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You're absolutely right. Contrary to what parent claims, the US and our allies do a lot of good around the world that is made possible by having strong international diplomacy with other countries.

So my CPU spikes to 100% every time I visit the Google homepage? No thanks. That script would get blocked pretty quick.

I can't find it now, but there was a story on HN recently lamenting the fact that this AWS competition is funded by VC's and the author claimed that really promising bootstrapped companies didn't get a fair shot given that there was little opportunity for the sponsoring VC's to invest in them -- even though they may be awesome startups.

Investors should steer clear of this, leave this for the speculators who have money to throw away. You're investing in an instrument that is leveraged against a company who's financial details are not public knowledge. This is a very dangerous situation as you're unable to make an objective assessment of the underlying value.

Except, this isn't a once in a lifetime occurrence. As of today it's twice in a lifetime. That's indicates to me they didn't just hit that perfect chain of events, it tells me they have problems in their architecture or implementation that need to be addressed and tested before the next crisis occurs.

I worked in a datacenter as well. The whole point is that you test those scenarios when it's not an emergency so you can be confident everything will operate smoothly.

By "people", are you referring to Google? If so, I agree -- not having technical support available is a deal breaker for a system of that scale, especially if outages are as prevalent as the author claims.

That story is crazy. How did you react to it? What did you do to him?

A successful retaliatory attack by America could prevent the enemy from attacking our allies after they've hit us.

However the profile is connected to many notable people formerly/currently with Facebook:

http://gawker.com/5691841/when-facebook-ceos-was-publicly-ob...

Then perhaps you're creating (or training for) the wrong jobs. There are many vocations out there that provide benefits and have rather large earning potentials.

Does this make anyone else feel extremely underpaid? I'm a software engineer at Fortune 200 company in a major metropolitan city, making about 30K less than these guys. It's not a technology company, so that must be the difference.

The 'People You May Know' feature seems to work really well, try that.

That's an excellent point. I'm guessing that when you invest that amount of money in a company you get inside information that the rest of us are not privy to.

Has anyone out there found an actual use case for LinkedIn yet? I joined a year ago and have yet to use it for anything other than accumulating more and more professional connections. It's a well designed site, lots of connections to be made, but I can't find myself doing much else with it. I'd love to hear from somebody who thinks I'm missing an opportunity, but I don't find myself ever logging into the site unless I receive an email asking to confirm a connection request, is anybody else in the same boat?

It's not like Facebook where there is fresh content everyday (wall posts, comments, etc.) and new things to see. They are albeit superficial, but at least there's something drawing me back to the site everyday. I seem to get none of that from LinkedIn.

To be even more specific, the US military has a presence in over 150 countries.

I wouldn't say he's scaremongering. There is historical precedent for what happens when liquidity in the marketplace dries up or how people behave when banks tighten their lending or go out of business.

IE9 also has it's own debug tools built-in which are similar to Firebug. Press F12.

Here's what I'm thinking. I'm already working on a startup, so I'll give this one away for free.

Build the web app portion that allows reservations to be made from the customers perspective, just like they have now. Integrate it with Twilio so that the restaurant receives an automated call and can confirm/deny the reservation on their end, without having to deal with a bunch of new hardware. You just tell them that they're going to receive a phone call with the reservation information and the options. There's little or no training required on their side, no additional hardware, minimal integration, no new systems. It's a more organic transition for a restaurant when you're trying to talk them into becoming a customer.

I've been following this company for awhile from a financial perspective, which is how I know. The most prominent hedge fund to short has been Whitney Tilson's T2 Partners', but they're just one among many -- 35% of the floated stock is short now.

I don't know of any way to research who is shorting what other than SEC filings. Mutual/Hedge funds have to report this information on a quarterly basis.

That's not a huge barrier though. The restaurant didn't have some outlay of capital for that hardware that is going to motivate their decision to switch. When they cancel their OpenTable contract, they'll just send the hardware back.

This seems like an opportune space for a startup to compete in. You could easily sell the online reservation service for a fraction of what OT is charging and just skip the hardware nonsense. The hardware and table management system could be a separate product or service.

This is an interesting opportunity to profit from. This company has massive expectations baked into it's stock price (NASDAQ: OPEN), trading at over a hundred times earnings. It's being massively shorted by the hedge funds. Combine the fact that there's relatively no barrier to entry with the rumors that their customer base isn't very satisfied makes for a huge opportunity to profit in the short/medium term.

It's not their fault you chose to depend on earned income for your livelihood. Judging from your comment, you're obviously aware that they were smart enough to earn their livelihood from portfolio and passive income so instead of punishing them for that, why don't you do the same thing?

Why should you or I care how fast a company is increasing the pay of their CEO? That's an issue for their shareholders. If I'm not a shareholder I don't care, it's not my money.

That's great information. Sounds like it's voluntary at this point but required by January 1st, 2011.

I've been working on a closely related project for about a year now. It's not worth your time to attempt scraping. The best advice I can give you is that any financial data source worth consuming is going to cost money, you might as well pay for it and focus your energy/time on building the product itself. The free data sources are unreliable and stale and scraping legit sites is problematic because of throttling issues.

Generally speaking, you can't sue the U.S. Government.

$3.5 million is simply too large a number for your theory to be correct. A number that large to a single employee doesn't come out of thin air, it's based on something -- whether that be formal analysis or back of the envelope calculation.

Most likely somebody just forwarded it to their favorite blog, especially if they didn't think the email was confidential. Pretty easy to track outgoing email.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."