skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The valuation will be used to continue to reward employees, and in fact will be used a lot more frequently now that there is liquidity and the IPO is out of the way.

With high level share liquidity, insiders will find it easier to cash out and walk away from Facebook. Particularly those that have been there for a long time. The market has set a 'real' price on the shares, whereas the Second Market pre-IPO trading was a lot less liquid, and made it difficult to guess just what FB's real value was. Now employees know what their shares are really worth on a durable time frame.

The stock market is in a down swing, so there was little chance FB was going to see a healthy pop today. If you're building a long term business, all of the talk about it being up or down or popping today is literally irrelevant.

Groupon is specifically a great example of the investor con-game that goes on. They IPO'd a near historically small float (for a large company) to get as big a pop out of the stock as possible to punch the valuation high. Smoke and mirrors, and the stock proceeded to collapse 62% accordingly. It's a good sign that Facebook didn't pull any of that shit, and by all indications had a very sane and orderly IPO process.

If you're interested in the stock, give it time, you'll be able to get it under $30 / share in the next year.
@dlpasco:

You have never received a dime of money for your app. So did you donate your app to the Mule Radio Network?

I had never heard of Black Pixel before. Now I know that you (or at least one of your developers) is rather of the lazy kind. Comm'on, renaming 5by5 to mule should have been a no-brainer!
Sadly, this is the true value of an MBA, not to mention certain other professional degrees. People just think it means something, on its own, that it doesn't. This benefits the person with the MBA more than anyone else. Like someone else said, you hire people not their academic degrees.
Except he wasn't a designer...

Take that, life's work of Jonathan Ives!
Whatever approach you take, be sure it includes Torkel Franzén's Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. Although it's pretty good, it may not be where you want to start. But there are a lot of bogus conclusions made by people with a superficial understanding of Gödel and that is the best thing I know pointing out the flaws.
The goal is to win the American Helicopter Society (AHS) prize of 250k. The regulations (http://www.vtol.org/awards-and-contests/human-powered-helico...) specifically outlaw your suggestion -- although it was a good one ;)

4.1.1 The machine shall be a heavier-than-air machine. The use of lighter-than-air gases shall be prohibited.
That. Why do some programmers --even on HN-- think that storing BS data for a social network has the same needs as storing life-and-death financial, medical, judicial, millitary etc data?

As far as data stability and accuracy needs go, social networks are at the very bottom of the pyramid...
"4. Current investors will have a lock-out period from selling. This may be 6 or 12 months. Whatever the case, if supply meets demand now then extra supply suggests a price drop may be coming when that lock-out period ends."

So if you are a speculator, unlike with Groupon and their miniscule float, you can take a short position. I don't recommend it, there is the old joke about how long the market and stay irrational, but if you've got a couple hundred thousand you don't mind losing you can now at least make the bet.

One of my favorite pastimes is a sort of Fantasy Hedge Fund game where I manage a $10M hedge fund and try to out perform the S&P 500. This kind of play fits right into that.
Once Carpathia decides to delete/sell/get rid of the data the case will be dropped. The US government only has to keep this tied up in court until Carpathia (which legally could delete the data) deletes the data. Once the evidence is gone they can easily escape from this horrible mess they have created. "Your honour, I have some bad news. Since Carpathia has deleted the data we no longer have a plausable way to continue with this case."

Megaupload destroyed, goverment doesn't have to pay them anything (after all it was Carpathias fault) etc.

They can't just drop the case because mega upload is an email blast away from being full on running again. Users don't have to resign up, reupload data or anything. That is why the data needs to be destroyed, which I believe is the end goal of the United States Government.
There's a difference between "makes this already-very-feasible thing a bit more convenient" and "makes this thing feasible."
Feds considering allowing DVD-encryption cracking
I think DOS/Windows is a pretty good analog, and it was very successful.
Glad the app was able to see the light of day. It's a wonderful app and it's great that it was able to be used for a network, and people worthy of it.
It is only an explanation from ONE of the parties involved (although following Occam's razor I am willing to believe it).
This example uses the alias directive, which can be set inside location clauses unlike the root directive. The distinction between root and alias isn't the most user friendly, but I think this setup is effectively the same as separate roots per user. Unless otherwise configured, users will not be able to access anything directly in /home, only in the user subdirectories.

