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The fact that his internet "friens" found out about his death from twitter or IRC channel doesn't mean that his "real" friends didn't notice.

Why do some people assume that someone with large internet following doesn't have real life and real friends and real family?
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Rackspace Cloudsites and Web Apps
Has anyone tried running their web app on Rackspace's CloudSites systems? Any problems found?
Java app server popularity wanes, except for one
Generally you should only buy insurance if you would not be happy insuring yourself (e.g. buying a new one when it breaks). I fyou buy insurance then the profit margin and overheads of the insurance company are an extra cost over insuring yourself.

Buying insurance works best for expensive rare occurances (e.g. major car crashes) and not so well for cheaper, or more common problems (e.g. broken consumer electricals).

This is especially true with product insurance on products with a short shelf life (e.g. the latest iPhone) as their value drops quickly and better versions are introduced.
Clarinets are in A or B bémol iirc.
Just don't up-vote. Its better to just rely on the voting system to describe the preferences of the community than to try to explain every user every nuance of what you think they should and should not post.
Why not have HN save it so I can find it even if I'm not using my personal browser. Isn't that part of the reason why we have accounts on HN, so we don't have to save everything on our personal systems ... so we can rely on HN remember things about/for us?
Of course, I use FF, and most HN'ers probably do, too. But, not everyone does. HN could add this functionality for us so we don't each need to add it ourselves. Thanks for pointing it out, however. It does look very good.
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Then use Markdown. HTML is overkill.
So your solution is to point to a database capacity that violates the first normal form?
If it is interesting enough to save, maybe it warrants an upvote?
Ask HN: Are there any good Internet marketing books?
Just wondering if you guys can recommend any fundamental reading on internet marketing, advertising and related subjects (probably with more emphasis on theory such as knuth or cormen for programming).

Thanks.
Is this newsworthy? Shall I post an update to mention that I fixed a few bugs on my start-up yesterday?
"@froo, you do have a point, but revenue is not profit."

Fine, let's investigate that.

MS's profit for:
2008 = $37.9 billion
2007 = $32.6 billion
2006 = $27.81 billion

.. and so on, I can't be bothered entering in the rest of the figures, but the trend is that MS's profit aswell as revenue are increasing year over year (It will be a different tune this year, but that's because of the economic slowdown, not a business failing on MS's part). So you're wrong. They appear to give about half of this profit to their shareholders each year.

"I don't know of many companies that still sell prepackaged software."

You mean like Oracle, Autodesk, Adobe, Apple, SAP... should I go on?

PCs will be soon surpassed by smart-phones.

I don't think desktop computing will be replaced any time soon - whether that be a PC, notebook or a netbook is a different matter, but there will be room for desktop computing for a long time to come. Smartphones might have a lot going for them, but they lack the tactile feedback of a keyboard, mouse and screen combo. Almost nobody in their right mind will be using smartphones in lieu of a desktop computer for their day to day work. It's just not going to happen, sorry.

"And btw ... FUD is not an incorrect statement, neither something you disagree with. FUD is an incorrect statement done with a clear intent to discredit a competitor"

Actually, FUD is not necessarily used to discredit competitors as it has a much broader use in language today. Individuals (or organisations) who spread untrue, inaccurate or poorly researched information knowingly with the intent of discrediting an organisation or person can be said to be spreading FUD. It's even more apparent when somebody does it with a clear bias (which you obviously have a general negative bias with MS, despite you using .net), sort of like propaganda, because if you had spent 2 or 3 minutes to look at MS's annual reports, you would see your argument is wrong.

"I do have the tendency to check my assumptions from time to time"

Just not this time, not even in the slightest bit.
Freedom how? Unless you are doing some seriously shady shit, most of the above services won't even blink an eyelid at what you're doing.

I know that facebook has banned photos related to breastfeeding.

Your arguments are practical but it's an ethical problem.
Some people care about their freedom (for instance by only using free software) and don't want to have their personal data freely available on the internet.
Capitalism with strong state control is called Mercantilism. Or proto-capitalism, if you want. A few hundred years ago the main tools used today existed already: banks, loans, stocks, contracts of all kinds. The main difference was that the state believed (much like in a lot of third-world countries today) that tight regulation is normal and necessary. The moment the main source of income shifted from agriculture to industry and commerce was the moment the state started to use it for its own purposes (which usually were war related).

