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> It's easy to diregard IP when you don't own any, but if IP didn't exist the big, bad, evil corporations could steal ideas from people with no recourse.

In practice, they already can, because enforcement is ruinously expensive for individuals. The big, bad, evil corporations abuse IP to shut down individuals and smaller companies. Or just things they don't like competing with them. Witness Samsung and Apple.

> Sure, IP can be abused, but like the majority of laws, was created with good intentions.

A lot of things start with good intentions. However, we have to concern ourselves with results rather than intents.
I would consider myself a China skeptic but it definitely doesn't help anyone to blanket say the US/West is better or China is inferior. China does certain things extremely well at scale and I have little doubt that some of the most important companies of the next decades will be fully Chinese.

There are other nuances that may give China different disadvantages - some which may turn out to be ultimately meaningless.

What are the longer term consequences of Chinese wanting to leave China vs people of all countries trying to get to the US/West?

What are the consequences of China's demographic problems, structural debt, potential ethnic strife, other geo-political problem? Will this inhibit long term capital creation in China?

Japan's growth miracle put it at the front of global innovation for a while, but it came to an end. For a while Americans were really concerned about Japan taking over the world. It is possible that the incredible things China does will, at the end of the day, help them tolerate some of the negatives yet fail to thrive. What 2040+ looks like I think no one can predict, because much of the outcome will be divided between central government choices and random external global events.
> a startup which is not yet profitable and burning investors money you should assume that the company is failing

If a startup doesn't have a period where it is "not yet profitable and burning investors money", then it didn't need investors in the first place. The whole point of venture capital is to enable the existence of "convex" business models that require a period of revenue-less work before anything happens.
I was able to rebuild a week's worth of Redux work in MobX within a day. And that's having never used it before.

What's crazy is how MobX is able to update React child components without updating the parent first. It knows which properties are accessed in each component, and ensures only the ones that rely on the changed data are updated.

I'd say give it a shot the next time you have a component with internal state. Not having to worry about the reducer or how the component gets updated is refreshing.
Well according to google only 1% used chrome apps on those other platforms.

I imagine they are thinking that developers will make quick and dirty Android ports to Chrome OS like they did with tablets.
Of course a company will buy its shares if it sees it irrationally going down.

Well maybe if they have a load of extra cash laying around. If they're in the midst of a big recall while trying to keep the rest of the business going, that may not be the case.
No mention of the "Detroit Locker", IMHO one of the more clever automatic-locking differential designs --- it uses a pair of dog clutches which are normally engaged, one for each side, and the wheel that spins faster is allowed to. It's self-contained and requires no additional controls, just like a regular differential. I think the only reasons why they didn't become more popular are due to their cost and the noise they make --- a very noticeable clunking on tight turns as the outer wheel tries to go faster and unlocks, then locks again as the vehicle straightens out.

http://www.eaton.com/Eaton/ProductsServices/Vehicle/Differen...

Having driven a "4WD" with all three differentials of this type, I now wonder if it would be classified as 4WD or AWD.
I was in a very similar position to you about 2 years ago. I was running a company on my own doing great with revenue and profit. Currently, I have a 6 person company.

The way I ended up expanding was first starting to work with one other really great person. I ended up needing a professional sales side to the company and Lizzie came in and did that. She was also better and more experienced than me at hiring and managing others, so luckily, she was able to hire the person that is now my lead programer as a second critical hire.

Then we hired on two more developers.

During this time, the people I had that were "helping me with my chores" originally did more and more of that and began helping with other random areas of the business, and they became full-time employees.

At some point, one of our developers left.

So now it is me, Lizzie, our lead developer, a jr developer and two assistants who help with sales and chores.

I love it so much more than being on my own. It wouldn't even be necessary for me to program anymore, but I do when I want something done or it just makes sense for me to do it or I'm just trying to make the business better. My point is that my lead developer is so good, I can trust him to do a great job on any idea I have. It took a while to get to that point, but now that it's happening, it's awesome.

Lizzie now does so much on the business end (and has taken over most of my emailing) that I have freed up a ton of my time.

I now get to look at the bigger picture, figure out how to expand the business, manage people and have fun.

I think by far my favorite part about all this, is that now all I have to do is have an idea and I know that I have a team behind me that can make that idea happen. Also, I can go on vacation.

It seems to me that if you are making $2M, then a couple of really good employees at $125,000 should be able to help you bring in more money than they will cost.

