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I'm astonished that Yelp would do something like this to jeopardize, and potentially destroy, their reputation. But there are far too many people telling the same story here for me not to believe there's something true in it... they can't all be liars and trolls. It makes me sad. I was a fan.
What makes you say hyperinflation is a very real possibility? Some inflation? Sure, but thats natural. We don't exactly live in Zimbabwe (So I'm assuming at least).
This is good advice. Also:

1. Eliminate any outstanding debt. Mortgage, credit cards, car loans etc

2. Consider buying a place to live outright. Saving rent or mortgage interest is better than earning the equivalent in interest because it's tax free.

It's a very good time to have spare cash as there are a lot of bargains around. Take plenty of time and do your research.
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I don't think this is really answering the submitter's question, but once he moves past "how do I manage this pile of cash" and on to "what do I do with all this money", I entirely agree with the sentiment -- Canada needs more angels (and VCs, and really everybody else, too). It would be nice if some day the question for Canadian companies was if they would go South instead of when...
Your page is tactful, clean and direct. I immediately recognized what your application did, and signup appeared easy and simple. It appears to me that you've taken the most commonly articulated criticisms of webapp pages into account and adjusted accordingly. However, I feel like I wouldn't be true to my HNness if I didn't offer some trivial criticisms.

The logo is a bit cheesy. The site may appear to be too... clunky - it could use some fit and finish, but not so much that you lose the Zen feel. But you already knew that.

Overall, good job. I'm sure some other perspicacious HN goers can offer some more insight.
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I am not a big fan of the article, though I can understand others may enjoy it. I don't like especially off topic posts on HN though.

Just my 2 cents. I won't flag it, but I am surprised it was voted to the front page.
The article claims that 0^0 is 1 because it is defined to be 1; the article is wrong. 0^0 is undefined, just like 0/0.
Go all out on gold, you could have 46kg, imagine having your front door made of pure gold!
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Adwords labels results, but I'm not sure I'll grant clearly.

If you plunk down the average middle aged person in front of Google search results and say, "click the first result", do you think they click the light orange ad at the top of the list? If you told them that was an ad afterward, do you think the average person would've known that?

Or, put it another way-- if you inverted the ad color (light on dark) or put a dark border and bolder ad label, do you think CTR would drop dramatically?

I do.
Do they say where they found these from? Because these don't seem very impressive
When you raise $31M in funding, the pressure must be immense to get the revenues up. It's not enough for these guys to get to profitability. They need to be profitable with $100Ms in revenue. No wonder they are (allegedly) pushing the envelope.

(disclosure: I work for a pseudo competitor)
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In addition to 2: You may even want to consider buying an apartment building where other people live.

At least over here in europe that's a very lucrative option as long as you choose (i.e. can afford) an area that's likely to grow in popularity over the foreseeable future.
why stop at chicks? why stop at four? i'm assuming newseller is female, of course.

i'm also assuming kbob didn't. can someone explain why the multiples fantasy is owned so much by the male population when it is the females that have much more flexibility and sustainability in this area. however great this situation might be for men, women stand to gain so much more. is it that women don't make such crass comments?
Then should they prevent me from buying a Mac Mini/Apple TV, hooking it up to my TV, opening up a web browser with Hulu and watching something in full screen?
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Thanks for sharing

Sometimes it is good to be reminded that we still have a life outside those tech, startup, other activities hackers do related activities.

An article I would like to find : How to understand and support your other half during his quest to change the world ?

I'm pretty sure it would focus making sure he stops working so he can relax and be more productive.
Amazing isn't it. 2009 and we're finally able to watch television on a TV.

Personally, I'm still working on a way to stream internet radio out over my iPod car adapter so that I can listen to it on the radio.
I have no issues with Adobe software. Granted I haven't tried CS4 and Adobe Acrobat had a period where it got constantly worse before Adobe got their act together.

Still it seems to me that mostly there's only the Mac crowd which is complaining here. Something I find amusing since they typically market the Mac as a machine ideal for creative work.
"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

I dare you to find many greedy opinions out there today.. Everything I read is decidedly fearful. Full text of the article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html (I realize its slightly less applicable to Canadians)
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It seems to me you are asking the wrong people. My father works at an investment company (http://www.hilliard.com/), and usually the people that give you investment advice at banks are the people that couldn't make it at real investment companies.

You need someone whose job is to find out what kind of person you are (risky , etc) and help manage your money for you. There are many people who do this very well, and the good news is that many of the corrupt ones have been washed away in the cleansing fire that is the recent economic situation.

