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> His career ended when she made the accusation.

That doesn't seem to me to be true. DFJ carried out some kind of investigation, as the article mentions. I don't agree with your assertion that any evidence they found would have been leaked by now (or would necessarily ever be leaked). And I can't believe that DFJ's investigation into such an important person in their organization would have been cursory, nor that they would fire him without substantial cause.

We don't know what the investigation found, and we may never know. That doesn't mean there wasn't anything.
This is two separate issues.

1. Hiring people that are different than you. As others commented, there are many reasons to want a job. If it is just money, that's ok, but perhaps not what is best in a startup. Vision, opportunity to learn, team, personal connection, these are all other great reasons to work for a small company.

2. Whether this company and position is correct for you. You may be a great technical co-founder but a crappy VP of engineering. You may not be happy managing or building a team. If you have given it a good try (3-12 months) then I'd try to find someone else (in consultation with your co-founder, of course).
You don't need to look much further than the story of Google. Search was thought to be a "solved problem" and many at the time thought that there was zero money in search. Plus it was an incredibly saturated market with existing providers.

If you took the finances first approach, you would have missed Google.

Another good one is AirBnB. Staying in other people's homes was a pretty ridiculous idea at the time. Who would want to stay in a stranger's home? How does a company like that make any money? It's more obvious today but that capital had to be invested in order to open up the market for AirBnB to come in underneath the hotels and cement itself.

If you took the finances first approach, you would have missed AirBnB.

Yes, my examples are cherry-picked (I know someone is going to bring this up). But you asked for examples and here they are :)
The latest version of iOS for the iPhone 5 is certainly 10. 11 dropped support for 32-bit phones, and the iPhone 5, along with the 5c, were the last 32-bit iPhones.
M8s: A toolkit for ephemeral environments
InfoQ looks like they just recorded your typical conference presentation. Most of the videos I'm seeing are 2x the length I'm talking about, and are half vendor pitch.

Destroy all software is closer, but is kind of like one guy. Great for him! And for me on my flight here in a few minutes. But what I envision is more like training speakers to be concise and engaging yet informative. Kinda like how an editor helps a writer cut out things to make a better novel, but for tech talks. A tall order, I know.
I wasn't trying to make a normative statement (should vs. shouldn't), just an indicative one.
Dangerous?

What's the worse that could happen?
A number of their examples are toe sided market places where rapid expansion can create a competitive advantage. Uber even with all their funding still had to battle local clones that emerged especially internationally.

Uber is perhaps a quantum leap in that many people can now work on demand and make money off one of their existing assets (also like Airbnb).
DeepMind developed a number of core research innovations in deep learning that I'd consider quantum leaps, prior to their acquisition by Google. ie: https://deepmind.com/research/publications/neural-turing-mac...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Degree requirements are the last bastion of socially acceptable racism.
I love FreeOTP because you can then use adb to grab a backup to restore to a new phone.
Aside from money, what do you get from work?

- A concrete sense of accomplishment?
- A medium through which to grow as a developer / leader / person?
- Obligation / duty to a worthy cause?
- Hanging out with people you like?
- Recognition from people you respect?
- A sense of your own value in society?
- Accountability and structure?
- A stepping stone to some future goal?

It sounds like you might be lacking some of these, and so would have trouble passing that on to employees. A mercenary culture seeps in.

The first person I'd turn to is your cofounder. How does he see it, what are his expectations, is this something that he can take off your plate, etc.

After that, I'd schedule 1-on-1s with your remote employees - in person if you're close, video otherwise. What are their personal and professional goals? How can you position working for you as being directly in line with those?
Small business owner. Less than 7 figures of revenue.
How does PUBG compare to Fortnite (the free to play epic games pubg clone). I really enjoy competitive games (csgo, league, etc.) but I did not enjoy Fortnite at all.
Maybe frame it in a positive way. Remove the stigma of going into the trades and becoming a skilled "blue collar" craftsman.
> It pops up a http authentication box for me.

Might be referral-based. Try searching the title and going from the abstract.

> You can only view 3 free items every 14 days, wouldn't call that exactly freely available.

There's no verification of .edu addresses or anything, so you can make as many as you need. I wouldn't call that exactly paywalled either.
It does, this worked for me some time back-

adb backup '-f /tmp/freeotp.ab org.fedorahosted.freeotp'

(non-rooted Nexus 5X)
You lose more energy while exercising than while sedentary.
Well, yes, you can run your own server to provide yourself a serverless platform, but it kind of defeats the purpose... Since then you end up having to maintain your server anyway.

