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This is because our current economy is skewed towards consumption with real estate and cars as the primary metric. I agree, I don't see it as a negative. I'm Gen X and I don't own a house or car.
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I struggle to understand your point - I'd love to here a bit more to understand it.

The IRR numbers I mention refer to UFCF/equity, i.e. no exit (hence return) via company/asset sale.
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Ask HN: How do aquihires work?
As I understand it, an "aquihire" is an acquisition of a startup by a large company where the acquirer is not interested in the startup's product, technology or userbase, but only in its employees, who will presumably be shifted to work on the acquirer's own projects while the startup's work is abandoned.

The impression I get from HN is that this is fairly common and explained as such employees being very valuable since they have proven the ability to create something.

But what is the advantage of a (presumably rather costly - or does it happen only to failed startups with low valuations?) acquihire over simply "poaching" those employees?

After all, the employees could leave the acquirer ASAP (especially if there is resentment over the product they had worked on being abandoned), and the founders and early employees (who have proven their ability the most) get a lot of money via their shares, which enables them to go off and do what what they've always dreamed of rather than work for $BIGCORP.

Doesn't sound like a good investment to me - so what am I missing?
After it killed it's rival, development practically stopped for several years, and the progress of the web stopped with it.

You know how everybody hates AT&T and Verizon for not bothering to make a better service because they essentially have no competition? That's the same reason I dislike IE.
Can one start a tech company anymore without Venture Capital?
Does it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4422015
No, nothing was removed.
Or me (en-GB, Safari, OS X Mountain Lion). I'm guessing it doesn't like how we invoke it with option-3 ?
I think so. But isn't this a touchy issue? I mean doesn't the US own the internet? So why would they relinquish regulation?
Won't save journalism, or won't save newspapers?
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Content-Encoding: gzip implies a gz header. zlib.deflate just deflates and emits headerless data. Because creating a valid header requires the length of the content to be known, there's no stream filter in PHP to create a gz header.

To see Chrome decode your test image, use gzencode() or set Content-Encoding to deflate.
Hash doesn't work for me either (Mac osx Chrome Version 21.0.1180.79). This app will change my life and i really need to use it!

:)
It's so hard to say: maybe it'd have taken a while longer. On the other hand, maybe the alternative solution would have been simpler, allowing later developments to progress more quickly. It certainly took years to clean up IE-specific html mess. Who can know if it's a net positive...
For the VCs and pension funds, or the investors at large that trust the IPOing banks?
Why discount Microsoft's contribution just because "if they didn't do it, someone else would have"? If that's how you think, then nobody's contribution to the world is significant, since "somebody else would have done it."
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I completely agree with your points.

What I'm curious is when devs stop blocking Twitter on their end. It's a hard business decision since Twitter does drive so much traffic, but I'm curious how many links are published from instagram, foursquare, tumblr, etc., I'd wager that tweets published from services like this aren't a trivial part of Twitter's traffic. I wonder if it would really have an affect on Twitter and if users would bother to manually tweet. While this is anecdotal evidence, I know a fair amount of people who went to Twitter because these services were linked to it.
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When I last had a personal car, TCO was over 900USD per month (auto financing, parking, insurance).

Since I live in an urban area well served by subways, buses, taxis, Zipcar, and Uber, letting go of that high fixed monthly expense in favor of an a-la-carte approach has been a great financial benefit for me.

Of course, if I had two kids, lived in remote suburbs, or had to commute to suburbs, the equation would be very different.

But for now, for me and many other urban dwellers, the value of owning my own car just doesn't compute.
What problem does this solve that Quora doesn't? Seems like you might have a hard time competing.
Based on not having done so myself in my younger days, I would absolutely require it (in regards to a closely held corporation).

It is not uncommon for the stockholder agreement of a closely held company to require the sale of shares back to the company upon an employee's departure or to prevent the sale of shares to a person of the employee's choosing.

In particular for your case, the agreement will tell you whether the company is obligated to loan you money in order that you may exercise your options so that the stock may be resold back to the company.

The more I have thought about it, the more this looks like a discretionary bonus not really an investment opportunity. The amount of money entailed to exercise your options and retain the stock is just too high - these are option grants which are vesting not stock grants. If at the end of the first year the company doesn't loan you money to exercise your options, there's no value for you unless you have $150k in cash handy.

I would add that 7500 shares is going to require a ten billion dollar exit to give you "fuck you" money (assuming no dilution or liquidity preference). Again it's probably best to ignore the stock as a form of compensation.