That being said, I have no problems with Apache, especially if it's already in place and working.
Hacking Twitter and being suspended in less than 2 days and 300 tweets
Microsoft wins US import ban on Motorola’s Android devices
Spotting the Next Facebook: Why Emotions are Big Business
With $12 billion or whatever they're keeping out of the $16 billion, plus the $4 billion on hand, I guess they could try to eat Twitter if they get really bored. But you're right, the extra $12 billion doesn't do much for them, other than perhaps provide defense capital for patent problems (it'd take a helluva patent problem to start eating multiple billions though).

Wall St. will now expect an annual profit, so even using the cash to grow the company massively with new costs (employees, buildings, etc.) will be frowned upon. They'll obviously still be expected to operate moderately within their cash flow means.
Test driving Fuduntu - Larry the Free Software Guy
Okay, maybe not in the business school, but he was certainly within an organisation known locally and internationally for their business school.

He enrolled at Harvard in September 2002. He dropped out in 2004. He studied psychology and computer science. Harvard Business School is ranked 5th top MBA Uni by The Economist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Harvard_years

http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking
The Facebook story: from inception to IPO
Back to Work is probably my favourite podcast! It's definitely not an "Apple and stuff" show :)
US house affirms indefinite detention of citizens without trial
The fact is almost every HP, Acer, Dell and Toshiba will come with it pre-installed. There is basically no way it will be labeled a failure, even if nobody uses it.

Remember Windows Vista was considered a great success (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2130290,00.asp).

When you buy a generic x86 computer (any non-Apple x86, that is) you have 3 choices of OS: you can leave whatever came on the machine (most likely Windows), you can install a previous version of Windows you already had floating around or you can install any of the fine *nix-based OSs that will run on it. Most people opt for #1, some resent change (or just dislike what came with the machine) and opt for #2 and a tiny minority goes with #3 (me included).

That means I am part of Vista's and 7's success stories - I bought computers with them installed and never bothered to return the licenses, although I never used either. From a sales perspective, I'm a happy Windows user.
BetterWorks: Major Layoffs Signal Trouble in Paradise
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Do Gruber, Arment et al. actually get paid for co-hosting such podcast shows? If so, how much can I geek celebrity expect in terms of USD?

I had always assumed it was free and easy advertisement for their apps, sites etc.
To be fair, people said the same about Gnome 3 and Unity and both work very well...

But... If you are not a "geek-type", what are you doing on "Hacker News"?
Absolutely. After months of being constantly busy, finally I had a few days to myself and listened to first episodes of Hypercritical (I got on aboard from episode 30) and they are really informative. Even those that are about really old events (like iPhone 5 predictions) are really insightful.
So, he wrote Eliza for twitter as an advertising tool?
Show HN: SynthJS - extending the Web Audio API (collaborators welcome)
This feels like the Microsoft strategy: sit on a pile of cash and watch others innovate, then buy the guys that succeed (or clone them if you can't buy them). It's a good formula for success because you don't take the risks of introducing an unwanted product into the market, and it's not a bad deal for the acquired besides.
There are some moments between Mann and Benjamin that are so funny that I have to pause, finish laughing and resume.

It's always when they cycle through "I think you mean.." and "No, you're probably thinking..."
Think dumping, not freemium.
FYI, Karma's best mechanic is that you send a gift to a recipient without entering cc info; then when the recipient accepts, you become socially obligated to complete the payment process. It also asks the recipient for their address, so you only need to pick the item and enter their email (or FB select). It's generally a beautifully designed app.
Those comparisons aren't even nearly on the same scale. A car doesn't just offer convenience, it offers trips that were previously impossible. It is not possible to walk from Seattle to Portland in any kind of meaningful timeframe.

