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Microsoft’s Earnings Surpass Expectations
FOUR people working on this? Seriously?
You know, just because you have an immaculate Bingo generating website, doesn't mean people's interest of making bingo cards will suddenly go up.
We're not by any means claiming that we made a purely scientific experiment as you can't particularly run with controls against Google anyways. We're simply taking a look at the data our product has collected in the aggregate and publishing it and adding some interpretation of the data so that people can take what they wish from the data and apply it to their own campaigns.
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What would you recommend as a WSGI-specific hosting environment, then?
Oh I don't know. I am actually a native Arabic speaker so never needed TV shows for that purpose.
And there is one issue you will face if you want to learn Arabic watching Arabic TV Shows: Any show you pick will be in some colloquial form of Arabic and not Classic Arabic. The most popular ones across the Middle East now are in Turkish dubbed in Lebanese Arabic (Yeah :p), and seconds are Egyptian TV shows, so you will have to choose. Pretty much any country makes TV Shows in its own version of Arabic, except in Syria where they used to make historical TV Shows in Classical Arabic.
What I suggest is to watch news outlets like Aljazeera, which you can watch online for free [1]. Don't pay attention to the existing perception of Al Jazeera; they are very professional. And, relevant to our discussion, their Arabic is the best around. If in doubt, get a feeling of their editorial policies watching Al Jazeera English, then proceed to learn Arabic.

Good Luck

[1] http://www.aljazeera.net/livestreaming/pages
At some point in the past someone said "the encroachment of IRCspeak into everyday English is a bad moon rising" :)

It was, and for that reason people who say "lol", or use it in blog posts, are difficult for me to take seriously.
It would. Having pricing plans in place, to show you want to run an actual business would also help boost that confidence.
I really like LDS, it's a great way to examine names near what you're thinking.

I'm very interested in a more premium service, however, where I can pay money to have someone who's done this before find a name that's either free, or available at a cheap price. I've tried things like PickyDomains, and some others like it, but most of what I get is the same as if I just used tools like LDS myself.

Any suggestions?
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I am guessing the conversation may have taken in finnish. Linux is(was?) Finnish after all. Some words just do not translate well.
More likely older domains have simply acquired more backlinks.
Figure out a niche market opportunity that could generate revenue. Learn whatever skills you need to to build that product. Aim for break even by the end of the summer.
Default on OSX, Mail.app. But I guess most of my mail is dealt with on my iPhone
I tend to agree. Theres so much to do at the beginning of a startup for someone to focus on something they are not productive in, is a formula for failure. If they want to learn while someone more knowledgeable either outsourced, or contracting, then thats fine. If they don't have the money to do something and can't convince someone to work with them, then thats really their only option.
As a user of Firefox 11.0 on Windows 7 65bit who sees the blog just fine, I have to ask if you're using NoScript.
The project hasn't stopped, but you can find a load more live coding environments at http://toplap.org/
>By attempting to return, he would make no deception.

Turn it around a bit. Let's say you buy something from your average big box store, like a piece of software. You are informed both by signs in the store, on your reciept, and let's say you're extra cautious and ask the checker what the return policy is.

That policy is always some variation on "Opened software will not be accepted for refund, only exchange of the same item".

You buy the item anyways.

Later, you decide you don't like it - not because it's defective, because that's an entirely separate category of law (and you could always do an exchange anyways), but that you simply decide you don't want it anymore.

You take it to the front counter and attempt to do a refund. Denied - the clerk and manager both point at the sign on the wall and the text on your reciept with the same refund policy text from earlier.

You go home, call your card company, and attempt to do a chargeback.

How is what you did not fraudulent? Did you not accept the terms by purchasing something from a company that said they won't take $item back? You are basically forcing the company to give you money against their will - all while you still have the item. There's no obligation in law that entitles you to a refund.

I don't mean this to be offensive, but people like you are what scare me in the business world. If you don't like a retailer's posted policies, you should shop elsewhere.
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Well - obviously, if there was anything even close to resembling legally binding contracts, we wouldn't be having this court case.

Both sides deal only with "we were under the impression of X" and back up their claims with industry numbers and quotes.
If you purchase an old domain, wouldn't Google notice the change of IP address and whois information?

I'm only speculating that buying an expired domain, for example, would be flagged.
If you're going to use Arabic to pick up women in conservative Middle Eastern countries, you need to: 1.) buy a phone with bluetooth [1], 2.) learn the Arabic chat alphabet [2].

