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I've had 2 experiences. The first was with an older entrepreneur who was also very technical. He handled most of the business work and his share of technical workload. He was open to letting me (and others) learn and take as much of the business work as we wanted to gain experience. I had known him for many years prior to doing this startup. Even though the startup eventually failed, it was a great experience.

Second one was with an with a entrepreneur who was technical enough to be dangerous. He had clear ideas on what our product could/should do but was completely hands off on how we implemented it. Again he was willing to let me into the business side if I choose to get involved in it. He had a much larger ownership percentage than I did, but he also brought about most of the business contacts and had a huge amount of domain knowledge (recognized expert in the field.) He also personally financed the company when there were cash flow issues. He had a personal line of credit to pay the bills that I did not have to worry about.

So in both my cases, there was a clear establishment of ownership and responsibilities. I think think the ownership and personal trust is the key. In both my cases I didn't have to worry about getting screwed over by either one. That is always a possibility, but it really pays to know who you are going into business with. The saying that it is like a marriage is very accurate. It is important to establish the value that each person brings to the table. At both startups, there was a large amount of work done 'at risk' that was converted into equity. I'd get that formula defined up front so that it is established. This helps ensure that your work has value in everyone eyes.
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The author isn't factoring in HOW the company writes software...it's not just about what language a company uses. That's a small piece of the puzzle.

What if the company uses an agile approach to development? Maybe they pair program. That would be a little tough for someone to participate in while telecommuting...sure, technically it can be accomplished but that's not really how pair programming is done.

But this broad brush used to paint companies that simply say they don't telecommute as "not getting it" is a little lame.
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No one explains it on the blog either. They all think I'm asking about P=NP.

Oh well, maybe this guy's life will change if P!=NP is proven, but the rest of us will carry on normally.
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This is an obvious one but important... make sure you have log rotation set up. I had an admin who was in a hurry when doing an install and forgot to setup log rotation on a heavily used piece of software which eventually lead to the hard drive filling up. There should have been a low space warning email sent, the log rotation was should have been set up but because someone was hurrying, neither happened.

Not really a black swan, but I've found the majority of errors come from people rushing and not remembering to do everything because of workload.

take away: Checklists are a very good thing to have.
In layman terms: The body requires ATP for power, it is the rawest energy base unit for your body and is produced from Carbohydrate.

Your body is a machine built for changing fat into carbohydrate and then into ATP.

If you give your body too much carbohydrate it takes what it needs and converts the rest into fat. The fat you eat is already fat, so it just stores that too because it has already taken the raw carbohydrate it needs.

If you reduce your carbohydrate intake and eat more protein and fat (read "red meat" but also chicken, pork, non root vegetables et cetera) then your body will stop being lazy and start doing what it did for thousands of years before we invented preservatives and microwaves and cocacola and take that fat and make it into carbohydrate.

If you give your body less carbohydrate then you are doing it a massive favour.

That said, everyone is as genetically different as they are similar, so what works for some people wont work for others. For instance, Doctors are currently researching a hormone that comes from your bowls that tells you that you need carbohydrates, like all hormones they can over produce and make you crave them even if you aren't hungry, and they are working on a blocker which will help the super obese and probably reduce the need for any gastric band surgery.
It's true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...

General rate is almost twice as high as well, so it's not bias. Scandinavians are also generally much happier, according to OECD: http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/05/world-happiest-places-lifes...
They have some truly bad failures where simple and cheap were not more reliable. Take a look at that torpedo test that went bad.
I wish this guy had proofread his article. The typos were distracting.
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That's not the point at all.

The strategic picture is this: if renting were so much better than buying fewer people would buy, and nobody would be dumb enough to buy and then rent the place. But obviously buying is better than renting because a lot of people choose to go and spend their money buying extra homes beyond the one they need and renting it.

I don't need to refer to google searches for my information, I have seen the landlord perspective 1st hand. I'm not surprised that most landlords see very little in the way of month to month cashflow profit. The renter pays in but you have to pay out a lot of other expenses (as mentioned).

But at the end you own the house and the renter doesn't. Basically if you have enough money to front for the down payment the house costs you little or nothing after that except time/hassle of dealing with your tenant. It probably doesn't actually put more money in your pocket each month, but neither would a bunch of stocks if you were reinvesting the returns.

So why tie yourself up in a single house instead of a bunch of stocks?