I hope my story helps you. I think it worked out really well for me. I didn't really have a plan, I just got lucky in many ways, but I was also always paying attention and I trusted myself to know when someone was right to work with and when someone was not right to work with. In general, if I had to give advice from my personal experience, it would be to hire the best people you can. Make sure they are remarkable. And get rid of people that you have any issues with or aren't that good.
there's a large number of small managed services firms doing good business pulling people out of AWS who can't actually afford it.
What book sticked with you for the longest time?
Peopleware. This book questions open office layouts and widely accepted norms for productivity using data. This book is always on my mind.

What book made a lasting impact on the way you view the world?
Thinking, fast and slow. A book that made me aware of all the biases that we have as we make decisions.

What is your favorite fiction book?
Ender's game. It's a cult book. What can I say...
Military generals and ops people can have healthy cynicism about the probability of any new technology being bug-free.
SpaceX is really setting itself up for interstellar travel. I am really proud of Elon Musk and SpaceX in general.
The video was eye-opening for me to how sophisticated imagery and image tracking has become from my little explorations into neural nets, openCV and others.

One book I was recently browsing "Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems" published in 2008, and this video, make me think the combination of predictive analytics and their toolset, along with surveillance will lead to large neural nets sifting through traffic, pedestrian and vehicular live and historical footage, trying to forecast a crime or public disturbance, and dispatch prophylactic police personnel.

Minority Report without the time-traveling mentats!

I am sure every police department would like this, if they don't already have it. PSS, Ross McNutt's company sells the tech to domestic and international buyers.

I will not even address the privacy concerns, since they are so ubiquitous and immediate in today's consciousness.
Portland area.
youtube.com/watch?v=HlUe0TUHOIc

At about 7 minutes in he is chatting about it but all is a good watch - could only find the YT link sorry
The small town Senior SE in Tenesee for Infosys is making ~$58K, and has to worry about paying back the loan he took out to come to the States.
Searching scihub from Brazil at google.com.br the correct website is first result (with page title and decription in russian - i guess); second result is the .org; third wikipedia in portuguese; fourth a Facebook page.
I found this help explain to others how programming work. http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
From what I remember when I had to replace the transfer case a year after I bought it (it was a 1996 that I bought in 2006 and the previous owner abused it), it was more or less a "traditional" Jeep 4WD setup but depended on the transfer case to keep the front and rear axles independent until slippage was detected. I think it was pretty much fully mechanical, except for the auto locking front hubs. I believe Jeep's marketing term for it was Select Trac or something like that.

I think the issue was with the auto locking hubs; when it malfunctioned it would lock the front hubs together and in turn the transfer case would lock the front and rear diffs together, causing the wheel hop. This defect probably contributed to the death of the original transfer case, now that I think about it.
Gravity isn't an energy or a source of energy. It's more like a spring or magnet than sunlight or heat. Gravitational forces can be used to store energy, similar to compressing a spring. Bill Gates talks about this principle toward the end of an interview about his energy investments[1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH5Lgv-4te8
That makes no sense to me. Unless you are driving in straight lines, the 4 wheels will always be turning at different rates (and consequently, the front and back axles will be rotating at different rates).
Thanks for chiming in. How do you keep their motivation going especially for a talented developer? Don't they just want to leave a small startup and want to work for biggies out there?
This, to me, is not dissimilar from the argument HN had over copyrighting law a little while back.
To your first point: yeah, some discomfort around it is valid, but I see it as a non-issue. Informally/philosophically, because a model's job is to capture everything a first-order theory can see about your object of study - so it's fine for (say) an "actually" countable set to model the reals, and not be up to the task of "actually being" the reals. Formally, you differentiate between internal and external statements and don't expect them to be the same (a rigorous version of my pretentious use of scare quotes above :).
Amazing he did all these when jetting between conferences.

Can I quote you as a reference when arguing on the Internet that our OS concepts do not owe anything to Djikstra, who was only jetting between conferences? It sounds like you are pretty sure.
They are trying to fake it till they make it. It's a strategy in itself.
All the bootstrapcdn.com references are blocked, messing up the font icons.
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Yeah, I am weary of the slobby fat guy with bad manners being perceived as 'lazy' - those guys can be just as much the opposite of that as any other.

I agree with most of what you say, but I disagree that there isn't such a thing as the 'average person', or rather, we are animals, somewhat predictable, not that unique.
The recipe? It's not easy. It's all easier said than done.

But you already built a two-million-dollar-a-year business. Did you expect this to get easier? :)

It's probably not too hard to find someone who is better than you at server administration, and it may not be too difficult finding someone who is passionate about what you do. Finding someone who fits both categories is what makes it difficult.