Links:
1: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8916890/ns/world_news-mideast_n_...

2:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
Dubious Dirty Debt . . .
It would be useful to compare to a raw graph of the domain age of your customers. There's a chance that it looks similar to this - and that even if Google picked the #1 ranking site at random, then this chart would look the same.
How to build a totally uncontrolled internet?
My Mexican friend is convinced that the Internet is a tool used by governments to control people.
I tend to believe that it's a tool and everybody uses it for different means: governments to control, people to communicate, oppositions to get organized (e.g. Arab spring) and so on.

Maybe governments in the end prevail and whatever we do online will be used against us when and if needed.
If that happens how are we people going to respond?
Can we build a private/free Internet not controlled by anyone.

Let aside any conspiracy theory or political discussion, I am just curios about: is this possible and how do we do it?

I assume that the weak link is data transmission.
Telecoms and satellite are probably not safe ways to transmit data the governments don't like. So what is left? Airwaves?
These are controllable too, right?

So a free internet will depend entirely on a good encryption method?

I'm sure there's a lot of material online about this but I wanted to ask you guys first as I am interested in the technical details of it and you can give me a very unique perspective.

Thanks!
The controls in it have a strange, non-native feel, so I'd hazard that it might be.
Most of the venture funds are actually investing the money of pension funds and university endowments, not "rich people". "Rich people" - meaning recent tech multi-millionaires are driving an increase in angel investing, but they are not who's driving these 50x revenue multiples for later stage companies. If were to give anyone credit for these multiples, it would be Facebook. They've definitely inflated the value of companies that went out before them (Zynga, Linkedin, Groupon, Pandora) and have helped push up valuations of Dropbox and others. When $100bn is your ceiling for a "private" company value, psychologically it allows for much more aggressive private valuations. And it's likely that Facebook private valuation is an extreme outlier, not a "new normal", which will lead to a boatload of companies that have their highest valuation ever before they go public.
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sorry I don't think I understand what you mean by raw graph
The multiplier on this valuation is out of control. The 50x figure completely disregard the fact that Evernote is in a more competitive field than DropBox is. it also fails to account for the lesser brand value of Evernote and, dismisses international expansion as a key Indicator for the valuation. In my opinion, Evernote deserves a lower multiple than Dropbox.
the <blink> tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags

I don't know... it's a pretty close race between <blink> and <marquee>...
Is it Etherpad? Did you invent Etherpad again?
Definitely a good point and I'll make that change. I was hesitating to only use -- because I thought it might be unfamiliar to some. But it works great for Lua & Haskell!

For variable scoping, if you use the same name inside a "for" or "if" block then it'll assign that name in the outer scope. A function however can't assign to names outside of the function - each function needs to explicitly declare its inputs & outputs. There's some holes in the current design, so adding a "val" keyword is the current plan.
Loved what I read of the comic. good luck with it!
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Also [wagon-wheel effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon-wheel_effect).
two questions you need to ask yourself:

1. did google kill the project for a lack of potential or did it just not fit into their larger picture?

2. are you bringing something to life (i.e. killer feature) that the other project didn't have?

just so you know sometimes a project can be too ahead of its time. sometimes someone can do a very similar a few years later and have a real hit: a good example would be that founder of zynga first did a social networking site like facebook (tribe.net) which failed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pincus#Career
Maybe they could partner with Target [1] to see if someone gets pregnant after their meetup.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
You have to write a lot more than that. Python's strings don't map well to regex syntax, forcing some odd quoting conventions and/or escapes. Python forces you to instantiate the regex at runtime instead of parse time, so if you want a compiled regex you need a separate bit of code to create it and manage its scope. Perl's captures pop out in automatic variables that can be directly used and interpolated, making simple parsing tasks (e.g. "print "$2 $1\n" if /.../") into sequences of easy-to-read one liners instead of page long "parsers".

All of that is the kind of thing that makes Python people's blood boil, of course, but it's absolutely the reason that regex handling is just so much natural in perl.
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I thought Pimsleur was pretty good, but I hit a pretty big brick wall at one point. I was saying things properly accented, and I was doing really well in the prompted exercises. But I wasn't really getting any real understanding... I was just getting very good at memorizing whole-sentence responses. And at some point, they try to mix things up and I just had no idea how to go from what I "knew" to what they wanted me to say.

