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Bloomberg cited the report as the reason for today's decline.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-24/huabao-shares-plung...
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1. Law seems to be undecided. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47151745/ns/technology_and_scien.... Presumably once someone starts to do some actual mining there will be some pressure to move on this.

2. Drop it in small bundles (a few tons?) over the ocean with a flotation device and a large reusable parachute. Preferable avoiding areas with significant pirate populations.
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So why would you want to work more than four days a week? Because you'd feel more productive, because you could (maybe) earn more money, because you'd be bored on your time off, because you'd feel guilty for not working? There's tons of things you can do on a weekend aside from just relaxing and mindlessly watching tv, is there absolutely nothing you'd prefer to do instead of working?
OmniFocus: I love the way I can assign a todo to location context and have it pop up automatically when I next visit that place.

In the end, the app or site doesn't matter, it just matters that you have one list that is always available. I'm still looking for a waterproof for the only exception to the single list.
Funny how the guy the guy "backed by math" was also very lucky.
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"I get to spend 50% more time with my kids then almost all other dads (three days versus two). Fifty percent. It’s insane."

Why not 'work' at home? I've worked at home for the last 5 or 6 years, and get to spend pretty much all my time with my kids. Now that's insane.
Well, for one, he isn't saying that fundraising is more important. Just that in Startup Land, the culture seems to find it more "noteworthy". For better or for worse, that seems to be the case.

As for the age-old debate of profitability vs fundraising, it's not a black and white issue. And I don't know why people so often feel the need to try and turn it into one.

Profitability is great. You're right -- it's a signal that you're providing a valuable service. But as you pointed out, there are many examples to the contrary, and rightly-so: because achieving profitability is not the only way to build a valuable business. And even for companies who do focus on charging customers rather than, say, getting tons of users, raising money is often an important step on the path to eventual success.
disrupt: verb

* drastically alter or destroy the structure of (something)

I think this word is being overused. 250 customers for a new accounting product is not disrupting.
Yep, it's stange to see someone seeking a technical co-founder and trying to impose a framework. Let the future CTO do its job, grant him confidence!
No, I was arguing in favour of them. I'm one myself. :-)
While it may not be the first animated graphic novel, the baseball animations are amazing. Not awkward or unnatural at all. Very fluid and exciting and so well done that it's not obvious how hard that must have been to get the body movements right.
Operation Ajax is really fantastic - the fact you can explore around the story (browse through CIA files, photos, etc) really makes it a unique experience.
I think you could at some levels say that "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" was in this medium (if you have not seen, definitely check out - ipad) although it was somewhat of a game hybrid and not paneled.

I honestly think the story looks great and think that a half hour of entertaining reading/art will easily be worth .99c
Is it possible companies like these or established funds are supplying the Anonymous movement with material support in order to feed off the somewhat outsized publicity Anon gets when they release something like this?
I guess I don't understand why this is counter-intuitive if you accept quantum entanglement. Reading a quantum state collapses the wave function. Cause and effect.

Time is just another direction.
I wouldn't normally post song lyrics to HN, but this just seemed too appropriate:

*And I want it so much.
Close my eyes, I can taste the Mars dust in the air.
In the darkness the space stations shimmer in orbits that I will not share.

But I'll teach the student
Who'll manage the fact'ry
That tempers the steel that makes colonies strong.
And I'll write the program that runs the computer
That charts out the stars where our rockets belong.
It will never get easy to wake from my dream
When the future I dream of is so far away.
But I am willing to sacrifice
something I don't have For something I won't have
but somebody will someday.*
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Not an uncommon Science Fiction theme. And at the moment seems much more likely than a FTL drive.
I'm imagining an in-browser game where people have to zap the incoming spam emails in real time.
High Schools and Colleges in the US should begin to treat every student as if when they graduate they will be a 1099 contractor in their chosen field. This will better prepare them for the realities of the markets they will enter and better fit the independence profile of the current generation.

I certainly wish my education had been down this path. I wouldn't have wasted 10 years working for other people only to learn that if I really wanted to achieve my goals I was going to have to work for myself.
I just read the report and agree that it was pretty thoroughly researched. I enjoyed reading about the acquisition strategy she used to cover up prior fraud. That said, some parts leave me feeling like something is off or maybe the report could have been more professional.