An iPad, on the other hand, makes a few tasks marginally quicker, but is incapable of other tasks. It is marginally more portable. Yes, there are other benefits (as you state) but they are nothing compared to the amount of time that would be generated by self-driving cars. The average US citizen spends 7% of their life driving:

http://www.justanswer.com/general/0oy3c-time-does-person-spe...

Imagine the difference that could make. We could all play on our iPads more.
Individualism is most definitely not seen as the highest of virtues in the US. Both major parties are highly altruistic. It's just given lip-service.

By the way, there is no virtue of "individualism" in Objectivism, it's independence. Which isn't the most important virtue.
I could play games, take pictures, send them to friends, surf the web, chat, "share my life" and meet new people with computers fifteen years ago. The iPad has made that process easier and better, and to some extent cheaper. And it's a great product.

But that's not "disruption", it's just plain old improvement.
Show HN: Jellibug, it collects pictures celebrities post on Twitter
Built this using Rails and Backbone.js. Hope this finds an audience out there. Any feedback or criticism will be greatly appreciated!
Makes sense. The first 3 versions of Windows ran on top of DOS. This first version of Metro runs "on top" of a classic Windows desktop... And both were responses to products Apple launched (Lisa/Macintosh and the iPad). What Microsoft is doing is using Windows as the platform that introduces Windows+1 much like it did with DOS.
I agree about the value of Ben Graham, however, there's no set definition for what investing is really all about.

If you want to argue what the most rational approach to investing is, sure, that's fine.

However, there are a lot of ways to skin the cat these days. You can high frequency trade; you can slap puts on stocks if you have a skill as a short; you can use calculated hedges and skim points; you can carry trades through currency variations; you can buy and flip based on market panic (or short temporarily based on irrational euphoria), with no intention for long term holdings or long term profit concerns.

I think more people (less skilled professionals) can invest in the Ben Graham model, over a long period of time, than any of the other approaches. But, a select few have turned out to be extraordinary at the other approaches, and have made great fortunes that way as well.
The young entrepreneurs aiming to rebuild Greece
Alternatively hacking Minecraft on-the-fly via Clojure.
Let's make mistakes was an odd fit anyway, a bit like The Incomparable (which is very good but would belong more to a macworld network obviously).

Listening right now to the mule version of The Talk Show, it feels dull and way worse than when cohosted by Dan. It would actually be way funnier with a cohost like Mike Monteiro.
Individual typing style key to user authentication
On the other hand its totally unlike capitalism for reasons I hope I don't have to explain.

You're going to have to explain it if you want me to tell you why you're wrong in thinking that they're "totally different."

The free market is the economic aspect of capitalism, which is an economic and political system.
"var" and "no block scope" are horrible.

"No integers" is bad.

"this" can swing either ways. It provides some cool possibilities.

"semicolons" however (either the presence or the removal of) is a totally inconsequential and trivial syntactic thing.

Removing semicolons doesn't even buy you what a small amount of syntactic sugar buys you. You saved a few keystrokes. Big fucking deal.
Facebook, Facebook, Facebook + non-Facebook news
> The reason it isn't high on the list is because they already tackled that for Win7

It's not tweaking memory management that solved the problem - it's that our computers started coming with 4 gigabytes of RAM.
I'm getting no sound in Firefox 12 on Linux. On Chromium 18, this somewhat works, but with lots of clicking (not mouse clicking, audio file clicking) and distortion - it doesn't sound anything like zitterbewegung's song - and certain notes seem to randomly go dead (they stop making a sound when clicked).
Researchers Solve Tuning Problem For Wireless Power Transfer Systems
One of the most common and simplistic valuation methods is using the Expected Value of the Net Present Value of Future Earnings. Past information can be an indicator, but is in a sense "Sunk."
They get paid. Dan talks about it occasionally, around talking about FreshBooks, I think.