So I was very, very good at my canned sentences, but had no real language ability.
Ask HN: What tool do you use to consume HN?
Keeping track of news and comments is time consuming. How do other fellow hackers consume the content on this site?

hackerstream.com helps to soothe the pain but I'd like to know of any other tools.
Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
I would totally join this if I wasn't in Seattle. And fighting a lingering cold. I've actually been thinking about organizing some mini game jams with a handful of my fellow artists and some coderly friends for a few months now.
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No. Lengths should always be signed.
I use Sparrow on OS X. Had it for about a year, I think. It's really quite pleasant to use.
Where does the randomness come from though?
Congratulations to Splunk! Operational Analytics is an exteremely interesting area rich with many complex problems: performance (processing complex queries over very large data sets), prediction (proactive diagnostics), and visualization (packing dense information in a human-friendly manner).

We at Pattern Insight are currently working on the next generation of logging software, called Log Insight. If you are a Splunk customer or thinking of buying them, take a look at at our product page [http://patterninsight.com/products/log-insight/] for information on a more sophisticated and complete solution.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you are on the job market and want to work on interesting data-mining problems (full-time only please).
Interested as well for http://www.cancelbubble.com
The connection, as I see it, is that Pinterest user's primarily interact with the service by "repinning" other content. Only 10% actually add new content from other sites, and would wager a minuscule portion upload new photos from their desktop.

Cricut users express their creativity by cutting out content that was already flowing through the system and expressing their creativity in arranging the cut-outs, much the same way people create Boards on Pinterest.
Maybe I am thinking of it from my perspective where on projects I have worked on alone as a technical person I wished there was someone who had time to hustle the product. Since I was trying to innovate 24/7 I did not have much time for that but it is super important. There is never enough time...
Sure to cause humorous results for us Americans with our 60 Hz mains, if we were to import such a tuner.
Most SaaS IPOs in recent years have been at 10x - but almost none of them were consumer SaaS so it's hard to say how the markets will treat them.

It's not unusual that later stage companies will trade at lower multiples, and as companies become more mature their multiple drops. A good way of looking at it is in terms of future revenues, what's the chance of company doubling their revenue in the next couple of years ?

For Walmart it's almost negligible, for Google it's small but not completely out of the realms of possibility but for Evernote and DropBox it's actually quite high. They're the leading products in immature markets.
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When I write in Italian, I get a native speaker to double check it because I know I make errors. And generally I write for things that are not nearly so prestigious.
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Oh man, <marguee scroll=vertical>Item 1<br>Item 2<br></marquee>

I had the coolest news ticket on my angelfire page!
ha! a Groupon for bathroom hookups... should have called it...Grope-On
99 times out of 100 (at least) on Hacker News, "invest" connotes an actual ownership share.
I hadn't actually looked at the issues list to notice that this and similar issues have already been brought up plenty enough, so, sorry about that. And I do like implicit returns, and they're one of the main reasons I'm using CoffeeScript in some projects.

What I was trying to express was that I don't generally run into this issue in ruby because the similar looping constructs don't behave this way, and don't carry the same kind of unexpected side-effects:

def test(lst) lst.each{|i|do_stuff(i)} end

this method will return "lst" back to me, it won't create any new arrays of the do_stuff(i) results, the same goes for for/while loops, whereas:

def test(lst) lst.map{|i|do_stuff(i)} end

will return the block results. The key difference being that the map method always creates an array and returns it, even if I would have a return; after, so it is consistent.

The only situation where I get into the problem is with looping, and after some time using CoffeeScript, only rarely, so it may just be one of those things you have to put up with. Still crops up occasionally after refactoring though.

I would not want to get rid of implicit returns, and would far rather continue dealing with the loop problems than that. Would just love it if those weren't the only options.
I was going to comment about the feedback loop of unionized public sector workers underpaying for retirement benefits and then realized that thought was too scary to think about. :-)

Well Groupon had a pretty obscene private valuation as well. To your point though, aren't pension funds and endowments only taking a small portion, and putting it there for the same reason? Higher potential returns at increased risk? And those return demands are being driven by future payout expectations contrasted with existing returns? Whether you're a multi-millionare or a multi-billion dollar pension fun, getting 1.6% on your money isn't going to cut it.
I use Splunk fairly heavily at work with a fairly significant amount of data going through it daily.

It's pretty good software, and isn't as trivial as some on this thread seem to think (I've built large Solr implementations too, so I know search reasonably well).