There's a lot you can do to start looking. Define the job, all the responsibilities, technical requirements, etc. Post ads or fish around in your network. Ask who knows smart people. Make sure you're clear about what you do and that you're looking for someone with an interest in it.

It is possible to find someone who is the kind of geek who likes to get paid to solve the technical problems and will do a great job without caring about your mission - it's up to you whether or not that's an acceptable hire at this stage. (IMO it's usually not a good idea with the first few employees, but once you have more, it's okay as long as they're still a culture fit in other ways.)

If you find someone who is passionate and hungry but doesn't have all the skills, this is potentially a very good hire. Hire and train them, and eventually they'll get better than you at their area of expertise.

Most technical people won't have the EXACT experience you're looking for, so you have to think about gauging them by their potential to learn - look at past projects, ask questions that test their curiosity and ability to explain things, try explaining a new idea to them and see how quickly they pick it up and run with it.

This is one of my favorite parts of building a startup. I just quit my job to start one and I'm not at the phase of hiring yet (still doing everything myself, nothing to release yet), but I'm REALLY looking forward to it, assuming things go well enough to get there.
Same story, as told by Radiolab last year:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
Vice did a fun piece on this family a few years back that - on location - captures the environment they survived in ->

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
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You don't need to defend yourself, you're earlier post including Imdb links were sufficient. Chomsky is a celebrity scientist. Pretty much everyone who knows anything about him knows that.
They can write covered calls
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> whenever your load decreases for even a minute or two, knowing you can just scale right back up.

Doesn't AWS still charge by the hour ... so if you were spinning instances up and down based on minute-to-minute load you would be overpaying for vs just maintaining a steady baseline.

If you turn an instance off you need to be pretty confident it will stay off for at least an hour.
Well, right now, my whole company (plus wives and girlfriends) and I are on our way to burning man.

We also live in Aspen, and my lead programer is a huge skier, so it is a unique and fun opportunity for him to ski and live in Aspen.

Also, I pay them competitively and give them a profit share.

We have a lot of fun and have a lot of fun at work trying to grow the business too, because it's good for everyone.
> Tech giants, including Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM and Microsoft also have their eye on the industrial internet market, as do a bevy of start-ups.

The article doesn't mention any startups. Any ideas what startups could be potential disruptors?
There's nothing wrong with someone saying 'I'm the architect' - if that's what they really are. That said, it might be a power thing.

Now - there's more wrong in saying 'I'm an architect' - because architect really is not a profession, really. I suppose you could kind of get away with saying that if you have a lot of experience, and have been in the role of architect for some time, but it's a difficult thing to say and strains credibility if you were to put it on a resume.
That has also been my observation. However, where the US stands out alone for me in the developed world, is that tipping hasn't just become common in a few isolated situations - like getting something served at the table or getting ones' room cleaned. I can somewhat understand those because you as a customer can judge best how labour intensive / stressful your particular case has been for a low paid worker. But in the US it's everywhere. Why the hell do I have to tip a hairdresser? A taxi driver? A gas station serviceman? They have prices based on workload and materials anyway, so please, why do I have to figure out your correct salary for this interaction based on some arcane percentage system myself? This, at the end, is just what I call unprofessional. If you want to see how professional the service industry can get - as others have pointed out - just visit Japan.
Why would they be working on the wrong thing in the first place? Sounds like bad management, poor communication.
Does anyone have links to information on the technology involved?
Would have been a better title if it named the material instead of making it sound like a new concept.

Memory metal's been around since 1949: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape-memory_alloy
This is the company: http://www.pss-1.com/

They fly a modified Cessna for hours on end and use a stitched imaging system to form a massive panoramic video, basically.
You can connect a Thunderbolt-out to HDMI in using mini-DP to HDMI, but not the other way around. There are fairly expensive HDMI to mini-DP adapters, but Thunderbolt isn't mini-DP, and requires a Thunderbolt signal.
Whenever he talked about 'wages' or anything like that, it's de-facto talking about GDP. All economic value in an economic zone = GDP. (roughly).

i.e. 'Cities have higher wages' etc. Well, the statement is false depending on how you value wages via their purchasing power of things like 'silence' and 'clean air'.
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Correct, weev is the progenitor of this idea.
Think about what specific aspects of the business generate profits and where your costs lie. To rapidly expand, you'll want a multiplier that greatly increases profits or drastically cuts costs.