No idea how much, but I think it was David Smith of Developing Perspective that said a week of DF sponsorship was $7K and 5by5 $5K? Sure at least the latter must depend on the show. Plus I'm probably mixing things up. Episode 42?
Open Source Hexapod on Kickstarter
A large fast food giant (to take your example) is still not a dictatorship and it's still not collectivist.

You can have collectivist things under capitalism (for example, a hippie commune), but you cannot have a dictatorship.
Yes. But it's a POC thing that's also some orders of magnitude slower...
Either that, or the memory increases in Vista were enormous and 7 brought it down to the kind of hardware that was available at the time.
Built this using Rails and Backbone.js. Hope this finds an audience out there. Any feedback or criticism will be greatly appreciated!
Chears I am of on leave for a week ill get this put into our best practice guide for our devs and IS guys when I am back.

Funny thing was I tried resubmitting the main page in GWT an all the traffic came back almost instantly.
Starting to explain P vs NP - what do *you* find confusing?
Microsoft plots to bring Android apps to Windows Phone - FierceMobileContent
If I didn't know any better I would think that you just made a judgement about which virtues are most important...
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
-- Nicholas Klein (commonly attributed to Ghandi)

Rand is mocked and attacked by some (who know very little about her actual ideas^), but increasingly appreciated others. It won't be that long before our culture starts to shift into the fourth phase, wherein it finally gives her ideas the credit they deserve.

^If you skipped Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged and haven't read her non-fiction works, you don't know much about her actual ideas.

tl;dr: This is evidence that Objectivism is making its mark.
Forewarned is forearmed, but seriously we all come to realize that emotion comes more quickly than reason. So take the emotions, note them, then when reason shows up evaluate. I've trained myself, and tried to impart on my kids, the notion that when ever a situation brings up an emotion the first thing to do is to note it and see if you can figure out where it is coming from, from there you can use it as data in determining your next steps.

But as a general rule, no I don't have any tips. I used to try to explain how having kids changed my whole being and outlook, but to people without kids it is like explaining color to a blind person, to people with kids its like explaining the obvious. Sorry.
> Exactly. Microsoft charges a license fee that represents what it thinks is fair value for the work involved in creating an OS.

Microsoft charges a license fee that they believe will maximize their total revenue (units sold multiplied by price). Fair value is only indirectly related, in the sense that a grossly high unfair price would reduce their total revenue.
That's great for the desktop and notebook market. But now you have to convince people to buy Windows based tablets.
It's never the time to hire a degree. Hire people who can help you. And that depends a lot on what you want to do.
I don't think I'm likely to find what Im looking for in the 0click box.

Every time I've used hnsearch, I've done so because I was looking for something VERY specific (that I think I remember from HN) and I usually need to go a page or two deep to find it (and/or I filter stories/comments and re-sort). HNSearch is a great tool and I use it a few times per week, but I don't think it fits the "0click" feature very well. Maybe it works better for other people though, and I'm the minority.

Out of curiosity, do you measure the performance of 0click box functions (including who clicks through for more info)? And have you ever dropped one because it underperforms?
What are Mann's episodes about? I tried to listen a few times but I never fully understood what it was about and got confused... Could you give me a few pointers?!
Intriguing. Makes me think that an individual is just an extremely evolved community.
JPG batch processing powertool for Webdesigners
I was only intending in that part of my comment to report on Objectivism. I guess that wasn't entirely clear.

However, I do happen to agree with it.

In Objectivism, one virtue is more fundamental/"above" the others. Want to take a guess at what it might be? It actually makes sense, so you might be able to guess it.
Maybe an "initial" investor, or an early-stage investor. "Small-time" seems derogatory.
I dunno, Win7 runs just fine on 1GB, and while XP can be installed on 128MB I'm not sure it will run that well.
I wonder, in the most recent batches, how many YC accepted companies went in with just the idea vs how many had already started building something/had a demo.

pg, can you tell us something about this?
I am a geek type, and one who accepts that technology changes and different != automatically awful.

