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Great question! The answer is a resounding no! Also, just because you're profitable doesn't mean you have a positive cash flow!

Profit is what's called Net Income (for argument's sake, let's do EBIT--Earnings Before Income Taxes). Cash flow is simply your delta in cash from one period to the next.

Lots of things go into net income, but essentially it's revenue minus costs. Because of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practices--only in the US), you recognize revenue when it is earned not when it is collected. So, let's say you buy a car and you pay $5,000 down on a $30,000 car. The car company records revenue of $30,000. In their balance sheet, they also add $5,000 to cash, and $25,000 to what's called Accounts Receivable. Their cash flow is now $5,000.

Let's further say that they owe payroll, to the tune of $10,000 for that month. And you were the only poor bastard that bought a car from them that month. They have to pay $10,000 in cash for payroll, and that also gets logged as an expense. So, their profit shows a $20,000 net profit, but they have -$5,000 in cash flow.

You can extend the example to make it positive for a company that's not profitable, if you'd like.
If it's from a central location and all clients are working off the same database, it seems like it would be fairly simple for their data mining teams to sift out the identical chaff.
cash flow positive just means you had more money coming in that going out. Profit is calculated on an accrual basis, not a cash flow basis. For instance, if I sell you a car, I can recognize the revenue from that before you give me the cash. The debt you owe me is now an asset. On the other hand, there are things like depreciation of assets which count as expenses even though no cash changes hands right now. These are just a couple of examples on how cash flow and profit are not the same, but to get the full gist of it, you need to cover basically what gets covered in an intro accounting course.
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I was scratching my head on this. Where's the buzz? What's this have that Google+ missed on?
One of the networks you mention owns them now. And it can be argued that Twitter is guilty of the same thing, in light of their treatment of third party developers. Perhaps you were being sarcastic though.
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Yeah, URL Fix is key I think...

But about the pricing; consider this:
* You'd probably earn hellofalot more with individual pricing? I mean, I pay per sent SMS/Email/Whatever on other services. It's the usage that will cost you money in terms of data-transfers?

If I'd use your service with a newsletter of 100 000 subscribers, let's say 10% would answer my very quick survey, you'd have to host these 10 000 users throughout the survey with $26 in your pocket.

It might be sustainable in the long run if you have enough users that does not utilize the service that much - but with a couple of enterprise users you might be out of luck(?)...

I'd still consider thinking twice about your price-structure, you might want to charge 24/month, including X answers or something?

I'd certainly be willing to pay a fixed price per month (Maybe lower) and then $0.xx per answer to my survey?

Best of luck! :-)
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Don't feel bad about your post. I like your concept that having an iPad app signals "being with the times".

When I've dealt with Fortune 500 contracts, I never actually met anyone at the company directly. Subcontractor of a subcontractor, all relationships based on trust and prior project results. I think that, ego aside, that maybe it is more about embarrassment and behind-conference-doors shame, if a major company does not have an app, especially if it is an important customer want.

A good trend is that corporations are increasingly investing in the training/risk of building in-house mobile development teams rather than outsourcing. Yes, they run the risk their employees will jump when they have acquired real mobile dev chops - but the truth is there is an intangible benefit to working predictable 9 to 5, 5 day work weeks.
The problem is that it if you (like me) have no Flash installed, it is impossible to play certain videos, unless you switch UA string (i.e. the limitation is artificial).
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What's the "long term view" on Tesla? What's the benefit of them selling electric cars vs. Toyota or GM? The latter have clearly shown their capability to do so. Tesla just thinks a different approach to the market is superior. They'll be proven right or wrong in the next few years. That's well within the time horizon for an investor to make a reasonable decision: Who's more likely to make a profit with their electric car plans? Toyota, GM or Tesla? This is the kind of thing markets are good at. If the government wants more electric cars, just subsidize everyone's cars (which they're doing, of course). Don't try to be a super-VC.
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One would think that this would be on the front page given the interest in the "1975" programming post.

Has HN gone pop?
Or we burned through all the easy to get materials....
While this would be a good option in the spirit of the free market, many parts of the transportation industry are subsidized already making the play-field unfair to begin with.
"Built it or not" sounds good. I have ideas but don't have the time to develop them all.

