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The ICANN administration is notorious for its motives. While a public organization, many of its decisions are clearly to benefit their own and are clearly not in the public benefit…

Option to provide lock-screen option to allow guests to login using their iCloud account.

In Australia, we almost match this by (a) having a "Low Income Tax Offset" (being fazed out in favour of an $18k tax free bracket) and (b) having a wide-reaching 'Centrelink' socia…

Typically, they'll be offered options to buy stock for essentially nothing. Often there will be tricks though - for example it might take a couple of years in employment to be able…

The shareholders control the board, and the board controls management. Thus, unhappy shareholders will mean new management. In FB's case however, Zuck still controls (through proxy…

I'd recommend hooking up with a local angels syndicate, so that diversify the risk. Also, bigger pockets (ie across the whole syndicate rather than just one angel) attracts better …

For a further push into index funds (vs stock picking) look up the "efficient markets hypothesis" and relate it to portfolio theory. Our markets are very reasonably semi-strong; ov…

I imagine the opportunity for Google to offer this sort of "private search" (perhaps w/ complementing premium features) via mass licenses to (nervous) big corps would be one worth …

The firm holds a longer, (financially) non-optimal view; their handling stakeholders would be different if they were gunning for an exit. Instead, Wordpress seem to be presenting f…

Commercial banks offer what you're seeking. In our local scene when one of our cash-flow+ portfolio companies is seeking further capital for expansion, often debt is a better (chea…

When Skype was first sold to eBay, eBay did a whoozy and made bad assumptions resulting in them buying Skype without the core IP. This later cost them a gazillion dollars after a c…

If you have a model that beats the market it some way, you'll profit by making deals that are only available because the market does not understand them as well as your model. If t…

Hi HN, In the media I read, which includes a wide range of startup and finance blogs, founders themselves are always - without exception! - portrayed as the representatives of each…

This is not an ideal fundraising instrument for a startup, because it is likely the fair rate of interest will be higher than the loan amount itself (ie >100%). For a pre-alpha sta…

Your analogy between the startup and music industries draws true. Not everything will be successful, but it's important that those involved can have a reasonable chance to be rewar…

Nay; Edmonton, on the south side. I did attend Cairns SHS from 2004-2006, if that's of help.

I grew up in Cairns, a small city in far north Queensland. When it came time to go to uni, a huge subset of our year shifted to Brisbane (those looking on - Brisbane is Queensland'…

I am also in Brisbane, though the roles I'm looking at aren't necessarily in IT; this problem does not seem specific to the IT industry here.

Fixed. Thanks!

Hi HN! I'm looking at taking a year out and doing something completely different; to draw away from my current domains (finance/government bleh) to doing something interesting and …

In Australia, the idea of paying to receive calls is rediculous. Sure, it's not quite like that on the carrier end. But we consumers only pay when making calls.

The OP probably understands this, but is trying to get information on what typically happens to the property itself. Is it discarded and forgotten? Kept and used internally, perhap…

Hi HN, Recently we've seen posts about programs that teach programming - usually RoR (?) - to an entry-level in just 8-12 weeks. All of these have been USA-based. To me, a business…

This sounds great to me! That said, I'm a 20yo finance undergrad who merely dabbles - like yourself - in tech and web technologies and probably am not a useful hacker per se (at le…

Hi Anibal. I haven't opened the links; I'm on my mobile browser. Can you please explain what makes your ads 'premium'? Thanks.