The fact that everyone said the same thing about Unity and are now coming around to it, proves my point. I happen to love Gnome-Shell. I don't mind Unity and I think Win8 is great after you take some time to get used to it.
How about living in, or building, cities that have good enough public infastructure that cars aren't needed. That would have an even larger effect.
Keter: the new web app deployment system for Haskell
I think you're thinking of "I think you're thinking of…"
> The Objectivist C API is also copywritten.

Oh, so it's just like Cocoa Touch!
I volunteer to run a small private network (30-40 users max) for an educational institution, are there materials available that can help me understand what changes will be needed to my system so that the IPv6 transition runs smoothly?
"He was shot twice and fragged once..."

Um, fragged (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging)?
Ever since they started adding integrated search bars to Internet browsers, my home page has been "about:blank" (or something to that effect, depending on the browser).
A Great Idea Somebody Should Do
The Difference Between Udacity And Other Online Education Startups
The iPhone and iPad were absolutely not a "project" (the word he uses in the article) of the past five years. They're part of a project that started more than ten years ago. I certainly don't think they're old technology - they're still ahead of the tablet and arguably the smart phone market, I think - but I don't really classify them as small projects that have a lot of potential that were just invented in the past five years. Heck, you could easily argue that the iPad is the fruition of a vision, and a project, that Steve Jobs started decades ago. And if you want to get technical, the iPhone was in active development before five years ago.
Nice. I'm reminded of how often Facebook is how I know someone's birthday is coming up..,
Strange title, strange post.

Like others I hijack this thread: there is someone, Zuckerberg himself or some trading bot (Goldman Sachs) is keeping the price above 38.00$ sharp.
Yep, that's primarily why it's my favorite as well.
Oh for sure, good for Facebook as well. Post-IPO Facebook doesn't really care so much what their valuation is - they've got the cash, they've got a profitable business.
Investment really is a job for cool dude's !

Let it be as big as a billion $ or as small as thousand $$ !!
That's very possible. It works really well on Firefox 12 on a mac. Chrome on mac has periodic issues (the delayed loading of each keys mitigates it somewhat)—looks like I need to do some debugging on Linux. Thanks for reporting this.

HTML5 audio has lots of problems, but the clicking and distortion also gives it that special pop and click sound that you wouldn't otherwise get. Future browsers will just sound too robotic on this piano :)

Additionally, higher notes often get distorted as a result of the low sampling rate. I just changed it to turn on "visual mode" by default (that lightning bolt thing in the top right). You can actually see where the low sampling rate starts to affect the resulting wave form—which is sort of fun to see.
It's intentional. I need to keep my ego in check, and remember that I'm only supporting cast. The entrepreneurs are the protagonists.
Why Did Zynga Tank After Facebook IPOed?
Very cool. Too bad they got you
I run the computer lab at an elementary school, and I make sure to tell all my classes that if they are willing to work hard for it, they could move to Mars at some point during their lives.

At the rate SpaceX is going, the students I have now are going to witness an incredible amount of major advancements in space travel and related technologies. I try to make sure they all know this, and some are already coming into the computer lab during break to talk about space exploration, careers in space, etc. These are just 5th graders! It makes me almost as excited to see their interest as I am to about missions like this.
Facebook’s Debut Marred by Trading Glitches
Interesting. A senior manager from Red Ventures came to my school last year to talk about his company and recruit at my school. He made it sound pretty cool but looks can definitely be deceiving.
Rails is the new Java.
Productivity...well, kind of. If the show is an hour long you get 45 minutes of madness with Mann and Dan talking almost incoherently but then you get 15 minutes of brilliance from Mann. I always walk away with some useful quip or anecdote about life or work.
OK, I just updated it to not crash the ipad. As a trade off, it won't play sound, but it will still shoot out the waveforms from the bottom of the keyboard (so you can compute the sound in your head and imagine what it should sound like).