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I actually completely forgot my bank had a shitty website. Thanks to Mint.com's app. (And before I get accused of shilling here, though I've never seen that claim made against someone, I just want to say: they should want to get it right before some third party does.)
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I didn't expect anything or complained or something. I proposed the title that I thought is more relevant, and did it in a sorta humorous way. This photostream is posted now, not in 1962, when people could live and think that there is the US, the Western allies, the third world with problems - and some grey parts of the world where nothing happens. We know now that 'Russians love their children too', do we?
But these insiders most certainly do have FU-level wealth, and they are selling, pre-IPO.
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One backlog for new requirements, another backlog for incidents. Track your time working on the different backlogs (or even per-tasks) and pretty soon you will have some numbers to show the boss why new stuff isn't happening snap-snap.
Google IPO'd six years after they were founded, Facebook waited 8 years. The comparison is not that unwarranted I think.
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Ditto for most of the IT services companies in Bangalore. Oh just add "Project Manager X chasing the required parties" between every line in that article and perhaps add another 3-4 day delay as most of the teams don't work in the same time zone.
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Fair enough. My plan is to work out in the open on github, part-time this Summer. I'll report noteworthy builds and solicit feedback. I believe that by the deadline I can produce a usable and documented Emacsy library that includes all the features mentioned above, and maybe even some features I haven't mentioned. That should provide an excellent foundation for this project to thrive after the deadline, and I expect to maintain it for sometime after that.
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What's the long term strategy here?
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Is there any portal for school students where they can discuss, share knowledge similar to stackoverflow, reddit, ycombinator.
Would such a service be useful to students? If such services are already present what the drawbacks that could be changed. I would like to experiment my programming skills with this project if possible.
It was average wage in US. Not-specific to education.

Better numbers can be found at http://www.bls.gov/data/

Total compensation per hour for elementary/secondary school teachers: 56.59 (and avg wage is 38.39); far higher than any other public position (save administrators - they get cake too).
Buffett is really smart guy. But this acquisition is weird. At the time when "journalism is a dying breed" and newspaper industry failing to generate substantial revenues due to the "Internet Tidal Wave" of past decade, why is he buying good ol' newspaper company?
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> However, I strongly support shutting Pirate sites and illegal file downloads.

Except this isn't shutting down pirate sites, this is making sure that 90% of people can't access them by ordering major ISPs to interfere with communications between their customers and the websites in question (some might call this "censorship" or "protectionism"). I agree that TPB-style piracy is usually a bad thing, but do the ends really justify the means here? The blocking of Vimeo and Dailymotion suggest that this is a very, very slippery slope.
Thirded. This should not be on HN.
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Yes, you could run pre-defined code in the browser given messages sent by the network this way. But you couldn't send the browser a code:compile(Binary) and then upgrade one of its modules in-place, as you could with any other Erlang node--which is sort of the point of using Erlang in the browser, as opposed to another language.
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Although this seems like a weird move it's my guess that he is betting on at least one of those papers being the long time survivor after a consolidation of the market.

For $142 million he should be able to make money one way or another.

But this is of course my (very un-educated) guess.
Yeh, my partner is also becoming a primary school teacher in Australia. I also noticed the duplication with lesson plans they were having when they went to do their practical components at schools. So I built a little app[1] to help her and her colleagues create lesson plans and share it with each other. No intention of monetising it, just wanted to learn some mongodb and rails with it.

[1] https://www.lessplan.com/ (use invite code: beta-212 if anyone wants to play around)
From the article- "He said newspapers need to resolve problems with high production and delivery costs and the practice of making their products available for free over the Internet."
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I reckon this is counter-signalling that they are 'above' caring about money.
We already have arbitrary code pushed to us and executed in our browsers all the time--it's called Javascript (and with JSONP, we even have more Javascript being pushed to us in realtime in response to events and eval'ed live. Nothing new here.)

The difference in running Erlang here is simply that the browser would be joining a network of agents and spawning agents of its own, instead of joining a network of processes and spawning threads/web-workers of its own. This would allow a uniformity of process logic, such that an agent could be transparently running on a browser or on a server to complete a task, and messages could be being passed transparently across the network to facilitate this, without any of the code having to differentiate the cases.

NaCl ensures the browser sandbox environment remains in place--so, other than perhaps getting a bit hot, your computer won't be doing anything it wasn't already doing just running the Javascript the server served it.
I guess he just bought 63 news websites, with staff on ground to run them.
Hi, I've updated the page to include my plan. Yes, this is about laying the foundation for Emacsy. However, I expect to deliver on all the features I laid out such that they are usable and documented. There are a number of other features I would like to see in the future, so I expect I'll be working on it and maintaining it for sometime into the future. The funding is essentially to encourage and justify that it's worth my time to go the extra mile in making something usable for everyone instead of just making it for myself, which would be a much easier job.
If Everyme really does work that way then I will like it a lot.