Not surprisingly, it did not work very well. Regulations went as far as dictate the type of products which could be produced, by whom and with what technology. Any newcomer had to obtain licence first and start production later, and any company which had an advantage in inovation only was pretty dead from the start. The incumbents always fought tooth and nail to keep things as they are, and since they had the support of the state they usually succeeded. In one extreme case this meant the execution of 16,000 small entrepreneurs whose only crime was importing or manufacturing cotton cloth in violation of French law. (last sentence is copy paste from Wikipedia).

Now, again, except the state control the economic climate looked surprisingly like today. Which is why there are still countries that proclaim to be capitalist, even when in practice it's impossible to build a successful business without political support. The difference is not semantic, it is very real.

Try and google a bit for Hernando de Soto. I haven't found exactly what I was looking for, but this is ok:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/32213.html
Actually, the toaster company only engages in central planning of toaster assembly. They plan almost nothing else.

Where do they get their iron from? Commodities markets. If I'm not mistaken, even the name of the seller is abstracted away from them (by the financial services industry, which is also not planned by the toaster company).

The manufactured parts (e.g. the plug and switched) may actually require them to care who they purchase from, but all the planning is done by someone else.

And the distribution channels are also, for the most part, handled by someone else. The company sends toasters to Walmart by the truckload, distribution is up to walmart from there on. Maybe the company sends some advertising materials, but that's about it.

The toaster company does engage in planning, but only a little bit. The rest is left up to the markets.
Use Instapaper, it's online and it has a bookmarklet and an iPhone app: http://www.instapaper.com/
and don't want to have their personal data freely available on the internet.

With a lot of the sites I mentioned above, you do have the option of privacy settings so that only certain users can see files.

So the point is still moot. Opera is embedding something into their browser that firefox has had as an extension since sometime last year (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3002) and that people who really cared about could have easily downloaded apache... yet are claiming it as a revolutionary idea?

What's more, it's an impractical idea at it's core, which is why the practise hasn't taken off in any previous incarnations (speed is a fairly big issue for a lot of users), meanwhile these social sharing websites continue to flourish.

Lastly and this is a real testament to just how much Opera has missed the mark, they also want to implement their own protocol (unite://) for it to actually work in some cases?

Dumb from the get go.
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Permission Marketing (Seth Godin)

http://www.amazon.com/Permission-Marketing-Turning-Strangers...
Read what he wrote again. The uncorrected problem is italicized:

"If the resource allocation remain uncorrected(Examples include overpaying for labor which often happen when minimum wage are enforced), parts of the population may continues unemployed although they may be able or skilled enough to trade their labor on the market."
The line between "corporation" and "government" is not always so bright.

For example, in 1987 GE sold its consumer electronics division to Thompson SA, which was owned by the French government.
no, this is really begging the question. youve reduced "the proposition is true" to "the algorithm is correct, and the algorithm returns 'true'". once you prove the former you still have to do the hard part of actually _proving_ the latter. i suppose this amounts to mathematically proving, among other things, that your pentium 4 or whatever is incapable of executing a program incorrectly.
I get your point, but I just wanted to point out that there are cross browser bookmarklets available as well as the FF extension.

http://readitlaterlist.com/bookmarklets/
A Separate Peace. Oops, I'm the charity case and I accidentally pushed you, Rich Boy, out of a tree! And then you were crippled! AND THEN YOU DIED!

Watership Down. Three words: creepy rabbit ghosts.

Old Yeller. To Kill a Mockingbird.

And on and on and on... apparently the way to become respected, Serious Literature for children is to kill people. Or at least characters in your book.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathByNewberyMed...

This list seriously made me smile but yes, I agree, not HN.
1) "Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer" (A/B Testing)

2) Aaron Wall's SEO Book - excellent primer for internet marketing and SEO - theory but with practice applied

3) The original Backrub/Pagerank paper

> probably with more emphasis on theory

Are you doing research for school? I know you asked for theory but you did say 'fundamental'. Just to throw it out there, fundamentally, I believe the independent people (not large companies - that is different) making more money than we'd like to know through Internet marketing don't think in terms of theory - theory is easy - they try and try many different ways until something works. For example, Shoemoney:

"So with this Cornhusker quiz, it’s a needed service because all these guys want to see where they are. It spreads virally, because they want to challenge their friends and see if they could do better than their friends. And the way to make money is, when they finish, if they score high enough, they’re presented with a free trial to Netflix. [with his referral ID of course]"

http://blog.mixergy.com/shoemoney-ads/
Upvoted articles are saved. If it is worth saving, it is worth upvoting as well.
One comment in the first reddit discussion about this explained that irc regulars became suspicious and asked his family to check up on him.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8u5dp/erik_nagg...