Anyway don't take my advice I'm a college student that doesn't know crap about money. But find someone that has done it for a living.
Don't forget that skills are needed, to implement smart ideas. MIT, as a specialized engineering school, is going to be an obvious winner here.
That time is the resource you should plow into your next venture in life. The only part of your own money you should spend on a startup is the money to hire the lawyer who will construct the corporation that will ensure that your startup cannot touch your personal money even if it is sued into dust.

Amen. The lawyer part is maybe a bit over the top (right direction, though) but I fully agree that if you're thinking about a second startup then you're in the best position to be in. You have all time in the world now and probably enough credibility that investors will listen to your ideas even before you have the usual prototype or "running business" to show.
>They are decent people caught being in a wild and crazy mob? How is that not contradictory.

Decent people get caught up in (bad) events all the time. There's the Stanford prison experiment, where students were separated into guards & prisoners with horrifying results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

This probably isn't a good comparison, but it's an example of decent people doing bad things and following a crowd or mob mentality. There's probably some sociology term for it, where "normal" people act in un-normal vile ways.

In this case, many of the commentors appear to be male and got caught up in cussing out women (or were acting like bullies). Someone started it, and it snowballed into vile and derogatory language. I'm not condoning their actions, but things like can and do happen all the time, and without intervention escalate.
1) Buy property in a location you could see yourself growing old in.
2) Take a Permaculture Design Course.
3) Live happily and take trips to places that happily meet your vices.
You're quite right; I should have caught that.
I would love to see a statistical/evidence-based version of this same article.
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It's a reference to the movie "Office Space."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes
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Incorrect is not the same as "without content" (which is what the original author claimed). Something can be incorrect and still be taught because it contains content (albeit false content). Something that is without content can't be taught because teaching something requires gleening the meaning from the writing and then repositioning it in dialogue.

Finally, tearing someone apart rarely leads to good discussion. What it leads to is entertaining discussion (e.g. people on the sidelines take pleasure in watching two people cause harm to each other).

Or put more simply, tearing someone apart is about emotion while good discussion is about intellect
Google is “quickly gathering market power in what I would call an online computing environment in the clouds,” she said

This quote really gives the impression that she doesn't know what she's talking about.
Wow. It feels like just yesterday I signed up for HN. YC:HN is priceless for me. Thank you YC and thanks to this community.
I have always had a serious problem with Adobe's UI style in Adobe app I have ever tried. Corel graphics applications seem so much intuitive that I feel they give a measurable increase in productivity. Too bad they are generally not accepted for professional work.
Why is the Alexa rank so low with 22k unique users everyday?
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Increasing user investment in the interaction is one way to cut down on abandonment

I'd say it's also a way to stack up on churn.
Treat me like that and I may go through your damned procedure to at least not have wasted my last 5 minutes for nothing. But at the same time you have just lost all my sympathy which might influence buying decisions and definately influences loyality.

Always look at the "lifetime value" of your customers, a simple conversion split-test is only half of the story.
Well it sort of depends on context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_zero...
Certainly diversify. It's still an easy amount to handle yourself which is good. My biggest mistake was not diversifying enough. Happily I did get strong advice which I half-heartedly followed, for which I am forever grateful.

By the way, there are plenty of stocks out there paying very handsome dividends. I recently bought some bank stock paying ~ 11% last year, forecast to pay the same again this year. It's up to you though -- investing should be both for profit and personal satisfaction (I tend to invest in companies I'm rooting for, or are doing good in the world).

If I were you, I would simply use something like mint.com (I use the bankofamerica.com aggregator) to keep track of everything, put your money away and enjoy the safety net. In the meantime, get hungry, and try to do it twice.

...and do make sure you treat yourself with something. If it were me, it'd be travelling for a while, but each to their own.
Honestly, there's still an argument to be made that compete.com is at least semi accurate. But Alexa is just a lost cause. It simply doesn't even resemble anything accurate anymore.

P.S. Happy Birthday HN
Happy birthday. What, no champagne?
Part of the reason for both Adobe's awfulness and for it's loyal following is that it has been the most faithful "paper emulator" of any major software company. Their software emulates all the awful pen-and-paper techniques that real artist used before there were computers.

PDF is like having a real piece of paper jammed awkwardly inside the cover of your laptop and trying to push it around a track ball. And so forth.

The thing is those folks who knew the paper-pencil techniques has generally been those who had no use for learning anything about computers, including how to use efficiently or whether there were alternatives. So Adobe's paper emulation has massive, undeserved loyalty built into it.
Seconding this. HN community, you rock. All of you. Even the people that start heated debates. (Hell, especially the people who start heated debates.)