Just the worry that I/another user might share a game changer idea and someone else builds it before I/we do.
Because the majority of people don't even now what encoding is, less care about it.
Steve Jobs famously avoided asking people what they wanted, instead showing them what they wanted. His philosophy was often described as arrogant, but guess what? He was frequently right -- people often accepted his ideas about a product they couldn't imagine until he showed it to them.
1366 by 768 (we have several hundred screens that size in the College I teach in) and no dice. We are on Windows 7 administrated staff and student computers, and we run Explorer 9.
I always found Instagram's website bizarre. Unless you own an iPhone or an Android device you can't register with the website, see what others are posting (even if they are making the photos public), or have a sneak preview of what Instagram is all about.
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding the way these kinds of things happen at Google. Most projects of this nature have to work to get internal adoption just like any external toolchain. There's almost never an "edict from on high" that a project will use a particular technology (except to the extent that most code in production has to be written in a set of approved languages; a language created by Google itself still has to surmount this hurdle).

Pike, along with other Go team members, have been heavily involved in solving very large-scale problems (e.g., http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...) for a long time now, so they are solving the pain they've personally experienced. But other teams at Google will treat Go just like developers in the world at large do -- with skepticism, until it's proven itself. It's doing so now, but it will take some time before you see heavy adoption, which is the way it should be with any new system of this magnitude.
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Wasn't that the whole point of app.net?
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What an awful rant.

Who said Linux has won the desktop?

So now it's got a bit harder to remove the Windows 8 license you just voluntarily paid for. Oh dear.

If you are going to whine about Secure Boot please write an article based on its technical merits.
This. I got strange looks when I discussed this issue with a few (non-technical) friends a while back. I said that Apps as they currently exist are more or less an interim solution. Sure, if you need to take pictures/videos it can be a useful thing to have a specialized app but most of the times a proper mobile webpage would suffice.

The only thing I am not so sure about when using your browser as your primary application container. What about UI/UX Guidelines. A well designed webapplication works for both ios/android users, but there still different UI paradigms in place.

Think of all the effort which is put in place to make for example java programs look native on the different systems.
Lots of people and creative entrepreneurs in the world.

1 steve jobs :)
Several economists write about the Great Stagnation a lot at www.marginalrevolution.com.

A couple things to think about:

- There have been a lot of very smart people who have thought growth can't solve the world's problems. They've been wrong. For example.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

- This seems to have hit the great middle... The one downside of people getting hyper-productive with technology is the masses who can't keep up do get left behind. This is more a problem for the customers of YC than HN's readers.
Does the market always pick the highest quality of winners? I really don't think it does.

I'm not saying government does either - TBH I don't really have faith in either the market or the government to accurately pick winners.
Well, Ford and Toyota are buying electric drivetrains from Tesla to put into their electric vehicles. The big automakers are easily able to match Tesla just by buying Tesla's parts, which Tesla is more than willing to sell them.
Videos with ads play perfectly fine with mobile clients (i.e. without Flash) or with Desktop browser faking mobile UA string, so there are no technical limitations.
Awesome :)

Thanks for the kind words! people like you (and like us) are exactly why we're building this product.

If you have any feedback, feel free to email me directly --

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In some ways this is similar to Launchrock from the perspective of the poster. However, whether or not it's usually true with most launch pages, when you show people your launch page you are implying that you intend to launch.
The purpose of posting to Launchsky is to get feedback, in the form of interest and comments. One user might post up five ideas (basically visual elevator pitches) and be able to decide from user comments and votes which idea holds the most promise (or which ones don't stand a chance for reasons X, Y).
You have to admit it's a lot better than the recent "12 git tips written by a finite number of monkeys with typewriters and a finite amount of time".

They're actually pretty good tips, "curated" or ... not - however that would work.
Websites should look, feel and behave like websites. Trying to imitate the native look and feel of an individual device/platform combination is bad. Just as it was bad to make horrible flash monstrosities that tried to pretend a webpage was a windows app.
I think they're both right: because there is more than one problem facing us.