This doesn't say outright that his death was discovered due to his absence on irc, but strongly suggests so. It also suggests that he had some family but wasn't in daily contact with them.
Oh, thanks. I better quit while I'm ahead. During Oktoberfest I'll just keep my mouth shut (unless imbibing) :).
and that people who really cared about could have easily downloaded apache

And what if I'm not a techie but I still want to control my data ?

With a lot of the sites I mentioned above, you do have the option of privacy settings so that only certain users can see files.

And what if I don't want my data to be stored and later used by systems like Facebook Beacon ?
Simplicity.

It can be parsed and traversed like a DOM object.

It can be manipulated with javascript.

Unlike MHTML...
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I'm not sure that it exactly qualifies as marketing, but Avinash Kaushik's "Web Analytics: An Hour A Day" is really great on how to design for and think about project metrics on the net, which in my experience is one of the biggest advantages that the great guys are holding.
This looks like a good time to quote Knuth:
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
"And what if I'm not a techie but I still want to control my data ?"

Then if you were really paranoid about controlling your data - you don't share it, at least not on a publicly accessible network like the internet. It's a simple concept.

"And what if I don't want my data to be stored and later used by systems like Facebook Beacon ?"

It already is, whether you like it or not, eg, Google.
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In some cases, centralized planning is the better choice over the alternative. Would the toaster company survive without roads, laws, and a stable currency.

Something do not scale well without central planning.
I use delicious for saving and noticed I am not alone on more heavily discussed HN threads.
"""also, yes, the iPhone is too slow for flash"""

maybe you can enlighten us and explain why the iphone it too slow. it runs high framerate games backed by script-interpreted engines pretty well .. so why would flash games be a problem?
The essence of a good trading strategy that leveraged Tweets would be to perform extensive back-testing on which sources were remotely influential and/or reliabe. trading decisions would never be made based on an unproven source. At the very least, a trader would get a jump on knowing when something major was going on at a macroeconomic level that would indicate stopping/switching off their trading model. Reliable Tweeters would become more prevalent as the potential to build brand and reputation for value gain - e.g. promoting themselves or their company, potentially a research firm, is extremely motivating.
More or less, with the convenience of reuse, and a better location at the end of the document for better readability.
Beautiful set of icons in there. Congrats.
Another possible way this can come to use would be an alternative to Google Gears, where in users would be able to do offline web naviagation, provided there is a sync API and a datastore available in the browser itself
I wanted to point out that I wasn't really trying to use this idea to version database tables -- I am trying to store datapoints that change over time (like pulse rate, temperature, pressures, etc.) and have a specific well-known key.

Basically, a 3-dimensional Excel spreadsheet.
It is extremely common in various MFA(Made For Adsense) type pages, rather it is the end result when page owners hire low priced writers and thus the result. Then again, MFA creators are unlikely to pay for high quality writers.

Needless to say, value of something like this is very, very questionable.
I believe that was always the case with Microsoft Live. You'd make more conversions but it would always be hard to get the higher volume of Google.

If you could get a good ROI it was worth it but Google always seemed to bring the most in.
I'm not much of a writer, so I'm curious:

All of the copied passages were concise descriptions of historical events. Obviously, quoting verbatim (like was done here) is plagiarism, but given that he wasn't there to witness the events, isn't the only option to take other accounts and rewrite them in his own words?
My inner cynic thinks Clement carefully avoided stating that the consultations will involve regular citizens, as opposed to just industry reps. He's implying a more open process, but his words say we'll just end up with more of the same.
This sounds like feature bloat to me. Next thing you'll want is a friend and foe system, and all other reddit features...
In some ways this kind of proof is similar to computer generating massive end-game databases for chess.

The resulting perfect play for some endgames is incomprehensible to a human GM and can last for more than 100 moves.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/perfect.htm
Did your commits touch millions of people too ?
Why not save it on Delicious, so you don't have to use your personal browser and HN doesn't get feature bloat?
As a matter of record, I don't think everything I write is really Hacker News material, even if this does partially relate to startups.

That being said, I still thank my buddy John for submitting it without my knowledge, and hope those who accidently read it enjoy themselves :)
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More precisely, everyone at every stage of the thing engages in planning. And those plans are coordinated almost entirely by the market. That's the point of the original article.
Oh good, a way to make it so people don't have to hack me and now everyone can see my details, well if I set it that way... Interesting way to deal with information being available, let your users THINK they want it. Then you don't have to fix anything.

