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It's very difficult to do something for the sake of doing it without focusing on the end, but in reality all we can control is what we do, not the effect of what we do. Reading talebs books completely opened my eyes to our own magnificent limitations. There's real beauty in recognizing how little control we have over outcomes. But we have 100% control over the journey . . . what we learn and create, theres a lot of comfort in that idea.
No, but there is RestSharp :-)

Bobik does not have a language-specific API per se, although more language-specific SDKs will be available soon. All interaction with Bobik is carried out via REST calls. Thus, you can create your own "SDK" with a fairly minimal effort.
If they are providing performance improvements, why not just pull a copy of jQuery and commit the improvements? Why do these need to be presented as a separate library?
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> illicit

Or elicit, if it's legal.
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because "down rounds" not only dilute you horribly...

I'm missing something here. What makes "down rounds" so dilutive? I'm assuming we're talking about a larger effect than the obvious "lower valuation = handing over more stock to raise the same amount of cash" effect.
I strongly felt this way from about the halfway point on down. He seems to have a particular hatred for Americans, and he is nothing if not vocal about it.

> But Americans can sense that this is not a case like those they’re familiar with, if they realize that the “reign of terror” was a cheap trick employed for years by their post-9/11 administrations in order to reduce civil liberties and pass antidemocratic policies with no resistance. I am not a member of their administration, not even an American. I am speaking as a person concerned about fellow people and the future of humanity as a whole.

smelled particularly strongly of a conspiracy theorist's thinking. While I'll not dispute that certain acts passed during our author's so called "reign of terror" overstepped their bounds (the Patriot Act is, of course, first to mind), passing off all regulation to fix clearly- and recently-exposed security flaws within U.S. security as maniacal scheming that we, the public, are docilely accepting is inaccurate and downright insulting.

Worse, he tries to couch his blatherings in the mantle of a just, altruistic benefactor who is merely "concerned about fellow people and the future of humanity as a whole." The article was interesting for the issues it drew attention to which DO merit consideration, but ultimately was spoiled by diatribe and paranoia.
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Congrats to the scribd team. It's refreshing to see a post about being profitable rather then just how much was raised.

Lots of love for scribd here.
> If you list companies that didn't disrupt non-tech industries

> * Google

...

Libraries and the centuries old librarian profession as well as Yellow Pages, Printed Map books, and oh, privacy.

Also Apple disrupted the record industry with $.99 songs + iTunes and iPod.

Amazon, not on your list, has disrupted retail.
MySpace did what you suggest. They monetized heavily, harming UX, and creating space for a cleaner modern user-friendly competitor. That's part of why they failed.

I think they're just waiting until they've completely solidified their #1 position to concentrate on making more money. It will seem obvious in hindsight that they make $20+ billion, the way it does for Google now. It may never be quite as good as Google though, but max potential is especially hard to predict.
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It's real simple.
Sexual harassment is not okay.
Tolerating that behaviour in others is not okay.
Inviting a known problem-person to conferences is not okay.

We can prevaricate about the "truth" of her story (and this particular incident) all we want, but the core message here is that these things do happen, women do get sexually harassed by people who are invited to tech conference, and that is not okay.
No, he was discovered because his videos were on the internet. Scooter Braun misclicked on a link and a video of Justin Bieber played, that link could have been to any website. The value there was the internet, not Youtube. If you want to argue how Youtube plays into the success of Justin Bieber you should look later in the timeline, Youtube was a valuable part after he had gained traction, just like radio and television, it was a platform for distribution (not sure if that's the right word) of the brand.
The bad performance of Facebook will cool the attitude of institutional investors towards online investment.

That will make it harder for the B-Grade VC companies to raise money, which will reduce the valuations anyone else has to pay to invest.

That has the potential to drive hundreds of millions of dollars into the angel space overnight, sending valuations through the roof or at least keeping them propped up for a while.

