I think the server costs around $350/mo. I don't like to think how much time HN actually takes up, but when I was traveling recently I found that checking in for about 30 min a day was enough to keep things under control.

On a weekday we get about 350k pageviews from about 30k unique ip addrs.

As an exercise in research outsourcing, I found a list of 2008 technology acquisitions and paid some random person on Mahalo Answers $30 to research where those companies were when they got bought. I'm going to drop them on a Google Map, but I was quite surprised at how global they really were.

I'm also going to do it for 2007 (what's another $30?).

Here's the 2008 list. Once I do it for 2007, I'll map it out. Out of 106, 81 of them were outside of the Valley. There might be a few more, as I don't recognize all of the towns clustered around the valley. It would be interesting to plot exit events over time-- I'd guess that we're trending towards LESS clustering rather than more.

Moniker - Pompano Beach, Florida, United States Bodybuilding.com - MERIDIAN, Idaho, United States CleverSet - Seattle, Washington, United States Anywhere.FM - San Francisco, CA, United States Audible - 160 employees split between its headquarters in Newark, NJ and an office in London, UK. Maven Networks - Boston, MA, United States FoxyTunes - Israel Vehix- Salt Lake City, UT, United States HotOrNot - San Francisco, CA, United States Compete - London, UK BlogDigger - Washington, D.C., United States Auctomatic - San Francisco, CA, United States BeInSync - Tel Aviv, Israel Prospero - Burlington, MA, United States Social Platform - Los Angeles, CA, United States Pluck - Austin, TX, United States Bebo - San Francisco, CA, United States Sway - Middleton, WI, United States buy.at - London, UK YaData - Tel Aviv, Israel Weblistic - Fremont, CA, United States XIV - Tel Aviv, Israel Apertio - Bristol, UK Onaro - Boston, MA, United States MySQL - Uppsala, Sweden Trolltech - Oslo, Norway Fraud Sciences - Tel Aviv, Israel E-Dialog - Lexington, MA, United States MessageOne - Austin, Texas, United States G-Technology - Santa Ana, CA, United States Danger - Palo Alto, CA, United States Caligari - Mountain View, CA, United States Twhirl - Germany Pageflakes - San Francisco, CA, United States Sphere - San Francisco, CA, United States Farecast - Seattle, WA, United States Activeweave - San Francisco, CA, United States Fleaflicker - Tenafly, NJ, United States Expensr - San Francisco, CA, United States gBox - Cupertino, CA, United States MeeVee - Burlingame, CA, United States Inquisitor - Sunnyvale, CA, United States Cnet - San Francisco, CA, United States Ars Technica - Chicago, Illinois, United States StarBrand Media - Los Angeles, California, United States M:Metrics - Seattle, WA, United States Celebrity Baby Blog - New York, NY Snapvine - Seattle, WA, United States SwapDrive - Washington, D.C., United States Hostopia.com - Mississauga, ON, Canada Imity - Copenhagen, Denmark Rupture - San Francisco, CA, United States ZYB - Copenhagen, Denmark StarNet Interactive - Tel Aviv, Israel Plazes - Berlin, Germany Adify - San Bruno, CA, United States Personifi - Fort Worth, TX, United States Navic Networks - Waltham, MA, United States Gracenote- Emeryville, CA, United States Simple Star - San Francisco, CA, United States Diligent - Framingham, MA, United States EDS - Plano, TX Hands-On Mobile Korea - San Francisco, CA, United States B-hive Networks - Herzliya, Israel OpenAir - Boston, MA, United States Let It Wave - Paris, France Practique Associates - Bracknell, UK MusicGremlin - New York, NY, United States Skywire - Las Vegas, NV, United States Symbian - N./A Alltel - Little Rock, Ark, United States Helio - Los Angeles, CA, United States Iomega - San Diego, CA, United States Powerset - San Francisco, CA, United States Weather Channel - Atlanta, Georgia, United States HaloScan - N/A Imagekind - Seattle, WA, United States Truemors - Palo Alto, CA, United States ContentNextMedia - Santa Monica, CA, United States PodTech - Palo Alto, CA, United States jkOnTheRun - Houston, TX, United States Omnisio - Atherton, CA, United States AbeBooks - Victoria, Canada DailyCandy - New York, New York Blogcritics - San Francisco, CA, United States Ciao (Greenfield Online) - Connecticutm, MA, United States social.im - San Francisco, CA, United States Peerflix - Palo Alto, CA, United States Napster - Los Angeles, CA, United States YoVille - N/A PartnerUp - Shoreview, MN, United States Socialthing! - Boulder, CA, United States ZAO Begun - Moscow, Russia Pure Networks - Seattle, WA, United States Jabber - Denver, CO, United States Ribbit - Mountain View, CA, United States PostPath - Mountain View, CA, United States Lefthand Networks - Boulder, CO, United States Bitwine - Tenafly, New Jersey, United States Bill Me Later - Omaha, Nebraska, United States DBA - Denmark Polldaddy - Sligo, Ireland JungleDisk - Atlanta, GA, United States Wayport - Austin, Texas RuTube - Moscow, Russia Clickpass - San Francisco, CA, United States Revolution Health - Brooklyn, NY, United States socialmedian - New York, NY, United States AdEngage - Los Angeles, CA, United States acerno - New York and San Francisco based. Lookery - San Francisco, CA, United States Centennial - Wall, NJ, United States

Taking offense has become entertainment.

Isn't this, rich web apps, what Steve Jobs originally said should happen when asked why an SDK/third party native apps weren't going to be made available?

> I haven't figured out any clear, universal argument.

Because 99% of humanity really doesn't need to be on twitter?

The only reasons I can see are to follow 'trends' and spam people interested in your product(s), or follow celebrities.

Hypothesis: people who smile in yearbook photos are not really happy, just concerned with appearances, and thus likely to stay in a joyless marriage for appearance's sake.

I'm only half joking :)

The fact that anyone was actually outraged in the first place is the real failure here. I would have assumed prior to this past Sunday that nobody would be stupid enough to think that Amazon would maliciously, openly, and unapologetically de-list all material pertaining to homosexuality (or categorize it as "adult").

Okay, fine, Amazon screwed up and there was a glitch or a security hole or whatever it really was. Their bad, they should fix that and people have a right to be upset that their books lost sales or whatever was the case. But moral outrage? Protest logos? Petitions? People either need to lighten up or get lives that lack the required free time to get that worked up over a conspiracy that was obviously irrational.

aaah. another year, another release.

Ever since 7.1, I'm a near-fanatic PostgreSQL-user, if not to say fanboi.

I love, love, love PostgreSQL for its performance, its features, its awesome community and just for the fact that it's getting better and better every year.

Congratulations to the PostgreSQL team.

I've said it before and I'll probably say it many more times: You guys rule.

Sorry. This had to be said :-)