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I founded a company with my twin brother which is a unique situation since we often act as one person. So we get the best of both worlds in a way.

However, I can't imagine starting a company alone. The roller coaster ride is very tough at times, and we somehow rotate picking each other up during difficult periods.

Starting a company with someone is like marriage, but you don't really have a method to get divorced. A few comments mention meeting people at events to start a company with them, but I'd be careful with that. I know a founder who recruiters his co-founders that way and he has already fired 3 of them.
The form of training has changed. At my old shop, there'd sometimes be a guest expert who did a talk on an interesting subject. If you wanted a tech book, you could buy it on the company's Amazon account and read it as much as you liked. Some companies do a sort of buddy system were you're helped along by a mentor while starting out or learning something new.

I think this change came with the realisation that you're worth more to the company building something than sitting on your ass training for something you may come across with in the future. Therefore, if it's directly relevant you'll get training but otherwise you'll probably have to do it in your own time.
We already do this in several industries, so it's nothing to get that upset about. However my larger worry here is that the end-users will now think that software can upgrade their hardware. That alone opens up huge doors in security - users will inadvertently download some tracking program that claims to "upgrade their processor" under the assumption that it does the same thing that intel is doing. Good for computer repair companies and spyware companies, bad for the end user.
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The proof of concept video is pretty cool: http://vimeo.com/14959854
Already happened before:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/191856/exemployee_wreaks_havo...
While I don't have a business, your question assumes that those doing the hiring are acting rationally. Whereas most business trends are caused by people uncritically following what others are doing.
Clearly naked shorting needs to be either banned entirely or, perhaps, regulated in such a way that the buyers realize what they're getting and who the counterparty is.

The problem is that normal shorting is often maligned but a very valuable tool for correcting markets and hedging positions. There's a strong outcry against shorting from people who don't know better, and I think in response the very valid complaints against naked shorting get drowned out.
Although the author barely touched on it, I used to have a friend who owned a coffee shop and told that there's always an interesting push-pull. People like a coffee shop for two reasons: Great atmosphere (most important), and great coffee.

Great atmosphere encourages people to linger on that $5 ticket for hours, which is a black hole for money, but if your atmosphere sucks you'll never get the buzz and reputation to keep the long lines of to-go in the mornings that you need to survive.

Great coffee is hard to find, and requires competent baristas, which are a hard to find/train outside of big cities.

I'm a huge coffee shop nut, but from a business perspective it seems crazy. As an interesting aside, another slate article noted once that indie coffee shops that have a starbucks open nearby actually do _better_ afterwards on average.
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Apple's new policies allow interpreters, but they disallow downloading code to be interpreted. Yet, they allow you to type in your own code.

Interesting.
ETFs are a particular danger because the shorts can vastly outnumber the shares. This won't happen in a normal stock.

Say I own 95% of Google and you naked short 7%. I've now got you totally by the balls. You can cover the first 5% if you get every shareholder but me to sell out to you, but then I can charge you whatever I want for the last 2%. You have to pay because you owe someone those shares and I've got a monopoly.

As a result shorts of regular stocks don't get to 11x the number of outstanding shares.

That's not the case with ETFs because the naked shorters can simply create more shares. It's not possible for them to get stuck oweing more shares than they can get. (Well, it is possible if they ran into that problem with the underlying shares, but that's not realistic).
The quick-close-the-window reaction when someone enters the room when you have a banking website open would definitely be weird. "No, it wasn't porn, it was Citibank! I swear!"

But really, there are so many transactions on my banking statement, one with a random, innocuous name wouldn't really stand out. You'd have to be spending a lot of money over a lot of individual transactions, or even more money in a single transaction, for anything to stand out from a glance at a screen full of bank transactions.

Or you can just order stuff via a larger retailer like Amazon, which shows up on the bill generically as "Amazon" (however, Amazon sells some adult products, but doesn't seem to sell adult videos... nevertheless). Heh, before the Internet, "Amazon" would have sounded like a porn-based service provider at first blush, I bet.
Because such people often have bills to pay and they like to earn money. Especially if they aren't in a situation where starting a company is financially viable at the time, being hired is not such a bad thing.
That's very strange (the carrier not allowing access to the market). I've never heard of such a thing in any of the Portuguese carriers (TMN/Vodafone/Optimus). Are your sure that's the problem?

Also, It's pretty easy to install apps through the .apks and unofficial markets. Aptoide is an alternative to the Official Android Market.
Madness? This... is... Microsoft!
Coming from an engineering perspective, finding a suitable "business-side" person is extremely harder, than the other way around, for the simple reason of track record.

