designers looking for work. The problem is a lot of startups are unwilling to invest in good creative. Good designers cost money. I'm a designer and get peppered with requests for work. However I get offered peanuts. One startup looking to compete with Flow was only willing to pay $1000 for a website design, another wanted a logo done for $60. If you're a startup and you believe in your product, back yourself and back good creative.
I think the crypto behind this is valid; weaknesses would be in implementation or in bypassing it.

There isn't anything inherently browser based about this.

I'm not a huge fan of browser based security (I know just enough appsec to be terrified).

If they had an API, it would be fun to do a secure mobile client for it (I trust iOS security way more than PC browsers..). There is less point when you have a client (just as easy to build some kind of key server with locally stored keys), but being able to send messages to future users is a nice trick.)

It looks like an interesting use of HSMs. I'm curious if they do real crypto in the HSM or just use it to protect a bootable VM. If it is just a VM, there are a lot more attacks possible.
This one isn't! http://www.leadstopper.com
Even after clicking it, make sure to stay on the page for awhile, it gets more interesting.
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I agree, though empirically so far, "computational thinking" has been the most successful of the various phrases coined for versions of this concept.

I personally prefer "procedural literacy". "Procedural" still has some potentially scary connotations, but is as least not specifically about computation. The idea is that the general skill of thinking in terms of sequences and processes and systems is a kind of literacy to be fluent with, and that that's not really the same as knowing how to program in particular. But somehow "computational thinking" has garnered more press and institutional support, despite being coined several years later.

This paper has a nice history of procedural-literacy-esque proposals (disclaimer: written by my grad-school advisor): http://dm.lcc.gatech.edu/~mateas/publications/MateasOTH2005....
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> In your shoes, I'd look for a company where everybody is involved in product research, strategy, and prioritization.

Speaking as one member of a three-person startup which is struggling to operate like this, I'm skeptical that such a company can work well. Three opinionated co-founders is a crowd; I can't imagine that having more would help. It might work in a case where there is a clear vision is which is shared by all members, but then the product development would already be more-or-less done.

There needs to be one founder or maybe two, who can lead the team by earning their trust. Loyal team-members will work like dogs; without that trust/loyalty (which again, needs to be bought or earned) you're herding cats.

The GP should find a compatible co-founder. With three co-founders (in our case at least), shipping a product is like stuffing three cats into one wrapped gift box.
...I'm so – honestly – puzzled by this that I'm wondering if you're trolling me or I'm misreading it or something. But I'll answer at face value:

Without idealism, where do you think my disappointment in the community would come from?
No objection to your second paragraph but I think your first is precisely wrong. It's not a new dress code, same as the old dress code. It's the side effect of a shift in economic relations.

Last year a video surfaced on HN about technical founders in the 1970s who would end up with 2% of their companies after taking investment. From there to, say, Zuck controlling Facebook and wearing hoodies because he likes hoodies is just a massive, massive change. It's happening for historical reasons. And to the extent that Silicon Valley is the avant-garde of the economy at large and YC the avant-garde of the valley, we can project where the trend is headed.

A commenter said that Buckminster Fuller preferred informal attire but couldn't get away with it in his day. Technical/creative people haven't changed. What's changed is the balance of power shifting toward them.

But the point's not really about clothes, and I feel like the heart of Jason's post got lost in this discussion. You should be who you are, that is, who you really feel yourself to be, because to fake it for the sake of others' approval is to give up your strength and the best things about you. That puts you in a weakened position. Are you going to do as good a job articulating yourself that way? I doubt it. But suppose it works and you get investment from people who wouldn't approve of you otherwise. Then what? Is that a good place to be?