[edit] Any resistance to giving you the stockholder paperwork while you are considering the offer is, in my opinion, a red flag.
Not too keen on the logo font, but the design of the rest of it is great. Hopefully you can get the comment counts up and take off.
I own a car now, simply because I tried relying on public transport for a year and found the experience pretty depressing - it makes your day so very long (I was basically doing 6am-7pm including commuting) and loses you flexibility. I fell into a routine of coming to work, going home, and doing nothing else, because it was so much effort to plan a trip anywhere other than the office. It started to make me sink into something approaching a depression.

So here I am, with a car - but it's not a fancy brand-new £10,000 model with crippling monthly payments. It's a slightly beaten-up 2002 Micra, I bought it from a guy down the road for £600 cash, it doesn't use much gas. I don't care how I look in it, whether it's 'cool,' I don't see it as a status symbol, I see it as a tool for life.

Maybe that's the difference - younger generations don't see a house or a car as a symbol of status or wealth, merely as something to be used, as a necessity - just like you wouldn't choose your electricity supplier based on how "cool" it is, we don't choose our cars on that basis either now.
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Yes :) . Depending on your definition of tech, of course, there are several bootstrapped companies.

Some examples include Github, Imgur, Carbonmade, 37Signals, Braintree, DuckDuckGo, AppSumo, Atlassian, Envato, etc, etc...

There are also other sources of funding (ex: StartupChile), and that's not even counting angel investors.
Can you make a Tent (or more ambitious social p2p) client which is also an FB client? Of course.

FB and Twitter have APIs. Of course, they can revoke your key. But they have web clients, so they can be scraped.

Faced with a genuinely distributed opponent, there's no way the existing behemoths can keep your data in their silos.

For instance, FB can block tent.is at the API level or even at the IP level. But if Tent hosts pop up all around the internets, and if they are general-purpose enough that users can install their own scraping gateways, which can't be attacked centrally using technical or legal means... it's game over. To me this is one of the less recognized advantages of a distributed service.
It would be interesting to compare YC startups considering also their income so we can see not only chosen business models but also how much they earn.

But I wonder if we can get such information.
Could you crowdsource it? Share a Google Spreadsheet here with a list of all the batches, I'd look up a couple :)
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Right you are! Thanks alot.

http://www.thestudentcloud.co.uk/hn/test2.php

<?php

header('Content-Encoding: gzip');

header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');

$data = file_get_contents('test.jpg');

$gzdata = gzencode($data, 9);

$fout = fopen('php://output', "w");

fwrite($fout, $gzdata);

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I found the claim that he is being fined for buying chinese solar panels... dubious. So I figured there must be more to the story.

Apparently the "tough import policy" is a limitation to the 30% tax credit people can get for installing solar panels. The rules of the credit were changed in May to make it only apply to american-made panels: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display...

His company, Sunrise Solar, encourages customers to take the tax credit for his products: http://www.sunrisesolar.net/

This appears to be where the potential fines are coming from.
>It is a walled-garden with a better gate policy.

...until they need money.
Sure but you cant "title" in short with fixed length and then link to longer content.

Personally i think everything should be rss 2.0 based

http://blog.collins.net.pr/2012/08/are-you-in-tent.html
I had the same problem with not getting enough feedback on the errors I made. For example, I mistyped ")" a few times. But to correct it I need to know whether I hit the key to the left or to the right of ")" so I can move my finger accordingly. (I often type US-Dvorak on a spanish layout keyboard, so looking at the physical keys on the keyboard is pointless).
I believe his comment is intended to people reading the comments and not to the author.
MS stopped others (Netscape) from innovating. IE only ran on Windows* IE 5 on Mac was crap and maybe antitrust avoiding effort. IE was created at all costs to stop the web browser from becoming an application platform that competed with Windows. MS did everything to keep users from using competing browsers. MS tried to make it impossible to uninstall from Windows. MS tried to keep developers from creating rich applications in the web browser and kept IE6 in stagnant mode for almost a decade until competition arrived. Microsoft won. This stuff should be fact entered in Wikipedia.
Eh, all it takes is one random country with low taxes saying they don't respect IP laws. Cue US having a hissy fit, which in turn simply notifies other countries that it's a tactic that actually works. I look forward to that hydra rising.
That comeback has a pretty low floor though. It's never going to come back like it was during its heyday... it will be a niche thing forever, just coming back from extinction.
$50 per user per year ought to be sufficient.
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Doubleclick is a part of Google.
In the other examples at the bottom tucked in there is a great example of how seemingly negative things can actually turn out to be a positive thing, this example is talking about the board game chutes and ladders.