Happy birthday!
If you need to read and act on a list like this, I suspect you're not in a happy relationship.
I'm reminded of a rotten.com article

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/
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Okay, fair enough. (I would argue that you can tear somebody apart and still keep it intellectual.)
I've definitely seen the same scam from the user side. My friend left a 1 star review for an auto shop after getting ripped off. Several weeks later the review disappeared. She contacted Yelp who claimed that they "rotate" reviews in and out. This might make sense when you have hundreds of reviews and you want to show a balanced mix on the first page but this shop only had 7 reviews so the rotation strategy didn't make sense here. She left another bad review, again it disappeared. We knew something shady was going on but hearing the story from the other side makes me wonder if the shop just paid Yelp to remove the bad review.
As I recall, ShareThis has better email integration. Personally, they both provide too many 'posting options' for my taste and are always two actions away for the user. There is also neat css hack floating around that can detect what popular domains users frequent (ie, delicious) by observing a:visited link color. I wish these widgets would take advantage of that, at least optionally.
Would be interesting to actually hear a recording of the advertising sales pitch being made. Should be easy enough to set up and it's just a Youtube away from sharing with the world.
I'll wait to see the Ars review - Gizmodo is a bit lightweight when it comes to tech reviews - but good news and glad to see Google's bringing some competition from a different perspective than Apple. Those buttons look awfully skimpy to me, though.
...and insult added to injury: if you ever try to re-install your (purchased, legitimate) copies of Adobe products you're faced with a very 'unpleasant' (I wanted to use an other word) activation process, referring you back to files on CDs that are simply not there, rejecting perfectly fine serial numbers and randomly quitting the installation process.

Reinstallation tip: call the Adobe support desk and explain your situation, they can somehow reset the activation process. This call will cost you an hour or more but believe me, reinstalling will cost you 2-3 hours if you try it yourself.
It wasn't our intent to spam (or create blogspam, to be precise), we just wanted to provide some exposure for the great website which complements the book very well.

We link every projects official website up in our coverage to make sure the source gets properly mentioned.

Best,
Benjamin
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Joining the throng of people congratulating HN and noting how big a part of my technical life it has become.
Happy birthday!

I'm happy to see that you didn't do any major changes to the look and feel of this website, most sites tend to change for the worse after receiving more and more hits. Good job!
why're you downmodded?
If they're paying employees to write bad reviews without regard to their actual experience, it's libel.

If it's an extortion scheme as the article implies, it's tortious business interference.

There could also be issues under the Lanham Act.
Alexa shouldn't be compared to anything because their algorithm is heavily skewed. Use Compete, it's fairly accurate.
I'm glad I read this post.. because even though I wouldn't mind having this kind of money. Peace of mind is worth a lot more to me. My biggest goal in life is to travel so if If I were only to make enough money to accomplish this every other year.. I'd be perfectly fine with my life. Maybe its because I'm only 28.

Also I totally agree with having a home base somewhere.

Congratulations on your fortunes sir as well. I hope you do great things with your new fortune that uplifts your spirit. I know plenty of people in your now current tax bracket that are miserable.
Take the year off like this guy suggested travel, gain a new perspective. Gain some new ideas plan them out then get back in the game.. but have an out to do the same thing again 5 years from now.
I want bans for everyone who voted parent up (+18 at time of writing).
"As these profiles (written by campus journalists) reveal" is all I got from the reading. Like you said, there are probably better stories out there.
Sometimes maybe a judge should casually browse the internet for a few dozen hours before handing out a ruling. Might learn something.
hmmmmmmmmm

I think that the 14x growth happened because there is a nice atmosphere here that you won't find anywhere...
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Seems like the solution would be to embrace Boxee and then raise your advertising rates because you've now got TV audience eyeballs watching Hulu content instead of Firefox-window eyeballs.

I guess it's at that moment that you notice the whisps of steam rise from the snout and the lazily opening eye, and realize that Comcast over in the corner was never asleep at all, but saw the whole thing.

... oops somehow I failed to notice a 4 hour old reply saying the same thing. Apologies.
Uhhh... I can't tell if you're serious or not. Transmission's been actively developed for so many years now. To suggest that someone (especially with little experience) could just magically create something better is absurd. Come on...
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We must not allow any single company to have a monopoly on clouds!
This doesn't make sense to me.