I suppose there may be a point to it if the serverless platform is extremely stable and never has any security issues or other things to update.
It's not just exposition, it's rhetoric. Self-help books take a lot of words because they're exhorting you to an ideology, not just explaining things.
I have my doubts they will ever deliver anything. More likely they have sucked up a lot of investment other companies would have put to better use.
Improve the quality of average public high schools so that a high school diploma is a guarantee of basic literacy, science knowledge, basic schools, etc.
Isn't Germany, one of the more booming economies of Europe, a place that promotes the trades and provides educational tracks for interested students to easily get into apprenticeship programs? And where there isn't stigma against entering such a field?
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And they still have no idea how to be a sustainable company.
I also like Litecoin a lot as an speculation/investment. It has very high transaction volumes relative to the market cap. So people are actually transacting with it instead of hodling.
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Ooh, I got an even better idea - have it cut a few extra seconds whenever you eat a bunch of unhealthy food, and add a few when you take the stairs instead of the elevator or whatever.

Hook it up to a blood pressure/heart rate/glucose monitor to automate a lot of that...ha, talk about a product that nobody would buy!
It's great. I highly recommend it.
Offshoring Development – A Cautionary Tale
Split format (ymd/hms) doesn’t feel as fatal to me as e.g. 1 167 607 224 seconds remaining, where each week eats 0,05% and each year is ~ 31 557 000. It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.
I think this is why people recommend starting early and having a 40 year window.

I’m considerate of the fact that many have student loans, etc. and this isn’t feasible.

A blogger Mr. Money Moustche pushes hard on having a high savings rate compared to the norm.
Studies like this are trash because they imply causation. It doesn't matter what you control for, there can be an infinite number of factors causing usage of marijuana to be correlated with lower IQ scores.
Or host it somewhere else like imgur.
Joe Lonsdale?
1. Ability to passively decrypt network activity (KRACK).

2. Ability to throw a fully persistent implant onto the device (via Wi-Fi exploit + pivot to AP kernel exploit)
Then manufacturers should fix that problem. The reason people don't like security updates, is that they are tied to feature updates. Most people don't like the new feature updates, and would happily take just the security updates. If users were given that option, I'm betting that a lot of the push-back to updates would drop fast.
I would say the automatic transfer switch should be configured conservatively and go to backup power at the first hint of instability. If irregular power is the usual cause of downtime then I would expect the ATS to cope with those conditions, or it gets replaced with one that will.

Good point about the lack of variability. Not sure if the generators would take kindly to suddenly switching out a 1 mw dummy load to free capacity for real load.

On the other hand, it's not like these engines have fixed RPM throttles, and they should be able to handle a wide range of loads, albeit not at peak efficiency. Something doesn't fully make sense about that story. Maybe the generators were sized for their ultimate planned capacity and thus way too much for their deployment at the time.
>I know that tobacco advertising on billboards is illegal, and marijuana ought to be held to the same standard.

Regulation in California tends to treat weed more like alcohol than tobacco. It's not seen as physically addictive like cigarettes. If you're against advertising for it then you should equally oppose beer commercials.
I remember my AP Calculus exam. We were allowed graphing calculators. So I wrote a basic program that gave all the formulas, notes and tips we could come up with in a stupid version of less. Totally legal, we were allowed calculators with whatever programs we wanted. The just didn't think someone would make a program that was nothing but hundreds of PRINT statements!
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I find with 'employee' jobs, you're either "in on it", or not.

By "in on it", I mean that you either have equity in the company, or a very large percent of your pay is related to the success of the company, or that you have some confidence that your career will rise with the fortunes of the company (rather than being dumped or hired-over as it grows), or there are career growth prospects in the case of larger corporations, or merely that you're accruing cutting-edge skills and experience that improve your future job prospects.

Or you're not "in on it", and stuck just swapping time for money.

In the former case people often willing to spill blood and sweat for the good of the company (and thus their own benefit).

In the later case, they will be out to get everything they can, regardless of the company's fortunes.
If people are going to make more money, where does the demand come from? Or is this about American manufacturers gaining market share from/in other countries?

I don't know much about macroeconomics, so maybe this is a silly question.
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That was a different individual than was replied to up thread.
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I see Jobs that could be done with a high school diploma that now request a masters degree. This creates an insane hurdle for someone to get into the upper middle class.

Having people enter the workforce 4+ years sooner not only reduces debt it also allows them to be productive generating a lot of wealth.

