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I can't figure out what's wrong with the flash not loading - several people have reported this now. Can one of you guys hack it and reply with the answer? I'll buy you a pizza (no seriously, I will)

You can always sell the laptops back on eBay, right?

Appears to be a problem with our search index, we're on it ;)

I built the majority of the survey, so if you see any bugs or have feedback reply to this. Thanks!

Surprisingly, today's very rich say that money itself wasn't much of a motivator. Once you've got food in your belly and a big-screen TV, the mere prospect of more Benjamins isn't enough to get you leaping out of bed at 5 a.m. Rather, rich folks often make their fortunes after they make up their minds to solve a problem or do something better than it's been done before.

Very true for me and I'm sure a lot of the HN community. Once you get past a certain point with money it becomes an after thought, then you have the freedom to think of other things (like big ideas) that will make you more money. The rich get richer for a reason...

This seems like such an obvious thing to do if you're a huge tech company, why hasn't MSFT or YHOO done this yet? I have a hard time thinking this is a good thing, the last thing we need is Google dominating the VC market.

I totally agree with him - all the paperwork and bs involved with getting a company started is an artificial barrier to entry because it has nothing to do with the company making money. It's just a test to see if the founder can push paper through a broken system and I'm sure it has stifled a lot of innovation in the US.

Read this: http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2007/03/28/buy-when-...

Baron Rothschild was big on it :p

1. Spend less than you earn 2. When there's blood on the streets, invest 3. Use other people's money 4. Class is dismissed

Those rates are variable, EmigrantDirect had 5.15% going at the beginning of 2008 and now they're down to 2.75%. He's right, 7% is about as average as it can get.

It will be very interesting to see how the Digg community takes this (if true). I think it will be a smooth transition, people don't view Google as evil (yet).

"comfort is the last state of mind before death."

Does this mean that being comfortable at a company that it's about to die? Not sure I understood this one, explain please!

Am I the only one that thinks Mark Cuban is just mad that he didn't start YouTube?

"I hear that I've been blacklisted, and that Apple reached out directly to Newsweek to complain about my hiring" Dan tells us.

Wait, is Fake Steve bad "press" for Apple? If anything their PR department should be reaching out to him and letting him try out their new products. Most of the people I know that follow him are heavy Mac users, so if anything, Apple should be praising Newsweek for hiring him. Bad move I think.

The yellow background on that site makes my eyes burn.

Very interesting read if you have the time :)

The best part is of the article is how Denton turned his biggest competitors into his heaviest source of traffic by writing trash about reporters and scandals at the big publishing houses in NYC.

collegeotr.com seems right on. ivygate.com is similar too -- the big thing these people need to work on is distribution strategy. Gawker had a great one - write trash about other media companies (NYT, Conde Nast, etc) because the reporters at those companies are self important and always wrote back. It became an endless loop and drove tons of traffic to Gawker. History of it is here:

http://www.nplusonemag.com/?q=gawker-2002-2007

(n+1 magazine, great article)

oh it's been done - you just haven't heard about it because the team of hackers didn't have 3 pr reps!

Simple answer: big companies haven't switched to FF. If they started switching, their employees would go home and switch too. Until then, it will be hard to become a majority.

working more than 80 hours a week isn't sustainable over long periods of time, if anything it will just hasten a huge burnout. anyone can work 80-100 hours a week - it doesn't mean they're going to get more done. work in bursts when you are most efficient, that seems to work best for me.

when we launched younoodle we hit NYT / techcrunch / venturebeat within a few hours. me and the other engineer slept through it and the site didn't go down once - it even stayed pretty fast throughout that day. btw, techcrunch doesn't send much traffic at all, we got more from delicious.

luckily i have an understanding boss here at younoodle ;)

microsoft thinks yahoo is worth $33 with msft execs, yahoo thinks they're worth $37 with their own execs, the general public thinks they're worth... uh... well before the msft news broke, around $19. either yahoo execs have huge egos and think they're worth 2x as much, or the rest of the world is dumber than the yahoo execs. there's a lot of smart people out there (i.e. all the analysts) and there is no way the yahoo execs are 2x as smart as everybody else.

maybe yahoo has something up their sleeves. like a new social network or something. but then again, they've had very little innovation come out of there in the last few years, so i'd put my bets at $20-22 / share when the market closes on monday.

I'd give Jared 500k any day

Yeah, seriously... I was rejected at YC like 8 months ago (didn't want single founder) and we are doing just fine. I really respect all the advice and connections that YC has, but just because you are rejected doesn't mean anything.

My company is ClassOwl (classowl.com), we are in Alpha right now. And no, we're not another cliche Web 2.0 company.