Article on Facebook hack from June 22nd
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/is-privacy-an-illusion-...
Or you could use one of the hundreds of online bookmarking applications like http://del.icio.us
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from the article: "The only shortcomings that I have noticed so far is that the simulator doesn't seem to respond to orientation changes of the iPhone simulator. There is a menu option to rotate the iPhone, but the orientation of the programs, even the built-in ones, doesn't change when the simulator rotates."

I just tried this on my own iPhone simulator, and it's not true. The simulator's version of Safari does indeed rotate sideways when the simulator does.
Well, I live in Europe, Poland. Currently working as trainee in Austria.
I can't access Hulu at all all and I'm suprised you can: http://www.hulu.com/support/content_faq#outside_us

Recently, some interesting TV show was published on YouTube for many countries, including Poland. I can't access it because I'm in Austria now.

I also uploaded some videos on youtube which were basicaly edited game footage + fragments of music. One was removed, other is unavailable in some countries. I don't think it's "some seriously shady shit".

Let's assume you are downloading two large files from rapidshare. You have to wait 1h before downloading second one, so I doubt RS is so superior as you say.
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Advertising Secrets of the Written Word - Claude Hopkins

Anything by Seth Godin
The real advantage to a "save" option is that HN can create a set of "most saved" articles. Although it might not end up looking much different than the Hacker News home page at first, in time this might end up being a good reference set of important things to read when starting a startup.
I've said it elsewhere here before, but if there's one thing I can say for certain, it's that you're not going to beat Twitter (or any other dead-simple niche service) by trying to be everything to everyone. I am certainly painting in broad strokes here, but this feels a little Microsoft-y to me.
Couldn't iPhone users just go to www.nytimes.com in their phones web browser and circumvent the fees?
This is an amazing web site! where do you get from the news?! you have so many good web sites you refer to...
If you do not yet read it, I highly recommend Daniel Eran Dilger's RoughlyDrafted Magazine for cogent, prescient, detailed, forward-looking analysis of Apple as Apple evolves. Unfortunately, some of his better stuff is buried in his archives.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/

"The big 3.0: How iPhone will shift peripheral devices"

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/20/the-big-30-how-ipho...

"Why Windows 7 is Microsoft's next Zune"

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/05/09/why-windows-7-is-mi...

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22By+daniel+eran%22+%2B+...

From June 2007:

"Apple’s updates will draw a stark contrast between the iPhone as a handheld Mac, and the basic smartphones that can only run mini-apps and a few poorly drawn, overpriced software titles.

Apple has turned the mobile industry into a consumer facing market, where consumers will buy the phone, get updates, and buy software from Apple. That makes Apple responsible for their security, their demanded features, and their support. That’s not how things work today in the mobile world...

Once users get accustomed to a full handheld computer that works intelligently, are they going to make any attempt to break free and grab a smartphone that really does very little, like the Motorola Q?

It will also be very difficult for other hardware makers to match Apple's product on an engineering scale. Sure, Nokia, Sony, and others can make fancier phones with features the iPhone lacks, whether its a 6 MP camera, a GPS unit, WiMax, an FM radio, or a cheese slicer, but the real trick to engineering is to know what to leave out."

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/73805E44-AEF...
looks like you're new around here. to avoid the downmodding you just got in the future: don't add signatures to your comments, and don't try to use HTML.
I disagree. I've written off the times because of their terrible website usability (full page ads, pop-ups, attempts at forced registration).

I'm assuming the product in there is good on some level since they have such brand cachet, but I don't care to deal with getting at because it such a pain. If they made it an enjoyable user experience, I would probably pay for it because I know that it is good.
For most of history, the modus operandi of governments has been to continue growing in power until they're so big they can't do anything but fail, then have a bloody revolution where the new radicals throw out everything the old guard did - even the parts that worked - and start from scratch.

To be fair, a lot of pre-democratic government structures weren't that bad at handling power transition. Either there was a generally-acknowledged official line of succession, or some kind of council of noblemen who were officially responsible for choosing the king's successor, or some combination of the two. Of course, kings back then also had more practical (if not constitutional) limitations on their power than Saddam had on his power.
Hrm. So on the one hand, your personal beliefs prevent you from using a computer that is completely controled and locked down, but because everyone else is doing it for phones, it's ok then? I'm not criticizing Jeff for buying an iPhone, but let's be very clear on the price of the 'hacker mentality' in this case. :-)

An important lesson here for free software advocates as well. Only now are free software operating systems catching up in usability and user friendliness. Let's not make the same mistake on mobile devices as well.
Regardless of the impact of any particular source code, I think that release notes are generally not something I would consider worthy of note/discussion here.
See a previous discussion on this issue here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591717

I personally agree with you, but I think we are the mintority.