As a thought exercise, think about what you'd need to do to double or triple your sales. A bigger marketing budget? Institutional clients? More staff? Content? The details will depend on the specific nature of your business. Once you have one or more scenarios laid out, work backwards and figure out what's required to get there. The result will give you a good idea of what investments to make to grow your business.
Hugely impressed by what you're doing. Congratulations! If I were you, I'd start by hiring an assistant to help me deal with distractions. Maybe even a junior accountant / clerk to help manage payments, bills and some basic finances. So I could focus more on the core-business.
I was searching for "sci-hub". For some reason it never crossed my mind to search for "scihub" as I had always seen it spelled with the hyphen...
Wadwha is not denigrating China's potential or the top 1% of their engineers (like those hired by Baidu). His point is that the average BS in engineering from China is significantly inferior to the average BS in engineering from a developed country. This has been widely reported by others, and it reflects and presages continuing problems inherent in the ability of China's central planning approach (quantity >> quality) in building a future economy that can compete after its wage advantages fade and its (real) GDP slows to resemble that of other mature / developed economies.

The article's main point is valid. When you automate manufacturing, you no longer compete on wages. Advantage devolves to cost of raw materials, power, and transportation. No single nation can win that game, not even if China's ruling party spends a trillion yuan building out their infrastructure. An automated factory can be built anywhere and operated there at the same cost as anywhere else. The final remaining advantage then is location. Thus future manufacturing will migrate and become increasingly local, placed as close to the consumer as possible. Inevitably, any attempt to evolve China's manufacturing by employing automation is destined to end in the same commodification that automation always produces.
but each renewal requiring filing with the Library of Congress and a substantial fee.

I believe the idea was to make the fee increase exponentially too.
Here are a few tips that will help you.

1st do not hire anyone unless you are 100% sure you can define a full time position for them. Outsource as much as you can until you feel it's cheaper to bring some one in house than to hire a consultant. $2 million seems like a lot but it's amazing how fast that gets spent once you get others involved.

2nd spend the time to define what you want your business to look like in five years. Define every year and set goals on how to get there.

Create a business plan. This will force you to look at your business more broadly. There are plenty of books that will show you how to start. A good question that will be answered is whether your business can grow or if it's just a small niche.

Educate yourself, if you don't, others will be happy to tell you what to do and how to spend your money. But don't expect them to have your best interest in mind.

Your 1st goal as a business owner is to make yourself obsolete. You can be an employee but the company can not be dependent on you. Once you do that then you can guide the company's future. Delegating will be extremely hard but if you hire right then there should not be any question as to whether it's possible.

Going from 1 person to many is a great change. Your goal is to get everyone to work towards the same goal. Make sure everyone knows what that is. Communicate, communicate and make sure you communicate. Getting your vision from your head to someone else's is hard.

Lastly, don't be in a hurry to spend money. It's funny how it works. If you can define a viable business then people will be happy to give you money to keep it going. There's the other side too. Don't be cheap. Cheapness can do more harm than good. It's a balance. You'll have to find it.

Good luck!
Thank you for the offer! I sent you an e-mail (the one on your website). Not sure if you got it.
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AWS charge by the hour, as soon as you power up an instance you are charged a full hour.

If you start and stop one instance 60 time in an hour, you will be charged 60 hours.

So scaling down on a dime and scalling right back up is more expensive than doing nothing.
I'm actually trying to adapt some of the work in the network optimized datalog and other azure/msr nsdi papers to a related problem and or set of problems for one of my prjects at work. I'd love to chat some time. [im at a large Megacorp still piloting "cloud", and I'm involved in some efforts to build some open tools to make config and security stuff nicer/saner for large user bases ]
Hey Jeff, this EC2 thing sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, except that it seems to be just Linux. I'd like to get FreeBSD running on this instead... is there someone at Amazon I can talk to about making this happen?

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why use a dot com domain and dashes? There are so many new top level domain options now. What about dowork.club or procrast.stopper just anything other than .com and dashes in the domain! You might as well have a "the" in there too :)
Can mods change links to this?
I'm guessing that it doesn't cover a wide variety of topics

Your guess is spot-on. That's why the need to hire talented folks and seeking suggestions here.
Pension funds don't.
#10 struck me. I'm doing work for one guy that seems somewhat litigious and I'm afraid it might bring the startup down. There's no such thing as a solid contract with a bad person.
I really feel for pmarca
Why don't these people ever actually have a working site before announcing it to the world? Genuinely curious.