I explained the seemingly paradoxical situation where it is
possible to add additional chutes to a game board and
reduce the average length of a game! How come? Well, if you
have a long ladder in the game (such that landing on one
will propel you far up the board for a strong advantage),
and you miss it; If the added additional chutes on the
board send you back to before this long ladder, then you
have a second attempt to hit the long ladder!

wow- I love this, it supports the notion to 'fail early' in business
Not seeing it handerling a reinstall or any break upon partial install (power cut perhaps). But this is for a audience that should know how to easily fix that and if they can't then they should not be playing with such tools. So in that, it's almost perfect.

Alas no Pi to play with myself yet, soon. But until then if there is no netcat or nmap I'm going to cry, but i've not realy done much infosec for what is in the IT industry a long time.
Quality? We're talking about Ikea, not Thomasville. It's like saying a buffet isn't a high-quality meal. It's not supposed to be. They compete on value and convenience. This means things need to be easy to assemble yourself, and cheaper than pre-built and delivered furniture.

Besides, I have to imagine Broyhill and La-Z-Boy do the same thing with their quality merchandise. It's worth the loss of merchandise to not have to spend money shipping it back to a store.
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IE5 was amazing in corporate environments. I was involved in many projects where we migrated old desktop software or mainframe software to new web based applications.

You could have client-side data sets and manipulate them all in the browser. When a standard HTML control didn't meet your usability requirement you would drop-in an ActiveX control (I did this for better drop-downs and selection boxes that would autocomplete). You had XML parsing (XML finally living up to the hype - a lot of server software supported XML API's). For security you had domain policies and groups as well as client certificates for those on the road.

This was an inflection point in the entire history of the web. For years you would read op-ed pieces about how the web would replace the old computing model, about ASP's (application service providers), about apps on the web, etc. but it simply wasn't possible until IE5.

Further, IE was the only browser where it was possible for a long time. It may be hard to imagine now but in the late 90s and early 2000's most web developers would lean towards 'IE only' and not have to deal with Netscape (which was considered 'broken' at the time - and was going through its own rough patch with the rewrite - Netscape 6/7)

It was a completely new paradigm. Lower development costs, easier rollouts, much lower administration costs. As a plus being a Microsoft developer was a great experience - boatloads of software, seminars, conferences, speaking to real developers from the company on the phone when you needed something.
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Aside from those whose livelihood depends on car sales, who have an obvious incentive not to believe it, why is it so hard to believe that people might simply not want to own a car? The whole tone of this article seems like: It appears that millennials don't want to own cars, but that can't be right, can it? If I could get away with not owning one, I certainly would. As it is, I spend as little time in it as possible (much preferring to bike).
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> (I think I’ve probably lost a good number of people in this post already, so if you’re still reading this, I assume you’re familiar with Eigenvectors).

Actually, no! I was kind of hoping that by reading this section, I might find out about them. Why write a blog post section specifically targeted at those readers for whom it holds no new information? The responsible thing to do here, if you really didn't feel like explaining some key component of your discussion, would have been to provide a reference to someone else's explanation. Now it feels like you were wasting my time -- 'oh, hey kid, wasn't talking to you!'

Also, as others above have mentioned, the generalized introduction (a way to make 2 losing games into a winner!) does not lead intuitively into the extremely case-specific exposition.
Does the author of the article somehow assume that Millennials don't spend because they don't buy cars or houses? Do they just stuff their money in their socks, or might it be that they splurge on electronics and traveling? Of course, one does not usually take up a mortgage for any of those, so that may lead to macroeconomic woes in the short run, but in the long run I suppose we can just expect consumption patterns to shift.
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Can someone explain the uptown / downtown train story to me?

If the downtown train arrives and departs a few minutes after the uptown train arrives and departs, respectively, why would he take the downtown train more? It seems to me that if he missed both trains, then he would take the uptown train, as it would arrive earlier.
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Imagine you have a rack of servers. Around 40 of them fit in a rack, you equip each of them with 10Gb ethernet, they're running HDFS. You plug these 40 ethernet cables into one switch, so they can all talk to eachother, serving files to its clients, shuffling segments around etc. Now you want to connect that rack to another rack of 40 servers, on another floor of your building. Doing that with 1 10Gb cable, and you do not have full bandwidth between all your 80 servers. Even bonding a handful of 40Gb links will not be enough - and it'll be a lot of cables you have to manage. Doing it with 1 Tb link and you start having full bandwidth.
Or just imagine connecting 2 buildings. Fewer cables. Higher bandwidth.
The clue is you don't feed all this into 1 server running a commodity CPU and OS, you feed it into blinking boxes that will distribute the data to/from a high speed link onto many lower speed links to reach ordinary servers. Switches/routers can do that at line-rate if you implement this properly in hardware.
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that is how things are developed though, people ship them and they become standards or die.

it wasn't just Microsoft, Andreessen invented the image tag by simply shipping it in Mosaic:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.hypertext/fMl2xRqL...