I wish they would just come out and say everything, full disclosure, instead of saying "well we found this but we don't even want to talk about it so we will let management comment".

I also would like to believe that the picture from Botswana is real but it would be just as easy for them to photoshop a picture as it was for management to do.

An "anonymous" short seller could very easily fabricate an entire report, photoshopping pictures and making up numbers then profit from the knee jerk reaction of the market before the report has be debunked.

edit: I also enjoyed the goldman "clients are muppets" reference in the disclaimer.
Please elaborate on why you think Instagram on Android is silly. I'm don't quite follow.
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Now if you could choose for a Windows 7 skin, or even multiple editors...
Among other things, he developed the original Markdown format.
Great Article. We have a lot of this Biz folks that 'just need to find a programmer' here in Houston. There seem to be plenty of opportunities to help those folks out. It is great when they are able to pay for the help as well.
It does not use /var/run/utmpx anymore.

Look at the code for getlastlogxbyname(). It does an ASL query for last login, and that's the source of the delay.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-763.12/gen/...
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Apparently the iPhone doesn't support it. Quite sad since they actually enabled IPv6 support in iOS4.
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The piece doesn't answer the most important question -- how?

Side note: I wish there was a site like "The Setup" focused on the next phase -- "how do I work".
I am tremendously excited to hear about this project; it's exactly what I want(ed) to do, these billionaires have just gotten the jump on me by a few (dozen) zeroes of net worth.

If any of them are reading, or anyone here knows them, I would do anything to get involved in this effort; the development and exploration of space is the most important mission in human history, and I'd love to put to work my business expertise, youthful energy, and eagerness to contribute... I'm well credentialed but more importantly extremely passionate!
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Full truckload shipping is alot cheaper than LTL. Hell, my local Grainger gets delivery of some stuff via train.
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I think it really comes down to two things:
1. It is (generally) obvious if someone has a speech/language disability when you interact with them face to face.
2. Sheer probability dictates that it would be ridiculous to ignore a metric (written communication skills) that I find useful in evaluating people for fear of offending a VAST minority of cases. What percent of the time do you think that someone exhibiting incorrect spelling or grammar online is doing so because of dyslexia or another disability, as opposed to simply being lazy or unprofessional?

I would never knowingly ridicule someone who suffered from dyslexia or a similar disability, but I think we have to be careful of becoming so politically correct that we are afraid to criticize or hold anyone accountable for anything.
Two words : United Nations.

Given the ever growing need for money I can bet a tax would be put in place to where it might not even be profitable after all the regulation and such got put into position.

Think about it. They can lay levies for everything from managing the movement of objects in space to the environmental damage and insurance against such for returning materials gained in space. Then comes the whole "it belongs to all and none" type spiel that will surely follow.
A little compassion on both sides would go a long way towards making 'horrible' bosses better and employees function better as a team. I find a lot of employees these days, especially younger ones are too entitled and self important to appreciate the more subtle sides of compromise. Especially if you're not constantly telling them how wonderful they are (when they barely understand their own job) and expect the same trophies for participation that they've received all their privileged, sheltered lives. Nor do they understand how a manager, especially a new, perhaps inexperienced manager might not have the bureaucratic pull to obtain the best tools for everyone and must operate within certain budgets. Trust me, your boss, no matter how horrible, wants you to succeed. They might not always take the best approach, but they went from being great at a task to being in charge of seeing to it the task they love gets done better than they could do it by others who don't necessarily know how, or want to put in the time it takes to make it great. This article is typical of the whining and entitled little d-bags around the entire working world who think they could manage better than their current boss, often having no idea what that takes, or simply believing in their heart of naive hearts that if they are simply everyone's buddy their team will succeed beyond all their wildest dreams. Ha. Good luck! I hope they get promoted soon. Then revisit this ridiculous article and see how many of the things 'horrible bosses' do are symptoms of a larger machine at work than just their function and their subordinates role within it. And don't even get me started on micromanaging. Most employees I know can barely organize their own projects, believing it their god given liberal arts education to 'think in piles rather than folders.' but what they fail to understand is that their manager is responsible for picking up all their shitty, entitled little pieces and presenting them cohesively to THEIR superiors. So, yeah, fuckhead...they do need to know what you're doing.
It’s actually a nice and useful piece of info.
A artistic medium doesn't need to enhance the reader's experience. It just has to deliver the artist's intent. New art forms do not have to be "better" than previous ones to work. They simply have to work. The usefulness of a medium is actually usually related to the logistics involved (how accessible is the medium, how easily can an artist procure and use this medium, etc etc) rather than anything else.
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Fork it on github!