How do you measure someone's ability to actualize a business? By observing the previous businesses he made, annual turnover, profit, and exit.

Someone already having any of these is extremely unlikely to be looking for a "technical co-founder" -he will be looking for employees.

Thus, everyone touting themselves as a "business guy looking for co-founder" has an extreme likelihood of unvalidated track record, and by very definition, an unqualified candidate for co-founding.

I'm very open taking suggestions on how to tackle this problem, other than taking random lottery tickets -my current solution is working alone, but it's massively sub-optimal.
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This is linkbait with some technical jargon thrown in. The companies behind SSD technology - Samsung, Micron, IBM, Intel, etc are not sitting on their duffs waiting for the limits of their design to hit.

People have been claiming the end of DRAMs for years because the size of the storage cell (capacitor) does not scale well with the bitlines, etc.

There has been a bottleneck though in the speed of processors because of simple power consumption - that's when we switched to multicore processors. However, i think the overall computational power has been keeping track with moores law.
Oh yes, blind upvotes based on the poster are the worst. It devalues the actual discussion. Power users in Digg are the main cause of its downfall. I hate to see HN is going that way.
Well, the blame doesn't lie in ETFs per se. I mean, the people running the ETFs have done nothing dangerous or wrong.

But the way ETF shares can be created allows people to naked short a much larger number of shares safely. So this would not happen with, say, Microsoft stock, but may with a large index ETF.
Just watched it. Excellent system that'll be bloodyawesome to have on an iPad. In fact, I think I might build one :) I particularly loved the part where he creates "markers", sets them up to obey physics laws and starts a canvas moving under them to trace their motion pattern.

I believe the reason why such a system seems so futuristic is that the decades following the Smalltalk work have degraded OOP to such a great extent that stuff like this seems out of the world ... when it really should have become common place by now.

Well, maybe it just takes time to get computers to be very powerful so we can once again invest in such deeply engaging and imaginative world building .. only orders of magnitude more so.
As one of the maligned "people with laptops", I often wonder how much I'm expected to spend. What's the expected $/hour you should drop if you spend all day working in a cafe?
I also want to add that 2 is not necessarily always greater than 1. I think that's the hardest part: determining if your cofounder is there because you think everyone says it's better to have one, or because you two are equal and perfect partners. If you two aren't equal, I think that might cause problems in terms of motivation if one of you thinks the other doesn't deserve the 50%.
Ha. Well, not all, but yeah that's definitely pretty popular.
Is there a way this can be designed so that I won't have to click 'back' in my browser 70 times after viewing?
I would offer him a hundred bucks for the name and location of the person he bought the laptop from.
I've read the original article, and (as with lots of YC/PG stuff) it mostly applies to a certain type of startups. Yes, you probably won't have a billion $ "exit strategy" if you start your bootstrapped small-time business as a single founder in Podunk. But I don't see a reason why every entrepreneur should aim to be the next Oracle, Google or Facebook. You can always be the equivalent to your local small time business or even Mom & Pop shop. I'm a bit disappointed with the widespread use of the "Think Big!" philosophy, especially when it's presented as the only way. (And no, I don't even think that PG sees this as the only way. I'm just noting a certain bias I often see when the word "startup" gets tossed around.)

Never even mind the US centrism of that mindset…
I think part of it is flatter organizations and cutbacks in middle management.

I think you're right - you need excess capacity in your senior/middle management layer that can absorb training. I would also add "cutbacks in general". Taking in green people means hiring somebody a significant amount of time before you really need them. This means that if you are in the "don't spend a dime until you really really have to" mode, you will wait until the crisis hit and then you will want somebody who can start being productive TOMORROW.

It's a shame, because taking in inexperienced people means potentially ending up with a "perfect" person because you don't have to work against any previously acquired bad habits, you can inculcate him with your own ethic and so on.
There are a couple of other ways to make the distro even smaller:

* Use UPX to compress executables: http://upx.sourceforge.net
* Use a compressed filesystem like squashfs, cramfs, or fusecompress
I will always look at the threads page to see responses to things I have written even if it is days after. The problem I guess though is even if the response is written, once it drops off the front page no-one else will see it. The fast news cycle is artificial in a way in that a lot of the stuff posted which manage to get up voted is stuff we could do to not have in comparison with some of the bigger, more contentious ideas and stories which deserve further discussion.