TBL was against it, as were others. If he went through the theoretical 'standards' process that you infer is the 'right way' it never would have got done

I am definitely of the view of software first, standards second - because it has been proven throughout history to work
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I realized recently I'm more reluctant to own a house than have a baby.
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> "What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits?"

It's hardly surprising that people without the money for cars are of the opinion they aren't so important anyway. Not being able to afford things tends to draw into sharp relief the difference between wants and needs.

And I realize Ford's marketing department can't do much about the slow, grinding recovery and thus are stuck worrying about long-term attitude shifts. But until the demographics show millenials moving to and staying in urban areas where transit is a feasible option, I can't imagine it's legitimately worth fretting over.

If millenials still choose to settle down to raise children in the suburbs, car ownership is pretty much necessary.

The only real threat from lasting attitude change, is that perhaps millenials will vote for more transit projects and subsidies over more car/road projects and subsidies and thus make it more feasible in more areas to not own cars.
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If you really want a particular concrete protocol to compare to, how about AMQP?
Maybe this could be done by a IP/DNS blacklist on your API side. So you maintain a list on your "exit node" so that everyone who requests your data needs to be "a good guy". If this part would be done by the requester it could be spoofed easily, so it had to happen on the exit point.
This is the reason why I'm scared of google pushing chrome so hard
uhm 700m off the ground and stationary.......wonder how much it costs to patch bullet holes in those things......
Actually... I've had previous positive experience dealing with some parts of JEE and some parts of Spring from almost zero (just knowledge on Servlet and JSP) to production level (JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JPA/Spring-Data/Spring-Transaction, Spring-Portlet-MVC, Spring-Core). They just seem to ... "work out of the box".

Had two production issues in a year and they are all JPA.

From all of the modules, JPA seems to be the more complex piece of the puzzle with EJB/JMS probably trailing. (Granted we did not have to use JMS yet).

While I do understand your side of the story (you may be aiming for JEE full-stack from JSP, JSF, Servlet, JPA, EJB and tons of its quirk, JMS, transaction, etc), if you focus to the essential: JEE 6 web-profile, it is much easier compare to starting with Scala from zero to knowing best-practices and idioms of the language.
I e just like in Borderlands. All drops are randomly generated.
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Isn't it a little sketchy to have one of the "games" be a game that takes into account outside information like your balanace?

Here's another "paradox":

Game A: You lose a dollar every time.

Game B: If the last game you played was game A, you win a million dollars. Otherwise, you lose a dollar.

AAAAAAA... loses, BBBBBBB... loses, but ABABABABA... makes you rich!

Suddenly it doesn't seem so paradoxical to me.
> The only real threat from lasting attitude change, is that perhaps millenials will vote for more transit projects and subsidies over more car/road projects and subsidies and thus make it more feasible in more areas to not own cars.

We can only hope.
the un-intuitive part is that the odds supposedly flip in your favor just by alternating 2 games with negative odds.
Almost every major browsers had some kind of contributions that we take today for granted.

Also: http://www.slashgeek.net/2012/06/08/5-features-opera-browser...
This reminds me of a coworker who, although generally horrible at his job, despised by his colleagues, and only really concerned about his next pay raise would - on occasion - remind us that HE was the one who wrote a small piece of critical software we still used to this day.
One small example but dreadful to see this. Idly thought "too bad he didn't use kickstarter rather than USgovt..."
I'm sorry you feel I have "trolled" you. Not my intention. This was simply far enough away from what I normally encounter to justify voicing my opinion, not that my expectation would be that you would reconsider.

For clarification I never called you weird, ad hominem isn't really my thing.

And there is of course room for me to be completely wrong. I'm sure you're educated enough to avoid the most common pit-falls. It is simply my preference that given the opportunity, I wouldn't have made the same decisions.

Given the statistical risk of problems arising from this configuration, I can't imagine what the payoff would be that would justify the exposure.
Also think about how much easier it is to buy used vehicles. All the car buying websites have changed the auto sales industry in the last 10 years. The used car market is much bigger now and more selection, meanwhile consumers are more informed as ever on the value of new cars.

Though as much as the article talks about cultural preferences of Gen Y, I think the "cheapness" is being driven solely by Gen Y having no money. Sure you can say you don't need your car as a status symbol, but if you were making 40% more in salary and didn't have $100k in student debt, you'd get a nicer car.

We all entered college as tuition skyrocketed and yet the real value of a degree is shrinking, and we all graduated into a decade of zero economic growth. We're masking our (relative) poverty by being content with all are parents old used stuff and calling it "cool".