Maybe the dude in the story was secretly looking forward to finally getting to wear fancy shoes and a crisp shirt - in that case, more power to him. But the story was premised on the idea that he didn't really want to.
I would love to see them compete with Amazon.
Perfect topic for me to post on... as apparently I'm hell banned. My previous posting is invisible (even from same IP address). As usual, YCombinator Hacker News is a total joke... even in a thread where, as a hellbanning victim, my opinion is probably the single most informed. :-)

I love YCombinator Hacker News. It's so unbiased, open discourse, and balanced. :-)

-18 "karma" is hellban territory.
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Part of me wishes this were real. Make it happen, extension authors!
You seem to have an odd idea of how evolution works. If it were the way you seem to think, we'd have a harder time picking up water bottles (which are very recent) than water outside of a bottle (which has existed for millions of years). In fact the opposite is true.
I don't quite get how you could see this as anything other than a harmless april's fool prank. This is not homophobia, it's just comedy. Lighten up[1].

[1]: Yes, I read that article on sexism the other week… call me insensitive, but I think lighten up is a perfectly valid answer in this case.
It feels to me as though downvoting simply to express disagreement started to increase after the point display got removed from individual posts.

I think in the past, if people saw a comment they really disagreed with, but it had only 2 or 3 points, there was a tendency to say "Of course it's got no points, nobody agrees with it." But once points went away, there's now a tendency to say, "I'd better downvote this stupid comment, just in case there are idiots out there voting it up."
That's hilarious. For all the grief April Fools gets for being tired and even painful, there have been some really great jokes so far this year.
It's not even April 1st in my time zone yet and I'm already bored to tears with this stuff.
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"Investors are not looking for someone that looks like them. They may wear suits. That doesn't mean you should. Investors are interested in getting to know the real you. If you’re a little strange, that’s okay. They like strange. They like people who do things that normal people aren’t capable of, and they know that that capability often correlates with eccentric people. The last thing you want to do is wash away your own personality in some doldrums of blue and khaki."

They also just might want someone who's not afraid to step out of their own comfort zone for two hours. Seems to me we're getting to the point (or are past it) where "entrepreneur" just means "guy in tennis shoes working on a web service idea". Certainly seemed to be the vibe from that piece there. People are comfortable with 'pitching' all the time - 'pitching' their 'new idea' to 'investors', cause when you're casual like that, anyone could be an 'investor' you can 'pitch' to.

Don't get me wrong - there's a lot of hard working people out there working on great ideas (some of them not even involving a web api!). They're going to go through a hell of a lot of tough times, ups and downs, and doing a hell of a lot of stuff they've never done before.

If wearing a suit or tie or keeping your "weirdness" in check for an hour are the things that holds your endeavour back from succeeding, you had bigger problems all along.
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Luckily it's April fools, otherwise I'd see a lot of attention seekers in my feed...

rm -rf / I'm going to do it this time!
I call April Fool's.
I'm glad I could help ;)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782230

And please prepend 4/1: to any stories if you feel like submitting them.
Imagine the sensational headline potential for content that is true in the tautological sense, e.g.

"BREAKING NEWS: SCIENTISTS EITHER DID OR DID NOT CONFIRM TODAY THAT PLUTO HAS REGAINED PLANETARY STATUS!"
Just an information who accesses information about me would be a good thing. When, how often and exactly what information.

Also I'd like to see what other people say about the guy who accesses my information. And no stupid anti-defamation laws. I'll make up my own mind whether someone is slandered or just exposed.

Also you are on every security camera in public space. Why this information is allowed to be non public? I'd like to check out if anyone was following me.
50 years or so? Kurzweil would have another heart attack if he read this ;)
CodeStarter I personally think this is his passion!
Is Google working anything of interest anymore?
There's one april fools trick on Google Analytics too; you'll find a small note icon which will play your analytics graph as notes for piano or sitar.
There's something similar if you look for area 51
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.235983,-115.8090...
>They were rare when the average age of death was like 30.

When lots of people died before their first birthday‡, the average age being thirty meant that lots of people who made it past their first birthday would live longer than thirty.