The press like to focus on one issue at a time. Europe last week, US elections yesterday, fiscal cliff today and China tomorrow.

The reality is that there are many major problems.

Off the top of my head:

--

* People these days have everything they need. There are very few must-have items to spur sales

* The inventions so far cover a lot of what we need to live long in absolute safety and comfort. This is what Kasparov is noticing.

* Western Economies are 66% or more based on consumer spending ; any belt tightening has major impact

* People are still in too much debt, they're spending less

* Companies still have borrowed too much in the past: expecting boom years to continue 2050+

* Banks insolvent without support

* All governments bar Norway,Oz,Cananda? are in deficit

* Pensions are barely worth the contributions you put in over your lifetime. There has been no 5-8% increase as forecast

* Some countries have demographic problems where a lot of people will leave the income earning age

* It looks difficult for Democracies to reduce government spending. 'Pain-now', both real or perceived, is always deferred

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I don't think this approach is appropriate for the vast majority of entrepreneurs. Mr. Jobs was a unique character with a perspective on the world that few others (appear to) share.

It seems that entrepreneurs these days are concerned with "building something awesome (to also make money)", and that's not what Steve Jobs did.
but when do you know to stop? eg http://www.LiveFanChat.com have been building sites for chatting during sports (14 so far) eg http://www.LiveFootballChat.com

The most popular site was still http://www.LiveCourtChat.com for the Casey Anthony trial.
Just to inform you and thank you, your application looks really beautiful in the Opera speed dial page ( https://www.google.com/search?q=opera+speed+dial&hl=es-4... ).

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Yeah, establishing that baseline of 2-3k works is what makes most of what you read comprehensible, and allows you to pick up more vocabulary and understanding through context, which I think is pretty much the key. I actually do think it might be the most effective method once you're at that level.
Steve, that's EXACTLY how we see it being used
Well, they've already built an interstate highway system and the US state dept and military are already going to bat for us worldwide ensuring access to oil.

But yeah. THIS is the real case of the government getting too involved in the market.
But not necessarily what you have in mind can be conveyed properly in words.
Its better to get a prototype instead of pitching the idea.
User experience, discoverability, and offline. These three features have traditionally been the primary reasons to build a native mobile app, and even target mobile first. But the web, with its open nature and flexible usefulness, has a way of reducing the lead that native has in these three areas.

User experience - You can still create a better experience with a native mobile app, but that's changing and many apps don't require the snazziness of a native experience to still be amazing. (See Basecamp mobile)

Discoverability - The web hasn't changed much, but the app stores are hurting themselves. Vibhu's point that discoverability and the viral loop is VERY hard on mobile is illustrative of the lead that native mobile had in discoverability diminishing.

Offline - Although HTML5 can handle much of that problem on the web, I think a really great offline experience still requires a native mobile app. However, the increase in connectedness and the realization that most apps don't need to have offline at their core means the gap is narrowing as well.
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If you have a server attempting to process a steady stream of incoming transactions at the edge of its capacity and it begins turning memory IO operations into disk IO (which is 1000 times slower), that is harmful to response times.
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Does Twitter care that much? Presumably in the not-too-distant future they'll be rolling out an enhanced camera/photo tool in their client, precious filters and all.

If it's decent, I suspect it'll replace Instagram for many Twitter users. Especially if Instagram still doesn't allow their pictures to show up in the card view.
This brilliantly illustrates what went wrong at Nokia. They could have been far ahead of Apple and Google on mobile mapping had they been awake at the wheel. Now they are simply playing leap-frog.
I gave you my email address, now how can I submit my first idea, as was promised? ("Sign up now, and submit your first idea for free")
He also criticizes startups for not defaulting to English. Not to mention the arrogance of making that statement when there are more native Spanish speakers than native English speakers.
I have one word for Thiel and Kasparov: Biology.