Not really. The crazy valuations were typically occurring when VC's got involved at the A round or later - not when early stage investors are working. A lot of early stage investing is done using convertible notes anyway.
A lot of people seem to think so.
>Changes to Facebook are like fluctuations in gas prices though. People grumble and complain, then just go ahead and don't change their habit.

IMO, its like this. We spend a lot of time here on HN. Just like a whole lot more people do on Facebook. But we come to HN for a specific purpose to engage in these kind of discussions. Just like it will be difficult for PG to convert this into something else which makes more money (PG gave the example of a market place), I think it will be no simpler for Mark Zuckerberg.

PS: This was my take on FB, before the IPO http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949048
I have been mixed on this, and I think it will have an interesting impact on the IPO markets.

But, one area that I am still waiting to see play out is the intersection of secondary markets and IPOs. People have raised the examples of Groupon, Yelp, and FB (Zynga is another that comes to mind). All social, yet all different. Groupon has had some interesting accounting practices along the way, FB was richly priced by the secondary markets.

I have yet to see any big name, non-social, companies really test the markets, and I mean when they are in a position to do so -- strong product, strong revenues, and strong path moving forward.

Given what is happening in Europe and the world markets in general, there will be an impact on investment.

There have been basically 3 downturns (as I believe cdixon mentioned) in the last 12 years, is this the 4th? Or is this a by product of new avenues like the secondary market?

I have no idea, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
By "major contributors like CD Projekt Red" I assume you mean "owners". Good Old Games was created and is owned by CD Projekt so it's not exactly fair to simply call them "major contributors". :)
Founder shares get diluted in a down round, but employee options go completely underwater.
I'm not sure what PG's intention was, but I bet that "under-the-table dilution" in the form of liquidation preferences, board seats, and veto rights on sales below Y% return is much more common in down rounds.

These investor privileges often drastically change a founder's control of the company, and their payoff vs valuation curve, even for a nominal valuation that is "at par" for the founder's nominal equity value.
"The best solution is not to need money."

"The startups that really get hosed are going to be the ones... that pay little attention to profitability."
I suspect it's because investors think that one of the few routes to 'exit' a company and cash out your investment just got closed down, at least in the short term. That increases the risk of investing and therefore lowers the valuation.
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Facebook waited too long. Part of the psychology on joe public's love of Apple has to do with APPL -- they got to invest in the stock while investing their time (and $) in their products.

Facebook decided to have all that growth in value for insiders only. And it's not like they wanted to be a private company, so the outcome is planned.

By not leaving any money on the table, and having joe public not share and invest in their success, when the government starts to beat down on them, there won't be much public support for FB.

And pg is right: nor will there be much support for those following in their footsteps. Scorched Earth. Those investors did well (and many HN peeps on SecondMarket). So well in fact, it won't happen again. Not for a long while.
Growth and profit are not mutually exclusive

True.

But if you are constrained by your team (ie, you can't work on everything at once, which Facebook says is their biggest constraint) and you have plenty of easy money from investors, why would you try and profit now and risk another service taking your audience when you could possibly build something that can profit for years to come?
Or pg realizes that once the cat is out of the bag, you can't put it back in. If he takes it down here, it will be posted elsewhere.
The investors in the initial round usually have some sort of anti-dilution provision, so the founders get diluted much more. See this, for example:

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2009/sb20090...
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If Apple wanted to buy Sun's patents to sue Google, why didn't Apple just do it themselves? Jobs already declared "thermonuclear war" on Android, after all.
Remember that 26 includes the value of $9B of additional cash on the balance sheet from the IPO. So the valuation of Facebook as a business is actually lower still, once you back out the cash.
When I saw PG's email, I thought this was a self-fulfilling prophesy, even if it was only seen by YC founders. But now that every has seen it - it will be in Forbes and TechCrunch soon no doubt - it seems almost certain.

If just YC founders see it, then they'll take less money, and get lower valuations, etc, leading the tone of the valley. But if everyone sees it, investors will close their wallets, people will declare the bubble is now popped, and the prophesy will fulfil itself.
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Look at [1], slides 32-84. There are many disruptive changes mentioned there.