Leverage.If I have 40k and get a mortgage on a 200k and make a small return, at some point that is better than getting 40k of stocks and making hypothetically a bigger return.

Plus there are other intangiables. I can buy a shitty little house and spend a few weeks working on it and turn sweat equity into real equity, no matter how much you look at your stocks you haven't increased their value.

Of course there are negatives, the tenant can trash the place, you can go without tenants for a while, but overall it makes sense for a lot of people who have some free cash and a bit of extra time and want to have a side business.
You coulda said "well, what are you worth per hour? Because that outsourced worker actually costs that + $3/hr when you consider the detailed spec writing you'll have to do when there's not someone in your office who knows your company and your industry and you can just talk to".
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I don't think the USSR published the names, so whatever NATO called things became the de facto name for the rest of the world.
ethernet, arpanet, tcp/ip, the public telephone system... Is this what you mean?
I picked mine up used on craigslist for about $400.(If you are willing to wait for it you can get it cheaper) It has so far lasted longer than a "cheaper" staples chair that goes for 100-200 bucks and has no degradation in utility. I love it and I am kicking my self in the ass for not buying it sooner.

BTW... the price that they list on craigslist is usually an ideal price that they would like to get. You should be able to knock off 50-100 bucks off the price by haggling in person and be willing to walk away from a deal.
Alternatively, make sure that they are already buying it through an existing service. Now you need to make a better, easier to use product and price competitively. In a marketplace where you can harvest demand (IE: PPC) this is very effective. However, make sure that by pricing competitively you don't have a wide disconnect between acquisition costs and revenue.
I'm glad you asked, I couldn't figure it out either. I could see P = NP being a big deal, but I thought we'd all been kind of assuming P != NP
You can only verify that the software is doing what it is supposed to do by analyzing the resultant binary. And, analyzing the resultant binary can be done with or without the source code. In fact, many security researchers work exclusively on software (often Microsoft Windows) for which they will never be able to see the source code.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
A little late to the party, but I went through a bout with wrist/arm pain for over a year. I did physical therapy for more than 6 months, saw a doctor that said I needed to have surgery on my arms, neither helped (did not have surgery BTW). I then finally saw a myofascial specialist. She identified the cause of my pain from trigger points in my upper back and shoulders. After just one visit and a follow up visit a year later, I've been relatively pian free. She basically taught me how to address the trigger points my self using a tennis ball and 'The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook' http://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-Tr...

I'd definitely give this book a try since it clearly identifies which trigger points are causing the referred pain/numbness along with the ways to treat them.

Also if you are in the Chicago area, check out http://www.myopain.com/. Like I said, they were able to help me with only 2 visits.
That was my first thought but I checked suicide rates by country and they are not much different between Sweden, Canada and US.

Now I noticed that there's list of suicide rates by country and gender here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_rates

There seems to be higher rate of suicides in females in northern countries but they are much less likely to commit suicide than males.

Suicides in males seem to be correlated more with economic situation that latitude.

Assumption made in article that suicide rates are correlated with how much child care is provided by the state seems unfounded.
Just did. The brushes are fully pressure sensitive. Works nicely. My only problem is that the website isn't fast enough to catch quick strokes. (just misses them)
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On the contrary, it only takes about 4 weeks to try a new protein/fat/carb split. Try high protein and high fat, then fine tune whatever worked best for you.

I agree you can't detect subtle long term health problems this way, though.
Depends how noisy it was and would the USA/UK be able to sink it before the shooting starts.
Thanks for that note. I had no idea you could access pressure-sensitive events in Javascript, but it seems Wacom installs a browser plugin to expose a Javascript API (I assume that is how the app is getting it).

http://www.wacomeng.com/web/release_notes.htm
Depends on the school...
Do you agree that, in consumer web, "It’s not about good ideas or bad ideas: it’s about ideas that make people talk."?
Take a look at the challenger...

Accidents of enormous magnitude have happened because of cheapness, the Russians did not have a monopoly on that.
Interesting article, but populist, not quite what would you expect from an article on Harvard.

As another person mentioned, people are not horses. A horse is a slave, people always have options, in the most drastic case, crime. It pays well for those with the intelligence I think but the risks are astronomical compared to a 9 to five job.

I think our society if it wishes to become more prosperous needs to realise two things. First, everyone has the potential to be smart at least at the level of the skills needed for many of today's jobs. Thus if someone does not have the skills of this century but that of the last century it is almost everyone's fault, that is the society, the institutions, the culture, but him. Unless of course he or she is biologically mentally inferior in which case it is just and decent to pay taxes to support them.

