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Poll for you startup guys (for a class at Stanford)
Hi Guys,
I'm doing a project for my class on the phenomenon of tech blogging. Me and my partner really wanted to hear the opinions of some real world startup founders on how tech blogs effect them in terms of their perception of entrepreneurship in the Silicon Valley as well as how such blogs inspire/inform business and strategy decisions on both a long and short term basis.
If you guys could help us out with an opinion that would be great. I'd be happy to help you guys anyway I can in return.
Thanks!
I'd also suggest that even in a social networking space, there's multiple types of data and some of it should be stored in an ACID environment (which probably means SQL). You may not care if you can't save a few thousand (or million) status updates to your data store immediately, but you need to care a lot more about your customer profile data (e.g., account, password, etc.) and changes there should be as ACID as possible. Your advertising or subscriber billing models should probably be ACID-backed as well. In both of these cases, that probably means SQL.
As another poster alluded to, a practitioner of NLP would call this a "pattern interrupt".

1) Build up an argument almost to a crescendo
2) Pattern interrupt ("it turns out")
3) New argument

A practitioner of NLP would say that this weakens the original argument because it puts an interruption between the stimulus and the response.

There is a shock to the system followed by the new argument that you would like the listener to adhere to. The shock makes the listener more suggestible.

That's the theory, anyway. The debate however is very controversial.
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Karabell describes and explains what he calls Zachary Karabell describes 'superfusion'--how the economies and capital flows of China and the U.S. became inextricably entwined to the point where neither can survive without the other.
In many countries you can get accounts that are denominated in other currencies. For example, Citibank does an account in the UK that's denominated in US Dollars - http://www.citibank.co.uk/personal/banking/international/eur... - this would resolve the rate conversion issue.

However I lose a lot of money transferring money internationally due to taxes and rate conversions, and I'm wondering if I could keep the money in the US without being a US citizen, without having to physically go to a US bank.

I don't know where you are, but in many jurisdictions, doing what you're suggesting to evade local taxation could be illegal (that is, locally in terms of tax evasion. Opening a bank account overseas is not an illegal act in and of itself).

For example, let's say you're a British citizen (just because I'm familiar with the British rules, but they're likely to be "similar" across much of Europe).. if you are domiciled in the UK and earn money in the US from a Web site you maintain from the UK, you owe the UK tax authorities tax on the full income from that site BEFORE any deductions.

So let's say you make $2000 a month and spend $500 on hosting. If you set up an account in the US and then eventually only remit $1500 to the UK, you would be breaking the law if you did not declare the full $2000 to the tax man. In which case, having the remote account has no benefit except for the rates.. and you can get that locally anyway, as I demonstrated above.
Ambition and Ludic are oddball concepts which inherently can't ever get mainstream appeal.

Interesting. Explain. It's very cool to talk to someone who has heard of these games.

I think this may true of Ludic, since it effectively uses a function as a game object (it's a card game that steps into higher-order function territory). What about Ambition? On the surface, it just seems like a somewhat more complicated than average trick-taking game.
Yes. The prevailing package for employee 10 is 70-80K with 0.5-1.5% of the options.
do you have an email to contact you? Would be more than happy to help.
Joel slams Twitter's blog as boring, saying it's essentially rewritten press releases but Twitter does have an engineering focused blog that has much more interesting content (for Programmers anyways).

http://engineering.twitter.com/
There are a ton of smart people on Wall St who aren't quants.

I'm including the smart traders who aren't considered quants now but would have been classified as quants 5 years ago.

How many startups never happen because people have been burned by this, or know people who have been burned by this?

I haven't heard of it, but it may happen.
I believe that Apple 'declared war' first, when it began rejecting Google's iPhone applications last summer. First it rejected Latitude, then it rejected Google Voice, which is when things really started to get nasty.

Google has been slightly more subtle with its shots back. It released Navigation for Android, which I strongly doubt will be making it to the iPhone any time soon. It acquired AdMob before Apple could. And then it launched its own phone (less subtle, that one).

I'm curious how early Jobs found out about Google's plans for the Nexus One. I'm sure such devices take a long time to make, and if he heard last spring/summer that Google was making its own phone, that might have sparked all of this. That's just speculation though.
Reminds of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...
Households around the US burn lots of natural gas for heat.

If this project results in a device that can use that same natural gas and generate heat and electricity at the same time and displace polluting coal currently burned for most electric generation, what isn't to like?