I don't know if this problem is really solvable without the reddit style sub-reddits, with as big a community as we have here different things will interest different people and each one of these things is taking front page space away from other things quicker.
Voting based on agreement/disagreement, rather than based on quality and relevance is thuggery. It's also human nature; we're passionate, lazy animals. The question is whether or not the problem is widespread enough to threaten the overall value of HN.
Thinking about a potential partner this way is an enormous category error. Lot's of people that have made it and wasted huge amounts of time and money trying to do it again, neglecting luck and other things that gave them their fortune (not to discount the skill that went into making it).

There are far more charismatic people then there are people worth 10s of $M. Finding a person that is passionate about what you are doing is far more valuable than trying to get a mister money bags to carry you for your first foray into serious business.
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It's like seeing an article titled "Online Music Sales Drop" only to have 1/3 of it be about online movie sales. Yes they're related, no that doesn't mean it was a good title.
I've heard this all before, only about hard drive density, quite a number of times. They were always wrong, even as they are wrong now about flash memory.
I think you're right. You learn something every time. But it may not be the kind of thing you're out to learn.

As pg writes he learned not to be part of such arguments. Although, an important lesson, I'm sure that's pg actually wanted to learn something more pertinent to the argument (that's why he joined in the argument in the first place).

When we don't get to learn what we were seeking to learn, we feel disappointed.
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So treat it like he's asking for rebuttal.
My logic is that I can stay as long as it takes me to finish what I'm eating and drinking, and maybe a few minutes longer. If I'm working on my laptop or reading a book then I'll stretch it out a bit, but it's not really possible to make a cup of coffee last more than twenty minutes.

I can't possibly imagine eating and drinking enough to justify my presence in a cafe for an entire day.
> As one of the maligned "people with laptops", I often wonder how much I'm expected to spend. What's the expected $/hour you should drop if you spend all day working in a cafe?

I think it depends on how busy it is. If the place is dead, they'd probably be grateful for you to sit there and make it look more happening for someone who comes in. But during busy time, clogging up table space for three hours on one coffee is probably aggravating.

When I go to a non-chain, if I want to sit for longer than is normal, I just ask them. "I was thinking of having a coffee and hanging out on my laptop for a few hours - is that okay with you?" 90% of shops will say yes if they're not busy, or tell you when the time that that they get busy is. 10% will give a hesitant yes or non-answer, and I'll either only stay a short time or head out from there. Like everything, it depends on the particular situation.
> I am very, very careful with my time

That's funny; I read Hacker News when I just want to blow off some time. If I'm being careful with my time, I'll spend it hacking.
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Interesting anyone knows which strategies they use to decide to buy/sell, once they have determined the expected price?

do they use physics based techniques, like black scholes?

or do they use statical learning based techniques?
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"What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones who know him best."

Well, Taking all my close friends, who might be comfortable working with me - and filtering out those who are from a CS/Programming background, exhibit genuine hacker mentality, can delay gratification sufficiently by not immediately jumping into a well-paying job, and can work in a similar pace as mine - I'm left with a pretty small set. And that set didn't graduate with me, so the argument that the very fact that I don't have anyone starting a company with me does not sufficiently imply that my idea is poor or that my convincing skills are sub-par might not be perfectly valid.

I agree with most of the things that PG writes about, (who doesn't?), but I find something wrong on a fundamental level with the justification of why single founders are a bad idea.

From a single founder, I fear there are other reasons why a startup might potentially fail with a single founder:

* One might get too easily tempted to quit, and won't get easily talked out of it.
* There's nobody to push you to work when you're feeling lazy. This can lead to a lot of time being wasted.
* Ideas need to be bounced back and forth. They must be criticized again and again until no criticism can be made about them. There's nobody to do it with here.
* If you have co-founders you always have company if you want to get some coffee, or play something outdoors :)

I'm hoping that once I launch and am able to demonstrate my abilities and ideas (or the lack of them), I might be able to find people who are willing to work. I look forward to saying "Hey, do you want to help me improve this great product which is doing quite well" instead of "Hey, do you want to drop everything in your life and hack on my neat idea".
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Pastebin perhaps? And Reddit posts, they have a nice API.
And I have learned something too: I must never use this word again, since apparently I have yet to master all its overtones. ;)
I am quite interested to hear comments and feedback about these ideas and the four parts of the protocol outlined in the post.
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I will usually buy an iced coffee freeze (or whatever they're called) + pastry when I sit down. Once I finish the freeze, I'll buy root beers and bottled water as I go through them.
Last time someone posted an HTML5 presentation, people complained that the back button didn't work. I guess they really can't win.
By no means am I looking for "money bags to carry me"; neither would this be my "first foray into serious business".