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meekers-latest-incredibl...
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But... but... but... isn't it really about the idea? I guess not. It's really all about the hype - which means it's true, Y Combinator IS a stupid idea.
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One reason why the FB IPO can drive down valutions can be the following:

When VCs are worried that they won't ever get a multi-billion dollar IPO to cash in and thus generate returns they will be forced to get the same junk of any given start-up for less money in order to create the the same return factor.

Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
Ah, thanks for explaining. I thought such anti-dilution provisions would have gone out of style a years ago.
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In addition to that, Stephen Wolfram himself is pretty smart even if he behaves like a dick.
The liquidation preference also bites you more as a founder because you are further away from not being affected by it.

I am not sure about this but I can imagine the down round VCs also want the same exit valuation guarantee, i.e. if first round got 1x liquidation preference at $8M valuation the down round VCs in a $6M round might ask for 1.33x liquidation preference.
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This is a cryptic comment. Yes, Wall St views Facebook as a powerful coil, but no one knows if it is compressed or stretched, but it certainly is.

All it takes is for Facebook to go from $4 a user/yr to $8, or for teenagers to say "email me, I don't check facebook often". A powerful coil indeed.
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If the majority of children being born are minorities, then logically all children being born are minorities.

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Yes i was exactly thinking about stacking two independent switches (i've done it with Cisco 3750 but you can do it also with other brands).
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This is my understanding of how this works:

When you instruct GS to sell the share for you, GS actually went to the open market and just sell the share.

They are supposed to deliver the share at some time later, when they have found the share to borrow. However, they can do nothing and wait for the deadline to come. If the price drops, they will buy a share to deliver the previous sell order, and make a new sell order at the same price to "extend" the delivery deadline.
I think Nintendo will be ahead of the curve in the next console gen again. Nintendo chose to make their games more party and social oriented with the Wii and it led all consoles in sales until Microsoft came out with the Kinect. A social-focused console could become another hit in the era of Facebook.
There is a fundamental problem with the way the web is working now. We're in a kind of limbo. Companies like Dropbox and Airbnb (and the company I mostly work with) actually sell a product and as you say they're good.

I've been having a hard time formulating what I'm about to write so I apologize if it doesn't make a lot of sense. I can't help feeling that the Facebooks and Twitters are using the web in a way that there really isn't a proper infrastructure for. They seem to be quite expensive to maintain and, by nature don't generate lots of money by what they do. In my opinion, if they charged they wouldn't be able to build the big networks of interconnected users that defines their value.

I think there are ways past this conundrum but I don't think that profit motive will be the what pushes them and I think they will require a somewhat different infrastructure than we have now.
Both Ivy Bridge and AMD's new Trinity IGPs offer playable frame rates at low-medium settings in many newer titles, with Trinity generally having a slight edge:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5831/amd-trinity-review-a10-46...
Scribd is great and all, but a quantcast screenshot doesn't show it's profitable or represent their growth in anyway.

Anything else to add?
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Let's look at a related industry: amazon made it that 70% of sales are given to the author. Now if the author want he can give money to marketing guys.If he wants to go alone , he can. He controls the process.

This has definitely given more market power to book authors(leaving aside amazon power grab).

Similar models can be offered to the music industry. They'll just enable artists to get more control over the process.

So the boy band will pay high royalty rate to the marketing guys because he is mostly marketing based, but the amazing new musical talent who seems to get a lot of people via viral marketing will share much less of the money.
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Well, that's a step up from 50 Cent's pump and dump schemes: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-36943822/50-cent-penn...
Why does Google allow the hacker and the account owner to keep resetting passwords in rapid succession? The timeline indicates that two lengthy ping-pong sessions took place during the incident. That kind of behavior should immediately raise a red flag. How often do legitimate users reset passwords alternately from two different locations 10 times in 15 minutes?