There are many known-unknowns in the sphere of biology, and by extension, medicine right now. We may be approaching the top of the s-curve for computational and industrial technology, but we are at the bottom left of the biology curve, and now we have the tools to start exploring that space systematically.
Why do you think that a massive block level deduplication system would care?
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised too. I try to keep an eye out for these things and this is the first I've heard of it. It makes me wonder how serious they are about this.
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So the days of Green Lantern-style emblems displaying emotions may not be too far off?
Yep, as briefly mentioned in the OP: http://blog.sym-link.com/2009/10/30/nosql_whats_in_a_name.ht...
Post a proper poll. The way you have done it means that

1. we can't see how many votes each option gets; and

2. you get lots of karma for not posting anything insightful.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Although I see you don't have enough karma to post a poll. Best hope that someone else finds it interesting enough to post properly.
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This +1

What Tesla has done is made an electric car and marketed it as more luxurious and different from what's on the market. The Leaf is for hippies, the Volt is nowhere to be seen. The Tesla on the other hand is sexy.

A bigger concern is how Tesla will expand from this market. For most manufacturers, the high-end cars are not the major money-makers, and the quantities they move are just too small (Lexus sells over 8 IS/GS for each LS they sell). We'll see if they manage to expand from the niche they're in.
Looks like a huge opportunity for those individuals that are not interested in risking it all to join a start up.
I'd say partially it's new and sexy, but I imagine the suggested long term is it could help show America as a leader in green tech which should help attract outside investment into other green tech ventures, helping to kickstart a new economic driver.

What Tesla is doing is creating an entire new venture from scratch from nothing, for them to hit profitability and make any solid return is likely to take a decade. VCs are unlikely to dump $500m for a 10 year wait, sure they'll know within a few years whether it was a good investment, but it's not likely to be viewed as a safe bet.
Here's my question: how do you get & keep a critical mass of people on the site to evaluate these ideas?
How do I browse your website? I seem to be stuck in a modal window and everything else is unclickable.
There probably isn't a lot of sense in having swap for suspend to disk on a server anyway of course.

I've only heard the heuristic in the context of workstations/laptops.
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> "some of the things we have now are totally amazing and we just don't care to notice"

This is very true: Kasparov is frankly wrong to say the last 'revolutionary' technology was the Apple II back in the 70s. The past thirty years since then have brought many huge technological developments with lasting impact on global society. The internet, mobile telephony, DNA sequencing and profiling...

What Kasparov doesn't seem prepared to accept is that most innovation is iterative. This iteration can be compressed, but even dramatic events like the moon landings were based on decades of research and iterative development.

I just can't take someone seriously who claims there has been no revolutionary tech since 1977. It undermines some of the other points Kasparov is trying to make, particularly around growth and monetary policy.
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Pretty link bait-y. I could also write an article with:

Title: Internal combustion engines will never work

Content: I saw this guy who forgot to fill gas this morning
The first two examples you gave are very different. The compiler ensures that you don't forget to check the null case when using the Maybe monad, while you can forget to handle the null value and get a NullPointerException later.

Also, the semantics of catching a NullPointerException in a chain of method calls are different from chaining Maybe results together. If any of the method executions inside raise an unhandled NPE, you'll catch it outside, which is probably not what you wanted to do.
what proprietary encoding? Instagram photos are JPEG, they disabled embedding them through HTTP.
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Really useful, thanks Joe.
Many in the industry are still headed down the fuel cell route. It is quite possible that route will eclipse the Tesla route. The benefits available to the fuel cell route include truly quick refueling and a lack of range anxiety. Fuel cell stacks how come a long way, they just aren't sexy.
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We should also excommunicate any people who do work with evil from our circle as best we can so they can't grow as well in their profession.

And by doing that, you ensure they will continue to "work with evil systems" because they will never be able to change jobs.
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Not everything has to be technical. There are huge powers in politics and this author explains nicely how MS is playing the game. If anything more people should know about this.
I continue to be surprised at how little attention economists are paying to the role of tight oil supplies in dragging the economy. The 2008 crash was triggered by an oil price that spiked to nearly $150 a barrel in response to strong growth in demand against a flat supply. Since then, every time the economy tries to pick up, the oil price drifts back up to $100/barrel and GDP stagnates.
Kasparov did sound senile when he said that.
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