However, you are asking me here to give up the primal discipline of meritocracy -evaluating plans, ideas, thoughts based upon demonstrated / actualized intelligence, and merit - in exchange for charisma -the ability of persuasion.

For that, I call BULLSHIT: based on my previous data points, the highest probability of root reason you're asking me this, is to make way for a hidden agenda of yours (or people like yourself). And for that, you deserve a public bozo bit.
It is very simple, companies in the past expected hires to stay long time with the company, this is no longer the case, hence lack of any interest in training new hire.
I've known the photographer for about 8 years, he does lots of interesting projects like this.
1. Fair use of the signature doesn't apply. The license to distribute the compiled kernel is contingent upon anything derived from it being GPL as well (section 2b/3). Might be able to hack around this with a different entity doing the signing, but hopefully a court would see through that sham.

2. But modifications to the executable program itself (in flash) have to be facilitated. The preferred (HTC engineering) way of making these modifications is through the bootloader. There might be a loophole here in that the bootloader could be changed to allow flashing any kernel (but still not execute without a key), but being sold the device while it was on (with derivative works all over the place in RAM) would negate said loophole.

3. The specific script that has to be included is the one which generated and installed the resulting executable which was distributed to me on my specific device.

4. Good point, although the executable and signature are always distributed together and meant specifically for one particular machine, so it might not be as clearcut as you think

FWIW I've heard that Stallman has made similar arguments.

(I'm not a member of the lawyer guild either, so I'm not compelled to prefix my opinions with disclaimers)
You can't click, and there are no next/previous/etc. links. You have to hit space to advance to the next slide.

I discovered this after much pain trying to view it on my phone, subsequently trying to view it in Firefox, then (suspecting it was Webkit-centric), Arora, and I couldn't get past the first slide. I viewed it in w3m, now suspecting Javascript oddness was at fault, and was presented with a list of keystrokes (helpfully hidden by the Javascript that runs when you hit the page). In fact, it doesn't even load the slides (which are all formatted text--HTML! The thing browsers are for viewing!) until the Javascript runs.

From a quick glance at the source, it appears the culprit is some atrocity called "showoff", apparently. It would actually be easier to figure out how to view Powerpoint slides on my phone than it was to figure out how to view this thing.
also, google employs one of the most innovative eyes-free developers on the planet, t.v. raman, to do work on android. check out the results of his work (and of his collaborator charles chen) at http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/, demos at http://www.youtube.com/user/EyesFreeAndroid.
Sorry - I only really mean insane from my own perspective... but obviously your life is almost be definition LESS insane than my own given that you've managed to eat 3 different cakes and have them as well - a more balanced and well rounded existence. It's just unimaginable to me - but glad to know someone at least has achieved the dream. Power to ya. :)
What shell game? I can buy a share of Microsoft for ~$25 and then I get a vote in how the company is run and receive a percentage of the profits. Microsoft in turn gets to use the equity to build bigger and better things. Seems pretty fair to me.
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Just move the player position to the end to the see the result instead of waiting 10 mins.
Wow, actually working together and talking to solve problems instead of passive-aggressive "no laptops allowed" signs or "I hate my customer" blog posts? What a concept...
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It’s pretty fun that for all the technological camera changes we’ve seen in 100 years, the optical core of these systems is pretty much the same: a lens with a shutter whose image circle covers (in the most popular case) a 24×36 mm rectangle.
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I concur, semi-wasted time here though
The documentation suggests that the private key is not at risk, just the agent session.

I typically work from a variety of laptops that contain no sensitive data. I log into a remote workstation in a secure environment that houses my main repositories, where I'll check out a project, develop it, and publish the code to a remote server. Since most of my transfers use rsync over ssh, or mercurial via ssh, agent forwarding comes in really handy. It's convenient, fast, and my private keys are protected adequately with passphrases, so I don't need to worry if my laptop gets stolen, since it doesn't have anything valuable on it.
If this is about factory work, yes, training is necessary.

If this is about software development it's not clear to me what sort of training we are talking about. I've had to train myself at every job, that's part of what I do. I can't imagine how training would work. Classes in some programming language perhaps? It's much faster for me just to pick up the syntax of a language over the weekend and then fill in the blanks on toy projects or while doing maintenance.