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It's really unfortunate and sometimes unnerving that we live in a time where most people are so caught up in the hype and bullshit of meaningless companies, actions, ideas and people that have no real importance and benefit to our daily lives.

It's even more unfortunate to see the actions of CEOs based on hype, big cash reserves and Silicon Valley VCs begging for an exit. I've been seeing it all day on Twitter: VCs ecstatic about Tumblr's "successful exit", they're done and can now go home and drink champagne.

But the problem is not with Tumblr being a blog full of porn and cat GIFs, running out of money, having 175 employees most of which do little, and making $15M vs. $100M projected revenue. The problem is with the state of the industry as a whole.

The problem is with a company like Yahoo! rushing to get a deal done for a company that would be worth $100M in 6-months when it runs out of money. It just doesn't make sense. But maybe it's not supposed to.

Warner Chilcott is obviously a company that tries to do good and create products to better humanity (for the most part), and I'm not saying that Tumblr is worthless - it isn't - but the madness behind the media, the Yahoo! board meeting on a Sunday to get a deal done before Captain Zuckerberg swoops in (I'm sure he's laughing and could care less) is maddening.

This isn't a rant, it's more of a "what the hell is going on with companies and innovation of substance?" I really enjoy Thiels quote of "we wanted flying cars instead we got 140 characters." It really embodies the state of the industry in one sentence. Every month a new chat application gets a $3M round, another photo sharing app gets all the hype, bang with friends is the "it" app - what happened to people actually trying to solve REAL problems? Problems that will enable us to continue as a society and not implode.
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Here's my Photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/getdavidhiggins/

I disagree with people claiming Flickr is just for pictures of Daffodils and Sunsets. I just dump memes and humorous pics there.
From an investment standpoint the Tumblr acquisition was far more interesting, because it represents a much bigger gamble. Sure, the numbers are relatively small now. But Tumblr is one of those companies that could end up dominating its market segment withing just a couple years. Or (more likely) it could become irrelevant and quietly closed.
Thanks for the feedback! (Minbox developer here)

> 1. How about transparent GZIP-ing files.

This is an interesting idea! We've been mostly focused on receiving zipped files and extracting their contents, but I could see a "auto-zip" feature at some point.

> 2. Is there a way for end-to-end encryption

We use SSL on all uploaded data, enforce SSL-only on our download links and gallery pages. That said, this is email we're talking about, so if you're truly worried about encryption, this might not be what you're looking for.

> 3. How does the mail get sent?

Depends. You can hook up your Gmail account (using OAuth2) and we can send via your SMTP server. Or if you prefer, we can send the email from our own SMTP servers on behalf of you.

> Do I need to hand out my SMTP login data?

No. You can use Gmail OAuth, or you can just sign up for a regular account (no SMTP credentials required)

> 4. How do you make money? Please clarify on your page that this is not one of those "we sell your data" schemes.

Our plan is to introduce a premium option with additional features, and no time limit on the files we store. Files in free accounts are removed after 30 days. This is all laid out on our homepage: http://minbox.com/#pro
Without pro, you could only access your last 200 photos. So unless your photos were of the 100MB+ quality, you would not be able to access most of your previous photos in Flickr.
imo that's a really masked way of presenting things, since it turns "we're doing this for our bottom line!" into "we're doing it for you guys!"
The American automotive industry is where sleaze bags get trained. It is home of the biggest scum of the Earth. I currently contract with a startup that caters to it, and am impressed daily with how vile these people are. Its is downright evil.
See my replies below. I currently spend $70/mo on Postgres and SSL support. I would up my dyno's but I don't see the point since one handles it just fine (minus the crashing).
Is that sarcasm or cognitive dissonance?
Actavis is this third largest generic drug manufacturer in the world and Warner Chilcott is also up there, most notable for buying Procter & Gamble's prescription drug arm a few years back. They make everything from aspirin to Prozac and chances are you're taking a drug manufactured by one of these two companies and it's pretty likely that you know someone who is kept alive by their products.

Merges in pharma often come with increased manufacturing capabilities and more efficient sales. Done right this merger could save people tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars a year in drugs around the world and make them more accessible. You really think that has less impact than Tumblr?
Yahoo! actually moved its official blog to Tumblr.

http://yodel.yahoo.com/blogs/general/we-re-moving--120325712...
Yeah, I don't know if I agree with that. There's a whole web of glass and conduit that has to be maintained. Someone still has to link all of those nodes together.

Twilio can consume the application business, but I'd be surprised to see them consume the core infrastructure.
The problem with these sorts of sites is in the reputation system, in that reputation is far more important to sellers than to buyers.

If you had left bad feedback on this guy's profile , it would be easy enough for him to create a new account and still get bids for his projects.

OTOH for a seller even neutral feedback is viewed as black mark and starting from scratch is difficult.
It's a lot harder than she makes it look.
But isn't medical topics even less relevant for me today?