The irony for me is that the most private thing I can do is also the most public: send a plain old email to a person with a link that anybody can use. The public-ness of the link in the email is what makes the act of sharing private. If the link was not public I would need to grant the recipient access to some piece of my social network for them to see the photos. Which in turn would probably expose a lot of other information about me to them, and thus would be a violation of my privacy. I'm not sure what one would call this idea of "private public" sharing but it's a concept I feel is missing from nearly all current social networks.
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Sorry to say, that these techniques will work for Enterprisey folks who anyway won't have to scrape.

For example you say 'Randomize template output'. Scrapers used a mixture of various techniques. Say, HTML Path does not work (despite supporting HTML wild cards in the form of body/table[1]/tr[*]/. Then you fall back to just some patterns could be the title of your data or anything.

Have scraped content coming in Flash also. Basically how can you stop anybody from understanding either a) data exchanged between the browser and the server Or (in case its encrypted/encoded) b) The HTML once its rendered.

Only way of doing it is by having your own custom browser, and preventing its source code getting leaked.

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This page has some interesting commentary on the purchase:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-17/why-warren-b...

"As recently as six years ago, newspaper companies sold for more than 9 times Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Stephen Weiss writes today that Buffett’s company paid around 4 times Ebitda for the Media General assets."

I suppose you could say he's buying a very sick golden goose. He may not be able to save the goose, but at 4 times Ebitda he only needs to collect a few last eggs to get his money back. And who knows... maybe the goose can be saved.
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My question: would Prior Art be considered?
ActiveX biggest problem, by far, was that it was part of Microsoft's Embrace Extend Extinguish (EEE) strategy. Meaning it was a proprietary technology that would make IE the exclusive benefactor of it. Screwing everyone else. So developers noticed that and didn't adopt it.

NaCl is open-source, which makes it literally immune to EEE. Google couldn't pull that off even if they wanted to.
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Buffet is the epitome of a contrarian investor. He's buying precisely because he thinks the popular opinion about the dying newspaper industry is exaggerated, and he can get a good deal for his money.
So just 2,5 million $ a pop. Not sure how much a newspaper is usually worth, but 2,5 million sounds like a steal. Even if the paper thing does not survive, you have skilled staff and teams.
No, not even close. Even in design school.

Less than 0.01% of all architectural designs get physical models made; it's time consuming and its expensive. Only 2 reasons I've ever seen them done in firms - large urban / public space (politics) projects or clients who have money and can't imagine a 3d building from a set of drawings ("spatially deficient"). That stated, I do know one coffee-table architect who has many models for every project - he prefers sketch models (paper, usually) to sketching.
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At my place, you get name.surname@mycompany.com and can have as many aliases as you want, I don't care - I'll always send you mail to name.surname@mycompany.com.

How is it NOT geeky to have local mail parts in friggin' order?

Also, even if I had money to provide some hardware to people working for me, I'd call them whining b....s they are. We'll organically upgrade on neccesity and keep it lean at all times.
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Doctors have a maxim of "first do no harm." I believe that maxim is being violated by some of these attempted fixes.

I'm not saying they should give up the search for something that works, but they absolutely should not cause harm just for the sake of doing something.
This is such an amazing move. It's going to put access to information into the hands of millions of children. It is a revolution in the making.
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That story makes google suddenly seem a lot less cool to me. If I've made a million because they value the work I do for them, I'll spend it however I damn well please, and I'm pretty sure one of the ways I'd enjoy it would be a nice car.
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Who cares about how much it filters out? The question is how much false positives does it have? And google most definitely are not good enough to even be usable in that department. If you never know if you've missed something you have to constantly check the filtered mails as well, making the spam filtering much worse than nothing.

If you rely on something as blunt as gmail spam filtering you don't take emailing seriously.
This happens at my job too and I want to kill myself when it does. I get so frustrated. All these work protocols and slow useless software that prevents me from being effective at work.

I usually find a way to make things work by going outside the protocols and just fixing the problems. Its not the problem that is hard, its the stupid damn protocols and official ways of doing things that makes it very hard to get something done.

Decisions being made by idiots who have no clue how to allow people to work in a efficient manner, or how much money they lose by people sitting around doing nothing, waiting for some useless step in a useless process.

Seriously, I can feel the rage coming just thinking about it while writing this! What the fuck happened to this industry...
If you are downloading someone else's project, you don't know. The Travis-CI badge gives the guarantee the code passes the tests.
I couldn't agree with this one more. I only swim upstream if I have absolutely no other choice, courtesy of the Deadline.

But here's the thing - there's always Deadline. :)
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One possible explanation: karma.

the more you "contribute" the higher the possibility that you get upvoted.

Of course, if this is true it sounds like cheating, but no one is forced to upvote, so at the end of the day, it's more about the success of HN as a news engine.
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I think you're right. A purchase of this size is bound to be able to new a few wins, even if it's via consolidation.