The second thing is that the Industrial Revolution has moved on to china. It no longer is here. We produce things, but things like software development, biotech, nanotech, high physics, a lot of research, innovative and new products. Not, TVs and cars and that sort of thing. We are so prosperous because we keep making things better and inventing things and finding things and of course because of trade. Once so it is, the automated reproduction, after a certain time shifts to the Industrial Countries.

So, in this economy, you need to use your brain a lot and be taught so since early childhood. It is no good that someone can just fail in school or get Ds, because that someone will probably be tomorrow's unemployed, well conventionally unemployed. Events might be so lucky for him as to stumble upon creating a business, or not so lucky as to stumble upon crime.

I think therefore that if we want to move forward in the most prosperous way it is advisable to not leave anyone behind especially when we have the ability to take everyone with us.
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I'm thinking a half-hour chat over some of the most up-voted stories each week with whatever interesting guests I can rustle up (over Skype).
I don't really understand the downvotes here, he speaks the truth. Every rule has exceptions, especially the "get 10 signed customers" rule. If you are passionate about the idea, then you should be confident and let it ride.
If anything, the chair is worth it because of the warranty - imagine buying a 100$ POS chair every year and compare it with the cost of an Aeron over 12 years (at least twelve, but it's likely to last more).

However, the 12-year warranty is only for structural parts. If I recall correctly, the mesh had only a 5-year warranty.
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> Kids don't smoke because a camel in sunglasses tells them to. They smoke for the same reasons adults do, because it's an enjoyable activity that relieves anxiety and depression.

He totally lost me here.
> The problem is that many of these libraries are underfunded.

No kidding. People hate taxes, though.

Public libraries generally aren't going to be interested in stocking extremely niche-y technical books, anyway. (For that, try academic/research libraries.) Individual collections are stocked to meet the needs of the local patrons, and something that is 1) expensive, 2) only relevant for one person, and 3) likely to be obsolete in three years is not a high priority.
Oh. Well in that case: container for loose change; planter for seedlings; eco-friendly building material; jello mold; ant farm; combination pencil case/eraser; cheese grater.
I can't imagine how we ever survived as a race before we had cell phones and we had to be unreachable by hours(!!) at a time.
I hate to admit this, but I think you're right. My Dad was originally going to get me a new chair for my birthday, but when he showed me what he wanted to get me, I reluctantly declined and tried describing to him I don't him or myself to waste more money on another office chair that is only going to cause me more problems. I doubt he's gonna shuck $850, let alone $425, for an office chair, so I guess I'm gonna have some shopping around to do on craigslist. :|
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587983

Comments there already.

The duplication woud've been detected automatically if you'd trimmed the reader crap off the URL
except it seems to imply pulling data from interfaces other than the screen, so screen scraping is a subset of ui scraping. I still see this as distinct from scraping data from web pages, because that's basically an entity extraction problem which lies underneath the ui scraping problem.
I saw a guy solving a cube with only one hand, thus freeing the other hand to do the same thing, more or less.
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While not necessarily cheaper, the Haworth Zody chairs are an option (I love mine), as are several Steelcase chairs (e.g. the Leap). You might have better luck if you watch craigslist for all three, but remember that the fit of the actual chair is probably as important as the general design.
Although I do prefer the idea that all peer reviewers are transparent, anonymous peer review isn't the problem per se—it's really the lack of oversight of the anonymous reviewers by the journal editorial staff that's the real problem.

The editorial staff (which unfortunately is overworked and doesn't have the time to do this) needs to review the anonymous peer reviews and compare it to feedback from the original authors. If a particular anonymous peer reviewer that is consistently at odds, then they should no longer be used.

Of course, the above is much easier said than done.
I can't accept the "infinite memory" analogy. In a finite-memory system with GC, you still have to be aware of the rules that mark memory as alive or dead, so that you don't get leaks. A computer with infinite memory can leak as much as it wants. It's an "implementation detail" with vastly different end-user consequences.
I disagree here (obviously). Hiding behind agile (in any flavor) as a reason to not allow telecommuting is just that, hiding. I've known plenty of teams who have successfully pair programmed trans-continent.