There is no way for anyone to know if this will happen or not, but if someone wants to make the investment/gamble on it I'm 100% in favor.
So I hear about scripts in web-based contexts, but also in get-repetitive-shit-done-on-my-computer contexts. What's good for that, and what would work on Windows machines?
neat app. Here's the link in itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/everyday-looper/id333298831?m...
Interesting, but there are significant differences between "software expert", "computer science students", and "software developer".
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Out of curiosity, what would "wrapping" mean in this case?
Its actually very easy to setup. Install and run ./bin/cassandra -f nothing like the troubles with HBase.

Administration is pretty hands off for most tasks. For instance you want three copies of each piece of data? Set the replication factor to 3. Other parts are difficult to "get" if you don't have an understanding of the code, my best advice is to make sure you approach Cassandra from a developer perspective. You can't treat it like a black box quite yet.
Google may claim to find hundreds of hits but if you click through to page 3, it turns out there are only 22.
It definitely has much better documentation.
Apparently the company thinks "All such publicity hurts", but truly this is going to help them spread the word about there start-up. I never would have heard of them otherwise.
Nobody wins in these things except the lawyers. Also, at this point Apple is starting to look like a 5 year old baby throwing a temper tantrum. The negative publicity with the app store combined with taking jabs at google just makes them look really bad.
Rents in New York definitely need to come down in order for the innovation / startup hub to continue it's upward move ... having banks and funds recover and salary / bonus talk coming back will not help either.

First of all, I think our financial crisis/recession is doomed to have a "W" shape. We're going to dip again; it's unclear when. This is because, despite the bailout, there hasn't been any material change in the workings of Wall Street; we've merely reduced the number of players.

Wall Street salaries will always be high relative to other industries, but what will change post-crash (the upcoming one) is that the industry will employ fewer people. We'll have as many if not more billionares made by hedge funds, but the number of players is going to drop considerably, and Wall Street will no longer be able to singularly support the Manhattan economy (and no industries other than finance and "biglaw", whose clients are mostly Wall Street firms, pay sufficiently to support these prices). This will be good for New York's diversity and character; bad for real estate prices. But it could easily take 5-10 years before RE prices revert to a reasonable level. In that time, the talent will have moved elsewhere.
Or, if you're going for wiki-formatting, you somehow need to crook your hands & fingers into weird {{double-curly braces}}. Seems more painful than air-quotes...
What the NoSQL "movement" is doing is questioning some basic axioms of architecture and operations that may no longer hold in the modern era. There are many aspects to data, how it is used, how it should be stored & accessed, and what is or it not important within the set of available data. The RDBMS cabal set a particular set of standards (ACID) that were a good match for a lot of the early "big data" systems and the computing infrastructure of the time, but times change. As more people are bringing new data sets, new uses and access patterns for this data, and the computing infrastructure is changing from large servers to swarms of small systems the options for storing and accessing this data are also changing. I don't know many in the NoSQL crowd who are actually opposed to a RDBMS as a solution, but it is not necessarily the first choice for any problem; most of the people in this group seem to start by considering the data and the application and then picking and choosing the characteristics of the data system that will be used to meet these needs. The massive and highly distributed systems get a lot of attention (and they are almost always NoSQL systems) but that does not mean that alternative data systems do not have a place up and down the IT stack, nor does it mean that a RDBMS is not a good option for some situations.
The real crux of the issue isn't that SQL won't scale, it's that it won't scale efficiently or effectively. SQL scales, but you need expensive, exotic hardware (InfiniBand switches, SAN storage) that requires niche engineering skills just to get up and going. By the time a startup-type company purchases all of this hardware and has figured out how to use it, the window of opportunity will have closed. In addition, you're then pretty much locked into support from the vendor for performance issues. With solutions like Cassandra, you've got the source and can solve your own problems, which, to a company rich in software engineering talent, is exactly what they want.

Even if you look past all that, RAC and ASE will run into limits as they're still relational, which is not a truly scalable approach to data modeling. There are real limits to their scalability as well. Oracle RAC will only scale to 100 nodes. That's a lot of dough for a 100 node limit.

So there it is. SQL doesn't scale (effectively or efficiently).
Exactly. Nowhere am I saying that Fog Creek is worse than J. Random Big-Box Corporation. I'm just saying that, based on one anecdote during 2008, reports of it being markedly better seem to be overstated.
This makes me wonder -- what is the root source of Earth's energy? The sun? Chemical reactions?

(My research says that tectonic motion is caused because the Earth's core/mantle is hot. OK, but how did it get hot? Is it cooling off? What happens when there's no heat left?)
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You might like this quote, which is in a similar vein:

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind
too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who
reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.