And who knows, maybe iTunes/Amazon has convinced him that "content" has a future.
He is only buying local newspapers with strong local distribution.

He's betting that they will fair better in the long term as people go to the Internet for the big stories while they buy a newspaper for all the local news.

Good idea I think.
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I was thinking more about other situations. I thought the salesman was isolated to an office because he has to talk on the phone, constantly, to customers and it was interrupting the developers. I've heard similar situations with startups and their CEOs. If I did that in my open space office, my coworkers would just get irritated and eventually I'll be talked about it by my manager.
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Hey thanks for taking the time to give me feedback I really appreciate it. That review you're talking about is on the US store I think (which is unfortunate since it's the biggest!) Generally though I've been getting 4-5* reviews and the app is mostly working as expected from what I can see with very few crashes etc.

I'm definitely going to contact YouTube partners directly now. I was thinking of doing it anyway, but felt it was a bit spammy.
day after the GOOG IPO there were lotuses and Maseratis galore (OK, mostly from sales, but still). And Larry and Sergey bought a jet for chrissakes.

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Ask HN: "What happens when something happens to you (you get hit by a bus)?"
I am a single-founder living outside of US and working on a SaaS app, which is beginning to show some decent traction. The application serves a segment which currently does not have other affordable players, with matching feature-set.

One of my clients, who is a contractor in US, now wants to deploy my app for one of his big clients. The concern now is on the long-term aspects, like what if I go out of business or if something happens to me, which I believe is a valid concern.

In the event that I go out of business or something happens to me, my clients have the option to continue to use the service for an indefinite period (they are the administrator for their deployment, paying their hosting bill, but cannot download the code). They can at any time take out their data in a standard exportable format, which they can easily import again into a new application they can build as a replacement to my app, if and when they so desire.

I plan to highlight this aspect.

Other options like taking in a co-founder or forming a bigger team can have further questions like "What if you both get hit by the bus?" or "What if they go on a team-trip and the bus falls down a cliff?" or "What if there is an earthquake and the roof collapses?".

So, I would like to hear your options, which you might have tried out in such scenarios and have seen to work out well, like..

- Using a source-code escrow service (any reliable services which you might recommend?)

- Selling a source-code license (what are the precautions when taking this route?)

While trusting clients with source code licenses is one option, I am not sure I will be able to verify if the client (or one of their employees) break that trust. And when multiple licenses are given out, it is hard to find the source of the leak.

Suggestions welcome.
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I'll frequently work from home in the morning or evening if I want to get stuff done; no coworkers there. Or if I need to concentrate, I'll leave my office and go find a massage chair or cozy nook and curl up with my laptop, or even go to a different building and work alongside a team where nobody knows who I am.

Only thing I miss is my 3 24" monitors.
I've gotten lastname.firstname2@... before. It was a (brief) nightmare.
I believe there are a considerable number of these "older people" who'd appreciate support for multiple identities. I think Posterous's "spaces" idea is better aligned with the "multiple identities" concept than Google+ "circles" anyway. "Spaces" or "Facets" let me participate in the tech life of a colleague without having to encounter the "I had X for lunch/dinner" posts.
1. You've mistranscribed. It's article not oracle of faith. Whoever heard of an oracle of faith?!

2. Calling an idea an 'article of faith' is insulting as it implies a lack of reasoning.
Ask HN: Academic papers visualized as a tree?
Is there any software / website that will visualize an academic paper and its "children", and their "children", etc. as a tree-like structure (up to depth of x...)?

This would be remarkably helpful in learning a bit more about a niche topic.
I continue to be amazed that folks continue to claim a rich man with a published book who makes the rounds on cable news networks is somehow being "censored" by virtue of his mediocre talk not being highlighted by an independent foundation. Seriously, this does a serious disservice to the word censorship and people across the globe who suffer from actual censorship.
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Why does Bill Gates participate in that newspapers buying event (see video at the bottom of that article)?
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The non-obvious thing is that if 6 years ago Ebitda was '100' and today it is around '10' then Mr. Buffet would have paid 40 rather than 900. Comparing the Ebitda makes you think the cost was 45% of 6 years ago, but if Ebitda has fallen in this period then, as in my example, the price is just 4.5% of 6 years ago.

If these businesses are able to survive the next few years and get to grips with all the new mediums of publication then Ebitda may well return to the levels of 6 years ago and then Mr. buffet would be sitting very pretty indeed.

Does anyone have the comparative Ebitda figures?
You'd think so- I know I am- but it's really nice seeing a pull request with that badge there saying it's passed.
I have one for my wife, son, and I. It makes life so easy when people ask for an email address and I say firstname@firstnamelastname.com (and my surname is really short and really common). Invariably, some think you are some sort of uber hacker because you pay $7/year for this service.