‡Estimates vary from 30 to 50% rate, in the old world.
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What do you mean, send your query off by email?
Or search actual mails? How would they get them? Do you mean google mail?
I love the recursive "Linked [from|to] pages that..." option.
The region around MIT in Cambridge, MA shows similar detail: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cambridge+ma&hl=en&ll...
I appreciate the link, love the concept, can you do me a favor and turn off table borders, and go to http://www.colourlovers.com/ & use it. Thanks again for the idea.
For most people, that is exactly what they need. And /that/ is the sad part.
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Fortunately my computer did not shut down when my 2 mouse pointers got too close! Phew!
No doubt Mark would use this, nice touch. :)
No. Rather "Screw privacy! Regardless of your honesty you'll eventually won't be able to hide anything. You might as well demand open access to this kind of information about everybody because some people will know those things about you."
actually idiotic

Take that attitude elsewhere.

No one is claiming that stalking or rape is impossible without these apps

And nobody was claiming that anyone was making that claim.

If you're going to call someone an idiot, you should really be more careful with what you subsequently write.
dime going as "TKAOEUPL" reminds me of this: http://i.imgur.com/EFzu9.png
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>> b) Brainstorming -- Recent studies suggesting that it's ineffective are intruiging,

The passing reference in the OP didn't really put the original "Brainstorming Doesn't Really Work" article (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_...) in context. Brainstorming, as in the "let's put all the ideas out there without critiquing/debating them", was disproved in the late 50s.

In the article, a study found that adding the debating or critiquing back to the process improved creativity. You would also think that introverts would feel even more stifled in such a situation, wouldn't you?
Privacy in modern world doesn't give you peace of mind because it's so easily breached.
This page had me really excited up until the "only show pages that will be updated in the [next 24 hours, next week, next month]" option :(
I believe those denote locations of Google offices. There's also some in Mountain View.
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Title indicates question, no question present. Downvoted :p
> Americans are now consuming nearly 130 pounds of added sugars per person, per year.

I have always found this statistic utterly astounding, esp. considering that sugar is a new world product. In 1500 England, say, the average person consumed 0 pounds of added sugar per year.
I can confirm the 'Groupon Promise' isn't what it seems to be. Even after Mason blogged that there was no need to sue Groupon for violating state expiring-gift-card laws, because people with expired groupons could always just use 'the Groupon Promise' for a refund, Groupon refuses to give refunds on expired groupons.

That may save them a bit on refunds, but it creates pissed-off customers who won't be fooled again. I'd bought 4 groupons before I discovered the Groupon Promise was a lie, and none since.

(And I don't mind companies having tough return policies if that's what's required in their particular business. But I mind a company pretending it's got a liberal return policy – touting it front-and-center, getting free publicity from it, using it to spin coverage of legal problems – when it really doesn't.)
In Gmail you can search your own mail but whole words only. Searching for PROPEL will not bring up an email containing the word PROPELLER for example.
You must have a strange social group.

Not everyone is as enlightened as your non-strange social group. One doesn't face ostracism for lack of a Facebook account, but a lot of real social interaction occurs on Facebook and I don't presume to judge those who highly value that interaction. Those people do exist and some of them are great people.
The troll is strong in this one.
Yes, I do this too. It annoys me that it is 'necessary' to do this. I can only hope others agree with me.
Ah, i don't have enough money to buy Apple stuffs, can't be hackeer :(
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Oh, great, it's that time of year again. The day when it's pretty much useless to even try using the Internet. I'll see you guys on Monday...
Every building I've seen at Microsoft is big enough, although some are (or are being switched to) open-plan.

Now that I think about it, everywhere I've worked there was enough space so that everybody working there at the time could have had an office.

As to where I'm going to find them: I'm probably going to filter out employers that can't make enough money with programmers to afford an office for each of them. I know this removes a non-trivial number of employers from my potential field of employment options.
Newer varieties of fruit actually have much more sugar than many heritage breeds. I wouldn't go as far as to say you should avoid them, but that's probably not a valid argument against the rule.
Hey HN, I am looking for feedback
I have put my first Android application on the market and I am interested in receiving some feedback. I hope to grow the application and make it great over time, but I want to do so based on what the customer would like, not what I think they would like.