-- Albert Einstein
Well, "reliability" can be sliced in a couple of different ways since that term can cover both the A & P in the CAP options and it can also mean the elimination of single points of failure and an architecture that can degrade gracefully when components fail. Some NoSQL systems let you select the mix of consistency and reliability you need at a rather fine-grained level -- one thing that does distinguish these systems from the traditional RDBMS is that you are almost never in an all or nothing situation regarding any particular part of the data space unless you explicitly want to create that choice to enable other options.
Feedback is not impossible. I don't know where this lawsuit paranoia is coming from. If someone is a decent programmer and has a good resume, he's not going to launch a frivolous lawsuit about not getting hired. I wanted to know so I could be more successful in future applications; that's all. I wanted to move on. Suing someone would accomplish the exact opposite.

I'd just been laid off and my ex-boss was a friend of Joel's, which is why I said it was unprofessional not to inform me of the reason; declining to do so casts aspersion onto my ex-boss (although I checked my own references and he wasn't saying anything negative).
NoSQL gets scalability by giving up a huge feature set, and, yes, cross-object consistency. I question the lower reliability argument though. Dynamo, one of the original NoSQLs, allows each instance to specify how reliable they want writes to be. Most of the NoSQLs allow you to tune the reliability factor, just as MySQL and PostgreSQL allow you to do.
When you find out the day is shortened by milliseconds you really have to think was all that work finding out how much time the day was shortened worth it.
Well, you've got a few options. Ruby and Python can both meet that get-repetitive-shit-done criterion, but you have to do a little extra work in order to get them install on Windows last I checked (although Ruby offers a one-click installer, which you can download via http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ ). Your other option would be to google "windows batch file", which is basically Windows' native way to write scripts.

You may have other options, and hopefully someone can correct my misconceptions and fill in the gaps where I didn't mention a good option.

In any case: Ruby (and Python too, as it turns out: http://www.python.org/download/windows/ ) offer installers for Windows and can get repetitive shit done, and are pretty fun to write, so I'd recommend you take a look at either language. I use Python myself.
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"Good" DBAs share digs with santa and the tooth fairy, but competent and opinionated DBAs are not as hard to find as you might think. Just whisper 'NoSQL' and they seem to crawl out of the woodwork :)
Python.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
But do people seriously think that computers are a guy thing nowadays?

Probably not, but they definitely think that coding/engineering is a guy thing.

I agree though that this design does not scream "computer engineer" at all. Perhaps it would have been better if they had her putting a computer together or something like that... not sure if that would work well for a toy though.
The moderate and diet sliding scales aren't totally clear to me. But, I really, really like the "I ate something" / "I did something" buttons.

I'd also make it more clear that you can edit the weight, goal weight, and age.

The question marks with text are helpful. But, ideally, no text explanation would be necessary.

Anyway, interesting app!
An example...

Gross receipts: $1bn.
Invoices paid: $300m.

Increase in account credit with vendors: $1.2bn.

Cash flow: +$700m. (Positive cash flow.)
Net profit: -$500m.

Cash flow accounting comparisons are generally only an appropriate measure when expenses generally relate to the period in question OR when expenses stay the same from period to period. Both of those seem to be pretty questionable assumptions wrt a growing technology company.
I guess you've never tried PDF-XChange or Sumatra PDF, then.
Not sure where you are getting your information from, but Cassandra is one of the easiest setups I've used. It couldn't be simpler. I do not have experience with MongoDB though.
Poll: Ask female HN'ers how hostile do you find people on the internet?
From all the recent press with female bloggers not doing blogs because of jerks online I was wondering how females actually feel about people on the internet?
Very hostile
Somewhat Hostile
Indifferent
Somewhat friendly
Hey that's what this harvard alum told me too.
Might this might be a result of the type of people you spend time with?

If I think about college, I would also have said that the best programmers I know are the ones who I frequently see out doing other stuff. However, I didn't spend that much time with the more introverted people (not being able to relate to them as well) so its hard to say if they were better or worse.
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Yes, but there's a big difference between a 400MB/sec. supported storage array for < $10K, and a garage built "roll your own" storage array that can do 800MB/sec. for half the price.