Consider what it means if doctors skip an undergrad degree, it's not only less debt, but also more working years.
Or something that’s very obvious to be self-evidently true.

But, he might have thought of the complaint as so typical it has become a saying, and a truism by argumentum ad populum, but in his eyes false. Besides, most truisms are true only until they are not (a truism example). The Sun is hot. One day it won’t even be (exist).
20 years ago, people wondered could anyone overtake Microsoft. But look at the big tech companies now.

1. Apple -- approaching a one trillion dollar market cap was almost bankrupt 20 years ago.

2. Amazon -- a little spunky online book seller

3 Google - a little research project that wasn't even incorporated

4 Facebook -- wouldn't exist for 7 years.

As hard as MS tried, they weren't able to kill competition.
Perhaps the point of Bubbles is product validation for a semi-technical founder without having to hire someone who can code.
If people make more money they will be able to demand more since they can buy more things. There's not much to it.

If you mean demand for labor, that's an entirely different beast.
>The "intelligence" which arises purely from the system construction, not from the system conceiving different plans of actions given internal representations of various tasks.

There may be no difference between these besides the size of the system.
Ridiculous until you wake up one day and discover you no longer have a career.
Frankly, FORTRAN is not that bad. It's not worse than PL/SQL or ADA. Yes all are verbose but that's not the issue, although I wish some of these get a revision of their syntax, no question.

Often the issue is the lack of IDE,code quality tools,libraries,support for string encoding schemes, linters and co, everything that is taken for granted in modern languages with a broader appeal.

Actually, newer programmers are rediscovering these languages because they actually scale very well as an alternative to C++.
The intelligent investor by Ben Graham. He's long dead, so no conflits of interests.
I had never thought about it like this. This makes so much sense.
As best I know, this has never happened to anyone in / near my social network. That leads me to believe that this isn’t something that happens very often in the general population (unless I’m an outlier). And if it’s so rare, then it doesn’t seem to be worth going out of my way for.

This works till it doesn't. All it takes is once.

Raw statistics are worth internalizing, but in an era where a slip of the tongue is enough to hang you (socially), it's worth being overcautious.
>Remove the social stigma of not going to college. Hardly any tv shows that show young non college grads as positive.

Or just make college useful and accessible. Give people the option of a European style undergrad where there is no liberal arts breadth, only technical courses. If we had accredited colleges doing 3 year bachelor degrees in STEM, the system would be much more efficient.
they just want a better offer
All these incidents will end up causing segregation and unwillingness to hire/work with women.
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> It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.

I find this effect kind of terrifying. I'm in my early 30s and would estimate my perception of time is at least 3x as fast as it was before age 16 or so, maybe 4x. It's definitely getting worse. Even assuming some leveling off, I'm guessing a year at age 70 will feel about as short as a kid's month.
Remember that old story back when Internet Explorer was dominating the market, and most people surveyed couldn't tell the difference between the web and a web browser? They pointed to the "e" browser logo and said, "That's the internet!"

How did that whole trying to use their monopoly to dominate the market work out for Microsoft in hindsight?

There was time that AOL was the number one ISP and MySpace was the number one social media platform.
Good point. I split the eBooks I buy between Kindle, Google Books, and Apple iBooks. I do this to not put all my digital purchases in one basket, support competition, and sometimes take advantage of sales. It is a nuisance.

But, even though you make a good point, I disagree in the sense that I would like to see other services like Vimeo gain market share to balance things out. Trouble is, it is difficult for other services to compete with ‘free.’
Maybe work w/ freelancers instead? Or --- build a worker-coop. Where you as founder own more of the company but EVERYONE has a good stake. Of course you need to get to profitability first probably for them to get excited... having stake in something losing money isn't as exciting as being part owner of Whatsapp when FB bought them...
does HN hate humour? but I would call it Comm^2(square)
Thanks everyone for taking the time to write the replies. I don't have time to address them all, but they were all helpful in terms of looking at the problem from many different perspectives you guys offered.
One area in which MS was lackluster upon drivers was some of their own products - for example the force feedback joysticks, still on sale at the time, never got a Vista driver out of MS and became a glorious paper weight overnight.

That and apart from an initial few months of unstable GFX drivers, was utterly solid.