I'm 28, so if everything goes right I have 20 to 30 years before I'll need any kind of life saving from medicine. And in 20-30 years the landscape might be very different, so for me medical topics are not of any importance at all.

Unless they let me to grow hair or teeth; or customise my body and mind.
Just a factor is often not enough. If a study would show that cell phone usage increased the risk of a certain cancer with 40%, that might still not be interesting if it's an extremely rare cancer and they found 7 cases instead of 5.

Or it doesn't show whether various correlation factors matter, or whether this is a statistical paradox. Did you know that babies of smokers are healthier than babies of non-smokers of the same weight? This is because baby born to the smoker will have decreased weight because of the smoking, whereas if the baby of the non-smoker is underweight it will be for other reasons that are often worse.

There's heaps of these kind of paradoxes and pitfalls that need to be taken in account.

What we need in newspapers and other media is a simplified abstract of the paper and an explanation or approval of a real life statistician, with no relation to the study.
I'm down right angry. I loved the old flickr interface. It was simple and usable. Now it looks like a less functional google+. Flickr's job is NOT to be a fancy photo viewer, it's supposed to be a photo organizer.

Looks like yahoo just screwed up the last good thing they had. This will be my last year with this service (I've been a member since 2004 and have had a pro account for several years now).
If the wealth generated by the workers in Silicon Valley required capital as an input, for instance to pay Silicon Valley workers (who are among the highest compensated in the world), or to build the world's largest data centers, or to maintain millions of dollars of inventory for the COGS of hardware projects, then it's not accurate or even particularly meaningful to point out that investors haven't created value.
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>It's easier for most of us to understand what Tumblr makes than what Warner Chilcott makes.

I would argue that statement since he says Tumblr is a "blogging platform" and "the latest/greatest means for teens to express themselves". Tumblr is more nuanced than that. It's also a social network and to relegate it to teens seems very out of touch.

To me, it's much easier understand what a pharmaceutical company makes (drugs, a physical product) than what Tumblr makes (blog/social network/place for online advertising/???).
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Actavis (until recently Watson pharmaceuticals) is a generic pharmaceuticals company.

I don't know whether this type of industry can be called mature, but it was the fastest growing sector of the economy in the US for this year, if I'm not mistaken. A quick google search yields e.g. http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/top-10-fastest-g...

On the question of whether it will shake things up, there sure is some turmoil. Watson/Actavis has been on buying spree for like 2 years now. Besides minor players here and there (e.g. Specifar in Greece), they acquired the Actavis group and now they acquired Warner Chilcott. They were (I think) 5th and in a relatively small period they ended up being the 3rd largest generic drug company worldwide.
This is great news for people like me that continue to use Flickr after a very long time... Unfortunately the new UI reminds me a lot 500px which I think offers, at the moment, a much better community and user experience if one is really a photography enthusiast.

Anyhow hats off to Yahoo for trying to make things right after several years of stagnation. I'm aware the Flickr team have lost some valuable members and that probably affected future plans but that's a different story.
There are hyped figures floating around, yes, but the Tesla story is quite remarkable.
How can they give away 1TB of space for free? Because the cheapest 1TB drive I saw was $67.

Unless.. they assume that only a very small percentage of people will use it. So if on average, everyone still only uses about 1GB of space, then a 500gb you can get for $45. $45/500 = .09 so about 10 cents per person. With 25 million users that is about a $2.5 million investment.

If the average user uses 10GB then that is $1.00 per person though. With 25 million users that is about a $25 million investment.
1TB isn't that impressive when you have to deal with a 300MB/month upload rate limit: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

It'd take 291 years to fill up the 1TB allowance:
https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth)

(Also looks like there's a missing </ul> on that limits page, there.)

Edit: Looks like the page is being edited right this moment - the page used to list the 300MB/month limit but was also mentioning the new account types, at the same time. Guess they forgot to review all the text
This is an awesome idea :) I was literally talking to my sister about maybe doing something extremely similar as we were grabbing an early dinner last night in Westwood in Los Angeles (we both attend UCLA).

Fantastic idea, and good luck to you sir!
@gashad - thanks grammar Nazi, let that one slip by.
And Democratic partisans will attack regulation when Republicans are making it, and many Republicans are perfectly glad to use the power of the state regulatory agencies to stymie abortion clinics in any way they can get away with. Everyone and their dog makes an exception for whatever's expedient; bottom story of the day, honestly.