Also, fun to try and make it indent and look like code so it even better at the bosses squint test..

Wanted to add a classic "boss" hotkey too - a dialog saying "compiling" pops up and when dismissed its one of these new html5 code editors instead... but ran out of time
What are the property implications? Does a company "own" an asteroid simply by being the first to land on it, or do companies need to bid on asteroids to mine from (and who is in charge of that)?
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Hey, the €1,400 amount is made up of every out going we had in the company. That included the logo design, to company formation which is about 300 euro in Ireland. I'm not a designer but I learned how to design so we could build it, we worked hard in the evenings and weekends to get the product built. So what we're really trying to say to people is you can do it. Sure it doesn't include our time, but running it so tight is a reflection of how significant we value our time. Everything we did, piece of copy we wrote had a time cost, that made us focus on what people wanted. So to me the €1,400 means everything. Hope that makes sense :)
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Has anyone considered that this may be PR for the upcoming Prometheus? They have a TED talk on youtube, so it wouldn't surprise me.
I would assume space is just like the Wild West. Whatever you claim is yours, so long as you can defend it.
You can look at it like "the measurement of the original photon determines whether or not the pair is entangled", if it makes you feel more comfortable, but that's kind of reversing cause and effect.
If we suddenly have large amounts of previously expensive (rare or difficult to extract) metals available, what will this do to commodity markets? Would prices be driven down?

If the price of $mineral goes down below a certain level, demand has to go up for continued asteroid mining to be viable. What future activities (apart from the obvious, like catalytic converters) might provide this demand?
Yeah, I mean, the world would be such a great place if it weren't for all of those other people who aren't like us.

> The issue you raise about pessimism.. If common sense was so common... why isn't it everywhere already?

The non-sequitur game! I love it! My turn:

Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann...squirrels!
> (from a startup POV)
I moved from Junior designer to Art Director within a year of leaving college and getting my first job (doubled my income at the same company) I was put in charge of people who were "Senior" and had been with the company for 15 years+. It's true Senior != Expert. Personality is a big part as well Expert + Introvert != Management.
I think that's usually accounted for by making the non-day-off fridays be 8 hours, so it does add up to 80 hours over two weeks.
Like sokoloff pointed out, I think you are missing my point. I'm arguing that precisely because "senior" implies age-related status, I think many people are using it wrongly. And therefor applying time-related measurements where they are actually looking for expertise.

If by "senior" you are referring to somebody who's been in the industry or on a project for a long time, I would agree.

However I do not agree that that person will automatically make a good teacher, team-lead, consultant, mentor simply because he/she has been around for a while.

Unfortunately I see exactly that happening time and again, and blogs discussing how "senior" they are based on how good they know JavaScript. Hence my post.

Sorry if I was not clear enough in the article, I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to improve it so that it makes the point better.
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Sorry, I'm a regular startup guy, having just started (co-founded) my own a few months ago.
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I think that the two items are related, though. Could they have raised an A-round working just four days a week on a startup that was not profitable? I doubt it. If anyone knows of any cases where that happened, though, I'd be interested in seeing them.
I wonder how hard would it be to do it "the other way round", i.e. embed it into eclipse...
Neat! Had fun trying it out.
Hey, your right 250 users isn't going to knock the ball out of the ball park. But remember what the product is, it's an accounting product and that puts people into a coma with bodrum. So getting 250 on to the application with no marketing in less then a month I think sends a message that we've built something that people want, it's disruptive cause the 3000 other accounting products have all just copied Sage. When I was designing the UI - I hadn't looked at one competitor.
"...typical career programmer that doesn't touch a line of code between Friday night and Monday morning."

do late-night and weekend commits to a Github Firewall account count?

A pretty polarised view, here: we are all either 'career' 501 programmers, or disenchanted hackers?