On a side-note, I believe Core Duo2's was the last Intel chips to not include any form of inbuilt `management` silicon and as such,still favoured by some paranoid/security prudent types.
I think if you update often enough (at least when some vulnerabilities found), you're more safe than if you don't.
The kind of personal incivility that you've included in this comment is in no way OK on Hacker News. We've banned the account.
> One of the first performance optimizations we did was accept that most object lifetimes roughly coincided with the end of the request, so we simply didn't deallocate anything

This'd speed up development but wouldn't help performance with CGI, since spawning a process is very expensive. This is why CGI is dead.
Well, relatively new. It was actually the one I was expecting when I clicked through (the Erlang/Elixir web framework). Give it had websockets in the title, I would have been surprised if it wasn't.

I'm surprised that any hacker news reader would actually think anything else, given how often this particular Phoenix has surfaced here.
Your perception is skewed. There are a ton of people on both sides - those who want to work for themselves capable of handling more risk and higher rewards, and those who want to work for others for a stable paycheck.
I built an Airbnb ish kind of product back in the 90'ies with a friend of mine, he even wrote his thesis about it.

I got the idea because some stranger on ICQ from Japan asked me if he and his girlfriend could live with me in Copenhagen for a couple of weeks in exchange for me being able to live with them if I ever came to Japan.

The service was called IKIKI (apparently meaning visiting each other and also at the same time a palindrome)

However, we ran into a lot of problems with generally getting people to trust each other.

I later ended up doing design for a couple of other airbnb ish companies amongst others vacationvalley.com owned by a very young swedish entrepreneur called Martin Schaedel who unfortunately died very early in a plane accident. http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/the-internet-says-good...

So I have had my experience with the Airbnb business model and never missed that. It was a timing question not a funding question.

It is not a good example as that had more to do with market adaption of social networks and mobile phones plus payment services than product innovation.
I wish GitHub would add support for that in README files directly.
Last time I checked it was between 40TB - 60TB for just the articles, not including the libgen books.

At that time I calculated that it would cost about $1000 in refurbished 4TB external hard drives. Which is probably not the best way to store it.

Or about 2000 Empty Blu-Rays if you want to make searching for an article a nightmare.
Harvard university debate team loses to New York prison inmates (2015)
hops have terpenes as well;most plants do.
There are five electricians in town, they each make $40/hour. They have a hard time finding qualified apprentices.

After education, there are 7 electricians. The same 5 electricians still make $40/hour, but the two new electricians make $25/hour. Turns out there's a previously unserved market for a cheaper and less experienced electrician.
Youtube isn't doing anything incredible or unique on the UX side. The myriad high quality pornography video sites readily prove this, by competitively offering pretty top notch experiences on a diversity of platforms.

It's just that Youtube has an immense gravitational pull, that everyone likes and comes back for. At scale, no less, which is pretty tough when streaming video is such a demanding high bandwidth product.
I honestly don't know what all the fuss is about? Is it that difficult to just treat women -- not nicely -- but equally? This is kindergarten level stuff, people. Keep your hands to yourself, be nice, don't ask overly personal questions about people unless they share first, etc.

I guarantee anyone reading this that if they just reflect behavior they'll be fine. This means if someone shares something moderately personal, do the same. If someone laughs, laugh back. To mimic behavior is to be human.

Be human.
Woah, I do not spend the majority of my time at work! For a given week I am awake for approximately 112 hours but I only spend 40 at work, so less than 36% of a given week is spent at work.

During work I am usually too busy, uh, working to really socialize. I mean, I'm friendly, there's water cooler banter, but I've got work to do.

I socialize plenty, just outside of the office with people who aren't my colleagues.

I've personally seen excessive fraternization backfire badly. You also realize, once you've been around the block once or twice, that friends you make at work are very shallow friendships 99.99% of the time.

Here's an argument for boundaries at work: https://hbr.org/2003/12/in-praise-of-boundaries-a-conversati...

>You don’t have time to make friends if you’re out socializing every night with pseudofriends. And on a smaller scale, the same is true in business offices. It is a terrific imposition for a business to ask people to give up their weekends and their evenings for unpaid work. I get these pathetic letters from 70-year-old retired executives who say, “I worked for 40 years in this office, and everybody loved me. They gave me this huge party when I left. And now nobody calls me. What happened?” What happened, I say, is that your colleagues aren’t your friends—and they never were.
Are you saying "hysteria" ironically?

But seriously, things are getting hugely chaotic. The only safe bet is keeping sexuality totally out of the workplace. But that doesn't mean isolation. As you say, you treat everyone the same. Because you really have no clue about their sexual orientation or status, issues, vulnerability, and so on.
No it's not but it's hard for the hysteria to settle and thus a lot of men will be wrongfully accused.