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If true my educated guess for the disease would be a form of leukemia, although in its acute form is unlikely that the affected are left well enough to travel.

Band together around two popular members of the community.

Have someone that has been around for few years but just has 100 of karma post a similar call for help and see how many upvotes will receive.

It's an interesting scenario and very likely, but I suppose FB engineers and shareholders are not too concerned about Facebook becoming a digital graveyard in 50 years because they will be dead themselves.

It looks to me the idea may not be the best one and his success will not be easy to replicate (for those that are thinking to do the same in their cities), but the discussion the story generated is very interesting in two ways:

1)there are bits of localcasestudy's experience that can be used by other businesses irregardless of what sector they are

2)the moral of the story is that if you want to run your own business you can do it. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a tech startup looking to raise funds.

To complete the story of the tower when it was still a fort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts

A further proof, if still necessary, that overnight success is just a myth.

That would be correct if a domain investor had hand-registered its entire portfolio, not if he buys and sell domains in the aftermarket.

I've been meaning to contribute something helpful to the discussion, but I keep putting it off.

Homeland Security USA episode 203: Startup Founders

Starring:

BadassFractal the startup founder

H1B the visa

OnlyCash the lawyer

HN crowd the wannabe lawyers

Live now on Hacker News

Someone else mentioned Anatoli Boukreev in relation to the 1996 season on Everest.

If you want to understand more how high-altitude climbers think, this makes for a perfect read: http://www.amazon.com/Above-Clouds-Diaries-High-Altitude-Mou...

With that title I was hoping to read a good conspiracy story about Square running some form of malware stealing users' data: I'm disappointed.

Change the title. Or make up a malware story to go with the tone of the title.

In average the response you'll receive on free lance marketplaces will always be disappointing, but if the project is not too complicate, you can always find someone good enough to do it.

One option is to invite coders to bid on your project by looking at their past experiences and find some that may relate to the type of project you have.

Other than that, and I know I've said this before, the best coders on free lance sites are those that ask questions relevant to your project description.

While you can safely discard all those that submit generic bids with links to their portfolios without any type of comment about the project they are bidding on, those that ask questions are the ones you want to work with.

Yeah, so true!

StartupBritain is not a government initiative.

If you have a discount club membership with Godaddy, and I imagine with 800+ your friend has one, a .com is less than $8, so that's not $9k in fees, but more like $6.2-6.3k.

It would be close to $9k at any other registrar though, so I suspect your friend will end up like many before, including me, learning his lesson but leaving the domains there.

Domains are worth whatever a buyer is willing to pay, not what people in this thread or automatic tools on the internet believe/suggest.

I've had domains that I hand-registered in the last two years sell for 4-5 figures and other that according to experts/tools are very valuable, but that simply do not attract any buyer.

And I'm not even a regular domain investor (or domain squatter as people on YC seem to believe all domain investors = squatters).

Anyway, I think the blog poster has a pretty good idea of what his domains are worth, but he's just trying to raise attention and possibly start a bidding war on the 2-3 interesting ones. Some choose to do their auctions through auction houses, other uses more creative forms.

I honestly couldn't care less what happened to Mahalo and I pretty much agreed with all your points when you first revealed their ways of creating tens of thousands of useless pages, but nevertheless I also have simpathy for Jason.

I think not many people on HN realize (or probably are willing to admit) that This Week In Startups is the most interesting resource to learn from real experiences of fellow entrepreneurs, developers, etc. Mixergy is another interesting one, but the format of TWIST provides its viewers lots of insights and info that you simply can't get anywhere else on the web.

So not all Jason does is evil.

Just my two cents.

I suspect it's not that easy or the previous owner could have restructured the business and its debt instead of declaring bankruptcy. Truth is there is no money left in sex/pornography.

Stopped reading the article when I saw listed as a highly creative person the "actress best known for her awesome work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

Another is avoid reading books/articles about time management techniques. The first 4-5 chapters of Eat That Frog explain exactly what everyone needs to know. Applying it may be another story though.

Actually, sarcasm aside, "eat less" is not a good idea. If we exclude extreme cases, it is more a matter of eating right than eating less.

Like the governments care about problems gamblers. If they did they would close lotteries and scratchcards operations and liberalize sports betting.

Instead they want to tell people where to spend (lose) their money, while pretending they care.

Tim Ferriss started by selling people the idea that they could be successful too.

Except that his entire career and success is based on telling people what they want to hear.

First it was "you can be successful and you don't even need to work hard", more recently he's turned his attention to lifestyle advice such as how to lose weight, how to swim faster, how to look better.

Why would anyone take advice from him beats me, but that's another story.

Or what is difference between paying for spamming ads and paying for google ads?

Oh wait, I know this one: with the second one Google makes billions.

The message is "succes makes you an expert at telling other people how successful you are".

Their country's TLD?

I assume you are American, but when did exactly .com became the USA's TLD? .us is your country's TLD

"Corporations aren't run like charities", but apparently they don't mind asking for some.

They have probably started to work at night...

"why are they targetting me and not the already published implementation of Dan?"

Probably because Dan didn't title his article Creating Shazam in Java