The strong points: good interface, excellent data import, decent search language, decent docs & community, good APIs, a good set of mostly decent drop in applications that run on top of it.

The weaknesses: While indexeing is Map/Reduced based and scales fairly well, querying is single threaded. That limits it to the performance of a single CPU core + IO limitations. This also applies to things like sub-queries: in a database they could be run separatly, but in Splunk they aren't.

It is also fairly expensive at large scale, although the licening model is fair (it is licensed by data volume, so you can install it on as many machines as you like and share the license between them).
I don't think it's morally wrong but it is at least ambiguous. I find the gray area interesting. Other people don't see it that way and I don't think they are moral degenerates or anything.

they've made their choice to not engage certain markets

They've made the choice not to engage in that market at the moment, but as legal copyright holders, they have the ability to engage that market later. Having that market eroded by people getting the content for free might be counter-productive, as in "we're not going to release in Russia because everybody pirates everything" leads to "I'm going to pirate this because nobody releases anything in Russia".
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-Google has to prove and convince the jury that they obtained a license or a legally binding agreement to use Java. So they need to present evidence that they have those. Any statement from an employee, even from the CEO, is useless if there are no legally binding contract or license.

-Oracle only has to prove and convince the jury that Google willfully and knowingly ignored required licensing agreements. So they can present emails and quotes from employees and executives and the emails alone can do a lot of damage.
Scrubbing the Java name is just obeying trademark law (only Sun can allow you to use that name, and you'll have to licence the TCK and manage to pass it). I don't see what trademark law has to do with the case, except that Oracle wants to leave a certain impression of Google in the minds of the jurors.
I'm not interested in aiding your search for a hypothetical case that will let you feel right. You asked if canceling the charge would be fraud in this case. I explained why it wouldn't be.

If you'd like to carry on getting screwed just because somebody put some lawyerese on a sign, feel free. That's what consumers do, I guess. But negotiation is a fundamental part of business. I'm starting business #5 now, and I've always been happy to make things right for a customer. If Best Buy is smart they'll do that here just like they do in the stores.
I would pay to have my laundry done. Not dry cleaning, just plain, old, toss-it-in-the-washer laundry. I would pay a significant amount for this service. I wouldn't bat an eye at $30-40/load.

I don't care if someone comes and picks it up, or if I go somewhere to drop it off. I don't care if it's done by a professional service or by a 12 year old neighbor kid. I would pay you, and the whoever does my laundry, if you could connect me with someone.
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Which is related to what I said about being plugged into the startup community. This article, however, appeared in Wired, which is a more general magazine.
Some "sharebros" began to write a Google Reader clone, tapping into the "We are the 1000+" frustration:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/sharebros-...

But progress has fizzled to nothing:

https://twitter.com/#!/hivemined
It usually looks like the universe at any other reasonable frequency, unless you're doing weird things at a multiple of 24 Hz.
That sounds like the definition of a nuisance.
it will take true genius to get us out of this one... for the time being, have hope in our youth. google "cryptocat"
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1. Google said that the tech would be used in future versions of chrome.

But I think that is not the case, since this product was a substitute for 'search' so they bought & shut it down.

2. Yes our execution is different and we do have a set of features which can be potential winners, but were not part of the product Google bought.
A lot of comments here from people that have never used Evernote and don't really understand it's value proposition to its users. I pay $45 a year for the service. It was a no brainer when I converted from free to paying about 18 months ago and it still is. If you're going to make incredibly insightful comments like, "we're in a bubble folks, plain and simple" please try to back it up with some analysis. At least try to give us some indication that you've given this some thought.

It's tempting to compare Evernote to companies like Ducati (apparently recently bought by Audi for $1.1b). But remember Evernote sells software with higher margins. It is still in its growth phase, it's total addressable market includes a large percentage of the global population, and its revenue comes from recurring annual customer purchases.

Personally I think it holds more value than Dropbox, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. The evening progressed pretty normally from there, with a fair amount more drinking and me meeting the girl who would later become my first wife.

Invent <blink> and meet the wife in one day. I'm pretty sure this qualifies for evil genius...
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I still have a turn table and it has stroboscopic marks on the rim for just that purpose. :-) Sadly I only have one more cartridge for it and after that, no more replacement needles.

I prefer the water and corn starch on a speaker [1] to get standing structures of weirdness.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbTHExJzJXs
When the processor tries to read the game program from the empty cartridge slot, it ends up reading random bytes from the data bus. Its like a random program commanding the video and audio hardware!