It can be done. Maybe it is more challenging, but I don't think "agile" automatically rules it out.
The problem with that, as far as I see it, is that even the most brilliant people are wrong sometimes, especially if they're less experienced. If you can afford being wrong (maybe multiple times) and you really believe that you're right and everyone else is wrong, that's really cool, but otherwise it's a good idea to see what potential customers might think of your concepts.
Detailed, constructed memories? Clearly not.

However given the research on circumcision, I'd be curious to see whether babies who were born through natural childbirth have a different reaction to shots at 6 months than ones born in a planned Caesarean.
The solution is for government to cut its spending. But that brings up an interesting question. Has any government in history ever significantly cut its spending and reduced its taxes for the long-term benefit of its people, without a violent revolution?
P!=NP is a big deal in computational complexity as

1) It would solve one of the most important problems in computer science and mathematics
2) Understanding of the proof and the methods it uses could very likely lead to solving other problems in computational complexity.
3) Furthermore, the proof would shed light on why certain problems are hard. Such an understanding could lead to better heuristics to solve those problems.
In this case, the only insurance would have been to not undock. You can insure ships in Eve, but their fittings and cargo are never covered. The hapless victim undocked with extremely-valuable cargo in the equivalent of a piece of wet tissue paper, in terms of his ship's durability. In fact, most smart players wouldn't undock with 22 billion ISK in cargo, period...at least not in the game's busiest system, where scores of would-be griefers are waiting to nab people just like this guy.
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Aaronson doesn't stand to gain anything

Well, he does explain what he stands to gain in the post: a clear conscience that he's being fair to Deolalikar whilst not expending any hard work on his proof. He's buying the right to enjoy the rest of his vacation. I think it makes sense. It's easy to see how he would feel both obligated to respond to all the people asking about this and annoyed about it, and this is a clever way out of the dilemma.

Edit: "I wanted to stop having to answer emails about this. To me, that’s easily worth the possibility of paying $200k."
It's impossible for someone to have 10 years experience in html5 because the spec is recent, something you could have found out with a background check, which you you didn't, hence it's deducible you didn't used to do you homework after school.
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@sidww2: Thanks that explains it pretty well. I guess we don't really know why hard problems are hard right now. That sounds important to figure out.

BTW, why can't I respond to sidww2's comment? There's no reply button.
A (pre-determined and explicitly stated) fraction. Afterwards, however, shareholders are allowed to sell off their shares, provided they meet any lock-in/holding period requirements first. So, a founder might have to wait 6 months before he can unload his or her shares.
+1

I would add this caveat though. If I'm hiring a rookie and I wouldn't trust them to be able to get up to speed and be able to contribute without constant supervision, I would pass. Yes, when someone's just starting out that person-to-person interaction is great, but that can be accomplished with an open Skype/iChat video window and some desktop sharing.

hga hit the nail on the head though - I'm not talking about every hire, I'm talking about bringing someone onto a team that can "hit the ground running" with a "large and evolved codebase" or any other of the number of things tech companies/recruiters talk about.

I recently talked to one fairly established company out of Chicago who was looking for a new lead dev for a re-architect they were doing of their system because their in-house guy botched it. The second I said that moving wasn't high on my list of things to do they were gone. They wanted a "rock star", so long as they set the terms.
Money is the last thing to care about if you solve P ?= NP. Humanity will remember you in same league as Turing Pythagoras Gauss and others.
You can read all about Michael Fleischer and his "re-building" of Iraq by removing government subsidies to state owned businesses: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2004/jan/17/weekend7.w...

He's a neo-con of the highest order, so take his "Joe Biz" spiel with a grain of salt, he certainly has an agenda.
While this was a useful design criteria (make it dead-simple and dependable) it also led to a great deal of over-engineering of many components to provide the level of durability required. The question that is left unasked here is "why?" A part that is twice as large as it needs to be will be dependable and you can create masterfully simplistic designs with them, but it will have more limited capabilities for a given weight/mass. The reasons were two-fold: Soviet manufacturing was not up to the task of delivering consistent quality near the bleeding edge of materials science, and Soviet troops were mostly conscripts who would horribly abuse equipment through poor training and lack of education.

From WWII through the late 70s this strategy served the USSR quite well, but by the 80s their "cheap and simple" approach was leaving them further and further behind. At the low-end of the performance and design spectrum this left them with some very nice tools, but the high-end was owned by the west and in the early to mid 80s an inflection point seems to have been passed where high-end units could completely dominate a particular battlefield.
Better yet, Canada has a balanced budget. The US situation gets even worse when you add in unfunded future liabilities each year.