The application is called BestSignal and it currently has two main functions. The first function is to give users control over when their phone switches between Wifi and cellular signals based on their respective strengths. Many of us have experienced the situation where our phone hangs onto a wifi connection that is down to one bar even though we have 3 or 4 bars of a 3G or 4G connection. Now you can change that! For example, if you want to switch while Wifi is still two bars strong as long as cellular has 3 bars, then simply set the values with our easy-to-use interface and your done!

The second function is that BestSignal gives users the ability to monitor their cellular data usage in order to avoid those costly overage charges at the end of their billing cycle! We even allow you to set a warning level so you can be notified that you are getting close to you data limit.

There are a number of other conveniences BestSignal offers, including configuring connections to open networks, deciding if you want to ignore 2G networks when dropping Wifi, and giving quick access to battery-saving toggles (e.g. activating airplane mode or turning on/off your Wifi radio).

My ultimate goal is to make the application a go-to place to help users manage their data needs. Please let me know what you think of the application (either by commenting here, or through the "Contact BestSignal" button in the application) and I will work towards improving the application. Thank you for taking the time to check out BestSignal!

Google Play:
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Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Signal-LLC-BestSignal/dp/B007QEIHEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333247460&sr=8-1
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Just curious: what are you actually there to do, that the designers, salespeople, tech-support staff, managers and accountants are more productive by bugging you all day?

(I'm not saying it isn't true, just that I assume by the way you've stated this you're a developer that's rarely left alone to get anything done, and I can't see how that's beneficial to your employer.)
I'm surprised people that push the open-floorplan idea would allow devs to work from home. I would expect them to view that as "ultimate productivity-killing isolation."

I mean, "how can we know you're actually working. You're at home, we can't see you producing."
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And play around with it a bit. It takes 30+ seconds to see everything.
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If anything groupon is a pump and dump. Groupon is not a ponzi scheme.
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"Individuality costs money and makes more work."

Hey, if filtering on something like open floorplan workspaces also filters out employers with that attitude, that's awesome in my book. The sooner I can know they want cookie-cutter work, the farther away from them I can get.
Exactly. And such job postings also create negative effect. I'm a designer/engineer hybrid and some of my designer friends cringe when they see "we want unicorn designer who can manage everything" postings. Because:

1.It shows founding team has no design experience, which means designer's voice can be undermined (which is the major gripe for lot of designers)

2. Founding team has no clue about what they want to do on product design

As saying goes, if you are not technical then god help you to hire rockstars engineers on your startup. Same can be said, if your founding team lacks design talent/experience then it will be hard for you to hire ninja designer.

Tip: Ask your designer friends to help you out with hiring other designers if you lack design talent in founding team. From wording of your job posting to portfolio reviews.
> This is not homophobia, it's just comedy.

Stop it! You guys are killing me!
How does dressing up in a suit make you any better of a person?
I like how when running the demo when you mouseout of the browser and back in it adds even more cursors. Rinse and repeat for even more!
If Groupon sacks most of its sales staff, it might do OK.

Groupon is doing an Amazon-style land grab. They want a fat book of customers (both businesses and clients - it's an open question which are the real customers). They are willing to blow a huge amount of investor capital doing this.

Some businesses will lose big doing Groupon campaigns. Groupon doesn't care, as long as a certain percent of businesses figure out how to do well with them. For now, they are willing to burn a few customers.
Oops - I somehow wasn't aware of that! If flag isn't helping, perhaps this is true:

In HN's UI, the downvote is presented as directly equivalent to the upvote. Since the upvote button is to be used if one agrees with the tone, sentiment or facts within a comment, its visual link to the downvote button causes people to infer that the downvote button should be used when one disagrees.

If this isn't the intended purpose of downvotes, the UI should change so that it isn't the exact mirror of an upvote.