The main difference is that, even in startup companies, you have a supported solution and can call someone at 2 am when your storage dies and expect to find replacement parts and support. Good luck trying to drive to Fry's and buy replacement hard drives for a server that was built 2 years ago by someone that no longer works there.
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Let's face it- sometimes, no matter how much you prepare, anticipate and execute- things can go terribly wrong in your start-up. It's happened in varying degrees to every entrepreneur for sure. Sometimes though, you get hit by an absolutely devastating blow that comes out of nowhere. It's the start-up equivalent of a ten on the Richter Scale and it's ain't pretty.
Name ten startups that are awesome from NYC off the top of your head. Ten with products you use at least once a week? I live in NYC, and am happy to see things growing, but NYC is not 'on fire.'
If I'm not mistaken, Gladwell uses the term "Expert" when referring to specific skills. I like to think of Entrepreneurship as a conglomerate of opportunity and many skills. Perhaps if a startup was solely dependent on a single(ish) skill like Web Application Development then this would be more applicable but that's obviously not the case.

I agree with persistence but it seems to me that versatility, self awareness and team Chemistry would be more beneficial that attempting to "become an expert"
The author conflates usage in situations where conclusions are certain ("It turns out Fermat's Last Theorem is false." * ) with ones that merely express the author's opinion or conclusion: "After a life long quest for the perfect smoked meat, it turns out I hate pastrami." In the latter case the author is only telling you the conclusion he's reached, not attempting to convince you of its truth.

* Yes, this sentence is false.
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The date Apple received the patent is very different from when they filed the patent, or even when they first came up with the idea.

So in spite of the fact that it's a bit absurd, it is inaccurate to claim that anyone who had a lock screen more than a month old constitutes prior art.
Well, replace "parallel databases" with your favorite term for the parallel databases that fall outside NoSQL (VoltDB, Exadata, shared MySQL, etc). My point being that the alleged need for high-speed interconnects is orthogonal to SQL vs. NoSQL.
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There is no need to make an internal encoding comply with utf8 or any standardized encoding since it is internal. The point is that the existing solution simply doesn't work out well.

I personally won't upgrade to 1.9 if they don't fix that. Even with simple code snippets the ruby 1.9 solution has caused too much pain to even consider it as an eligible option. I personally rather switch to groovy or python than ruby 1.9. The way Ruby 1.9 handles encodings sucks. Period.

BTW the author has written on that subject several times and he nows it quite well.
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NoSQL v. SQL is the worst holy war ever.
If throughput and transaction/analysis speed is a requirement then AWS is not the answer -- anyone who suggests otherwise has never used it for anything larger than a toy dataset. I am currently migrating a large data analysis system (20+ TB running over about 500 EC2 hadoop workers) to a dedicated cluster because the internal EC2 latency reached a tipping point in our analysis runs. If you have the dough to spend on a big vertical system you can spend half as much on a dedicated cluster running a NoSQL solution and probably meet the required spec. The original article was comparing a Porsche Cayenne to a bicycle; the bicycle works for some problems and in certain cases it (or a fleet of them) can solve the problem better, but it was a dishonest strawman comparison for the subject at hand.
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> CAP still allows a SQL database that is scalable, consistent, and available

Name one please. It seems you are either fundamentally mistaken about what CAP implies or are constraining the "solution" to a clustered system that is effectively a single RDBMS hiding behind lots of tightly-coupled components.
That was about copyright though, this is about patents.
There is truth in comedy. Reading this convinced me to take a nap after working for 36 hours straight. I think it has merit.
I have to disagree.

With my experience, the way I first got into programming was when a friend shows me visual basic many years ago when i was 12. The idea that I could actually "paint" my own application by dragging and dropping buttons, text-fields/etc fascinated me to no end.

It was this fascination of being able to create my own applications that got me stuck into it all. It was never a problem that needed solving.
The issue is that Apple hasn't patented multitouch; they've patented heuristic algorithms to determine gestures based on multitouch input (the '949 patent'). That's why all Android phones (and the Palm Pre) shipped with multitouch-capable screens, but no multitouch-capable software (until the recent Nexus One update).
I understand the point of rewarding developers... but I think they could have gotten more out if it if they had the exact same reqs but for the iphone... meaning they were recruiting successful iphone devs to develop for android by offering a free android phone.

I have an iphone and have some iphone apps in the app store. If I also had an android phone, I would make apps for android. I am sure a lot of developers feel similarly... this would have been a good way to increase the size/quality of their app store.
Well, less "sued into oblivion" and more "sued for great profit".
OK Go and a bunch of Syyn Labs peeps will be at a party on Friday, March 5 at LACMA. It's a bit spendy ($160 for LACMA membership + "muse" status + ticket price, plus god-knows-what for parking and cash bar), but it looks awesome enough that I'm tempted to pull the trigger. Maybe I'll see you there. :-)
Oh, I see what you're saying. Yes, the interconnect is orthogonal (although you could argue that strong consistency requires more complex protocols like 2PC so interconnect latency becomes critical).
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