If you want something _notable_, get me a politician standing up for principles which may be against their immediate self-interest (e.g. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo, on recent IRS shenanigans).
It is a bit more complicated than that. Below is my stab:

- Probability that social media users are fickle and Tumblr is on a death march where no plan could fix the business: 20%

- Probability MM has a good plan, given that Tumblr's employees and investors didn't have a plan to turn it into a real business: 30%

- Probability that Yahoo can execute the plan, given they have a good one: 50%

Thus P(This ends badly for Yahoo) = 1- .8 * .3 * .5 => 88%
I'm surprised I didn't know that; they've invited me to write a book on nearly every other technology I listed on my linkedin profile. :-/

That's why I don't buy books from Packt unless I can find good reviews of it written by members of the community around the software the book is about.
I'm actually on the fence about which merger is more important.

On the one hand, tumblr is a toy[0]. Warner Chilcott, founded in 1968, and having gone through mergers before, is Serious Business.

On the other hand, should we really be upset that toy makers are getting a lot of press? I honestly go back and forth on the issue. True, if I had to pick between the medical products of WC/Actavis vs the blogging platform of tumblr I would probably pick WC, because I think the net happiness for the world is probably better served via their drugs than easy blogging access.

But there is something delightful about an age in which cool toys get recognized, and I think that's important to remember.

Incidentally, does anyone know if mergers like these affect which drugs get offered by a company? I can see the tumblr acquisition having a larger effect on society than the WC/Actavis one if drug companies are less likely to stop producing a drug than tech companies are to shut down a product.

0. I know a lot of toys turn out to be remarkably useful and transformative. That's part of my point.
This is clearly a "we were out and you paid since I didn't have cash, here you go" type thing. "Square up" not "money for drugs".
Made my 2 year old laptop scream and then never could load past a black screen
Most of that looks like the usual user complaining because an interface changed.
Large monopolistic organizations are almost always more inefficient due to increased coordination costs and lack of accountability and competition. For any given thing, 'the greatest good for the greatest number' is much more likely to happen when it's done outside large monopolistic organizations like the government.

We do need government, but we only need it for things the rest of society isn't going to do independently. Getting the government involved in something the rest of us are perfectly capable of doing ourselves isn't patriotism, it's lighting money on fire.
I'm going to second this.

I've bought two Jeeps, two Corvettes, a Buick, a Camry Hybrid, an Infiniti G37, and my wife's Lexus CT200h from Carmax (over ~12 years). The experience has always been extremely pleasant. I hate to haggle. Hate it. Carmax is awesome if you're looking for a used car.
Uhm, that is fairly prolific. Could it be that his frequency increased at some point ? I remember when he started he didn't even bother with an RSS feed (which was all the rage back then), he'd publish fairly sparingly and new posts were major events.

Or maybe it's exactly that: in a blogosphere pumping content every hour every day (I can't believe at one point I even followed Scoble and Winer), I might have perceived somebody posting on a monthly schedule as "not very prolific".
"This is how you squander your capital"

Actually you squander your capital by resulting to pointless name-calling and dismissing the arguments of someone who actually has an interesting perspective to offer beyond the slavish, wide-eyed, youth-obsessed tech press.
Placing the batteries in a steel cased compartment with a vent to the exterior of the plane to limit future, perhaps inevitable explosions and fires is an example of

1) __ An inspired engineering fix

2) __ A kluge

3) __ A feature, once the proper FAA documentation has been filed
I know very little about David Karp. But after reading this, I'm a bit surprised that he decided to sell Tumblr.

The way Marco talks about David's disinterest in money, and his singular obsession with Tumblr, made me think he wouldn't even consider selling it to someone else.

I'd be curious to hear his reasons for selling, as oppose to doing a strategic investment like Facebook did with Microsoft at one point.
Yes but when you are extending it... it's not trivial. So the price curve jumps from a few hundred dollar to thousands of dollars if you try to do anything significant.
I like reading this guys blog, it's well written and weaves a nice story to follow almost always.

It's a shame a lot of the Tumblr crowd are like this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction

The technology seems great and simple to use.
I personally love PVE & was using it in 2009-2010, back when vhost=on was new & before v2 with the new clustering engine. I originally wanted to use it for my VPS backend just because I knew it well, but opted for OpenStack because it has a billing & metering component, which would be more difficult to implement with PVE. Its nice to hear from someone else who uses it.
Wow, defensive. And I say that as a certified Audi fanboy (I'm on my 2nd S4...)
WRONG. Medical topics are more relevant for you today than have ever been before. The best medicine is preventative medicine and if you start a proactive approach now, you'll live longer. Not by waiting until you get a disease and then trying to figure out how to cure it using the latest technology. You could have a genetic mutation in the next five minutes, the more you know, the better prepared and proactive you'll be.

Healthcare has never been more important than it is today for all walks of life.