I'm surprised that Google doesn't detect two people fighting for control of one account. They could have easily detected ping-pong sessions and and locked both parties out of their accounts for a couple of hours. Or they could have penalized the newly added recovery address by forcing an exponential delay between resets using that address. This is not the first time I've heard of somebody breaking into a Gmail account while the account owner is using that very same account.
FB already got their $16 billion. If your in it for the long term, uproar away that nest egg should be able to last a while. Check ins, ads, app platform, lots of monetization strategies. The only people burned are short term investors who buy in at a bad time. FB ONLY potential problem is losing RELEVANCE. You don't lose users by not monetizing mobile, but you can lose users by monetizing mobile however. Short/steady wins the race, especially with 16 billion in the bank
Of the 3 that add performance improvements:

animate - probably wouldn't make sense until CSS is better supported.

styles - I've suggested adding it, but waiting on the "go ahead".

fastfix - I've suggested adding, but jQuery said it wasn't interested. I don't think they realize that although fix in its current state is fast, it's called all the time, making it important.
Why are spaces important then?
I don't see your point. Your reference to "positive externalities" is the same as what I meant by "new value".
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It is by no means masquerading as a better version of jQuery. No where does it say this. It only states it's a collection of jQuery plugins.
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It's a smart move. You're not the darling of the entertainment industry forever. One day the royalty payments won't be enough to pay the bills, the next flavour of the month has come along and taken your revenue stream, market and fans. Justin Bieber is setting himself up for life, venture capitalism is a good game to get into if you have the cash like Justin to make substantial investments in big tech startups.

Another high profile celebrity doing smart things with their money is Jessica Simpson (she hasn't done any venture capital investing... yet but she has quite a large empire of businesses and investments in the property market). She buys houses, renovates them and then sells them for a profit, not bad for someone who is portrayed as an idiot. She has clothing lines, a perfume range and a whole heap of other pieces of equity.

It always makes me glad to hear celebrities spending their money wisely and at the same time (even if an investment has been given for an expected return much like every other investor would expect) people like Justin are helping the little startup guys get a break and make a difference.
I'm sure the Facebook IPO will hit seed/early stage funding less than the SF housing market :)
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I don't use (or happen to use, through search or other means) Scribd much, but whenever I do, I get frustrated as hell by the way it loads content and usually end up closing that tab in disgust. I admit, I haven't tested it much and might be completely wrong, but sometimes I open a 600 page manual or something like that, and I'm on page 285 (bevause google determined thats where my keyword was) and nothing happens. I wait a minute and then scroll to top and see it's gradually populating from the very first page onwards, and it would take 5-10 minutes before it reaches page 285 that I'm interested in... I don't have Fladh installed and naturally use the HTML5 version; maybe Flash version is smarter in the way it loads content.

It's absolutely great on small documents though, a great service.
I noticed it too, but my last impression was that it is good to be like that. I see it as an attempt to cut the link between the new word dropbox as a brand and the two words drop and box. Drop has a negative conotation.
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How does the quantcast measurement not measure growth? Note it goes up and to the right...???
> If we list tech companies that massively disrupted non-tech industries, you come up with a list like:

It should be Fair to say that the popularization of software, hardware and search has disrupted quite a few industries via secondary effects - which is what companies on the second list have done (the ones you list as non-disruptive).

Google has destroyed the newspaper advertising model. Oracle has destroyed the big corporate/government back offices (not all). Apple destroyed a great many jobs (via popularization of PCs -> Lotus Notes/App development).

My point is that they are disruptive companies :).
Decent thought experiment but the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" part is just link bait title or a really bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be "a head fake" as the late Randy Pausch so aptly put it.
> Justin Bieber is setting himself up for life, venture capitalism is a good game to get into if you have the cash like Justin to make substantial investments in big tech startups.

Did you miss the part about making $105M in the last 24 months? He's already set up for many life times.
You mean the Go tools have their own resolver?

The blog at miek.nl says that Go had a DNS library written in Go in the provided samples for a while, then they removed it.
It would be interesting to know why.
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