What of the guys who choose companies they're passionate about and which inspire them to find spare coding time after hours and during weekends? You know, the kind of role you don't need an opining recruiter to source on your behalf.
Well sure, but I wasn't saying that it should be default behavior for Mac OS X server or server-aimed n*x distros. I don't think that most people are using non-server Mac OS X as a remote server, and those who are could override the default.
You can have all of the upvotes they'll let me give you. It's amazing being "all grown up" and looking out and realizing that highschool and all of the shit that happens while growing up has almost no connection to the real world.
> "at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT) Tuesday (April 24) during a news conference at Seattle's Museum of Flight."

I'm not in America. Does anyone know where I can see this live online?
If you're trying to make some dollars, you sort of have to take into account the firm grip that governments have on earth-side markets.
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Yep -- lots of phones support IPv6 on the WiFi stack, but not cellular.

I don't think it's particularly hard to add IPv6 support tho -- probably just a software tweak in most cases.
If you're working from home and you're spending all your time with your kids, you probably aren't working much.

I have two kids. I work from home about 10% of the time. When I'm working from home, I have more time for the kids first thing in the morning and when I come home, since the commute is just opening the door. But when I'm WFH, it's not kid-time.
because free(NULL) and similar cleanups tend to be no-ops. So you have something like

You really need to check the specification on each function. free is defined that free(NULL) is no-op, but there are other things where that is not the case. Also, that code is not portable since NULL does not have to be 0.
We've been working the 4-day week since 2006, when I hired my very first employee. I distinctly remember us hitting £10,000 in our bank account. It was huge.

This proves it's possible, even when you're young, stressed and unprofitable.
The site appears to be down. Does anyone have a mirror?
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Hey, the way Revenue work is your tax liability lies with the individual. So we've actually no way of underwriting that that goes for an Accountant to product. But like all good open companies we know if that was to happen our business would be dead. So ultimately that's the best way to underwrite your product we feel.

Bullet got built in the first place cause my co-founder John was paying an Accountant quite a bit of money and he failed to file his returns, resulting in an audit. Bullet Automates all the tax returns so to miss it you'd need to actively ignore it. Hope that answers your question.
I disagree.

It is not possible to build a valuable business without achieving profitability. Over a long-enough time period, the value of a non-profitable business will revert to zero.

If a business is valuable, it is because the market (or investors) believe either

a.) It is going to make profits at some point in the future. b.) It is going to be an attractive acquisition for another company (who are presumably only going to buy it if they believe it will enhance their long term profitability).

Of course there is c.) , which is when investors buy into something because they believe someone else will come and buy it off them in the future for a greater amount of money. If we've reached this point, it is a sure sign of a bubble (cf Tulip fever in the Netherlands).
I really liked it. I understand the point is not to actually play this game at work (what if you use a Linux distribution or Mac OS?), but to have some fun playing it :)
Actually, as an habitual nail-biter, I would buy one of those.
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Ryan, how do you handle customer support requirements on the days where everyone is out of the office? Customers who are working on Fridays like to have access to timely support.

This is what's preventing me from going 4 days a week.
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We're a small consulting company, and we have 5-day work weeks, but the last day is spent on personal growth rather than client work.

It basically gives everyone on our team no excuse to not contribute to open source, work on side projects, etc. It's still a pretty new initiative for us, but we're seeing big benefits already internally.
A longjmp is just a fancy goto. If it's all local to the function, just use goto.
Writing a headline such as "Irish business builds a product for €1,400 that’s disrupting the market, with 250 customers signed up before launch." about yourself just makes me leave the site immediately.
Interesting. How long did it take you to develop your MVP? Did you build the system together with many customers?
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By motivating the boy, I believe it could only strengthen his own motivation. Keep it up.
The illustrated version is much prettier - switch between them with ctrl-b
Design or number of users regardless, people really need to stop using the word 'disrupt'. It's one of the top reasons I steer clear of TechCrunch.
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Check out there archive links for Metasploit website in 2003

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I agree with the rest of your post, I'm just nitpicking here. I wanted to point out that when a professional is described as senior, it has nothing to do with age or how long they've been in the industry, it reflects their status. Assuming a somewhat meritocratic environment, I think "senior" means the same as "expert".
Slightly off-topic, but still relevant: a great quote from Alain de Botton:

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."

https://twitter.com/#!/alaindebotton/status/1924914438840115...
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