I'd think that a rude VC would find him/herself surrounded by sycophants.
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I'd very definitely disagree with the above - I'd say it's pretty certain that most of the West is going to go through a reasonably severe inflationary period, judging by economic history at least. Even if it doesn't, with interest rates so low cash is going to do nothing for you.

FWIW, if you know where you want to live for the next ten years or so, buy a place outright for cash. Worst case scenario, if house prices continue falling you've still got a roof over your head mortgage free.

It's probably worth putting some of your money in gold too as a hedge.

I'd certainly agree with the 'play' money idea as long as your family circumstances allow.
The problem is that 90% of the features is not good enough much of the time. I am not a designer but I know enough about design to know that getting the last pixel right is often 90% of expertise. It is a different world from software.
Firstly, congratulations! I was in similar position once I sold Auctomatic and moved to Vancouver (but with much less cash). I'm now doing property in the states. My advice would be, convert as much as possible of your money into assets that generate passive income (i.e. through rental property). You will then have financial independence for the rest of your life, and basically freedom to do what you want.

If you want any help getting started on property, give me a shout.
So... these are the guys that don't start web companies but build companies based on real science, research, and products?
>"we want to see a new method come in that doesn't allow a bunch of legal-minded people with no appreciation for music and music distribution to cheat bands out of money, to deny a lot of musicians the right to profit, and to pursue draconic punishments for the people who speak out against them."

The RIAA is shady and music labels give bands a hard deal, no doubt about that. But what makes you think that bands will be able to turn a profit when everything is free? Where there is no scarcity, there is no price.

Music is broken.

Maybe it is a positive social good that the RIAA blokes have to go find new jobs, but the bands get screwed either way.
Happy birthday! HN is a great resource.
I don't know if I make the connection as clearly as you have, but I can share how happy I am making the decision to leave Facebook late last year.

They still have my data, sure, but they don't compromise on my life through a constant urge to 'check my page' anymore.
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"Something that is without content can't be taught because teaching something requires gleening the meaning from the writing and then repositioning it in dialogue."

If it's literally contentless, okay.

But something that merely has low levels of content can definitely be taught; the teacher just has to pad out the content with any of a number of time-wasters. As somebody who went to high school, I can attest that this is not very hard to do.

This particular book (or at least its excerpt) suffers, in my opinion, from an excess of examples and the occasional restatement. That's not to say that it's a bad book. Virtually all nonfiction, other than textbooks, has this problem (and as a result I very rarely actually finish a nonfictional book).

I think that many of the author's points are valuable even for competent writers. But it is kind of bloated.
In another thread, I used the example of the getaway man for a bank robber.

You see, the getaway man doesn't actually rob the bank. He doesn't steal anything. He doesn't even know why his friend wanted a ride to the bank. He gives his friend rides all the time, and most of those rides are perfectly legal.

Too bad, he still gets locked up.
Happy Birthday! What, only 2?
2 years and I'm still so far from 100 points of 'karma'... What a shame!

Happy birthday, Hax0rs!
That's true. Maybe I should have said that I don't find their case convincing.

When the logical weakness of the defense's argument is combined with their showy grandstanding - well it looks like the adults are suing the children in this case. People here seem to be enjoying their antics, but to me it makes them look non-serious.

Edit: The Pirate Bay's fans are pretty annoying and un-serious, too. There is no nuance to their thoughts. Take a look at this comment thread:

http://torrentfreak.com/u2s-new-album-leaks-early-despite-pr...

I wouldn't want to sit down to a cup of coffee with any of those people, that's for sure.
Opera 9 seems to render this much faster than Firefox 3 on Linux, but it's still not nearly as fast as Chrome on Vista.
Here's a link to the oldest page I could find on the wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
> the firm presumably wasn't thrilled about having its attorneys' home purchases broadcast

This actually makes sense. Call me eccentric, but I wouldn't want my real estate purchases to be put on a high-traffic website with a link to my resume. Sure, the information is there and it is public, but that web startup is really pushing it. At the very least they could've been a bit more flexibile when asked to remove the link, which is a reasonable request given the circumstances.
Actually it feels to me like it's been around for much longer than 2 years... don't know what that means though
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I've often wondered "How would you describe colour to a blind person" (obviously, someone who's been blind from birth).

The best I've come up with is comparing it to sound - sharp and dull sounds relate to wavelength, as does colour; loud and soft sounds relate to brightness.

Any better ideas out there? I admit it's a largely pointless exercise, one of many I have to amuse myself.
Oh Time flies! Never noticed that two years have elapsed. Happy Birthday.