I'm sorry, but that was one of the most mind-blowing comments I've read on HN.
I'm not sure I would consider them power users but it's somehow expected because everyone knows how people can be adverse to change... (It's still fresh in my mind when everyone complained about the new Gmail UI or even G+...).
To the best of my knowledge, app store ranking algorithm is not heavily weighted by ratings, rather mostly by downloads, velocity of downloads, active users etc
I think Yahoo is going to need a big rebranding. The new Flickr actually looks pretty fresh.
There are some real inconsistencies with what the committee claims and what Apple claims in the testimony they released today. In fact Apple said they comply with not only the laws, but also the "spirit of the laws"

>Apple complies fully with both the laws and spirit of the laws. And Apple pays all its required taxes, both in this country and abroad.

>Apple wants to make clear to the Subcommittee that the Company does not use its Irish subsidiaries or any other entities to engage in the following tax practices that were the focus of the Subcommittee’s September 20, 2012 hearing, entitled Offshore Profit Shifting and the US Tax Code. Specifically, Apple does not move its intellectual property into offshore tax havens and use it to sell products back into the US to avoid US tax, nor does it use revolving loans from CFCs to fund its domestic operations. Apple does not hold money on a Caribbean island, does not have a bank account in the Cayman Islands, and does not move any taxable revenue from sales to US customers to other jurisdictions in order to avoid US taxation.
Shorter Audi: Tesla may be outselling us at our flagship range, but since they don't sell cars that cost half as much, we're better, and we're not going to talk about what happens when they start selling cars that cost half as much...
I've hired 11 PMs (from Associate to Senior level) at my startup, and a lot of this rings true. The one thing I'll add is the most important step in my hiring process:

After phone screen, I have the recruiter send them a case study that asks them to use my product (a social game, this works better for consumer internet, obviously) and identify the most important features for monetization and to suggest improvements to the game.

1) Because the prompt is somewhat open ended and they generally have at least a week to work on it, how much effort they put into it is a great indicator of how much they want to work at my company, which to me is one of the most important things I'm interviewing for once basic intellectual horsepower is sufficient. Responses typically range from "typed some stuff into the Word doc" to "50 page PDF with screenshots, charts and graphs."

2) That also gives a concrete basis for discussing product ideas. In addition to the obvious questions of "why do you think we implemented this feature" etc, I also often take suggestions they have for the product, and ask why they think we HAVEN'T implemented it, particularly if it's a idea we've considered in the past.
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Surveillance has a chilling effect, even if you're not doing anything wrong. For the same reason I wouldn't develop the same socially if my parents had forced me to wear a wire in the school cafeteria, I wouldn't be nearly as freely curious if my parents were watching and questioning my web browsing. I'd probably have become an entirely different person.

Personally I think parents should look out for Very Bad Things like sharing phone numbers and addresses or meeting with strangers, children living on /b/, people advocating real-world violence, etc. but if the internet is a family-only activity, children will never learn to use it to its full potential.

Time limits on the order of a couple hours are pretty reasonable, but I'm talking about people who set a limit of 15 minutes/day, or wealthy families that deliberately have one computer shared with 6+ people because they don't want it to become significant in anyone's life.

Also you are probably not going to become a programmer if your parents are nontechnical and installing software on the shared computer requires extensive justification/begging that usually leads to "no."

I could just be biased by the kids I knew, however. Their parents saw the internet primarily as a strange and foreign threat to be mitigated, and so all internet activity was bad until justified by "legitimate" need, rather than encouraged unless dangerous.
You can add myself to the list of angry users. I'm not only angry because it's just a terrible interface change, but it's an entire service change. Like if twitter decided it was pinterest, only you've been paying for your tweets.
I've got to say "cool" is not the first word that springs to mind when I think about setting up shop that close to Sol.
I'm a little shocked honestly - they might as well offer "unlimited" storage if I can only upload 3.6GB per year in images.

This makes the entire 1 TB craze seem like a giant farce.

Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.
Just FYI a checking account and associated debit card from your bank are often free, while standalone prepaid credit card has hefty fees.
But the Venn Diagrams for the two have significant overlap.
Huh. Flickr Pro is gone, and there's no way to lift this 300MB/mo limit? Looks like Dropbox might have found themselves a new paying customer.
The CNN headline is definitely misleading:

“Tesla sales beating Mercedes, BMW and Audi.”

No one would guess they are talking about "per model sales" vs "per manufacturer sales", since they are naming manufacturers. It's just linkbait. Tesla really is the new Apple!
I believe they were running out of money and needed to do more work to bring revenues appropriately up. Yahoo allows them to not need to focus on revenues, as they already have a large and established an ad sales team.
I think it's intended to distract you from the actual limit. If they came out and said "Unlimited storage" everyone's first reaction would be "What's the catch?"
http://ge.tt does (from what I can see) the same thing without being Mac specific or locking you into just emailing your files rather than, say, tweeting them. It might be good to mention the differences.

This UI is a bit neater, though.
Keep in mind as a non-pro user you can only upload 300MB a month: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

277 years (or 7,242 fortnights) later, and you can finally use all of your space.

Edit: It appears they have removed the limit, disregard.